El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-03-21

their sufferings the tender sympath
of one who understood the full anguisl
of the aching brow and the torture
body, the wearipess of the sleeples
night and the pain 30 hard to bear o
the long, long day Ard the tende
sympathy was not confined to suffering
humanity but was extended evel t.
the brute creation He was kind tt
the lower animals. Some months age
4 newspaper published a short notice
concerDicg "A kind hearted Doctor
| A poor dog WI o bad been In some way
severely injured was limpirg along the
streets. A well known physician came
by in his buggy. saw the dog and lift
ing it up to his side, dro e away to his
Office where the ipj uries of the pool
suH ring creature were attended to
That physician was Doctor White
kindness beautified h q life will never
be known: for in early youth he seems
to have taken to heart the advice OIL
Charles Dickens, do all the good you
can, and don't make any fuss about it,
He once showed me picture of a
physician, sitting patiently by the
bedside of child apparently sdying,
while the sorrOwing. anxious parents
stood by. He explained the picture to
|
in the doctors face. To my mind he
put more in that face than the artist
had succeeded in portraying: but hav-
| ing seen the dear doctor in just such
an attitude auxiously yettenderly feel
| ipg the ficke ring pulse of the sick and
dying, could but thing he put into
the pictured doctors face his own SYM
pathetic feelings and eloquently d. S.
cribing a brother physician faithful
ha
cribes himself
III.-HE WAS BRAVE MAN.
How true are the words of the dear
old song. THE bravest and the ter
derest. the loving are the daring"
We have noticed how tender
and loving he was to all
without exception and SO are prepar-
ed for the statement that he was brave
This follows of necessity. AL
though slight in physique aud never of
robust health, doubt If he ever know
himself. When duty called him to
minister to those afflicted with COR
tageous disease, or to take steps to pre-
vent the spread of inf fiction, did you
ever know him to falter or try to shift
the work upon the shoulders of an
other. All no. With him it was duty
first duty last, duty all the time. To do
his duty in life was. his o. ly aim, his ONLY
thought. Is it then surprising,
tn at having fulfilled his duty here in
that state of life unto which it pleased
God to call him, when dea.b approach
ed, he should meet 1t calmly and with
out shade of fear? When asked by
one in that supreme moment when
human efforts prove fruitless and it is
apparent tn all that the end is near,
''Are you afraid to die?' "No,' said
he, shave I ever shown the white
feather?" Then after awhile, SIT is all
right between God and me, for GOD
knows have tried to do my duty"
Ard so passed away from our midst
this brave spirit, passed from our
sight this physician beloved, having
accomplished in q comparatively short
life, far more of real lasting good than
lie usually accomplished by those who
live out the three score and ten or
even the four score years allotted to
man. His was indeed full life, un-
selfish. loving, brave. We may not
doubt then that from the day ne was
baptism throughout his noble, useful
career, God was with him; and that
now having entered into the paradise
OF God, he rests from his labors and
his works do follow him.
And now what is the lesson of this
life, so true to duty, so unselish, 20
loving, so brave? It has a lesson for
US all, for the old and for the
young.
Before the young man just entering
upon an active life, thousand
temptations present themselves. Evil
passion LAYS his strong hand upon him
and strives to lead him astray. Rich.
hot blood courses through his veins
and he feels impelled by an unseen
force to give himself to life of I'M
restrained license, of sin, of shame.
and lures him on, lures him on to de-
structiOn.
The cOvetOuness OF the age, the
prevailing greed for gold, also tempts
the young man to amass wealth at the
sacrifice of principle and integrity, to
speak the untruth, give the scanty
measure, com nit the dishonest act,
all to get money. Yielding to this
temptation many a young man forget
full Of the golden rule aud bis own i'm
mortal interests lives his life of utter
selfishness, rushing onward toward
eternity with duty to God and duty
to fellow man both unfulfilled.
quote here portion of poem that
our departed friend committed to
memory aud which he often repeated
to his family A copy of it he carried
WIFI ~ W Uuc Ody vi ut6 ucdOA
and l give it here that you too my
know what he regarded as the true
aim of life:
We live in deeds, not years; in
thoughts, not breaths:
In feelings, not in figures on dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs.
He most lives
Who thinks most. feels the noblest,
acts the best.
And he whose heart beats quickest lives
the longest:
Lives in one hour more than in years
do some,
Whose fat bloo1 sleeps az it slips
along their veins
Life Is but means unto an end; that
end
Beginning, mean, and end to all
things-God.
The dead have all the glory of the
world
Philip James Bailey, "Festus,"