Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1899-08-11

inc foTtH uI.eS Wlun SauneSS CnaC is
keenly felt
Tuneral Address of Rev. Pearson.
y day r two before our friend
passed awy he expressed the hope that
he might We for few months to put
in order .rne thiugs that would make
the pathay smoother and easier for
those WI stood nearest to him. At |
the same ime he recognized the uncer-
tainty his tenure of life, and re.
marked nat lin either case it was all |
right" Ii that sentiment of his l
think have the key to our friends
life in ,r midst, and the prophecy of
his im1rtal destiny.
Thrc%h the mist and the shadow of
sorrowand in spite of our binding
tears feel and know that /" it is all
right 1t is all right for him who has
gone fore, it is all right for us who
tarry little while. AS Browning
says:
God is in his Heaven
All 5 right with the World
It's all right with our friend! we
haveuot doubt about that. Very
earl in his youth he confessed his
faitin the Lord Jesus Christ, and in
tha-faith he lived and wrought and
die. His faith was severely tested in
theonrse of an eventful life-in days
of ..ht and shade. in times of sue
ces and of adversity it always
sto! the test. Like the true metal, it
pmed through the furnace and came
fou purified and strengthened.
I'd that, after all, is the true stand
arof Christian character-that it bear
thtest of trial. 1t is not that we pass
though the sunshiny days with light
st, and CHEEKY smile, but that we
el ure the days of darkness and ad-
vsity without slackening of the moral
4 sole and without weakening of the
nral fibre.
The stormy period of testing had
A used and he was looking forward
llpefully to few years of calm and
. )ace when the warming came that his
l .y's work was done. and that he must
v his armor down. How patiently,
, I'D calmly and nobly he bore this final
: |,sb only those who stood nearest to
? linn can fully know, but we who
3 PATCHED him from the outside observed
$ My the mellowing of the spirit, and
S he quick ripening for the final sum-
: mons.
3 1t is all right with him yonder, be-
$ cause it was all right with him here.
HE has received the freedom of the
Heavenly City because he had caught
sits spirit. and exemplitied it in his
earthly citizenship.
In his public life he has left us an
example of honesty, integrity, upright.
ness and good citizenship that we shall
do we'll to ponder.
In his private life he was kild, gen
tie, considerate, charitable. l neve,
heard him say an unkind word, Oh
give utterance to an uncharitable opin
ion. He was always ready to help anG
his last thoughts and his last acts were
expressive of his kindly thoughtful
spirit.
On the evening before "he fell OF
Sleep he was unusually bright ant
cheerful, and said he thought hi.
symptoms were more favorable ant
that with cooler weather he would i'm
prove more rapidly. Was that alto
gether an illusion? May we not regar'
that "feeling better" as prophetic O
his coming translation? He was bet
ter! He is we'll now! For Death mean
dissolution, and the dissolution of th
body means the release of the spirit
and in that spirit world to which on
friend has gone there is no sicknes!
and no suffering, and no decay, and n
death.
An eminent Divine told MIR. Mood
that when he was boy he used I
think of Heaven as far away city wit
pearly gates, and jasper walls, an
golden streets, and shining angels
bright but cold and distant city. Br
one day boy friend died, and then b
began to think of Heaven as a plae
} where his boy friend had gone. The
as he grew up and one after another {
his friends passed onward before hin
} he came to think of Heaven as people
J with his friends. Then one day one {