The record-union., 1899-03-13
Obituary Sermon
at DavisVille.
fc,orresnondence Record-Union.)


The following address was delivered
by Rev. John w. Dorrance on the occa-
sion of E. w. Hammon's funeral at
Dayisville. The text was from L.
Thess., w., 1S-"Comfort one another
We have been summoned to this
home, he said, by the death-kneu OF
departed soul. Brother Harmon IS
not here The places that once knew
him will know him no more forever. The
awful silence when his name is reached
at roll call in lodge meeting and the va
can't chair around the fireside empha-
size the fact of his absence. The fam1-
ly physicians skill taxed to the utmost
could not stop the fever The tender
embraces of affectionate children, dear
brothers and sisters could not shield
their dear papa and brother from
deaths arrow. Neither could clinging
embraces, scalding tears nor burning
kisses of a loving wife keep warmth
and life in the cold body of the husband
of her youth and father of her chill
dren.
The bow of death was not, yea, never
is drawn at venture The fatal arrow
was sent on it's errand with unerring
to the very heart of that temple of clay,
that earthly tabernacle. The walls col
lapsed. but thanks be to God, in whom
our brother believed, the victory after
all is his, through the Lord Jesus Christ,
for his soul escaped thel crash of matter
and flew to the arms of Jesus who gave
it, bought it with his own blood; and
keeps it so safely by his own almighty
L, i
hell confederate cannot pluck it out of
His hand HE that keepeth Israel
never SAUNDERS, never sleeps"
| Yes, Brother Harmon has fought his
last battle. He has met and conquered
his last enemy. Now his soul is free
from all temptation, all strife. He has
! entered upon the realities of that land
where inconsistencies for the world is
unknown. With the breath of mala-
rial atmosphere the veil, though made
of frail mortality, which separates him
from the spirieworld was rent in twain
| in the throb of pulse, in the flash of a
thought. after a lingering illness he dis
appeared from wife, children, brothers
and sisters, friends and foes, and glided
silently into the presence of his God to
receive his reward.
| o God and Father of us all, we trust
| that our hope is not in vain when we
hope that that reward was the welcome
plaudit, Enter thou into the joy of
| thy Lord; where we hope that he is
now standing at the right hand of God
with Jesus whom he was not ashamed
to own before men; where we hope that
| to-day his memory is not clogged with
the things which he left behind in this
world, but rather is reaching forth unto
and treasuring up those joyous things
which God has prepared for those that
love Him, even those things which the
] eye hath not seen, nor has ever entered
the heart of man. and that he has en-
! tered upon the study of the knowledge
of the Lord Jesus Christ which will oc-
cupy the attention of the redeemed
throughout eternity.
| When only a few short week ago the
departed. at a mems religious meeting
stood up. indicating to the world and
his companions that he was not
ashamed to own the Savior before men,
little did any of US think that his eyes
then moistened with tears would so
soon be glazed in death. AS he then
talked with us concerning his soups
welfare, with a voice marked with that
cadence of feeling which is the index
of sincerity of purpose, little did we