, 1899-03-31
4 TOUCHING EULOGY.
DELIVERED By PRESIDENT E. E.
SMILEY AT THE FUNERAL
OF G. B. SHELDON.
First Funeral Services Held in the
University Speaks Beautiful Tri-
butte and Eulogy on the Character
of Deceased-Public Exercises Most
flnpressive-Many Present.

The following beautiful eulogy and
sermon was delivered last Tuesday af-
ternoon at the university auditorium by
Rev. .. e. Smiley, the president of the
Institution, at the public services held
over the remains of George B. Sheldon,
who was an honored student at the uni
versity- The large assemblage evil
denced the high respect and esteem felt
for this young man and the address of
the president was indeed very touching
and is herewith published:
/. Cor. 4:3-4: with me it is a very
small thing that | should be judged of
you, or. of mans judgment; yea, I
judge myself. For l know moth
ing against myself; yet am I not here
by justified; but he that judgeth me is
the Lord.
1t has seemed to me that in the
solemnity of this occasion there is
chance to draw some lessons that
should be of help to us all. With this
thought in mind | call your attention
to the words of the Apostle Paul as the
basis of the remarks | am about to
make. In time past l presume many of
you like myself have come under the
spell of Louis ~Stevenson's wonderful
book, DIR. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde. The
author has a great truth there that he
tries to bring out concerning the double
personality that is in every one of US.
The apostle goes farther even and
seems to me in this passage would i'm
ply that instead of two persons merely
there are four really that belong to each
individual. He speaks of himself as
being exposed to four different judg-
ments and therefor of that many sides
to his personality. He is writing to
friends in Corinth and he says cit is a
very small thing that l should be judg-
ed of you" And in the next place he
adds "or Of mans Judgment" There is
first the judgment of his friends; and
by mans judgment that of the world is
referred to. Then he continues to tell
how he hesitates to judge himself; and
he is greatly concerned about none of
the rest, but the Lords judgment alone.
-Four judgments or representations
of himself are here suggested by the
apostle. There wero four persons really
going under Paul's name. And my
thought is that the same is true of you
or me. There is the man the world
sees, the man as ne is judged upon the
street and in the community in which
he lives. Often times this image of a
person is summed up in a single charac-
~teristic phrase. A stranger asks about
some oue you know and in a word you
say he is a good man or a bad man, or
he is a generous, pu~blic-spirited citi-
zen; or IN the contrary you say he is
Sometimes we hear public opinion ex-
pressed regarding a man and it is said:
"Oh, he is clever or smart enough but
he knows it and that spoils him." So it
is that the world sums up a mans char
acter.
Then there is a different person but
the same mantle man as he is seer
by his best friends. How entirely diff
ferent the Judgment oftentimes that is
passed upon him by the one who lives
close to him and knows his heart, his
intentions and motives. Wretched the
man who in his W home circle and
among his friends is thought worse of
than on the street or in the shop, who
wins by his courtesy and kindness
nothing but admiration away from
home but who has not the affectionate
regard of his own home. This, of
course, ought not go to be. 1t is told
of the kindly author, Charles Lamb,
that he was once walking on the streets
of London with a friend, when a strang-
er was pointed out to him across the
road with the remark, Come and | will
introduce you to him" Lamb replied,
No, l don't like the looks of him and
1 I gu W hiCtt hIhis put, Stlu
his friend, IF you once knew him you
would some to like him. No doubt"
said Lamb, IF I knew him l couldn't
help liking him." We should all think
better of men, II we only knew them.
AS some one has said, there is nothing
so unpopular with mankind as humani-
ty at large. But when We know one an
other better how our hearts soften to-
ward our fellowmen.
But there is not only the man the
world sees, and the man as he is seen
by his best friend; but there is the man
as he is seen by himself. The man that
is hidden within us and hat ONE up
for Judgment at the bar of our own on
science. We all admire the conscien-
tious man. who keeps his own account
with his own conscience. like to read
of how in the days of chivalry a man
was placed on his word of honor. The
knight in those days did not execute a
contract on paper but his word was all
sufficient.
But the apostle emphasizes as of
more Importance still than the judg-
ment OF q mans own conscience the
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