Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-07-27
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dangers and pitfalls of youth, / would
lean up against Brother Falls strong
character, for advice and counsel and
felt safe. knew him and his work
all along the years. Something more
than twenty years ago, in the providence
OF God, 1t was my privilege to be for two
years pastor of the church here. Besiae
those in your city I became acquainted
with many in the adjacent country. Bro.
Fall was often mentioned and ALWAYS
with spirit almost Of veneratiop. His
very name in their minds. was a sugpes.
tion of kindly thought and appreciation.
The good seed that he had been sowing
for twenty years as he had travelled in
Winters storm and Summers heat,
preaching the gospel in the regions
round about had taken root and sprung
up with some was showing the beautiful
and fragrant flower, and with some the
mature and luscious fruit: All knew that
in him they had friend; all were ready
to say of him Behold an Israelite indeed.
IN whom there is no quiet! And it was this
supreme confidence which they had IN
his blameless life, his complete transpar.
ancy OF soul, that won their affections.
think 1t Is unquestionably true that he
did more to pre- eempt, to Homestead, as 1t
We're, this whole Howard county for
righteousness, for religion, for purity, for
temperance. for peace. for all that is good,
IN those early formative years, than any
other who has been permitted to live
among you. God gave him many years
in which to labor and the fruits Of his la.
Dor are scattered far. Last evening after
receiving the letter as I was going TO nv
home l saw man whose hair is white
with age; lie has been class leader in
Fayette for nearly thirty years. paused
and said to him: You knew Brother
Fall?" eyes: he died yesterday; has he
been living all these years? He is the
first preacher remember knowing.
When was little boy he used to come
to my fathers house and stay and preach
there. He used to talk to me and I thought
ne was one of the best men in the world"
Rev. Heald said that Bro. Fall was a
great man. 1t is true he distinguished
between being great and being merely
conspicuous. We Justly deem men great
when they have achieved results great in
proportion to their environment and the
facilities they have with which to labor,
Brother Falls father died when he was
yet boy and he was left to struggle
alone with the world. And not alone,
for he helped his mother in supporting
and rearing the younger members of the
family, he being the oldest of the chill
dren. A few years after his marriage,
when he was beginning to nave family
OF his own, he came west seeking better
opportunities for making home and ca.
tablishing himself. A few weeks after
reaching his new home he met with that
terrible accident in which he lost his right
limb. Other misfortunes followed. His
life at no time has been an easy one. He
has seen poverty and hardships, and yet,
in all these he has builded sterling and
upright character. He has maintained a
reputation beyond the whisper of evil;
aud beyond this he has Influenced hun.
dreds OF lives for better things, for purer
manhood and womanhood, for higher
spirituality and has won wealth of Rt-
fectlon among all his acquaintance that
many millionaire would covet. One
wiser than we has said, "He that ruleth
ms own spirit is greater than he that
taketh CITY," Name me one to-day, my
friends, who judged by this criterion
stands greater than George W. Fall.
do not measure his greatness by the books
OF the banker, by the lists of the assessor,
by his political honors, or his military re-.
noWn; but
|
| time,
FADE and die in the light of that region sublime
Our brother will stand forth in great
ness that will cause many of those whom
| the earth calls heroes to shrink into in
slgnl1cance. But he is no more among
us. look upon him as was wont to
see him in earlier years with his now
salnted companion, with my own father
and mother taking sweet counsel together.
a typical communion of saints upon earth.
MY father was the first to 60, then Sister
Fall; my mother crossed over last winter,
and now Brother Fall. Now they are
visiting on the Golden Shore. Kindred
spirits. 1t is for we friends in the DAYS
that are yet left US to emulate their vir-
tues and we will greet them forever in the
blessed hereafter.