The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-05-10

one SOlace, one thought, ever appeals:
They who were with us and are gone
haze rest. What a wonderful power
TO weary. respondent souls has that
one word, R,st. Upon that has been
founded one of the greatest religions
of the earth. The hope of NirVana al
last has kept in line the hundreds OF
millions in the Orient who prefer rest
and absolute silence even to the reSur-
rcction. We believe differently. What
ever may become of us who still live,
liz we believe anythingl we are con
vinced without argument that our
friends who have died are where pain
and sorrow can not enter. Perhaps
when the veil is rent and the mist dl-
yiding time from eternity shall be lift
ed, when all the mlSfortuneS and mis-
understandings Of earth are past, we
may meet our friends again. 1t is a
hope worth holding to. We can not
abandon it without making a wreck
Of faith, and even our brief life here
not worth the living.
| Lewis II. Heron was Of vivaciouS,
active, energetic temperament and
much intellectual vigor. Disease could
not destroy his atfable manners nor
mar the pleasure of his company. He
was well versed in current affairs, and
having had varied experience in
business matters, he could interest all
his callers. He had seen much of our
Western domain. He was man fitted
for Success--fltted for long and use
full career. Fate decreed otherwise in
his case. as this same relentless, un-
seen force has so decreed in the case of
thousands. Man proposes, man plans.
Another power passes Judgment and
works out results. The name given to
this agency, matters not. We are
faced by the great fact that death is
the price of living, and how it shall
come, and where, is not under our con-
troll. The delicate imagination of the
ancient Greeks idealized all occult
forces. The myth of Pandora is an il
luStration. When the box was opened
out of which all forms of disease and
distress came, Hope remained in the
box, to cheer, to comfort and sustain.
| We still have faith in the Greek ideals,
but have discarded the fgments of the
Monkish ages. We admire Dante for
his poetry. but repudiate his theology
of hatred, malice and superstition
engendered by a horrible creed.
| We enter no portals where the legend
inscribed on the vaulted arch informs
us that we must abandon hope and
| live in the realms of despair. The
writer knew Mr.. Lewis Ii. Heron
when years ago, mere boy, he was a
clerk in a HillSborO store. He was
then faithful and true to duty, fond of
books and literature, while firm to all
requirements Of his position. He drift
ed West into realms whose shining
sands and rugged mountain peaks
tempted the adventurous youth tC
fortune. He returned to find home
with his devoted sisters, Miss Amelia
Heron and Mrs. Cyrus Newby. Ir
Judge Cyrus Newly he found brother
indeed in every sense. With these
great warm-hearted people were spent
his closing years. Those days were
crowned with loving affection, with {
tireless devotion to every want. The.
kept their patient vieils by his bee
and closed his eyes in death. Theil
, example shall not go unheeded, no
their sacrifices fall upon barrel
ground, but shall appeal to all strick
en- hearts and leave lesson of beaut,
and kindness which shall long remail
in the memories of the living.