The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-03-01


ping at Sugartree Ridge, take great
pleasure today in accepting this ele
CANT pulpit chair. and extending to
the donors our sincere thanks for the
same. While it serves to perpetuate
the memory of him in whose honor it
was presented, it also serves to call
our attention to the interest mani
tested in the Masters cause by those
occupy it be men of clean hands and
pure hearts. 1t is a source of thanks
giving to the church today that she
has been blest with the lives and the
service of such worthy men. We are
thankful then, not only for the ex-
ample left us by the worthy departed,
but also for the generous spirit mani
tested in those of his posterity.
May long life, peace and joy attend
them all. Again we say many, many
thanks. Immediately after this Mas
ter Wilkin Woodrow, the youngest
grandchild, and little Miss Lola Rob
erts, a great-graddaughter, presented
a most beautiful tribute to grandpa
and grandma, standing side by side.
reciting in turn appropriate selec-
tions:
wILKIN.
ITO My Grandfather and Grandmother
Why weep We then for them. who having won
The bound Of mans appointed years, at last.
Lilies blessints ali enjoyed life's labor done,
Serenely to their final rest have paasad;
While the soft m, mory of their virtues yet
Linger like twilight hues when the bright
sun is set.
Their youth was innocent, their riper age
Marked with some act of goodness every day:
And watched by eyes that loved them calm aud
sage,
Faded their last declining years away.
Cheerful they gave their being up. aud went
To share the holy rest that awaits lives well
spent.
Their lives were happy every day they gave
Thanks for the fair existence that WAS theirs;
For sick fancy made them not her slave
To mock II EN- with her phantom miseries
No chronic tortures rackek heir aged limbs.
For luxury and sloth had nourished none for
them
And am glad that they had lived thus long.
And glad that they have gone to their reward
Softly to disengage the vital chord,
For when their hands grew palsied and their
| eyes
Dark with the msts OF age, it was their time
to die.
Let us drop one more jewel in memory's casket
As tribute Of love and affection we wish to
To him, whose honest true life was an emblem
ofa devotion to family and friends that was
rare.
Loyal to Christ and every good cause,
When convinced OF the right did not falter
nor pause.
Worthy Grandpa and grandma.
Around sach eweet memories entwine.
We feel bonored in bringing loves Offering to
this sacred shrine,
To catch the inspiration OF their faith, hope
and cheer,
Should be the constant endeavor of thoee to
whom they were dear,
As husband, father, grandfather and faithful
friend,
His influence, gentle and strong did effectually
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To make home, church and society more
For he built upon the foundation strong and
sure.
All honor and love dear granpa to thee.
!
An incentive to be like you IN faith aud good
deeds,
Remembering your source of help i'll time OF
need.
They then arranged their flowers
gracefully on the chair and kneeling
down on either side repeated, as only
children can, the following prayer:
Our Father in Heaven, we pray the
to bless all the children, the grand
children and the great-grandchildre
both here and elsewhere. This we ask
through Christ Jesus, our Lord, amen.
Mrs. c. f. Turner sang an appropri-
ate solo, "The Farm on the Hill and
the Village Church-yard," after which
Rev. Foust delivered one of his excel
lent sermons which closed the services.
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