Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1901-03-30
THOS SCOTT MURPuEY.

eminates an IndeGnable something which
binds together hearts with an insouble
bond. creating atender brotherhood where
all csc were Intellectual,
Rut lately the citizenship Of Macon has
felt the drawing Of theses bonds. and has
bowed its head as one grief-strickeD family
in mourning for the death Of one of IFS best
beloved and most highly respected men,
berS. I. S. Muphey. Throughout the brief
week Of his desperate illness, there was an
anxious interest manifested on all sides,
ana though obliged to know from the be-
ginning Of his affection that be had been
chosena target by death, the closing of the
portal which separated him from this life
causec a sad shock.
Mr. Murphey for more than forty years
mad been an hOnOred citizen OF Macon, and
had won the warmest friendship Of all who
were so fortunate as to come into familiar
Intercourse with him; and not in this
phase alone was he the recipient of univers.
al admiration, but in business circles as
well, Tor rs he possessed that genial court
esy andreserYedbut gentle sympathy which
Enthusiastically stamps the gentleman: in the
same degree he was in the commercial
world equally as distiuctiyely dIstin-
guIshed. He was a man of the highest
integrity, with an unfaltering contempt
for any foible which could not endure the
N-ray penetration Of honesty and truth
even though his highe interest might be
ut stake. A man to have business deal.
lngS with whom meant honest ana cons.
cientous treatment, be was universally
admired and esteemed.
In concert with unstinted growth of this
great moral strength. the scale of his Ito
was equally balanced by keen and far.
sighted knowledge o! business require.
ments which marked him as untailiucly
successful in all attmnments: integrity and
foresight such rs were his characteristics
could weave the wreath OF success.
AS community we feel deep sense Of
loss In his death-his vacant place, his In
huence and his charitable interest in All
that wa8 conducive Of good have al
caused void which can never be filled
because the vacancy was his place. and he
has gone into the Beyond.
The Borrowing friends who toIlovod hin,
TO MS last resting place silently nttested
The esteem and affection in which he was
heId' No thought of him was born but of
tenderness and love, and no voice was
raised but to speak his praise. There are
none to say that he did harm to any man
but many TO declare that he ceaseles slv did |
good and to feel and know that as com.
mon'ty and as individuals all are better
for his life among us.
If to the commun ty tins sense of loss is
so Deep there can, ofcourse, be no fatbom.
ing that felt by the Borrowing household
IN which for so long he was loving.
tender father and a devoted husband.
Such loss is not to be estimated b, II.
r no, IN comparison, have slipped only the
surface bitterness from the cup of real
woe IN our mourning for him, while the
drc@s have been reserved for the bereayed
loved ones, And bitter indeed would he
the draught-brtter and uncomfortable but
Tor the loving assurance whispered them
by Divine lips, "IIe is not dead but
'leepeth,' fer IN the resurrection of fhe
uSt' when the trump of God shll call
rom their long sleep these inanimate
.orms and Shall restore to them again the
spirit ofliie, then shall tins loss be retricv.
'd' and the homesic, hearts be reunited.
There is no death; what seems so is
transition;
rms HE o. mortal breath
Is but suburb Of the life elysiap.
Whose portals we 2alI DEATH"
Though be will ever remain absent in
he bodily presence, still the ripple of his
influence will continue to widen-eytepd.
NJ across, not onry his inhabited portion
u the sea OF life, but IN its expansc moving
be waters far a.d wide IN never coasing
pread
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