The Newtown bee., 1901-12-06
LOCAL AFFAIRS.
ALMON B. RUGGLES.
A NATIVE OF BROOKFIELD AND LONG
 TIME RESIDENT OF SOUTHBURY.

| TIME RESIDENT OF SOUTHBURY.
 l We clip from the Church Messenger the following in reference to A. B. | Ruggles, who died at RedlandS, Cal, October 3, 1901. Mir Ruggles was a native of Brookfeld and for many years was in business in Southbury, which town he represented in the | Legislature. He was also a leading citizen of Shelton for many years.
 Redlands has lost stalwart citizen, and Trinity parish a wise and valued counsellor, in the death of Almon B. Ruggles, who, on Thursday, October tant to the Church Expectant. MT | Rugglcs removed from Connecticut to Redlands some ten years ago and en- tered extensively into the orange growing business. He has been called to many offices of responsibility and trust in this community, chief among which was his position as secretary and general manager of the Redlands Orange Growers Association, d buSi- ness which developed rapidly and Sub- stantially under his clear-hcaded and sagacious management, and in which he was actively engaged to the day of his death His place of worship at Trinity Church was almost never va cant, and he died in office as senior warden of the parish to which he had been appointed for many successive years. The rector, Rev Frederick F. Johnson, paid the following tribute to Mir Ruggles' memory in sermon preached the Twentieth Sunday after Trinity from the text, Genesis 2S: l2, 13:
 ''I ask you liberty to speak word of one whose life was closely knit to mine. Not because the record of his well-spent life, as clear as crystal and as radiant as prism, needs any need of feeble praise from me. You of this church and city knew him for years before you had known mo, and you never knew him in dishOnOr. And though the public press and pulpit have already joined to do him rever- ence, ask that you will grant me this hrst opportunity 1 have had to pay my tribute to his memory, who loved hlm well. He was the first to take me by the hand when, on the day of my arrival in thi city, l came alone, a stranger, to .his church for h., frInnI friendship was delightful to me as it always was to ail who shared it. Com ing as 1 did in a few months to the rectOrshlp of this parish, whose senior his counsel and advice have been to mo invaluable. He has always showed his heart to me, without partiallty, without hypocrisy. Never indulging in fulsomc tlattery, which no true man will give and no true man will ever bear to take, he was cordial to commend and frank to criticisc. 'FlawleSs his heart and tempered to the cOre.' A man of large and press ing business interests, which he suc- ccssfully conducted, his own and those of many clients, he yet found time to joyously observe his religious obliga- tons, a silent rebuke'to that spirit of the age which pleads the proving of oxen and the demands of farm and | merchandise, or urges the necessity for physical refreshment or bodily eX- ercise as excuses why the outward Ob- Scryances of religion must be side tracked and the souls veal neglected. l This parish Church was as another home to him. Her worship and her sacramcnts were dear to him. They were to him a well of spiritual life. Here drank he of the brook beside the way: and with the nOurishing he here received he went out to minglc with the world s activities, where deeds of weekday holiness fell from him noise. less as the Snow.' His spiritual na, ture, deep and strong, as the outward man decayed, the inner man was re. ncwed day by day. In him we saw
 even here, the mortal surely putting on immortality. As the inHrmitics of the flesh increased, he built more
 stately mansions for the soul. Almol
 B. nugglcs, hOnorcd citizen. loving
 friend, faithful soldier, patient suffer
 CT, dcNOut cOmmunicant of thl: Church, and long time senior warden hail and farewell. May he. with al
 other of Gods servants departed thi life in Gods faith and fear, enjo, |, eternal rest and peace, and may ligh perpetual shine upon thcm."
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