The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-08-16
AT REST.
The Remains of James Louis
Hanna Laid Away Yesterday.
In the Presence of Large Concourse oil
PeOpIe.---LOving Tributes to the
Memory of Desceased.

mains of James Louis Hanna were
held at the Presbyterian church Sun,
day afternoon at 2 80 O'clock and
We're attended by a multitude OF
friends who came to take last look al
the form of him whose memory will
long live in the hearts of the people OF
this community. No greater tribute
could have been given any man, be
he statesman or philosopher, than that
given the deceased yesterday.
The remains were. taken from the
late home on Warren street to the
church at 1 80 o'clock and laid there
in state until 2 40. The church was
filed to the utmost capacity and the
floral tributes were many and beauti-
full.
Members of Royal Arcanum lodge
No. 1920 and Modern Woodmen of
America to the number of 1875 attend
ed the services in body, the deceased
having been a member of both orders.
The choir consisted of Mrs. Henry
l. Parry, Miss Kathleen Brosnan, John
R. Thomas and F. E. Crandall.
The services were most impressive
and were conducted by Rev. F. E. R.
Miller of the Baptist church, assisted
by Rev. Davis of the Presbyterian
church and Rev. S. D. Works, former
pastor of the First Baptist church.
After the reading of scripture by
Rev. Davis, and selection by the
choir, Rev. Miller spoke in part as fol-
lows, using as his text the 18th chap
ter of John 1926 verses:
lam the resurrection and the life he that
believeth in Me. though he were dead yet shall
he live: and whatsoever liveth and believeth In
Me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Once more as we are called upon
to follow the form of loved and init
mate friend to the grave Thoughts of
the last bitter hour come like blight
over our spirits. and sad images of the
stern agony, and shroud, and pail and
breathless darkness and the narrow
house cause us to shudder and grow
sick at heart.
By this repeated spectacle of life's
end we are admonished that, no mat
ter how our days may be engthened
by careful culture and discipline of
the body, the time approaches then we
too shall take our place in the solemn
procession (Which moves to the pale
realms of shade, where each shall take
his chamber in the silent halls of
death -
Wise men feign no Indifference to
this stern fact; they do not deceive
themselves with the idea that death
has no terrors in his culver for them ;
they pray, with David, Lord make
me to know mine end, and the measure
of my days: what it is; that l may
know how frail am" They seek to
make preparations for the end by such
correct daily obedience to the COM
mandments of God as,
THAT when their summons comes
They go not like the quarry slave at night
ScOurged to his dungeon: but sustained and
By an unfalterng trust approach their graves
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch
About him. and lies down to pleasant dreams
1t depends altogether upon ones
vision, upon his estimate of the value
of his life, upon his conception of
Gods plan for him as to how he shall
view the termination of his earthly
career. Expressive of his thought an
artist has drawn a striking picture. In
the foreground are two men who look
enough alike to be twin brothers.
Both are gray as to hair and beard
bent as to back giving all the signs
of age. Before them lies a cemetery
which both are about to enter. One
of the men is looking into the resting
place with gloomy eyes. Brother,
exclaims he, chow sad the prospect -
tured gaze upon vision above and
beyond the place of tombs-he sees the
spires and battlements of the heavenly
city, and hence, replies: "Ah, no,
brother; you must be shortsighted to
me the prospect seems most glorious. "
Jesus spoke many, but, at least, one
word which he intended should reas-
sure the faint-hearted, and for be-
LEVERS, make the hour of death both
peaceful and triumphant. To the be-
reaved sisters of the Bethany household
he brought tears and sympathy-yet
something more, confidence in him as
the spring of life and Immortality
And his deed in behalf OF dead Laza-
rus is simply a proof of his consoling
assertion: 81 am the resurrection and
the life. -
In this utterance Jesus ANSWERS ne
great need of man. How often, when
we have looked upon the face of our
dead and closed the coffin, we have
wondered if the grave ended all. The
ancients, discussing the relation of the
soul to the body, compared it to the
harp and the music. Let the strings be
broken and the harmonies cease. AS
the rover to the boat. With the de-
parture of the rover the beauty and
motion are at an end.
But Jesus reveals himself as the
author of all resurrection. AS when he
resumed his bodily presence on the
fair morn after the stone was removed
from his tomb by the angel, SO shall
we when he comes for us with "the
voice of the arch angel and the trump
of God.
IT was this confidence which moved