Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-02-17
SOLEMN FUNERAL SERVICES.
The Last Sad Rites Over the Remains of the Late
John Miller.

John Miller.
Funeral services were held yesterday
afternoon over the remains of the late
John Miller at the residence of G. w.
Haynes on Johnston street. Rev. w.
r. Dye officiated. After the services,
a delegation of So Elks held funeral
services according to the beautiful rit-
ual of the lodge. The pail bearers
which escorted the remains to the de-
pot were Charles w. Dudrow, ]. Fl.
Vaughn A. L. Morrison, Jr., Frank
Ford o. C. Watson and C. V. Stafford,
and IA committee of Elks accompanied
Mrs. Miller and the remains to Lamy
Interment will be made at New York.
The hearse and carriages on their
way to the depot last evening were IL
Illuminated and the effect of the funeral
cortege was very impressive.
The following eulogy was pronounced
by A. b. Renehan, Esq, over the re-
mains of Mr. Miller, on behalf of Santa
Fe Lodge No. AGO. of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks:
AlltI lllt . llllui lSNSl ~ 'iS~H''
WE'LL" for "the fever called living is
over at last" He was our friend, hon
est and just to us. But few snort
DAYS ago he entered oHr lodge room as
a novitiate and shared in it's innocent
merry making, and now he has cross
ed the Great Divide between Time and
Eternity, and the shouts Of laughter
are changed into sobs of grief.
1t is very easy for men to philoso-
phize upon the death of others, to treat
the visrations of the bony spectre with
contempt, but when it comes home ana
takes a seat at our hearthstone with its
usual coolness and effrOntery. now
HELPLESS we are before it's face, and
how hollow have become our philo-
sophie pretenses.
Our brother who has gone from US
was almost the infant of our fraternal
household, and we had learned to love
him with that tenderness which the
older grown show to the younger IN
the family And why? Because his
heart was good, his bearing modest and
his nature affectionate. His ways were
not the ways Of the commonalty OF
men, for he thought for himself, and
though sometimes his mode may have
been harsh, his object was always
righteous.
Not the least of his virtues was his
high respect for women, wlfe ahc
home, the basic principle of Elkdom
tJe was not one to overbrim with cant
and empty phrase, but what ne sale
he meant and what he did was true.
"The faults of our brothers we write
upon the sands, their virtues on the
tablets Of love and memory" Ii un'
worthy sentiments our brother had
thew were unknown to us, for patience
in snfferings, concealment of the worm
that gnawed at his heart, left no room
for sin to breed. He was candld' up
right and honorable. His particular
virtues we will forever enshrine IN oul
memory and engrave upon the taplet'
of our order as charity, justice, proth
erly love and fide1ity-for he was help
full to the needy and mournful, just u
friend and foe, loving Of his fellowmen
no matter what their station, faltn1u
to his duty as citizen, husband, son
brother and man.
How pitiless is death to snatch hin
away from her who has been his great
est blessing in sickness and GONZALES
cence, in depression or exhilaratlon' I
visit this additional blow upon ne
while yet she staggered under an al
most equal sorrow, to come, when
ought to have been far away, destroy
ing in a reckless moment all the prom
ises of years. But the measures an
the means of God are beyond our dis
nensation, 1t is ours to bow humbly I
his DEGREES, for in them is providentif
munificence, though to our eyes the
are full of present curse and blght. LIZ
, us praise the Lord from whom all bles
! sings flow, for he lets affiiction zoos
only that benediction may follow.
We shall not forget Brother John
Miller who has merely gone ahead
the Land of Promise as one who love
his fellowman. He was not aIraiu
die for he knew that beyond the gray
, there stood for him to reap no harVes
1 of misfortune or pain. The hand
l the Almighty will guide you nom
. John, our friend and brother!
To his dear, devoted, self-sacrificin
wife our hearts go out in brotherl
sympathy, and though the prov
r reaches of the plains separate US Il
r the future, though years expand b.
t tween us, still we shall be within ca
t and we shall not forget our duty to OF
= brothers sanctified companion. Ms
God in His mercy temper the wind
= the shorn lamb or give her grace
bear it's sudden blast.