The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-09

would gladly have retained. He comes to the homes of penury and want, and with cruel stroke, smites the treasure of love, and spreads loneliness around. | He lays low the only support of household, and innocent children feel the bangs of hunger, the biting of | front, and the chill of an unsympa- thetic world. He makes his demands upon the sons of culture, and the active brain obediently sleeps. He commands the Rude Swain. of sense and pas sion, and he obeys. ... 7. ze... -. Insatiate monster! When shall thine arrows rest? .-.... t56. I Unwillingly to-day we pay tribute. 1 But we shall not give our alli Some thing remains to us. For though our i friend is gone, his work remains. @ It means much to community for such a man to put twenty-five years Of | his strongest, most active manhood in- to its interests. The world shall not know how much of hardship and of self denial those years brought to him; what efforts to make small capital cover large demands; what efforts to be calm without, when the conflict was | anu ~IHOSL@ Enough that 1t should know he suc- ceeded so well; that his business in 1 tegrity and uprightness gave to him the confidence of a host of friends and pa- irons and made his name the synonym l for fair dealing. But this is not all. That the youth gof the community should have an example of the golden rule in business, that men struggling with poverty should have an example of courage under difficulty, means much to community. The man has indeed left us Yet he has so identified him. self with the many interests that re- main, that whiel we have these, in an !, important sense, we have him. X 'sMr. Brown was friendly to every work which the church of God under took. He thoroughly believed in her mission. His relations to the clergy of I West Haven were ever cordial and re- spectful. He believed in the church be- cause he believed in Christ, the Head of the church. For reasons, which to him seemed sufficient, he did not identify himself directly with the church. It is easy for us to say that it would have ibeen better had he, done so, and I am sure he would have no controversy with us on that point. Notwithstand- ing this, his influence has always been for good; he was in every sense of the word truly good man.
 For several, months he had been liv- ing in the twilight, fully realizing that the end was near; but he was calm and unruff1ed as the shadows heightened. Methodical as ever, he settled his earth ly affairs and gave his final directions; and now that his work is done, he rests in sleep, and we can safely leave him with his God, in the full knowledge that he Is in good hands. Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord for their works do follow them"
 In closing the speaker recited the following:
 Might after night we dauntelessly em- l bark
 On slumber's stream, in whose deep
 waves are drowned
 Sorrow and care, and with all senses bound ' "'r
 Drift for while beneath the sombre
 arc
 Of that full circle made of light and | dark
 Called life; yet have no fear, and know l re-found
 l Lost consciousness shall be, even at tht
 sound
 Of the first warble of some earthly lark Or touch of sunbeam. Oh, and why no
 then
 Lie down to our last sleep, still trust ing Him
 Who guided us so oft through shadows
 dim, Believing somewhere on our sens
 again
 Some lark's sweet note some golder beam shall break, | And with voices glad and tuneful bit ii us Awakel