The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-28

band. this great brave man. There was there the older brother who sits here. but he never saw his fathers face. There was brave mother and two sons. and what a brave mother can do we do not know, but we do know what this brave mother did by the help of God. Here in this city sympathizing community tells what was wrought and in the bloom and flower of his life he was-and was not.
 When he left us a great soul left us; great in those natural gifts that make great men, He had a great mind and had studied the secrets of the body giving his skill and his intellect to that, and in the acquired gifts there were great accomplishments In the manner of his revealment there was great force. There was the utmost modesty. l never heard him say anything of his own attachments but often heard him speak of the att tainments of others.
 Modest and Gentle.
 ''IIe was not only modest, but gentle, and another great quality was his piety Somewhere he had surrendered himself unto the Lord, and he never failed in his sympathetic and earnest devotion. He was a man who believed certain things and tried to adapt them to his own life.
 "The love he-held for his mother was most touching and revealed the sympa- thetic nature. I heard him say after his mothers death: My mother deserved the best There was nothing on the globe that she desired that she could not have If I could get it. A man with such a mother as Dr. Elias and our brother here had, deserved the best and they sought always that she should have It.
 lover all comes that greater bond great heart that beat with love for his faI l,a ta of God has taken him.
 'I have rarely seen such sorrow as has been witnessed here in the past few days. l remember only once when there was such grief and this was upon the death of Garfield. The grief then was greater only in extent. I have seen many in- stances of ths-men weeping who were in nowise related to the dead, and families how many-are sorrowing.
 Church Is Bereft.
 .'This church is bereft. He was deacon here wise, conservative, large-hearted and generous. I miss him; we all do. The college where he gave wise instruction is bereft One of the young men over there said to me: We are lonesome over at the college; our staff and stay is broken and gone In the infrmary there Is bereave- ment; the community Is bereft; bene- factor is gone. And this circle here, the horne-I shall not enter there. The wife, this brother, the children, God be with them and bless them.
 'To the toiling men and women here Is a great lesson of hope; here is a lesson of enthusiasm. He trod humbly, beauti- fully, patiently before his King and He will crown him evermore.
 gro the throng who are going on their way, here Is a warning. In an hour that he knew not, God came and he was not. May Gods blessing abide in the family, in the college, in the community in the last troubled heart. May His blessings abide forever"
 At the conclusion of Dr. Davidson's discourse Mrs. E. A. Jones, assisted by the choir, sang Earth Has no Sorrows That Heaven Cannot Remove" Then as si- Iently and slowly as 1t entered the funeral procession left the church, while the choir rendered Abide with Me. Fast Falls the Even Tide"
 Hundreds of people followed the re- mains to Oak Hill. A large number of public and private carriages combined to make a funeral procession of unusual length Those who did not go from the church in vehicles rode in the cars to the cemetery.
 At the grave the services were short. When the casket had been conveyed from the hearse to the tomb Dr. Davidson of- fered a short prayer, when the workmen with brick and mortar soon sealed the marrow house." For half an hour the large concourse stood still, watching the progress of the work, and 1t was not until 1t was nearly completed that they left the city of the dead.