Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-03-13
Funeral of the Late e. e. Davis.

Funeral of the Late e. E. Davis.
The funeral services of the late f.
+. Davis We're held at the family res
idence on Pleasant street. Sunday at
ternoon. There was a large attend
ance, and one of the most beautiful dis
plays of floral offerings ever seen in the
city at n private funeral. attesting the
high esteem i'll which the. deceased WAS
universally held. The services We're in
charge of the Rev. G. G.. Mosher, pastor
OF the deceased, assisted by A. w. An
thony, ID. d., who was an intimate
friend OF Mr.. Davis, and an associate
with him in MANY lines of denomina-
tional work. Geo. f. Gay. ESD, con-
Quoted the funeral. and Mrs. NJ E.
Sawtclle sung two solos. The active
bearers We're +. NJ. Field F. A. How
ard. w. ]. Tuck and T.. w. Church.
The honorary bearers We're Hon. c. A.
Ailliken, Col. n. S. Purinton. Fred
Iianllcn and Nathan Weston.
DR.. Anthony being Il personal friend
of the deceased, made the remarks,
which We're as follows:
Mingled with this eXultant pean of
Christian faith and triumph. l wish to
voice some simple tribute of friendship
and love. l must claim for you citizens
of Augusta a wider circle Of friendship,
a wider neiShborhoOd, than simple vi
entity. There has passed from our
midst life so strong, so manly. so
clear, so UNDERSTANDABLE in it's integ-
rty and simplicity, as to have won a
circle of friendship and love far be-
You'd the limits of this city; not be-
cause of any erratic or striking act
but because of manhood, and of integ-
rity and strength.
Our brother has been associated, in
the circle of church work and in BUSH
ness ways, with you who reside in Au-
gusta, but his activities have reached
out into the larger work of the church
and denomination. and for many years
he served rs president Of the denOmina-
ton If the State with which he WAS
glad to be connected and to which he
gave large measure of intelligent
thought. | represent that association
in bringing that tribute of friendship.
His symrathieS and ambitions and
his labors have gone also into the ed
uCational life of our State: not himself
an educator, hut as one who loved the
highest and noblest ideals of the intel
lect and of the heart. and one who
spent and toiled and worked for the
welfare of others, and understood the
rich fruits Of education. He has served
as Il member of the board of over
seers of Bates College, and it is my
privilege to speak in these simple
words of friendship in behalf of the
president and the faculty and the trus-
tees of that institution.
Our brothers activities and sympathies
went into a circle beyond the State. For
several years-having already for a long
term been upon the board of trustees of
StOrer College. an institution seeking to
nplft the colorcd race of the South-h,
has also been the honored president of
the board of trustees of that college, To-
Gated at Harpers Ferry. West Virginia
1t is my privilege to bring with this trib-
ute. this afternoon. the sympathy. the
love. and row the sorrow. of those con
nected with that institution in the South.
He has several times served in the ma
tional organization of the denomination
with which he was connected, in the sew
eral capacities of delegate. and as men,
Der of different committees
IT is my privilege to remind Won of the
larger life lived in good measure with
those who saw him go in and out daily
He was not man who made a demon
stration of his heart or of his activities
but he was one who lived strongly and
largely in these many ways l cannot |
venture to speak as one who has known
him and loved him for now many years:
men do not readily express the affection |
they hold one for another. He and | in |
our intimacy attained, took no tokens of |
and yet binding us heart to |
heart in close sympathy it has been |
growing UP through these years of devO- |
ton. / trust. mutually. between us, and |
as his life touched me, l know that it |
has touched others. Through the summer |
season, where in his home he has been |
closely identified with the colony beside |
the sea. serving as one of those who ad- |
lninstered the affairs of a considerable |
there his life has been asso- |
ciated with those from other parts of the |
There his helpfulness has gone |
out week by week and month by month |
So that as we meet here representing |
largely the home side, we have also as
ISOLATED with us, in good part invisible. |
but We must not forget. those other |
friends and ties where his life and influ- |
ehce was given in such a broad and gem |
erous way that our sympathles. and sor-
rows and losses are common.
! do not need to speak in detail concern
ing the life which, so far as earthly ca
reer is concerned, is now closed. You |
who have met, day by day in business or |
social life or church circle. our brother |
rs he has gone in and out. know his |
character, the purity of purpose and in
tescrity of his life. No words of mine
could add to the record which has been
made; no eulogy of mine could increase
the influence which l venture with all |
confidence all who have met him or
Known him have felt. 1t is the New Eng
and life. the Maine life. largely the Au-
,usta life. which to our sight is closed.
l sometimes think beyond anything
which Christian faith can take hold upon