The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1905-12-23
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Lafayette county, which position he
filed for three years.
For more than half a century Judge
Ryland was an earnest, active and
Jealous official and member Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South at
Lexington, Missouri, in which church
he made profession OF his faith in
Jesus Christ January goth, 1850, and
has held membership in the same
ever since-and well has be kept the
faith.
Judge Ryland was married Deem
Der 10th, 1860, to Miss Nancy Pettis
Palmer, a gentle, loving, faithful,
Christian companion, who survives
him with six children. all Of whom
we're ATTACHED to him by the warmest
ties of devotion and affection and
who, with untiring love and tender
ness during his long illness, softened
The pillow NJ his suffering and scared
wloh MIN the bread Of affection,
Amidst his Intense ~Sntferlag We
vas %considerate and patient and en-
duled his afl 'clion with genuine
Christian fortitude stimulated by the
realization that the Lord loyeth whom
he chasteneth,
As a lawyer and iurist, as a man, a
husband and father, as a cit zen aud
a Christian he was preemiuently
fitted to discharge his manifold duties
to his family, his church, to his con-
stitutents and to his country, not 10
his own interest, but in the interest
Of the people Of his state whom he
loved and served so loEg.
AS a father and husband and in all
the domestic relations, Judge RylaDd
was a model, and his private and
domestic Ties we're second only to his
public duties.
He can be seen by mortal eye no
longer, but may we not hope that upon
the great ocean Of eternity his life,
10 the courts Of heaven, has burst
into noontide splendor.
And so another earnest, active
intellect is stilled, another toiling
life is ended. Helpless we stand at
its close, and with feeble, imperfect
words, attempt to tell the story Of
the years Of labor, ambition, success,
misfortune, JOY and affection which
c~heckered a long and eventful career,
All we know certainly is, hat it is
ended, and that our bother and
colaborer has at last laid down mis-
burden for the rest assured to him by
faith and hope. z
In his public services and in bis
private attachments, in his arduous
labor and Triumphant death, be has
earned an abiding place in the
menury Of Bench and Bar and Of
mis- people.
His body will lay in the soil OF his
native commonwealth, whose people
loved and honored him So long, aBc
his spirit has passed across the darE
river to be greeted en- the other side
by loved oDes gone before.
III a man die, shall he live
again?"-The great question present
ed to our race In every age as genera.
tion after generation has come anC
gone Happy the ma whose intellect
and conscience with divine faith
answers the question: know il
whom l have believed"-"I know
that my Redeemer liveth."
John E. Ryland could so answer,
"The deeds Of good he sOwed werl
sacred deeds;
Will bear their righteous fruits TO,
general veal,
When sleeps the husbandmao."
Be 1t resolved: That, in the dealt
Of Judge John E, Ryland, the com
monwealth of Missouri has lost one O
it's most estimable citizens; the Bench
aud Bar an able, fearless, consclep
tious, %iusticeI loving and mercifu
iurist; the educational interests al
active and earnest c%o.laborer; thI
church a devout. jealous and sincere
Christian brother; the family a kind
unsel6sh, devoted husband and father
Be it further resolved: That WI
extend to the family in It's affection
the sympathy Of the Bench and Ba.
in this, the hour Of trelr bereavement
Be it further resolved; That a cop!
OF these resolutions be presented It,
the family, and to each Of the respec
tive courts of record IN the countle
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