The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-21
HIGH TRIBUTE TO
SNYDER |. HAGUE
Rev. P. A. Simpkin Delivers
Address at Funeral Ser
vices in Salt Lake.
MANY MEET TO DO HONOR
SPEAKER TALKS ON RELIGION
OF NEWSPAPER MEN.

OF NEWSPAPER MEN.
The funeral services of Snyder l..
Hague, the Salt Lake newspaper man
who died of typhoid fever Tuesday, were
held i'm the O'DonnelI undertaking par
Tors at II o'clock yesterday morning. The
chapel was crowded to the doors Rev
P. A. Simpkin, pastor of the Phillips Goa
gregational church and the newspaper
mems chaplain. presided over the SER
vices, which were simple. Nearer My
God to Thee" a favorite hymn of the
decedent. was sung by a choir of children
comprising Elsie Aures, Eileen Mack,
Anna Springman, Gladys Hegney, Lo-
retta Boehler and Millie Williams. Two
My Soul and fSonie Sweet Day" were
sung by Miss Agnes Ryan and Miss Mil
lie Williams. The children's singing was
feature arranged by Miss Nora Gleason
in respect to the dead mans love for
children.
A prayer and the funeral sermon were
delivered by Rev. Mr.. Simpkin. The
minister spoke from personal knowledge
of the straightforwardnes and dislike of
shams of Mr.. Hague. This hatred of
hypocrisy was best demonstrated by his
fondneSS of children, innocent and know
ing nothing of the artificiality of the
world. The keynote of the address was
the true inwardneSs of the true news
paper man. The speaker touched upon
the worlds belief that ne is calloused
from constant contact with the ugly and
unpleasant in life and dwelt upon the
needing~but some co-wOrker's distress or
death TO come to the surface
Gives Light on Character.
The address follows:
81 am glad for the custom of our time
that calls for the utterance of a word OF
love and esteem for a life closed to
earth, as we gather about the sacred dust
of one whom we have known and loved.
l am addressing a body of men who, as
a class, differ as widely i'm their concep-
tons of the great fundamental beliefs of
Christianity as any class. and vet men
who hold in common great reverence
for lfe's highest truth and a great hope
and faith for the hereafter. with all its
things. think you are ready to say;
Death is not Ceasing to be.
1t is but living eternally;
It is not ceasng the Upward ward f Iisht
Just putting off weakness and putting
on might.
Putting forever off the clOd.
Putting forever on the God.
LAS a craft. by lifes necessities. you
are forever thrust against the hard side
of life. and facing this experience of
counted callous- But when death comes
TO one of your own. too often, alas! in
loneliness and GpartneSs that is pa
thetic. you demonstrate the tenderness
of your souls and your apprehension Of
the things that center here. as you move
out in that love and tenderness that
make life beautiful to minister to the
sacred dust And. for him. my friend.
would thank you now for the ministry
Of this hour.
death is more than an incident in life.
1t takes death sometimes to dignity life
i'm our eyes, but we Weld to it tragic
importance only on the ground Of what
il means to the bereaVed heart. finding
the stress to be laid the rather on life
and lofty service in even the commonest
things that fall to us in duty.
Loved by Those Who Knew Him.
1.-The man who lies before us i'm earth's
last peace. was unknown to thousands of
our citizens by either face or name.
fact that many knew MN and loved him
because they felt the beneficent touch
of a helpful life. He came to our city
years ago. and has served the public
faithfully in his calling. He was a man
of utter straightfOrwardness, of mental
acumen beyond the ordinary. a thinker
who fought through the great religious
problems to the end of conviction. a man
tender of heart. fierce Halter of shams,
a lover of the sincere. broad in his char
ity sunny i'm his outlook. helpful i'm all
his life with a deep reverence for the
good wOmanhOOd and all the childhood
Of the world. AS he goes out he leaves
the community poorer. and the earth is
better for his having lived. 4
There is no more unfailing judge of
the essential goodness of a man than the
little child. and ] have seen so often the
laughing face of a little child lifted up to
him. with the love- greeting flashing from
its eye He has. unknown to all save one
or two of his close friends. in the last
few years. taken to his heart broken and
limited life and mnistered of his sub
stance for it's clothing and education.
Saw Life as it Is.
In common with his co-laborers. he
saw at close range the hypocrisy and un-
worth of life. saw the lust and sin back
of seeming responsibility. saw the I'M
kindness and infideity of life. and yet
he never lost either his high ideal found
i'm the worlds Supreme Life, or his love
and fidelity to his fellows. His charac-
ter had in it snany noble things, and
while he owned no church membership.
and his creed was very brief. his life was
in its expression a reproach to thousands
of those who have long creed and
church membership.
1--WE do not repine that he is gone 10 his
rest. His life 10 us may seem incomplete.
and we grieve that he is lost to earth.
When I called the last time at the hospi-
tai to see him, he emerged briefly from
his delirium. in his weakness he smiled.
and with CHEEKY courage spoke out in his
characteristic way, 'Parson. glad to see
you. but you are not going to have a
chance to throw bouquets at me vet 1t
was not making light of death il was
just the courage of the man that marked
all his life He suffered in the deep things
of the heart as few men suffer in the
world: he carried deep scars. They were
honorable. but he hid them from the world
and laughed men away from the holy
ground of which they were the abiding
tokens. And so today we look away from
this which lies in the last cold sleep. up
TO the heights where he is gone. That
master-soul. the Christ to whom he gave
reverence, and faith amid the shadows of
the earth. is now TO him an open vision
eve thank God that he lived for the
tender humanity that reached TO all that
made appeal to him. for his true cour-
age and fidelity to his best in the tolls
Of life. We are glad that he has gone
from the fret and burden to his rest and
may it be our own lot to lie down at
last. with the same chiId-like faith i'm
Him who came to be the worlds friend
and the brother of every soul in the age
to be gathered to the wider life beyond
the shadows where earth's brokenness
shall be filled out in the perfect home of
light and truth. We will not saw to
him good night but i'm some fairer
cline bid him good morning "
The body will be shipped to Galesburg
ILL., where it will be inferred under di-
rection of a sister, Miss Frances Hague