The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1906-02-22
anything he could do he was glad to

anything he could do he was glad t.
remain.
His life was an expression oI
what genuine religion can do for O
human being. AT the last meeting
in which he took part he repeated,
with Paul, by grace | am what !
am" He had not been all that
he wished to be nor had he done
all that he wished to do. He
tried diligently to make amends for
all shortcomings and to correct. by
divine aid, all mistakes. He did
not have the faults that usually dis
turb men. His business record
was clear, his family record was
clean. He was not only honest, he
was honorable in all his relations in
life.
For some time he has felt that
he was reaching the bottom of the
page of his earthly record where he
needed to write the lines close to-
gether and too rapidly lest there
should not be time to finish. Any
suggestions of evil that came to him
he learned to recognize as he did
Bunyan's pilgrim, that they We're
the whisperings of Satan at his side.
He felt as did Mr. Vanderbilt when
he asked his gardener to come in
and sing at his bedside, Come ye
sinner poor and needy" To him
Christ was all and in ALL" He
said with John Wesley The best
of all is our people die WELL"
To me his death is a personal be-
reavement, but the lessons of his
energy, fidelity and faith in Christ
are indelibly impressed upon my
mind. / comfort myself in believ-
ing that there is Providence in
my stay in Logan during the closing
days of his life. / think | under
stood Brother Spahr and that he
understood me as well as it is poss-
ible for strangers to understand
eacl other. We were mutual
comfort to each other. | honored
his age, respected his judgement,
valued his services and loved him
as a choice friend.
He opened to me clear vision
of the future. He believed the Bi-
BILE, had firm faith in Christ and
the clear light came to his soul.
He was not walking in darkness.
| seemed so close to him in love
and sympathy that | almost feel
that | had passed through the ex-
perience of death. 1t makes the
other world seem very real to me.
You may have stood on the sea-
shore and seen the ship carry your
friends away to some distant shore.
You felt lonely for time, but they
came again to tell you of the beau
ties they had seen and the joys
they had experienced. but when our
friends are borne away on the final
voyage they return no more. They
can tell us nothing of that fair land.
Jesus Christ did return to tell us
that it is to be a home to us-"Our
Fathers house" We believe him,
accept his offered mercy and shall
go to occupy the mansion he has
gone to prepare.
| shall not say Goodbye to Broth
er Spahr, but look forward to the
familiar, joyous greeting on the
other shore.
| 'Thine earthly life is but n preparation
For greater toll and never ending Joys.
Thou vast not meant to tind IL satisfactory,
Its keenest sorrows are its broken toys.
Thine are those mansions, thine the fathers
| bosom.
Thine the high paths that sinless feet have
trod,
Thine is to be the light that faileth never
In endless life OF fellowship with God"
CARD OF THANKS
| Mr.. and Mrs. J. Il. Sanderson de.
sire to express their grateful appre-
citation of the many kindnesses ex-
tended them by friends and neigh
bors in their late bereavement, the
illness and death of John p. Spahr