The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1906-07-26
DEATH CLAIMS A
PROMISING YOUTH
Harold C. Wilcox, For Some Time q
Herald Employee, Called Into the
Life Beyond.

Herald Employee, Called Into the
Life Beyond.
When word came to our city last
Saturday that Harold Wilcox was
seriously sick in a Winona hospital
and that his parents had been sent
for to go at once to his bedside, all the
many friends of the young man were
greatly shocked.
Only three weeks ago Harold left
Sank Centre to enter the employ of a
newspaper.in Independence, Wis. At
that time he was apparently in the
enjoyment of good health. Life
seemed full of promise to the young
man, he was looking with great
expectations into the future. A lad
of splendid habits, high moral
character, industrious and cheerful
why should he not look out upon life
with much of hope and confidence?
His friends encouraged Harold in
his ambitions, for had they not dis
covered his consciousness and the
bright mind of the boy alert to grasp
the knowledge within his reach? He
even sought to increase his reach, to
enlarge the sphere of his life.
Harold Wilcox was born June 49,,
1889, thus being but little over II
years of age at the time of his death,
which occurred July 23rd. Seventeen
years of age-so the records show
but the boy was man before he
ceased being boy. For nearly three
years Harold had worked in the
Herald Office, learning the trade of
practical printer. He was a faithful
and conscientious workman always,
striving to excel at his tasks.
On the End of July he begun work
in the Office of the News-Wave, pub
lished at Independence, Wis. He had
been in his new place of employment
only two weeks when he was seized
with serious attack of peritonitis.
His new friends did everything
possible for his comfort and relief.
Physician and nurse labored faith
fully to counteract the attack OF
disease. The relatives and friends OF
Harold feel great debt of gratitude to
Mr.. and Mrs. Markham, the publishers
of the News-Wave, for the almost
parental devotion which they exhibited
for the boy in his suffering. They did
for Harold just as they could wish
anyone might do for child of their
own. Mrs. Markham nursed the boy
day and night, and finally went with
him to the hospital at Winona, where
she stayed by him to the end. These
people have proven themselves
servants of the Master, in that they
have followed the teaching of the
Nazarene, who said: 81 was a
stranger, and We took me in; sick, and
We ministered unto me.
But Harold would have friends
wherever he might have gone, for his
sunny spirit, his honest face and his
sincere manner won the hearts of all
who came to know him.
Harold was a self-made young man
that's what we call those who have
been denied ordinary advantages, and
who have made their own advantages.
Such an one has the metal in him of
which men are made, and they are
scarce enough. The world can ill
afford to lose such a young man. He
was youth of promise.
Just a few months ago, during our
recent series of union revival meet
ings, Harold made public profession
of faith in the Christian religion.
Like everything else he undertook he
aimed to be thorough. 1t was no
mere profession with him. 1t was a
vital principle in his life, for Harold
was. earnest. He suffered severely in
his last illness, but his new found
faith sustained him in that supreme
moment of life when a man becomes
suddenly conscious that very soon he
must pass out into the Great I'm
known. 1t was not great unknown
to him for faith lighted up for him the
walls of the mansions which the
Master had gone to prepare.
He was conscious to the very last
and said to his mother, sob, mamma
you can get along without me and you
know where I will go.'' Who will
question that the Way was plain to
the lad as he closed his eyes to the
familiar faces and scenes of this life,
and gazed with spiritual vision upon
the rapturous beauties of the Life
Beyond-the life more abundant?
Thus passed triumphantly from us
one whom we loved, one in whom we
had faith and a soul in whom God
delights
The father, mother, brothers and
sister have the sympathy of the entire
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