The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-12-04

Al the Christian chufcn on Sunda
morning a beautiful tribute was paiI
to the memory of the late Senate
Edward Carmack for years a membe
of that church. Resolutions express
ing appreciation of his high and noble
character and mourning his untimely
death were adopted. The resolution!
follow:
IN MEMoRIAM OF EDWARD WARE
cARMAcK.
That God moves in a mysterious
way his wonders to perform is as Ger
tain as any truth of physical science
From the beginning of the world his
tory records events demonstrative OF
this great truth.
Wisdom from on High directs the
course of nations, encompassing all
events in its oversight, though finite
humanity may slumber in apathy or
arise in solid phalanx to oppose.
"Man may stand in awe; and in his
bewilderment question the cause, but
the achievements of this ruling power
pass in review before his astounded
eyes, without any explanation of its
ultimate object; and all existence
bends to its onward march through
the centuries. 1t travels like mes
senger in the darkness of the night in
mysterious ways, and when the hour
comes for people, or a great man to
pass into the Great Beyond with IN
seen hands it throws wide the gates
of futurity; an all powerful influence
directs the soul of humanity to a
meek submission to its never chang
ing purpose; resistance finds itself
running counter with Divine Provi-
dence rather than human will, and all
hearts and understandings are won
derfully compelled to an obedience to
its unalterable law rather than to the
of man.
This influence moves from eternity
to eternity and in its on
ward march through ages it
has left the Highways of the earth
strewn with the martyred dead, the
greater the benefaction the more sure
The sacrifice.
The blood of the Martyrs is the |
seed of the church.
Almighty God in His infinite wis
lom has seen fit to permit all that is
Mortal of Edward Ward Carmack to
)e taken from the earth, leaving with
Is only the character he formed, the
deeds he wrought and the
lndying principles he taught.
In the death of Edward Ward Car
mack the Church has lost one of it's
natchless spirits, civic righteousness
is greatest advocate, the State its
eading citizen, and the nation one of
IS greatest men.
In the language of the poet, with {
ad hearts we can truthfully say: =
Again, Prince has fallen in the {
fight X
he val'rous Champion of the truth
and right; is
honest, level-headed, [
just n
Tho broke no promise. nor betrayed a
a trust; C
is genial face with courtly kindness n
beamed,
y friends beloved, by all mankind h
esteemed; n
e led his cohorts at the peoples p
imself the Noblest Roman of them IL
all! OF
g gained the iterance of their rev.
erend cheer to
Id won his battles with anointsd h;
spears; tn
lie people mourn him! Words are be
hard to find m
} aptly voice the anguish of their
mind; de
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phrases come, te
lief is never deeper than when It's MT
dumb.
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stone mi
in some worthy deed, and that co,
alone; col
wn on the Parthenon, it will fade we
and waste, hei
wed on the Pyramids, 1t will be for
effaced; of
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Jared pile, Sol