The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-29
SAMUEL NJ. BRERETON.
Career of Late Young Mercersburg
 Instructor.

The following account of the death and funeral of the late Samuel M Brereton, son of Mir, and Mrs George Brereton of 8 Baldwin place this city is taken from the Mercersburg News, of February 19 Mir. Brereton was a graduate of Yale and an instructor at the Mercersburg academy
 With the death of MT. Brereton last Wednesday, the school lost one of its best liked and most respected instruc- tors, man who had endeared himself to all who knew him. Coming as it did just a week after the death Of John Waldron and at just the time when Mir Brereton was thought to be out of danger and on the road to re- covery, this sorrow cast deep gloom over the whole academy.
 MT. Brereton, after successfully passing the crisis in his disease. had rallied remarkably and on Wednesday last, little anxiety was felt about the chances for complete recovery, when suddenly in the middle of the afternoon he Experienced a sinking spell and soon after five o'clock pass ed away. He did as became strong | Christian man. with his parents and a | few friends at his bedside. His mind was clear in those last hours and he quoted from kipllng's and Tennyson's s poems and from the Scriptures and in 1 his last moments sang in a wonderful l ly clear. strong voice, stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus
 Memorial services were held in the chapel at 2 o'clock Thursday after noon. The body was attended from the infirmary by the following eight associates of MT. Brereton on the faculty, who served as pallbearers Messrs. Drumm, Robinson, Shelley, Brown, Omwake. Wills, Graves and Rutledge. The remains were borne Up the aisle preceded by pr. Irvine who read impressive and comforting selec' tions from the Scriptures. The Rev pr. J, c. Rose then read the ninetieth Pslam and part of the fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians. After tht singing of the Academy Hymn, the
 Rev. H. l.. c. Kieffer offered prayer
 paving a most beautiful tribute to MT
 Rrereton. Then followed solo by
 Mir. Rowland, Jesus Lover of My
 Soul" and the memorial address b,
 pr. Irvine, who, after referring to thu
 do,,ble loss the academy had suffered
 in week and speaking feelingly O
 ,ha mysteries in Gods calling ou
 loved ones to Himself spoke in par
 as follows;
 samuel Mason Brereton was bori
 at Dundalk. Ireland. of English par
 entage. May 6, 1871. When a younl
 man his family moved to America an'
 settled at New Haven, Conn. Yer,
 soon thereafter. NIT. Brereton entered
 the school at Mt. Hermon, Mass H
 remained there four years, was gradu
 ated and in the fall of 1899 entered
 Yale university. He was graduated
 from Yale in June, 1903 with the de
 gree of A. F. In the following autumn he entered upon a course of post graduate study, making the classic his special aim. He received his de gree of A. NJ. in June, 1904. A fey ueeks after that l met him in Phia delphia. when he was an applicant 10 a position in the Mercersburg faculty | shall never forget how well and viz orous he looked and with what grea enthusiasm he talked about the worl of the following year. There was g,ou. in his countenance such as is see in him who has found his life's worh MT. Brereton began his work her in the departments of Latin, Gree and History, in September, lso4 Il served all the interests of the schoc faithfully and well until the heginnin E of his recent illness, about thre weeks ago. I need not tell you of h
 hard and conscientious work in tn g classroom his bright and happy spir Il in the dormitory. his intense intere' Il in the welfare of the boys. in the sno-ts. their achievements. their clea and moral life; ] need not speak the high esteem in which he was hel h bv his fellow instructors; nor tf ] welcome which was always his in Il
 homes of the best people of Mercer . hurg. All these things you kno7 ,f They have been an unconscious il 'a spiration to you and they will ever happy memories in your lives.
 s You and I know that our dear Nj il B-ereton was a painstaking teache Q thorough scholar. jolly and into e. esting companion, clean sportsma
 a faithful friend, a sincere Christia