Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-06-16
IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL
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him for help in their difficulties. He
always helped in that kindly unassum-
ing way that left no envy in the heart.
Third-In an unusual motive. That
which he saw value in he studied.
Fourth-It was Blaine in whom his
teachers found companionship more
than any other.
These prominent characteristics indi-
cate in measure the source Of his sue
cess. True, manly, studious, high
minded and altruistic his life stands as
type of that life whose influence is so
strong for right and for good that it
becomes success though it be cut off
in the dawn of its course.
Rev Charles H. Sanders spoke in be-
half of the Knights of King Arthur, ;"
paying high tribute to his life as an
associate and friend.
Pastor Watson gave short sermon
on the 'Brevity and Uncertainty of
Life" from the text "Truly as the
Lord liveth and thy soul liveth, there
is but a step between life and death, :"
| Sam. 20:13. David uttered these
words under peculiar circumstances but
it states most correctly our condition
upon earth. We are walking contin-
ually on the brink of the grave. The
certainty of our death is emphasized in
the Scripture, symbolized in the idea
of the fading leaf, a vapour and as the
grass that withers. Humanity needs
the reflection that the mortal condition
is fading and uncertain, but truths
which we never think of disputing may
be practically those which we are most
in the habit of forgetting. The per-
ception of this fact is all important and
intrusive. All our acts and employ
ments should be set in the light of that
event; not to make us undervalue life,
but to connect it with that which is to
come; not to take the spice of life from
US, but to elevate our enjoyments. 1t
will dispose us to prayer. The impor-
lance of life is seen as determining our
future destiny. It's uncertainty is a
part of a merciful Divine plan to make
us thoughtful. Gods plan may be ac-
complished in the shortest life. This
opens to US the grandure of eternal
life; that life is begun now. This
thought transforms all our sorrows for
"Our light affection, which is but for a
moment, worketh for US a far more ex-
ceeding and eternal weight of glory"
There is a Divinity that shapes our
ends. We are assured that life and
death His mercy underlies.
Rev. Watson concluded with poetic
quotation from Paul Lawrence Dunbar
on Death Made Plain"
The smell of the sea in my nostrs,
The sound of the sea in mine ears;
The touch of the spray my burning face,
Like the mist of reluctant tears;
The blue of the sky above me,
The green of the waves beneath;
The sun flashing down gray-white SAIL
Like a sinister from its sheath
So said to my heart, BE SILENT;
The mystery of time is here;
Deaths way will be plain when we fathom the
Main,
And the secret of life be clear
A large company followed the body
to the cemetery. Robert Kane, Mon
High School Senior class, Earl Cardinal
of the class of 1910 and Edward Rich
ardson and Theron Clark of the class
of 1909 acted as pail bearers. Misses
Lillian Lee, Laura Leveille, Lulu Low
ell, Frances Manning, Vera Manley,
Nellie Snyder, Pearl Roesler and Pearl
Lindoo acted as honorary bearers and
carried the profuson of floral tributes