Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1911-10-12

IN MEMORIAM

~. Ntilll IlIO ANNMsy SSU.S
Hon. D. NJ. Harris, the we'll
known editor and publisher of
this city, passed from labor to
at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. G. G. Lahman,
Monday morning, Oct. 9, 1911,
aged 80 years, 2 months and IL
days. After a night of weari-
ness of the flesh, he was found
asleep at 8 10. a sleep that
knows no waking. He died as
h. had lived, peacefully, quiet
Y. submissive and contented.
He had lived far beyond the al
lo.tei span of life, lived 80
ears, through the most stir
ing century of mans record on
arth, when to be living was
sublime.
In those 80 years he saw
more history in the making,
than was possible in any other
500 wears of mans dominion.
He saw the map of the world
made new. He saw republics
and kingdoms rise and fall. He
saw all nature brought under
man. S dominion, saw creature
comforts multiplied manifold,
saw new world developed UNI.
der the resplendent rays of Il
civilization, whose effulgence
out shone the light OF Asia, for
it was the light of Christian civ
ilization, made perfect among
men To have lived SO long in
such a time was surely enough
for mortal man, but to have
lived it from the view point of
an editor, a publicist, a thinker
and a leader, in the STRIFE 10
ward human righteousness, hui
man freedom, and human aChiev
ment, vas surely sublime and
soul inspiring.
Mr.. harris in his prime was a
viril man, fully conscious we
believe of the glories of the
age through which he was pass
ing. He loved life in all of it's
phases. He was distinctly hui
man. He was soc able. He was
sympathetic. His faults, if he
had them we're those of the
the time and the place, his en-
vironment, from which few of
us can escape. II not grandly
equal to the great occasions he
was at least conscious of it. Lo
cally, his residence was CO.
equal with the existence of
Valley. He was part
ard parcel of her development.
He stood upon her outposts and
trumpeted for her defence from
all evil influences. He sustain.
ed the church as the staff of his
declining years. He gloried in
the promise of life eternal. And
this is ground for hoping that
he is resting now by the still
waters in the city not made
with hands, eter in the heav
ems. Others wll.l equal merit
have lived with less prominence
His fame is due to the fact that
he fought not alone as man.
but as publicist, speaking in
trumpet tones, as Paul sDOk,
before Agrippa. So it is we
honor him today, with a victor's
crown, with unwonted measure
of esteem. The details of his
life we give in his own words,
written last July when he had
rounded out his four score years
and ten, and felt that he had
about reached the end of his
earthly pilgrimage. AS such
it is we'll worth reading. Like
}. G. McCabe who preceded HIM
to that bourn from which NO
traveller returns. only last week
he looked beyond the river with
uadimmed e.e, and unfaltering
touch, confident in the promis-
es of God, the giver of al. good.
that there was laid up for him
riches in heaven. Sucl, closing
scenes as these are what give
grandeur to mans estate, and
mark him as one touched with
the glory of INN ,rtalitv. and
give us reason for cmulatinu
their virtues and forgetting
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