The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-07-26

Society sang jubilee song DR..
Stewart then presented Bishop Evans
Tyree, who was to deliver the fun
eral grafton. Bishop Tyree said:
MY friends, l am going to undertake
one of the hardest tasks of my life.
| am going to read a few phrases for
a text, which you will find in the
4th chapter and 14th verse of the
Epistle of James.
"The brevity Of time is wonderful.
Our years fly like dreams. From
childhood to manhood is but a span;
from manhood to old age is a shorter
span still; and by the law of limita-
ton our three score and ten years
call us to halt at the graves mouth;
and the solemn words: Ashes to
ashes, dust to dust is repeated over
us, and we are covered up until the
last day when God shall call the dead
1t was but yesterday, seemingly
when | was in my bed | and my
family, wife and three children, were
stricken down with measles; and the
man whose remains lay here before
us came one morning and wrapped
on my door, none of us were up; a
perfect stranger, he started upon a
task which he did not leave until
he had restored health in that house
Our friendship has been of the very
highest, and from the time of his
graduation, or soon thereafter, he
became the physician of my family,
and administered to the last until
his life was spirited away, seeming
ly as the lightning flashes.
On Saturday morning, after | had
made for days trying itinerary in
my district in the far East, | arrived
at home and inquired how everybody
was; all seems to be we'll; but by
breakfast time message came to
the house, Or Boyd is dead. |
have not really realized it yet. | now
stand over his ashes, his lifeless
form, my former friend and brother,
and yet it is hard thing for me to
believe that | shall not speak to him
tomorrow; that he will not come to
me when | phone him l am sick; that
he will not come to my aged mother,
whose physician he has been all of
these years. Those who have
reached the threshold of old age
must say tomorrow: Life! we have
been together in bright and cloudy
weather; but now we must part"
Then steal away; take thine own
time; say not Goodbye" but in
some fair cline bid us Good morn
ing" And so, our friend had not
time to say "steal away" Life
stole him away with little warning.
When his physician came he told him
what he had eaten that brought on
the attack which caused his death;
that swept him away In the next
moment reason was dethroned;
speech was si,enced; the summons
comes "he is gone
Or Boyd was a friend, friend to
everybody; broadhearted, liberal, and
a good man; as polite as a Chester
field, never tired in his kindness;
worked himself out helping others.
We speak of altruism. We had it
eXemplifed in the life of Dr. Robert
Fulton Boyd. A night never got too
dark; the weather never too cold or
too hot for him to go on an errand
of mercy and help. Strangers who
came to the city that stood for any
thing at all always got brotherly con-
sideration from DR.. Boyd He helped
the stranger to feel at home; that
though in a strange land there were
some .sympathizing hearts. He was
a great help to the young, reaching
out hand of helpfulness to his
race. Yes, more than that l love
a man that is broader than race.