Jefferson jimplecute. (Jefferson, Tex.) 1907-1926, 1912-09-19

city, once more we are reminded
that we too must wear the chains
Of the unseen foe.
With all our Wanted advance
ment and learning we are as ignor-
ant of our condition beyond the
grave as men were 5000 years ago.
Mystery, of all mysteries is life,
and the tragerdys' Of all tragedies
is death, once more we stood be.
side the invisible sea in which the
stream of life was lost, once more
we fling to Heaven our own exist
ance and exclaimed in the language
of our Savior Father, "Thy Will be
done" Death is monarch
whom revolution can not Conquer,
one ruler whose Kingdom is ever
widening, yet what event is more
familiar than the grave, what Is
more familiar than death, we are
taught from our earliest childhood
we mnst die. But from all who
has gone before thee have failed
to teach us to expect death with
Icalmness and serenity. How
sweet is the thought of physical
health, and how horlid the thought
of plunging into an unknown world
Bro Dan w. Shaw first saw the
light of Gods wondering day
Sept, Is 1865 in the city of New
Orleans La Louisiana was his
cradle and Texas his grave. Dan
w. Shaw when he was 3 years old
his father died and his mother
moved to Jefferson Texas 1868
where they had lived ever since.
When Bro. Shaw was only Is
months old he was stricken with
falling sickness or commissions and
with all the help of a devoted faith
err and mother and medical aid he
was neve, cured, yet Bro Shaw
with all his Affections he bore them
with christian fortitude and SEEM
ed cheerful although under bond
ages to an unseen foe. Bro. Shaw
was a member of the M. Il. CHI urch
and has lived a faithful and devot-
cd christian for the last Is years.
Bro. Shaw leaves onls a half bro
ther who survives him, Mr. VIII
Lundy OF Texarkana Tex, on Sept.
9th 1912 God looked down and
said it's enough my son, thou has
borne thy Affections long enough,
for As years thou hast suffered,
''come home. On Sept, 18th
Bro Shaw would have been AZ
years old, he leaves host of friends
in Jefferson, he was loved by all
who knew him and he had one
special friend, Mrs J II. Bemis,
who once lived here, she not only
remembered her friend Dan in her
devotion to God, but once or twice
year she would send him nice
box of something as she knew
would please him.
What q beautiful meeting that
will be when Bro. Shaw tells our
Savior how when he was hungry
she fed and when sick she visited.
Why was Bro Shaw cheerful in
his Affections it was convictions
born of faith that death was not
the end of life, but the beginning.
He felt to know when the spirit
of God deserved this body of clay
angles would bear his soul to that
land where there would be no sick
ness. sorrow, nor death and begin
new life more beautiful and benz
ficent than those who had the APP
plause of men.
In reviewing the life of our Bro.
Shaw we do not ask if he ever set
in the COUNSEL of the wise where
the honor of the ma tions was at
stake. nor if FORTUNE dropped her
silvery coins in his lap, he may
never have captured the industrial
armies of his time, he may never
have charmed the world with
melody Of song, but its enough
for us to know he was a good citi-
zen a friend and a brother, these
are the greatest little man ever
wore.
sleep on dear brother till God
shall call thee Home to give thee
a crown of righteousness, may
peace be with thy dust and angels
companions of your soul.