The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1913-02-27

ject, and he seemed to have a wonder
full insight Into the real significance of
life, it's purpose n it's end, and a de-
sire to have others know better the
true way of life. Now he lived the life
that many of you men are living-a
moral, upright life, trying to do his
duty to all fellowmen, and had come 10
see in the last few months that it was
not a satisfactory life. In it all there
was so much of supreme importance
that was neglected and left out. This
was his message to all of you who saw
him during this last week; it was the
important thing that he wanted all of
you to know. There was one dear
brother that he wanted to give this
message. He said, I want to live to see
him and tell him this important thing,
and then l will CO. He did live, and
then went.
God was goodsto him and gave him
his wish in the end. Just as He will be
good to all of us, and gives Us the de-
sires of our hearts, if we love Him.
Friends, this is the second time in my
life that l have been called to stand as
III IepI VI tie one whose
body lay in the casket before me, and
to speak their words and not my own.
A few years ago a lady of about So, a
wife and mother of two children, was
sick and realized that she was soon 20
die. h vas a lovely woman, accom-
plished, cultured, of an admirable dis
position and gentle nature. She gave
Instructions to her husband and chil-
dren, talked to her friends and made
all preparations for passing into enter
nifty, as though she We're going on a
journey. She said to me, I am going
nome to heaven, and when I am gone
l want you to take this text and tell all
my friends it is my last word to them
prepare to meet thy God Brother
| Ward said to me, I wish I could see
them all, but I cannot; and if l could,
I have not the strength to tell them
what | want to, and what they ought to
know; but won't you tell them for me?
/ promised him ! would. Then he told
me some things of his life, how he mad
lived, how he had tried to do right by
his fellows, how he never Intentionally
wronged any one. He told how his life
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| am entitled to no credit; it was sim
ply what l ought to have done; sim
ply one-half the law, and the smaller
half; my duty to my fellows he de-
clared. Until within the last year
neglected my duty to my God and tc
Jesus Christ, the redeemer of men. Ir
a few hours or days I expect to stand
before my God. ! thank Him for this
last year. T thank Him for his sick
ness, for this suffering; it has beer
the greatest blessing of my life; ]
would not have one particle of it taker
away for it has revealed to me the
p~reciousness of Jesus Christ. He is al,
to man that the Bible says He is.
have made the mistake of not taking
Him into my life earlier. I have failed
to do my duty to my God. 1t is as clear
as day to me now. How different and
how much better my life would have
been If I had not neglected my duty tc
my God. Were this house filled with
gold, and that is what I have beer
after, I would value it as nothing COM
pared to what Jesus Christ is to me
O, that my friends could see things
as I do now, n take Christ into Their
lives. 1t is appointed unto all men
once to die, and after that the judg-
ment. AS ! stan face to face with the