Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-10-02

ing but the bodily, the sensuously
perceived presence of him who has
passed into life. His spirit still
touches our spirit. His influence will
still mold and inspire US. Nothing
that he did or was that has in it the
enduring quality Of truth or of spr-
itual worth can ever be lost.
1.-The parting from those dear to
us is ever accompanied by pain and
sorrow. The keenness of that pain
and of that sorrow no one dare under
rate. But we sorrow for ourselves,
not for him who in the Fathers good
time has been called into the larger
life. Leopold Schmidt is not less
alive today, but more alive--his ex-
istence is not less real, but more real.
Here his life was partial, limited, con-
ditional and hindered by the material
body. Now he has passed beyond the
limitations of the material into the
Freedom of abundant life. He has
passed into life, life more real, more
vital, more effective than any that we
can know on earth.
THAT which we bury is his worn
out body. 1t was suited to the needs
of earthly life. but never was it more
than the instrument he used, the We
hicle in a material world of the self
~ ri
seen that body wear out in all it's
parts, and becoming useless to the
immortal spirit that inhabited it we
see it now cast aside. Now in the
realm Of the spirit, he is clothed upon
with a spiritual body, body suited
to life under the pure condition of
the spiritual world, in which and by
which he may attain to the full, free
expression of his personality.
Enters Fullness of Life.
To-day we bury with all reverence
and love the material body of Leo
pold Schmidt, but it is only his ma
terial body. He has gone crowned
in the mending progress Of the spirit
into a full and abundant life where
he may freely grow and expand to the
completeness and perfection of his per-
sonality. until at last he reach the
throne of God.
THAT which we call death is but
a transition, a means, and experience
in the unbroken life Of the spirit.
Born into this world 50 years ago.
today he is born into the spiritual
world. Today we bear witness, re-
joice, with a Joy deep beneath all sor-
row and pain, in the resurrection
unto life of our father and friend.
Thanks be to God who giveth US the
victory"
The services closed with the view
ing of the body by those present, the
funeral cortege leaving almost imme.
diately to take the body to the train
for Tacoma. a delegation Of local Elks
accompanying it to that city.
The active pall-bearers were P. M.
Troy, Frank M. Kenney and Frank
Ekstatt Of Olympia; Henry Schupp
of Bellingham. w. B. Robinson of Se-
attic, D. Gamer Of Tacoma and J. p.
Rettenmayer of San Francisco, while
those who acted in an honorary ca
pacity were c. J. Lord, Mitchell Har-
ris and George A. Mottman Of Olym-
pia. Pierre p. Ferry, Louis Heirich
and F. x. Schreiner of Seattle, and
Edmund Rice and William Virges Of
Tacoma.
Daughter and Five Sons Survive.
Mr.. Schmidt had not been strong
for the last few years and he had
left the management of his many in
terests very largely in the hands Of
his sons, Peter G., Leopold F., Jr.,
Adolph d. and Frederick, of Olympia,
and Frank T., Seattle. The latter was
with him in Bellingham at the time
of his death, while his daughter, Miss
PHILIPPINE Schmidt, was In Portland.
Father and son were in their apart
ments at the Hotel Leopold when
Frank noticed his father was i'll and
rushed to secure attendants but re.
turned to find his father dead. The
body was brought to Olympia Satur-
day night, being met by the relatives
and a delegation of local Elks.
Mr.. Schmidt's health had prompted
| him to do considerable travelling in
recent years and a year ago he spent
a year at his old home in
Germany, being accompanied by his
daughter. Last winter he spent in
Los Angeles, California, where Miss
Philippine was attending school, and
this summer he had been living in