Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1914-05-21

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heart.
He was upright in his public. Of
fetal and world life under It's vary
ing conditions. Being well educated
he early found public employment
and discharged all his duties with
integrity. promptness and justice TO
all concerned In every transaction.
For twenty-four successive years he
was official surveyor for this county
and learned 20 know and love its
fields, It's streams, It's fruits and its
grains as few viii ever know them.
for he loved nature and worshipped
God at the call of every inner and
outer voice.
He loved his fellow men and early
sought admission to the Masonic
fraternity and Joined so sympathet-
ically into its mystic and symbolic
ceremonies that they left deep i'm
preston on his very deepest emo
lions, SO that In his closing hours
while half unconscious to the outer
world, his heart beat again to the
funeral service OF the order and was
seen to drop the evergreen. a sym
Dol OF the immortality of the soul,
upon his own breast. as some tender
memory recalled his sometime tri-
butte to a brother.
| He was conscious of that immor-
tai part within himself that can
never, never die.
He was upright in his mental,
emotional and artistic standard and
estimate OF life. A life long seeker
after truth having a clear mind, a
pure heart and an artistic sense of
beauty naturally gathers a great
store of information, just estimate
of values and a blending of truth
into harmonious forms of things
which are true and good and beau
tiful by a natural growth choice and
rejection of mature judgment.
When this ripe stage attains its
completion 1t becomes a valuable
acquisition. The world is large and |
has some great expressions of divine |
power and wisdom; such as the tow
ering mountain rugged and over
mastering to the eye of the behold
er; or the rolling pillows of a storm
tossed sea relentless in its fury and
wrath; but these are likely to i'm
press the heart of any beholder
with about the same general effect;
but the whole earth is filled with
the glory of the Lord and open to
the vision of the soul which knows
how to see it, how to interpret, and
how to hold converse with 1t all.
Mr.. Romig could find soul full
of pleasure in the orchard, the field
and his garden.
The true scientist has found more
wonderful things and more blessed
things for the saving of life in
drop of water perhaps than he has
in a mountain or an ocean. II
Any man with eyes can see an I
elephant but 1t takes more than (
eyes to see a microbe. {
There Is a world of beauty and
truth and goodness that can be seen
only by the soul that knows where
10 find it, how to interpret it and !
what to think of it after all.
1t was this that helped to make
MS life none too long for ripening
IN peace.
The invocation of the morning,
he glory of the noontime, the bene-
fiction of the evening were all rich
with the incense Of devotion and
Iweet with the melody of Joy to his e
Ioul and that with an open hearted
simplicity that made them glorious 4
o him. Il
So he was never alone but dwell b
ng in the crowded thoroughfare of
hought and beauty. This gave him r
in his declining years and
ipened his soul for eternity. Some
# the things that came to him a
ound expression but most of them
imply made their impression and
eft their mark of added fullness to
he Joy of living Alright q
He was above all upright in his =
life, his immortal soul .,
life. n
He was bern of Moravian parents \
nd brought up in the strength and \
implicitly of that historic and heroic
aith which has been the marvel of =,
our centuries of history. This won
erful people brought with them the =
lood of heroes and saints from the
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