The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-04-14
TR|MUTES TO MEMORY
OF LATE v. A.
MURRAY

The funeral OF w. A. Murray, for
the past five years a resident of Cald-
we'll, was held from the Baptist church
at three o'clock Friday afternoon,
Rev. Gates E. M. Young of the First
Presbyterian church of Nampa,, offic-
iating. DR.. John DeQuer of Llano,
California, delivered short address
apropos to the occasion.
| DR.. DeQuer said in part: Physical
life manifests in action. The cessation
of action constitutes death. Action
presupposes something acted upon.
| We act upon our environment and up
on each other. There is in all this
universe not single independent be-
ing. We are all interdependent. And
being interdependent, the passage of
any one from the sphere of human
action creates gap in the continuity
of our social relations. This is true
scure walk of life as of the greatest
Mankind is bound together by an
unconscious bond of sympathy. The
! word sympathy from the Geek sym
and 'pathos' means to feel WITH
hence, to sympathize is to possess a
fellow feeling with your fellow men,
1t is this bond of sympathy that is
broken when the silver cord of life is
snapped and we are gone. 1t is not
the one who has departed that needs
sympathy; his physical pain, sorrow
and woe, so far as we know, are at
an end. 1t is the vacancy created in
our own lives, the sub-conscious real
ization that cords have been broken
that tied us to the deceased, that bring
us here this afternoon. 1t is pheno-
menon of mans social instinct, that
causes him to gather and pay his last
| respects to him who has gone to that
country from whose bourne no travel
er returns.
Speaking of the deceased, know
but little of his personal life. For
three years, in my annual visits to
this town | have met him. Always on
the firing line in cause for broader
humanity. a greater justice, and active
in his work for the Brotherhood of
Man He may have lacked voice. he
may have lacked education; perhaps
he would not have shown in the seats
of the mighty, but in his way and
commensurate with his strength, he
was passionately vibrant with the ex
allied idea ON universal peace on earth
and justice to all.
"He was a stranger in strange
land. His kin were far from here and
yet this audience this afternoon is
proof of my contention that his life
| had found an echo in the lives of
many And speaking of this, he was
successful in the true sense of the
word for he who wins the love and
respect of his fellow men is indeed
success. An old Indian once told
me, in answer to the query, that he
who gets the most happiness out of
life and inf1icts no pain upon his fell
bowman, is indeed successful. Meas
ured by this standard, our comrade
was success.
| "And when we come to consider
the problem of immortality, whether
there is or is not life beyond. we
do not know. We can only hope, or
as that matchless orator, Col. Robt.
G. Ingersol, said, In the hour of
hope death sees star and listening,
love can hear the rustic of a wing
And thus we hope but do not know,
and in our hopes we feel assured that
whate'er may be, death at its worst
shall be but eternal sleep and at its
best but progressive life onward from
the physical bourne through the ages
yet to come"
After the above address by DR.. De-
Quer, Rev. Young spoke in part as
follows: 1--WE have met in memory
not of the death but of the life of our
friend. He has passed through the
common passageway through which
all must pass. 1t is in death that a
universal fraternity is established In
death poverty is equal to wealth; for
the arrogance of wealth is poverty
stricken and nature mocks the pomp
and display of the funeral. A COM
mon fraternity in DEATH but why not
the fraternity of love and harmony in
life? Death mocks the wretched sell
hshness of life.
Science has not yet demonstrated
to us perfectly the mystery of death;
but great thinkers and scientists as
sert their belief in Immortality, and
some say that even the proof may yet
be forthcoming. Maetehlinck says
The idea of death should be the most
perfect and the most luminous And
again, L know not what you are or
would be your master; but in days
when my eyes saw clearer than today,
learned what you are not; that is
enough to prevent you from ever be-
coming my MASTER He who has
learned the lesson of life, has taken
some ideal of truth, may we'll say.
Death can never become my master.
He who has lived the life that makes
for unity, who has lived according to
an ideal even of human truth, who has
been true to the life force within him.
whatever failure and shortcoming may
have been his, is it not this one who
: has lived according to the divine law
of faith and life? Faith is the law OF
life in love. 1t is neither creed MOI
!, formula. 1t is that which is beautiful
| true and good. 1t arises out of the
: very nature of the divine in man.
: 81 ask no longer, What is your be-
, lief?-but what is your aspiration
your ideal, in short the out-reachinl
of your life? For out of these mus
: come the soundness of belief and pro
=. fcssion. The true confession of faitl
I is scientific demonstration of my be