Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1917-06-15
PASSED OVER.

frlenu James Mafet, was sum-
moned to his maker on Thurs.
day st, when after three days
suffering of pneumonia he passed
over the river. He was born on
September 18th 1882. The follow
ing lines are extracts from the
andres of the good friend and
'swe,t singer in Israel" Rev.
4 II. Young, made during the
simple services held at the resi-
dence on the funeral day. The
sweet thoughtful expressions
therein was most comforting to
hat father who, but for the manN
I'D friends living would feel
hal he vas alone wenderer
D n the face of the earth. Not
> The little girl, widow, is a
..oble t,ojan and is a great com
ort to the ubly bereaved fat e
whose life companion was called
way last October The great
pprec'atiOn of those who are
eft to mourn, cannot be ex
ressed in words for the many
.Ourtesies, and attentions shown
Turing the heart rending period
f trouble.
In this life, where We have sun
| t and oudless days, we must
llso have shadows and gloom
}ut it seems that the greatest
shadow that falls across the path
If human life has come Oft t.
this little home and TO this little
family MANY of US here toda'
>ere here, only a few months
lgO. when the mother OF this boy
.rd the wife of this father had
answered the SOmmUnS to 60
ut into the great beyond. He
les today where she, whose life
was so inseperably bound to tina
# her bov, lay then. This should
teach us that we are but child
rem PLAYING on the shore of a
boundleSS ocean, across viii, h
will come summons to EN-
bark on that sea of which Nc
man has a chart. Soon. yes,
soon, thefe will be the silent foot
fall about the house and the
crunching of wheels without.
We are here today with heart
full If sympathy for this devOt
ed wife in the hour of her grea'
sorrow. But we can not feel ali
that it means to her when the
sacred bonds of Holy MatrimOny
have been severed by death il
two short months. Our hearts
go out to this father, but in CIV
ing up his by, he feels more than
we can share Many here have
known Lloyd \since childhood
Many knew his better side. but
only the family knew his bes
side. None knew him to b.
guilty of mean thought or deed
knew him to have big ano
tender heart l talked to him of
ten and remembered him in my
private devOtiOns He had hi
weakness and failed 10 be what
he wanted 10 be, but he wa
not satisfied with what he was
and tried to be something better
There are those in this town,
Some here today, who coulc
have helped him when he tri' d
to climb up; they Gould have
been his real friends when he
SO much needed friends, but they
pulled him down.
We are not here today to judg
the life of this boy We are here
to throw a mantle Of charity over
his faults and 20 emulate his vir
lures He stands before Him
who came to seek and to save
the lost, and he is just. l would
rather stand before the judg,
ment throne with his record OF
failure than to sta nd in the place
of one who claimed to be his
friend, but pulled him down when
he tried to climb up; for l re
mem Der that the great Teache
said it would be better for a mall
to have mill st ne hanged abOu
his neck and to be cast into the
depths of the sea than to Gauss
one who believed in him to srum
bic.
We are here today to say to
these loved ones that all that
was best in the life of this boy