The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1918-06-18

there was delicacy which instinc-
lively shrank from wounding the feel
ings of others; there ives a DISPOSE
ton to sympathize with others that
tied him to his friends in the closest
bonds of fellowship. Those feelings
of unkmdness that sometimes OBJ
scure for a moment the goodness OF
EXCELLENT men seldom, if ever passed
over him, with reference to his
friends.
Those who knew him best cannot
by an effort of imagination, put an
acrimonious speech into his lips, any
more than they can think Of him un-
der an entirely different countenance.
The voice ceases to be his, its tones
do not belong to him when 1t would
be made the vehicle of unkindness
to others. His life was so controlled
by his generosity and hospitality and
uprightness that he was never known
to sully with an envious breath the
honest fame of another, or to with
hold a ready testimony to an0thers
worth. So great was the kindness
of his heart that nothing could ex-
clude those little attentions to his
friends for which multiplied cares
are so often made an excuse. Even
in his last illness when his frall
body was racked and tortured with
pain the genuine kindness and sweet
unselfshness of his loyal soul was ex-
pressing itself in an effort to make
others happy, for there was depth
of human sympathy in his heart that
is seldom surpassed. These are the
things which won for him place in
our hearts and affections which time
can never erase. l.
In addition to this he had what is
worth more than the wealth OF
worlds-a happy home consecrated
by intelligence, sweet fellowship, and
Christian love. Who had greater
cause than he to rejoice in life? Who
that saw him in the bosom of his
family can forget the deep sympa-
thies and the overlooking friendli-
ness of his spirit? His home was
pervaded by his love as by the suns
light. Here he was as gentle as an
evening zephyr, as tender as a
woman, and as loving and sympathetic
as mother. How his children loved
him and sought to carry out his every
wish. How easy they felt in his pres
ence and what companionship there
was between them and how anxious
he was for them to be prepared for
the battle of life and with what Pc
culiar attraction he drew them to
himself? And what effort he made
to fit them for life's duties. 1t was
in his home that he stood forth in
all the manliness of his cordial per-
sonality and in all the majesty Of his
sympathetic character. Even here he
never passed the limits of the most
delicate courtesy and respect for the
rights of others.
Let me call attention also to the
fact that he was blessed in being
the object of singular and never fail
ing kindness on the part of faith.
full Christian mother and father whom
he requited with strong filial attach
ment. By the influence Of these he
gave his heart to God and identified
himself with the Christian Church of
which he was a member at the time
of his death.
We lay this tired, emaciated, worn
out body in its last resting place in
the belief and hope that we shall
meet again in that blissful presence
where partings are no more, and
where pain and sickness and
death are forever unknown. Until
then, my dearest friend, farewell,
farewell! Peace to your ashes and
bliss to your soul!
o, plying heavens drop down the
dews of your consolation upon US.
10, plying angels, doubtless We care,
but We can not know o angels, the
sweet, sweet human love, the bitter,
bitter human sorrow. o sympathiz-
ing Saviour, thou didst weep with
sisters beside a brothers grave, and
Thou knowest, o loving Saviour that
here is a grief still harder to bear.
The husband, the father, the brother
lgone. o, Holy Spirit, the Comforter,
come now and comfort. o God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of mercies and God of all COM
fort, the Father of the fatherless and
the widows God, come, guide and up
hold the one who strives to be brave
and calm as she leads forth into life
the steps of her fatherless children.
And may the God of all grace keep
them in His love until they too shall
pass into the bliss and blessedness of
our Fathers home in glory.