The Tulsa star. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1913-1921, 1918-04-13
OBITUARY OF DIR. ID. W. BRYANT
(By DR.. B. A. waynes.)

(By DR.. b. A. WaynesD
Friends, today we have assembled
to witness n sad occasion. not to OBJ
serve transformation of the inani-
mate arrayed in splendor, but to pay
our last tribute to the greatest thing
in the world. human being. On
April ;, 1918, God visited the home
Of DR.. d. w. Bryant and demanded
a cessation of his life. leaving rela-
tives and scores of friends to mourn
him.
DR.. ID. w. Bryant was born at HaZ-
el Hearth. Mississippi, November 3.
1850. Thus his useful life ended at
81 years. When only a mere boy of
fifteen, being on fire with fervent
aspiration to educate himself, he en-
tered Roger Williams University at
Nashville. Tenn, and there remained
for several years, only leaving after
having received the degree of Bache-
lor of Arts His conduct while there
and his scholarly attainments won
for him the highest esteem of all who
knew him. Now being inspired by
his uncle to become a doctor. he then
entered Flint Medical College and
there remained for one year. The
next scholastic year, he entered Me
harry Medical College at Nashville,
Tenn, and there remained for one
year. The next school he entered
was the University of West Tennes-
see. and there remained until he re-
ceived the degree Doctor of Medicine
in 1906.
His first practice was at Chicka-
sha, Okla, where he enjoyed large
practice and was operating success
fully modern drug store. Now wish
ing to enter upon larger field of
usefulness in the medical world. he
went to Oklahoma City and there re-
mainod for several years enjoying a
lucrative practice as well as the pro
prietor OF large drug store. He
then came to Tulsa, Okla. where he
remained practicing and operating
drug store until the grim reaper"
cut him down.
At no time during his life was he
tardy in his church work, often leav-
ing his business to further a church
movement. And II is true, however.
that he was styled a man of science,
yet he did not recognize man as
supreme being, but only n microcasm
(mikpos, small koouos, world) of
the universe. Science and philoso-
ply his relation therein.
The sun, 93 million miles distant
from the earth. eliminates to per-
fectiOn every infinitesmal part of an
area % thousand miles in circum-
ference, could only initiate the brill
liancy of the character of this mag
medical genius. and religious advo-
cate
We stand; the pyramids of Egypt. and
the hanging gardens of Babylon,
| some day must crumble beneath the
touch OF times effacing finger, but
the character of this God-sent man
will live throughout all future ages.
When a thousand years shall have
passed, he will be more appreciated
than even now, his influence. his
stand for justice, his plea for eff
ficiency in the medical world. his
work in the churches, societies, his
ideas of consolidation among his peo-
pie, and all that was indorsed by
the Great King, was secondly in
dorsed by him,
In the community in which he
lived, he was referred to as the mod
ern light, not the light we call the
effect upon the optic nerve produced
by undulations and vibrations of an
exceedingly subtle and highly elastic
form of matter called luminiferous
ether, but mind endowed with at
tributes OF sight, to point out the
way for his fellow man, though filled
with turmoil and yicissitudes os a
rocky way, | would not attempt to
eulogize him, because his work will