The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1920-02-06
Robert Mclaughlin Holmes.


Only a few short days ago Bob
Holmes walked in and out amongst
US, strong and vigorous, apparently
The picture of health, with the pros
pect of many years before him. To-
day he sleeps in Rosemont with his
forbears and his friends and COM
oanions and loved ones with lashes
wet" wonder and fail to understand
the mysterious workings of a divine
providence. But.
Sometime, when all life's lessons
have been learned,
And sun and stars forevermore
have set,
The things which our weak judg-
ment here have spurned,
The things DER which we grieved
with lashes wet,
Will flash before US, out of life's dark
night,
AS stars shine more in deeper tints
of blue,
And we shall see how all Gods plans
were right,
And how what seemed reproof was
love most true"
Death is at all times sad, but some
how to US it always carries peculiar
and indefnable sadness, when the
Young and strong and the useful are
taken from the home and from loved
ones and from the community and
from the field of usefulness and ser
vice. And when the young mother IS
taken from the little ones who are so
trustful and who can not understand
and appreciate it all. But somewhere
there is morning and the darkness
will be broken and we will under
stand it all.
"And you shais shortly know that
heightened breath
Is not the sweetest gift God sends
His friend,
And that sometime the sable pail OF
death
Conceals the fairest bloom his love
can send.
If we could push ajar the gates OF life
And stand within and all Gods
workings see,
We could interpret all this doubt and
strife,
And for each mystery would find
a key"
Robert Holmes was one of those
quiet and gentle spirits who went
about his own business, and was will
ing to lend a helping hand to any
GOOD cause without any fuss about
It. and he was a useful citizen to any
community. He was in the prime OF
Young manhood and it seemed that
life held much for him in the future,
but sometimes "lengthened breath is
not the sweetest gift God sends HIS
friend" and we must bow in humble
submission to His will.
The Herald and News extends It's
sympathy to the wife and the
brothers and the other loved ones
who mourn his sudden taking off, and
we wish to have the permission to
saw to the loved ones who now stand
in the shadow of the darkness which
seems to overwhelm them that some
time it will be morning and it will be
Gods morning and the sun will
shine and you will be able to under
stand, and remember that,
" ever near us, though unseen,
The dear immortal spirits tread;
For all the boundless universe
Is life-there are no dead.
Robert Mclaughlin Holmes died at
his home in the city on Wednesday
afternoon at 3:15 o'clock of pneu-
monia following an attack of lntiu-
enza.
He was born in November, 1888,
and was therefore 80 years of age.
He was the eldest son of Mr.. owen
McR. Holmes and his wife Mamie
Mclaughlin, and the grandson of the
late Robert L. Mclaughlin. His
mother died in his infancy and his
father several years ago.
He is survived by his wife who be-
fore her marriage was Miss Mary
Butler FAINT and by two half brothers,
Owen and Nicholas Holmes and two
uncles, Silas J. Mclaughlin OF Biz
mingham and James N. Mclaughlin