The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-01-11

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do with them in the event of his
death. On this occasion he followed
the same custom, and when it was an
nounced that he had gone for his last
Long Journey, it was my painful
! duty to place the key in the hands of
his widow and the papers in her pos
session.
Arriving cover There" he and his
wife worked for their Red Cross as
signment at the Front, he having been
declared too old for the active mill
tary duty which he preferred, and for
which he pied.
Together they were sent to France
where he was assigned as Orderly, to
Lady Normans Hospital, at Boulogne.
| 1t is recorded with pride that here
the fine spirit of the man VISA shown;
He did not seek for the easy, pleasant
tasks, if any such there were; on
the contrary, he asked for the hard,
the unpleasant, the mental work, and
was happy, happy just so long as he
could only be ministering to the sick
and wounded. Separated from his
own blood, his own kind, in a strange
country, away from his wife and
among a strange people and speaking
a strange tongue, the life of an Order
| ly, in the cold, bleak Winter, was not
an easy task for one of his age, and
it was there that the distemper which
was to take him hence, laid hold upon
him. He became ill and was sem to
a hospital. While there he was seen
| by Lady Hadfeld a woman of Ameri-
can birth and parentage, who offered
him the secretaryship and manage
ment of her own hospital, at Wine
rieuX. There he remained until he
had to resign work in France, and
he returned to America, the home of
his adoption, late in 1915 He and his
wife returned to England in the sum-
mer of 1917, and again the little flock
of the faithful of All Saints Church
oIOOu uLluSI IuS SHdue OI the trees
just outside the Church door to say
goodbye, as they hal, under the same
trees, to his Father, years before.
| Upon his arrival in England he desir-
ed to take service in the Missing ana
Wounded Department. but was per-
suaded to take a Censorship at Bou
\ 1puOo fO, civ v,,O,,tI,.
Our Favorite Censor" was the way
which Sir Reginald Coventry, head
of the Pail Mall Office, referred to-him
six months later, when he again beg
ged to be assigned to the Missing
and Wounded Department and was at
last allowed to reach the port of
Hearts Desire. That was the end of
February, and his work carried him
in open cars to all sorts and condi-
tions of hospitals and among all sorts
and conditions of men.
Almost Immediately he succumbed
the last terminating fatally. His good
wife, whom he had left in England,
was sent for, and upon her arrival in
France, found that he was not expect
ed to live. After three weeks he was
able to return othe home of his
| fathers, but with the admonition
from the men of science that his
health was irretrievably ruined and
that he must never again attempt to
do work of any character.
Again and again he attempted use
full service, but each time he walked
to duty throughs the Valley of the
Shadow. Mark you:- So faithful was
this man to his Church, deprived, as
he was, of it's forms of service, dis
tressed, as he was, in mind, body and
estate, that after an absence of three
years, working for King and Country.
he voluntarily and without suggestion
handed to the proper official of this
little Parish, the amount of money
which he had been accustomed to
give; giving it at one time for three
years, and giving it with the same
nonchalance as though it were al
small obligation of yesterday.
Three times, in my near thirty
years of Service as a Vestryman of
this Church, 1 have attended to Of
fetal functions of the Church in con-
nection with his household Once
at the burial of faithful servant;
again, at a marriage; and now, let
us hope for the last time, in connec-
ton with his passing to Life Ever
lasting.
In the early morning Of November
18th, 1920, at st. Vincent's Hospital,
New York, in the land of his adop-
ton, where, a generation before, he