Unveiling tributes . faith were never shaken. His creed was stead-fast to the end. He asked to be allowed to do no sweeter labor than that per-formed for fellow man. (He was the champion of the commonpeople). He pointed out the safest path to all who sought his splen-did counsel. He longed to see the entire world alike in love, religionand in deed. If the story of the Maker were untrue; if the promised land werebut a myth to mould the minds of babes and children; if teachingsof the future world were meant alone to bend the cowards knee, and l8 UNVEILING TRIBUTES heaven and hell were but tradit
Unveiling tributes . faith were never shaken. His creed was stead-fast to the end. He asked to be allowed to do no sweeter labor than that per-formed for fellow man. (He was the champion of the commonpeople). He pointed out the safest path to all who sought his splen-did counsel. He longed to see the entire world alike in love, religionand in deed. If the story of the Maker were untrue; if the promised land werebut a myth to mould the minds of babes and children; if teachingsof the future world were meant alone to bend the cowards knee, and l8 UNVEILING TRIBUTES heaven and hell were but traditions; even if the life below ends lifeforever, and in the grave is buried all, a life like his is still the lifemost fit to live. Rewards of earth will justify. We do not need toscan the stars to find repayment for a life like this. The world willshower its abundance here below. Such lives deserve the grandesttributes that mankind can bestow. Requiescat in pace Farewell, until we meet again! A TRIBUTE TO A SOVEREIGN. He crossed that sea whose skies were nevermarred by outlines of returning ships, and onwhose waves unanchored barks drift always tothe west. MY friends, a lavish eulogium is not praise, but nothing couldbe said of him of which he was unworthy—no words ofapprobation but would become the man in memory of whomwe now convene. In fact and truth he was a kind and loving father,a patient husband, a worthy neighbor and a sincere man. This isenough. His name, of this alone, will be remembered. He leavesnot in the memory of his wife or children the record of an unjustdeed. He won and held our admiration by his constant labor and un-swerving work. Possessed of those praiseworthy attributes—deter-mination, courage, fortitude and fidelity, there was, nor is, no betterman. We extol his piety, veracity and self-sacrifice. Pleasant andfamiliar in conversation, cheerful, affable and kind, he made hisnature rich by seeming always free from care. His regulating principle in life
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