| Show GOOD WORDS FOR HE LIVING When the good men and women who have worn themselves out for the benefit ben-efit of others pass away from this world and their lifeless forms repose in the caskets adorned with flowers and made ready for the bed wherein they are to be laid to rest what loving words of commendation what expressions expres-sions of appreciation are uttered in their eulogy J The lips that had no praises for them while they lived cannot can-not say too much to their credit when they are dead The hands that shew blossoms upon their biers had no I posey for them when they cold inhale in-hale the sweet perfume A few words of encouragement in the ears of the living would have counted far more than the funeral oration and help in the struggles of this life would have been of vastly greater value than a marble monument will be while the wearied body crumbles into dust There is a story which was told by Bishop Potter of the Episcopal Church which illustrates what we speak of and we reproduce it for the reflection of al readers of The Herald Several years ago said he some of us were assembled assem-bled In Cavalry Church New York to bear our testimony to the life and influence in-fluence of the late Dr Edward Wash burn I may venture now to violate the confidence of a domestic incident which transpired then and which I think you will own to have its significance ficance and appropriateness here One after another Phillips Brooks and others like him rose in their places in that crowded study to tell what they owed to the genius to the high spirit to the unswerving loyalty to duty to the splendid courage to the rare scholarship to the philosophic insight to the prophetic utterance of Edward Washburn The testimony was done At the door all the time there stood a slender woman who had stood during his life nearest to him of whom we spoke I never shall forget her facet the passion of It and the pathos of it nor the power tender but reproachful with which she spoke when at length we were still Oh If you loved Edward so why didnt you tell him of It while he lived l |
