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Show I nu Zion Minister Pays Beautiful f, Tribute to Memory of Harrimaife, . 3i rt.f 1 "Somo lessons from the life of Edward Ed-ward H. Jlarriman," was the subject of an eloquent .sermon preached Sunday morning by the Rev. Louis S. Bower-man, Bower-man, pastor of the Imnianiicl Baptist church. Tho Rev. Mr. Bowerman took for his text Romans xiv: 7, "For none of us livcth to himself, and none dieth to himself.". In part, the Rev. Mr. Bowerman said: A great life has passed from time . eternity, one of the colossal figures of. the age has llnlshed tho Journey and stands before tho Judge of mankind. Tho storv of this life Is too well known for us to "need attempt the narrating of the deeds. The minister's son camo to be the head of his class. The great names in American railway history are Vandorbllt. Garrett, Scott. Hill and Har-rlmnn. Har-rlmnn. and all things weighted, the hist is the greatest. The man was n master In the world of commerce and finance. Emerging from comparative obscurity in less than twentv years he stood as one of the greatest figures In our American life. We aro sure that the great west will not hesitate to recognize the great ability of tho man as to give all praise for the splendid things he has done In developing the material Interests of this great section. The. world will ever honor tho successful men. In thus studying his life, one Is Impressed Im-pressed first of all by the thought that tho man's life ended too soon, sixty-one years of age Is early for the worker of brain, ten yenrB longer and then ten to come with the accumulative wisdom and power equal to the twenty-llvo before. This Is ono of the present evils of our commercial life. The pace Is too fast and tho grind too hard. Wo could have wished that the man iiad llvod longer, for somehow we believe that because of the cnrlv homc-tralnlng with the great commercial Interests virtually as he desired, de-sired, some years could have been glvci' to the problems that more and more confront con-front our ago. and wc would that the master mind In railway might have put some of its wonderful powers to the working work-ing out of these things. So far as Influencing the future Is concerned, wo believe Mr. Harriman has done more than anyone else in hastening tho governmental control, If not of the ownership of railways and public utilities. utili-ties. This was not his duidoho or aim, j but the American ml"dn ''"..aSS nrnused at the danger of the actimi opejjj . frol by a few. of the great 'Wfte' lion interests or our country, nT' .lai In our last congress . were am "'lli.,, reassuring as wo lohr,"Zn' cM the money power. Mr. rrlfmSP "jT, tests In the courts have crystnll zed JM. movement for govermcnlal control. , His life Is worth the studUng, ""J flf means tho Investigation of AmorJfSL? problems. These stand out for the ftjjgKii) and 119 we hope for their happy sJW Hons, so we also hope that as we fltnTSf Ls this life. In many ways so hicomp, and unfinished, nevertheless, as on! so nobly using the wealth of Russell Ss$U$ another Is helpfully dispensing his of the great estate, so some will i jC? their great fortune for the helping of Sfite j world's great neod and the causlnpjfujTe,.. the vcara lo come of many to arlso m gratitude and thnnk God for the toun Hon thus laid by B. II. Harrluian nobly used by those that bear his namjyinf |