Show ALEX JUH ROBERTSON IS LAID Hill TO REST Friends Attend Funeral of Well Known Local Business Man TRIBUTE OF THE PARSON Asks What Helping Hand Be Given Those Thos Who Have Erred Th Tb funeral service Benico of Alex Alo c A A. Robertson Robert Robort- son was hold yesterday at tho the house of or W W. C. C Ferris at nt 1052 En East t First South street streett at t 3 p. p m. m About a n hundred hundrEd hun hun- dred friends gathered at tho the house to pay their last st token of oc respect to the thC dead deall man An n abundance of floral tributes was se sent t b by those who had known and loved lo him in tho the brighter and darker larker flays dos of or his lire life In tho the city A quartet to which Miss Nora Gleason GI ason was the tho accompanist sang two of tho the favorite hymns of or tho the deceased Lead Kindly Light and Abide With Me Uc and Mr Corinne sang The Plains of ot Pence Peace Rev Re P. P A. A Simple In conducted the 81 service Ice After a 11 prayer antI and the rending reading of or the tho ninetieth Psalm Mr Mi h ln spoke a n brief brier message e of comfort and counsel saying In part On Only i grief and love lo havo have a voice here herc for fol om behind the sad hour of or the trl tragedy ed whose end calls us to together there thero W were TO brighter days days of or honor hon hon- or manhood service ser and Charlt charity In Inthis Inthis inthis this life lire It has h been long since the tho heart wall of oC an any broken man has hns touched me mo ns as has hal that of this poor brother who has gone from life liCe Knowing something of his struggle le knowing something of his pain and tho the sensitiveness that was w back h of the seeming Indifference of oC his last years ears there then Is a n. great g pity for him In m my heart henrt Thero There is much to bo be said of oC hi his generous g nature of oC his fidelity to his Crl friends of ot his ImIs ready and quiet charity and ond hl his sturdy tenacity of opinion lao I Help i eli he Ilic Time The speaker touched upon tho time In Injustice Injustice In- In justice anti and of a n. large element ele do- ment in our social life which after a n man mann has paid the tho price of or his hlA error still sUII persists In laying the sense sense of or its disapproval l upon who ho are arc striving In lag ing to recover er themselves lie Ho asserted assert assert- cd ed that there are few Cew creatures so low lowas lowas lowas as the on one who ho for selfish gain aln and purpose will tread on the fIngers finders of ot a n aman aman man who Is clawing his wa way out of the time hell of ot his failure and sin and refrain retraIn re- re traIn frain from giving the hand that will lift up and steady In lifes life's struggle Rev Rc Mr Ir appealed for that charity that 1 is above c all mone money consideration con con- that his hearers should seek to tomal o make c life more mor beautiful with ministry min main and help for Jr e every life lire that would rise Mso from the ashes sh's and find the better belter thing At t Mount Olivet Oll where the bod body was laid aid to rest a n formal commitment was made in the tho presence of or a large concourse con con- course of or friends and acquaintances |