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Show READ AT HIS FUNERAL Leadville Man Writes His Own Sermon. FORBADE OTHER SERVICES A. D Soarle, Ona of Rest Known Mining Mi-ning Men In Cloud City, Passes Away Through His Long Business Career He Was Never Heard to Utter One Word Agniust Church nnd HIb Own Sermon, Which He Had Directed Should Be Read, Surprised Sur-prised Ills Friends. Leadville, Colo Nov (I runeral services ser-vices were held here this aftern03ti over the remains of A D Soarle, one of the best known mining men of this district nnd lominandcr of the loeal Grand Army post Tho body was ehlpped to Lawrence, Kan , for burial. Mr. Seurle wrote his own funeral Minion Mi-nion long before he died nnd It wan tend nt his funeral toJa In lieu of nns tellglous service, which he strictly forbade for-bade In his sermon he wrote lint ho had long been convinced that all religions are ot human origin and ore frauds that eon onls gain credince through Ignorance and supcistltlon nnd declnreil that he could not form nny Idin of n soul that was to live after his body einK ile.iil. Tto elr.sed his vvrltlnir bv losing "I lc-ive this world with kindness to all men nnd at peace with ms own mind, with no fears of on nngrs God nnd no hope or deslie for nny pleasures as a gift from his hand ' Tho sermon written bs the dead man was a lengthy one nnd outside of his peculiar views on religion, contained some beautiful thoughts Through his long business enrecr he was never heard to utter one word against the ehure.li, nnd his own sermon which wns to bo opened and rend onls on the das ot Ills funeral, came as a gic-it surprise. |