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Show A. L. JOHNSON'S FUNERAL SERVICES The funeral services oer the late A. L. Johnson were held at the family fam-ily residence Sunday afternoon at 2.30 p. m. and were attended, despite the Inclement wealhor, by a large concourse con-course qf Borrowing frlcfids and nelgh-bdrs nelgh-bdrs Judge Murphy delivered the funeral oration at the house, and at the grayo read tho beautiful poom, "O, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud?" Tho floral tributes were many and beautiful, arid these, with the outpouring of friends, proved the high esidohi In which the deceased" W;dH heldilnhe community. Beautiful Beauti-ful vocal music was rendered at the house services. The deceased was ni years old and leaves a wife and ono son. Judge -Murphy, In his oration, said: "WfTfalalTd today In the presence of ono groat mystery. We are face to face with the ever-recurring question propounded by the Man of Sorrows In the land of LV. 'If a man die shall he live again"5" The wisdom of the ages In near six thousand yeais has failed to find a satisfactory answer. Noilher In any of (he many religious creeds, nor In tho systems of philosophy neither in the experience of mankind nor In messages from the boyond has the answer been found. Human affection, hope, desire, love all are eager for a solution, but the riddle la still unread. Without 1b heard the jangle of creeds and tho angry discussion of rival priests and prelates Within are tho desires of the human heart, all too easily 8 wayed by hope, fear and other emotions. emo-tions. So w'e pause on this solemn occasion lo Inquire why death should be regaided as an evil; wh those who depart should bo mourned? We do not know whether the grave Is tho end of tHIs life or tho open door to another and grander ono, whether the earthly tenement that shells the spiri' Is a help, or a hindrance, to the en foldment of a better life "Wo do know that science has proved the indestructlb!lit of matter the form of the particle comprising this earthly tenement may be changed, but they cannot be de-I stroyed. and so, reasoning from oin knowledge of the hopes, feeling, am-1 bitions. emotions that go to make up the Inner life we can but reason ao i Plato did, as all the sagos have rca- j soned, that there is in man something some-thing immortal -that there is life beyond be-yond But whether there 1b or not. we arc content to beliee that with our dead all Is well. The universe is good It Is eternal. The systems of1 worlds, the millions of suns throughout through-out Bpncc, with their unnumbered satellites, the to our, limited understanding under-standing incomprehensible method of, their motion through spaco make mu-sic mu-sic In praise of the All Power whoso will or law guides and controls their orbits. "Death Is as natural as life, and It matters not whether our friends die in youth, In tho fullness of age and strength, or whether they tarry lo the weary end of life's uneven Journey, Jour-ney, 'painfull taking tho last slow step on staff and crutch ' the same , anguish and grief rends our bosoms at their going. "It Is natural that we feel and express ex-press sorrow upon this occasion. Our friend was In his manly prime, full of years, of wisdom gathered by experience; ex-perience; in love with life, with family, fami-ly, with friends; filling an honored position po-sition in business and society Ho had met and fulfilled all tho obligations that came into his life As a citizen of tho republic, carrying his burden of government he thoughtful, simply, earnestly discharged his dut as he saw and understood It Asat ncss man In honorable pursuits ho earned nnd merited the good will and conll-denco conll-denco of his associates. As a husband hus-band and father, he tenderly guarded his homo and In Its light and lovo was content to bask and rest He learned many things in his life journey, and to his broadened vision the "creeds and sects seemed narrow and cruel and bigoted He learned that belief could not bring salvation, that faith Is simply a cloak for ignorance that blind observance of rites and forms Is to one of underatanding pitiful delusion. de-lusion. And so, raising his head above tho crowd, he refused to worship, or grovel or cringe lo creed or power He learned tho Value of upright dealings, deal-ings, of fair mothods In businoss, and, applying the test to matters of J rollglon. he was honeat with himsolf I and with others From all the claims I of all the ciceds ho turned to nature and found their pretensions framed In ignorance of her laws It Ib an oas i thing to slip through llf if one is , willing to conform, to let others do your thinking In matters of'iellglous IfoIIef, but It takes courage to depart from established ways, to dlssont from the powerful fjw who have arrogated to themselves the right to think for othera. Our friend had this courage and without arrogance, or intolerance or violence, or noisy demonstration, he walked humbly but bravely in his own chosen path " So I repeat to sorrowing sor-rowing friends, wo need have no fear for this brave, tender, gentle man, "the upright citizen of the great republic, "Tho business man who literally obeyed thd Injunction of tho great Pagan Pa-gan sage. "Do not unto others thai which ye would not that others should do uilto .ou. TThe evpr-wlnd, cori-sldcrate cori-sldcrate neighbor and friend, tho husband hus-band and father who reared tho sacred domicile of a home and protected St with his love and life, had a right to go as he did Into the valley and tho shadow Without fear and without faltering. fal-tering. ' If you believe that death is iii etornal sleep, then rest assurdd that ho sank serenly Into ihd great mother bopom of the universe that will finally receive us nil. If your belief bo that this life is simply a preparation fdr a greater, ggrandcr and more useful one In the great beyond, then say with the poet" "'Ho lived, ho loved, he passed beyond be-yond The flaming stars and burning suns; Ho did not fade, he did not die. He is among tho deathless ones,' M |