| Show WHEN DEATH COMES A K X hansen our highly respect v ed and much beloved passed to the great beyond ile he was a man of generous impulses he had borne adversity bravely and enjoyed prosperity quietly he had filled the various relations of life as husband father brother friend and filled them well who can do more from the beauty of his life as a man who nho n ho stood in the middle of 01 public I 1 activities one can take an inspiration and go forth to live aslie ashe lived so that when the summons comes to us we may lay as he did all is well the funeral services may bear testimony of how bow good brave true really big a man he was and in this the family can and ought to find the consolation they so badly need in their great bereavement and coming from this most impressive services another thought strikes us the thought of the difference between living in a large city and one the size of ich richfield field if you want to see the difference be near when death comes As terrible as the going away of a loved one proves at any time at any place and under any conditions there seems to be a different sort of sympathy abounding in the smaller city a different kind of atmosphere in which to mourn the big city has its multitude ot of troubles the gle tor for existence is more strenuous and men and women have not the time tim e or they do not take the time to cultivate acquaintances quain and friendships as deep rooted as we find them in smaller cities and rural communities As a result when death comes in the big city there is no pause in the daily grind of that big city true there are as good and as kind folk in the big city as may be found elsewhere but they did not have the time to let their neighbors find it out so if death comes a fe few loving friends gather ather a formal funeral is held and the body carried to its resting place by pallbearers pall bearers scarcely known to the mourners and if it happens to be that death comes at such a timo time as to make sunday funeral befitting even that must be foregone for many of our larger cities forbid funerals on sunday in the small city when a loved one passes away there is outstretched from all sides the hand of fellowship of help of genuine love and sincere sorrow there is no cold formality for love and sorrow bring the whole community into closer touch death brings sorrow at al any time but it has no ao terror when love and fellowship ire are extended to those who are arc mourning ng |
