Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1883 — Calmly Facing Death. [ARTICLE]

Calmly Facing Death.

A few momenta after death had taken place some one remarked the calmness and tranquillity with which Gov. Stephens had faced it from the first. Dr. Steiner said: “Such a man as Mr. Stephehs could have faced any i ost of death with perfect calmness. Yesterday Dr. Irv.ne proposed to read a chapter in the Bible and have a prayer. Mr. Stephens said quickly: 'ldo «b----ject, and most decidedly. I have no objection to prayer, for I believe in it, but I do object to deathbed repentance. I have made it the rule of my life to live each day as if it were going to be my last In the heat of politics I may have sometimes forgotten myself, but lam no better to-day on my deathbed than I have tried to be every day of my life, and I have no special preparations to make and no special pleas to offer.”* Mr. Stephens’ creed was simple, but it would have sufficed to have carried . him without a tremor through the most terrible death struggle.— Atlanta (Ga.) Telegram. , , Retthed army officers are now denied the ‘ right of bolding civic p ositio ns in the Turri--tories. - ‘ .ft