Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1913 — Tribute From One Who Knew Him. [ARTICLE]

Tribute From One Who Knew Him.

* * * So Ezra is gone; from now on he will be only a memory, and what a pleasing memory. To me he will be remembered as a man and brother. One toward whom the finger of suspicion was never pointed. Who walked with his fellow men for three score years and ten and was never found wanting. The soul of honor, and always a public servant, ready, reliable, and trustworthy. One who always stood for the right, and never faltered. A true patriot, who, when his country called, offered his Jffc that the flag might float over an undivided country. In war, brave as a lion, in peace, gentle as a child. What a character! How could it be improved? I cannot think of anything that could have been added, to make it more complete. To the Osborne family he Will be remembered as a second father. With his own large family, there was room in his heart and home tot them when father and mother had been called away. Not begrudgingly, but lovingly lie took them in, counseled, advised, and helped them on. To his children, what a heritage he left them! Not in dollars and cents, but in a good name. His every act worthy of imitation, nothing that he ever did to be apologized for, or excused. Patiently toiling that they might be comfortable and happy. A firm advocate of the schools and during all the years bis family were abundantly fed and clothed. No want or distress was ever near them. To his wife, who, for these fifty years has so nobly walked with him, what a pleasant memory it must be to know and feel that through sunshine and storm, joy and sadness, success or failure, she found him measuring up to every requirement. In his strong arms she found safety. In his loving heart she found comfort and peace. And now that she must for the remaining years plod on, sorrowful and alone, may the preeious memories of the past encourage and uphold her, and may all for whom she has so unselfishly given her life, rally to her support and make the pathway easier and the burdens lighter. To Jasper county and Rensselaer, the memory of such a man and citizen in whose civic life he has always been a potent factor for all that was right and good and against all that was wrong or harmful, they are better for his coming, and losers that he has gone away. And to us all, may his faithful, earnest, manly, Godly life be an inspiration and help. We all feel that Heaven is nearer and dearer than ever before. We believe that his faithful service here has gained for him a crown over there. That among the ransomed and redeemed he awaits the coming of those he has left behind, and great will be the joy of u.s all If In that day we can meet an unbroken family of God’s children. J. F. WARREN. Oklahoma City, March 7, 1913. i -ii - i r Miss Willmer, the reader, was lost to the audience for her listeners saw and heard some twelve or more men and women who lived in the time of Nero, thirty-two years after the crucifixion of Jesus. Voice was the medium through which these subtleties of human nature were Conveyed to the audience—Valparaiso (Ind.) Videtta At M. E. church, tonight, at 8:15 o’clock, admission 35 cents. A Classified Adv. will find it