Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1875 — IN MEMORIAM. [ARTICLE]

IN MEMORIAM.

Samuel S, Johnson. The following resolution# were adopted by Prairie Lodge No. 125, F. & A. M. of Rensselaer, Indiana, in regular communication, June sth, 1875, and the secretary was instructed to furnish copies thereof for publication in the newspapers of Jasper county, the Delphi Journal and the Delphi.Time*. S. P. Howard, Secietary. Whereas, on the 9th day of May, 1875, our Worthy Senior Warden, brother Samuel N. Johnson, died in the 35th year of his age, therefore Resolved, In his death our Lodge has lost a zealous and consistent member, our Order a bright and upright Mason, his re'atives a kind brother, society ap ornament, and our town an excellent citizen. In this instance it may be truly said, a good man is dead. Resolved, That we tender bis relatives and many friends the assurance of heart sympathies in this great bereavement. Not only do we mourn with them the loss of a beloved brother and a genial companion ; but we also ceplore the untimely death of one who was cut down in the vigor of manhood, whose life was squared with the square of virtue, and whose daily walk was upright towards all marfkind. Resolved, Though we sorrow and are heavy laden with sadness, yet do we not mourn as those do who have no hope ; for it is written in that sacred volume which Masons are taught tb reverence as a rule and guide of faith, that though a man die yet shall he live again ; and our brother’s conduct while walking with us was such that we are persuaded that he lived with an ever present recollection that he was journeying upon the level of time to that undiscovered country from whose bourhe no traveler returns ; and while thus journeying made constant Masonic use of the gavil to free his mind and conscience from the vices and superfluities of life, in older to be better fitted as a living stone for that spiritual temple, that honse not made with hands, eternal, in the heavens. Resolved. That, in token of lespect for the memory of our dead brother, and as an outward Sign of grief for bis death, the Lodge room be draped in mourning thirty days. Horace E. James,l Peter Rhoads, > Committee, I* A. K. Yeoman. )