In llSFniQFiani. 
 
IN MEMORIAM 
 
 REMARKS 
 
 ON THE 
 
 LIFE AND CHARACTER 
 
 General Samuel L. Williams, 
 
 By his Nephew,!/ 
 JOHN AUGUSTUS WILLIAMS, 
 
 OF DAUGHTER'S COLLEGE, KY. 
 
 DELIVERED BEFORE THE CHURCH OP CHRIST, AT SOMERSET, MONTGOMERY CO., KY., ON 
 THE 20TH OF OCTOBER, 1872, AND PUBLISHED BY THE REQUEST OP MANY BRETHREN. 
 
 CINCIN NAT I.- 
 ROBERT CLARKE & CO. 
 
 1S72. 
 

In lUBprnoriem. 
 
 " The hoar\ head is a croivn of glory ^ if found in the luay of righteousness." — Prov. xvi. 3 I , 
 
 I am here to-day, my brethren, not to preach a 
 juneral discourse^ in the sense in which that phrase is 
 sometimes used ; but to moralize, for your benefit and 
 my own, upon the life and character of one who, as a 
 citizen and neighbor and friend, lived long enough 
 among us, and, surely, well enough, to leave behind 
 him a name that may ^x\y point a moral. 
 
 1 had the fortune, a few years ago, to stand here 
 and meditate with you upon the life and character of 
 another — of one who had lived and labored among 
 you for many years as a servant of the Lord Jesus 
 Christ and an advocate of the Ancient Gospel. To- 
 day, we meet to remember one who was ever a Jonathan 
 to your David; who supported him with his strong 
 arm ; who battled with him against error ; and who 
 finally confessediiWfat same Christ whose Church he had 
 long befriended. 
 
SAMUEL L. WILLIAMS. 
 
 You all remember the occasion, when, on the third 
 Lord's day in October — this very day, now many years 
 ago,— John Smith preached from this stand the funeral 
 of that good woman. Aunt Fanny. It was on that day 
 that our deceased brother and kinsman, having buried 
 his wife, accepted Jesus as his Lord, and gave to his 
 Savior a heart stricken with grief, and enriched by the 
 experience of more than three score years and ten. 
 
 What a scene was that for you, my older brethren ! 
 Here, on this very spot, that veteran of the Cross, 
 John Smith, embraced as a brother our veteran of the 
 farm, the field, and the forum ! Their lives had started 
 on different planes — they had long lived in different 
 spheres — yet, converging ever, they met at last at the 
 foot of the Cross, and found in each other more than 
 the friendship of forty years — they found a common 
 hope, a common faith, and a common love! Here 
 they wept together, clasped, like little children, in each 
 other's arms ! 
 
 Let us rest to-day in the pleasant faith that they 
 who were at. last thus united in their lives, in their death 
 are not divided ! 
 
 The untimely death of the young and hopeful 
 always yields a profitable lesson : the departure of a 
 mature man in the midst of his years from business 
 and family and all the blessedness of the earthly life, is 
 full of solemn instruction ; but the ripe dropping of 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 5 
 
 an old man into the tomb, — the quiet demise of one 
 who has lived out his full life, and outlived his genera- 
 tion, — is the most profitable of all life's solemn lessons. 
 
 We often see the bud, rich in promise, blighted by 
 an early frost; we sometimes see the green tree, with 
 all its pride of foliage and fruit, riven by the thunder- 
 bolt, or uprooted by the tornado ; but we stand with a 
 peculiar, mournful interest by the aged oak that, having 
 seen a hundred springs blossom and fade around it, 
 and having braved the fury of a hundred storms among 
 its branches, yields at last to the influence of time, and 
 drops amid the stillness of the forest — the memorial of 
 an age that has passed away ! 
 
 The subject of our address was an old rr.an, very 
 venerable with years. He knew your fathers while yet 
 they slept unconscious in their cradles ; he was a guest 
 at your ancestral homes while yet the almost unbroken 
 forest and matted cane closed round their humble but 
 hospitable cabins. Yonder, on one spot, almost in 
 sight, he lived for eighty years ! For a while he was a 
 subject of George III, then a citizen of free America; 
 first he was a resident of Virginia, then of Kentucky ; 
 first of Fayette, then of Bourbon, then of Clark, then 
 of Montgomery. Two governments claimed him — 
 two states enrolled him — five counties taxed him ; and 
 yet the old patriarch, during all these mutations in 
 governmental affairs, changed but once the place of hi§ 
 
6 SAMUEL L. WILLIAMS. 
 
 abode ! He lived and died, at more than four score 
 years and ten, amid the veritable scenes of his child- 
 hood ! 
 
 How peculiar must have been the feelings with 
 which the old man looked, in his last years, upon 
 the generation that now gather around his tomb ! 
 There is but little sympathy, brethren, between the 
 present and the past; and he who lives beyond 
 man's allotted time, finds himself at last a stranger 
 among his kindred — a stranger in the very land of his 
 birth! 
 
 The young press forward in their race, and crowd 
 upon the old, seemingly impatient for their departure ; 
 while the old, losing their hold on the concerns of life, 
 retire first from business, then from society, and, at 
 last, from life itself, finding only in the tomb that 
 dreamless respite from care which the toils of manv 
 years always make so welcome. 
 
 And so shall it soon be with us, my younger breth- 
 ren ! We have taken in our hands all the business of 
 life: church and state, commerce and agriculture, the 
 civilization of the age — all are now in our hands; and 
 we move on with the years, carrying these varied in- 
 terests with us. But, in a few days, we will be over- 
 taken by the pursuing host of a younger people ; we 
 will resign our work into other hands; we will linger 
 awhile as idle spectators of new scenes, in which we 
 
IN MEMORIAM. y 
 
 can take no part, and then, resting for a time in the 
 caini of our firesides, find in welcome graves the end of 
 life's fitful dream ! 
 
 No man, permitted to live as long as our brother, 
 can be said to have lived in vain. His life, contem- 
 plated from a moral and religious point of view, is full 
 of instruction. 
 
 In him we saw, in all the strength of their matu- 
 rity, some of those noble old virtues that have well 
 nigh become obsolete with us. For Virtue, while it is 
 ever the same in itself and in the sight of God, loses 
 and regains her popularity according to the fluctuations 
 of human tastes and interests. There are some virtues 
 which we of this generation call old-fashioned ; there 
 are some men that have outlived their times, whom we 
 denominate men of the olden school. 
 
 Such was our brother. Reared to manhood in the 
 century that has gone by, he brought down and exem- 
 plified to us some of the noblest virtues of the past. 
 
 We have advanced in science; we have improved 
 in art ; we have gone forward in the march of a ma- 
 terial civilization; but it is a question whether we have 
 not lost somewhat in virtue as we have gained in 
 splendor. 
 
SAMUEL L. WILLIAMS. 
 
 Our brother was frugal, without parsimony ; he 
 was economical, without meanness. He saved, not to 
 hoard, but to secure a competency ; and with that he 
 was content. Too often our economy is a weakness, if 
 not a vice; and our industry, instead of being health- 
 ful and provident labor, is insane speculation, ever fired 
 with the greed of gain. 
 
 How seldom do we see a man of our day quietly 
 reap the fruits of his earlier toils, and then sit down 
 satisfied and content with a moderate income! Indus- 
 try is bloated into enterprise; competency has over- 
 leaped its limits, and the maxim of frugality is to gain 
 what you can, and to hoard what you gain. 
 
 How instructive in this regard is the life of one 
 who, in the midst of a money-making and money- 
 loving people, exemplified for us the simple, prudential 
 virtues of a less avaricious age ! Would that the men 
 of our time could exchange their ambition to be rich 
 for this manly spirit of independence and content ! 
 Greed for more than we can enjoy, is the idlest of 
 all passions, and the parent of a whole progeny of 
 follies. 
 
IN MEMORIAM, 
 
 II. 
 
 Another of the now decaying virtues which so dis- 
 tinguished our fathers, was simplicity of life and man- 
 ners. We are growing every year more and more arti- 
 ficial, conventional, and ceremonious. I doubt, indeed, 
 whether we could engraft upon our age the natural, 
 disingenuous, and unaffected manners of the past. 
 But surely we often lose in loveliness what we gain in 
 ostentation. Our ambition is to appear — theirs was to 
 be ; — and what they were, too, all around them knew. 
 Now it is hard sometimes to know a neighbor. Men 
 disguise themselves, and society has become a sort of 
 masquerade. We try to impose, — to display, — to 
 strike with appearances. We are gorgeous in apparel, 
 sumptuous in table, elaborate in toilet, ceremonious In 
 manner, and ambitious even In our hospitality. How 
 striking is the contrast between all this, and the plain, 
 the wholesome, the simple, the sincere, and the genu- 
 ine, that characterized the manners of our good old 
 fathers ! 
 
 I do not condemn the culture and taste of modern 
 times, nor lament the disappearance of what may have 
 been harsh and rude in their manners or customs; but 
 surely the taste of these times has so adulterated itself 
 
lO SAMUEL L. WILLIAMS. 
 
 with pride, that we too often seek to adorn merely for 
 display. 
 
 III. 
 
 Another sterling quality of the gentleman of the 
 olden school, was a broad-minded, warm-hearted, and 
 open-handed hospitality. That trait early distin- 
 guished the citizens of our noble old Commonwealth, 
 Kentucky was famed abroad, not only among her sis- 
 ter States, but almost throughout the civilized world, 
 for her cordial reception of the stranger, and for the 
 genial fellowship of her citizens, — for their open doors, 
 their broad tables, and their ample firesides. 
 
 And in all this State, there was not a host or 
 hostess, whose heart leaped with a more cordial welcome 
 at the approach of friend or stranger than that of the 
 dear old man in whose memory we meet to-day, and of 
 the dear old woman whose memory is forever linked 
 with his! All the resources of good cheer without, 
 and all the fund of social pleasantry within, were ex- 
 pended without stint, to make their house the home of 
 their guest, whether he were rich or poor. 
 
 But even this most beautiful of social virtues is 
 growing obsolete with the change of times, and the in- 
 troduction of other ideas and customs. And, unless 
 the expansive power of Christ's religion shall warm our 
 
IN MEMORIAM. 
 
 hearts and broaden our charity, we fear that the old- 
 fashioned hospitality of our fathers will cool and con- 
 tract into a selfish formalism or a heartless etiquette. 
 
 Death is rapidly taking from us our old men and 
 women. You may not, my young friends, miss their 
 personal presence, for they were almost lost to your 
 society ; but we, their successors and children, may yet 
 lose the generous influence of their lives and virtues. 
 Let us hope, however, for better things. Let us cher- 
 ish their memory, and meditate on their lives ; let us 
 emulate their example, and preserve in ourselves the 
 manly and womanly graces that adorned their characters. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Again, how rare, in this wrangling and unstable 
 generation, is that noble old virtue — strict probity, and 
 stern, inflexible integrity of character ! I do not mean 
 simple veracity, or mere truthfulness of utterance ; but 
 that more comprehensive truthfulness that glorifies the 
 whole man. I mean sincerity of profession, fidelity to 
 principle, and a sacred regard for every promise and 
 plighted word. 1 mean consistency of life and har- 
 mony of character. In a word, I mean that true and 
 lofty lionor^ which loathes the fdse, the pretentious, the 
 meretricious, and the mean ; which scorns the petty de- 
 
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 vices of narrow policy, and which, in all the details of 
 public and private life, — in adverse and in prosper- 
 ous times, in calms and in storms, — renders a man 
 absolutely trustworthy and safe. 
 
 And how conspicuous did this cardinal virtue shine 
 forth in the life of our venerable brother ! True to 
 himself and to principle, he lived in resolute harmony 
 with all that he professed. If faithfulness to any 
 conviction threatened him with loss, he hastened to 
 meet, rather than to avert, the consequences. If friends 
 threatened to turn from him, he let them go, but never 
 without some tender emotion. If danger, like an 
 armed angel, stood in his pathway, to arrest or to divert 
 his course, he went forward still, without concern or 
 alarm. If, in fidelity to truth, he must give up party 
 and all the patronage and honors of party, and stand 
 alone, or in honest alliance with former enemies, he 
 never hesitated to abandon party and preserve his integ- 
 rity and self-respect. 
 
 We must lament, however, the seeming decadence, 
 in our times, of this fundamental element of true man- 
 hood. It may be, fellow-citizens, that in a popular 
 government like ours, political corruption, bred from 
 the ambition of small men, is unavoidable ; that the 
 social purity is corrupted by the strategy and finesse of 
 political rings ; and that the disastrous consequences, 
 
IN MEMORIAM. I3 
 
 extending to all spheres of life, infect, at last, the char- 
 acter of a whole people. 
 
 Be the cause what it may, we have to regret that 
 truth in high places, and too often in the humbler 
 walks of life, — truth as the distinguishing virtue of a 
 generation — shines not with that simple, unobscured 
 splendor that was the glory of the age that has departed. 
 We feel to-day, with a peculiar force, the truth of 
 David's declaration : 
 
 '* It is better to trust in the Lord than to put con- 
 fidence i-n man ; 
 
 " It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confi- 
 dence in princes." 
 
 In commercial dealings, in friendships, in declara- 
 tions, in professions, in offices of trust, in the most 
 sacred functions of fiduciary service, how often do we 
 say, or hear it said. We know not in whom to trust, what 
 to believe, or what to expect ! The times change, and 
 we change with them ; the wind veers, and we veer with 
 it ; the current eddies, or drives, or stands, and men, 
 without fixedness of principle or the sublime constancy 
 of truth, whirl or rush, pause or go back on themselves, 
 with all the varying currents of petty incident or petty 
 interest. 
 
 But I believe, my brethren, with you, that Truth 
 in all her beautiful phases, whether as probity of char- 
 acter, or as the wisdom that comes from above, will be 
 
14 SAMUEL L. WILLIAMS. 
 
 again unveiled to our vision ; that men will again hold, 
 as they have held in a less artificial age, that to be true 
 to self, to man, and to God, is the only foundation of 
 an honorable and virtuous manhood. 
 
 But if there was one trait of the olden character 
 that distinguished our brother more than another, it was 
 his moral courage — his readiness to expose himself to per- 
 sonal danger, and to every form and degree of self- 
 sacrifice, in the defense or maintenance of a righteous 
 cause. 
 
 There are two kinds of heroes in this world. Some 
 men are bold and reckless of life in the pursuit of a 
 selfish end— in the hunt for wealth, or in the chase for 
 fame. Avarice has emboldened men to deeds of self- 
 denial and daring worthy of a nobler passion. Ambi- 
 tion has made heroes on the land and on the sea. These 
 lower principles have peopled the earth with giants, and 
 gilded the pages of history with an attractive but illusive 
 splendor. 
 
 But the moral hero is of a nobler stock. He is 
 brave for the right ; he gives up wealth and fame, and 
 life, too, if needs be, for the truth's sake. Whether on 
 
IN MEMORIAM. I5 
 
 the tented field, or in the grave assembly, or in the 
 ordinary walks of men, he fights, and talks, and works, 
 not to build up self, but unselfishly to build up a cause. 
 
 The striking exemplifications of this sort of 
 courage, to be found in the life of our brother, are 
 numerous — too numerous, in fact, to mention. I 
 might refer to many passages during his seventeen years 
 of civil life in the legislative halls of the State; I might 
 cite you to unrecorded deeds and sufferings amid the 
 scenes of the second war with England ; to the toil- 
 some and bloody campaign of Winchester, in the 
 Northwest, and to the horrible scenes of Raisin and 
 Fort Maiden. I might cite you to many an incident il- 
 lustrative of his prowess, like that related recently by one 
 of his old soldiers, — how that, when, on a certain occa- 
 sion, at the head of a detachment, having discovered the 
 enemy in a strong inclosure, he rushed forward alone, 
 regardless of their superior number and their position, 
 and tearing away the palisades, leaped in at the breach, 
 exclaiming, " Come on, my men !" — sublimely cour- 
 ageous toward the foe, and sublimely trustful in the 
 courage of his men. 
 
 But I choose to pass by all these reminiscences of 
 his civil and military life, and, as illustrative of his 
 moral courage, cite you to his conduct, when John 
 Smith, in a nobler strife than that with England, burst 
 the bands of an ecclesiastical tyranny, and, amid ridi- 
 
l6 SAMUEL L. WILLIAMS. 
 
 cule and scorn, and persecution, declared that the chil- 
 dren of God were free, that the Word was every man's 
 creed, and the right to interpret that Word for himself 
 was inherent and inalienable. 
 
 Do you remember, my old brethren, the first mut- 
 terings of that storm, which was brewed right here in 
 your very midst, and which, in a few years, swept over 
 the State with a rage that uprooted churches, distracted 
 society, and almost kindled the torch of ecclesiastical 
 war? It cost much in that day to belong to Smith's 
 forlorn hope. He that would God speed the despised 
 heretic, must make up his mind to suffer all that big- 
 otry could inflict. Whether professing religion or not, 
 he must suffer proscription, the loss of friends, of busi- 
 ness, and of reputation. 
 
 Gen. Samuel L. Williams was raised a Calvinist 
 of the strictest sect. All his religious ideas were formed, 
 and his entire religious character was molded, by the 
 dogmas of that extraordinary creed as they were then 
 expounded. Yet when he grew to manhood, and began, 
 with his strong, natural sense, to think for himself, he 
 rejected the doctrine of the day as inconsistent with the 
 Divine character, and incompatible with his ideas of 
 justice and goodness. 
 
 Consequently, he never sought religion as it was 
 then presented, nor did he ever w'nh to seek it. It was 
 to him a thing without truth and attractiveness. He 
 
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 was therefore an opponent of the strict dogma of the 
 times; but he was always an admirer of the religion of 
 Jesus as it was taught in his Word and exemplified in 
 his wondrously beautiful life. 
 
 When John Smith began to preach the ancient 
 gospel and to teach Christianity among you, General 
 Williams heard and approved. From that day, 
 though not for some time afterward obedient to the 
 faith, he became its advocate. He stepped forth from 
 the ranks of a popular orthodoxy, and stood by the 
 side of him who was already covered with contumely 
 and sneers. He gave up friendships ; he threw busi- 
 ness and office and reputation into the scale; and he re- 
 solved to stand by his bold and honest friend, though 
 they should perish together. 
 
 He gave to Smith all the support that he could. 
 No man ventured to speak a word against him in the 
 hearing of his friend. He gave to him, in personal 
 danger, his strong arm; in pecuniary straits, his purse; 
 and at all times his influence and entire support ; and 
 that, too, when it was infamous, socially and religiously, 
 to befriend such a man. 
 
 This was courage, my brethren, moral courage, 
 almost sublime. The success of the cause we love is, 
 in this section of the State at least, more indebted to 
 the old man, whom we remember to-day, than to any 
 other that had as yet made no profession of religion. 
 
l8 SAMUEL L. WILLIAMS. 
 
 But, it may be asked, are not all these virtues, 
 which we have predicated of the old Kentucky gentleman, 
 equally the characteristics of a Christian gentleman? 
 Most assuredly they are. Yet it is equally true that 
 one may have all these and not be a Christian. It is 
 true that all these graces are the fruits of Christianity, 
 but Christ is not always acknowledged as the Vine 
 that produces them. The sun shines, and thousands of 
 things put on beauty and sweetness which see not the 
 sun. They are glorified by a reflected but unacknowl- 
 edged light. And so Christ shines upon the world. 
 Some receive the influence of his life consciously 
 and gratefully ; others receive that influence indirectly 
 and unconsciously. They have light only as it is re- 
 flected from parental example, or national institutions, 
 or civil legislation. They erroneously ascribe to civil- 
 ization or to education the light which comes only from 
 the Christ. Hence there is in the world an unconscious 
 Christianity, or morality rather, as well as a true Chris- 
 tianity that confesses and honors the Christ. 
 
 The virtues that so nobly adorned our fathers 
 were, indeed, the fruits of that truth which began to 
 shine when the Sun of Righteousness first arose with 
 healing in his beams. But those good men did not al- 
 ways feel or acknowledge their indebtedness to Christ. 
 They blindly or arrogantly claimed all their goodness as 
 their own. 
 
IN MEMORIAM. I9 
 
 It is in this very respect that the Christian is dis- 
 tinguished from the upright, moral man of our times. 
 The one arrogates, the other believes ; the one trusts in 
 himself, the other in Christ; the one says, " I can do all 
 things," the other says, " Not 1, but the Christ in me ;" 
 the one indulges in self-praise for his many virtues, the 
 other ascribes all praise to God the Father, who re- 
 deemed him from ignorance and sin through Jesus 
 Christ, the Immanuel. 
 
 We would err, therefore, were we to claim that be- 
 cause our venerable brother was, in his earlier life, an up- 
 right and honorable man ; because he was frugal in 
 habit and contented in disposition ; because he was a 
 trustworthy and patriotic citizen, a brave and humane 
 soldier, a hospitable neighbor, and truly courageous; — 
 that because he was distinguished by all these excellen- 
 cies of character, therefore he was a Christian. We 
 have not so learned the Christ. 
 
 VII. 
 
 And this brings us to the consideration of another 
 phase of his life, from which we may derive the most 
 important lesson that he has left behind, and by which 
 he has bequeathed the richest of legacies to his children 
 and his children's children. 
 
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 While living in the habitual practice of all the vir- 
 tues that define a noble man, he was not at peace with 
 himself. There was an undefined and restless want that 
 he long tried in vain to satisfy. If man's highest hap- 
 piness can be found in a thrifty, healthy family, the 
 father was blessed ; if it can be found in a faithful, 
 affectionate and competent helpmeet the husband was 
 truly blessed; if it be found in a prosperous business 
 and a sufficiency of this world's goods, he had all that 
 heart could crave ; if, in the patriotic service of his 
 country, in field or in council, and in a country's grati- 
 tude, he could ask for no more : yet he had all these 
 things, and was still unsatisfied. He tried every form 
 of life's honorable experience; he grew gray in the vain 
 attempt to satisfy an immortal spirit with the pleasures 
 and honors and service of a life that is earthly and 
 brief; and, having tasted every worldly cup, he turned 
 at last to that Fountain of which, if a man drink, he 
 shall never thirst again. 
 
 Dear old man ! we thank thee for all thy sterling 
 virtues ; for thine inflexible truth, thy generous hospi- 
 tality, thv moral courage, thy simple-hearted content, 
 thy public service, and thy perfect trustworthiness in 
 all the relations of life : but we thank thee most — and 
 we gratefully bless thee this day — that thou hast taught 
 us, by thine own experience and thy last best example, 
 
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 that true honor and peace can be found only in the ac- 
 knowledgment and loving service of the " Lamb that 
 taketh away the sin of the world !" 
 
 Let this suffice! Thou hast not lived thy long 
 and wearisome life in vain, if thou hast taught us, the 
 children of another generation, this lesson: That faith 
 in Jesus is the only victory and peace, the only crown 
 of excellency to a virtuous manhood, and the only hope 
 of glory in the life to come. 
 
 And may our Heavenly Father impress the lesson 
 of the hour upon the hearts of all ! May he bless it 
 to you, my old brethren, who can not long stay behind. 
 This world is now of little worth to you. You have 
 drunk the cup of the earthly life, and only the dregs are 
 left. Friends have dropped away from you, — love's 
 charmed circle has been broken again and again, — and 
 now, I know, you feel your loneliness. In vain you 
 try to catch the spirit of the on-coming age. Your 
 voyage here is over ; you must cast your anchor in the 
 seas beyond. Let go, then, your heart's hold on the 
 life that is, and seize the eternal world that dawns upon 
 you. Rest in Christ, and, soon, sweet will be your 
 sleep ; and your awakening will be to a life that never 
 ends, — to a youth that knows no age, — to a bliss that 
 is without alloy, — and to a glory that is unfading and 
 eternal in the heavens ! 
 
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 And may all the virtues of a father's character 
 descend and abide on you, my young kinsmen, as the 
 richest portion of your patrimony ! Your father be- 
 queathed to you strong minds and strong bodies ; ac- 
 cept, also, the best legacy that a father can leave to his 
 children, — the example of a soul strong in manly pur- 
 pose, true to principle, pure in honor, but resting, at 
 last, like a trustful child, in the blessedness of Jesus' 
 love. 
 
 Of a numerous and robust family, only one* is 
 left! And more than three score years and ten have 
 wasted his vigor and bent his form. In a few years, at 
 most, he, too, will fiill asleep, and be gathered to his 
 fathers ! It is hard for us, my young brethren, to enter 
 into full sympathy with such a man, — left alone in the 
 world, the solitary representative of a large family ; — 
 father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all the compan- 
 ions and friends of his early life, gone to their graves ! 
 
 May our Heavenly Father give to him, daily, 
 glimpses of the beautiful hereafter, — foretastes of the 
 good things to come, — strength to bear his loneliness, 
 and patience to await his change ! 
 
 The Smiths, the Williamses, the Hathaways, the 
 Stoners, the Aliens, the Joneses, the Lanes, the Brutons, 
 the McDanolds, the Carringtons, the Jamesons, the 
 
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 Highlands, the Phelpses, and others, — all are gone, or 
 soon must go ! And what will then become of 
 Somerset, dear old Somerset? Where will then be 
 her sweet old songs, her cordial fellowship, her simple 
 worship, and her burning zeal ? 
 
 Brethren of Somerset ! you are the eldest daughter 
 of the Reformation. Awake ! arise ! and may God 
 help you to maintain here the doctrine and practice of 
 the early saints, and to be always, as you have been, 
 the salt of the earth, and the light of the world ! 
 Amen. 
 
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