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ON. ALMOST A CENTENARIAN.Beck-Case isshed.ifDeath ot Capt. Daniel Reid This Morning, Aged 92 Years: Funeral Tomorrow Afternoon at 4 o’clock.From Wednesday’s Daily.attorney le pros rackson, i secure restrain ceed.ing ays tbat n are in i before ere, and w if therequestcause of L Judge stop theTrotter)WMontana Jaze tie's jw York sst night ved here ipped at ent eon-ts crowd t his trip sal name jlling an 3w York.000 put ts in the ork No-ay 15th ging 100 make a d of the first ex-' walked 01. He i. rolling cramping He left he excelling onIE.e Mainefas anient toll. Sigs-3 battlers blown ss of life lary 15, red list on ae-fitry.iu there 1 of the Massa-isessing i orderarnlinoIt is with sincere regret that we chronicle the death of Capt. Daniel Reid, which occurred .this morning about 7 o'clock, at the home of his daughter Mrs. I. Newton Brown, on George street.,In the death of Capt. Reid not only his Family sutler the loss of a faithful and affectionate father, but the whole community is bereaved of an honorable and upright citizen, and the State suffers the loss of an efficient and trustworthy officer. He had attained an age far beyond the limit of ordinary human life. He overreached the three score years and ten by more than 20 years, he had passed his 92nd year. And yet fee retained his physical vigor and mental power and alertness almost unimpaired to within a comparatively short period of the ^nd. For until within a week of the New Year— when he had arranged to retire, he had attended to the clerical work *f the Steward's office iu the State Hospital here, which office -he had held, and whose duties he discharged to the eniment satisfaction of the Directors, for many years.Capt. Reid's was not only a long life, but it was a life crowded with many sorrows and tried by many a loss and misfortune. Toe generous to be suspicious, he was not unfrequently overreached and defrauded by those in whom, in his abounding faith in his fellowmen, he kad reposed an unqualified confidence. But through it all lie bore himself wtth a heart that quailed not before dtEiculties, and a cheery hope that material losses and man’s unfaithfulness could not quench. He never lost faith in his fellowman, because he posetsed an abounding faitli in God. So that the losses he suffered here were small in comparsion with the riches he had in God. For, alter all, it was his earnest Christian spirit, his unfaltering submission to God’s will, his childlike trust in Cod as his Father that gave beauty and grace to his character, and won the confidence and esteem of all with whom lie came in contact. No one could be long iu his company without feeling the power of his hidden life, and without being itn - J pressed with the other worldness off his spirit.Next to his children his loss will be I most deeply felt by the I’resbyterian I church of this city, of which he had been a consistent member and an bon- j ored and efficient elder for many years. But to the members of that church, indeed, to the whole community, his I life has been a benediction, and his example an inspiration to all unselfish and noble service, “so that he being dead, yet speaketh.*’And now he has entered into rest, the rest for which he patiently waited, and for which he often sighed. Not that he was weary of the service of the Master, but he - oft1 times was weary in it.“Servant of God, well done !Rest frost thy loved employ ;The battle fought, the victory v on. Enter thy Master's joy.Soldier of (Christ, well .lone !Praise be thy new employ ;And while eternal ages run,Rest in thy Saviour's joy.’’The funeral will be held from the Presbyterian church to-morrow afternoon at 1 o'clock.si]Negro Troops in the Philippines.
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Goldsboro Weekly Argus
Goldsboro, North Carolina, US
Thu, Jan 17, 1907
Page 5
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