to
reach "Cottage Home." However, in spite of the difficulties and
dangers in crossing the river, and the extreme cold weather, there
were seven ministers and a very large audience present at the
burial. The people came over the snow and through the snow, in
sleighs and sleds and buggies, afoot and on horseback, till the
large country audience-room was well filled. The presence of such
an assembly on such a day evinced the truth of what is now widely
known, that Frank Allen was loved best where he has lived and
labored for the past sixteen years.

The services were begun by Bro. A. W. Kokendoffer, who lead in an
invocation of divine blessing and strength and guidance. The
congregation then sang "Nearer, My God, to Thee." The writer read
the following Scriptures; John xiv. 1-4, 27, 28; I. Cor. xv. 51-58;
I. Thess. iv. 13-18; II. Sam, iii. 31-39, repeating 38.

He felt that he should not, because he could not speak on the
occasion. He had followed the inclinations of his own grief, and
had come as a mourner and not as a comforter. We had not met to
tell how much we esteemed our departed brother, or how much we
loved him, or how much we should miss him, now that he has gone.
The gap is a wide one he has left in the family, in the
congregation of his love, and in the larger church; and it will
seem wider and wider as the days go by. We had come as his brothers
and sisters--as those who loved him--to lay him away in the grave,
and to ask God's help and blessing in this time of loss and sorrow.
He then led in worship, thanking God for His gift to the church of
the precious life that had just been surrendered at His call;
praising God for His love of brave and true men like him;
expressing the loving confidence of all that the heavenly Father
would deal tenderly with our widowed sister and her children;
asking especially that the little boy might live to honor the name
of his beloved father, and praying that the dear church, that has
borne him on their hearts through all this anxious time of weakness
and suffering, might forever be blessed by the memory of his godly
life in it.

The song, "Asleep in Jesus," was then sung, after which President
R. Graham, of the College of the Bible, addressed the audience on
the life and character of the deceased.

He had thought of how t