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Tribute to memory of Wm. Armstrong, February 11, 1921, p. 3

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Suffice it if--my good and ill unreckoned, And both forgiven through Thy abounding grace-- I find myself by hands familiar beckoned Unto my fitting place. Some humble door among Thy many mansions, Some sheltering shade where sin and striving cease, And flows forever through Heaven's green expansions The River of Thy peace. There from the music round about me stealing I fain would learn the new and holy song, And find at last, beneath Thy trees of healing, The life for which I long. After reading the personal letter from Mr. Britt who was with Mr. Armstrong at the last, and also a letter from the St. Augustine Board of Trade, both of which expressed their deep sympathy to the family in their bereavement and also their own keen sense of loss as well as paying a fine tribute to the life and character of Mr. Armstrong, the Rev. I J. E. Todd made a few personal remarks. He was a man of sterling character who scorned the false, the mean and the petty; he would not tolerate deceit and hypocrasy--for he was essentially a seeker after truth. A man with a strong mentality, he thoroughly enjoyed conversing along intellectual lines, as well as entering into an agreement with keen ze .Some become estranged with those; with whom they disagree, not so our friend-- he seemed to find in the disagreement a possible opportunity to discover some fresh revelation of truth. After all else is said, the only, thing of real value in the world is character and whatever Mr. Armstrong had been able to gather together of the things of this world, he certainly had succeeded laying by much of the wealth which neither moth nor rust might corrupt, nor the thief break through and steal. And thus whatever had been passed on in material things to the family, one knew that they had received heritage that all the gold of this world could not purchase. The memory of a life well lived. The memory of a good man, Their Father. Bro. Armstrong was one of the most religious, most spiritually minded of men. He found God everywhere. Others might worship the Maker on the Sabbath day-- he had communion with his Maker every day, he found revelations of His presence on all sides. He transmitted his message wherever he went, for Bro. Armstrong was one of those men "Who lived in a house by the side of the road and was a friend to man." In as much as Ye have done it unto the least of them, Ye have done it unto Me.

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