In the Issue of July 14, the Messenger carried the news that G.H. Crawford and J. Harvey Crittenden were seriously ill.

This, the next issue, carries the intelligence of their passing over the Great Divide.

Times flies fast with us all and the band of man cannot stay its flight or check its speed.

No man is able to escape the reaper who is squarely in the path of every man, never to be ousted while time shall last, and while we, write this to express our sympathy with those who are left behind, we cannot forbear to tell them they but have added ties to the land beyond the valor and to tell those, who today walk among men, that it is better to be prepaired and never go than to go without preparation.

The ways of God are past finding out but even a babe can have faith. If we wait until the mysteries are cleared away before we declare ourselves the greatest of all mysteries find us still wandering in the dark, beside which the darkest of death is light itself.