Passing Away | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 13, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 32.

Passing Away.

Three great public men, of lofty principles and unblemished integrity, have recently passed away. The world can hardly afford to lose them. Two of them were Benjamin H. Bristow, Secretary of the Treasury under President Grant, and ex-Senator Lyman Trumbull. The former was noted for his war on the Whisky Ring. He was a man of the highest integrity, and of unquestioned courage. Of Lyman Trumbull it is said: “He never sacrificed a principle, or notion of duty, at the bidding of friendship, or the call of ambition.” The third is Jules Simon, late president of France. He was a democrat, who believed in liberty, not simply for himself, but for all. He advocated the absolute division of church and state, and absolute freedom of the press. Pure in morals, truthful, and just, simple and temperate in habits, the political world needs more such men.