Resolved, That we assure the family of our deceased brother that we sympathize with them in their loss, and so far as possible will share their burden of grief with them;

Resolved, That a page be set apart in our journal to his memory and inscribed with his name.

Respectfully submitted,

S. H. ELLIS,

W. K. THOMPSON,

C. J. BELL,

M. J. WORTHEN,

HANNAH L. BRADDOCK.

Committee.

Brother T. C. Atkeson, of West Virginia, presented the following for the special committee appointed to prepare resolutions on the death of Brother A. J. Vaughn, which was adopted:

Worthy Master and Patrons:-Since the last meeting of the National Grange, Bro.A. J. Vaughn, Past Master of the Mississippi State Grange and Past Steward of this Grange, has been called from earth to his eternal home; therefore be it

Resolved, That we extend our sincere sympathy to the family and friends of the deceased brother;

Resolved, That we will ever cherish his memory in our hearts in the purest spirit of fraternity;

Resolved, That a page in the Journal of Proceedings be set apart in commemoration of his faithful services to the Grange. Respectfully submitted,

T. C. ATKESON,

G. W. WORTHEN,
C. O. RAINE,

MARY S. HUXLEY,

A. M. HORTON.

Committee.

Bro. J. J. Woodman, Secretary of the Executive Committee and Past Master of the National Grange, made interesting and eulogistic remarks in memory of the deceased brothers.

Bro. S. H. Ellis made the following remarks:

Bro.

Worthy Master:-I met with our departed brother, Dudley W. Adams, for the first time at the meeting of the "Farmers' Congress" in May, 1873, in the city of Indianapolis, Ind., and then again at the meetings of the National Grange in St. Louis, Mo., February, 1874, and Charleston, S. C., February, 1875, and at Louisville, Ky., in November, 1875. At these three meetings of the National Grange he presided as Master. Col. A. B. Smedley and General A. J. Vaughn I first met at the St. Louis meeting in 1874. Bro. Smedley was Master of the Iowa State Grange, and Bro. Vaughn was Steward of the National Grange. I found them very genial, companionable men. Smedley, in his capacity as Worthy Lecutrer of the National Grange, was with me in attending Grange meetings in Ohio for eight or ten days, and his efforts in this line were valuable and highly appreciated by our people. Bro. Vaughn I continued to meet at the successive sessions of the National Grange for eight years. He was a true friend. The earth work of these brothers is accomplished. And now, Worthy Master, with your permission, I will read a short selection read by Bro. John Trimble when we held our memorial service in this hall eight years ago. I read it from the Journal of Proceedings of that session.

What can it mean? Is it aught to Him
That the nights are long and the days are dim;
Can He be touched by griefs I bear,
Which sadden the heart and whiten the hair?
Around His throne are eternal calms,
And strong, glad music of happy Psalms,
And bliss unruffled by earthly strife.
How can He care for my poor life?

And yet I want Him to care for me,

While I live in this world where the sorrows be;
When the lights die down on the path I take,
When strength is feeble, and friends forsake;
When love and music, that once did bless,
Have left me to silence and loneliness;
And life-long changes to sobbing prayers-
Then my heart cries out for a God who cares.

When shadows hang o'er me the whole day long,
And my spirit is bowed with shame and wrong;
When I am not good, and the deeper shade
Of conscious sin makes my heart afraid;
And the busy world has too much to do
To stay in its course to help me through,
And I long for a Saviour can it be
That the God of the Universe cares for me?

Oh! wonderful story of deathless love;
Each child is dear to that heart above;
He fights for me when I cannot fight;
He comforts me in the gloom of night;
He lifts the burden, for He is strong;
He stills the sigh, and wakens the song;
The sorrow that bowed me down He bears,
And loves and pardons, because He cares.

Let all who are sad take heart again,
We are not alone in our hours of pain;
Our Father stoops from His throne above
To soothe and quiet us with His love.
He leaves us not when the storm is high,
And we have safety, for He is nigh.
Can it be trouble which He doth share?
Oh, rest in peace, for the Lord does care.

Bro. W. K. Thompson, of South Carolina, said:

Never having known one of these worthy brothers, I do not arise to eulogize either, but merely to second the resolutions and to give expression to my hearty approval of these memorial services. It has been well said that man's occupancy of this world is like one's finger placed in a glass of water, the space occupied by it closing up immediately; thus it is with man. He passes away, soon to have his place filled and to be forgotten, and while it is not our privilege to perpetuate their memory in brass or marble, yet we can and should perpetuate their memory upon our records, to which we and our children, and our children's children can turn in years to come and see what noble men and women had lived and worked in the Grange.

Bro. J. B. Ager, of Maryland, made the following remarks:

Worthy Master :-I first made the acquaintance of Bro. A. B. Smedley at a session of the Wisconsin State Grange, held at Janesville in January, 1874. I found him to be an earnest and true Patron, and one of great ability. We believe him to have been the mover of a resolution, and a strong supporter in securing its passage, instructing the Legislative Committee of the State Grange to try and secure the passage of a bill to regulate the tariffs on all railroads in the state, which was done by the passage of a bill known as the Potter law, which every Patron points to with pride as one of the greatest achievements of our Order. Our brother has passed on to his reward to the great Grange above, where we hope to meet him and all of our brothers and sisters where partings

are no more.

Brother H. E. Huxley, of Wisconsin, said:

In the early history of the Order, Bro. A. B. Smedley was a resident of the same county in which I live Winnebago county, Wisconsin, although I was not intimately acquainted with him and perhaps should never have met him at all had he not been a member of the order of Patrons of Husbandry, as he soon after left Wisconsin and settled in the state of Iowa.

I knew him as a man of more than ordinary intelligence and ability and while he had the opportunity gave his best efforts for the advancement and good of the Order. He was a visitor on one occasion at our State Grange and gave us words of cheer and encouragement, and his memory will ever be cherished by the Patrons of Wisconsin.

Bro. C. J. Bell, of Vermont, said:

Worthy Master and Patrons:-We meet here on this occasion to honor the memory of our departed brothers. It was my good fortune to meet Bro. Smedley while he was Lecturer of the National Grange. He came to Vermont and gave a series of lectures in the winter of 1875 or 1876. He spoke to us words of encouragement and truth, with profit to his hearers and strength to the Order.

Vermont had the first member of the Order in New England, Jonathan Lawrence, of St. Johnsbury, taking the degrees of the National Grange and being made a Deputy for that section.

Worthy Lecturer Smedley was the first national officer of the Grange Vermont had ever seen, and his coming gave pleasure to the Vermont Grangers.

My friends, as we meet here to speak of the pleasant memories of our brothers, and extend sympathy to