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mother, wife and children, in a happy home, with a
long vista ahead of honor and prosperity, as was the
case in the death of Senator Talbot, the death of such
a one is peculiarly sad and sorrowful.

But The ways of Providence are always wise
though inscrutible. We therefore bow in humble
submission to the Divine Will which has removed
from our midsts Senator Talbott, believing that He
by whose mandate he was taken, is "Too wise to Err,
and too Good to be unkind. "

Senator Talbott long ago made choice of the "better
part, " and became a follower of the lowly Nazarene.
His consistent walk in life, his rectitude of purpose,
and his obedience to the Divine will, fully attested
the restraining grace of a Divine power, as well as his
belief that a Christian was the highest type of man.

His faith did not desert him in the great emergency
of life, which must be met and experienced by all of
us. As his feet touched the chill waters of death, as
the moisture of death gathered upon his brow, and he
was just entering into the realities of the unknown
world, he was asked by a friend who stood by the bed
of the dying Senator, "Do you know Jesus whom you
have served"? and in words of confidence he said
"Yes, and I can trust Him, " and then quietly passed
over the river which divides the known from the un-
known.

I am commissioned by the family of the deceased
Senator to bear to the Members of the General Assembly
of Maryland their sincere thanks for their sympathy
and the marks of respect shown to their departed son,
husband and father, and to express their wish that
there may come to every member of that Body the
reward promised to such as befriend the widow and
orphan, and who with human sympathy help the
bereaved to bear the burden of their great loss.

We shall never again meet and greet Senator Tal-
bott in this Senate Chamber. He sleeps beneath the
soil of his native State near the waters of the Chesa-
peake, whose gentle ripple will be his only requiem,
until the coming of Him who is the resurrection and
the life of those who die in the Lord.