“JOSHUA WARE. Died 9 November, 1865. — Aged 80 years.
Many of our Boston readers have made some acquaintance with this venerable man. He has carried to them once a week ‘The Living Age,’ for twenty years. More than a thousand weary walks, through heat and cold, through rain and snow, and despite the weakness of advancing years! Even last Monday he came to the office, and set out on his task as usual. So that he kept at his work to the very last.
Simple, gentle, courteous ! We know no one more truly a gentleman in manners and in heart. These graces were the outgrowth of life-long Christian principle. Nobody could be more diffident and modest. Whenever he came into
the house, we felt that we entertaned a good man, and that it did us good to see him.
We have just attended his funeral in the Methodist Church in Bromneld St. The text : ‘ Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.’
As we looked for the last time upon his gentle face, we hopelessly wished that hereafter the lines might be applied to us as truthfully as they can now be to our revered old friend :
‘His virtues walked their dally round;
Nor made a pause, nor left a void.
And sure the Mighty Master found
His single talent well employed.’
Living Age Office, Saturday, 11 Nov.“
Reference Data:
The Living Age, Vol. 87, by Eliakim Littell and Robert S. Littell, 1865, page 384
