A synopsis of an address given by Dr. Grant Fisher at the funeral services of Mr. Edward Shields on May 1941.
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Another Saint has fallen in Israel and Israel morns. Edward Shields has fallen asleep, That sleep which know no waking amid material scenes. He came down to the grave with respect, with honor, with love of all who knew him.
He has made his last crossing, the crossing called death. For him it had no fear, for it carried with it the assurance of a completeness of life impossible here. Death to him was a victory, Not a defeat.
There are three words which well serve to characterize the life of Edward Shields.
 
I. The First is CONSCIENCE 
He had an enlightened and quickened conscience and carried into every field of life: business, social, ecclesiastical. Such men are the salt of the earth.
II. The second word characterizing Mr. Shields Life is FAITH.
Faith in two senses: Namely, that broad faith spoken of by the author of Hebrews, Chapter II verse 1, and that narrow type of faith know as saving faith. This latter faith rests upon a single item, the Gospel of God’s Son, linking the soul with God’s Son in his saving offices of Prophet, Priest, and King.
III. The third word characterizing Mr. Shields’ Life is FAITHFULNESS.
This faithfulness worked itself out along several lines.
  1. He was faithful to the true ideal of life; namely SERVICE.
  2. He was faithful to the house of God, The CHURCH.
  3. He was faithful to his MINISTER and SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHER
  4. He was faithful in the HOME
  5. He was faithful as a FRIEND.
Mr. Shields has gone from among us but has left behind an impress for righteousness and love that will tell throughout the years. Our city mourns a good citizen, his minister and teacher mourn an appreciative and helpful friend, his church a useful worker, three relatives a brother and father and husband beloved.
I have a special word her who mourns the most today. It is a beautiful sight to see a Christian man and a Christian woman join their live forces to make a Christian home and to carry on the work in the world God would have them do, and to do this with full faith in each other and in the long wedded life of nearly half a century you and your beloved enjoyed. But even to the happiest of such unions a separation must come and it must needs bring fears, a grievous sense of loss, and a great aching void. First, there is the thought of the useful and good life of our beloved. Second, the consciousness that your beloved has reached the final goal – a new order of things where vexing things of earth are no more. And third, the assurance of a grand reunion after the temporary separation, in God’s good time. I trust you will take comfort from these great compensations from the GREAT COMFORTER.
In the light of what God has told us in his word, there is but one Wise thing for each one of us to do, and that is to be ready in God’s way by repentance of our sins and faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord: and them by letting our faith work itself out in FAITHFULLNESS in every sphere of life in which we may be placed, ever seeking to fill up our lives with loving deeds for him.
“‘O dearly, dearly has He Loved, And we must love Him too.
And trust in his redeeming blood, And try his works to do.”
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