James M. Lambdin
Obituary
Prof. James M. Lambdin was born in Barnesville, Ga., January 16, 1868, and was married to Miss Maggie martin in Eatonton last Monday night and died of typhoid fever at the residence of the bride�s parents last Saturday at noon. Not for many years, perhaps never, has Eatonton witnessed a sadder chain of circumstances attending the departure of a brighter life than this. Married while lying prostrate with fever on his deathbed, just five days a husband and then laid to rest in the grave, his wedding suit, his shroud. The bright hopes of a pure life are now gone with the body to the grave, the wife is now a widow, and bridesmaids and attendants are now turned to mourners. Man may plan but surely God doth execute.
Mr. Lambdin graduated at Gordon Institute under his father in 1884 or 1885, and for two and a half years attended West Point Military Academy, when he was called home by the death of his father; for the next three months he taught with Prof. Neal in Moreland Park Academy, and for the past year he has been teaching in Jackson Institute, Jackson, Ga. Born in the same town with him and having been associated with him during the past year in the school room, I knew him well, but as long and as well as I knew him never did I see or hear aught against his character as a model boy and Christian gentleman. Not often have I seen those who were more conscientious and earnest in the discharge of duty, and but few have I ever known whose future here seemed brighter. Not many do I know now who are better prepared to wade out into the dark, cold waters that have carried him to a brighter world than this.
A type of the father who but a few months preceded him to heaven, how happy today must they be, united never more to part. As sure as anything we can be sure of, so sure are we that the father and son are becoming to us here below to come up higher and join the throngs of those who around the throne are singing �Glory to God in the Highest.� May the lesson of their lives be a study and an inspiration to the friends left behind.
How well do I remember my friend�s wise counsel to the pupils who have been wanting to assemble before him, how faithfully he instructed them, how earnestly he prayed for them, and now I may add, how noble he died for them. A few weeks before his death I advised him to be more careful, not to work so incessantly or he would wear himself out and thus bring on disease. Now tht his faithfulness has culminated in his death, I believe him no less a martyr to duty than the brave men who rather than compromise theirs laid down their lives at the stake. He considered the schoolroom a studio, God himself the artist, the teacher his chisel and the immortal minds the white-winged angels he was developing. He earnestly and how sacredly he performed his part. What an example for the boys and girls he loved so well.
Not only was he active in the schoolroom but he was equally so in the church. A few months ago in the Methodist church at Jackson he arose at his seat one Sabbath morning after the benediction had been pronounced and announced that there would be a young men�s prayer meeting organized in the church at the close of Sabbath school in the alter room. Sabbath after Sabbath have I seen him in these prayer meetings as happy in the love of God as it seemed to me mortal man could be. When all the town was wrapt in slumbers I have known him to rise and kneel by his bedside and pray for his friends. Can we say that such a life has been in vain? Can we forget it? No, no, thank God no, such a life will brighten in the lives of others as long as time speeds on his way to eternity
W. C. Wright � Eatonton, Ga., July 26, 1889 (Middle Ga Argus � Week of July 30, 1889 )

Prof. Lambdin � Memoriam
Resolutions on the Death of James M. Lambdin by the Good Templars of Jackson

It is our painful duty to impart to you this evening, the sad news of the death of our highly esteemed and much loved brother, Jas. M. Lambdin. To our nobel order his loss is irreparable and can not be estimated. One who was so devoted to every moral cause, whose life was cheerfully laid down on the altar of duty, in the cause of temperance, religion and Christ. Actuated by the purest and holiest principles, his life was one of noble impulses and Christian deeds. Just entering upon manhood�s estate, an educated accomplished, and polished gentleman, well fitted to adorn any circle in life, a bright future opened up before him.
Thought young in years, the maturity of scholarly attainment and deep religious convictions hung as a graceful mantle upon his young shoulders. His life was one worthy of emulation, and though his body lies in the dark grave, he still lives with us in every generous deed, living word and Christian and charitable act, and has left as sacred memento not �Footprints on the sands of time,� but deeds of love indelibly impressed on memory�s tablet. We love and cherish your memory, dear brother, and may we strive by every act of our lives, to be as worthy and as fully prepared to meet the grim monster, death, when he comes for us.
Whereas It has seemed good to Almighty God in whom all power and glory are inherent, and in who wisdom is infinite, to remove from this earthly to a heavenly kingdom our beloved brother, Prof. Jas. M. Lambdin; and, whereas, in his fellowship with us we recognized in him a kindly disposition and those moral attributes which are characteristic of the truly Christian gentleman, and which shone so beautifully in his noble nature; therefore be it
Resolved, That we, as a fraternity, in brotherly love feel with earnest sorrow the loss of our brother, and we feel that in his death we have lost a firm advocate of our cause.
Resolved, That we herein express to his bereaved family and desolate companion, our heartfelt sympathy and condolence in their loss of a noble son, a worthy brother and a true, loving and devoted companion.
Resolved, That we remember him and cherish his memory as a devout Christian and true member of our noble order, and point to his life with pride, as an example for ourselves and our society.
Resolved, That these resolutions be published in the Middle Georgia Argus, the Jackson news, The Barnesville Gazette, the Eatonton Journal, and a copy be sent to the relatives of the deceased and spread upon the minutes of this Lodge.
H. M. Fletcher, D. J. Spencer, S. H. Morgan, - Committee Good Templars Lodge, Jackson, Ga., July 26,1889

(Middle Ga Argus � Week of 7-30-1889)

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