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Death of Little Paul
Little Paul is dead. We to whom his face was familiar, can scarcely realize it. A child of unusual promise, bright and interesting. No one could see him, but to feel the strongest affection for him. His merry laugh would bring cheer to the heaviest heart and dull care would be forgotten in his presence. All who saw him, could not look forward to what a man he might one day become. For a child of his age he was so unusually bright, showing a mind that was susceptible of rapid accumulation of knowledge, which together with the circumstances that would surround him, affording every opportunity for mental culture, a brilliant future might well have been expected. But "the king of shadows loves a shining mark" and he certainly aimed well in this instance. The consolation that One greater than he has said "Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not" is sweet in the presence of this bereavement. Though sondered here he has but gone before, and the pretty flower that bloomed here is now shedding its fragrance in a bright world.
Paul Siebert Gobble, son of our College President, died on Sunday evening at a little before 7 o'clock, Nov. 13 [1887], after a severe illness of less than six days duration. He was 1 year 6 months and 19 days old. The funeral which was largely attended, took place on the following Wednesday, internment being in the New Berlin [Union County, Pennsylvania] cemetery.
The bereaved family have the full sympathy of all the students, expressed in a series of resolutions of condolences and by that attendance in a body at the burial.
This may be of interest to someone - Paul's father was the Rev. Aaron Ezra GOBBLE (1856-1929), and his mother was Catherine (1848-1931). All are buried in the New Berlin cemetery and pictures of their gravestones are on findagrave.com
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