The hearts of the people of Columbus county are today heavy as the body of Hon. James Bion Shulken is being put into its last resting place. A useful life has come to an end.
Another eminent lawyer has been called from this earth to receive the reward which awaits one who has lived the life of a gentleman and a Christian.
Mr. Schulken’s indomitable will was portrayed in his last days of sickness as he clung to life with hardly a hope, just as it was ever present in his legal battles over a period of many years. He was no quitter; he was a fighter. During the past few years only that tenacity peculiar to him kept him fairly fit and attendant upon his duties as a lawyer.
But now he has had to give up. No more will his teachings as a Sunday School teacher in the Methodist Sunday school be heard. Those in his Bible class, which he a year ago had to give up, have found many comforts in the messages which he as a layman has brought to them. His body has gone from the earth, but those under his instruction have stamped upon their souls his teachings which will ever live. As a member of the Board of Stewards, he was faithful; and until his health forced him away, he was always present in the choir with a tenor which added much to the services.
A loving father and husband, an ardent church workers, an eminent lawyer, and a good citizen has gone. The sympathy of the people as a whole goes to the wife and children who have been deprived of their greatest friend.
From the editorial page of The News Reporter, Whiteville, N.C., Dec. 25, 1924.
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