American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-09
OBITUARY..

LULA r. EVANS, daughter Of Capt J. 81.
and Mrs. Sarah r. Evans. of Camden, Miss,
was born May 4th, 1866. She died at OK
ford, Miss, October Both, 1872; aged IL
years, S months and &c days.
Miss Lula Evans, at the time of her death,
was a pupil at Oxford, under the care and
tutelage of the Rev. G. 81. Bell. She was
just verging into womanhood. and had enter
ed upon the fnal studies Of the Curriculum of
that popular school. Always unselfsh, gem
tie and dutiful, with sweetness of temper,
an unsullied beauty OF affection, endowed
with a sprightly intelligence that never failed
to win for her, place of honor IN her stu
dies; she was the idol and hope Of her par
ents. the beloved Of a wide circle of relatives
and friends, the just boast of her teachers in
every department of scholarship, and the uni
versal favorite of her companions at school.
Without the frivolity, that proclaims the
weakness of youthful character, and blessed
from childhood with those traits, the beauty
and worth OF all. She possessed within herself
the just grounds of parental pride and expec-
tation. Her death must blight the earthly
hopes, joys and interest of father and moth
er, and leave long shadows of sorrow upon
the house where her presence SO often shed
the radiance of love and contentment
Sometime during the last term OF the ses-
sion at Oxford, she became concerned on
the subject of religion Always true in her
character, she was one of those who could
NOT De SAtlSueO WIFI pEetenCeS OF cnFlStian
experience; and under the safe counsel of
those evangelical teachers of christianity-the
ministry of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church-she sought and solved the great
problem of human life, in agony and tears,
only where it can be solved, at the foot of the
cross. And as an unfailing result, in the
deep, deep, all consummate joy of christian ex-
perience, she was enabled to set her seal,
that God was true in Christ, as her Savior
and her Redeemer.
The writer of this memorial cannot re-
strain, in this connection, the expression o.
gratitude that our country is so blesl with
those literary schools, which becomes to the
young. tender and earnest-hearted youth. not
only an accomplishment and preparation for
life. but the mercies Of piety and the hope OF
heaven.
When Miss Lula returned home, during the
last vacation, she attached herself to the NJ.
E. Church SOuth-the church of her parents
transformations in all things, her christian life
flowed steadily and quietly on, until it bore
On the eve of her departure to Oxford again,
this true and earnest-hearted young chris
tian, visited an aged and worthy mother, an
examplar of christian faith. and asked her, as
a favor, to unite daily with her in prayer 20
God for the conversion of one dearer to her
than life. In one SO happily blest by nature.
with the sweet tempers of character, it would
seem loss to the friends of her life, that the
Grace Of God was not permitted its beautiful
and happy exemplification in the sacred min
stries of womanhood; had it not exhibited in
her death the wonderful and all-glorious
power of the cross.
If her death was a grief. and seeming
ong-life shadow, it was no less a sunshine,
that guilds sorrow with hope and consolation
In all her Sickness she was
d" Resigned, submissive. meek"
And when near her last moments, the pangs
IF death were turned to the raptures of celes-
.al Joy. In the hour when strong men have
Iuailed, and tossed themselves in agony and
despair, this young and attenuated child ex-
claims, " | am so happy" And when una
BILE to articulate her joy, she would raise and
clap her hands in the ecstacies of salvation.
there was no sham in her character, her
life and her christian experience, there could
be no mock consolation in her dying hour.
She passed away with an unclouded assurance
Of a rest with God.
1t is fit and proper to put on record this
genuineness OF christian experience and the
realities of an endless salvation, that the
Young may read it with profit, and the aged
ind in it the consultations of faith.
0, how hallOwed are the ministries of such
l death To her bereaved parents, may it
be not only deep joy but glorious and
peaceful anticipation.
A FRIEND. 9.
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