The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-07-23
From tho Rich6eld Springs Mercury.

DIED.--At Riohfcld Springs, May llth, 1879,
Martha Weeks wife Of Rev. f. II. 5celey, Ia the
3Otb year Of her age.
Again is this community overwhelmed
with grisf, by the very sudden and uuex-
pected death Of another of its loved aud
useful members. BY this deeply affective
dispensation, not only is a husband left
desolatc, but three little ones, one an in.
iaDt Of but few hours, are bereft of a
mothers care and love. Words cannot
express our sorrow in this great bereave.
rnent, or how deeply we mourn the loss
of this beloved Christian, this kind neigh.
Dor, this true and steadiast friend At
an early hour on Monday morning, friends
aud neigbbors gathered to pay their last
kind Offices of affection for the departed,
aud to manifest their deep and heartfelt
sympathy for their beloved Pastor 10 this
sore affection. Such spontaneous ex.
preston of love, such deep and sincere
sorrow is seldom witnessed, even when
family friends are all present. In
truth, deep gloom rests upon this entire
community. The body was boroe far
away to the home Of her childhood 10
Vermont, where her grief stricken par
cnts, brother and sisters, were waiting to
receive her remains. She will be missed
in the Church, in the Sabbath School, the
choir, the social circle,and oh how deep.
ly will she be missed iu her family. Few
persons were SO richly endowed by nature;
in person she was attractive, and possess
ed Of unusual grace aud beauty. Her
mind was worthy of such body, clear,
strong, discriminating, and stored with
ali that is practical, bright, aud attrac-
tive; but her crowning virtue was her
simple faith, her positive personal Chris
tianity. shedding its hallowed influence
over her entire character, making her q
true friend, noble wife, an affectionate
and loving mother Her knowledge of
Divine truth was experimental giving
depth and clearness to her views Of doc.
trine and duty, firmness and stability to
her religious convictions thus were her
christian graces apparent in all her rela-
tons Of life. How frequently arc we re-
minded that Death recognizes no inmuui-
ties that its inevitable seal is fixed upon
all, even the purest aud the best. AL
most without warning it crosses our
threshold and lays its unsparing hand, as
well upon the young and beautiful, as
those whose years are tinged with the
coors OF the autumn leaves Even in
our sunniest moments, when every cloud
reveals only its silver lining, tho sum-
mons comes. aud we pass from the tumult
Of this earthly arena over the Lcthean
strealu, and into tho silent regions beyond.
swiftly ths messenger came through the night
Could lie not linser ye scraphims bright
Lr'A'd sc harper in all your best band
New luthuin, to wake in your glorifcd Land
Must tender, wee fingers be torn from her own
Must timii feet travel carth's highway al me
4 Her form in its beauty DO laid meath the sod
Will. rises the soul to the homo Of her God
o sanctifed sister pure-hcartcd one
Thy "hesh rests in hope'-thy sorrows done,
We tearfuly yield thee-snatch d from embrace,
Rnt re,nry e,nhai,ns nli thy sy-ortuess grace.
Yes "even SO Father-'tis good in thy sight"
We sob in the darkness-with Thee is the light,
Our faith meath the blow feels Thy Fatherly Hand
That guides through tears to our heavenly land,
Mns. BLLwoOD.