The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1872-03-15

around her, and said, another, don't
weep for me, ] am better off than those
I leave behind" She was Jewel too
precious for Garth.
The following resolutions were unani-
mously adopted by the school:
WHEREAS, Our Heavenly Father, in
His wise Providence, has taken from
our circle and from our association, by
death. Larissa Margaret Hughes, q
member of our school; therefore be it
Resolved, That In the death of our
fellow.pupil we lose the example and
companionship of one of the puIest and
best of our number. One who was kind
and affectionate in her disposition, and
greatly beloved by her associates.
That we mourn with her parents and
relations in this sad bereavement, and
tender them our deep and heart felt
sympathies in this sad affiiction and
trial Of their faith. ~ si..4i -
That we will strive to initiate her vir-
tues and heed her kind and affectionate
sorrow that tive mourn not as those
who have no hope" >, - l-liii s'-.
Resolved, That we wear the usual
badge of mourning for thirty days.
That the parents of the deceased he
furnished with q copy of these resolu-
tions; also the Christian AdV0cdte and
Columbia HERALD, for publication.
SALLlE CAMPBELL,
q 90 MARY WILKES,
.'- BLANCHE SCALES,
- . SALLIE HARRIS,
-.- Lizzie WILKES.
When the vote was taken on the above
COrnelia Taylor, a school.
mate of Larissa's, wept bitterly at the
She little thought then
that 30 soon Larissa would come with
a covey of angels to welcome her to a
home in the skies; she little thought
then that so sOoA she and Larissa would
together walk the golden stl Gets of the
city--wOuld together stroll
along the river of the water of life, and
clad in raiment pure and white, would
together bask in the sunlight Of Gods
She little thought
then that so soon they would tune their
harps in unison to the praise of God.
Could abe have imagined the glOries
that awaited her, would she not have
been impatient for admittance into
life through the gate of death? Cornelia
Taylor was fer q. number of years the best
in the school to which she be-
longed. Intellectually she was genius;
Dut I0lS 10 uOt tuO ulOSt pA00cAu8 0SPcCe
of her charactsr.I While she excelled in
she was so gentle and
and unassuming, that she was
the favorite of the school
and of the community. She was de-
pious. and during a REVIVAL at
Culleoka last year, the interest she
in the conversion of her
room. mate was truly beautiful, and the
joy at witnessing the contamination of
her wishes, was intense. Her tilial affec-
ton amounted to devotion, and the day
before she was taken sick, in talking to
me about the nature Of the happiness in
said, in the simplicity of child
hood, she couldn't be happy in heaven
If her father was not there.
The committee to whom was referred
the subject ofmakiDg, in the behalf of
our school, q kind and affectiOnate men,
ton OF one of our number whose seat
among us has been made vacant by
death, and has gone to dwell in the home
of the Just, submit the following:
Miss Nellie Taylor is no more of earth.
Her name was dear to us all, and will be
titled away in our hearts as diamond of
the purest water. This was the name
given, to the home of clay, her mortal
frame. What name her pure sainted spir-
it bears in the great family Of the chill
dren of the church, where they rest in
the shade beyond the last liver, we
kno W not. "H -..- t'..
We feel most deeply the successive
bereavements which have fallen upon
Us OF late. Our stricken hearts were
yet so sore, and the tears upon our
the death of our much esteemed Larissa
Hughes. When the second aff1iction
came upon us, it really seemed that
sDeath loves shining mark"
It has been only fourteen years since
Nellie opened her eyes upon the light of
the world, which ya9 in tine neighbor-
hood of this village, and without trans
fer from the spot that gave her birth,
the gates of death closes upon her. She
was q highly favored child in many res
poets. She enjoyed in great degree
the care, love ard faithful service of
kind and devoted parents, who had not
only the will, but The ability of ednca-
ting and training their child to be good,
useful and happy, and the result was
that she remembered her Creator in the
DAYS Of her youth. She was further
favored in that her pure spirit was lodg-
ed ip beautiful casket, for notwith-
standing her body was delicate, trail
barque, 1t was perfect model. She was
beautiful to look upon, and all who saw
her once, would wish to see her again.
Her mind developed early, and was
complete in all its parts-well balanced
in its grasp for one SO
young, and vigorous in action. Her
tastes and instincts We're the of1spring
of love and purity, and wherever she
came in cantact with virtue, she won
favor. All that were good, and knew
her, loved her. She acquired knowledge
with great facility, and it is thought by
her teachers that the action of her mind
was too great fpr the framework that
sustained it, aud this was not for her
a BETTING home, that s.an. reau..
.ShS had too much of the heavenly mind
ToAwell on the earth and be to clay cOafned,
And God took her to himself. But if the
wishes of doting parents, the love of
schoOlmates, the admiration of the
school, had been consulted, she
would not have died. And truly the
school ID poorer since she is gone. And
the very light of day has turned away
from the door other earthly home since
this jewel of ours has been transplanted
from earth to the skies. .,..r-..,..
We sincerely condole with her parents
and kindred, and bow our heads in sub
mission to this dispensation of AL
mighty God.
God grant that they may be nucleus
in heaven, around which every menu
ber Of our school may assemble. S.
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