Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1873-02-07
Tribute of ResEseca.

At Joint meeting of the teachers and pupils
of the Wesleyan Female Institute, Stannten Va,
the following preamble and resolutions were
unanimously adopted:
Whereas 1t has pleased Our Heavenly Father
to summons from earth our beloved pupil, MARY
J. WoRrHAM, Of Tehuacana, Texas; and, where
as, we, the Faculty and students, mpelled by a
deep and common impulse to give expression to
the profound sense of our great bereavement,
and to our appreciation of her exalted worth
Be it, therefore, ResoIved:
That we humbly bow to the DEGREES of Him,
with whom are the issues of life and death, yet
the sudden and unexpected death of Mary j.
Workman, has plunged our entire school in
deepest mourning, and filed our hearts with
sorrow which no language can portray.
Discardng all the high sounding praise which
sorrow and sympathy are so prone to bestow
on the character of the dead, we eau truthfully
and most dispassionately affirm, thas Mary
Workman, at her age, was one Of the highest,
unrest and noblest types of womanly character
whom we have ever known Possessing q rare
and gifted intellect, as a dligent, persevering
stpdent. she had won her wa, to the rank OF the
most distinguished candidate for the highest
nonors Of full graduation, WI lch honors, had she
been spared, she would have attained on the
next ensuing commencement of this Institution.
AS lady she was dignshed in her bearing, refined
in her manners and gentle in deposition. AS
puDll SUe was dlWdJ COuEleOuolJ ISSptCtlui W
authority, attached to her teachers and devoted
to duty. Asa christian especially her whole
character shone forth with unclouded lustre.
Before she embraced religion, she, 10 an unu
sual degree for one 30 young, had counted the
costs, studied and weighed the great inject Of
salvation. For eighteen months the President
Of the Institute and Others, had watched with
deep solritude fer the issues OF her earnest
thought, her deep convictions, and patient
har oil oil
her at last the happy issue was reached at the
close of the great revival, conducted by DR..
Rosser During the last days of the revival she
was among the last precious sheaves which were
gathered into the gamers Of the Lord. Then,
with o soul-pervading earnestness and unaltera-
BILE purpose peculiar to her, she gave her young
heart to God, and was happily converted amid
the songs Of the church and the benedictions of
Heaven From the hour of her conversion, Eve
weeks before her death, her soul was radiant
with the joys and hopes of g. new life-a lifs
though new, yet already resplendent with every
christian grace and yIrtue-a lite, young in
Christ yet SO symmetrical, so strong, SO beauti-
full But that young life SO endowed by nature
and blessed by grace, SO full of earthly promise
and heavenly hope, with us is no more. She
who had promised to enrol her name among the
distinguished Alumni of our Institutean honor
it by a noble and useful life, is gone to reap i'm
mortal honors in the great college of saints and
MARTYRS. She who had promised SO soon to re-
turn 10 gladden. her chdhoods home, to receive
"a fathers blessing and mothers kiss, has gone
to receive Savour's welcome and His Fathers
blessing The devoted daughter who was SO
soon to go forth TO brighten a parents decln-
ing years to honor her sex and bless her race
by her pure and beautiful life, is cut oown in all
the freshness and bloom of her glorious girlhood
But as deathless flower her life is trahsplanted
to unfold and bloom amid the fragrance and
glory of the Paradise of God-and there it will
grow, expand and brighten, where chilling
sjnds and bowling storms, will be feared and
felt no more. Teachers and pupils, let US cher
ish her memory, emulate her virtues and meet
her in heaven.
Resozued, 2. That in testimony of our affection
for her as a member Of our college family, we,
as teachers and pupils, will wear badge OF
mourning for thirty days.
Resoired, That we, the President, Faculty
and pupils of this Institute, do hereby most sol
emnly and sincerely tender our sympathies to
her bereaved parents and household with them
we would sorrow and weep in this dark hour OF
their great affection.
Resolued, 4. That copy of these resolutions
be sent to the bereavsd parents, and published
in our city papers.
[Signed,]
WIN. A. HARRIS, President.
LIZZIE DANIEL, Secretary
W. F. INSTITUTE, Jan. 30th, 1873.