The Potter journal and news item. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1872-1874, 1873-11-19

At CJUdersport, Noyember3. ?. ls72 Mrs AIm-ra
=. s'eDDiss, IL tue t4ih cal pf her age.
N MFNDEIAM

At CoUdersport, Novemher3, ls73, Mrs. tIm-rn
-. S'e1DiIs, IL the t4ih Year II her age
N MEMORIAL
Tuesday morning. November 18th, on my way
home / made the oitrepeatcd inquiry How j,
Mr.. Ntebtu>ie" Quickly the reply he i, dead
she died yeste.day. Though Saddened 10y the
intelligence that ! should Not see her again in
ife, there ye! was sirarge sense OF relief in
knowing that she was. after being 50 long and ;,
great sufferer, at last at rest.
A in the quiet and serenity Of a summer :
morn ana iu the midst of Tie enjoyment of ar
hour entire freedom from >Ifering for the first
time il several monrhs, Size gently slept H Jesus
She had fingered il the valley Of suffering Ions
beyond the hopes Of the most SanguiHe, with but
now and then momentary ailevistiou Of her pains
and with the SLOW progress If her disease, all de-
sire To survive yet years passed away Al tena
city 70 life and clinging grasp of human affection
We're loo>ed. Indeed. from the very De ginning OF
her Illness. We found that she was mySteTious'y
yielding her hold on this life and being moulded
10 enter the better world. Months ago she said
she had lost her interest for the cares and thing
about her and that s2- Wonid never feel il again
that five months ago. when She eft home for TIE
last Ume with her husband and daughter she
had resigned eveTything-ali concern for the fu.
tuTe-tu others without the least anxiety. Her
household affairs. her garden and its care, her
shruhbery AID flowers u her own planting and
culture, frrvhrh Sae had So great f1ndn-,S, had
lost al their charms for icr.
And as Eer pind and heart were being detaeh-
ed from al ti"-r thing, below which had before
always given hrE 20 great pleasure. her affection,
were being more strongly set up0R things above
and divine" This strange >ut,imation oi lee ing
dai increased. 50 thai She talked Of nothing
more frerlyTo her family ana friends than u1 he.
death and Of her great desire 70 he patien, and
unmuI mBring 70 the end and patience did have
her perfect work" For We SAW the passive viz
uies shining more and more IN tie furnace Of af
Fiction. the sgiriI al th~ more resigned: and
white she longed To . At res; from them an, SIZE
was perfectly wiring 10 wait if ii was the viii "
the Lord. With job, in his submission ana i'll
his very words she could say all the days uf my
appointed time VIII wajr-tiH my change come. "
Ard Il sequel oi her S,fIeIings fulfilled beauti
fuliy Inc spirit of these words
Thus, wish her christian life of prayer, begun
forty TWO years ago, it was 50 continued and end
ed, aud with the word prayer" itself as the last
she spoke on earth; exemp'ifying the following
almost sacred ines Of Montgomery:
Prayer Is The Christians vi'sl breath,
The Christian native air.
Her vatyl W. ~ - the gate n death
She -LteTs Heaven with prayer.
sire has been a member Of the Presbyterian
church of CoUder>porr for twenty years, where
size will DE greatly missed as q regular and faith
ful wor>iipper il all the means Of grace. Her
voice in the social meetings, her earneSl prayers,
her cheering words, her loving laboTS, her fer
vent heart and willing hands, her entire active
christian lie FOR the church have ceased.
Tie whole community is affected by her death.
Many families mourn deeply her loss and VII
miss Mrs >tebtins in their sick rooms. She was
always ready, with all her cares Of home and her
ace. u go and wait and watch by the bedside OF
the sick and suffering.
The poor, whose helper and friend she ever
was. wiE miss land sigh in vainl for her strong
sympathieS aud kindly miIisteEing hands Her
memory Is preciouS 10 them. Their henedictiuns
have followed her 10 the grave.
But, all, how sadly do husband and soTTOwing
sons and daugh' erS bear her loss They TO whom
she has been 50 anxious and loving wife and mo
ther-what they have lost none can tell What
she has moi, in her constant soHcitude, done and
sacrificed for them as good companion and
mother they cannot think. Nothing that kind
watch-care and concern could prompt for their
happiness and spiritual good, through all their
years, was left unthOught of or undone. And it
has always been 70 her great comfort 10 know
that all her love and sacrifices for them were re-
turned in good and grateful measure, and espe-
ciaIIg IL her long illness, 10 feel happy IN reahz-
inE their d-yoIion IN unwea.idiy mini Tering TO
her SUTerinc>
Heaven ieward them as earth cannot and make
them twice Llessed that EeT usefulness and
Christian trust may EEd rich counterpart in
each one Of their lives ThCs viii the reunion Of
tie family in Heaven he infinitely more JOYOUS
than tfeir parting here Sas sad and deSHlat.pg.