The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1875-02-03
MEMORIAL.

MoRRIsTowN, Tenn, Jan. Esd, 1875.
To the CIturc1t
We, your committee, charged with the
duty of writing the obituary of sister
NORRIS submit the following:
Our departed sister was the daughter
of Daniel G. and Prudence Carmichael,
of Granger county; she was born Au-
gust 25th, 1880, was united in marriage
to our brother Drury Morris November
IA, 1913, and died December II, 1874, in
her 10th year. Her connection with the
Baptist Church dates from early girl
hood-having become a member of
Prospect Church, in Granger county,
in January 1912. Very soon after her
marriage, she transferred her member
ship to Bethel, now MorristOwn Church,
in whose fellowship she lived, loved and
trusted for twenty-five years, dying at
length amidst the tender attentions and
profound sorrow of her family and
friends with the calmness and hope of
faithful Christian woman.
Your committee wish they were bet
ter fitted to sketch the character of sis
ter MORRIS. We wish to draw it with
rigid truthfulness, convinced that her
real virtues most deserve our esteem and
imitation.
The most prominent traits in the
character of our sister may, we think,
be condensed into the following state
ment:
1st. She aoas perfectly sincere
In this We feel sure there is no cxag-
geratiOn.
In many things she was doubtless i'm
perfect; but in that candor and openess
of manner by which she was distinguish
ed, there was no room for sinister pur-
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neither less nor more than she professed
I'd. In connection with such simpli-
city and frankness, we should expect to
find her what indeed she really was-d
truthful 1rOanun.
Her mind and heart were so justly
poised, that she saw truth and falsehood
clearly. Her conscience chose the truth
and she spoke it without hesitation or
fear. Many persons, otherwise good
and worthy, allow their partially and
passions to confuse their perceptions of
reality. Such viii utter falsehood in its
lighter degree unconsciously.
Sister MORRIS sometimes spoke blunt
ly, but never falsely
3D.. She was eminently domestic
This was the more virtue, as it was
not necessity. Her arduous household
duties and labOrs were matters of habit
and choice. She ranked among those
excellent" women who guide the
housewife are "crOwns unto their
husbands Most of you know how
warmly she bestowed her praise upon
that generation of women now fast dis
appearing from our midst, and how she
commended those frugal habits and
household industry amidst which she
was reared, your committee would haz-
card so much as to express a wish that
her example in this might be accepted
for imitation
4th. She was herm and h0spit,6le.
This, in regard to our beloved sister,
means something more than the Ian
guage could mean if applied to some
wives and hOusekcepers. Her O1ca hands
to the comfort of her guests,
and you know, Brothers, that guests
were rarely wanting III that house of
which she was mistress. 1t was min
ister's hOme-a place of rest and re-
treshment for all-especially church
members from the country wOrshipping
in the town. 1t is no little praise TO
have her bereaved husband affectiOnately
affirm to-day that she never, in all her !
life, chided him for bringing any num-
Der or quality of religious people to their |
home, to be entertained by her labors.
Your committee must be allowed to |
pause here, and join with great multi |
tude of weary and hungry and sick |
whom she has nursed and refreshed, and |
say: - God bless herl'
1t is fitting we should close this report /
by some observation of her religious |
character and manner. Our Sister was |
not very hopeful or very happy as Il |
Christian. She was rather addicted to |
5ef-cOndemnatiOn. She was busy with |
the precepts rather than the promises of |
the Gospel, and while bearing in album |
dance the practical fruits of the new |
life, she would hardly accept them as
tokens of the work of grace in her heart |
But she did repose calm, though not a |
Joyous trust in the Savior. In such a
franic as this, She fought the good fight !
unto the end.
A stainless church member, bearing !
her full share of its burdens; wife and |
mother, fulfilling to the utmost measure
Of her day and strength the high and
solemn trust committed to her.
Your committee submit to your &C
ion the following:
ResotCed, That feeling keenly, as we
10, our own loss and bereavement as a
church, yet do we find it in our hearts
% offer coincidence and sincere sympa-
ny to the deeply strickened family of
our departed Sister, whose loss and an
5uish may well be greater than ours, and
We Will join them in saying, blessed
ire the dead that die in the Lord"
Respectfully submitted.
JAS. p EVANS,
j. II. Trent,
c. D. MERRITT
Committee.
On motion, the report of the COM