The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-19
MEMORIAL GARD.


Young joyous her loving spirit sinless as infancy
passed on to the Better Land September last at 81
A. M, at Algiers, where she has resided since earl
childhood, CARRIE j., wife of our fellow. ize
Col W. F. LOAN. She was of English birth: born i
London on the 9th February 1851, she approache,
the twenty fifth al aiverssry Of her birth when calle
home. Let all who suffer bereave ment in her denar1
ure be mindful that " there is no dt ath"
Let the harps of the angels now newly be strung:
Ihere mlrh to be made there are songs to be sung
For Just now has our loved one put angel robes on
| And just now to the Realm of the Beautiful gone;
| Just now has that exquisite vision of years
Been dissoved-and rainbow is shed from our tears
Through the azure Of Heaven, spendor doth eht
Serene 10 Lifes joyousness there to abide
Ill her loved ones come one by one up to her side
When the tired pilgrim from the care-land of earth
the green lawns and reads the polished floors of the
homes of spirits, he behOds the Heavens above him
starry with the magnifcence Of those rescued by
death ON the wreck -strewn sea Of earth 1, ouhes
and griefs, sailing through the Heavenly empyrean
and rejoicing in their deliverance
20, what offerings, Love-spirit, there dost thou
To blend with The rapture Death, where is thy
sting9'
The entertainments Of spirit-life rot Arabian
ncnon. They are real and await all who qualify
themselve. for their enjoyment Our dear and beau
fu departed one has left us the joy of knowing that
her pure spirit is unsulied with the with which
earth eacum bers SO many of Her light breaks
lnto the atmosphere of Heaven, streams of radi
ance flow out from the night into dawn, when morn
ing comes to us; and all who loved her deeply and
we chastened by the serenity and trustfuness she
inspired, can almost see and f, ell its glory
Carrie was one of those exhalations from Loves
home which seem always lent for brief season on v
In her twenty-ffth ar of earth she has passed to
the Morning Land to find preserved forher sublime.
ly cared for, and unimpairea by season or event
everything she had loved while here every heart
gone before, whom she cared to meet watching for
her in its freshness but csansed of its grief her
childhood's joys grneIed in LIVES keepin.-ev
nor chlidhoods toys stored 10 Loves cabinet secure
against rotor rust-with all the they
in ca tbs young dream brought back to h5r with
infinitely multiplied delights.
God Of the granite and the rose.
Soul of he sparrow and The bee
The mighty tide of being hows
through all thy creature back to Thee
Thus round and round the circle runs
m ghty without Shore
While men and angels stars and suns
Unite to praise Thee evermore."
The partner in your joys and troubles speaks
to you in these thoughts, ana hopes to keep his |
spirit clean of impurities and worthy to o. eat Won
in your earthly home whenever you come to il he |
loved one; worthy to be greeted by you when he |
shall ma exchange it for yours In his care You have
rom yours, will be permitted, he trusts light the
house. now dark in the shadow of your going Year
~ year will bring its offerings of treasure-gfts of
ffection wisdom cy-to the cherished shrine of the
lew worship where we shall bend as before to Won
With daily incense now purified because poured from
stricken hearts We shall strive to preserve the pre-
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1ches viii be garnered in sunbeams, and gathered in
nr Heavenly house with the motherlove to await
Is too, and be watchful ever u.s.
20, grave where is thy victory :"
But we are too human to ignore what to our senses
GEMS. We find in ic ion or at play mournful in.
ident and recognizing the earhheir of the Reality
nth our tears do homage to the Apparent Thus our
carts bow to its sovereignty 0, our darling as to
nee and our tears flow because the unreal is stall
art shadow in our world of sense To our senses
hon seem st dead just at the beginning of life thou
eem st parted from us, just when we c,n part no
IRE we can never lose thee.
We are lifted, mingly by our thoughts and yearn.
les put truly by her spirits magnet, into the gor
nfranchsed children, who, by millions, sing their
'ngs OF dellverance, while endless tides of delight
ow over and around them: Happy beauteous
arrie we have lain your lovely earth form wi its
inbred Gust not with nut tears not without unutter
Die sorrow and outbreaks of laentation because we
wed 1t BY many endearments, Of which it was ]
le appointed means we had become overload of
. presence and its charms Yet we know it was
1t your raiment, and that now you are as much bet
seded no more. With no less Joy in your true self
T our love of the perishable, we pass our greeting
'er these friendly types and hail you the serene
lights OF your Heavenly home where if we SO live
to enable you to come and min gle " it'll our lives
shall hereafter join you. i,
Our Father, we thank Thee for Carrie on earth =
ur out our gratitude to Thee for her gifts and her
in which shared but more we
ank Thee for Carrie in Heaven made safe from Y
otm ana cold, where her stream of life has burst.
crystal river from rock to water the declivities
d plains where we dwell and up which we are to 9
mb.
Down in the dark without thee
In the world of selfish men,
How shall hear thy whisper
When thou com'st to me again
VIII the touch of thy fingers thrill me
When my soul leans over is bars 9
The delicious music fill me
= Which thine hath caught from the stars
Or can thy soul in the Stiffness
Drop into mine spark
From the home where thou hast ascended
Leaving me down in the dark
In the dark thy soul win reach me-
shall feel the touch of thy band
When the Midnight silently marches g.
Over the suen land; $
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