Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1875-12-25

JAMES A. ToBIN, in the 18th year
year of his age.
Funeral services this Saturday
morning at 8 O'Clock, in the st. Jo-
seph's Catholic church.
At his residence, near Scrabble, in
Jefferson coudty Dec. Z, WILLIAM
TURNER, aged 65 years.
OBITUARY.
DIED, in this city, on the 14th inst,
GENEvIEvE, youngest child of Ellen
and the late John Dunn, aged years
and month.
SIRE sin could blight or sorrow fade
Death came with friendly care,
The opening bud to heaven conveyed,
And babe It blossom there
Thus early has passed from earth beloved child.
the cherished daughter of a widowed mother, the
loved one of the household, the favorte OF all who
knew her. Thus early was transplanted the tender
beaueous exotic too fair too beautiful to bloom in
this cold land Of ours. True, II ourished for short
time, and gladdened by its purity and loneliness
hut soon it pinned for Its genial cme its native soil
and dropped meath the chilling air Of this our earth
In love and tenderness it removed by the kindly
cuturing hand Time, in whose heavenly partene
loneliness Blessed, says the sacred Text .are the
dead-who die in the Lord" II these divineiy-in-
spired words pronounce blessed all who depart hence
in the grace and friendship OF God. tainted though
they may have been by contact with erring and
sinful worlds, blessed blessed in the fullest sense ofthe
word may this Text of Holy Writ be applied to this
youthful, innocent one, recently called from our
! midst ana who sleeps in the new made grave ofour
cemetery, tsT-r~
The gifts ofnature and graces were soon developed
in this favorite of heaven and approached maturity
far beyond her little span Of years. And il she
the fayorite of the devoted family circle well may
say, she was the beloved child Of God, the pet lamb
of the fold. whom the heavenly Shepherd lavished
his most tender cares. Loved by heaven and EARTH
claimed by BOTH while the devotedness of her loving
heart would have detained her In the cherished
brace Of family and friends, her whole soul pinned for
heaven, pined for the society of the angels. for
| to the bosom Of the imrnaculate M other of God.
whom she had enderly loved; pined TO live eter-
known The signs the des Tres Of her pure soul were
waited above, and the angels determined to conduct
| her on high.
Yes she has gone--she has passed from our midst
and is now dweller with the Blessed, fsrmiug
Of that celestial band whose happiness 1t is to follow
the Lamb, and sing that canticle, which none but
they sing. She has gone, and has appeared be-
fore the throne of God presenting her baptsmal robe
pure and unsulled by aught Of earthly stain, and
for endless ages will that preserved unspotted
here, dazzle the heavenly court BY It's purity, and
ever receive new lustre, from the light Of the hea
n sf o % s "a ss v
not these reflections be replefe with consultations
and when Heaven thus CONSOLES Earth must be 81
1 lent.
| And yet we cannot refrain from expressions Of
| sympathy and coincidence with those whose hearts
are sorely grieved by the rending of one of ma
| lures dearest hottest ties. Let them weep, we
blame them not-our divine Lord wept at the tomb
of Lazarus he has formed those bond OF nature and
knows how pain full is their rendng by the hand OF
death He 1t swho has caused those tears 10 flow He
who has wounded soothe and heal as he alone
| do. He will by his gentle whispers to afflicted
hearts bid them who be comforted comforted
| in the exchange she has made Of earth for Heaven
and in the well assured hope that when death closes
their mortal career they will be eternally united to
the beloved one. who awaits them In her heavenly
home, the homes Of the Blessed.
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