Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1876-04-27
OBITUARY.

DIED.-At her brothers. residence on Monday
morning, the 18th instant, in this county, and in
the 53rd year of her age, Miss POLLY AVAL1NE
CARROLL.
"Another spirit hath flown
From it's trembling house Of clay;
Another soul hath gone
To await the judgment day
How true, yet how solemn, the maxim unto
all is appointed once to die" Every day we
hear the doleful dirge of death sung by almost
every gale that fans the bosom of the earth; we
see its wthering marks upon the brow OF all ami.
mate nature; yes, we are even made to behold
the grim monster, laying his remorseless hand
upon our nearest and dearest on earth.
For more than thirty years, the subject OF this
sketch had been consistent member of the
Presbyterian Church, in the bosom Of which she
closed her Christian, exemplary life. Taught by
inspiration, the utter inadequacy of natural gifts
and endowments to secure the favor Of God and
an assurance of future happiness, the deceased
had been led early to sit down as penitent at the
feet Of the Saviour, and, in total abandonment OF
all thai self had done or claimed as ground of
hope, cast herself on the merits of crucfied Re-
deemer. Like her dear Saviour "on the Mount"
she commanded the Disturbing Element of mans
peace to get behind her, and thus ever since, in
a steady line of Christian habit and duty, she
lived and met the cold realities of this life till the
"time appointed" when her 'disembodied spir-
it" quit this "vale of tears" and her lovely form
was consigned to an earthly tomb, "there to lie
for ages and ages, with the sun beamng down
and the winds whistling over her." But when
Sinai's awful thunders shall roll, and the trumpet
shake the mansions of the dead, she. with the
saints, ascending from the grave, shall sing for
Joy, "the Lord is come'-upward tending to "rest
in His embrace" Though sorely tried for fifteen
long years, with an unremitting disease OF the
lufg she never, for once, lost sight Of that
much "cherished goal'' of her heart, obedient,
faithful love for her Redeemer gentle affection for
her relatives and modest regard for all her
neighbors and acquaintances. For she knew that
E;rrl, fofn >,bph iS hut for q mOmant work.
eth for us far more exceeding and eternal weight
of glory"
Abhorring that which was evil; cleaving to
that which was good not slothful in business;
fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in
hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant
in prayer given to hospitality; she ''reckoned
that the sufferings of this present time are not
worthy to be compared with the glory that shall
"lving God," frowning upon the vain levities of
the world, "giving no offence in anything she
was an ornament in the sphere of her sex, an ex-
ample in the role of Christians, and an enviable
pattern to this dying Pharisaical wo1ld.
The home, so lately made cheerful and happy
by her presence, from which she moved for a
time, now that she has left for eternity-for that
building of God, "not made with hands, eter-
nal in the heavens''-does. surely look desolate,
and every one that passeth is a mourner. Nor is
the cloud from which this drenching rain of sor
row descends, confined to the spot where the cold
homestead" sighs for the missing one. 1t spreads
over large Clrcle OF relatives, 1rlenQS ana aC-
uuantances, to whom she was endeared by those
ties which virtuous worth alone can form and
mature; and by those amable qualities which
impart to the female character it's greatest excel
lence and beauty.
"None knew her but to love her."
"NOne named her but to praise her."
The sutferings she endured on her death-bed
were severe indeed but the Hand from which
they came, fully sustained her under them and
caused them to be instrumental in quckening her
faith into the most vigorous exercise. Christ was
all in all to her in this dark hour of her trialthe
fountain of her SOULS peace-the theme of her
converSation-the sun that shone in brightness
upon the prospect now opening before her, and
awakened in her bosom the incipient joys of
heaven.
When apparently near her departure, when
ruthless death had already laid his icy hand upon
her and angel spirits hovered around to bear her
freed spirit to the bosom of its God-even in these
last moments, she wore upon her feature calm
ness and placid serenity, common to none save
those who are at rest, having attended to those
things that "make for our peace In reply to
the question: if she thought she would get better,
she said "No! no! I am done here. 1 want
you all to 90 to church more Everybody has to
die sooner or later. This world is not all. I'll
soon be in another and better world. Do the
best you can, all Of you."
In few more hours we realized that our dear
sister was no more; her happy soul was released
from its suffering tenement and ushered into ev-
erlastng rest in the Kingdom Of God.
"Lifes duty done, as sinks the clay,
Light from It's load the spirit flies,
While heaven and earth combine to say,
How blest the righteous, when she dies