The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1877-08-10
IN MEM0RIhM.

| l.lmbeIt was delivered at Der grave, m
Golden, H., Saturday, August tth, 1877,
by Mrs. NJ. 4, Cutler;
LIST Corinthians, 18th chapt,, II verse,
ut is sown u natural body II Is raised 4
spiritual body
In this faith, we plant this beloved one
by the side OF her eldest sister, whose
mortal remains have slept Tor nearly
eleven years in this garden OF our Lord.
What though the spirit OF the sister
WHO went before, has cast no shadows
over the pathway, has not yisibIy met
Us in this secluded garden as did
! the Lord the weeping Mary,
yet we as truly believe that
the spiritual body has terminated and
sprung upward into exquisite lie and
beauty, as that her sacred dust was laid
here, to slumbcr till the laws OF transfer.
nation should send it forth in yiolets
and daisies, fragrant blossoms, that
make earth more beautiful and glad.
| eve turn the pages that they read
| Their written words we lingcr DER,
But in the sun they cast no shade
| No step IS on the conscious floor.
| Yet love will dream and faith will trust,
tsince Heyho knows our ne DIS, is just,
That som how, somewhere, met We must.
| Alas for him who never sees
The stars shine through his cypress trees
Who hopeless, lays his dead away,
Nor look 10 see the breaking day
Across the nDurniut marble ulay,'
"Who hath not learned, IN hours Of faith,
The truth 10 hesh and sense unknown
That If: IS ever lord ol death.
And love can never lose its own
And in this faith we bring, that she
may sleep beside her with the lily Of
purity III her hand, the youngest Of the
three sisters that made the northern
home 50 warm and tender with thell
love.
Transplautcd to this more genial cline
the little one grew up to maiden-hooC
like a carefully tended flower; but no
vigilance could shield her from the terri
Die scOurge OF disease. How we battleC
with the angel Of death, who, tor weary
weeks assalled her; till at last, like
Jacob, We prevailed. Then We teareC
that evan in our victory we had been
halt ballled. and the life so wrested from
destruction, would be disabled and
hating.
But all our fears had been hushed to
rest, as we saw again the earnest pur-
pose, the ready skillful hand and the
elastic step, and we had prophesied years
of blessed life in the midst OF the loving
and beloved. But sudden bolt ha;
fallen, and the hopes Of her dear ones lie
withered.
What can we say to these stricken one;
to make their sorrow less, or to lighter
one pang OF natural grief;
is something to feel that the bright
intelligence remained unclouded almosltt
the end. that she knew that she was go
inr home. and realized the tender love
tnat waited her in that land OF glory
whittier her eldest sister had gone before
her, 1t is something TO feel that there IS
no sorrow laid up in store tor her after
life: TO vanishing in stern reality OF Inc
poetic dreams OF her ever sensitive im
aglniug; that she is sheltered Tor ever
more ia the arm; Of eternal love anC
tenderness. Your faith thus holds The
key that opens to your vision somewhat
of celestial life, and will say with the
poet, day after day we think what she
is doing,
DAY after day, we think what she /, dong
In those bright realms ofair,
Year after year, her tender step pursuing,
Behold her, grown more fair,
And though attimes, impetous with emotion
Ana anguish long suppressed,
The heart heaves moaning
That cannot be at rest.
| NeWlll be patient and assuage the feeling
We may not wholly stay
In silence sancttfying. not cOncealing,
| The grief that must have WAY "
The beautiful remains that we are
now about 10 commit TO the earth. In
confident hope, were lately animated by
the spirit OF Nettie A. Limbert, born il
R!pon, Wisconsin, June Goth, 1857 to
John Limbert and Sarah A., his wife
When about years OF age, she removed
with her parents 10 Golden, where they
have since held their home, in which
amid rocks and trees, and nature.
sweetest ministrations, the precociou,
child read and played and nursed her
tender IA
She found here the sweet and cndur
ing friendship that will make her los,
so deeply felt by the young people o
this vicinity, even though for some year
past she had resided in Cairo: there too
she found most pleasant companonshi,
with school mates and associates, who
will not soon forget the gentle frient
and cheerful companion. These lesson
of mortality fall sharply on the hearts O
the young. They recoil from the sud
den and great change, which cuts of al
the plans of life, while the aged wait auC
wonder that the call was not for them.
How gayly would her young friend
have ROBBED their companion for brida
with all the mystery of life yet unfolde,
before her. For this more perfect mar
rage Of the soul to Lite and Love the
have only tears and means, because the,