The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-11
IN MEMORIAM.


Tenn, Mrs. Annie +. Campbell, wife of
Prof. G. w. Campbell and daughter
Mr.. j. G. Hannah, aged 20 years, Z
months and ii days.
Another link in the golden chain that
binds our hearts together has been
| broken; another sweet Christian wo-
man has passed through the pearly
gates and walks the golden pavements;
another star which shone so brilliantly
in the galaxy of our social circle, filling
our hearts with its sweet holy radiance,
making our lives purer and better for
its gentle influence, has been trans
ferred to a Sayior's glittering crewn.
CHOW young, how good, how beautiful she
fellp'
Here was indeed grand, a beautiful,
a glorious lifel How sad that life so
rich, so sweet, in its morning dews
should die ere it was full blown. We
have known her intimately through
life, and her life was as full OF noble
deeds and kind words as the blue heaV-
ems are with the ever laughing, twink
ling stars. we knew her as a school
girl. By her sweet disposition, her
winning ways, she endeared herself to
all of her schoolmates.
She was pupil of Elder Il. Tanning,
president of Hope Institute, from which
she graduated, reading the valedictory.
She obeyed Christ in the sweet fresh
ness of life's morning, and on a calm
moonlit night in the spring of 1873 she
was buried with Him in baptism in the
baptismal font at Hope Institute, Elder
T. Tanning performing for her this
holy rite.
She was united in marriage in the
September following to Mr.. Campbell,
whom she loved fondly and with whom
she lived happily till her bright spirit
was waited by angels homeward. She
was indeed a helpmeet TO him, for heart
beating in unison with heart, sympathy
linked with sympathy, affection knitted
into affection, she made his life one
golden success.
She taught in South Kentucky Col
lege and Lynnville Academy with much
success and won the love of associate
teachers and pupils. Her Sunday school
work began with that noble band of
workers in the Christian Church in
Hopkinsville, KY, and was continued
with necessary intervals till she grew
| too feeble to attend church. Each
Lords Day morning, whether beautiful
or gloomy, found her at her accus-
toned place with a group of children
around her listening eagerly TO the les
sons of truth that fell in pearly drops
| from her lips. In their youthful hearts
she has soWn seed that will spring up
and bear eternal fruitage. Oh, how
deeply will we feel her loss in our Sun
day school and Church. Yet we feel
that she has only Joined the great Sab
bath school above, where are pleasures
ever more and joys immortal As eterni-
ty. Aboat seven months age consump-
! ton, that most fatal and painful OF dis
eases, claimed her for its victim, and fer
months the sands of life gradually vast
ed away. For weeks before her death
she suffered intensely, yet, possessed of
an unfaltering faith, she bore IL all pa
tiently, remaining ever gentle, sweet
and loving. Though her entire life
was one of peace, love and beauty, her
last moments on earth, so full of tri-
umph, were her brightest, and the
prayer that fioated from her dying lips
and the blessed assurance OF eternal
resi- with the redeemed will be treas
ured by her surviving friends as pre-
cious legacies. When the star of life
was about to sink to rest on the silent
river of eternity and loved ones over
whelmed with grief were gathered
around her bedside, she exclaimed,
'There's somebody with me. Who's
that with ?" and when her grief
l walk through the valley of the shad-
ow of death, will fear no evil, for
Thou art with me, Thy rod and Thy
staff they comfort me-" she instantly
replied, "That's who it is then, that's
who it is. Jesus is not far of. Yes,
am going home to live with Jesus"
"Jesus lover Of my soul,
Let me 70 Thy bosom fly"
HTake me, Lord; take me now" were
among her last words ere her pure
spirit winged its flight. That Savior
whom she loved and with whom she
walked this life, had come to receive her
into His arms, and how sweetly does
she sleepi She leaves a devoted hus-
band, two sweet little girls who will
never know a mothers love, a mothers
prayers, doting father and heart
broken mother, two brothers and host
of friends and relatives to mourn her
| loss. Yet we do not mourn as those
who have no hope. We feel that she is
now in the "Christian's home in glory"
and when ends life's transient dream,
we shall meet her on the elysian shores
of the bright forever In the 'summer
land of song" What glorious hope
What a grand and glorious meeting will
that bel And as one by one the death
angel watts her loYed ones home may
they be prepared to meet her in that
glorious. home to which she has only
gone before. Yes, our dear Annie has
gone.
"Gone whore the tide of morning ever flows;
Gone where the pulse Of song Is ever high;
Gone, gone where beauty immemorial blows
Its fragrance Gross the sky.
Beyond the gates Of music, and beyond
The gates Of light she bears her harp along,
u II lorya he 10 nm
Its golden threads Of song"
She is gone.
"But weep not DER the tomb,
Or plant with frail flowers the sod;
There is rest among the roses too sweet
And life where the lilies sternally bloom,
In the balm breathing gardens Of God"
By ONE Who LOVED HER.
At meeting Of the Sunday school Of
the Christian Church Of Lynnvllle,
Giles county, Tenn, Aug. 3lst, 1879,
the following pream bic and resolutions
were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, In the Providence of God,
Mrs. Annie Campbell, the wife Of Elder
G.. W. Campbell, has been removed by
the hand of death /; therefore,
Resolved, That we recognize In her
an exemplary member Of society, a tru-
ly devoted Christian, and beloved by
all.
Resolved, That we sympathize with
the friends of the deceased in the loss Of
one who was pre-eminently mild and
social in the private circle, wise and
discreet in her public walk, ant hose
virtues were worthy of being iiDal, -
by all who knew her.
Resolved, That the proceedings Of
this meeting be published in the Gospel
Advocate and PULASKI CITIZEN.
&C. GIBBS, Sup't.
WM. LOCKE, Sec'y.
| C. IL IsAACs,