The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1879-01-24
Elizabeth II. Scarf.

On the morning of January 18Th, at O'Clock,
near Taylor, Hartford county, Md, Mrs. ELF
ABETH Fl. SCARFF, wife OF Joshua Scarf,
ESD aged 81 years and 6 months.
The subject of this notice was born in Balti
more county, but when married she moved to
Hartford county, and lived therein until her
death Many years ago the subject of her per-
sonal responsibility to her Maker was brought
to her mind, and she became the subject of con
verting grace and united with the Methodist
Episcopal Church, of which for many years she
was most worthy member Her very decided
conviction of right and a constant expression of
the same in her life gave to her Christian char
acter most active and positive form. While
not demonstrative as Christian or as q friend
yet she ever gave the most tangible evidences of
sincere friendship and genuine goodness, so that
the most indifferent friend and fault-findng
Christian could not place the least stigma upon
her character, If love for all and manifest
disposition to live in peace with all are evidences
Of the divine life, then she Was beyond all doubt
one of Gods own for she not only shrank from
social arrangements but cndeavored to heal diff
fcullies, and that without The sacrifice of one
OF the principles that 60 to make up the charac-
ter OF "a good woman" One who knew her
long and well remarked to the writer, 81 never
knew her TO say one unkind word about her
neighbor'-an eXemplification of-"By this shall
all men know that ye are my disciples, If We
have love one for another
A few days before her death large number of
friends gathered at her home to witness the
marriage of one of her daughters. Little did we
dream that one who was there deeply interested
i'll the even, was so soon to pass over the gulf
of death; and the hen hoppy daughter who was
not even thinking of woe, was 10 return so soon
from her new home to see her mother in her
coffin. She is gone-not forever; but only be.
fore us. When we cross tue same stream we
will be in the same lovely land. We will great
ly miss her, yet she has left behind her the
mightiest power on earth--a good name. She
will be helping us to live long after the grave
worm has consumed her mortal parts. We will
think of her in hours of gloom, aud how she
realized the presence of God to conf TT. We,
too, will look to her God. Though dead, vet
speaketh" Her children will think of her life
as having been spent for their good. As q
the elements of sincerity. As Christian we
will ever remember her life as an embodiment
of "Charty suffereth long and is kind"
"When YEARLY we wander asking
OF earth and heaven where Is She
Beneath whose smile We once lay basking
But now alas we long to seeP
"Hope still lifts her radiant finger,
Pointing to the eternal home,
Upon whose portals yet she fingers
Looking back for us to come.
'Alas alas doth hope deceive us?
Shall riendship--love--shal all those ties
That bind moment and then leave us,
Be found again where nothing diesg
ooh If no other boon were given
To keep our hearts from wrong and stain, |
Who would not try to meet in Heaven,
Where all we love shall live again"
j. D. NJ.