Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1881-11-17
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NORRlS-On the 2otn uay Oh Septl III
Der, 1881, at the residence of her father,
Mr.. B. C. Bryan, in Edgefield village, S.
c., the spirit of ANNIE LAURIE, wife OF
L. J. Norris. ESQ.,, winged it's upward
flight to the home of Gods Saints.
MRS. NORRIS was born March lst,
1858, baptized Oct. 1st, 1872, by Rev.
Luther Gwaltney, and married NOvem-
ber 18th, 1880.
To those who knew ANNIE LAURIE, 1t
is needless for the writer to enumerate
the many virtues which crowned her life
and made it so sweet and pure. In their
hearts are enshrined those virtues. The
town in which she lived is fragrant with
the memories of her just life, and to name
her is but to awaken in the hearts Of her
acnuaintances feelings Of esteem and
love.
1t is TO he hoped that the recital of her
noble qualities of soul will attract the at
ntion of the reader who knew her not,
and leave on his heart a holy influence
that will ennoble aNd bless the life.
At the early age of II years ANNE
LAURIE yiel,led u,the teuder-woaings Of
the shirt OF God. and consecraled her
Young heart and all its affections to the
service of that Master whom she ever
afterwards delighted TO honor by con-
sistent walk and an untiring devotion.
It can he said OF her, az it can be said of
but few others, that she adhered strictly,
not ONLY to the laws Of Revealed Truth,
but to the laws of the Church orGaniZa-
ton TO which she belonged, and never
did she regard her obligations to her
church as of trivial import, but as some
thing weighty and binding.
Truly her consistency was a jewel of
purest water. And then her home life
was beautiful She was the ministering
angel of the household, waiting for long
years through night and day, by the bed
side of her sick mother, uncomplaininy
in her tireless attention, sacrificing on
the .lltar Of filial devotion her own
health of body, and winning for herself,
as a rich legacy Of honor, the benediction
of that mother as she bade the faithful
daughter farewell.
A faithful daughter, she made faith
ful wife. In no better way can her fldel-
ity to her husband be shown, than by
the record which that husband himself
gives Of that fidelity. In conversation
with the writer, the bereaved husband
said 'Sir, her name suggests to me
magnanimtty Of character, purity, and
all that is trSe, and noble and Christian
Ike"
For devotion 70 mother, fidelity to
principle, strong affection to husband,
faith in God. and patience in atIliction, il
is hard to find her equaA-impossib to
find her superior. With all these sterl
ing traits Of character, a becoming mod
esty crowned her gentle life, aud made
II If possible. even more beautifn. The
world is better that ANNIE LApRIE
BRYAN has lived in it, and happy, thrice
hanpy the home that has been sanctified
by he1 presence. Thank God for such
life!. AS beautiful as was her life, her
death was equally beautiful. Tho writer
considers himself highly privileged
that he was permitted, yea, requested, to
witness the scene Of triumph as the ex-
ultant spirit prepared for its final de-
| parture from the vain things of earth.
| The room in which ANNIE LAURIE died
is yerv sacred. The sainted mother sui-
fered and died there; and the songs OF
the diving mother and child have left in
| that holy room, harmonies and melodies
akin to those sung by Heavens redeem
| ed hosts.
the soul of the much loved daughter and
wife passed quietly away, and LETT he
hind but its tenement house OF clay,
which loving hands bore tenderly to it's
last resting place by the side of dear
ones rone before. All day Sunday on
which she died, she talked of Jesus and
his love. Passage after passage OF Scrip
ture. and hymn after hymn were re-
heated. She also sang several hymns
| through during the day, among which
we're. "Oh, how I love Jesus;f Come
Thou Fount of Every Blessing" "Jesus.
lI Love Thy Charming Name" and
nWaitinr i and watching for Me-" Hel
conversation, too, was Of the Heaven te
which she was Fastening. Turning once
To the writer, she said: "Oh, how | sui
fer! how suffer- And then in little
while: "But I am willing TO suffer
Jesus suffered for me" Oh, noble sen
timent! even at the last, in the very
agony { death, patient and unseliish IL
her devotion.
ANNIE LAURIE is not dead, but sleep
eth. Let us stop awhile and drop tea
at her grave, and then let US break iortl
into singing al the happy thought tina
she is waiting on the bosom OF Ioo 10
us to come. g.
'sThere relnaineth, therefore, rest lo
the people Of Cod" a..
"They shall not wander from tha
blessed way;
Nor heat. nor cold, nor weariness, no
sin,
Nor anv clouds in that eternal day,
Trouble them more VINO once nave e'
tered in;
But all is rest IN them whose world
worn feet
Press the cool smoothness of the go
den street.
Another little bud plucked from tn tn
r sten-another little life gone out. In
Hr IN. G z and Mrs. G. WArre