The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-12-28
DaArn or sIIss. Z. n. FonDE.

Ars. Louisa foF4e, vile OF 4 Al Eorde,
this life at The family residence
on Congress street, al half past i o'clock
Thursday night, aged % years aud
The people of this community were
not wholly unpreDared for The sorrowfui
intelligence OF the demise OF the subject
at this notice, which spread rapidly
throughout the city Friday For
some days preceding The mournful end,
her condition " a. such as to excite the
gravest approximations OF those in stten-
dance at her bedside, and this deep
anxiety was shared 10 veryegeneral ex-
tent among vile circle Of friends and
scquaintances who knew and loved her
About a week since she gave birth 10
3 daughter. and by one OF those mys
terious proFidences which We cannot
faihom but may not squestion, the bud
survives while the parent stem has been
withered by the icy breath of the dark
death angel which carries such cruel
desolation in its flight.
The untimely death OF Mrs. Forde is
one of those terrible dispensations which
put TO the severest test the faith Of the
most loyal subjects of the King who
dOeth all things well and ruleIh in
wisdom and righteousness. When the
fierce spirit of the glass and scythe reaps
the flowers which spring in tender
beauty amid the bearded grain, there
steals into the hearts of those who bend
over Tiny collins and whose tears fall in
10 little graves the sweet consolation
that their treasures have been removed
forever beyond the reach of dust and de.
cay, and that the untried feet which new
er learned to tread the thorny paths of
sin will walk forever more the tesselat-
ed streets of gold and find the green pas
lures which spring in supernal beauty
and verdure beside the still waters;
when those who have come a leng way
on life's highway. languish and grow
wesry and lie down to
rest, We sorrow, but not with
out the blessed assurance hat death
brings sWeetsrelief TO those who have
grown faint in bearing the heat and
burden of the day, and that the aged
servant who has wrought faithfully in
the vineyard throughout thevshining
hours, welcomes the nightfall as the
sweet -harbinger of rest and peace
But when the faithful wife, the loving
mother, the helpful friend, the wise
counsellor and guide, is summoned
hence, as in this case, in the full pos
session and exercise of her well-season-
ed powers, the hearts stricken by the
blow can only wait in silence until
the crushing anguish which follows IN
the wake OF fresh. bereavement gives
place TO that more, subdued form of grief
which time EgraciousiY Ebrings. and
though the medium of which we may
see, though it Ike through binding tears,
the hand that hath chastened us for cur
good.
True it is that death forever stills the
voice that vas wont to fall like music
upon the eur that drank in its words OF
cheer and encouragement; 1t stays the
hand in IFS offices of love, and arrests the
feet as they turn on errands of love and
ministrations of mercy; but love can live
long upon remembrance. There is q
voice from the tomb that is more potent
to charm than the songs of the
living, and the memory of the dead,
when hallowed by those recollections
which attach TO pure lives and peaceful
deaths, rises from the grave like holy
flame to illuminate and sanctify the
heart of the survivor. This precious
legacy the deceased leaves to her strick-
en- husband and his mOtherless child
rem. The example of life adorned by
all the sweet attributes of a noble Chris
tan woman will survive the tabernacle
of clay which enshrined her spirit, and
strengthen.the sorrowing family whose
light and joy has gone out, to take up
the burdens which are imposed by God,
and carry them on even with the same
spirit of patience and love with which
she performed all the duties of her USE
fuI life.
The deceased was born at Marion,
Ohio, on the 18th of October, 1858. In
the fall of 1871 she removed to Empo-
ria with her father, S. Tillotson, and was
married to E. NJ. Forde On the list of
September, 1875. The union was blessed
by two children, Jessie in her sixth year,
and babe born on the 18th of the pres
ent month. The poignant grief OF the
sorrowiDg husband and orphan daugh-
ter is shared Shy the father of the
deceased and her sister, Mrs L.
V. Hogue, both of whom re-
side In this city.
Mrs. FOrde united, in early
childhood with the NJ. E.
church, and the consistent charac-
ter of her daily walk and conversation,
showed that her profession was ground
ed upon an unfaltering iailh which en-
nobled and refined her life, and soothed
and sustained her in the dread hour Of
dissolution. May the sweet trust which
was TO her in all times of trial as the
shadow of great rock in a weary land,
prove potent to uphold IN the fierce or
deal through which they are passing
those who mourn loss which Can never
be repaired.