Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1884-09-12
After all her pain and sorrow,
After all her countless woes,


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Aud lay down the heavy cross.
After all then came the sweetness,
After all then came the light,
After all she stands victorious.
Upon the Eternal heights.
Ready TO enter the beautiful city
whose builder and maker is God /;
ready for that perfect existence and
duties in measure with ii, purity and
holiness, peace and righteousness,
praise and glory are its features.
These were and are the requisites of
that new and better life, where she
now joins the loved, so recently gone
before; for hardly three brief months
had shed their dews Of sympathy
over her saddcncd heart and home,
widowed by the death Of her hus-
band, w. Howard Lryne, one Of the
noblest types of manhood, wose name
will stand an insperishable monu-
mcnt of truth, and honor in the mem
DRY of all who knew him best. This
noble pair had for thirty five years,
together climbed the steep and some
times thorny hill of life. lie smooth
ing The way by his strong arm of en-
ergy and indOmitablc force of will
power, that tossed every stone tdif-
ilculty into the waves which started
upon the beach realizing alum liant
rewards as they rolled in, and burst
upon the school of achievement. She
like the sweet singer of Isreal, pour
ing out her life in psalms of prayer.
a life gushing with sympathizingex-
preston, soul strong in its strength
caught from the light of faith in God 5
own beautiful promises; She never
ceased to emulate the beautiful lesson
taught by Abralam's sacrifice. and
when they had reached the summit
of liic's slopc,nust as the shadows
wero falling into the cast, then it
was that her prayers were answered,
then the silent watchiul influence,
was felt and dill'used into every de-
partmcnt of his inner life, and his
soul in the fulness of its joy cried
out, "Glory TO God in tho highest on
Earth, peace and good will to men,
Thus the two stood at last like Moses
upon Pisgah's heights viewing the
promised green lying bright in the
di'tantc. But the echo Of sighs from
living hearts calls us from the mound
cd homes of the peaceful dead, and
we find ourselves once again at the
threshold af Grassmere, the deserted
yet beautiful home of the deceased,
where their children, lone Brother
and Sister, sit in the shadow of grief,
and gloom of mourning. Our SYM
pathy is thcirs--their grief shall be
ours, our tears shall fall and mingle
with theirs over the fountain ofwhich
rainbows may yet play, for in due
time its troubled waters will be
calmel by the whisper. "Peace be
STILL" And now dear friends just
as you have arrived at the parting g
of the ways, close by which flows the
Rubicon of your future destiny, you
for the first time realize "No fathers
strong arm steers tho boat. No
mothers smile of love throws sun
shine over the way" But alone with
hope and youth, brave young hearts
are strong. You must stand like
Caesars, ready to sail the seas with
Trust and God, ready to aspire to,
emulate the lofty example of your
kindred dead, and ere the noon hour
has struck, something to your honor
will have been accomplished. Though
you may not catch the eye of the
world yet the .rarest, sweetest praise
of all, will be the remembrance of u
mothers approving smile as upon
your heads her hands rested in benc-
diction, while lips breathed God
bless you" And in the beautiful
hereafter the glorious consummation
of the highest, noblest ambition will
be rewarded by the "Giver of every
oood and ocrfnct Gift" d. 6.