The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1889-06-26
OBITUARY.

DIED. Mrs. Mary Emma Clark, at
Tionesta, Pa, on June %, 1889, aged
30 years, II months, and Is days.
Mrs. Clark's maiden name was
Baker. She was born near West
Freedom, Clarion Co., Pa, where her
parents still reside. Four sisters and
two brothers survive her. In the
Spring of 1883 she came first to Tio.
nesta, and has since been resident
here. April 26, 1883, she was welded
to P. M. Clark, Esq, Of this place.
On Saturday last, as recorded above,
she died, and the angel Of death led
away to the glories of the unseen
world one of Gods own, dearly loved
and respected while living by all those
who now mourn her death. On Sun.
day afternoon following her death, at
B o'clock, Rev. G. G. Rumberger, as.
sisted by Rev. j. V. McAninch, beld
services at her residence where her
body lay, and the corpse was carried
to the Odd Fellows Cemetery, where
it was laid away to await the summons
to new life, ,-one in which the ties
of earth so rudely sundered shall be
knit together again never more to be
broken. In the evening at the M. E.
Church, Rev. Rumberger preached
the funeral sermon. The many who
followed the body to the cemetery, the
large congregation that filled all the
available space in the church to listen
to the sermon, is only one of the many
testimonials Of the high esteem in
which the deceased was held By all.
Mrs. Clark was remarkable for those
qualities that make woman wonanly.
In her life one saw, free from ostenta.
tion, the Christian graces exemplifed.
When between IL and 13 years of age
she was converted under, and united
with the M. E. Church, aud up to the
time of her death was a consistent
member Of the same. She made a
good profession and proved her right
to it. She built her life on the prin.
ciples of Christianity, and reduced its
precepts to practice, exhibiting as a
result life beautiful in its consistency,
sweet in its purity, strong in its steadi-
ness, and powerful in its goodness.
She loved God and her fellow Great.
ures. She served Him and was helpful
to them. She had faith in God, and
faith in His creatures. She had faith
in Him for them, and her idea and
ideal of human life was that it is an
opportunity for doing good that ought
not to be neglected. She never com.
promised with wrong, but such was
the spirit in which she presented the
claims Of right that she did not repel
through the antagonism of right to
wrong, but won through the superior
claims Of right. She was modest and
unassuming, but always faithful to The
call of duty.
Such people don't die. They live
to show what life is and ought to be.
They 60 away leaving memory that
is beautiful, an example that is blessed,
and an influence that lifts others up
to higher plane of living. "They
rest from their labor and their works
do follow them. saith the Lord" When
they are taken away they are not
merely absent; they are missed. No
body else comes to fill the place they
leave vacant. II remains sacred to
them alone and forever; and always,
1--WE sigh for the touch of vanished hand,
For the sound of voice that is STILL"
She filled the world she lived in, not
leaving her work for another to do
and her world was better because she
lived 10 it.
All unite in extending their sympa,
thy to her friends and to the bereaved
husband, whose home is thus made
desolate after short year of welded
life, made happy by wife who full
filled all her household aud wifely
duties as only good woman can.