The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1890-02-13
MRS. DEAN STABLER.

Another old settler has gone to herrest.
She died Saturday the 9Th inst. The
primary cause of her death wasla grippe.
She was taken sick very suddenly, and
from the first there was little hope,
though a day or two before her death
she became easier and the physician was
encouraged to think that there was some
likelihood OF recovery. But her age was
against her, and Saturday morning she
was taken with very violent pains, which
lasted about four hours. She bee anne
easier in the afternoon, and at about g.
o'clock passed peacefully away. Mrs
Stabler had lived here for many years,
being driven here with her family from
her home at Grove Lake by the Indians
at the time of the great Indian outbreak
OF 1862. MIR. and Mrs. Stabler's house
was thoroughly ransacked at that time
and they determined then never to return
to it but to stay at Sank Centre. They
have resided here ever since.
Mrs. Stabler was native of England,
being born at Woodhouse, Leeds, Sep
TENDER 10, 1917, and was therefore at
the time of her death over sevenry-two
years of age. At an early age she united
with the church OF England, of which she
was member until her marriage Janu-
airy Z. 1871, shortly after which she
joined the Methodist church of which Mr.
Stabler was a member. She came to
America with her husband and children
in the fall of 1s4S. For some twelve
years they resided in Maine, and then
came to Minnesota.
Mrs. Stabler was the mother of eight
children, three of whom died in CHI l.
hood. She had the great pleasure OF
having all the remaining five with her
during her last illness.
Mrs. Stabler had sweet, implicit faith
in her Savior. Friday night she called
all her family around her and offered
prayer to God for each member separate
ly. She asked what day it was, and
when told, she said: II will be there
(meaning heaven) Sunday"
At the time of her death she was a
member of the Congregational church of
this place. OF which indeed she and her
husband became members many years
ago. Her pastor, Rev. Chas. E. FL ,dgett
preached her funeral sermon from the
text "Our light affection which is but for
moment, worketh for us far more ex-
ceeding and eternal weight of glory"
ii Cor. w: II. This was one of her dear
est texts. Just a few days before her
death she said to her husband, speaking
with difficulty and pointing upward:
There is far more exceeding and eter-
nal weight of glory"
Oh what grand life to have lived!
What glorious death!
What difference between such death
and that of the infdel. One going into
everlasting glory, the other into black
ness of darkness.
''Oh. what is this splendor that bea ms on
me now,
This beautiful sunrise that dawns on my
soul,
While faint and far-ofr land and sea lie
below,
And under my feet the huge golden clou DIS
roll?
See! forth from the gates, like bridal
array,
Come the princess Of heaven, how bravely
they shine!
Ills TO welcome the stranger, TO show me
the way,
And tell me that all see around me is
mine"
"But words may not tell of tie vision of
With its wolshipful seeming. Its marvel
Gus fires;
Where the soul is at large, where its SOL
row sha i cease,
And the gift has outbiLden its boldest de.
sireS"
"My God! and 1t was but an hour ago
That lay on q bed OF unbearable pains:
All was cheerless around me, all weeping
and woe;
Now the walling is changed to angelical
strains"
because have served Thee, were LIES
PLEASURES all lost?
Was it gloom pain or bloLd that won hea-
ven for me?
Oh. no! one enjoyment alone could life
boast,
And that, dearest Lord, was my service of
Thee"
81 had hardly 10 give; twas enough to re-
ceive,
Only not to Impede the sweet grace from
above;
AMI. this first hour in heaven, can hardly
believe,
Is so great a reward for so little love-"