Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-01-11
DEATHS SAD D0INGS.

ana Saiile wilson, aged III years.
Dec. IL, Charlie, son of John l.. aud
Sallie Wilson, aged years.
Dec. 26, Florence, second daughter
of John l.. and Sallie Wilson, aged 5
years.
Dec. q, Cora, eldest daughter of
John l.. and Sallie Wilson, aged 9
years.
Dec. 80, Freddie, son of John l..
and Sallie Wilson, aged 8 years.
Thus in less than three short weeks
have all five of these bright, lovely
children of intelligent, interesting ages
been taken from the arms of the same
fond parents. Never has it been my
sad privilege before, to follow in SO
short time so many little loved ones
from the same household to the silent
grave.
1t was, think, the saddest sight /
have ever seen, the parents Of these
dear children following them TO the
grave, in such rapid succession. moan
ing disconsolately ever over the dead,
and turning away from the precious
sleeping dust, returning to their desc
late home, but to find the shadow of
death brooding over it! II was
enough to touch the hardest heart.
This writer knows that there were
some, whose hearts bled for them in
these hours of unutterable woe! May
this comfort the freshly bleeding
hearts of the parents! But o! what
shall adequately comfort them? Wha,
shall fill the aching void within OF
satisfy the yearning of their hearts
for their children? How they will
miss them! The family circle, no,
only broken but more than half gone!
o God do thou comfort them! Thou
>nly canst shew them thy glory!
Give them glimpse of the sinless,
fearless, deathless life of their glorifi-
ed ones! And as their little children
have gone into the heavenly world,
o, bring the parents, by thine minis
try and deaths, into the spiritual
world, that they may be near to them.s
For d" One family we dwell in Him,
One Church above, beneath, ~
Though now divided by the stream,
Fhe narrow stream of DEATH"
The faces of these dear children were
lovely in death.
Gently, the bright lids were droop-
ingly laid,
DER the spirit.lit eyes where affection
lad played"
The collins, furnished by Mr..
Brown, did honor to the undertaken,
and evinced the love that would spar.
TAO expense in the last offices of kind
ness. to dear departed child. They
were beautiful. And the rites OF
scripture by loving hands. was in the
most beautiful part of the Cemetery
of the Old Stone Church, near Toma-
hawk Springs,
They rest sweet! All their suffer
ings are past. Death has set his dark
seal upon their hrows, but the sorrow
has vanquished death, and won new
jewels for his crown
"And they shall be mine, saith the
Lord of Hosts, in that day when I
make up my jewels"
Dear little Cora, how my heart was
touched by her love and grief at the
eldest brothers. burial. AS they put
the lid over the coffin in the grave
she said so piteously, 40, my darling
brother Harry, will never see you
any moreH' Little did she or think
that she would SO soon meet him to
part no more.
She told her father not to grieve for
her, talked of Heaven, and died tri-
umphantly.
"Thou art gone, sweet youngster,
away, away.
Where all is bright through an endless
day,
All! and methought in thy soul-lit
eye
There was something caught from the
far-off sky
Too pure for earth. too gentle and
Mother! thy child is no stranger
there! !"
w. HEDGES.