Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-11-25
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 1 The following are tae remarks de-
 iversd by Rev. Albert Evison at the
 funeral services of the late Mrs.
 Brooks:
 We have met today to pay our
 last ssd respects to the memory of
 another friend who, with the innu-
 msrsble throng who have lived and
 died, has gone the way of all the earth.
 Nay c. Brooks, the beloved wife of our esteemed fellow citizen, Judge Brooka is with us no more. As re- gently e Saturday last Mrs. Brooks
 was out whiting friends in the center
 of town. On returning to her homo
 On Saturday evening she was taken
 with an attack of what proved to be
 bronchitia The sttsck proved fatal
 end Nrs. Brooks breathed her last
 on "Wednesday of the present week.
 The life of the departed was ause-
 ful life. tcommsncedi in Lancaster,
 Penn, about the year lSS6 In the year 1888 the departed came into this community e the wife of an army surgeon, Dr. Chas. Leib, who died in the year 1865. Two years later, in 1887, the departed entered into the bond of mstrimony with our pssssnt hersaved brother; O that for twenty-four yeazs she and our brother lived together to be blessing to those around them. say lived to bs . blessing. For certainly M1. Brooks proved herself . blessing. Being . consistent member of the godly Norsvian church she ever sought to show forth the spirit of her msstef, Jesus Chsist. Nor were her e6orts in this direction void of success, for one and all of those who have known her writs in the praise of her goodness. One gentleman who has long known the deceased remarked that xrA Brooks came here in '6S, and that when such . woman e she was taken away every one would feel her absence.
 The departed has always been in- terested in church work in the city. She might be called one of the pio- nesrs of the cross. For when the irst house of worship (that of the Methodist Church South) was erect d, no other one, with the possible exception of the pastor) did % much Tor the enterprise e she. She has syer been loyal to that church, at- its services when . pastor was with the church.
 Bsing proficient in music she used her talent in the Lords service, gathering together such of the zsntlemen a could sing (resident adies st that time being few) and aboring with them to develop their .alents.
 But mors in private than in public , was the influence of the departed 'slt. It is said that Mrs. Brooks has performed moro charitable deeds han any one other persons in Presa ,ott. And yet she carefully avoided Basket after basket has he pscksd and distributed under the ,over of the shadows of evening, no ,ue but the recipients of her kind- aesses being aware of her sets of ovs. Shs strove to exemplity the ~Let not thy left hand Enow what thy right hand doeth." Because of her goodness to her many friends and scquaintsncss, she being lesd yet speaketh.
 All who hsve known the departed mourn her los. They who have Inown her best mourn her the most. Ind yet why should we mount The lepsrtsd hss entered into rest. She . at peace. No mors can care or ickness or sorrow affect her. She lwells where thsye are no moro tesrs nd no more signing. I would, leave with our bereaved mother, and with all of the sorrow- ng friends of ths departed, the vords of the Apostle Paul, found in lis Arst epistle to the Thessalonians, ouTth chaptes, thirteenth and four esnth vsrSes. Sorrow not, even a thers which have no hope. For if re believe that Jesus died and rose gain, even % them also which sleep . Jesus will God bring with him." Take the words with you. Ponder hem we'll. Drink deep of the com ort they afford. And may the Lord rant that you may each @ live that hs hope of meeting the departed nay not be in vain"