Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1891-11-07
In Memoriam.

On last Monday at IL o'clock all that
was mortal Of Nellie A. Todd, daughter
Of Chas and Mary S. Todd, was laid to
rest in the quiet "City Of the Dead" to
await the Resurrection Morn. Tor three
weeks she had been great sufferer with
typhoid fever, and on the quiet after
mood of Sabbath the Death Angel un-
loosed the casket, lifted the We, of
mortality. and the immortal spirit OF
Nellie passed into the realms of the
eternal, where God is, where sickness,
pain, nor death can never come.
She was born in Audubon county,
Iowa, August Goth. 1875, died November
LIST, 1891, aged l6 years. months and 2
days. She united with the Methodist
Episcopal Church in August Of 1888, Of
which church she lived faithful, con-
sistent member until her translation
from the church Militant to the church
Triumphant. She was converted under
:he preaching of Rev. Detwiller, an
evangelist Of the Methodist Church, and
had personal consciousness of Christ
as a personal Savior; this conviction
she retained until death brought her
into the divine presence of this personal
Christ. Her conversation with her
mother just few days before she be-
came unconscious, shows her abiding
faith and trust, in the blessed Christ,
The fond mother, anxious in regard to
her spiritual welfare, said to her:
"Nellie, do you love Jesus2" She ans
wered unhcsi tatingly, ayes, moth,r, and
| know that he loves me-" What preci-
Gus testimony to the religion of Jesus,
as the soul was trembling on the border
land of that country, of which, uninspir-
ed reason can give, not ray of light or
gleam Of hope, and without the revela-
ton Of God, is to us indeed an unknown,
unfathomable abyss of uncertainties,
but divine revelation lifts the veil Of
futurity, and discloses the fact that there
is life beyond. life of Immortality in
the eternity of God, and assures the soul,
that is full of faith and trust. that death
is only the relievement of mortality and
preparing it for the fuller revelations of
the holiness, goodness, and meccy of
God in his eternal infinitude. This was
the experience of this disciple of the
Master, death had no terror, confidently
she awaited his appearing.
Why it is that the young life. so full
ofpromise, should be thus cut short, in
its earthly existence, is beyond the realm
of our conception. "For now we see
through glass darky." We cannot look
into the ways of the Infinite. "For his
ways are high aboye our ways GJd!'
dealings with the children of men, are
indeed mysterious. The mind of man
is bound mp with degree of finiteness
that forbids his peering into the future,
and into the realms of the Infinite, and
must be satisfied with the present, and
with whatever revelation that pleaseth
Himself to grant unto us, calmly trust
ing that He in his own good time will
reveal to us the purpose of his provi-
dence, believing that bye and bye we
shall "see face to face" and though
"now we know only in part" "then we
shall know even as we are known
Much sympathy and respect was
shown the deceased. The public school,
of which she was loved pupil, attended
the funeral service in body, and with
tears placed their floral offerings
upon her casket in loving remembrance.
The funeral service was conducted by
Rev. d. w. Tracy of the NJ. E. Church.
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