The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-03-19
OUR BARNUMvILLE LETTER.
OBITUARY.

Mrs. Damaris Adams died at the home
of her daughter in Walpole, N. H., March
4th 1891. Mrs. Adams was the widow of
Abel Adams, and was born in London
derry, VT, Sept. Is, 1905, and at her
death was nearing her So birthday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Adams lived in Peru over
twenty years and then moved to London
derry, where Mr.. Adams died in 1865.
They were both members of the NJ +.
Church and gave constant evidence IN
word and deed that they were ''heirs" "of
God and joint heirs with Christ" Mrs.
Adams left children, 22 grandchildren,
and 8 great. grandchildren, and her life
through thirty-six years of widowhood
was marked with the strong faith, hope,
and patience of Christian mother and
was pleasantly passed with her children,
all of whom gladly welcomed her to their
homes and tenderly cared for her in sick
hess and in health, and in return received
from her wise Christian counsel and
motherly advice. Five of her children
stood around her deathbed. One was
absent on account of sickness and one was
too far away.
We are told that precious in the sight
of the Lord is the death of his saints"
and in view of this great and precious
truth, how instructive and suggestive
to us shall be the death of an aged Chris
tian mother; especially in this period OF
feverish excitement over the questions of
Intemperance, Woman Suffrage and Re-
ligious liberty, when we contemplate the
life of this pious mother, through eight
decades of years and down to the final
serene fsrwell to cluster of weeping
children, we cannot prevent imagination
from drawing two pictures for contem-
plation and study
The first is of land whose mothers
commit the care of their children to the
hireling whose sole interest is in the pay
for service, while the mother joins the
ranks of the Ripleys, the Newmans, the
Willards and the Van Kinks and under a
banner falsely inscribed "Reform" seek
prominence at the expense of pure mater
nal love and care of the young Immortal
soul.
The other picture is of a land whose
mothers patiently and nightly bend over
the resting place of the precious treasure
and with a countenance beaming with
faith and hope and voice inspired by the
angels which ''Do always behold the face
of my Father which is in Heaven" softly
siny of beautiful child whose cradle
was a manger and whose attendants were
langels.,
These pictures bring to mind the words
of the prophet relating to two similar
pictures, viz: "Woe to thee 0 land when
thy King is a child and thy Princes eat in
the morning Blessed art thou 0 lane
when thy king is the son of mobiles, anc
thy Princes eat in due season for strength
and not for drunkenness. The impress
sioffs made upon the young heart anc
mind by a mother of strong faith anc
hope and love may be imperceptible fol
many years but they are there, and soon
er or later, the wing of some guardian
angel will brush away the CRIME and dus
of the conflict with the world, and the
youthful pages will be found unsoiled anc
legibly inscribed with a tender loving
face beaming with faith and hope and
low sweet voice singing the beautiful
words:
Hush my child, lie still and slumber,
Holy angels guard thy bed,
Heavenly blessings without number,
Gently falling on thy head"
l draw this inscription from a page
upon which the dust of seven decades
had gathered and had failed to erase ol
dim the beautiful figures.
The eminent Rev. Talmage tells us tha
intemperance is on the increase and oul
first impulse is, to say that is strange anC
discouraging, when such mighty efforts
are being made by the church, aided by
the w. G.. Il. U. with time and money
and exhortations, and fervent prayers, tt
check the tide of drunkenness. But re
member, mothers, you have been told tina
'You ask and receive not because you asl
amiss," and did not our Saviour plainl.
teach that to cast himself from the pin
nacle of the temple would be presumin,
too much on the promises of his father
And are you not presuming too much ol
the mercy of God to neglect your boy un
til the world has nodded him into drunk
ard aud then ask God to miraculousl
save him Is not the neglect of you
. duty to your children, and then asking TO
salvation that suits your convenience
asking amiss If every mother in thi
broad land would, by earnest faith, hop
and prayer, make right impressions on tn
hearts and minds of their young children
I believe that Within few years they wi
see inscribed upon the walls of the bar
quet halls of King Alcohol, the ominou
words, "Mene, meme, tekel UphdrsOn.
But money, meetings, fervent prayers
and neglected children combined wi
never do it, never.
I'll Rarnumyille, March l6, 1891.