Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-16
REMARKS BY REV. T. T. MUNGER
At the Funeral Yesterday of Mrs.
 Eunice Anderson.

REMARKS BY REV. T. T. MUNGER At the Funeral Yesterday of Mrs.
 Eunice Anderson.
 Occasionally 6 life goes out which is so strong and elastic, so full of itself and so fitted in all ways to go on, that we cannot connect it with the idea of death as an end even of this existence.
 It is eminently so in the case of Mrs. Anderson. She had reached the point in life where the vital powers usually show signs of lesseniDg, but except in the physi- cal, there was no waning of the force and activity of any of her mental or moral or afectional faculties. Her mind was as alert and clear; her sympathy with human ity as keen; her heart as warm and fresh in its action as at any previous time in her life. It was not merely that she pre- served youthful feeling and carried 1t on into age, but she kept up all the working faculties of mind and heart and coneeienoe without apparent diminution until the very end and in spite of the wearing and consuming inroads of disease. It is diff cult to believe that 50 much of life has ceased to exist; it Is easy to think of inn mortality and to believe in it for her.
 Sometimes death points to extinction, and we must turn to the great argument of the living God and father and the risen Lord to find reassurance But in this case the abundance of life became the indica- tion and pledge of continued life.
 As after flash of lightning, which blinds us for @ moment to the forms | aYnnnd n 1npH nHAorS1r1 %> forms resppear; 50 now we are sure shat behind the blinding stroke of death this life is still going on in all its full and beautiful proportions.
 cannot undertake, in these few mo- ments, to speak of Mrs. Anderson as such 8 woman ehould be spoken of at the close of lifs-not that enlogy ie so necessary, but that such character should not be suf- fered to close its career without its lesson being drawn out for the goad of others. :
 can now refer to but one or two of her characteristics as they offered themselves to me ia close acquaintance of more than seven years. t--
 Finding her among my parishioners, an invalid and unable to attend church. frequently visited her, not go much in the way of duty as drawn by the pleasure and profit to myself of contact with her mind. In these visits-ths longest perhaps ever made in like cases-not a moment was wasted in idle talk or personalities Health or rather illness, was quickly dis posed of, and she turned at once to larger themes. It was these themes that revealed the character of her mind and the form of her pisty.
 She was, if may say 50 without being mistak. @ and sha had te eo say her own religious feelings and c ,ndition. Instead, she immedist. !y carried the Q nversation into the largest fields of Christi. D truth and action The meaning of scripture, tn. nature of Christ, his relation to the world, destiny and the future lfe-such were her themes, but not the leading
 The subject to which she constantly reverted was the progress of the worl1-no in q narrow religious sense, but in the larger sense Of sh,cal reform and gain in knowledge and ganeI al ad- van in whatever is good and true and high
 This seemed to me to bs her constant thought and not only a matter of thought and r. hection, but she seemed to be constantly alert and on the wat. h for any signs of hopefulprogress and gain faith also to n1 upon signs of good and to pass thoroughly pledged by nature and principle to the good side of things. She was utterly free Emerson's phrase, always ''chanted the bsauty her thorough tnvalldism, not . trace of which ever seemed to reach her mind or to color her thought except to make her more sympathetic ever have known, and It's health continued through years of illness on into old age, without the earth W ith such healthy youthhoo1 wrought into her az to suggest its eternal continuance. This charactaristic was not merely 6 native en- largely endowed her in this respect; but 1t was also duo to the fact that it worked in well with wise. broad humane fruit of Christian faith: nat. her cheerful hopeful, charitable outlook upon the world; hebce her intense interest in human to 1t; hence her unselfshness and selfforeetful- ness, and her tender sy yn1pathy with all suffering The last time I saw her-hardly fortnight ago -thouga suffering greatly, she said to me: 70, wish I could bear the pain and trouble of ev- erybody else for them"
 Mrs. Anderson's Christian life was 50 real and natural that she was not given to talking much incidental; but she was greatly dispo- cd to speak trusted i1 and followed him, but her strong, in- quiring mind led her to examine closely and she devoted many mosths of her long invalidism to compiling the sayings of Christ, separating themselves, and thus forming little book of de- cided value and interest. It was an illustration not only of her trust in Christ the teacher of mind in reaching af CT the ultimate sources of truth as its natural food.
 results of which appeared in writings of positive merit given tu the public through th- periodical and hsa and on | tho side of humanity, and added not little to at stream of good influence whi keeps the world fresh and vital.
 As reflect upon Mrs. Anderson's oh ractsr, find myself applying 10 it these terms-strength, health and beauty.
 Scare ly ever nave I seen a soul go strong as it faced Hf- and suffering and death.
 Seldom does one meet a person 50 soundly healthy ia mind and heart and conscieuce.
 harely does one see person iu whom the higher graces of character are w. Il united and grouped, as to form the result of Ie4nty. It was 100 harmonious to be anaiy Fed. but it left the impressi n of on.- in ~h hom nature and grace had wrought their choicest work
 cannot think of her with sadness fully persuaded am that she is still living In all the fulness and grace of her flue being. She seems to me most surely to have passed simply from this mansion to another in th- sr at nou-e of God, whore she is ever more alive unto him in the presence and com panions hip of her l.. aud master. with whom sac lived in the fellowship of faith and service here on earth.
 "Why weep ye then for her, who having won
 The bouads of man's appoiated years, at last Life's blessings all enjoyed, iife's l.bors done
 Sereuely to ner fnal rest has passtd;
 While the soft memory of her virlures fingers
 yet,
 Like tWtifsht hues whsn tho bright su a fs set