The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1893-11-02
SOME THOUGHTS
Suggested by the Death of Dear
Wife and Mother.
HENDERSON, n. c., Oci

HENDERSON, y. u, Oct. 80, 1898.
EDITOR GOLD LEAF,
Dear SIR You will please accept the
sincere thanks of myself and family for
in your esteemed paper of 18th inst. re-
Specting the death and interment of dear
lamented wife and mother; the same being
couched in words conveying sincerest
strains of the tenderest sympathy: 1t has
gone far towards wiping off a scalding
tear, and alleviate bitter pang; copies of
which have been sent to Canada, England,
Scotland, Wales and Australia. Friends
residing in those distant parts will see
that my adopted home is where a sympa
thetic tear can mingle with those of be-
reaved stranger. and through your kind
ness | would send my heartfelt thanks to
the many dear friends, including the kind
hearted Doctor for their loving kindness
in smoothing the dying pillow when the
fatal disease was giving the finishing
stroke; and the soothing words of the kind
and loving minister Will never be forgot
ten. [ shall ever remember in deepest
gratitude tie many kind friends who made
up the solemn procession to the temporary
home of the dead. | felt on that solemn
occasion that | was more than paid for the
many letters that | have written and pub
lished in behalf Of this country and its
people.
That solemn occasion witnessed the COM
initial to Mother Earth of the remains of
one who. when but a girl of sixteen years,
joined hands with boy of nineteen, too
young, say some, to start on the double
track of life. Probably it was and possibly
it was not; but it was aprOvidential union.
True, we were young, but the world was
wide, and acting at once or that prOviden-
tial maxim that God helps those who help
themselves, we invested our very limited
capital in a small way Of business and
then started on our uphill struggle to en-
gage in the precariOuS affairs of life, and
by dint of perseverance coupled with
economy we soon found a sure footing on
the first stave of the ladder, when we
came to the conclusion that with the
blessings of providence the foundation of
our future business was laid.
In the course OF dozen years whole
sale department was added to our thriving
retail trade. At the expiration of &c years
from the commencement, and in the midst
OF commercial panic, we broke up our
established business and came to America.
1t might have been an improvidential step
especially if l consult my experience. My
success in life was mainly attributable to
the energetic assistance Of my dear de-
parted wife. A better help meet to assist
in fighting the battle of life no man ever
had.
1t must not be supposed that our path
has been constantly strewn with flowers on
which the sun has shOne without intermis~
sion. No, no, in common with our race, we
have had our sorrows in our time, we have
seen our children die; our first born, one
OF the best of boys, was stricken with
fever at the age Of eighteen, and in three
weeks paid the debt we all owe; two
lovely daughters, one seven years OF age,
the other twenty, succumbed to the rlgor-
Gus climate Of Canada; and now the
mother (whom I have twice seen at the
point Of death. but mercifully spared to
her little children) has been summoned
away, and if she is a memhcr of the " little
flock or bride the moment She laid her
mortal body down, her spiritual, glorited
body was waiting for her, and that she is
now minglng With that glorifed thrOng
who 0vercame the world and its allure
ments during the gospel age which ended
A. ID. 1873, if she is not a member OF that
gloritied class, which is beyond human
power to Judge. She will remain in
deaths cold grip until the general resur-
rection which will be due to commence
when the coming predicted storm sub
sides when she will come forth shouting
victory over death and the grave, clothed
in as perfect, blooming and as beautiful a
BODY as was that of her mother Ewes when
she came out of the hands of her Creator,
and which will in no wise be susceptible
to the af1liction and suffering endured
here; no rheumatism. no paralysis, no old
age or death unless she incurS the second
death, which | am sure she never will.
Good bye for the present, dear wife and
rough paths of the world side by side.
little thought when first l saw your lovely
face that it would be my solemn duty to
cOnSign you to mother earth i'll a foreign
land and to write your funeral dirge
Many an affectionate tear will fall upon
your temporary resting place.
When the memorable law was broken
the first Judgment day was held over Oul
race representatively in Adam. The yer.
dict was "guilty." and the irrevocable
sentence was death, and which has been
unsWervingly carried out from that time
to this. Awful as that sentence was it did
not contain one word about that horror of
horrors, eternal torment, as penalty fol
sin.
That satanic egg was Matched in the
foul nest of the dark ages of seventeen
hundred years ago, the fruit of which
has been handed down through that long
and cruel period until the present time,
| when it is compelled to turn about and
beat hasty retreat to the vile source
from whence it came, before the advancing
light of an educated and civilized age.
The sentence, however terrible, is only
temporary, and tempered with mercy.
When the guilty pair first incurred that
penalty and were compelled to exchange
homes from paradise of fruits and flowers
must have often referred to the blissful
life they enjoyed in their Eden home, and
Wept when they remembered the loss they
had sustained; they mnst have often talked
the matter oyer, and wondered what was
meant by the serpent'S head being bruised
Little or nothing was said in explanation
for about two thousand years, when more
light was thrown on the subject by Abra-
ham being told that through his bosterity
the human race was to be restored to all
the privileges lost through Adam, which
was life.
In due time the great restorer appeared
on the scene, and by the sacrifice of his
Justice for all that Adam lost Just as
soon as the sacrifice was made he returned
to his Father to present that sacrifice and
TO make lnterceSSlOn for the redeemed and
Whom the heavens were to retain until the
time became due A. d. 1874, for His second
advent into our world when the virtue of
his sacrifice will be cOnsummated and the
restitution of all things accomplished,
during his stay in the heavens, which
constitutes the gospel age, which ended A.
u. 1873. During that long period he has
oeen choosing select company-a little
flock or bride, as he calls them; Revela-
lioils, chapter !, verse t. gives the APP
pointed number. All of whom had died up
TO a: ID. 1873, took part in what is called
lile nrSt resurrection, but the specific num-
per Will not be complete until the event
1hl year OF 1914, which date ends the forty
year Symbolic harvest of the . wheat and
the tareS. The balance of that specific
number and who are still in the vale of
tears and almost chOked with the luXuri-
ant tareH,'' viii Got enter the death
state and wait to be resurrected. AS soon
as they lay their mortal bodies down their
spiritual, glOritied bodies will be waiting
10f them, when they Will be changed in
lAe tWlnkling Of an eye and ioin those who
OEeIcame the world and its allurements
ana Who walked in the narrow, rugged
way throughout the gospel age
we are ocripturally informed that the
prtuIcted symbolic impending storm is due
10 strike our world twenty years from
now. In the midst of that awful comm0-
tion hlng Emmanuel in company with his
BRIDE, will ascend and co-equaily occupy
lhe thousand year millennial throne, and
mutually assist in carrying out the great
restitution work, when the human race
VIII be put on trial for everlasting life.
noth the living and the resurrecled, as
ihey are called forth from time to time in
patches from the tomb; when all will be
paced on the Highway of Holiness
l Whlch leads up to perfection and eyerlast-