The Newtown bee., 1893-02-03

tributes, DO face was more pale and no heart more mute with grief, than hers, whose pulse has now ceased to beat. She brought floral tribute, which Brother Davenport afterward selected, dropping the blossoms into the grave at the com initial in ''earth to earth, dust to dust"
 Yet looking up with
 THE HOPE OF A GLORIOUS IMMORTALITY. We believe that these two loving spirits who have now departed the present life, bloom again in the Paradise above; and that that they are in sweet companion ship. This thought was in the mind of of our deceased friend when she died and she spoke of it with much faith and com fort. She said, ''I shall meet your Flor ous the company of near and dear friends within the circle of many of us here to- day, who. we may say, have quite recent ly been gathered into the mansions above faces which to me were so familiar here, but now gone. We see them not, but they are there, with their Savior and the holy angels, and with all the redeemed of God, free from sin, free from anxiety, free from anxiety. free from bodily pain and all sorrow. With the eye of faith we behold them.
 
 who stood at the bridal altar in the church of her childhood is now guest at the marriage supper of the Lamb in Heaven.
 All is joy now, no more sorrow; not flowers in the grave but flowers in heav- en.
 "There everlasting spring abides, And never whitening flowers. Death like narrow sea divides That heavenly land from ours.'
 heart, rest. Heaven is not idleness, but, with it's busy life, free from all that weighs down the soul, and above all, a place of rest and peace. Some of her last words were of rest and of heaven. ''Whv detain me? Why not let me go md be at rest?' We may give back the an swer:
 Sister rest from pain and sorrow, On thy slumber dawns no morrow: Rest, thine earthly race is run" 1 In this hope we abide. knowing that ''there remaineth a rest for the people of 1 God
 NOT LONG BEFORE our friend died, it was the privilege of my own wife, owing to the sacred bonds | which unite us as families. to visit the 1 sick one and converse with her and hear her dying testimony. Great was her faith and trust and love for the Savior Calmly she had already talked to her hus. band and friends of her decease, but now she was almost in seraphic spirit, catch
 ing glimpses, as it were, of the beautiful
 world beyond, when sinking and quite low, as if going, and with the farewell l I,1r Sh1 sfnI aI4 Fl ,I sweetly, the words so familiar to many hristian hearts:
 | Jesus can make dying bed | Feel soft as downy pillows are. ] While on his breast lean my head, 1 And breathe my life out sweetly there. Of the deceased in her own childhood she was ever blessing in the home. As a wife supremely devoted, as a mother none dearer and none more endeared. al last, giving her strength that another spirit might live; and bearing all with a | loving submission to the will of her | Heavenly Father; having an unbroken | faith in that Lord and Savior, whose she was, and is, and in whose presence she is henceforth at rest forevermore. May the God whose mercies fail not, and whose compassion is infinite, hallow un to these surviving parents, and this great. | ly bereaved husband. and her precious son. and her remaining kindred, and in- deed unto us all. the memory of whatev- CT was pure, and lovely, and good, in | both her life and death.
 And, now, one reflection more: What adds still to the solennity and impres. | siveness-of this occasion, is that both the mother and the child should die. AND, YET, it may be a mercy to mother and child. that they can thus go together from earth to heaven. No sorrow of parting the child too young, to know anything of earth or heaven, the mother wrapt in the Divine will, ready to say of the in. fant at her side, "Let it be as God di- rects," and as the event of its death in. terprets that will, hence, for the child to depart is better.
 ''A gniltless spirit set thus early free
 From sin and sorrow and mortality" The infant soul will develop it's immor- tai powers faster than here. The bangs of earth for both mother and child be- come the birtb-throes to the life that is eternal, where there is DO more pain and no more sorrow.
 Let them sleep together in the same casket, and in the same grave. the child on the bosom of it's mother. Tn like com panionship their pure spirits have al- ready scared far away,O on angel wings to heaven. For the faith that uplifts us, and the place that gives comfort, we are thankful.
 And to that Lord and Savior who died that we might live, and who is now ex- alted tosthe right hand of the Father in Heaven; and unto the one, living and true God, who reigns over all. and is blessed forever, be honor. and dominion, and glory, world without end, amen.