Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-01-13
Britt Sessions.

On Wednesday eve just Us the nigh,
winds began 10 chant their solemn aud
m0urntul requiem for the departed
day, Macon's elite crowded the audi.
forum Of the first Baptist church to
witness the marriage OF Mr.. Moses w.
Britt, jr., OF Midway, Ala.' to Miss Lu.
cy Sessions. of our most cultured,
intellectual and fnirest girls. Outside
was everything but pleasant. Clouds
were lowering, II misty rain was fall.
ing and ever and anon the signing
winds would come in angry and fltfuI
gusts. But inside the holy temple
gloom was changed to glec and it took
no great Imagination to dream you
were in a world Of brighter and more
bcautcous mould as you stepped from
the outer and drcary world into the
auditorium, so beautifully adorned
with cvergrecns and such wild flowers
No lingcr with us through the melan.
choly days, when field and forsat are
bear TO soften the frowns OF winter
and lend gladness to the heart of man.
Promptly at 5 o'clock the organ o.
bcyed the potent and skillful touch of
Mrs. Mahorncr, and as Mendelsshon's
famous wedding march ffpated upon
the air, filling the house of God with
waves Of melody, the ushers, Duprcc
Patty and Hunter Smith, marched up
the left aisle followed bv Mr.. Elliott
Yates with Miss CalVine Patty willie
on the right came Mr.. Henry Owens
with Miss Nellie Patty. Ere these had
reached the sacred altar the gallant
groom, with the blushing bride gently
leaning upon his arm. preceded by
Master Warren Sessions and little
Miss Bertha Britt, who scattered fra.
grant flowers aloug their path. follow.
ri aud took their stand under the four
leaf clover bloom which gracefully
hung above the altar.
Rey. Mr.. Spencer, in eloquent and
burning words, charged the lovers
with their duty 10 each other. and at.
ter their solemn vows TO affectioDatcly
cling to cnch other, sharing each the
others JOYS and endeavoring TO dissip.
ate one anolhcr's sorrows. lie by the
power vested in him as n minister OF
the Gospel, pronounced them man and
wife and breathed q prayer to our
heavenly Father that Tic would take
these two hearts that beat as Il in
his holy keeping.
The music was still floating around
us in delicious sweetness aud rs we
gazed upon the fairy lovlincss of the
beautiful bride aud her maids, as they
marched ont of the temple, we in fan
Co seemed to boar the rustling Of an
gels wings and the low, sweet music
of their golden harps fimtering about
us for n moment and then sinking a.
way, leaving such a sensation as pleas.
ant dreams.
The same evening the happy bridal
party took the south bound train for
Midway, Ala. their future home.
And slowly the star fires creep forth
into the twilight's soinbcr shades AMI
the clouds dissolved and noated away
DER the eastern horizon and wcavcd
their mist flakes into a shining veil TO
throw q softer iuster DER the rising
moon who would do her best. in the
absence OF the king of day, to light
the path of these two who began Il
new life with the dying day. And as
the lips of their friends whisper fare
well, their hearts breathe n prayer to
Him who rules the destinies of all that
their lives may be blest with more than
the average share of human happi-
ness. An.