The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1894-12-27
OBITUARY..

On Friday, December Z, 1894 a dark
shadow Of sorrow and bereavement was
cast upon the minds and hearts of the
people of our little town by the death of
one Of our beloved citizens.
BY permission of the Supreme of all
things the Death Angel visited the home
of a. G. Byrd and claimed as his own
his daughter, MAHALA EMELINt:, aged
"a years, months and rs days and re-
lieved her OF the sorrow, pain trouble
disappointment aud ills that are neccs-
sarily incipent to Il life in this world, and
transformed her to brighter, fairer and
better cline, the joys aud pleasures of
which are of such a high, grand, noble
aud eternal character that tle pilgrims
of earth are not permitted to Know, much
less describe them. -F.F
She died of pulmonary affection sim.
liar TO consumption. She was ATTACKED
with asthma in extreme youth, which
ever chung to her. At five or six years
of age she had whooplug cough, and
from that time till the day of her death
fshe was troubled with spasmodic
cough. She has always been an invalid,
and her whole life has been one of in
tense suffering, and many times she has
been apparently very near the dark river,
but for some reason she was spared. She
always bore her Affections bravely and
without murmur. She attached her
self to the NJ. L. church, south, at about
ten years of age, and was converted at
seventeen Her life was ever consistent
with her relations to the church aud her
professions as Christian. Notwith-
standing the pain and suffering she expo
rienced in her last earthly trial and CON
iiict, her last days seem to have been her
happiest and brightest. She spent most
OF her time in Singing praying and pras
ing the Lord, and was perfectly willing
that the Lords will concerning her should
be done. During her last Illness of
about three weeks her friends and rela.
tives were continually hocking in to see
her, and almost invariably she greeted
them with \ smile and Il kind wort. To
the Christian she gave words of hope and
encouragement, and to the sinner words
of warning and entreaty.
Her life aud character was such that
everybody who knew her WAS her. friend
and loved and respected her. She>wiIi
be missed at home, IN society and IN the
church, but she has been calledup higher
to the ENJOYMENT of better things. She
has gone To join the white-robed throng,
which John, the Revelator, saw that
had gene up through great tribuation,
and had been washed in the blood of the
lamb. She has fought the battle of life
faithfully and valiantly, and has lain
aside the crown and is now wearing u
crown of brightness and glory in the
eternal world. AS terrestrial things be.
gan to fade from her view as she EN-.
barked on the river of the death. we have
every reason to believe that Heaven in
all its beauty, grandeur, magnificence
and glory to rise on her sight, and as she
neared the other shore she was met by Il
convoy of departed friends to escort her,
and rs they approached the pearly gates
of the celestial city, Heaven swung ajar
her everlasting portals to receive her,
and she ut once entered upon the joys
and happiness of the life beyond. She
began her abode in the celestial cline
where sickness, sorrow, pain and death
are never permitted to enter.
Her last request of her friends and rel |
atives, who visited or stood beside her
dying couch, was that they would meet
her in Heaven To all those we would !
say that in life We must prepare for
death, and if We fight the battle bravely |
to the end and "run the race patiently, |
ever looking unto Jesus the author and |
finisher of our faith, We may hope to
meet her.
e" Is it not sweet to think, hereafter,
When the spirit leaves this sphere,
Love, with deathless WINGS shall watt her !
To those she long hath mourned for here
Hearts from which twas death 10 sever,
Eyes this world shall ne'er restore,
There, as warm, as bright as ever,
Shall meet us and be lost no more"