The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-04-19
In MennOriam

Passed into the higher life on Sunday morn
ing, March "a, Miss Elizabeth NJ. Day, former
" of Hartford county, Md. These few words
record the earthly closing of strong, beauti
full and earnest life. Elizabeth Maxwell Day
was born i'll the year lolS, near Days Point,
Hartford Co, and her girlhOod WAS spemt On the
farm of her father, Gouldsmith Day. His
was one of the well known places for dispens-
ing old time Maryland hospitality. Ihther
came the circuit riders OF the NJ. +. Church
and found abundant welcome for Themselves
and their faithful breasts. And there cungre-
gated the planters and their families from
broad vicinage. for religious work and secu-
lar festivities, the heartiest welcome being
tended to all visitors, whether the guests of
few hours or as many days. This household
had sons and other daughters, but no one of
them was treated with greater confidence or
eXerted healthier, sweeter influences then the
daughter Elizabeth She was par excellence,
the counsellor of the family the one to whom
all came to dissipate their troubles and divide
their pleasures. She had all the deep, tender
sympalhes of the woman combined with the
steady, firm, self-reliance of the man, and yet
no one thought her masculine. She was in
most particulars woman of the highest type,
refined, gentle and reverent, but courageous
and chivarous as a knight of the medieval
age. She was pure as crystal in her precep-
| tions of moral and religious duty, but lenient
| and forgtving to those who came short of her
| ideals. She possessed great natural gifts of
| character and intellect and sufficient literary
| culture to have developed into writer of ex-
| ceptional merit, had she turned her talents in
the direction of letters, and had partial free
dom from her many onerous responsibilities
| given her the necessary leisure. But her
| chosen celibacy did not save her from the care
| of Others During nearly half of her long life
she was afflicted with painful disease. bu t
| in times Of greatest suffering, when The clouds
| shut close about her horizon, she never lost
| her cheerful faith in God, nor forgot any SER
| vice that could add to the comfort or pleasure
| of those who depended upon her ministry.
| Her advice was given with such discretion and
| her sacrifices were made with such modesty as
| to disa' m the recipients Of all sense of indebt
| edness. 1t was her supreme delight to he of
| use to others, and the smaller the recognition
| of her service the greater seemed her happi-
ness. In all valuable essentials hers was a
well rounded and successful life. useful to
! the end. Heightened as it was. beyond the
Biblical limit, she never came into the ''barren
! wears, the years when the mind becomes vC-
| cuous and seniity a burden. Her thoughts
| were vigorous and her hands helpful to the
| very last. Without seeking 1t she earned a
| high place in the esteem of all whose good
| opinion is of value, and no one of her many
| friends has any doubt but that all is well with
| her in the new sphere to which she has been
| called. She answered the summons with
| gladness. asking only that those whom she
| left should be remembered and cared for.
She is sadly missed but it is pleasant to believe
that in the Summer Land' the pains of a
weary body have been exchanged for unend-
| ing health and enjoyment, and perpetual
| youth has taken the place of age and decay.
| God gives us lives like hers 10 prove how
| strong is faith, how deep is love.