The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-11-18

In MemOrIam.
Occasions of tribute Offering In cases of
death, never fuil to impress us with *
treme sadness, increase our awe and rev.
erence OF Him who holds in the hollow of
his hand every moment we live and every
breath we draw, and teach us the lessons
of our mortality.
Sad. touching and Impressive scenes
with departed friends have become famil-
lar to the writer, and their frequency re-
minds me with terrible force that
49, "All that lives must die
Passing through nature to eternity"
A whole community is more than usu-
ALLY touched and paiued by the death OF
ons, whose loss now hangs sombre drapery
around the walls Of our hearts aud casts
a pail over the household q bereaved
ones on Cottage HILL II is a death within
the representative circle Of large &c
quaintance of friends. II Is the death Of
fair flower, little darling, whose pres.
enee in that circle always brought sun.
shine and never shadow. How genial
aud oompanionable she was-how full OF
life, OF the glad, rollicklng Joy Of life she
seemed TO be scattering laughter and
sunshine along the way.
Tributes to her memory, clothed In
language OF beauty and breathing with
love and burning with paihos, have al
ready been paid, and others will follow.
While cannot hope to charm with the
pen Of eloqueuce, or touch the soul with
the figures of rhetoric, | come with my
tribute. l. will be plain and unadorned,
but Il will at least have the merit OF sin.
cerity, and, like the widows mite, be all
that can give.
Marion Montgomery, although but a
child OF eight years, had won the hearts
OF not only those near and dear, but OF
all who ever came Ia contact with her.
Her teacher, her companions, are the ones
WuU VI uii OtuciS Outbluc tue HOuSeuoIu,
should know of what her character was
formed and how sweet disposition she
possessed. Bright and beautiful 10
beauty's true sense" Charming in her
youthful ways" "obliging 10 everything,
"Merry as the lark, !" "a bright ray OF sun
shine always casting Frightening CLEAN
across the way" ''The pet Of the neigh
borhood," "Too fair for earth, p" are only
few of the many expressions 81 love and
admiration bestowed gratefully with sad
dened tone and tesr-dimmed eye to th,
memory OF Marion.
: Whcnydeeth comes TO the aged as thu
END Of lie well-spent. we rcga I'd II as nat
ural; but when death com, 10 the young
the gifted and promising, We, with oul
finite wisdom. look upon 1t ms sad anC
mysterious. Dark and gloomy indeet
would be the grave without a hope in
personal immortality-a belief that tb
soul reunites the body and that to tbi
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heaven.
To the grave she has gone, "the world
sweet inn from pain and wearisome tur
moil." She rests 10 peace after shor
but painful sickness. The childish pratt
OF her sweet voice, the energetic, never
firing vitality is subdued; yea, quie
reigns now where mirth and merrimen
we're wont TO exert their influence. A
we turned 10 leave that new made grave
that little "chsmber that faces toward
the sunrising,' we looked into the face
OF her mourning friends-old and young
each one told how good she was how
gentle and how kind how for one 8,
young she had ministered TO the wants o
the needy, had sympathized with thos
who were distressed, in her gentle, child
like way.
The floral offerings we're but the out
ward expressions OF inneImost thoughts
and told OF love and friendship, Of sorroV
and joy, of fear and hope, of the grav
aud resurrection, OF promise of immorit
life beyond the grave where the soul o; tn
missing Marion has winged its fight.
Coincidence, sympathy and sorrow ca
pressed to the bereaved ones will not he,
the wound, but they soften the jagge
edge Of trouble when the head is bowed i
affection and the heart Is touched with
weight of woe unsupportable. The relil
ious advice OF the pastor, the kind wor
and caress OF the nearest relative, til
little tokens OF affection from dear friend
the quiet but expressive clasp of the hant
: thcconifort afforded through The infiuenc
of Christian experience, does much to sof
en- pain and brighten the dark path ini
which for a time their steps have bee
turned. There is light beyond, there
strength for the Journey. Only lit
while and and all will be brightness agail
Hearts have grown weary and life seen
, worse than death, and to die seems bett
than TO live, but thus II Is when encoI
passed by a whirlwind OF sorrow, that Il
memory of the life obscured comes TO Il
8 rescue; the sun breaks through the riftii
' clouds aud again we think 1t good to liv
For the time being there seems no rest, al
yet the Christians faith looks up and the
comes calm as after trying every 9th
remedy we humbly say,
when other helpers fail, and com forts fee,
, Help ofthe helpless, oh. abide with me-"
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