West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1896-11-26
IN NHMORIAN.
Special Contribution for TEK AKsUs.
Give sorrow words, the grief ,

Inc nat OF death is ineNorabl aud
we do fade as a Leaf There is no ap.
peal for relief from that great law
which dooms us to dust For the AGED
who have outlived the friends OF their
youth, who stand bending on their
stan, waiting the culrnination of life
well spent the call seems but a happv
transfer into the port Of paradise; but
when the call comes to the young. with
all the pleasant possibilities OF life Just
opening, we reverently pause i'm ooedi-
ence TO the impulse OF human nature to
contemplate the profuudest mystery of
human desting, the impenetrable, in
soluable mystery of death.
The tender subject OF this sketch was
| little Maude Evans Boar. Oldest chill
of MIR. and Mrs. w. r. Loar OF Graf.
ton. IL was in Superior. Neb. April
10 1887, that Maude's happy life began
ia this world. aud was taken up in
heaven at 2;55 y. IN. Friday, oct 9th
| 1896, when she died. being s years. 4
months and II days old.
Maude seemed so young, so Young to die
So needed here by everyone,
| Not there; for heaven has need OF none
And vet, how can we tell or say.
| Heaven is SO far, so far away
| How do we know its blisSful store
Is full and needeth nothing more
IL may be that some tiny space
Lacked just that little angel face,
OR, the full sunshine missed one ray
Until our darling found the way.
Maude went TO school on Monday APP
parcntly we'll Tuesday i'm the fore
noon she complained OF her throat be-
ing sore. Nothing serious, however,
was thought TO be the matter. but so
| rapidly did she grow worse that on
| Wednesday her ailment developed into
memoranous Group and dyphtheria
All that loving care and medical skill
| could do, was done, but when the de-
| cree of death has gone forth. all human
skill. protestations and bitter lament ia
tions of desolated households arc pow
| erless.
On Thursday the little sufferer told
| them TO give her no more medicine, and
on Friday afternoon at fifty-five min
utss past two, Gods finger touched our
| Maude and she slept the sleep He gives
| his beloved. Yes, she fell asleep and
awelSe in the gray mists of the morn
ing in 1.-THE palace of the King" She
has looked her last upon the setting
sun; yet has viewed the rising OF one
whose beams light mp forever the glo-
ries of an endless day, her soul return.
ed TO its OWE, original and glorious
home. What a superlative, grand and
consoling thought comes TO us that
death Is but an initiatory step into n
higher life, its arched doorway being
but the mystic entrance into the realms
| of Paradise. we ask why Mnude
could not stay-she was so precious TO
us all, but the ways of God are beyond
our comprehension. What lie does we
know not now. but we shall know here
after But surely. heavens long age OF
bliss will atone for all his children suf-
| fer here. We know tits hard when
friends thus linked depart: harder still,
| when the earth entombs all our hearts
4 hG.l ...1 L.
wisdom has IL so, shall not be made
known TO rs till we too. join this gar.
nered spirit i'm that bright, deathless
and stormiess Forever"
| We never th nS OF the great event OF
| death until the shadow falls across our
own threshold, hiding from our eyes
the faces OF loved ones whose living
smiles were the sunlight OF our exist
| encc such IL was in the passing OF
! this sweet young life out hey oud cnrth's
/ sight, and and her going Is the frat
broken link out of this family chair
TWAS sad 90 give her up so soon
When she had only seen
| A glimpse of what il was TO live,
And what it might have been"
There is 40 fireside howso'er defend
ded, but has one vacant chair Now
tbs Maude's chair that Is vacant. and
| oh, chow we shall miss her. To know
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| tie both in the day and Sabbath schools
where she was ever in constant attend
ance. She was singurlarly bright and
| precious, her books being her constant
| companions Hers was nature that
| drank in knowledge AT every pore. She
was always gay, cheerful and full Of
| health and happiness. Some hearts
| open downward, hers opened upward.
| and as she lay in a lovely casket OF
Ashes OF Roses. surrounded by beauti-
| full floral emblems donated by friends,
| one could not look upon her sweet face.
all clustered round with tangled tres
ses, without thoughts OF the augels-so
| calm. so radiant so beautiful in death
Bittle Maude's death was so sudden
| and unexpected that IL was shock TO
\ the family aud ali who knew her and
though the closest vigil was kept over
her, the seriousness of her illness was
/ not realized till the pale angel boat
man came TO row her Ger deaths chill
| ly tide. She war so patient and bore
her suffering without a murnur, and
even in the transcendent moments OF
death, she talked OF her books and
| songs and schoOl-mates and requested
them 10 read 20 her from the Bible
| Among the things audible that she
| said few moments before sire died
were MY slate is full" after which
she lisped her evening prayer Now
| lay me down 20 sleep, etc II" ending with
God bless papa and mama" And
while the golden sunbcams fingered
almost teuderly on the majestic hills
about her home death, like friends
voice from distant field called softly
To Naude, and babe her leave all her
pain and WEAKNESS behind forever and
| follow uim-she gladly listened and
obsyed.
"Such was che youth we loved so well.
such we're the hopes that fate denied
We loved, but all we could not tell
How deep, how dearly, till she died ="
Funeral services were conducted at
her home sunday afternoon At 2.30 and
on 2 sunny slope 10 the pretty cemetery
Of Blue Mont. where the golden sun
light and pale uioon-b-ans latest fall.
and where IN spring the bright green
grass and sweet wild flowers are ear
lest seen. they laid Maude down 70
sleep. She leaves devoted father. a
loving mother. little sister and
brother 80 travel the reminder Of
LIES journey without her smiles 70
| brighten their way Maudc was the
FIRST 90 learn that lesson which no live
ing one can know she has learned
how to die--a lesson that we too. must
soon learn. FOR no sex is spared, no age