The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-01
MRS. EMILY R. MONTGOMERY.
Fitting Tribute Paid to Her Memory by
 Rev. Dr, Munger

Fitting Tribute Paid to Her Memory by
 Rev. Dr. Munger,
 In the yesterday mornings issue of the Journal and Courier brief mention was made of the tribute paid by Rev. pr. Munger in his Sunday morning ser mon to the memory of Mrs. Emily R. Montgomery, noble woman and de- voted missionary, who died few days ago in Beirut, Turkey, lack of space preventing the publication of Dr. Nun gers remarks in full Dr. Munger in speaking of Mrs Montgomery said.
 1T have in mind to-day one of our number no longer on the earth, who seemed to me to have learned the se- cret of human living more thoroughly than almost any person I have ever known.
 q refer to Mrs. Emily R. Montgom- cry, who died last week in Beirut, Syr- ia. As she has been away from us for several years, many of you have no personal knowledge of her, but those who come near the life of this church feel her.
 q will only say of her that, having spent many years as missionary in Turkey, she came her, a widow, for the sake of her children, made her home amongst us, and became member of this church. Modest, retiring, gentle, delicate and everything that a woman should be to make her womanly, she very soon began to reveal, or, rather, we began to discover that most un- usual personality was making itself felt amongst us.
 q cannot describe her. Such persons and such influence cannot be described. How shall her spirit be set down in words? She possessed the rare gift of inspiring others. The foundation and the form of the gift with her was a bright, rational and passionate sense of what we call the gospel of Jesus Christ The medium by which she ex- ercised the gift was her own consum- mate good sense, unselfshness, tact, grasp of mind most unusual, and that other thing-rarest of ala total ac- ceptance of life as for serving God by | loving mankind.
 "These are strong words, but can not let her be laid in her distant grave without telling you. how great Chris l ton lived with us and breathed the Holy Ghost into the lives of many of | you.
 "If there is any good influence at work in this church she deepened and l spiritualized it. If there is amongst the women of this church moral boise, | c.; trfo sY, works, cheerfulness and strength and carriage in Christian living, something of each is due to her, for she had each quality and gave it out by her peculiar power to impress and to inspire. While she was with us she fairly lived her life into this church, with an in- tensity and penetrating power that could not understand, but could only wonder at.
 There are some good people who are not interesting and are hard to get on with, but Mrs. Montgomery was a wo- man fascinating in the brilliancy of her mind, full of humor and wit, and whether speaking to one or to a com pany, left a sense of charm as well as a conviction. 8i0
 "rhe object of rher stay here hay ing been accomplished, she returned tc Adana, Turkey, where her wifely anc l her human heart was, and took up the work of her dead husband. She wrote the most sensible and broadest letters on the massacres and the questions in l volved that I have seen. But the flame l of her life lessened under her work an6 1 the sacrifice which she made of herself | from first to last came to an end last week after an illness of several months but under conditions most favorable te her in all ways. Her windows looked upon the Mediterranean and we know how often and with what passion O Christian love her thoughts went west l ward to us.
 We will not say Let me die tho death of the righteous but rather 'Le me live the life of the righteous and le my last end be like her, for it wa: peace"