The weekly intelligencer., 1898-03-26

conduct. In positions of responsibility
and trust he proved himself worthy at all
times. Cheerful, friendly and courteous
In his manners, his friends were mum.
bered only by his acquaintances.
The news of his death was shock to
his family and friends. The call came to
him when it seemed that his life's work
was but just begun; but we believe that
his mission was accomplished, and that
tho life so abruptly ended here continues
beyond in a fairer cline.
His remains were brought to Lexing-
ton, and large concourse OF sOrrowing
friends tenderIy laid him to rest in Mach
pelah. to await the glorious resurrection
morn, when "them also who sleep in
Jesus will God bring with him, and so
shall they be forever with the Lord"
The funeral services were conducted by
his pastor, Rev. w. /. Cole. His going
away must leave deep shadows upon the
hearts that loved him until the day break
and the shadows flee away.
Died, at the home of John F. Roberts,
in Napoleon, March Is, 1898, of typhoid
pneumonia, after a ten days. illness, Nora
E., wife of Joseph B. Roberts, and only
child of Mrs. Rachel Robb.
Sad. indeed, were our hearts when the
message came to us that mora" was dead.
Our sympathy went out to the stricken
ones, and we felt that words were power
less to comfort them. We could only
weep and sorrow with them. We are glad
that the Divine Teacher Himself gave as
this example as His great heart sorrowed
with his friends, Mary and Martha.
But ohI how much more sorrowful
would our hearts be II we did not believe
In life and Immortality beyond the grave.
"Let us be patient, we who mourn with
weeping,
Her vanished face
The Lord has taken, but to add more
beauty,
And a dlviner grace.
And we shall hnd once more beyond
earth's sorrows
Beyond these skies,
In the fair city of the sure foundation
Those heavenly eyes
With the Same welcome shining through
their sweetness,
That met us here;
Eyes, from whose beauty God has ban.
ished weeping
And wiped away tho tear"
We knew Nora in her budding woman
hood, when life held out the promise OF
much happiness to her. But soon she
was called to pass through the deep
waters of affiiction, for God laid His hand
heavily upon her; but sho bore it all in
patient submission, never complaining
that much OF her life must be passed in
suffering. We can truly say she was q
woman who had many lovable traits of
character. Her utter uDsel6shnes and
| loving thought for others are testified to
by those who knew her best.
nf ha w mn ia
the two motherless little ones is that they
may have reflected In their lives. those
beautiful traits of character, which wore
exempilfied in the life of their mother.
The body was borne to its last resting
place, at Lawrence, Kansas, there to await
the resurrection morn. We may never
have the sad pleasure of standing beside
her grave, but in our minds one word
low green mound; that word -"Resur-
gam"
Farewell! In our hearts we say:
'she is not lost, but Is within the door,
That shuts out loss, and every hurtiul
thing
With angels bright aud loved ones gone
before,
Aud God Himself her Lord and Judge
aud King"
d. L.
Odessa, Mo-, March II, 1898.
IN MEMORY.
"Ah, broken is the golden bowl,
The Spirit flown forever!
Let the bells toll. a unity soal
Floats on the Stygiau river"
The above lines, which we quote from
the beautiful and touchingly pathetic
little poem of "Lenore," by Edgar Allen
Poe, we deem especially applicable to her
whose death 1t Is our sad duty, today. to
chronicle.
Mrs. Thomas W. Hill (born Carter died
at the homo OF her mother, In Lexington,
Mo-, at 10 O'Clock a. M, March lG, 1898.
mittee by Martha Chapter. No. i6s, 8. Z.
g., OF which she was an honored member,
to prepare a sketch, expressive OF the
sorrow Of Its members because of her
death; extending to her grief
husband and mother, and other relatives.
their sincere coincidence and earnest sym
'pathy in this, their hour OF trouble, and
proclaiming to the world their respect
and esteem for her as q woman. pure and
irreproachable In character, tender, gen.
tie and loving In her family relations, and
a "good Samaritan" to all who needed,
and came within the sphere OF her
charity.
We do not know Mrs. Hill's age, but wo
do know that she was young-that she
had lived only long enough to taste the
sweets of life, to sip Its cream, its wine;
the bitter Iess rsmalning at the bottom OF
Is the inevitable penalty which age must
pay for it's many years.
HWhom the Gods love die young" we
now verify believe to be true. Looking
back through the aim vista OF the past,
we recall q time when we did not SO
accept 1T; when we looked forward to
many years of happiness, to which we
have never attainedi to the achievement
OF many great and good things, which we
have never accomplished.
Ah, welll the young live In the future,
the old live In the past; none live In the
present. Let us, then, accept The death
Of our we'll beloved friend and sister as an
escape from trouble for hor, though
fraught with sadness for Us. She has
reached that mysterious "beyond,"
whence no traveller has ever returned to
satisfy the craving of our souls for abso-
lutte knowledge of 1t, aud whittier we,
too, are rapidly fastening. A few brief
years, at most, and we shall be there.
Accepting, then, on rational faith,
what, in the very nature of things We
cannot know; believing steadfastly Ia tho
"Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood
of man." adhering, with unshaken con-
fidence, in the conviction that the eternal
laws -uDalteTed and unalteTable--of an
all-Wiss and heneticent Creator will
work for His creatures the highest happI-
ness to which they are capable of attain
Ing; when our brief remnant OF life
shall 10 spent: when for the last time we
shall hear the tendsrly thrilling tones
and meet the lingering. loving glances Of
the loved ones whom we shalt leave be-
hind as We pass from the known to the
unk nown-let US hope, With the calm
confidence of earnest conviction, that VT
aFo but exchanging n transient for O per-
mauent home; tho atmosphere of mist and
cloud and darkness in which we have been
here onVeiopsd. for the purer and brighter
one OF the iimitles5 beyond; and that we
shall meet and greet her there, for whom
wo now sOrrow-better, puTer, with an
enlarged and moro ail-embraolng capacity
for love-progresaing steadily towards the
Divine, and, by consequence, happier
than she ever Was or could be here.
Resolved, That, IN evidence OF loving
remembrance of our Aister who haB left
us, this imperfect effort to commemorate
her virtues be spread on tue recOFds of