Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1898-02-17
In Memoriam.

The Presbyterian Missionary Society
met with Mrs. Hinkhouse on Friday
afternoon. The meeting was devotional
and in memory of Mrs. Brooks, who
served as secretary of the society. The
following tribute was read by Miss
Turner:
Our feelings, as we engage in this memorial
service for our beloved friend must necessarily
be of two classes. Feelings of the deepest sor-
row when we remember that the smiling face,
the cheerful voice, the willing hands that were
wont to be with and aid us in these meetings
must forever be absent; that the name once so
often spoken here, and always responded to
with alacrity, will only be mentioned among us
now as fond remembrance, but we know that
"Death is but u covered way
Which opens into light,
Wherein no blinded child can stray
Beyond the Fathers sight
And so it is that we have only peaceful, pie as
ant thoughts when we dwell upon the "Well
done, good and faithful servant. f" that has been
her reward, on the "Many mansions" where
she now dwells, free from care, sorrow and
PAIN, on the mo night there" center We into
My rest" "They shall be mine saith the Lord
OF Hosts in that day when make up my Jewels"
in the fact that ''she rests from her labor and
that "she hath done what she could"
For four years she faithfully performed the
dnties OF secretary of this society, which duties
are more arduOus than any one who has not
performed SIMILAR work can we'll understand.
and 1t was no part of her plan to make them
lighter by sighting them in the most minnie
detail, but rather did she seek to include ann
thing that might work for the good of the cause.
never allowing even her ill health to prevent
her from attending to all these duties when it
was at all possible for her to work.
Her whole christian life was filled with work
Tor the Master She was second vice president
OF the Coucil Bluffs Presbyterial Missionary
Society, to which our society belongs, and
would, as the result of circumstances, if she
were now here, be president of this branch of
the work.
In the meetings of Presbytery she was much
loved and hOnOred and when she had a remark
to make, as she often had, owing to her zeal in
the cause, she was listened to with respect and
attention.
The following lines, which many of you will
doubtless recognize, were written in memory of
another. bat they seem to express so well what
we all feel in regard to Mrs. Brooks that it
seems to me to be fitting to quote them here:
Another precious tie is riven, a gentle spirit
fled! 'n
o! stricken ones! how deep your grief for the
beloved dead.
Yer, while with tears your eyes o'erfiow, your
hearts are Borrowing,
We mourn with reverent faith, We know, a
daughter of the king.
Pure and unSullied was her life, fond and true
In kindly deeds she wrought what e'er her
hands might find to do;
Unswervingly the path of right, the royal road
she trod
Great was her souls allegiance to her Savior
and her God.
Shall she not wear royal robe a robe of spot
less white?
Shall she not tread trlumphantly the plains of
heavenly light?
Aye, speak not of deaths omber gloom, We SER
rowing hearts of love;
Ills but the passing of the soul to brighter
realms above.
There shall she dwell. forever freed from sor-
row, care and pain
And with beloved ones gone before rejoicing
meet again.
There shall she sing her Soveregn's praise be-
fore the great white throne
Can we not trust His wOnderOus ways? Shall
He not claim his own?
Oh, sacred in our hearts shall dwell her men,
DRY ever mOre
Another tie to bind us close to that eternal
thore.
When every tear is wiped away, nights somber
And Death himself "has lost his sting" the
grave its victory"