The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1898-08-05

Lady Heury someret's Memorial Ad-
dress on Miss Willard,
Continued from last week.
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Continued from last week.
] am 80 thankful to feel that sac. vino
was more than sister to her, the
comrade of 20 years. who accompanied
her on all her toiling journeys, who
upheld her and cherished her, is with
us to-day. ! mean her faithful Anna
Gorden, and realized yesterday when
she was talking TO me what actually
made Francs Wizards greatness She
told me that among the memoranda she
left on her pin-cushion were the follow
ing; ITO see the paraIyzed woman At
the bottom Of the.hil." ITO give some
literature to the charity woman and say
few words 10 her" II is soi the public
words Of an individual, II is the daily.
hourly acts, the trend Of the thought,
that leads heavenward that makes the
saints, aud in these ways Frances VIII
lard was u SAINT, recognized and under
stood, known aud read OF all men. There
is one point 10 her life that should like
emphasized, and that Is the harass and
difficulty Of IL. II looks so easy 20 be APP
plaudcd, to find great audiences rising
10 greet her. and all the womcn's hearts
at her feet; but underneath all that. there
was always the criticism. the disputes
that had TO he settled, the difficulties
that had 10 be bridged over, the troubles
that had to be faced. the responsibilities
Of some new path Ia which she was call
ed to walk alonc--those crosses so hard
to bear all unknown to the great public,
not to speak Of the physical toii-tte long
weary journeys on the cars. the long
nights travelling after speaking. and
more than all--the incessent leaving OF
her home and her aged mother. which
was continually TO her source of troub-
lc. None OF these things are known 60
those who only see In her the public lemd-
er. but we who were near to her knew
them all. we realize all the difficulties
and within these last years there was
added tothem the burden Of iil health:
and yet never remember hearing her
utter one frctful complaint or grumblinr
word about such disabilities as she was
called upon to bear. Aud Il is just be-
cause she was always In private what she
appeared in public that She WIS able to
accomplish what She did. We can not
any OF as hope 10 stand as she did IN the
estimation of this great world. but we
can all aspire to acquire that same beau-
tiful spirit We are all Of MS "called TO
be saints" In the way that Frances VII.
lard was saint Aud what was The Sc
crct Of that beautiful life, that patient
toill What was the secret Of that di-
vine charity that thought no i'll; charity
that even at the very last was so triumph
ant that she sent out messages TO those
who were, according to her i'lea, undar-
mining the work for which she had 20
long fought. She never to my knowl,
edge had one single bitter thought Of any
was absolutely absent from her
nature. The secret Of her life lay in the
last words she ever spoke to that great
gathering AZ Buffalo when many tell me
they saw her TRANSPORTED before them,
and many went out TO realize that they
would see her face no more. She said,
1T came TO me TINT could gain no tru-
ct concept OF God than by holding to the
Way, the Truth and the Life, ever tend
crly smiling to me and saying, Receive
my spirit The mystery Of life. its dis
cipline, its joys and griefs will end and
the mystery of death will work out the
transfer to other realms. infinite power.
We shall never climb to heaven by
making il our lifelong business to save
ourselves. The motive is too selfish; the
motto OF the true Christian is ''al for
each and each for ALL" and in irving to
realize this we acquire a heart at leisure
from itself, andiin no other way. That
moment came t. her. Receive my sirt"
were the last words of that voice which
has touched so many audiences upon
earth; the last words that size was To
speak who had turned SO many from
darkness to light. These words We're the
deep in-breathings of the soul that had
already lived In the world 10 which il
was then tending. How beautiful to
be with Godw Beautiful because she
had been with Hin. here; beautiful b, =.
cause she had trodden the way He trod;
beautiful hcause she had faith: beautiful
because her. whole life Was blended with
all that makes heaven beautiful. And
pray today that the outcome OF this SER
vice may be a solemn conservation, aud
that we too may be able 70 say today.
here and now, How beautiful TO be
with Cod"