The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-14

view such death-bed scenes Il would for
ever stop his mouth and confound all his
| arguments against the truth of the Chris
tan religion. Even if it be a deluslon,
give US such decisions in preference to Ihe
/ infiders leap in the dark. Comm"
she often looked forward to the day of
her departure. Consequently, when death
came it was no new idea to her; but it IS
hoped that she was prepared to excla m:
20 death, where is thy sting. o grave,
where is thy victoryH' Amherst papers
please copy
"She frs united with the Baptist Church
in Whately; afterward she removed her
| connection to Cummington, and finally
| to Shelburne Falls, from which place he
| changed her relation to heaven. She vii.
not change her church relation again.
The enot ons caused by this death were
| vivid and searching beyond all common
| precedent. Her funeral was large
~ attended and there could not have been
a heart among the multitude that failed 20
respond to the sacred words which de-
| scribe the nothingness of man and the
vanity of life or to recall the steadfast
| promises which throw light on the hero
glyphic meaning of pain and death and
make the tomb itself bright with immor
tai hope.
In Hawley, Feb. "a, Mrs. Lydia M.
| Griggs, wife OF Mr.. Chester Griggs, aged
81. She was very unexpectedly and sud
! denly called by her Master TO exchange
| worlds. Yet she had not neglected her
preparation till that last extremity. She
| gave the dew of her youth to Christ, and
for very many years had Witnessed a good
profession. Her friends have the salts
faction of knowing that death, though
coming like an armed man in the night
watches, did not surprise her. She hailed
| his approach with tranquility and conf
dence, and in pangs of dissolution she
could say: I know that my Redeemer
liveth.'
q" How SWEET to think this little babe,
Though from our bosom riven,
Is far from every pain,
| And now a saint in heaven
In the death of this interesting lady
| the family has lost one of its brightest or
raments. Not lost, but gone before"
is our departed friend"
He stood like a strong pillar in our fee
Bile church. Our eyes run over with our
loss"
He went out in the morning in good
health to work upon the highway and at
noon was returned to his family a corpse"
Few men have better understood or
have been more strongly attached to the
evangelical doctrines of the cross"
| Died, Dea Stiles, formerly a resident
of Warwick. Remarkably clear and dis
eliminating in his views of religious
truths, and to the very ast, he chung to
| the cross of Christ with the strong grasp
| of an undying faith. He was vile in
his own estimation, and ever spoke of
| himself as the chief OF sinners, whom
| Christ came to save. His death-bed was
one of triumph and, blessed be God, we
| hope that he hath passed from earth like
shock of corn fully ripe, to be gathered
| into the garner house of heaven. For
more than half a century he stood in the
| ranks of the church militant, a fortified
soldier of the Lord Jesus Christ Now.
| at last, he hath returned from the war,
TO chant the song of the church triumph
| ant with the spirit Of the redeemed about
the throne of God and the Lamb There
remaineth rest for the people of God.'
In this just preceding extract CMay q,
! 1S40, the phrase about the shock of corn
may be noticed 1t occurs time and time
again, and presents one of the favorite
SMILES used in mention of the death of
| older people-just as the flower and bud
were made to characterize the young and
| beautiful and good. OF many score il is
said that they went down into the grave
like a shock of corn fully ripe" or
certain oldest person in town, this Mrs
, relict of the late Mr.. Joel A. -
was brought to the grave in a full age, as
a shock of corn fully rape In its season."
This from a paper of 1913:
'Mr. - felt himself unWel on Sat
urday night and sent for some tartar
emetic, which he swallowed and finding
that it did not operate, he sent for an
other dose, and swallowed it, and subse-
quently for two more, without producing
any apparent effect and on Sunday
morning he expired. The coroner yester-
day held an inquest on the body and
surgical examination of it showed that the
tartar emetic had killed him.
Frequently one runs across coroners
verdict. In nine cases out of ten it is as
in the following, which is quoted exactly:
ION the 4th jury of inquest was called
by Coroner Smith TO view the body of
Enos Nash, found dead in the bar of Rich
ard Smith of Hatfield; verdict of jury
that he came to his death by the vista
ton of God"
And so are found reflected the pathos
and the bathos of life as il was lived in
the days when our grandfathers were
boys and our grandmothers were the
buxom maidens that made the old-fash-
Toned meetin house look very gay of
Sabbath, despite It's austerity. 1t is, of
course, impossible in one article to give
anything more than the merest samples
of the thousands and thousands of these
notices which make up the columns Of
the Three Fates, as 1 have somewhat
fancifully termed that part of the paper
where are printed DlflnS, marriages ana
deaths And it is difficult to give any
adequate idea of the influence which these
writings must have had on the life of
those times. for they reflected life and at
the same time nodded it, But this can
only be fully realized after spending days
over the yellowed and quantity printed old
files Enough has, however, here been
given to show the openness with which
the life of all the people was lived and
fH,o nj w of Uyb oh
1t was a time when to wear ones heart
on ones sleeve seems to have been the
custom. 1t was time when there seems
to have been relief from the doubts that
would force themselves In under the
harsh Christanity-relief by thus saying
over and over and writing over and over
at time OF trial the cant phrases Of which
so many examples have been given. Con-
slant seeing and repeating resulted in be-
lieving. And any one who Is familiar
with the power which anything has for
people II they see IL In print" can realize