Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1898-11-10
FUNERAL GRAFTON.
Pronounced over the Remains OF Miss
LuelIa Webster.

is here given.
While on this earth ye stay,
Oh, nobly live
Strive We from day TO day,
Some JOY 10 give
Some hopeful word TO speak,
Fresh strength TO give the weak
by constant effort seek
Nobly TO live.
Turn ye with generous heart
To those who need;
Eager TO SOW some part
OF lifes good seed
Forego mere selfish gains;
Think We OF others claims.
My friends, we are met TO say above
this still, unconscious house OF clay q
few words of kindness. Of regret, OF
love and of hope. To me has fallen the
task of speaking these sad words. How
deeply feel my incapacity to present
suitable and acceptable thoughts, how
utterly vain may ZEN anything | may
give expression to-, none know better,
or even so well rs ! do myself. My
life has been rich In friends, but
never had better or truer one than
she who lies in silence here. She was
as steadfast, as faithful as the stars.
She has been my pupil, always faithful
and kind, for the past three years,
almost daily. For these reasons ask
your kindest indulgence while | speak
as | believe, she would have me speak,
and as | know her loved ones, who are
heart-broken at her loss desire me to.
A beautiful life has gone out, it has
reached the silent haven that all the
dead have reached and where the vOy-
age of every life must end, and we, her
friends, who even now, are Fastening
after her, desire with yearning love
to do the last kind acts that one friend
may do for another, TO tell her virtues
and to lay with tenderness and anguish
of heart her ashes in the sacred place
Of rest and peace. Let US believe that
pure thoughts, brave words and gener-
Gus deeds can never die. Let us believe
that they bear fruit and add forever to
the we'll being of the human race. Let
US believe that "a noble, self-denying
life increases the moral worth of man
and gives assurance that the future
will be grander than the past.
Leigh Hunt most beautifully says:
"Abou Ben Adhem may his tribe increase,
Awoke one night from deep dream of peace
And saw within the moonlight in his room,
Making it rich and like lily bloom,
An angel, writing in book of gold.
Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold
And to the presence in the room he said,
What writest thouy The Vision raised its head
And with look made all of sweet accord,
Answered, The names of those that love HE
Lord
And is mine oney said Abou. Nay, not So
Replied the Angel Abou spoke more low,
But cheeriy still, and said i pray thee, then,
Write me as one who that loves his fellow men
The Angel wrote and vanished. The next night
IL came again with great Weakening light
And showed the names OF those whom love of
God had blessed,
And 10 Ben Athens name led all the rest.
One always serves the highest in
pulses of his nature when he renders
services OF love to others. A las, how
many go through life possessed Of
riches, perhaps, or endowed with tai
ents, yet die without an effort to
sweeten the bitter waters Of afllictDD
and want. without the world having
been made wiser, better or happier,
without ever writing their name in
kindly acts on the homes and heartsof
the destitute around them, and what's
supremacy saddenlng, without an IT.
tempt TO take the first step in the 60
rious march towards another and better
life.
Luella Webster was born in Grem-
Vile, April 10, 1880, and the following
year her parents moved TO this ely,
where they have since had their hone.
Here Luella has grown from childhood
into youth and was just emerging frm
youth into beautiful womanhod.
Here she has passed all these da.s,
months and years in innocent child
hood and happy school life. Nealy
four weeks ago she was smitten by tht
dread scourge, typhoid fever, and dr.
ing all the weary days and nights Sc
has borne her suffering like tire
heroine with no words OF compla AIT,
but with "a joyful anticipation of sped
lily returning to her dear old schol,
her teachers, her young friends ad
best Of all to her classmates whom Sc
loved with great love.
Last Sunday evening, when TO hr
faithful physician, every symptom
seemed so auspicious and her rapid r.
covery so confidently expected, Sic
was suddenly seized with heart failue
and surely and swiftly was swept on \
an irresistible force to the great u
known, and when dying, mistaking IL
approach Of death for the return {
rest, she sweetly said to heart broke
relatives, I'm going to Sleep" an
thus she still sleeps, that sweet an
beautiful sleep that knows no wakin
. d Il aiIa az tho ,,pa,.a