The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1898-01-20
Mrs. NJ. p. link.

Mrs. NJ. p. Zink.
Doubtless the greatest and best OF all
New Years opened to Mrs. Rev. NJ. p.
link on the morning Of Jan. 10th, 1898,
when with smile on her lips, she qui.
city went to sleep at her home in Hills.
boro, O., to awaken in "the house not
made with hands, eternal in the heav.
ems"
Mary J. the daughter of John s. and
Sarah West Beasley, was born at De.
cater, Brown county, Ohio, September
23d, 1884.
The writer knows but little of her
childhood and early girlhood, and yet
as in maturity, che has been the embod.
iment of all things sacred, faithful and
true, reasoning back from her age to her
girlhood, it is safe to affirm that the
Christian graces must have even then
found an indwelling. "Only from such
seed and by such culture and with such
sunlight from above. could such fruit
have grown and:ripened, into such per.
fectness Of it's kind"
While student at Oakland Female
Seminary, under the pastorate Of Rev.
NJ. Dostin, she united with the N. E.
Church, remaining for over forty FIVE
years, a loyal, consistent, steadfast,
Christian woman. By her marriage with
the Rev. M. P. link, on Sept. 26th, 1855,
she became the wife Of popular Meth.
odist minister. Sharing with him the
opportunities, responsibilities and pleas
ures for more than fifty years. To them
were born five sons and four daughters,
one dying in babyhood and three daugh.
ters grown to womanhood here passed
"beneath that: low green tent whose
curtains never outward swing"
In her home andsas a pastors wife,
she was unfaltering-aw woman of marked
individuality, she had an intuitive sense
of the right thipg:.to:do. OF uncompro.
missing principle, che trod always un.
flinchingly the path of1duty. Unchron.
icled self.denials were hers. In the
varied interests pertaining to that sta.
ton OF life in which it had pleased God
to place her, she exceeded: the require.
ments. The poor, the friendless, the
Christless, the:weak, found in her help.
ing hand, and judicious, tactful, dis.
eliminating judgment. The church and
it's ordinances were as the interests of
her own fireside. G Broad in her intelli.
gence, catholic in her belief, her own
branch of faith was especially dear to
her. Interested as she always was in
whatsoever things are lovely, pure and
of good report. She was conspicuously
interested in the cause of missions. More
than one home on the frontier, and in
the sunny southland, has cause for
thankfulness for the lips now closed.
From her bed of pain she remembered
the thank.o ffering services, sending her
contribution and blessing. Receiving
her certificate ofLife Membership to the
Home Missionary Society, but few
weeks before che enterediwith the Life
Eternal.
When in 1889, after forty conservative
years of earnest labor, her husband was
granted a superannuate relation to his
Conference, their intimacy was happily |
supplemented in Hillsboro, where was
granted to her period of Irestful home !
life, where shelwas the good genius. As
neighbor and friend, she was ever
thoughtful, ready for. helpful unselfsh |
ministration. This bereavement comes |
as personal affiiction to those who |
knew and lovedsher.
Her life was vital;zed edition of |
King Solmon's virtuous woman. Her
children rise up to callsher blessed and
are themselves blessing. Her later
years were gladdendi-b by visits to her
scattered family, and occasion home
coming of her dear ones. For more
than year she was the subject of severe
suffering, which.was born with charac.
teristic patience. ::The devotion and care
Of her family shall be their greatest con.
ISOLATION. Theimemory OF her true and
useful life their:greatest comfort.
So swift was the touch of the death |
angel, that perchance she knew it not,
until within the presence of the unseen
glories, where:nollonger weary, no long
or suffering, she. .needeth not daughterly |
devotion, nor kindliest tendance of all |
loved ones.
From her early home, she has entered
an heavenly, to reap the rewards of her
faithful life, and there she awaits the
loved ones now saddened by broken |
ties. To them there; is also Q God of |
Ranurockinn