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

eSoN vi tuo pure Tor tnls world, Just as
many of the young We're too beautiful
mowers 10 be permitted to come to their
Iuil bloom on this bloomless sphere. One
can but wonder how some of the aged
! chaneed to linger so long. Apropos the
| following:
Died, at Orange, Too nure
Tor earth, her Father called her home. She
was married at the age of IS years-has
had TOUR husbands, eighteen years inter-
vening between her marriage with each.
She lived with her last husband
three and one-half years. and a
WIDOW since the death of her last hus-
band eighteen years. Her first and last
husbands were brothers."
Long and interes. ing are the philosophiz-
lngs on the deaths. Sometimes there
seems to be some doubt if the blow could
nave been struck by a loving Providence
the blow which was so hard a one, for
the friends to bear. But unseldshly, the
friends generally brought themselves to
look at II all from the standpoint of the
departed. Very often the vivid picturins
OF the misery of the remaining friends
ends thus But we trust their inesti-
maole loss is her infinite gain" This is
one of the notices prepared by that COM
Tort OF mourners, that portrayer of lives
and of deathbed scenes, and that inspirer
OF hope and comfort in the bereaved-the
comm" The following appears hun
dreds of times: Her friends indeed mourn
but they sorrow not as those without
hope. To her it is a great gain" Others:
'Still they can with faith look upward.
trusting that their loss is her happiness.
her own eternal gain" HE had set his
house in order. and we believe that what
is our loss is his unspeakable gain"
OF reports of death-bed scenes there are
many. Some of them are too coarse and
100 awfully narrowing TO permit of repro
duction In a MAORI of cases the all
ment of the deceased is described at great
er or less length, and there is some sort
of disqu.sition on the l.fe and conversion
and preparedness of the departed. Some
of these tributes and obituary notices and
some more or less lengthy articles that ac-
companied the announcement of the death
are worth quoting in part as specimens of
their kinds. They will be given without at
tempt at classification.
But It may be noted that it was a custom
TO request other papers to copy notices
This was done by adding the line, print
ers in" so and so will Please COPY" In
time it became abbreviated to this: Print
ers in" so and so will, etc" This request
often got run in to a stanza. thus:
Farewell dear brother and sister, too.
I now must bid you ali adieu,
o meet me in those realms above,
Where al is joy, peace and love.
Printers in Vermont please copy.
Notable are these lines also because they
put words in the mouth of the dead per
son, which was rarely done. 1t was gen.
orally the triends-the iiving-that spoke
through the obituary notice Some de-
scriDtions of death bed scenes:
At length surrounded by his weeping
family and friends he sank into the arms
1E ~ .-.g+l
composure which is the happy heritage of
the dying Christian.
As she neared the gates of death she as
sured her friends that the poet had well
described her feelings in saying:
Jesus, the visions of Thy face
Have empowering charms;
Scarce shall feel deaths cold embrace
If Christ be in my arms.
She might well have adopted the Ian
guage of job in saying, II would not live
always" Comm.
1t viii be seen that this last-quoted one
represents the possibility of Christ's being
in the arms of the dying, while the one
just before represents the dying person
as sinking into the arms of the Savior
This shows how figurative and really
meaningless was the language and thought
of these writings as of the hymns they
QuOtSu L lie COiliiIlSIl VI lliS COHlIn III
the last one is somewhat superfluous, Rath-
er humorous this
Died, of disentery Marshall p, son of
ARENAS and Lydia Rogers, aged three
years.
He tasted life's bitter cup
Refused to drink the contents up,
And turned his little head aside,
Disguised with the taste. and died.
Others. not humorous:
Brief must be the notice of her dying
scene. She wished continual exhortation
and prayer from her pastor which she
greatly enjoyed and selected hymns ex-
pressive of her triumph in death; and
when her friends were singing, the sweet
notes of her dying voice were often ming
led in. 1t was the noon of night when she
began to die. Her pastor, physician, sis
ters and husband We're there. 1t was a
heavenly scene, though hearts were burst
ing and tears were flowing. Reason was I'M
disturbed and perfect serenity was on her
brow, as her feeble lips calmly, but dis
tinctly, uttered these last words, ,Lord,
Jesus, receive my spirit" We fell upon
our knees and the departing saint accom-
panied us in prayer, and with the closing
amen" her consciousness ceased, and soon
without a comfort on the features, her
deathless spirit winged its way to heaven.
In the midst of her departed kindred she
now reposes, where she was often seen,
adjoining their graves with those flowers
which will soon spread their roots and
open their blossoms around her sleeping
dust.
How like this is to the description of
Caedmon's death in the venerable Bedes
ecclesiastical history:
He delayed the great work of preparing
for death till his time was far spent, but
ne had a comfortable assurance that God
for Christ's sake had pardoned his Sins
and for a year or more had been prepar-
ing him for the closing scene. AS his lamp
OF life burnt lower in its socket, he SEEM
ed to gain new strength, in the inward
man, and most feelingly and faithfully
admonished all of his young friends whom
he loved and whom he was about to leave
behind. TO seek a timely preparation to
meet him IN another world. Friends are
consoled by the thoughts that their loss
in his infinite gain. Comm"
The power and yet the consideration of
the Comm" is shown in the following