The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-12-10


view of Colonel IngersoIrs reception il
the hereafter was written by well
known society woman of Atlanta, Ca
! who lives on Peachtree street. and par
of which reads as follows.
My Dear Mrs. Insersoll-The cry OF
your srief-stricken heart has come TO
me, and / desire, oh so much, to con-
tribute my grain of comfort. Dear one,
can you believe that your beloved is
still with you, at your side a constant.
though silent companion? Do take
this comfort to your heart, you who
knew the breadth of soul. the largeness
of heart, the noble nature OF your hus-
band. so much more intimately thar.
any one else could, can you not believe
that these graces of heart and life were
but the manifestation of the loving
Father within him? Can you not be
lieve, with me. that this same loving
Father welcomed his son. running 10
meet him, falling upon his neck, kiss
ing him and crying, This is my son,
Robert, who has not recognized me
these many years, but whom. / have
been loving all the time. This, my son.
who was dead. but is alive again, mas
come back TO his Fathers house? And
there was joy in heaveni Take heart.
this assurance, this hope, this comfort
offered you from the fullness of low
ing, sympathetic heart. He may not
return to you, but you shall go to him."
Some Queer Letters.
The percentage of ilIiteracy in the
letters is something astonishing. One
reads:
Mis- Maud 1ngersoli: Dear Mad:
enclose you a tract, what is the Soal,
and hope reading same may Convert
you from the evil of your Ways. hope
you will write me your Opinion of it,
The avalanche which has poured in
upon the family has taxed their utmost
resources TO sort out what little wheat
there was from the chair. and to send
replies to all who deserved it. So far
as has been possible they have sent
courteous replies to all really sympa-
thetic and sensible letters.
Three large bureau drawers hav@
now been set aside for the reception of
future correspondence, and they are re-.
spectively labeled .'Wen-meaning,"
"Spiritualistic" and ''Idiotic.'
Up to the present writing Mr. Far
enough tracts and general religious hit
erature to fit out half the Sunday
schools and missions in our new colo
MES.
Most of the writers seem to doubt
Mrs. Ingersolls agnosticism. She could
scarcely be anything other
Mrs. IngersolTs Ancestry.
History has fashion of abiding to
the God-fearing pioneer mothers of
the commonwealth" But there
was at least one of that early
band to whom such de-
scription could not apply, and that ona
was Sarah Buchanan Parker. the grand
mother of Eva Parker Ingersoll, the
widow of the late Colonel Ingersoll
Mrs. Parker was the wife of wealthy
shipowner of Boston. and after her
husbands death she with her two sons.
George and Benjamin. crossed the
travelling in the primitive
settled in Central Illinois before the
advent of railroads into the state.
Here her home was situated in the'l
centre of a triangle bounded on its
three points by Springfield, Blooming
ION and Peoria, and located as it was
on the highway of travel it soon be- |
came famous for the generous hospi- |
tality dispensed in true western style. |
albeit it was Favored with more intel |
ectual sauce than usual.
Here the Parker family fiourished I
and ere long exercised a decided in /
iuence on all educational. political and |
business interests of the growing COM
George and Benjamin married |
md brought their wives thither in due !
line, and George Parker founded and |
to successful issue the town |
If Atlanta. incidentally accommodating
/ fortune thereby. But it was the
mother, Mrs Parker. who was ever the
recognized head. the dispenser of the /
hospitality. the leader in dis
,ussions, the moulder of thought. She