Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-08-17

She was my co-laborer, / knew her mind.
She was raised among these hills,
these giants of Nature, and her heart
and mind were built on the same gigantic
scale
As they are grand in their beauty, so
was her heart grand in its love.
As they each day reveal some new
form, so her mind, limitless in capacity,
each day evolved some new thought.
AS they in their majestic silence, with
Natures eloquence, attest the glorious
glory of their Creator, so she by her
Christlike charity and the eloquence Of
her expressed devotion, attested the glory
Of her God
You have heard and read and know
that as an nartist, in her chosen profession,
she attained the highest honors.
She did not impersonate, she lived
she did not teign, she was. Her art was
true transcription of Nature, and mag
nanimous Nature had gloriously fitted
her in voice, in form, and feature to be
her true exponent.
She was great artist; she WAS beer
less woman.
Yesterday [ stood beside the cold and
silent remains of the noblest true woman,
and the truest noble woman | have ever
met
Lillian Lewis Marston was that woman.
She was majestically beautiful in life,
and she was beautifully majestic in death.
1t has been said that | devoted my
life to her interests. All [ say in reply
to that is: | hope so. I could not have
devoted my life to a better cause.
All [ did it [ did anything, was
Loves Labor.
She was my mental and my physical
companion, and she is my spiritual solace
A truly good woman is the fairest leaf
in Natures big book, and that is what
she was.
Her precepts were: Love God and
the good Always think right and you
will never do wrong. Be as near the
perfection of the truly femme as you can
Let your heart be big enough to love the
world and all humanity. Be firm be-
lever in the Lord Jesus Christ. Have
absolute faith in God that is the true
beauty of religion. Do not fear God
because you dread punishment Do not
love God because you hope for reward
Let there be no incentive. Worship
your Creator because you are part Of
Him and He all of you.
She herself couformed to all these pre-
ccpts.
Since times beginning there have been
men who sought to deprive other men of
the only thing that makes life worth
living: The belief in the Immortality Of
the soul the belief that God is. | have
been in contact with such men.
TO her, whose mortal life deaths cold
hand has vanqnished, | am indebted for
the positive knowledge that this life is
not the 'Be-All'' and that death is not
the end H."
| wan the world to know that no
matter what it thinks did for her, |
know she made a better man Of me, and
| am her debtor.
Yesterday ] was materialst to-day
l know the soul is immortal; [ know
that God is. And when my time comes
to go into infnity, | shall go with that
dignifed calmness, which the knowledge
that | shall find her there unchanged,
that | shall love her there as | did
here, imparts.
Infnity gave her to me for finite
period, and infnity has reclaimed her for
infinite time. have not consigned her
to the earth but to Eternity.
On earth she was queen among her
sex, in lninity she is queen spirit.
LAWRENCE MARsToN.
Emporium, Pa, Aug. 10th, 1899.