Daily inter mountain., 1900-06-25
A BEAUTIFUL
MEMORIAL
SERVICES HELD IN MEMORY OF
THE LATE MISS DIMPLE
BLACKISTON.
REV. LINLEY OF MISSOULA
PREACHED THE SERMON.
An italian Marble Cross and Offer
ings of Fragrant Flowers Pre-
sented in Remembrance.

Offerings to the memory Of the late Miss
Dimple Blackiston were dedicated at st.
presence Of large number of those who.
during the lifetime of the estimable young
lady, We're her friends. The church was
a handsome cross of Italian marble, set
in the wall as a memorial, was dedicated.
The Services BY ahe Rsv
! of Saints" was DR.. Linley's text, and he
said in part
And one of the elders answered and said
unto me, What are these who are arrayed
; In white robes and whence came they?,"'
and said unto him, Sir, thou knowest."
And he said unto me, These are they who
came out of great tribulation and have
washed their robes and made them white
in the blood Of the lamb" From time to
the resting place Of the dead is brought be-
/. fore us.
AS we read of patriarch. prophet, apostle
martyr, saint, our minds go in contempla-
ton to the throne Of God before whom
they serve day and night. IS We think
We We, enter ter their % paradise % and an mus muse upon their
+, rest Then, too in our own working hours
we look forward to the time when our day
bodies to return to the dust whence they
came, and our spirits to the God who gave
them.
Our text does not treat Of the final tri-
umph of the saints after the resurrection
day. 1t speaks of that WHICH comes be-
this life and the final and
:
most universal teaching OF three states
the preparatory life in this world (and by
the intermediate life In paradise. with body
and soul separated; and then. after the
resurrection morn, the perfect consumma-
tion and bliss both in body and soul in
Gods eternal and everlasting glory.
Some Of US may have read Tyndall's
Hours Of Exercise in the Alps" In those
writes you will recall many scene where,
roped together, alpenstock in hand, they
| follow their guide up many steep ascent,
precipice by walking in the footsteps he
has made. The saints, with Jesus at their
steep ascent to heaven. He, their elder
/ brother, goes first to show the way. BY
, confidence in Him, by mutual help, the
travellers of Zion move onward.
Do not ask my cross to understand,
! My way to see;
Better in darkness just to feel Thy hand
o than the rss bama ater Of
weary camp life; to hear of peace after
! months of cruel war; to enter the harbor
the Heroes % Of war var 70 gal gain S the height, to to
stand before the throne, faultless, ready to
hear, Well done. good and faithful SER
There is an influence in these things
which cannot be checked From time to
up to the Surface. We look at them, think
! over them and are influenced by them.
Have you not met these saints of quiet
lives round whose heads there is halo of
| patience, of purity, of quietness and conf
denoe, of sympathy and charity? Have
! they not helped you-become an inspiration
| to you? These memorials say outwardly
they have. How much more beautiful If
! they help to dedicate that which is from
| within. We have given sympathy to saint
| hood; have we learned it's character? Hav-
Ing dedicated these memorials, we shall
once more go to our homes with all their
! cares and duties. Have we no inspiration?
1 To some the golden evening brightens in
the west; soon to faithful warriors cometh
rest. Sweet is the calm of paradise, the
blest. To others it is to take up what has
been laid down, to bear it more boldly and
wear it more bravely; and to all the
prayer:
o, may Thy soldiers, faithful, true and
I bold,
Fight as the saints, who nobly fought OF
/ old,
And win with them the victor's crown OF
/ gold.