The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-12-20

given her to watch and guard. and her
mnrmuring lips framed the words,
Praise the Lord, Oh my soul, and all |
that is within me, praise His Holy
\ Name"
| As we think back now over all the
conscious years of our life, as we think
OF the tender love, the watchful care,
the generous forgiveness which that
mother lavished upon her child |
rem; as we recall the many, many hap
py days we have spent together; as we
try to Danish from our thoughts the
last sad hours Of grief and dwell only
upon the blessed heritage of her mem
ory, voice calls to US. over and be-
yond and pervading our great grief and
bids us to give thanks that she was ours
and We were hers, and to repeat as a
farewell the words she used In well
come, Praise the Lord. Oh my soul,
and all that is within me, praise His
holy Name"
Emma Byron Kimball was ocrn in
the village of Bradford, Vermont, on
the fourth day Of February, 1880. She
was the youngest OF four children and
the daughter of John H. Kimball and
Mercy Tabor .Kimban The home
was an humble one, in the New Eng
land hills and when the little Emma
was but three years old the loving
mother died and the home was broken
up. The oldest daughter was Caroline.
nine years old at the time, and she be-
came the little care-taker, the second
mother Who has cared for her little
sister through all these years with q
I love and kindness and eonsidera-
ton which has known no bounds.
From earliest childhood even to the
j grave the lore Of shat eldest sister has
followed her and cherished her and
protected her from the storms and ills
8 of life wherever possible and the affec-
tion of the elder sister has been re-
= paid with love and devotion which
was true and unwavering and loyal be-
n yond cAvil Of doubt and fear. Our
hearts bleed today for Aunt Carrie. the
tgood angel Of our mother's life.
The two girls. Caroline and Emma,
after the death of their mother, were
sent to make their home with their
mothers psrents. The other children,
: Charles and Ann Eliza, remained with
= the fathers side Of the house and the
father himself went to Boston where
he found employment. We have left
to us many vivid word paintings from
Jour mother's lips Of those happy New
England days. The life was . frugal
lone, there were many Of what we would
lc0nsider privations, there was little Of
real childhood for the motherless ones
but nevertheless the days spent at
Bradford in the hills Of Vermont we're
happy ones for the two sisters. After
ward q few years OF separation came,
Emma going to live with an uncle st
Indian Stream and Caroline going to
Adrian, Mich, to become,the matron
of the little home to which the father
soon gathered his children. Emma
was eleven wears Of age when she left
Vermont forever and went to Michigan
which was then on the borderland of
the great rev West.
Through the next. succeeding years
the girls kept up q brave struggle to
obtain an education, the home sur
roundings were not such as to encour-
. age them. but in spite OF difficulties
( they succeeded in laying the founda-
] tion for broad and deep education
. which with their bright and vigorous in
! tellects became to them a source of
,, constant comfort and enjoyment, and
enabled them not simply to exist, but
, to live full. complete lives, appreciat-
/, ing all of the best in literature and
t thought, and to take intelligent part in
q the discussion of public events. The
4 teachings of such men as Wendell Phil
lips and William Lloyd Garrison made
of them the most ardent abolitionists.
!, Mother had a heart which was always
= over flowing with love for the oppressed
and the unfortunate and throughout
ber life, whether as part Of the Un-
derground railroad before the war or
II in personal contact With the people OF
q the enslaved race, she was true to her
+ love of humanity whether the skin was
3 black or white. The REVIEW has been
criticised at times for taxing too strong
It position on the Negro question but
its faith in this regard has been learned
. . at the mothers knee and We shall moi
i depart from it.
Its impossible 70 write of mothe,