Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-07-31
Obituary.


Death finds US midst our playthfngs,
-Snatches us, from all our toys and
troubles
His rough call, unlooses all our favor
lite ties on earth,
AS a friend and neighbor, we write
of the death of Mrs. Nancy Moore,
which we saw chronicled in the last is
sue of your paper, and knowing as we
do, that few indeed are as well pre-.
pared to enter into that home not made
with hands, as she was.
Mrs. Moore was good woman ever
faithful, to her family, her friends and
her neighbors, and was always solicit
tous of the welfare of the community
In which she lived. Our sympathies
are with the companion of her life, who
survives her, and whose deathless love
has endured through all these years of
sunshine and sadness. When time FUR
rowed her cheek and silvered her brow
he was constant until the thread that
nature woye was broken by death and
she was lulled to untroubled repose,
and to the daughter Mrs. Winthrop
Adams and the two sons, we also ex-
tend our sympathy at this time, "when
in the providence of God, the spirits of
those who possess true christian char
acter, are removed from us to the spirit
land" We feel forcibly the truth of
that old maxim, 1--WE know not the true
value of our blessings, until we are de-
priyed of Them"
Seldom, If ever, is. the full influence
of moral worth felt, while it moves
among us in Its tenement of clay, but
when the outward view is forever
closed by the veil of death then mem
DRY, with pious hands collects the scat.
tered relics of departed worth, and Of
fers them as it were sacrifice on friend
ships altar.
| This as it should be--and were such
memories oftener embodied on the
printed sheet and given to the world,
who can doubt that their influence
would be increased within the friendly
circle.
When the Reaper came forth to reap
he arrived to take the richest sheaf, SO
mother has gone to her reward, and
you are left without the best friend
that God ever gave you. When we think
of all q mothers tenderness while liv-
ing; of all her anxieties and kindnesses
and when she is gone from us to a far
away country; when the cares and cold.
ness comes whitening to our hearts;
when we see how hard 1t is toslind true
sympathy; how few love us for our
selves, how few will befriend us in our
misfortunes; then it is we think of the
mother we have lost!
| There is none in all this cold and
hollow world, no fount of deep, strong
deathless love, save that within d
/ mothers heart.
From this dark abode. this person of clay,
Her freed spirit has passed, all triumphant
away
To that bright and that leautiful world fal
/ above
To the bowers Of peace, in the Eden o, love
She is done with all worries. all care, and al
pain,
And this cold. gloomy world will not Visit
again,
But on pyramids OF mercy to those who remain
WIN aid them unseen, this fair country tc
gain.
She shall feel perfect peace in this region
above,
She shall sail with old friends on tho waters
of love.
The friends In that realm who have loved her
the best,
In the perfectly beautiful city of rest.
And though painful the parting with friend
after friend,
We shah join them again when llfe's jour.
ney shall end.
Having Travelled while In the beautiful road,
TO the City Celestial, the home of our God.
Although clouds and thick darkness encom-
pass Gods throne,
We tile gracious designs OF His dealings
would own,
Though we dwell in the midst ofdark shadows
Yet the Mystical now. We hereafter shall
know"
INEVITABLE.