The Globe-republican., 1902-11-20

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air, and yet as we look at the changing
color on tree, and leaf and bush, nature
seems to say to US, EsIsn't it lovely? ?''
And it is. This decay and seeming death
is happening that is fit and seasonable.
And we know that when the winter has
come ami gone there will be a resurrec-
tion, and the earth will awake to new
life, and put on new beauty, and the
sadness of the fall, speaks to of the
gladness of the spring And in the same
way every fading, and vanishing face,
speaks to us of bright advent, and every
farewell down here speaks TO us of a
blessed meeting before the throne of God.
And SO it is well though it may look
different to us, the death of one of Gods
children is always opportune. however
bad it may seem to who left be-
hind. And believing as we do IN God
and in immortality, we believe it is best,
and the cruel displacing, is a meet plac
ing for them. God takes our loved ones
to place where character gets the en-
vironment for which it is suited. There
the soul expands in purer air. Days of
conflict with sin and temptation are for
ever left behind. 1t may be that this life
of ours is no longer suited to them and
they are taken to higher, with its own
delights and occupations.
DQL what OA tAOS0 WHO dEG 1eII. 4AGy
are painfully bereaved and they say,
ssHe puts our lives so far apart
We cannot hear each other speak,
That is the most painful part of it.
They feel they must now toll and strug-
gle on alone without the help ard inspir-
alton of those to whom they never looked
for such things in vain. But 1 said,
there are compensations, and one of
them is, that although our loved ones
have been taken from us. our truest pos
session in them still remains untouched.
The portion of the heart, that is the true
possession, the hearts love and affection,
not what we see and hear, and that af-
lection still ours Death has but sub
lIned and refined it: it is true, they are
no longer capable of rendering any
service. but do we value them for that
alone? L think not. but for their love
and affection. And so while they are
gone from US, yet they are given to US in
way in which never had them be-
| tore. How sacred the loved dead have
grown to us, they have risen and ascended
for US, their faults and failings, if they
had any forgotten. And never
saw much beauty in them before.
And there is another sense in which
the true hearted and beloved dead are
still with US, ,and that is in their influence.
/ LII lIIab ISSpSCl we nave IOSt AOluIKB Out
perhaps have gained something. The
influence of a sweet, pure, wholesome
| life, such as our young sister lived is
most powerful in its effect after that life
/ is over. The thought of Emily Sum
mersby's noble life and tragic death
| should have, and will have a wholesome,
| moulding influence, on other young
| lives in this community. The influence
| of our dead young friends life and worth
| stln fingers and is not lost, and we be-
| lieVe the lives of many in this community
| will be purer and holicr from this time
| on because she lived her short life among
| US. And lastly let not doubt for a
| moment that our loved one still lives not
| in her influence only, bur she herself still
| lives. l would as soon doubt my exis-
| tence as to doubt that. Some people ia TX
/ as if they believed that death ended all
| but, friends. the idea of extinction at
death is altogether too poor and low as
the solution of the mystery of humanity.
AS we look at this casket and think of
the noble young life whose remains lie
here, and her awful death, it is impossi-
BILE to believe tha this is the end of one
of the master pieces of Gods creative
skill. No, we believe that to Emily
Summersby death meant life, eternal life
and that means not merely everlasting eX-
istenee. but it means that she lives in
purity and righteousness, in complete hol-
iness and perfect happiness. She lives
from henceforth in evergrowino God
lives with Christ, lives seeing God, re-
! joicing in God and rejecting G od's glory.
This is eternal life and this life we be-
lieve loved one is now living
/ Wherefore, comfort one another and say,
1.-The Lord gave and the Lord has taken
away. Blessed be the name of the Lord -
| Before delivering the funeral sermon
Rev. Mccormick read the following reso-
tlutions of coincidence from Bethany col
llege:
Bethany College recognizes, that in
the unexpected accidental death Of Miss
Emily Summersby of Dodge City it has
lost one of the best students of o;3r Con-
IserYatory. young lady Of beautiful char
acter and noble ambitions, person
Isnatched away from an inspiring and sue
icessful future long before the usual and
expected time. We remember with deep
feeling her lovely personality. her Chris
tian womanhood. her many talents, and
her sweet devotion to duty.
| To the distressed parents and her bro
theirs and sisters, send our heartfelt
isympathy and coincidence. We know
how weak our words must seem in this
sad bereavement. so terrible and so unex-