The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-09-25
In Memoriam of Miss Daisy Carter.

IL MtHUFldu vi mlsH DatoJ SoA WI .
Little over two weeks ago this most
highly esteemed and dearly beloved
young lady passed away from the midst
of kindred and friends to that brighter
realm reserved for the spirit Of those
made perfect by the cleansing blood OF an
ever loving Christ. In the bloom of youth,
Just verging into womanhood, when
smiles seemed sw eetest and voice musical,
when looks become magnetically engagg-
ing, and when the heart pulsates respon-
siYely and mutually to those higher and
nobler virtues environed by affections
purest emotions, it's then we miss them
most as deaths cold hand snatches them
from endeared and devoted loved ones.
Such to us is the image now that sleeps
so TRANQUILITY in the memory of those that
loved her best. But she has done the
work of life, aud like full blown flower
plucked by the hand of death, she has
passed away. If there were any failures
awaiting her in this transient life she has
escaped them; if there were any successes
awaiting her she has already grasped the
grandest. Amid all the "ups and downs
of life, its dark vicissitudes its sorrows and
pains, it's Affections and troubles, all have
ceased, as her mortal life ebbed away.
Her pleasures and joys that might have
been anticipated here, as youth looks for
ward to them, have all too passed away
in the sphere of oblivion, and to-day in
that bri ghter beyond she is realizing the
sweet prospects ahead and enjoying that
Heavenly society "where congregations
ne'er break up, and Sabbaths never end"
A society where sin never enters and
death never visits.
God sustained her from girlhood to
womanhood, and though an orphan she
was blessed in having good home, and
amid all the years of her life God was her
father" To-day she is with those who
loved her best and in "a mansion not
made with hands" My dear readers, l
put here to-day in this solemn memoriam
this question:: Have any of you ever
studied carefully this visitor to US? Why
call it an enemy? Why do we speak of
it as being unwelcomed? Is it because it
so often stalks into our homes unbidden
and carries off those whom God has given
US to love? Oh, what leap from the
household to the grave, but how much
greater is the leap from time TO eternity,
from mortal to Immortality, from earth
to Heaven! Gone! No, no! Not gone;
only asleep, "a blessed sleep, from which
none ever wake to weep" In this world
we leave friends and relatives alike, but
we only leave them for a short while.
We travel ahead faster sometimes to
meet-those gone on, and by and by we
see them weary and worn at Heavens
gates ready to be ushered in by those
angels who always keep those gates ajar.
Is this death? Watch the loved one as
he or she with grieving eyes is bidding
the world "good-bye!" Watch those
hands as loved ones cross them for the
last time. Give one more earnest, passive
look at that sweet, calm face. Remember,
it is the last look on earth. You turn away
heart broken. On earth it's sorrow, It's
bereavement; in Heaven it's joy, tis rap
ture, tits union of hearts never to again
be broken, never to be severed. Christians
this is death.
It is said tits sweet to die for ones
country, but who knows the readiness OF
the warrior unless as Christian soldier
he is armed with the spiritual weapons OF
Christ? Then will he come out more than
COQQOcrOr through I1lIlt Ludt loNCo oS S@ast
gave himself for us. The death OF such
is not like the beautiful sunset Of autumn,
but like the glorious sunrise OF an i'm
mortal spring morning. Like the glori-
Gus sunrise over a crystal sea. When twi-
light hour comes over the home, and the
evening shadows get longer, we feel tue
sad vacancy more. But youth soon for'
gets its sadness and turns to meet the
coming pleasures that the future brings
Not altogether so however is the beautiful
soul character here delineated. She was
sober and chaste in action and at times
pensive and considerate. Her whole life
was typical of sweet reservation and un'
assuming modesty. Not gushing in hel
hearts purest affection, consequently
those that knew her most loved her best
She leaves many relatives and friends be-
hind to mourn her absence, but none sc
keenlv as her loving sister, w1ose tear:
and kisses doves fragrance) alike tel
upon the placid face that only seemed
sleeping in quietude and beauty. At /;
wears of age she was baptised by hel
pastor at Bethesda church and at 81 year:
She crossed the border separating this lit
from Immortality, looking forward to tn
blessed assurance embodied in tina
Biblical promise: BLESSED are the dea(
which die in the Lord" HER PASTOR.
Ehrhardt, September 16, 1902.