The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-09

| in secret Silent and unObserved also
! would they die. Such a life was hers
whose death we mourn. Early in life
! she retired from the world. Never in life
did she care for it. The convent was her
worId-nay more-it was her heaven.
Had anyone doubted it he need but have
heard her say during one of the last few
hours Of her life-when death had
already laid his icy hands upon her NOR
tai frame-''I have been happy in my
| ooncent life; it was never heavy yoke
to me and I never found it hard 20 bear -
About her bed. as she uttered these
words, stood her sisters in religion, vain
" trying 10 check the tears that would
unbidden fow-they could not bear the
thought of losing. all too soon one so
esteemed and loved. In the hour OF death
we see more clearly than at any other
time: we distinguish between the true
and the false, detect every fraud, Danish
all Illusions Truth and truth alone can
stand in the presence of death. Such
declaration. in the face of death from one
who for upwards Of a quarter Of a cen
tury had been nun. led the life Of re-
ligious. was surely significant, significant
for herself-it gave incontesuble evidence
Of her own seIfsacrifcing and devoted
life-significant for religious life in gen
eral because it empha sized the fact that
the happiest life in this world is the life
most completely and exclusively devoted
to the services of God Long will her
sisters remember these beautiful words
Of their dear departed one.
THE silver cord has broken, the golden
nllet has shrunken back, the pitcher
crushed at the foundation and the wheel
broken upon the cistern and the dust re-
turns to its earth whence it was and the
spirit returns to Cod who gave it So
Goes Gods word POLITICALLY describe the
scene we witnessed today. The dust re-
turns to earth. She leaves you and for
ever as this world goes. You will miss
her because you loved her, even as she
loved you. Love was her diadem, kind
ness her sceptre. From the beautiful
chapel, built under her watchful eye, and
built with especial care and elegance. |
because it was to be the home of her
chosen spouse, the Tabernacle Of the |
Eucharistic God the dust will be borne |
and your tears will fiow-to the resting |
place in quiet graveyard and beside her
two sisters in religion viii return to the |
earth whence it was And the spirit re-
turns to God. who gave It. That her |
spirit has returned TO God, we fondly |
hope and have reason to believe. The /
poorer the soul. the more perfect the |
spirit. the greater the longing TO return
to Cod That longing we trust has not
been s1lled
Finally; pray for her. Mems eyes
see not as the all-searching eye of God.
What to mems eyes seem perfect may
have biemish or stain visible only to the
eye Of God. Into His precence only that
can enter which is all pure. AS your
church teachers and your religious Gus
tom demands, pray then for your de-
parted sister, that her entrance into eter
nal joys be not delayed and the rest IN
the bosom of the Father be not de-
ferred Sister LeocIitia. God rest thee.
Peace 70 thine ashes. JOY to thy SOUL
SAVES A WOMAN'S LIFE
To have given up would have meant
death for Mrs Lois Cragg, Of Dorches-
ter. Mass For years she had endured
untold misery from a severe lung trouble
and obstinate cough. "Often." she writes.
4 could scarcely breathe and sometimes
could not speak Ali doctors and rem
edies failed till I used DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption and was COM
Dletely cured" Sufferers from coughs,
,olds, throat and lung trouble need this
grand remedy. for it never disappoints.
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