Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1902-04-23
OBITUARY.


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Emery at Great Pond on Friday, caused
sincere sorrow not only In the com nnnity
where she had always lived, but through
out the county, where she has many
friends, most OF whom know her princi-
pally through her riings.
Flossie vas born at Great Pond, Aug l.,
1868. the daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. James
F Emery. Handicapped through life by
physical deformity, -he possessed an in
teilect out OF all proportion TO the dwarfed
body, and by improving her opportunities
became an influence for the good and the
beautiful that reached out beyond her own
little circle.
She was constant yet discriminating
reader, selecting the best OF current iiiera-
ture, and getting from it some pearls
which she treasured in her own mind.
She read not only the best fiction, but kept
posted on national affairs and the doiugs
OF the wide world
Not only reader, she was also bright
and interesting writer, and has contrib
uted many stories to magazines and papers.
Several OF her stories have appeared in
THE AMERICAN. She was the regular
correspondent of THE AMERICAN at Great
Pond for many years, and frequent con-
tributor to the Mutual Benefit column, in
which she took deep interest. Her broad
ness of view and the hopeful spirit are
shown by her letters to the Mutual Benefit
column few months ago, after a pro-
longed Illness, she wrote:
1t is hard to understand why there should be
so much suffering In the world, but II we never
had sickness or sorrow we could hardly realize
how many good hearts there are around US.
A few weeks later she wrote:
My wondering over the suffering of the world
is because the why's and wherefores of natures
laws are sometimes hard to comprehend, not
because think all suffering lie sent by our
Creator.
have no doubt there are many driven away
from God by just the thought that He is the
author of all their woes, and they see in Him
only the stern judge, not the all wise and loving
Father. 1t may be said that as earthly parents
innict punishment for the chids good, so He
sends punishment, but wise parent will give
to each child just the training suited to its needs
and temperament-for one, perhaps. the rod, and
Tor another only loving counsel. Then hOWCan
we think that the Heavenly Father, so infinitely
wiser and more loving, whose desire is to win
all men to Himself, will use means that will
drive even one soul farther away .
If we but ask, He will gladly give US spiritual
strength to endure ply steal weakness.
We do not all think alike, nor do believe 1t
necessary. There are many gates to the holy
city; there must be as many roads leading
thereto. What matter by which we travel SO
that we have the password at the end?
Surely Flossie possessed to marked de-
gree the spiritual strength to endure
physical weakness, OF which she speaks.
Only few weeks ago, in her last letter to
the column she says
Truly "our mind to us kingdom is" and the
horizon ever widens before that eye of the mind
which industriously seeks new interests, though
1t may be narrow indeed to our ply steal sight.
The words OF this girl whose own life
was 80 limited by physical suffering are a
reproach to those who complain SO often
and so bitterly of their own little suffer-
ings. Her mind rose above the Affections
OF the body and she saw with clearer
vision than many more favorably situated
Her life is sermon, the influence of
which will long be felt by those who have
been brought in contact with 1t.