The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-06-12
RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT.

RESOLUTIONS OF RESBECTs
The following resolutions were adopted |
by the Sunday school at Bethlehem last |
Sunday:
We, your committee appointed TO draft |
resolutions with reference to the death Of
Mrs, Sallie Lashlee, beg to submit the
following:
Whereas, on Tuesday night, May &c, |
1908, at the hour Of 10, when the twin
shadows Of silence and darkness lowered |
like benediction Ger the still, pulseless
world and the inmates Of the homes otthe !
surrounding neighbors we're wrapt in the
arms of Morpheus after the cares of the
day, then it was that death, that unwel-
come visitor, which sooner or later comes
to all homes, entered the abode Of our
friend and brother, Hon. A. P. Lashlee,
and bore away on its cold bosom a faith.
full and devoted wife, fond and loving
mother, a true friend, a good neighbor
and exemplary christian.
Death came to her like thief in the
night, " unexpected, unbidden it crossed
the threshold OF a happy home to pluck
from the sacred altar the one ever bloom
ing flower of wifely devotion and mother
ly love that grew in the rich affections of
a husbands devotion and fourished in
the obedience and love of her children.
When that happy family sat together
at the social board that evening and par
took of the evening meal-although the
clouds that now hangs over that home
were lowering and gathering no thought
of coming sorrow obtruded itself upon
them, and little did they think that ere
the day God would pin back the curtains
of night and open to the gaze Of a waking
world another day thaton the black wings
Of the uight then gathering about them
was speeding the angel ofdeath to shrond
that home in gloom by claiming for its
own a wife and mother. "Strange and
mysterious are the ways of providence"
and to its stern decree we must all bow in
meek submission, knowing that death is
the end Of all earthly existence, but to
one who has lived as she lived it is but
the beginning of life eternal,
Early in life she allied herself with the
M. E. Church, South, and as a member
of this church and Sunday school she was
ever true and faithful follower of that
little flag Jesus himself unfurled amid the
olive-girdled hills OF Judea; therefore,
be it
Resolved, that we received the sad in
telligence of Mrs. Lashlee's death with
feelings of unieigned grief and regret ;
that in her demise this church and Sun
day school has lost one of its most ardent
and useful members, and that we bear
E willing testimony to her worth and merit
as a wife, mother and friend, and that we
commend her many christian virtues as
/ worthy the emulation of others.
Resolved, that while we mourn her loss
we bow in meek submission to the will
, of Him who has said he will mark even
the spamow's fall, knowing that in the
9 end "all will yet be well, " while deep in
our hearts we cherish her precious mem.
DRY so long as life shall last.
Resolved, that we extend to the be.
= reaved husband and children our heart
s felt sympathy and coincidence while in
e our hearts there wells up an earnest pray.
, er that they who sit in the shadows O.
sorrow and grief may, with an eye O.
D grief, see through the clouds of gathering
l gloom and binding tears the star Of hope
, reckoning them on to a higher and &
= brighter existence and a happy reunion
70 after awhile.
{ To the husband, bowed with grief anc
cropping in the darkness of dispair, W.
would bring the precious promises of Hin
who "loveth while be chasteneth." T,
the heart-broken children, bereit Of a par
+. ents love and weeping for p mother, ",