The Newtown bee., 1904-12-02

llNluR IS uOU SO SIedU Wucu ulScdoc WlUu it's slow fingers unties the knots that fondest heart acknowledges that death would be relief. Our very pity makes us welcome death. Your loved one suffered not. From the midst of life, in full vigor, she entered life eternal; translated in an instant. You will think of her now as you saw her going to her work that last time. Thirty five years ago, ayoung English man lost his life on the Alps. The body would come up out of the snow four miles below. Last year man skirting the base of the glacier cam, on group of people bending over some object by the side of the glacier. It | was the form of a young man with all | the freshness of youth imprinted | on his lifeless features; even the | clothing he wore was scarcely dis | arranged. Yet for 35 years the snows of the Alps had kept vigil over his body. But death had brought eternal youth; Suddenly, another enquirer was added to the little group in the person of an old white-haired lady, who was staying in the little village below. Recognizing the body, she tenderly bent over it, kissed it and wept. The people said: "It is his mother" 1t was not his mother. It was she who 35 years before was his young wife. That is like parable. It is in this world people are growing old; here the lines deepen, and the hair turns white. Death arrests the ravages of time. So strong and well-45 years of age. She shall be missed in the home and at the desk in the office, in the homes of New Haven, in the meetings of the state and here in New Preston. She filled a large place, which no other can fill. Others will do their own work, not hers. There will be void in many places. But that is the way to live; live so as to be missed. That is the true comment on life. Not what a preacher may say at the funeral, but the loss you feel day by day through the months and the years to come: that your prayers are only cry. Let that cry be the opening words of the Lords Prayer: "Our Father''-a cry to the Father. When so crushed we feel like little children, powerless, blinded with tears, "Our Father" Light and healing come by looking to Him. He is very near the sorrowing. ''The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble" And the name Father implies the home and the chil- dren. Our dead ones call Him Father also. When we look at Him we feel nearer them; we feel the family is not broken up after all The unity of the family is unimpaired as long as the Father liveth. When we look on the face of the dead, the impression is that they are far away; that their relation to us is entirely changed, or has ceased altogether. That wrong impression is corrected when we look to the Father. There has been only change. The
 vital relation is the same. We are united in the Father. This is the l important while they were with us: we did not realize it then. Yet it is plain. The more worthy ties recog- nized here are the spiritual, not mere ties of flesh and blood, but the gracious
 union of spirit with spirit. This
 nobier union reaches it's perfection
 when we see Gods place in it. This
 union is never to be destroyed; this tie not to be severed; the words "Our
 Father" bring home that glorious fact.
 In your questionings do not forget your
 Father. Do not let your nature grow bitter so that you cannot call the questions, it is the Father; the con- Solation must come from Him, who is
 the keeper of your beloved.I[ I[New Haven Leader.
 VILLAGE CHURCH INTERESTS. Rev MT Post exchanged pulpits, last Sunday morning, with Rev Robert E. | Carter of Washington and we listened | to bright and inspiring sermon on l ''The True Saviour of Life," Matt. 5: 13.
 W. c. BEEMAN FORMS PARTNERSHIP WITH ROBERT STRONG. Your correspondent is informed
 that Robert Strong of Lake district
 baS formed company partnership
 with William c. Beeman of New Mil
 ford in the general delivery and truck ing business in and about New Mil
 ford and will enter upon his new
 best wishes of his friends in this vicin- l ity for success in his new undertaking.
 George c. Hopkins and sons, with
 their wives, took Thanksgiving dinner
 with MT Hopkins sister, Mrs Kate
 Barnum, in Sharon.
 Rev A. H. Post, Noble Bennitt of
 New Milford, with B. H. Beardsley
 and family, enjoyed Thanksgiving tur-
 key at George A. Tomlinson's, in Mar
 bledale.
 Col 0. W. Pickett and son of New
 Haven passed Thanksgiving day
 at Hon c. P. Lymans.
 Theodore Bente, with his servants,
 left Hotel Villa Luzerne, last Friday,
 for New York City, where he intends
 to pass the winter. MT and Mrs D. E.
 Granniss have moved into the cottage
 connected with the hotel and will re-
 main during the winter.
 | An accident occurred last week, to
 the new circular saw just put up in o.
 E. Beeman's sawmill which will delay