The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-23
IN MEMORIAM

Forty years ago read Aurora Leish. -
tpat most beautiful OF love poems. from
The heart and brain OF divineIy-gifted
Elizabeth Barrett Browning. There was
one sentence that made so great an i'm
preston upon my mind that have never
forgotten IT, The sentence was this:
Life struck sharp on death makes aw-
ful lightning"
What combination OF words couId in
50 brief space so vividly describe the ef-
fect OF unexpected and sudden death2 As
the tHUnderoOlt from the sky rfves the
living tree. so the shock Of the sudden
who mourn and every. nerve becomes an
avenue OF pain.
/ am thinking as write of those who
have wept over the Iifeless form OF Miss
Emma Anderson. Who passed 50 20 SilicET,5
mat we never dreamed Of dangcr until
she had gone She was % wears of age
and bright colsummate flower OF
NomanhOod, who TO know was TO admire.
ard she and / lived side by side as
friends for fourteen years All her life.
therefore, was practically known to me
ana 70 me she was ever one Of the most
artiess. innocent. uusOphisticated chill
dren 1 ever knew. Full Of vitality living
was a daily joy 70 her. and her merry.
hearty, whole-sOuled laugh was music
in the air.
UnconscioQsiy she once made to me in
Jest prophecy that is in her death
startiingiv fulfilled. Some years ago I
was one day teasing her about her cousin
Iorgreen Larsen, a beautiful boy Of her
own age and boon companion. sud
denly she broke az me with.
Il m going to marry Torureen 80
nat said l. will never do. Cousins
should not marry
Well. If I don't marry Torgreen I will
never marry any person
\ year and a half later her cousin
I0rgreen lay f0rty-eight hours fun Of
pain and died The first parr al The
prophecy was Fulfilled A year and a-haTf
.eter Emma ; brother. a young giant in
heait1 and strength law back in a rock
ing chair aud died without a ru0menf's
Warning Emma saw that death and felt
the lightning Of its shock as she never
teit anything before. She told me OF IL
months after When the wounds v-era
partially healed. But another year and
q BALI has passed and almost win as
little WarnlnI Emma herself has gone
unmarried 20 her graVe-the prophecv il
entirely full. and we mourn her as one
who should have become d maEnificent
woman wife and mother.
Bur az j listened 20 Bishop Wnituev-s
sermon over her yesterday afternoon as
she lay asleep under mountain Of flow
X those three-oTotHer, sister and cousin
we're toSetner row. Do they know
Wnat the bishop said We could not know
now. but must believe. because such is
Zoo : Wi: Honesty. l do not know. nor
do l know how be knows what IS Gods
vii IN the natter But this 1 believe
that as belief IN Immortality was born OF
direction. that has grown and grown with
me elevation OF the human above the
uruler therefore. above every unsOddad
grave around which stand those whose
heads are bowed aud whose hearts beat
low 10 the hard gripe OF nneasureless
grief there shines q star OF hope-a star
born OF love. whose light may snina uuou
healing hearts unfa at last ID .aIls into
ne pleasing conviction that though
NO step Is on the conscious floor.
let love viii dream and faith will trust
tSince he who knows our cause IS iustl.
mat somehow, somewhere, meet we
must.
rHARrES ELS