The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-01-05
IN MEMoRiAM.
LeweiIyn Schulz. Phoebe Alice Taylor.
(By Mrs. Anna C.. Safford.)

day. looking backward for almost the
time allotted 10 generation. since
our hi tory as a club began, we can
see many precious pictures hanging
on It's sacred walls This heausful,
material building with IT'S treasures
Of literature, art and science is only
the palpable representative OF anotn
Ter. fairer fabric which we have help
ed to build through the busy years
gone by by giving of some Of our
time or filed with he daily round Of
pressing cares and duties, to the
higher aims Of life, In spite Of the
absorbing claims Of family cares and
social duties and church obligations
his bright and restfu spot has
brought together for almost thirty
years in congeniaI companionship
minds eeking Improvement along In
ielleetuai lines and filed with an
earnest desire TO be wiser, broader In
thought and more helpful to others.
Looking back over the long stretch
If years how many bright and earnest
faces we rememher-what cordial
lasp of hands and sweet intercourse
ii mind and heart are bound up with
he history of our dear club. All
over the land there are scattered
those who once were with us In daily
,ompanionship anu Community OF in
lrest. who are ssill Interested in
,ur welfare and success Every an
iual calendar contains their names
md conveys to thep even though for
AWAY from us our grateful recollec
lions of them and onr cordial recog
aitien that they still belong to us
though far removed from sight and
active participation. II we so re-
member hose absent only in the flesh
10 we not yet more tenderly even re,
member and love those who nave
passed from the life militant to the
life triumphant Having been called
10y the Great Teacher into a higher
class, and knowing now Of a sure
those lessons of erue, noble living
they yearned to grasp In this life,
by cultivating their best powers how
sure we are that they still love and re-
member us As their affection for
and loyalty 10 this club was a part Of
their faithful lives while with us we
feel it is still part of their heaven
ly inheritance and that their tender
interest encourages us. The roll of
our sain.ed ones grows larger every
year oday we recall especially taat
sweet, devoted wife and mother. Lew
el1yn Schulz who was called by God
to endure long weeks of pain and SUI,
fering until she was ready 10 pass
from home, husband and children and
lear friends into Paradise. She pass.
cd from the spring OF earth and life
and love. TO the fadeless spring OF
the life immortal The autumn called
from us another true and noble soul
VINO went almost without warning
answering as good soldier 20 the I'M
expected bugle call For years in
The front rank of those who serve
gratefully and well. bearing che bur
den and heat Of the day with marve {.
Gus courage and good cheer. she eX
erted a widespread 9nfuence for
good In every direction. Prominent
as an educator and school official for
years, Mrs Phoebe Alice Taylor i'm.
pressed upon The community her own
high ideals and unfiinching integrity.
Exceptionally able I'm intellec'. with a
well trained and disciplined mind and
wide experience. she was yet stu,
dent to the very last, always seeking
more knowledge and wider culture.
| She generously used her rare gifts
| for the good of others and left be
! hind 20 her be'oved children aud
grandchildren and friends a glorious
/ heritage. the precious memory of a
useful fruitful well-rewarded life
well spent Her less To the Woman's
club is irreparable for she was one of
IT. older ana most devoted members
and helpful from the beginning Q
make It what il was mean. to be. n
postgraduate course for busy wo
men who crave and need an intellect.
ual outlook For life is but a Vesti-
bule wherein we enter unframed and
uniformed. but linger as long as may
be to become better fitted mentally
ana spiritually by those things that
We seek and desire and asslmilate.
for a higher and purer and more per.
teci life Those who are content with
base or frivolous conditions find them
ready to .heir hand and crave no
better. But the bright. sieadfast soul
that daily mounts even by lis failures
and mistakes into he upper regions
Of knowledge. faith and love Of all