The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1905-06-16
A Tribute to Mrs. Beulah Plimpton
BY her friend and sometime Pastor, Albert G
Upham.


BY her friend and sometime Pastor, Albert
Upham.
1t was with sincere sorrow
that [ heard of the passing of my
friend, Mrs. Beulah Plimpton
Lane. For her | cannot but re-
joice that she who has long been
fitted for it has entered into the
, fulness of the life everlasting.
But while heaven is richer by
her presence earth certainly is
poorer by her absence.
became her pastor in 1887, and
from that time to this l have ever
found her a true friend. She was a
person formed for friendship. Gentle,
gracious, modest and unassuming,
and witha1, filled with the rich fruit
of deep Christian experience, she
was we'll fitted to make friends and be
a wise counsellor. And as she had
been PASTORS wife she knew how to
smypathize with and encourage one at
the beginning of pastoral career.
She was both receptive and responsive.
She could give and take. She led
while she seemed to follow, and by her
very graciousness diffused an atnlos-
phere which invited confidence, and
drew out all that was best in one with
out his realizing it.
She helped me by her Christian ca
tholicity. She had learned by exper-
fence that it is only by communion
with all saints that we are able to APP
prehend what is the breadth and
length and depth and height, and to
know the love of Christ, which passeth
knowledge. And so she was ever a
learner. Inheriting the best, both
spiritually and intellectually of the
old time New England traditions, she
was person of high ideals. Her
mind was ever open to the Influences
of the Spirit of truth whencesoever
they might come, and she encouraged
her children and all about her by her
example to cultivate the spirit of men
tai and spiritual hospitality. To the
last she read the best books of the
time, and was eager TO know the latest
thought of those who believe that God |
is still working in his world, and who |
delight to try to think His thoughts
after Him. She was never "afraid of |
that which is high" but always set |
her face towards the rising sun.
Not that she was d drifter, far from
it. Her hope was in God. She had |
her full share of the common human |
lot of trial, but she bore her trials |
with the faith and patience that inner
1T the promises. She knew whom she
had believed, and was persuaded that
He was able to keep that which she
had committed to him against
that day. dare say that many of her
religious opinions were changed or
modified as she passed through the vi
cissitudes of a long and earnest life.
But her religion, the knowledge of
God which bound her soul TO Him in
love and glad obedience to His
Word, and which came to her through
His revelation of Himself in Jesus
Christ, only broadened and deepened
as her life flowed quietly on. At last
am sure she could have said with all
the humility and the frmness and re-
Ioicing of the great apostle,-"I have
kept the faith
Who can estimate the value of life ,
ike hers in community? She repre-
iented the best of what we ought to
ielight to call the New England char l
lcter, and all her natural graces and {
sitts were sanctified by the grace of q
fod, and were freely given in Christ's =
lame to the service Of her fellow men. :
49,. l.1sseSafs Lords best iuterpreters.
Are humble human souls:
'he gospel of a life like hers
Is more than books or scrolls. b
from scheme and creed the light goes -
out,
The sanity fact survives; L
The blessed Master none can doubt G
Revealed in holy lives" C
FALL River, May 10th, 1905. /
Such a life as that just passed
n review by one who knew from /
IN acquaintance of long standing I
he personal side of it, needs no J
urther tribute. e
Mrs. Lane began well within a
he first quarter of the last CEN :