The Newtown bee., 1907-04-05
TOWN TOPICS.
TRIBUTE TO MRS FAIRCFllLD'S s
 MEMORY
GIVEN AT HER FUNERAL, LAST WEEK
 WEDN EsDAY, BY REV MIR PATCHIN.

WEDNESDAY, BY REV MIR PATCHIN.
 At the funeral of Mrs Silas Fairchild at the Methodist church, last week as follows: AS we behold great piece of mechanism, we are always struck by some prominent point or part of it. In work of art we notice particularly think or speak of books, then comes into our mind tnvOluntartly the Bible, the book of books. AS we read the great characters portrayed in that matchless book, we are bound to notice some great trait in each character, so as we think of our departed sister, we are won't to think of trait of hers, which was her unSelfishneSS. How little she thought of herself and how she was always doing for some one else. It would be waste of time for me to try to refresh your memories by little incidents of her life, you who have known her so many years, while I have known her comparatively so short a time. I can sum the whole up in a few words. The joys of her loved ones were her joys; their sorrows, her sor- rows; their success, her happiness and acquaintance with Sister Fairchild was that she loved her Savior, was con- Stantly with Him through the Word and always had her Bible close to hand, as it was meat and drink for her soul. She never felt alone with that by her. She loved to commune with God and at night she would awake and lie and talk with Him and it seemed as if He talked with her, for among my treas ures, have piece of poetry that she got out of bed to write, that came to her after one of those communings with God. I am sorry to see that to day many of the women take to polit- ical q questions, spend their time trying to vote, join motherhood clubs and lecture on the raising of children. They can tell you how to run house and how to raise children, but the tell Fairchild was Of former times; she be- lieved in doing instead of theorizing; she did to-day what her hand found to do and did not spend her time think tomorrow. The people of this world who accomplish things, who make his tory, do not realize that they are doing great things. Susanna Wesley did not realize that she was raising a John or Charles Wesley. Abraham Lincoln's her babe in the cradle, that he was to emancipate people. And those lives are living yet; they did not die; they never stopped for minute, only when they had completed their circle here on earth, ending where it began, God
 
 the center of that circle, they were to dwell with Him, having prepared themselves by their lives here to dwell with Him above. When father goes, when mother goes, when brother or sister, son or daughter goes, 1t is but | another golden link forged to bind the loved ones left, to that other shore; | is carried out, the family circle shall l be made complete, never to be broken 1 again. As the family is separated here on earth, by one going off to distant cline and may be prepares a bome .,1o1I for are sent for, they may not be able to go to that home, however grand or beautiful it may be. They may not have the money, they may not have the bodily strength, for this world of exacts conditions if that family circle would be united again. But with the family circle above, the rich or the poor, the great or the small, can reach | that home without money or without price. So that if that family circle IS not complete above by your being ab- sent from it, there is no one to blame but yourself. So ask each one here to see to it with all care and diligence, that they are not the ones to break the circle of their family in that home above: It is a home worth striving
 
 be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me; in my Fathers house are
 many mansions; if it were not so,
 would have told you." What 8 worlc of comfort in those words, II would have told you" So to-day while ou
 sister has departed, that life is living still. Can you touch pitch; can yol
 go through mud without getting some
 on you? No more can you come iE
 contact with life such as the one jus
 hoi hot ffor fNr Y,f
 as looking glass reflects the sun as i
 is flashed around, so the life of our sis
 ter has been continually flashing light
 of our Savior Jesus Christ, and thos,
 lights will continue to flash to eternity On Thursday, March 28, a son wa 1; born to MT and Mrs George Camp o Waterbury. The boy will bear tn
 name of Merwin Gaylord Camp, and
 grandson of MT and Mrs Frank H
 Mitchell of Mile Hill. The young ma and his mother are doing finely.