The Newtown bee., 1907-04-05

GIVEN AT HER FUNERAL, LAST WEEK
 wEDN EsDAY, BY REV MIR PATCHIN. At the funeral of Mrs Silas Fairchild Wednesday, Rev w. E. Patchin spoke as follows: As we behold a great piece of mechanism, we are always struck by some prominent point or part Of 1t. In a work of art we notice particularly some light or shadow in 1t. When we think or speak of books, then comes into our mind tnvoluntarily the Bible, the book of books. AS we read the gre at characters portrayed In that matchlesS book, we are bound to notice, as we think of our departed sister, we are won't to think of a 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 have known her comparatively so short a time. can sum the whole up in 8 were her joys; their sorrows, her sor- rows; their success, her happiness and herself always devoted to them. My acquaintance with Sister Fairchild was that she loved her Savior, was con- stantly with Him through the Word
 
 | as 1t 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 | got out of bed to write, that came to her after one of those communings | with God. am sorry to see that to day many of the women take to pOlit- ical questions, spend their time trying to vote, join motherhood clubs and lecture on the raising of children. They can tell you how to run 8 house and how to raise children, but the tell I ing is all they accomplish. Sister Fairchild was of former times; she be she did to-day what her hand found to do and did not spend her time think 1 ing of some great work she might do 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 John or | a Charles Wesley. Abraham LincOln's mother did not realize when she put 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 given and given to God with Christ as the center of that circle, they were to themselves by their lives here to dwell with Him above. When father goes, when mother goes, when brother or sister, son or daughter goes, it is but another golden link forged to bind the loved ones left, to that other shore; is carried out, the family circle shall be made complete, never to be broken again. AS the family is separated here on earth, by one going off to distant the loved ones left behind, when they 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 material things demands the price and 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 1 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 home worth striving l SlIlSU says. kcu uOU yOuI uc6Il
 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 world of comfort in those words, 1T would
 have told you." So to-day while oul sister has departed, that life is living
 still. Can you touch pitch; can you
 go through mud without getting some
 on you? No more can you come in
 contact with life such as the one just
 lived, without being better for it, anC
 as a looking glass reflects the sun as ii
 is flashed around, so the life of our sis
 ter has been continually flashing lighti of our Savior Jesus Christ, and those lights will continue to flash to eternity On Thursday, March 2s, a son wal ' born to MT and Mrs George Camp O. Waterbury. The boy will bear tn,
 name of Merwin Gaylord Camp, and i
 a grandson of MT and Mrs Frank Fl
 Mitchell of Mile Hill. The young mal 9 and his mother are doing finely.
 Miss Edna McNamara of Danbur
 is passing the Easter vacation witt \ her aunt, Mrs Thomas Carey, of Qneel street.
 S Miss Edna Lowell is passing the wee e in Bridgeport with her sister.
 x The selectmen settled with Jame