The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-05-10
CULLEOKA

CULLEOKA, Tenn, May EN- tn
early dawn of Saturday, May 4, 1907
the Divine Healer touched the dea
, afflicted Leila, the daughter of Mr. ant
Mrs. Clarence Hobbs. For eighteen
months she had been a great sufferer
Human skill was employed in vain
but the Great Physician in His owI
and perfect way answered the mum
berless prayers for restoration of heI
health. Gentle, tender, yet strong
in character, she had ever been,
| and while she had bloomed into young
womanhood of twenty-one years, she
still retained her child-like purity and
| innocence, and her attachment to her
| parents and all in her home. We
| doubt if anyone ever suffered more
than she during her illness, but her
patience was wonderful, and in her
| pain she was ever thoughtful of her
nurses. The last Ineligible words
when she asked TO be turned by her
father were, Poor Papa. It. is Papa
mighty often.' ROBBED in purest
white, she was laid in her snowy
casket and borne to the Baptist
church, where Elder Spivey conducted
the funeral. She became a Christian
in 1900, and when they laid her away
and covered her grave with flowers,
all realized that her spirit was already
with the God she loved, and that sure
ly he would some day resurrect her
body The parents know not yet how
to bear their loss, The sister, her
constant companion, and the brothers |
miss Leila in the home, but now they |
must find comfort in the assurance
that they have a Leila in Heaven. The
mocking-bird that sang to her in the
painful hours of the night will make
the sweeter music for them because
Leila loved him so. The flowers will
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she was so fond of them. God will
be in a deeper sense their Saviour, be-
cause she trusted Him so implicitly
Heaven will be nearer and dearer be-
cause they have laid up a treasure
there. Their lives will be nobler, bet
Ter, because of the example she has
been. No gloom was ever allowed to
larken her sick room, and she would
nave them bear her death and alb !
3ence with the same brave cheerful +
Tess she had them show during her
ong months of fearful suffering.
MI and Mrs. George Adkisson and
hrs. Sykes Orman, of Columbia, and y
drs. Long, Of Pulaski, attended the I
'urial of Miss Leila Hobbs and re- i,
NAMED a day or two with the family. Il
Little Raymond Moore is quite i'll !,
With acute bronchitis. i
Mr.. and Mrs, H. b. King and Mr. a
nd Mrs. Edwin Beasley and Edwin, Fl
r., of Lewisbure, were with Mrs. j. !
!. Tomlinson Sunday. Edwin, Jr., is
fine boy!
Dr. Carter,of Vanderbilt University, n
reached two mastery sermons at the
ethodist church on Sunday. Rev.
andoph is still detained in Missis
ppi with his wife, who is improving
ter a serious illness.<
The Campbell Station school, under ",
ntrol of Miss Mamie Redding, will 10
ose Friday evening with appropriate M
ercises. tic
Children's Day viii be observed at oil,
e Methodist church school here the m,
d Sunday in May lor
Mrs. A. p. Walker and children, of Nc
,lensville, will arrive Thursday for CA
visit to friends here. IN
Miss Mabel Fowler, who graduates pc
Music ana Literary Departments in Els
n Antonio College Wednesday, will Blu
lch Culleoka the latter part of the the
elk to spend the summer with her thf
Mrs. M. E. Taylor ref
elder Spivey has purchased the j. bes
Smiser place, and will move his
nily here in the autumn.
Phosphate work here is proving in
esting, bat as yet no big sums s
re been involved in any OF the list
des. BARBARA. R.