Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-18
OBITUARY

beautiful life.)
What a wonderful legacy TO leave
behind. l should like above all
things to have lived such full
rounded out life you might all unite
IN saying Hers was Beautiful
Life"
one or our members will meet
with us no more in our little w ekly
meetings and we shall miss her
greatly, but the memory OF her kind
~ life Will linger in our hearts like
the fragrance OF the sweetest I'm.
cense. and I am ure that all of You
who knew her intimately wonder I'm
your INFINITE vision OF things. even
as l. why II was that she wa. called
home just at a time when she seem
ed so splendidly fitted for life OF
service for the Master. and though
We wish so earnestly that she might
have been spared us yet little whilo
think. dear friends. what glorious
heritage is hers after having lived
such a beautiful life:
why should we care for the dying
That is but springing TO life?
Why should we shrink at the strug.
gle,
Pale at the swift closing strife?
Since IL only behind us.
Scarcely n step and a breath,
All that dear home OF the living.
Guarded by what we call death"
and her sweet spirit cannot but be
an inspiration and a help TO us even
though she herself has finished very
early in life her work here.
Hers was a life OF such sweetness
and gentleness that no one. not even
the smallest child, who came i'm con
tact with her could help feeling some
of the charm she radiated. and
though I often wondered why IL was
she had such an influence over SO
many. | need not have done so, for
any OF us who place our lives so
wholly and completely in the Mas
ter's hands may ba used by Him
w athitNt JuSl SuCU WOHOtTIul re
suits.
1t would have grieved her tender
loving heart so deeply to part with
her dear ones. and though when Je-
sus called her she could place her
hands in his and say 81 am ready
nethinks, perhaps, to save her tho
pain of that parting. He mercifully
laid His loving hands on her tired
eyelids and she fell asleep to wake
in heaven and twas scarcely known
just when her sweet spirit burst
asunder the prison of the wearied
flesh and took it's flight.
A lesson is to be gained for those
OF us who are still unsaved from
this girls illness and death, for
think you what time would she have
had for preparation had she not al
ready been watching, waiting ever.
for she never regained her bright
clear mind after she once became
delirious, but was stricken down qui
city, quickly. Let us then strive to
be always ready, as was she, for
I'm such an hour as we know not
the Son OF Man cometh," and wher
he came for her, He found her with
her hands full of bright jewels to
lay before His feet.
One thing that should particularly
endear her memory to The YOUNG
Peoples Union is the fact that the
last time she was permitted to be
with us was the night when our pas
tor so kindly entertained us in his
home, and Flora was the bright spir
II OF the evening and was untir.nP
in her efforts to make each of us
enjoy ourself. and the sweet smile
she wore all evening seems like 2
bendiction on us in whose behalf he'
last well moments were spent. and
IFS as IL an angel smiled on us and
took it's flight in mute and wonder
ing inquiry that we should dare to
stay IT, for only the next day she
began to suffer from the poisonous
germs Of fever that burned out her
precious life.
Away down in old Virginia there
Is a girls school, and there are some
five hundred girls attend that school
each year. Instead OF the many friv-
olous pastimes most girls engage In
when away at school. hers was a
sweet life of service and she let her
light shine so brightly, yet so un
ogtentat,ously. it was felt through
ont the whole school, and though
very young. and student herself
her fellow students came to her Tor
help and gentle counsel. and with
wisdom far beyond her years she
gave freely, and though she had SUI
fered from III health for severa'
years she was an incessant worker
and was never too III or tired 70
he most sympathetic listener to
any OF the many little worries OF o
school girls life. and am sure tha'
many OF those girls lift up silent
prayer OF sympathy for the family
who has been bereft OF this dear sis
ter and daughter, and OF the heart
l. e.