The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1908-02-06
OBITUARY..
Tribute to- t',e Memory o. Mrs.
hI.ies =. Whit, VITO DIED D.
cemSer iS, 1907.

Tribute to- tre Memory ot Yrs.
.ha.ies =. Whit, VITO Died D.
Cem5sr iS, 1907.
The following tribute to the MEM
DRY OF lady greatly beloved, was
written by her former pastor, Rev.
Carr Moore, and published in the
Presbyterian Standard OF Jan. 18th:
During the night OF December 18th,
1907. there left these scenes of separa-
ton. for the land OF everlasting abiding
one of the lOveiest spirits that God ever
loaned to this life. After a painful sea-
son of severe sickness that would yield
neither to love nor the most de-
voted service the tired body OF Mrs.
Charles May field White gave up the
struggle to live for her loved ones, and
her soul entered serenely upon that
rest that remaineth for the people OF
God
As Sallie Daniel Boyd, daughter of
William Henry Boyd deceased. and Sal
lie Nenable Daniel, Townsville, n. c.,
she married, in 1899. Chas NJ. White,
of Enterprise, N. c., whom she leaves and
three little children,-a broken-hearted
household. She WAS a deeply beloved
member of a family remarkably large
and largely remarkable for beauty OF dis
position and tenderness oftemperament.
and the mystery OF her broadly useful
life. with health robust without weak
ness, and OF sterling yigor, and with
every promise OF widening power for
goodness and graciousness, closing when
she was under two score years, leaves
a large circle OF loved ones grief-stricken
and cropping. but nnmurmuring ana pa
tientiy awaiting the revelation OF this
wisdom and love of God, in clouds that
alright.
Her life, not only to her family and
friends, but to the large household OF
faith. broader than creed, seemed a.
vital as the breath of the body and she
linked that life to many an aching heart
with rare fidelity and fondness. Quiet,
pa tient. ,nomenally self-possessed and
self contorolled, under conditions that
average order, her influence for right
business touched and shaped a wide
sphere and beautified and bettered all
that she touched.
Her gifts of mind aud of morals were
rare and rich and were exercised with
such subtle insinuation, that the life was
uplifted and ennobled, unconscious Of
ten of the influence, as the flower, and
the fruit take their blessedness and
beauty through the secret touch OF God.
All around her We're made better and
drawer by the tenderness of her superior
spirit.
She did not possess the sparkle of the
swift-running stream, answering the
sunlight with the rapid movements OF
it's life, but rather the deep, STILL lifeful
nature OF the mighty river, along whose
course blessed interests for life eternal
were built and became operative in the
beauties and benevolences of being, in
the foils and counterfoils ofconversation
when characters were dissected, with a
touch not oversacred, she never pointed
anything but the beautiful and the best,
for, both by Inheritance and by the life
long habit. she declined to voice any
thing save the considerate and kind.
Her religious type was Of the simplest
and most helpful mould, the reverse of
administrative and a stranger to vocal
emotions: her faith in Jesus Christ and
her hope OF heaven were her life, and she
loved them as serenely and as naturally
as the violet blooms. or as she loved her
family and her friends. Her Christian
experience was healthful, pure and in
spring and faithfully reflected the joy
Gus nature of the Gospel, her positions
for the truth OF God were always posi-
tive and certain without being combat
i've, while her Christian charity so con-
trolled the strength OF her convictions
that without controversy she granted
cheerfuly to others conclusions that she
could not conceive. Her heart and her
home were always open to Gods people,
and both were Bethany to many a tired
heart, and her translation means nc re
to many than the heart can now calmly
calculate. Since her young womanhood
she had been IL member Of the Presby-
terrain church holding her allegiance to
old Nutbush to whose upbuilding and
usefulness she gave much OF the strength
OF her splendid service and sainthood.
she looked we'll to the ways Of her
household Her children shall rise up
and call her blessed; her husband, and
he shall praise her.