The Newtown bee., 1909-12-24
The NeWtOWn Bee. Newtown. Friday, December 24, 1909.
New Milford.
MILDRED WAIVER EMMONS.

Entered into rest, last weekThurs- lay, Mildred Wanzer Emmons beloved
 daughter Of Mir and Mrs B. J. En-
 uons, age IS years. A wide circle of
 friends and relatives had followed
 with deep interest the news from the
 lick bed, with the hope that this
 beautiful, promising life might be
 spared to bless her home, and fulfill
 that large sphere of usefulness of
 which her talents and capabilities
 gave promise. But it was not to be,
 and she passed to her Eternal Rest.
 The funeral services were largely at
 tended from the home of her parents,
 Sunday afternoon, Rev George H.
 Johnson officiating. The tender, ap-
 propriate tribute paid to Miss En-
 mons by MT Johnson, at the request
 of many, is given in full:
 Blessed are they that have come
 out of great tribulation, and have
 washed their robes and made them
 white in the blood of the Lamb,
 therefore are they before the throne
 of God and serve Him day and night
 in his temple" We are told that as things rise in the scale of their be- ing, they always go toward the possi-
 bility of pain" If we chose to be among the highest order of creatures we must accept it's accompanying penalties of sorrow and suffering. Tie rock cannot know the sense of pain; the tree suffers not at all; even the rude forms of life hidden beneath the deep, quiver not at all under the knife. But when we come to man we come to a creature sensitive in thousand ways to life asperities. His body can be racked by pain from countless diseases, accident or abuse; his heart may bleed because of it's idols that are shattered and it's hopes that are buried; his mind may be tortured by mystery, diversity and loss; his soul may be troubled with the consequences of it's own moral guilt. Those are the possibilities which may come to every human be- ing that stands in the earth and is known as the earthly image of it's Creator. And if we would avoid the pain and sorrow of existence, there is but one way of doing this and that by being of lower and painless ord CT of life. But friends, let us not de- ceive ourselves. Pain is one of the deepest things of our nature, and one of Gods tenderest ministries. AL though mo christening for the pres ent seemeth to be joyous, but griev- 1us; nevertheless afterwards it yield eth the peaceable fruit of righteous ness unto them which are exercised Iris pain of body that prayerful gratitude for health or warns being against the continuance of physical wrong. 'Tis pain that softens the human heart md makes the world akin in gener- JUS and inexhaustible sympathy. It S pain that inspires prayer on the 'ough road of our earthly journey and 'aith and confidence in the Lord who znoweth and waiteth for his own. Blessed are they that have come out ,f great tribulation." I feel that ,hese words are exceedingly fitting tt this time, for the earthly cup Of ,ur young friend was quite filled with her share of pain and trouble. Ter earthly tenement knew the ills md diseases of life to an unusual eX- ent for her few years. All along he seemed heir to all the diseases hat came and went and knew to what indeed the ills of the flesh sub ected her. But her tribulations were lot simply those of the body; they n turn precipitated their own pe- uliar disappointments, compelling his child to give up many of her Lopes and ambitions at school and in he sphere of happy and innocent leasure. It is not easy to bury hopes which fastened themselves on the oals to which others could go forth ut not she. And so we may we'll be- ieve that she can be included among hose of whom John speaks as com ng out of great tribulation.
 And the seer continues "and have 7ashed their robes and made them yhite in the blood of the Lamb" Of purse we know that John is using
 figure and it means blessed are hoss whe lave accepted Jesus as