The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1909-06-04
THE EMILY LATHAM MEMORIAL
SERVICE


five o'clock Sunday afternoon. The
service was held in memory of the late
Miss Emily latham of this city, who
was one of our noblest women.
Miss Tatham's death, it will be re-
membered, was sudden, and just be-
fore she passed away she was very
busy arranging for a service to be
held at Grace church on Whit Sunday
afternoon by the Band of Mercy, which
she organized. Miss latham died on
Friday, and her funeral was held from
Grace church on Whit Sunday after
noon, instead of the service that she
had so lovingly planned. So this
Whit Sunday, as a tribute to the men,
DRY of this Cody woman, the service
was held just as she had planned it
for last year.
The services were held under the
auspices of the Emily latham memoir
ial committee of the Womans Club.
and was conducted by Rev. George
Eendree Harrison.
AT five o'clock nearly thirty chill
dren, who were members of Miss Tat
hams Band of Mercy. marched into
the church in body and occupied the
front pews. Every child Wore the
Band Of Mercy badge and carried a
bouquet of lovely flowers. One little
boy marched in front carrying the
Band of Mercy banner.
After the opening hymn, Stand Up
FOR Jesus the Lords prayer was said,
the rector then reading the twenty
tAird Psalm, which Miss latham had
selected for the lesson.
Mrs. E. H. Mote then sang very
beautifully the exquisite hymn, Lead,
Kindly Light" which she had expect
ed to sing at the service last year.
Mr. Harrison then made brief talk
about Miss latham. He told of her
prominent connection with the royal
society for the prevention of cruelty
to animals in England, of which So
ciety she was for many years secre-
tary. Also of her work with the st.
Johns Sons of Jerusalem ambulance
society, which she organized at her
home in England. and looking towards
the uplift of humanity and the instill-
ing of seeds of kindnes and gentleness
into all hearts with which she came
in contact.
He told of her coming to America,
of her residence at Fruitland Park.
and later of her residence i'm this city.
During the years that she was in
Ocala she was never idle, always busy
doing something for the good of 9TH
ers. He said that she had once writ
ten. mo profit that / acquire shall go
and that her whole life was
a fulfillment of this motto. Her char
lties were very varied and some of
them were never known, except by
those Whom she benefited.
Mr. Harrison spoke of how she low
ed the little ones belonging to her
Band of Mercy in Ocala. and of how
she often talked with him about them,
asking him to look over them after
she had left us and that he knew that
the children were glad to pay her this
tribute.
Miss latham had asked Judge Da-
vid S. Williams to write a paper on
The Christ in the Andes" and in his
absence from the city his paper was
read by Mr.. Edward Drake 1t was
a very splendidly written account of
this story. which is such a beautiful
one, and one with which we are all
more or less familiar.
During the singing of the hymn, |
Onward. Christian Soldiers" the |
flowers were all collected and placed !
upon the altar, and after the service |
we're carried to Greenwood cemetery |
and reverently placed on Miss Tat
hams grave
Mr.. c. L. Bittinger. president of the
Band of Mercy, made a few very APP
Dropriate and excellent remarks. He |
extOlled the virtues of Miss latham /
and also paid a beautiful eulogy to /
he late George T. Angel of Boston.
'ounder of the Band of Mercy in this |
and whose long life of con-
'ecratiOn and usefulness was brought
O a close last March
After mis- remarks, Mr.. Bittinger pre-
'ented Band of Mercy badges to sew
aral children, who were to have re-
,eived them last year. and he said he
1Oped that some good woman would
rise to take Miss Tatham's place in
his work.
This beautiful service was brought
o a close by the singing of Amer
ca" our national anthehm.