The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1910-09-22
Obituary.

life August 20, 1910, aged Is years 10
months and days.
When Myrtle was about II months
old her father was called to his heaven
ly home and her mother with her six
fatherless girls came to Rainsboro, her
childhood home, and here the daugh-
ters were reared to womanhood,
trained under the watchful care, loving
discipline and heroic example of
mother. They developed into earnest
bread winners to care for themselves
and minister comforts to the mother.
Three have married and are efficient
mistresses of their own homes.
Myrtle, as the youngest and perhaps
mostly favored, did not feel herself
exempt in the struggle for self-support
and devoted her life to the work of a
seamstress and went to Hillsboro last
October to complete her education in
that line.
In the second week Of last March she
was employed by Feibel Bros, as their
bookkeeper and three weeks ago she
was stricken with fever.
She suffered much through the long
hot days and nights of this month Of
August, part Of the time delirious, not
knowing even the dear ones around
her bedside. All was done that could
be done to stay the dart Of death, the
skilled physician, the trained nurse,
the loving service Of family and
friends, all could not avail.
In the morning watch of Saturday,
August 90, death came and claimed
her for his own, and the home circle
that had not been invaded by death
since the father was called so suddenly
away more than twenty-four years ago,
is now shrouded in gloom and burden
} ed with sorrow and not only so but as
) the work of God declares mo man
liveth to himself alone" so Myrtle's
loving heart reached out for kindred
e spirits even beyond her own circle of
( kindred and many of her associates
4 are crushed with grief because she is
no more, but as we sit with bowed
. heads and sorrowing hearts, as we
q look upon the casket bearing the
y flowers and emblems of earthly love
that she had awakened in so many
hearts, does not the question arise, is
= this all ? The book of Job in its
precious meditations upon the changes
that cometh to all raises the question,
"If man die shall he live again p
C And in the coming of Gods son, ouI
Redeemer, who came to bring life and
immortality to light through the
n gospel, we find the answer, Eyes, mar
n shall live again" For he who came tC
make all things new saith, II am the
Resurrection and the Life. He that
believeth in me though he were dead
yet shall he live again. And whosoevel
liveth and believeth in me shall never
die"
There is life within where the
soul cries out for living bread, FOL
something more precious and blessed
than even the love of father, mother
brother or sister. That life Myrtle
lived and 10 that life in its outward
manifestations we turn.
In the winter of 1895, under tn,
pastorate of John Trout, a reviva
meeting was held in which the pasto
was assisted by Rev. Iselstein, o
Springfield. A great awakening tool
place in which many were turned t,
righteousness. Among the numbe
was Myrtle Baker, who was converted
and joined the NJ. E. Church in whicl
she remained faithful and devoted
member until her translation TO tn
church triumphant. Consideration
and faithful in all her duties sh
realized as the Christian life developet
that there was not that confdenc
and blessed fellowship in Gods servic
that she desired and during the pastor
ate of Rev. Homer Curliss in reviva
service she knelt again at the altar an,
made complete dedication Of hersel
to God. The acceptance came as sh
was on her way home. God met he
on the street and gave her the peac
that passeth understanding and lik
the man of the Gospel she went to he
home and told the loved ones of tn
family circle what great things Tn
Lord had done for her.
A tribute from her Sunday Schoo
teacher may be inserted here as 1t fitl
illustrates her position in the hous
of the Lord.
"As member of the Sunday Schoo
she was ever faithful and was alway
ready to do whatever she was called I
do. She will be greatly missed especi
ally in our class, where we alway
found her and where she took a grea
interest. But our loss is Myrtle
gain. Let us live so we may meet he
in that home bright and fair"