The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1911-07-22
IN MEMoRIAM..

The tolling of the bell has ceased
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dus
to dustand the mortal remains q.
4 Mrs. Emma Kittredges Sims, the be
loved mother, sister and friend, are
lowered into the grave.
The whole sad scene has bowed
our heads and crushed our hearts
We feel the parting Of fSthe ways, ali
that separation from thes truly loved
one means. But, for .shoW Iong?s God
| only knows. ID Some one speaks OF
the Fell 5estroyer Hath,' having
taken Mr.. e. p. Munscn and Mrs.
Sims from our midst. III death de-
stroys, how doesbelief in the immor-
tality of the soul keep it's hold
Destroy? Why that puts an end to
Gods noblest creation, His own
image-man. Ii man is made in
the image of his Maker, bears the
stamp of Divinity, how can man be
DESTROYED? !? Destroy even a small
part Of God? All, not sitt 1t IS unthink-
able. God, the omnipresent, cannot
be destroyed Then, man, in whom
God is, cannot3be destroyed, Man
lives forever
We surely kna the body is
not destroye gaas to dust, but
the dust is unfoII a5eve1ope
ates, as It were some ething else.
So, though in ii difffarent form, it
is not destroyed. Tile mystery SO
unfathomable to our finite minds
lies with the soul. The soul, which
is a part at least of the Deity, is all
ways the soul, However much it may
grow under the conditions and in
fluences Of the next life. What the
evolution is, what its life in the
Great Beyond, none can more than
gather from sacred writ.
But should We concern ourselves
about that? No. five believe in a
God of love, of power can we not
trust Him and be still hes- soul
goes to Him. Does He not klle, 1
what to do with His own? We
know perfectly well what to do with
our souls here, how to prepare them
for His kingdom. Let us then, be.
up and doing; let US concentrate our
-endeayors to make them clean and
pure and be ready for the
ringing down of the curtain on this
llfe's stage, come when it may.
No, there is no cruel, deadly de-
stroyer of our loved ones. The sting
of death Is IN the separation, the
severing of loving hearts. Separation
from living loved ones is hard
enough although we communicate
even by voice and look forward to
the return. But when no return can
be secured to the deseIate heart
and mind al ter onths absence.
when we feel to the quick there
can be no familiar step, no gentle
spoken word of love, no tender smile,
no fond embrace, no companions
any more, IL IS indeed unbearable,
unless we can put ourselves at one
with God, fully realize that we are
part of Him and that He stempers
the wind to the shorn lamb. s
t The souls 0f the good, the truly
noble, the pure I'M heart, the un-
selfish-like unto those of Mrs. Sims
and Mr., Munsen should never be
associated with the Fell Destroyer,
Death. Z They live; they cannot die.
They will ever live in the hearts of
all who knew them. They minis
tered to all in acts and tones of
love and kindness. And when our
thoughts go out to them, our minds
and hearts should be flushed with
the very sunlight of Heaven. Com
templating the records made by |
them, we should feel the tinsle Of
1esire to initiate them ii all that
hey did, IN sreat things and in thesI
small, sweet courtesies of life, for
he trend Of all they did was il the
lirection Of the Golden Rule, ssI 4ove=I
ny neighbor as thysel
OF such ehara Actors of such love
mess pf soul. the king dom Of
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