Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1911-04-07
0 death where is thy victory,
Ograve where is thy victory.
A FRIEND.
leaf, Miss,
April 2, 1911.
Mrs. MARTHA BALL,

This is d tribute of Love to nv
dear old mother, Mrs. Martha Ball
wife of Tyra A. Ball, who departed
from this life March the 26, 1911,
age 70 years. | would tell the story
OF mothers love Row she went TO
Glory, blest home above, and vet
how utterly impossible it seems for
me to tell of my mothers love, for if
a mother ever loved her children nv
mother loved hers.
No sacrifice eyer seemed too great
for her to make for her children. No
matter how much trouble they were
IN or how dark the way seem to them,
she was always ready with words Of
love and comfort bidding them to
look on the bright side of life and
pointing them to the Savior WHO was
able TO carry them through all the
dark places of life;indeed her children
can say there was time when moth
ers love could every i'll atone; bnt she
has left us here below to gricve and
toll alone.
Memory can never hold treasure
more dear to me than my mothers
love, ard tho she has gone from us
in the flesh and | know | shall never
look on her dear face again in this
life, yet shall ever feel her pres
ence near me to help and cheer me
on through this lie of sorrow and
trials and though l always loved and
honored her while she lived | never
seemed to love her quite as much as
| do now that she is gone.
Oh how l thank and praise the dear
Lord for blessing me With a Chris
tian mother and sparing her TO me
for so long in this life. And oh how
my heart was rent with grief as size
lay in her coffin and | knew ] Was
looking ON her face for the last time
in this life and yet as | looked at her
as she lay tho in sleep with q sweet
smile on her fare and ] knew ] should
miss her so much in this life ]
thought to myself | would not call
her back for few more days in this
life if l could for ] knew she had gone
to rest, and | had seen her suffer so
much pain in the last few years tho
| never heard her complain at suffer-
ing
She never seemed to think she was
afflicted too much but always put
her trust in the Lord praying that
his will be done and asking him for
grace and strength to carry her
through.
She died very suddenly. She was
sitting on her bed talking with faith
err when she told him to catch hold of
her quick and she called to her grand
daughter Belle who was near by, ana
they laid her down and she was
gone. She never spoke again; closed
her mouth and eyes and never open
ed them again, but there came as
sweet a smile on her face as | ever
saw and it had never left when We
buried her.
She lost two children years ago
when they were small and | am sure
that~God sent them to carry her
hone and she knew them and smiled
u welcome to them as they came for
her end now that she has left us for
a while | feel 1t will not be long for
am going to meet her on that beau
tirul shore some day and live with
her for ever more. This is all my
comfort now she cannot cone to me,
but can go to her.
For fear make this to long will
close. Some time in the future |
wish to write again about mothers
love for next to my savior it is the
dearest thing in life TO me. Oh chill
dren you who still have your moth
ers with you love, honor and obey
them for you will never know how
much you will miss them until they
are gone. May the Lord carry us all
through safely to the end is my iAay-
er.
IIor 1ovinr col,