Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1912-07-18

In the daily fight with lies:
To have done deed of right
In the face OF calumnies
To have sown in the souls of men
One thought that will not die
To have been a link in the chain OF
Shall be Immortality
Edwin Hatch.
Luella X. Webster's life can only
be measured by that beautiful stand
ard. She out-disianced all The creeds
None WIS 'arae enough 70 enco pass
her uriye al Il. And alfh VI "
her unspeaking lips are now forever
dumb. yet the message OF her lie II
part OF the eternal forces that are
working in the hearts OF human
kind Md, as a closing word. we
say to N )ther Nature:
We d rot pretend TO know all
thv secrets; we do not know what
thou hast in store for the children of
re earth; but somehow this hope is
IN orr hearts that We are only here
to consign to thee the body or our
"A dear friend. Her spirit. we
claim for humanity; and we believe
hat il will live in our memories un-
III We follow her into the silent halls.
and that our own lives, enriched by
hers, will live in the memories Of
those we love, and loving, leave up
on the earth; and thus we too, will
| live on to bless the world.
AT THE GRAVE OF MRS WEBSTER.
Mr.. Clark said: "When we follow
orr friends to their lest resting place
we want to comply with their last
Il xrioh aI IL
Mrs. Webster requested all her relatives
md friends TO have the funeral service
conducted with as little show Of grief
"a possible. asking that we 90 about il
/ - cheerfully as We might. And at the
house we read from her own writings
what we thought she would like to
have us read. At the grave we will
read few verses from her favorite
poem by Colonel Ingersoll. which she
often read.
We have no falsehood to defend; we want the
facts;
Our force our thought we do not spend in vain
| attacks.
And we will never meanly try
To save some fair and pleasing lie.
The simple truth is what we ask not the ideal:
We've set ourselves the noble task 70 find the
real
II all there is is naught hut dross.
| We want TO know and bear our loss.
We walk according TO our light pursue the path
That leads to honors stainless height. careless
/ of wrath
| OF curse Of God, or priesty spite
Longing TO know and do the right
We do not pray or weep or wall we have no
| dread,
No fear to pass beyond the veil that hides the
| dead.
And yet we question. dream and guess.
But knowledge we do not possess
Is there beyond the silent night an endless day
Is death door that leads 10 Light We cannot
| say.
The tongueless secret locked i'm fate.
We do not know we hope and wait
And so we consign the body of this
wife, mother. sister and friend to the
earth from whence it came. She was
brave in life, without fear in death
Her heart was full of love for human
kind. 1t hurts to put her away from
our sight, but we have this consolation
that the world is better because of hel
having lived"
At the close of Mr. Clark's words
Mrs Fanny G. Blasius. OF the Degree
of Honor. ba e the dead goodbv for the
: orgar ization of y hich Mrs Webster
was an honored member in the follow
ing sympathetic words: I've hav,
come, de al sister, 10 bid Tree last ant
tender areweil. Rest in peace, Luela
rest in peace Again We Did you fare
well. Rest in peace. our loved one. -