The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1913-07-03
IN ETERNAL REST
Mrs. j. W. Ward Sleeps the Sleep
That knows No Waking
REMAINS LAID AWAY
Community Pays Tribute to Memory
at Funeral Services Held at
Home in This City

All that is mortal or Mrs. Martina
!. Ward. whose death at her home in
this city was recorded in the last is
sue of The Herald, noH sleeps in Green
wood cemetery. where the precious
dust was laid to rest Friday afternoon,
June -.
The funeral services were held at
2:3O p. m. on that day from the home
on Birch street. 1t was one of the
largest funerals that has occurred in
his city for long time. The prOmi-
nence Of the deceased and the high
esteem in which She was held by the
entire community impelled large
number of friends and acquaintance
10 gather to pay the last tribute of
love and affection to one whose de-
parture leaves q void in the cOmmun-
ity that time cannot fill. The house
while on the lawn a large number Of
seats were placed for the ladies, and
all were filled. The men sat on the
grass and with bowed heads listened
to the funeral services within.
The officiating clergyman was Rev.
w. J. Brown, pastor of the Congrega-
tional church, of which Mrs. Ward
had been an active member for years.
A quartet choir consisting Of Mrs.
Geo. Fish, soprano: Mrs. J. A. Dubois,
alto: DR.. E. G. Rich. tenor: A. F.
Strebel, bass: rendered two selections,
IF, on d Quiet Sea-" and "Jesus,
Lover of My Soul"
There was great profusion of flow
ers from the many friends Of the de-
parted, the beautiful blooms bearing
sweet tribute to her memory.
Interment was in Greenwood,
where there was brief services, the
choir singing Nearer, My God, to
Thee" The pail bearers were V. L.
Burgess, John Law, G. D. Marshall,
Jas. L. Ingram, L. J. Irish, r. r.
Kells.
Mr.. Browns sermon at the house
was a fine effort. His text was from
II Corinthians, vi: 'For we know
that if our earthly house of this tab
ernackle were dissolved we have a
building of God, house not made
with hands, eternal in the heavens"
Mr. Browns sermon follows:
call your attention to this passage
of scripture because of the note of as
surance that it voices, and it is the
voice of assurance that we want to
hear speaking to S in this hour.
No one can define the soul, but
we all believe that there is soul. In
all ages the question has been persist
emily asked docs the grave end all?"
and in all ages the answer has lust as
persistently been NO"
This is the assurance we Instructive
ly feel today. 1t is not evidence we
ask for in this experience of sorrow,
it is only consolation. There is no
consolation if there is nothing beyond
to hope for. What the heart feels is
always more persuasion than any ar
gument that the mind can frame.
For though from out this course of
time and place
The flood may bear me far,
l hope to meet my Pilot face to face
When l have crossed the bar"
bring to you then, today, this hope
and the consolation of it, that the
end of our existence is not fulfilled
here. Another existence is necessary
to supplement this and to adjust all
the mal-adjustment of this life.
So, I want you to think of death as
the method by which God produces
the highest life. Life becomes per.
feet only by dying. God is perfecting
the soul life in each one of us and dy-
ing is part of the process.