Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-10-07

family. and extracts regarding the
life of Mrs. McDaniels. Below we
publish the tribute.
(By Her Husband.)
With a desire to perpetuate the
memory Of one who was so dear TO
me, to place in the hands of her rel
atives, her pupils, and her friends,
a record of the events of her life,
] have compiled this memorial.
On the afternoon of May 16,
1904, in the reception room of the
Williams Business College, Osh-
kosh, Wis, l first met Anna Nord-
helm, just ten years and one month
until the time of her departure on
her eternal journey AS l write,
looking back over these years, I am
filled with mingled emotions of JOY
and pain. JOY that | should have
met, wooed and won a woman who
so completely filled my heart. Sor-
row that the time was so short and
the years so few-for in the prime
of her womanhood, the best days of
her life, was she cut down.
Her loss would. indeed, be I'M
consolidate were ii not for the
thought, the feeling, the belief that
she has entered into rest, peace,
a joy, far more full and complete
than we can imagine. even in our
fondest dreams.N She hears tint heav-
emily mus c. she stands with the
great white throng, and sings the
praises of Him who was her Savior,
Lord. and King; in whose hands she
placed err trust, believing Him faith
full that had promised
TIL is the healing balm that sus-
tains me as the grave shuts from my
life a woman who was my ideal as
a wife. mother. friend, and cOmpan-
ion She was large Of soul, keen Of
IN nd, carable. and efficient. Her
heart was tender and true, her ma
ture gentle and loving, and thought
flu ness of others was the keynote of
her life. She was brave. Her cour-
age during the last dark hours was,
indeed, of hero'c mold. 1t was no
co wering galley slave when she put
cut 10 sea. Indeed, she fulfilled the
words of Thanatopsis-"A one
who. soothed and sustained by an
rnfaltering trust, wraps the drap-
cry of his couch about him and lies
down to peaceful dreams
Tell me not that life so worthy
ard so noble has gone out TO moth
ingness. There may be some that
can accept such a thought, who can
believe in such waste. but as for me,
prefer to believe the words of Him
who said: Il go TO prepare place
for you: that where | am, there We
may be also
From her youth up, the Masters
words found her heart responsive.
She expressed her faith in Jesus at
an early age. and at fifteen became
a member of the Norwegian Luther
an Church, under Rev. K. Seehus.
at Big Canoe. Iowa. Just shortly
before our marriage, she secured
letter and transferred her member
ship to the First Presbyterian
Church OF Oshkosh, Wis, then un-
der the charge of Rev. A. NJ Ayers.
On May 80 1914 she invited her pas
tor, Rev. d. J. Williams, TO admin
lister the sacrament, and one week
later she mao him tOIe again tldt
she might be annointed; after which
she said, Il am now prepared to
co. She found in the rites of her
church a soothing and sustaining
power tha' upheld her until the end.
Her work in life is to be measur-
ed largely as teacher. 1t was here
her pleasing and forceful personal
ity was most effective. Hundreds
and hundreds of students now bear
testimony as to the help and inspir-
alton she was to them. Their in
auiries and kind words during her
sickness, and since her departure,
has been to me a source of consola-
ton.
She left many hearts pierced with
sorrow and loneliness, but nowhere
is the loneliness more intense than
in the hearts of her son, Wilbur,
AMI her husband
w. ID. McDANIEIS.
Heaven is richer today,
But oh, how poor
rrbo On nth doth seem.