The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-02-18
provement to our church building


Plans are being discussed for base
.ment and Sunday school room which
is much needed. We are praying for
an enlargement and a betterment Of
our conditions.
Mrs. Thos. Garvey went to Gales
burg Tuesday morning to attend the
domestic science meeting being held
there.
j Mrs. George Wynds was taken sud
denly sick on Monday morning, also
!, Frank MCGEE and Mrs. Carrie Wetzel
are on the sick list and Mrs. Jasper
/ White is reported as seriously sick.
Tlilman Monroe who has been sick
with pneumonia for two weeks Is bet
ter and able to be out OF bed.
The remains of Gladys Mckinney
were taken Sunday morning on the T.
Up. s. w. Z o'clock train to Raridon,
Ill, near Peoria, accompanied by her
sister Orpha, and her uncle. The
funeral will be held at Raridon and
burial at the same place on Tuesday
I Her schoolmates here and her teach
er are forwarding a beautiful floral
offerings which shows the love and
/ respect the scholars had for Gladys.
!! Gladys Irene Mckinney, youngest
] daughter of Rev. and Mrs. ]. w. Nc
4 Kinney was born at Raridon, Ill. Oct
12, 1899, and departed this life, Feb
ruary IA, 1914, being IA years. 4
months and two days old 1t was only
j ten short months ago that Gladys
came to Elyaston, coming when her
father was called to the passionate OF
the Presbyterian church. But ten
months were long enough for her to
win many friends among the people
Of this community. Her frank, open
! ways, coupled with her sunny dispost
ton and cheerful way made her a
friend to everyone she met. When the
dreaded disease, pneumonia fixed its
, fangs upon five In the family at one
, time the sympathy OF the entire com
munity went out to them. But
when 1t was learned that Gladys must
answer tho summons of the grim mes
senger every friend felt that her go
!, ing was q personal loss to them, anc
many friends ningle their tears with
those of the stricken family because
she has gone. But it seemed that al
. much as we desired her that hel
heavenly Father desired her more and
, Though earth may boast one gem Che
less,
| May not cen heaven the richer be7
In the month Of May, before Gladys
was ten years old she publicly gave
herself to Jesus aud has been SERVING
/ Him since, and during the days wher
/ she was suffering so much He CAV,
! her grace to bear 1t in patient wa,
: and not complain Her nurse salt
that she was the most patient suffere
she had ever waited upon. But 1t wal
Gladys way to accept her lot in LII,
without complaining. doing the bes
she could under all circumstance
and leaving the rest in the hands o
God who doeth all things well Be
cause she suffered so we feel Mat he
death was only another way God ha
of showing His great love and,
1t was not in cruelty, 1t was not :
wrath the reaper came that day
But that an angel visited the gree
earth and took our flower ava!
And SO We win wait until God 1
His own time shall explain the my
teries of this world and tell us VIII
the young are taken and the old an
infrm are left to be burden on OIL
ers, or why some must suffer muc
and others little; wait until our visio
I shall be cleared and we shall Il
longer see through a glass darkly
but shall know why God wanted her
After short service conducted
), the presence of few friends of Il
family at the home at $50 o'clot
Sunday morning by Rev. C. S. McKi
ney, pastor of the Baptist church, Il
!, body was taken to Raridon, ILL., wha
] the funeral was conducted by Rev. \
:. l.. Campbell of Georgetown, Ill, {