The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1915-09-09
BEULAH FAY MERRIS

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whittier all the redeemed of the
world shall one day gather, can we
doubt there is rejoicing today that
another daughter has entered the ce-
lestial portals?
We know Heaven only in earth
terms and doubtless to one and an
other of this congregation has come
thought that in the mansion
hich God Himself prepared for the
undershepherd of this church who
through twelve years of ministry re-
ceived SO many into the kingdom,
here is happy welcomery of one
whom as a little child he baptized
just ten and a half years ago.
Beulah Fay, third daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. C. B. Merris, was born
'rch 2, 1895, in Hume. Bates county,
Missouri, and died Sept. IA, 1915. New
er strong, she yet enjoyed all of the
uoyancy and much of the vigor of
youth, combined with a cheerful spirit,
which made her a loved companion
~ lAS 1iOthO anu SOhidi
among her friends.
When ten years of age along with
a number of her classmates in the
Sunday school, she was converted
and by DR.. Harl was baptized into
the fellowship of this church.
Beulah never doubted the fact of
her conversion and her love for the
church and its services and devo-
tion to the Lord whom she had
chosen to serve, strengthened with
the years. In the Sunday school and
young peoples meeting, whenever
place doing her part.
OF the elements entering into the
formation of her genuinely cheerful
and devoted Christian life none was
SO potent as the Cody home of her
rearing. By her parents she had
been taught to talk of the expert
ences Of the heart life as of every
day huamn affairs and when the time
for her going away came it was BIZ
the elimination of life's teachings.
With girlhood desire and ambition,
she wanted to live. but realizing the
impossibility of it, acquiesced in this
plan of her Heavenly Father as will
ingly as in aught else. Rational to
the end, the last days were spent in
calm preparation for her departure.
Every feature of this service today
,.lo IT.
far and near, were messages of fare
welH and almost with her last
whisper said to her mother, Mamma,
tell them-I mean all my friends
not to wait for an hour like this to
make ready for Heaven"
Throughout the community not
mere acquaintances as well, a pecu-
liar sympathy is felt for the bereft
parents. the brother Clyde and the
three devoted sisters. Lena, Vera,
Opal.
That SO many of their immediate
relatives could be with them through
several days of Beulah's illness was
source of much comfort. Among
these are Rev. and Mrs. j. NJ. Steele
Of Marshall, Mo-, E. NJ. Steele and
wife and daughter of Coaldale, Colo.,
Clyde Merris and wife of Cameron.
Mo-, and E. E. Merris of Victor, Colo.
While sorrowing in bereavement,
it is a matter of rejoicing to this
'amily and to their friends with them
that their sorrowing is not of those
without hope. They know whom
they have believed" and have faith
to realize that the sorest Affections
of earth may be but Heavens bene-
diction.
in that great cloister's stiffness and
seclusion,
By guardian angels led,
Safe from temptation, safe from sins
pollution,
She lives. whom we call dead.
'Da yafter day we think what she is
doing
In those bright realms Of air,
Year after year the tender steps pur-
suing.
Behold her grown more fair.
Thus do we walk with her and keep
unbroken
The bond which nature gives,
Thinking that our remembrance,
though unspoken,
May reach her where she lives"
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