The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-13

THE DREAD MESSENGER.

summons is never denied, though al
ways dreaded. has delivered another
missive of mourning.
/ This universal herald has every
home and every season for his own
Time alone delays him. Come he will.
The knock is obeyed and the unknown
becomes the known; mortal becomes
immortal. His answer levels all ranks
| and makes the whole world akin. by
a mission alike to everyone, yet in de-
stroying a great tie unites others be-
tween friends by the tender bonds of
sympathy never before so touchingly
expressed or so sincerely appreciated.
| Mr. MacLennan's revered and below
ed mother has passed away; good,
| Christian, loYable woman lives in
! hallowed memory. Her life was full
of years and as full of kindly, consid-
crate, effective and affectionate acts.
! Hers was ripened career OF devo-
ton and kindness. She lived four
months into her eighty eighth year
and was never a care. With Few ex-
ceptions her health was invariably
good. Up to her last moments she was
active in both mind and body. She
knew we'll current events. Born be-
fore there was a single mile of steam
into and as a part of a golden era of
progress and invention.
Her birth was in 1928 near Roches-
ter, New York. Her sons were born
in Ohio. reared in Kansas. She was
proud of TIE Sunflower state and the
principles and progressive practices of
her people, who blaze the way ma
terially, mentally and morally. She
loved Topeka and was happy in her
own little cottage on Tenth avenue,
half a block from her sons home
where she daily took her midday
meal. Gods garden has taken her
from the flowers and roses she nursed
with her hands.
Preparedness and forethought were
as principles to her. Her birthday
gifts were often prepared months in
advance and many of her presents,
formed generally by her own handi-
work for next Christmas, are laid
away and ready. Her house was in
order.
She was intense in her love for tenn
perance and prohibition and believed
Kansas right in it's efforts in this di-
rection, rejoicing at the constant
growth of those principles early en-
acted into laws in Kansas. She
watched with delight the Roadway of
prohibition in the nation, the ostra
cism of liquor and it's increasing abo
lition from the mouths of those who
labor in the fields of responsibility
and worthy industry.
Her maiden name was Adelia NJ.
Bliss, and she was married to Kenneth
MacLennan So years ago, surviving
him % years. She came of good
stock; was related to Phillip P. Bliss, |
a noted composer and singer of a gen
Grafton ago and whose songs today
continue to solace and delight She
was a direct relative of Ralph Waldo |
Emerson. Herself a mother until she
was nearly four score and ten, she |
lost both her own parents when but /!
10 years of age. giving most literally |
those maternal duties and devotions |
of which she herself was greatly |
deprived.
An incident comes to mind: 1t was
solely through her own efforts that
her son completed his college course. |
Financial misfortune coming upon the |
father, the son quit the university at |
the end of his junior year and went |
to work Without his knowledge, she |
obtained loan of $500 and insisted |
he return to school, which he did |
after a few months of earning money |
during the first half of the college |
senior year, completing his course |
with his class
She was a great believer in practi- |
cal religion. Devout herself. a stu |
dent of the Bible, she was religious !
because she saw in it human welfare |
and good. She was a constant read |
er of the daily paper and took the |
liveliest interest in the doings OF the !
city, the state, the country and the !
world. Naturally, she was fond of /
this paper and the people who have /
conducted it and made it. Four Of
those who tenderly bear the :asl.et /
today were Journal people whom she /
has known for nearly or quite g. quar-
ter of a century. The religious page !
of the State Journal was eagerly |
looked for each Saturday and care /
fully read, quoted from and clipped;
para graphs were preserved from it. 4
Recently she wrote to one of her
sons: Religion is becoming demo- /
cratic. 1t is the voice of the people |
crying out for the highest good. Reli- |
gion is becoming intensely practical |
1t means honesty, square dealing, |
plain and clear simple justice, fair !
wages 1t is an everyday working
model: not alone a Sunday observance |
to be weekly embalmed in a pious !
pigoo on hole for six days"
This is a lesson she taught and prac- |
ticed. May we learn it and follow its
teachings.
She found comfort and charm and |
contentment in the summers Colorado /
mountains. 1t was there the universal !
messenger, dreaded by all those who |
sorrow today. but not feared by her, !
called her from Natures great out