Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1917-01-30

What seems so is transition
and only an entrance into more album
dant life
We send our children to school and
college to be prepared and disciplined
for the tasks of life We are only
children of a larger growth and our
Heavenly Father sends us into this lit
tie school of life that we may be
trained for larger, nobler destiny.
Heaven and earth are not two. The
great seer of Patmos has given US
beautiful picture of that spiritual
world in symbol.
Yonder beneath us is fair meadow
through which the beautiful river of
the water of life is quietly winding
its way, on either side of which is the
tree of life, with its twelve manner
of fruits and its beautiful leaves which
are for the healing of the nations.
And in the distance, high on the
summit of the everlasting hills, is the
City, all of gold, bathed in light and
quivering. with glory, the New Jerusa-
lem; its walls Of jasper, its founda-
ton of precious stones, its angel
guarded gates which are open day and
night, and where now our great Lord
Jesus is and whence He is today look
ing down in love and sympathy on
you. But John tells us that great
City has come down from God out of
Heaven to dwell with men. Jesus
Christ is its center and its law and
with Him are those we ''haye loved
long since and lost awhile" and there
is the beloved mother and faithful
noble wife. She is not dead, but with
Christ, which is far better.
Our loved ones depart and yet they
are not gone from us in this sense.
Absent from the body, they are pres
ent with the Lord. They are with
Christ and Christ is with us.
'Credo Commandment Sanctorum''
Il believe in the Communion of Saints"
Jesus is the golden bridge that
spans the gulf of death, the unfailing
means whereby love can pass from
heart to heart Notwithstanding the
barriers of the flesh.
feel, dear friends, that l cannot,
and that l ought not to allow this ser
vice to close without speaking few
heartfelt words from my personal
knowledge of Mrs. Rosenberg. / will
be brief, but my words will be spoken
with frankness and sincerity.
Mrs. Rosenberg, an honored citi-
zen of Wausau having resided with her
family here for many years, is well
known to you all. AS her pastor, l
have known her intimately for several
years and | want to say that while
she was modest and unobtrusive, she
was none the less a woman whose
qualities were of sterling value, wheth-
er as wife, mother or as related by
friendship and other ties to the larger
life outside her home. The mother
of several children, she knew and
felt deeply that love and sacrifice
which express their highest through
pain. But the Divine Artist used these
as instruments re- chisel the Inca
ments in her OF Christ-like character
She was for many years an honored
and valuable worker i'll the church
of which | am rector She ever took
the keenest interest in church, Sunday
school and their other interests and
especially in all that was altruistic.
Quiet and administrative, in all that
she did. We believe she has earned
the approval of the Master,
she hath done what she could"
and that part of the world in which
she lived, moved, and had her being,
will smell more sweet for the per-
fume of her life. She bids us good
morning, but we bid her goodnight,
for we are still in the land of shad-
ows. And we commend the beloved
wife and mother into the safe-keeping
of Christ, pure as Virgin snow, tender
as a guardian angel. Calm was thy
life. sublime thy simplicity; serene
was thy smile, even amid the shadows
of the end. With no grudging hand
we cast this frail wreath upon her
casket, and husband and children call
her blessed And now l can con-
clude in no better words to the be-
reaved husband and children, and sor-
rowing friends than by quoting the
lines of that noble singer, John Keble:
Then cheerily to your work again,
With hearts new braced and set,
As meet for those who face to face.
Over the grave their Lord have met"
Interment was in Pine Grove ceme-
terry where she was laid to rest in the
family lot, beside her parents and
daughter, Florence.
The pall-bearers were B. F. Wilson,
A. L. Kreutzer, C. B. Bird, ]. L. Sturte-
want, D. C. Everest and Walter Alex
ander.
Those from away who attended the
funeral were: Dr. B. P. Rosenberg,
of Winona, Mimi. Mrs. H. l.. Rosen-
berry and daughter, Miss Eleanor, of
Escanaoa, Mich; Mr.. and Mrs. E. NJ.
Smart, of Milwaukee; John Barnes,
former associate justice of the SUI
preme court, of Milwaukee.