Connecticut western news., 1919-07-24

than in the flashing quickness of her
mental activities. She never lost her
interest in flowers. she never parted
With any of her charm in interesting
Children or any of her power over
Voting men. The passion Of her soul
and life was to make others happy.
To every one she was herself. There
was the same genial and unwearied
lovliness of disposition and temper,
the same flow of spirits, the same
overflow of thoughts, sentiments and
information, but with a certain
method in it all, in the most animated
crises, self forgetful, yet always un-
der self-control,"
And another, not of her household,
writes of her: "All the people had
known her either from her or their
childhood as a generous and faithful
friend, abundant in sympathy, humor
and honest frankness. Her labors
were unceasing, her sympathy and
patience were exhaustless and her
generosity was unstinted. Her ami
NAL spirits never tagged and her in
terest in everything which concern
ed the welfare of her family, her
parish, her friends, far and near, or
the kingdom of God, were always
ready, sincere and efficient Her
humor and buoyancy of spirits were
literally indomitable and irrepressible
and thye rendered excellent service
to herself and her friends in the dark
hours of life. To the end of her life
she kept herself and her household
true to their habits of active interest
for the people, for the neighboring
churches and their pastors, and all
the important enterprises of Chris
ton benefcence to which their life
had been devoted"
And so / might continue plucking
more choice and precious fruit from
this great family tree, but must re-
frain from doing so. trust that l
have not said too much or spoken
too freely; but / am sure that / have
said enough to remind us all of the
great debt we owe to that one man
who came hither 158 years ago. when
there were only about 80 families
in the whole township and only %
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his wife here the following year.
Thus for four generations this fam
lily have lived and loved and served
God and their fellow men and have
built themselves into the best life of
this community.
/ am also sure that the law of
iseed time and harvest, of cause and
effect which is only another way of
speaking of the great law of heredity
has been strikingly illustrated as we
have noticed the tributes that have
beef paid from entirely different
sources, to one generation after an
other in the years that are gone,
and as we have seen how characters
tics of mind and heart so marked in
one generation have reproduced
themselves in the next.
Have we not instinctively felt, as
we have listened to these discriminat-
ing words from one writer after an
other, that many of the things said
of the mother, grandmother and
great-grandmother of our dear friend
who has just left us could most truly
be said of her? They fit exactly into
her life.
That wonderful sense of humor,
that sparkling wit, that sympathetic
spirit, that kindly interest in every
one, that large generosity, that
literary ability and enthusiasm, that
love of nature, that fondness for
children, that constant loyalty to this
particular church and to the larger
interests Of the kingdom of God;
these were as natural to her, almost,
as it was for her to breathe.
She couldn't help being what she
was and doing what she did without
being disloyal to her early training,
and to those splendid traditions that
have built themselves into her family
life from the very first, and so far as
the people of NORFOLK have allowed
it, into the life of the community.
And so this quiet, modest, unas-
Stunning friend of ours was partly
right any credit for anything that
she had done. Everything that she
had was held in trust, her time, her
money, her varied talents; and /
given a good account of her steward
ship.
We all can readily understand
why she loved this particular church
with such ardent devotion. She
loved it first of all because she loved
Jesus Christ and ever sought to be his
faithful follower. She loved it, too,
because her father and her great
grandfather spent all the years of
their splendid ministry here in this
church. And she loved it. because
she felt, down deep in her heart,
that strong church, broad in its
sympathies, high in its purposes, true
in it's allegiance to Christ, was abso-
lutely essential to the best life Of
any community.
And when she gave allegiance to
Christ and to this church in the days
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