The Parisian. (Paris, Tenn.) 1907-1962, 1921-03-18
MRS GRACE TALLY GRfGSBY

Daughter of G ii and Louise (Red-
diEg) Talley was born at Whitlock
about "a years ago and was educated
in the schools of Henry county. While
temporarily residing in Dickson she
was happily married to MIR Buchanan
II Grigsby, son OF Judge Grigsby,
we'll known throughout the county
and whose family was and is among
the most prominent Of Dickson coun-
ty.
a few months ag0 her health fail
ing rapidly, she came to the home
Of her parents in Paris where she
died on March 81 1921. She was
one of the most popular young wom-
en- in Paris and Henry county and
made a host of friends in Dickson.
1t is needless ID say that she is
greatly missed by her fathers family
and BY her husba1i and his relations.
Her remains wereS carried to Dickson
for interment.
Civilization ofskthe highest order
buries its dead with appropriate GER
emonies predicatad on the Christian
Religion and in the belief of res
direction. The Universal belief of
humanity in future state of exis-
tence itself proved Infinity. All ma
ture testifies the TACT. Ii grain of
corn or wheat dies it reproduces it.
self in kind, otherwise it would abide
alone; so the good deeds done here
will multiply in the future life for
all Eternity will be an expansion of
the Sc ii.
1t is most reasonable then that
one should take advantage of every
opportunity to improve life, which,
after all, is one stupendous process
of evolution, which process stops not
with death of the body. Inspiration
abundantly testities that there is no
death to the pure in heart Love is
the basis of the pure in heart, and
while Faith is lost and sight and
Hope fades in fruition, Love lives
on and on throughout the boundless
realms of Eternity. God is Love-"
they who dwell in God, dwell in
love and He is not the God of the
Dead but God Oh the Living
| The Christian character is essential
lly one OF Love. No matter about
the label or the creed, the denomina-
ton or the sect, the ceremonies or
the profession, the whole of Gods
law is fulfilled in this, Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God, with all thy
soul, mind, strength, and thy neigh
Dor as myself" and on these two
commandments are suspended all the
law.
/ cannot describe a Christian. As
soon try in words to tell the fra
GRANGE of the rose Has anyone ever
described the glories of the dawn or
the gorgeous beauty of the twilight :?
The majesty of the mountain? The
fall of cataract? The roar of the
ocean wave? Or who shall under
/ take to make one understand, by
words, the petals of a lily, or the
dew drop clinging to leaf in the
glory of the morning sun?
To appreciate the glories of nature
one must see or feel or hear. So to
estimate a Christian we must, come
in contact with the individual and
feel the thrill of the subtle influence
that pervades the surrounding at
mosphere wherein the subject lives
must hear the gracious expressions
which proceed out of the heart; must
see the acts of unselfishness and
witness the selfdenial for other peo-
pie
We do not intend fulsome eulogy
on the life of Grace Grigsby but
without hesitation assert that no one
who knew her would for a moment
need to ask if she were Christian.
She was beautiful in form; lovely
in life; attractive in mannerism; a
friend to everyone; ymodest in actions;
and with such grades that no wonder
that wherever shes went she made
friends by the scpre without even
trying to do so. AEmagnet does not
try to attract the peedle, its power
is intrinsic and exercised without eff
fort.
The life of this beautiful woman
went out before THE meridian had
been reached and we Shall remember
her, not as one drawn aud disfgured
by disease; marred byN disease; but
as she was youthful, beautiful lovely
and above all-Christlike.
she is not dead. That which
seems so is transition; the entrance
to the Land Elysian, whose portals
we call-Death'
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