The Lexington advertiser., 1932-10-20
In MemOrian
Goods plans like lilies
p,ra and white unfold"

Pure and white unfold"
On June 10. 1898, there came to Rev.
and Mrs. j. B. Hutton in the Presby-
terian Manse at Jackson, Miss, fairy
like tud of promise as drop of dew
in the heart of Rose! And they named
her Martha Gwin-for her maternal
Grandmother As this bud of promise
unfolded into beauteous flower, nothing
came to mar its fragrance for only use
fulness, born of hope and duty filled
the life of the first daughter of this
Christian home. With increasing pride
we watched her development into glo-
rious womanhood, beautiful in person,
gifted in song, with all the graces and
dignity which adorn true womanhood!
She was sought and won in marriage
by Mr.. Fulton Thompson of Jackson,
Miss. To this union one daughter was
born, Susan Hutton, now ten years of
age.
| For two short days this mother was
stricken by fatal illness, and with
anxious solicitude she bequeathed her
beloved child to the guidance of a de-
voted sister for all the years to come.
Her message of Glove to Buma" will
long lnger as her benediction. Amid
intense suffering she was comforted by
her Savour's promises. Just as the
| softening influence of time had begun
| to deepen the peace of my sunset years
| this ordeal opened all other wounds
afresh as Martha Gwin Hutton Thomp-
son by guardian angels led, entered the
portals of heaven Whose builder and
maker is God!" There she is reading
| in living characters the story of a
| loving, sorrowless future for former
things have passed away as her glo-
rious voice swells the great oratorio of
Heaven. The hearts treasures are bur-
led that they may spring up in Immor-
tai beauty. In her native city she won
many laurels in friendships, tender
ties, and her CHEEKY voice will echo
there until the distances will seem to
spring into glad being. She was blessed
because of purity, because of her love
of mercy and truth, and as she came
into our homes bright bow of hope
and of love she fingers still an unwith-
cred garland of beauty at our feet, for
she is not utterly gone, but Gust away"
The fragrance of the flowers she loved.
with every thing bright and beautiful
shall be as breath of her presence and
all her tender words which linger in
our memories come to us in sweet as
cents through the portals of the tomb.
Beautiful flowers with caressing touch
were placed by loving hands about her
bier, silent emblems of our own resur-
recton-"The eliminating glory of the
work of Jesus, the waking time of I'M
mortality"
When we accept our burdens as gifts,
wrought out as expressions of abiding
love, then they become hallowed, bring
ing calm and blessed peace In trans
figured beauty she remains with those
who so deeply mourn, remembering the
good and lovely in her nature which now
appears as radiant as Angels ministries,
The message from our sorrow bids us
arise with renewed conservation for our
loved ones sake.
Out in Goods Acre" she was laid to
rest beside beloved Brother when all
nature seemed in unison for a beauti-
ful Christian burial. Rich autumnal
leaves in brown and crimson and gold
Will tall in silent benediction upon their
sacred resting places. "Be still, and
know that am God" means to us that
our Father makes no mistakes. The
mystery is Gods, the promise is ours!
behlnd the storm wreathed sky there
is radiant bow of promise and soon
we shall see that all Gods plans are
right, and what seems reproof is love
most true.
There is beautiful ministry in sor-
row as time softly reveals the calyxes
OF gold"; beneath the shadows our
Father means there must be submission.
drawing nearer to His own great heart
of love when we shall have learned the
"blessedness of those who mourn!
Hearts cannot sever,
Dearer and fonder
Hands clasp forever"
Her devoted and beloved
GRANDMOTHER.
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