IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) /. 1.0 I.I Ki Ki 12.2 S m |20 1.8 1.25 1.4 1.6 ^ f," ». V] <^ /2 A % /: HiotDgraphic Sciences Corpomtion 23 WEST MAIN STREET w<;bster, N.Y. i4seo (716) 872-4503 -^■^-.^ i^'V,' '»■ i/.x CIHM/ICMH Microfiche Series. CIHiVI/ICMH Collection de microfiches. Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions / Institut Canadian de miuroreprcductions historiques Technical and Bibliographic Notes/Notes techniques et bibliographiques The Institute has attempted to obtain the best original copy available for filming. Features of this copy which may be bibliographically unique, which may aiter any of the images in the reproduction, or which may significantly change the usual method of filming, are checked below. L'Institut a microfilm* le meilleur exemplaire qu'il lui a iti possible de se procurer. Les details de cet exemplaire qui sont peut-Atre uniques du point do vue bibliographique, qui peuvent modifier une image reproduite, ou qui peuvent exiger une modification dans la mAthode normale de filmage sont indiquto ci-desscus. □ Coloured covers/ Couvertfire de couleur □ Covers damaged/ C< D D D □ D D D D Couverture endommagie Covers restored and/or laminated/ Couverture restaurie et/ou pelliculAe Cover title missing/ Le titre de couverture manque Coloured maps/ Cartes giographiques en couleur Coloured ink (i.e. other than blue or black)/ Encre de couleur (i.e. autre que bleue ou noirel Coloured plates and/or illustrations/ Planches et/ou illustrations en couleur Bound with other material/ Reli6 avec d'autres documents Tight binding may cause shadows or distortion alonq interior margin/ La re liure serrde peut causer de I'ombre ou de la distorsion le long de la marge int^rieure Blank leaves added during restoration may appear within the text. Whenever possible, these have been omitted from filming/ II se peut que certaines pages blanches ajouties lors d'une restauration apparaissent dans le texte. mais, lorsque cela 6tait possible, ces pages n'ont pas M fiimies. D D D D Q D n D D Coloured pages/ Pages de couleur Pages damaged/ Pages endommagies Pages restored and/or laminated/ Pages restauries et/ou pelliculdes Pages discoloured, stained or foxed/ Pages ddcoiories, tacheties ou piquies Pages detached/ Pages ddtachies Showthrough/ Transparence Quality of print varies/ Quality inigale de I'impression Includes supplementary material/ Comprend du matiriel supplimentaire Only edition available/ Seule Edition disponible Pages wholly or partially obscured by errata slips, tissues, etc., have been refilmed to ensure the best possible image/ Les pages totalement ou partiellement obscurcies par un feuillet d'errata, une peiure, etc., ont it* filmies * nouveau de facon A obtenir la meilleure image possible. D Additional comments:/ Commentaires suppldmentaires: This item is filmed at the reduction ratio checked below/ Ce document est film* au taux de reduction indiqu* ci-dessous. 10X 14X 18X 22X 26X 30X y 12X 16X 20X 24X 28X 32X Th« copy filmad h«r« has bMn raproducad thanks to tha ganarosity of: D. B. Weldon Library University of Western Ontario (Regional History Room) Tha imagaa appaaring hara ara tha baat quality possibia conaidaring tha condition and lagibiiity of tha original copy and in icaaping with tha filming contract spacificationa. Original copias in printad papar covars ara filmad baginning with tha front covar and anding on tha last paga with a printad or illustratad impraa- sion, or tha bacl« covar whan appropriata. All othar original copias ara filmad baginning on tha first paga with a printad or illustratad impraa- sion, and anding on tha last paga with a printad or illustratad imprassion. Tha last racordad frama on aach microficha shall contain tha symbol —^(moaning "CON- TINUED"), or tha symbol V (moaning "END"), whichavar appiias. IVIapa. plataa. charts, ate. may ba filmad at diffarant raduction ratios. Thosa too larga to ba antiraiy inciudad in ona axposura ara filmad baginning in tha uppar laft hand comar, laft to right and top to bottom, as many framaa aa raquirad. Tha following diagrams illustrata tha mathod: L'axamplaira filmA fut raproduit grAca A la ginirosit* da: D. B. Weldon Library University of Western Ontario (Regional History Room) Laa imagaa suivantas ont 4tA raproduitas avac la plua grand soin, compta tanu da ia condition at da la nattati da l'axamplaira filmA, at ^n conf ormiti avac laa conditions du contrat da fiimaga. Laa axamplairaa originaux dont la couvartura 9n papiar aat imprimte sont fiimte on comman9ant par la pramiar plat at en tarminant soit par la darniAra paga qui comporta una amprainta d'imprassion ou d'illustration. soit par la sacond plat, scion la caa. Tous laa autras axampiairas originaux sont filmto an commandant par la pramiAra pago qui comporta una amprainta d'imprassion ou d'illustration at •n tarminant par la darniAra paga qui comporta una taila amprainta. Un daa symbo!as suivants apparaitra sur la darniAra image da cheque microfiche. s«ion le caa: la symbols -^ signifie "A SUIVRE ", le symbols V signifie "PIN". Les cartes, planches, tableaux, etc., pauvent dtre filmto A des taux do rMuction diffArents. Lorsque le document est trop grand pour itre reproduit en un seui cliche, il est film6 d partir da I'angle supArieur gauche, do gauche d droite, et do haut en baa, 9n prenant le nombre d'images n^cessaira. Les diagrammas suivants illustrent la m^thoda. J L tS 4 ^rs58 0f ibx •^ t at tte InntvtX flf k • ■ u .^' " For if we believe that Jesus died and rose a^ain, even so them also which sleep in Jesns, will Ood bring with him."— 2 Thrss. 4:14. 'TTHE Christian's hope and faith lightens the darkest pathway and points to the brighter day that will surely dawn. Night follows the day, that the weary and worn may lie down and rest, sleep comes to restore the wasted ener- gies, and fit us for the new duties that shall devolve upon us as we face the new to-morrow. Each to-day if lived honestly in the sight of all men fits us for a larger, fuller and more complete tomorrow than to-day possibly can be. This life is only the short today, that has in it the blessed promise of a perfect to-morrow. How the sun- shine and rain have altered during the past week; making each day dark as well as light. We could not tell how to plan for the shadows chased away the sunlight, and when we thought that all would be bright, the rain has fallen and our plans have been broken. But to that life and land whither we are tending, there are no shadows, there will be perenial sunshine, for the Lord God giveth them light. The land which lieth between is often dark, and the way is dreary, but we have the promise of the faithful guide to keep us in the way everla.sting. Our Heavenly Father has a love so strong and deep for us, that he has given us every promise and help possible to lead us to trust him, to lean upon him, and know that he doeth all things well. Yet when he leads us into the dark places and the way grows very hard, we wonder if he has forgotten us and left us to ourselves. Even when it seems to grow the darkest, we are to trust him, for the dawn will break and the cloudless day will be our happy experience. This figure of the apostle which speaks of death as sleep, softens the thought and gives to us, the hope that the weariness will be forever put off and the rest and peace and joy and power of the endless life will dawn upon us as we go forth, as vSome of us say, into the night of death. It is night because it come at the close of life's little day; It is death because it ends the existence which we have maintained here. We need not draw back from it, it must come to all alike. Only those need to dread it who have lived a careless, godless life. She whom we lay away to-day feared death as little as she feared the setting sun, she had long watched the grim messenger wondering why he delayed his coming, she had a welcome for him as those who watch for the morning. How often had she said that her work was done, she had finished her course and was only awaiting the sum- mons to come up higher. She was of the old school that is too fast becoming extinct; her heart was large with hospitality and love. And we cannot recount the victories which she has won, as she has stood for truth and righteousness. She was one of the old school who ever sought her opportunity to tell of the love of her master that had sweetened all her joys, gladdened her working days, '" softened every sorrow, and enabled her to bear every burden. Her's was a religiousness, not only of deed but also of word and that is why I vSay that she belonged to the old school. For it is quite the fashion now, to let the life speak for the Lord Jesus Christ, And are we not in this part'cnlar drifting away from the old lines. The com- mand of the Master is that "if we believe in our hearts, we shall confess with our mouths." Hers was not the confession which was offensive, there was no cant in her expression of love and devotion to her Lord and Master. He had been her companion for so many years, that when she spoke of him she did not speak of a stranger, but of one who was very dear to her. And so it was that she could talk with many who others might offend. It was the rel'giousness of the life that enables us to sny this hour that she sleeps: It is not death to the believer, it is the change that comes, as Dr. Cuyler says: " They who die in Jesus live a larger, fuller, grander life, by the very cessation of care, change, strife and struggle. Above all, they live a fuller, grander life, because they " sleep in JCvSUs " and are gathered into his embrace, and wake with hmi, clothed with white robes, awaiting the adoption, to wit: the redemption of the body. ' ' In good time the slumbering body shall be resusci- tated and shall be fashioned like to Christ's glorious body," that is it shall be transformed into a condition which shall meet the wants of a beatific soul in its celestial dwelling place. Verily with this transcendent blaze of revelation pouring into the believer's death chamber and his tomb, we ought not to sorrow as they which have no hope." Indeed we sorrow as those who have the hope that is both sure and steadfast, that entereth within the vail. Her New England ancestry, her early training, her whole temper of life fitted her for a sphere of special servide. Her's was no ordinary life, for she had solved the problem that causes us to shed many a tear and suffer many a heartache before we learn it well. She had learned to live for those about her. Not in the narrow sense of speaking a word of cheer, in the expression of a hope that all would be well. But by the giving of her very life for those who were about her. It is indeed, a hard lesson for us to learn, but for her she had so mastered it that it seemed passing strange that it cost us so much of a struggle. Her life was not lived in the narrow limits of her own home; while she dearly loved those of her own family circle, and lived devotedly for them, yet .she had heard the Macedonian cry, and had come over to help all those who were poor and needy. Her life was lived during the trying hours of the early history of our country. And like many another she gave of her best and choicest for the defence of that which she held dear. Her home became headquarters for a band of noble brave, true women, who had convictions and were willing to give of their truest and best womanhood for a cause they had espoused. In every time of trouble it seemed to be her fort to stand in the front; For many years she was nurse and watched at tlie bedside of the dying and with her own hands many of the early settlers of this place were pre- pared for burial. She did not know what it was to fear. There was no sickness or danger that she seemed afraid to face. All that she needed to know was that there was one that hath need of her and at once she was ready to go. Her relation to this her church home was full of bless- ing, and the inspiration of her large hopes ought to in- spire us to more noble endeavor. In Detroit and Philadelphia she became deeply in- terested in the hospital work of those cities, and had her part in helping along that noble and beautiful charity. And in her heart she held the hope that in our own city the time would come when we should have as thor- oughly equipped a place as any other city. And so she talked and toiled, until now we have the promise of one of the best buildings with full equipment for the care of the sick. Whil^ we could not have expected to have kept her with us but for a short time, it is one of our sor- rows to-day, that her familiar face and form will not be with us when the hospital building is opened. But methinks she will be with us, as she looks down from the Father's house, she will rejoice with us. as she would if she v.^ere present in the body. There was something beautiful in the love which she gave to those of here own family circle, her thought was ever for them. Her children, grand children and great grand children was her constant care. How often she bore them to the throne of the heavenly grace, how she planned for their future. It was her constant prayer that they mijjht be of use in the world. The devotion of mother and daughter was ideal, for many years .she had watched over her child, and when the day of decline came strength was given the daughter to watch over mother; the relation which she sustained to the home, where she passed away, was sweet and sacred. The words she wrote for one who had been as buckler and shield to her are so appropriate that I close this tribute with them: "He brought me into his banqueting house; He brought me all of grace; He justifies; He glorifies; the top-stone is brought fourth; the banqueting house is entered with shoutings, saying all of grace, grace unto it, the journey is ended, the victory is won. "Seated at the supper table of she lamb, guest talking with guest, recounting their Lord's dealings on earth, the watcliwonl is 'he hath done all thing.^ well,' there is not a symptom of sad- ness, not a solitary trace of one tear drop, they rest from the world's feverish disquietud e, from this world's sins and sorrows "Oh! for one moment at that table, one crumb of that manna, one draught from the river of life. Christ the first .sheaf for the, mighty harvest has been waved before God in the temple of the new Jerusalem as a pledge of the immortal sheaves to come." This fitful life is past and clothed with the beautiful garments of Christ's righteou.sness .she entered into rest. 9^ A 1 \ I