IN MEMORIAM.
\n Died, October 8th, 1873, after a long illness, KATE L., daughter of Edward and Jane E. Tearney, of Harper\u2019s Ferry, and wife of John Walsh, of Cumberland, Md., aged twenty-six years.
\n The trite phrases of obituary notices would fail to convey an adequate idea of the feeling elicited in this community by the death of this estimable lady, for her character was one of extraordinary amiability, and the sympathies of her many friends and acquaintances are excited to a corresponding degree by her early death. The favorite child of exemplary and indulgent parents, her training from childhood was such as to develop the natural excellence of her character, and never, perhaps, were the advantages of early moral and religious teachings more forcibly illustrated than in her pure life and edifying death. Surrounded from her infancy with all the comforts and elegancies of life and educated in all the accomplishments known to the day, she exhibited in her manners a rare christian humility which made her the idol of her acquaintances– snatched at an early age by death, from the happiest surroundings and the ministrations of the most devoted parental and conjugal love, she manifested a perfect christian resignation.
\n The services at her funeral were singularly impressive. Every thing combined to make them peculiarly touching. The exalted characters of her parents and husband– her youth, beauty and accomplishments– but above all her many eminent virtues gave an additional pathos to the solemn ceremonies of the Church. From the silver-haired priest who officiated at the altar to the child of tender years, the assembled multitude were melted into tears and an air of indescribable sadness has ever since pervaded this whole community. Her worthy parents and estimable husband have the unbounded sympathy of all, but their greatest consolation is that THEIR temporal loss is HER eternal gain.<\/p>\n
She is gone to the land of spirits blessed To Him who \u201cgives his beloved rest,\u201d
\nAnd soonest takes from the world of care
\nHis most beloved and happy there.<\/p>\n
No cloud obscured the October sky
\nTo darken the path to her home on high,
\nAnd Heaven\u2019s bright sun with effulgence shone, —
\nA type of the glory to which she is gone.<\/p>\n
The matron staid and the maiden fair,
\nThe care-worn man with grizzled hair,
\nThe old and the young their tribute gave
\nOf tears to moisten our darling\u2019s grave.<\/p>\n
God\u2019s holy minister wept with them
\nAs he chanted the solemn requiem,
\nAnd his plaintive voice had a saddler tone,
\nThough he knew her soul had Heaven-ward flown.<\/p>\n
The tears we shed were not those of pain–
\nThey fell like the gentle summer rain.
\nOur Father smote, but we kissed the rod,
\nFor we knew our loved one was with her God.
\nRequiescat in pace.<\/p>\n
AMISCUS.
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