was to be branded as a come-outer; but none the less did our friend lend sympathy and co-operation, for duty urged, with compelling force, enrollment among the vanguards of social and political progress. In behalf of truth and right he was content to stand where God and conscience had prepared the way. But with this earnest boldness in the right, one saw blended a meekness and gentleness rarely witnessed among men. There was one characteristic- nay we may call it the guiding star of his destiny-Aspiration. Never content with past achievement, a laudible ambition inspired to redoubled progress. In the midst of a useful career the life endeared to so many was suddenly cut short. Why, we cannot discern. But in the spirit of the larger hope begotten of Christ, we are assured that every one who goes from us to the world of light goes holding an invisible chain of love by which to draw us there. Beyond the storms and darkness of mortality; beyond this mysterious drama of sin, disappointment, toil, privation, sorrow and the grave, we behold the transporting scenes of that spirit land, destined to be the final inheritance of all the countless millions who have been, or will yet be, created subject to misery and death here, that they may be trained up for the more exquisite enjoyment. of God hereafter. The soul has been called into existence to soar upwards when the body goes back to its original elements, to span unlimited space and measure endless ages, to travel the broad and boundless of a destiny that has no end. The broken purposes that fail on earth are carried out hereafter, and the worn, shattered banner of humanity, torn and drooping here, is planted again hereafter upon a happier shore. "To Heaven is gathered one by one. In its capacious breast, All that is pure and permanent And beautiful and blest. "The family is scattered yet, 66 Though of one home and heart: But who can speak the rapture when And all the children sundered now Around one Father meet? One fold, one Shepherd, one employ: One everlasting home, Our Father's house, from whose dear rest No wanderer e'er shall roam." 431. WILLIAM SOUTHWICK, (Theophilus, Daniel', Lawrence", Daniel', Lawrence'), son of Theophilus and Anna (Remington), born June 4, 1786, died July 19, 1828. Married first, Rebecca Bowditch, of Rehoboth, Mass., died May 23, 1816, aged 29 years; second, Abiah Trask, Jan. 21, 1823. He was a tanner at Mendon, Mass. One child: 1188. Anna Remingion', born Jan. 21, 1813; married, March 11. 1832. Thurber Warfield Hill, born Dec. 12, 1802, died Nov. 15. 1876, at Woonsockett, R. I., was a stone mason. They lived in Woonsockett. R. I. IN MEMORIAM. By Rev. Nathan S. Hill. MRS. REBECCA BOWDITCH SOUTHWICK, wife of William Southwick, passed from things visible to things invisible, May 23, 1816, aged 29 years. An intimate friend at the time of her decease, testified as follows:-"The premature death of this estimable lady, is a subject of deep affliction to her family and friends. She died with animated hopes of a happy futurity." When the earthly setting of a human life is removed from sight, we treasure all that made existence desirable or happy. Although our friend had scarcely reached the number of years allotted to a generation; yet the quality was of the highest order. To a mind unusually bright and active, there were added moral qualities and personal beauty that enhanced the value of her life. Keenness and vivacity, were prominent qualities, while in the domain of the higher life there was an innate consciousness of spiritual virtues. Insight and outsight ever witnessed the bright side of things and referred the guidance of life and the destiny of man to the Eternal Goodness. Living in such an atmosphere, departure from this world in unfolding. womanhood was welcomed as the angel of God sent for beneficient purposes. The immediate cause of her demise was owing to a pestilential fever that devastated nearly every household of the neighborhood and which she contracted in faithful performance of Christian duty at the bed-side of the sick and dy |