a Tribute by Miss Isollone Rodd. from the Covenanter New Orleans LA, August 1901.
"Seldom have we known so sudden or so bitter a shock as came to us this week, when the news swept round her circle of friends- that Mrs, Martha Richmond Perkins was dead. So few knew of her brief but serious illness, that to most of us, her death seemed a strangely impossible fact. Yet only too soon we knew that it was fact whose truth could no longer be doubted. The strong noble heart had ceased to bear; the life that had reached after, and had attained such heights had passed. The Supreme Fact the crowning experience-- of life had been realized. Death had been faced and its bitterest bitterness. tasted.
In no circle will her sweet, strong presence be more sincerely missed than in that of our church. This was the deepest interest of her life. From the days of her early girlhood, she had worked for it and lived for it. Never was life's motto more faithfully fulfilled than was here. "For Christ and the church. Those who have listened to her voice as she taught in the Sunday School, and as she presided at meetings of the Church Societies, can all testify to the beautiful soul-life as revealed in her wonderful prayers to Him for whom she lived and worked! Year after year, however, her activities even in the Church work were lessened because of lack of physical strength. The deep interest never flagged, however, the true and unchanging affection for her church never failed.
Only a little more than a year ago her marriage was celebrated; in the old Church that she so loved and with which so many of her richest and deepest experiences were associated................
Fair, fresh flowers almost concealed the dark outlines of the casket, for loving hands brought many garlands, a last offering of affection from those who were left behind, form those she had helped, for great question of her life seemed ever, " what can I do to help you?"
Her very life was a benediction: its memory will ever strengthen and celebrate the heart, as the beauty and purity of that life speak to us from the dead past, reminding us that " No life can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife, and all like not be purer and nobler thereby" "
"Seldom have we known so sudden or so bitter a shock as came to us this week, when the news swept round her circle of friends- that Mrs, Martha Richmond Perkins was dead. So few knew of her brief but serious illness, that to most of us, her death seemed a strangely impossible fact. Yet only too soon we knew that it was fact whose truth could no longer be doubted. The strong noble heart had ceased to bear; the life that had reached after, and had attained such heights had passed. The Supreme Fact the crowning experience-- of life had been realized. Death had been faced and its bitterest bitterness. tasted.
In no circle will her sweet, strong presence be more sincerely missed than in that of our church. This was the deepest interest of her life. From the days of her early girlhood, she had worked for it and lived for it. Never was life's motto more faithfully fulfilled than was here. "For Christ and the church. Those who have listened to her voice as she taught in the Sunday School, and as she presided at meetings of the Church Societies, can all testify to the beautiful soul-life as revealed in her wonderful prayers to Him for whom she lived and worked! Year after year, however, her activities even in the Church work were lessened because of lack of physical strength. The deep interest never flagged, however, the true and unchanging affection for her church never failed.
Only a little more than a year ago her marriage was celebrated; in the old Church that she so loved and with which so many of her richest and deepest experiences were associated................
Fair, fresh flowers almost concealed the dark outlines of the casket, for loving hands brought many garlands, a last offering of affection from those who were left behind, form those she had helped, for great question of her life seemed ever, " what can I do to help you?"
Her very life was a benediction: its memory will ever strengthen and celebrate the heart, as the beauty and purity of that life speak to us from the dead past, reminding us that " No life can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife, and all like not be purer and nobler thereby" "
a Tribute by Miss Isollone Rodd. from the Covenanter New Orleans LA, August 1901.
"Seldom have we known so sudden or so bitter a shock as came to us this week, when the news swept round her circle of friends- that Mrs, Martha Richmond Perkins was dead. So few knew of her brief but serious illness, that to most of us, her death seemed a strangely impossible fact. Yet only too soon we knew that it was fact whose truth could no longer be doubted. The strong noble heart had ceased to bear; the life that had reached after, and had attained such heights had passed. The Supreme Fact the crowning experience-- of life had been realized. Death had been faced and its bitterest bitterness. tasted.
In no circle will her sweet, strong presence be more sincerely missed than in that of our church. This was the deepest interest of her life. From the days of her early girlhood, she had worked for it and lived for it. Never was life's motto more faithfully fulfilled than was here. "For Christ and the church. Those who have listened to her voice as she taught in the Sunday School, and as she presided at meetings of the Church Societies, can all testify to the beautiful soul-life as revealed in her wonderful prayers to Him for whom she lived and worked! Year after year, however, her activities even in the Church work were lessened because of lack of physical strength. The deep interest never flagged, however, the true and unchanging affection for her church never failed.
Only a little more than a year ago her marriage was celebrated; in the old Church that she so loved and with which so many of her richest and deepest experiences were associated................
Fair, fresh flowers almost concealed the dark outlines of the casket, for loving hands brought many garlands, a last offering of affection from those who were left behind, form those she had helped, for great question of her life seemed ever, " what can I do to help you?"
Her very life was a benediction: its memory will ever strengthen and celebrate the heart, as the beauty and purity of that life speak to us from the dead past, reminding us that " No life can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife, and all like not be purer and nobler thereby" "
"Seldom have we known so sudden or so bitter a shock as came to us this week, when the news swept round her circle of friends- that Mrs, Martha Richmond Perkins was dead. So few knew of her brief but serious illness, that to most of us, her death seemed a strangely impossible fact. Yet only too soon we knew that it was fact whose truth could no longer be doubted. The strong noble heart had ceased to bear; the life that had reached after, and had attained such heights had passed. The Supreme Fact the crowning experience-- of life had been realized. Death had been faced and its bitterest bitterness. tasted.
In no circle will her sweet, strong presence be more sincerely missed than in that of our church. This was the deepest interest of her life. From the days of her early girlhood, she had worked for it and lived for it. Never was life's motto more faithfully fulfilled than was here. "For Christ and the church. Those who have listened to her voice as she taught in the Sunday School, and as she presided at meetings of the Church Societies, can all testify to the beautiful soul-life as revealed in her wonderful prayers to Him for whom she lived and worked! Year after year, however, her activities even in the Church work were lessened because of lack of physical strength. The deep interest never flagged, however, the true and unchanging affection for her church never failed.
Only a little more than a year ago her marriage was celebrated; in the old Church that she so loved and with which so many of her richest and deepest experiences were associated................
Fair, fresh flowers almost concealed the dark outlines of the casket, for loving hands brought many garlands, a last offering of affection from those who were left behind, form those she had helped, for great question of her life seemed ever, " what can I do to help you?"
Her very life was a benediction: its memory will ever strengthen and celebrate the heart, as the beauty and purity of that life speak to us from the dead past, reminding us that " No life can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife, and all like not be purer and nobler thereby" "
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