Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 December 1918 — A TRIBUTE. [ARTICLE]

A TRIBUTE.

From the W. F. M. S. of the M. E. church, in memory of Mrs. Jennie Wishard: In our little group today we find a vacant chair. We are missing one who has mingled with us for many I years. She has left us and gone to a I land where there is no night. Though absent in body she is not forgotten, and the many things she has said and done will live in our memories for years to come. In the death of "Mrs. Wishard, we have lost a faithful member—one who was ever at her post of duty and willing to do whatever She could for the good of our society, in the interests of which She was most faithfully devoted.

Her pleasant way and the sunshine in her disposition always made her a welcome guest and a willing worker. There is a saying that, ‘"The proof of the pudding is the eating thereof,” and that saying is fully demonstrated in the living of religion. The proof is fully tested when one has lived the life that Mrs. Wishard did—-it proves to the world that it is good to live by and good to die by. There is no better test of religion than to just live it day by day. And that is what Mrs. Wishahrd did—she relied on the many promises which she found comfort in. And when the final summons came and she was called up higher, though alone and in the dark, I am sure she was found ready and that her pilot steered her straight to the “home of many mansions,” prepared for her and for her pleasures through all eternity. Let us cherish her memory. Let us imitate her life and be as steadfast, and all will be well with us. —(Contributed.

Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wilcox have received a letter from thedr son-iin-law, A. L. Branch, of Stockton, California, in which he tells of the narrow escape of his daughter, Cophine, who had' been attending a Christian college at Eugene, Oregon. Miss Brandi was in a doranatory with thirty other girls when the building caught fire and the girls were barely able to escape with their lives; They were not I able to save any of their belongings.