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From: "Lisa Perry" <>
Subject: [MOMONROE] NBC: Spotts
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:00:59 -0400


Undated article; original source unknown. Extracted from the newspaper
article collection started in 1879 by Mrs. Nannie Brown of Madison,
Missouri.





In Remembrance of Mrs. Ruth Spotts.



"Ruth, beloved wife of J.L. Spotts, departed this life August 16, at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G.W. Hill, near Holliday, Mo.



There is a pang within the heart,

So keenly do we feel,

A (wound) from hence the tear-drops start

Which (none) but God can heal.



Yes, there is a tear in the eye and a void in the heart. In the home
there is sadness and gloom, blighted hopes and broken ties. How hard
this is, bitter indeed, seems the cup that is sometimes prepared for us,
but we must humbly take it. And as the fir flowers of earth yield their
sweetest perfume when bruised and broken, so the Christian's light
shines with most luster whilst pressed by affliction. Heaven's
brightness often hovers over sorrows' cloud - the most radiant smiles
oft come through tears.



Dear Ruth! She is gone. Her precious form surrendered to decay! But
the spirit will unfold in new and heavenly beauty in a home which time
nor death can never change. Many and sweet words of sympathy have been
spoken by kind and loving friends. How much we love them! But, oh, how
utterly vain are all things human to bring a surcease from sorrow to our
aching hearts. We can only turn to the divine word and trust its
precious promises, and take the hand that is offered in love and human
tenderness; yet of God - take strength, our only stronghold in time of
trouble. Dear one, she can never return to us but we can go to her.
Happy though! May it inspire us so to live so that all will be well
within when we have crossed the tide."




J.L.S.







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Shelbina, MO. 63468-1562








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