Show PAUL P. STI STEVENSON SOX E Probably no case more sad than that of Paul Stevenson has hns ever been known In Salt Lake Lale The Tho young manis man manis is dead His HIM life was ended ende with startling suddenness enne And it comes on the heels of or trouble more mare pitiless In Its severity se than Is commonly lai laid upon the hands and the heart of or loved lo ones Ills parents are me persons of oC the highest highest highest high high- est social connection and antI life liCe has Inthe in inthe the past had a good g deal eal of sunshine for them A daughter and a son were given them These young oung people were popular with their friends and deservedly deservedly de de- e- e so 50 The girl gifted with beauty and great personal charm charm 1111 was singularly favored with the friendships that are arc desirable She was smitten with disease arid and dle died just when life liCe seemed richest C for l' l her She was twos a bride uniting her life almost at the portals of or death eath to a man who was wort worthy It was a sorrow that seemed unbearable The Thc father Is an nn Invalid an and has been beep so o for or years From his chair where helO disease has forced orce him into an unaccustomed and Irksome idleness he has hns watched the son and found hope and comfort after the loss of his daughter laughter Then the bo boy ambitious for Cor proficiency proficiency pro pro- in his chosen profession goes awa away to complete his studies All the bloom of or youth all the glory o of apparent apparent ap ap- parent health was upon him And In Ina Ina a month he comes back to die tile And now all the hope all the rea reason on has gone out of or life liCe for those two who have striven so nobly and so well One pauses at the side I e of or the lit little little little lit lit- tle mother mothel whose heart Is breaking pauses and wonders wonders Why Why One Ono searches the heart brimming with sympathy for the words that ma may console her One stands at the brink of or this grave where youth and hope and promise are hidden hl en In ln mellow earth close b by the grassy gragg mound where the beaUl beauty and the sweetness o of the tho daughter are arc forever hidden And AntI one turns to the fragrant air to the sun sunshine to the thc limitless depths i of or the sky where the stars are aro hidden hidden hid hlll- den because It is light ht and antI won wonders ers I I Why h Why What hat can you OU say 53 to comfort the father rather who can not even work work antI and lose in It the time gnawing of his tits grief What shall you ou say to the brave bravo little moth mother r who has borne so much Wo We do O not know And yet et look up again The fragrant air and the flowers flow flow- ers CIS and the sunshine arc are here And beyond Is the measureless of or the thc sIt sky The stars tars are ore there Only In the darkness of night can enn we see them m. m The day a Is too fu full of light for Cor us to know lenow oC of their countless glories And AntI may not the good God who hangs their hope brightest when the night nigh t b In Is most dark dark may may not He fin find some som e whisper of sure solace some sonic certainty of or joys jOS that even death can not nol destroy de destroy e- e stroy For beyond the limit where e I mans man's hand han can help there must be beI behelp help of Him whose heart is Love Lowe |