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Show ! fl ': i zB' ' " ' -Ii - o V 1 1 mm MRS. DELIA TAR BET. I OBITUARY. i I Tarbet. The death of Mrs. Delia Tarbet in this city last Saturday removes from the scene of life one of the best-known best-known and most benevolent of Salt Lake's residents. Since the death of her husband, many years ao, she lived with her son, A. 11. Tarbet. The mutual affection and love of the mother and child had grown so intense in-tense that nothing but the most pressing press-ing business could keep them apart. During her last illness Mr. Tarbet was in New York. AA'hen informed of his mother's illness he returned immediately, im-mediately, . but arrived too late to witness wit-ness the dying scene. This intensified his sorrow, as his great wish was to see her and whisper to her loving words so often expressed before. Friends did .all that could be done to make Mrs. Tarbefs last hours peaceable, peace-able, and happy. The same friends helped to remove the burden of A. H. Tarbet's grief. After his arrival arrangements ar-rangements were made for the fu neral, which took place on AA'ednesday morning from St. Mary's church. At 10 o'clock a solemn requiem mass was sung by Father Kiely, Bishop Scanlan presiding in the sanctuary. The choir, under the direction of Miss Xora Glca-ion Glca-ion sang. Bishop Scanlan read from the ritual of prayers of the dead. Father Kiely. who assisted his lordship, lord-ship, paid' a last ' tribute to the deceased, de-ceased, saying: "She is not dead: she sleepeth." That was how Christ expressed his sympathy when a certain woman had lost her only child. The mmhor'a nr. row was so intense and the mourners' mourn-ers' sympathy so profound that Jesus stopped the funeral cortege, and asked why they' wept. Being told that a good mother had lost her only child and was disconsolate, He, too , was moved to compassion anil said: "She is pot dead; she sleepeth." That is how the Catholic church views death. It is the beginning of life, and means eternal rest and happiness. That has I been the faith of the human race since time Degan, viz., that the soul, after it leaves the body, begins to live its eternal life, for which God created it. It honors the body by bringing it before be-fore the altar, those candles" which you see symbolize the light of faith. Friends, too. follow 'the example of the church in honoring the body by presenting pre-senting flowers and other marks of esteem. es-teem. It is an instinctive, and mavho, a conscious act of faith In the immortality im-mortality of the soul. Is it a delusion or a superstition? There is no rea:on to think so. There are hundreds of reasons to think the contrary. Hiw happy the thoughts, how joyous tie feelings that soring from this act .Vf faith. "She is not dead; she sleep-eth." sleep-eth." AA'e shall see that body glorified in heaven, and shall understand all about the soul and its mysterious relations rela-tions with the body. The .deceased reached the venerable age of three score and twelve years. Her life was as simple and innocent as that of a child. Truly Christian, her long and edifying life was a preparation prepara-tion for death, and heaping up treasures treas-ures above. She was a mother, and the only earth treasures she ever spoke of was her children. With all the instincts in-stincts and laudable pride of a mother she thought there wore no children I like hers. t In her last illness she manifested man-ifested the greatest patience and resignation, re-signation, and after being fortified by the sacraments and realizing that she had not a very long lime to live, she was resigned. She had no regrets in parting with this world. Her treasures, treas-ures, i. e., her children, would surely follow, and the hope of a happy union in heaven made her happy. That thought takes the sting away from death, and its apparent victory. Then wp consider the hope of blissful immortality im-mortality it is no victory, for in the words of our Lord, "She is not dead, but slecpeth." . Jhe pall-bearers were Colonel AA-all. Mr. J. D. AA'ood, Mr. P. J. Moran, Mr. J. C. Lynch. Major AVilkcs, Mr. Robert Fowler, Judge Moyer. Mr. O. K. Lewis, Mr. H. II. Tarbet, Mr. J. G. Doolittle. Though there was an understanding that there would be no flowers, yet there was a profusion of them from loving friends. As Mrs. A. H. Tar-let, Tar-let, who, with her chi'd, is now in California, could not undertake the joir.-noy homeward owing to the great heat, final interment will not take place till she returns. The remains were placed temporarily in a vault in Mount Olivet ccnWery. . |