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Show SORROWFUL. <br><br> Editor Leader: -- I am sorry to say that the dreadful disease diphtheria has broken out again in our settlement, and parents are called to mourn the loss of their little ones. To-day [today] we laid the last of Brother Oliver B. Packer's children in their graves. It was a sorrowful scene - two beautiful little girls lying side by side, sleeping sweetly until the morning of the resurrection, while the father and mother, almost broken hearted, bidding their little ones good bye - their last, their only children. A few days ago we laid their little boy in the grave, now they are left childless. But we must not mourn too much, for it was the will of God to take them from us to dwell with those that have gone before. All we have to do is to live our religion, be faithful and true to the end; that when we are called to go, we can lay our bodies down with the assurance that we will come forth in the resurrection morn and once more meet our beloved ones, never to part again. <br><br> There are more taken down today. May God have mercy upon us, and rebuke the destroyer and turn the death arrow away. ?. E. Nash. Franklin, April 28, 1880. |