Show in for we know if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved we have a building anhouse an house not made with bands eternal in the heavens so it waa with our sister elsie M wife 0 E A billington and daughter of A B adler and elsie adler of spring city sanpete county utah and while we of this community with many tears and heartaches are still in the flesh her freed spirit safe on the evergreen short is today to day joining in the glad jubilee our sister was born in the covenant february and lived saint she died of congestion of the brain and spinal column april 13 1889 being 27 years 2 months and 4 days old her beautiful faithful and over christian like character her inner and life wore so pure so unspotted from the world that the writer feels keenly incompetent to speak of them in the full and fitting terms they so eminently deserve she has always been faithful to her duties both m the church and sunday school and also in the choir the latter of which she was a member for some twelve years she won the love and esteem of the sunday school the church and the community in general the great reaper could not have plucked a flower more fit to bloom in the heavenly garden than was our elsie her life though but in the springtide spring tide bore much fruit for the savior and the fruits of the spirit meekness gentleness goodness and long suffering were mani test in her manner of life and though she cornea not again to us her gentle influence wilt be felt and many a sabbath will como and go oer we cealo to bo reminded of her regular attendance with us and find ourselves almost awaiting her coming but while wo sorrow wo murmur not bufa say thy will be doro then we will not our homes with the clouds and shadows f leath life with its trials lies out bifora us and should we not try to amend the past by our future life ao as to be prepared to meet the loved OBO that has gone before Is it not a consolation yea even a joyous thought that our friend is beyond all sorrow suffering and care and wo aind comfort in the truth so beautifully ox pressed by the poet all our loved ones arc passing away like the sweetest and fairest of flowers only just for a day oa this sorrowful earth land of ours they are going from you and from me for no longer with us could they wait but we anuw in some bright sunny day ve shall meet by the beautiful gate we cherish iu me morys bright store f happy visions no time can efface of coved onea in 1 ad of they w ho cheered us with beauty and prace one by one aney have faded away for no longer on earth could they wait but e annn in thoe slad days to I 1 e we shall meet by alie beautiful cate in the land that is fairest and best where no sorrow shall ever betide we shall gather at last in sheet rest with loved ones aaen by our side we are wandering home one by one to that promised land veary and late but we know when oar journey is d no we shall meet at the beautiful pate B F M CITY utah april |