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Show u LITTLE HENRY SNELL'S DEATH. Little Henry Sncll, aged nlno years this coming August, died Wednesdny evening whilo undergoing an operation opera-tion at the Holy Cross hospital. He was -the son of the late Henry Snell and May Allen Snoll. His father never saw tho llttlo lad his old child as death claimed tho parent before tho advent ad-vent of the little follow into this world of tears. A bright, lovable, bravo llttlo llt-tlo man, ho was his mother's Joy and comfort through nine years of sorrowing sorrow-ing widowhood, reflecting in his fnce the sweet memory of his father. In a thousand ways, this brave little follow fol-low gave promise of a hopeful manhood. man-hood. That thoro would como a timo when tho cares and troubles of othors would bo his own loving co'ncern. But it was not to bo, Death came and removed the childish cares before they had grown Into the mnn's burden ho longed to bear. It' Is sid to see our friends pass away, even when age has crowned them with years; but, when tender youth Is called there is Indeed tho sorrow which Is beyond human comfort. How wonderful is life, how mysterious is death. Side by sldo two cradle3 aro rocked, mothers read tho same sweet story In no ores 01 their llttlo ones, life opens wldo before their youthful feet, tho one fulls n3leep just where tho pathway is brightest with sunshino, tho other goes on, climbing all tho hills until the summit, of tho years Is reached, when twilight lingers lin-gers long before tho final nhadow. Why all this is so, God hides In -tho bosom of His. mercy. Thoro must b'o n moaning moan-ing in its lesson, clso,tho loving Fathor would-pluck from our' bleeding, hearts tho thorn j that. wounds. So', ini.tho deaUofJgtlo Homy "Spell, a loving Father has 'called,; altliougji;' tearful eyes-blind us to .thb' meaning of it nil. i I Lf. " ".V--V e.. ' |
