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Show A SAD CASE. JuEt a few weeks since, Miss Julia Hopkins arrived in Provo from her home in Glendale, Kane Co,, in order to attend the B. Y. academy. Sbe came here full of hope, courage, and expectations for the future. 8he had matured her plans to enter that noblest nob-lest of all professions a teacher. Those that dwell under the parental roof were, very likely, stinting themselves, them-selves, denying themselves of many comforts that ihe pride of the family might gratify her noble ambition 10 obtain an education. Without doubt the young lady expected to recompense the self-denial of her parents, sisters and brothers from her earnings as a school teacher, for she had enterea upon the first year of her normal studies. stud-ies. A little more than a week aco Miss Hopkins waB stricken with typhoid, All that kind hearts and bauds could do to alley the burning fever was done, but she gradually sank into the long sleep that awaits every mortal. The willing hands ot her fellow students have tenderly straightened the rigid limbs, have arrayed her in her last earthly robes, and the form of her who came here Eo full ot hope and courage will be given to the sorrowing father who will convey the remains to the hamlet where dwell those that parted from her in the bloom of youth and who are now in anguish at her untimely un-timely ending. The neighbors will gather at the unpretentious village meeting-house. A lew sacred hymns, a few words ol condolence and of earnest earn-est prayer will be spoken and amid the hush broken only by the weeping uf tuose that loved her, the girl will be consigned to her last reBtlng place. Yet, that iB not the end ol a broken Jife. as we look into the faces oi our friends, ot those we love, and mark tbe god-like linaments that bespeak our parentage, and into tbe eyes that sparkle aglow with Divine light, tha unshaken taith cocses to ub that death is not the end. The thought comes to us that beyond the realm of present consciousness, the thread ot Interrupted Inter-rupted existence iB continued, and in the presence of more propitious surroundings sur-roundings the same forces, only more refined, will impel us onward and upward up-ward to a perfect destiny, the height and breadth of which is wisely hidden from mortals, and can only be dimly seen by the spirit of'faith, or analogically analogic-ally by that which we see in nature and in tha trend of mortal existence. The central thought involved in the foregoing is that no matter how uncertain un-certain this existence may be, there is a continuation of lives in the great beyond, be-yond, and for which this is but a preparatory pre-paratory school, and that every moment mom-ent is golden and pregnant with eternal eter-nal blessings for those that, in the presence of great obstacles, struggle on in the pathway of duty and prepare themselves for that Iif e that haB no ending. |