NELLIE V. MORRIS
IN MEMORIAL.
Nellie V. Morris was born in Guadalupe county, Texas,
December 21, 1878, and died in San Angelo, Texas April 3rd, 1901 at 4 o'clock p.
m; was consigned to her last resting place in Paint Rock Cemetery April 4th,
surrounded by sorrowing friends and relatives. After untold suffering the finger
of God touched her and she slept. The young may die, the old must, but for a
loved one just in the bloom of young womanhood to be torn away from us is one of
the mysteries known only to him who rules the universe, and will never be
understood until that day comes when all things shall be made plain. Nellie was
an earnest christian, a member of the Baptist church at Paint Roc,. She dearly
loved her Sunday school and when only a child, she with other members of her
class committed to memory the 23rd psalm that beautiful passage of scripture so
full of consolation to Christ's little ones; The Lord is my Shepard, I shall not
want" to strengthen her faith day by day in the great Shepherd. "Yea
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for
thou art with me; they rod and thy staff comfort me," full of hope and
compassion, and the assurance that the Shepherd's care faileth not even in the
darkest hour.
The world is the subdued and vested domain of death. The
history of the past is a record of the king of terrors, and we see little but
broken rings, withered garlands, vases once fragrant with flowers and the white
faces of those who sleep beneath the sod.
To those of her immediate relatives and friends who are most
heart-stricken at the loss we have all sustained, we have nothing of this
world's consolation to offer. We can only sincerely, deeply and most affectionately
sympathize with them in their afflictive bereavement. But, in the beautiful
sprit of the Christian's theology we dare to say that He who "tempers the
wind to the shorn lamb" looks down with infinite compassion upon them in
the hour of their desolation.
Her Teacher
A Floresville newspaper
April 6, 1901, Saturday