OBITUARY

	William Jessie Lunsford was born 14 Sept.1880, and died 
24 Feb.1900, aged 19 years, 5 months and 10 days, Jessie was a good
boy, obedient to his parents having a proper respect for his teachers
and was well liked by his associates. Mysterious indeed is that 
providence that has taken from these loving parents, this strong, 
vigorous young man just in the bloom of youth and almost ready to 
enter upon the active duty of life. 
	The cup which has been put into their hands is one whose 
bitterness can be conceived only from sad experience. To see the loved 
one around whom our fondest hopes have clustered languish and died; 
to seek in vain for the happy face when the family group assembles 
around the fireside; to realize that he is gone never to return.
	This is hard to bear, and but for the comforts of our holy 
religion would be unsupportable. But we mourn not as those who have 
no hope. We find solace in the thought that God is wise and does all 
things well. He is love and cannot be unkind. In His wisdom He has 
seen fit to call Jessie from this earth to a fairer and brighter land where 
there are no sad partings to rend the heart and no trouble to furrow the 
brow. He can not come to us but we can go to Him. Let us live to meet 
Him.