Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Gilbert, Davis 1880
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The Lowell Journal, Wednesday, October 20, 1880


Lines written for the Journal by Mrs. L. W. Cogswell on the death of Father 
Gilbert, who departed from this life Oct. 15, 1880, in his 91st year.

Again has the soft winged angel of death visited our community.   It came so 
noiselessly and touched his eyes and he slept.  And his soul leaped forth from 
its prison house and soared away to those mansions of the blest, and I have no 
doubt that the good angel was welcome to our suffering father who, although 
afflicted for a long time has always seemed cheerful and happy.  Year after 
year have we watched him while his disease was consuming by degrees that 
casket, and I have thought what a mystery is life.  Surly our Father in Heaven 
doeth all things well.  He has always seemed a true Christian and the cold 
world can never know the compensation that he has had for all these years of 
pain and suffering, and ever upon the altar of his soul has burned the vestal 
fires, lighting up his pathway through dark and weary ways.  When all around 
were storms and clouds the Divine voice within ever spoke of peace.  Thou are 
gone dear father but not far away.  The old clay-built tabernacle has been 
laid at rest on the bosom of our common mother earth but thy spirit, freed 
from the clogs that crippled its flight, now roams through the broad blue 
ether or drinks from the fountains of celestial love.  His life has been a 
quiet, silent one still there is a value in such a life we may not estimate.  
Like the flowers that drink in the silent dews of Heaven and grow fresher and 
brighter so have our souls fed upon the hidden manna that grew in the 
wilderness of his earth life.  Such a life is not only calling upon us to 
number our blessings but to thank God that in all his works, and words, in 
everything, there is a blessed compensation.

He leaves a wife and children and many friends to mourn his loss; but only a 
little has he gone before.  Soon she who has borne with him his sorrow and 
afflictions will also enter the dark which shall bear her over the river of 
death where she will meet the loved ones never to part again.  Blessed are 
they who died in the Lord they rest from their labors and their works do 
follow them.


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