Obit of Helms, Mrs. Mary - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 22 Jan 2012 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::NOT LISTED Surnames: Helm Originally posted at: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oklahoma.counties.rogermills/9566/mb.ashx HELMS, Mrs. Mary A tribute of love to the memory of our aunt, Mrs. Mary Helm, who died March 1, 1897 at Birdstone, Texas, in her seventy-fifth year. (To Aunt, in Heaven-Writen for the Sunbeam) There are golden harps, and starry crowns In the mansions above at the Kings command For those who walk in the royal path That leads from earth to the heavenly land Dear auntie, 'tis a solace of grief, comfort sublime, To know that a harp and a crown are thine. If the golden harps are tuned to accord With kind words said to the weary and wan, With counsel and prayer that lessened the load Of wayside toilers as you journeyed along. Oh, auntie, how blissful the music must be Which comes from the harpes played by thee. If on the crowns there's a sparkling gem For deeds on trustful love for Him Who was your beacon light to heaven Then, auntie, your crown is so wondrously fair 'Tis a glittering mass of jewels rate, If the pictures adorning the mansions above Are reflections of your brightyness somre lives have shed. Heartaches forgoten, strife changing to love, Homeless ones sheltered, hunry ones fed, Oh, auntie, how radiant your mansion, I know No artist but Christ could picture one so. If pleasures in heaven are meted to those Who faithfully, humbly do their best In bearing life's cross and murmuring not, Patientlt wait for the promised rest Dear auntie, we misas you, but would not say, come Away from such bliss in your beautiful home. When o'er the river the boatman came To row her o'er the darksome tide, Her life work ended, she was waiting to cross, To join the angels on the other side. Oh help us, our Father, her loved ones below. To be willing and ready with the boatman to go. ---Ella Hodges Cheyenne Sunbeam, Cheyenne, OK 19MAR1897 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html