The Collins family ; genealogical record (in part) of the descendants of John Collins, sr., from 1640 to 1760; a complete record of the descendants of William Collins and Esther Morris, from 1760 to 1897 . prolonged and intensified her pain. So suffering, though her lifes work-seemed not wholly accomplished, her departure was a release. In her last momentsshe sent to her far away children her last messages of love. For when her hour hadcome that she should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved her ownwhich were in the world, she loved them to the end. She had visited with me a


The Collins family ; genealogical record (in part) of the descendants of John Collins, sr., from 1640 to 1760; a complete record of the descendants of William Collins and Esther Morris, from 1760 to 1897 . prolonged and intensified her pain. So suffering, though her lifes work-seemed not wholly accomplished, her departure was a release. In her last momentsshe sent to her far away children her last messages of love. For when her hour hadcome that she should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved her ownwhich were in the world, she loved them to the end. She had visited with me a few months before her death. Her presence was abenediction. I detected the note given out from her intense heart strings. The strainwas too tense to endure. I felt, when she left us, that the grave would soon di\-ideus; yet, somehow, she seems to abide with us. Spiritual afinities survive the shock ofdeath. The artist survives the instrument on which his skilled fingers played and fromwhich his deft touch called forth the harmonies of sweet sound. So let me think of her as Abiding with me till I sail To seek her on the mystic this electric force that keepsA thousand pulses dancing, ADELINE COLLINS PEERS.


Size: 1578px × 1583px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, bookidcollinsfamil, bookyear1897