History of Pittsburgh and environs, from prehistoric days to the beginning of the American revolution .. . Gods grace gave her that rare thing—sancti-fied common sense. She had a keen sense of humor, and it gave her acheerful heart, a cheerful face, a cheerful word inevery conversation; she was very human. She had theapt anecdote; the light turn into a joke that madehei always attractive, and she never lost the zest ofliving; she was always full of plans of what she woulddo next. She was inexhaustible in her hope, and in herexpectation of what God would do for the uplifting ofthis land in whic
History of Pittsburgh and environs, from prehistoric days to the beginning of the American revolution .. . Gods grace gave her that rare thing—sancti-fied common sense. She had a keen sense of humor, and it gave her acheerful heart, a cheerful face, a cheerful word inevery conversation; she was very human. She had theapt anecdote; the light turn into a joke that madehei always attractive, and she never lost the zest ofliving; she was always full of plans of what she woulddo next. She was inexhaustible in her hope, and in herexpectation of what God would do for the uplifting ofthis land in which she lived, and one of the last thingsshe wrote in her little day book,—for she had an inde-fatigable mind and gathered for preservation theworthwhile things that she met, whether she readthem or got them from other people—were thesetwo lines, Give to the world the best you have andthe best will come back to you. She w^as in her usualhealth and full of enthusiastic plans for her work tothe morning of her death. God spared her from a lin-gering illness, and gave her an easy exodus from )^-^^. BIOGRAPHICAL 47 It is easy to imagine the joy that would have filledMrs. Watsons heart with the passing of the EighteenthAmendment and the accomplishment of national pro-hibition as an actual fact. No less proud would shehave been of the army of devoted women who in Franceand at home held up the hands of American soldiers inthe World War, for she appreciated in rare degree,how largely the morale of an army depended upon thewomen, who in the midst of suffering and death typifiedto war-worn soldiers, all that was wholly good anddesirable. The closing paragraph of this record, that is to rec-ognize again Mrs. Ellen (Murdoch) Watson in herrightful place in Pittsburgh history, is quoted fromresolutions passed by the Sabbath school of the SixthPresbyterian Church: As the years slipped away they whitened her hairand lessened her strength, while Sorrow and Loss be-came her guests,
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