Life is a fast flowing stream that moves onward at a rapid pace toward the ocean of eternity, but death is only a shining stream to transport the soul to the arms of Jesus.
On Thursday afternoon, December 4, just as the clock tolled the hour of 2, the Death Angel visited the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carmel Creech and took from them their darling little girl, Christine. She had suffered two weeks with that awful disease, diphtheria. All was done for her that could be done, but nothing could stay the icy hands of death. She lived only five years and 10 months, then her spirit took its flight to realms above thee to begin that beautiful life with our Heavenly Father, where earthly pains and sorrows ae forgotten, banished by the light of God’s countenance.
Oh, how sweet to think how pure her little life was, nothing to stain her soul. To know her was to love her. God saw she was prepared to live with him so he reached down and gathered the little jewel in His arms and now she is safely resting on the golden shore.
The funeral was preached on Friday afternoon by Rev. W.D. Stancil, after which her little body was laid to rest in the cemetery at Bethany Baptist Church in the presence of an unusually large gathering of sorrowing relatives and friends. The floral offerings were many and beautiful, all tokens of love and sympathy. May the bereaved ones find balm for their wounded spirits and come forth from this dark hour of trial with a new visition of Him who doth al things well.
Oh, how sad to now behold
The lone and vacant chair
That here we ne’er shall see
The one that once sat there;
But list a voice we hear,
The sounding sweet and clear—
Our love one’s in that heavenly choir
With angels bright and fair.
And list he calls to us
From heaven’s happy home:
“My previous ones, O dear one and all,
Oh, come and meet me—come!”
--C.L.C.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Friday, Dec. 12, 1924
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