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"As the strong and the lowly before us have gone
Our sun will go down in the beautiful west
To rise in the glory that circles the throne."

"Until then we are bound by our love and our faith
to the Saints who are walking in Paradise fair.
They have passed beyond sight at the touching of Death
But they live like ourselves in Gods infinite care"

Elizabeth G Thomas, Anna F Gilpin & Albina O Stabler

Magnolia

5/27th. 1897 found the Association in session at the
pleasant home of Mary T. Bond. Owing to sickness
in some households and visitors in others the
company was a trifle smaller than usual but
Caroline H. Miller, Elinor Hough, Caroline S. Bond,
Mary P. T. Jackson, Annie D. Stabler, Florence
Bond and Agnes Darlington were acceptably present
as guests. Our hostess gave the following sentiment

"It seems as if life might all be so simple and so
beautiful, so good to live, so good to look at, if we
could only think of it as one long journey where
every days march had its own separate sort of
beauty to travel through". Ellen Farquhar read a
few verses very appropriate to the season and the
day entitled " The Heavenly Spring"

Our always welcome guest Caroline H. Miller had
brought a poem by Gerald Massey "Root and Flower"
which contained comfort to all who had loved
and lost and it possessed an additional interest