She had been caught up out of the storm; and "he who endureth unto the end shall be saved." By her request, I and a dear friend, Martha Campbell, prepared her body for burial, and we wrapped her in a linen winding-sheet, as the body of Christ was buried--no flowers, no decorations; only stern, solemn Death.
On the last day of father's life he had said to her, "Mary you are human, and must have faults, but whatever they are I never have seen them." She had been his widow seventeen years, and by her desire we opened his grave and laid her body to mingle its dust with his, who had been her only love in the life that now is, and with whom she expected to spend an eternity..