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Tribute to Mrs. Robert Mims. (Read by a member of the man's Mission Society at their 1 ing on Friday afternoon at the tist church.) This morning as I sat at the b fast table, I was thinking of the happy home where children had ed and the grand-children had j ered and where there were al enough loved ones and frienc make good che?r, and now the h is desolate and that, by the los just one who dwelt therein, thought came very forcibly to mind, that the death of one pe changes the whole world. The mc thought of it, the more I believe was true. Each one, whether grea mediocre or small is such a par some life or some interest that t loss creates a decided differenc what is and what may be. For many years, as far back as memory runs, the face and figur? Mrs. Mims has been very familia: me. I have faint recollections of in my earliest childhood as she wc pass our home on her way to Sun School and to minister to the i and suffering and carry them c fort and solace. In the old chu which stood in this same spot, I member how she sat at the organ those days when it was not such easy natter to get an organist e1 for one of the old fashioned k ?nd especially such a faithful < who nejver missed in rain or sunsh or for what most people would hi considered a genuine reason. At 1 revival meetings, I remember t away back when I was seven ye; old, when Dr. Luther Gwaltney v conducting a revival servico and h inspiring the singing was with 1 playing of the old organ and h my own heart was thrilled as I det< mined that I too, though so sm would be a Christian. Later, wher was ten years old and very ill wi pneumonia, near death, they said, remember how the presence of tl sympathetic comforter charmed a: cheered me. Somehow she had a ma netism for me which I still recs very vividly, and now it is all a mei ory, her life and labors and associ .tions of the past, but this memory the connecting link between 01 . present and our reunion hereafter, is what makes our associations ete nal. Through Sunday School, churc prayer meeting and special meeting ?through more than forty years si .made the music for the church se vices from the time of the little ol tumble organ till the great pipe oi gan was finished and the Centennii of the Edgefield Association was ce ebrated. It was not many years ag since her eyesight so failed that sh could not read the notes, and if it ha not been for hearing the music, sh could have played on and on thoug blind, so familiar was she with ever metre and all that suited it. She irr provised her own voluntaries and th memory of these sweet harmonie will go with me down the years Every time another comrade alon, the journey of life takes abode in th netter land, we become more rem iniscent, and more ready too, for tn change ourselves, as more and mor faces beckon us onward and upward Shewas born in 1836 not far fron the Pleasant Lane community wher< she was reared and where her homi was a centre of refinement and chee: for all the people in that section Rose Cottage is known by many wh( have read the stories of the past anc I have never passed there, the hous< -Still standing today, without thinking of the family who once lived there of what I know of Dr. and Mrs. Johr Lake and of his grandson, John Lake .who labors in China today. The golden anniversary of her mai Tiage to Mr. Robert H. Mims was cel ebrated in 1905, seven years before "his death and her death came seven years later. In the home in which they both died, these two lived to gether for fifty-seven years and were always known for their devotion and congeniality of disposition. Mrs. Mims never lost interest in the affairs of life. She was of unusual intelli gence and culture and every detail of public interest was a new centre of thought for her. She was one of the most interesting and accurate con versationalists I have ever heard"and had magnetism which never lost its freshness even in her declining years. She .also had a keen sense of humor ?and was full of enthusiasm in what tever she undertook. Her tired body was released from its bondage near midnight just be fore Christmas after several days of little communication with those .around her but doubtless in sweet comradeship with the brighter sphere ?which God in His mercy has be queathed to us and where He was pre paring that mansion for her not made with hands. She was a faithful mem . 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