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her church, such pre-eminently was her home, and auch was she.She was born April 28, 1868. At the age of twelve years she made a public profession of faith aud Joined Mount Zion church. She was graduated from the Sumter Institute in Sumter, S. C., in June, 1885.Soon after graduation she took up teaching as a life calling and achieved a rare success in it, and continued to teach until her marriage. Wherever she taught the impress of her character and her Instruction abides in the lives and homes of her pupils. As she held the best of everything to be the Master's portion, so her best work was in her Sabbath school classes, formerly in Mount Zion church and more recently in Lebanon church, near her home in Virginia. Her class of boys in the Lebanon Sabbath school was a marked feature of the work in that church.April 26, 1H05, she was married to the Rev. R. A. Lapsley, D. D., editor of the Sabbath school literature of the Southern Presbyterian Church. She was a devoted wife and mother and a valuable counsellor and co-laborer In editorial work, for which hey literary taste, her knowledge of the Bible apd her spiritual intuitions eminently fitted her.Her cheerful, brave endurance for years, of almost constant discomfort, and often of intense suffering, was a marvel to all who knew the facts. Five months before her death, when the physicians could no longer hope against the ravages of dlseaso. they told her frankly that she could not live. Tnere was never a more serene facing of eternity, ‘strong in faith, giving glory to God' than was hers.’* Nor did that faith waver, nor didshe abate in the least her unselfishthoughtfulness of others, through those five months of severe suffering, until the end came, November 8, 1918.Strength and honor were her cloth. Ing. She opened her mouth with wisdom and In her tongue was the lawof kindness. • Her children arise up and call her blessed, her husband also, and he praiseth her.Staunton, Va. A. M. F.
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Atlanta Presbyterian of the South
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Wed, Feb 19, 1919
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