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of her beautiful life and character and
to express our sorrow that never again
shall we have among us the sweet
and gracious presence of this noble
woman.

Mary Bentley Thomas Sec.

The extremely hot afternoon of 9-25-1902
prevented the attendance of some members
of the Association at the Cedars
and several expected guests were likewise
absent. The latter who defied
mind and matter were Mary B. Gilpin,
Ellen and Alice Brooke Stabler, Francis
Stabler, Margaret Magruder, and
Harriet Haines. Ellen Farquhar's word
for the day was the following excellent
verse -

"If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
and counting find,
One self-denying act, one word that
eased the heart of him who heard,
One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went,
Then you may count that day well spent."

The next number on the program was a
rather surprising confession from
the twenty women around the room,
that with only two entire exceptions they all
felt "hurried", morning, noon and
night, more or less. Who said they were
striving to be less so the years went
rolling on. Lotty Farquhar had nothing
to read, but she had just come from
a R. R. meeting at the Lyceum and yet again S.S. has
exemplified the phrase about "hope springing
eternal in the human heart,"
as many were apparently inclined to