| Title | Selah, W. B., In Memoriam--Lucy Marr Yowell Woodward (Reprinted from Paris (MO) Mercury, August 1932) | |
| Short Title | Selah, W. B. (1932) | |
| _BIBL | Selah, W. B. In Memoriam--Lucy Marr Yowell Woodward. Reprinted from Paris (MO) Mercury, August 1932. | |
| _SUBQ | Selah, W. B., In Memoriam--Lucy Marr Yowell Woodward | |
| Source ID | S307 | |
| Text | "Lucy Marr Yowell "Lucy Marr Yowell, daughter of Henry E. and Elizabeth Yowell, was born December 27, 1904, in Goss, Mo. On August 14, 1928, she was married to Rev. Ralph L. Woodward. She passed away in Paris, Mo., July 14, 1932. "Dates are only mileposts along the road of life; they do not indicate the experience through which the soul has passed. Mrs. Woodward's life was much more than a series of dates on the calendar; it was a serious devotion to the things that mattered most. She gave herself with unstinted devotion to her husband and friends. During her career as a student in the Paris high school and in Central College, she passionately pursued truth and beauty and goodness. She gathered rich nuggets of culture, not that she might hoard them for her own enrichment, but thjat she might use them to enrich those who came within the circle of her influence. Her ideal was to put more into the stream of life than she took out. Like her Master, Jesus Christ, she came not to be ministered unto but to minister. Her unselfishness was a beautiful flower and it will continue to bloom in the garden of memory for those who knew her. SHe has joined the 'Choir Invisible' of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence. "Methuselah lived 969 years, but what was the use? He did not do anything; he stood for nothing worthwhile. Mrs. Woodward lived 28 years and when she arose and went to her heavenly Father many of our hearts felt a sense of tragedy. But we need not let our hearts be troubled; for she lived significantly, broadly, lovingly, and she filled the house of her earthly habitation with sweetness and light. In her short pilgrim-age through the valley of human existence she stood for all those things that give luster to womanhood and add to the glory of our common life. The words of an ancient wise man aptly describe her: 'She openeth her mouth with wisdom and in her tongue is the law of kindness. Strength and honor are her clothing. Therefore, let her works praise her in the gates of the city.' "With radiant faith, with daring rectitude, with unquenchable tood will, she met the challenges of life and came off more than conqueror. Death cannot destroy such a spirit. The God of love must cherish and preserve such spirits kafter stars have changed to dust. "''Tis human's fortune's happiest height to be A spirit melodious, lucid, poised, and whole; And second in order of felicity To walk with such a soul.' "Let not those whose priviliege it was to walk with Mrs. Woodward through the brief but happy years of her stay among us think that they can walk with her no more. They can walk with her still in the enchanted fields of memory. And when life's day is done, they will, if worthy, walk with her again in the city that hath foundations whose maker and buillder is God." | |
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