Though I know that no words of mine can bring comfort to your sorely
tried heart, yet I can not refrain from writing to you to express my
deep and heartfelt sympathy in your affliction.
Knowing your husband as intimately as I did, I can understand what a
blow his death is to you. He was a man whose place will not be easily
filled in the world; how impossible to fill it in his home!
You are, even in your loss, fortunate in this. He left behind him a
name unsullied, and which should be a priceless legacy to his children
and to you. His life was so pure and his Christian faith so undoubted,
that we may feel the blessed assurance that he has gone to the home
prepared for those who love and faithfully serve the Lord Jesus.
This should comfort you. You have the hope of meeting him one day in a
better and a happier union than the ties that bound you here on earth.
He waits for you, and reunited there, you will know no more parting.
I pray God to temper your affliction and give you strength to endure
it. May He, in His own good time, give you the peace that will enable
you to wait with patience until He shall call you to meet your loved
one in heaven.
Sincerely yours,
WALTER BAILEY.
MRS. LYDIA WALROD, New York.
To a Friend on the Death of Her Sister.
GENEVA, N.Y. May 4, 189—.