Letter of Condolence from one of the Teachers at Saint Matthew's School to the Parents of Charlotte Shone"
Saint Matthew's School, Church Road, Buckley
26 February 1880
see 191.21 for information on Charlotte
LETTER TEXT
School House
Buckley
Feb. 26th 1880
Dear Mr & Mrs Shone
Just a few lines to say how deeply I feel for you in your great trouble and also to offer my sympathy. I know from experience that your trouble will seem to be unbearable, but you must try not to think of your own loss. Let your thoughts rather dwell on dear Charlotte's great gain. Try to think of her as being at peace and in His presence, whom she has loved so to follow here. She has now been one day with her Saviour and we know that that one day has given her more happiness than a thousand days upon earth could do.
It is hard to see a gap in the home circle, to know that one is wanting, but try to think that there is one watching for you in Heaven, that she is one link to the chain that must draw your hearts to the Home above.
Hoping that you will try to bear up for your children's sake.
Believe me
With Greatest Sympathy
To be Yours Sincerely
Mary I. Sharratt.
These lines I enclose seem to be the best (indecipherable line) as though they had been written especially for Dear Charlotte.
GONE HOME
Gone Home to be with Jesus
To sing His praise on High
To be an Angel ever
To live and never die.
Gone Home to join the numbers
Whose robes are washed and white:
Who weary not in praising
Their Saviour day and night.
Gone Home to be forever
With God in light above
To dwell in all its fullness
And everlasting love
Gone Home, no more to suffer
No more to war with strife
But drink from living fountains
And streams of endless life.
Gone Home to wait the coming
Of loved ones, still below.
To welcome them to Heaven
From sorrow and from woe
Gone Home where death ne'er enters
And sorrow knows no place
To be with Christ forever
A trophy of his grace.
Author: Sharratt, Mary
Tags
Year = 1880
Month = February
Day = 26
Document = Letter
Event = Funeral
Extra = Pre 1900
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