Miss Ellis's MissionSmith, Mary P. Wells (Mary Prudence Wells)
Religion
Miss Ellis's Mission
Smith, Mary P. Wells (Mary Prudence Wells)
Ellis, Sarah, 1835-1885; Home missions -- United States -- Unitarian Church
So many worlds, so much to do,
So little done, such things to be,
How know I what had need of thee,
For thou wert strong as thou wert true.
TENNYSON.
It reprinted from "Unity," Jan. 9, 1886, this tender tribute from a
personal friend and a member of the Women's Auxiliary:--
SALLIE ELLIS.
She only did what lay at hand,--
Work that her own hand found to do:
With no thought of a "mission" grand,
Yet, bit by bit, her mission grew.
She did--what others left undone;
She gleaned behind the harvesters:
The scattered ears of grain let stand
By careless ones,--all these were hers.
Patient, unresting, still she wrought,
Though life beat fainter and more faint:
And only as her soul took flight,
We saw--the aureole of the Saint.
ALICE WILLIAMS BROTHERTON.
CINCINNATI, OHIO.
The memorial closed as follows:--
"At the regular monthly meeting of the Women's Auxiliary Conference
of Cincinnati, Jan. 12, 1886, the programme for this meeting was
omitted, and the afternoon devoted to tender recollection of the
dear friend and valued secretary so recently taken from us, to the
reading of many letters from East and West containing loving
tribute to her worth and sympathy for our loss, and to devising
such plans for continuing our work in future as should be our
friend's best commemoration, the tribute she would chiefly have
desired. Mrs. George A. Thayer offered the following expression of
the feeling of our Society, for entry on our records:--
"'It is fitting that we should place upon the records of this
Association some words of grateful remembrance of our late
fellow-worker and Secretary, Sallie Ellis, who went up higher on
Sunday, Dec. 27, 1885.
"'She was called to her office four years and a half ago, and took
up its work from the beginning as one who felt its consecration,
and saw the opportunity it offered of being a ministry of the
highest things to many souls yearning for a word of religion both
reasonable and spiritual.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account