without measure to the cause that appealed to 

 her mind and to her heart. 



By one of those singular coincidences which 

 it is hard for us to believe are due to chance 

 alone, the last time that she attended a council 

 she prepared and read the report of the com- 

 mittee appointed to render our last tribute of 

 praise and affection to those of our number 

 who had gone, to be with us no more on earth. 

 I cannot do better than to quote her own 

 words, which come to us now as an evidence 

 of her own steadfast faith: "The confidence 

 of our hope and calm trust that those missed 

 from our side have been given at last the or- 

 der to advance, to use at length, 'in the full- 

 grown energies of heaven,' the strength, the 

 experience, and the power acquired in the low- 

 lier earth life." 



— Clarinda Pendleton Lamar. 



I^otice^ from tl^e ^re^^ 



{The Morning Star, Wilmington, N. C, February 17, 

 19 16.) 



The news of the death of Mrs. James 

 Sprunt, which occurred this morning, at 2:15 

 o'clock, at her home. No. 400 South Front 

 street, will be learned with profound sorrow 

 by hundreds of people in Wilmington and 

 elsewhere. She had been ill for more than a 

 year, and for the past ten days her condition 



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