B 1 S9438a V 1 ~Uicc Subbittlj-Bncrln 3n iUfinoriain. 1904 State reoistkr Prk- SHK I Vi.KIK.I.Il. ILL. in 'M r nun' in nu Alice Sudduth-Byerly, wife of Rev. A. C. Byerly, Presiding Elder of the Springfield District, Illinois Conference, died very suddenly Feb. 1!>. L904, at Oitronelle, Alabama, whither she bad gone aboul two weeks before for rest and recuperation. Her husband arrived home with the body Sunday after- noon, Feb. 21. The casket was placed in the front parlor under a canopy of white lace work, and was almost immediately embowered in flowers which began to arrive from sympathizing friends- Among the many offerings were the following: From the Official Hoard of Firsi Church, a large double bouquet of red carnations; Mrs. Judge Creighton, bouquet of white carnations; Mrs. S. A. Bullard and family, bouquet narcissi; Mr. and Mrs. A. I>. Oadwallader and daughter Imogen, of Lin- coln, bunch red carnations; Mr. and Mis. R. I.. Leaverton, bouquel rod carnations; Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Prather, wreath pink carnations; Mrs. Mc- Lennan, bouquel lilies; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ralph, bouquel white carnations and pink poses; Mrs. Robert Young, potted tern; local \Y. C. T. l\, loose bouquet while and pink carnations and \r^\ roses; Wilkin Chapter, Epworth League, of Lin- coin, massive Greek cross, white roses, red and white carnations. Mondav forenoon, Feb. 22, an opportunity was afforded friends to look upon the faro of tin- de- parted at the home, and a constant stream of sin- cere mourners passed in and nut up to the hour of the funeral. At i' o'clock the procession left the home for First Church, where the service was to be held, and where a large congregation had assembled. The pall-bearers were six ministers oi Springfield District. They were Rev. II. 11. Montgomery, Rev. -I. A. Lucas. Rev. W. A. Boyd, Rev. A. C. Adams. Rev. W. D. Best and Rev.' J. M. Bldredge. Besides these, about twenty preachers from the district were in attendance. The order of service at the church was as fid lows: Hymn. "Jesus, Lover of My Soul.*' rendered by a quartette. Scripture lesson, Rev. \Y. D. Best. Prayer, Rev. J. A. Lucas. Hymn. "Nearer, My God, to Thee." quartette. Address by Dr. \V. X. McElroy, pastor of Kum ha- ( *hurch. Address by Dr. A. P. Stover, of First Church, Lincoln. Address by Dr. W. A. Smith, of First Church, Champaign. Hymn. "Rock of Ages," quartette. Memoir, road by the pastor, Dr. X. G. Lyons. Benediction. ADDRESS Or REV. W. N. MCELROY. We mingle our tears today with the tears of our sorely bereaved brother and his family. We weep with them. Our sympathy goes out to them, and to the far distant brother and sister. But, we mourn not for the departed. For her there is no occasion to weep. She has entered into what St. Paul calls "gain.'' He said, "For me to live is Christ, but to die is gain." We know for her it is "gain." Though to live, as she did, for Christ, has some- thing in it of what Heaven is to be, yet beyond, to such as she, there is a gain in dying. The word declares that "those who die in the Lord are 'blessed. 1 " "They rest from their labors." "Their works follow them." Jesus said to His sorrow- ing disciples, "In my Father's house are many mansions." (Home places, for that is the mean- ing of the word.) "If it were not so I would have told you." "I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may he also." To our departed sister, this word has been kepi and she is with the Lord. I doubt not, being away from home, she looked for- ward day by day to the homecoming, and antici- pated its joyful reunions. But it was not to be. Instead of that, she went to the heavenly home, and is there today in one of those "home places' which -Jesus had prepared for her. In one sens-' it might be said of her. being but in middle life, "Her sun wont down while it was yet noon." And vet it did not go down. It was only eclipsed death passed across its disk and hid it from our sight, hut -'t shines on. mingling its light with the blaze of the eternal glory. Her life, devoted to helping others, was like a beautiful song. On this side its melody is hushed to our ears, but be- yond our hearing its notes swell in sweeter mel- ody and diviner harmony. Yet we do. like distant strains of sweet music, catch its echoes as it was sung in our midst. Like the sound waves, ii trembles on; like the light of the dead star, it streams on; like the fragrance of flowers, it lin gers Inn-- after their removal. So wo weep not for her, rather like the mother of the Wesleys, who requested of her children when she was dying, "We sine, a hymn of praise to (bid. now that she is gone." You know with those long, dreary, winter months, with their storm ami cloud and cold, how we long for the spring time with the bright sunshine, springing grass, opening buds, blossoms in the orchards, and singing of birds. So it is with this world and Heaven. She has gone to the spring land, where there are no clouds or storms, or chilling blasts, "where the inhabitants never say I am sick;" where "they hunger no more, neither thirst any more, and whore the sun shall no more light upon them, nor any heat, where the Lamb shall lead 8 them by fountains of living water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes/* Above the murky clouds which mantle the skies, the sun is always shining. It is lighl there. So it is here today. Those bereaved ones are un- der 1he cloud, bat she is in the light, crowned, and "washed in the blood of the Lamb." My ac- quaintance with Sister Byerly was not long nor intimate, yet 1 was impressed with her womanly and Christian character. I had met her years ago, also her parents and other relatives. She was born and reared in a cultivated Christian home. I lei- father was a successful and honored physi- cian, her mother a refined and talented Christian lady, a sister of Rev. \Y. H. H. Moore, long a lead- ing minister of our Conference. Her parents were Presbyterians. She was broughl up in that faith and denomination, and was religious from her childhood. Though she loved her church, she was broad and catholic enough to recognize and love all Christian people, and after her marriage united with the Methodist Episcopal church, and was as much at home as in the church in which she had been reared. She was an educated and refined woman. She studied in the common schools, the State Normal University, and Mills College at Oakland, Gal., and was. in addition, a life long student, pursuing sev era! outside courses of study. Many years of her life were spent in < California, where her parents died. Her life and character seemed to have absorbed some of the lighl of those cloudless skies, and the fragrance of that flowery land. She had a rare faculty of making friends. She drew people to her. This was illustrated during her short stay in the South, where she was unexpectedly called away, so that while dying among strangers, loving hands ministered to her wants. Intellectual in her tastes, reared in tenderness, yet constrained by love, she spent her life largely in drying the tears, soothing the sorrows, and lend- ing a helping hand to those in need. The flowers she carried to the sick were not more fragrant than her own spotless character and loving life. But she is gone from us. another evi- dence of our own mortality. But shall we only lament? "Is not e'en death a gain to those Whose lives to Christ were given? Gladly on earth their eyes they close To open them in Heaven." When, or where we die, matters not. A chariot look Elijah to Heaven, and a crown of life awaited the martyred Paul. Convoys of angels come to bear away the spirits of the saints. They were doubtless in Citronelle to receive the spirit of our departed sister. We separate here, hut we shall meet yonder. The parting is painful, the meeting will be glorious. Blessed hope! Glorious expec- lat ion! '■< >h, how sweet it will be in that beautiful land, So free from all sorrow and pain, With songs on our lips, and with harps in our hands, To meet one another again." ADDRESS OP 1)1?. A. P. STOVER. Life Filled with Deeds of Goodni >s and Mercy. The chord of grief and sorrow, touched by the liaiid of Death in the hearl of our brother, resound oil beyond the city of Springfield and the Spring- field District, and on last Saturday night reached the city of Lincoln, causing both in the church and community universal expressions of surprise and sympathetic appreciation, and it was fell to be due Dr. Byerly, a former pastor, that a committee bearing tin* love of the church should be, as they are, present at this service. Often in the springtime when the buds are burst- ing, as we walk through the woodland or meadow, our senses are greeted by some special fragrance or by the charming note of some unseen songster, and our steps are halted in a desire to understand the source of this fragrance, and to cultivate the acquaintance of the singer, so when in the order of my itinerancy. I came to Lincoln. I found there the fragrance of the spirit and the inspiration of the presence of her who lies so silent in this casket with the love-light gone from her eyes, the 1 lips closed to accustomed messages of kindness. Sister Byerly was known in Lincoln, first, for her su- preme unselfish devotion to the life-work of her husband. To come, as did she, out of the church home of another denomination ami take her place beside her husband as a Methodist minister's wife. 11 was .1 very difficult task indeed. Yet the unfa- miliar altar, because of souls led to Christ, be- came to hei a sacred spot, and The class meeting, because of The glowing testimonies, a place of pre- cious memories, the Epwortb League services an opportunity To "lift up" To higher table lands the youth of The church. As a result, we here found ;i church thoroughly organized and filled with the Divine (Spirit, In all This work SisTer Byerly was both a helpmeet and a helpmate; recognizing tIuit fact, we have no power To measure The loss and grief ThaT have come To The heart of our brother To- day: as he is called To look into The face of his dead wife, there are chords of love and gratitude touch- ed Today ThaT have never vibrated before. And These excellent qualities that so enriched her bus- band were also freely given To The Lincoln church — ■ her gracious womanliness, her serene Christian faith, her invincible sweetness, The radiation of her spiriT of purity, The constant appeal To The best qualities of her soul; These were her ,uifts To The Lincoln church, which caused her To be so be- loved by all. Second, SisTer Byerly was known and beloved in Lincoln because of her deeds of goodness and mercy. In my pastoral work recently a widow told me how. in her great weariness from long watching by The bedside id her sick ones. SisTer Byerly came wit h comfort in her presence, and kind- ness on her lips, and helpfulness; how she took away to the parsonage and kept all The day the liTTle child ThaT the over-wrought mother might 12 have needed rest, and to prepare her for her toil. Sn another place it was Sister Byerly who brought ou1 of their despair and isolation two women. mother and daughter, who, overwhelmed by their sorrows, had buried themselves from society; it was Sister Byerly who won them back to associa- tions sunny and congenial, who wiped away their tears and put a new song in their months. These are only samples of her contributions of helpful- ness and love. There is a legend that comes to my mind, told of our Master. It is said that on the great festal days lie was accustomed to go through the streets with His arms tilled with lilies, saying gently, as He offered them with unspeakable grace: "Lilies, lilies, lilies of Nazareth." Sister Byerly did indeed distribute in deeds of kindness and mercy the Lily of Nazareth. In Lincoln we feel that her gentle spirit there shone with the mild radiance of a star in a cloudless night. Third, our chinch in Lincoln appreciated her deej) interest in our splendid hand of young people. When I came as pastor, it was she who called my attention especially to their work, and their needs; told of their earnestness, and their mutual love which was often manifested in many ways by our young people. For they came at times and sang songs of Zion beneath the parsonage windows. By the side of this casket so heavily draped with gar- lands, upon which are falling unavailing tears, pocking heavenward on the billows of Divine mercy, how precious are the echoes of the songs of love and Christian fellowship in our mutual labor of love for our common Master. It is natural, then, as lias been suggested by the beautiful and eloquent words of Dr. McElroy, that we should look for her in the summer land of the soul, where today we confidently believe she beholds the face of Him who loved her, sought her, and bought her, with His own precious blood. Strange, mysterious fate is hers, that tomorrow the snows of winter are to rest on her grave, the flowers of spring to bloom above her. ;is she pillows her head in the dnst ; vet, that is soon our fate as well. From her heavenly home she waits the coming of her earthly friends, and with unabated interest she weaves into perfumed garlands Heaven's choic- est flowers with which to welcome and crown her beloved and her own. ADDRESS BY REN'. W. A. SMITH. The announcement reached me Saturday thai our dear sister had gone "the way of all the earth" — had been transferred from the membership of the church militant to the fellowship of "the church triumphant which is without fault before the throne of (led." 1 was surprised and shocked. There was a suddenness about it which startled us all. A single step removed her from our midsi and from our sight, to remain invisible until one by one we shall again be ushered into her ]»res 14 ence. Ye1 in her failing health we all had warn- ing of the approach of the grim messenger. This was well, for our sister had opportunity, though she hardly needed it, to prepare for the greal change. This also slightly lessened the severity of the blow which the coming of the last foe has caused to descend on the heads and hearts of loved ones left behind. Yet the fact remains — a fact that must ever produce the keenest sorrow and most poignant grief, that the dear sister and be- loved wife is dead. '"Dead? There are no dead. Tis true many of our friends are gone. Singly they came, singly departed. When their work was done they lay down to sleep. But never one hath died. Forms may change, but spirit is im- mortal." Grod has another home, and other nscs for His children than to keep them any longer than neces- sary out of Heaven. I suppose the dearest being in all this world and in all the universe to the great heart of God is His own ami only begotten Son in whom He expressed Himself as well pleased. Next to him I believe He loves His saints who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of thai Lamb. This love begins here and continues forever. So we read: "Having loved His own * * * lie loved them unto the end." And again: "Precious in the sighl of the Lord is the deatli of His saints." And again: "I have loved yon with an everlasting love." Measured by this rule, our sister must have been one of His choice disciples, and her death unspeakably pre- 15 cious to Him, for she was certainly a Christian. A glance a1 her life will answer the question: "How did she die?" Spurgeon said: "The most im- portant part of human life is not its end. but its beginning. Our death day is the child of the pasl ; our opening years are the sires of the future." That is the only true preparation which begins early and continues late. Our sister gave her hearl to (Jed in her girlhood and was saved with God's great salvation. She endured to the end as see- ing Him who is invisible, and was constantly saved with a greater salvation. At the last she pillowed her head on the promises of God, and is now saved at God's right hand with the greatest salvation. "God's finger touched her and she slept.'' She lias been a woman of position and influence. She was for some time a superintendent in the national organi- zation of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Whatever her position she was faithful and true in all relationships. She "adorned the doctrine of God our Savior in all things." The hist few years of her life were given as the wife of an itinerant Methodist preacher. That is a most try- ing place for any woman to fill: but she filled it with credit to herself, to the honor of her husband and the church, and to the glory of God. The crucial test was perhaps in the home. Whitefield was once asked if a certain man was a Christian. "How do I know?" said he. "I never lived with, him." Those who lived with our sister and who were most intimate with her, are most sure of her Christ-like virtues and graces. 16 She showed "ou1 of a good conversation her works with meekness of wisdom) — the wisdom that is from above, which is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hy- pocrisy." She is not lost — only passed on to other realms. She has simply, like Paul, taken her departure. That means that she has gone to another and bet- ter home, for wo believe she was ready to be of- fered when she went away. Since we must all go hence, it comes with infinite comfort that there is a hence of blessedness to which we can go. This is the home which Christ has gone to prepare for as and to which lie so lovingly invites us. Be- yond the sowing is the reaping; beyond the labor is the rest; beyond the battle is the victory; be- yond the grave is the inheritance. Somewhere (rod i* building His eternal kingdom. Into sonic haven of rest the pure in heart of all ages are gathered. There the sweet voices, lost to the earth, sinj; the new song. There the heart shall be satisfied with love, and the mind clothed in the garments of truth. There "d shall wipe all tears from all eyes; and there shall be no more death. neither sorrow nor crying; neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away."* Then do not unduly grieve after her. Think of her as resting in the home of God. The life- less form before yon is not your loved one. She is at home with her Savior. "Blessed are the 17 dead" — not shall be — "who die in the Lord." They enter at once into some state of blessedness. Yet she may be here in spirit, today, shedding a bless- ed influence over you. She is living the larger life, and dwelling in the ampler abodes of the spirit land. We say, "She is dead." Angels may say. "She is just born." It is hard to bear, I know, but it will not be so hard if you will just let the dear Lord bear it for you. Our dear brother is especially afflicted in the loss of a companion; but the same gospel, the same Savior, and the same all-sufficient grace which were hers, and which he has for years preached to others, can and will keep him. "Cast thy burden on the Lord, and He shall sustain thee." God can and will, if you only permit Him. come in and till up the places made vacant in your hearts and homes by this great bereavement. "Ground yourselves on a strong - immortal hope. Which bears your mournful spirits up, Beneath your mountain load. Redeemed from death and grief and pain. You soon shall find your own again. Within the home of God." The remains were deposited temporarily in the receiving vault at Oak Ridge, and subsequently cremated, in accordance with the wish of the de- ceased, and sent to Riverside, California, to be interred in the familv lot in Olivewood cemetery. IN ilUt iUtmmv Alice L. Suddutli, daughter of I>r. -lames M. and Amanda Ashmare Suddutli, was born near Athens, Illinois, June 18, 1855. When about eleven years of age her parents removed to Normal, Illi- nois, for the purpose of educating their children. Here, and at Bloomington, the family lived for twenty years. She received her education in the public schools and Normal University, afterward taking a coarse at Mills College, Oakland, Califor- nia. Returning to her native state, she pursued an extensive course in instrumental music at the Illinois ^Yesleyan University, and was an accomplished musician. She espoused with enthu- siasm the work of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle, and completed a four years' course in that people's university, graduating in the class of 1886, (ui which occasion she was present and received her diploma from the hands of the founder of this great institution, Dr., now Bishop, John H. Vincent. She was from her childhood an earnest Christian, and like thousands of other Christian young women, she was captivated by the genius and enthusiasm of Frances E. Willard, that Joan of Arc of the temperance reform, and laid all her gifts on that altar. In 1887 she removed with her parents to Colton, in Southern California, and spent eleven happy and useful years in that land of flowers. For several years she was National Superin- tendent of the Flower Mission Department of the XV. C. T. V., and under her administration it con- tinued, as it had ever been, a great evangelistic agency. Unnumbered gifts of flowers, with appro- priate Scripture texts attached, were distributed in prisons, hospitals, and sick chambers, and only the great day will reveal how many were led to Christ through these beautiful ministrations. The great number of consumptives who sought that genial clime, often only to die far from home and among strangers, greatly aroused her sym- pathies, and. like Mary Reed among the lepers, she went about with her fruits and flowers, and cheering words, among the victims of the white death, until her friends remonstrated, lest she con- tract the dread disease herself. But it had be- come a passion with her. and. as long as she re- mained in California, she continued these unsel- fish ministrations, and was wont to say that some of the sweetest blessings of her life had been received in hospitals and sick chambers, where the Master seemed to say. "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto these, ye have done it unto me." It is a singular providence of God, that she herself should die far from home, and that strangers should min- ister to her. and cover her bier with flowers. Her father and mother both died in California. and the beautiful home among the orange trees and flowers was broken up. Soon after her mother's death, in 1898, she re 20 turned to Illinois, greatly chastened, but more beautiful in spirit, than ever before. On the 1.5-th day of Mar, 1900, she was united in marriage to Rev. A. C. Byerly in Springfield. With such intelligence, consecration, and tact, as she possessed, she could not fail to be a help- meet in the ministry. She presided with grace and dignity in the parsonage, and made a happy home for her husband and his children. In the church at Lincoln, where her husband was pastor at the time of her marriage, she won her way to the hearts of the people, and was greatly beloved in the church and out of it. To die young people of the Epworth League she was an inspiration. Under her direction, the methods of the Flower Mission were applied in the Depart- ment of Mercy and Help, with the most blessed spiritual results. She became an enthusiast in the work of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society. "The Gos- pel in All Lands." -World-Wide Missions."' "The Woman's Missionary Friend," and the "'Missionary Review of the World" came regularly to her desk, and were read and studied daily. She knew what was going on in the uttermost parts of the earth, and her prayers and sympathies went out to all who toil in heathen lands. She watched with absorbing interest the development of our work in the Philippine Islands, and often said if she were a young woman, she would re- spond to the Macedonian calls of Dr. Homer Stunt/ for help in that field so white for the harvest. About a year ago, she had a very severe sick- ness, from which she never fully recovered. A long siege of The grip in the early part of the winter left her much debilitated, and it seemed impossible for her to regain her strength in this rigorous climate, and she longed for sunny Cali- fornia. But, as her husband was going out in May to the General Conference, she preferred to wait and go with him. So it was decided that sin- should go down to Citronelle, Alabama, and stay a few weeks. On the 6th day of February she arrived there, and for ten days revelled in the balmy air and glori- ous sunshine, and seemed to be rapidly recuper- ating. She wrote the most cheerful letters home tell- ing of her progress, hut in the midst of so much promise she was suddenly prostrated with a severe bilious attack on Feb. 16. Various complications developed, and she grew alarmingly worse, till Fri- day morning, Feb. 1 ( .». when she peacefully passed away, being at the time of her death in the middle of her forty-ninth year. So sudden was the culmination of her illness. that her husband, who had started on the first noti- fication of danger, did not reach her bedside until many hours after her demise. Though she died among strangers, she had every possible attention, a trained nurse who never left her for a moment, and the best medical skill that could be obtained. In her brief stav in Citronelle, as was her wav. she made some lovely friends, who were untiring in their kindly ministrations. To them she talked beautifully of her religious life, and of her immortal hope in Jesus Christ. She know the end had come, and was ready and radiant. She was conscious to the last, and smiled gratefully when told That her husband was coming. The nurse said she was the gentlest, most sub missive patient she had ever taken care of in her life. She did not die. "She fell asleep in .Jesus." She was converted when a child, and united with the Presbyterian Church, to which her parents be- longed, and remained in that communion a faith fnl witness for Christ, until her marriage, when she transferred her membership to the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is now gone to the church "triumphant, which is without fault before the throne." Those who sutler irreparable loss are 1km- husband and his children, Gertrude, Laurence and Julia, whom she loved as her own. a brother, Dr. William X. Sudduth, of Billings, Montana, and a sister. Miss Margaret A. Sudduth. of Los An- geles, Cal., well known as managing editor of the Union Signal at Chicago for many years, and hosts of friends in this and other states who loved her for her works' sake. Not now, but in the coming- years, It may be in the better land. We'll catch the meaning of our tears Anil, there, sometime we'll understand. 23 We'll catch the broken threads again, And finish what we he: e began. Heaven will the mysteries explain And there. Ah there, we'll understand. We'll know why clouds instead of sun Were over many a cherished plan: Why song has ceased when scarce begun. 'Tis there, sometime, we'll understand. Why what we longed for most of all Eludes so oft our eager hand: Why hopes are crushed and castles fall, Up there, some'ime we'll understand. God knows the way. He holds the key. He guides us with unerring hand. Sometime with tearless eyes we'll see, Yes. there, up there, we'll understand. CouiuUeucr^ From a Great .Many Sympathetic Messages and Resolutions, a Few are appended as Characteristic of all. From ri\c Springfield District Woman's roreign Mis- sionary Society. Dear 1 5rot her Byerly: While we know that words seem empty in such a sorrow as yours, we fool that we must thus ex- press to you the heart felt sympathy of the Wo- man's Foreign Missionary Society of the District. We wish you to know that we shall always hold in loving remembrance the many times Mrs. Byerly and yourself have responded to our calls for help and counsel. All through the coming years, as we send "the gospel into all lands." we will remember that it is through the efforts of our Presiding Elder and his associate ministers, that we have a base of supplies both temporal and spiritual to draw upon for our work. Wishing always to he remembered as sorrow- ing with you in your sorrow, for in Mrs. Byerly we had a kind, loving friend, upon whom we depended lor counsel and guidance, Very sincerely, MRS. S. F. BIDOE.WAY, District President. MISS E. L. SINCLAIR, District Secretary. J 5 from the Woman's foreign Missionary Society of rirst Church, Springfield. Dear Brother Byerly: The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of First Ohureh desires to express to von our sym- pathy in the great loss that has come to yon in the death of your estimable wife. We had not the privilege of an intimate ac- quaintance with Mrs. Byerly, but we learned from others who had that privilege of her earnest work in behalf of the women of Christless lands, as well as her work for the Master in many other lines. We know how empty words are in such an hour, and how meaningless to a heart in sore bereave- ment, yet cur lives would be almost unbearable, without the kind and loving sympathy of Christian friends, when the death angel comes into our homes. We rejoice in the fact that the dear Savior who lias given yon grace to bear so bravely much of sorrow, will still be your refuge and sustaining com- forter in this great bereavement. In behalf of the society. MRS. ALEX. PRINGLE. rrom \\\c Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Lincoln, III. Dear Brother Byerly: At the meeting of the Woman's Foreign Mis- sionary Society yesterday, we were appointed a 26 ( ommil tee to convey to you our profound sympal hy in your sad bereavement. At the close of the program a brief memorial was held for Sister Byerly. Our pastor, Brother Stover, told us the particulars of her last illness and of the funeral service. Over fifty ladies were present, and their tearful eves bore silent testi- mony to the dee]> affection cherished for Sister Byerly, and appreciation of her work while she was with us. The memory of Sister Byerly will remain with our society as that of a noble Chris- lian woman, who ardently loved the missionary cause, as well as every oilier good work, and the fragrant influence of her life will abide as a preci- ous memory with us. We realize that a great loss has come to you and your home, and in behalf of the Society we extend to you in this sad hour our tenderest sympathies, and pray that our Heavenly Father will sustain and comfort you. Numbers 6:24, 25, 26. MRS. W. P. WAKEMAX. MISS EVA KETOHAM. Epworth League Resolutions, Lincoln, in. Inasmuch as it hath pleased our Heavenly Father to remove from her earthly home our be- loved sister, Alice Suddut h-Byerly ; and Whereas, We tenderly condole with the fam- ily of our deceased sister in their hour of trial, we devoutly commend them to the keeping of Him 27 who tenderly watches over the loved ones, who are left to mourn; and Whereas, we can but bow in grief and submis- sion to His will, who doeth all things well, com- forted by the hope of a reunion in the better world, where there are no pairings, and the knowl- edge that our beloved sister is sweetly resting in Jesus; therefore, be it Resolved, That we, the Wilkin Chapter, Ep- worth League, do hereby extend our deepest and truest sympathy to the bereaved family; and be it further Resolved. That we present a copy of these resolutions to the family and cause the same to be spread on our minutes. Wilkin Chapter, Epworth League. IMOGEN GADWALLADER, Secretary. from the Springfield Woman's Christian Temper chut Union. Rev. A. C. Byerly and Family: Dear Friends: The Springfield Woman's Christian Temperance Union hereby tenders to you sinceresl sympathy on "the going away" of one who was so dear to you. I think I can say that all who knew Alice Sudduth liyerly loved her. As you know, she was formerly the Superintendent of the Flower Mission Department of the National W. C. T. IL, appointed by Miss Willard herself, which action was confirmed by the Executive Com- mittee, and afterward by the National Convention. 2S It goes without saying, thai Mrs. Byerly, then Miss Sudduth, made an ideal officer. The National motto for the Flower Mission is "Something while, something bright, and something sweet." We have endeavored to carry out tliis idea in the slighl floral token of our love for the departed (promoted) which is offered today. In behalf of the Central W. C. T. U., MBS. GEORGE CLINTON SMITH. From me Woman's Relief Corps, Lincoln, III. Dear Brother Byerly: The members of the Woman's Relief Corps, this city, desire me, as Secretary, to assure you of their deepest sympathy in your irreparable loss. We feel that we have lost one whose presence in mem- ory we shall ever be proud to recall, as a member of our society. She was an honor, and an exam- ple to us of pure friendship, noble generosity and unsullied life. It seems as if an angel noiselessly swung open the gate, and she entered the "City Beautiful." We know the One whom you have served so long and faithfully will sustain you. In behalf of the Woman's Relief Corps. CLARA WTI/DMAN, Secretarv. HUc interment in CnlUVrniru i From the Riverside Daily Press.) On Friday afternoon, March 11, occurred from the residence of Lyman Evans on Fourteenth street the funeral of a woman worthy of more than a passing notice. Mrs. Alice Sudduth-Byerly, wife of Presiding Elder Rev. A. C. Byerly, of Spring- field, Illinois, recently passed away, and in ac- cordance with her wish, the remains were cremated and brought to Riverside to be laid to rest beside her father and mother, Dr. and .Airs. James M. Sudduth. in Olivewood cemetery. Dr. Sudduth and family were prominent resi dents of Bloomington, 111., for many years, but for several years before his death, in ls'!)5. they had lived in Colton, < 'al. In 1898, on the death of Mrs. Sudduth, the daughters, Miss Alice and Miss Margaret, returned to Illinois, where Miss Alice soon afterwards be- came the wife of Rev. A. O. Byerly, of the Metho- dist Episcopal Church. Mrs. Byerly had been for three years before her marriage one of the National Superintendents of the Woman's Christian Temper- ance Union, holding the responsible position of the head of the Flower Mission Department. Both her work and her reputation were national, and she and her sister. Miss Margaret Snddnth. (who for many years of its palmiest days was man- aging editor of the Union Signal), were among the who were gathered about Miss 30 Frances Willard in her later years. Delegations of ladies representing the Unions of San Bernardino, Golton and Riverside, attended the funeral services, and in addition to the appropriate floral designs offered by the societies, the tributes of flowers were many and beautiful. The services were in charge of Rev. Mr. Chan- dler, of San Bernardino, and Rev. B. S. Haywood. of Riverside, and were conducted in the cemetery. The words of the ministers were eloquent of the good deeds of the strong, loving woman, and as the friends departed, the clouds that had overshadowed the afternoon broke away and the evening sun- shine fell as a benediction on the scene. Miss Roslyn Sargent, of San Bernardino, brought her garland of beautiful son*;- and rendered "Asleep in Jesus" and "Abide With Me," in sweet- est strains. Miss Margaret Sudduth and her cousin, Miss Laura C. Sudduth, of Normal, Illinois, who are passing the winter in Los Angeles, were the only relatives present. Rev. Mr. Byerly was no1 able to leave his charge for the long journey at this time, but will visit Riverside in May, when he attends the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Los Angeles as a delegate from his Conference. 31 from First M. E. Church (Riverside i Bulletin. Friday afternoon, March 11. the final service over the remains of Mrs. Alice Suddnth-Byerly was held. She was the wife of Rev. A. O. Byerly, I>. D., Presiding Elder of The Springfield, 111., District. dving in Alabama last month, whither he had gone : known in River- ice spirit, the ,y homes. As -. to her mission k. Long has she Christ and in His service she has spenl peak His peace to these in search of health. She was side in former days and wa. fragrance of whose life encircles a minister's wife she measured and faithfully performed her wo known th< her life. May the Comforter nianv stricken hearts. 52 • UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-URBANA B.S9438A C001 ALICE SUDDUTH-BYERLY. SPRINGFIELD 3 0112 025409373