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Originally Posted by mizpeh
Her farewell letter.
I'm trying to be happy for her but I'm still sad.
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A week or two I went to a funeral for Sis. Myrtle Hall. She was just a few days shy of her 99th birthday.
The last time I had seen her was 15 years ago at her son's house. She was 84 and living with him and his wife. She told me that she had received the Holy Ghost 70 years before at the age of 14. There was a street meeting and she responded to the altar call, was taken to a room inside a building (I think it was a court house) and there she received the Holy Ghost Baptism.
Sis. Hall was one of those people everyone looked up to. She served God faithfully all her life. When I saw her, she was 84 years old but her mind was clear. She remembered a sermon I had preached years ago about "A White Stone." After I went home, I found the little 3 by 5 piece of paper I had used for notes with the scripture references on it in an old Bible and mailed it to her.
One of the things that impressed me about her funeral was the little funeral card/brochure that was available to all who were there as they registered. You know the one that usually has the 23rd Psalm on it or maybe the Prayer of St. Francis is you are Catholic plus the person's name, birth and death date, etc. Well, hers had
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 on it. Afterward talking to my wife we mentioned how appropriate that was because all her life that was her hope.
My soul followeth hard after thee....Love one another with a pure heart fervently. 
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