Birdine Pfoltner, the infant daughter of Charlie and Emma Pfoltner, gladdened their home with her coming April 13, 1921. Her stay with us was destined to be but brief, however (May 11, 1921). A flower too delicate to bloom in the rough fields of earth, she faded quickly when that strange wind that we so little understand blew upon her. The Gardener of Eternal Flowers, "unwilling that one of these little ones should perish" transplanted her into "the Infinite Meadows of Heaven." Here under the Sun of Righteousness she will grow and bloom in Eternal Springtime by the River of Life, and wait the coming of her friends of earth.

How often, and more keenly by far, the hearts of father and mother are grieved by children straying away in to dark and unseemly paths of sin. This wee lamb, however, is forever safe within the fold of the Good Shepherd, secure from ravening wolves and winters blast.

After a service of consolation by Rev. Meredith at the home, the small form was carried to its last resting place. There is today another small mound in the silent city on the hill, an empty place in the home, an ache in the heart, but another anchor of the soul another lesson deeply graven and another face most dear that the sisters, Florence, Esther, and Alma and the parents will find waiting to greet them.

"O, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The reaper came that day;
'Twas an angel visited this green earth
And took the flowers away."