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In the quiet "God's Acre" at Olivesburg, the snow lies to-night upon the graves of mother and daughter.  Burt a short time ago, they went out and in among us, filling their places in society and the Church, making home bright with all womanly graces, shedding kindly influences wherever they went, and both by examples and precept making themselves best felt in the quiet circle of home.  Lorena Brown, who died October 23, 1880, was the daughter of pious parents.  She enjoyed the advantages of early religious instruction, both at home and in the Sabbath-school, of which she was passionately fond from childhood.  Her health failing, she was compelled to abandon the Sabbath-school for the past three years.  Her many excellencies, and early death, have awakened an unusual sympathy among all classes who shared the acquaintance of the family.  She was beloved by her companions and the idol of her family.  In attempting to speak of her life among us, I would not attempt a wordy eulogy, for I feel sensibly the quiet modesty and dignity of her nature would shrink from such a recital;  but to the few who really knew her -- the brothers and sisters in the Church who have heard her experiences in class-meeting -- the dear friends who gathered about the bedside during the long weeks of suffering and pain -- to you I may say, saw you ever a more loving, trusting, dependent child of God?  Seven years ago she professed faith in Christ and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church.  She had no desire for notoriety.  She was modest, gentle, affectionate -- the very embodiment of the true Christian girl.  The record of her life is a precious legacy of sweet memories to the many devoted friends she left behind.  She was careful and timid in her statement of her own Christian experience, but she held fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.  Her protracted illness was borne with remarkable cheerfulness and fortitude.  Before her last sickness she remarked to the writer that there was one thing she desired;  that she might die before her mother.  Her desire was realized, and the last conversation I had with her, a week or so before she died, she said:  "Tell my classmates I am sweetly trusting in Christ.  I feel that his blood cleanses me from all unrighteousness.  The regret of my life is that I have not been a more faithful worker in the vineyard of my blessed Master.  Tell them for me to be true and loyal to Him who has bought them with his own precious blood."  Her illness gave opportunity for frequent expressions of the faith and love which, nurtured by her sweet experience, glowed with unwonted ardor in the near prospect of life eternal.  Her mind was clear to the moment of death.  Thus closed a young and beautiful life.

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