Church of the Open Door in Los Angeles, and the family home was established in Glendale. There Mrs. Talbot served as the gracious hostess to numerous spiritual and social gatherings of the many organizations of this large church. In 1934 she and the two young daughters had the thrill of accompanying Dr. Talbot to Australia where they saw his birthplace and met his kin. In all of her husband’s strenuous labors for the Lord Mrs. Talbot was deeply interested. She ever furnished the quiet, restful background he needed “ to come home to.” She was an accomplished musician and a good teacher and was especially active in missionary circles as her strength permitted. In later years, as her husband’s responsibilities for the Bible Institute took him on world tours, for which strenuous travel she did not have the health, she kept “ the home fires burning,” and followed him in all his journeys with her constant prayers. Mrs. Talbot took great delight in her grandchildren, Shirley and David Foster, and Charles, Elizabeth, Mary and John Svendsen, and they in turn loved her dearly. She was particularly interested in their musical educa tion as she had been with her own girls. But their spir itual welfare was of even greater concern and she talked to them of the Lord Jesus Christ. Audrey Talbot was a rare personality—a true gentle woman, who lived for Christ and for others. Someone has said of her: “ I doubt if she ever had a selfish thought.” Her favorite Scripture verses were Philippians 4:6-7: “ Be careful [anxious] for nothing: but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.” Once she said quietly to a friend: “ I have tried to live those verses,” and the friend replied, “ I know of no one who has succeeded better.” In a family Memory Book she wrote these words: “ These years of my life have been full of work, play, sacrifice, peace, joy and blessing.” Could one ask a fuller or richer life than that? “Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her hus band also and he praiseth her . . . a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her works praise her in the gates” (Prov. 31:28-31). Not until we reach Heaven shall we know how far-reaching was the influence of the sweet, godly life of Audrey Lucile Talbot. Besides her husband and her daughters Audrey and Betty, their husbands, Rev. Chas. Svendsen and Mr. Gerald P. Foster, and the six grandchildren, two sisters: Miss Sammy Hogue of the faculty of Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, and Mrs. Ruth Robb, wife of Rev. Paul Robb, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and two brothers, Mr. Wortham Hogue of Kirk wood, Missouri, and Mr. Warren Hogue, of Los Angeles, mourn her loss. We say in the words of the hymn-writer*:
AT HOME W ITH THE LORD—
Mrs. Audrey Lucile Talbot (continued from page 3)
The second of eight children, Audrey Lucile Hogue was bom in Altus, Oklahoma, September 13, 1892. When she was two years old, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Hogue, moved to Paris, Texas. There Audrey finished grammar and high schol, after which she attended the University of Texas. She taught for a time in the Paris
BEFORE THE EASTER DAWN Helen Frazee-Bower
What whisper stirs among the olive trees, Where late the Saviour prayed? What gesture lifts The little leaves, as though some secret breeze Were fingering the branches? Through the rifts In darkness, what is this that slowly seeps Like mellow sunlight through the garden gloom? There is no wind, no sun, as yet. Earth sleeps. This is the miracle within the tomb! No passing breeze, no transitory breath Of air, could move these trees in such a way. This is the breath of Life, come back from death. And this new radiance is not the day: It is the Light of all the world, restored Forever more— in Christ, the risen Lord. Converted at a very early age, Audrey joined the Methodist Church in Paris when she was only eight. She was always interested in spiritual things and ever busy for the Lord. Loaned as organist by the Methodist Church to the Congregational Church, there she met the new pastor, Louis T. Talbot. On December 27, 1916 they mar ried, Rev. Joseph Flacks, co-pastor of the Congregational Church and Rev. Robert P. Shuler, pastor of the Meth odist Church, officiating. The Talbots remained in Paris for two and one-half years, their older daughter, Audrey, being bom there. Several pastorates followed, the next in 1919, being the Fourth Congregational Church of Oak Park, Illinois. There the second daughter, Betty, was bom. In June 1922, the Talbots moved to Keokuk, Iowa, where Dr. Talbot was pastor of Westminster Presbyterian Church for four years, followed by Oliver Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis in 1926, and Philpot Tabernacle of Hamilton, Ontario, in 1929. In January 1932, Dr. Talbot accepted a call to the public schools and then went to Chicago where she studied music at the Bush Temple Conservatory for two years. Returning home, she taught piano in Paris and Blossom for a year, following which she attended Moody Bible Institute for two years.
“ Sleep on, beloved, sleep, and take thy rest, Lay down thy head upon the Saviour’s breast; We love thee well, but Jesus loves thee best, Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight! “ Only ‘goodnight,’ beloved, not ‘farewell!’ A little while and all His saints shall dwell In hallowed union indivisible, Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight! “ Until we meet again before His throne Clothed in the spotless robe He gives His own Until we know even as we are known, Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight!”
‘ Sarah Doudney.
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