The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1846-12-24
OBITUARY


years and during her las, illness Of intense sui.
4 foFing seemed TO be chosen in the furnace Of
affection and tho grevious TO the flesh vet the
christianity Of the Bible which slIe Ind embraced,
enabled her ~ tho language of resignation to say
"thewiil Of the Lord be done" Sho united herself
! together with her husbandj 10 the Methodist E
piscopal Church at Rock Spring camp ground in
tie year 1892, 10 which sho was ardently attach
cd, and esetnplhod tho religi ion which she PROBES.
sed while living, aud triumph with II in the hour
OF death.
As Christian she endcayored 0 ascertain the
will Of God and square ler life thereby. As a
wife she was afactonate and faithful As a mo.
ther devoted 10 her children. and that devotion
was pressed by her anxiety for their spiritu4
weil as temporal welfare. As friend grateful,
afable and kind. In her death the church has lost
devoted friend her husband du,iful wife, her
children Ihree in number) fond aud kind mo
Their. Their loss is her eternal gain May they
all follow her as she followed Christ and at las
rest together where sorrow and signing shall be
no more, union eternal and happiness tull-CoM
hGsICATED.
Died,.n this town on The 18th instant. Mrs.
ELIZABETH MASON, IN tho Gjth year Of
her age.
However obituaries, though right in themselves,
and often just and true IN their expression, may
sometimes like other good things be perverted
still the latter fact dors not, nor shout not pre-
vent an honest and public recognition OF the yir.
tues Of our deceased friends and fellow citizens,
especially those who in their lives have been EN-.
mont in any considerable degree, 70, usefulness
and piety.
OF This claes Mrs MAsokswas in her humble
way distinguished member, hence the necessity
laid upon us TO commemorate her virtues and ia
doing so, we feel that we are in perfect harmony
with the scriptures, which affirm that the memo
y Of the Jus; blessed and bot fulfilling the
mandate of tAolE Great Author who has declared
that 4! righteous sdaH Ue had in eueYlGsting e.
menbrunce.
Mrs. MAsoN was Cor the last - years mem.
Der Of The Presbyterian Cuurch OF Sugar Creek
10 this county, and to say that she was from tie
day OF her connex on with that church, a consis.
tent and worthy member, would be but telling the
truth IN few words Of many others ho At the
same time are constrained 10 acknowledge them.
selves her Interiors IN disc pleship, and we're ev
or ready to confess to her as saul did to David.
thou art more rghleoI thanl." With humility
sic was clothed a. with garment, and while she
believed that "God abhoTreth the proud sho
knew from sweet experience that I" lie giYoth
.rale To the humble"
Her faith Was literally the faith Of the Gospel
she believed with the woman of Cape5naum,
tlui il SIC bat touched the hem Of her Savlout's
garment sue should DO made whole, from that
very hour.
She no, only had the faith OF reliance unto
salvation, but TO the daily and hourly comfort Of
her soul, through all her weary pilgrimage while
the faith Of assurance she possessed in a degree,
enjoyed alas by too few Of the real followers Of
the great Shepherd, she not only knew " IN whom
she believed" but had an ever abiding testimony
that she was the Lords and that lie would keep
that which she had committed unto him until the
DAY Of her final release aud compeis redemption,
Submission 10 the will Of God was constant
habit Of her lifo. To submi, 70 the control and
direction Of that viii either in adversely in
prosperity, sho esteemed not only her sacred du
ly. but an nestimatle privilege for she was most
confident that her llesvorl5 Father was infinite
IL wise and good. and moreover according to his
promise would not suffer any evil to beflll his
dear c!ildrcn--hence she was ever calm aud
peaceful under all tim dlspcnsations Of Prov!.
dtncs, tho language OF her heart, her lips, and
hic being invariably, not MY will Lord bit
thine be done, and TO do the will Of her Divine
Master was TO her both spiritual meat and spirit.
usl drink, That charity which is SO Imperative.
Is enjoned upon all by tic Gospel and possessed
BY SO few OF its believers, that grace which Paul
50 el1Guenty deseribosi n the 18Th chapter Of his
first letter TO the Corinthians and though lie
were possessed Of all riches and al! graces beside
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this grace was emphltically hers By possession,
but enjoyed by oil in its application with whom
she had 10 do
Taat bencyolence which the Gospel also ell
joins and OF which we have glorious person
ihcaton in Jesus Of Nazareth was also hcrs-snd
although poor herself her poverty did not prevent
her from performing the part Of the good Soma
rian toward tbe distressed and afflicted of every
class and condition Of her neiehbors, neither did
her poverty ever prevent her from casting into the
treasury OF her Lord her " widows mite" and It's
amount exceeded all that Of the rich who cast in
Of their abundance, but whose offerings were ne.
rrr conBecrated as hers a!,cdys we're by faith and
prayer. In her death then the poor have not on.
Nv lost of their most constant friends, but the
treasury OF the Lord on earth of rs richest
contributors O that the church Of Christ had
eyprywhere moro of such members, which " are
the salt Of the earth = alas il has too few to lose
one of them, but they Must 90 as tho Lord their
God shall call. Our deceased mother in Israel
has answered hor call, and gone to her home In
Heaven, sho waited patiently her appointed time
aud then died in tho gospel assurance of faith, and
hus passed to the full tfuiton of all her hopes at
Gods right hand but her aims and her prayers
went up before as hotalds to announce the GER
talnty OF her future coming, and will be remom
berpd in that great day, and she welcomed with
all the ransomed hosts into he joys of their Lord
EN.
Died, at the house Of o. G., Foard Esq, near
Cowansvillo. Rowan county, N. C., Of Typhus
Fever, PETER STEWART NEY, aged about
IS years Mr. Ncy was native of Scotland, where
he received a liberal education before tho COM
pletion of which his father ohgrated to France,
which then became the land Of his adoption
Possessing disposition somewhat impusive and
adventurous, and remarkable for its tenacty to at
tachments formed he without hesitation Joined IN
the Revolution of his adopted Government which
was convulslng the whole European Continent
attached hmselfto, and shared the fortunes Of. the
then great never Of oyents-Napoleon. upon
whose expulsion from France, he became him.
self m exile and found home upon our own
( genial soil He bore upon his person the deep
scars of many wounds, to testify his services in
his coun,rys armies, which were directed BY that
too ambitious Corslcan He landed in Charles.
ton, s. c., and after spending a few years in the
I upper Districts OF that State, he became a citi.
zen of this section Of North Carolina, in which
he has ever since resided, and employed himself
from choice in the humble, though honorable 70
cation of school teachlngi in which capacity he