The North-Carolina standard., 1847-02-17

n Of the great duty Of obeying Almighty Gosnd keep
ing his The truths Of the Bible he fully
Believed and received Them in the love thereofthat they
might qualify and prepare him for the Judgment day. His
house was the preachers home and it was always a
source OF for them visit him. that he might
enjoy the benefit of their nversaton and prayers He
liberal in supporting the gospel No doubt bot the
many prayers offered in his BEHALF heard and an
swefed, and when death enabled to possess his
TO the last aud the pangs of expiring nature less
acute than many to suffer while passing through
the shadow Of death. He died at the residence of his
son DR. John H. Jones, where the family had gone TO
spend their Christmas. From the first symptoms of at
tack he adnonlshed that it unto death, yet he
unshaken his faith, and could talk with the calm
Of dying saint of the arrangements be
made for his buIialwhe he could give assurances that
. all we'll and .shs hope FULL oh glorious
hope of Immortality Thus the 29th of December
lS46 aged 80 years, at the close of the year, he closed
his useful life, full of years and full His
tai remains were removed to his residence, where
his Funeral preached at his request while lv
ing by the Rev. T. G. Whitaker, to large congregation
who had assembled to testify their respect for his virtues
doubt genuineness of their feelings after which he
inferred in his own bury ing ground there quietly
wait the resurrection morn He has left widow and
two children, and daughter and many reationsboh
in this and other States to mourn his loss but blessed
are the dead who die in the Lord, yea from hence
forth saith the spirit they may rest from their labors and
Wake County, February 8. lS47.
In Tallahasse, January I'd, 1917, in the S4th year
of her age, Mrs. MARTHA H. Broom E, wife of James
E. Broome, Esq and daughter of the late Joseph Haw-
kins. of North Carolina, s-1 -t
Her own emphatic question, put to a relative who
reached her few hours before her decease can you
realize this 2? thrills the heart that would offer
tribute, deserving her memory consoling TO her af
fcted relatives and frends-and TO which her little
ones unable to estimate their loss, be here
after referred 1t is indeed hard to realize, that she,
lately instinct with life, eminenty calculated
to impart cheerfulnes, and inspire esteem and afec
tion in all the relations of lfeas wife, mother, sis
ter FRIEND has really passed through the dark valley
of the shadow Of death'' But the silent chamber, the
dark pail, the long, slow procession, and the hollow
echo of the cold clod of the valley it covered all
that belonged to earth-there repose until awakened
by the trump of the resurrection morn-hese are the
solemn witnesses that nexorable death has claimed
his prey.
The subject of this brief notice was reared in afu-
ence, with induIgent tenderness, and ushered an
early into the asc nations of gay. fashionable fe
we'll qualified to adorn its circles and sustain her part
Yet it pleased her Heavenly Father, in mercy, soon
unve to her the delusve character of earthly hopes
and pleasures, by a training deep domestic
Affections: and for nine years past her mind often
seriously exercised the subject of her SOULS saliva
tion. In 1S43, these impressions deepened-unt
she experienced entire willingness 10 give hersef
up to Christ and found peace in believing desire to
unite with the same branch Of the Church TO which
her husband belonged but for which opportunity Of
fered, induced her to defer public profession The
usual conflict of doubts and ap?rehensons followed
fears that she mistaken in her hopes and that she
unfit for membership in the visible church.
Her illness continued for eight weeks during which
she confined to her and through much OF the
time endured severe bodily pain. But never it
apparent that the Lord chastised in mercy. About
to be cut down at early and the strong ties of her
earthly hopes and affections to be severed the frai
tenement gradually wasted and unsrung, while the
immortal soul permitted to exercise all her faculties
with extraordinary clearness and strength Being
fully apprsed that there reasonable hope of her
recovery, and exempted from bodily suffering during
the last few days, they chiefly spent by her in
prayer and religious conversation. On the morning of
the Ist she with few religious friends present. partook
of the Sacrament of the Lords Supper During that
day she delivered many messages to be seEt to distant
friends, accompanying her dying farewell with re-
quest that they would meet her in Heaven Supposing
it not likely that she would live until morning, at her
request her little children brought to her in the
evening, tendery embraced, and committed to God,
urging those old enough to remember it, to meet her IN
Heaven and charged her husband that they should be
early taught the way of salvation. -
At o'clock in the morning of the I'd, feeling that
her end near, she told her husband that she was
to GO, and desired TO bid him farewell while her
unmpaired, expressing her hope that in
lille while they would meet where parting
that she would that Saviour who had died to
redeem her and would then meet her dear little
who had gone before her, well many piOus friends
and relations whom she called by In like man
she bade and aectionate farewell her pres
ent, and the many friends around her and renewed
the messages for absent sister and brother and
other relations and commended to the favorable regard
of her husband the servants who had so faithfully
att onded her during her nnss At 3l-2 o'clock D. m,
she said ts a relative her In half hour shall
knotc than you hare cUnccived thought 0f!
and at o'clock the soul took her flight, with
paing struggle, conducted, confidently trust, by
attendant Angels, into that prepared for those
whose robes have been washed white in the blood of
the Lamb ,,-.. .-. ..- s.. s-. w!
ADRIANA RELAY, in the Cpd year of her age the mo-
ther of Mrs W c. Tucker of this City. She had been
a member of the Episcopal Church for fifty years. %