Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1852-01-23
Died


On the Sd inst, EpHRAm EAST, aged 26 years
On the 10th inst, ABRAHAM EAST aged SO
years
On the 10Th inst, in Derry township, MARY,
consort Of Francis Boggs, aged IS years.
On the 18th inst, in Brown township, Mrs.
JANE Cox, aged 79 years.
On the 10th inst, in this borough, DAVID Ro-
RER, son of Joel and Mary A. Morrison, aged
, years, months, aud - days.
| know thou hast gone to the house Of thy rest,
Then why should my soul be so sad
| know thou hast gone where the weary are blest,
And the mourner looks up and is glad.
Where love has put of, in the land oil its birth,
The stain 1t had gathered in this
And hope, the sweet singer that gladden'd the
earth,
Lies asleep on the bosom of bliss.
Communicated
On the 18th instant, of typhoid pleurisy, Mrs.
MARY ANN, wife of Col. WM BOILER, aged
sc years.
The deceased had at an early age dedi-
Gated herself to God, and became member
Of the Associate Reformed Church. in Tusca-
rora Valley, and after her marriage and le-
mOval to Lcwistown, connected herself bv
certificate with the Presbyterian Church. in
the communion Of which, until the hour of
her death. she sustained the character of
consistent and devoted christian, aud was
highly esteemed, not only by the members of
her Own church. but by all who came with.
in the sphere Of her influence
She was an ami tblc and dutiful wife. an
afectionate and devoted mother. kind friend
and an obliging neighbor faithful and con
slant attendant in the sanctuary Of God, when
ever her health and circumstances of her
family would admit. In the commencement
of her disease, she was tranquil and self pos
sessed, and often spoke of her own sinfulncss,
but at the same time expressed her hopes and
confidence in Jesus as the saviour of sinners.
TO her sister and husband she gave counsel
and directions concerning her children, and
what she wished to have done after she was
dead and gone-for she did not expect to
recover from the commencement Of her sick
ness. Her disease was violent from the be-
gining, On the Wednesday before her DEATH
she dedicated to God, in connection with her
deeply afflicted husband, her infant daughter
in Btptjsm-an awfully solemn scene. TO see
a dying mother give her infant child to
covenant keeping God, and thus seal her faith
in Gods promise, by afixing his own seal to
his covenant Of mercy. All the duties which
she felt incumbent on her to her family, she
wished to perform while IN her proper mind:
and also that her attention might be fixed
more exclusively on her own spiritual con
Germs. She anticipated her disease settling
| on the brain. Her chare to those around
her was, in case Of that event to dwell upon
the name Of Jesus and his salvation. This
was theme ever precious to her soul. When
her children would come around her dying
bed she would often lay her hand upon their
head and her lips would move as if in PRAYER
! But, with this exception, she did not appear
- II, I, h.,
/ had taken place and she had given them her
I parting blessing. She had given them into
/ the hands of her covenant keeping God, and
in his hand she appeared willing to trust
them.
Her sufcrings were very great yet in he,
! lucid moments she appeared perfectly resign
ed to the will of God, although she woulC
speak Of herself as altogether unworthy of hi,
favor, and appeared deeply sensible of hei
own sintumess; yet her hopes and conf
dence We're fixed on God, in Christ Yea hel
only hope was in the mercy of Him, as i
abounds IN Jesus Christ his son. On his ODE
dience, suIferingS and death she wholly anC
unrcseryedly relied for salvation
hlie her deeply afflicted husband an,
his four children have been called upon t
part with u kind and dutiful wife and an al
tectionate mother; they are not called t
mogn as those who have no hope what
their loss Is her eternal gain. The church
Of which she was an exemplary and consis
tent member, are warned in this affecting di:
pensation Of a wise and holy providence t
be also ready; for we know neither the da
nor the hour wherein the son Of man comett
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lor
from henceiorth. Yea, saith the spirit, tina
they may rest from their labors and thei
works do follow them"