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!Mrs. Sarah d. c. Reamer.

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! Mrs. Sarah d. c. Reamer.
The subject of this sketch was born in Ship
pensburg, Cumberland Co., Pa, January "a,
1891, was married TO Mr.. Christian Reamer in
1910, removed soon afterward with her hus-
band TO Sideling Hill, Fulton Comfy where, in
the year 1886, she was called to mourn his
death. Some eight years after this, or in 1914, e,
she removed with her family to the Borough of
Bedford, where she departed this life, Aug 81,
1859, aged GS years, months and days.
In the character OF the departed, go many
exceIlencies met, and their blending was so
harmonious and beautiful, that, TO overrate her
wolth, would be difficult indeed. As child,
she was aGectionate and dutful; as a wife, de-
votedand frugal; as a mother ever constitutions
| ly and tenderIy careful TO do her whole duty TO
| her children, both for this life and for that
| which is TO come as a neighbor, she was obll-
| ging and amIable as lady, courteous and IN
! telhgent; and last, though not least, as Chris
| tan, she was bIamsLess-a child OF God without
| rebuke.
Mrs. Reamer was very early in life the sub
! ject Of religious awakenings. When not more
than five or six years old, she became much
concerned on account of Original Sin, OF which
she had learned in her catechism, and sense OF
the existence of which, in her own heart, more
distressed her, at this period, than did any con-
viCtionS of actual transgression.
When arriving at about the age of twelve
years, she was led, through the influence OF her
pious grandmother, to seek the Saviour. She at
length rested in hope, for, as yet, her evidence
of acceptance was neither direct nor clear. She
now connected herself with the Methodist
Episcopal Church, of which she evec afterw ard
continued most devoted and exemplary MEM
Der. Her opportunities, however, al this Pc
riod, for attendance upon the means OF grace,
were limited, SO that for some years she contin
ued to grope her way in compa ative darkness,
neither enjoying nor knowing the fulness of her
nrivelege as a child of God.-She has often since
tvsndfKed, tnat, nau sne IN tHuSe tImes euJuyeu,
as she al!erward did, the privileges of the class
room and love feast, she bad not SO long con-
tlnued in a state Of ANXIOUS uncertainty, sing
ing, as the mother Of the Rev. John Wesley so
long did,
f'Thou great mysterious God unknown,
Whose love hath gently led me on,
Fen from my infant days;
Mine inmost soul expose to view,
And tell me if | ever knew
Thy luStilying grace"
Soon after her marriage, however, and while
listening to sermon from the Rev. James Sew
ell, ofthe Baltimore Annual Conference, she
was enabled to enter into the rest of faith-re-
allzlng the purport OF that scripture which saith,
''He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the
witness in hmseIf." Then aud there the
Spirit itself first Witnessed with her spirit that
she was child of God, putting ''a new song
in TO her mouth" even this:
s'My God is Teconciled
His pardoning voice hear,
He owns for his child,
| can no longer fear;
With confidence now draw nigh,
And Father, Abba, Father cry.''
From that day till the day OF her death, she was
a most uncompromSing advocate of the doctrine |
of the direct witness of the Spirit, and those |
who knew her best, know that she was too good,
70 deceive, and too scrIpturally
intelligent, TO have been mistaken.
Mrs. Reamer's intelligence upon religious
subjects was much more than ordinary her in-
tellect was clear and inquirng she read much
heard attentively - thought closely. She
was thus theoretically intelligent. Besides this
she was deeply experienced in those direct
manifestation of the Deity scrrpturalIy promi-
Sed TO the human soul, aud which impart to il, i
such additional cearnesS and correctness in
reference TO the true character of the Divine At
tributes. One OF the disciples inquired of the
Saviour, "Lord, ho,O is it that thou wilt mani-
fest thyselt unto us as thou dost not unto the
world 90 AS yet, that Disciple had not exper-
mentally learned, for the fullneSs of the Spirit
had not yet been given Mrs. Reamer, howev-
or, understood this, for she had experienced it.
Philip said, "Lord show us the Father, and it
sufficeth us."Nlrs Reamer prayed not thus, but
did, indeed, upon one occasion, venture to pray
with Moses, s'Show me, beseech thee, thy
glory" And, as that servant OF the Lord was s
permitted, by special privilege, and BY special
manifestation, to look upon the naiider rays of
the Divine Goodness" (tor more than this he :
could not endure and lIve,) SO was she-wih !
hlS difference, however, that while this SPECIAL
was made to Moses, natural vis- =
her, it was made to her spiritual per-
sePtions, and so overpowering was it at the time,
IS she alerward proieSSed, that she was fairly
'urdened with almost uncomfortable transports.
1t was Mrs. Reamer's experience then, as a
Christian, which more especially, gave to her !
hose unusually enlarged and striking views of
he Divine Attributes, for which she was SO r
and is The key TO her special appre- n
:lation of, and delight in, the character Of the
Deity. How often would she say, 'sI so love
nd adore him for what he is in himself He is
0 glorious-He is so good-He is so holy-He X
5 so Jast-eVen IN his justice He is so good-so N
oly-O, how delight in his character"