Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1864-07-06
o4x1AsD, S. c., June 18th 1864.
For tho Advertiser.
The late Rev. Z. III. Lake.


"T. ilre in TIE 1eor's ef tie COED, ..
l. rot to die"
Departed this life III Richmond, Va, Sept. 3d.
1862, Suddenly, Of he:amorrhsgs Of tho lungs
Rev. +. II. LAKE, ags1 about sor.y-thrOs years
For mupth. prior to lis demise, his many
friends fell With sorIOm, ti.at hoWas gradually
sinking un der the fatal touch of that insiduOus
disease consumption: Still. they we're wholly un:
prepared to receive the sad tidipgs Of his sudden
departure from the shores of time. While walk
ing tho streets Of Richmond he was taken Nth
profuse hcmmsrrhagc, which, in few moments,
ended hIs mortal career. But he died with the
gospel armor On-Srisht and bu-pi:hed. For
years lie had beer expecting to rseeive the SUM
laons Of ais Father to "come up higher"
We may say tkat, almost up TO the hour Of iis
death, he was actively cnsag ged in the dissemipa-
tien Of the benign doctrine OF UniverssiisD,
which was ever near and dear to his hesrt. He
literally fell q martyr to this doctrine. For, by
bis constant zeal and unceasins energy, he pre-
maturely wsre himself out in the vineyard of bis
Lord. Thus passed nwas, in the meridian of
life, this devoted minister Of Jesus.
With Brother LAaE the wsiter. was wcll &c
sgusnssd : and several occasions advised him
to dssist from such continuous and vehement Ia
bc.=-bus his reply mas, that he "must Preach
that way, or rot at ALL" His whole soul was
deeply permeatsd by tao relistan shc prsfesscd.
With him it VS.: no cold speculation, but liring,
cc::re r,olity, to which all his better feelings
spontaneously responded. In his.adesth, the
Uniyersalist denomination South, has ldseAne Of
its uao,t able and useful ministcrs-his family q
prSyiden. father and husband, ard soeiety at
large, truo benefacter. He was, we believe,
native Of Haverhill Mass, and had been preacher
of the rosrsl, as Understood ty UniverFslists,
trsn'y.isur ysais.
For the last eight gears Of Lis life, he had
lasorcd mort successfully in The South, where he
snlcared himself to all true lovers Of our Zion
The ield of his labofs lsrse--hsying been
engaged s. anS active missionary in Mississippi
!tabarsa Florida, tIco.sia, South Caroline, North
Carolina and Virginia. His iabors lad bssn
mainly in Mississippi, South Carolina thd North
! Carolina.
At the tiiAe d his eecsase. lis home was il
l.
Magnolia, N. c., whore some of lis children ron
Oso.) reside. His widow survived him, onl,
about a year. They are now where deaths ic,
touchas never fslt-nhero pain and pnsing art
unknown.
AS - preacher, Drathrr L. was eloquent, earnest
pathetic. Asa frenai, cordial, cOnadins, true
Yor several years he had been Corresponding
Issdisar Of the Gnierrsalist Herald, of Notnsulga
Ala. Besides bis lucid contributions to thei
+; Journal he WAS the author of several works which
no ,ut forth during his residence in the South
Ms Key TO Truth" soon became popular |oTl
i in oar order, and ably did it eluciatc and icfen'
our. .fsi;h. liis n1-rwss Oh!ist,ions TO IL; Doo
s,irc ri Frd'.-t ii.rryr-a v.lnms Unanswered
and unuyswe.ai:c. His published discussion will
Rev. B, Topn, Of Niddlsbsro, MSS, hes bsd