Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-01-03

ton, 20 the love-the eternal love Of God. -
''Do not the suferngs of Christ said the brother,
''seem especially precious to you, in this hour?'
He answered, eyes, dear brother, but these were
only the out gushings of infinite love for poor sin
ners- for my SOUL" He assured us that there was
no dread or fear, or gloom in his mind in prospect
of death. In answer to the question, 'Is there no
feeling of loneliness connected with the thought of
death and the grave?" he said, "Not the slightest
emotion of the kind for know shall not be a.
lone" When we approached his bedside to bid
him farewell, he gave to us his dying blessing, "
in the most tenderly pathetic invocation asking
that divine grace and love be multiplied to US, and
that the Spirit of EGjah's God be poured largely
upon U.s. On the morning of the Monday follow
ing, he felt that the wished for day" had come.
He called his family to him, and gave them his part
ing counsels and blessing. At eleven o'clock, he
said to the loved ones about him, who were
weeping as they looked upon him sinkinginto the
arms of Death 1T is my request that as my pre-
cious Saviour has continued with me, and has
granted me uninterrupted peace and joy, you will
be calm and quiet around me, that my soul may be
undisturbed, asI yield it up to my God" He then
lay silent for half an hour, and exclaimed In very
clear and triumphant tones, "The glorious hour
has come!' He spoke no more, until few mo-
ments before he ceased to breathe, when his lips
were seen to move and the listening ear of love dis
tinctly caught the whispered words, "Come, Lord
Jesus, come quickly" and his ransomed spirit
passed away.
Thus died, at 20 minutes past IL o'clock, NJ,
on the 5th day of November, 1866, Rev. ROBERT
Y. RUssEL-leaving wife and three small chill,
dren, two daughters and son-besides five elder
children, two sons and three daughters. Of the
latter, two are married. son living in Mississippi,
and daughter residing in this District. He was
sixty-sx years of age, and if, che has lived long,
who has lived well" then he has been gathered
to his fathers" in ripe old age. To live as ne
lived, and to die as he died. are each worth living
and dying for.
In this event of Divine Providence, his family
have been bereft of kind and loving husband,
and tenderly affectionate father and counsellor
the community have lost wise and prudent neigh
Dor and exemplar the afflicted are deprived OF q
sympathising friend, and efficient spiritual guide
and the church is called to mourn the loss Of one Of
her brightest ornaments and gifted ministers. But
we sorrow not as others who have nc hope. -
What is our loss was his unspeakabe and everlast-
ing gain.
May the Lord comfort and sustain his stricken
family and prepare them to join him in his home
in the skies; may he sanctify this affective provi
dence to the surviving ministers who were assoca-
ted with him, urging them to redoubled diligence
in the Vineyard of the Lord. And o that the
death of this good man, may prove blessing to
many poor sinners, who have been 50 often and SO
faithfully warned by him to flee from the wrath to
come. May his godly example long live, and by it
may he "being dead, yet speak, and may the
seed sown by him. yet spring up, and bring forth q
precious harvest to the glory of God. Amen.
YORK DISTRICT, S. c., Nov. 29th, 1866.