Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-10-16
OBITU AIRY.
A Father in Israel Has Fallen


| DIED, at tho residence Of John OFT. in LeYing.
ton District, Elder zEnEK4AH WATKINS, who
was born Oct, 18th, l7sl, and died Sept. 25th
1857, aged IS years, ] months and 10 days. q,
ue embraced Christianity in the l7h yeur o!
his nge, and from tha. time to his death he
failed to attend but two anniversaries of the
Edgefold Association, oncs in case Of severe in.
disposition, the other, in 1868, because of very
interesting meeting ut providonc Church.
He was. ordained and set apart to tho Gospel
Ministry by Elders John Landrum and Carson
Howell, Oct. 18th, 1922 in the 35th year of his
age How he has performed tho work assigned
by those venerable servants Of god, leave for n
mourning people to judge.
He died, as he had lived, In tho full assurance
Of a blessOd Immortality beyond the grave.
FELI asleep in Deaths cold embrace, with n
sweet amilo on her frozen lipS,-the SOULS adieu
| To dear ones Of earth,-on the I'd of Oct inst,
gentle MARY PADGET, daughter of NJ. M.
and MARY PAnaEr, alter a long and painful ILL.,
moss, in he l4th year Of her age.
Dark and dreary indeed is tho pail of sorrow
that now rests on this afflicted family; for, in the
mysterious dispensation Of nm Ever Good Proyi-
dencc nm afectionate and dutiful daughter, and
a loving and loved sister, hns been taken from
their fond care and kind soicituio. They sigh
for their absent darling, and tina heart aches, and
unbild,n tears dim the eye, and they miss-yea,
sadly miss,-her pleasant face and merry laughter
and many endearing ways of lovo and kindness.
Little MARY was indeed bright and beautiful
being, exceedingly gifted and intelligent for one
of her years, and tho favorto Of n wide circle OF
friend, whom she bad won around her by hcr
gentle demeanor and confdng disposition but
she was too fragile q 1owcr'for world like this,
and m my months ngo her health was evidently
on tho decline, and
Came then sickness, and in anguish,
Dny by day We watched her languish-
Watched her wanng-watched her wasting;
Oh, the agony of tasting
Those sad momouts of deapairt
Vain were all the arts Of healing;
Blight WAS n'er her beauty Stealing
Vain our wniling-vain our weeping,
Cruel Death came creeping, creeping,
Caring not that she was fair."
And in life'g buoyant Spring time. in the halcyon
hours of sunny girlhood. when love bid us hope
that nsught hut many long years of happiL ess
wsro in store for our dearly esteemed young
friend, she was called "Beyond the River" and
rests amid the angels now in Heaven. And there
no shadow of anguish or pain or caro- dusks tho
radiance of her angelic brow but the eternal
home Of God and all the joys Of Heaven are hers.
y An ] many neart sauiy grieVeu at her dying,
Aud many n tear-drop yot falls where she's lying:
For the spsll of her gentle soul yet rests upon u.s.
And wc cannot forget her sweet goodness that
wnnus,
And bound US with bonds that no time can ever
Revar.
With bonds that fond mOmory will keep grcsn
forever.
"And she shares not our sorrow, she feels not our
sadnoss;
Ah no thatbright home where sho dwolls is all
gsdness; -:
And rest and sweet peace whore, we trust far
above US,
She ceasos rot, aye to watch over and lovo US;
Calmly waiting our coming, whom the ties death
hath riyon,
May sgsiu DO united mid tho elosisp of besTep.p