Connecticut western news., 1876-04-28
Obituary

1AAShouSu UkAS. 11Olley uau UceH Couuueu to the house for several years on account of ill health, added to the infirmi.ies of age, she will be sadly missed by this communl- ty. We have always known where to find her. Neither sickness or age had dismissed her sympathies or shortened her hand. Her heart was always warm and keenly alive to the sufferings and sorrows of others Through the periodicals she kept herself informed in regard to the operations of the Christian world, and followed with her prayers, and aided by her money, the relig- iOus enterprises of the day.
 Mrs. H0lley had lived in the house from which we carried her to the grave about 60 years. She was born in New Preston. Ct., Jan. 9th, l792; was married to Hon. J. M. Holley, who had lost his first wife, in Sep tember lSI6, and came to this town to be a mother to his seven children. Her husband died in November 1886. How we'll she discharged the duties thus assumed is at. tested by the affection those children have manifested for her during her long life. Mrs. Holley was converted in February | 1916, under the preaching of MT. Nettleton, and at the time of her death was the oldest member of the Congregational church in Salisbury. The sheaf of ripened wheat which laid upon her casket during the flu. neral exercises was fit type of her life. She went to her grave as shock of corn 1 fully ripe.' The Lear prospect of death brought her no fear. She said she had g strong arm to lean upon and felt like a little child in her Fathers hands At an other time, when thinking of her blessed Saviour, she said I wish everyone, euery one, could know about this wonderful Re deemer-thls @onderfM Redeemer-and sing Blessing and glory, and honor, an6 power, and praise praise to Him
 Just before she lost consciousness she 1 motioned to her daughter to feel of hel pulse, and asked How near Home am ? There IS nothing to be added to such testi- mony to the love and power of Christ tt comfort and sustain and save. 'Blesset are the dead who die in the Lord.' K. I [We have also received the following kindly spoken words, to the memory O.
 Mrs. Holley.-ED NEWS.
 I'M MEMoRIAM.
 On Thursday last we met at the residenc, of the late John M. Holley to pay our res
 poets to the memory of one we had knowl
 from our childhood. Mrs. Mary Ann Hol
 ley. after a residence in Salisbury for abou
 sixty years, died at her home at the ad
 vanced age of eighty four (84) years. Flo
 almost forty years she had been a widow
 Yet this while, the cares and trials of Tiff
 she ever bore as a pleasure, as she was sup
 ported by that Arm that IS ever ready |,
 sustain the widowed and the fatherless. Her Christian virtues fitting her for all th duties of this life, caused those who kney her to respect her for her modesty, her ann
 able disposition, and her kindness of hear for the poor or afflicted, wherever .sh found them. She lived not for the world ) only so far as the performance of the du
 ties of this world were incumbent upon her training up her family in the nurture au , admonition of the Lord exciting an influ ence, both by word and by and with al persons she came in contact with, to mak them more useful in this life and better pre-
 pare them for the life which is to come
 and striving to secure for herself home il that House not made with hands, eternal il the Heavens.
 Her faults were slight: mere shadow
 cast over the mortal before passing int immortality-the faint traces of thing earthly as she was ascending towards thing { Heavenly Like the, fading away of tn hues of the rainbow, she silently and calm
 ly forsook the image of the earthly that sh might ascend and bear the image of tn Heavenly. We sYmpathizc with the afflicted family . but our sorrow we require for ourselves
 Her past has made her future secure. Coul we feel that it is likewise with US, then lik
 her, we should be ready and cheerful whe , the summons came. The remarks of Dr
 Reid were most appropriate for the occs
 sion. Eloquently and earnestly did he pic . ture to many of us what might be our terr ble condition at the day of accountabili'y y
 showing us the utter unprofitableness of life spent in the pursuit of pleasure, or sol did wealth, without doing good withou enquiry respecting the future; withou 3 preparation to meet our Judge. He close
 by paying beautiful tribute to the charac ter of the deceased, and plainly showing u that, while we were sacrificing the joys o
 Heaven for few years of false pleasure i . the vanities of this world, she has made tn world joyous to her only so far as it aide
 her in her preparation for life in tn , world to come.
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