Daily Republican., 1879-11-15

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DUST TO DUST.
IntePment Of Miss Adellae Price
Heaseen-Bio8saphleaI sketch
BY Rev. Dr.. Csldwell-OGher Cor.
enemies.
As announced in the REPUBLICAN, the
funeral ceremonies oyer the remains Of
Miss Adelins Price Houston, wife Of
Rev. J. L. Houston. took place on Thurs
day afternoon, the intsrmeut being
made at the Wilmington and Brandy
wine cemetery. Rev. Messrs. Pegg,
Sheppard, Sandsrson and White acted
as pail bearers. The scripture lesson
was read by President Williams of
Wesleyan college. The religious life
and experience Of the deceased were
feelingly alluded to by DR.. Stevenson,
and DR.. Nixon offered prayer.
DR.. Caldwell Of St. Paul's N. z.
church, read the following biographical
sketch of the deceased:
Mrs. Adelins Houston who departed
this life on the 1lth instant, was the
daughter Of Benjamin and Anna Maria
Price. She was born at Harmony Mills,
near Wilmington, on 1st Of September,
1919. Her girlhood was spent in Kent
and Cecil counties, Maryland. She
was educated in classical schools at
Elktou and Baltimore, and her grasp
Of the various subjects embraced in her
course Of study, enabled her to compete
successfully with the best mas
culine minds in those schools.
Her associations were with the
most cultured classes and she was
qualified by her own culture, as we'll as
by the graces Of her person, her CONVEX
sationsl talent and social virtues to
adorn the best circles Of society. At
the age Of eighteen she was united in
marriage with Rev. James L. Houston,
at that time member Of the Philadel-
phia Conference, and now superannu-
ated member Of the Wilmington Confer
ence. From the comforts Of q luxurious
home and the endearing ties of early as.
sOciations she went forth to experience
the varying fortunes AID vicissitudes
incident to the life Of our itinerant
ministers. But that record, which she
has left of the state Of her feelings at
different times, and places in her ever
changing mode of life, show that she
did 50 with cheerful spirit and abid-
ing trust in her Saviour. Her CONVEX
sion, which had taken place the year
before her marriage, had prepared her
fully for the trying experience to which
she subjected herself by her chosen lot
in life. That evenoccurred at Still
Pond church, Kent county, Md, on
the 18th of August 1885, aud was
deemed Of such Importance and value to |
her as to call for a record Of all the cir
cumstances in spirit Of devout graft
tude to God. She says in her diary
that it was then that she first behsld |
Christ by faith as her Saviour, that
the view was "transcendsntly glor-
ious, "and the effect was that her peace
flowed like river. She adds to her glow
ing description Of that great change
upon her moral sentiments and emotions
the words, "Blssssd be the Lord"
This profession she maintained from
that time until the day Of her death by
consistent walk and goodly converse
tion. The first appointment to which |
her husband was sent after their mar
riage was Chsstertown, Maryland; the
next was to Easton and the next to
Smyrna. At the la ter place on the lst
Of January, 1912, she commenced her
diary saying at the opening, IL have
now passed the 22d year of my
short existence. For five years past
have been striving for salvation,
but not as earnestly as desire to do in
The future" Then she recorded a
prayer that God might assist her in
herself afresh to live more
closely to Him, to walk more circum-
specify and to be more watchful. Fol-
owing this earnest appeal to her Heav-
,nly Father, which she stated in sim
'erit, mat might never be forgotten,
vas the record of her con version al
eady mentioned. Her journal abounds
lot only in incidents and per.
onal memoranda, showing the in
eussly devout and spiritual tendency
( her mind, but also in historic, poetic, G
nd aesthetic allusions which show that 5
he possessed a refined and cultivated
aste. These were characteristics, how
yer, which needed no record in order i,
, convince those who knew her inti- i
lately, for none could be long in her
ompany without discovering that she !
'as woman of taste, culture and re-
While she was lover
the beautiful, both in nature I
nd art, she had a special fond
ess for historical literature, both Sec II
lar and religious, and displayed re-
larkable familiarity with the best au-
nors in this department of learning, t,
nd thorough knowledge of the great H
haracters, events, and epochs Of llisto-
'. In Milton, Milford, Philadelphia, D D
Vest Chester and other places, where
ears of her itinerant life we're spent, re
lewas esteemed and loved by the tlocks
YER whom her husband presided. Many Il
altered around her al those places q
ho received from her words of comfort, CT
nd instruction. On her tongue,it could al
. truly said was the law of kindness,
I'D she was never known to speak un- a. !,
iudiy of anyone. She was noted for 2l
er charity aud benevolsnce, always
lacing the most favorable construction tr
pom the motives of others, and per- u
rming deeds of kindness among the in
sedy, whenever she. had it in her sa