Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-25
The LATE JACOB srAUFFEk.
Minute OF the SeasiOn of Lancaster PresbytS
rian Church.

Minute Of the Session Of Lancaster Presbyte..
rlan Church.
A special meeting of the session of Lam
caster Presbyterian church was held last
evening at the house Of Elder A. McKim
Immediately after the regular weekly lee
ture. The pastor, Rev. James Y Mitchell,
formally announced the death of Elder
Jacob Stauffer, which occurred on Monday
evening, March 2s, at a quarter past eight
O'Clock. After remarks by the elders
present it was resolved to attend the fun
eral on the following day in body, and.
on invitation ofthe family of the deceased,
to assist as pail bearers. The following
additional minute was ordered to be en-
| copy to be presented to the bereaved fam
lily.
Minute
The session of Lancaster Presbyterian
| church, in entering upon it's records
minute touching the death of Elder Jacob
| Stauffer, would not be unmindful of the
| goodness of our covenant-keeping God.
! who, though clouds and darkness are
| round about His throne. still ruleth in
righteousness, and doeth all things WELL
| To His praise. and for our comfort in the
midst of present SOrrOwing, we recall the
Divine words, I've know that all things
work together for good to them that love
God"
| With gratitude to our Heavenly Father
We make mention of the fact that our de-
ceased brother was enabled, for well-nigh
half 4 century, to witness good profess
sion of his faith in Christ. When in the
vigOr of early manhood he gave his heart
to Jesus, and by Divine grace was enabled
| to continue steadfast even unto the end
From the Presbyterian church of Mount
Joy, Lancaster county, which was his spir-
| itual birth place, and in which he Ebored
as member, teacher and superintendent
in the Sabbath school, for some twenty
years, and, as an elder, for eighteen years.
he left, on coming to Lancaster, to east in
his lot with us.
In the providence of God, his life was
spared, and his connection with this church
was unbrOken and undisturbed through
score of years, during which he was u
sharer in all the efforts of the people, and
was enabled to give his counsel, his labors
and his gifts to further their interests.
Generous by nature, grace enlarged his
spirit, and cheerfully and literally did he
give as the Lord prOspered him.
! The Holy Spirit made him II working
| Christian SO that from the commence
mcnt Of his Christian life he was found in
the vineyard, libOring not only as an Office
bearer in the church, but as a teacher in
the Sabbath school, until prevented by
impaired health.
| AS q cO-wOrker with us in our SeSsonal
labors, We bear testimony to his genial,
warm and cheerful disposition. the fervor
of his piety and his constant desire to pro-
mote the interests of this Zion.
We shall miss him greatly but we shall
| ever remember him as one who often en-
cOuraged but never discouraged us one
whose cheerful manner lent interest to our
meetings and one who heartily joined with
us in seeking to do the will of Him who
has called him hence to receive the wei
come, ''Well done, good and faithful ser
want, enter into the joy of your Lord.
With such an intimacy as we enjoyed
with our brother elder we know the bet
ter how to SympathiZe with the family of
the deceased, who mourn the loss of an af-
tiOnate father.
He was the centre around which chill
dren and grand children loved to gather.
His companiOnship and counsel were
gladly sought. He loved them, but not
more than they loved him.
| The session of Lancaster church extends
its warmest sympathies to the sorrowing
family, glad to assure them, however, that
they are not as mOurners without hope,
for their loved and Christian father has
gone, as he himself often expressed it, ''to
ono of the many mansions which Christ
has prepared for those who love Him. -
We minge our sorrow with your SORROW
but let us also rejoice together for there
is still left to us your fathers God-your
| fathers ChriSt-yo,,r fathers ComfOrter-
together with the rich promises and the
sweet communications, by means of which
we may find joy in this wilderness, and at
last be brought together in the world be-
yond the river, where no night comes, and
where sOrrOwing, signing, and separation
are eternally unknown.