Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1880-11-18
BISHOP HAvEN's HAPPY DEATH.
To a friend he said:

"The first Sunday in the new
year I shalt spend in glory" So
real was this "gloIy' to tho man
who was 80 soon to enter it, that he
and his widowed sister, Mrs. Cox,
spoke together of the message
which he was to take from her to
her husband. "Gilbert, you know
what 1 told you to tell Wilburnw
eyes, was his reply, 'I will remem-
Der it all, and will deliver your
MESSAGE AS the time drew on he
remarked that he had in the morn
ing sent for Dr. Garrett, who had
promised to come toIhim at 4 o'clock
| that afternoon. "You will coun
termand the order to DR.. Garrett"
he said: Il have no use for him. 1
| am going where the inhabitants
shall never say: Il am sick" To his
his friend DR.. Upham he said:
.'Preach whole Christ, n whole
gospel, "a whole Heaven, a whole
He'll, whole Bible" To another he
said: "Stand by the old church" )"
Then, referring to his own exper-
ience, he said: "It is so delightful
dying-it is so pleasant-so beauti-
ful-the angels are here; God lifts
me up in his arms. I should see the
river of death-there is no river = it
is all light am floating away from
earth up into heaven am gliding
away unto God.n One Of his friends
| incurred of him: "Is it all rightF'
sYes,n said he; and again, ~ have
no cloud over my mind;I believe the
GOSPEL all through" with a charac-
teristic emphasis ON the sall through
1t was now O'Clock, and the sun of
the winter day was going down; but
to him there was no darkness. The
last of the throng ofvisitOIs at this
strange reception was Prof Lindsay
to whom, when taking his leave, the
bishop said:
"Good evening, Doctor. When
we next meet it will be !eood morn
ing"
After all his visitors had retired
he said: ''Now We are alone, and
must have little time with our
family. Here are my two sisters, my
two children Where is my moth
err" And when she was brought i'll
| they stood in a circle arOunds his
bed in order that he might see them
all. But his sight was failing, and
looking around the circle he said:
"Are we alones' And on being
satisfied on this point, he
gave the last of himself away to
God, and to those on earth whom
whom he loved best; taking their
hands one by one and saying, "This
is my dear, dearest mother; Mamie,
my little sunbeam-dear, pretty
one; Willie, my noble son." and
then recurred the name which he
was ever whispering in the inter
walls Of conversation: "Precious Je-
sus; blessed Jesus"
There was another day also-the
name of her who had been a con
slant presence i'll his soul, though
for fourteen years she had also
been presence among the angels of
God.
On the night before his election to
the espiscopate, being in the compa-
ny Of few choice friends, he said:
II would willingly start and make a
pilgrimage around the earth on
foot to spend one hour with my Ma
ry;' and when he knew he was
about to die, he said, as if over
wheimed by the weary labors and
journeyings through which and over
which he had dragged himself, in
spite of sickness, and pain, and sor-
~ for all these long, lonesome years
he said: after have seen the Lord
I shall want to rest for the first
thousand years with my head in the
lap of Mary