The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-04-06
No. Il.

teries of Him whose ways are past
finding out. Blessed be God, His
ways are higher and better than
ours. Very few Of the martyrs
endured more physical agonies {:
none of them were sustained with
more abundant illusions of divine
grace. A painful disease required
surgical operation, the anguish
Of the disease being intolerable,
and the operation promising re
lief if the sufferer survived. When
his hour drew nigh, he said:
"I can, and do trust God who
has always been Father to me.
Yes, | will trust him though he
slay me. And has not Jesus
Christ given me many tokens Of
his love for more than sixty years,
and allowed me TO preach his
Gospel more than ffty.four years,
and shall | not look to him? !
think, too, the Blessed Comforter
will be with me to the end. He
has often made my heart leap for
JOY and sing praises. l believe in
God, the Father Almighty, Maker
of Heaven and Earth, and in
Jesus Christ, His Son. l believe
in the Holy Ghost"
When the operation was over
and the symptoms we're become
unfavorable for his recovery, he in
sisted that he had done his whole
duty and the issue was altogether
with God. He declared with great
emphasis:
Jesus Christ has most lovingly
Gied for me, and brought in a
glorious and everlasting right.
eousness, which is infinitely we'll.
pleasing in his Fathers sight
| trust him-I trust him only
trust him altogether--I trust him
forever. ! wanted 70 give my
testimony that the Gospel l have
preached for so many years has
not failed me in my hour of need.
1 did not want to die without Civ
ing my testimony on this bed thai
God is. a faithful God" -.-
So the days and nights passec
YEARLY on, how YEARLY to him
none can ever know. 81 change
the place and keep the pain )" "In
supportable agony; I am in {
fame-on fire )" "Quousque DO
mine2 Quousque Domino" (HoU
long, o Lord p again and again
He said: II know now wha,
the martyrs felt when tied to The
stake as witnesses for the truth
If | were lying hore by the hand:
of men, l could not have clearer
views of truth. and Of the all-suG
cheney of our, blessed religion
am testing it as really as if bounc
at the stake"
His mind often wandered ; ant
awake or asleep his ruling pas
sion was strong in death, e
preach the word, to speak TO BIZ
fellow-men. One who was Will
him in these hours writes 10 M
this incident:
sin the middle of the night
when the watchers beside hin
thought him asleep, he sud
denly made in his clearest voic,
a great speech, beginning, Friend
and fellow-citizens. 1t was pa
triotic, fervid and eloquent. Il
closed by saying, "Surely, gen
tlemen, l have said enough if n,y
friend, DR.. Prime'-then raisin!
his hand, he beckoned and called
Prime On opening his eyes b.
saw where be was, and relapset
into silence
No one but myself can explain
the psychological fact: to me it i
ipexpressibIy sweet to know tina
even in his sleep or delirium, lyin.
in distant city, be should speal
of me as his friend and call ou
10 me at the close ola public ad
dress. But the mind flies from
one scene to another with map
preciable rapidity: he was no
preaching, but when he came t
the close of his speech, be though
Of prayer as following preaching
, and instantly did what he ha'
once done years ago. 1t was in
Westcrn city. One Sabbath morn
ing he was preaching to an au
dience filing the church, pews
aisles, every inch Of space wa
packed full. The sermon was sol
emn: the stiffness was painful
the closing passages were wonder
| fullv dramatic and impressive,