The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-12-19
Deaths.

ANNAN.-At the residence of her
father in Newburg, W. Va, on Fri
day, Dec. 1lth, Mrs. Ella Amman,
daughter of DIR. VIM. NJ Dent.
Mrs. AMMAN has been great suffer
err. The many friends of the family
here will regret to hear of her death
KIeER-At her home at the Round
Bottom. in this county, ON Saturday
Dec. 18th, 1885, after an illness of
several months, Mrs. Mary, wife of
Leroy Kiger, aged IS years. The
remains were buried from the Bap-
fist church in this place on Sunday
afternoon and were followed to their
last resting place by a large con
course of relatives and friends.
RTcE-Died, at her home near I'm
iontown, W. Va, on the morning of
December LIST, 1885, of irritation of
the stomach, Mary Jane Rice, be-
loved wife of John T. Rice. She was
born in Monongalia county, W. Va,
March goth, 1874, and was the eldest
daughter of DIR. r. and Rebecea
Brookover, and became a member of
the Church of Christ at Antioch
when about the age of l6 years.
Wstzel Democrat.
FINNEY.-Morgantown has lost
one of its best and purest citizens,
and the Presbyterian church its
beloved pastor The Rev. DR.. S. L.
Finney died at his residence in this
town Wednesday evening, Dec 9th.
He was buried in Oak Grove Gene
terry, Friday afternoon Dec. 1lth,
Prot. Reynolds, assisted by Rev. Mr..
Crawford, conducting the funeral
services, The pall-bearers were:
Prof. Stewart, Judge Ollie, Joseph
Reiner, A. L. Nye, DIR. H. b. Lazier
and President Turner. Mr.. Finney
was born Sept, 1926. near Milton,
Pa, was educated at Lafayette Col
lege; entered the ministry, Dec. "a,
1850, at Philadelphia; was installed
pastor End Presbyterian ch., n. Y,
in 1852; was pastor in New York
City, Princeton, \. j., South Rygate,
VT, Mt. Pleasant, Pa, and Morgan
town, w. Va; entered upon his work
here Apr. list, 1888; preached his
last sermon Nov. 10th, 1885, from
the text: precious in the sight of
the Lord is the death OF His saints.
He was an able, conscientious and
successful minister of the Gospel,
and one of the mildest, purest men
that ever lived. 1t will be hard
matter to fill his place in the town,
in the church and in the hearts of
his friends.
TRIBUTE OF RESPECT.
The following minute was adopted
by the congregation of the Presbyte-
rian church of Morgantown, at
meeting held December 18th, 1885:
Since God in His Providence has
removed from us by death, the pas
tor of this church, Rev. Spencer L.
Finney, we deem it fitting that we
should place ON record an expression
of our sense of loss.
-Four times within year has
Death broken the little circle of our
church membership, and his fifth
visitation takes from our midst our
beloved pastor Bereaved and sad
az we are in being deprived of his
faithful ministrations, and the exam
pie of his pure, Christian life; yet
we can rejoice that in death he
reached the hour Of his supreme tri-
umph, and also in the consciousness
that the power of a character so no
BILE, so earnest, so Christ-like cannot
fail in death, but will continue to
yield its blessed fruitage throughout
time and eternity. To his family he
leaves the rich inheritance of de
voted, unselfish, godly life, to the
church the memory of a faithful SER
want and follower of jesus, to the
world deeds of kindness and love,
which it, Of itself, cannot know, but
which will honor the name of Christ
in the years that are to come. How
fifty his life and death illustrate the
words of the text of his last sermon:
precious in the sight of the Lord is
the death of His Saints"
To the bereaved wife and family,
in this, their hour of trial, we ex-
press our heartfelt sympathies, with
the assurance of our prayers.