The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-06-25
Death of Rev. Charles Hill.

! Intelligence reached B'kton on ihurS
| DAY morning OF the death of Rev Charles
| Hill, late pastor OF tho Methodist Epis
Cured at the residence of his son tlr
Rev. Charles y. Hill Pastor of the
| Asbury Methodist Church OF Salisbury
Md. about half past three o'clock on
| Wednesday afternoon. Painful as the
information was 60 the members ut the
Elkton Methodist Church aud in fact
30 this entire cnmmuntv, it was not
alto.e ether unexpected, is the impaired
condition Of Mr.. IIill's boalth when he
left here the past spring upon the
conclusion of his passionate, was a
source of great anxiety to his friends.
Some months before Mr.. Hill had been
seriously i'll with pneumonia complicated
by heart affection. his recovery bei:g so
tedious, and his general health 80 pre-
carious as to compel him to ask super
numerary relation at the last session of the
Wilmington Conference. II was Il great
trial to Mr.. Hill to ask to be relieved
from the active work of the ministry,
not only on account of his Jealous devo-
ton to his work, but because having
been a Methodist Itinerant for forty
seven years, he was ambitious to COM
plete his halt century of work as an
active Wesleyan Preacher. God in his
wisdom intended otherwise however, and |
full of years, honored in his ministry, |
beloved by his brethren. bearing his |
sheayes with him as the evidences of |
his successful discipleship he has been
called to his heavenly reward.
Mr.. Hill, was born in Dagsboro.
and was admitted to the Philadelphia |
Conference, NJ. f. Church, in 1915. He
was a member of that conference until |
the division of the conference, in 1868,
when he became member of the Whining
ton Conference. At the time of the
division he was stationed at Port Deposit
in this county Mr.. Hill served all of the
leading Methodist churches of the PENN
sula, from the Eastern Snore OF Virginia
to Wilmington. He was on the Philadel-
phla district four years. He served the
pastorate at Asbury Church, Whining
ton, first in 1861 aud 1862 returned in
1869, and served three years and again
in 1881, serving three years. Mr.. Hill
was pastor OF Asbury Church, Salisbury,
Md, as far back as 1S49.
His entire ministerial career has been
marked by a wise Discrimination as to
pastoral duty, sound common sense in
his adm illustrative work and earnest
devotion to tho interests of Methodism.
Gratifying AS have been the evidences of
his work as minister of the gospel of
ed and self respecting in all his personal
and social relations. He was tie head of
il devoted and happy family, his wife
who survives him being 4 daughter of
the late H. p Wescott o. Virginia. His
five children who survive him. have been
the subjects of his affectionuto regard,
aud to whom as g loving ard devoted
father they have been equally devoted.
His only sou, Rev. Charles A Hill, is an
able and eloquent preacher comparatively
recently stationed at Cherry Hill in this
county Mrs. Maggie Jones his eldest
daughter, Mrs. Aunie Downward wife of
Mr.. H. c. Downward Of Wilmington,
and his two unmarried daughters are all
devoted women, exhibiting in their
with others the high teaching
and personal example Of their father.
AS preacher Mr.. Hill had few supe
riors. He fought Sin with the ancient
weapons of his faith, aud had little for
bearance with the innOvatiD 5 Of fash ion.
able Methouism. He was strong de-
fender Of the christian faith, an intelli-
gent aud assiduous student of tie Bible,
a brave and eloquent expounder of the
doctrines of orthodox Christianity. The
church every where has reason to mourn
the loss of such men as Charles Hill