The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1901-11-14
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ment may work out for me a far more
exceeding and eternal weight of glo-
ry. Then taking his religious bear
ings he concludes as follows have
peace with God and all mankind.
feel anxious to live If can be useful;
If not am willing to depart and be
with Christ which is for better" In
1863 after two years of intense suffer.
ing and almost utter helplessness dur
ing which time his substance was
wasted and his temporal prospects
blasted, he writes, 81 am unable to
walk without the support of my
crutches and not much with them, my
general health is very much impaired
which disqualifies me from engaging
in any occupation in life for the sup
port of my family. If had not suffi-
cient proof of the infallibility of the
cheering promises in Gods word I
would despair. But thank God they
have been veiled in my own experience
thousand times think have pref
ty near learned the lesson of resigna-
tion," and concludes as follows;
"Afliotion may try me, they cannot destroy.
One vision OF home turns them oil into Joy,
And the bitterest tears that flow from my eyes,
But sweeten my hope Of home In the skies"
In the fall of 1868 he was appointed
by Rev. Jas. Kendall to serve as a
supply on Highland circuit and re-
move with his family to Rainsboro.
The memory of his first protracted
meeting at Rainsboro will be fragrant
in the memory of many in this con-
gregation while they live. Day and
night for weeks the altar was crowd
with earnest seekers of salvation, and
more than hundred souls were con-
verted and about the same number
added to the church as result of the
meeting, many of them being heads
of families. His physical condition
though slightly improved, was very
feeble still. He could not walk a sim
gle step without the aid of his crutch.
1t was often said that old crutch was
a sermon in itself. He remained at
RainsborC to the end of the time linn
it, three years. In September, 1871
he was appointed to BOwersville cir
cult. He remained there three years
and In 1874 was sent to Sinking Spring
charge. In 1875 he was admitted to
membership in the Cincinnati Confer
ence and assigned to Clarksville cir
cult and lived in Martinsville. In 1876
the circuit was divided and he was
sent to Clarksville. In 1878 he was
sent to Leesburg where he served
with great acceptability until the
summer of 1880 when his health be-
came so enfeebled as the result of a
long spell of sickness that he was
compelled to abandon the active work
of the ministry. In 1881 he was on
the supernumerary list and in the fall
of that year took superanuated re-
lation which continued until his
death.
His preaching was not remarkable
for its eloquence or rhetoric; but for
its simplicity, its earnestness and the
conviction it carried to the hearts of
those who heard. 1t was not the
preacher or the preaching that was
conspicuous, but the gospel. His
ministry was uniformaly successful
in building up and strengthing the
churches he served. This feature OF
his ministerial life will no doubt be
written by an ADLER pen than mine.
On the day he was 81 years old to-wit
September 2l, 1854, he was united in
marriage with Rachel e. Davis as al.
ready related in the sketch of her
life. No better selection could have
been made, no truer wife found. AL
wife could do to bless and brighten
a life blasted by incurable disease
was done. How much of his success
in life was due to the happy COmpan.