Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1911-01-04
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that God has spared you to US,
your family and your friends, for
these three score years and more
than ten years. You will never
knowto what extent your life has
beena blessing, until that time
when,i we shall know as we are
known There are those of us, to
whom your patient, quiet endur-
ances of life's hardships and the
cheerful submission, and brave,
beautiful life you have lived, has
been and will be an inspiration, and
/ doubt not to many another pill
grim on life's journey.
I am wishing for you and dear
Aunt Belle, that tomorrow may be
the happiest day of your lives, and
as:the days of the new year come
and go, you may sing with the
poet:
Even down to old age all my
people shall prove my sovereign,
eternal, Interchangeable loye."
With warmest love for you all, l
am, affectionately,
Johnston, s. @.
Ny dear Uncle Robert:--
1t affords me great
deal of genuine pleasure. frequent
as it occurs, to think of you and
your life, and it is a greater joy
and happiness that you are with
us alfGanother Christmas. And I
feel from my own experience that
it is indeed token of Gods love
and. mercy to us, the younger
generations, that you and our love-
ly aunt Belle are yet with US.
With best wishes for you both
a merry Christmas and happy new
year and that the returns shall be
many. Your devoted nephew,
Edge6eld, S. G..
My dear Uncle Robert:
Notwithstanding
the great press of matters incident
to the season, it affords me infinite
pleasure to lay aside everything in
order.,t write you few words of
felieitation at this joyous Christmas:
tide. Fortune has never decreed that
any Minis should be overburdened
with material wealth, but in the
rich heritage that has come to US,
the younger generation, through your
life, which has been singularly
void Of offense toward God and
man, together with the influence of
the lives of kindred saints who have
gone before, we have unbounded
wealth that is more enduring than
houses and lands or silver and gold.
God mas, not only manifested his
l5vang Kindness to you by pa.plohg-
ing your sojourn beyond the:allot-
ted span, but has thereby unspeak-
ably blessed this community and
your kindred to the third genera
ton.
Owing to your exalted character,
unsullied reputation, unselfah life,
unquestioned piety and unfailing
loyalty to Him., you are enjoying,
as Wordsworth, has said, =.
An old.age serene and. bright
Apdloyely as Lapland nightY'
The salutary influence of your
example, as you have quietly. gone
in and out among the people Of
this community all these years, is
immeasurable. I can personally
bear this testimony to its whole
some and helpful effect. Through
your Cody walk and conversation,
we of the younger generation are
stimulated and encouraged to strive
the harder to do justly and to
love mercy, and to walk. humbly
with God"
feel that as a further reward
for your faithfulness, God will yet
spare you to your loved ones and
to this community many more
years. May it be 80! And not only
you, but I trust that Aunt Belle,
the devoted companion of your bo-
som, may also be spared to you and
to us many more years.
With sincerest wishes for mer-
ry Christmas and a happy new
year, am with deep and abiding
affection, Your nephew,
Edgefeld, S. G.
Mr.. Minis will celebrate his 18th
birthday this month, having passed
his entire life in the house in which
he was born. For thirty years of
his life he has been clerk of the
Edgefeld Baptist church.