Year: 1875

y. A. Battenfield.

 To the Superintendent of the Russellville Sabbath School:

 Your committee, appointed on last Sabbath to prepare a testimo- nial expressive of our sorrow on account of the death of our below ed friend, Johu J. A. Battenfield, who was a student and regular attendant on our Sabbath school, beg leave to submit the following Mir. Battenfeld was reared in our midst, and at the time of his death was about twenty-four years of age; and since it has been the pleasure of your com mittee to be acquainted with him, he has always borne high moral character, and has been a regular attendant of our school, and in his intercourse with others, was kind and genial; and it is with pride that we can now, after his death, point the young, men of this community, and especially the school, to the high standard of morals that was attained by our deceased friend.

 Mir. Battenfeld was a young man of high literary culture with a quick and comprehensive mind and bid fair to rise to eminence rmong his fellow man, but at an hour when least expected by us, he was cut down by Death and has enterel upon that immortal existence to which we are all hastening. We can understand why the old and infrm die, but why one so young and full of life and one who had just fairly com menced to mature those traits of character which adorn our human ity, should be cut down in the strength of his manhood, with a bright and happy future before him, is a mystery which mortals like us cannot fathom. But one fact is indehbly fixed on our minds, that we must die and that there is a happy immortality in the future for the good and the virtuous, and that on tue other side of the river we will meet in a pure and holy world and begin that better life, where there will be no more death, no more sorrow, and no more parting of loved ones, but where our kind and Heavenly Father shall pity us as father pitieth his children.

 And feeling deeply the loss of our young friend while viewing the vacant seat in his class today, we humbly hope that he has fallen asleep in the arms of our merciful Savior whose care is over all the works of his hands and has pre- pared for our deceased friend and each of us mansion in his Fath- CTS House.

 In view of our loss, then, as we appreciate those virtuous qualities that so beautify our frail mortal ity, let us cherish in the most sacred recesses of our hearts the memory of our kind friend and brother, MT. John J. A. Batten- field.

 Mouring not with ignorance rash and blind, Immortal life has left the grave behind.

 BE IT RESOLVED, That the Sec retary of the Sabbath school of Russellville furnish to the family of the deceased copy of this tes- timonlal, and that he tender to them our heartfelt sympathies in this, the hour of their great afiiic- tion, and commend to them the loving kindness of Him who mo- ticeth the fall of a sparrow, and who "doeth all things we'll" BE IT FURRHER RESOLVED, That 1 iii token of our sorrow for the death of our deceased friend and brother, each member of this school wear a badge of mourning for twenty days, and that the Russellville DEMOCRAT be request ed to publish this testimonial and resolutions.

 MRS. JANE TEACH,

 JAS. W. RUSSELL,

 LEWIS w. DAVIS.