BROTHER AYERS | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 12, 1879

BROTHER AYERS.

BRO. N. W. VINCENT offers the following additional tribute to the memory of Bro. Ayers:—

In a humble tent on the Kansas camp ground, an hour before midnight, Eld. J. N. Ayers tranquilly, without a struggle, resigned his life to God. He had toiled hard when others would have thought they could do nothing; he had hopefully praised God when others would have murmured. The president of our Conference, he had come to the camp ground that he might work as long as he should live, that, like a good soldier of Jesus Christ, he might fall at his post. He spoke a last fervent “good bye” to his weeping brethren; and then, with an earnest, “Oh! I long to be there,” he surrendered all to Him who is so soon to come to receive him.