A Time to Weep by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 14, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 23.

A Time to Weep.

By Editor

April 4 occurred the death of C. H. Chaffee, of Missouri, for forty years a minister in this work. April 10 fell asleep an old friend and brother minister, for several years president of Vermont Conference, Thomas H. Purden. He was an old veteran of the Civil War, and later as faithful a soldier for God. Following these came the death of a beloved mother, April 17. May 9, Mrs. Elizabeth Nelson Fryer, a friend and sister of years, wife of Professor John Fryer, of the University of California, lay down to rest from life's labor. Mrs. Fryer did noble work in missionary and educational lines in China in connection with the Seventh-day Baptists. Last of all comes the news of the death of a young medical friend, Dr. Camillus Bush, of San Francisco, May 28. All the others had filled to the full in noble service the years allotted to mortals; but Dr. Bush fell at his post of duty in his young, strong manhood, already a growing physician of great promise, and what is more, a noble Christian man. May God comfort the sorrowing family, especially the mother. It is "a time to weep," and we weep with the sorrowing ones; but over the "great salt fount of tears" there brightly bends the bow of hope and promise of the everlasting beyond which knows no death.