Our little son has fallen asleep in Jesus. The Lord lent him unto us one year and one day. He died on the third day of March, just before the Sabbath, in time to lay him away, and rest upon the Holy Sabbath according to the commandment. His funeral was attended yesterday. Bro. Holt spoke from 1 Thess. iv, 18.
When I awoke this morning, and thought that my sweet babe had slept in the cold grave for the first night, I could not well refrain from weeping. Though the tears run ever so freely, yet in my heart I can say, "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away, and blessed be the name of the Lord."