OBITUARY by Franklin H. Thurlow

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 10, 1859

OBITUARY.

By Franklin H. Thurlow

DIED of typhoid fever in Paris, Me., Jan. 5th, 1859, Bro. Sylvanus P. Wilson, aged twenty-five years & six months, after an illness of about seven weeks. Amid all his sufferings he could say, "The Lord is good." We are cheered with the prospect of his coming forth at the resurrection of the just, clothed with immortality. He had seemed to be giving up the world and preparing for some event since the conference at Portland. We hoped it was to proclaim the message of the coming King; but in this we are disappointed. How soon are our fond hopes blighted by the cruel tyrant, death! As Job said, "Man that is born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down; he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth not." He leaves a wife with two small children to mourn his loss; but they "sorrow not even as others which have no hope." We can say "Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints." May the Lord help them, with us as a church, to live so that we may be prepared to dwell with him in that land where God shall wipe all tears from our eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away.

"The winds breathe low; the yellow leaf Scarce whispers from the tree; So gently flows the parting breath, When good men cease to be. How mildly on the wandering cloud The sun-set beam is cast; So sweet the memory left behind, When loved ones breathe their last."

FRANKLIN H. THURLOW. Woodstock, Me., Jan. 25th, 1858.