E. L. BARR by E. L. Barr

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 24, 1859

E. L. BARR

By E. L. Barr

FELL asleep in Jesus, Dec. 20th, 1858, sister Sarah Lamb, of Granville, Vt., at the residence of her sister, in Roxbury, in the 52d year of her age, and in full faith of soon having a part in the first resurrection. She received the truth and the love of it, with an ardent desire to walk in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless. But her religious privileges were few and far between, and her trials were continued and severe; yet nothing was able to separate her from the love of God, who in his kind providence made her last days the best.

While in the last stages of the consumption, her anxiety to visit her friends at Roxbury was such that she made the journey on her bed, but returned in her coffin. Her last few weeks of suffering at Bro. Kendall's were blessed with the sympathies, the prayers and society of the saints, which were highly appreciated by her. At the time of her decease her much-loved, and now much-lamented sister Phillips was able to ride half a mile or more to take her last farewell look of one so dear by the ties of nature and true christian friendship. While weeping over the loved, lifeless form, she repeated the hymn, "Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep," not realizing, probably, how soon that blessed boon was to be her portion also. Heaven's benediction rests upon them while many sad hearts sorrow, but not as those that have no hope. May God sanctify these afflictions to the future good of the numerous mourning friends, and cause all to make a speedy and perfect preparation to hail their return from the enemy's land with everlasting joy.

E. L. BARR

Roxbury, Vt., March, 1859.