OBITUARY by T. J. Butler

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 15, 1859

OBITUARY.

By T. J. Butler

FELL asleep in Jesus October 5th, in the fifty-third year of his age, our well beloved brother Charles Guysinger. For the last twenty-five years of his life he confessed himself a pilgrim and stranger here, "seeking for a better country, even a heavenly;" and although afflictions many and severe had been his lot to suffer, yet in his case truly "tribulation worked patience." Our much beloved brother has left a large family and many relatives to mourn his loss, but in this afflictive dispensation of providence they have an entire community to sympathize with them, as it has lost one of its most exemplary and worthy citizens. The church also feels truly sensible of the great loss it has suffered, and claims its position among the principal mourners, as it has lost one of its most valued members, one who was an example to believers in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. May the Lord enable all the mourners, both in the circle of relatives and in the church to follow his example, that they may have a well grounded hope with him of soon having their vile bodies made like unto Christ's own glorious body, and becoming joint heirs with him to the heavenly inheritance which is incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away. T. J. BUTLER.