In Memory of Smith Clark
By M. Hull
BRO. SMITH : It has become my painful duty to record the death of our beloved brother Smith Clark, who departed this life at Ottawa, Clark Co., Iowa, Aug. 8th, 1859. He embraced the message about eighteen months before he died, and from that time forward lived a consistent and faithful Christian. He was truly a shining light to those around him. He sleeps, but with the assurance that he would soon awake to immortality. His heart was truly engaged in the Lord's work, and he manifested it by his works. We could not have moved the tent west last spring if he had not volunteered to do it. But, he with his team, spent the busiest month in the year (June) in working for the Lord's cause. But he rests from his labors and his works do follow him; and while his relatives and brethren mourn his loss, they "sorrow not as those which have no hope." May this affliction be sanctified to the good of surviving friends.
M. HULL, P. S. This notice should have appeared before this, but unavoidable circumstances hindered.
M. H.