his loving-kindness, tender-heartedness and likeness to the great Shepherd of the sheep. We mourn our loss, but rejoice for him, for it is better to depart and be with Christ; our loss is his gain. And we wish to acknowledge our thankfulness to God for his wonderful goodness and mercy in blessing us so long with so precious a pastoral gift.

without loving him, and because none knew him bet-people ander his watchcare realized more than any ter than we, none loved him more. Elder Beebe was a true and loving friend, an upright, honest man, a sincere lover of the truth of the gospel, an able minister of the new testament, and a faithful and affectionate pastor. He was tender toward the inquiring and sin-burdened souls who came to him for help and comfort. Not only were these things known by us as an association, but they were appreciated by all among whom he had labored in the work of the ministry. We sorrow because we shall on earth see his face no more. Yet we do rejoice that we have full assurance that to him to die was gain. To his bereaved family, and to the church at Warwick, of which he had been the loved and loving pastor for nearly twenty years, we desire to extend an expres sion of our sympathy in their bereavement. May the God of all comfort be with and bless them.

ALSO,

IN recognition of the sad loss sustained by the Covenanted Baptist Church of Canada, in the decease of their beloved pastor, Elder Wm. Pollard, we as an Association desire to assure our sister church of our sincere sympathy in their bereavement. He was loved and esteemed by us as an able minister of the gospel, and we were blessed with his membership of and ministry in this Association for several years. He was unusually gifted in discernment of spiritual things, and in ability to proclaim the truth as it is in Jesus. He declared in no uncertain sound the comforting word of an accomplished salvation. While we deplore the loss to the people he so faithfully served, we rejoice in the confidence that the fruition of all his hope and desire is accomplished; that he is with Christ, having fought a good fight, finished his course and kept the faith. In acknowledging our sympathy with the Covenanted Church of Canada, we likewise express remembrance of his family in their bereavement.

JOHN MCCONNELL, Clerk.

H. C. KER, Moderator.

(WARWICK CHURCH.)

ON motion and second, the following memorial was ordered spread upon the Minutes of this meeting, and the Clerk requested to send a copy for publication to the SIGNS OF THE TIMES.

In sorrow we, Warwick Church, have to record the decease of our beloved pastor, Elder Wm. L. Beebe, he having been called to everlasting rest March 28th, 1901. He was a pastor indeed to us, and faithfully labored in our midst for nearly twenty years, and the fruit of that labor has been evident in the comfort, edification and upbuilding of us all in our most holy faith. In comforting them that mourned, and in helping those who were in tribulation, he was specially gifted of the Lord. His loving ministry will never be forgotten, and we mourn his absence with sorrow inexpressible. All who knew him loved him, but we as a

We extend to our sister church, Beulah, of Brooke, Canada, of which church Elder Wm. L. Beebe was also pastor, our heartfelt sympathy in fellowship of sorrow for our mutual loss. May the gospel of love, which our pastor so unceasingly preached both in word and deed, abide and continue with us the power of God unto salvation. Our future seems dark and discouraging, but our trust is in God, the Father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who ever liveth to make intercession for us. Our God is immutable, and in that he has been good and merciful to us in the past, we are confident of his faithfulness to never forsake us.

GEORGE D. CONKLIN, Church Clerk. OBITUARY NOTICES.

BROTHER George Golden, for many years a member of the church at Hopewell, N. J., departed this life on Sunday night, Dec. 16th, 1900, at his home in Princeton. He had been feeble for some time, and for two or three weeks before the end came he suffered much and failed rapidly. He was baptized by Elder Wm. J. Purington, then pastor of the church at Hopewell, about twenty years ago. He remained a member until his death. He, with his dear companion, who is a faithful member of the same church, attended the meetings of the church whenever it seemed possible for them to do so. He was a man of quiet and reserved disposition, and we believe that his departure was peace. He leaves a kind and faithful companion, and sons and daughters to mourn their loss. May God comfort them in their loneliness and sorrow. Не was about 63 years of age.

The funeral service was held in the meeting-house at Hopewell, on Thursday, Dec. 20th, at which time the words found in the twenty-third Psalm were used as a text. In blessed hope of the resurrection his body was laid to rest in the cemetery adjoining. How blessed is the hope of the believer.

C.

Silvanus S. Ward was born in Champaign Co., Ohio, Dec. 12th, 1826, died Feb. 4th, 1901; was married to Pirsilla Smith, Dec. 18th, 1819; to them were born twelve children, eleven boys and one girl. He was baptized by Elder Williams, and became a member of Nettle Creek Baptist Church, in 1862. Brother Ward was a firm believer in the absolute sovereignty of God. The Lord blessed him with a spirit of reconciliation to him in all things in a wonderful way, so

that he would say, "It is never too hot; it is never too cold; it is never too wet; it is never too dry; all these things are in the Lord's hands, directed by his will, and are just exactly right." He was a great reader of the SIGNS, a lover of the sentiments it advocates, and in his quiet, mild-mannered way would talk his faith wherever he was, which caused him to be a much persecuted man. He was as the apple tree among the trees of the wood, and as the speckled bird, but through it all the Lord preserved him, blessing him with much temporal things, and making him an honorable and peaceful citizen all his days. FRANK MCGLADE.

are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other" in him who is our Mediator.

As a church we are walking together in peace, we are few in numbers, and do not come together for worship as often as we feel we should. However, we still have confidence toward God, and know that if he is ours, and we are his, all that is needful for our good and his glory is ours.

Our pastor, Elder Vail, comes every third Sunday in each month, his preaching to us is of no uncertain sound; these meetings are well attended, considering the few we are in numbers, and the long distance some of us live from our place of meeting. We also continue our first Sunday meetings.

Mrs. Almira Hoffman, of Bath, N. Y., died April 30th, 1901, in her 81st year. Her husband, Daniel Hoffman, died three years ago. Sister Etta, their daughter, has kindly cared for them in their declining years, and is now left alone, having no one of a like faith with whom she can meet. May the God of the fatherless be hers, and give her comfort in her lonely hours, for she has been faithful in her duties, prac-gave and the Lord has taken away," that his infinite ticing much self denial, that her parents might have the comforts of this life.

Our dearly beloved sister Risler, wife of Deacon Cyrus Risler, has fallen asleep, and while we miss her much in our meetings, which she so faithfully attended for so many years, and sympathize with our dear brother Risler in his great affliction, yet we would not complain, for with her the conflict is ended, and we feel that while we mourn our loss, "The Lord

M. HILLINGS.

CHURCH LETTER.

The Kingwood Old School Baptist Church, to her sister churches composing the Delaware River Association. DEAR BRETHREN :-It is with a feeling of gladness that we respond to the established custom of our association in sending our church letter. The fellowship of the saints is to us a great blessing; a blessing which words fall infinitely short of expressing. We feel that this matter of annually coming together is mutually profitable, for we desire to learn of your welfare, and witness the evidences of the faithfulness of our great High Priest, manifesting his power and goodness in holding us fast in the apostles' doctrine. Our great desire to be found contending for that salvation which is found in Christ is to us evidence of our being in Christ, for alone of his Spirit do any of the sons of men ever desire these things. We know from personal experience that to all others "He is as a root out of dry ground, without form or comeliness, that men should desire him," but being found in him, and being made partakers of the divine life, he is the chief among ten thousand, the altogether lovely One. How wonderful are the works of God set forth in the gospel! It proclaims liberty to the captives, the opening of the prison doors to them that are bound, sets his dear children, who were in death, free from the grave, liberates them from the law of Moses, in which they were held, and brings them forth in the liberty of the sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty, the law satisfied and made honorable, then can we sing of justice and mercy: "Mercy and truth

wisdom is being unfolded to his dear people in the
measure that shall be for our good and his glory.
We were blessed in an especial manner in having
two added by baptism during the past year. While
they have long had the fellowship of the church, yet
we were made to rejoice in their being enabled to
come in by the door into the visible church, thus
openly honoring the ordinances of heaven as they are
set in the church and observed by all who openly
manifest their delight in the law of God.

Read and approved at our church meeting held
Saturday, the eighteenth day of May, A. D., 1901.

CYRUS RISLER, Church Clerk.

MEETINGS.

AN all day meeting will be held, the Lord willing, on Sunday, July 7th, 1901, with the Andes Church, at Union Grove, Delaware Co., N. Y., commencing at Brother John B. Stinson will half past ten o'clock.

be with me.

J. D. HUBBELL, Pastor.

with the Clovesville Old School Baptist Church, of A YEARLY meeting will be held, the Lord willing, the Lexington Association, the first Saturday and Sunday in July, (7th and 8th) 1901. A cordial invitation is extended to ministers and brethren and sisvers, and all lovers of the truth, to meet with us. Those coming by rail will be met at Fleischmann's, on the Ulster & Delaware R. R.

O. F. BALLARD, Church Clerk.

THE Shohola Creek Church will have a two days meeting, the Lord willing, Tuesday and Wednesday, July 16th and 17th, 1901. Trains will be met on Monday, 15th, at Shohola station, Erie R. R., with

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in our service as servants under sin. The end thereof is death. "But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life." Humility is not one of the results of any of the works of the flesh. "The works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, vari

It seems very strange to me that my the servants of sin, ye were free from mind should be impressed to write on the righteousness." There is no fruit yielded subject of humility, when I cannot find one particle of it in myself, and when I firmly believe we cannot tell anything to profit except we have learned it by experience, and that the revelation of Jesus Christ as our Savior comes to us through the exercise of divine grace in our hearts, which is christian experience. Yet being impressed, I feel it a solemn duty. If I have an earthly master, and he tells me to do certain things, I have no right to ance, emulations, strife, seditions, herequestion, and ask the reason why, but my sies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, duty is to obey. And now as I start out revellings and such like." Is it any wonin this task I am already encouraged and der then when I search in my own flesh comforted, because as I hope my Master for humility, that I find it not? Every has at this moment caused me to perceive possible emanation from the flesh is in that he does not require humility at MY direct opposition to an humble and conhands; that HE is my humility, and he trite heart. The natural heart is filled graciously and in mercy supplies every with pride and self-esteem. It is conwant and deficiency in me. If I have quit tinually in conflict and in battle for the service of my former master, whose supremacy. It even presumes to say that reign over me was in darkness unto death the arm of God is shortened that he canwherein sin prevailed, calling forth every not save, unless mighty man humbles lust of the flesh, and have entered the himself and accepts the proffered salvaservice of him who reigneth in righteous-tion. When I deplore in myself the ab