 | 1851 - 166 pages
...We would rather term his dismissal peaceful, painless, gentle, — "gathered, not harshly plucked," he came to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season. JOSEPH PuiESTMANj.Sfanmng'-lB 6mo. 8 1851 /iimi, Bradford. Son of John Priestman.... | |
 | Society of friends - 1851 - 188 pages
...would rather term his dis» missal peaceful, painless, gentle, — "gathered, not harshly plucked," he came to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season. JOSEPH PRIESTM AN, Manning-] 6 6mo. 8 1851 Aam, Bradford. Son of John Priestman.... | |
 | John Haynes Townsend - 1851 - 118 pages
...terrestrial glory. * Our friend's valuable life was extended nearly eight years beyond this period, when he came to his grave, " in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season. " -Job v. 26. Such a course on this earth cannot be Exempt or from labour,... | |
 | John Gisborne, E. N., Emma NIXON - 1852 - 270 pages
...Mr. John Gisborne, I can have no other than the most pleasing and consolatory recollections of him. He ' came to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season.' Pure, sound, and simple in the faith of Christ crucified — nothing in his... | |
 | R C. Pritchett - 1853 - 172 pages
...evidently ripe for heaven, and after a life of devotedness in his Master's service has been gathered " to his grave in a full age like as a shock of corn cometh in his season." " How blest the righteous when he dies ! When sinks a weary soul to rest ; How... | |
 | 1864 - 604 pages
...chapter of St. John. At length, at the ripe old age of eighty-eight, he fell asleep in Jesus. He went to his grave, "in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season." He departed this life to joiu the blessed company around the throne, " in... | |
 | 1853 - 642 pages
...stunning influence. LiUe Samuel, he was somewhat advanced in years, and may be said to have ' come to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season.' (Job v. 26.) Yet the period of life was not such as to suggest the idea of speedy... | |
 | 1854 - 652 pages
...behold the upright, the end ol that man is peace." As he lived, so he died, full of faith and hope: "he came to his grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in his season." \Vc shall conclude with Memoirs of AN EX-CAPUCHIN i Or, tíi't'nts (ij Mutlrru... | |
 | Oliver Alden Taylor - 1854 - 580 pages
...have dropped a few tears ; I trust they have been only a few, and those of resignation. The good man came to his grave ' in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in its season.' What an event your last announces ! Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Sears both dead ! They... | |
 | Timothy Alden Taylor - 1854 - 584 pages
...hare dropped a few tears; I trust they have been only a few, and those of resignation. The good man came to his grave ' in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in its season.' What an event your last announces ! Mr. and Mrs. Rowland Sears both dead ! They... | |
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... in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in its season ! " To this vigorous and animated delineation, I shall now add a few particulars from my own observation and reflection. 
