. Raleigh Christian Advocate: organ of the North Carolina Conference, Church, South. erCity, N. C. Brother Snipps wai more than anordinary man. He was good and truein the true sense. Being the son ofa faithful man and minister. Snipes, he was trained in thelove and fear of God. and for the 75years thiough which he lived, he wastrue to this training. He was faithful and affectionate in his home and family. This we wit ness in the fervent devotion of a true wife, for whom he never failed to furnish ample protection and com fort, and in the useful, honorable lives of each of his chil
. Raleigh Christian Advocate: organ of the North Carolina Conference, Church, South. erCity, N. C. Brother Snipps wai more than anordinary man. He was good and truein the true sense. Being the son ofa faithful man and minister. Snipes, he was trained in thelove and fear of God. and for the 75years thiough which he lived, he wastrue to this training. He was faithful and affectionate in his home and family. This we wit ness in the fervent devotion of a true wife, for whom he never failed to furnish ample protection and com fort, and in the useful, honorable lives of each of his children. In every instance, the grandehildren also, true to the record of parents and grand-parents, are converted and enter early into the Methodist church. He was a devout man, and one that feared C»od with all his house, the welcome at every meal. Christ was the head of his house, the silent Hstner in ev^^ry eonversation. It is nor. a wonder his children are in the ministry. His manner was that of the meekwho inherit the earth, his spirit wasthat of those who inherit the king-. Mrs. Mariah T. Nunnally, relict of the late J. W. Nunnally, was born 184:L and died October 29th, 1900, in her 58th year. At the age of 15 3 ears, just as girlhood in its simplicity was merging into that larger and grander | ^A n-^ J.,S„TiS5 field of usefulness, womanhool, she j .o^n^,i,q,Am»Ict»ii gave her young heart and life, with all their possibilities, to her Master, and, for nearly forty-three years, by and through her earnest life and words, both in her home and church, she attested her loyalty to the church «d her choice and has shown the closeness of her walk with her Savior,in that she was ever ready to minis-ter unto the wants of the needy, andtii the aflflicted. How often her gentletouch soothed pain, and words spokenfrom a sympathetic heart have oftencomforted those in distress. Truly,her life of usefulness for good in herMasters service shall live here amongus, though God, in
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