. Zion's landmark [serial].. ad been corresponding by lettterfor a number of years (as her mother wasa poor scribe,) not many weeks passingbetween our letters. She never failed to give words of cheerand consolation repeating the promisesmade by the Blessed Savior to those of hispeople who were tried by sorrow and Af-fliction with the consolations where-withshe had herself been comforted. Somefour years before her decease her healthbegan to fail, and finally had so far deran-ged her nervous system that on Christmasday I887 her mental faculties also be-came deranged notwithstanding the good-ness
. Zion's landmark [serial].. ad been corresponding by lettterfor a number of years (as her mother wasa poor scribe,) not many weeks passingbetween our letters. She never failed to give words of cheerand consolation repeating the promisesmade by the Blessed Savior to those of hispeople who were tried by sorrow and Af-fliction with the consolations where-withshe had herself been comforted. Somefour years before her decease her healthbegan to fail, and finally had so far deran-ged her nervous system that on Christmasday I887 her mental faculties also be-came deranged notwithstanding the good-ness and mercy of the Lord was stillmanifest in that, that while the fleshly ornatural mind was so wrecked, lie bes-stowed upon her a double portion of hisspirit, so that much of the time her wholetheme was of heaven and heavenly Paul she seemed to be caught up tothe third Heaven, and saw things most un-lawful to tell. But she would speak ofa view of its glories and beauties andgrandeur and that she saw friends there. ying the rapturous bliss in,n such ecstatic strains thatamazed. By persuasionand friends her mother sentTanoplis to the Hospital for four months trcat-Tt she was brought home, her mindhaving gained its normal state. AlthoughConsumption that dread disease had ef-fected a permanent hold on her vitals,from which she suffered much almost oneyear, yet she did notmurmur nor complain,but would seem cheerful and kept her mind and was conscious untilher last moments. She talked to her broth-er the morning before she died, tellinghim they had not long to live togetherin this world, and she hoped they wouldmeet in that better world of perpetualbliss and enjoyment. —Jan. 17,1889, Mr. J. and Miss. E. Anna Raw Is, atthe residence of the brides mother,Franklin Va , by P. D. Gold. Married— Jan. I7, I889, Mr. JosephF. Green and Miss Geneva A. Long,at the residence of the brides mother,in Edgecombe Co. N. C., by P. D. G
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