. The Christian annual for the year of our lord ... he Sun, and con-Mi tinned its publication tmtLl 1876, when from failing healthIfi! h) was compelled to transfer it to other hands. His editorialSj workcoveroda fullquarterof a century, a longer period of sor-2= vice than any otherChristian minister has given to such work.!^l But the pastorate was not made a secondary matter whengj the editori;ilquiU was taken up. The latter work only sup-m\ plemented the former. From youtli to age Mr. Wellons was^j a preacher of Christ primarily. There was no time in which,aSj for the Churchs sake, ho would n
. The Christian annual for the year of our lord ... he Sun, and con-Mi tinned its publication tmtLl 1876, when from failing healthIfi! h) was compelled to transfer it to other hands. His editorialSj workcoveroda fullquarterof a century, a longer period of sor-2= vice than any otherChristian minister has given to such work.!^l But the pastorate was not made a secondary matter whengj the editori;ilquiU was taken up. The latter work only sup-m\ plemented the former. From youtli to age Mr. Wellons was^j a preacher of Christ primarily. There was no time in which,aSj for the Churchs sake, ho would not have lain aside theSi! editorial pen. Perhaps, had ho done so sooner, his valuable£J life might have been preserved longer. Four, and sometimesg! more churches were carried by him, while regularly issuingP| his paper. And these churches were well served. Visitations,Si funerals, marriages, supplemented the work of regularSi! preaching and periodic revival labors of great success. At^ Antioch Church in 1859, he baptized sixty-five candidates at. (UTT? CdTtMrt^ one time, and consumed only thirty-four minutes in the year before a gracious revival had swept through thesame church, the same number of candidates being baptizedHis Antioch Church now numbered 450 members. He hadhardly less happy results in his other churches. The laborsof Elder Wellons were abundant. Indeed, it is little wonderthat death came to him in what should have been the mitl-way of his official life. In 1876, in addition to his services aseditor and pastor, he was secretary of two temperance organi-zations, president of the Suffolk Collegiate Institute of hisown conference and of the General Convention, SouthThrough marriage, Mr. Wellons became a slaveholder,though it is the testimony of all that he was exceedinglykind to his servants. He had been educated to believe that the institution waslawful in the sight ofGod,though he keenly dejjlored many ofthe evil results thatflowed from the ownership of
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