Butts County GaArchives News.....Oak Hill Sabbath School May  1887
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Middle Ga Argus

Oak Hill Sabbath School


Oak Hill Sabbath School – Death in its solemnity invades our school, for the 
first time. Sine its organization, A. D. 1883, and has taken from us our 
brother, Ashbury Roberts.  He was a bright jewel in the Sabbath school, and a 
precious boy in the home circle.

Never was he known to murmur or complain of any duty imposed upon him either by 
his parents or friends.  We fondly hoped to have enjoyed his companionship for 
many years yet; but alas! The messenger came, and he was not for us; God took 
him.

He now rests in the silent grave; yes, little Azzie is gone.  He has left us, 
and the chain in our school is broken.  We are but left to bemoan the loss we 
now sustain; that of a brother, a companion and a friend.  But our loss is his 
eternal gain.  The aged die, the young are cut down in the bloom of youth.  
While this is the case, we cannot perceive why it is that our loved ones are 
thus torn from us.  But we know that it is the providence of the Wise Ruler, 
the Supreme, Most High.  Therefore, we wait in meek submission, awaiting the 
unveiling of the Spirit land.

A light is from our household gone,
A voice we loved is stilled,
A place is vacant ‘round our hearth
That never can be filled

A gentle heart that throbbed but now
With all its tenderness love,
Has hushed its beating here
To dwell in bliss above.
We call him dead, but O, we know
He dwells where living waters flow.

Resolved, That we tender to the bereft family our sincere and heart felt 
sympathy in the hours of their lamentations.  We will not invade the family 
circle and tear away the veil that conceals their bleeding hearts.  We know 
they weep, but we bid them weep not as those who have no hope.  Father, mother, 
sister, brother, we fully sympathize with you in your hours of suffering, but 
would bid you look to the Sprit land where death is felt and feared no more. 

 It is further:  Resolved that these resolutions be placed upon the minutes of 
the record book, and a blank page be dedicated to our deceased brother and copy 
furnished the family of the deceased; also a copy be furnished the Middle 
Georgia Argus for publication.

Respectfully submitted. Committee, C. L. Maddux Ch’m’m, Robert Thomas, W.E. 
Maddux

Middle Ga Argus - Week of May 1887




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