Newton-Fulton County GaArchives Obituaries.....ROGERS, Mr. John W. May 20, 1892
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The Georgia Enterprise, May 26, 1892
MR. JNO. W. ROGERS DEAD
     Mr. John W. ROGERS died on last Friday morning, the 20th inst., at the 
home of his niece, Mrs. Dr. I. ?. HOPKINS, in Atlanta, with whom he was living. 
On Saturday morning, his body was brought to Oxford, Ga., for interment.
     He had been in feeble and gradually failing health for quite a number of 
years, and his death was not unexpected, his life going out apparently as 
quietly and peacefully as the shadows of night fade and go out in the light of 
a new day.
     He was born in Morgan County, Ga., about sixty-five years ago, moved to 
Covington soon after the war, and resided here until some six or seven years 
ago when he moved to Atlanta where he died.
     He was well known not only in Covington, but throughout Newton County, as 
an unassuming, courteous, intelligent gentleman; but was best known by his 
daily walk and earnest work, as a pure and faithful Christian, the genuineness 
of whose piety, no one ever questioned.
     For many years he was Superintendent of the Covington Methodist Sunday 
School, and no man ever gave heart, mind and soul, more devoted, more wholly, 
more prayerfully, with an eye single to the salvation of man and the glory of 
God, than did he.
     One great supreme aim and objective in life, he seemed to have, to be good 
and do good.
     From the day he __ ___ ___ ____ of religion and joined the church, he 
lived his religion every day of the week, and every day of the year, and every 
day of his life. His religion was no show, to be put on and off at will, or to 
suit circumstances, occasions or convenience; but it was part and parcel of his 
personality, going with him wherever he went and entered into all he said and 
did.
     From a worldly standpoint, his life may be said to have been a failure, as 
he acquired none of its wealth, nor gained none of its applause and attained 
none of its positions of trust, or power or honor. But that life is not a 
failure which has been spent for the betterment of mankind, spent in the 
service of the Master, and ever held ready to be given up cheerfully at the 
Master’s call. The beauty and influence of such a life lingers in the memory 
and lives in the heart of men a sweet benediction, long years after the life 
has gone out and the living and moving body of flesh has turned to dust beneath 
the green mound. He laid up his treasures in heaven and they will be his when 
the world burns down, making him rich throughout the eternal beyond.
     With his father and his mother, he sweetly sleeps; and with them he will 
awake on that morn which will know no night, and into that life which will know 
no death.


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