Rockdale County GaArchives Obituaries.....Hollingsworth, Miss Orrie July 2, 1886
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The Solid South, July 17, 1886
IN MEMORIAM
     There is nothing that gives a more impressive sense of the beautiful than 
the spectacle of feminine virtue under the sanctifying influence of Christian 
principle.
     Miss Orrie Hollingsworth entered into rest after a brief illness, July 2, 
1886.
     In early girlhood she gave her heart to the Savior, and united with the 
Presbyterian Church at Smyrna. Miss Orrie spent her life in the community in 
which she was born, beloved by all as a lady of incorruptible principle, 
sterling worth, and died honored and esteemed by everyone, leaving the heritage 
of a good name, fragrant as ointment poured forth. Modest and retiring in 
disposition, she served the Master humbly and unobtrusively, adorning the 
doctrine of God, our Savior, with a meek and gentle spirit. Kindness 
characterized her intercourse with her friends whom she impressed as a lady of 
earnest piety. Her home life exemplified the power of grace and beauty of that 
charity which “thinketh no evil, but rejoiceth in the truth.” She ever 
manifested a deep interest in all that pertained to the advancement of Christ’s 
kingdom. she loved the Sunday School, encouraged the young men’s prayer 
meeting, which was well pleasing in the sight of her Redeemer. She “finished 
her course” and calmly fell asleep in Jesus. While we cannot but mourn the loss 
of an earnest soldier of the cross, let us comfort our hearts with the 
assurance that “if Christ died and rose again, even so _____ also which sleep 
in Jesus will god bring with him. Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord 
from henceforth; yes, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors 
and their works do follow them.”
“Why lament the Christian dying?
Why indulge the tears or gloom?
Calmly on the Lord relying.
He can greet the opening tomb.”
Smyrna, July 6th, 1886, J. A. C.


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