Unknown County GaArchives Biographies.....Goss, Horatio J. 1786 - 1851
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Author: J. H. Campbell

HORATIO J. GOSS.

  It is matter of deep regret that so little can be gathered of the life and
labors of the excellent man, whose name stands at the head of this brief notice.
"What is our life? It is even as a shadow that appeareth for a little while and
then vanisheth away." But his name ought to be preserved, if for no other
reason, because he was the father of four excellent and useful ministers of the
gospel, viz: Benjamin, Isham H., William R., and Horatio J., Jr.

   The subject of this sketch was for many years one of the most prominent
citizens of Elbert county, Georgia, and for twenty years was deacon and clerk of
Sardis church. Late in life he was licensed to preach the gospel, and though not
fluent in speech, his great weight of character rendered impressive and
profitable whatever he said, for he always spoke according to the divine
oracles. He was remarkable for punctuality in all his religious and secular
engagements. He used the office of deacon well, and was thoroughly grounded and
settled in the faith and practice inculcated in the New Testament. He believed
in ministerial support, not as a charity, but as a duty, and ever proved his
faith by his works, in that he invariably paid his pastor liberally and
punctually, and prompted all around him to do the same. He departed in peace in
1851, and was supposed to be about sixty-five years of age. How greatly hath God
honored him, in having called four of his sons to the highest sphere of
usefulness assigned to mortals!


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GEORGIA BAPTISTS: HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL
BY
J. H. CAMPBELL,
PERRY, GEORGIA.


MACON, GA.: J. W. BURKE & COMPANY. 1874.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
J. H. CAMPBELL,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.


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