Jones County NcArchives Obituaries.....Wyes, Rev. Selby H. 1821
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Carolina Centinel
1 Dec 1821

Communicated

Died on the 19th inst. at the seat of Mr. Edwin Becton, Jones County, the Rev. 
Selby H. Wyes, aged about 43.

Mr. Wyes was a gracious and useful man. He was a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church and freely gave himself up to seek and save perishing 
sinners. Though not regularly attached to the traveling connexion, he had been 
a laborious itenerant Preacher nearly three years. His ministry was not 
without seals in New River; and in Raleigh Circuit, his meekness, love, 
prayers, tears, sermons and exhortations will not soon be forgotten. He wanted 
no appeal from labor, danger, or suffering. His willing soul said with 
Isaiah, "Here am I, send me," and, when struggling with the king of terrors in 
the arms of death, his supreme desires appear to have been, "to recommend his 
Saviour to others and to make a speedy believing application to him for safety 
and happiness." As he lived, so he died, a Christian, in full expectation of a 
blessed immortality.

"Far from a world of toil and stife,
He's present with the Lord,
The labors of his mortal live,
End in a rich reward."


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