Wayne County NcArchives Obituaries.....Slocumb, John C. December 14, 1881
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Raleigh Christian Advocate
In Memoriam - The following action was had at the last Quarterly Conference of 
Goldsboro Station, M. E. Church South, in reference to the death of Brother John 
C. Slocumb. A prince in Israel has fallen. We mourn the death of a brother, 
honored and beloved, whose devotion to God and His Church, whose strong and 
unswerving faith in His word and Providence, whose spotless character and 
peaceful death attest the sanctifying and saving power of the gospel, and 
bequeath to the Church of which he was for more than forty years a "burning and 
shining light," a legacy which we gratefully cherish and an example worthy of our 
imitation; and Whereas it has pleased the Divine Ruler of the Universe to remove 
from our midst, from our official board and from the Church militant to the 
Church triumphant, our well beloved brother, John C. Slocumb, therefore,

Resolved, That by the death of Bro. Slocumb, this official body and the Methodist 
Church at Goldsboro have lost one of it oldest, most zealous and pious members, 
that we as a body deeply deplore this sad dispensation of Providence, feeling 
that his place can never be filled, that we cherish for him in death, so we did 
in life, the fond memory of a well beloved friend and brother, humbly praying 
that the God of our Israel may raise up an Elisha to wear the mantle of our 
ascended Elijah.

Resolved, That we tender the bereaved family our heart felt sympathies in their 
great loss, praying that his strong faith and pure life, his fervent zeal and 
distinguished piety may stimulate them and us to greater usefulness and that the 
recollection of his oft radiant face and exultant shout of praise in the 
sanctuary may be indelibly impressed upon their hearts and ours, and bid them and 
us follow him as he followed Christ and that in the end they may be a family 
unbroken in "that house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."

Resolved, That a copy of this preamble and these resolutions be furnished the 
Raleigh Christian Advocate and the Methodist Advance for publication, that they 
form a part of the minutes of the Quarterly Conference, and that a copy be 
suitably engrossed and furnished the stricken family.

J. F. Miller
W. M. Robey
E. B. Borden
Committee


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