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Dit. Miles A. Wilson.—The New River District, and especially the little flock at Bell Spring of which he was the shepherd, suffered a sad bereavement on the 4th inst., in the death, by paralysis, of Dr. Miles A. Wilson, in the sixty-sixth year of his age, and the fiftieth of his baptism into Christ. Through all these fifty years no man, in our horizon, strove more earnestly to commend himself to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. To this end he ignored every religious peculiarity as a ground of Christian fellowship, and every affix to the sacred name by which he sought to be called as schismatic in its unvarying effect. Laboring most earnestly for the union of all Christians in what simply makes the Christian, and at the same time the one body, animated by the one spirit and hope; loyal to the one Lord Jesus Christ in that faith which only purifies the heart and prepares it for the one baptism into the one God and Father of all who is above all and through all and in us all. One would think by the fellowship he inspired, only bounded by the extent and intimacy of his acquaintances, that he incorporated the fourth chapter of Ephesians in his daily oblations. But, oh, how sad the absence of his lonely youngest child, who, thank God, has inherited the name of her sainted mother, and I trust, the faith and firmness of her sainted father and mother. How sad her absence from the bedside of her dying father, the result of an accident which prevented her from grasping the hand which had so tenderly led the motherless child from infancy—or even the sad privilege of pressing the clay cold lips, the highest inspiration of her life; -hid away some ten miles from his home and from where he expected to be buried. C.
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Richmond Missionary Weekly
Richmond, Virginia, US
Thu, Mar 07, 1889
Page 7
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