GEIGER -- Died, on Monday, 29th September,
1873, in the eighty-second year of her age, sis-
ter ELIZABETH GEIGER, relict of Jeremiah Geiger,
of Effingham county, Georgia. Two years ago
the husband was called to the rest that remain-
eth for the people of God, leaving a companion
with whom, for fifty-seven years, hand in hand,
he had climbed life's hill, to mourn his loss; and
now both sleep together at its foot.
  For fifty years did this mother in Israel toil in
the Master's vineyard, and the last lingering ray
of the sunset of life found her ready to testify,
that "it is good both to hope and wait patiently
for the salvation of the Lord." She now sleeps
with her loved ones in Jesus, awaiting the resur-
rection morn, when, with the crown of glory and
harp of rejoicing, they will sing His praise for-
ever. Far from a world of grief and sin, with
God eternally shut in, they now realize what
hope has so ardently longed for: bliss indescri-
bable, joy unspeakable, and the things that eye
hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor heart con-
ceived.
  Brought to the very verge of Jordan, she called
her son, Rev. W. L. Geiger, and his family,
around her, and calmly spoke of the approaching
moment of dissolution, when her joy would be
complete in the fulness of a Saviour's love. She
spoke of the loved ones gone before, and the
happiness she anticipated in the re-union, and
counseled them all to live near the Saviour.
Brother Rarefield, her pastor, and brother Cas-
sidy, her formed proster, were both present. She
requested service, the last she ever expected to
enjoy on earth. The echo of the sweet songs of
Zion had scarcely died in the stillness of the sick
chamber, ere angels came and conveyed our
mother that blissful place where her enrap-
tured ears drink in melody sweeter far than the
most plaintive notes of earth.
  When a testimony so assuring is left behind
that our loss is her eternal gain, we bow in hum-
ble submission and say, "Thy will be done;"
"Even so, Lord Jesus, come quickly;" "Blessed
are the dead who die in the Lord." We sorrow
not as those who have ho nope, but expect to
meet that sainted mother, and these glorified
loved ones, on the happy shore where there is
no death, no sorrowful partings nor anxious
hearts.                                R.