OBITUARY OF THE REV. J. H. CHEESEMAN
We extract the following notice of our departed brother
Cheeseman from the Liberia Herald. Brother Cheeseman was a
good man, a devout Christian, an able minister. In his death our
Mission sustained a great loss.
P.
“OBITUARY
“Mr. Herald — Suffer the indulgence of a few lines in your
columns, not to controvert, but rather to show respect to a departed
friend, in whose death I have lost a father, a brother, and a true
friend: he whose death I now lament is no other than our well
beloved brother, and distinguished fellow-citizen, the Rev. J. H.
Cheeseman.
“Affection catches the last look, friendship treasures up in
memory the last sentence. We cannot follow the spirits of those
who wing their flight to unknown worlds. But we like to descend
into the valley with them. We linger on the shore and weep,
anxiously watching their passage over the river. Such scenes are
opening to us now. On Sabbath, the 19th of June, if I am correct,
the Rev. John H. Cheeseman, Pastor of the Edina Baptist Church
attended the quarterly union meeting of the church of which he
was Pastor, which was held in the Township of Bexley, a
settlement on the St. John’s River, Grand Bassa County, where he
faithfully, as usual, expounded the doctrine of salvation, the hope
of mankind; in his sermon he was moved upon more and more, it is
said, by that Spirit that imparts life and energy to the man of God.
He at that meeting assisted in the administration of the Lord’s
Supper for the last time, he called to the memory of the Church the
language of the Saviour, ‘I will drink no more of the fruit of the
vine with you until it be fulfilled in the Kingdom of God.’ Notice
the language that impressed his mind, and the call from his work to
his reward. The indefatigable zeal and the Christian character of
my beloved Pastor, is too well known for me to here enlarge,
suffice it to say he lived a life devoted to his God, yea I feel
conscientious when I say, he walked with God, in prosperity, in
adversity, in sickness, and I do also say in death, he remembered
and trusted in the mercy of God. My acquaintance with brother
Cheeseman has been now for eight years, six of which I was under
his special care and enjoying his liberality, and I feel a deep sense
