The Gospel Messenger, November 16, 1886, pages 708 & 709:
A CHRISTIAN DIES!
ELD. S. T. BOSSERMAN
In the spring of 1876 it was my fortune to become a citizen of the town of Dunkirk, O., and to be brought into social and business relationship with this good man, Bro. Bosserman. As he was engaged in the general merchandise of hardware, I was employed as his book keeper, and held that position for a number of years, and in this way I became thoroughly acquainted with his every-day life.
It was no extraordinary occurrence, when he was passing on the street, and some fellow-townsman was escorting a stranger, to hear the familiar remark, “There goes a Christian and a business man, and he is both every day.”
He was brought up on a farm, and had but little opportunity for mental culture, outside of a common, country school education. He started in business about twenty years ago, and was the leader in his line of trade until his late illness.
Possessing exalted qualities of mind, being studious, energetic and hopeful, and having a noble purpose, he gained many friends, and had but few, if any, enemies. He was affable in manner, genial in disposition and generous to a fault. I often heard the remark, “I do not believe he has an enemy.”
As the Dunkirk Standard says, “He was truly a business man, and a Christian, whose sole aim in life was to do what he could to make the sun shine brighter for all with whom he came in contact, his pleasant smile and cheerful voice being known alike to rich and poor, high and low. He was a friend to everybody, and surely there is no man who will say aught of his memory, except to render words of praise for his many acts of kindness. Of his home life there is no necessity for many words, considering, as he did, that home should be held as the most sacred place on earth. Being fond of reading, he trained his children in the same habit, to which three libraries in his house, and the intelligence of his older children, bear evidence. It can surely be said that he was a kind and indulgent husband and father.”
S. T. Bosserman was a son of Daniel and Anna Bosserman, and departed for the City with gates of pearl at about the age of forty-four years. He leaves two sons, one daughter, an amiable wife and many relatives and friends to mourn his early departure, but he did more work in his short pilgrimage, than many at the age of sixty, and we meekly bow and “kiss the rod,” and say, with him, “Thy will, O God, be done!”
He joined the church of the German Baptist Brethren at about the age of nineteen. He has since been connected with the Eagle Creek congregation, near Dunkirk, Ohio. He was chosen to the ministry in his thirty-second year, and after having labored in that capacity four or five years, was installed into the office of elder, holding this responsible position until his death.
“He preached in the Eagle Creek church until the church in Dunkirk, which was erected mainly by his own efforts, was completed and dedicated in September, 1881. Since that time he supplied the pulpit in that church until he was compelled to quit active church work by reason of bad health.”
He did considerable evangelistic work for several years, and many are the souls that have been led to accept Christ as their Savior through his pathetic appeals and practical reasoning. Many were the Macedonian calls which he could not heed.
He was an earnest and faithful advocate of pure church literature, and has contributed interesting articles to our church journals for many years. He will be missed from our ranks, but his works follow him.
He suffered since the fall of ’83, from hemorrhage of the bronchia, and spent the winter of 1884 in Florida, but returned in the spring, very little improved in his health, and yet with hopes that he might recover.
In the late spring of 1886, he had a severe hemorrhage which left him quite feeble, so from that time he has almost continually been confined to his house, growing weaker day by day.
A letter from his sister, who witnessed his last hours, says, “He said to me a short time before his death, ‘I have enjoyed much happiness, during my long illness;’ and to his mother, the same day of his decease, ‘I am glad that I am prepared to die.’ “
On Friday, Oct. 15, 1886, at about 4 P.M., he had a hard attack of coughing, but was too weak to expectorate, and at once knew his end was near. He was conscious to the final moment, and after giving a few instructions about his business, and bidding all the last good-bye, he began to pray, closing his life with the sentence of the First Martyr, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
The funeral obsequies were attended by a thousand people, on the following Sabbath afternoon, at the Eagle Creek church, Eld. Levi Dickey officiating, and the one esteemed by all, was laid away, at 5 P.M., in the family plot, on the south side of Sharon, his eldest son, to await the bidding of his Master, “Come forth and come hither! Thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make thee a ruler over many; enter thou into the joys of thy Lord.”
And as that vast concourse of people retired from the cemetery, I conceive the universal verdict to have been, “Surely a good man has passed away;” “May my last end be like his!”
I trust that these few hasty sentences of unqualified esteem by one who has intimately associated with the deceased, may not be misunderstood, and the Lord will comfort the bereaved.
W.C. Teeter.
Sidney, Neb.
A CHRISTIAN DIES!
ELD. S. T. BOSSERMAN
In the spring of 1876 it was my fortune to become a citizen of the town of Dunkirk, O., and to be brought into social and business relationship with this good man, Bro. Bosserman. As he was engaged in the general merchandise of hardware, I was employed as his book keeper, and held that position for a number of years, and in this way I became thoroughly acquainted with his every-day life.
It was no extraordinary occurrence, when he was passing on the street, and some fellow-townsman was escorting a stranger, to hear the familiar remark, “There goes a Christian and a business man, and he is both every day.”
He was brought up on a farm, and had but little opportunity for mental culture, outside of a common, country school education. He started in business about twenty years ago, and was the leader in his line of trade until his late illness.
Possessing exalted qualities of mind, being studious, energetic and hopeful, and having a noble purpose, he gained many friends, and had but few, if any, enemies. He was affable in manner, genial in disposition and generous to a fault. I often heard the remark, “I do not believe he has an enemy.”
As the Dunkirk Standard says, “He was truly a business man, and a Christian, whose sole aim in life was to do what he could to make the sun shine brighter for all with whom he came in contact, his pleasant smile and cheerful voice being known alike to rich and poor, high and low. He was a friend to everybody, and surely there is no man who will say aught of his memory, except to render words of praise for his many acts of kindness. Of his home life there is no necessity for many words, considering, as he did, that home should be held as the most sacred place on earth. Being fond of reading, he trained his children in the same habit, to which three libraries in his house, and the intelligence of his older children, bear evidence. It can surely be said that he was a kind and indulgent husband and father.”
S. T. Bosserman was a son of Daniel and Anna Bosserman, and departed for the City with gates of pearl at about the age of forty-four years. He leaves two sons, one daughter, an amiable wife and many relatives and friends to mourn his early departure, but he did more work in his short pilgrimage, than many at the age of sixty, and we meekly bow and “kiss the rod,” and say, with him, “Thy will, O God, be done!”
He joined the church of the German Baptist Brethren at about the age of nineteen. He has since been connected with the Eagle Creek congregation, near Dunkirk, Ohio. He was chosen to the ministry in his thirty-second year, and after having labored in that capacity four or five years, was installed into the office of elder, holding this responsible position until his death.
“He preached in the Eagle Creek church until the church in Dunkirk, which was erected mainly by his own efforts, was completed and dedicated in September, 1881. Since that time he supplied the pulpit in that church until he was compelled to quit active church work by reason of bad health.”
He did considerable evangelistic work for several years, and many are the souls that have been led to accept Christ as their Savior through his pathetic appeals and practical reasoning. Many were the Macedonian calls which he could not heed.
He was an earnest and faithful advocate of pure church literature, and has contributed interesting articles to our church journals for many years. He will be missed from our ranks, but his works follow him.
He suffered since the fall of ’83, from hemorrhage of the bronchia, and spent the winter of 1884 in Florida, but returned in the spring, very little improved in his health, and yet with hopes that he might recover.
In the late spring of 1886, he had a severe hemorrhage which left him quite feeble, so from that time he has almost continually been confined to his house, growing weaker day by day.
A letter from his sister, who witnessed his last hours, says, “He said to me a short time before his death, ‘I have enjoyed much happiness, during my long illness;’ and to his mother, the same day of his decease, ‘I am glad that I am prepared to die.’ “
On Friday, Oct. 15, 1886, at about 4 P.M., he had a hard attack of coughing, but was too weak to expectorate, and at once knew his end was near. He was conscious to the final moment, and after giving a few instructions about his business, and bidding all the last good-bye, he began to pray, closing his life with the sentence of the First Martyr, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
The funeral obsequies were attended by a thousand people, on the following Sabbath afternoon, at the Eagle Creek church, Eld. Levi Dickey officiating, and the one esteemed by all, was laid away, at 5 P.M., in the family plot, on the south side of Sharon, his eldest son, to await the bidding of his Master, “Come forth and come hither! Thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make thee a ruler over many; enter thou into the joys of thy Lord.”
And as that vast concourse of people retired from the cemetery, I conceive the universal verdict to have been, “Surely a good man has passed away;” “May my last end be like his!”
I trust that these few hasty sentences of unqualified esteem by one who has intimately associated with the deceased, may not be misunderstood, and the Lord will comfort the bereaved.
W.C. Teeter.
Sidney, Neb.
The Gospel Messenger, November 16, 1886, pages 708 & 709:
A CHRISTIAN DIES!
ELD. S. T. BOSSERMAN
In the spring of 1876 it was my fortune to become a citizen of the town of Dunkirk, O., and to be brought into social and business relationship with this good man, Bro. Bosserman. As he was engaged in the general merchandise of hardware, I was employed as his book keeper, and held that position for a number of years, and in this way I became thoroughly acquainted with his every-day life.
It was no extraordinary occurrence, when he was passing on the street, and some fellow-townsman was escorting a stranger, to hear the familiar remark, “There goes a Christian and a business man, and he is both every day.”
He was brought up on a farm, and had but little opportunity for mental culture, outside of a common, country school education. He started in business about twenty years ago, and was the leader in his line of trade until his late illness.
Possessing exalted qualities of mind, being studious, energetic and hopeful, and having a noble purpose, he gained many friends, and had but few, if any, enemies. He was affable in manner, genial in disposition and generous to a fault. I often heard the remark, “I do not believe he has an enemy.”
As the Dunkirk Standard says, “He was truly a business man, and a Christian, whose sole aim in life was to do what he could to make the sun shine brighter for all with whom he came in contact, his pleasant smile and cheerful voice being known alike to rich and poor, high and low. He was a friend to everybody, and surely there is no man who will say aught of his memory, except to render words of praise for his many acts of kindness. Of his home life there is no necessity for many words, considering, as he did, that home should be held as the most sacred place on earth. Being fond of reading, he trained his children in the same habit, to which three libraries in his house, and the intelligence of his older children, bear evidence. It can surely be said that he was a kind and indulgent husband and father.”
S. T. Bosserman was a son of Daniel and Anna Bosserman, and departed for the City with gates of pearl at about the age of forty-four years. He leaves two sons, one daughter, an amiable wife and many relatives and friends to mourn his early departure, but he did more work in his short pilgrimage, than many at the age of sixty, and we meekly bow and “kiss the rod,” and say, with him, “Thy will, O God, be done!”
He joined the church of the German Baptist Brethren at about the age of nineteen. He has since been connected with the Eagle Creek congregation, near Dunkirk, Ohio. He was chosen to the ministry in his thirty-second year, and after having labored in that capacity four or five years, was installed into the office of elder, holding this responsible position until his death.
“He preached in the Eagle Creek church until the church in Dunkirk, which was erected mainly by his own efforts, was completed and dedicated in September, 1881. Since that time he supplied the pulpit in that church until he was compelled to quit active church work by reason of bad health.”
He did considerable evangelistic work for several years, and many are the souls that have been led to accept Christ as their Savior through his pathetic appeals and practical reasoning. Many were the Macedonian calls which he could not heed.
He was an earnest and faithful advocate of pure church literature, and has contributed interesting articles to our church journals for many years. He will be missed from our ranks, but his works follow him.
He suffered since the fall of ’83, from hemorrhage of the bronchia, and spent the winter of 1884 in Florida, but returned in the spring, very little improved in his health, and yet with hopes that he might recover.
In the late spring of 1886, he had a severe hemorrhage which left him quite feeble, so from that time he has almost continually been confined to his house, growing weaker day by day.
A letter from his sister, who witnessed his last hours, says, “He said to me a short time before his death, ‘I have enjoyed much happiness, during my long illness;’ and to his mother, the same day of his decease, ‘I am glad that I am prepared to die.’ “
On Friday, Oct. 15, 1886, at about 4 P.M., he had a hard attack of coughing, but was too weak to expectorate, and at once knew his end was near. He was conscious to the final moment, and after giving a few instructions about his business, and bidding all the last good-bye, he began to pray, closing his life with the sentence of the First Martyr, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
The funeral obsequies were attended by a thousand people, on the following Sabbath afternoon, at the Eagle Creek church, Eld. Levi Dickey officiating, and the one esteemed by all, was laid away, at 5 P.M., in the family plot, on the south side of Sharon, his eldest son, to await the bidding of his Master, “Come forth and come hither! Thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make thee a ruler over many; enter thou into the joys of thy Lord.”
And as that vast concourse of people retired from the cemetery, I conceive the universal verdict to have been, “Surely a good man has passed away;” “May my last end be like his!”
I trust that these few hasty sentences of unqualified esteem by one who has intimately associated with the deceased, may not be misunderstood, and the Lord will comfort the bereaved.
W.C. Teeter.
Sidney, Neb.
A CHRISTIAN DIES!
ELD. S. T. BOSSERMAN
In the spring of 1876 it was my fortune to become a citizen of the town of Dunkirk, O., and to be brought into social and business relationship with this good man, Bro. Bosserman. As he was engaged in the general merchandise of hardware, I was employed as his book keeper, and held that position for a number of years, and in this way I became thoroughly acquainted with his every-day life.
It was no extraordinary occurrence, when he was passing on the street, and some fellow-townsman was escorting a stranger, to hear the familiar remark, “There goes a Christian and a business man, and he is both every day.”
He was brought up on a farm, and had but little opportunity for mental culture, outside of a common, country school education. He started in business about twenty years ago, and was the leader in his line of trade until his late illness.
Possessing exalted qualities of mind, being studious, energetic and hopeful, and having a noble purpose, he gained many friends, and had but few, if any, enemies. He was affable in manner, genial in disposition and generous to a fault. I often heard the remark, “I do not believe he has an enemy.”
As the Dunkirk Standard says, “He was truly a business man, and a Christian, whose sole aim in life was to do what he could to make the sun shine brighter for all with whom he came in contact, his pleasant smile and cheerful voice being known alike to rich and poor, high and low. He was a friend to everybody, and surely there is no man who will say aught of his memory, except to render words of praise for his many acts of kindness. Of his home life there is no necessity for many words, considering, as he did, that home should be held as the most sacred place on earth. Being fond of reading, he trained his children in the same habit, to which three libraries in his house, and the intelligence of his older children, bear evidence. It can surely be said that he was a kind and indulgent husband and father.”
S. T. Bosserman was a son of Daniel and Anna Bosserman, and departed for the City with gates of pearl at about the age of forty-four years. He leaves two sons, one daughter, an amiable wife and many relatives and friends to mourn his early departure, but he did more work in his short pilgrimage, than many at the age of sixty, and we meekly bow and “kiss the rod,” and say, with him, “Thy will, O God, be done!”
He joined the church of the German Baptist Brethren at about the age of nineteen. He has since been connected with the Eagle Creek congregation, near Dunkirk, Ohio. He was chosen to the ministry in his thirty-second year, and after having labored in that capacity four or five years, was installed into the office of elder, holding this responsible position until his death.
“He preached in the Eagle Creek church until the church in Dunkirk, which was erected mainly by his own efforts, was completed and dedicated in September, 1881. Since that time he supplied the pulpit in that church until he was compelled to quit active church work by reason of bad health.”
He did considerable evangelistic work for several years, and many are the souls that have been led to accept Christ as their Savior through his pathetic appeals and practical reasoning. Many were the Macedonian calls which he could not heed.
He was an earnest and faithful advocate of pure church literature, and has contributed interesting articles to our church journals for many years. He will be missed from our ranks, but his works follow him.
He suffered since the fall of ’83, from hemorrhage of the bronchia, and spent the winter of 1884 in Florida, but returned in the spring, very little improved in his health, and yet with hopes that he might recover.
In the late spring of 1886, he had a severe hemorrhage which left him quite feeble, so from that time he has almost continually been confined to his house, growing weaker day by day.
A letter from his sister, who witnessed his last hours, says, “He said to me a short time before his death, ‘I have enjoyed much happiness, during my long illness;’ and to his mother, the same day of his decease, ‘I am glad that I am prepared to die.’ “
On Friday, Oct. 15, 1886, at about 4 P.M., he had a hard attack of coughing, but was too weak to expectorate, and at once knew his end was near. He was conscious to the final moment, and after giving a few instructions about his business, and bidding all the last good-bye, he began to pray, closing his life with the sentence of the First Martyr, “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!”
The funeral obsequies were attended by a thousand people, on the following Sabbath afternoon, at the Eagle Creek church, Eld. Levi Dickey officiating, and the one esteemed by all, was laid away, at 5 P.M., in the family plot, on the south side of Sharon, his eldest son, to await the bidding of his Master, “Come forth and come hither! Thou hast been faithful over a few things; I will make thee a ruler over many; enter thou into the joys of thy Lord.”
And as that vast concourse of people retired from the cemetery, I conceive the universal verdict to have been, “Surely a good man has passed away;” “May my last end be like his!”
I trust that these few hasty sentences of unqualified esteem by one who has intimately associated with the deceased, may not be misunderstood, and the Lord will comfort the bereaved.
W.C. Teeter.
Sidney, Neb.
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