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Monday, October 11, 2021

God bless you, my brother

God bless you, my brother, and crown your remaining days with great usefulness. May the “everlasting arms” be underneath you, and when called from labor to the rest that remaineth, may you know by blessed experience how much better it is to depart and be with Christ.

Excerpt of a letter from J. M. Pendleton to J. R. Graves, dated April 2, 1880 on the occasion of Graves’s upcoming 60th birthday, April 10, 1880. The Baptist, Memphis, Tenn., April 17, 1880, Vol. XXXVI, No. 44, p. 697.

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