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20
Month
January
Year
1845
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Public Domain
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Ann Arbor, Dec. 3, 1844. Mr. Editor: - Br. Henry Dwight, the subject of this brief memoir, was bom at Long Meadow, Mass, Dec. 27, 1811, and departed this life in the town of Scio, Sept. 28, 1844, aged 32 yenrs, 9 inonths, and 1 day. Blessed with religious parents, a susceptible heart, ai.d a reflective mind, Henry became early impressed with a sense of his depravity and sinfulness, and was painfully conscious of his unfitness for death, judgment and heaven. To be qualified for the Iatter, and prepareJ for ihe former, was the object of his occasional solicitude; and after some lengih of time spent in "callingupon the name of the Lord," the bright beams of the sun of righteousness dissipated his fears, and enabled him to rejoice in God his Savior, while "his peace flowedlike a river, and his righteousness was like the waves of the sea." Immediately brother Dwight connected himself with the E. Methodist Church, of which he continuec a faithful and respected member, untii July, 1843, when his sense of duty o God, and cherished millions induced him to withdraw from the church of his early choice, and unile with the Wesleyan Methodist Church of this State in which he continued beloved by all who knew him until his death. In the vigor of life Br. Dwight vas attacked with a malignant inflammation, which in one short week terminated his existence. To all who visited him he iave the most sotisfactory assurance of his faith ?n Christ, and evinced throughout the whole of his sickness, an unwavering reliance, on the wisdom of God, believing that he was ':too wise to err, and too good to be unkind." To his brother, Daniel Dwight, he repeatedly said, "My confidence in God is unshaken." "My foundation standeth sure." To his wife ie said, "God willbe a father to the chüdren, and a husband to you." Naomi Dwight, the only daughter of Br. and Sister Dwight, died August I9th. Sermón preached by the Rev. G. Beekey, of Ann Arbor, when was selected thosebeautiful words found in Job 19th, 21, "Have pity .upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends, for the hand of God hath touched me." Daughter and Fniher rest side by side in the house apiointed for all the living. "Redeemed from earth and pain, Ah! when shall we ascend, And all in Jesus' presence reign, With our translated friends."