The already feeble band of Seventh-day Baptist ministers has been rendered still smaller by the death of Elder Hiram Cornwell. After a very brief illness - only one week - he finished his course, on Thursday, the 24th ult., triumphing over the fear of death through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. His age was fifty-eight years and a few days.
At the time of his death, our brother was preaching in the Second Genesee Church, and was highly appreciated by that body. He did not live there, however; his home was in the town of Bolivar, some eight miles from his place of pastoral labor. Having been for many years enfeebled in health, riding so great a distance every week, and returning home to give the necessary superintendence to his temporal affairs, rendered his work very arduous. Yet he performed it cheerfully, to the full extent of his ability. The church he was serving has suffered a great loss; nevertheless, we hope it will be remembered by the bereaved body, that Christ still lives, and has "received gifts for men, that the Lord God might dwell among them."
The funeral exercises, attended by a large assembly, were conducted at the meeting-house of the First Genesee Church, on the Sabbath following his decease, by Elders Andrus, H. P. Green, H. P. Burdick, and Brown. Discourse by the latter, founded on 2 Tim. 2: 1-8. The death of our brother is mourned by a widow and several children of mature age, one of whom is a worthy minister of the Gospel in our denomination, and Principal of the Brookfield Academy.
T. B. B.
