John A. Langworthy was born Dec. 27, 1799, in Stonington, Conn., and passed peacefully to his heavenly home July 26, 1894, at his late residence in Little Genesee, N. Y. Seldom is it given to any to attain so advanced an age. Born in the evening of the last century, he lived to see his ninety-fifth year, retaining as he did to a remarkable degree his mental and physical powers. At the age of sixteen he became a subject of redeeming grace, and was thus enabled to spend the larger part of a long life in God's service.
In the year 1836 he removed from Connecticut to Little Genesee, and united by letter in 1838 with the First Genesee Church. Always interested in whatever concerns the kingdom of God on earth he loved the truth, loved God's people and loved the church. His love for the church he possessed to an eminent degree to the last, when finally compelled by infirmities to remain at home he felt such absence from God's home to be a privation. He loved the Sabbath and lived in the enjoyment of God's favor most richly. When the writer first saw him, less than a year ago, he was deeply and delightfully impressed with the manifest beauty of his old age. Surely he must have inherited the promise of length of days, for length of days such as his under the manifest blessing of God is most desirable.
The final failure of his powers was sudden, and when the summons came, attended by the ministrations of a loving wife and daughter, he quietly fell asleep in Jesus. Like Enoch, he is not, for God has taken him. Beautiful was his Christian character in life, and beautiful was his translation. The funeral was held July 29th, conducted by his pastor and attended by a large concourse of friends, many of whom came from a distance. The text was Psa. 116: 15.
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