In Waterford, Ct., Nov. 20th, Elder Lester T. Rogers, after an illness of several weeks, during which he exemplified in a most striking and pleasing manner the power and blessedness of that faith which he had professed, and for the defense of which he had for many years, with great fidelity and constancy, discharged the duties of a Minister of the Gospel and Pastor of the Seventh-day Baptist Church in Waterford, where he was born, and where he was his father's successor as Pastor of the same church. Elder Rogers had served the Church at Waterford uninterruptedly for twenty-seven years, and died at the age of fifty-two. The meekness, patience, constancy, fidelity, and piety, for which he was indeed remarkable, occasion a degree of mourning on account of his death that is quite unusual, and which is calculated to enlist our sympathies in favor of his bereaved companion and family, and a sorrowing Church. For, whether we contemplate our departed brother as a husband, a father, a pastor, or a Christian citizen, he had just those qualities, and that demeanor, which were calculated to give rise to and perpetuate a very peculiar and strong attachment and feeling of affection. But since Elder Rogers rests from his labors, let the afflicted be comforted, and find in God a reparation of all the loss they suffer in the death of a husband, a father, or a shepherd of the flock. L. C.
