Obituary of Brother John Byler

John Byler died at his residence in Adams Co., Ill., on the morning of Feb. 12, 1875. Bro. Byler was born in Hawkins Co., East Tennessee, April 29, 1798, and emigrated to Illinois in the fall of 1836, taking with him a letter from the Regular Baptist Church. He was in the constitution of the Little Flock Church, and has been a consistent member of the Regular Baptists over fifty years, never suffering his seat in the house of the Lord to be vacant, unless providentially hindered. He was respected by all who knew him, as an upright man, always ready to lend a helping hand to the cause of God, and to suffering humanity. He died in the full triumphs of living faith, leaving a bereaved family, which consists of a second companion, by whom he had no issue, three sons and four daughters. Truly the church is bereft of one of her best members, both in counsel and financially. May his mantle fall upon his sons, that his seat may not be left entirely vacant. A funeral discourse was delivered by the unworthy writer, on the day following (the 13th) at his late residence, to an unusually large and very attentive congregation, from Rev. 14:13. May God's promise rest upon bereaved friends, "I will be a father to the fatherless, and the widow's God and husband" is the prayer of an unworthy laborer in the vineyard of his divine Master.

CYRUS HUMPHREY.

The above obituary was taken from Signs of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 6,
March 15, 1875, page 71.

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