OBITUARY

DIED, on the 2d inst. in the town of Wallkill, Orange County, N.Y. in 
consequence of a fall down the cellar-way, MRS. NANCY STITT, wife of elder John 
Stitt, (with whom she had lived about sixty years,) in the 87th year of her age.

In the death of Mrs. S. we may record the departure of a mother of Israel.  For 
the long period of seventy years, she has been a consistent professor of 
religion, in connection with the Associate Reformed Church.  During the few last 
years of her life, she was a cripple, in consequence of an injury received by a 
fall--she also manifested no small degree of imbecility of mind, yes, so much 
so, that at times she did not even recognize her own children.  But although 
thus deformed and enfeebled both in body and mind, yet on the subject of 
religion she was always at home, and seized it with a vigorous grasp.  It 
awakened no small degree of sympathy, to see her hobbling along through the 
house, and to hear her talk with child-like simplicity, on ordinary topics, but 
all these infirmities were lost sight of when hearing her speak on the subject 
of religion with her usual energy and propriety--"the frailties of the woman 
were scarcely noticed, amidst the majesty of the saint."  When asked if she knew 
the Lord Jesus Christ, she instantly brightened up, and for the time being would 
resume her wonted earnestness, and reply with warmth "O yes!  should I not know 
my Saviour!  Why, it he whom I trust for salvation -- and should I not know him?  
I know in whom I have believed, and that he is able to keep that which I have 
committed to him against that day."  O for such a hope both to the writer and 
reader--then let our persons be comely or deformed--our minds strong or feeble--
our days many or few--our spirits are then prepared for holier and happier 
regions, and our bodies may be given to the worms.