Death of Ms. Mary King of Downpatrick

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Document ID 200429
Date 01-05-1860
Document Type Newspapers (Births, Deaths, Marriages)
Archive Wesley Historical Society
Citation Death of Ms. Mary King of Downpatrick;The Irish Evangelist, May 1, 1860, p.63; CMSIED 200429
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MISS MARY KING, OF DOWNPATRICK.

The subject of the following brief notice was born in
the parish of Inch, near Downpatrick.  Her parents
were members of the Established Church, and in attendance
upon its ordinances she was brought up.  In early youth,
she was deprived of a kind father, whose death brought
many changes to the family.  While but a girl, she
emigrated to America, to join a married sister, who had
gone out some years before, and who resided in the city
of Troy.  While living there, she was led, by the providence
of God, to attend the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, and it was not long until the clear teachings of
that Church began to tell upon her understanding and her
conscience....
Not long after her conversion her health failed, and, in a
while, confirmed disease was the result.  Having been in the
hands of the physicians for a long time, and growing nothing
better, but rather worse, she resolved on returning to her
native land.  In the meantime, her mother had been called
away to the world unseen, and the home to which she had so
anxiously looked forward during the voyage was nowhere to be
found.  After stopping for a time with her sister in Glasgow,
she came on a visit to her brother's at Carrickfergus....For
some weeks before her death she suffered a great deal; but,
by the grace of God, she never murmured, nor wished her
sufferings less... Trusting thus in the infinite merits of
Christ, Mary King, while yet young, passed away from a
suffering Church below to a reigning Church above, January
22, 1860.  Her remains were laid in the new cemetry at
Carrickfergus, according to the form and usage of the
Wesleyan Church, in joyful hope of the resurrection unto
everlasting life.
                                                    J.M.