{"id":814,"date":"2015-01-06T11:29:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T16:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/?p=814"},"modified":"2015-01-09T10:42:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T15:42:04","slug":"the-funeral-of-sally-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/?p=814","title":{"rendered":"The Funeral of Sally Chase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Free Will Baptist Historical Collection came into possession of a rare \u00a0booklet titled,\u00a0<em>A Sermon, Preached at the Funeral of Sally Chase.<\/em> The sermon was preached by \u201cElder H.D. Buzzell\u201d and is dated July 26, 1818. This booklet is among the older\u00a0Randall Free-Will Baptist publications.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It is all the more important because Buzzell was one of the early\u00a0leaders\u00a0of the Free Will Baptist movement\u00a0in New England. Consider that 1818 was not even 40 years after the northern movement of the\u00a0denomination was founded.<\/p>\n<p>The sermon was based on Revelation 14:13, \u00a0\u201cselected by our deceased sister, to be spoken upon at her funeral.\u201d At one point Buzzell illustrates the blessedness of those who die in the Lord by referring to Mrs. Chase\u2019s own passing:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The language of our deceased sister was like unto this.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>With a composed mind, she bid her husband and children<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Farewell, saying that she felt as much pleasure in giving him<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The parting hand, as she did when she took it at the time of\u00a0marriage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>O! what consolation this must be to this mourning circle!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Think carefully about this observation of Buzzell\u2019s: &#8220;When a Christian overtakes death, he finds a prize a little beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>About the Writer: Mary Wisehart served many years as chairman of the Free Will Baptist Historical Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Free Will Baptist Historical Collection came into possession of a rare \u00a0booklet titled,\u00a0A Sermon, Preached at the Funeral of Sally Chase. The sermon was preached by \u201cElder H.D. Buzzell\u201d and is dated July 26, 1818. This booklet is among the older\u00a0Randall Free-Will Baptist publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fwbhistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}