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OBITUARY NOTICE OP CHRISTIAN UFI^,. 



Mullis ilk bonis Jfebilis occidil 

 Nulli flebiiior quam mihi. 



Died, on the 13th ult., Christian Uhl, a member of Pennsylvania 

 College, in the 25th year of his age. Mr. Uhl was from Millersburg, 

 Holmes county, Ohio, and entered the Institution a few years ago with 

 the design of qualifying himself for the christian ministry. He had 

 nearly completed Sophomore studies, and was looking forward wills 

 bright prospects to the future, when death suddenly mariied him as his 

 victim, and snatched him from our midst. Although every thing M'as 

 done for his recovery that either friendship or affection could prompt, 

 disease batHed all effort and seemed only to laugh at the medical skill 

 employed. The poignancy of death v/as, however, overcame by a 

 sweet reliance upon Him in whom he had trusted for salvation. He felt 

 liis confidence unshakeff in prospect of the eternal world, and peacefully 

 closed his eyes upon the earth with the sustaining hope of awaking pn 

 the morning of the resurrection to a glorious and blissful immortality. 

 Sensible of his approaching end, he was perfectly resigned to the Divine 

 will, and was permitted to bear the clearest and most decided testimony 

 to the preciousness of Christ and his Gospel. 



On the succeeding day his mortal remains were borne to the grave, 

 accompanied by his classmates and fellow-students, his instructors, and 

 a large concourse of citizens, all anxious to show the last tribute of re- 

 spect to the memory of one who was highly esteemed in life. The ex- 

 ercises connected with the funeral, were exceedingly solemn and affect- 

 ing. An impressive and appropriate discourse was pronounced in the 

 College church by President Krauth, from the words, '•'■It /.,? tJic Lord;'''' 

 in which the speaker, after referring to the many virtues of the deceased, 

 ■urged his hearers to lay to heart the solemn lessons addressed to them 

 on the mournful occasion; to remember their own mortality, and pre- 

 pare to meet their God. 



Mr. Uhl possessed, in an eminent degree, those excellencies which 

 generally secure esteem. His kindness of heart, his amiability, his frank- 

 ness and freedom from all guile commanded the respect and won the 

 affections of all who knew him. His piety seemed deeply seated in the 

 heart : it was uniform and not mere impulse ; a reality and not simply a 

 name. Without any display he strove to walk in the statutes and ordi- 

 nances of the Lord blameless. Fieligion appeared in him to predominate 

 as a controlling agency, and was not confined in its operations to favor- 

 able junctures or circumstances : its steady light shone forth at all sea- 

 sons and in all places. His moral worth, amiable qualities, his exem- 

 plary deportment and christian fidelity, the interest which he manifested 

 for the advancement of piety in the Institution, and the extension of 

 Christ's kingdom at large, will long be remembered with pleasure and 

 cherished in affectionate regard. 



Whilst we condole with the distant parents and distressed relatives of our de- 

 ceased fiiend, we unite with them in rendering thanks to Almighty God, that he 

 was sustained in the trying hour by the all-powerful consolations of religion, and 

 met with a peaceful and triumphant end. May the lesson here taught us be blessed 

 to our spiritual improv ement — sanctified to our eternal good. May we realize that 

 we too are rapidly hastening to the tomb and that ere long we also must join the 

 congregation of the dead. 



