PHILADELPHIA ASSOCIATION OBITUARIES 1946

 Adkins, Alice     It is with a sad heart and an unworthy feeling, but a glorious hope; I will try to write an obituary of my dear mother, Alice Adkins.  She was born September 30, 1874 and deceased this life April 4, 1946 being 72 years, 6 months and 5 days old at death.  She was the daughter of Charley and Malinda Fields.  She was united in marriage to Finas Adkins in the year of 1892, and unto this union was born eleven children, 6 girls and 5 boys.  Six of the children and her husband preceded her in death.  Five children and a host of grandchildren and friends are left to mourn her loss, but we feel that our loss is her gain.  Mother joined the Old Regular Baptist Church in the year of 1900, and lived a faithful and obedient life for 46 years. Without a stain against her life.  Mother was a faithful member to the church, always loved to fill her seat in the church.  I have heard her say many times that she felt and believed that the same God that pardoned her sins, also led her to the house of this Master’s brethren.  Mother was always subject to her husband and I feel that she fulfilled the commandments that are laid down in God’s word for mother to do.  Mother was always willing for father to go the church; for over 40 years she stayed by his side and took the burden on herself to spend many a lonesome day and night that he might go and preach as I feel the gospel of the Kingdom of God, and to warn sinners to flee the wrath to come.  The Bible teaches just one way that leads form this unfriendly works to that country where our Savior has gone.  I believe with all my heart that mother walked in that way for 45 years.  She had washed the saints’ feet, and brought up children; she lodged strangers, and done every good work, I believe when father died she became a widow indeed.  So I will say to all her children and grandchildren if you want to see mother and father again, you must be born again, for that is when put mother in that good old way.   They believed in walking by faith, not by sight.  So I don’t know where they are today but I do believe with all my hart their souls are under the altar of God and their bodies are moldering back in the dust from whence it was taken.  They are not altogether satisfied today but are waiting for the adoption. To with, the redemption of their bodies, in the windup of all things, when the last trumpet shall sound, when all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth.  It will be that same body of Finas and Alice Adkins, because this mortal body of mother and not something else must put on immortality it was the natural body that was buried in the grave, and nothing else is in there to come out.  But god has power to make it the same things, a spiritual body; and children you that have this hope will know mother and father there and will hear them sing again with a song they cold not sing here.  I believe they fought a good fight-they kept the faith.  And Paul says there is a crown laid up for them.  If in this life only we have hope, we would be of all men most miserable.  The bible says, “Blessed are they that die din the Lords, yea, henceforth saith the spirit they rest from their labor and their works do follow them.”  So children, the ad ice and the counsel, and warning that father and mother gave you while here will come to you while they are sleeping that long sleep of rest.  So farewell one and all.  Yours in hope of seeing mother and father again the resurrection of the dead.

Elder James Adkins