Dea.
SIMMONS LAWS Dea.SIMMONS LAWS. He came to the States with his parents when fifteen years old ,settled in the Ridge .He married there, and moved to Yaphank ,where he kept a tavern in an old structure that stood west of his more recent residence . To the day of his decease he was a senior
elder and deacon in the Presbyterian Church ,and quite
ecclesiastically famous . Dea .Laws was a pious man , but ignorance often caused him to grope in darkness .He was arbitrary and self -willed, and blindly grasped for wordly goods .Like many emplary Christians, he carried the world in one hand and God's word in the other . His besetting sin was an inborn love for money; but that peculiar failing is as in the " Broad Road " and is not generally declared a " very bad fault." Mr.Laws lived to a ripe old age ,and
calmly sank to sleep . He left many mourning friends
behind him, and a breach that has never been filled. It
was a lovely winter day when his remains were lowered to
their long , long rest; but at the last trump his face
will beam from beyond the setting sun , and he will be
judged with his fathers . |