{"id":23848,"date":"2024-12-29T23:35:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T23:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=23848"},"modified":"2024-12-29T23:35:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T23:35:56","slug":"the-life-and-death-of-william-styles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2024\/12\/the-life-and-death-of-william-styles\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life And Death Of William Styles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Earthen Vessel 1914:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Late Pastor William Jeyes Styles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yet another honored minister of our denomination and former editor of this Magazine has been called to rest. Our friend and brother, Mr. Styles, departed to be for ever with the Lord on Wednesday evening, May 6th. He had been laid aside from active service for several years in a condition of increasing weakness, and for many weeks had been confined to bed, so that the end was not unexpected. While the removal of one whom we have known and highly esteemed for so many years casts a shadow over us, we cannot but rejoice that God&#8217;s weary servant has entered the Father&#8217;s home on high.<\/p>\n<p>We express our warm sympathy with Mrs. Styles in her sad bereavement.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"23848\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another honored minister of our denomination and former editor of this Magazine has been called to rest. Our friend and brother, Mr. Styles, departed to be for ever with the Lord on Wednesday evening, May 6th. He had been laid aside from active service for several years in a condition of increasing weakness, and for many weeks had been confined to bed, so that the end was not unexpected. While the removal of one whom we have known and highly esteemed for so many years casts a shadow over us, we cannot but rejoice that God&#8217;s weary servant has entered the Father&#8217;s home on high.<\/p>\n<p>We express our warm sympathy with Mrs. Styles in her sad bereavement.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":13447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1183],"tags":[1232,1226],"class_list":["post-23848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-styles","tag-baptist-history","tag-gospel-preachers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23849,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23848\/revisions\/23849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}