{"id":24422,"date":"2025-03-11T23:32:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T23:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=24422"},"modified":"2025-03-11T23:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T23:33:17","slug":"the-life-and-death-of-rebecca-archer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/03\/the-life-and-death-of-rebecca-archer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life And Death Of Rebecca Archer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Earthen Vessel 1913:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rebecca, the beloved wife of the late William Archer (pastor at South Acton Tabernacle), was called to her eternal rest March 13<sup>th<\/sup>, 1913, in her 89<sup>th<\/sup> year, after a long illness patiently borne. She was brought to know the Lord very early in life through the faithfulness of her day-school governess, and baptized by Mr. Kendall, of Chadwell Heath, Essex, where she was a member until her marriage, when, with her husband, she joined the Church at Little Alie-street in about 1854, and never had her name removed. Almost her last words were, \u201cUnderneath are the everlasting arms.\u201d She was laid to rest, \u201cin sure and certain hope of a glorious resurrection,\u201d at Highgate Cemetery, on Tuesday, March 18<sup>th<\/sup>. Her son and two daughters mourn the loss of a greatly-beloved mother, though to her it is \u201cjoy unspeakable and full of glory.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"24422\" 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>Rebecca, the beloved wife of the late William Archer (pastor at South Acton Tabernacle), was called to her eternal rest March 13th, 1913, in her 89th year, after a long illness patiently borne. She was brought to know the Lord very early in life through the faithfulness of her day-school governess, and baptized by Mr. Kendall, of Chadwell Heath, Essex, where she was a member until her marriage, when, with her husband, she joined the Church at Little Alie-street in about 1854, and never had her name removed. Almost her last words were, \u201cUnderneath are the everlasting arms.\u201d She was laid to rest, \u201cin sure and certain hope of a glorious resurrection,\u201d at Highgate Cemetery, on Tuesday, March 18th. Her son and two daughters mourn the loss of a greatly-beloved mother, though to her it is \u201cjoy unspeakable and full of glory.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":562,"featured_media":24421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1814],"tags":[1232],"class_list":["post-24422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rebecca-archer","tag-baptist-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24422","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\/562"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24423,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24422\/revisions\/24423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}