Thursday, August 21, 2008

101 Ways, Part 4: Entred Apon an Eternal Sabbath of Rest

For a brief intro to the "101 Ways to Say 'Died'" series, click here.

The Reverend Michael Wigglesworth of Malden is buried in the Bell Rock Burying Ground in Malden. His epitaph reads:
HERE LYES BURIED ye BODY OF
THAT FAITHFULL SERUANT OF
JESUS CHRIST ye REUEREND
MR MICHAEL WIGGLESWORTH
PASTOUR OF ye CHURCH OF CHRIST
AT MAULDEN YEARS WHO
FINNISHED HIS WORK AND ENTRED
APON AN ETERNAL SABBATH
OF REST ON ye LORDS DAY, IUNE
ye 10th 1705 IN ye 74th YEAR OF HIS AGE
HERE LIES INTERD IN SILENT GRAUE
BELOW MAULDENS PHYSICIAN
FOR SOUL AND BODY TWO
I hope that Rev. Wigglesworth enjoyed his work. Perhaps an eternal sabbath sounded good to him, but it seems deadly dull to me.

Unfortunately, Rev. Wigglesworth's beautiful stone, like many others in the Bell Rock Burying Ground, has been vandalized.

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