THE DEATH OF FRANK BOYDSTUN

With much sorrow I must inform you that our husband, father, grandfather, brother, pastor, and friend, Frank Boydstun has been called home by our Eternal Father to that glory beyond the grave. He passed away Tuesday evening about 10:45 pm, June 20, 2000 at 72 years of age. He had been in ill health for about three months with prostate cancer. He was admitted to the hospital last Wed and we thought he would be coming home this Friday as the doctors had started chemotherapy Tuesday afternoon. His final departure was very quick. The hospital called to say he had taken a turn for the worse, and before we could leave the house, they called back saying he was gone.

While it is great sorrow, greater than most we have known thus far, we do not sorrow as the world. While we will see his face no more, we will certainly join him at our blessed Saviour's side before too many more suns have passed. His race is finished, his battle concluded. Ours continues by God's Grace and for His Glory. God is still Our God, our heavenly Father works his will and our good, we are not abandoned nor adrift. Our hearts are more determined than ever to press to lay aside every weight and to fervently seek God's face until He be pleased to bless with the power and fullness of our salvation purchased with the precious blood of the only begotten Son of God. We encourage all those that have pleasure in the wondrous great works of God's grace to join us in seeking them out.

We do not believe in a God whose best efforts to glorify His own Great Name came and went in the first century, or in the reformation. With men it is impossible, but with God all things are possible. Father, glorify thy name!! Whatsoever you shall ask in my name, that will I do that the Father might be glorified in the Son. Father, glorify thy name, thy Son, thy truth, thy church, thy salvation. Let us not be content with one jot or tittle less than the fullness of the riches of the glory of the salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ. We do not ask for one whit more. Christ is our only merit.

We glady accept the Lord's gracious will, and endeavor to continue as God's faithful servants and witnesses to a lost and dying world.