« IT IS WITH DEEP SORROW THAT WE ARE called upon to record the death of one of our most valued fellow-laborers in the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and one of the few princely Christian merchants we have in our Alliance. We refer to Mr. Henry Conley., of Pittsburg, Pa., who passed away at his home in Pittsburg on Sabbath evening, July 25th, after a brief illness of only about a month. Indeed, he was only confined to his room about a week before the end. Mr. Conley was a business man of very high standing in Pittsburg, and a vast concourse of his fellow citizens gathered at his funeral to pay their last tribute of respect and affection to his memory. The funeral services were conducted at his home in Pittsburg by Rev. A, B. Simpson, Rev. Stephen Merritt, Rer. F. H. Senft and Rev. Dr. Witherspoon, of Pittsburg, who referred in appropriate terms to his high character and great usefulness.

Mr. Conley was an earnest and loyal member of the Alliance and one of the leading officers of the Pennsylvania Auxiliary. The remarkable progress which the Alliance work has made in this State during the past two years was largely due to his untiring labors and his wise and earnest counsels. He carried the spirit of business enterprise into his Christian work and did nothing by halves. He was one of the few Barnabases of the church and it is easier to supply a dozen preachers than one such whole-hearted Christ-filled business man. But God remains and He is equal to every need.

Mr. Conley’s heart was much in the work of home missions, and his spontaneous liberality has largely helped to keep in operation the blessed mission work which has been so successfully carried on by our Alliance friends in Pittshurg.

But his heart had also eaught the Master’s greater thought for the evangelization of the world. And he has been for many years in the very front of the great missionary movement. Many years ago he supplied the means for planting the present Alliance mission in Jerusalem, and he sustained Miss Dunn’s work up to the close of his life. He was a member of the Board of Managers of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. He has been from an early day one of the official Board of our late New York Missionary Training Institute and took the deepest interest in its welfare.

He leaves a wife, who has long been the sharer of his Christian hopes and plans, to take up the broken thread and finish his life and her’s. We are sure the blessed Master will both sustain and use her.

The inspiration of Mr. Conley’s life and the theme of his constant testimony was the coming of the Lord Jesus. As our loved ones leave us how earnestly we long for that blessed morn to break on the night of earth and time.

We are very sure that our beloved brethren in Pennsylvania will take up and carry on the work in their State with unslackened zeal, and that God will still prove that while He may bury the workers the work will still go on. » — Magazine : The christian and missionary alliance, August 4 1897, Editorials, page 132 § 7-13.