Obituary Notices by Uriah Smith

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 3, 1865

Obituary Notices.

By Uriah Smith

DIED in Rochester, N. Y., Sept. 24, 1865, of dysentery, after an illness of a little over three weeks, Carrie Matilda, infant daughter of J. N. and A. S. Andrews, aged 1 year and 1 month.

Thus do our tendorest flowers decay, They wither in a little hour, Thus the destroyer day by day, Takes our dear treasures in his power.

But high o'er all the Saviour reigns, He hears each mourner's plaintive cry. He views each death-scene and its pains, He marks his jewels where they lie.

And he who once, in tenderest tone, Called children to his arms and blest, Bids us behold his great white throne, And set our aching hearts at rest.

I will, says he, their Saviour be, Of death's dark realm I hold the key. U. S.