Obituary Notices by Mrs. H. West; A. K. Crosby; N. Orcutt; R. F. Andrews; John Norton Loughborough

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 10, 1868

Obituary Notices.

By Mrs. H. West; A. K. Crosby; N. Orcutt; R. F. Andrews; John Norton Loughborough

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.

DIED, December 23, 1867, in Brush Creek, Highland Co., Ohio, in the eighty-first year of his age, my beloved husband, Hugh West, after a short, distressing, and rather mysterious, illness of about two weeks. He leaves a wife and five children to mourn his loss. He had observed the Sabbath for over eight years previous to his death, having taken the Advent Review eight or nine years, and procured about fifty different books and tracts from the Office. He had been a minister of the gospel about thirty-eight years, and was esteemed by all those who had an opportunity of becoming the best acquainted with him, as a man of honest, upright character, and one who was trying to live a Christian life. MRS. H. WEST.

DIED, in Rose, Oakland Co., Mich., at the house of A. K. Crosby, Sept. 24, 1867, of consumption, Bro. Lyman L. Loomis, aged 36 years, 4 months, and twenty days. Bro. Loomis had been a firm believer in the truth thirteen years. He came from Stowe, Vt., and was baptized last July, by Bro. Joseph Bates, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist church at Holly. He died far from his family connections, but we trust among Christian friends. Bro. Loomis truly lived out what he professed, and we expect to meet him in the morning of the first resurrection.

“Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep, From which none ever wake to weep, A calm and undisturbed repose, Unbroken by the last of foes. Asleep in Jesus, far from thee Thy kindred and their graves may be, But there is still a blessed sleep, From which none ever wake to weep.” A. K. CROSBY.

DIED, at Jamaica, Vt., Sept. 13, 1867, Nellie Emma, only child of Bro. C. N. and Sr. E. E. Pike, aged 1 year and 7 months.

Bro. and Sr. Pike deeply feel this affliction, it being the second time, within about three years, that an only child has fallen beneath the power of the last enemy. But they “sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.”

Funeral services Feb. 15, 1868. Remarks by the writer from Rev. xxi, 4, “There shall be no more death.” N. ORCUTT.

DIED, at Mauston, Feb. 13, 1868, Fanny C., wife of Bro. J. F. Rogers, aged 49 years 11 months and 13 days. Sister Rogers embraced the truth eleven years ago. She leaves a husband and eight children to mourn her loss. God grant that they all may live so as to meet her in the kingdom of God. She was perfectly resigned to the will of God. Before her death she selected Rev. xiv, 13, as a text for the discourse at her funeral; and we have ample reason for believing that she is one of the characters spoken of in the text. I spoke to a large congregation in the Methodist meet-house in Mauston on the occasion.

“Asleep in Jesus! oh! how sweet To be for such a slumber meet! With holy confidence to rest In hope of being ever blest.” E. F. ANDREWS.

DIED, in Eaton Rapids township, Mich., Feb. 21, 1868, of dropsy, sister S. Kelley, aged 57 years. Sister Kelley has professed faith in Christ about 37 years; was for a number of years a member of the Baptist church. Some eight years since she heard Bro. Bates in a series of meetings in their neighborhood, and since that time has kept the Sabbath. She lived a consistent Christian and died in bright hope of a resurrection to eternal life. A discourse was given by the writer to her friends, and an attentive audience, March 1st, from 2 Cor. i, 3–5. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.