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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 25, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 31, No. 11.

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SISTER FISH.

By John Nevins Andrews

Sister M. F. Fish, better known to the readers of the Review as Sr. M. F. Maxson, sleeps in Jesus. Bro. Taylor has already given her obituary in the Review. But a few words further may not be out of place. Sr. F. was a sincere, true-hearted disciple of Christ. Her life gave most convincing proof of sincerity of purpose to be wholly the Lord's. Discouragement and adversity did not cause her to relinquish her earnest efforts to overcome. It was her lot to experience trials of unusual severity and anguish; yet she did not give up to despair, but earnestly sought to learn the lessons which the Lord was trying to teach her, and with humility to correct her own errors and faults.
It was to her peculiarly painful to break her former religious connections in order to embrace the present truth. Yet she did this under circumstances in which very few have the moral courage and singleness of heart to obey. Greatly do I regret that others who had the same powerful convictions of duty did not obey the teachings of the word and Spirit of God.
During the recent meeting at Adams Center, N. Y., I twice called on her. She was so far reduced by consumption that she could only speak in a whisper, or with a voice a little above it. But there could be no mistake that hers was the death-bed of a disciple of the Lord. Peace, heavenly serenity, and holy triumph were hers. She had the clear assurance that her sins were forgiven, and that her name was inscribed in the book of life. The world was beneath her feet, and Heaven with all its blessedness was before her face. The sleep of death, to those who share it, no longer in duration than the twinkling of an eye, was all that intervened between herself and the eternal weight of glory. When I bade her farewell, I felt in my heart that whatever might be my lot in the Judgment, she would surely be found at Christ's right hand.
May her life and death be sanctified to the eternal good of her husband, mother, sister, and brothers. J. N. ANDREWS.