p. 103 | Obituary Notices

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 28, 1866

Obituary Notices.

By A. S. HUTCHINS; A. C. BOURDEAU; H. MAIN

DIED, in Enosburgh, Vt., July 31, 1866, sister Caroline Sophia Saxby, wife of George Saxby, in the 29th year of her age. With our dear sister, the sun of life set at noonday. She fell while attending to some of the closing duties of a very hard day's work. A strange and sudden illness came upon her; she started toward her husband, but fell helpless into his arms, exclaiming as she fell, “George, I am dying; the Lord have mercy upon me! He will, I know he will!” These were her last words.

In less than one hour, that form so active through the day, was cold and silent. The busy scenes of the day were exchanged for the stillness of the night of death. The bereft husband, four orphan children, the broken-hearted parents, and other friends, mourn their irreparable loss together.

But two dear and only brothers, were not there. Elders A. C. and D. T. Bourdeau, whose hearts were cemented to the heart of this their only sister, by a thousand tender ties of love and affection, and the mutual hope of eternal life. No, these faithful servants of God, far from home in the harvest field of the Lord, must mourn their heavy loss a great distance from parents and companions dear.

But praise the Most High, for the morning cometh when they will meet the loved one, to part no more. Death, the last enemy, will be destroyed, and the saints will ascend to meet their coming Lord.

Sister S., and some of her friends had for some weeks, had an impression that she would not live long. Her death is supposed to have been occasioned by heating the blood with over-labor, which enraged a lingering disease of the system, and resulted in mortification of the brain.

I reached the place from my home, Aug. 2nd, just in time to speak some word of comfort to the mourning friends, and to a large congregation, convened at the S. D. A. meeting-house, at W. Enosburgh, from the words, “And the dead in Christ shall rise first.”

A. S. HUTCHINS.

DIED, in Knoxville, Marion Co., Iowa, June 30, 1866, Bro. John R. Topping, aged 76 years. He had been a firm believer in the third angel's message, and died in bright hope of eternal life when the Lord shall come to call forth the sleeping dead.

A. C. BOURDEAU.

DIED, in Brookfield, N. Y., July 1, 1866, Charlie H., son of B. and A. Hestler, aged 20 years. He and his brother were in the pond bathing, when he went to the bottom, and the friends with torches and hooks, after two hours' search, took him from that watery grave. Bro. C. was a member of the S. D. A. church in Brookfield, and was punctual at meeting, and ready to speak, pray, and sing. He has left a good evidence that he will rise in the morning of the first resurrection. But the church mourn, and feel that they have sustained a great loss; and a father and mother, broken-hearted, have resolved to consecrate themselves anew to the service of the Lord, and meet their beloved son when the Life-giver shall come.

H. MAIN.