p. 70 | Obituary Notices by J. H. WAGGONER

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 15, 1867

Obituary Notices.

By J. H. WAGGONER

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. Rev. xiv, 13.

Sister Sarah Jane Magley was born in Cayuga Co., N. Y., March 30, 1815, and died in Tuscola, Mich., Dec. 27, 1866.

Sister Magley first made a profession of religion in February last, when Bro. Van Horn and Canright held meetings in Tuscola village, since which time she has lived an exemplary Christian life, enjoying the confidence of her brethren and sisters. Her death was very sudden. On Tuesday evening she was present, the last meeting I held in Tuscola, enjoying ordinary health, and was struck with palsy about 2 o'clock of that night; she lingered until 10 o'clock Thursday morning. She never spoke after the shock. She leaves eight children, mostly grown up, two of them being united with her in the blessed hope. It is the earnest prayer of many that the sorrowing ones may turn to the Saviour, and prepare to meet their mother in joy when Jesus appears.

I took up part of my appointments in Centerville to attend the funeral, on Sabbath, the 29th. Our modest house of worship was closely filled with attentive listeners, to whom I presented some of the reasons of “the blessed hope;” and although we felt bereaved, ours was not a hopeless sorrow; we felt to thank our God, the God of grace, who comforts us in our affliction. J. H. WAGGONER.