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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 26, 1867

Obituary Notices.

By Eldridge G. Rust; D. T. Bourdeau

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

FELL asleep, in Winfield, Montcalm Co., Mich., on the morning of Dec. 26, 1866, our youngest brother, Henry C. Rust, aged 15 years 3 months and 24 days.

He suffered the most excruciating pain for the two first weeks of his illness. He lingered three weeks and four days,—disease, rheumatic fever and neuralgia.

His trust was firm in God to the last. He was baptized last July by Bro. Byington, and always bore a cheerful part in our prayer and conference meetings. We believe his spirit was acceptable in the sight of God. He was loved and esteemed by all who knew him. Bro. Loughborough preached his funeral sermon, Jan. 22, at 2 P. M. Words in 1 Pet. 1, 3. He spoke of the Christian's hope to the comfort of his aged mother, brothers and sisters. We have full confidence of meeting him in the resurrection morn if we are only faithful. May the Lord give us all sufficient grace. ELDRIDGE G. RUST.

DIED, at Mechanicville, Iowa, Jan. 28, 1867, Sarah B. Mitchell, wife of G. W. Mitchell, aged 52 years, 3 months and 9 days.

Sister Mitchell embraced the advent doctrine in 1843, and the Sabbath in 1852. The second coming of Christ and the glorious resurrection were consoling themes to her, especially in affliction. When suffering from severe pain, she would pray for relief; and when relief came, she would thank and praise God for his goodness. She was a kind and tender companion, and conscientiously tried to train up her children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. A short time before she died, she told her companion to tell the brethren and sisters she had been a faithful mortal, but that her work was done, and that she would come up in the first resurrection. She also wished him to bid them all farewell for her.

The funeral sermon was preached by the writer, at the house of the deceased, to a large and attentive congregation, from these consoling words: "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them." Rev. xiv, 13.

While we were paying our last tribute of respect to our sister, our mind reverted back to our first meeting at Lisbon, which she attended, and in which she was triumphant in the Lord. At that meeting she told us to remember her dear children; who at the funeral manifested true filial affection for their kind mother. May they and her dear companion remember her Christian counsels to them, and so live out the truth, that they may unite with her in the glorious, immortal state. D. T. BOURDEAU.