Untitled article by P. C. RODMAN

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · September 3, 1867

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 12

Obituary Notices.

By P. C. RODMAN

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

DIED, of spinal disease, at Mendon, St. Joseph Co., Mich., Aug. 15, 1867, David R., son of Charles G., and Emily M. Langdon, aged 1 year three months and 1 day. Sweet is the consolation to his mourning friends that he will rise in the first resurrection. MARYETT LANGDON.

DIED, at New Shoreham, R. I., Aug. 17, 1867, Bro. Abraham Mott, in the 62d year of his age. Bro. M. commenced to serve God in 1858, was in the first and second messages, and embraced the third message about 1854, with several others, himself and wife keeping the first Sabbath, without knowing that any one else was going with them. But while engaged in keeping the first Sabbath they ever kept, Bro. S. Steadman, who was exercised on the subject, came in, and from encouragement from Bro. M. and wife, he and his wife kept the following Sabbath with them. From that time others embraced the truth until a church has been organized of nearly thirty members, who will deeply feel the loss of Bro. M. He had endeared himself to them by his consistent walk and good counsel. He leaves an only son, with his wife, to mourn the loss. May they with the church, by this affliction be led nearer the Lord. Bro. M.'s last hours were hours of mental conflict; but a short time before he died, he called his son and said, “I have obtained the victory,” shouting, “Glory to God.” The following lines were composed by him to be placed on his tombstone:

Farewell to all things here below, The call has come for me to go, I'll rest awhile beneath the sod, 'Till I shall hear the trump of God. I hope to join that happy throng, And help them sing the conqueror's song, O death! where is thy sting to-day, O grave! where is thy victory!

Remarks at the funeral by the writer, from 1 Thess. iv, 17. P. C. RODMAN.