Untitled article by J. B. Goodrich; H. James Kittle

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, January 14, 1868

Obituary Notices.

By J. B. Goodrich; H. James Kittle

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

DIED, in Mercer, Me., Sept. 8, 1867, of typhoid fever, Matilda, wife of Elijah Blaisdell, aged 61 years. This faithful wife and mother was formerly a member of the Freewill Baptist church, with which she united at an early age. Within a few years prior to her death, she gradually lost her confidence in many of their traditions while the blessed hope of the coming of Christ and the resurrection of the dead were, from time to time, presented to her mind. For a few months previous to her death, her attention was called more particularly to the subject of the Sabbath. She often expressed her convictions that the seventh day was the true Sabbath, and her earnest desire to know and obey the truth in regard to it. Though on her death-bed she had to confess her lack of faithfulness to God many times in the past, yet she left an evidence that she will receive the crown of life when the Life-giver comes. May the Lord comfort the mourning husband, and sons, and daughters, with the hope of meeting in that world of which it has been said:

No shivering limbs, no burning fever there, No soul's eclipse, no winter of despair; But breezes ever fresh with love and truth, Shall brace the frame with an immortal youth.

Sermon by the writer, from 1 Thess. iv, 18. J. B. GOODRICH.

DIED, in Marshall, Clark Co., Ill., of dropsical disease medically termed aneurysm, Wm. Milner, infant son of H. James, and Rhoda Kittle, Dec. 15, 1867, aged one year 4 months and 8 days.

H. JAMES KITTLE.