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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, February 4, 1868

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 8

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Obituary Notices.

By C. O. TAYLOR; N. FULLER

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
DIED, in Adams Center, N. Y., Jan. 15, 1868, of consumption, Sr. Mary F. M. Fish, aged 24 years and 11 months.
At the age of 12, sister Mary gave her heart to the Saviour. When the tent came to this place in 1862, she became deeply interested in the Advent doctrine, and received it into her heart with joy. Since then, the saying of Jesus has been very applicable in her case, “She hath done what she could.”
About a year ago she took a severe cold, from which she never fully recovered. Her disease was lingering, giving her time to set her house in order, to dispose of her wordly interests, select hymns, bearers, text for funeral, &c. At times, during her last days, she suffered intense pain. It was then, as well as at other times, that she could appreciate the promises of God, and the smiles of the Saviour. Often she was heard to say, Blessed Jesus! blessed Jesus! How precious! he will not leave me now! She retained a humble trust in him till she closed her eyes in death, which enabled her to welcome this last enemy. She longed to sleep and be at rest. She had a clear view of the indignation that was coming, and chose for her text, Rev. xiv, 13. Calmly, and without a struggle or a groan, she breathed her last, trusting in Him, who is the life and the resurrection.
With sadness, and tears, did her widowed mother, husband, brother, and sister, with many kind friends, commit her to the dust, yet not without hope. No! thanks be to God! there is one that has the keys of death and the grave, and he has promised to those that believe in him, that though they are dead yet shall they live again. We believe sister Mary will live again.
We would shed our tears and offer our prayers for the living. Shall we be as faithful as she was, as calm in the hour of death, that it may be said of us, that we have died in the Lord? Mary will live beyond the weeping and the dying. Will those that love her here be there? Thank God, they may.
Sermon by the writer, assisted by Elder G. E. Tomlinson. C. O. TAYLOR.
DIED, in Genessee, Allegany Co., N. Y., Jan. 11, 1868, of typhoid fever, Betsy E. Simmons, aged 26 years. Sister Simmons embraced the third angel’s message three years ago under the labors of Bro. John Barrows, at Kinzua, Pa., and lived a faithful Christian to the time of her death. May this affliction be sanctified to the good of her relations, also to the church to which she belonged.
Funeral services by the writer. N. FULLER.