Untitled article by James White

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, March 24, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXXI, No. 15

DEATH OF SISTER HANNAH MORE.

By James White

THE following letter will truly be of painful interest to our readers. Sister More was known to the readers of the Review as a self-sacrificing, devoted servant of God, who embraced the Sabbath in her missionary field in Africa. We were pleased to enjoy a visit from her here in Battle Creek, and hoped she might remain with us for future usefulness. It was expected she would make her home with Bro. White, but Providence has determined otherwise; to its dispensation we bow, confident that she will not sleep long. While we mourn her loss, and hope to meet her in the coming resurrection morn, let us try to manifest the same spirit of self-denial, of cross-bearing, of enlarged Christian benevolence, that marked her life of toil and danger. We would express our thanks to Eld. Thompson for his kind remembrance of us in this our mutual affliction. J. H. W.

J. M. ALDRICH, BATTLE CREEK:

Dear Brother.—Many of your readers will be painfully interested in the following communication:

MISS HANNAH MORE, for many years a missionary to Africa, and known to many of your friends in Battle Creek and other places, came to visit me, last summer, as we had labored together for years in the same Mission in Africa.

She expected to have gone to live with Bro. White, of Greenville, but the arrangements were not concluded in time for her to leave before navigation closed, which shut us up for the winter. Of course, she could not leave, and remained in my family, hoping to go to Bro. White's in the spring; but the All-wise, who cannot err, had other things in store for Miss More—she has been called to a higher and more useful field.

Our winters here are long (5 to 6 months), and the doctor said she had not vitality enough to endure it. She was attacked with congestion of the stomach, from which she suffered much for a number of weeks in the night season—being about during the day—but for the last four days, she suffered night and day, very greatly, and died on Monday, March 2, at 1½ o'clock. She had her senses, and was not only willing, but anxious, to die, and go home; often prayed for this, with submission to the divine will; often exclaimed, “Let me go. Do not cling to me. Do not prolong my sufferings. O Lord, how long ere thou wilt come, and take me to thyself?” I preached her funeral sermon from, “Having a desire to depart, and be with Christ, which is far better;” words she repeated in her sickness, as expressive of her feelings.

All classes gathered at the funeral—Protestants, and Catholics, and she was decently buried in the Concord burying-ground, on the east side of Carp Lake, to await the resurrection morn (unless her friends should wish to come and get her body before). She was 59 years old, on the 22d of last November.

Her life has been one of toil and usefulness. Though I do not agree with Advent views, it will be of interest to your readers to know that she said, “In view of death, I find comfort in my principles, and believe Thou comest.”

Your brother in Christ, GEORGE THOMPSON. Leland, Leelanau Co., Mich.