p. 176 | PROF. E. B. MILLER

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 13, 1900

PROF. E. B. MILLER

died of consumption, at Battle Creek, Mich., March 1, 1900. He was born in Carroll County, Ohio, Dec. 15, 1855, and removed with the family to Burlington, Mich., in 1862. He was baptized by Elder John Byington in 1869. He entered Battle Creek College on his eighteenth birthday; from which he was graduated in 1879, receiving the first degree ever granted by the college. He then taught in Battle Creek College until 1892. In the early part of 1893 he went to South Africa, and had charge of the college at Claremont until 1895, when he returned to America. He then taught in Walla Walla College until April, 1896; then went to Union College, College View, Neb., and was president of that institution until the close of the school year, 1897. On account of failing health, he then went to Colorado, and remained a year, when he returned to Union College, to teach; but on account of failing health, he was, in two weeks, obliged to cease work. He then went to Asheville, N. C., where his health seemed considerably to improve; and in June, 1899, he went to Boulder, Colo., with the expectation of being able to conduct a school for poor children unable to pay school rates; but, on account of still failing health, was obliged to surrender this design. The Monday preceding his death he returned to Battle Creek, where he died, as stated, Thursday, March 1. Sabbath, March 5, at 3 P. M., a large congregation of friends, in both college and church of Battle Creek, assembled in the Tabernacle, to attend the funeral services, which were conducted by Elder E. J. Hibbard.

We are sure that all the REVIEW family will be glad to read the news conveyed in the following words of Dr. D. H. Kress, taken from a private letter dated Nice, France, Feb. 20, 1900:—

“I understand that the report has gone forth: ‘An evil disease . . . cleaveth fast to him: and now that he lieth he shall rise no more.’ I am glad to inform you that, although death seemed to stare me in the face, God in mercy has granted me a new lease of life. I can see sufficient cause for all my sickness. . . . I have learned many valuable lessons the last two months. I have been compelled to take time to think. . . . The burden of my prayer has never been merely for health; but for a Christlike character, that I might be able to carry forward the work in the right spirit. Otherwise death was preferable. The fact that God is giving me health, gives me the assurance that he has heard my cry after waiting patiently for him.”