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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 9, 1871

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, in Georgetown, Ottawa Co., Mich., April 4, 1871, of quick consumption, Bro. Martin F. Spear in the forty-fifth year of his age.

Bro. Spear embraced the present truth about two years ago under the labors of Eld. I. D. Van Horn. We believe he sleeps in Jesus awaiting a glorious resurrection when the Lifegiver shall appear.

ADOLPHUS SMITH,

DIED, at Pilot Grove, Iowa, April 2, 1871, my dear mother, Sarah Nicola, wife of Jacob Nicola, in the sixtieth year of her age. Mother embraced religion about thirty years ago, and lived up to all the light she then had. About ten years since, she heard and embraced the third angel’s message. From that time until her death she was a firm believer in the near coming of the Lord to wake the sleeping saints and change the living to immortality. She had been a sufferer for a number of years before her death, but bore her affliction with patience and Christian fortitude, and gave good evidence that her peace was made with God, and that she will have a part in the first resurrection. She leaves a kind husband, a large family of children, and many friends, to mourn her loss; but they mourn not as those that have no hope.

May he (my dear father) who feels this stroke heavier than any other one, be sustained by God’s Holy Spirit and led fully to seek an interest in the atoning blood of Christ, and he and all the children make preparation to meet mother in the resurrection morning, that we may be an unbroken family in that bright world where death never can come.

HENRY NICOLA.