Obituary Notices by R. F. C.

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · BATTLE CREEK, MICH. · Jan 4, 1870

Obituary Notices.

By R. F. C.

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

DEATH has entered our circle. Our family chain of ten links is broken. The blow fell upon the fifth link, Sr. C. K. Rogers, of Wisconsin, a notice of whose death was published in the Review, of April 9, 1869, aged 60; the first being 70, and the tenth 47. Our parents have both been gone fifteen years. They both lived to see their youngest 30 years of age, their oldest 53. They taught us to fear God and keep his commandments, and to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, who died for sinners.

Our departed sister, it is hoped, sleeps in Jesus. If so, soon to awake and be forever with the Lord. Will our chain be entire, no link wanting, in the world to come? I fear not. We have all, at some time, professed our faith in Christ, and all, I believe, have been buried in the likeness of his death. But we have lived too much for self and the present world. Some have departed from right parental instruction and the holy commandment of God. One is a skeptic, if not a confirmed infidel. Others are skeptical concerning present truth. Disobedience and unbelief are twin brothers. They go hand in hand. And must our chain be severed by the second death, no more to be united? Have I done my duty to have it preserved? O God! it will be a miracle of mercy, if one so unworthy can be saved. R. F. C.