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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 10, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 35, No. 21.

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Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
He has gone, but the promise is that he shall come again from the land of the enemy. While attending meetings in Battle Creek, I received, April 4, a telegram from home, stating that my child was very sick. I left on the night train for home, feeling confident he would not live. I arrived at home the 7th, and found my baby very sick with the canker-rash. It had settled on his lungs, and there was no help for him. We tried to relieve him from his pain and suffering, but could not until death came and tore him from our embrace and we were obliged to lay him away in the cold grave to rest until the last trump shall sound, and this mortal put on immortality, and the saying be brought to pass that is written, “Death is swallowed up in victory. How consoling the promise of God is in this time of affliction, “Refrain thy voice from weeping, and thine eyes from tears; for thy work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord, and they shall come again from the land of the enemy.” In the language of the poet we can say:
“We have laid him away in deep sadness. Yet not without hope in our breast; For again he will join us with gladness, And enter the heavenly rest. We shall greet him at home, we shall greet him, Where nothing can ever divide, Where sickness or death cannot harm him, Nor tear him again from our side.”
J. B. GOODRICH.
Hartland, Me., April 25, 1870.
Died, of scrofula, at Deerfield, Minn., March 14, 1870, Wilson B. Kelsey, son of C. and A. R. Kelsey, aged 8 years, 2 months, and 5 days. He bore his sickness with much patience, and, we trust, rests in hope. Funeral services by F. W. Morse. CALVIN KELSEY.