Obituary Notices | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 22, 1868

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, in Shabbona, Ill., at the close of the lovely Sabbath, Aug. 29, 1868, our beloved brother James Dickey, aged 70 years, in the blessed hope of a glorious immortality. As he sat conversing, without a moment's warning, he fell to the floor, and was taken up dead.

Bro. D. embraced religion at an early age, and joined the Baptist church, of which he was a worthy and active member for many years. He was an earnest seeker after truth, and was one of the first here to commence the observance of the Sabbath as brought to light in the fulfillment of prophecy, with all its kindred truths. This is the first time death has entered our little company, and oh! how little we thought we could spare him; but the Lord's thoughts are not as our thoughts, nor his ways as our ways, but we should say, The Lord gave and he hath taken away, and blessed be his holy name.

He leaves an only daughter, and a large circle of friends to mourn, but they sorrow not as those without hope; for he came down to the grave like a shock of corn fully ripe in its season. May the mantle of his love and kindness fall upon his surviving friends.

“Peaceful thy slumber! oh! sweet thy repose! Safe from life's turmoils, its cares and its woes. Short is the silent embrace of the tomb; Hope, pointing upward, disperses the gloom. Soon will the King in his glory descend, Triumph o'er death, and the grave's fetters rend; Kindred and friends will we meet as we rise Bright and immortal ascending the skies.” L. E. MILLNE.

DIED, in Gratiot Co., Mich., July 18, 1868, James Eugene, only son of George W., and Susannah Davis, aged 2 years, 7 months, and 8 days. A discourse was delivered by Bro. S. E. Sutherland, from Jer. xxxi, 15. G. W. DAVIS.

DIED, in the town of Marshall, Mich., Aug. 31, 1868, Frankie, son of John and Mary A. Sisley, aged one year, seven months, and nine days. Funeral sermon Sept. 13. J. H. WAGGONER.

DIED, in Estherville, Emmett Co., Iowa, July 28, 1868, of diphtheria, after an illness of 11 days, my little sister, Alma A., youngest child of Washington and Olive Morse, aged 8 years 2 months and 4 days. H. I. FARNUM.