Obituary Notices | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 27, 1868

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, at the residence of Bro. Eli Wick, in Clyde, Ill., on Friday, Oct. 2, 1868, at 6 o'clock, P. M., our dear brother, Newell Brister, of Elkhorn Grove, Carroll Co., Ill., in the 49th year of his age, from a fracture of the skull caused by a kick from his own horse. He leaves a wife and two children to mourn his loss. May the Lord sustain them in this deep affliction.

Bro. B. was among the first that embraced the truth at Elkhorn Grove. He loved the commandments of God, and the doctrine of the soon coming of the Saviour, and was a warm friend of the suffering and needy. He will be missed in the neighborhood, but especially will the church and his own family miss him. The writer spoke to a large congregation of his neighbors and friends, on his funeral occasion, from Rev. xiv, 13.

“He sleeps in Jesus—peaceful rest, No mortal strife invades his breast, No pain, nor sin, nor woe, nor care, Can reach the silent slumberer there.”

“He sleeps in Jesus—soon to rise, When the last trump shall rend the skies, Then burst the fetters of the tomb, To wake in full immortal bloom.” R. F. ANDREWS.

DIED, on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 1868, at 1 o'clock, A. M., of typhus fever and heart disease, Sr. Hattie, second daughter of Bro. Eli and Sr. Mary Wick, of Clyde, Ill., aged 18 years, and 2 days.

She was ten days confined to her bed before her death, and, while rational, manifested the greatest patience and resignation to the will of God, stating that she was willing to live or die as the Lord pleased. She was loved and esteemed in the neighborhood, in the church, and in her father's family. We shall all miss her. May God comfort and sustain the afflicted ones.

“Sleep, dear sister, kind and tender, To friendship true, While with feeling hearts we render This tribute due.”

“When the morn of glory, breaking, Shall light the tomb, Beautiful will be thy waking, In fadeless bloom.”

We spoke to the friends and neighbors on the occasion from 1 Cor. xv, 22. R. F. ANDREWS.

DIED, in Monterey, Mich., Oct. 6, 1868, John Pierce, Sen., aged 75 years, 9 months and 13 days. He suffered much for a few days before his death, but no murmuring words escaped his lips. When interrogated concerning the future, he said, “All is clear.” He sleeps a little while, where the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. Funeral discourse by the writer, from Job xix, 25, 26. May the aged widow, children, and grandchildren, prepare to meet the departed in the kingdom. H. G. BUCK.