Obituary Notices by M. B. Pierce

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 22, 1870

Obituary Notices.

By M. B. Pierce

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

Died, in Andover, Vt., Jan. 9, 1870, my dear mother, Sarah Butterfield, in the 88th year of her age. She dearly loved the present truth, although its light shone upon her mind after she was between seventy and eighty years old. She read and studied her Bible and the publications, until she saw the beauty of the truth, and left the Baptist church where she had been a member over forty years. She tried to faithfully live out the truth, and was ever ready and willing to deny herself and bear her cross. She was taken alarmingly ill Nov. 8, but had her senses and judgment clear and bright for several weeks. Although she was naturally fearful as to herself, with but little hope, which at times caused her to suffer from feelings of despair, yet when she needed dying grace, it was graciously granted to her. She lost all her fear, examined well her own heart and hope, and submitted meekly to the will of Heaven. She was a great sufferer for about nine weeks, her disease being of the stomach and lungs. I feel that I have lost one of the best of mothers, and the little group here feel that they have lost a mother in Israel. Them also that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. M. B. PIERCE.