OBITUARY by F. C. Castle

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 26, 1861

OBITUARY

By F. C. Castle

FELL asleep in Jesus at her mother's residence in Edwards, N. Y., Feb. 5, 1861, my oldest sister, Lucretia M. Castle, in the twenty-fourth year of her age. She came out from the world and embraced the present truth three years ago this coming spring. She laid aside the fashions of the world, which perish with the using, and sought for a conformity to the will of God, and endeavored to imitate the perfect Pattern by doing good unto others, and living a life of self-denial. In so doing she became beloved by all who knew her, thus leaving many friends to mourn her death. Her disease was consumption, which preyed on her system for many months. She felt that she would like to rest quietly in the grave, believing that it would be but a little while till the morn of the first resurrection, when the trump would sound, and she would come forth.

“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.”

“Where no wintry winds are blowing, No burial train; Crowned with gems celestial glowing, We'll meet again.”

F. C. CASTLE.