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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 30, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 48.

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Elder C. D. AcMoody

By E. E. Andross

Obituaries

Elder C. D. AcMoody

CLAUDE DANIEL ACMOODY was born Feb. 27, 1882, in Moscow, Hillsdale Co., Mich., and died at Long Beach, Cal., July 23, 1911, aged 29 years, 4 months, and 26 days. At the age of twelve years he was baptized, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
At an early period in life he felt called to the gospel ministry, and when sixteen years of age entered Battle Creek College, where he remained four years to fit himself for this sacred work. His parents having moved to Wisconsin, he joined them there, where he entered the ministry, continuing his labors in that conference till called by the General Conference, in 1906, to the Turkish Mission field, sailing October 8 of that year.
July 20, 1904, he was united in marriage to Miss Henrietta Parfitt, at New London, Wis. His wife was taken from him by death, Sept. 24, 1905. An infant child survived the mother but a few weeks.
Soon after arriving in Turkey, Brother AcMoody contracted pulmonary tuberculosis; but he was determined to remain at his post of duty as long as possible. However, after about two and one-half years, he was compelled, by the steady encroachment of the disease, to return home; hence he attended the General Conference of 1909 as a delegate from the Turkish Mission field. He then hoped, after a brief sojourn in his native land, sufficiently to recover his health to resume his missionary labors in his chosen field; but in this he was disappointed. The disease made steady progress till the end came at Long Beach. He quietly and peacefully fell asleep in Jesus, with the assurance that his work was finished and that he would share with the “remnant” the “never-ending blessing pronounced on those who had honored God in keeping his Sabbath holy.” “He sleeps, but not forever.” His parents and two brothers, besides a large circle of friends, are left to mourn their loss, but they mourn not as those who have no hope.
The funeral service was conducted by the writer, assisted by Elders J. W. Adams and M. H. St. John. E. E. ANDROSS.