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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 15, 1902

Another Worker Fallen

By J. E. Caldwell

MRS. JULIA FORD CALDWELL, my faithful wife, fell asleep at the Christchurch (N. Z.) Sanitarium, March 1, 1902, and was buried in Linwood Cemetery, Brother Smith conducting the services. She was born in Lewis County, N. Y., 1853. She learned the message by home reading, and was baptized at the Seattle (Wash.) camp meeting, by Elder Charles Boyd in 1887. In 1894 we were chosen to sail to the South Pacific Islands on the “Pitcairn.” October 9 we landed at Raratonga. She at once began teaching a mission school, and for seven years taught there almost continuously. We came to New Zealand in February, 1901, she being broken in health. Having been exposed to fever aboard the steamer, she contracted the disease, and never recovered. She became better at times, but suffered relapse after relapse, gradually failing. In January she was taken to the sanitarium, where she died. She was the mother of two sons, both now in the Avondale School, and we have two adopted daughters. A faithful mother and loving wife, she was unusually successful in teaching and training children. The deceased has for years enjoyed intimate personal acquaintance with the Master of life. She has been a consistent reformer ever since she accepted the message, and her surprisingly accurate intuitions and sound judgment will be sadly missed by her associates. “Yes, thank the Lord,” was the last sentence she spoke, upon hearing one mention the glorious privilege promised those who fall asleep under the message, of rising to see the Lord come and deliver his everlasting covenant to his people. J. E. CALDWELL.