Obituary Notices | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 3, 1879

Obituary Notices.

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth” Rev. 14:13.

Steere.—Died in McDonough, Chenango Co., N. Y., evening after the Sabbath, June 21, 1879, Martha W., wife of Arthur A. Steere, aged sixty-one years. Sr. Steere embraced the doctrine taught by Seventh-day Adventists about thirty years ago, through the labors of Sr. Rice, if I am correctly informed. She occasionally spent the Sabbath with the Seventh-day Baptists in the adjoining town of Preston, as she had opportunity. She has been a lone but faithful Sabbath-keeper, and was, we believe, universally respected in the circle of her acquaintance, for her constancy in faith and obedience. The writer of this notice visited her in her last sickness, and by invitation preached her funeral sermon from a text of Scripture chosen by Sr. Steere for the occasion; viz., Job 14:13. L. C. Rogers.

Hare.—Fell asleep in Jesus, June 9, 1879, while on a visit to her daughter, near Manchester, Delaware Co., Iowa, my dear wife, Eliza J. Hare, aged 54 years and 8 months. She embraced present truth in 1860, under the labors of Eld. M. E. Cornell. She loved the missionary work. Her faith in the soon coming of the Lord was firm to the end, and the hope of a glorious immortality beyond the grave comforted her in her last hours. Her last words to her children were, “Prepare to meet the Lord in peace.” We laid her precious form away until the Life-giver comes, when we expect to meet her again in immortal bloom, to enjoy the glorious inheritance of the saints of God. Being unable to obtain the services of a minister of our faith, words of comfort were spoken by I. N. Kramer, from 2 Tim. 7: 8. Thomas Hare.

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Harper.—Died in Charlotte, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., June 14, 1879, Sister Arminda L. Harper, wife of Samuel Harper, in the forty-second year of her age, leaving a husband and five young children. She embraced the truth last summer, as a result of the tent effort at Sinclairville, and remained steadfast. The church feel that they have lost a worthy and beloved member. A large gathering of relatives and neighbors attended the funeral, to whom we presented the consolation of the gospel hope, according to 1 Thess. 4:18. We trust she sleeps in Jesus. May God pity and bless the bereaved husband and motherless children; and may they be prepared to meet her in the soon-coming kingdom of God. H. F. C.