Obituary Notices | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 4, 1876

Obituary Notices.

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

FELL asleep in Jesus, at Battle Creek, Mich., March 7, 1876, our beloved sister, Grace W. Davis, daughter of Obadiah and Elmira O. Davis, in the twenty-seventh year of her age. She was taught from childhood to observe the Sabbath; in early life she sought the Lord, and three years ago was baptized by Eld. White. She has been for several years an invalid, but last summer was greatly blessed and strengthened in answer to prayer, and looked forward hopefully to life, when a severe attack of lung fever suddenly brought her to the grave, after two weeks of suffering. It had ever been her wish to rest through the time of trouble, and we feel that in our Father’s love she is safely folded from the evil to come.

Always very conscientious, in her last hours it was her only anxiety to finish her work faithfully. She seemed to have no fear of death, but passed away as quietly as a child falls asleep upon its mother’s bosom, while even in death a smile rested upon her countenance.

Our hearts yearn for the voices hushed, the vanished smiles, the loved ones fled, yet we sorrow not without hope. For them the battle of life is over. A few more years of conflict, and, through grace, we hope to meet them radiant with the light and glory of immortality. Funeral services by Eld. U. Smith. MARY A. DAVIS.

DIED, at Battle Creek, Mich., March 17, 1876, my dear companion, Elmira O. Davis, aged fifty-two years. Through the labors of Bro. Chamberlain, she took a decided stand on all the present truth in 1850, at Fairhaven, Mass., the home of our beloved Bro. Bates, by whom she was baptized. She was a person of strong faith, and was very earnest and persevering in prayer. She was ever ready to assist others in their afflictions, often going beyond her own strength to do so. She was a loving and faithful companion and mother, a firm friend, a dutiful and affectionate daughter.

May her aged mother who shared the disappointment in ’43 and ’44, who received the third angel’s message as it began to be proclaimed, and who has already parted with a husband and daughter, both firm in the faith of the soon-coming of Jesus, specially have the consolations of the gospel to sustain her, now that she is called to part with the last one of her children who believed in present truth.

Anxious care and solicitude for our daughter, Grace W. Davis, who died ten days previous, was mainly the cause of my companion’s death. Thus were we doubly bereaved in less than two weeks. But our afflictions are lightened by the blessed gospel assurance that they shall soon come from the land of the enemy, and that those who are sown in weakness shall be raised in power. Glorious hope! A very comforting and assuring discourse at the funeral by Eld. U. Smith. O. DAVIS.

DIED, of consumption, in Williamstown, Vt., April 11, 1876, Mr. Joshua Bailey in the 89th year of his age. He had been a patient sufferer for six years, seeming ever ready to go, and patiently waiting God’s time. He died rejoicing in his Saviour, having a smile of heavenly sweetness upon his countenance. S. A. POOR.

DIED, in Odell, P. Q., Jan. 20, 1876, sister Caroline Phebe La Bouty, aged 28 years and 9 months. Sister L. was a correspondent of the V. M. Society of South Lancaster, and her letters breathed the true Christian spirit. She commenced keeping the Sabbath when about sixteen years of age. To do right was her motto. Her influence was good, and she tried to hold up the light of present truth, by loaning our periodicals. We believe it may be said of her, “She sleeps in Jesus.” M. L. PRIEST.

DIED, of consumption, Feb. 22, 1876, at the residence of his brother, Archer Williams, near Powder Mills, Hart Co., Ky., Bro. David Williams, in the thirty-second year of his age. He was converted at an early age and united with the M. E. Church, in which he lived a humble devoted Christian, discharging his duty faithfully. In 1875 he embraced present truth, under the preaching of Bro. S. Osborn, was baptized, and became a zealous worker for Christ. He was a kind husband, an affectionate father, and a citizen whose loss is greatly felt. He leaves a wife, two little girls, and a large circle of relatives and friends to mourn their loss. He sleeps in Jesus, and we believe, if faithful, we shall meet him in the morning of the resurrection. S. M. ROSS.