Solomon D. McFarland by J. L. Boyd

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 8, 1876

Solomon D. McFarland

By J. L. Boyd

“Fell asleep in Jesus,” in Philadelphia, Pa., on the evening of April 20, 1876, of typhoid pneumonia, Solomon D. McFarland, in his 69th year. He was a member in good standing in the New Market Baptist church of this city when the first course of William Miller’s lectures was delivered there by Eld. Litch in 1842. He, from that time, became a firm believer in the second advent of our Lord in 1843–4; and continued, all the subsequent years, a consistent, believing, “waiter for the kingdom of God,” holding, in more recent years, to the restoration of the lineal descendants of Judah and Ephraim to their own land—of Canaan—the land of promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

For the last six years he was a Sabbath-observer in the strictest sense, which involved the performance of 60 hours of business duties in five days of the week—doubtless, at his time of life, this compressed, arduous performance for years had sapped the vital forces of his organism. Brethren of the Sabbath of our Lord, pray for the bereaved widow and the children of our sleeping brother, who are a united family in honoring God’s holy day. J. L. BOYD.