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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Oct 2, 1900

Obituaries.

“I am the resurrection and the life.”—Jesus.

AYERS.—Died at Edmore, Mich., Sept. 20, 1900, Sister Letitia M. Ayers, aged 67 years, 6 months, 23 days. In 1871 she learned and accepted present truth. She has ever been true and faithful to God and his cause. It can truly be said of her, She sleeps in Jesus. ***

LOWERY.—Died at Osceola, Iowa, Sept. 10, 1900, Mrs. Thompson Lowery, aged 65 years, 6 months. She was a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church during the last thirty years of her life. She leaves a husband and two children to mourn their loss. Words of comfort, based upon 2 Sam. 14:14, were spoken by the writer. Chas. W. Heald.

GORHAM.—Emma Gertrude Gorham was born at Winnebago, Ill., and died at Spirit Lake, Iowa, Sept. 19, 1900, aged 39 years, 10 months, 19 days. The immediate cause of death was peritonitis, but from early youth she had been a sufferer from epilepsy. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer, from the statement of John 11:34, “Jesus wept.” Thos. H. Jeys.

HAYES.—Died at her home in Prunedale, Monterey Co., Cal., July 16, 1900, Sister Engia O. Hayes, wife of Brother B. S. Hayes. She leaves her husband and three children, who mourn their loss, but not without hope. Sister Hayes, with her family, accepted the truth of the Third Angel’s Message at Salem, Ore., in February, 1894, under the labors of B. C. Tabor and others. This was their first knowledge of Christ as man’s Redeemer. All have walked in the light, and now the living lay the wife and mother away in hope. Attention was called to God’s comforting promises, by the writer. A. J. Morton.