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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 28, 1871

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, in Douglass, Allegan Co., Mich., Sept. 13, 1871, of bilious fever and congestive chills, Mary Louisa, only daughter of Abram A. and Caroline S. Dodge, aged ten years and three months. We had a short funeral address at this place for the benefit of her school-mates, by Eld. J. F. Taylor; then we removed her to Battle Creek, where our friends could see her sweetly sleeping, and listened to a few very appropriate and comforting remarks from Bro. White. We then laid her away in Oak Hill cemetery to rest until the Life-giver shall come. We cherish a hope that we shall see Minnie in the morning of the first resurrection. It was her delight to attend the Sabbath-school, and she would sweetly sing many good little hymns, one of which is found on page 55 of “Bright Jewels,” and was a great comfort to us on the day of her death. It commences thus:—

“Saviour, bless a little child; Teach my heart the way to thee; Make it gentle, good and mild; Loving Saviour, care for me.”

C. S. DODGE.

DIED, of consumption, in St. Albans, Maine, Sept. 27, 1871, Bro. Evander S. Grant, aged nineteen years, two months and seven days. Bro. G. was one of the most faithful members in our church. He has left a godly example worthy of imitation. Discourse by the writer.

ABRAM BARNES.

DIED, of typhoid fever, in Hartland, Maine, sister Miriam Thomas, aged about forty-four years. Sister Thomas was one of the most faithful, godly women we had in Maine. She embraced the Sabbath about nineteen years ago, and has always been ready to receive truth when it was first presented. Her life was filled up with good deeds toward the sick and poor. We expect to see her when the Life-giver comes. Sermon by the writer, from Rev. 14: 13, to a large and attentive congregation.

ABRAM BARNES.

DIED, in Pittsfield, Maine, Aug. 7, 1871, Annie O. Gifford, after an illness of six weeks, aged ten months. Sermon from the words of Paul, 1 Cor. 15: 21, on the importance of the resurrection of the dead.

ABRAM BARNES.

DIED, in Oronoco, Olmstead Co., Minn., Oct. 28, 1871, Charles H., son of W. J. and S. E. Gibson, aged ten years two months and eight days. Peacefully he fell asleep, in hope of a better life in the world to come.

“Oh! who that saw thy parting hour Could wish thee back again?”

The parents and friends mourn, but not without hope. Words of comfort by Bro. L. H. Ellis.

H. F. PHELPS.

DIED, Nov. 6, 1871, near Palestine, Iowa, Bro. James F. McReynolds, aged twenty-nine years five months and twenty-five days. Bro. James became a believer in the present truth in the fall of 1863, since which time he has lived an exemplary life, and endured with great patience and resignation the long affliction which he has had to suffer, being an invalid for over three years. This was caused by over-taxing his mental powers, resulting in the nervous dyspepsia. He died in the full hope of immortality when the Life-giver shall come. We laid him away with the hope that we, if faithful, shall stand again with him on the new earth. Remarks from Rev. 14: 13.

R. M. KILGORE.