Obituary Notices by A. S. Osborne; V. E. Osborne

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 19, 1871

Obituary Notices.

By A. S. Osborne; V. E. Osborne

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

DIED, in Bloomington, Grant County, Wisconsin, Nov. 18, 1871, of diphtheria, Charlie C., eldest son of A. S. and V. E. Osborne, aged nine years, six months and four days, after an illness of six days. While bending over his dying bed he tried to comfort us with the thought of the soon coming of our dear Saviour. He said, just before he died, “Do not weep, for if I die, I shall be on the safest side, and the time will not seem long to me till Jesus will come to take us to himself.” This afforded us great consolation in the struggle we had to give him up. It was his pleasure every Sabbath to read the Instructor to his blind, aged grandfather. Our dear boy never failed to daily pour out his heart to God in prayer aloud around the family altar. Oh! it is a great trial to give him up, but we are comforted with the thought that it will not be long before the conqueror will come and break the bars of death, and then, our three darling ones, two of which have fallen with this same fell disease, will, we believe, come again from the land of the enemy.

Appropriate remarks by Elder Brothers Methodist, from 1 John 3:8.

A. S. OSBORNE.

V. E. OSBORNE.