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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 30, 1872

Obituary Notices.

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

FELL asleep in Jesus, in Lakeville, Conn., Jan. 12, Mr. Spencer Addison, in the seventy-first year of his age. His disease was consumption. Bro. Addison embraced the third angel’s message about four years ago, and continued steadfast until his death. He leaves a wife and two children, who are also walking in the light of present truth, and rejoicing in the same blessed hope. Funeral services by the writer. Text, Job 14:14. WILLIAM H. WILD.

DIED, in Ocala, Florida, Nov. 25, 1871, my uncle, J. C. Gregory. The subject of this notice was a believer in the doctrines taught by Seventh-day Adventists. A. HOLYOAK.

DIED, in St. Charles, Saginaw Co., Mich., Nov. 29, 1871, Elizabeth Jones, wife of Andrew Jones, aged forty-six years and eight months. We have laid her in the grave to rest until the Life-giver comes, believing that she died in the Lord. Funeral sermon by Bro. Bates from 1 Cor. 15, proving the resurrection.

Also, died, Dec. 14, 1871, Eleanor Overton, sister of the above, of lingering consumption, aged fifty-five years, nine months, and eleven days. She died in the triumphs of faith. E. E. JONES.

DIED, in Healdsburg, Cal., Jan. 5, 1872, of consumption, Mrs. Anna L. Pool, wife of Joseph Pool, and only daughter of the wife of Bro. M. G. Kellogg, aged twenty-four years and fifteen days. Toward the last of her sickness, Anna resolved to keep all the commandments, and she indulged a hope to the last. Funeral services by the writer. M. E. CORNELL.

FELL asleep in Jesus, at Fairgrove, Tuscola Co., Mich., Dec. 25, 1871, Bro. Sherman Perkins, aged twenty-two years, eleven months, and twenty-three days. His disease was consumption. He died with a firm and enlightened hope of sharing with the people of God the promised joys of the new-earth state. Funeral discourse by the writer from 1 Thess. 4:13, 14. A. N. FISHER.

DIED, in Brunswick, Cumberland Co., Maine, Jan. 7, 1872, Bro. William Litchfield, aged sixty-six. He leaves a wife and children to mourn their loss, but they have no reason to mourn; as those without hope.

Bro. Litchfield was much respected as a citizen; he was exemplary in all his dealings; a kind and accommodating neighbor, and a consistent Christian. He was firm in his religious principles, contending earnestly for the faith of Jesus, that faith which was once delivered to the saints, and was always ready to give an answer to every man that asked him, the reason of the hope that was in him, with meekness and fear.

Some few years since he became interested on the Sabbath question and other views which are held by us, and by hearing a discourse on the law by Bro. Canright he was fully confirmed in our doctrine.

In the Autumn of 1870, he had a fall from an apple tree which gave him a severe shock. Soon after he was stricken down with paralysis, which prostrated him for some time. He rallied after awhile so as to labor some, and was out to meeting several times the past summer. He kept about till within a very short time of his demise. He appeared to be as well as usual, till the close of that day, when the messenger came, and he passed away, suddenly and very quietly. Thus passed away another member of our little flock, but we have the sweet consolation and blessed hope that when the Life Giver comes he will have a part in the first resurrection.

Funeral discourse by Bro. Abram Barnes, from Rev. 14:13. Wm. Gatchell.