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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 27, 1872

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, near Lynn, Greenup Co., Kentucky, Dec. 2, 1871, Bro. James Osborn, in his eighty-first year. A little over a year since, he became interested in present truth, through the labors of his son, S. Osborn, of Iowa, who was at his house on a visit. Becoming convinced of the perpetuity of the law, he saw the binding obligation of the Sabbath, and without stopping to confer with flesh and blood, he at once commenced to keep it. So far as we know, he was the first convert to the Sabbath in this State. During one short year he learned much with regard to our faith in the soon coming of Jesus; and a short time before his death he expressed to his son a belief in all points of present truth so far as he understood them. His health had been failing for some time. About twenty-four hours before his death he received a stroke of paralysis which confined him to his room till he fell asleep in Jesus to await his call at the resurrection. Being still a member of the Christian church, his funeral services were conducted by a Bro. Jones, a minister of that body. J. HARE.

DIED, in West Wilton, N. H., Feb. 10, 1872, J. E. Tarbell, aged twenty-eight years. He was a great sufferer much of the time for the last five years, his body below his stomach being paralyzed, caused by leaping from a window some thirty feet from the pavement while partly asleep. But he manifested marked patience in his sufferings, and learned to love the present truth, so that he was keeping the Sabbath and seemed especially interested to observe it just right, and be a true disciple of Christ the last of his days. May his parents, sisters, and brother, who deeply mourn his death, seek comfort from the One who sticketh closer than a brother, by giving themselves unreservedly to serve and follow the Saviour. The Unitarian meeting-house was kindly tendered us for the funeral, and their minister assisted in the services. More than three hundred people were in attendance, while we spoke words of instruction and comfort drawn from the word of God. P. C. RODMAN.