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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 9, 1874

Obituary Notices.

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

FELL asleep in Jesus, April 13, 1874, at High Banks, Macomb Co., Mich., after a short, but exceedingly painful illness, sister Elizabeth Streeter, wife of Joel Streeter, aged 38 years. The cause of this sudden calamity was disease of the bowels. Sister Streeter was a model Christian and greatly beloved by all. She loved the truth for the truth's sake, and always moved from principle. God gave her the brightest hope. Her husband and adopted daughter deeply mourn their loss. Many relatives and friends were gathered at the funeral. Sister Streeter was identified with the Advent faith fully at the tent-meetings in Armada, though she had been a short time previously deeply interested under the labors of Eld. H. M. Kenyon. The church at Armada is called for the fourth time to part with an honored member. Another tie is severed, yet it binds us more closely to our hope. Services by the writer. D. H. LAMSON.

DIED, in Washington, N. H., Apr. 14, 1874, of strangulated hernia, sister B. M. Farnsworth, in the 49th year of her age. By this sad bereavement, a husband and three dear children are left to mourn their great loss. May they all be united in the kingdom is our prayer. She had been a Sabbath-keeper about twenty years, and died in hope of a part in the first resurrection. HARRIET I. FARNSWORTH.

DIED, near Arcola, Monona Co., Iowa, April 29, 1874, of lung disease, Bro. Wm. D. Flower, aged fifty-two years, three months, and twenty-nine days. He leaves a wife and six children and a large circle of friends to mourn their loss. Funeral discourse by the writer. Text: “If a man die, shall he live again?” Job 14: 14. Bro. Flower embraced the third angel's message last December, while I was lecturing at the Hattaway school-house. I was with him in his last moments, and I can say I never witnessed a more triumphant death. I could say with the psalmist, “Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.” Ps. 116: 15. J. BARTLETT.

DIED, in Clinton, Me., May 1, 1874, of cerebro-spinal meningitis, Martha F., daughter of Jeremiah and Jane R. Dixon, aged twenty years. She suffered much during her sickness, but we trust she sleeps in Jesus, soon to awake in his likeness. By her request, I spoke on the day of her funeral from 2 Tim. 4: 7, 8. J. B. GOODRICH.

DIED, at Memphis, Mich., Jan. 2, 1874, Grantie, son of Simeon and Angie Boyce, aged three years. Text, 2 Sam. 12: 23. They anxiously wait the coming of Jesus. D. H. LAMSON.