OBITUARY

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 2, 1901

SISTER MINNIE BELLE BURDEN, daughter of William W. and Amanda M. Burden, died at the home of her parents, in Battle Creek, Mich., Dec. 27, 1900. She was born at Hillsdale, Mich., March 11, 1866. Minnie made her home in Muir until 1891, when she connected with the Bible work in Detroit, at the Trumbull Avenue Mission, under the instructions of Elder H. M. Kenyon and his wife. She was a faithful and efficient worker in the cause to which her life was wholly devoted. Her only purpose was to serve the Master, all worldly ambitions being sacrificed for the work in which she was engaged. As the result of her labor, many honest souls were converted to the truth of the Third Angel's Message.

After having been in the Bible work eight years, her health failed, and she was obliged to give up her work in order to look after the improvement of her physical condition. Tuberculosis, the disease to which Minnie finally succumbed, was thought to have been contracted during her stay in Detroit, as her run-down condition at that time made it easy for disease germs to take root and develop. Minnie often sacrificed her health to labor for others, going out in many a severe storm to give Bible readings.

Up to the closing moments of her earthly life she was patient and peaceful, her faith having never wavered. Her last low whispers spoke her Saviour's name and her assurance that she would rise in the first resurrection, at the last great day.