The Decease of a Pioneer
By Mrs. H. I. Farnum
My beloved mother, Mrs. Washington Morse, aged nearly eighty-three years, died at her home, near Walker’s Point, Muskoka, Ontario, Feb. 12, 1901. Our parents accepted the Sabbath truth in 1849, in Corinth, Vt., having been in full accord with the first and second messages of the great threefold message of Rev. 14:6-13. Mother’s love for these testing truths, and her interest in their promulgation, continued unabated to the last. In 1856 she, with her family, emigrated to Minnesota, being one of the first three families of Seventh-day Adventists in that new country, which was then a Territory. In 1897 she and her companion came to Ontario. The husband, five sons, two daughters, twelve grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren are left to mourn their loss, and to “rise up, and call her blessed.” At the last, replying to the question, “Is Jesus precious to you, and does His grace support you now?” came the final words: “Yes; it must be so;” and her long and useful life ebbed away as peacefully as a quiet, radiant sunset. “She sleeps in Jesus, soon to rise!” Job 19:21 was selected for the funeral text, Brother S. W. Hickok delivering the address.