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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 3, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 30, No. 25.

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By Julia A. Dayton

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
DIED, at his residence in Chesaning, Mich., Oct. 7, 1867, of typhoid fever, my beloved companion, Orson J. Dayton, aged forty-three years and ten days. He first heard and believed the great truths of the Advent doctrine under the labors of Eld. Cornell, in 1861. He afterward embraced it, but the cares of life and business connections with the world drew him again from following the Lord until a short time before his death, when he most earnestly repented of all sin, and found peace in the pardoning mercy of a gracious Saviour. He desired to live that he might do good, yet felt submissive to the will of God. He tenderly entreated his children to follow in the footsteps of the Redeemer and keep the commandments of God, and in bright hope of a glorious immortality, he fell asleep to waken when the trump of God shall summon his beloved from their dusty beds, to dwell forever in the city of our God. A tender and affectionate husband, and a most indulgent father—we cannot but mourn his departure, though we rejoice in the blissful hope of again meeting where partings are unknown. We await the services of an Adventist minister to preach a funeral discourse.
Where the bending willows above him wave, We have laid him down with the silent dead In the enemy's land; but One mighty to save Has stationed bright angels a watch round his bed.
JULIA A. DAYTON.