Obituary Notices by A. S. Hutchins

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 1, 1868

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Review and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 11.

Obituary Notices.

By A. S. Hutchins

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

DROWNED, in Wolcott, Vt., Aug. 6, 1868, Bro. James Heath, aged 62 years and 3 months. Bro. Heath went out to pick berries. His long absence caused his affectionate companion anxiety for him, as he was not usually well. She went in search of him, and found his lifeless body in deep water. His clothes were all lying upon the bank of the river, and the opinion of all is, that he went in to bathe (as he occasionally did), and that his death was accidental.

I had been personally acquainted with this brother more than a score of years, and had ever considered him a devoted and consistent Christian.

Some fifteen years since, his attention was called to the Sabbath question, and an interest awakened in his mind on the subject by reading a few tracts, which I left in the town where he then resided, while passing through that county. About nine years since, he embraced present truth under the labors of Bro. Sperry and others in Wolcott. In his last testimony at Wolcott, and also at Bordoville (to which place he had just moved), he spoke words of good cheer to the church, of his ardent love for the brethren, and of his willingness with them to suffer future trials, in hope of rest in the kingdom of God.

On Sabbath, the 8th, more than the meeting-house full of attentive hearers listened to a discourse from Rev. xiv, 13. Elders Stone and Bourdeau were present, and assisted in the solemn duties of the occasion. All seemed to sympathize with our bereft sister, and the afflicted children. May Heaven’s blessing rest upon them.

A. S. HUTCHINS.