Obituary by G. D. Ballou

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Aug 9, 1883

Obituary.

By G. D. Ballou

SPEAR.—Died, near Ferndale, Humboldt Co., Cal., July 18, 1883, Mrs. Alzina Spear, aged 71 years. Sister Spear was mother-in-law to Bro. Asa Atwood, of the Rural Health Retreat. For many years she had been a believer in the near coming of the Lord, and the doctrine of life only through Christ. The last few years she has been a reader of the SIGNS OF THE TIMES, and for a few months before her death she was an observer of the Lord's Sabbath. We visited her several times in her last sickness and felt assured that her hope was in God, and that, if faithful, we shall meet her in the first resurrection.

The funeral was held from the tent. Words of instruction and comfort were spoken from Rev. 14:13, a text which she had chosen for the occasion.

G. D. BALLOU.