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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 6, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 10.

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By G. M. O'Neil

FORBES—Died at Lynden, Whatcom Co., W. T., on Sabbath eve., January 25, 1884, Sister Annie Forbes, aged 65 years and 1 month. Her disease was pneumonia. She was ill but two weeks. She suffered greatly, but with patient submission, often expressing her willingness to die.
Sister Forbes was born in Cork County, Ireland, December, 1818; was married October 20, 1843. Subsequently the family emigrated to America, and settled in New Brunswick, where they remained some years. In 1870 they removed to California, and in 1872, under the labors of Elders Loughborough and Cornell, both parents and some of their children embraced the truth of the Third Angel's Message, and united with the church at Woodland, Cal. They were both ever afterward full of love and zeal for the truth. In 1873 the family moved to Seattle, where Bro. Forbes, and afterward their son, Bro. Richard, died. Of their nine children but four remain. They have met with a great loss. Their precious, loving mother sleeps. She was laid to rest beside her husband and son in the cemetery at Seattle. The little S. D. A. Church at Lynden mourns the loss of a tried and loved member. We mourn, but not without hope. The prison-house of death, indeed, seems dark and gloomy. Oh! how drear death would make this world but for "the ray from our divine religion given." When all seems dark the promises of our blessed Guide-book shine forth with glorious radiance. Blessed be God, not much longer shall death hold in its icy fetters those who sleep in Jesus. The resurrection morn will soon burst forth in effulgent glory—that glorious time, the brightness of whose coming touched the pen of "holy men of old who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost." "The ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with song and everlasting joy upon their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."
G. M. O'NEIL.