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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 4, 1870

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, in the city of Beaver Dam, Wis., Sept. 17, 1870, after a very distressing illness of two weeks, of bilious fever and a complication of other diseases, our beloved sister, Louisa M. Gates, in the 48th year of her age. Her devotion to the cause of truth is well known, and we believe that her preparation for death was timely and thorough. She retained the use of her reason until death had nearly finished its work, and her last anxiety seemed to be for the spiritual welfare of her husband. She bore her suffering with much fortitude and resignation to her Heavenly Father's will, and was even anxious to sleep in the grave beside her little daughter. In conversing on the subject, she many times repeated the words, “Sweet sleep.”

“Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep, From which none ever wake to weep, A calm and undisturbed repose, Unbroken by the last of foes.”

C. M. SHEPARD.

DIED, Sept. 9, 1870, in Walnut, Jeff Co., Iowa, of typhoid fever, Carrie M., daughter of Daniel and Louisa Barrichloa, aged 11 years, 11 months, and 28 days.

After a five weeks' illness, we laid our much-loved Carrie away to await the resurrection, when, we hope, if faithful, to meet the little one on the immortal shores of eternal deliverance.

She was a lovely child, always having a pleasant smile and kind word for everybody. She bade fair for long life, and to be a great help to her mother whose health is quite poor, and who perhaps feels her loss more deeply than any one else. Bro. and Sr. Barrichloa have the prayers of a band of sympathizing brethren and sisters in Brighton. May the Lord comfort and sustain them in their affliction, and help them to cast all their cares on Him who careth for them.

M. E. SWISHER.