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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 13, 1871

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, at Wright, Mich., March 31, 1871, Bro. Thomas J. Hilliard, aged sixty-two years. Bro. Hilliard embraced the truth under the labors of Eld. J. B. Frisbie, and he has been a devoted follower of Christ. He was happy in the prospect of soon seeing the Lord, and would exclaim: I am happy; my sleep will be short; do not weep for me. Remarks by the writer from 1 Cor. 5:22.

JOHN L. EDGAR.

DIED, in Brookfield, Vt., April 4, 1871, of congestion of the lungs, my dear husband, Samuel Buzzell, aged eighty-one years and six months.

About sixteen years since, he embraced the third angel's message. From that time until his death, he has been a firm believer in the second coming of the Lord, and died as he had lived, with a hope to have a part in the first resurrection.

He bore his sufferings with patience and Christian resignation, and has gone to his rest, to rise again when Jesus the Lifegiver shall appear. He leaves a large circle of friends and relatives to mourn his loss, but not as those without hope. May God's Holy Spirit sustain us and help us to make a preparation to meet him in the resurrection morn, there to form an unbroken family in that land where death and sorrow can never come.

LOUISA N. BUZZELL.

DIED, in Battle Creek, May 13, of asthmatic consumption, Cyrus P., son of Bro. Henry Hilliard, in the twentieth year of his age. Bro. Cyrus had been suffering for years from hereditary disease, and notwithstanding all was done for him that could be, nature finally gave way. During the past winter and spring, he had been making special efforts to get nearer to God, and gave good evidence of a fixed principle to do right, and serve the Lord. His remains were taken to his home for interment, where his funeral was attended by a large concourse of sympathizing friends and neighbors; and we laid him away, believing that his flesh rests in hope. Discourse from 1 Cor. 15:25. 26.

S. B. WHITNEY.