p. 31 | Obituary Notices

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 9, 1872

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, Dec. 7, 1871, in Hartland, Mich., at the residence of Bro. E. Stone, his son-in-law, Bro. Jacob Chrispell, aged eighty-three years and ten months. Bro. Chrispell experienced religion at the age of about twenty-four years, and joined the M. E. church, of which he was a faithful member for forty years, and most of the time a class leader. He became a convert to present truth under the early labors of Bro. Cornell, and has been an earnest advocate of the doctrines held by Seventh-day Adventists for some twenty years. He died in hope. Funeral services by the writer. Text: Rev. 14:13. R. J. LAWRENCE.

FELL asleep in Jesus, Dec. 24, 1871, sister E. S. Decker, of Hammondsport, Steuben Co., N. Y., in the fifty-fourth year of her age. She embraced the third angel’s message sixteen years ago; and her love for the cause of God, and the spirit of sacrifice which she ever possessed for its advancement, greatly endeared her to us. We feel that we have indeed met with a great loss, and shall miss her much, yet we mourn not without hope; and we are glad to know that her sleep in death’s cold embrace is to be short. May her removal from the family circle be so blessed to the good of the surviving friends, that each shall finally be prepared to meet her, and her only daughter by whose side she now sleeps, in that blissful land where “there shall be no more death.” Discourse by the writer. J. W. RAYMOND.