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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 13, 1872

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, in Battle Creek, July 29, 1872, of mesenteric consumption, Hortense E., daughter of Stephen and Harriet Gardner of Monterey, Michigan.

The body of sister Gardner was brought to Monterey on the morning of Tuesday, July 30, and interred in Poplar Hill Cemetery in the afternoon of the same day. Though the notice of the funeral service at 2 o’clock P. M. was extremely brief, the S. D. Adventist house of worship was well filled with sympathizing friends and neighbors.

Sister Gardner had won for herself the esteem of all who were acquainted with the straightforward course which she had pursued in her Christian experience. Though but just upon the threshold of life, and standing precisely at that period when the world has its foremost hold upon the mind and the affections, she had succeeded in inspiring in all the conviction that she was living for the life which is to come. The writer, while delivering the funeral discourse, felt more than ever before the force of the words, “Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them.” W. H. LITTLEJOHN.

DIED, in Seneca, Newton Co., Mo., on the morning of April 8, 1872, of consumption, Emily P., wife of my son, A. E. Heaton, aged about twenty-eight years. She left no children to mourn a mother’s loss. Although pale in death, her pleasant and serene countenance was noticed by others—to us an evidence that she died as she had lived—strong in faith of meeting her Saviour in the morning of the first resurrection; and may God grant that we that remain of her friends and Bible-class may meet her at the gathering of God’s elect, which we think is soon to take place. ALBERT G. HEATON.