p. 167 | Obituary Notices

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 5, 1872

Obituary Notices.

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

DIED, Oct. 12, 1872, on Muller Hill, in Georgetown, Madison Co., N. Y., in the 68th year of her age, Sophia Crumb, wife of Henry C. Crumb, and daughter of Joseph Truman of Preston, Chenango Co., N. Y., deceased.

The subject of this notice embraced Christ in her youth, and was a worthy member of the Seventh-day Baptist church.

She was one who strove to walk in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless, not omitting the one instituted by Christ, as recorded in John 13: 4-17.

She gave up some articles which she considered injurious to health years ago for conscience' sake, before the health reform movement among the S. D. Adventists. She ever strove to maintain her integrity. When she came to hear the views held by this people, she gladly received them. She loved her Bible, and read it from her youth. She strove to do God's commandments, and therefore had a good understanding. A stroke of paralysis about seventeen years ago, with other infirmities, kept her feeble the remainder of her days. She could not talk so as to be easily understood. The last fourteen months I did not know her to stand a minute, or speak a word to tell how she felt, or what she wanted.

Psalms 34: 13, was truly applicable in her case. Many are the afflictions of the righteous; but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. With all her suffering she possessed a good deal of patience. She wore a cheerful countenance much of the time. The Christian's hope cheered her. Just before she passed away, she seemed to realize much. I spoke to her, and told her that her sufferings were about over, that Christ would soon come and take her to his Father's house of many mansions, that then her tongue would be loosed, that then she could run and not be weary, walk and not faint. Her face lit up with such cheering smiles as I never saw on a dying face before.

It seems that nothing short of a lively hope in a glorious future life, and a resignation to the will of God, could cause such an expression from one of so much suffering. Give me the Christian's hope. H. C. CRUMB.

P. S. Will the Sabbath Recorder please copy. H. C. C.

DIED, in Blackman, Jackson Co., Mich., Sept. 21, my father, Christopher Van Horn, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. He arose in the morning in usual good health, but, while driving the cows to the barn, from some cause unknown to us, faintness came over him, and to all appearance he chose a spot, laid himself down, and in a few moments expired. My youngest brother was the first to reach him, who saw him breathe but three times. Thus suddenly he, who was a kind husband and loving father, beloved by all his children, was taken from us. He believed all the truths of the third angel's message, and was making preparations to practice them.

Sermon by Elder Palmer, Baptist, of Jackson, from John 14: 1-3. I. D. VAN HORN.

DIED, in Afton, Iowa, Oct. 8, 1872, of dropsy and a combination of diseases, sister Jane E. Simeon, in the thirty-ninth year of her age. She leaves a husband and three children to mourn her loss. By request, I spoke at the funeral from Job 14: 10. E. F. DIBORD.