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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 14, 1873

Obituary Notices.

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

Died, in Battle Creek, Mich., Oct. 2, 1873, aged one year and twelve days, Melinda Jane, daughter of Bro. and Sister Matthews, of Pilot Grove, Iowa.

The death of this little one was under such circumstances as to call forth the deepest sympathy of all who were acquainted with them. Bro. Matthews was at the Health Institute in a very feeble state. Sister M. being sent for, she left her home with her sick babe, which seemed, however, to be improving. In the depot in Chicago it went into convulsions, and so continued most of the time on the way to this city, and died about twenty minutes after her arrival at the Institute. Funeral services at the house of worship, Sabbath forenoon, Oct. 4; text, Rom. 8:28. The spirit of patient submission manifested by the afflicted parents showed that their hearts had tasted the sweetness of the precious promises of God, which are best appreciated in the hour of this world's deepest sorrow. J. H. W.

Died, in the town of Willing, Allegany Co., N. Y., Oct. 1, 1873, Jared Stillman, aged sixty-three years, nine months, and one day. He was a man remarkable for his honesty and uprightness, and greatly loved for his Christian character. In early life he made a profession of religion, and continued till death, taking the Bible as his only rule of faith and practice. His funeral was largely attended by friends and acquaintances when a discourse was preached from the words of the psalmist, “I shall be satisfied, when I awake with thy likeness.” L. R. S.

Our beloved sister, Eliza S. Tenney, of Faribault Co., Minn., fell asleep in Jesus, Sept. 21, 1873, aged 67 years. Sr. Tenney sought the Saviour in her youthful days, and found him in her sixteenth year.

As we see in her report in REVIEW, Vol. 42, No. 5, she was convinced that the seventh day was the true Sabbath, about eighteen years ago. Eight years ago, herself and husband began to keep the holy Sabbath of the Lord, embracing also all the kindred doctrines of the third angel's message. Three years ago, Bro. Tenney departed this life a firm believer in this great truth.

She has left a large circle of children to mourn the loss of a kind and loving mother, but not one doubt in the minds of any who knew her but she will have a part in the first resurrection. Phebe J. Merickle.