Obituary Notices by H. Nicola

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 4, 1873

Obituary Notices.

By H. Nicola

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

Died, at our residence near Pilot Grove, Iowa, October 18, 1873, of bronchial consumption, Bro. I. N. Matthews, aged thirty-six years and fifteen days. Bro. Matthews embraced the third angel's message about ten years ago under the labors of Eld. J. H. Waggoner. Since then, has been a consistent member of the Pilot Grove church. The last two years of his life were marked with severe affliction and peculiar trials; but it all tended to drive him near the Lord, and the burden of his mind seemed to be to search up his past sins and confess them. And when he found there was no hope of his recovery (which was a number of days before his death), he calmly submitted, and deliberately arranged all his temporal matters, and longed for a release of suffering. We have reason to believe he sleeps in Jesus.

He leaves a wife and seven children and many friends to mourn their loss. May this sad affliction be sanctified to the bereaved and scattered family, and may the Lord open the hearts of his people to the homeless children, that they may all finally be gathered when the Life-giver comes.

Funeral discourse by Bro. R. M. Kilgore, to a very large audience, from Rev. 14:13. H. NICOLA.