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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 25, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 42, No. 24.

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Obituary Notices.

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”
Died, in Whitewater, Walworth Co., Wis., Oct. 21, 1873, of consumption, after an illness of about ten months, our daughter, Genie Smith, aged twenty-one years, ten months, and seven days.
Genie embraced present truth under the labors of Bro. Sanborn, and united with the Johnstown church about eight years ago. She was a patient sufferer and died in hope of a part in the first resurrection.
Funeral discourse by Eld. Wells, Methodist.
L. & E. Smith.
Died, Nov. 2, 1873, at his residence in Newton Co., Mo., Bro. J. L. Bland, aged fifty-seven years, nine months, and four days. Bro. Bland was a member of the Christian church for thirty years, and lived in that light until the spring of 1870. He then embraced the whole truth, and has been an ardent lover of God’s law and a consistent Christian, and has greatly encouraged the lonely company of Sabbath-keepers who are struggling here to be overcomers.
Andrew Buchanan.
Died, at her home near Sparta, Monroe Co., Wis., Sept. 18, 1873, sister Betsey M. Smith, in the fifty-second year of her age. Sister Smith died in full hope of a part in the first resurrection when Jesus, who is our life, shall appear. She leaves a husband and three sons to mourn their loss. May they feel the importance of preparing to meet her where sickness and death will never come. She chose as a text for her funeral discourse, 1 Cor. 15: 55-58.
Pliny Potter.
Died, near Elpaso, Ill., at his daughter’s house, Oct. 30, 1873, our dear father, J. B. Merritt, in the sixty-second year of his age. Although he suffered much for several months with rheumatism, which terminated in quick consumption, yet he seemed willing to bear all the pain which, in a wise Providence, was his portion, and was resigned to the will of God. Father professed faith in Christ when a young man, and was baptized and united with the Christian church. He taught his family to fear and obey God.
At Gilboa, Ohio, sixteen years ago, he heard the lectures of Elds. Cornell and Holt, in which he was deeply interested. He then gladly received the light, and desired to dedicate himself more fully to God, and walk in obedience to all his commandments. He was baptized, and ever after observed the Sabbath of the Lord.
We deeply feel our loss, but the blessed hope sustains us. We buried him at Princeville, where he will rest till the Redeemer, of whose coming he loved to hear, shall call forth his ransomed.
May we be prepared to meet him in the resurrection.
B. F. Merritt.
Princeville, Ill.