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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 16, 1873

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 43, No. 1.

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Obituary Notices.

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”
Died, in Green Lake township, Green Lake Co., Wis., Nov. 23, 1873, of consumption, Frank W. Nelson, aged 17 years, 9 months, and 17 days.
About five years ago he took a severe cold which so affected his system that his parents took him to the Health Institute, where he was greatly benefited, and it was thought he had entirely recovered his health. Some time afterward he took another cold, which finally resulted in consumption.
His mother’s prayers were answered, and her labors rewarded by seeing him give his heart fully to the Saviour. While conversing on his resting in the tomb, he said to his mother, “Jesus can let me gently down.” And his trust was not disappointed. He died calmly and peacefully.
Funeral services were attended at the Congregational meeting-house in Markesan, the 26th.
J. H. Waggoner.
Fell asleep in Jesus, at Armada, Mich., Oct. 25, of strangulated hernia, sister M. A. Rose, aged fifty-eight years. From the cause mentioned above, she had been for many years a patient sufferer. She was for a long time an honored member of the Christian church, always rejoicing even in her greatest suffering, and the cross of Christ was her glory. She had learned to love the near coming of the Lord and the Sabbath. We shall miss her soul-stirring testimonies, and her godly example. Yet our loss is her gain, for she rests in hope. She leaves a husband, a son, and an adopted daughter.
Funeral services were conducted by Eld. J. W. Weeks, pastor of the Christian church of Romeo, the Methodist house of this place being opened for that purpose, Sunday, Oct. 26. Text: Ps. 140: 12.
D. H. Lamson.
Died, in Clinton, Maine, Bro. David S. Potter, aged about fifty-seven years. He died in hope of having a part in the first resurrection. He leaves a wife and three children to mourn their loss. Discourse by the writer to a large and attentive congregation from Heb. 9: 27, 28.
Abram Barnes.
Died, in Washington City, D. C., Oct. 4, 1873, our youngest child, Effie May, aged one year and seven months.
He who “has his way in the storm and in the whirlwind” has his way in this affliction. Saddened though our hearts are, we dare not murmur at the ways of our kind Heavenly Father; but can smile through our tears, as by faith we see the light streaming from the grave, looking for the resurrection of the last day, when she shall awake to die no more.
John G. Cook, Mary E. Cook.
Died, at Armada, Mich., Nov. 8, 1873, of measles, Caddie, infant daughter of Elias and Caroline North, aged nine months. This family showed us many kindnesses in the earlier part of our tent meeting, and till friends were multiplied, and we had learned to love their darling babe. It has “drooped and faded,” but will bloom again, in Heaven.
Discourse by the writer, from 2 Sam. 12: 23.
D. H. Lamson.
Died, suddenly, at Almont, Mich., Nov. 16, 1873, of hemorrhage, James Noble, husband of sister Margaret Noble, one of the pillars of the church in that place. May God be near to her in this her great trial, and kindly care for her fatherless children, who with her mourn their great loss.
Words of comfort were spoken Nov. 18, by Bro. H. S. Gurney, of Memphis.
D. H. Lamson.
Died, at Armada, Mich., Nov. 17, 1873, of what was supposed to be spinal fever, after a long and painful illness, sister Lizzie Butterfield, aged thirty-two years. When the tent came to this place, sister B. loved the world, but she learned to love Christ and his truth above all else, and was fast becoming a shining light to all around her. She feared if she lived she should depart from the faith. Said she could die happy, and did. The blessedness of the hope of the Christian is left as a legacy to the church and friends. A companion, one son, and a multitude of relatives and others, mourn her loss.
The church feel saddened to lose, so soon, three who were both an honor and ornaments to the cause. Funeral services by the writer. Text: 1 Cor. 15: 26. The Methodists kindly opened their house.
D. H. Lamson.
Died, in Afton, Iowa, Dec. 1, 1873, of inflammatory croup, our youngest daughter, Nancy Ellen, aged three years, three months, and twenty-four days. We miss her very much, but we hope to meet her with two others that sleep in Jesus, and with all our children at the resurrection, an unbroken family in the kingdom of God. Funeral discourse by Bro. West, from these words: “Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and your children.”
E. F. & M. A. DeBord.