Obituary by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 16, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 27.

Obituary.

By Editor

JONES.—Died, in Temescal (Oakland suburb), July 8, 1885, William J. D. Jones, aged 26 years, 3 months, and 4 days.

Brother Jones was born in Pittsburg, Pa. He united with the M. E. Church when about 14 years of age. His attention was called to the faith held by Seventh-day Adventists by the missionary labors of Brother R. S. Owen; and he was baptized and united with the Oakland church the last Sabbath in June, 1884. He was a man of fine feeling, with a cultivated mind; he loved the truth, and was unremitting in his missionary labors in its behalf.

He had for some time been afflicted with disease of the brain, and the immediate cause of his death was inflammation, probably induced by too much study and writing nights. He seemed to have had a premonition that his days would be few, and his parents gathering that idea from his letters, came from Wisconsin to visit him, arriving the night before his death.

The church has sustained a loss which is deeply felt, but they, as well as his kindred, are sustained by the “blessed hope,” that he will soon be brought “from the land of the enemy.” Besides his parents and other kindred, he left a wife with two small children, who has the deepest sympathy of her many Christian friends. His life record was well made and the text chosen on the funeral occasion was appropriate: “The righteous hath hope in his death.” Prov. 14:32.

Funeral services at the Seventh-day Adventist house of worship in Oakland on Sabbath, July 11.

EDITOR.