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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 28, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 24.

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Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth. Rev. xiv, 13.
DIED near Geneva, Ashtabula Co., Ohio, April 29, 1867, of consumption, sister Melissa Hutchinson, aged 53 years.
Sister H., with her husband, Eld. Wm. F. Hutchinson, was a member of the Disciple church when the tent went to Orwell. The truth found a ready place in her heart, and her conversion to the faith of the third angel’s message was thorough. In her earnestness and love of the truth, she at once became an example and a help to all who embraced the faith. A letter from Bro. Bane, acquainting me with her death, says, “She died expecting a crown of righteousness at that day, for she loved the appearing of the Lord.”
Eld. Rodney Viets (Disciple) preached a funeral discourse from 1 Thess. iv, 13-18, showing by the word of the Lord that the dead are asleep, that the hope of the Christian is the resurrection, and that immortality will be bestowed upon those only who seek for it through the Lord Jesus Christ at his coming.
In her family and in the church she will be missed; but we do not sorrow for her as without hope. May the Lord aid us so to live as to meet her in that day.
J. H. WAGGONER.
DIED, in Charleston, Vt., April 9, 1867, my mother, Lois Burroughs, wife of Joseph Burroughs, in the seventy-fourth year of her age. Her disease was scrofula of which she has been a sufferer for years.
Sixteen years ago last winter, at a conference meeting in Irasburg, mother embraced the third angel’s message and has lived out her faith with firmness and propriety, embracing the light of present truth as fast as she saw it, and died in hope of having part in the first resurrection. To her the Sabbath was a delight. She loved the blessed Saviour, his truth, and his people. Her godly precepts and faithful prayers were best appreciated by those who knew her best. And may we so live by the grace of God assisting us, that we may be ready to meet her when Jesus comes to take his ransomed people home.
“She hath passed death’s chilling billow, And gone to rest; Jesus smoothed her dying pillow, Her slumber’s blest.”
ATLANTA L. BURROUGHS.
Charleston, Vt.
DIED in St. Charles, Mich., May 13th, 1867, of inflammation on the brain, our precious infant daughter, Ada L., aged 2 years and 4 months. She smiled upon us like a May flower then drooped her lovely head and died. Still the blessed hope sustains us.
H. S. & A. L. GUILFORD.
DIED, in Wolcott, Vt., April 28, 1867, of lung fever, Oliff P. Drown, aged 8 months, only child of Bro. and sister C. C. Drown. This was a sweet and lovely babe, that won the love and affection of all who knew it. Some words of comfort were spoken from 1 Thess. iv, 18.
A. S. HUTCHINS.