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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 19, 1876

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 48, No. 16.

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“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”
Died, in Allegan, Mich., Sept. 14, 1876, of inflammation of the stomach, sister Louisa C. Bovee, wife of Bro. Seymour Bovee, and daughter of J. R. and Caroline Lewis of Battle Creek, aged forty years and three months. She made a profession of the truth about fifteen years since, and was for many years, till her removal from the place, a member of the Battle Creek church. Her death inflicts a great loss upon the church in Allegan, and an almost equal one upon the neighborhood at large; for she was highly esteemed by all who knew her. She was brought to this place for burial, and a large assembly gathered at the funeral the 16th, to whom we felt to speak freely of the consolations of the blessed hope; for sister B. left good evidence of a title to those blessings which lie beyond the resurrection.
Her husband and adopted daughter, with the other relatives and the church, are consoled in her case by the prospect so well described in the following lines which may appropriately be quoted in this connection:—
“Though Death now seems triumphant, as he waves His dreadful banner o’er a world of graves, And feasts with ghoulish glee on broken hearts Bleeding and torn by his vindictive darts, He shall not always reign; of power shorn, The victor’s chaplet from his black brow torn, Himself shall die; for he who wields this power Hath not of immortality the dower. “O Earth, rejoice! Away with grief and tears; Cast off your groundless fears; Lift up your voice, Your Great Deliverer greet! The Son of God shall come, Beneath his conquering feet Death meet his doom, The devil be destroyed, And hell made void! Captivity shall captive be, And Heaven and earth hold jubilee!” U. S.
Died, of consumption, July 8, 1876, at the residence of C. W. Comings, in Cornish, N. H., Charles H. Eaton, son of Charles W. and Olive M. Eaton, of Chelsea, Mass., aged twenty-one years and two months. He always kept the Sabbath, and when a little boy he loved God’s holy word and was a praying child. His father died when he was twelve years old, but he has ever been an affectionate and dutiful son. Our home is a lonely place. This dreadful disease has taken husband, daughter, and son. We are sorely stricken; may the dear Lord help us. OLIVE M. EATON.