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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 2, 1876

Obituary Notices.

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.”

Died, near Rock Creek, Kan., Sept. 19, 1876, David Otto, son of Jonas and Mary R. Divilbiss, aged one year, four months, and fourteen days.

At the same place, Sept. 23, 1876, Mary R., wife of Jonas Divilbiss, aged thirty-three years, two months, and fifteen days. Sr. Divilbiss embraced the Sabbath when it was first presented there, and united with the church last summer. She leaves a husband and three small children to mourn their loss. During her last sickness, she expressed entire resignation and a hope of a part in the first resurrection. Funeral discourse Oct. 8, by Bro. Canright, from Rom. 8:28.

SMITH SHARP.

Died, of epilepsy, at my residence in Washington, N. H., Sept. 8, 1876, Bro. Charles W. Reed, aged thirty-one years. While we saw the terrible convulsions of nature, and the merciless hand of Death fastening upon him, I asked, “How long shall Death the tyrant reign?” The answer came from the pages of divine inspiration, Not long ere the Lifegiver shall come, and he will swallow up death in victory. Then will be fulfilled the promise in Hosea, “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death.” We have laid him away in the grave, with the hope of seeing him again when the redeemed are gathered to Mount Zion. Thank Heaven for that morn so soon to dawn, that will know no death or sorrowing heart.

“Dark is the hour when death prevails, And triumphs o’er the just; A painful void within the breast, When dust goes back to dust; And solemn is the pall, the bier, That bears them from our presence here.

“But there’s a bright, a glorious hope, That scatters death’s dark gloom. It cheers the saddened spirits up; It gilds the Christian’s tomb; It brings the resurrection near, When those we love shall re-appear.”

JOSHUA PHILBRICK.

Died, of consumption, at Douglas, Allegan Co., Mich., Oct. 12, 1876, Bro. James R. Brown, in the seventieth year of his age. Bro. Brown had been an observer of the Sabbath of the Lord for twenty years. His last hours were peaceful and happy. He leaves an aged companion and two children to mourn their loss. Discourse from Job 14:14.

H. M. KENYON.

Fell asleep in Jesus, Oct. 13, 1876, our beloved mother, Ruth Stansbury, at her residence five miles south-east of Mt. Pleasant Henry Co., Ia., aged sixty-three years. She had been a professor of religion for upwards of thirty years. She came into the truth by reading, and had been trying to keep all the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus for about twelve years; and she was connected with the Mt. Pleasant church of S. D. Adventists. She had been a great sufferer for many years, her disease being deranged liver and dropsy of the stomach and chest. She received a stroke of paralysis forty hours before she died. She frequently spoke to me of her faith and hope in Christ, and a few days before her death expected that event soon. Said she was resigned to the will of God, and expected to be raised with the righteous dead at the first resurrection. She wanted us all so to live that we might meet her there. She leaves an aged husband and nine children with their families to mourn their loss. The Rev. Mr. Cory, Christian minister, preached the funeral discourse from the last clause of Isa. 18:1, to a large congregation of sympathizing friends and neighbors.

JAS. S. HOUSEMAN.