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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 9, 1876

Obituary Notices.

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

Fell asleep in Jesus, at Dennison, Texas, on Friday, Oct. 13, Ida May, only child of Bro. and Sr. J. Crane, aged twelve years and five months. Her disease was nervous malarial fever. For five weeks she was a great sufferer, but bore all patiently and expressed with great clearness of mind her hope in Jesus. She talked earnestly to her father of preparing to meet her in the morning of the resurrection, and at one time said to him, “Papa, that tobacco is so offensive to me!” Over her still, cold form, the father resolves to use the filthy weed no more. May he so seek God’s help that he will be enabled to live out his resolution.

She fell asleep without a struggle or a groan, and as we gazed upon the sweet childlike face, smiling even in death, we could but say,

“Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep, From which none ever wake to weep.”

Remarks on the occasion by Mr. Dougherty, Methodist. M. J. B.

Our little son, Dickie L. Cruzen, fell asleep in Jesus on the morning of September 8, 1876, aged four years, six months, and twenty-six days. In 1873 he had the spotted fever, from the effect of which he had not entirely recovered. This fall he had the ague, when the symptoms of that dreadful disease again made their appearance, and soon the enemy called and took our darling from us. We laid him away in full hope of seeing him again at the resurrection of the just, when all the saints shall come forth from their graves to meet their Lord, who will receive them unto himself, and take them to those mansions he has gone to prepare for them.

“Peaceful thy slumber! O sweet thy repose! Safe from life’s turmoil, its cares and its woes. Short is the silent embrace of the tomb; Hope, pointing upward, disperses its gloom, Soon will the King in his glory descend, Triumph o’er death, and the grave’s fetters rend; Kindred and friends shall we meet as they rise, Bright and immortal, ascending the skies.” WM. AND MARY A. CRUZEN.

Died, of inflammation of the stomach, at our residence in Oswego, Labette Co., Kansas, Bro. P. Gorton Coal, aged twenty-one years. He came West with high hopes, which he can never realize; but he had prepared for a home in the kingdom of God, and this hope is sure. As he passed away so calmly and peacefully, the words of inspiration came into my mind, “He giveth his beloved sleep.” May the Lord bless and comfort the companion and relatives that weep for him, and grant that they may finally walk with the saints in light. Funeral services from 1 Cor. 15: 55. L. D. SANTEE.