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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 14, 1876

Obituary Notices.

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

Died, at Osceola, Iowa, Nov. 18, 1876, Geo. Prentiss, the husband of Sr. Prentiss, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. He attended meeting the night before as well as usual, got up in the morning with a pain in his breast, and died at 8 o’clock. It was supposed that he died of heart disease. May the living take warning. A funeral discourse was given by the writer to a very large congregation in the Baptist church, from 1 Cor. 15:26. J. H. Morrison.

Bro. Jonathan G. Smith, of Belleville, Ohio, fell asleep in Jesus on the 20th of November, 1876, aged eighty-one years, six months, and twenty-eight days. Bro. Smith united with the Baptist church at the age of twenty-two, and remained a member of that church until the tent was pitched at Belleville by Brn. Lawrence and Van Horn ten years ago last summer, when he accepted the present truth, in which he has continued firm. He leaves two sons and one daughter and other friends to mourn their loss. The church at Belleville will feel the loss of Bro. S. Words of comfort were spoken by the writer from 1 Thess. 4:13–18. Wm. Cottrell.

Died, in West Haven, Vt., Nov. 18, 1876, Bertie, infant son of J. H. and P. A. Miner, aged 7 weeks. Our hearts are comforted with the thought that the Life-giver is soon coming, and if we are faithful we shall meet our babe in a land where there shall be no more pain. Words of consolation by Eld. Craft, Baptist. P. A. Miner.

Fell asleep in Jesus, Nov. 27, 1876, at Clear Creek, Chautauqua Co., New York, Bro. Charles Saunders, aged 79 years and 9 months. Bro. S. was a life-long observer of the Sabbath of the Lord—for many years the only Sabbath-keeper in this village. At the tent-meetings last summer, the work of grace was revived in his heart. He loved the truth, and was a source of help and encouragement to the little church here. He leaves a large family of children and many relatives to mourn their loss, but by none will he be more sincerely mourned than by the little band of Sabbath-keepers. Funeral sermon by the writer. Text, Job 14:14. Chas. B. Reynolds.

Fell asleep in Jesus, in Sebec, Maine, Oct. 15, 1876, Susie A. Poole, aged twenty-two years and seven months. Susie had been keeping the Sabbath a little over two years. She had the blessed assurance in her last sickness that the Lord sustained her; and her sufferings though great were borne without a murmur.

“She hath passed death’s chilling billow, And gone to rest; Jesus smoothed her dying pillow— Her slumbers blest. “Sleep, dear sister, kind and tender, To friendship true, While with feeling hearts we render This tribute due. “When the morn of glory, breaking, Shall light the tomb, Beautiful will be thy waking, In fadeless bloom.” K. T. Rogers.

Fell asleep in Jesus, at Hammondsport, Steuben Co., N. Y., Oct. 15, 1876, Bro. Eugene C. Decker, in the twenty-sixth year of his age. Bro. Decker was a son of the late sister E. S. Decker, and at the time of his death was keeping the commandments of God. He gave to those who knew him, satisfactory evidence that he died in bright hope of a part in the first resurrection. Thus we feel that the ardent prayers of his pious mother are answered, and that she will have him as an associate in the kingdom of glory. Discourse by the writer from Luke 12:35, 36, a text selected by the deceased. J. W. Raymond.

Died, at Waitsville, Kan., Oct. 19, 1876, Mary A., daughter of D. B. and E. L. Gibbs, aged fifteen years, seven months, and seven days. We trust that her sleeping dust will be remembered when Jesus comes to gather home the faithful. Mrs. H. E. Parnham.