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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 18, 1877

Obituary Notices.

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

Fell asleep in Jesus, Nov. 16, 1876, at Oxford, Mass., Mary R. Wilbur, wife of William Wilbur, aged forty-three years, seven months, and three days.

My dear aunt had been feeble a number of years. Two years ago she was raised from a sick bed in answer to prayer. This fall she took a sudden cold which ended in quick consumption. She had the Christian’s hope to sustain her. The thought of the second coming of Christ and the resurrection was a great comfort to her, and had been for a number of years. She was a kind companion and a faithful mother. She leaves a large circle of relatives and acquaintances to mourn their loss. We deeply mourn, but not without hope. In all her sufferings she was never heard to murmur or complain, was ever cheerful, hopeful and trusting, ever looking up to the blessed Redeemer for help to carry her through all the struggles of life. She was kind to the poor, would sacrifice her own comfort for the comfort of others. She exhorted her friends to be faithful and meet her in the kingdom. She felt that she would sleep but a little while, ere the Lifegiver would come and give immortal life to all the faithful ones. It was hard to part with one we loved so dearly. She was laid in the tomb at Putnam, Conn., until they could get an Adventist to preach her funeral sermon, and select a burying place.

We long for that land where these partings are o’er, Where death and the tomb can divide us no more.

Jennie E. Wheeler.

Died, of consumption, in Jamaica, Vt., Nov. 22, 1876, Marshall Edson, aged 55. Bro. Edson has kept the Sabbath 25 years. In his last days he felt the assurance of his acceptance with the Lord, and desired to rest till the Lifegiver shall come. Funeral discourse by Eld. Emmons, Congregationalist, from the comforting words in Ps. 9:9.

Elias Cobb.