p. 23 | Obituary Notices

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 17, 1878

Obituary Notices.

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

FELL asleep in Jesus, Dec. 5, 1877, at Blockville, Chautauqua Co., N. Y., sister Abbie Hamilton, aged 25 years. Sister Abbie came home to her parents last summer, suffering from what proved to be disease of the heart. Finding her friends deeply interested in the tent-meeting then being held in Blockville, she too attended, and as the truth was made apparent she gladly embraced it. She was an amiable, earnest, consistent Christian, beloved by all who knew her. She leaves father, mother, brothers, and sisters to mourn their great loss. Their sorrow would be inconsolable but for the glad hope of meeting her on the morning of the first resurrection. The church feel deeply their bereavement; but in their grief adopt the words of our sister, “Simply to thy cross I cling.” Funeral sermon by the writer. Text, Rev. 14:13. CHAS. B. REYNOLDS.

OUR only remaining child, John Elmer Paul, died of diphtheria, near Washington, Ia., Nov. 12, aged 3 years, 10 months, and 14 days. This is the second bright little boy we have laid in the grave, to await the sound of the trumpet on the resurrection morn. Only a short time to us, and but a moment to them, and if we are faithful we can clasp them to our arms again. HAMILTON AND JENNIE PAUL.

DIED of consumption, in Haverhill, Mass., Dec. 7, 1877, sister Dolly Roke, aged 32 years and 9 months. For the last ten years she has been an earnest Christian and a lover of present truth. Beloved by all who knew her, she leaves a large circle of friends to mourn their loss, among them her aged mother; yet they mourn not as those without hope. Remarks at the funeral by the writer, from 2 Sam. 14:14. D. A. ROBINSON.

MY mother, M. M. Russell, died on Sunday afternoon, Dec. 30, and was buried on New Year's day. She died a patient Christian and a loving mother, and was firm in her faith. The text at the funeral was the 14th chapter of Job. M. A. ALLMANN.

JOSEPH DOMPIER died of consumption, in Jamaica, Vt., Oct. 12, 1877, in the forty-fourth year of his age. Bro. D. was brought up a Catholic, but he embraced the truths of the third angel's message nearly sixteen years ago, and from that time endeavored to live a consistent Christian life. He leaves a wife and four children. LOREN D. CRAM.

EMMA, only daughter of Miles and Sarah Newton, died of consumption, near Oakley, Saginaw Co., Mich., Dec. 3, 1877, aged 8 years, 9 months, and 26 days. A father, mother, and three brothers mourn her loss, but not without hope. Funeral sermon by Eld. Cramer, Methodist, from Matt. 6:8. MRS. A. L. HANNA.