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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 7, 1878

Obituary Notices.

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

Died of consumption, in Wright, Ottawa Co., Mich., Jan. 24, Justus Ferguson, aged 46 years. Mr. Ferguson had resided in the township of Wright about twenty-eight years. He was a man who was naturally possessed of fine business talent, and he had resided so long in the vicinity of Wright that he was generally known throughout that region. His disease baffled the skill of physicians, and nature, having struggled against it for more than one year, finally gave way, despite the care and attention of those who did all in their power to make him comfortable, if they could not furnish him relief, in his last days. The funeral discourse was delivered by the writer, on the twenty-seventh of January, to a very large congregation of sympathizing friends and neighbors. W. H. LITTLEJOHN.

Died, near Richland, Kan., of typhoid pneumonia, sister Ellen, wife of Bro. William B. Bedgood, aged 60 years. Sister B. embraced present truth in the winter of 1874, and until her death was a faithful and devoted Christian. Her greatest desire was to see her children converted; and at her last meeting with the church she had the satisfaction of seeing her eldest son take his stand on the side of truth. She died in the firm hope of a part in the first resurrection. J. M. STANSBURY.

Died, in Oneida, Mich., Jan. 18, 1878, of spina bifida, Stellie Amelia, infant daughter of Nelson B. and Elizabeth J. Cole, aged 10 months and 5 days. This is the second time the cruel enemy death has visited this family and taken a tender branch. Their hearts are sad, but they have hope. We carried the little sleeper to her resting-place, comforted with the assurance that soon the Life-giver will come, and then she will be brought forth from the land of the enemy. Discourse by the writer, from Jer. 31: 16, 17. E. R. JONES.

Died of consumption, in Wright, Ottawa Co., Mich., Dec. 28, 1877, Bro. Wm. Rymon, aged 47 years. Though a great sufferer, he died happy in the Lord. Remarks by the writer, from Rev. 1: 18. J. L. EDGAR.

Died of a complication of diseases, Jan. 15, 1878, at Faribault, Rice Co., Minn., my mother, Mrs. E. W. Phelps, in the fifty-eighth year of her age. She embraced the truths of the last message about twenty-six years ago, under the labors of my uncle, W. Phelps. During all this time she has been a faithful observer of God’s holy Sabbath. Her testimony will be missed in our little church. We shall miss her in the family circle; but as we mourn, we have the cheering hope of meeting her again in a better land than this. Sermon on the blessed hope, by Eld. W. B. T. Wilkee, Congregationalist. H. F. PHELPS.

Died, at North Bloomfield, Trumbull Co., Ohio, Jan. 6, 1878, our little Bertha, aged 9 months and 14 days. It was hard to part with our darling, but we hope to meet her on the evergreen shore. WM. AND F. HUMPHRIES.