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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 22, 1878

Obituary Notices.

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

Died, in Boyne, Kent Co., Mich., July 4, 1878, of inflammation of the bowels, Sr. Lourana Aldrich, wife of Bro. Marshal Aldrich, in the thirty-seventh year of her age.

Sr. A. had been an observer of the Lord’s Sabbath about eleven years. At the time of her death she was a member of the Vergennes church, and was respected and beloved by all who knew her. A good wife, a kind mother, a consistent Christian, her presence will be missed by the church of which she was a member, and by the family in which she was a wife and mother. We expect to meet her “when this corruptible shall put on incorruption.” She was buried at Boyne Center. Funeral service at the M. E. church. Discourse by the M. E. minister.

E. Van Deusen.

Died of heart disease, at his residence in Hillsdale Co., Mich., June 2, 1878, my only brother, Elijah A. Pond, in the forty-seventh year of his age. He embraced the truth in 1853, but, yielding to discouragement, he wandered far from God. He afterward confessed his backslidings and pleaded earnestly for forgiveness, and we trust found peace and pardon through the blood of Christ. He expressed a wish to live to do good with the means the Lord had given him. May his two sons heed a dying father’s counsel not to put off the necessary preparation, but to seek God now. Funeral discourse by Eld. Mills, F. W. Baptist.

E. J. Paine.

Fell asleep, in Leroy, Mich., June 30, 1878, Sr. Mary Ann, wife of Bro. Ira D. Perry, in the fifty-eighth year of her age. For the past few years, hers had been a life of suffering, but she endured all with the meekness and patience of a true Christian, and, though she longed for rest, was willing patiently to “bide her time.” She leaves an affectionate companion and seven children to mourn the loss of a true wife and a kind, sympathizing mother. Words of comfort were spoken by Eld. Henry (Baptist).

We would not call thee from thy peaceful slumber, The weary path of life again to tread; We bid thee rest until the glorious morning, When thou shalt waken from the silent dead. Then thou shalt rise in bright immortal beauty, To rest forever on that blissful shore, Where all is light and life, and bliss eternal, In perfect peace to dwell forevermore.

Mrs. L. D. A. Stuttle.

Died of cholera, in Boone, Iowa, July 29, 1878, Lawrence Victor, infant son of Bro. and Sr. Lars and Ellen Neilson, aged 2 months. Words of comfort were spoken by Bro. Andrew Peterson, from Luke 7:12–15. Although sorely afflicted, his parents trust that they shall again meet their precious one where sorrow is not, and parting is no more.

Mary M. Swanson.