Obituary Notices | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 26, 1879

Obituary Notices.

“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth.” Rev. 14:13.

INGLE.—Died in Lovington, Ill., May 24, 1879, Sister Nancy Ingle, aged 55 years. Sister Ingle embraced the truth over four years ago, under the labors of Brn. Colcord and Bliss. She leaves nine children and many friends to mourn their loss; but we are comforted with the hope that in the morning of the resurrection she will awake to life and immortality. Words of comfort were spoken by Eld. R. F. Andrews, from Job 14:14, 15.

JACOB NEWLAN.

WEEKS.—Drowned at Pleasant Grove, Minn., May 28, 1879, little Emma, Daughter of Bro. Samuel Weeks, aged 7 years, 4 months, and 21 days. She was playing on the bank of Root River, when some stones upon which she was standing gave way, and let her into the stream. The river being much swollen by the recent rains, she was instantly carried away. Search was instituted at once, but the body was not found until six days afterward. When found, her little hands were clasping firmly some willows which she had seized in the last efforts of life. Remarks by the writer from Eccl. 7:14.

What! gone without one farewell word or kiss, Our loved one, source of fond parental bliss? Yes, it is so; death’s cold and ruthless hand Has wrested one from our most happy band.

We fondly loved her, yet the summons came, And now with saddened hearts we speak her name. The vacant chair, the little, waiting bed, Too plainly say, Your Emma dear is dead.

That resting-place upon the quiet pillow Was changed for one beneath the angry billow; The fond embrace at each last waking breath Gave place to one, the cold embrace of death.

How sad the scene,—and shall we ever be Beyond the realm of this mortality? Will ever father, mother, daughter, son, Be where all partings, sighs, and tears are done?

Yes, blessed hope! a brighter morn will dawn Than mortal eyes have ever looked upon, When from the silent tomb, the briny deep, The pure, the blest will wake no more to weep; In happy union all will notes prolong, And swell the chorus of redemption’s song.

Then Emma, clothed with immortality, May pluck the golden fruit from life’s fair tree, And by life’s river join the pure and blest Who safe in Jesus’ love will ever rest.

JOHN M. HOPKINS.

THOMPSON.—Died at South Newstead, Erie Co., New York, June 8, 1879, Sister Catherine Thompson (mother of Sister Gorham Newcomb), in the sixty-eighth year of her age. She embraced present truth in 1872, and lived an earnest, humble, Christian life, beloved by all who knew her. Funeral discourse by the writer, from Rev. 14:13.

CHAS. B. REYNOLDS.