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The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 20, 1879

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 54, No. 21

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“Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth.” Rev. 14:13.
SMITH.—Died in Canaan, Me., Oct. 30, 1879, Bertie Waldo, only son of Armand R. and Nancy F. Smith, of Lewiston, Me., aged 3 months and 24 days. Remarks by the writer, from Luke 18:16–17. J. B. GOODRICH.
CAVILL.—Died of consumption, at Southampton, England, Sept. 16, 1879, Sister Anna Cavill, aged 15 years, 11 months, and 16 days. Sister Anna is the first of those who signed the covenant here who has fallen a victim to death. She was a great sufferer, but not a murmur escaped her lips. Not long before her death, though she had been unable to speak above a whisper for many days, she broke the silence of the night by singing with a clear voice:—
“Though friends all forsake me, and foes all unite, Jesus is with me through the long, dark night.”
The night before she died she was very happy, and said to her mother, “There are a great many angels coming; the room is full of them.” She sleeps in Jesus. May a godly company here be prepared to meet her in the resurrection. J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
SAGE.—Died in Jamaica, Vt., Sept. 28, 1879, Sister Abbie M. Sage, aged 23 years and 3 months. Sister Abbie has been a faithful member of the S. D. Adventist church of Jamaica since May 10, 1874, at which time she with four of her sisters was received into the church by baptism. Three years ago she went to Battle Creek and attended two terms of school, after which she taught in Michigan until the autumn of 1878, when her health failed and she returned to her home in Vermont. It was then evident that consumption had commenced its fatal work. She bore her affliction with Christian fortitude, and rests in hope of a part in the first resurrection. Funeral discourse by Eld. Raynolds, Methodist, from 2 Sam. 12:23. R. S. OWEN.
BENSON.—Died of consumption of the bowels, Oct. 31, 1879, Benjamin Benson, aged 56 years and 6 months. Bro. Benson had been a believer in the soon coming of Christ for a number of years; but some less than a year before his death he embraced the third message, and was a consistent and faithful commandment-keeper up to the time of his decease. The disease that resulted in his death was contracted more than three years ago, and he was a sick man from that time. He was a great sufferer; but the blessed hope of a glorious immortality sustained him till the last. We shall miss our brother, but we laid him away in hope. His funeral was largely attended. He leaves a good wife and six children to mourn their loss. Sermon by the writer, from Rev. 14:18. H. A. ST. JOHN.