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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 1, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 13.

Obituary.

RUE.—Sister Huldah E. (Aldrich) Rue, wife of H. P. Rue, died in Oakland, Cal., of typhoid pneumonia, March 20, 1889, aged 28 years, 7 months, and 2 days. The parents of Sister Rue began keeping the Sabbath of the Lord in 1861, shortly after her birth, and united with the Seventh-day Adventist church in Olcott, N. Y. In the year 1864 they removed to Battle Creek, Mich., where Brother Aldrich was prominently connected with the publishing interest until his death, in 1870. In 1871 Huldah was baptized by Elder James White, and joined the Battle Creek church. May 19, 1880, she was united in marriage to Brother H. P. Rue, and soon after removed to Nebraska, where they resided until the fall of 1884, when they came to Oakland and at once connected with the office of the Signs of the Times, where they have been constantly employed ever since, Sister Rue having learned the printer's trade and worked for several years in the Review and Herald Office, at Battle Creek. Her work was always characterized by conscientious faithfulness.

From the time she came to Oakland she has been an active member of the church and Sabbath-school; but in the revival effort last fall, she, with many others, gained a new experience. Thorough confession of every known sin was made, and then she realized the fulfillment of 1 John 1:9. A most marked change was noticeable in her from that time. No one could doubt the completeness of her conversion, or that she was living a life of faith from day to day. She indeed found joy in believing on the Lord Jesus Christ.

She leaves two little children, six and eight years of age, and it was in attempting to look after her work in the office while nursing these through a siege of typhoid fever, that she contracted the disease which so quickly ended in her death. So well had she been but a few days before that her death was a great shock to her fellow-laborers in the office. While they deeply sympathize with the bereaved companion and mother, and sorrow for the loss of a friend and sister, their sorrow is mingled with joy at the thought that she sleeps in Jesus. More than ever do we thank God for the Christian's hope. Remarks were made by Elder Loughborough at the funeral, from Rev. 14:13.

E. J. W.

(Review and Herald please copy.)

WALKER.—Died in Los Angeles, Cal., March 12, 1889, our dear sister, Hattie M. Walker.

Sister Walker was born in Hodgden, Maine, Nov. 13, 1849, and united with the Baptist Church at the age of fourteen. She came to Los Angeles in 1887, where she heard, through our mission workers, the great words of the law (Hos. 8:12), and turned her feet into the light, uniting with the Seventh-day Adventist church of this city in 1888, of which she was a beloved member until her death. A husband, three children, and many friends mourn the irreparable loss.

Funeral discourse from Rev. 22:4.

J. A. OWEN.