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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Feb 1, 1899

Sad, Unwelcome News

By Editor

"Sad, Unwelcome News."—It is with feelings of deep sadness that we chronicle the unwelcome tidings of the death of Prof. G. H. Bell, of Battle Creek, Mich. He was riding in his carriage near his home when the horse became frightened and ran away. The vehicle finally struck against a telephone pole and the horse broke away; but before this Professor Bell had sustained fatal injuries. He was taken to the Battle Creek Sanitarium hospital, and everything that skill could suggest was done to restore him, but he never regained consciousness, and died in about three hours. Professor Bell was prominently connected with the founding of Battle Creek College, in fact, its first instructor, an institution which has grown till its enrolment is over one thousand students every year. His specialty was the English language. "Bell's Grammar" and "Bell's Language Series" are peers of the best, the value of which is recognized by those who know them. For teaching the pure, sweet English in its simplest yet strongest beauty he had few equals, and we doubt if he had a superior. This we know personally, for we found in him a splendid teacher and generous, helpful friend. While he had filled the years of man's allotted age, he was still vigorous in mind and body, and Battle Creek educational circles sustain a great loss. Our sympathies are extended to the bereaved ones, we mourn with them.