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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Nov 6, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 42.

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Death of Eld. Maxson.

By I. D. Van Horn

OUR much esteemed brother in Christ, Eld. Stephen Maxson, died at his residence in Walla Walla, Washington Territory, of erysipelas, Sept. 28, 1879, aged 62 years, 11 months, and 21 days.
Bro. Maxson was born in Berlin, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. His parents were members of the Seventh-day Baptist church, and at the early age of thirteen he found favor with God, and from this time to the day of his death he lived an active Christian life. He ever kept the Sabbath of the Lord, the seventh day, and was a firm and zealous advocate of it, both by precept and example. Soon after his marriage he moved to Milton, Wis., and in 1859 to the Walla Walla Valley, being one of the pioneers of this new country. In 1868 he embraced the views of the Seventh-day Adventists by reading, and rejoiced greatly at the prospect of the Lord’s soon coming to give reward to all his saints. He was ever ready at his post of duty, and foremost in every enterprise to advance the cause he loved. When the Seventh-day Adventist Conference was formed here, he was placed in a position of trust as one of its chief officers, which he filled to the satisfaction of all up to his death.
The cause he so much loved, the community in which he lived, and his family, have all met with a great loss. We mourn, but not without hope. He gave the best of evidence to all who were with him during his short sickness of only eight days, that the Saviour in whom he had trusted for fifty years was very near to him in the dying hour. His labors are done. He has gone to his rest. But soon the Life-giver will come and call him forth with all the redeemed of the Lord, and with them he will share in the glory and joy of the eternal world.
Words of comfort were spoken to the mourners, and to all, on the funeral occasion, by the Rev. P. B. Chamberlain, Pastor of the Congregational church of Walla Walla, W. T.
The Advent Review and the Sabbath Recorder are requested to copy. I. D. VAN HORN.