IN behalf of the deceased I would announce through the Review, the death of our beloved Sister, Charlotte Caroline Turner, who died of cholera at Madison, Wis., July 25th. The enemy overtook her when separated from her husband and home, and she fell beneath his fatal blow.
In 1842, sister T. united with the Baptist Church, and the following Spring she heard the proclamation of the first angel, which she gladly received, and was a firm believer in the second coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, until the Spring of 1851, when she saw that she was a transgressor of the fourth commandment. She was awakened to the danger of her situation by the voice of the third angel. Rev. xiv, 9-13. She received the message and embraced the present truth, and has since been striving to keep all the commandments, that she might have right to the tree of life, and enter in through the gates into the city."
She left an afflicted husband and son, and a large circle of relatives and friends, who deeply feel their loss. But we trust they mourn not as those without hope. We would offer for their consolation the words of Paul, 1 Thess. iv, 13-18. How sweet the thought that our friends are asleep in Jesus, and that their sleep is blessed, verily. It seems they are taken from the evil to come. "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth; yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors, and their works do follow them."
How blest the state of all the righteous dead,
Who holy lives of purity have led:
From henceforth, saith the Spirit, yea, they rest
From all their works, and are divinely blest.
No more the Tempter's wiles, their feet shall snare;
But sweetly sleeping, rest from all their care;
Calmly they wait the trumpet's solemn sound,
Which wakes the sleeping saints, beneath the ground.
Now bursts the fetters of the cheerless tomb,
Awake to bright, to full, immortal bloom.
Oh cruel grave! thy boasted victory bring,
And thou, O, tyrant death, where is thy sting!