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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 28, 1856

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 7, No. 22.

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OBITUARY.

By J. Y. Wilcox

DIED, In Middletown, Conn. on the eve of Jan. 29th, of Consumption, Frances Rogers, oldest Daughter of our beloved and much lamented Bro. E. L. H. Chamberlain, aged 20 years, 9 months and 14 days. She sweetly fell asleep in Jesus and now rests in hope, while we are left to mourn her loss; yet while we sorrow our hearts are greatly comforted in hope.
She embraced the Present Truth in Oct. 1853. Her sufferings, though protracted, were borne with marked patience and a calm resignation to the will and design of her heavenly Father. She left her dying testimony in favor of the precious truths she had professed and so ardently loved. Her mind was perfectly clear till the last. She had a word of exhortation for each member of the family present, and also the friends that were in, especially one who had long been trembling under the cross, though convinced of the truth. God grant to bless her dying admonitions to the present and future good of her weeping friends.
Her last hours were those of suffering, yet she was abundantly blessed and sustained and enabled to exclaim, I know that my Redeemer lives and because He lives I shall live also. She died in full faith of the Saviour's soon coming, to wake the sleeping and change the living and gather them home to rest forever. We were enabled to realize the worth of the christian's hope as never before, as we stood beside the dying bed of our dear sister and saw and felt for ourselves that support that nothing but the blessed hope could afford.
She now sleeps beside her dear, honored father, to wait the glad morn of the resurrection. We deeply feel our loss; and while we sympathize with the afflicted and bereaved family, we commend them to God. Brn. Paine and Barr were with us on the funeral occasion. Bro. Barr preached a short but very appropriate and comforting discourse from 1st Thess. iv, 13 and onward. As he contrasted the Bible view of the true state of the dead with that generally believed we were enabled to see the beauty and consistency of our position. Our sorrowing hearts were comforted in the sweet, blessed hope of a glorious resurrection, awaiting those dear ones that now sleep in Jesus, soon to be realized. We hope to be so faithful and unspeakably happy as to meet them then.
J. Y. WILCOX.
Middletown, Ct. Feb. 6th., 1856.