p. 191 | Obituary by R. A. Underwood

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 21, 1881

Obituary.

By R. A. Underwood

ADAMS.—Our dear brother, Horace Adams, fell asleep in Jesus, Feb. 16, 1881, at his residence in Windsor, Ohio, aged 76 years. He experienced religion at the age of eighteen. As new light appeared to him, he grasped it fearlessly, and went forward in the path of duty. He first worshiped with the Episcopal Methodists, but fearing that they upheld American slavery, he left that body, and united with the Wesleyans, when to do so involved at least a cross. He walked with them until 1874, when Eld. St. John held a series of meetings at Windsor. True to his principles, he, with a few others, commenced to keep all the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Two years ago, he and his wife were baptized by Eld. Canright, and united with the S. D. A. church in North Bloomfield. He was often referred to as a man who, like Enoch, walked with God. A sweet humility and meekness adorned all his words and ways. His testimony in old age was, “I have never willfully departed from my God.” He often expressed his joy in receiving the light of present truth in words like these: “I have never been so well satisfied with my Christian experience as I have since I received the light upon God’s holy Sabbath.” By his death, a wife and children, the church and community, suffer loss. Words of comfort were spoken on the funeral occasion by Eld. S. Coyler, (Methodist), from Ps. 23. R. A. UNDERWOOD.