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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 21, 1857

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 10, No. 3.

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OBITUARY.

By A. S. H.

DIED in Wheelock Vt., Apr. 27th, Bro. Jacob Sulaway, in the 80th year of his age. Bro. S. had been keeping the Bible Sabbath more than four years. He had been a professor of the christian religion over fifty years.
His sickness was protracted, and distressing, but he endured his sufferings with great patience, and calmly fell asleep in Jesus. Much might here be said of his fervent prayers, signal victories, and of his shouts of praise when the reward of the righteous was spoken of, or even as he thought of the rest that remaineth for the people of God, in his sickness, and of his firm and unshaken confidence in God's promises; but the reader could have but a faint conception of his peaceful days and nights, compared with those who watched around his bed-side, and closed his eyes when death had set its silent seal upon his lips.
May the Lord help his friends and relatives to follow him, as far as he followed Christ. His funeral services were attended in the meeting house at Wheelock village, where a sermon was preached to a large and attentive audience from these words: "For dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return." A. S. H.