OBITUARY by Laura Murch

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 26, 1857

OBITUARY.

By Laura Murch

FELL asleep in Jesus Oct. 13th, 1857 in Lafayette, Van Buren Co., Mich., our beloved mother, Sally, wife of Richard Murch, aged 74 years, in Dec. last. O how painful the task, to record the death of a beloved mother. Yes, she is at rest. She often repeated during her sickness which was very painful, "I shall soon be at rest in the grave, there to sleep until he who is the Christian's life shall appear, then shall I appear with him in glory." Her mind was deranged most of the time for three or four days before she died. In one of her lucid moments, she said she could not keep her mind on anything. I said to her, Can you not trust in God? She answered, "I can with all my mind, might, and strength." She then said, "There is a rest in the grave." I told her we must look beyond the grave. She said, "I do, I do."

She had been a professor of the religion of Jesus Christ for over fifty years; and for the last three years had been striving to keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus. O may I live the life of the righteous, that my last days may be like theirs. LAURA MURCH.