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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 3, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 15, No. 24.

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OBITUARY.

By Joseph Bates

Died in Watson, Mich., 15th inst., Marcella S., wife of Bro. Chester Collins, aged thirty-four years. Her disease was the lung fever, causing her death in about three weeks. Sister C. embraced the Sabbath with her husband about four years ago. For a few months past she had been unusually engaged in the praying circle, and manifested a calm resignation to the will of the Lord in the hour of death, and quietly and peacefully died in the Lord.
Just before her death she said to her husband, "We have had to endure a good deal of opposition, but none too much." She said also that she was satisfied that nothing but the prayer of faith would help her. Some of the brethren from Monterey had prayed with her previous to this conversation, and the Lord blessed, strengthened and encouraged her; but opposition from the unbelieving discouraged and darkened her mind, and before the brethren visited her again, she sank in death. I was in Caledonia at the time, but reached W. in season to attend her funeral in a crowded school-house, where I spoke from the declaration of the apostle Paul to the Corinthians [chap. xv, 26], "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
Joseph Bates.
Monterey, Mich.