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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 12, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 17, No. 17.

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OBITUARY.

Fell asleep Dec. 25, 1860, Mary, my wife. Her disease was scrofula, terminating in death after an illness of four months. She suffered greatly, yet she said, I will not trust in man. She fell asleep without a struggle. I do not mourn without hope. Our Saviour said, The hour cometh when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live.
JEREMIAH STRYKER. Wheeler, N. Y.
It is with a heavy heart that I announce to my friends the death of our little daughter, Alma Gertrude Shaw. She died Feb. 18, of putrid sore throat, aged three years and five months. Although we are left to mourn, yet we do not mourn as those that have no hope, for I believe that when Jesus comes to ransom those that now sleep in their graves, she will be brought again from the enemy's land.
Dear brethren, pray for us that this great affliction may prove for our good and the glory of God. I still feel like standing firm for the truth as it is in Jesus, and trying to live it out in my daily life and conversation. I hope to be an overcomer at last, that when Jesus comes to awake the sleeping dead I may say, Lo, this is our God, we have waited for him and he will save us.
L. W. SHAW.
Fell asleep, Feb. 11, 1861, Libby, daughter of J. F. and E. W. Ballenger, aged two years and five months. Her disease was scarlet fever. No doubt God in his providence has permitted this affliction to come upon us to win our affections from the transient and passing things of earth to those more permanent and abiding realities beyond this mortal life, which effect, I trust, it has produced. Her decease has severed a link in our little circle that none but Jesus can re-unite, and has left a void in our hearts that nothing but his Spirit can fill. We mourn our loss; but the words of the Lord to Rachel are very comforting to us [Jer. xxxi, 15-17], and it only remains for us to prepare for that event that will re-unite the righteous parents and children in bonds that can never more be severed. A discourse was preached to an attentive audience by Bro. Ingraham, from Job xiv, 14.
J. F. BALLENGER.