OBITUARY by Geo. W. Bemis

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 2, 1861

OBITUARY.

By Geo. W. Bemis

The subject of this notice, Bro. Wm. Gould, was born in the State of Pennsylvania, Dec. 18, 1803, and removed to this place (Lawrenceburg, Ind.) in 1818, and departed this life, June 7, 1861, aged 58 years, 5 months, and 20 days, in the triumphs of faith, and the joyful anticipation of a part in the first resurrection, and a blissful immortality. "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from henceforth." They cease from their labors and their works do follow them. "Wherefore sorrow not, brethren, for those who sleep; for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him."

During a long and painful illness, Bro. Gould exhibited the patience of the saints in the hour of affliction and trial, and experienced the sustaining power of God to those who are found keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Bro. Gould seemed to think that his sleep would be but a few years; that probation being ended, and the sealing of the servants of the Most High completed, Christ will shortly leave the Sanctuary, take his seat on the white cloud, and descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, and those who are alive and remain be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, ever to be with him. Wherefore, brethren, comfort one another with these words. Geo. W. Bemis. Lawrenceburg, Ind.