Your ShelfYour Projects

OBITUARY

33%

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 30, 1861

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 18, No. 9.

Read the full edition

OBITUARY.

By R. J. Lawrence

Fell asleep in Jesus, at her parents' residence in Oakland, Michigan, July 13, 1861, Julia Ann, wife of Riley Rathbun, aged 24 years. Sister Rathbun took a heavy cold last fall which resulted in consumption, and finally in her death. She embraced present truth about six years ago, and has been a firm believer in the truths connected with the third angel's message. She bore her affliction with patience and christian fortitude; and as the hour of her dissolution drew near, she said, I shall sleep but a little while. Jesus will soon come to awake the sleeping dead; then I shall meet my sister that has gone before. Will you prepare to meet us? was her inquiry as she conversed with her friends. She left an affectionate husband and two small children, and a large circle of friends to mourn her loss; but they mourn not as those who have no hope.
The funeral was held at Stony Creek. A large congregation of attentive hearers listened an hour to remarks by the writer, founded upon Isaiah xxxviii, 1. R. J. LAWRENCE.