OBITUARY by Samuel Zin

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 26, 1861

OBITUARY.

By Samuel Zin

My dear father, Samuel Zin, fell asleep in the Lord, Oct. 25, 1861, no more to mingle with friends until the great Life-giver shall summon him from the grave.

My father was born in 1790, and was 71 years old when he died. He had been a member of the M. E. church fifty-one years; but he heard Bro. Brinkerhoof give a course of lectures, and got some of our books and read, believed, and heartily embraced the Lord's Sabbath about six months since, and kept it until his death. He also believed that man was mortal, and that he should sleep until Jesus comes, which he fully believed would be but a short time.

He was so much attached to the message that he called for the "Three Angels' Messages" a great many times during his last sickness, and seemed happy when looking at that little silent preacher that had led him to see the beauty, grandeur, and importance of the message which leads men and women to observe God's perfect, holy, and unchangeable law. He lived and died near Centerville, Apanoose Co., Iowa, and now sleeps with his fathers. We have hope that when he awakes it will be to put on immortality and live forever in the earth made new. May the Lord help me to so live that I may have a good influence over my friends and relatives, that we may all meet in the better land, where there will be no more parting, is my prayer.

SAMUEL ZIN.

Rousseau, Iowa.