OBITUARY by Chas. O. Taylor

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 31, 1861

OBITUARY.

By Chas. O. Taylor

DIED, Nov. 19, 1861, at Rouse's Point, N. Y., Abigail Stratton, wife of Ezra Stratton, aged 82 years and 2 months.

Our sister has for over thirty years been a professor of religion. In 1845 she left the Methodists and cast her religious interests with the Advent people, embracing nearly all the plain truths then shining from the word of God. In 1853, with her aged companion, she commenced keeping the Sabbath of the Bible. She was a great sufferer from April last, from a combination of erysipelas and dropsy. During the first of her sickness, clouds and darkness in some degree rested on her mind. She did not have all that peace that her heart wished. In her last days the peace of God rested on her, and she was resigned, calm, and happy, and the prayer of her heart, that she might die easy, was granted her, and she fell asleep without a struggle or a groan, while companion, sister, son, daughters, and grandchildren, stood weeping around the dying couch of the saint of God.

An appropriate discourse was preached by D. T. Taylor (her nephew) at her funeral, from John xi, 35, and the connected subject. We laid her in the silent tomb, with calm assurance of seeing her again soon, in the bright resurrection morn, when the good shall live again to die no more. CHAS. O. TAYLOR.