p. 55 | OBITUARY by J. D. Hillis

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 13, 1863

OBITUARY.

By J. D. Hillis

DIED, in Pleasantville, Marion Co., Iowa, Dec. 15, 1862, of puerperal fever, sister Rhoda E. McClelland, aged about thirty years. For many years she had been an exemplary member of the M. E. church, until the year 1859, when under the preaching of Eld. M. Hull, in Pleasantville, she was convinced that she was in error, and had been keeping the first day of the week for a Sabbath, in place of the Sabbath of the Lord, which the Bible says is the seventh day. She was also convinced that she must seek for immortality if she ever possessed it. On many other points she renounced the doctrine of the popular teachers of the present day, and embraced Bible truth, and has ever since been a firm believer therein. Many who may chance to see this obituary, know how she delighted in keeping all the commandments of God; and especially did she rejoice to know that she was no longer keeping a Sabbath instituted by man, but was now keeping the true Sabbath of the Lord, which she observed until her death. Perhaps they will also remember the happy seasons they have enjoyed with her in social meetings, and the many pleasant exhortations she has given them; and her musical voice in singing the hymns, "Three Messages," and "The Jewels of the Lord," which were favorites with her. She leaves a husband and three children to mourn the loss of a kind companion and an affectionate mother, while the church will lose a bright and active member; but their loss is her eternal gain. She will sleep in Jesus until the resurrection morn, when the saints shall awake to immortality and eternal life. J. D. HILLIS.