OBITUARY | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 30, 1862

OBITUARY.

Died, at the residence of her father, in Fairfield, Iowa, Dec. 4, 1862, of inflammatory rheumatism, Miriam Martha Murphy, aged 13 years, 3 months, and 19 days.

The deceased, though young, was a lover of her Bible, and a constant reader of the same. She was beloved by all who knew her, especially by many young friends. She bore her sickness with fortitude and without a murmur; and when informed by her mother that she could not bear it long, and told to look to her heavenly Father for divine assistance, she commenced praying, and called upon her parents to pray with her. Her mother knelt by her bedside, and committed her dying child to the care of God. When her mother arose from her knees she exclaimed, "Dear mother, prepare to meet me in heaven; I am dying, but am not afraid to die;" and when her father came to her bedside she said, "Father, if ever I disobeyed you, or did anything to hurt your feelings, forgive me." He told her he would. She then bade her father and mother an affectionate farewell, exhorting them to meet her in heaven. She called upon her weeping friends around her bedside not to weep for her, but to prepare to meet her in heaven. She loved all that did the will of her heavenly Father without partiality.

"Unconscious now in peaceful sleep, From all her cares at rest, While friends around are called to weep, She is divinely blest.

"Away from Satan's tempting snare, Her faith's no longer tried; In Jesus she is sleeping there, For in bright hope she died." ANNIE M. HULL.

Fell asleep in Jesus in Lodi, Wis., Dec. 4, 1862, Bro. Thomas Lindsay Jr., aged 16 years and 8 months.

Bro. Lindsay embraced the Sabbath under Bro. Sanborn's labors at Hundred Mile Grove, Wis., in the fall of 1859. He loved all the truths of the third angel's message, and made the Bible his constant companion. He was ready to lay by his armor, but desired to see the glorious appearing of Jesus Christ, for which he had so faithfully lived. His parents, brothers and sisters mourn the loss of his godly example and kind words.

"Asleep in Jesus, soon to rise When the last trump shall rend the skies; Then burst the fetters of the tomb, To wake in full immortal bloom." C. W. STANLEY.