Death of Emma Kellogg by Josiah Bates

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 7, 1863

Death of Emma Kellogg

By Josiah Bates

Died at Lake Station, Ind., March 19, 1863, of diphtheria, Emma, daughter of Bro. and sister M. S. Kellogg, aged 4 years, 3 months, and 20 days. She was sick but four days.

The father writes that himself and wife, and two other children are seized with the same disease. When I was holding meetings there a few months since, this little child seemed very anxious to go to all the meetings. I learned that she was in the habit of going away by herself to pray. Her father said that her little prayer seemed to come right from the heart, and she would give the strictest attention when talking to her about the promised reward for obedient children. Says her father, "Three Sabbaths before her death she reproved a little girl at the meeting, saying, 'Mary, you ought to mind your mother.'" Her last verse for the Sabbath School was in Ps. cxix, 60: "I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments."

Jos. BATES.