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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 24, 1863

OBITUARY.

DIED in Waterloo, Mich., Jan. 21, 1863, Mrs. Olive Randolph, in the sixty-sixth year of her age.

Sister Randolph embraced the truth of the third angel's message some ten years since. She has stood firm in its defense in the midst of opposition. Whenever she had the privilege of meeting with us, her testimony was clear, in the spirit of the gospel. The last time she was with us she regretted much that she could not meet with us in communion. She greatly desired to be with those of like precious faith, but could seldom have the privilege. She now rests in the grave. She sleeps in Jesus. Jesus has slept and arisen, and those who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. Sweet promise—blessed hope! raised to eternal life, beauty, and glory at the resurrection of the just! H. S. GURNEY.

DIED in Hillsdale, Mich., Aug. 5, 1861, of whooping cough, Oran, son of A. and P. Gleason, aged one year six months and three days.

Also Albert, another son of A. and P. Gleason, of croup, Feb. 14, 1863, aged five years and eight days.

The parents and their two youthful daughters feel sorely afflicted over these bereavements, but they mourn not as those who have no hope; for they believe that the Life-giver will soon come and rescue them from the power of the enemy. W. B. CASTLE.

DIED, Jan. 10, 1863, of diphtheria, in Wethersfield, Wyoming Co., N. Y., Mary Jane, daughter of O. S. and Delia A. Eddy, aged six years, six months, and nine days. Little Mary was beloved by all. She loved the Bible, the Sabbath-school, and the Youth's Instructor. She had committed to memory the commandments, the Lord's sermon on the mount, and the first chapter of John. We endeavored to comfort the mourning parents, from 1 Thess. iv, 13, 14. And when her lifeless form was gently lowered into the grave, we felt that we were bidding her good-bye but for a few days. May the Lord keep the afflicted parents, through faith, unto salvation soon to be revealed. A. M. ANTISDALE.

DIED, Feb. 2nd, 1863, at her residence in Beaver, Fillmore Co., Minn., our mother Relief W., wife of John H. Darling, in the fifty-eighth year of her age.

Although she had for many years had but feeble health, yet her death was brought on more directly by a cancerous tumor which had for some time past been gathering near her stomach. This gave but little trouble till about four days before her death, when it seemed to break and obstruct the passage causing great pain at times. A few hours before her death the pain subsided, and she sank calmly to rest in the full enjoyment of her senses, expressing a bright hope of a crown of life to be received at the resurrection. She leaves a companion and four children to mourn her loss. Her greatest anxiety was that we should serve the Lord and that her little son (only eight years old) should be trained up in the way he should go.

One of the lowly, contrite ones of earth, she led a life of suffering and privation; but she has gone to rest.

"Those lids she so seldom could close, By sorrow forbidden to sleep, Now hushed in their mortal repose, Have strangely forgotten to weep."

Brightly in contrast with her life here we hope will be her life in that better land. She was blessed with a gift of counsel and steadfast purpose, above many, on which account we shall miss her much, but could not wish her back to this world of danger and sin; for we believe she sleeps sweetly beneath the kind watchcare of her Saviour. War may drench the world with blood, the savage may sweep through this land, but no such evil "can reach the silent slumberer there." The next sound that breaks on her ear will be the trump of the Archangel that wakes the dead. She expressed an unwavering confidence in present truth, was in full sympathy with the cause, and gloried in the soon coming of her Saviour. She had with her family kept the seventh-day the past nine years. She looked forward with desire to the time when the truth should be proclaimed here, having faith that it would be with good results. So let it be. Brethren we need your sympathy and prayers. There are but four of us here, the only Sabbath keepers we know of within sixty miles. E. W. & M. E. DARLING.