J. N. ANDREWS by John Nevins Andrews

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

J. N. ANDREWS

By John Nevins Andrews

Fell asleep in Jesus, in Hamlin, N. Y. Feb. 13th, Sr. Miranda B. Craig aged 42 years.

For many years Sr. Craig had been affected more or less with palpitation of the heart. Nearly a year and a half since, her disease, seemed to take a firmer hold, and commenced making new inroads upon her system, entirely baffling medical skill. About eight weeks prior to her death, her spells of palpitation became more violent and frequent than ever before, at times causing numbness in her side and limbs, and soon the dreadful nature of the difficulty was more fully realized as indications of mortification became visible in her left foot and limb making it apparent to all, that amputation must necessarily follow. This distressing operation took place some six weeks previous to her death, but instead of lessening her sufferings they were only the more aggravated.

The friends that attended Sr. Craig during her illness say that a more painful case never came under their observation, yet her sufferings were borne with remarkable patience and fortitude. A few hours before her death her agony was so great that she seemed to relinquish her hold upon life, and expressed herself that it would be a pleasure to die.

The funeral discourse was from 1 Thess. iv, 18.

J. N. ANDREWS

Rochester, N. Y. Feb. 16, 1863.