Obituary Notices | AdventAI

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 17, 1865

Obituary Notices.

DIED, of spotted fever in Tompkins, Mich., Jan. 11, 1865, after a sickness of eighteen hours, sister Mary Weed, aged 22 years. Sister Mary has so soon followed her mother, who died last spring. The mourning friends find consolation in the blessed hope believing that they will have part in the first resurrection.

An appointment was left for Bro. Lawrence to preach a funeral discourse in Bro. Weed's district school-house, Jan. 22. H. S. GURNEY.

DIED, at Mauston, Dec. 9, 1864, of heart disease, Bro. P. S. Claflin, aged 48 years, 2 months and 15 days, after a sickness of four weeks. The evening before he died, after worship, we joined in singing the hymn commencing, "Alas and did my Saviour bleed." His lips moved, murmuring the tune, until we came to the last two lines of the last verse, when his voice broke in clear and distinct:

"Here Lord, I give myself away, 'Tis all that I can do."

Cheerfully he met the last foe. Full of faith he passed the chilling billow, and sweetly sleeps in Jesus. He leaves behind, a wife and six children, besides a large circle of friends and relatives to mourn his loss; but we mourn not as those who have no hope, but live in glad expectancy of meeting him in the glorious immortal kingdom. An appropriate discourse was delivered upon the occasion by Bro. J. R. Goodenough from 2 Sam. xiv, 14.