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and cheerful. She had much desired this interview with her parents
and sister. She bade them farewell, as they left to return to Maine,
to meet them no more until God shall call forth His faithful ones to
health and immortality.
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In the last days of her sickness, with her own trembling hands she
arranged her things, leaving them in perfect order, and disposing of
them according to her mind. She expressed a great desire that her
parents should embrace the Sabbath, and live near us. “If I thought
this would ever be,” she said, “I could die perfectly satisfied.”
The last office performed by her emaciated, trembling hand, was
to trace a few lines to her parents. And did not God regard her last
wishes and prayers for her parents? In less that two years, Father and
Mother White were keeping the Bible Sabbath, happily situated within
less than one hundred feet from our door.
We would have kept Anna with us; but we were obliged to close
her eyes in death, and lay her away to rest. Long had she cherished a
hope in Jesus, and she looked forward with pleasing anticipation to
the morning of the resurrection. We laid her beside dear Nathaniel in
Mount Hope Cemetery.
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