In Berlin, N. Y., Feb. 2, 1888, of pneumonia, David G. Whitford, in the 73d year of his age. Bro. Whitford became a subject of divine grace in early life, and united with the Seventh-day Baptist Church in Berlin, and faithfully maintained his membership for more than fifty years. At our last covenant meeting he spoke of the probability that he would meet with us but a few times more; the next day, communion Sabbath, was his last with us. Something more than a year since he fell from an apple tree, from which he was picking fruit, sustaining an injury from which he never fully recovered. His last sickness confined him only about one week. He was one of a large family of children, several brothers and one sister surviving him. He was the son of Joshua and Avis Whitford, and grandson of Eld. William B. Satterlee. As a church we greatly feel our loss, and, perhaps at times despondently ask who are to fill the places of those who drop out from our ranks, forgetting that he who was able to raise up children to Abraham from the very stones of the wayside can also more than make up to us the loss we feel as one after another passes away. He leaves a wife and two daughters with their families to mourn their loss. His funeral was held on Sabbath-day. A discourse was delivered by the pastor from Rev. 14: 18. B. F. R.
