In Albion, Dane Co., Wis., March 10th, of consumption, Mrs. Hannah A. Crandall, wife of Charles R. Burdick, aged 24 years. She embraced religion at the age of 13, and united with the first Church of Alfred, N. Y., of which she remained a faithful member until she was released by her Heavenly Father, we trust, to take her place among the spirits of the people just made perfect.
She had been separated from the people with whom she was in fellowship for a number of years, with no prospect of enjoying their society for time to come; but that separation, though in its circumstances, calculated to subject her early faith to the severest test, by no means abated her attachment to the people of her choice, or the fidelity with which she kept the Sabbath of the Lord, the observation of which distinguishes them from the great mass of professed Christians.
Constitutionally frail, she has, for years, exhibited indications that her pilgrimage on earth was destined to be brief; and she manifested a great anxiety that it should be filled up with useful labor. As a teacher, she was eminently successful, exerting a most happy moral and religious influence over those in her charge. Numbers of precious souls refer to her as the instrument of their conversion to God. Her last engagement was with the Female Seminary of Rochester, N. Y., where she habitually conducted the religious exercises of the Institution.
Declining health obliged her to resign her place, and as a last resort, she came to Wisconsin during the last summer, to try the effect of western climate. But disease had obtained too strong a sway to be dislodged by the influence of medicine or climate. Watched and cared for by kind parents, a brother and sister, who had preceded her to this country, and a heart-stricken husband, who had been summoned from a distant field of labor, to her dying couch, she fell asleep in Jesus. T. E. B.
