In Hopkinton, R. I., Sept. 11th, of a complication of diseases, Lovina, wife of Horace Maxson, in the 33d year of her age.
Sister Maxson has been for a number of years a member of the 1st Seventh-day Baptist Church in Hopkinton. During her lingering and distressing sickness, she gave cheering evidence that the hope of the Gospel is, even in affliction, as an anchor to the soul both sure and steadfast. She had obtained, by the exercise of faith in God, the victory that overcometh the world, and was enabled to triumph in God in the midst of extreme bodily sufferings. At one time, having been engaged in prayer with her, as we rose, she exclaimed, "O how refreshing! I feel as though I could not consent for you to stop praying."
In conversation with one of the family, a few hours previous to her death, speaking of some of her friends whom she should not see again, she remarked, "Bid them all farewell for me, and tell them that I die in the faith." The loss which the affectionate husband, and tenderly cherished daughter, have sustained by this Providence, is irreparable. The church has lost a praying sister, and the poor and distressed a sympathizing friend.
A discourse was preached on the occasion of her death, by the writer, from Eccles. 12: 5. "Because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets." A. B. B.
