Life sketches of ellen g. white

most unpopular work, and she responded. He has used her
mightily. She has truly been a mother in Israel. p. 460,
Para. 1, [LS15].
"Our blessed Lord voiced the calmest judgment of the human
heart when He said that a tree is known by its fruits. In
the light of this, the life of our sister, and its blessed
influence upon all whose lives it has touched, are a
witness of her character and work. She 'being dead yet
speaketh.'" p. 460, Para. 2, [LS15].
For the discourse that followed the reading of the
biographical sketch, Elder E. E. Andross chose as his text
the words: "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from
henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from
their labors; and their works do follow them." p. 460,
Para. 3, [LS15].
"Of no one," the speaker declared, "can it be said more
truly than of our dear sister, that this scripture is
fulfilled; still, under circumstances such as these, our
hearts cry out for the glorious morning of the
resurrection. We want to know that death is to be
destroyed, that the sleepers are to awake. However blessed
the life that has gone out, we want to know that the loved
one will rise again to glorious immortality. And the Lord
has not left us to mourn as those who have no hope. 'I will
ransom them from the power of the grave,' the prophet
writes; 'I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be
thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction.' Blessed
words! . . . p. 460, Para. 4, [LS15].
"Again, I read the words of the prophet Isaiah, as
recorded in the twenty-sixth chapter: 'Thy dead men shall
live, together with My dead body shall they arise. Awake
and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew
of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.' Death is
eventually to be destroyed, and the sleepers are to awake.
. . . p. 461, Para. 1, [LS15].
"So today, my dear brethren, and especially those who
mourn most deeply upon this occasion,--members of the
family,--I say to you, We are not to sorrow as those who
have no hope. Our sister, after seventy years and more of
earnest, faithful toil for the Master, has now lain down to
rest in the last sleep; but soon she is to rise again. 'The
Lord Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with