Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Heth, Levi 1886
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The Ionia Standard, Friday, August 18, 1886

Shiloh (Correspondence of The Standard)

Died, August the 9th, Levi Heth in the 24th year of his age.  Mr. Heth’s 
disease was the fell destroyer, consumption.  For months he lingered, 
receiving the ministrations of a devoted wife, kind parents and friends, each 
day leaving but its number less, the fatal disease insidiously, but surely, 
bringing the end.  “In the morning of life, beloved by all, he has passed 
away.  How truly in the midst of life we are in death.”  

The funeral services were held August 11 in the U.B. church at Shanty Plains, 
conducted by Rev. T. B. Millar.  The text was a part of the 29th verse of the 
10th chapter of Numbers.  We are journeying to the place, a fitting type, said 
the speaker, of life’s journey.  All are journeying to a common place, the 
grave.  “It is appointed unto man once to die.”  God had a purpose in putting 
us here, and that purpose was that the world may be the better for our having 
lived in it, and also that we should glorify God in our bodies and spirits, 
which are his.  God has given each of us an undying principle, and has 
entrusted to us the care of that principle.  Christianity has bridged over the 
river of death and points to a place of eternal rest beyond the grave, and our 
conduct here must prepare us for that place, for “after death the judgment” is 
the solemn declaration of God’s word.  God has not arbitrarily determined the 
length of human life, much depends on ourselves, our conduct may prolong or 
shorten life.  The good man has the promise of heaven with all its glory, and 
the great, the most earnest work of life with each of us should be to be 
prepared for death and for the life beyond the grave.



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