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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 30, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 33, No. 14.

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Obituary Notices.

By A. C. BOURDEAU; J. H. BATES

Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.
DIED, March 3, 1869, of liver complaint and indigestion, sister Mary Bean, at Bro. Lewis Bean's, her son, in Enosburgh, Vt., aged seventy-five years.
Sister Bean was born in Putney, Vt., in 1793, was the daughter of a very pious mother, embraced religion at the age of eighteen years, and married in 1818, to Samuel Bean, a pious man, son of a devoted Methodist minister. Her husband died six years ago a Sabbath-keeper; and of her five children now living, three are firm in the present truth.
Through her Christian life the deep anxiety of her soul has been for the conversion and salvation of souls. Persons are rarely to be found who are as punctual in attending to secret prayer, and speaking and praying in meetings, as this sister was. She had a lively interest in the proclamation of the first and second angels' messages. Twelve years ago she had been for six years in deep despair, from which she was then delivered in answer to prayer at the house of Bro. L. Bean, since which time she has conscientiously kept the Sabbath. Upon her dying bed she gave timely messages and warnings, and spoke precious words which will long be remembered by many.
Bro. A. S. Hutchins spoke comforting words on the occasion, from Ps. xvii, 15. A. C. BOURDEAU.
DIED, of consumption, in Green Vale, Jo Daviess Co., Ill., March 13, 1869, Caleb Bates, aged sixty-nine years one month and seven days.
Father embraced the Advent faith about the year 1835, and shared the disappointment of 1843 and 1844 with the Advent people, and continued full in the faith till his death.
In 1852 he heard and embraced the third angel's message, and since that time has been trying to keep all the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
He leaves a companion and children, who feel that they have lost an affectionate husband and father, but we sorrow not as those without hope; for he fell asleep in full expectation that the Lifegiver would soon come and raise him to immortality and eternal life. Appropriate remarks were made on the funeral occasion by Eld. Torrey from Heb. ix, 27, 28. J. H. BATES.