I WISH to say to the dear brethren and sisters that sister Louisa M. Bates, the wife of William Bates, sleeps in Jesus. She died of consumption, Jan. 17th, 1855, in the 29th year of her age. She embraced the truth one year ago last November, and was baptized last March when Bro. Joseph Bates labored among us. She was a firm believer in the third angel's message. Before she died she told her friends to weep not for her, for it was but a little while that she should sleep in the earth, before they should meet again, clothed with immortality, to suffer no more. She left a companion and brother and sisters to mourn her loss, yet they sorrow not as those having no hope. They would be glad to have some one of the preaching brethren come and preach a funeral discourse.