Death of Langdon Mead by Newell Mead

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 23, 1860

Death of Langdon Mead

By Newell Mead

Died in Washington, N. H., Sept. 9, 1860, of consumption, my youngest brother, Langdon Mead, aged 25 years.

His health began to fall last spring while laboring in Mass., and he came to N. H., hoping to regain it. But the Lord ordered it otherwise. He gradually wasted away with very little suffering until nearly the last. He was hopefully converted under the preaching of the third angel's message nine years since; but for the last year or two he had lost his interest in the truth, and had backslidden from God, yet in his sickness he recognized the hand of the Lord in his affliction. He felt to regret his past unfaithfulness, and was led to give his heart anew to God, and believed the Lord in much mercy forgave his sins, and gave him an evidence of his acceptance. He is at rest, and in the morning of the first resurrection, we believe that if faithful we shall see our dear brother again.

Newell Mead.