OBITUARY by James White

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 12, 1863

OBITUARY.

By James White

Died April 29, 1863, near Buchanan, Mich., Bro. Joseph Catlin, of disease of the liver, aged nearly sixty-four years. He leaves a believing wife to mourn his loss. Bro. Catlin joined the regular Baptists at the age of seventeen. He embraced the Advent faith in 1843, and has since that time been a firm and zealous believer in the soon coming of Jesus Christ.

Bro. and sister Catlin embraced the Sabbath more than twelve years since, and have maintained their faith in this respect, alone, not being situated so as to meet on the Sabbath with those of like faith.

By his request we visited Bro. Catlin a few days before his death, and was happy to learn that he had been making clean work for the judgment. If any of his neighbors and numerous acquaintances had thought that he had too zealously pressed the claims of the third angel's message, Rev. xiv, 9-12, upon them, they seemed to forget it now, and were all attention to his sufferings and wants, and reverently spoke of his conscientious integrity. The funeral was held in the Advent chapel at Buchanan village. We spoke on the occasion to an attentive audience from 1 Cor. xv, 26.

We shall hold in pleasant remembrance our hospitable and kind reception by Eld. D. R. Mansfield (Adventist) and family, at Buchanan. JAMES WHITE.

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