Suggested edit: "The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 34, No 40, p 3, Oct. 3, 1878.
Another believer and lover of the Christian Sabbath is fallen. In West Waterville, Maine, Sept. 18th, of paralysis, Mr. Asa Bates, aged 83 years, 9 months, and 18 days. The subject of this notice experienced religion at the age of fifteen years. After he had passed his minority with his father, he left the parental roof to seek a living for himself. In his wanderings, he came to Petersburgh, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. Here he established himself in business, and married. Soon the Spirit arrested his attention, and he then saw the necessity of a deeper work of grace in his heart, and a more entire devotion to the cause which was more dear to him than all others. The Holy Spirit taught him in order to bloom in a Christian life, he ought to be baptized and join a Christian Church, and thereby separate himself from the world. After the lapse of a few years, he moved to his native State and town to spend the remnant of his earthly sojourn, but he soon found himself in a trial as to the Sabbath, as no one kept it, so far as he knew, in the State; further, his children could not keep it, because they were employed in First-day families; so he reluctantly submitted to keep the first day of the week, and soon joined the Baptist Church. But after he became prostrated by disease, and could not labor, the seventh day as a Sabbath revolved and rerevolved in his mind as never before for years, and he said in my presence, he should keep the Bible Sabbath the remainder of his days (and advised me to do the same), and he did keep it until the 18th inst., and then, without a struggle or a groan, sweetly and lovingly yielded up his spirit to the embrace of him who he was and is and ever will be, during an endless Sabbath, in whose presence is fullness of joy, and at his right hand are pleasures evermore. The deceased will never be forgotten by any of his friends and acquaintance that survive him. The bond of love, his sweet sympathy, fragrant with kindness and affection, supplemented by a countenance beaming with heavenly radiance, bespeak of a soul filled with a joy only known by the saints in light. During all his earth-life, many an aching heart felt the balm of his sympathy, and many a needy one had their wants relieved by his generosity.
V. D. M.
Contributor: Jon Saunders (47674050) • [email protected]
Another believer and lover of the Christian Sabbath is fallen. In West Waterville, Maine, Sept. 18th, of paralysis, Mr. Asa Bates, aged 83 years, 9 months, and 18 days. The subject of this notice experienced religion at the age of fifteen years. After he had passed his minority with his father, he left the parental roof to seek a living for himself. In his wanderings, he came to Petersburgh, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. Here he established himself in business, and married. Soon the Spirit arrested his attention, and he then saw the necessity of a deeper work of grace in his heart, and a more entire devotion to the cause which was more dear to him than all others. The Holy Spirit taught him in order to bloom in a Christian life, he ought to be baptized and join a Christian Church, and thereby separate himself from the world. After the lapse of a few years, he moved to his native State and town to spend the remnant of his earthly sojourn, but he soon found himself in a trial as to the Sabbath, as no one kept it, so far as he knew, in the State; further, his children could not keep it, because they were employed in First-day families; so he reluctantly submitted to keep the first day of the week, and soon joined the Baptist Church. But after he became prostrated by disease, and could not labor, the seventh day as a Sabbath revolved and rerevolved in his mind as never before for years, and he said in my presence, he should keep the Bible Sabbath the remainder of his days (and advised me to do the same), and he did keep it until the 18th inst., and then, without a struggle or a groan, sweetly and lovingly yielded up his spirit to the embrace of him who he was and is and ever will be, during an endless Sabbath, in whose presence is fullness of joy, and at his right hand are pleasures evermore. The deceased will never be forgotten by any of his friends and acquaintance that survive him. The bond of love, his sweet sympathy, fragrant with kindness and affection, supplemented by a countenance beaming with heavenly radiance, bespeak of a soul filled with a joy only known by the saints in light. During all his earth-life, many an aching heart felt the balm of his sympathy, and many a needy one had their wants relieved by his generosity.
V. D. M.
Contributor: Jon Saunders (47674050) • [email protected]
Suggested edit: "The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 34, No 40, p 3, Oct. 3, 1878.
Another believer and lover of the Christian Sabbath is fallen. In West Waterville, Maine, Sept. 18th, of paralysis, Mr. Asa Bates, aged 83 years, 9 months, and 18 days. The subject of this notice experienced religion at the age of fifteen years. After he had passed his minority with his father, he left the parental roof to seek a living for himself. In his wanderings, he came to Petersburgh, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. Here he established himself in business, and married. Soon the Spirit arrested his attention, and he then saw the necessity of a deeper work of grace in his heart, and a more entire devotion to the cause which was more dear to him than all others. The Holy Spirit taught him in order to bloom in a Christian life, he ought to be baptized and join a Christian Church, and thereby separate himself from the world. After the lapse of a few years, he moved to his native State and town to spend the remnant of his earthly sojourn, but he soon found himself in a trial as to the Sabbath, as no one kept it, so far as he knew, in the State; further, his children could not keep it, because they were employed in First-day families; so he reluctantly submitted to keep the first day of the week, and soon joined the Baptist Church. But after he became prostrated by disease, and could not labor, the seventh day as a Sabbath revolved and rerevolved in his mind as never before for years, and he said in my presence, he should keep the Bible Sabbath the remainder of his days (and advised me to do the same), and he did keep it until the 18th inst., and then, without a struggle or a groan, sweetly and lovingly yielded up his spirit to the embrace of him who he was and is and ever will be, during an endless Sabbath, in whose presence is fullness of joy, and at his right hand are pleasures evermore. The deceased will never be forgotten by any of his friends and acquaintance that survive him. The bond of love, his sweet sympathy, fragrant with kindness and affection, supplemented by a countenance beaming with heavenly radiance, bespeak of a soul filled with a joy only known by the saints in light. During all his earth-life, many an aching heart felt the balm of his sympathy, and many a needy one had their wants relieved by his generosity.
V. D. M.
Contributor: Jon Saunders (47674050) • [email protected]
Another believer and lover of the Christian Sabbath is fallen. In West Waterville, Maine, Sept. 18th, of paralysis, Mr. Asa Bates, aged 83 years, 9 months, and 18 days. The subject of this notice experienced religion at the age of fifteen years. After he had passed his minority with his father, he left the parental roof to seek a living for himself. In his wanderings, he came to Petersburgh, Rensselaer Co., N. Y. Here he established himself in business, and married. Soon the Spirit arrested his attention, and he then saw the necessity of a deeper work of grace in his heart, and a more entire devotion to the cause which was more dear to him than all others. The Holy Spirit taught him in order to bloom in a Christian life, he ought to be baptized and join a Christian Church, and thereby separate himself from the world. After the lapse of a few years, he moved to his native State and town to spend the remnant of his earthly sojourn, but he soon found himself in a trial as to the Sabbath, as no one kept it, so far as he knew, in the State; further, his children could not keep it, because they were employed in First-day families; so he reluctantly submitted to keep the first day of the week, and soon joined the Baptist Church. But after he became prostrated by disease, and could not labor, the seventh day as a Sabbath revolved and rerevolved in his mind as never before for years, and he said in my presence, he should keep the Bible Sabbath the remainder of his days (and advised me to do the same), and he did keep it until the 18th inst., and then, without a struggle or a groan, sweetly and lovingly yielded up his spirit to the embrace of him who he was and is and ever will be, during an endless Sabbath, in whose presence is fullness of joy, and at his right hand are pleasures evermore. The deceased will never be forgotten by any of his friends and acquaintance that survive him. The bond of love, his sweet sympathy, fragrant with kindness and affection, supplemented by a countenance beaming with heavenly radiance, bespeak of a soul filled with a joy only known by the saints in light. During all his earth-life, many an aching heart felt the balm of his sympathy, and many a needy one had their wants relieved by his generosity.
V. D. M.
Contributor: Jon Saunders (47674050) • [email protected]
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