In 1859 they got married at the Orange Street Meeting House in Philadelphia and settled back in West Branch.
The revivalists insisted that people need to be "saved" and "entire sanctified", beliefs that were taught by the early Friends in some form, including George Fox.
The Beans at first had welcomed the revival movement, believing that it was bringing life into the Society of Friends.
But they saw that as it progressed it was departing from such Quaker ideas as the universality of the Inward light, the need for spiritual discipline and gradual growth rather than instant perfection, silent meetings for worship to wait on direct and personal guidance from God, and volunteer lay ministers and elders.
Joel and Hannah Bean's granddaughter Anna Cox Brinton was influential in the development of the Pacific Yearly Meeting from the earlier College Park Association.