Cabin Boy to Advent Crusader
No history of the rise and development of the remnant church could claim to be complete if it failed to mention Joseph Bates and to emphasize the important place he played. Joseph Bates devoted the last twenty-five years of his life to keeping the commandments of God-to the task of proclaiming, exalting, and championing the binding obligations of the seventh-day Sabbath.\ It should be remembered that he was fifty-four when he began to proclaim the Sabbath truth. He had been a preacher of the...
