Joseph Bates: The Real Founder of Seventh-Day Adventism Book

Shanghaied by the British in 1810, Joseph Bates spent the next five years as a British sailor and prisoner, surviving the Dartmoor massacre. Soon he was captain of his own ship, forcing his sailors to swear off liquor and talking pirates out of their prey. Scrupulously honest, he once turned his ship around to return money overpaid him. In 1824 Bates was converted and signed "a solemn covenant with God." After amassing a small fortune, he retired at age 36 and joined the Christian Connexion, who took the Scriptures as their "only rule of faith and practice." Then his life began to get interesting. Book Specs Hard BackPublisher: Review & Herald Publishing AssociationPrinted: 2004Pages: 222 Table of Contents A Word to the Reader 1. A Travelin' Man 2. The Captain Gets Religion 3. Reformer on the Loose 4. The Ultimate Reform: Millerism 5. Bates Gets the Sabbath 6. Catalyst for a Movement 7. Sabbatarian Adventism's First Theologian: Theology as History (Part 1) 8. Sabbatarian Adventism's First Theologian: Theology as History (Part 2) 9. Sabbatarian Adventism's First Historian: History as Theology 10. Patriarchs in Conflict and the Transfer of Leadership 11. Sabbatarian adventism's First Missionary 12. Senior Statesman 13. And What Is Retirement? Read More