Heavenly Visions

NOTES ON EARLY TIMES IN THIS ADVENT MOVEMENT NO. 7. THE SABBATH COMES TO THE GROUPS WHO HAVE LIGHT ON THE SANCTUARY AND THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY

THIS definite advent message was now about to take shape in the minds of early Adventists. Captain Bates came back from New Hampshire in early 1845, having kindled his torch of Sabbath truth to brighter flame by his visit to the original group of the Sabbathkeeping Adventists of 1844. HEVI 108.1

The visit had revealed to him that the seventh day is the true Sabbath, and his enthusiasm let him to the desire to write a book about this new light, to share the good news with the world. HEVI 108.2

It was indeed time to tell this news. Telling the news-the gospel news-has played a big part in this movement. Our earliest missionaries in Africa used to tell us how the carriers meeting on those beaten footpaths would set down their loads and ask one another, “What do you know?” “What have you heard?” The quest for news gave many a believer among us a chance to tell the greatest news of all. HEVI 108.3