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70521 Membership of the Seventh-day Adventist Church of Battle Creek, Mich., p. 15.3 (Battle Creek Seventh-day Adventist Church)

… the Sabbath reform on the law of God, that his children may obtain a complete readiness for the coming of Christ.

70522 Advent Pioneers Biographical Sketches and Pictures, p. 1.1 (Herbert E. Douglass)

APOSTLE OF THE SABBATH TRUTH July 8, 1792 — March 19, 1872

70523 Advent Pioneers Biographical Sketches and Pictures, p. 1.4 (Herbert E. Douglass)

… -day Sabbath. He visited Washington, New Hampshire, where a group of Adventists had begun to observe the seventh day. Fortified by this experience, he became …

70525 Advent Pioneers Biographical Sketches and Pictures, p. 3.1 (Herbert E. Douglass)

… the Sabbath of the fourth commandment, he observed the next Sabbath.

70527 Advent Pioneers Biographical Sketches and Pictures, p. 3.3 (Herbert E. Douglass)

… the Sabbath truth (in an article by T. M. Preble in the “Hope of Israel,” March, 1845) that he heard about a little company of Sabbath-keepers up in the mountains of …

70528 Advent Pioneers Biographical Sketches and Pictures, p. 3.4 (Herbert E. Douglass)

After this meeting, really the first Seventh-day Adventist conference ever held, Bates returned to Fairhaven. His mind was convinced. His spirits were elated, and he was full of zeal to preach the truth. “O how I love this Sabbath,” he exclaimed.

70529 Advent Pioneers Biographical Sketches and Pictures, p. 3.5 (Herbert E. Douglass)

… the Sabbath of the Lord our God.” Hall was not easy to convince, but Captain Bates’ arguments were convincing, and Hall became a convert to the Sabbath doctrine …

70530 Advent Pioneers Biographical Sketches and Pictures, p. 3.6 (Herbert E. Douglass)

And now you see why we call Captain Bates the apostle of the Sabbath truth.

70531 Advent Pioneers Biographical Sketches and Pictures, p. 4.2 (Herbert E. Douglass)

… the Sabbath. And few of us know J. N. Andrews as the third president of the General Conference, from May 14, 1867, to May 18, 1869. But such he was, preceded only by John …

70532 Advent Pioneers Biographical Sketches and Pictures, p. 4.3 (Herbert E. Douglass)

… scattered Sabbath-keeping companies in England and on the Continent, and to organize the work with headquarters in Basle, Switzerland. He died in the harness …

70533 Advent Pioneers Biographical Sketches and Pictures, p. 4.6 (Herbert E. Douglass)

… Christian Sabbath and should be observed instead of Sunday. Stowell took the tract and laid it aside, but his fifteen-year-old daughter Marian picked it up …

70534 Advent Pioneers Biographical Sketches and Pictures, p. 4.7 (Herbert E. Douglass)

“No,” said Marian, “but I have, and found that we are not keeping the right Sabbath. What do you think, John?”

70535 Advent Pioneers Biographical Sketches and Pictures, p. 4.8 (Herbert E. Douglass)

“I think the seventh day is the Sabbath. And if you and I think that, Marian, we must keep it.”

70536 Advent Pioneers Biographical Sketches and Pictures, p. 4.9 (Herbert E. Douglass)

“Of course. Brother Oswald and I kept last Sabbath. We’ll be glad to have you join us. But you take Elder Preble’s tract to your father and mother to read.”

70537 Advent Pioneers Biographical Sketches and Pictures, p. 4.10 (Herbert E. Douglass)

“All right.” The senior Andrews read it, then brought it back to the Stowells. And both families kept the next Sabbath, meeting for the service in one of their rooms.

70538 Advent Pioneers Biographical Sketches and Pictures, p. 5.1 (Herbert E. Douglass)

… the Sabbath-keeping Adventists, young John had a strange experience. In Paris, where he lived, were a group of fanatics who sowed the seeds of discord among …

70540 Advent Pioneers Biographical Sketches and Pictures, p. 8.3 (Herbert E. Douglass)

… the Sabbath-keeping Adventists were sent to Battle Creek for the first General Conference Session. Twenty delegates came, representing six conferences …