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13601 Founders of the Message, p. 105.1 (Everett Newfon Dick)
… was Joseph Bates. He was born July 8, 1792, at Rochester, Massachusetts, not far from where the Pilgrims landed. His father had been a captain in the Revolutionary …
13602 Founders of the Message, p. 105.2 (Everett Newfon Dick)
While Joseph was a lad, his father moved to New Bedford, where he went into business. This was destined to be Joseph’s home until he moved with his family to Michigan …
13603 Founders of the Message, p. 106.1 (Everett Newfon Dick)
… schoolboy, Joseph had an ardent desire to become a sailor. He had the natural characteristics of a pioneer and felt that he would be at the height of his glory …
13604 Founders of the Message, p. 107.2 (Everett Newfon Dick)
… Belfast, Joseph and a companion crossed the Irish Sea to Liverpool to seek employment on a ship bound for America.
13605 Founders of the Message, p. 109.1 (Everett Newfon Dick)
While Joseph Bates and his American friend were in their boarding house one night, a “press gang” (an officer and twelve men) entered and inquired their nationality …
13606 Founders of the Message, p. 109.2 (Everett Newfon Dick)
… sea, Joseph Bates and another young man from Massachusetts determined to escape even if they died in the attempt. They prepared a rope from a blanket, and when …
13607 Founders of the Message, p. 110.1 (Everett Newfon Dick)
… lines. Joseph Bates and the other members of the crew went aloft and furled the sails while exposed to the enemy. Fortunately no shots were fired until the …
13608 Founders of the Message, p. 111.1 (Everett Newfon Dick)
… , sometimes Joseph Bates washed his clothes early in the morning, contrary to order, put them on and allowed them to dry on him.
13609 Founders of the Message, p. 113.1 (Everett Newfon Dick)
… of Joseph’s citizenship. The admiral would not release him, however.
13610 Founders of the Message, p. 113.2 (Everett Newfon Dick)
This was the first news Joseph had had from home in three years. All letters which he had written had been intercepted and destroyed and apparently any directed to him had suffered the same fate up to this time.
13611 Founders of the Message, p. 113.3 (Everett Newfon Dick)
… of Joseph Bates. After being kept as prisoners of war for eight months on the ships of the fleet, they were taken to England, where they were confined on a prison …
13612 Founders of the Message, p. 117.2 (Everett Newfon Dick)
… time Joseph Bates had been home in ten years.
13613 Founders of the Message, p. 124.3 (Everett Newfon Dick)
… world, Joseph Bates was one of the sixteen men who signed the call. Mr. Bates attended this meeting and thus became the earliest of all those who later became …
13614 Founders of the Message, p. 126.1 (Everett Newfon Dick)
… Boston. Joseph Bates’ ability and standing in the advent movement was recognized in his election as chairman of the conference. At this outstanding meeting …
13615 Founders of the Message, p. 133.1 (Everett Newfon Dick)
… said, ‘Joseph, I haven’t flour enough to make out the baking;’ and at the same time mentioned some other little articles that she needed. ‘How much flour do you lack …
13616 Founders of the Message, p. 135.1 (Everett Newfon Dick)
… excitedly, ‘Joseph, just look out on the front porch. Where did that stuff come from? A dray man came here and would unload it.’ ... ‘Well,’ said Captain Bates, ‘I guess it’s …
13617 Founders of the Message, p. 138.1 (Everett Newfon Dick)
… years Joseph Bates traveled among the scattered companies of advent believers, presenting these newly discovered principles the Sabbath and the true …
13618 Founders of the Message, p. 140.1 (Everett Newfon Dick)
… , 1851, Joseph Bates wrote to James White: “Within two years the true Sabbath keepers have increased fourfold in Vermont and New Hampshire. Within one year we …
13619 Founders of the Message, p. 141.1 (Everett Newfon Dick)
Joseph Bates was a prodigious worker, never sparing himself. After working hard all day he would walk eight miles to talk with those who had been in the 1844 …
13620 Founders of the Message, p. 141.2 (Everett Newfon Dick)
… 1852 Joseph Bates again visited the church at Jackson, Michigan, and while there was impressed to go farther west. He was further impressed to get off the train …