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13863 Founders of the Message, p. 9.1 (Everett Newfon Dick)

… three-Joseph Bates, James White, and Ellen White-were soon joined by others, and together they labored amid poverty and hardship.

13864 Founders of the Message, p. 70.1 (Everett Newfon Dick)

Like Joseph Bates, Himes was a reformer by nature and found his greatest satisfaction in crusading against the prevailing evils of his day. He was an energetic …

13865 Founders of the Message, p. 85.1 (Everett Newfon Dick)

… , and Joseph Bates, who attended this meeting, tells us that on Sunday the crowd filled the tent and the circle of the tents, and overflowed the whole ground, and …

13866 Founders of the Message, p. 105 (Everett Newfon Dick)

Chapter 3 — Joseph Bates, Pioneer of the Pioneers Among Seventh-day Adventists

13867 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 …

13868 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 …

13869 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 …

13870 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.

13871 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 …

13872 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 …

13873 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 …

13874 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.

13875 Founders of the Message, p. 113.1 (Everett Newfon Dick)

… of Joseph’s citizenship. The admiral would not release him, however.

13876 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.

13877 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 …

13878 Founders of the Message, p. 117.2 (Everett Newfon Dick)

… time Joseph Bates had been home in ten years.

13879 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 …

13880 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 …