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14041 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 124.1 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

… house Joseph Bates conferred with the mother, that day in 1851, when she laid the cases of her children upon his heart, and together they planned the meeting …

14042 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 124.2 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

… of Joseph Bates, and “continually strove to guide her children into a deep Christian experience.” Dictionary of American Biography, Volume 17, Page 350, article …

14043 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 131.1 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

… Potsdam. Joseph Bates, in January, 1853, reports a meeting at Buck’s Bridge, where “The conference ... was held in the home of Brother John Byington, who but a short …

14044 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 137.3 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

… York. Joseph Bates, James White, Ellen Harmon-White, George W. Holt, John N. Andrews, Uriah Smith, were all of New England, and with the exception of the last began …

14045 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 139.1 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

… Sabbath, Joseph Bates, came to Michigan. In his middle fifties, and therefore double the age of his co-workers, James and Ellen White, Joseph Bates was yet strong …

14046 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 140.1 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

… fortunes. Joseph Bates had the gold fever too; but the gold he sought was the souls of men, and for this gold he thrust westward first of our pioneers. He had heard …

14047 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 141.1 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

Joseph Bates came to Jackson that year of 1849, and sought out the leader of the little company of Adventists, Dan R. Palmer, at his blacksmith shop on the north …

14048 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 142.1 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

… took Joseph Bates for a ride out to Smith’s farm. The result was another acquisition to the little company of Sabbath keepers. Cyrenius Smith became one of …

14049 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 148.1 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

… , whom Joseph Bates and James and Ellen White loved, and who, dashing against the ranks of the enemy, cried exultantly to James White: “Be of good cheer, my dear tried …

14050 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 153.1 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

… , with Joseph Bates, John N. Andrews, and White, formed the publishing committee. But Rhodes was restless and eager, with all the ardor of Bates and not so much of …

14051 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 154.2 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

… , except Joseph Bates, who, abstemious health reformer that he was, rode triumphantly free from the dietetic sins and penalties of his fellows. Rhodes declared …

14052 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 156.2 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

ON JOSEPH BATES’ third visit to Jackson, Michigan, in 1852, he had a dream that he was on a ship going west, and it was said to him that he should get off at a place called …

14053 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 158.4 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

… see Joseph Bates trudging up West Main (now Michigan Avenue), crossing the timbered bridge over the Battle Creek just above its junction with the Kalamazoo …

14054 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 159.4 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

Joseph Bates hung up his chart, which he carried as faithfully as the London statesman carries his umbrella, and “beginning at Moses and all the prophets,” he …

14055 Footprints of the Pioneers

Joseph Bates

14056 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 163.1 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

… God, Joseph Bates, and his faithful wife, Prudence, who departed this life one year and seven months before him. Poplar Hill Cemetery, abrupt and commanding …

14057 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 163.2 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

… people. Joseph Bates, first to penetrate this virgin territory, creating the first church at Jackson, opening the door at Battle Creek, ranged also through …

14058 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 165.1 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

… more. Joseph Bates and his wife owned a house and lot there, but I could not find its location, and amid the new farm cottages and houses scattered along the road …

14059 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 165.2 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

… of Joseph Bates, made in 1866 and probated after his death in 1872. And also the statement of his executor, Charles Jones, who was a member of the church in Monterey …

14060 Footprints of the Pioneers, p. 165.3 (Arthur Whitefield Spalding)

… of Joseph Bates’ fortune fed into the cause to which he had given his all.