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Joseph Bates (8 July 1792 – 19 March 1872) was an American seaman and revivalist minister. He was a co-founder and developer of Sabbatarian Adventism, whose followers would later establish the Seventh-day Adventist Church .
Joseph Bates (July 8, 1792 – March 19, 1872) was an American seaman and revivalist minister. He was the founder and developer of Sabbatarian Adventism, a strain of religious thinking that evolved into the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Joseph Bates often chaired the “Sabbath conferences” of 1848-1850. He became more closely associated with the Whites at that time. He traveled to many places, including Battle Creek, winning the first convert there. In his last year of life he preached at least 100 times.
In 1843, Joseph Bates, a Christian Connection minister, who accepted the Millerite position that Christ was soon to return, went to that Washington, NH, Christian church and he and Adventist Joshua Goodwin convinced the members of the soon return of Christ.
Joseph Bates was a sailor-turned-preacher who joined the Millerite Movement and waited for the Second Advent of Jesus to happen in 1844. Despite being disappointed when this didn’t occur, Bates held onto his faith and played an integral part in starting the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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Joseph Bates was probably the greatest worker after James and Ellen White in building up the early Adventist church. In the area of reform he was without peer, being perhaps the first among Adventists to quit using coffee, tea, and meat.