Captain Bates – Adventist Pioneer Multi-Cache
Millerite: No longer in area to maintain; gravestone getting too hard to read as well.
Captain Bates – Adventist Pioneer
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Captain Joseph Bates, also known affectionately as Elder Bates, was one of the original founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
In his youth, Joseph’s desire to become a sailor was fulfilled when he first served as a cabin boy. Eventually, he became captain of his own ship, and pursued the life of a sailor for 21 years. During this period of his life, he served as a prisoner of war, among other ventures.
Joseph Bates became a champion of the temperance cause , and was instrumental in establishing one of the first temperance societies in the US.
Bates joined the Millerite Movement that swept across the US in the 1830s and 1840s. Shortly after what became known as “The Great Disappointment,” Elder Bates accepted the seventh-day Sabbath and became known as the “Apostle of the Sabbath.” Eventually, Bates joined with others from the Advent Movement, and became a founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Bates became the author of several articles and tracts, as well as his autobiography.
Looking today at Bates' tomb, I'm reminded of a song that Joseph would have been well acquainted with. Part of it goes like this:
The mossy old graves where the pilgrims sleep
Shall be open as wide as before.
At the posted coordinates, you will find the tombstone of Joseph Bates.
The final stage is at N 42 36.JOS W 085 50.EPH.
J = Number of letters in the first name of Joseph’s wife.
O = Third digit of year of birth for Joseph.
S= Number of letters in the last word of the first line of the quote from Revelation.
E = Last digit of the year of the Great Advent Movement that Bates became a part of.
P= The commandment that Elder Bates became convinced of to keep.
H= Third digit of the year Joseph assisted in organizing one of the first temperance societies in the US.
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