No history of the rise and development of the remnant church could claim to be complete if it failed to mention Joseph Bates and to emphasize the important place he played. Joseph Bates devoted the last twenty-five years of his life to keeping the commandments of God-to the task of proclaiming, exalting, and championing the binding obligations of the seventh-day Sabbath.
It should be remembered that he was fifty-four when he began to proclaim the Sabbath truth. He had been a preacher of the first angles message for years before the great disappointment in 1844. Never seeking the limelight, he...

Several hundred years after the apostle John wrote of a beautiful woman facing a fierce dragon in the last book of the Bible, the Waldenses fled from before Satan and his followers to find a refuge in the wilderness.
Here is the story of the true church of Jesus, branded as heretics and pursued relentlessly in a Holy War to extinguish by intrigue, lies, betrayal and persecution, those keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.