Editor’s Preface

THE body of this work is a reprint of the Autobiography of Elder Joseph Bates, which received great public favor. A large edition of it has been sold, and the book has been out of print more than a year. The call for it continues. The author was one of those noble and godly men who though “dead yet speaketh.” LELJB 6.1

The editor of this work was an intimate and close fellow-laborer with Elder Joseph Bates for more than a quarter of a century. And it is with great pleasure that we give his life sketches, with introduction and closing remarks, in this volume. LELJB 6.2

J. W. 

BATTLE CREEK, MICH., AUGUST 16, 1877.