Light Bearers

I thought this book was a pretty good reference for Seventh-day Adventist history. It has a lot of details of the original white American Seventh-day Adventist founders. Not as much on African-American pioneers, unfortunately. I guess I'll have to find another book to fill those gaps. Also, it doesn't have as much details as I'd like about the native peoples that they reached and who began to go out and preach and be pioneers in their own countries, which, I believe may be partially due to the way records were kept back in the 1800s and early 1900s, based on my searches of other books and online records. It is American-centric. But it does touch briefly on missionaries sent to many other countries around the world which was a feature that I liked. And when I say "briefly," I mean that it mentions just that a missionary was sent to a certain place. (Occasionally, there is a little more detail for foreign countries.) That said, based on what was in it, this book is a good source for researching Adventist history. It gives a hefty amount of details for key events and issues that the founders and the church navigated in the first fifty years or so (up to about the early 1900s). Of course, it doesn't have as much detail on the more recent church history and issues, just the highlights. It is divided into sections and has a topical index which comes in handy. I would recommend it for anyone who doesn't mind a long read (it's over 600 pages!) and wants to study Adventist Church history. If you want a quick, summative read, you could try "Tell It to the World", by C. Mervyn Maxwell, or "Church Heritage" by the SDA Youth Dept.