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James Aiton Begg was a Sabbatarian in Scotland who believed in Christ’s soon return. He came to this conviction in the late 1820s and rose to prominence in the 1830s and 1840s. He was a bookseller, stationer, and author. After 1845 he was affiliated with the Seventh Day Baptist denomination. In 1853 he was baptized as a Seventh Day Baptist and became a regular contributor to the Sabbath Recorder.
Marion Belchambers was a pioneer worker who served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a teacher and administrator, as well as at the publishing house in India.
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Franklin E. Belden was the most prolific writer of hymn tunes, gospel songs, and related texts in the early years of the Seventh-day Adventist church, and was prominent in various facets of the church’s publishing work.
Stephen T. Belden, a brother-in-law of Adventist co-founder Ellen G. White, was a skilled tradesman who gave needed support to her ministry, particularly during its earliest years and during her sojourn in Australia in the 1890s.
Charles de Vere Bell, known as Vere, was a versatile teacher, minister, and director of the Advent Bible School for the Australasian Union Conference.
As the founding teacher of the denomination’s first official sponsored school, Goodloe Harper Bell is considered by some historians as the “founder” of the educational work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
George Belleau served in Canada, Brazil, and the United States as a pastor, evangelist, union and local departmental director, and conference president.
José Bellesi Filho, pastor and administrator, was born February 12, 1921, in the city of Fernando Prestes, state of São Paulo, Brazil.
Thomas Greene Belton was a missionary to Kenya.
Oliver S. Beltz was among the most influential musicians in the Seventh-day Adventist Church during the twentieth century.
Guilherme Belz (Wilhelm, in German), one of the first converts to Adventism in Brazil, was born in 1835 in the province of Pomerania, currently belonging to Germany.
Rodolpho Wagner Belz was a pastor, evangelist, teacher, and church administrator.
Urbanus Bender was a minister, conference president, and educator in the United States, the West Indies, and Africa.
Bernard Wilfred Benn dedicated more than fifty years of his life to Christian education as a teacher, principal, professor, department chair, and college president.
Harry Benson served for over 35 years as a minister and missionary teacher in Japan and Korea. He was the longest serving expatriate missionary in the Far Eastern Division during the pre-Second World War years.
Isaac Ackah Benson was an Adventist minister and the first Ghanaian national personal ministry director.
Roy Benton served the church in several leadership capacities, including nearly 20 years in the Southwestern Union Conference as a local conference president and then president of the union.
LeRoy Arthur Benzinger, Jr. was a teacher, educator, missionary, and school manager and administrator.
Henrique Berg was a pastor, missionary, and administrator in South America.
Albert Berger, canvasser and missionary, was born in Gutenberg, Germany, on November 5, 1865.