Minister J.N. Loughborough was involved with the Seventh-Day Adventist movement from its early days, when he was called to preach by Ellen White in 1852. This work of history gives a first-hand account of the church's first 50 years. Loughborough describes in vivid detail White's first visions and prophecies, early divisions within the church, and various points of theology and philosophy that defined the Adventist movement.