Camouflaged SEVENTH -DAY ADVENTISM
Why I
Renounced It, and Why YOU Should
Shun It
T HE FIRST installment of this article established the fact that there is, as D. M. Canright said, “ a streak of deception in the whole work of Seventh-Day Adventists,” and in out line mentioned five examples of artifice practiced by the Adventists. These were: first, the so-styled “prophetic gift” claimed to have been possessed by Mrs. E. G. White, the self-named “messenger of the Lord” to the Seventh-Day Ad ventists; second, a few typical “ early day” teachings of the sect which were eventually discovered to be erroneous and either played down or quietly drop ped; third, some of the deceptive tactics employed universally by “ evangelists” of the cult when publicizing their “ pro phetic lecture” campaigns; fourth, the hidden purpose and some of the crafty methods of Adventism’s most successful ■proselyting agency—its insidious world covering radio broadcast, “ The Voice of Prophecy” ; fifth, the current nation wide drive of the sect to “ sell” itself to others as “a friendly people who want to be friends with you.” The first two of these examples have been considered in the preceding install ment. Let us now examine the remaining three. And may our Lord Himself, who spoke of both “ blinded” eyes and “bless ed” eyes, give real vision to the readers! (3) The Tricky Advertising Policy Uni versally Adhered to by “Evangelists ,” or “Bible Lecturers,” of the Adventist Cult. It has always been the strategy of these “ religious rascals” (as Seventh-Day Ad ventist “ evangelists” are sometimes, with reason, called), to enter a com munity under disguise. In their adver tising, it is a common practice among them to hide their identity, or their sectarian connection, by the use of mis leading names. When asked who they are, or what religious group they rep resent, they will evade the question, or give some name that does not truthfully identify them and their organization. In this way, they accomplish much under cover preliminary work. Their newspaper advertising illus trates the deception they employ in pub licizing their lectures. They insert large ads containing fictitious titles, set in bold-face type. Such eye-stopping, up- to-the-minute “prophetic” subjects as the following scream across the page: “ Death Struggle Between Democracy and Communism!” . . . “ Will Russia and America Fight?” . . . “ Can Stalin Succeed Where Hitler Failed?” . . .
“ The Vatican and Russia!” . . . “ The Atomic Bomb and the End of the World!” . . . “ Will just 144,000 be Saved?” The name and picture of the officiating “ evangelist” with his associ ates in the campaign are prominently featured in these advertisements; but a forthright, equally prominent statement to the effect that the meetings are be ing sponsored by the Seventh-Day Ad ventist organization is invariably omitted. The so-called “ Bible lectures,” pre sented under such attention-attracting titles as those cited, are as a rule held in the best and most advantageously lo cated auditoriums or halls, and such misleading catch-lines as the following are commonly used by the “ evangelists” in their efforts to disarm readers of any prejudice. Think of the subtlety repre sented in these otherwise innocent phrases when employed by the Seventh- Day Adventists: “ Twentieth Century Crusade for Christ” ; “ Interdenomina tional Sermons” ; “ Fundamental in Doc trine.” This is Seventh-Day Adventist propaganda of the most deceptive sort. A Seventh-Day Adventist campaign is by no means a true crusade for Christ. Lecturers of the cult do not preach in terdenominational sermons. The “mes sage,” or creed of the sect is not funda mental in doctrine. Oh, what brazen guile! What sanctimonious trickery! Referring to the crafty advertising policy of Seventh-Day Adventist “evan gelists,” another has significantly re marked that “ this is deceit in action,” and that “ deceit in action is a warning that there is deceit in doctrine.” In or der to cover up the unenviable “early day” history of the movement, and to get a hearing for their smoothly pre sented, Bible perverting teachings, lec turers of the cult everywhere resort to religious make-believe, which proves that “ deceit in action” does mean there is “ deceit in [Seventh-Day Adventist] doc trine.” And it provides further evi dence that deceit is a trait of the sys tem, a “ streak of deception” so deeply ingrained that it can never be removed. (4) The Concealed Sponsorship and Veiled Objective of the “ Voice of Prophecy,” also that of Other Radio Broadcasts of the Seventh-Day Adven tists. Just as in the case of their de ceptively promoted “ Bible lecture” cam paigns, so also their radio work is like wise carried on in a dishonest manner.
Second Installment of a Three-Part Series By E. B. Jones
The Adventists sponsor a large number of radio broadcasts in this and other countries, but universally employ mis leading names for them in order to con ceal the identity and intent of the spon sors. “Prophecy Speaks” and “ The Bible Auditorium of the Air” are two of the names most commonly appropriated for masking the actual identity of Advent ism’s “ live” local station broadcasts. The “Voice of Prophecy” is the decep tive misnomer of its principal radio program, which has been an official Sev enth-Day Adventist project from the time of its origin, as a nation-wide broadcast, in January 1942. The “Voice of Prophecy” program is in reality the disguised “voice” ” of the Seventh-Day Adventist cult; and it is a very carefully trained and controlled one, too. It is designed to serve as a good-will-creating front for the system, and nothing that would be likely to dis close the broadcast’s sectarian affiliation, or the peculiar and unpopular doctrines of the sponsoring organization, is ever allowed to be presented on it. As a re sult of the producers’ fidelity to this fool-the-people policy, they have in a measure accomplished their aim, because large numbers of the program’s regular listeners who are Christian believers have never suspected that the “ Voice of Prophecy” is other than a sound Christian broadcast. But the most serious feature of this whole evil business is not that thousands of gullible persons have been duped by the well-sung good old Christian hymns and by the fine sounding religious talks by the broadcast’s shrewd and cultured speaker; the most unfortunate feature of this racket is that many uninformed and incautious persons have fallen into the trap of enrolling as students of the pleasingly announced “Voice of Prophe cy Bible Correspondence School,” and so have unwittingly taken up the study of poisonous Seventh-Day Adventist doc trines. To gain this end is the prime pur pose of Adventism’s deceptively named and cleverly produced world-covering radio broadcast; and it is likewise the chief purpose of the variously titled lo cal broadcasts sponsored by the cult. (Continued on Page 21)
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