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By E. B. Jones
I F THERE is anything wrong with Seventh-Day Adventism, I wish you would tell me what it is! Tell me in a few sentences.” Such was the request of a serious- minded, highly-cultured church woman, so unacquainted with the religious sys tem she was asking about that she did not even suspect she had opened a vast subject. For the sake of the multitudes of church folk represented by this in quirer, these “few sentences” are pre pared. “ Anything wrong with Seventh-Day Adventism?” I answer with an emphatic Yes! There is (1) its Unstable Founda tion; (2) its Unscriptural Faith; (3) its Unscrupulous Frauds; and (4) its Un savory Fruits. Let such as care to learn the facts from one who was for more than twenty- five years enslaved by Seventh-Day Ad ventism, examine with me Its Unstable Foundation In 2 Peter 2: 1, 2, we read: But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. No great truth of Holy Writ has been left untouched by the unholy hands of one or more of the many false teachers. Take, for instance; “the blessed hope” of our Lord’s Second Advent. Concerning the time of it, the Word of God states, “ Of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.” “Watch, therefore, for ye ■know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.” “ Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.” “ It is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the Father hath put in his own power” (Matthew 24: 36; 25: 13.; Mark 13: 33; Acts 1:7). Anna Hoppe is, therefore, scriptural in these lines: “ I know not when, nor can I pierce the curtain That hides His glory from my mor tal view; But this I know, His coming is as certain As His divine, eternal Word is true.” But from the days of Christ to this present evil day, false prophets have risen, announcing the time of the Second Advent, and proclaiming themselves the N O V E M B E R , 1 9 4 7
God-appointed messengers to warn the world. Such a “ prophet” was William Miller, who set the time for the Lord’s return, first in 1843, and then in 1844. As the time drew near, his followers, who called themselves “ Adventists,” left their work, not even gathering in their crops, and gave away their property. Wildest fanaticism broke out, bringing disgrace upon the very name of religion. The glorious doctrine of the Second Ad vent was covered with shame, insomuch that evangelical churches were for years almost silent on “ the promise of his coming.” Satan rejoiced; the cause of Christ was injured. As the dates he had set arrived and passed, demolishing his theory, Miller himself frankly acknowledged his error. This was not true of certain followers of his, notably Elder James White, and Ellen Gould Harmon, who later married Elder White, and became Mrs. E. G. White—“ that woman , . . which calleth herself a prophetess” (Revelation 2:20). They had an explanation. The Lord had allowed them to be disappointed in 1843 to test their faith. In 1844 they had made one little mistake—they had ex pected Jesus to come to earth. They now understood that the “ sanctuary” of Dan iel 8: 14, is up in heaven, and that Jesus did really come into it that very year. So they were right, after all! It was upon such a foundation that Seventh-Day Adventism was built—upon “sand” , indeed! And to this day it rests on that same sure-to-crumble sub-struc ture—-the emergency-born, Bible-conflict ing theories of unskilled and deluded men in vital union with the counterfeit “inspiration” of a proved neurotic, sus ceptible to the influence and employment of the Great Deceiver. I refer to Ad ventism’s “messenger,” Mrs. E. G. White, who said of her own words: “ It is God, and not an erring mortal, that has spoken.” i Mrs. White claimed that her every line even in a private letter, was inspired by God, “ the precious rays of light shining from the throne.” 2 1. Mrs. E. G. W hite: Testimonies for the Church , Vol. Ill, p. 257. 2. Ibid. Vol. V , p. 67. A M " SLIDE#
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