4. Spreading the Warning
“That awful day will surely come,Th’ appointed hour makes haste.” From ‘The Millennial Harp’ (published by Joshua V. Himes, 1843) It happened this way: The Reverend Joshua V. Himes was […]
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Category: Books
3. Signs in the Heavens
“Nature in wild amaze Her dissolution mourns; Blushes of blood the moon deface, The sun to darkness turns.” Old camp-meeting hymn Man is used to looking up at the starry […]
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2. The Awakening
“My thoughts on awful subjects roll: Damnation and the dead.” Dr. Watts There were two incidents that occurred during William Miller’s military career, just as he was about to return […]
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1. Early Years
“A youth to whom has given So much of earth, so much of heaven.” “What kind of a man could William Miller have been?” is the wondering question often asked […]
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Introduction to Days of Delusion
DALE RATZLAFF In 2003 I was asked by the Worldwide Church of God to give a presentation on the topic of the Sabbath at their Eastern USA Conference. They paid […]
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Introduction
Meteorologists record atmospheric perturbations as scientific facts, as well as electrical disturbances, cold waves, heat waves, magnetic currents, and other invisible forces influencing man’s physical nature. There are also scientists […]
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23. Appendixes
Appendix A BATTLE CREEK, MICH., furnishes a good illustration of the failure of Adventism after a fair trial. Beginning in 1855, it was the headquarters of the denomination for about […]
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22. The Nature of Man
On this subject I shall make only a brief argument, simply calling attention to some of the main points. That man’s spirit survives the death of his body, and lives […]
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21. Forty-Seven Prominent Texts used by Sabbatarians Examined
For the convenience of the reader, we will arrange here in order an examination of all prominent texts used by Seventh-Day Adventists on the Sabbath or the law. Where the […]
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20. What Law Are Christians Under?
When God speaks, is it not sin to disobey? Surely it is. Paul says: “God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers […]
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19. The Two Covenants
No other subject perplexes Adventists so much as the covenants. They dread to meet it. They have tried various ways to explain it away, but they are not satisfactory even […]
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18. The Decalogue Examined
With Seventh-Day Adventists the decalogue is the one supreme moral and spiritual law of God, than which there is none higher. It is the law which governs the angels in […]
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17. The Law
The foundation of the Sabbatarian error, I believe, is the idea that “the law,” in all the strictness of the old letter, is binding on Christians. Hence, their constant theme […]
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16. A History of Numerous Efforts to Revive the Jewish Sabbath
Why Not Found Out Before? If Sabbatarians are right on the Sabbath question, then the whole Christian church has broken the Sabbath for the last 1,800 years, and has kept […]
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