Welcome to Anchors Of Truth,
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live from the
3ABN Worship Center.
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Hello and good
afternoon, and we welcome you,
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our audience here at
the 3ABN Worship Center,
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and our audience
from around the world.
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And sadly, we have come down
to the last program in what has
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been a most interesting
and inspiring Anchors Of Truth.
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Our guest has
been Pastor Jim Nix,
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who is the director of
the Ellen G. White Estate,
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and historian, and a
collector of many things.
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And I see there's a little pile
of artifacts that he has here
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that I guess he'll tell us
about in just a little bit.
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But we have learned so very,
very much about our church,
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about our doctrinal
package, and I think in a very
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special way about those
men and women who the Lord
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used to really begin
and superintend the work
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of the Lord as pertains to the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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We found that they are
not so different than we are.
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They had
strengths, they had failures,
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they had likes,
they had dislikes.
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And they had a lot to work
through as they established
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this church, which has
been a tool in the hand of God
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for the salvation of
the souls of men and women.
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And we are
inheritors of their work,
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and we stand on the shoulders
of great men and women.
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We learned a lot about
Ellen G. White this morning.
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And this
afternoon, we will learn more.
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We find in talking with Jim
Nix that he's a really neat guy,
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if we're allowed to use
that language for a man of God.
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But he is a neat
guy, he is fun to talk to.
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He has a wealth of experience,
he has traveled the world.
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He has talked to many people
and he is steeped in the history
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of this church.
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It makes one humbly
proud to know that this church
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didn't begin as a whim
or in the mind of some man,
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but it was birthed
in the mind of God.
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It was a
prophetically destined church,
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one that the Lord
said would come in time.
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And in time it did come.
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And will stay here just
as long as the Lord needs it
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to do the work
until Jesus comes again.
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That is assured, that
the work will be finished
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either in our
lifetime or shortly thereafter.
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We can be assured that
Jesus is indeed coming soon.
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Amen?
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And every time we
look back, we see the way
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that is paved forward.
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Someone said years ago, if
you can't see in the windshield,
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look in the rearview mirror.
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Because the same God
that's there will be with you
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until Jesus comes again.
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And so our last presentation
is, I Had The Privilege,
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as Jim Nix talks about this
very, very important subject.
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Before he does so,
our music is going to
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come from Celestine Berry.
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And she is going to be
singing, Faithful To Me.
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Before she sings,
we will have prayer.
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Then the next voice you
will hear will be that of
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Celestine Berry, and
then our speaker, our friend,
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Pastor Jim Nix, the director
of the Ellen G. White Estate.
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Shall we pray.
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Gracious Father, we just praise
You and thank You so very much
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for Your Word, which
is a lamp unto our feet
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and a light unto our path.
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We can see that path so
very clearly as we look back
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at the way that You have led
us over these many, many years.
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We know that we
serve a faithful God.
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And we ask that we
may be faithful followers,
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because we know that
You are going to lead us
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safely home if we
will just follow You
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wherever You lead us.
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And so bless us this
day as we sit, as we hear,
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as we learn, as we grow.
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Help us to remember that
God doeth all things well,
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and that Jesus is coming soon.
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Bless the speaker, bless the
music, bless our time together.
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We praise You and
thank You, dear Father.
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In Jesus' name, amen and amen.
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You have told me,
Lord, what pleases You;
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to act justly and love
mercy, and walk humbly too.
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I'm reminded of the things
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You've always said
were in Your heart;
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I know that I have
yet to go that far.
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I want to live my
life in glory to You, Lord,
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that each and every
day I'll love You more.
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I pray I'll die for
You, the One that I adore,
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that someday I may hear
the words I hold so dear,
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"Well done, My
child, you have believed.
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You've been faithful to Me."
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There are words of
truth You long to say,
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there is healing that
may never come unless I pray.
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There are works
of love and courage
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that, Lord, only You can do.
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I'm willing, oh I
yearn to be like You.
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I want to live my
life in glory to You, Lord,
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that each and every
day I'll love You more.
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I pray I'll die for
You, the one that I adore,
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that someday I may hear
the words I hold so dear,
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"Well done, My
child, you have believed.
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You've been faithful to Me."
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I know that one
day I will look at You,
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and I long to see the
pleasure in Your eyes.
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I pray I'll die for
You, the one that I adore,
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that someday I may hear
the words I hold so dear,
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"Well done, My
child, you have believed.
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You've been faithful to Me.
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You've been faithful to Me."
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Thank you very, very much.
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Well, we've come to
the end of this series
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on Adventist history.
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And of course, you
could go on and on and on
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talking about Adventist history.
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And we've tried to look a
little bit about the setting,
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we've tried to look a
little about where the Adventist
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part of the denomination's
name came from historically,
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and the Sabbath part.
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This morning we looked at
some stories about Ellen White.
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This afternoon I
want to shift gears.
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And I have
called the presentation,
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I Had The Privilege.
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What in the world
is that all about?
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Well, let me
unpack it in a minute.
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Several years ago, I was asked
by the stewardship department
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to give a presentation on some
of the stories of the sacrifice
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and commitment of the pioneers.
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Well there's lots of
stories, that was not a problem
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to find the stories.
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It's a problem to find the
glue to tie it all together.
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And then I read the
comments that I will be
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reading in a minute to you,
and it all came together for me.
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But before we do,
I'd like to read a text
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from Philippians 3:13-14
that pretty much summarizes
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the pioneers of this
church, as well as, of course,
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the apostle Paul who wrote it.
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"Brethren, I count not
myself to have apprehended,
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but this one thing I
do: forgetting those things
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which are behind, and
reaching forth unto those things
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which are before, I press
toward the mark for the prize
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of the high calling
of God in Christ Jesus."
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That is a good summary of
the pioneers of this church.
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As I said, I was trying
to pull this talk together...
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Not this one, but one similar
to this several years ago.
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...and I ran across this account
written by Merritt Kellogg,
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Dr. Merritt G. Kellogg.
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Who was Merritt Kellogg?
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Well, he was the older
half brother of some Kelloggs
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that we're more familiar
with; John Harvey Kellogg
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and W.K. Kellogg.
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John Harvey, of course,
was the one that was the
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medical director
for so many years of the
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Battle Creek sanitarium.
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And W.K. Kellogg was
the one who made the money
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off of his brother's
invention, corn flakes.
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Well, Merritt
Kellogg was also a physician.
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He had one of
these six month diplomas,
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so I'm not sure what
quality of physician he was.
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But he was a
committed physician.
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And that's what they had
back in the 1860's or so when
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he was taking medicine.
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But in 1908, Merritt
Kellogg, now an old man,
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is writing his
recollections for building
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the Saint Helena
sanitarium in 1877.
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And here's what he said.
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And maybe you'll see, as we
then share some other stories,
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why this pulls
everything together.
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Kellogg wrote, "I had
the privilege of assisting
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to found the St.
Helena sanitarium.
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I not only had the
privilege of going in there
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and being its first
physician and establishing it,
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but I had the privilege
of taking hold of the pick
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and shovel with my own
hands and grating a road up the
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mountain over which we
could haul material to the
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mountain side where
we built the institution.
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Then with my own hands, I
dug down the side of the rock,
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which was a volcanic ash
formation, cutting out and
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making a place for the
institution to stand upon.
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Then," as if that wasn't enough,
"Then I had the privilege
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of framing the
building and putting it up
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and finishing it off.
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I made every window
frame, every door frame,
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and then set them up.
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I built the stairs and did
the principal part of the work."
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And after all of that privilege,
now listen to what he says next.
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"Then I had the pleasure,
I had the pleasure also
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after it was open for
patients to see it filled within
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two weeks to overflowing.
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And we had to put up tents
for our helpers to sleep in.
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We had very little means..."
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In other words, "We
had very little money."
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We have very little means,
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and consequently
had to work very hard.
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In the morning at daylight,
I would take my tools and
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go and work until it was time
to give the patients treatment.
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Then without a nurse to
assist me, I gave the treatment.
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And when the
treatment hour was over,
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I went out to work again.
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And so I worked
all summer long."
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"I had the privilege..."
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Well in 1910, the
General Conference of
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Seventh-day Adventists
set up something they called,
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the sustentation fund
for retired ministers.
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And in 1913, Merritt Kellogg, he
applied for some sustentation.
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And I found this record in
the General Conference archives,
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and I just summarized
a few things that he put
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on the record as to
why he thought he should be
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eligible for sustentation.
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He said that prior to the second
sailing of the mission ship,
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the Pitcairn, he had supported
himself doing medical work,
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royalty from a book
that he had written,
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The Hygienic Family Physician,
and also royalties off of
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the engraving, a
picture, The Way Of Life,
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that he had prepared.
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He says on his application
form that prior to 1893,
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he had not received all
told more than $200 dollars
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from church funds.
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However, during the period
of time, he had sold his home
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five times, using
every dollar in the work.
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In 1893, he and his
wife went to Polynesia
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and the
Australasia mission field.
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While they were there, they
saved up a thousand dollars,
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which was a fair
amount of money in the 1890's.
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Especially for a missionary.
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But when he left that area to
come back to the United States,
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he says on his
application that he left all,
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there were so many pressing
needs that he left all the
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thousand dollars
there to help the work
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in the Australian field.
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And he summarized his
application by saying,
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"I return to America
poor as to this world's goods,
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but rich in faith and
Christian experience."
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And though I don't find
other pioneers putting it
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quite like that, you can
easily see from what they did
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that they had that
same mental viewpoint.
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"I had the
privilege, whatever it was,
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no matter how difficult
it was, I had the privilege,
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I had the privilege
to do it for the Lord."
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And, "I may be poor
in this world's goods,
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but as a result I
am rich in faith."
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Now the first time that
I started thinking about
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stories of
sacrifice and commitment
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was many years ago when
I was a college student.
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And I have continued
trying to collect some of these
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stories through the years.
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We're going to share
some of them this afternoon.
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But my first introduction, I
guess, was I had the privilege,
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I had the privilege, of
meeting Elder Ernest Lloyd.
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Elder Ernest Lloyd was
in his 80's or early 90's,
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late 80's or early
90's, when I met him.
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He lived at the
St. Helena sanitarium
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in one of the cottages there.
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And we were talking, I wanted
to talk to him specifically
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about his
memories of Ellen White.
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But we talked
about a lot of things.
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He lived
actually to be about 105,
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104 or 105 years of age.
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So I knew him when he was
still a young man, you know,
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when he was in his 80's.
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Anyway, one time
when we were talking,
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he said, "There's one
thing I remember about the old
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pioneer ministers when
they would come to speak
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when I was a boy."
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Now the pioneer ministers,
Elder Lloyd was born in 1880,
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so the pioneer ministers,
by the time he would remember,
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would still be some
of those first generation
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or early second
generation Adventist preachers.
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And Elder Lloyd told me,
he said, "One of the things
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that I remember about
those ministers when they came
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to speak were their suits."
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He said that when the sun
would come through the window
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at just the right angle
and would hit those black
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wool suits that the ministers
wore, he said they would
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shine green in the
sunlight because they had been
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pressed and
re-pressed so many times.
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There was no way that they would
buy more clothes for themselves
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when they could instead
contribute money to the cause,
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as they referred
to it in those days.
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Something else he mentioned to
me has always stuck in my mind.
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He said, "I remember, the part
I remember especially besides
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the suites shining green
were the knees on the pants,
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the suit pants, of
those early ministers."
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He said, "By far, the most worn
part of those minister's suits
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were the knees on their
pants because of all the time
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they spent praying."
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That impressed that young man.
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And of course, he went
on then to be editor of,
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Our Little Friend, for
25 years, and did other
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youth work through the years.
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Another story that I heard
early on as I was starting to
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collect some of
these kinds of stories,
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was one that was told to
me by Elder Arthur White.
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Elder White was the
grandson, one of the grandsons,
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of James and Ellen White.
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And he actually
followed his father, W.C. White,
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who was the third son
of James and Ellen White...
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When Willie White, W.C. White,
died in 1937, he had been the
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secretary, as they called it in
those days, of the White Estate.
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And Arthur White, his son,
was then invited to be the next
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secretary of the White Estate.
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And so, of course, being the
secretary of the White Estate,
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even though the White Estate
in those days was still located
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at Elms Haven in California,
why, Arthur White was expected
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to attend major church meetings.
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So like General Conference
sessions, or annual counsels,
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which they called them,
falls counsels, in those days.
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And so Arthur White went
to the 1938 annual counsel,
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or fall counsel as
it was then called,
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in Battle Creek, Michigan.
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Now it was interesting to talk
to him about this fall counsel
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because John Harvey
Kellogg was still there.
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And they were
holding the fall counsel
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in the Battle Creek sanitarium.
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Now this is 1938, and
if you know anything about
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world history, you know in
1929 there had been a crash
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and the country had not
completely come out of this.
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And so Kellogg was
still scrambling trying,
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Dr. Kellogg was scrambling
trying to just keep enough
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people in that
sanitarium to keep it open.
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So even though he and
the church had parted company
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30 years before, I think
he was probably very happy
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to have the brethren there
to meet and hold their meeting
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in his sanitarium.
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And Elder White
said, "Dr. Kellogg
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showed me all around."
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Of course, he knew who he was.
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Kellogg knew who
Arthur White was.
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Showed him all
around and everything.
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Anyway, but the point that
I want to get to in terms of
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this particular story is what
Arthur White told me happened
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on the way back after
fall counsel was over;
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the overnight train trip
back to Tacoma Park, Maryland
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were the General Conference
was then housed or located.
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He said, "I was a
member of the White family.
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So of course, I know
something about sacrifice,
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or thought I did."
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And he said, "So because I was
a member of the White family,
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and because I had been
raised to know that you should
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sacrifice for the
cause, I got an upper birth
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for the overnight train trip."
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An upper birth in a
Pullman car was less expensive
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than just a lower birth.
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And so he said, "I was feeling
kind of smug about myself,
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feeling pretty good.
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I had saved some
money for the cause."
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For his expense
report, you know, to turn in.
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"I had an upper birth."
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He said, "Before I
put in for the night,"
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he said, "I decided to
walk back through the train
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to see who else was riding
on that overnight train trip
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from Battle Creek back
to Tacoma Park, Maryland."
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And he said, "As I walked
through the cars, the coaches,
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I came to a coach, and seated
there in one of the chairs,
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or in one of the
seats, was Elder W.A. Spicer."
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Now at this time, Arthur
White would have been probably
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about 31 and
W.A. Spicer about 73.
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He had been, Spicer
had been secretary of the
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General Conference for 19 years.
00:20:15.45\00:20:17.00
He had been president of the
General Conference for 8 years.
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He had served various times
as editor of the church paper
00:20:19.67\00:20:23.71
for a couple of years.
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And he had been a missionary.
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I mean, when it comes
to the church, Elder Spicer
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had pretty well done it.
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And so here he was, and
Arthur White said, "I walked in
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and I saw Elder Spicer
there sitting up in this seat."
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And he said, "I never felt
so humiliated in all my life."
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He said, "Elder Spicer
did not say one word to me,"
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but he said, "I knew exactly why
Elder Spicer was sitting there
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with a blanket
around his shoulders."
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I don't remember if Arthur White
said he had a stubby pencil out,
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but I know that W.A. Spicer
wrote an awful lot of letters
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and articles for, The
Review, and stuff, with pencils
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on train trips and boat trips.
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So he may well have
had one that evening
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as they were traveling by train.
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Elder White said, "You know,
we exchanged some pleasantries.
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He never said a word to
me at all, but," he said,
00:21:11.04\00:21:13.95
"I knew that there was
no way that Elder Spicer
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would spend enough money
to get an upper birth even
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in a Pullman car because he
was saving money for the cause."
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As they use to
call it in those days.
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And as I said, Elder White told
me, "I never felt so humiliated
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in all my life, realizing I was
feeling smug that I had actually
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saved the church some money,
saved the Lord some money,
00:21:37.78\00:21:40.14
by getting an upper birth.
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And here was a man
more than twice my age
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sitting there, couldn't
even bring himself to do that,
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because it was more money that
could go into the mission work
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of the church if
he didn't spend it."
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And so, let's just look
at a few of the stories that
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come down from
some of those people.
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We talked the other
night about William Miller.
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William Miller
was a... he was a...
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Well they didn't have ASI
in those days, but if they did,
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he should have
been a member for sure.
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Because he was a
self supporting ministry.
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He paid his own way.
00:22:15.35\00:22:16.53
All those trips that
he made to go everywhere,
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he paid from his farm.
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His children would maintain
the farm so that he had money
00:22:21.23\00:22:25.89
to go preach.
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He started preaching, as
I mentioned the other night,
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either in 1831 or
1833, depending on
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which source you look at.
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And nobody bothered to
think that it cost money
00:22:33.66\00:22:36.03
for stage coaches
and boats, canal boats,
00:22:36.13\00:22:39.98
and those kind of things.
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Until 1835.
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He was up in Canada,
and some lady came up to him
00:22:43.54\00:22:47.05
and gave him two half dollars.
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It was the first money
that anyone had ever thought
00:22:49.87\00:22:52.12
to give him to
help pay for his travel.
00:22:52.15\00:22:55.49
The next year he
was in New York state.
00:22:55.59\00:23:00.26
And there, someone
gave him four dollars.
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So in the first five or
six years of his ministry,
00:23:04.55\00:23:07.77
he had been given a
sum total of five dollars.
00:23:07.95\00:23:12.18
And yet, the critics were
saying he's around making money.
00:23:12.54\00:23:15.38
He's becoming rich
off of his preaching.
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Well, he thought that
was a strange way to show it.
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Because it certainly
wasn't coming to him.
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Wherever the money was
going, it was not coming to him.
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But he went, and he preached
and he preached and he preached
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his heart out the
first angel's message,
00:23:28.85\00:23:30.85
as we discussed
the other evening.
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Another one of those that
preached a great deal during
00:23:32.31\00:23:35.02
that time was a man by
the name of Charles Fitch.
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If you have read,
Early Writings, you know that
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Ellen White, in her first vision
given to her December of 1844,
00:23:41.49\00:23:45.94
sees in the future,
hasn't happened yet obviously,
00:23:46.15\00:23:49.71
but she sees in the future
00:23:49.81\00:23:51.91
the second coming of
Christ; that hasn't happened.
00:23:52.01\00:23:53.76
She also sees,
when we get to heaven,
00:23:53.80\00:23:55.75
there will be Charles Fitch and
one other man, Levi Stockman.
00:23:55.78\00:23:59.56
And they are there in heaven.
00:23:59.79\00:24:01.59
Some of the very few people,
by the way, that Ellen White
00:24:01.62\00:24:04.02
names as having
been shown in vision
00:24:04.05\00:24:06.12
that they will
actually be in heaven.
00:24:06.15\00:24:07.70
But Charles Fitch, let me
tell you a little bit about
00:24:08.85\00:24:11.56
his commitment to the preaching
of the Millerite message.
00:24:11.59\00:24:14.85
Well, first a story
with a little sense of humor,
00:24:15.09\00:24:16.94
and then his commitment.
00:24:16.97\00:24:18.84
One time he was
preaching, and he had a call
00:24:19.06\00:24:22.47
while he was preaching.
00:24:22.57\00:24:23.98
And the place was
packed, the hall or the church
00:24:24.01\00:24:27.11
where he was preaching.
00:24:27.14\00:24:28.24
And there was a man
up in the balcony who
00:24:28.27\00:24:31.00
decided to respond to the call.
00:24:31.63\00:24:33.37
Now the old story
describes him as being a
00:24:33.97\00:24:36.84
rather lubberly fellow.
00:24:36.87\00:24:39.00
I assume that means overweight.
00:24:39.20\00:24:40.67
I have never
looked up, "lubberly,"
00:24:40.70\00:24:42.04
but that's the way I picture it.
00:24:42.07\00:24:43.52
Whatever a lubberly
fellow was, but anyway.
00:24:43.55\00:24:45.95
This lubberly fellow begins
to make his way down the stairs,
00:24:45.98\00:24:49.53
and he stumbles.
00:24:49.56\00:24:51.06
And people start to laugh
to see this man kind of falling
00:24:51.44\00:24:54.67
down the stairs as he's trying
to respond to Charles Fitch.
00:24:54.70\00:24:57.90
And Fitch cries out
when he sees what's happening
00:24:58.10\00:25:00.92
and the laughter
going on, he cries out,
00:25:00.95\00:25:02.97
"Never mind, brother, it's
better to stumble into heaven
00:25:03.00\00:25:06.05
than to walk
straight into hell."
00:25:06.08\00:25:07.79
That was the end of that.
00:25:08.27\00:25:09.30
There was no more
laughter going on.
00:25:09.33\00:25:11.74
But now Fitch
and his commitment.
00:25:12.07\00:25:14.85
A short time later, after
this story that I just related,
00:25:15.86\00:25:18.65
he was preaching in
Ohio and it was a cold day.
00:25:19.03\00:25:24.67
It was in the
fall and it was cold.
00:25:24.70\00:25:26.75
And when he got through
preaching, he made an appeal.
00:25:26.78\00:25:29.87
And a number of
people wanted to be baptized.
00:25:30.28\00:25:32.84
So they went down to the
lake, the wind was blowing.
00:25:32.87\00:25:34.77
As I say, the
temperature was chilly.
00:25:34.80\00:25:37.02
And he baptized
several in the lake.
00:25:37.22\00:25:39.62
And as he comes up out
of the water to go back
00:25:39.65\00:25:42.88
to where he was
staying and to dry off
00:25:42.98\00:25:45.00
and to get warmed up a
bit, here came another group.
00:25:45.03\00:25:47.88
They hadn't made up
their mind quite so quickly.
00:25:48.22\00:25:50.24
So here they come, and
they want to be baptized.
00:25:50.27\00:25:52.79
Well, the Lord
is coming quickly.
00:25:52.82\00:25:55.29
We need to baptize them.
00:25:55.32\00:25:56.47
So back to the lake he
goes, into the water he goes,
00:25:56.50\00:26:00.67
and he baptizes
the second group.
00:26:00.70\00:26:02.87
It's still
windy, it's still cold.
00:26:03.12\00:26:05.17
And when he comes up out of
the water after baptizing the
00:26:05.20\00:26:08.21
second group, now
pretty chilled himself,
00:26:08.24\00:26:11.50
he's now going to go
back to where he was lodging
00:26:11.65\00:26:14.93
and try to get
dried off and warmed up,
00:26:15.03\00:26:17.28
when guess what.
00:26:17.31\00:26:18.55
Here comes a third group.
00:26:18.98\00:26:20.47
They had not made
up their mind earlier,
00:26:20.57\00:26:22.21
now they want to be baptized.
00:26:22.24\00:26:23.94
So back into the
water Fitch goes.
00:26:23.97\00:26:26.34
He baptizes this group.
00:26:26.37\00:26:27.98
The next day, even
though it's still cold,
00:26:28.23\00:26:31.32
he travels in an open carriage,
or wagon, buggy, or whatever,
00:26:31.35\00:26:35.90
and he catches cold.
00:26:38.56\00:26:39.96
Unfortunately, the
cold turns into pneumonia.
00:26:40.50\00:26:43.42
Now this does not occur
before Fitch hears about
00:26:43.86\00:26:50.80
the October 22 date.
00:26:50.83\00:26:52.72
So factor this in.
00:26:52.82\00:26:54.12
He dies on October 14,
eight days before October 22.
00:26:54.15\00:26:58.79
But he has accepted
the October 22 date.
00:26:58.82\00:27:02.80
So he's now looking for
Jesus to come on October 22.
00:27:02.83\00:27:06.92
But we've talked
about his commitment.
00:27:07.21\00:27:09.26
Let's just pause another
moment and put into context
00:27:09.64\00:27:13.37
what the great disappointment
was like when Jesus didn't come
00:27:13.40\00:27:16.68
on October 22.
00:27:16.71\00:27:18.49
His obituary, the last line
in the obituary of Elder Fitch
00:27:18.72\00:27:23.07
says the following, "His
widow and fatherless children
00:27:23.10\00:27:27.23
are now at Cleveland confidently
expecting the coming of our Lord
00:27:27.26\00:27:31.26
to gather the
scattered members of the family.
00:27:31.29\00:27:33.41
Can you picture that mother
standing there by the casket
00:27:33.62\00:27:36.32
saying to those
children, "Don't cry.
00:27:36.57\00:27:40.09
Next Tuesday when Jesus
comes, we'll see papa again."
00:27:40.40\00:27:44.85
And maybe that helps
us, a little bit at least,
00:27:45.59\00:27:48.78
to understand why they called
it the great disappointment.
00:27:48.81\00:27:53.96
Because not only did Jesus
not come, but they were not
00:27:53.99\00:27:57.72
reunited with papas
and mamas and brothers
00:27:57.75\00:27:59.82
and sisters and grandparents;
00:27:59.85\00:28:01.53
family members
that had passed away.
00:28:01.56\00:28:03.78
We'll do these kind of
in chronological order.
00:28:04.50\00:28:07.25
Speaking about some of the
others from that period of time,
00:28:07.28\00:28:09.90
when they came up to
the October 22, 1844 date,
00:28:09.93\00:28:13.62
there were several Millerites.
00:28:13.79\00:28:15.29
We know some by name and others
just by general descriptions.
00:28:15.32\00:28:18.94
But we know of
several Millerites who left
00:28:19.11\00:28:21.75
their potatoes or
their crops in the field.
00:28:21.96\00:28:25.05
People would
come and say to them,
00:28:25.08\00:28:26.67
"Well, if you're
not going to use that,
00:28:27.62\00:28:29.42
if you're not going to dig
your potatoes, or whatever,
00:28:29.45\00:28:32.15
let us do it."
00:28:32.18\00:28:33.93
Well, Leonard
Hastings was one of those.
00:28:33.96\00:28:36.25
And he said, "No.
No, Jesus is coming."
00:28:36.47\00:28:39.73
I'm not going
to take your money.
00:28:40.15\00:28:41.18
You're not going to
need those potatoes.
00:28:41.21\00:28:42.67
And I don't need them, so just
leave them there in the field."
00:28:42.70\00:28:45.47
Interestingly, there was a
potato rot that got into the
00:28:45.76\00:28:49.25
potatoes for two or three
years, at least, in New England
00:28:49.28\00:28:51.95
and rotted practically all
the potatoes that had been dug.
00:28:51.98\00:28:55.88
But when later Leonard Hastings
goes out into his field,
00:28:56.28\00:29:01.22
he realizes his
potatoes have not frozen,
00:29:01.25\00:29:03.87
but some way or other
the earth had preserved them.
00:29:03.90\00:29:06.86
And he now was able to sell his
potatoes for a lot more money
00:29:07.08\00:29:10.13
because the other farmers
were needing seed potatoes
00:29:10.23\00:29:12.66
to try to plant the
next year, and most of the
00:29:12.69\00:29:14.87
potatoes had rotted.
00:29:14.90\00:29:17.15
It wasn't just the men who
were committed in those days.
00:29:17.18\00:29:20.44
The wife of Hiram Edson,
her name was Esther Edson.
00:29:20.59\00:29:24.79
When it came time to print the
first article that dealt with
00:29:24.94\00:29:29.11
the Sanctuary
truth, as we now call it,
00:29:29.14\00:29:31.10
the Sanctuary doctrine,
when it was time to do that,
00:29:31.13\00:29:33.95
they had no money, Hiram
Edson and the others that were
00:29:33.98\00:29:36.30
putting out that little
issue of, The Day-Star extra.
00:29:36.33\00:29:40.20
They had no money.
00:29:40.23\00:29:41.31
So what did Sister
Edson, what did Esther Edson do?
00:29:41.80\00:29:45.63
She sold her silverware.
00:29:45.86\00:29:48.34
Now that wouldn't do
most of us much good today,
00:29:48.69\00:29:50.49
because it's just pot metal.
00:29:50.59\00:29:52.05
But back then
it was coin silver.
00:29:52.08\00:29:53.55
So it was worth something.
00:29:53.58\00:29:54.94
And she sold all of
her solid silver teaspoons
00:29:54.97\00:29:57.81
and half of her
large spoons to help pay.
00:29:58.08\00:30:01.47
This was not just the
men's endeavor, this was
00:30:01.57\00:30:04.52
men and women, family, committed
to getting the message out.
00:30:04.55\00:30:08.86
Other stories from
that period of time about
00:30:09.11\00:30:12.02
sacrifice and commitment.
00:30:12.05\00:30:13.63
One has to do with the
publishing of the first
00:30:14.30\00:30:18.29
Sabbath tract.
00:30:18.50\00:30:19.91
Here we go, I showed
this the other night I think.
00:30:19.94\00:30:22.15
This is a Xerox copy of
Joseph Bates first Sabbath tract
00:30:22.67\00:30:26.22
that was published in 1846.
00:30:26.25\00:30:28.49
Now interestingly, Joseph
Bates did not have the money
00:30:28.72\00:30:32.52
to print his tracts.
00:30:32.83\00:30:34.35
And so he had arranged with
the printer, Benjamin Lindsey,
00:30:34.38\00:30:37.37
who was in New Bedford...
00:30:37.40\00:30:38.91
Bates lived across
the river in Fairhaven.
00:30:39.01\00:30:41.01
He had arranged with Benjamin
Lindsey that when money became
00:30:41.04\00:30:43.97
available, he would
pay it until eventually
00:30:44.00\00:30:46.34
he would pay off
the printing bill.
00:30:46.44\00:30:48.27
Well he had a friend, Heman
Gurney, Bates had a friend,
00:30:49.16\00:30:53.25
Heman Gurney,
who was a blacksmith.
00:30:53.28\00:30:55.20
He liked to sing.
00:30:55.30\00:30:56.70
He's known in Adventist
history as a singing blacksmith.
00:30:56.73\00:30:59.27
Apparently as he'd
pound away at the anvil,
00:30:59.30\00:31:01.27
he would sing hymns.
00:31:01.30\00:31:02.48
So he's known as
the singing blacksmith.
00:31:02.51\00:31:04.64
In 1844, the spring of 1844,
Bates decided he wanted to go
00:31:04.67\00:31:08.99
down into Maryland, to
Kent Island in Maryland,
00:31:09.02\00:31:12.38
and he wanted to try to find
a family that had befriended him
00:31:12.61\00:31:16.79
30 or so years before
when the whole Chesapeake Bay
00:31:16.89\00:31:20.88
froze over and Bates
almost died of frost bite
00:31:20.91\00:31:25.24
or freezing to death.
00:31:25.27\00:31:26.48
And this family
had helped rescue him.
00:31:26.51\00:31:28.56
And now he felt very
obligated to go down,
00:31:28.82\00:31:31.60
try to find if any of
them still lived there,
00:31:31.63\00:31:33.83
and to tell them that
Jesus was about to come.
00:31:33.86\00:31:36.83
So he went to Gurney and he
said, "Would you come along?
00:31:37.07\00:31:39.29
I'll do the preaching
if you'll do the singing."
00:31:39.32\00:31:42.08
And Gurney said,
"Thank you, but no thank you.
00:31:42.44\00:31:44.24
I'm not very interested in
going down there with you."
00:31:44.27\00:31:46.29
Maryland was a slave owning
state in pre-civil war years.
00:31:46.32\00:31:51.01
And the slave owners did
not like Millerite preachers,
00:31:51.04\00:31:54.33
most of whom were abolitionists.
00:31:54.36\00:31:56.24
And so they would
always give them a rough time.
00:31:56.27\00:31:57.96
And Gurney knew that, so he
said to Bates, "No, no, no, no.
00:31:57.99\00:32:00.93
I'm not too
interested in going down there."
00:32:00.96\00:32:02.53
Well anyway, long story short
was, Bates finally convinced
00:32:02.56\00:32:06.03
Gurney to go with him.
00:32:06.06\00:32:07.22
And so the two
men went down there.
00:32:07.49\00:32:09.72
Now when Gurney
left, Heman Gurney,
00:32:09.75\00:32:12.85
left Fairhaven, Massachusetts,
his employer owed him
00:32:12.88\00:32:16.95
some back wages, and said
to him, "If you're so crazy
00:32:16.98\00:32:21.62
that you're going to go
preach with that Bates guy
00:32:21.65\00:32:24.05
about the second coming
of Christ, I'm not going to
00:32:24.08\00:32:26.59
pay you the money."
00:32:26.62\00:32:27.72
He probably said, "You're
not going to need it anyway
00:32:28.26\00:32:29.73
if you're right, because
the Lord is going to come."
00:32:29.76\00:32:31.63
But that's not
part of the story.
00:32:31.66\00:32:33.05
That's just my imagination.
00:32:33.08\00:32:34.47
But whatever, he said,
"I'm not going to pay you."
00:32:34.50\00:32:36.80
And so Gurney said,
"Never mind, that's fine."
00:32:36.83\00:32:39.17
And he went anyway.
00:32:39.20\00:32:40.37
Two years later...
00:32:40.80\00:32:42.24
Probably closer
to... Well at least two.
00:32:42.63\00:32:45.15
A little over two years later,
one day Gurney is there in town,
00:32:45.18\00:32:48.93
either Fairhaven or New Bedford,
he sees his former employer.
00:32:49.19\00:32:53.44
His former employer says
to him, "I'm feeling bad.
00:32:53.53\00:32:58.52
I still owe you that
money. I owe you 100 dollars.
00:32:58.92\00:33:01.75
And I really should
pay up what I owe you
00:33:02.01\00:33:05.14
when you took off to go
preach a couple of years ago."
00:33:05.17\00:33:07.95
And so he handed
Gurney the money.
00:33:08.55\00:33:11.63
Now Gurney has
given up on the bill.
00:33:11.97\00:33:13.61
He doesn't think he's
ever going to get the money.
00:33:13.64\00:33:14.83
So what does he do at
this point with 100 dollars
00:33:14.86\00:33:18.49
that he had not
expected to ever see?
00:33:18.52\00:33:21.03
Does he go spend
it on himself? No.
00:33:21.27\00:33:22.72
He knows his friend, Bates,
is still trying to pay off
00:33:22.75\00:33:26.08
the bill on that
first Sabbath tract.
00:33:26.11\00:33:29.01
And so now Heman Gurney
walks down Water Street there
00:33:29.48\00:33:33.43
in New Bedford, goes into
Benjamin Lindsey's print shop,
00:33:33.53\00:33:37.37
and he says to Mr. Lindsey,
"I understand that Joseph Bates
00:33:37.60\00:33:42.12
still owes you 100
dollars on his account."
00:33:42.15\00:33:44.84
"Yes, that's correct."
00:33:45.03\00:33:46.46
Well he said,
"I'll tell you what.
00:33:46.74\00:33:48.10
I will pay off that
account on one condition.
00:33:48.30\00:33:52.36
That you never tell
Joseph Bates who paid the bill."
00:33:52.65\00:33:57.12
Now Benjamin Lindsey, I don't
know if he was religious or not,
00:33:57.69\00:33:59.99
but he certainly
was not a Millerite or
00:34:00.02\00:34:02.46
an early Sabbath keeper.
00:34:02.49\00:34:03.62
But he was a good businessman.
00:34:03.82\00:34:05.50
And he knew that if he
agreed to keep his mouth shut,
00:34:05.78\00:34:08.34
he could get paid today.
00:34:08.37\00:34:09.77
If he wasn't willing
to keep his mouth shut
00:34:09.92\00:34:11.81
he didn't know when he'd
get paid, because whenever
00:34:12.20\00:34:14.31
Bates had a little
more money, he'd come pay
00:34:14.34\00:34:15.90
some more on the account.
00:34:15.93\00:34:17.13
So Benjamin Lindsey agreed.
00:34:17.16\00:34:19.23
And the bill was paid.
00:34:20.05\00:34:22.26
A short time later
Joseph Bates comes in
00:34:22.48\00:34:25.10
to Mr. Lindsey's
print shop again,
00:34:25.13\00:34:26.91
and he's ready to pay
a little bit more money.
00:34:26.94\00:34:28.94
And Mr. Lindsey
said, "It's all paid.
00:34:30.09\00:34:32.42
You don't owe me any money."
00:34:32.45\00:34:33.69
Now the story tells us
that Bates wasn't even curious
00:34:34.50\00:34:39.64
to know who paid the bill.
00:34:39.74\00:34:41.25
Bates' whole life, the
way he lived his life was,
00:34:41.68\00:34:45.02
"The Lord will provide."
00:34:45.05\00:34:46.93
The Lord had provided.
00:34:47.06\00:34:48.67
He didn't need to know
where the money came from.
00:34:48.70\00:34:50.41
Didn't make him any difference.
00:34:50.44\00:34:51.57
The Lord had taken care of it.
00:34:51.60\00:34:52.93
But Gurney liked to tell
the story to his dying day
00:34:53.16\00:34:56.85
how he'd had the privilege
of paying off the final amount
00:34:56.88\00:35:00.98
that was owed on the printing
of the first Sabbath tract.
00:35:01.01\00:35:04.91
Another time, just to
talk about Bates, another time
00:35:05.91\00:35:08.34
he decided he
needed to go somewhere.
00:35:08.37\00:35:09.80
He felt impressed
he should go preach.
00:35:09.83\00:35:11.35
He didn't have any money.
00:35:11.38\00:35:12.44
But he got on the
train anyway and sat down,
00:35:12.81\00:35:16.12
having no idea
what he was going to do,
00:35:16.15\00:35:18.38
because pretty soon the
ticket agent was going to be by
00:35:18.41\00:35:20.97
and he didn't have
a cent in his pocket.
00:35:21.00\00:35:23.20
But never mind, the
Lord had impressed him
00:35:23.99\00:35:26.66
he should go, so
the Lord will provide.
00:35:26.69\00:35:28.40
And sure enough, a gentleman
that he did not even know,
00:35:28.43\00:35:31.55
a total stranger walked up
and said, "Here's five dollars."
00:35:31.58\00:35:34.89
That covered the
ticket, and away Bates went.
00:35:34.92\00:35:38.79
Bates lived his life that way.
00:35:39.49\00:35:41.20
There's another story that
probably most of you have heard,
00:35:41.23\00:35:43.50
but it shows the
commitment of Joseph Bates.
00:35:43.60\00:35:46.95
It has to do with the second
edition, probably it was the
00:35:46.98\00:35:49.73
second edition of the Sabbath
tract that came out in 1847.
00:35:49.76\00:35:53.49
First tract, 1846.
00:35:53.52\00:35:55.30
Then he enlarged it and brought
out a second tract in 1847.
00:35:55.33\00:35:59.67
Now the story that goes
with that printing of that tract
00:36:00.78\00:36:03.67
goes like this:
00:36:03.70\00:36:05.12
Joseph Bates' wife, Prudy
Bates, needed to do some baking.
00:36:05.42\00:36:10.06
And so she came to
her husband and she said,
00:36:10.33\00:36:12.79
"I need to do some
baking, and I need some flour.
00:36:12.82\00:36:16.05
Would you go and buy some
flour. I'm all out of flour."
00:36:16.26\00:36:18.76
"Well sure, of course I will.
00:36:18.79\00:36:20.28
How much flour do
you need, by the way?"
00:36:20.54\00:36:22.76
"Well, I need
four pounds of flour."
00:36:23.08\00:36:25.31
"Oh, okay."
00:36:25.64\00:36:26.73
And so he gets up and he
goes to the general store,
00:36:26.83\00:36:30.22
and there he buys
four pounds of flour.
00:36:30.32\00:36:33.71
And he comes home and he
gives the four pounds of flour
00:36:33.97\00:36:36.87
to his wife, who
is very startled.
00:36:36.90\00:36:39.14
And she said,
"What? What in the world?
00:36:39.17\00:36:41.76
You only brought me
four pounds of flour.
00:36:41.95\00:36:44.43
I mean, usually
when you go to the store,
00:36:44.77\00:36:47.12
you buy a whole barrel of flour.
00:36:47.15\00:36:49.36
And now you're just buying
one little container of flour?"
00:36:49.72\00:36:54.83
And then he said to her,
"Well," he said, "you know,
00:36:55.12\00:36:57.89
I haven't told you this,
but," he said, "I spent the last
00:36:59.05\00:37:03.31
money that we had to get
you that four pounds of flour."
00:37:03.34\00:37:08.06
And what it was, was
one of these little things;
00:37:08.44\00:37:10.20
a York shilling.
00:37:10.23\00:37:11.43
They're called, York shillings,
they were really Mexican coins,
00:37:11.80\00:37:14.41
but up there in New England they
called them, York shillings.
00:37:14.44\00:37:16.77
And he had spent the last money.
00:37:16.87\00:37:18.52
She said, "Well, what in
the world are we going to do?
00:37:18.55\00:37:20.75
How are we going to..."
00:37:20.78\00:37:21.81
I think that's woman talk for,
"Are you going to get a job?"
00:37:21.84\00:37:24.26
I think that's what she
meant, but the story says
00:37:24.72\00:37:26.95
she just asked him,
"What are we going to do?"
00:37:26.98\00:37:29.04
Anyway, he said, "Well,
I'm going to write a tract."
00:37:29.66\00:37:33.13
I'm sure that's not what
she wanted to hear from him.
00:37:33.16\00:37:35.09
"I'm writing a
tract on the Sabbath."
00:37:35.32\00:37:36.91
"Well, how are we
going to survive?"
00:37:36.94\00:37:38.37
"Well, the Lord will provide."
00:37:38.40\00:37:41.26
And the story says
she went off to have a
00:37:41.29\00:37:43.37
nice little cry about it all.
00:37:43.40\00:37:45.02
He's sitting there feeling
impressed that there is some
00:37:45.12\00:37:49.65
mail for him if he
would go to the general store
00:37:49.68\00:37:52.55
to the postmaster
and to call for mail.
00:37:52.58\00:37:55.19
And so he got up and he
walked to the post office,
00:37:55.22\00:37:58.22
or wherever the mail
was delivered or was held.
00:37:58.25\00:38:01.70
Because they didn't
deliver it in those days.
00:38:02.69\00:38:04.04
You just went
to the post office.
00:38:04.07\00:38:05.40
And there, he asked if
there was any mail for him.
00:38:05.62\00:38:07.98
Now this is not the letter that
was written to Joseph Bates,
00:38:08.16\00:38:12.10
obviously, but this is
the kind of letter that,
00:38:12.13\00:38:14.24
when the postmaster looked
in all the little cubicles
00:38:14.56\00:38:16.41
and pulled out the B's,
and flipped down through,
00:38:16.44\00:38:18.38
and found one for
Bates, it was like this with a
00:38:18.41\00:38:20.78
little "5" up here, meaning that
the postage had not been paid.
00:38:20.81\00:38:24.24
There was five
cents postage due.
00:38:24.27\00:38:26.24
Now how much money does
Bates have in his pocket?
00:38:26.73\00:38:29.66
None.
00:38:29.78\00:38:30.81
So the postmaster said,
"Look, I've known you for years.
00:38:30.84\00:38:34.24
No problem, just take it.
00:38:34.27\00:38:35.70
When you have the money, why,
bring me to postage that's due."
00:38:35.73\00:38:38.82
"No, no, no. I
won't do that," he said.
00:38:38.85\00:38:40.61
But he says, "I feel impressed
that if you open the envelope,
00:38:41.11\00:38:45.14
there is money
in that envelope."
00:38:45.32\00:38:47.95
And sure enough, when the
postmaster opened the envelope,
00:38:47.98\00:38:52.00
why, there was
something that would have
00:38:52.24\00:38:53.27
looked maybe like this.
00:38:53.30\00:38:54.35
This is a ten dollar bill from
that era there in New Bedford.
00:38:54.38\00:38:57.38
I don't know exactly which bank
it was on, but it would have
00:38:57.41\00:38:59.87
looked something like
this, printed on one side.
00:38:59.90\00:39:01.95
And now Bates has ten dollars.
00:39:02.12\00:39:05.68
So guess what he does.
00:39:05.87\00:39:07.22
Well he pays
off the postage due.
00:39:07.32\00:39:08.88
Now he has nine dollars
and 95 cents in his pocket.
00:39:08.91\00:39:12.96
So where do you think he
goes? Back to the general store.
00:39:12.99\00:39:15.63
And guess what he buys.
A whole barrel of flour.
00:39:15.66\00:39:18.18
And he buys some other things.
00:39:18.29\00:39:19.87
And he says to the
drayman, which we would today
00:39:20.05\00:39:23.18
say probably the delivery
boy, but he says to the drayman,
00:39:23.21\00:39:26.66
"Take this to my house."
00:39:26.69\00:39:28.54
And he knows his wife very well,
he says, "The woman of the house
00:39:28.57\00:39:31.60
will come out and tell
you it doesn't belong there.
00:39:31.63\00:39:33.92
But you don't pay any attention.
00:39:33.95\00:39:35.43
You just deliver it anyway."
00:39:35.46\00:39:36.96
And now he's got to give a
little chance, a little time,
00:39:37.62\00:39:41.49
for this scenario to play itself
out that he has set in motion.
00:39:41.52\00:39:46.44
So he now walks, he's in
Fairhaven, he walks across
00:39:46.63\00:39:49.78
the bridge over to New Bedford,
over the Acushnet River,
00:39:49.81\00:39:52.76
turns left, goes down
Water Street half a block or so
00:39:52.99\00:39:56.47
to Benjamin
Lindsey's print shop, walks in
00:39:56.50\00:39:58.94
and says, "I want
to print another book.
00:39:58.97\00:40:02.59
And I would like to do it
on time payments like before."
00:40:02.62\00:40:05.85
Well that's fine,
he'd gotten paid before.
00:40:05.88\00:40:08.35
No problem, we'll do that.
00:40:08.38\00:40:09.60
"And of course, I
need some ink and pens
00:40:09.63\00:40:11.35
and paper, and all that."
00:40:11.38\00:40:12.48
And by this time Bates
figures that the drayman,
00:40:12.59\00:40:16.31
the delivery boy,
has delivered the stuff.
00:40:16.34\00:40:19.02
And so he goes back home,
across the Acushnet River,
00:40:19.86\00:40:23.47
he turns left on Main Street,
walks down four or five blocks
00:40:23.57\00:40:27.33
to where he was living
then, and slips in a side door,
00:40:27.36\00:40:30.60
and sits down.
00:40:30.63\00:40:31.75
And his wife does
not know he's back.
00:40:31.93\00:40:34.08
Pretty soon she walks
by and she sees her husband
00:40:34.11\00:40:35.95
sitting there, and
she is all worked up,
00:40:35.98\00:40:38.03
"Oh guess what
happened while you were away,
00:40:38.06\00:40:41.22
while you were out."
00:40:41.25\00:40:42.35
Well, Joseph plays like he knows
nothing at all of what happened.
00:40:43.10\00:40:47.09
I mean, you know,
"Well, what happened, my dear?"
00:40:47.90\00:40:50.32
"Well, the drayman came
and he delivered this stuff.
00:40:50.35\00:40:53.09
And I told him it
doesn't belong here."
00:40:53.12\00:40:54.57
And she just
goes on and on and on.
00:40:54.60\00:40:56.90
Finally Bates says, when
she winds down a little bit,
00:40:56.93\00:40:59.58
"Didn't I tell you
the Lord will provide?"
00:41:00.40\00:41:03.46
"Well yes, but..."
00:41:03.52\00:41:04.92
And he hands her the
letter from someone who said,
00:41:05.42\00:41:08.08
"I'm sending this money to
help you with your ministry."
00:41:08.11\00:41:11.72
And the old story tells us she
went off to have another cry.
00:41:11.97\00:41:15.95
This time is a little
different than the first cry,
00:41:16.19\00:41:18.26
but she had another cry anyway.
00:41:18.29\00:41:20.10
But it gives you some idea,
again, about the commitment
00:41:20.30\00:41:22.10
of these people
and how they lived.
00:41:22.13\00:41:24.55
Then there's J.N. Loughborough.
00:41:24.93\00:41:26.22
He was a young
man, J.N. Loughborough.
00:41:26.25\00:41:28.24
He had been a
Sunday keeping minister,
00:41:28.42\00:41:31.52
and he started preaching
just before he turned seventeen.
00:41:31.88\00:41:34.97
So he was still sixteen
when he started preaching
00:41:35.00\00:41:37.51
Sunday keeping Adventism.
00:41:37.54\00:41:39.18
And for three and a half
years he preached Sunday keeping
00:41:39.21\00:41:42.56
Adventism until in 1852
someone came to him and said,
00:41:42.59\00:41:47.45
"You know, some of your converts
are kind of skipping out on
00:41:47.55\00:41:52.62
this Sunday
business and they're becoming
00:41:52.65\00:41:55.53
Sabbath keeping Adventists.
00:41:55.56\00:41:57.85
You need to do
something about it."
00:41:57.88\00:41:59.78
"Well," John
Loughborough thought to himself,
00:41:59.98\00:42:02.03
"I can take care of that."
00:42:02.06\00:42:03.23
So he wrote out a list of
text that he was going to prove
00:42:03.33\00:42:06.66
to this Sabbath
keeping Adventist preacher,
00:42:06.69\00:42:09.21
proof from Loughborough's
viewpoint, that Sunday
00:42:09.41\00:42:13.84
was the day we
should be worshipping.
00:42:13.87\00:42:14.90
Now what he didn't know
was, he was coming up against
00:42:14.93\00:42:17.67
another young preacher about
his same age, just three years
00:42:17.70\00:42:20.05
older, named J.N. Andrews.
00:42:20.08\00:42:22.34
And Andrews, Andrews
was ready for this young
00:42:23.73\00:42:27.25
John Loughborough,
this young preacher.
00:42:27.28\00:42:29.43
And Loughborough
himself said, "You know,
00:42:29.66\00:42:31.80
I sat there listening.
00:42:32.07\00:42:33.49
And I had my list of text that
I thought proved Sunday keeping.
00:42:33.52\00:42:36.46
And as John Andrews
would preach, I'd have to
00:42:36.56\00:42:40.10
cross one off, 'Well
no, that doesn't teach it.'
00:42:40.13\00:42:41.81
Pretty soon I'd cross
another one off, 'Nope.'"
00:42:42.18\00:42:43.80
He said, "By the time he
sat down, I'd crossed off
00:42:43.93\00:42:45.88
every single text.
00:42:45.91\00:42:47.04
I realized none of them preached
Sunday keeping Adventism.
00:42:47.13\00:42:51.17
They all were
seventh day Sabbath keeping."
00:42:51.20\00:42:53.12
So he said, "I decided I
better be a Sabbath keeper."
00:42:53.15\00:42:55.24
And that's what he became.
00:42:55.34\00:42:56.76
Now he felt that
he should go preach.
00:42:56.86\00:42:58.87
You know, he had been a preacher
as a Sunday keeping Adventist.
00:42:58.90\00:43:01.71
Now he felt he should go preach,
and he had this conviction.
00:43:01.74\00:43:05.08
When he became a Sabbath
keeper, he had in his pocket,
00:43:05.75\00:43:10.20
or in his bank, or
whatever, thirty-five dollars.
00:43:10.23\00:43:12.62
And now for whatever reason, he
could not make any money at all.
00:43:13.00\00:43:16.58
Now remember, in those
days we didn't pay our pastors.
00:43:16.61\00:43:18.89
So they had to
support themselves.
00:43:19.03\00:43:20.59
He was just... He
could not make anything...
00:43:20.69\00:43:24.01
I mean, nothing
was working for him.
00:43:24.31\00:43:25.78
He had a wife.
And, "What do I do?"
00:43:25.81\00:43:28.79
And finally, he is
down to one of these things.
00:43:28.99\00:43:31.75
I don't know if you've
ever seen one of these,
00:43:31.78\00:43:32.93
but they were issuing these.
00:43:32.96\00:43:34.75
This is a three
cent silver piece.
00:43:34.78\00:43:36.59
These were
started issuing in 1851.
00:43:36.84\00:43:38.85
This story is 1852.
00:43:38.88\00:43:40.27
So it was a little
coin about like this.
00:43:40.30\00:43:41.83
His wife comes to
him one day and said,
00:43:41.86\00:43:44.30
"I want to go to town and
I want to buy some matches
00:43:44.70\00:43:47.10
and I want to buy some thread."
00:43:47.30\00:43:48.86
And so John reaches into
his pocket and pulls out a
00:43:49.22\00:43:52.41
silver three cent piece,
and said, "Well, take this.
00:43:52.44\00:43:55.51
It's all the money we have.
00:43:55.88\00:43:57.58
But buy just one
penny's worth of matches
00:43:58.48\00:44:03.63
and one penny's worth of thread,
and bring me back the other
00:44:03.66\00:44:06.82
penny so we're
not totally broke."
00:44:06.85\00:44:08.81
And so she goes
off to do her shopping.
00:44:09.37\00:44:12.14
Well, he's convinced that
the Lord's going to help him,
00:44:12.34\00:44:14.84
but he doesn't know how.
00:44:14.87\00:44:16.18
And while she is away,
a man knocks on the door.
00:44:16.21\00:44:20.69
He says, "I would
like to get an assortment
00:44:21.21\00:44:24.09
of Arnold's patent sash locks."
00:44:24.12\00:44:25.89
Now Loughborough had been
selling window sash locks,
00:44:25.99\00:44:29.00
you know, cupboards, and those
kind of things, sash locks,
00:44:29.16\00:44:31.43
locks for doors and things.
00:44:32.04\00:44:33.60
But he was making
no progress at all.
00:44:33.63\00:44:35.85
Here this man comes, and
all Loughborough had to do
00:44:35.88\00:44:41.45
for this eighty dollar sale for
this man wanting to take some
00:44:41.48\00:44:44.55
on a commission so
that he could go to Ohio
00:44:44.58\00:44:46.23
and resell them there, was,
he just had to walk half a block
00:44:46.43\00:44:50.51
and he would make twenty-six
dollars from the sale.
00:44:50.61\00:44:53.74
Needless to say, when he
got back home, guess what.
00:44:53.84\00:44:57.36
He was not looking down anymore.
00:44:57.44\00:44:59.86
He was singing.
00:44:59.96\00:45:01.15
And his wife wondered
what in the word had happened.
00:45:01.18\00:45:03.30
And he told her about the sale
and how God had honored them
00:45:03.66\00:45:07.86
once he had made his
commitment to go preach,
00:45:07.96\00:45:11.28
though he didn't know
how he could afford to do it.
00:45:11.53\00:45:13.56
And from then on
through the rest of his life,
00:45:13.59\00:45:15.63
Loughborough was a Sabbath
keeping Adventist minister
00:45:15.86\00:45:20.00
for about 72 years
until he died in 1924.
00:45:20.29\00:45:23.84
Those early years in Rochester
where Loughborough decided
00:45:24.46\00:45:28.19
to become a Sabbath
keeper were not at all easy.
00:45:28.22\00:45:31.66
Uriah Smith, many yearly later
wrote, thinking back about those
00:45:31.69\00:45:35.53
early years when those young
people in their teens and 20's,
00:45:35.56\00:45:38.63
on the Washington hand
press that they had purchased
00:45:38.66\00:45:41.18
for 652 dollars, blistering
their hands trying to get
00:45:41.38\00:45:47.55
the truths out that they
had studied from the Bible
00:45:47.58\00:45:50.24
about the Sabbath and Sanctuary,
and other things, and here's
00:45:50.27\00:45:53.25
what Uriah Smith
many years later wrote,
00:45:53.28\00:45:55.82
"I often think of the time,"
this is in Rochester, New York,
00:45:55.85\00:45:58.70
1852, 53, 54, "I
often think of the time when
00:45:58.73\00:46:02.27
Brother J.N. Loughborough
and a few others in Rochester,
00:46:02.30\00:46:04.87
New York, under the direction
of Brother James White,
00:46:04.90\00:46:07.36
were preparing the first tracts
to be sent out to the people.
00:46:07.39\00:46:10.36
The instruments we
had were a bradawl,
00:46:10.61\00:46:13.09
a straightedge, and a penknife.
00:46:13.46\00:46:15.24
Brother Loughborough,
with the awl, would perforate
00:46:15.57\00:46:18.36
the backs for stitching;
the sisters would trim
00:46:18.39\00:46:21.16
the rough edges on the
top, front, and bottom.
00:46:21.19\00:46:24.63
We blistered our hands in the
operation, and often the tracts
00:46:24.66\00:46:28.69
in form were not
half so true and square
00:46:28.72\00:46:31.75
as the doctrines they taught."
00:46:31.85\00:46:33.94
And I want to show you something
printed on that hand press.
00:46:34.04\00:46:36.81
And for those up in
front, you can actually see
00:46:36.84\00:46:39.04
how uneven it was, as it
was described by Elder Smith.
00:46:39.07\00:46:43.60
And here is a
tract that was printed
00:46:43.63\00:46:46.23
on that first little press.
00:46:46.26\00:46:47.52
And I brought this
particular one because
00:46:47.62\00:46:49.34
it's about to fall apart.
00:46:49.37\00:46:50.69
That means the last
few pages are not there,
00:46:50.72\00:46:52.58
and you can see where it
has been just stitched together.
00:46:52.61\00:46:55.20
And these were young
people in their teens and 20's
00:46:55.46\00:46:58.01
committed to the proclamation
of the soon return of Jesus.
00:46:58.04\00:47:01.68
And this is kind of
evidence that substantiates
00:47:01.71\00:47:05.67
what he said.
00:47:05.78\00:47:07.09
Well there's so many stories
I've got here that I could tell.
00:47:07.97\00:47:10.76
I should say that Uriah Smith,
also because they didn't have
00:47:10.79\00:47:14.25
any money and they really
were hard pressed for furniture,
00:47:14.28\00:47:18.69
the press was in the living
room of the house for a while.
00:47:18.72\00:47:21.74
I don't know how you
ladies would like to have that.
00:47:21.77\00:47:23.71
But anyway, that's where it was.
00:47:23.81\00:47:25.76
And Uriah Smith once said
that though he had no objection
00:47:25.79\00:47:28.96
to eating beans 365
times in succession,
00:47:28.99\00:47:32.64
yet when it came to
making them a regular diet,
00:47:32.83\00:47:35.37
he should protest.
00:47:35.40\00:47:36.81
So you had to have a
sense of humor back then also.
00:47:37.01\00:47:39.89
Well let's look at
a young black girl.
00:47:42.36\00:47:44.62
No, I better go
to my final story.
00:47:45.40\00:47:47.02
I've got to close with
this story that I want to
00:47:47.05\00:47:50.14
share with you, and I
think it will take most of
00:47:50.17\00:47:52.99
the rest of our time.
00:47:53.02\00:47:54.43
It has to do with our first
overseas foreign missionary,
00:47:54.46\00:47:58.75
J.N. Andrews.
00:47:58.78\00:48:00.24
Elder Andrews, in
1874, was living in north
00:48:01.65\00:48:05.45
Lancaster, Massachusetts.
00:48:05.48\00:48:07.27
He had two children
alive, two had already died,
00:48:07.37\00:48:09.89
as had his wife, his
beloved wife Angeline,
00:48:09.92\00:48:12.68
had died in 1872.
00:48:12.71\00:48:15.02
And now he is a widower, as
they called them in those days.
00:48:15.05\00:48:17.84
We'd probably today
say, a single parent,
00:48:18.09\00:48:19.71
but he was a widower.
00:48:19.74\00:48:20.99
And he gets the
official call to go to Europe
00:48:21.02\00:48:25.68
to become the churches
first overseas missionary.
00:48:25.71\00:48:29.97
With him went to Europe
was his teenage daughter, Mary,
00:48:30.29\00:48:35.11
and her older brother, Charles.
00:48:35.14\00:48:37.53
So there were three of them,
plus a few others that went,
00:48:37.63\00:48:40.39
but there were three
in the Andrews family.
00:48:40.42\00:48:42.97
They sailed September 15, 1874.
00:48:43.26\00:48:48.03
Sailed from Boston,
went first to England.
00:48:48.06\00:48:50.73
While they were in
England, young Mary, she had her
00:48:50.98\00:48:54.17
thirteenth birthday, so she's no
longer 12, she's now a teenager.
00:48:54.20\00:48:57.53
Sometimes we forget, when
we talk about these pioneers,
00:48:58.07\00:49:00.60
that it was a family project.
00:49:00.63\00:49:03.82
It was not just J.N. Andrews.
00:49:04.20\00:49:06.04
Of course, he was
the official missionary.
00:49:06.07\00:49:08.25
But the children were just
as involved as was the father.
00:49:08.28\00:49:12.20
So they'd go first to
Neuchatel in Switzerland.
00:49:12.64\00:49:15.21
And there, they were
trying to get the work started.
00:49:16.35\00:49:20.33
It wasn't going too well.
00:49:20.65\00:49:22.11
Charles, the brother,
would go down to the market.
00:49:22.70\00:49:26.09
He would buy stuff, trying to...
00:49:26.12\00:49:28.46
That was in the French
speaking part of Switzerland,
00:49:28.49\00:49:30.05
so he's trying to negotiate in
a language he doesn't yet know.
00:49:30.08\00:49:34.44
He's buying stuff that
doesn't always look quite like
00:49:34.64\00:49:38.20
what he was use to buying in
the States, the United States.
00:49:38.23\00:49:41.28
And then he would bring it home
to his sister, who is now 13.
00:49:41.31\00:49:44.60
And because they have
no mother, guess who's
00:49:44.78\00:49:46.27
the cook in the family.
00:49:46.30\00:49:47.33
So she's trying to cook, and she
is also trying to learn French.
00:49:47.36\00:49:52.39
Now her father, J.N.
Andrews, was a scholar.
00:49:52.71\00:49:56.78
As a teenager, he had asked his
father to buy him some books.
00:49:56.81\00:50:00.81
This is in the 1840's, and
John Andrews asked his father
00:50:00.84\00:50:04.10
to buy him books so he could
teach himself to read the Bible
00:50:04.13\00:50:07.23
in Greek, Hebrew, and Latin.
00:50:07.33\00:50:10.23
And eventually, Elder
Andrews could read the Bible
00:50:10.55\00:50:14.32
in seven different languages.
00:50:14.35\00:50:15.88
And he also acknowledged that if
all copies of the New Testament
00:50:16.08\00:50:21.68
were lost, he could
reproduce the New Testament.
00:50:21.71\00:50:24.97
And we know he had
also great sections of
00:50:25.17\00:50:26.57
the Old Testament memorized.
00:50:26.60\00:50:27.63
So he was no slouch.
00:50:27.66\00:50:29.57
And Mary apparently had the
mind kind of like her father,
00:50:29.60\00:50:33.29
and a facility for languages.
00:50:33.32\00:50:35.32
The family decided
to sign a contract.
00:50:35.54\00:50:38.79
So they did, they
wrote out a formal contract,
00:50:39.07\00:50:41.83
Mary and her father and Charles.
00:50:41.86\00:50:43.82
And what they said in
this contract was that,
00:50:43.85\00:50:46.52
"We will only speak French
for 23 hours out of the day.
00:50:46.55\00:50:51.19
One hour of each day
we can speak English.
00:50:51.61\00:50:54.63
Now during the other 23, if we
can't think of the French word,
00:50:54.66\00:50:57.73
and we're trying to
learn German too," they were,
00:50:58.22\00:51:00.53
"why, we can speak German."
00:51:00.56\00:51:02.42
Well the story is, of course,
that for the first little while
00:51:02.52\00:51:05.29
when that clock
struck and they had one hour,
00:51:05.32\00:51:07.52
everybody was talking, because
then they knew they couldn't
00:51:07.62\00:51:09.74
speak English anymore.
00:51:09.77\00:51:10.91
They're going to
have to go back to French.
00:51:10.94\00:51:12.51
But the point is that
Mary becomes extremely
00:51:12.54\00:51:15.42
fluent in French.
00:51:15.45\00:51:16.90
Eventually, Elder Andrews
realized that the printers
00:51:17.29\00:51:22.34
in Neuchatel were not
as good as the printers,
00:51:22.37\00:51:25.43
at least in reputation, of the
printers in Basel, Switzerland.
00:51:25.46\00:51:28.68
And in addition, the
printers in Basel, Switzerland
00:51:28.99\00:51:31.66
would print religious materials
much more easily, apparently,
00:51:31.98\00:51:35.83
than the ones in Neuchatel.
00:51:36.05\00:51:37.82
And so Elder Andrews
wanted to start a paper.
00:51:37.99\00:51:41.07
So the family moved
from Neuchatel to Basel.
00:51:41.44\00:51:45.43
And there, they set about
preparing a paper that they
00:51:45.53\00:51:48.89
could publish the
French, Signs of the Times.
00:51:48.92\00:51:51.50
The first issue
came out in July of 1876.
00:51:51.76\00:51:54.80
Well, of course, those first
issues, because we didn't have
00:51:56.35\00:51:59.60
many workers from
Europe, just a few converts,
00:51:59.63\00:52:02.80
those first issues
were basically translations
00:52:02.83\00:52:05.95
of papers that were printed
in Battle Creek, Michigan.
00:52:05.98\00:52:09.68
So the issues of, The Review,
would come and they would
00:52:09.71\00:52:12.48
select which articles they
wanted to translate into French,
00:52:12.51\00:52:15.63
and they would
translate them into French.
00:52:15.66\00:52:17.71
And then a
French proofreader would
00:52:17.74\00:52:20.96
proofread the translation.
00:52:20.99\00:52:22.82
Well, after it had been
set in type and printed,
00:52:22.86\00:52:24.46
then it would be proofread.
00:52:24.49\00:52:25.79
And then we're told, to
give you some idea of Mary,
00:52:25.82\00:52:28.42
the daughter's fluency
in French by this time,
00:52:28.45\00:52:31.17
it would be given to
Mary to find the mistakes
00:52:31.20\00:52:34.77
that the French
proofreader had missed.
00:52:34.80\00:52:36.92
So, I mean, she has a
real ability for languages.
00:52:37.54\00:52:43.60
Tragically, one day
Mary began to cough.
00:52:44.94\00:52:49.75
Of course, at first they
just thought it was a cold
00:52:50.66\00:52:52.49
and it would go away.
00:52:52.52\00:52:53.57
And they didn't
think much about it.
00:52:53.60\00:52:55.03
But the cough didn't go away.
00:52:55.56\00:52:58.35
It persisted.
00:52:58.67\00:52:59.81
Elder Andrews, who as I
mentioned already had lost
00:53:00.33\00:53:03.00
two children and a
wife, now is very concerned.
00:53:03.03\00:53:06.50
He takes Mary to the doctor.
00:53:06.53\00:53:08.39
And the doctor examines
the young girl and says,
00:53:09.11\00:53:12.57
"Well, Mr. Andrews,
I'm sorry to tell you,
00:53:12.60\00:53:16.16
but your
daughter has consumption.
00:53:16.37\00:53:19.32
Quick consumption."
00:53:19.65\00:53:20.68
We would today
call it tuberculosis.
00:53:20.71\00:53:23.34
"And I have nothing to
suggest for your daughter."
00:53:23.96\00:53:27.00
Well you could imagine,
Elder Andrews is beside himself
00:53:27.03\00:53:29.59
to think that his
daughter has now been diagnosed
00:53:30.21\00:53:32.33
with an incurable disease.
00:53:32.36\00:53:33.72
And as I say, he's
already lost three other members
00:53:33.82\00:53:36.21
of his immediate family.
00:53:36.24\00:53:37.67
And about this same time, James
White in Battle Creek, Michigan
00:53:38.45\00:53:41.88
sends a letter over
to the mission there
00:53:41.91\00:53:44.61
in Basel, Switzerland
and invites Elder Andrews
00:53:44.64\00:53:47.57
to come home to the
General Conference session
00:53:47.60\00:53:50.21
that was to be held late in 1878
00:53:50.24\00:53:52.72
and just give a report.
00:53:53.13\00:53:54.73
The first live report from an
actual missionary that would be
00:53:54.83\00:53:58.98
given at a General
Conference session.
00:53:59.01\00:54:01.68
I realize it doesn't
sound like much to us today,
00:54:01.90\00:54:04.13
but back then,
this was exciting.
00:54:04.16\00:54:05.86
The work was advancing.
00:54:05.89\00:54:07.77
Well Elder Andrews, I don't
think he was thinking about
00:54:07.94\00:54:10.24
how historic he was going
to be when he gave this report.
00:54:10.28\00:54:12.64
What he's thinking about
is, "If I could just get Mary
00:54:12.67\00:54:16.35
to Battle Creek, there is
that young brilliant doctor
00:54:16.38\00:54:19.75
by the name of John
Harvey Kellogg who has just
00:54:19.78\00:54:21.94
graduated from
medical school..."
00:54:21.97\00:54:23.39
And a bona fide medical
school, not a six month diploma.
00:54:23.92\00:54:26.69
"...maybe he, maybe he knows
something about tuberculosis
00:54:26.89\00:54:30.97
that the physicians here
in Switzerland don't know."
00:54:31.00\00:54:33.65
They made their
way... So he wrote and said,
00:54:33.68\00:54:34.93
"Can I bring her at my expense."
00:54:34.96\00:54:38.73
His daughter is dying,
and Elder Andrews cannot
00:54:39.66\00:54:43.67
bring himself to ask the
church to pay to bring her
00:54:43.70\00:54:48.20
to Battle Creek.
00:54:48.75\00:54:49.78
They make their way
all the way to Battle Creek
00:54:49.81\00:54:51.36
in about two weeks or so.
00:54:51.39\00:54:54.08
A very quick turn on time.
00:54:54.11\00:54:55.94
And of course you can
imagine where they first go.
00:54:55.97\00:54:58.22
They go right straight to
the Battle Creek sanitarium.
00:54:58.41\00:55:00.44
Elder Andrews wants Dr.
Kellogg to examine Mary.
00:55:00.47\00:55:04.23
Dr. Kellogg comes in,
he gives the examination,
00:55:04.30\00:55:06.73
and the diagnosis is
the same as what the doctors
00:55:06.94\00:55:09.89
in Switzerland had given.
00:55:10.09\00:55:11.70
"She has consumption,
and I have nothing to offer."
00:55:11.91\00:55:14.96
Elder Andrews now is
really beside himself.
00:55:15.75\00:55:18.45
Day by day, he sits by
his dying daughter's bedside
00:55:18.55\00:55:21.42
there in the sanitarium.
00:55:21.45\00:55:22.84
Dr. Kellogg says,
"You must come out.
00:55:22.87\00:55:24.29
You cannot stay."
00:55:24.32\00:55:25.43
But he's felt he had to stay.
00:55:25.91\00:55:27.25
And so she died at the age of
seventeen on November 27, 1878.
00:55:27.28\00:55:33.57
Elder Andrews writes...
00:55:34.38\00:55:36.20
Well, he's beside
himself with grief.
00:55:37.13\00:55:39.47
He tells a friend, I
guess he didn't write it,
00:55:39.91\00:55:41.45
he told a friend that, he
said, "I seem to be having
00:55:41.48\00:55:44.62
hold upon God with a numb hand."
00:55:44.65\00:55:47.73
He cannot understand
why he has been called upon
00:55:47.76\00:55:50.27
to make such a sacrifice.
00:55:50.30\00:55:51.96
Ellen White hears the
news, she writes him a very
00:55:52.35\00:55:55.77
consoling letter from
Texas where she was at the time.
00:55:55.80\00:55:58.56
And she said, "I've been shown
in vision your wife and children
00:55:58.72\00:56:01.17
coming forth in
the resurrection."
00:56:01.20\00:56:03.05
So there's three
more that we know by name.
00:56:03.08\00:56:05.58
Elder Andrews stays in the
United States through April,
00:56:05.61\00:56:08.64
preaches a dedicator
sermon of the Dime Tabernacle
00:56:08.67\00:56:11.65
in April of 1879.
00:56:11.68\00:56:13.23
The next month he returns
to Europe, and if possible,
00:56:13.33\00:56:15.35
throws himself into the work
even more than he had before.
00:56:15.38\00:56:18.64
Why? Because there's one
fresh grave, one more reason,
00:56:18.97\00:56:21.38
personal reason, why
he wants Jesus to come.
00:56:21.41\00:56:23.57
But before long, well a few
years later, he begins to cough.
00:56:23.67\00:56:27.32
At first they think it's a cold.
00:56:27.35\00:56:28.62
It's not a cold,
it doesn't go away.
00:56:28.65\00:56:30.85
He also has
contracted tuberculosis.
00:56:31.00\00:56:33.74
In the weeks and
months that followed,
00:56:33.94\00:56:35.89
Elder Andrews was becoming
weaker and weaker and weaker.
00:56:36.07\00:56:39.42
He knows, and everybody
knows, that if he doesn't finish
00:56:39.62\00:56:42.70
the articles that he's
working on for the French,
00:56:42.73\00:56:44.60
Signs of the
Times, nobody will do it.
00:56:44.63\00:56:45.94
Because he's the only one that
has the mind that can do it.
00:56:45.97\00:56:49.19
Finally, we come to the weekend
of October 19, 20, 21, 1883.
00:56:49.29\00:56:53.17
Sunday morning October 21,
Elder Andrews is bedridden,
00:56:53.20\00:56:56.59
hasn't been up for
some period of time.
00:56:56.62\00:56:58.30
There in his delirium, he says
to someone standing by his bed,
00:56:58.49\00:57:02.52
"Please, go get me a
piece of paper and a pencil."
00:57:02.55\00:57:04.36
They think, "What does he want?
00:57:04.39\00:57:05.84
He hasn't written
anything for ages."
00:57:05.87\00:57:07.36
But across that
piece of paper, he scrawls,
00:57:07.39\00:57:09.78
"I leave to the
European mission, 500 dollars."
00:57:09.81\00:57:12.58
He had made
provision for everything else.
00:57:12.61\00:57:14.44
And there on his
deathbed, he's thinking,
00:57:14.65\00:57:17.29
"Is there
anything more that I can do
00:57:17.32\00:57:19.95
for the cause of God?
00:57:20.15\00:57:21.61
Yes, there's that money."
00:57:21.92\00:57:22.95
And that is the kind of
sacrifice and commitment
00:57:22.98\00:57:27.11
of the pioneers
that started our church.
00:57:28.10\00:57:30.41