In the vicinity of
Washington, New Hampshire
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there were two other men
along with Frederick Wheeler
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who were instrumental
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in the history of the Sabbath,
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T. M. Preble and
Cyrus Farnsworth.
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T. M. Preble wrote a track
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entitled tract
showing that the Seventh-day
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should be observed as a Sabbath.
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This tract was very influential
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for it found its
way to Paris Hill Maine
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and also to the
home of Joseph Bates.
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Bates read it and
was convinced of it,
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but wanted to
investigate further.
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Joseph Bates heard about
a group of Sabbath keepers
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in Washington, New
Hampshire and before making
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any major changes
he decided to visit,
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he traveled by
train and stagecoach
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to the town of Hillsboro
where Frederick Wheeler lived.
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Despite arriving at 10 pm,
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he was invited in
and said that he wanted
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to look at every argument
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in the Bible in
favor of the Sabbath.
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That night the two
men studied together
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and talked until the morning.
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Joseph Bates took
notes and in the morning
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they both knelt to pray
and committed their lives
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to preaching on
the Sabbath truth.
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The next day the two
men traveled 12 miles
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to the home of Cyrus Farnsworth.
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There on a warm
day in the front garden
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under the maple
trees, Frederick Wheeler
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and Cyrus Farnsworth
continued Joseph Bates'
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crash course on the Sabbath.
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Along with T. M.
Preble's tract on the Sabbath,
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Bates was now fully convinced.
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He bade his farewells
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and started his
three-day journey home
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with a lot to think about.
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Arriving back in Fairhaven,
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he was walking home
from the train depot
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when he met his neighbor,
James Madison Monroe Hall
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as he was crossing the bridge
from New Bedford to Fairhaven.
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Bates was greeted
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with the
question what's the news,
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Captain Bates, to
which he responded,
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the news is that the
seventh day is the Sabbath.
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After a short conversation,
Bates arranged to meet
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with Mr. Hall and the
other Advent believers
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to study this subject out.
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By the next Sabbath, Mr.
Hall was a Sabbath keeper
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and his wife the week after.
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Bates would be instrumental
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in the adoption of the Sabbath
by the disappointed Adventist.
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He had a special burden
to teach on this subject
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and the tracts he wrote
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would be instrumental
in convincing many people,
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in particular
James and Ellen White.
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Joseph Bates was at home writing
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when his wife came
in and said she needed
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some more flour
to finish the baking.
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He went down to the shop
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and used all the
last money that he had
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to buy four pounds of flour.
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His wife
Prudence was very upset,
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firstly, that he
had used all the money
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that they had and secondly,
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that he only had enough
to buy four pounds of flour.
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She asked him,
"What he was going to do?"
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To which he responded,
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he was going to
write a book on the Sabbath
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and spread it to the world.
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About half an hour later,
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he was impressed to
go to the post office
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and when he arrived,
there was a letter for him.
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He didn't have enough money
to even pay for the postage,
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but asked the
postmaster if he would open it.
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When he did,
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he found there
was a $10 bill inside
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and he used this money to buy
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a more generous
supply of groceries
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and also to arrange
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for the printing
of his next tract.
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Within a few years
this truth on the Sabbath
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will grow remarkably.
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In 1848, there were
six major conferences
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on the Sabbath
with Bates presenting
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at most of them.
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After the great
disappointment of 1844
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and the scattering
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that the
various wins of doctrine
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would cause after this,
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God was using this truth
to gather His people around.
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Proverbs 4:18 says,
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"That the path of the
just is as a shining light
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that shines ever
brighter unto the perfect day."
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God was slowly
leading His people back
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to a full
understanding of His Word.
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May we follow God as
He leads us day by day
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and step by step.
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Paris Hill Maine, today a small
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and quiet town
with leafy streets
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and well kept
houses, yet despite its quiet
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and rural location,
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it was the home to
some giants of the faith.
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Three families of note that
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lived here were
the Stevens family,
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the Stoll family
and the Andrews family.
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J. N. Andrews was
the son of Edward Andrews
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and the nephew
of Charles Andrews,
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a state representative of Maine.
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Cyprian Stevens
had two daughters,
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one of whom married Uriah Smith
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and the other
married J. N. Andrews.
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Today the home of Edward Andrews
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stands behind me at
the Paris Hill Country Club
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and Cyprian Stevens farm
is located just down the road.
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But we start the
story with another family
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when in the spring of
1845 attracted by T. M. Preble
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on the Sabbath
made its way to the home
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of Lewis B. Stole.
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He set the tract aside,
but his 15-year-old daughter
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Marion picked it up
and decided to read it.
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She was convinced on
the truth of the Sabbath
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and decided to keep it.
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She then shared the
tract with her brother Oswald
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and he also decided
to keep the Sabbath.
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They then called J. N. Andrews
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who was only 15 years old,
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but was respected as
having an intelligent mind.
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He read the tract
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and also decided
to keep the Sabbath.
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It was later on that the parents
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of the Stevens, Andrews
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and Stoll families
decided to keep the Sabbath
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which I believe is a key point.
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It was the teenagers
who made the decision
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to keep the
Sabbath based on God's Word
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regardless of
what others thought.
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This really is the
essence of Protestantism
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and a continuation of
one of the key tenants
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of the Reformation.
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To follow conviction
rather than tradition,
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to let scriptures be our guide,
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no matter what others may think.
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Lewis B. Stole sent a letter
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and $10 to the
Seventh-day Baptist minister
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in Hopkinton, Rhode Island
to obtain some more materials.
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Soon the tracts
arrived and a small company
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of Sabbath keeping
Adventists was established
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in Paris Hill Maine.
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These families
would go on to be pillars
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in the new and
fledgling movement
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that was being birth.
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Paris Hill Maine
is also the birthplace
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of the Review and Herald,
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today published as
the Adventist Review.
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From August to November of 1850,
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a magazine was published
here called the Advent Review,
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and then from
November 1850 to June 1851,
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the Review and
Herald was published here
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in a building near this site.
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It would then move on to
Saratoga Springs, New York,
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Rochester, New York
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before moving to
Battle Creek, Michigan.
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In 1856, the
Stephens and Andrews families
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would move to the state of Iowa
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and the town of Paris Hill Maine
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would become just a
memory of the early beginnings
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and challenges of
Sabbatarian Adventism.
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Though the action had
moved on from this town,
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their example of faithfulness
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under conviction lives on today
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and stands as an example
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of how we ought
to live our lives.
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It doesn't matter
who else makes a decision
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or what authority is
trying to instruct and guide us,
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we need to be
true to the convictions
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of our conscience
first and foremost.
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It was Peter who said,
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"That we ought to
obey God rather than man."
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Port Gibson is a rural area
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just east of
Rochester in New York State.
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It's a quiet
area with many farms
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that dot the landscape.
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In the 1840s there was a
farm owned by Hiram Edson
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that housed some
very important meetings
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and saw some key
developments take place.
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Here in the
quietness of the countryside,
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let us take a walk
down this particular part
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of memory lane.
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After the 22nd of October, 1844,
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the Advent believers
were terribly disappointed
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as their hopes and dreams
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had been
shattered and destroyed.
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Hiram Edson was no different.
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He was confused
as he believed that
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his study of the
prophecies had been accurate,
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yet Jesus hadn't come.
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How would they reconcile this?
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Did they have the date
wrong as some had suggested?
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He didn't think so,
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the dates and
calculations had been solid.
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Did they have the event wrong?
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Well, they must have
because Jesus hadn't come,
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but what else could it mean?
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Hiram Edson was walking through
a cornfield one day soon after
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when he realized they had gotten
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something major wrong.
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They had been so focused
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on the Parable
of the Ten Virgins
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in Matthew 25 as it seemed
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to match the events of 1844
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that they had missed Christ
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or the wedding
parable in Luke Chapter 12.
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In Luke it says,
"That we must wait
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while we wait for the Lord
to return from the wedding."
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He also realized
that in Daniel 7,
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it says that the Son of man
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would come to
the Ancient of Days
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rather than to the earth.
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This was a revelation,
later he would study this out
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with Dr. Franklin B.
Hahn and O. R. L. Crozier
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and they would solidify
their views on this matter.
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They saw that
Jesus was not scheduled
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to come to the earth at the
end of the 2300 day prophecy
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of Daniel 8:14, but
rather He transitioned
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from the Holy Place
to the Most Holy Place
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in the sanctuary in heaven
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beginning the work of
the investigative judgment.
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It was Owen
Russell Loomis Crozier
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who wrote the first
issue of The Day-Dawn
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in March of 1845
that explained the reason
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for the delay in
Jesus' return and preserved
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the historicist
framework of Daniel 8 and 9.
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Hiram Edson's
barn is also the place
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that Captain Joseph Bates
shared the truth of the Sabbath
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in late 1846.
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As he was reading his
tract, Edson jumped up and said,
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"Brother Bates
this is light and truth
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the seventh day is a Sabbath
and I am with you to keep it."
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Crozier and Hahn
also accepted the Sabbath
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and thus this link
goes in western New York
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who were
presenting the sanctuary
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with those in New England
who were teaching the Sabbath.
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For this reason,
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this farm has been seen
as a theological birthplace
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of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
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for its where the two
pillars of the Sabbath
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and the sanctuary came together.
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The blending of
these two teachings
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would form the
uniqueness of this new movement,
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the Sabbath was not
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just seen as a
reminder of creation
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or as part of
the Ten Commandments
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but rather in the
light of the sanctuary
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and is eschatological
or end-time context.
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In time Hiram Edson and
the other Advent believers
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would see that their experience
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in October 1844 was
part of Bible prophecy
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and that their very
disappointment itself
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was further proof
that God was leading them.
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In Revelation 10 it points
out, "That their experience
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would first be
sweet in the mouth
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and then it would be
bitter in the belly and oh,
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how bitter it had been."
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The last verse in
Revelation 10 admonished them
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and it echoes to us today,
"Thou must prophesy again."
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May we take the admonition
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of the preaching
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of the unique
message of God to heart
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and go wherever He calls.
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When I was growing up, if
you wanted to study history,
00:14:20.49\00:14:22.99
or do research on
a particular topic,
00:14:23.02\00:14:25.19
there was really only one option
00:14:25.23\00:14:26.93
that we had, and
that was to read a book.
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And I never really used
to like reading that much.
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So we decided to
create a resource
00:14:31.77\00:14:33.60
that will translate
this written information
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into the language of today.
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My name is Adam Ramdin.
And my name is Clive Coutet.
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And we are the
cofounders of Lineage Journey.
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Back in 2016, I was
reading a Great Controversy
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and I was really struggling
00:14:47.65\00:14:48.98
to find any
relevant video resources
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that I could use
to aid me in my study.
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So I decided to
approach Adam about
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the possibility
of making some videos
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on the Reformation.
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So we started
filming in the end of 2016,
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and in 2017 we
released 48 videos
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that covered the
period of the early church
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all the way through to
the end of the Reformation.
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Then in 2018 and 2019 we
released another 52 episodes
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on church history.
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These have now been
viewed all over the world
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in over 100 countries
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covering about 50
different languages
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and we have over 3
million views online.
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These videos have
been used as a resource
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in both secular
and Christian schools
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as well as several
church denominations
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across the globe
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using Bible
studies, study groups,
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as well as play to
the general congregation.
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They also make a great
online evangelistic tool
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where people are
able to share them,
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and we've seen
them go into countries
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that we ourselves can't go,
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countries that
are Muslim countries
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where the
Christian message cannot go.
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One of the
challenges we have though,
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is that amongst our
team of almost 10 people,
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we are all
volunteers on this project,
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sacrificing our
time, our effort and energy
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in order to make
these resources together.
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Just to put
things into perspective,
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each Lineage episode
as well as the filming
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in post-production.
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That is a lot of
time and sacrifice
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that this team has made
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in putting 100
episodes together.
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So we need to raise the funds
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as well as the
continued production costs
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There were many new discoveries
in the Word of God at this time
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as God was forming His church
00:17:09.96\00:17:12.03
and whenever a
truth is discovered,
00:17:12.06\00:17:14.20
a counterfeit is not far behind.
00:17:14.23\00:17:16.97
Another
phenomenon that was sweeping
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the northeastern
part of the United States
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at this time
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started with the Fox
sisters in the late 1840s.
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The Fox family
of John and Magaret
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and their two
daughters Margaret and Katie
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moved into the little
town of Hydesville, New York
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and although the original
home is no longer standing,
00:17:33.82\00:17:36.82
it would have
stood just behind me.
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The Fox Sisters are known
00:17:39.42\00:17:40.99
as the founders of
modern spiritualism.
00:17:41.02\00:17:43.83
In 1848,
00:17:48.36\00:17:49.70
Margaret and Katie
were 15 and 12 years old
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and lived in a house
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that had a
reputation as being haunted,
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making rapping
or knocking sounds
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with their knuckles
00:17:58.61\00:17:59.94
mimicking sounds they
had heard in the house
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to give the
impression that it was haunted
00:18:02.31\00:18:04.21
for the purpose of
scaring their mother.
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Questions were asked
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and soon she would ask questions
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and the answers would come back
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in a number of wraps
or knocks that they heard.
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She was convinced,
their neighbors were called
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and it wasn't long before
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the girls were acting as mediums
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communicating with the
spirits and taking questions.
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Some said that it was a hoax
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while others
claimed that it was real
00:18:29.74\00:18:31.61
and that they
really were mediums
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communicating
directly with the spirits.
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Whichever way you look at it,
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few can ignore the phenomenon
known as spiritualism,
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the belief that the spirits
communicate with the living.
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This would grow over time
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and become an
established part of society.
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It's fascinating
that Hydesville, New York
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is only about 15 minutes
away from Hiram Edison's farm,
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the theological birthplace
00:18:56.46\00:18:58.40
of the
Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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It's only about
20 minutes as well
00:19:00.34\00:19:02.57
from Kamura Hill
00:19:02.60\00:19:03.94
where Joseph Smith claimed
the angel of Moroni descended
00:19:03.97\00:19:07.74
and gave him the golden plates
00:19:07.78\00:19:09.68
which were translated
as the Book of Mormon.
00:19:09.71\00:19:12.55
Thus, three
significant movements
00:19:12.58\00:19:14.88
all came from the same area.
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A key figure
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to bring the biblical view
of the state of man in death
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would be George Storrs.
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Born in Lebanon,
New Hampshire in 1796
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as the youngest
of eight children.
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As a child, he
felt afraid of God
00:19:35.20\00:19:37.41
and alienated from Christianity
00:19:37.44\00:19:39.67
due to the sermons
he would hear preached
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on the wicked
tormenting in hellfire.
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At the age of 17,
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he made a decision to
study out the goodness of God
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and under this influence
and the prayers of his mother,
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he gave his life to
Jesus at the age of 19.
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Under conviction, he
felt a call to preach
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and started doing this in 1825
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and would often
preach against slavery
00:20:02.20\00:20:04.73
even ending up in prison once
00:20:04.77\00:20:07.10
for mentioning
this in his prayers.
00:20:07.14\00:20:09.20
One day whilst
traveling by train,
00:20:13.88\00:20:16.01
he read a tract
by Deacon Henry Grew
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from Philadelphia
00:20:18.61\00:20:19.95
on the subject of
the state of the dead.
00:20:19.98\00:20:22.25
This led him to study his Bible
00:20:22.28\00:20:24.32
and after
several years of study,
00:20:24.35\00:20:26.42
correspondence and conversation
00:20:26.45\00:20:28.72
he came to the settle conclusion
00:20:28.76\00:20:30.86
that man does not
possess inherent immortality
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that it is a gift from God
00:20:34.10\00:20:36.03
and that the wicked
are exterminated by fire
00:20:36.06\00:20:39.43
at the second death.
00:20:39.47\00:20:40.80
Due to the significant
difference from the common view
00:20:44.91\00:20:48.08
that the dead goes
straight to heaven,
00:20:48.11\00:20:50.05
he experienced a
lot of persecution
00:20:50.08\00:20:52.48
and isolation from
the various churches.
00:20:52.51\00:20:55.32
However, this could
not stop the printed press.
00:20:55.35\00:20:58.52
In 1843,
00:20:58.55\00:21:00.22
Storrs' six
sermons were published
00:21:00.26\00:21:02.92
and 10,000
copies were distributed
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with a further
200,000 over time.
00:21:05.49\00:21:08.63
This would have a
significant impact
00:21:08.66\00:21:10.83
on the Millerite movement.
00:21:10.87\00:21:12.30
And although
William Miller himself
00:21:12.33\00:21:14.30
did not accept this teaching,
00:21:14.34\00:21:15.90
many others would
00:21:15.94\00:21:17.27
and he would go
on to be a mainstay
00:21:17.31\00:21:19.04
of the Sabbath keeping Adventist
00:21:19.07\00:21:21.01
as they sought to
be true to the Bible
00:21:21.04\00:21:23.18
as they developed
their doctrinal beliefs.
00:21:23.21\00:21:25.48
Although George Storrs
did not accept the Sabbath
00:21:29.25\00:21:31.85
or the sanctuary,
00:21:31.89\00:21:33.22
he nonetheless made a
significant contribution
00:21:33.25\00:21:35.49
to a key doctrinal belief.
00:21:35.52\00:21:37.49
Storrs considered the idea
of an eternally burning hell
00:21:37.53\00:21:40.80
to be a blot on
the character of God
00:21:40.83\00:21:43.13
and contrary to the
reality that God is love.
00:21:43.16\00:21:46.77
The love of God
needs to be at the center
00:21:46.80\00:21:48.94
of every doctrine that we
hold and teach from the Bible.
00:21:48.97\00:21:51.97
And Storrs
restored the love of God
00:21:52.01\00:21:54.14
back through this teaching
00:21:54.18\00:21:55.51
and showed his
character in its true light.
00:21:55.54\00:21:58.51
May we seek to do the same,
00:21:58.55\00:22:00.42
anytime we share
God's word with others.
00:22:00.45\00:22:03.08
Topsham, Maine is located
00:22:21.00\00:22:23.07
about 25 miles
north of Portland Maine
00:22:23.10\00:22:26.61
and is the home of Fort Howland,
00:22:26.64\00:22:29.01
the home of Stockbridge Howland,
00:22:29.04\00:22:31.05
an important place in
early Sabbatarian Adventism.
00:22:31.08\00:22:35.28
This town would have had
a population of around 2,000
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in the 1840s
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and the principal industry
00:22:40.42\00:22:42.22
would have been
the mill factories
00:22:42.26\00:22:43.83
along the Androscoggin River.
00:22:43.86\00:22:46.43
Stockbridge was a close
friend of James and Ellen White
00:22:46.46\00:22:50.37
during the early
years of their marriage
00:22:50.40\00:22:52.63
and they would spend a
lot of time in his house
00:22:52.67\00:22:55.27
today located
on Seven Elm Street
00:22:55.30\00:22:57.91
also living there for some time.
00:22:57.94\00:22:59.97
Joseph Bates had
recently published a tract
00:23:05.21\00:23:07.98
that linked the
Sabbath with the sanctuary
00:23:08.02\00:23:10.12
based on Revelation 11:19
00:23:10.15\00:23:13.29
marking a progression
00:23:13.32\00:23:14.89
in the
development of this doctrine.
00:23:14.92\00:23:16.99
It was shortly after
this in April of 1847
00:23:17.03\00:23:20.50
when in this house behind me,
00:23:20.53\00:23:22.26
Ellen White had her
Sabbath halo vision.
00:23:22.30\00:23:25.23
She saw the Ten
Commandments of God
00:23:25.27\00:23:27.44
inside the Ark of the Covenant
00:23:27.47\00:23:29.27
with a special halo
of light around them.
00:23:29.30\00:23:32.71
This marked the
Sabbath as being present truth,
00:23:32.74\00:23:35.98
for they saw Jesus
00:23:36.01\00:23:37.35
before the ark in
the Most Holy Place.
00:23:37.38\00:23:40.52
Shortly after this,
James White published a tract
00:23:40.55\00:23:44.29
that crystallized the views
of the founders of Adventism
00:23:44.32\00:23:47.96
entitled "A Word
to the Little Flock."
00:23:47.99\00:23:50.86
In October of 1847,
00:23:55.40\00:23:58.10
the Howlands invited the
Whites to move in with them
00:23:58.13\00:24:01.04
and they moved
into the upstairs floor
00:24:01.07\00:24:03.04
of the house.
00:24:03.07\00:24:04.41
James White got a
job nearby hauling stone
00:24:04.44\00:24:07.48
for the railroad
00:24:07.51\00:24:08.84
as well as cutting
wood for 50 cents a day.
00:24:08.88\00:24:12.08
This was barely
enough to live on,
00:24:12.11\00:24:14.48
but he would still
use much of the money
00:24:14.52\00:24:16.79
to publish tracts
to share with people.
00:24:16.82\00:24:19.69
The sacrifice of
these early pioneers
00:24:19.72\00:24:22.16
is remarkable
00:24:22.19\00:24:23.53
considering the poverty
that they were living in.
00:24:23.56\00:24:26.33
Topsham, Maine
is also the location
00:24:30.57\00:24:32.83
of one of the six
Sabbath conferences
00:24:32.87\00:24:35.07
of 1848 in the Howland home.
00:24:35.10\00:24:38.54
It was after this conference
that the Whites realized
00:24:38.57\00:24:41.18
they could not
travel with Henry everywhere
00:24:41.21\00:24:43.61
due to the busy schedule.
00:24:43.65\00:24:45.65
He thus spent the
next several years
00:24:45.68\00:24:47.78
living with the Howland
00:24:47.82\00:24:49.15
and it wasn't
until his parents moved
00:24:49.18\00:24:51.15
to Rochester, New York
00:24:51.19\00:24:52.75
that he moved back with them.
00:24:52.79\00:24:54.72
Such were the sacrifices
that they made early on
00:24:54.76\00:24:58.03
due to the busy
traveling and speaking life
00:24:58.06\00:25:00.90
that they had.
00:25:00.93\00:25:02.26
During the fall of 1863,
00:25:06.30\00:25:08.77
the Whites would
return to New England
00:25:08.80\00:25:10.67
and spend some time
in the Howland home.
00:25:10.71\00:25:13.81
It was good to be
back with old friends
00:25:13.84\00:25:16.14
that they shared so
many happy memories with
00:25:16.18\00:25:18.51
from almost 20 years prior.
00:25:18.55\00:25:21.08
The work that had started
here had progressed a lot.
00:25:21.12\00:25:24.89
The church was now
officially organized,
00:25:24.92\00:25:27.19
had publishing houses
00:25:27.22\00:25:28.82
and believers were
growing all over the country.
00:25:28.86\00:25:32.09
As they came back to a
place that reminded them
00:25:32.13\00:25:34.96
of the extreme sacrifice
00:25:35.00\00:25:36.80
they had to make
00:25:36.83\00:25:38.17
both financially and as parents
00:25:38.20\00:25:40.50
they would
experience a terrible loss.
00:25:40.54\00:25:43.37
Henry was assisting
00:25:47.84\00:25:49.24
in the completion of
the 1863 prophetic chart
00:25:49.28\00:25:52.95
by gluing them on
to the cloth back,
00:25:52.98\00:25:55.15
when in the
process of doing this
00:25:55.18\00:25:57.02
he contracted a cold
00:25:57.05\00:25:58.69
which turned into pneumonia
resulting in a sudden death.
00:25:58.72\00:26:02.76
This was a terrible
shock and caused deep sadness
00:26:02.79\00:26:06.09
for the whole family.
00:26:06.13\00:26:07.73
His funeral was
held just down the road
00:26:07.76\00:26:09.73
in the Baptist Church here,
00:26:09.76\00:26:11.37
but his final resting
place would be in Battle Creek.
00:26:11.40\00:26:14.74
He said he wanted to be buried
near his brother John Herbert.
00:26:14.77\00:26:18.37
In case his parents
were away traveling,
00:26:18.41\00:26:20.71
he could be near to him
on the resurrection morning.
00:26:20.74\00:26:23.41
Shortly after
the death of Henry,
00:26:27.72\00:26:29.62
Ellen White would
publish this book,
00:26:29.65\00:26:31.52
an appeal to youth
00:26:31.55\00:26:33.12
which included
some of her letters
00:26:33.15\00:26:35.09
to her children.
00:26:35.12\00:26:36.59
Writing shortly afterwards
Ellen White commented,
00:26:36.62\00:26:39.69
"But God comforted
us in our bereavement
00:26:39.73\00:26:42.93
and with faith and courage
00:26:42.96\00:26:44.97
we pressed on with
the work God had given us
00:26:45.00\00:26:47.87
in the bright hope
of seeing our children
00:26:47.90\00:26:50.84
who had been
torn from us by death
00:26:50.87\00:26:53.24
in the land where death
and sickness will never come."
00:26:53.27\00:26:57.28
If you have experienced a
similar loss in your life,
00:26:57.31\00:27:00.95
I pray that you may
find comfort as well.
00:27:00.98\00:27:04.12