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Appendix Notes
Page 23.
Pamphlets denouncing the S.D.A. Church as Babylon
:
Reference is made to a pamphlet entitled, “The Loud Cry of the
Third Angel’s Message,” published by a Seventh-day Adventist lay
member, Mr. Stanton, in the year 1893. This man, in his study of
the Bible and the testimonies, focused his attention primarily on
the messages of reproof and rebuke, forgetting that God had said
that “as many as I love, I rebuke and chasten.”
Revelation 3:19
. He
concluded that the testimonies of reproof constituted a message of
rejection, and that those who would join in sounding the loud cry
must withdraw from the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The church,
he asserted, had become Babylon, and those who would finish God’s
work in the earth and meet their Lord in peace must separate from
the body.
An ardent disciple, Mr. W. F. Caldwell, was dispatched to
Australia to carry the message to that land and to visit Mrs. White,
who, it was supposed, would join their forces of “reform.” Arriving
in Australia, he discovered that while he had been crossing the
Pacific to Australia, a testimony was on its way from New Zealand
to America specifying the message of the “Loud Cry” tract as “one
of the delusions designed to create confusion among the churches,”
and stating in the clearest language that “if you are teaching that
the Seventh-day Adventist Church is Babylon, you are wrong.” See
the full letter on pages 58-62. Mrs. White met this misleading
teaching in a series of articles in the
Review and Herald
entitled
“The Remnant Church Not Babylon,” now comprising pages 32-62
of this volume. This offshoot movement had but a very short life
.
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First-day Adventists
: Those who united in sounding
the first and second angels’ messages in the great advent awakening
of the 1840’s, but who rejected the third angel’s message with its
Sabbath truth, yet nonetheless continued to espouse the advent hope,
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are referred to by Mrs. White and by other early Sabbath-keeping
Adventists as “nominal Adventists” or “First-day Adventists.” Fol-
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