The Church Organizes
Washington, NH Church in 1850s
“No church can be organized by man’s invention, but what it becomes Babylon the moment it is organized.” -- George Storrs
Campmeeting
Adventist Review – Then and Now
James and Ellen White in 1850s
Iowa J.N. Loughborough J.N. Andrews
Winter of 1856
“Systematic Benevolence”
“Sister Betsy”
White Home in Battle Creek Review & Herald in 1850s
Splinter Groups Messenger of Truth
“If God . . . asks us to act the part of faithful stewards of His goods, we had better attend to these matters in a legal matter.” -- James White
Advent Review Publishing Association, 1860 Joseph Bates Advent Review Publishing Association, 1860
The Church of God Seventh Day People Seventh-day Doorshutters Sabbathkeeping Adventists The Scattered Flock Shut-door Seventh-day Sabbath and Annihilationists
“The Most Honest Man in Battle Creek” David Hewitt
President, Michigan Conference
General Conference of SDA May 23, 1863
President John Byington “Perhaps no previous meeting . . . was characterized by such unity of feeling and harmony of sentiment.” -- Uriah Smith President John Byington