2. The Church Organizes

3. Washington, NH Church in 1850s

4. “No church can be organized by man’s invention, but what it becomes Babylon the moment it is organized.”
-- George Storrs

5. Campmeeting

6. Adventist Review – Then and Now

7. James and Ellen White in 1850s

8. Iowa
J.N. Loughborough
J.N. Andrews

9. Winter of 1856

10. “Systematic Benevolence”

11. “Sister Betsy”

12. White Home in Battle Creek
Review & Herald in 1850s

13. Splinter Groups
Messenger of Truth

14. “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

15. Advent Review Publishing Association, 1860
Joseph Bates
Advent Review Publishing Association, 1860

16. The Church of God Seventh Day People Seventh-day Doorshutters
Sabbathkeeping Adventists
The Scattered Flock
Shut-door Seventh-day Sabbath and Annihilationists

17. “The Most Honest Man in Battle Creek”
David Hewitt

18. President, Michigan Conference

19. General Conference of SDA May 23, 1863

21. President John Byington
“Perhaps no previous meeting was characterized by such unity of feeling and harmony of sentiment.”
-- Uriah Smith
President John Byington