Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-07-19
who are and Who are not Advent.


This question is asked in the last weeks
| HERALD, by A. N. Hitchcock; but il is not
answered. We would like to hear him define
| the noun "Adventist' then we should know
who are "Adyenitsts" We have for good
many years understood that an adventist is
one who is looking for the speedy, personal
coming of Christ. But as we see that Mr.. Ii.
claims that Ed. Sanborn (who for years has
believed this) sis not an Adventist in the
commonly accepted sense of the term" we
demand an explanation.
If Ed. S. is not an Adventist then we con-
TESS that we do not know who is one, unless
he is one who (like some often haye) claims
to know the year of Christ's coming. Ed. s.
claims to know considerable about the Bible,
and the citizens of Lancaster think he does,
but he never claimed to know that And if
that is what constitutes an "Adventist in the
commonly accepted sense of the term" then
Ed Snever expected to know enough to
become one.
Mr.. H. says that "Mr s. advocates the
binding force of (what he calls) the Jewish
Sabbath" This is true. And Ed. S. thinks
it is "due the public" TO know that the Sab
bath Is binding. And we suppose that he will
keep on making it known till Mr.. H. or some
one else. brings the text for which he has Of
fered SPY co.
Mr.. II. says "Thc spiritual head of Mr.. Sam
borns church is Ellen G. White" We have
never heard that the church which Mr. s.
represents recognized any other head but
Christ. But we suppose that to tell Mr.. IL.
this will have no more effect on him than did
the Judges reasoning on the young man, who
made sad mistake in his testimony when he
said that the horse was thirty>six hands high
when it was only thirteen.
As the Judge knew that no horse could be
thiry-six hands high, and thought that the
young man simply made mistake, he stopped
him and asked if he meant thirty-six.
The young man looked up and said: Did /
say thirty-six The Judge answered,ye Well
said the young man, then shall stick to it.
And so he did. And no one could make him
say any thing else. But notwithstanding all
the young mans assertions, the horse was only
thirteen hands high, and never became any
higher. Likewise with US; if Mr.. II. wants to
"stick to" what he has said, then we shall try
to feel as we imagine the Judge felt when he
saw the young man stuck to what he had said.
We know full well that Ellen G. White has for
a number of years been the hitch hook where's
on Mr.. Hitchcock has been trying to hang all
his ridicule against the people Ed Sanborn
represents.
We hold the same view on the shut door
that we always did Mr.. II. will doubtless
deny this; but we viii then remember the
young man.
We learn by letter from VIM. Miller to
Ed. Hines dated Nov. is, 1914, that he held
to shut>door theory. He wrote as follows
awe have done our work in warning sinners,
and in trying TO awake a formal church. God,
in His providence, has shut the door," Life
of VIM. Miller, page 307 This was long be-
fore the time that Mr. II. alludes to, and how
could Mrs. Whites vision then give birth to
that theory when twas already born? What
gave birth to the theory we hold can be found
in Matt. 25 10 and Luke Ia 23, "a.
We have always thought that there is We.
probation for sinners but we have been, and
are stil,a little inclined to believe what Jesus
said "For say unto you that none of those
men which were hidden shall taste of my sup.
per-" Luke 1924. But we believe the trouble
with Mr.. H. is that he knows too we'll who we
understand those men are. Respectfully
j. p. JAsPERsoN.