The Helena independent., 1893-08-17
The ADVENTIST IDEA.
Present Disturbances indicate the
Approach Of the End Of All
Things.
Interesting Services Now Being
Held at the Tabernacle on
Fifth Avenue.
Though Little Knowa In Msntans. ths
Society IL strong Numerically Else
whore and 10 0rowIng.

The sssies Of meetings which the Seventh
Day Adventists are conducting In the tent
on Fifth avenue near Bsattis street, Gre
attracting considerable Interest. The tent
IL we'll made and oonmodious Cotton tab
ernacle. and in ordinary weather 10 very
comfortable. A few nights ago u WAS
fesnd necessary to uso stove. II smoked
very badly and filled the tent With aug.
Restivsnsss Of future state that was I'M
pleassnt to contemplate. but which. viewed
ID shs light Of an object lesson, might be.
come very productive Of good results In the
cause Of religion. Since then the necessity
for stove has djsny psarsd With tho warmer
weather. Elders ]. W. Watt and W. j..
Stone. who conduct the services In the
tent. are interesting takers, and keep tho
attention OF the, audience throughout.
Thslr discourees are very entertaining. and
their arguments. even il not convincing to
everybody, srs At least plausible and we'll
put togsthe-. The services are intes-
spersed with singing Of familiar hymns
with oronn accompaniment. In view OF
the fact that tho Advsntists have made
enough converts to their faith to o'ganizs
= society, Elder Stone has been located here
by the general conference a. pastor OF the
Helena sooisty, and nt no distant day the
services will be held in some building.
Seventh Day Advsnt!sts. A. a denomina-
tiou. date their riac about 1847. At present
they number upwnrls OF forty thousand.
They have about 1920 churches with ovsr
800 ministers aud licentiatea ana upwards
Of 1000 co.porters and missionaries. Thev
nts rapidly growing and extending their
work in all parts OF tho wo Id. While they
q inly believe In the personal coming OF
Christ. and that his coming near at hand,
they do not believe that any prophetic
pc iod given in the Bible reaohes 10 that
coming, or was designed to mark the day
or ycnr Of that event. They say: "lho
foolish tme-settinR Of First Day Ad..
brought reproaoh NJ on the Advent name;
and it is natural that Seventh Day Advent
ists should repudate all connection with
them" The Seventh Day Adytntists
recognize the ten commandments TO b Of
supreme authority; and observe the Seventh
day. or Saturday. ns the Sabbath. They
believe in o channo OF hsert. or oonve sion.
nations. Immersion is the only
mole OF water baptism recognized
by them. They maintain that life and TN
mo tality are not inhe ent, but must be
songht and secured BY mems Of the gospel
through Jesus Christ. They believe that
gospel will perish and be utterly consumed
in the renovating fires OF the day OF God,
which Is tho second coming of Christ; that
this earth will finally be resto Oh to its
glory. and bacome the eternal hoirc OF the
saved, whore pain, death. sin, and sorrow
4 La ItAkA (Sa
state Of Affairs all over tho world they look
to as indicating the approach of the final
event. when financial strtngencies will be
forgotten; when business eunbar.nssments ts
will cease to embarrass; aud dabtor and
creditor nations, bimetallists and mono
netallists will stand up to be Judged ao-
cording to their acts.
The churohes of the Seventh Day Ad-
vsntists In each state ara organized into
state conferences, which annually elect an
executive committee of three o, 0ve to have
tho oversight of tho work Of tho conference
during the ycar. Those various state con-
ferenoes. embracing scvs al conferences in
conference. This includes the conferences
in Australia. Central Europr. Denmark.
Great Britain, New Zealnnd, No wa, South
Africa, Cnnada and Sweden, They nlso
have missions In Russia. POLYNESIA, Ger
many. south America. West India islands,
Mexico and in the states whore they have
CITY missions in New York. Boston, Phila-
delphia. Buffalo. Cleveland. Cincinnati,
Chicago, Now o leans, Kansas City, Min
neapolis, and nearly all the large cities in
tho United States. They also hsvs pub.
fishing houses located at Now York, Battle
9 eek. Mich; Oakland: CAL; Toronto.
land; Christisnna, Norway. and Melbourne.
Australia, besides several branch houses.
This work is carried on largely through tho
circulation of their literature by tho inter
national Tract society. TO give a bctter
idea of tho magnitude of their publishing
work at their central publishing house At
Battle Creek. they used Last wear over 800
tons of apcr. and kept in constant en-, 10y
on an average $50 hands. This simply
represents the work of one house. lhey
are publishing moro than score Of differ
ent periodicals In about one-hnlf as many
different languages. The weekly ciroula-
tion OF these papers is about 100000. They
follows: south Lancaster: Mass.; Battle
Creek. Mich; Mt. Vernon. Ohio;
Wash; H.alsbura. Cnl.; Cape. Town.
South Afrion; Melbourne. Australia;
whore hundreds are &c living an education,
und from which SCORES 90 ont cnch year to
engage in the dissemination OF tho special
message which they believe ia now due to
the wo ID. This denomination owns and
conducts ono OF the largest medical and
surgical snnitariums IN tho world. located
at Battle Creek, Mich, whs they have
treated SUCCESSFULLY moro than 1900
patients. They have several other similar
institutions. one in Chio,go. ono in Orc-
Gon and one in Califo MIA.
In the summer time the Adventiats OK.
tend their work by pitching tents in new
fields, and holding services similar to those
now in progress on Fifth avenue. It Ia
said thAt nbout 25O such tents arc now in
use by this denomination; tho are used In
the winter months in south Africa, Florida,
South America, New ZeAland and Australia.
Their meetings do not partaks OF the fann
tical or exciting spirit. but thoy try to
prosecute their wo.k by using Bible arpu-
ments and convincing tho minds OF intelli-
gent people.
I'e sure and take advantage of tho Wholesale
reduction in prices in every department OF The
Bee Htv0 this week. sse Ad. In another column
EAmuoi X. Dnvts-sp speclMl.