The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-02-12

10 academies and colleges where laooI-
ers are educated for the work. ana seN-
eral large sanitariums, of when the
Battle Creek. Mich, sanitarium Is tne
largest in the world. All our people are
taught the principles of healthful hFihs
and are excellent nurses.
Our work in Montana has only oeen
started a few years ago. Inc past
year the work has more than doubled
in membership and receipts. We nave
three ordained ministers, two Ncen-
tiates and three Bible workers, and 2oO
members. The cash paid TO the general
cause by the members the past year
was more than $1,000, besides local eX-
penses. Two churches have been quit
the past year and much home mission
airy work that is not counted"
Adventists consider themselves as or
thodox and that they should be so look
ed upon by other Protestant churches:
Il don't know why we should not De-
said the elder, I'VE take the Protestant
platform fully. the Bible, and the Bible
alone, as rule of faith and practice.
know we are not understood by many
of the ministers of other denominations
We follow the apostles example. l
have taught you publicly. and from
house to house. ceased not to warn
every one night and day We never
ask anyone to Join our church, put
plead with them to give their heart 10
God and follow the teachings of HIS
word There are many customs ana
practices of the popular churches that
we repudiate. Among these are the
means resorted to for raising money,
following in the fashions of the world.
and meddling with politics. II is right
for church members to render to civil
government everything due to II, put
IL is certainly wrong for a church, as
a church. or for a member in the name
of a church, to dictate laws for the
state; because il is so easy to get the
idea that men can be made moral by
law, and this always brings persecu-
ton. The standard of morality is the
moral law, which is spiritual, ana
! reaches to the thoughts and intents of
the heart. The transgro ssion of ii is
! sin. a man might transgress a civil
( law and not be a sinner. Civil law is not
( intended To make men moral, but civil
I and has to do with the actions and not
| with the thoughts.
las | said before, our message is for
! the world and to prepare people Tor
/ the coming of Christ. or, rather, TO pre-
pare the way for His coming. We go to
a place and advertise TO hold meetings,
and especially request skeptics to come
and hear us. | believe that more OF
that class unite with us than with any
other body of Christians. 1t is a fact.
( however, that members of other
churches come to hear us, and fire.
quently desire to unite with us; then
we are accused of preselyting. We pro-
pose to go on until the message has
been given to all the world, then we
look for the literal coming OF Christ.
I'm this generation, Seventh Day Ad-
ventists never set the date nearer than
the Bible gives II in Matt. "a and Luke
q Though we often get the credit OF
so doing by people who wish to injure
us. The Catholics set the time for tho
world to come to an end in the year
1000. (See Anderson's New General His
tory) And leading men of other popu
lar denominations have frequently SET
the time. We do not, and never have
taken any part in the setting of the
day or even the year when this event
| should occur"