Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1909-04-30
REV. SWEET EXPLAINS
ADVENTIST DOCTRINE
REQUESTS PEOPLE or AL DC.
NOMINATIONS TO ATTEND.
Revival Meetings Nov IN Progress Are
Attracting Large Congregations
, and Many Deeply interested.


OF Bowling Park treated his subject
I'm an interesting manner. using for
a text the words Of St Paul In Acts
24:14. But this confess unto
thee. that after the manner which they
call heresy. so worship the God OF
my fathers. believing all things
which are written In the law and in
the prophets"
Mr.. Sweet said In part:
Looking out into ChristendOm to-
day we see IL divided into sects. each
sect being characterized by some doc
trinal view or form OF church gov
ernment Every one OF these sects on
coming into existence has pressed
through an experience OF persecution.
They have been subjected TO the criti-
eism, misunderstanding and denuncia-
tion OF preexisting religious bodies.
This has been true OF the Adventist
Church. OF the silly. idiOtic things
that have been said about them,
viii not speak. But their dOctrinal
views have been misunderstood.
Many. even now. regard them as a
fanatical sect. as dangerous teachers.
People Judge as by what they have
heard, or have imagined about US.
instead OF listening TO our own con-
fessiOn Of faith. and basing their
opinion upon that
Now. we ask the privilege Of stat
ing in a kind way some Of our funda-
mental views. Consider what we
have to say. and ~ you find that our
views are dangerous p good citizen
ship. or to ones spirituality and use
fulness as a Christian. then reject Us
I'm the name Of the Lord. But II you
ind us holding great truths that lie
az the foundation OF sound Christian
faith. truths that are an incentive TO
repentance and to gOdly living. then
cease TO be afraid OF US. and cooper
ate with US In our special efforts 20
save souls. even II you cannot accept
our dOctrinal views.
ANNu AnN ANnNANA NANlAA Mto VI Aiit
gospel we agree with other evangeli
cal denominations. The principal
point OF difference between Us and
other denominations is that We
stand a unit upon certain points OF
Christian doctrine upon which other
Protestant denominations are divided.
the most important Of which are:
L. We believe In the whole OF
the Bible and In It's literal interpre-
tatiOn.
Others believe the bible to be-
inspired In spots. and interpret what
they DO accept dsurauyely. as
Tula.s
NOW. by literal Interpretation. We
mean this: that the plain ygrb.!
sense OF the passage L. 20 De takoa
as It's true sense. except where the
words and the context shows clearly
that the language Is hguratiye or
symbolic We believe that a depart
ure from this literal rule Of interpre-
tation Is one OF the leading causes
OF the divisions OF Christendom.
.. We believe that Life and I'm
mortality comes 60 man through
Jesus Christ alone. az His second CON.
ing when Tie shall raise the dead and
translate the living saints, as describ-
ed In Cor l5:5l-5S and other Scrip
ture passages.
We believe that there Is no life
whatever Ia death. that II a dead
man ever lives again his future life.
as well as future freedom from an
power Of death. must depend upon
Him who has the power 10 swallow
up death IN victory.
3d. We believe that the Judgment
OF the great day Is impending that
ChHst's second personal coming is
nigh no hand even a. the doors
We believe that the a-t Iut- and
TITLES of consecutive prophecy are
now being fulfilled. that thr character.
istic of thr time uf the end a- Eiygu
iu Daniels prophecy arc a'l about
a.. that on, work given the church
90 DO previous o. Chr.sts return is
receiving o. last strokes. that rr-
ligi1us people now present thr very
picture S. Paul told Timothy they
would present IN the last days that
the days Of Noah's time which Christ
said would BE- like the DAYS Of Ibis
appearing. are really our days
Mr. Sweet enlarged upon an these