The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-06

Zion, Illinois,
August 20, 1919
Dear Madam:
i. Your letter of August 10Th to the General
Overseer has been received in the General
Ecclesiastical Secretary's Office, and has
come to my office for reply.
The General OVerSeer was pleased to
note what you wrote concerning DR.. Dowie
and your knowledge of the wonderful work
God brought to pass through him. There
were many similar cases of Divine Heal
ing to the daughter of your friend to whom
you refer.
Relative to your statement, 81 have be-
come interested in the Seventh Day Ad-
vent Church, and your further statement
that "their teaching and yours are very
much alike, | think when you have care.
fully read all this letter you will lose your
interest in the Seventh Day Adventist
Church. and you will change your opinion
concerning the similarity between their
teaching and the teaching of the General
Overseer, or rather, of the Christian Cath
Ole Apostolic Church in Zion.
| am not surprised further that YOU are
unable to accept their founder, Mrs E. c.
White, and her, what you call, prophet
business"
Your question, ''Do you think would be
wrong in joining their Church? ?" must be
answered emphatically, "YES" If you de-
sire to risk your eternal salvation, YOU may
join that Church or any other one of the
Satanically raised up modern sects with
their strong decisions or doctrines of. de-
mons
The Seventh Day Advent Church, with
its unscriptural doctrine and customs, orr
ginated in the Mil1erite Movement of
| 1884. In all their books, sermons and
| literature in general, they point to 1874 as
the time Of their beginning Mrs White
herself was emphatic on this point
Following are few of the reasons why
Seventh Day Adventists and their Church
are unscriptural, not recognized by the Lord
/ at all
l. The system and the Church was orr
glnated and founded by woman Mrs. E.
q. White. This makes her Church and sys-
tenn of the Devil, as is also the Christian
Science Church and all other churches and
systems founded by woman.
Read Corinthians IA "a, IS, and I Tim
othy 2:11, II, and you will see that God
| AOlOlbo WOlllSll W NC VI udlIICu l0dCIlGIS,
preachers, prophets and founders of
churches
You must reject the Seventh Day Advent
Church and all other churches founded by
women, if you would be in Gods order.
Many Of Mrs. Whites visions were &C
tually idiotic and her morals, her conduct
with men, were very seriously called in
question
2. 1t is materialistic or a sou1-sleeping
Church. They teach that at death the
spirit, the entire man, dies. The Bible saws
that the soul or life dies, that the body is
LETT to decay and disappear, but that the
spirit goes : if the one dying is a righteous
mana Christian = into Paradise to await
the resurrection at the Coming of Christ
for His saints. If the dying one was
wicked individual, then the spirit goes into
Hades, the place and condition of all the
unsaved dead until the end of the Millen-
nium Revelation POLLS.
8. 1t is a foot-wasl1ing Church. Foot
washing was necessary and daily custom
in Israel, as in all oriental countries, be-
cause of sandal wearing and foot travel
Feet were washed when entering the house,
when reclining at meals, when returning
from the market place, when a Journey
ended, when entering the synagogue and
when entering an idol temple
When Jesus and the disciples were par
taking Of the Passover Supper, He washed
their feet:
CD Because it was the custom.
(2) Because He would set them an ex-
ample in humble and lowly service See
John 13:416 and I Timothy $40.
(3) But where is the Chapter and Verse
that shows that foot-washing was ever set
in the Church as an ordinance of Church
observation, like baptism and the Lords
Supper are so clearly declared to be-
4. 1t is an annihilationist Church. It
teaches that all the wicked, the finally I'm
saved, are annihilated, cease to be, blotted
out, whereas the Bible again and again de-
clares that after the final Great White
Throne Judgment of Revelation 2O:11-15,
they continue to exist. How long will they
continue to exist? God only knows.
5. 1t denounces the Scriptural doctrine
of Divine Healing, as do all other apostate
churches. 1t has a great sanitarium at
Battle Creek, Michigan, where many doc
tors, even some not members of their own
church, are employed
g. 1t is a Sabbath Keeping, or really
Saturday worshipping church, that is. it
worships day Saturday, the seventh
day - more than it worships God. Keep