Union Among Adventists

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Mar 29, 1906

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 83, No. 13.

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Union Among Adventists

In a recent issue of the World's Crisis (First-day Adventist) we note the following, addressed to the editor:—
I am deeply impressed with your idea of the union of the various branches of Adventism. What a sad spectacle in many places to see little bands of these various branches struggling to maintain services, when if they could be brought together on the great truths which we all hold in common, aggressive work might be done for God and souls.
While Seventh-day Adventists have accomplished nothing of which to boast, the fact nevertheless that they have carried the advent message to almost every country in the world, civilized or savage, indicates that on the part of that branch of Adventists who stand for “the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus,” some aggressive work for God and souls has been accomplished. The manifestation of spiritual life and aggressive work in the spread of the gospel depends upon union with God rather than upon the joining of hands by organizations of men. The truth of God is always aggressive, and the three angels described in Revelation 14, with their gospel messages proclaiming the hour of God's judgment, the fall of Babylon, and the warning against the worship of the “beast” power, do the most aggressive gospel work accomplished in this generation. It is “not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord.”