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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 24, 1878

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 52, No. 17.

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ASCENSION ROBES.

“The Seventh-day Adventists are holding a camp-meeting near Sedalia. What day they will put on their ascension robes is not stated.”—Huntsville Vindicator.
“The Vindicator ought not to speak except when it knows what it is talking about. We suppose when the above was written it was thinking of No-day or First-day Adventists. Seventh-day Adventists have never been time-setters or ascension-robists. They do not believe the hour, day, or year can be told; but they do believe, as the Scriptures affirm, that the righteous may and will know when this mighty event is near, while as a snare it will come upon all the world, and they shall not escape; neither shall scoffers escape.
“The doctrine of the second personal advent of our Lord from Heaven is most prominently set forth in the Bible; it is set forth as the Christian’s hope; and Christians, it is most emphatically declared, may know when it is near. Fanatics have brought reproach upon this most important Bible doctrine, but it is nevertheless the Christian’s hope, and one that those who have studied the prophecies of the Bible are agreed must very soon be realized.”
The above item I clip from the Salisbury (Mo.) Press, published by J. M. Gallemore. It is a matter of devout gratitude to God that such calumnies can be refuted in a secular paper in Missouri.
In the above quotation from the Huntsville Vindicator, we see the real scoffing spirit of which the Bible speaks when it says that in the last days scoffers shall arise; but let us praise God that the third angel’s message has also arisen to vindicate the cause of God and of his people.