Adventist Position on Divorce by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 13, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 18.

Adventist Position on Divorce

By Editor

A CORRESPONDENT says: “'Advent' colporters advocate free divorce in the South. Do those southern colporters voice the whole church organization?” We answer, No; nor any part of it. No Seventh-day Adventist in the world ever advocated any such thing. There is one proper ground for divorce, and only one. Christ said: “Whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery.” Matt. 5:32. We dare not go beyond the word of the Lord, to do less or more than it enjoins; therefore that is the sum of the belief of Seventh-day Adventists on the subject of divorce.