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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 9, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 38.

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Our Name.

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A FRIEND writing to this Office asks,—“Why do you call yourselves Seventh-day Adventists? It seems to me your faith differs out little from that of the Regular Baptists.”
We take that name because it best expresses the peculiarities of our faith. We are Adventists, believing that the coming of the Lord is near, and we keep the seventh-day, because it is the Sabbath of the Lord, therein differing from the majority, who keep the first day. But, why do you call yourselves Regular Baptists? Baptists may distinguish you from those who are properly Rhantists, but why take the name or title of “Regular.” That does not indicate anything in particular either in faith or practice. We, in turn, desire an explanation.