Congregational Church Expels Creationist Dissenter

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 31, 1881

Congregational Church Expels Creationist Dissenter

At a recent prayer-meeting in Ashfield, Mass., a member of a Congregational church brought a charge of infidelity against the pastor, founded on his exposition of the Bible account of the creation, in which the clergyman explained the six days as periods not of twenty-four hours each, but of much greater length, according to the widely received teachings of modern scientists. The congregation, with scarcely an exception, sustained their minister, and the name of the dissatisfied member was on Sunday dropped from the roll of the church at his own request.—Christian Union.