THE THIRD MESSAGE by Editor

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 15, 1856

THE THIRD MESSAGE.

By Editor

The particular message now going forth to fallen man in behalf of truth, we believe to be that of the Third Angel of Rev. xiv. In the light of the Third Message we now profess to stand. But a third implies a first and second. Whoever admits that we are now under the Message of the Third Angel, necessarily admits that we have had a first and second; as a third without a first and second would be an impossibility. Have the first and second messages, then, been fulfilled? They have—in the past Advent movement. In proof of this, and to bring fresh to mind the interesting facts connected with it, we are giving the article entitled, “The Rise and Progress of Adventism.” The reader will remember that the article was written in 1844; and though the condition of many things has changed since then, and further light has corrected some erroneous impressions, the main facts as then existed lose none of their interest.