SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1922, Page 6

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.

THE CAMP MEETING. Tn the preaching pavilion at the Adventists’ camp ground on Wednesday night an address was delivered by Pastor J. W. Kent to a large and deeply interested audience. The subject was, “Who are Seventh Day Adventists, and why are .they here?” After some introductory | remarks respecting the beauty of the locality in which the camp is pitched and his extreme pleasure in visiting the town and viewing its beautiful environs, the speaker proceeded to deal with the questions set out in the title of his subject. He referred to. the fact that in many minds a prejudice existed against the denomination, whereas a better investigation of the people and their tenets, and the purpose for which they existed as a people would remove prejudice and change the attitude of many. It was, the speaker pointed but, his object in the evening’s discourse to set before his audience the real purpose for which Adventists existed and the special truths for which Adventism stands. He showed that God had at different times, when a crisis had been reached in the tide of national affairs, , raised reformers with a definite reform message applicable to the time, and attention was drawn to the Noahian message. Reference was also made to the reform work of Aloses, Christ, Luther, Wesley, etc. The special work of Adventism, it was clearly shown, was to present the great closing reform message that is due to the world as contained in the Scripture found in Rev. 16—6 —8. “The hour of His judgment is come.” St. Paul preached of a judgment “to coqie.” The message -for to-day was that the judgment “has come.” God had raised up a people whose message was to go to every nation, tongue, and people, preparatory to the second coming of Christ.

It was shown that this movement took its rise in the year 1846, when a band of 20 Adventists undertook the publication of a sixpenny tract for circulation. This work, of such a small beginning, had now expanded until it embraced the circulation of denominational literature in 99 languages, and the work operated in 101 countries, whilst new territory was being entered constantly. The denomination had now 4541 congregations, 1717 church edifices. 45 publishing houses, and 33 sanitariums in the world. Its membership in 1920 was 185,000; income £2,419,667; sales of denominational literature, £11,183,952 (value).

In closing, it was emphasised that this message was fast encircling the earth, and that the coming of Christ was at hand.

“THE GREATEST EVENTS OF ALL AGES.” The evening service last night at the camp on the racecourse was well attended, a large number of visitors being present. Pastor L. Currow spoke to an interested audience on that greatest event of all ages, “The Second Coming of Jesus Christ.” First of all he showed from the Bible that Jesus’ first coming to earth had been heralded by God’s own ambassador, Enoch (Jude 14), but this great event, he said, would surely be transcended by the near revelation of Jesus in the clouds of heaven. In proof of this the speaker read from the gospel of John, chapter 14, the promise of the Saviour to come again, and quoted from other Scriptures those words of Christ, speaking through David, “1 will not alter the thing that has gone out of my lips.” Next Pastor Currow told of the reason for Christ’s coming to earth again. In I Thess., 4-16, they read: “It is for the purpose of raising those who have died in Christ 1 from death to life and immortality.” But there was also another reason. From II Thess., 1-8, was read the awful fact that Jesus is coming, not only to reward those who have died in faith, but also to take vengeance in flaming fire upon those who obey not the gospel of God in Jesus Christ, and from the Old Testament in Jer. 4 was brought out that “Then the earth will be terribly changed and the heavens will roll away. Then will be enacted one of the last acts in the great drama—the great prayer meeting of ungodly men, as depicted in. the closing verses of Rev. 6, calling upon the rocks and mountains to fall on them and hide them from the face of Jesus, now mighty in strength and glorious in appearance. In. conclusion the speaker urged all present to begin praying now to be purified and made white, in obeying the truth,<>y being tried, so as to be ready to meet Jesus when He comes.

Visitors assembled on the camp ground at the racecourse will in their usual manner regard to-day from sunrise to sunset as holy time, and will keep .Sabbath. In the morning, commencing at 11 o’cldck, public service will be held in the pavilion. The public are invited to visit the ground, and participate in the worship. The tents are open for inspection, and a well furnished rest tent is provided for visitors.

Create an atmosphere of Nazol about you, so that you constantly inhale it. It is undoubtedly good for coughs, colds, sore throats, etc. .