SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 January 1922, Page 5

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS.

YESTERDAY’S PROCEEDINGS. Last night the attendance at the evening meeting on the camp ground was again of large dimensions. The speaker was Pastor J. W. Kent, of Australia, and his theme was Christ in both dispensations. He drew attention to the prevailing idea that salvation was by the law in the old dispensation and in the new by the operation of grace. This teaching was clearly refuted by the Scriptures used, showing that neither Abraham, David, Paul, nor any other Bible character in either dispensation was saved by any worthiness of his own. Christ was the rock that followed the Israelites through the wilderness. As mediator Christ pleads for His people in the judgment which, according to the prophecy of Dan B—l 4,8 —14, began in 1844. The speaker, by the aid of diagrams, traced out this remarkable time prediction, showing that it began in the year 457 B.C. This is shown by a reference to Ezra 7 —4-1 —13, wherein a decree is brought to view as foretold in Dan 9—25. This is the date of the beginning of the 200-300 days, a day standing for a year in prophecy. This brings the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary to view, which, taking the typical cleansing of the earthly sanctuary as a pattern, shows the work of judgment in the heavenly sanctuary. The speaker pointed but that the Adventist movement took its rise in 1844, and the burden of its message is that the hour of judgment has come, as brought to view in Rev. 14—6—8.