the *evil* Adventist Review

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

I have occasion to do research in old newspapers, and came across this in the Chicago Tribune of 3 January 1888. Adventists at Battle Creek were being interviewed about the time of the end, and some were predicting 1888 was going to be when Christ returned. They referred to the text "Babylon is fallen" with Babylon meaning the church.

Read what signified the "falling" of the Adventist church to some of the Elders. Looks like there have always been finger-pointers and critics of anything progressive...

[phkrause]

Interesting

[Kevin H]

I noticed similar type of things back when spending time in the White Estate Vault while at Andrews. There have always been those who have felt that the gospel is the good news that the church is going to hell in a hand basket and that to be saved you have to join the Washburn/Wilkinson version of Adventism. Same ideas, same arguments the major changes have been:

1) in the old writings they attack and blame people such as James White, Willie White, W. W. Prescott and even Ellen White among others. But in modern writings they baptize the earlier villains and make them good people and place the make people who lived later the villains and those villain's ideas being new to those people and not charge those heresies to the Whites or Prescott or others who was living back then.

2) They have filtered their ideas through the book "Questions on Doctrine" to sift out any ideas that might be remotely in line with that book.

Nothing new under the sun. Thank you for sharing!!!