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I think that when the New Earth is re-created that we will have our families again, or make new ones. Jesus loved little children, I can't imagine never hearing little children laugh and play ever again once this batch is all raised.

Really in line with the EGW quote about not forgetting how the Lord has lead us in the past...

Response # 1. This is an issue that presently divides the denomination. One group essentially says that membership should only be for those who have reached a stated level of doctrinal understanding and life-style compliance. The other group says that membership should be for anyone who has accepted Christ. 2. My personal policy in the past has been to cover the so-called 28 in Bible studies and to take the Baptismal Vows, of which there are two sets, as a standard. You will note that this does not require a lot of knowledge of our denominational history, as Pam has suggested. 3. In addition, I tell people to make a decision to join a denomination on the basis of two factors: a) A Belief that the Holy Spirit is leading them to join that denomination. A conviction that the denomination, while imperfect in its Biblical understanding, is teaching what God wants taught today.

And another article along the same lines from 1995 - https://www.ministrymagazine.org/archive/1995/04/the-rise-and-fall-of-adventist-women-in-leadership

interesting article... Just out of curiosity, I did research on one of the authors, "S. C. Welcome," who penned the 1860 article, "Shall the Women Keep Silence in the Churches?" His name was Solomon C Welcome [sic]. He and his parents and siblings were from Maine and had gone to Wisconsin in the late 1840's, and lived in a sod house for awhile. By 1850, Solomon's brother, Michael, had become a minister in the First Day Adventist Church. Solomon was a farmer, but also became a part time minister of the Seventh-day Adventist church. His brother, Michael, remained a First Day Adventist preacher. Solomon was married and had two sons. One of Solomon's sons, George T Wellcome, also became an Adventist minister, moving to Brawley, California, still a minister - eventually becoming the city mayor. Of note, he was a member of the Brawley Masonic Lodge. (Burdette, Robert J., ed. American Biography and Genealogy: California Edition. Volumes I–II. Chicago, New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, [1912]. California State Library, Sacramento, California.) Solomon's other son, Henry Solomon Wellcome, decided to travel to England around 1875, becoming interested in medicine. In 1880 he founded the pharmaceutical company of Burroughs Wellcome. Henry was also a Freemason. He married, then divorced, Syrie Barnardo, who then married British author and playwright, William Somerset Maugham. Henry Wellcome was knighted by King George V in 1932. When Henry Wellcome died of pneumonia in 1936, his will designated that a trust be established, the Wellcome Trust, and has become the world’s largest charitable foundation devoted exclusively to the biomedical science research to benefit both humans and animals. rather interesting... (didn't mean to divert from the topic.... I just get involved in researching, and go nuts! )