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Adventist   /ˈædvˌɛntɪst/   Listen
noun
Adventist  n.  One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; called also Second Adventists.






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"Adventist" Quotes from Famous Books



... progress. Briefly stated, the important facts in the case in question are as follows: Mr. King is an honest, hard-working farmer. He is charged with no breach of morals; in fact, it appears that he is a remarkably upright man. But he is a Seventh Day Adventist; that is, he does not hold the same religious views as the majority in his State. He stands in the same relation to his countrymen as that occupied by the early disciples of Christ to Roman society when Nero undertook to punish ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 • Various

... flocked to the Adventist meetings. Rich and poor, high and low, were, from various causes, anxious to hear for themselves the doctrine of the second advent. The Lord held the spirit of opposition in check while His servants explained the reasons of their faith. Sometimes ...
— The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan • Ellen G. White

... in Tennessee of a Seventh-day Adventist for working on Sunday. Of this it may be remarked that had it happened two centuries ago it would have been symptomatic; to-day it is ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 • Various

... if there was anything wrong in his adjustment to the moral and spiritual conditions of the world around him to have full allowance made for it. No melodramatic display of warring elements, such as the white-robed Second Adventist imagines, can meet the need of the human heart. The thunders and lightnings of Sinai terrified and impressed the more timid souls of the idolatrous and rebellious caravan which the great leader was conducting, but a far nobler manifestation ...
— Over the Teacups • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... incarceration in Tennessee of a Seventh-day Adventist for working on Sunday. Of this it may be remarked that had it happened two centuries ago it would have been symptomatic; ...
— The Arena - Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 • Various



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