The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress
- Contents- Preface
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- Biographical Sketch
- A Specific Call to Circulate Loughborough’s Book
- Why Republish?
- —Call to Remember
- —A Special Time in History
- —Affirming the Spirit of Prophecy
- —Eyewitness Account of the Founding Truths
- Notes on Appendix A
- The Cooperation of the Lord with Humanity
- Founding Period the Focus
- Challenge to Current Church
- Illustrations
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- Far-reaching Effects of Columbus’s Discoveries
- A Fortunate Mistake
- The Great Hope of the Ages
- Paul Sustained by the Hope
- Peter Rejoicing in the Hope
- God’s Purpose in Creation
- Christ’s Second Coming not a Fable
- Prophecy a More Sure Word
- The Nature of Prophecy
- The Object of Prophecy
- Prophecy not Sealed
- Prophecy not of Private Interpretation
- Prophecy Fulfilled
- Prophecy a Light in the Darkness
- Three Prominent Events from Eden to the End
- Prophecy Gives Way-Marks to the End
- Remember the Lord’s Leadings
- Great Results from Smallest Means—D'Aubigné's Testimony
- Gideon’s Victory
- The Babe in the Manager
- Not Many Wise Called
- Humble Men in the Reformation
- Early Methodists
- Eck’s Retort to Luther
- The Word of the Lord vs. Human Wisdom
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- Delay not Revealed at First
- Is Seth the Seed?
- Hope Centered on Noah
- Babel Built
- Abraham to be Heir of the World
- The Real Seed
- The Time Hidden
- “I Shall See Him, but not Now.”
- The Sanctuary Service a Type of the True
- Israel Calls for a King
- The Kingdom Overturned
- Translation of Enoch and Elijah
- Job Taught the Lord’s Coming
- The Throne of David the Lord’s Throne
- The Jews Perplexed
- The Seed Of Divine Origin
- God’s Presence Manifest in the Shekinah and the Cloud
- Glorious Reign of the Stem of Jesse
- The Resurrection Taught by the Prophets
- The Renewed-Earth Kingdom
- “He Hath Borne Our Sorrows”
- Daniel’s Prophecies Reveal the Future
- The twenty-three hundred Days
- The Seventy Weeks to Messiah
- Fate of the Ungodly
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- Looking for Temporal Rule
- Of the Lineage of David
- Predictions of Simeon and Anna
- Angels Visit the Shepherds
- The Wise Men Visit Bethlehem
- The Saviour at Twelve Years of Age
- The Mission of John the Baptist
- Jesus Baptized
- The Voice from Heaven
- Christ Anointed According to Law
- The Time is Fulfilled
- Visible Proof of Christ’s Messiahship
- John Perplexed
- People Amazed at Christ’s Work
- Christ Teaching the Disciples of His Death
- Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem
- Christ to Go Away and Return Again
- Parable of the Nobleman
- Forsaken by All the Disciples
- Stirring Events of the Resurrection Morning
- Jesus Walks into the Country
- Wilt Thou Now Restore the Kingdom?
- Jesus to Remain in Heaven until the Restitution
- The Master’s Return Indefinite
- The Apostasy
- The Temporal Millennium—Patterson
- Daniel Whitby on the Millennium
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- The Day of His Preparation
- Chariots with Flaming Torches
- The Work of the Little Horn
- The Two Witnesses Slain
- The Reign of Terror
- Infidel Writers
- Blasphemous Work in Lyons, France
- God’s Word Emerges from Obscurity
- Rosetta Stone Discovered
- “Thou Shalt Stand in Thy Lot”
- The Words Sealed until 1798
- Key to the 2300 Days
- Many Discovering the Light
- Davis, of South Carolina
- Joseph Wolff and Twenty Others
- Alexander Campbell’s Position
- Leonard Heinrich Kelber
- “Ben Ezra” (Laucunza)
- 1844 the True Terminus of the 2300 Days
- The Day of Atonement a Time of Judgment
- Testimony of a Jewish Rabbi
- The Judgment Message Due in 1844
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- The Time for the Signs
- The Dark Day and Night
- The Falling Stars
- Thomas Burnett’s Prediction
- Olmstead’s Testimony Professor
- Star Shower Seen Also in Europe
- Application of the Parable
- A World-wide Proclamation
- HOW THE MOVEMENT STARTED IN VARIOUS NATIONS
- Compared with the Reformation
- Joseph Wolff’s Labors
- The Message in Germany and Russia
- The Message in Great Britain
- The Message in Holland
- The Message In Tartary
- The Message in America, India, and on the Continent
- To Every Seaport on Earth
- Three Thousand Proclaiming the Message
- Hutchinson’s Voice of Elijah Sent Broadcast
- In the Sandwich Islands
- The Message Compared with that of John the Baptist
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- A Definite Message
- The Judgment at Christ’s Coming
- Reckoning of the 2300 Days
- Admissions of Opponents
- Professor Bush’s Testimony
- Wonders in the Heavens
- The Fiery Aurora of 1837
- The Aurora of 1839
- Strange Appearances in the Sun
- STRANGE APPEARANCE OF THE SUN
- Wonders Fulfilling Scripture Predictions
- THE MESSENGERS
- William Miller
- William Miller’s Conversion
- Joshua V. Himes
- The United Labors of Miller and Himes
- Other Prominent Adventist Preachers
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- An Angel a Symbol of Human Messengers
- The Loud Cry of the First Message
- The Time of the Loud Cry
- The Fifth Trumpet
- The Close of the Sixth Trumpet
- Dr. Josiah Litch Predicts the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
- The Turkish Sultan at War with the Pasha of Egypt
- Intervention of the Allied Powers
- The Prophecy Fulfilled—End of Turkish Independence
- Public Interest in Prophecy Aroused
- Hundreds Proclaiming the Message
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- The Call to Supper
- The Call to Them that Had Been Bidden
- Open Doors for the Message
- A Mighty Wave of Revivals
- An Experience in Richmond, Me
- Calls for the Message in Other Places
- Hundreds Converted
- Testimony of the Methodist Year Book
- Children Preaching in Sweden
- “Yes! I Had to Preach”
- Boquist and Walbom in Orebro, Sweden
- Boquist’s Testimony
- Children in Vision
- Boquist’s Sister’s Testimony
- Hymn Sung by Boquist and Walbom
- The Boy Preacher at Karlskoga
- Gifts of the Spirit Connected with the Message
- William Foy’s Visions
- Vision of the Three Steps
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- The Time when the Parable Applies
- Smiting their fellow-servants
- The First Disappointment
- Evil Servants Developed
- Giving “Meat in due Season”
- Church Feasting
- The Tarrying Time
- A Vindication of Their Work
- The Disappointment Explained
- HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT AFTER MARCH, 1844
- Attention Called to the Autumn of 1844
- Crops Left in the Fields
- The Judgment to Precede the Advent
- A Midnight Awakening
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- The Second Call to the Marriage Supper
- “Remember How Thou Hast Heard”
- How the Second Message was Proclaimed
- In a Trying Position
- Apostolic Example for Our Course
- Unaccountable Opposition
- Storrs on the Attitude of the Churches
- Mansfield’s Testimony
- The Mob Spirit Manifest
- Duty to the Churches
- A Separate People Chosen to Receive New Truths
- Storrs’s Six Sermons
- Unable to Refute the Six Sermons
- Tried for Heresy
- Wrath of the Wicked Displayed
- Scoffers Put on Ascension Robes
- Hazen Foss’s Vision, 1844
- Foss Fails to Relate His Vision
- Foss’s Vision Related by Another
- Sadly Disappointed
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- The Book Sweet, then Bitter
- The Time Proclamation a Sweet Morsel
- Disappointed, but not Discouraged
- Compared with the Disappointed Disciples
- “Sat not with the Mockers”
- James White on the Disappointment
- From N. Southard, Editor of the Midnight Cry
- From Joseph Marsh, Editor of the Voice of Truth
- The Sanctuary Believed to be the Earth
- Cleansing the Sanctuary Thought to be Purifying the Earth
- The Apostles Disappointed, Yet Fulfilled Scripture
- No Mistake in Reckoning the 2300 Days
- Light on the Sanctuary Discovered
- Churches Seeking Lost Members
- “Thou Must Prophesy Again”
- Prejudice Barred Access to the People
- Like Sheep without a Shepherd
- J. N. Andrews on the Disappointment
- Truth Has a Baptism of Unpopularity
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- Moses’ Call from the Burning Bush
- The Presence of the Lord Promised
- Gifts of the Spirit During the Reformation
- The Remnant Church to Have the Spirit of Prophecy
- Paul’s Testimony on the Gifts
- A Fulfillment of the Promise
- Miss Harmon’s First Vision
- Synopsis of the First Vision
- Description of Mrs. White’s Condition While in Vision
- Compared to That of Daniel
- TESTIMONIALS OF EYE-WITNESSES
- M. G. Kellogg, M.D
- F. C. Castle
- D. H. Lamson
- Mrs. Drusilla Lamson
- David Seeley
- Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Fowler
- C. S. Glover
- Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter
- D. T. Bourdeau
- A Spirit Medium Doctor Testing the Vision
- Miss Harmon Bidden to Relate Her Visions
- Miss Harmon’s Visit to Poland, Maine
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- Receiving a Kingdom Called a Marriage
- “I Will Return”
- Mercy After the Door is Closed
- Not the Door of Luke 13:25-28
- A Closed Door in the Typical Service
- Who Were in Error?
- The Philadelphia Church
- What is the Shut Door of this Parable?
- A Door of Utterance
- The Situation after Oct. 22, 1844
- The General Hardness of Sinners
- All Doors of Access to Unbelievers Closed
- Who First Taught the False Shut Door?
- Who Stoutly Opposed the False Theory?
- Opposed to the “No-Mercy” Theory
- Another Reproof of the False Theory
- No Contradiction
- First-day Adventist Testimony
- Mrs. White Ever Seeking the Salvation of Sinners
- Labor for Sinners in Oswego, N.Y
- Testimony of Twenty-one Witnesses
- A Vision Misconstrued
- A False Revivalist Defeated
- Another False Revivalist in Oswego, N.Y
- A Prediction of Failure
- A Hypocritical Worker in Camden, N.Y
- A No-Mercy Man
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- Two Special Points of Attack
- Wonderful Manifestations
- Remarkable Demonstrations in the Third Vision
- The Topsham Vision
- Mrs. Truesdail’s Testimony
- Manual Labor a Sin
- A Prediction Fulfilled
- Remarkable Demonstrations
- Her Longest Vision, over Six Hours
- Miss Harmon’s Marriage
- Many Bibles Used in a Vision
- First Work was among Advent Believers
- Position of the Gift of Prophecy
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- The Most Solemn Warning in the Bible
- The Temple Opened—the Ark Seen
- Change of the Sabbath
- The First Adventist Sabbath-keepers
- The Seventh Day the Only Law-appointed Day
- T. M. Preble’s Essay
- J. B. Cook on the Sabbath Question
- Joseph Bates Accepts the Sabbath
- The First Book on the Sabbath
- Four Pounds of Flour
- Eleven Thousand Dollars Spent for the Truth
- An Unexpected Supply
- Money Coming for the Book
- Last Bill Paid
- Elder Bates Skeptical of the Visions
- Miss Harmon Accepts the Sabbath
- Beginning of the Third Angel’s Message
- Elder Bates Accepts the Visions as from God
- The “Opening Heavens”
- A Glorious Light in the Sword of Orion
- Lighter than the Sun
- Another Testimony on the Planet Vision
- A Vicious Horse Suddenly Tamed
- Israel Damon’s Testimony
- Elder Bates’s Testimony on the Visions
- How the Three Messages Were Regarded in 1847
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- A Young Sister’s Sacrifice for the Truth
- Housekeeping with Borrowed Furniture
- Elder White Cutting Cord-Wood
- Conference at Rocky Hill, Conn
- Invited to Oswego County, N.Y
- Mr. Arnold Objects to Ordinances
- A Vision with Wonderful Use of the Bible
- Miraculous Cases of Healing
- Pioneers Endure Hardness
- Confusion of Nations in 1848
- Nations that were Involved in the Struggle
- Sealing Message Discovered
- Turmoil Suddenly Quieted Down
- Senator Choate on the Situation in the Old World
- “Testimony” of Nov. 18, 1848
- Words Spoken in the Vision
- Doubtful from a Human Standpoint
- How the First Seventh-day Adventist Paper was Printed
- Mrs. White’s Account of the First Papers
- Prediction of Support of Paper Fulfilled
- Progress of the Publishing Work
- The Condition of the Nations
- Comparison of War Implements
- General Miles on War Preparations
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- Beginning of Modern Spiritualism
- Predictions Concerning Spiritualism
- Prediction Fulfilled
- Elder White in Oswego, N.Y
- Second Advent Review Published
- J. N. Andrews Begins Preaching
- Selling Farms to Aid the Work
- Removal of the Publishing Work to Saratoga
- Publishing in Rochester—Owning a Hand-Press
- The Youth’s Instructor Started
- Uriah Smith Connects with the Office
- Call for $500 Tract Fund
- J. P. Kellogg and Henry Lyon Sell Their Farms
- All Our Papers and Books for $3.00
- Review Office Invited to Michigan
- First meeting-house in Battle Creek
- In Our First Printing Office
- Call for Power-Press and Engine
- First Report of Book Sales
- Review Office a Safe Deposit
- Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association Organized
- First Publications in Other Tongues
- Transfer of the Review to the Association
- A Paper on the Pacific Coast
- Raising Means
- The Pacific Press Established
- Removal to Mountain View
- Printing Begun in Foreign Lands
- The Youth’s Instructor Made a Weekly
- What Elder White Turned over to the Association
- Standing of the Publishing House in 1880
- The Canvassing Work Inaugurated
- Book Sales for Ten Years
- Sales for Fifty Years $11,000,000
- Printing in about Forty Languages
- Location of the Twenty Publishing Houses
- Issuing the First Pamphlets
- Move by Faith—Elder Stone’s Testimony
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- A Pamphlet on the Opening Heavens
- A Pamphlet on the Sealing Work
- Demands of the Publishing Work
- Uriah Smith at Phillips’ Academy
- Miss Smith at a Ladies’ Seminary
- Two Dreams Fulfilled
- Annie Smith Accepts the Truth
- A Sacrifice and a Consecration
- Housekeeping under Difficulties
- Liberality of the Believers
- Sacrifice of the Laborers
- Accessions in Rochester, N.Y
- Oswald Stowell Healed
- Mrs. White’s Vision before the Rochester Company
- Vision on the Course of an Absent Member
- Uriah Smith Connects with the Review Office
- Ordained a Minister
- Fifty Years of Untiring Labor
- Elder Smith’s Death
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- The First Vision in Michigan
- A Woman who Professed Holiness
- The Meeting in Vergennes, Mich
- Testimony to the Fanatic
- The Words Uttered as Predicted
- Guilt Acknowledged
- The Messenger Party
- Advice and Prediction
- Collapse of the Messenger Party and Paper
- Effect on the Advent Cause
- Tent-meetings First Suggested
- First Tent-meeting in Battle Creek, Mich
- camp-meetings Suggested
- The First camp-meeting at Wright, Mich
- Deliverance from a Railway Disaster
- Evidence of Divine Deliverance
- Opponents Reproved
- Elders Stephenson and Hall
- Prediction Concerning Them
- A Sad Termination of Life
- Elder J. H. Waggoner Accepts the Message
- Faith Healing
- Remarkable Physical Manifestation
- Another Prediction
- Mrs. White’s Affliction
- Deliverance as Predicted
- Prediction of the American Civil War
- Mrs. Ensign’s Testimony Concerning the Visions
- Magnitude of the Civil War
- Another Confirmation of the Vision
- Slavery and the War
- Prediction of Success to the North
- Ex-Governor St. John’s Testimony
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- Opposition to Organization
- George Storrs on Organization
- Order in Apostolic Times
- Elder White on Organization
- Unity Between Two Extremes
- Simplicity and Form of New Testament Organization
- Church Officers are Servants
- The First Testimony on Order
- Order Needed Near the End
- Order of the Angels to be Imitated
- God a God of Order Still
- Christ’s Prayer for Order
- Danger of Individual Independence
- Satan Delights to Overthrow Order
- Commendation of Ministers
- Ministerial Support
- The Established Order Commended
- The Tithing System to Develop Character
- Holding Church Property
- Legal Organization Endorsed
- A Denominational Name
- The Name Approved
- The Office of a True Gift
- Church Organization
- Michigan State Conference Organized
- Ministers’ Credentials
- Delegates’ Credentials
- Ministers’ Salaries
- Credentials First Presented by Delegates
- General and State Conference Constitutions
- Object of Organization
- General Organizations Formed
- The Field Occupied up to 1868
- Why Re-Organization was Necessary
- Organized Standing Jan. 1, 1903
- Unity in Diversity
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- J. N. Andrews on Healthful Living
- A Health Institution to be Provided
- Prediction of Results
- Site for a Sanitarium Purchased
- A Health Journal Started
- A Medical Corporation Organized
- Healthful Dress
- Extremes in Dress Condemned
- A Testimony on the Dress Question
- The Reform Dress
- The Body to be Evenly Clothed
- Five Points Essential to Healthful Dress
- Mrs. Jenness-Miller on Dress
- Dr. Trall’s Endorsement
- Medical Science Approves
- Dr. Kellogg’s Testimony
- The Principles Have Stood the Test
- Proof of the Divine Origins of the Visions
- The Health Institution Enlarged
- Rural Health Retreat
- The Pacific Health Journal
- Charitable Work
- A Plea for the Orphans
- Mrs. Haskell’s $30,000 Gift
- The James White Memorial Home
- Medical Missionaries
- Growth of the Health Work
- The Sanitarium Hospital
- Prediction of Workers Going Forth
- Success in Health Work Promised
- The American Medical Missionary College
- Growth of the Medical Missionary Work
- The Main Buildings Burned
- The New Sanitarium
- Many Sanitariums to be Established
- List of Sanitariums
- List of Treatment Rooms
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- A Forbidding Prospect
- Testimony Delineating Character
- Mr. Pratt’s Life Described
- Brother Barr Made Glad
- A Family Jealousy Healed
- Similar to Elisha and Hazael
- Elder White Stricken with Paralysis
- Prayer for Elder White
- The Vision Given Christmas Night
- Satan’s Attack Predicted
- J. T. Orton’s Premonitions
- Murder of J. T. Orton
- Prediction Made that Christmas Fulfilled
- Relief to the Despairing
- Testimony for James Harvey in Despair
- Deliverance Came Quickly
- Field of Labor Enlarged
- Opening of the California Mission
- Testimony on How to Labor in California
- The Predicted Success Game
- The First Tent-Meeting in San Francisco
- Internal Trials in California
- Dangerous Independence
- Investigation Meeting Appointed
- A Written Confession
- A Wonderful Vision Received
- Convincing Nature of the Vision
- How Vision was Written
- Proof of Divine Guidance
- Manner of Writing out the Visions
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- Prof. G. H. Bell’s School
- Call for a Denominational School
- Money Raised for a College
- Twelve Acres Bought for the College
- Need of Denominational Schools
- A Symmetrical Education Needed
- Battle Creek College
- Two More Schools Opened
- Healdsburg College
- South Lancaster Academy
- London (England) Training School
- Battle Creek College Enlarged
- Emmanuel Missionary College
- Central Bible School, Chicago, Ill
- Union College, Nebraska
- Walla Walla College
- Australian School
- Removal to Avondale
- Prediction Concerning Avondale Fulfilled
- Mt. Vernon Academy
- Keene Industrial School
- Claremont Union College
- Summary of Educational Work, 1895
- Summary of Educational Institutions, 1903
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- THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN FIELD
- Elder Czehowski
- Sabbath-keepers in Switzerland
- Elder Erzenberger Sent to America
- A French Paper Started
- Elder Whitney Goes to Basel—Death of Elder Andrews
- Dr. Kellogg in Europe
- Elder Butler Visits Europe
- Publishing House Erected in Basel
- Mrs. White Visits Europe
- The Swiss Conference Organized
- Elder Waggoner in Europe
- Elder Robinson in Europe
- Elder Holser Superintendent of the Field
- THE GERMAN-RUSSIAN MISSION
- The Elberfeld Company
- Elder Conradi in Europe
- Elders Conradi and Perk Imprisoned
- Work on the Volga, Russia
- Success of Canvassers in Germany
- Mission Opened in Hamburg
- Success in Europe
- Five Russian Sabbath-keepers Banished
- More Sabbath-keepers in Russia
- Baptism in Hungary
- Canvassing in Germany
- THE SCANDINAVIAN MISSION
- The First Book Published in Danish-Norwegian
- Elder Matteson Becomes a Printer
- The First Foreign Periodical
- A Printing Office in Norway
- Health Journals in Danish and Swedish
- Elder Haskell in Scandinavia
- Mrs. White Greatly Aids Scandinavia
- New Office Building Erected in Norway
- Twenty-Five Churches in Scandinavia
- School in Christiana
- Forty Churches in Scandinavia in 1895
- Three Scandinavian Conferences
- THE BRITISH MISSION
- Tent-Meeting in England
- Laborers Increased in England
- Ship Missionary Work
- History of the Sabbath Placed in English Libraries
- Present Truth Started
- The Pacific Press in London
- THE AUSTRALASIAN MISSION
- The Bible Echo
- First Church Organized in Australia
- Australian Office Building
- Tasmania Entered
- Mrs. White in Australia
- Elder Olsen in Australia
- Australasian Union Conference
- Elder Prescott in Australia
- SOUTH AFRICAN MISSION
- Elders Boyd and Robinson in South Africa
- Elder Haskell in Africa
- College Building in Africa
- The South African Conference
- Papers Published in South Africa
- South African Union Conference
- THE POLYNESIAN FIELD
- Visit to Pitcairn
- The Pitcairn Built
- The Pitcairn’s First Cruise
- Death of Missionaries
- The Pitcairn’s Second Trip
- The Pitcairn’s Third Trip
- The Pitcairn’s Fourth Trip
- The Pitcairn Sold
- THE WEST INDIES
- Trinidad
- CENTRAL AMERICA
- Small Ship for Central America
- Elder Hutchins’ Death
- SOUTH AMERICA
- THE SOUTHERN MISSIONARY SOCIETY
- Elder White’s Missionary Steamer
- Work of the Southern Missionary Society
- Workers in the South
- The Steamer Morning Star
- How Money Came for the Southern Mission
- IN MANY LANDS
- Mexico
- Central Africa
- The Gold Coast
- India
- Georgia Burrus in India
- Hawaii, Sandwich Islands
- Chinese Work in Hawaii
- Summary of Missions, Jan. 1, 1903
- Strategic Points Established
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- The Tract and Missionary Society
- Efficient Secretaries—Maria Huntley
- The Effect on Local Churches
- Testimony Relating to Tract Work
- Prophecy versus Worldly Wisdom
- Jewelry and the Tract Work
- San Francisco a Missionary Point
- A Significant Favor to San Francisco
- A Hydriatic Dispensary
- Elder White’s Death
- Elder Smith’s Statement
- Religious Legislation Predicted
- Persecution in America
- One Hundred and Sixteen Arrests
- The Religious Liberty Association
- The Help of Secular Journals
- The Wrath of Man Made to Praise the Lord
- Prediction Concerning Sunday Laws
- World’s Fair Legislation
- Talks in Congress, 1892
- Boast Made by the Church
- Catholic and Protestant Unity
- Methodists and St. Patrick’s Day
- Something Great and Decisive
- Judge Brewer’s “Christian Nation”
- Ancient Prophets
- Open Visions
- Night Vision of Mrs. White
- The Removal to Washington
- Prediction of Favorable Offer
- The Predicted Location Found
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- Seventy-Four Years’ Progress
- Help in the Lord
- How Can These Prosper?
- The Mountain Made a Plain
- Aided by the Gift of Prophecy
- What Need Have We of Prophets?
- Need of Gifts
- Tokens of the End
- A Personal Tribute
- A Friend of the Poor
- Strangers Testify of the Writings
- Source of Opposition
- Failure of the Opposition
- Where is the Success?
- Index
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- Appendix B — Summary of Key Dates in Loughborough’s Life Extracted from The Great Second Advent Movement
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- Index Of Appendix A