SEVENTH-DAY

ADVENTIST
It is a religion closely
related to the
Protestant
denomination with a
focus on the Sabbath
day and Christ’s
second coming.
 William Miller was born in
Pittsfield, Massachusetts in
1782. He was born to a veteran
of the American Revolution.
As a young boy, he loved to
read and it ignited his interest
in reading religious books. He
considered himself a Baptist
Christian.
 He became well-liked and
elected to several public
offices while in Vermont. He
became a Deputy Sheriff and
eventually Justice of Peace.
With many of his peer in
Vermont being Deist, he
became a Deist, and
abandoned his previous
Christian beliefs.
 Soon after his marriage, the
war of 1812 arose. Miller was
enlisted as a lieutenant and
rose to the ranks of captain. As
war raged on, Miller realized
he needed to set his priorities
straight and began to read the
Bible again. With new vigor of
life and for the Bible, he began
reading it intently and
studying it.
 His interest in religion lead to his
preaching career in August 1831.
He started to fill in for pastor’s
absences and doing the sermon’s at
his church. As a preacher Miller
was convinced that the Bible had
secret codes that would reveal the
future. While reading Daniel
chapters 8 and 9, Miller came to
the conclusion that the text was
saying that after 2,300 years have
passed that the Second Coming of
Christ would happen.
 Before he began preaching
about his beliefs of Christ’s
second coming, in 1832, he
released 16 articles to the
Vermont Telegraph about his
beliefs. He received many
invitations from churches and
responses to his views.
This led to the Millerite movement.
In 1840, his message was strong
and ready to reach the masses.
He never set an exact date for
the second coming of Christ,
but it was around the spring
of 1844. These believers of
his message were known as
the Millerites and the
movement was known as the
Millerite movement. There
were about 50,000 Millerites.
 When spring of 1844 passed,
Miller was extremely
embarrassed about his error. He
publicly announced his error and
did not try to create another date
for Christ’s coming. However,
Miller’s followers along with
Samuel S. Snow believed that 1844
was the right date just the wrong
month. They believed that
October 22, 1844 was the date that
Jesus was going to come back.
After October 22, 1844 passed, Miller was dishearten; he recorded
in his memoirs that he regrets prophesizing. Not only Miller was
disappointed, but so were the Millerities. They wept and were
grieving over this false prophecy. The passing of the second date
of the coming of Christ was known as the Great Disappointment.
Other dates were set and the second coming still failed to happen.
The Millerities dissolved into smaller groups and of course some
turned away from the religion altogether. A majority of Millerities
became Quakers.
 After the Great Disappointment, the Millerities who maintained the religion
divided into three sections. The first division believed in “shut-door
theology” which meant the door was shut to gaining salvation. It was
popularized by Joseph Turner. The second division held the Albany
conference to discuss three purposes: to strengthen the faith of the Advent,
how to carry one the congregation, and to convert others to the religion. This
group was lead by Joshua Vaughan Himes. The third division also known as
the Sabbatarian Group believed that October 22, 1844 was the day that Daniel
8 was talking about the cleansing of the sanctuary of heaven. This was lead
by Hiram Edison. The third division became what is now known as the
Seventh Day Adventist.
One of the people involved in
the Millerite movement was
Ellen Gould Hamon. She was
born on November 26, 1827;
she was one of eight children
in Gotham, Maine. They
eventually moved to Portland
where she witnessed Miller’s
speeches when he preached
and felt deep convictions.
 She was hit in the face with a
stone at a young age and had
medical problems the rest of
her life from the injury. The
injury caused her to end her
education. She became saved
at age 12 and started to attend
Adventist meetings and
believed in the Advent that she
heard Miller preach about.
 After the Great Disappointment,
Ellen was seeking to know the truth
and she experienced a vision. At
seventeen years old, she believed
God was prophesying to her. She
said she saw Advent people
traveling to New Jerusalem and
eventually ended with Jesus
coming back letting the Adventist
to enter Jerusalem. In 1845, she
experience a second vision known
as the Bridegroom.
Then she experienced a third vision
about about God and the Adventists.
Her visions seemed to support the
Adventists’ faith with promising
prophecies by White describing
hope for the second coming of
Christ. She reportedly had other
visions where she was in the
presence of Jesus or angels.
Altogether she had 2,000 visions
and dreams that lasted from less
than a minute to four hours.
 When she was 23, she met
James White, an Adventist
preacher, and they married in
1846. They wrote a 46 page
tract called Seventh-day
Sabbath that was published
by Joseph Bates. They were
convinced that the Sabbath
day was being neglected and
was important to their faith.
 James continued to preach and
worked in his spare time. They had
a child together, but Ellen soon left
to travel to send her message
widely throughout the country.
They both felt the need to publish
works to inspire their faith. James
published The Present Truth which
was a paper and would contain
Ellen’s prophetic views about the
church and warning
The Whites established the publishing
work and church organization while in
Battle Creek. Altogether Ellen wrote
more than 5,000 periodical articles and
40 books. She is the most translated
author in literature and the most
translated American author. He wrote
about religion, education, social
relationships, evangelism, prophecy,
publishing, nutrition, and management.
Her masterpiece Steps to Christ has
been published into 150 different
languages.
While in a funeral service in Ohio, Ellen White received a
vision in 1858. She had a vision about Christ and his angels. It
was about a cosmic battle between Christ and Satan. She
almost was killed according to her by Satan two days later.
She published her vision in a book called Spiritual Gifts,
volume 1, The Great Controversy Between Christ and His
Angels and Satan and His Angels in 1858. The book was a hit
and enjoyed by the Seventh Day Adventists as a view of the
Earth’s History and purpose.
Ellen was given a vision of the need to diet according to God. Her
vision showed the importance of taking care of your body, a diet,
and nature’s remedies like exercise and fresh air. Because of Ellen’s
vision in 1863, the church made a health reform and required a
health education program. She published pamphlets called Health,
or How to Live. The Seventh Day Adventist church eventually
established a health institute in 1866. Many of Ellen’s visions were
used to create the Seventh Day Adventists’ beliefs and view her as a
prophet from God
James White died on August 6, 1881.
Ellen continued to do her work. She
continued to publish again and
visited Europe to promote her faith.
She saw a need of Christian
education in Australia. She wanted
an institution for the young Seventh
Day Adventists. She bought
property for the Avondale School
that identified what an Adventist
education should look like.
After that school was established
she helped establish a medical
work missionary program. After
her missionary medical work,
she began to outreach and
educate Africans in 1891. Ellen
fell one day and broke her hip.
Her injury was devastating and
she died on July 16, 1915
SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST
IN THE
PHILIPPINES
 In 1905-1913, Seventh Day
Adventist Established a foothold
in the Philippine soil. It was
through Abraham La Rue when
he sent the package of literature
to the Philippines through
friendly ship captains. He was
called "Asia's first self-
supporting missionary".
However, the first direct contact
in the island was in 1904.
 1904, G. A. Irwin, president of
Australian Union Conference,
decided to pass by in Manila on his
way to Washington D.C. to attend the
SDA General Conference in May
1905 session. He made an eight day
stop over in the Philippines and
Irwin saw the need to evangelize
the country. He presented an appeal
to the conference to send
colporteurs to Manila and Caldwell
who was present in the said
conference responded.
 1904, G. A. Irwin, president of
Australian Union Conference,
decided to pass by in Manila on his
way to Washington D.C. to attend the
SDA General Conference in May
1905 session. He made an eight day
stop over in the Philippines and
Irwin saw the need to evangelize
the country. He presented an appeal
to the conference to send
colporteurs to Manila and Caldwell
who was present in the said
conference responded.
 Robert A. Caldwell arrived in
Manila on August 24, 1905 and he
began selling books on health
and religion in the language that
educated people understand,
Spanish. People bought the
books and many were interested
when they heard it from their
friends. He traveled from one
cities to another then to towns.
April of 1906, Pastor and Mrs.
James L. McElhaney arrived
in Manila. Their first target
were the American teachers.
With this strategy, teachers
shared their new faith to the
students. They also
distributed the Signs of the
Times.
December 1908, Pastor and Mrs. L. V.
Finster arrived in Manila with an
interest to learn the dialect. He hired
tutors to teach him. He began to use
the dialect during the cottage
meetings in Sta. Ana Manila. The
product of this meetings were 12
Filipino converts namely; Camilo
Panis and his wife Ciriaca, their only
daughter Teodora, their nephew
Bibiano Panis and their nieces, Maria
Panis (Sister of Bibiano Panis who
later became the wife of Leon Roda),
 Catalina Nery, Pilar Espino, a
boarder Leon Roda, Felix Manalo
and his wife Tomasa, and Mrs.
Morales and her daughter.
Another converts were Anteria
dela Cruz, Apolonio de Jesus,
Consuelo Manalo, Diego
Elioterio, Jose Castro, and
Marcelino Pelajo.
 The first Seventh-Day
Adventist Church was
organized with 22
members including the
four missionaries in the
Philippines located in
Sta. Ana Manila.
 Three Filipino converts
eventually became the very first
Adventist Filipino ministers in
the Philippines. Sometimes
called “The Big Three”, Emilio
Manalaysay, Bibiano Panis and
Leon Roda. They were ordained
in 1919.
That was the beginning of the
Seventh- Day Adventist Church in
the Philippines.
THANK YOU AND
GOD BLESS!