Loading...
Larger font
Smaller font
Copy
Print
Contents
The Gift of Prophecy (The Role of Ellen White in God’s Remnant Church) - Contents
  • Results
  • Related
  • Featured
No results found for: "".
  • Weighted Relevancy
  • Content Sequence
  • Relevancy
  • Earliest First
  • Latest First
    Larger font
    Smaller font
    Copy
    Print
    Contents

    Mission

    In the early decades of our history, most Adventists believed that the church was fulfilling God’s command to teach all nations by preaching to the many immigrants in North America. In response to a reader’s letter, Uriah Smith wrote in 1859, “We have no information that the Third [Angel’s] Message is at present being proclaimed in any country besides our own. . . . Our own land is composed of people from almost every nation. 2 Review and Herald, Feb. 3, 1859, 87.GP 107.2

    Five years later, M. B. Czechowski volunteered to go as a missionary to Europe, but the church turned down his request for their support. Czechowski then asked the support of the first-day Adventists, and they sent him to Europe, where he preached the three angels’ messages and established Seventh-day Adventist companies. In the meantime, Ellen White educated the church about its worldwide responsibility. In 1871, she wrote, “Much can be done through the medium of the press, but still more can be accomplished if the influence of the labors of the living preachers goes with our publications. . . .GP 107.3

    “When the churches see young men possessing zeal to qualify themselves to extend their labors to cities, villages, and towns that have never been aroused to the truth, and missionaries volunteering to go to other nations to carry the truth to them, the churches will be encouraged and strengthened” (LS 205).GP 107.4

    In 1874, she had an impressive dream about giving the third angel’s message to the world. In the dream she was told, ” ‘You are entertaining too limited ideas of the work for this time. You are trying to plan the work so that you can embrace it in your arms. You must take broader views. Your light must not be put under a bushel or under a bed, but on a candlestick, that it may give light to all that are in the house. Your house is the world. . . .GP 107.5

    . . . ” ‘The message will go in power to all parts of the world, to Oregon, to Europe, to Australia, to the islands of the sea, to all nations, tongues, and peoples’ ” (ibid., 208, 209).GP 108.1

    That same year, J. N. Andrews became the first official Seventh-day Adventist missionary. He and his children went to Switzerland, and three years later, the John G. Matteson family was sent to Scandinavia. By 1890, there were Adventist missionaries in eighteen countries. And today, Seventh-day Adventists have an established work in 204 of the 229 countries of the world recognized by the United Nations.GP 108.2

    Larger font
    Smaller font
    Copy
    Print
    Contents