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    Chapter 1 — What Did Mr. Canright Renounce?

    Mr. Canright says that he renounced Seventh-day Adventism. He had served as a minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for about twenty-eight years (with two or three short interruptions) before he permanently withdrew from the Adventists and united with the Baptist Church. He informs us, however, that even during these years of ministry, while he was ardently proclaiming the doctrines of Seventh-day Adventists, he had many qualms regarding the truthfulness of his own teachings, and that this so preyed on his mind that on two or three occasions he dropped his ministry and took up other work. After he finally gave up Adventism entirely, and severed his connection with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, he offered the following reason for having ever been deceived by what he later came to look upon as a system of error:DOF 12.1

    “I united with the Adventists when I was a mere boy, uneducated, with no knowledge of the Bible, or history, or of other churches. I went into it through ignorance. For years my zeal for that faith, and my unbounded confidence in its leaders, blinded me to their errors.”—Seventh-day Adventism Renounced, p. 52.DOF 12.2

    Then we are told of his growing doubts and final renunciation:DOF 12.3

    “My doubts of the system did not come to me all at once and clearly. It was well known that for the last dozen years I was with them, I was greatly troubled over these things. Gradually, year by year the evidence accumulated, till at last it overbalanced the doctrine, and then reluctantly and sorrowfully I had to abandon and renounce it.”—Ibid., p. 53.DOF 12.4

    It is only proper that we should now pause to ask, what is this “system” into which Mr. Canright went in through ignorance, and concerning which he later began to have doubts? What is the faith which his doubts overbalanced and which he finally felt compelled to “abandon and renounce”? Did Mr. Canright really renounce a system of error built upon the superstitions of an ignorant people; or did he, perchance, renounce the truth and go away into darkness?DOF 13.1

    These questions are vital, and should be understood by the reader before we proceed to reply to some of the many arguments Mr. Canright employs against the doctrines themselves.DOF 13.2

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