Name—Seventh Day, because they keep the seventh day; Adventist means they believe in Christ’s second coming.

Seventh Day Adventists had their genesis in a time of great religious ferment. The movement began in the Baptist, Methodist, Congregational and Disciple churches in New England. Men from these churches in 1845 held conferences at which the Advent doctrine was preached. They based their belief on Matt. 24:25.

Seventh Day Adventists came out of all the evangelical churches in response to a call for a preparation of body and soul for the coming of Jesus Christ, and not by the leadership of one man.

William Miller, (Baptist)

Joseph Himes, (Disciple)

Josiah Litch, (Methodist)

Henry Ward

Charles Fitch

Joseph Bates

W.C. White and wife

Seventh Day Adventists are working in 135 countries and 347 languages and support in mission lands 8,191 evangelists, physicians, nurses and teachers. They maintain 81 sanitariums, 1,523 schools, enrolling 61,774 students, 56 printing plants and print gospel literature in 141 languages. Sent out 154 missionaries in 1929.

There are 118,000 members in the United States alone, and they average $2,450 a year to missions.

Lowell Board of Trade, Lowell: 100 Years of History, 1831-1931, Lowell, Michigan: The Lowell Ledger, 1931