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Series Code: LIN
Program Code: LIN000012A
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00:20 In the vicinity of Washington, New Hampshire
00:22 there were two other men along with Frederick Wheeler 00:25 who were instrumental 00:27 in the history of the Sabbath, 00:29 T. M. Preble and Cyrus Farnsworth. 00:32 T. M. Preble wrote a track 00:34 entitled tract showing that the Seventh-day 00:37 should be observed as a Sabbath. 00:39 This tract was very influential 00:41 for it found its way to Paris Hill Maine 00:44 and also to the home of Joseph Bates. 00:47 Bates read it and was convinced of it, 00:49 but wanted to investigate further. 00:57 Joseph Bates heard about a group of Sabbath keepers 01:00 in Washington, New Hampshire and before making 01:03 any major changes he decided to visit, 01:06 he traveled by train and stagecoach 01:09 to the town of Hillsboro where Frederick Wheeler lived. 01:13 Despite arriving at 10 pm, 01:15 he was invited in and said that he wanted 01:18 to look at every argument 01:19 in the Bible in favor of the Sabbath. 01:22 That night the two men studied together 01:25 and talked until the morning. 01:27 Joseph Bates took notes and in the morning 01:30 they both knelt to pray and committed their lives 01:33 to preaching on the Sabbath truth. 01:41 The next day the two men traveled 12 miles 01:44 to the home of Cyrus Farnsworth. 01:47 There on a warm day in the front garden 01:50 under the maple trees, Frederick Wheeler 01:52 and Cyrus Farnsworth continued Joseph Bates' 01:55 crash course on the Sabbath. 01:58 Along with T. M. Preble's tract on the Sabbath, 02:00 Bates was now fully convinced. 02:03 He bade his farewells 02:05 and started his three-day journey home 02:07 with a lot to think about. 02:15 Arriving back in Fairhaven, 02:17 he was walking home from the train depot 02:20 when he met his neighbor, James Madison Monroe Hall 02:23 as he was crossing the bridge from New Bedford to Fairhaven. 02:27 Bates was greeted 02:28 with the question what's the news, 02:30 Captain Bates, to which he responded, 02:33 the news is that the seventh day is the Sabbath. 02:37 After a short conversation, Bates arranged to meet 02:40 with Mr. Hall and the other Advent believers 02:43 to study this subject out. 02:45 By the next Sabbath, Mr. Hall was a Sabbath keeper 02:48 and his wife the week after. 02:51 Bates would be instrumental 02:53 in the adoption of the Sabbath by the disappointed Adventist. 02:57 He had a special burden to teach on this subject 03:00 and the tracts he wrote 03:01 would be instrumental in convincing many people, 03:04 in particular James and Ellen White. 03:14 Joseph Bates was at home writing 03:16 when his wife came in and said she needed 03:18 some more flour to finish the baking. 03:21 He went down to the shop 03:22 and used all the last money that he had 03:25 to buy four pounds of flour. 03:27 His wife Prudence was very upset, 03:30 firstly, that he had used all the money 03:32 that they had and secondly, 03:34 that he only had enough to buy four pounds of flour. 03:38 She asked him, "What he was going to do?" 03:40 To which he responded, 03:41 he was going to write a book on the Sabbath 03:44 and spread it to the world. 03:46 About half an hour later, 03:48 he was impressed to go to the post office 03:50 and when he arrived, there was a letter for him. 03:52 He didn't have enough money to even pay for the postage, 03:56 but asked the postmaster if he would open it. 03:58 When he did, 04:00 he found there was a $10 bill inside 04:03 and he used this money to buy 04:04 a more generous supply of groceries 04:06 and also to arrange 04:08 for the printing of his next tract. 04:18 Within a few years this truth on the Sabbath 04:21 will grow remarkably. 04:23 In 1848, there were six major conferences 04:26 on the Sabbath with Bates presenting 04:29 at most of them. 04:30 After the great disappointment of 1844 04:33 and the scattering 04:34 that the various wins of doctrine 04:36 would cause after this, 04:38 God was using this truth to gather His people around. 04:42 Proverbs 4:18 says, 04:44 "That the path of the just is as a shining light 04:48 that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day." 04:51 God was slowly leading His people back 04:54 to a full understanding of His Word. 04:57 May we follow God as He leads us day by day 05:01 and step by step. 05:23 Paris Hill Maine, today a small 05:26 and quiet town with leafy streets 05:28 and well kept houses, yet despite its quiet 05:31 and rural location, 05:33 it was the home to some giants of the faith. 05:36 Three families of note that 05:37 lived here were the Stevens family, 05:39 the Stoll family and the Andrews family. 05:42 J. N. Andrews was the son of Edward Andrews 05:45 and the nephew of Charles Andrews, 05:47 a state representative of Maine. 05:50 Cyprian Stevens had two daughters, 05:52 one of whom married Uriah Smith 05:54 and the other married J. N. Andrews. 05:57 Today the home of Edward Andrews 05:59 stands behind me at the Paris Hill Country Club 06:02 and Cyprian Stevens farm is located just down the road. 06:14 But we start the story with another family 06:16 when in the spring of 1845 attracted by T. M. Preble 06:21 on the Sabbath made its way to the home 06:23 of Lewis B. Stole. 06:25 He set the tract aside, but his 15-year-old daughter 06:29 Marion picked it up and decided to read it. 06:32 She was convinced on the truth of the Sabbath 06:35 and decided to keep it. 06:36 She then shared the tract with her brother Oswald 06:39 and he also decided to keep the Sabbath. 06:42 They then called J. N. Andrews 06:44 who was only 15 years old, 06:46 but was respected as having an intelligent mind. 06:49 He read the tract 06:50 and also decided to keep the Sabbath. 06:59 It was later on that the parents 07:01 of the Stevens, Andrews 07:03 and Stoll families decided to keep the Sabbath 07:06 which I believe is a key point. 07:09 It was the teenagers who made the decision 07:11 to keep the Sabbath based on God's Word 07:14 regardless of what others thought. 07:17 This really is the essence of Protestantism 07:19 and a continuation of one of the key tenants 07:23 of the Reformation. 07:24 To follow conviction rather than tradition, 07:27 to let scriptures be our guide, 07:29 no matter what others may think. 07:38 Lewis B. Stole sent a letter 07:41 and $10 to the Seventh-day Baptist minister 07:44 in Hopkinton, Rhode Island to obtain some more materials. 07:49 Soon the tracts arrived and a small company 07:52 of Sabbath keeping Adventists was established 07:55 in Paris Hill Maine. 07:56 These families would go on to be pillars 07:59 in the new and fledgling movement 08:01 that was being birth. 08:10 Paris Hill Maine is also the birthplace 08:13 of the Review and Herald, 08:15 today published as the Adventist Review. 08:19 From August to November of 1850, 08:22 a magazine was published here called the Advent Review, 08:25 and then from November 1850 to June 1851, 08:30 the Review and Herald was published here 08:32 in a building near this site. 08:35 It would then move on to Saratoga Springs, New York, 08:38 Rochester, New York 08:40 before moving to Battle Creek, Michigan. 08:49 In 1856, the Stephens and Andrews families 08:53 would move to the state of Iowa 08:55 and the town of Paris Hill Maine 08:57 would become just a memory of the early beginnings 09:01 and challenges of Sabbatarian Adventism. 09:04 Though the action had moved on from this town, 09:07 their example of faithfulness 09:09 under conviction lives on today 09:12 and stands as an example 09:14 of how we ought to live our lives. 09:16 It doesn't matter who else makes a decision 09:20 or what authority is trying to instruct and guide us, 09:23 we need to be true to the convictions 09:25 of our conscience first and foremost. 09:28 It was Peter who said, 09:30 "That we ought to obey God rather than man." 09:55 Port Gibson is a rural area 09:57 just east of Rochester in New York State. 10:00 It's a quiet area with many farms 10:02 that dot the landscape. 10:04 In the 1840s there was a farm owned by Hiram Edson 10:08 that housed some very important meetings 10:10 and saw some key developments take place. 10:13 Here in the quietness of the countryside, 10:15 let us take a walk down this particular part 10:18 of memory lane. 10:25 After the 22nd of October, 1844, 10:29 the Advent believers were terribly disappointed 10:32 as their hopes and dreams 10:33 had been shattered and destroyed. 10:36 Hiram Edson was no different. 10:38 He was confused as he believed that 10:40 his study of the prophecies had been accurate, 10:43 yet Jesus hadn't come. 10:45 How would they reconcile this? 10:47 Did they have the date wrong as some had suggested? 10:50 He didn't think so, 10:51 the dates and calculations had been solid. 10:54 Did they have the event wrong? 10:56 Well, they must have because Jesus hadn't come, 10:58 but what else could it mean? 11:05 Hiram Edson was walking through a cornfield one day soon after 11:10 when he realized they had gotten 11:11 something major wrong. 11:13 They had been so focused 11:15 on the Parable of the Ten Virgins 11:17 in Matthew 25 as it seemed 11:19 to match the events of 1844 11:22 that they had missed Christ 11:23 or the wedding parable in Luke Chapter 12. 11:26 In Luke it says, "That we must wait 11:28 while we wait for the Lord to return from the wedding." 11:32 He also realized that in Daniel 7, 11:34 it says that the Son of man 11:35 would come to the Ancient of Days 11:37 rather than to the earth. 11:45 This was a revelation, later he would study this out 11:48 with Dr. Franklin B. Hahn and O. R. L. Crozier 11:52 and they would solidify their views on this matter. 11:56 They saw that Jesus was not scheduled 11:58 to come to the earth at the end of the 2300 day prophecy 12:02 of Daniel 8:14, but rather He transitioned 12:05 from the Holy Place to the Most Holy Place 12:08 in the sanctuary in heaven 12:09 beginning the work of the investigative judgment. 12:13 It was Owen Russell Loomis Crozier 12:15 who wrote the first issue of The Day-Dawn 12:18 in March of 1845 that explained the reason 12:22 for the delay in Jesus' return and preserved 12:25 the historicist framework of Daniel 8 and 9. 12:34 Hiram Edson's barn is also the place 12:36 that Captain Joseph Bates shared the truth of the Sabbath 12:39 in late 1846. 12:42 As he was reading his tract, Edson jumped up and said, 12:45 "Brother Bates this is light and truth 12:48 the seventh day is a Sabbath and I am with you to keep it." 12:52 Crozier and Hahn also accepted the Sabbath 12:55 and thus this link goes in western New York 12:58 who were presenting the sanctuary 12:59 with those in New England who were teaching the Sabbath. 13:07 For this reason, 13:08 this farm has been seen as a theological birthplace 13:11 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church 13:13 for its where the two pillars of the Sabbath 13:15 and the sanctuary came together. 13:17 The blending of these two teachings 13:19 would form the uniqueness of this new movement, 13:22 the Sabbath was not 13:24 just seen as a reminder of creation 13:26 or as part of the Ten Commandments 13:28 but rather in the light of the sanctuary 13:30 and is eschatological or end-time context. 13:38 In time Hiram Edson and the other Advent believers 13:41 would see that their experience 13:43 in October 1844 was part of Bible prophecy 13:47 and that their very disappointment itself 13:50 was further proof that God was leading them. 13:52 In Revelation 10 it points out, "That their experience 13:56 would first be sweet in the mouth 13:58 and then it would be bitter in the belly and oh, 14:01 how bitter it had been." 14:03 The last verse in Revelation 10 admonished them 14:06 and it echoes to us today, "Thou must prophesy again." 14:11 May we take the admonition 14:13 of the preaching 14:14 of the unique message of God to heart 14:17 and go wherever He calls. 14:20 When I was growing up, if you wanted to study history, 14:23 or do research on a particular topic, 14:25 there was really only one option 14:26 that we had, and that was to read a book. 14:29 And I never really used to like reading that much. 14:31 So we decided to create a resource 14:33 that will translate this written information 14:35 into the language of today. 14:39 My name is Adam Ramdin. And my name is Clive Coutet. 14:42 And we are the cofounders of Lineage Journey. 14:45 Back in 2016, I was reading a Great Controversy 14:47 and I was really struggling 14:49 to find any relevant video resources 14:51 that I could use to aid me in my study. 14:52 So I decided to approach Adam about 14:54 the possibility of making some videos 14:56 on the Reformation. 14:57 So we started filming in the end of 2016, 15:00 and in 2017 we released 48 videos 15:04 that covered the period of the early church 15:06 all the way through to the end of the Reformation. 15:09 Then in 2018 and 2019 we released another 52 episodes 15:14 on church history. 15:15 These have now been viewed all over the world 15:18 in over 100 countries 15:19 covering about 50 different languages 15:21 and we have over 3 million views online. 15:25 These videos have been used as a resource 15:27 in both secular and Christian schools 15:29 as well as several church denominations 15:32 across the globe 15:33 using Bible 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and Katie 17:30 moved into the little town of Hydesville, New York 17:33 and although the original home is no longer standing, 17:36 it would have stood just behind me. 17:39 The Fox Sisters are known 17:41 as the founders of modern spiritualism. 17:48 In 1848, 17:49 Margaret and Katie were 15 and 12 years old 17:52 and lived in a house 17:54 that had a reputation as being haunted, 17:56 making rapping or knocking sounds 17:58 with their knuckles 17:59 mimicking sounds they had heard in the house 18:02 to give the impression that it was haunted 18:04 for the purpose of scaring their mother. 18:06 Questions were asked 18:08 and soon she would ask questions 18:10 and the answers would come back 18:11 in a number of wraps or knocks that they heard. 18:14 She was convinced, their neighbors were called 18:16 and it wasn't long before 18:18 the girls were acting as mediums 18:20 communicating with the spirits and taking questions. 18:28 Some said that it was a hoax 18:29 while others claimed that it was real 18:31 and that they really were mediums 18:33 communicating directly with the spirits. 18:36 Whichever way you look at it, 18:37 few can ignore the phenomenon known as spiritualism, 18:41 the belief that the spirits communicate with the living. 18:44 This would grow over time 18:46 and become an established part of society. 18:49 It's fascinating that Hydesville, New York 18:52 is only about 15 minutes away from Hiram Edison's farm, 18:56 the theological birthplace 18:58 of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. 19:00 It's only about 20 minutes as well 19:02 from Kamura Hill 19:03 where Joseph Smith claimed the angel of Moroni descended 19:07 and gave him the golden plates 19:09 which were translated as the Book of Mormon. 19:12 Thus, three significant movements 19:14 all came from the same area. 19:23 A key figure 19:25 to bring the biblical view of the state of man in death 19:27 would be George Storrs. 19:29 Born in Lebanon, New Hampshire in 1796 19:33 as the youngest of eight children. 19:35 As a child, he felt afraid of God 19:37 and alienated from Christianity 19:39 due to the sermons he would hear preached 19:41 on the wicked tormenting in hellfire. 19:44 At the age of 17, 19:45 he made a decision to study out the goodness of God 19:49 and under this influence and the prayers of his mother, 19:52 he gave his life to Jesus at the age of 19. 19:56 Under conviction, he felt a call to preach 19:58 and started doing this in 1825 20:02 and would often preach against slavery 20:04 even ending up in prison once 20:07 for mentioning this in his prayers. 20:13 One day whilst traveling by train, 20:16 he read a tract by Deacon Henry Grew 20:18 from Philadelphia 20:19 on the subject of the state of the dead. 20:22 This led him to study his Bible 20:24 and after several years of study, 20:26 correspondence and conversation 20:28 he came to the settle conclusion 20:30 that man does not possess inherent immortality 20:34 that it is a gift from God 20:36 and that the wicked are exterminated by fire 20:39 at the second death. 20:44 Due to the significant difference from the common view 20:48 that the dead goes straight to heaven, 20:50 he experienced a lot of persecution 20:52 and isolation from the various churches. 20:55 However, this could not stop the printed press. 20:58 In 1843, 21:00 Storrs' six sermons were published 21:02 and 10,000 copies were distributed 21:05 with a further 200,000 over time. 21:08 This would have a significant impact 21:10 on the Millerite movement. 21:12 And although William Miller himself 21:14 did not accept this teaching, 21:15 many others would 21:17 and he would go on to be a mainstay 21:19 of the Sabbath keeping Adventist 21:21 as they sought to be true to the Bible 21:23 as they developed their doctrinal beliefs. 21:29 Although George Storrs did not accept the Sabbath 21:31 or the sanctuary, 21:33 he nonetheless made a significant contribution 21:35 to a key doctrinal belief. 21:37 Storrs considered the idea of an eternally burning hell 21:40 to be a blot on the character of God 21:43 and contrary to the reality that God is love. 21:46 The love of God needs to be at the center 21:48 of every doctrine that we hold and teach from the Bible. 21:52 And Storrs restored the love of God 21:54 back through this teaching 21:55 and showed his character in its true light. 21:58 May we seek to do the same, 22:00 anytime we share God's word with others. 22:21 Topsham, Maine is located 22:23 about 25 miles north of Portland Maine 22:26 and is the home of Fort Howland, 22:29 the home of Stockbridge Howland, 22:31 an important place in early Sabbatarian Adventism. 22:35 This town would have had a population of around 2,000 22:38 in the 1840s 22:40 and the principal industry 22:42 would have been the mill factories 22:43 along the Androscoggin River. 22:46 Stockbridge was a close friend of James and Ellen White 22:50 during the early years of their marriage 22:52 and they would spend a lot of time in his house 22:55 today located on Seven Elm Street 22:57 also living there for some time. 23:05 Joseph Bates had recently published a tract 23:08 that linked the Sabbath with the sanctuary 23:10 based on Revelation 11:19 23:13 marking a progression 23:14 in the development of this doctrine. 23:17 It was shortly after this in April of 1847 23:20 when in this house behind me, 23:22 Ellen White had her Sabbath halo vision. 23:25 She saw the Ten Commandments of God 23:27 inside the Ark of the Covenant 23:29 with a special halo of light around them. 23:32 This marked the Sabbath as being present truth, 23:36 for they saw Jesus 23:37 before the ark in the Most Holy Place. 23:40 Shortly after this, James White published a tract 23:44 that crystallized the views of the founders of Adventism 23:47 entitled "A Word to the Little Flock." 23:55 In October of 1847, 23:58 the Howlands invited the Whites to move in with them 24:01 and they moved into the upstairs floor 24:03 of the house. 24:04 James White got a job nearby hauling stone 24:07 for the railroad 24:08 as well as cutting wood for 50 cents a day. 24:12 This was barely enough to live on, 24:14 but he would still use much of the money 24:16 to publish tracts to share with people. 24:19 The sacrifice of these early pioneers 24:22 is remarkable 24:23 considering the poverty that they were living in. 24:30 Topsham, Maine is also the location 24:32 of one of the six Sabbath conferences 24:35 of 1848 in the Howland home. 24:38 It was after this conference that the Whites realized 24:41 they could not travel with Henry everywhere 24:43 due to the busy schedule. 24:45 He thus spent the next several years 24:47 living with the Howland 24:49 and it wasn't until his parents moved 24:51 to Rochester, New York 24:52 that he moved back with them. 24:54 Such were the sacrifices that they made early on 24:58 due to the busy traveling and speaking life 25:00 that they had. 25:06 During the fall of 1863, 25:08 the Whites would return to New England 25:10 and spend some time in the Howland home. 25:13 It was good to be back with old friends 25:16 that they shared so many happy memories with 25:18 from almost 20 years prior. 25:21 The work that had started here had progressed a lot. 25:24 The church was now officially organized, 25:27 had publishing houses 25:28 and believers were growing all over the country. 25:32 As they came back to a place that reminded them 25:35 of the extreme sacrifice 25:36 they had to make 25:38 both financially and as parents 25:40 they would experience a terrible loss. 25:47 Henry was assisting 25:49 in the completion of the 1863 prophetic chart 25:52 by gluing them on to the cloth back, 25:55 when in the process of doing this 25:57 he contracted a cold 25:58 which turned into pneumonia resulting in a sudden death. 26:02 This was a terrible shock and caused deep sadness 26:06 for the whole family. 26:07 His funeral was held just down the road 26:09 in the Baptist Church here, 26:11 but his final resting place would be in Battle Creek. 26:14 He said he wanted to be buried near his brother John Herbert. 26:18 In case his parents were away traveling, 26:20 he could be near to him on the resurrection morning. 26:27 Shortly after the death of Henry, 26:29 Ellen White would publish this book, 26:31 an appeal to youth 26:33 which included some of her letters 26:35 to her children. 26:36 Writing shortly afterwards Ellen White commented, 26:39 "But God comforted us in our bereavement 26:42 and with faith and courage 26:45 we pressed on with the work God had given us 26:47 in the bright hope of seeing our children 26:50 who had been torn from us by death 26:53 in the land where death and sickness will never come." 26:57 If you have experienced a similar loss in your life, 27:00 I pray that you may find comfort as well. |
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