Jarrel - Baptist Church Perpetuity - Landmark Baptist

So he says: “In October, 1830,” some persons “met together” and organized
the “Church of God.” f65 Of course, though Mr. Winebrenner founded his
church, like A. Campbell, he says it was originated in the first century! In a
tract, published by the “Seventh Day Adventists,” at Battle Creek, Mich., — a
sect which is doing far more than Ingersoll to introduce Sabbath desecration
and materialism — entitled “The Seventh Day Adventist: a brief sketch of
their origin, progress and principles,” we read:
“Our field of inquiry leads us back only to the great advent movement of
1840-’44. Respecting that movement, it is presumed that the public are more
or less informed; but they may not be so well aware of the causes which have
led since that time to the rise of a class of people calling themselves Seventh
Day Adventists.” f66
Then, on the assumption of all things needing reforming, it says:
“A Seventh Day Baptist sister, Mrs. Rachel D. Preston, from the State of New
York, moved to Washington, N.H., where there was a church of Adventists.
From them she received the doctrine of the soon-coming of Christ, and in
return instructed them in reference to the claims of the fourth commandment
in the decalogue. This was in 1844. Nearly that whole church immediately
commenced the observance of the seventh day, and thus have the honor of
being the first Seventh Day Adventist Church in America.” f67
Thus, we see how sects arise, how Christians are divided, how the world is led
into infidelity by sectarianism. THE INFIDEL DOCTRINE, THAT THE BLESSED
BRIDE OF CHRIST IS DEAD, OR HAS BEEN UNFAITHFUL TO HIM, IS THE BASIS,
THE LICENSE OF THE WHOLE OF THE SECTARIAN TROUBLE. Once it is
admitted, every one, good or bad, who becomes offended, and who can get a
few followers, can get up a “new church,” so on ad infinitum. f68
Thus, here comes Alexander Campbell, like all the other sect founders,
claiming to reform the church, to “get back to the Bible,” etc. A. Campbell
says that he originated the Campbellite church from
“a deep and an abiding impression that the power, the consolations and joys
— the holiness and happiness of Christ’s religion were lost in the forms and
ceremonies, in the speculations and conjectures, in the feuds and bickerings of
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sects and schisms.”