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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1873 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVII. THE SABBATH IN AMERICA. The first Sabbath-keeping church in America--Names of its members--Origin of the second--Organization of the Seventh-day Baptist general Conference--Sta... More

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1873 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVII. THE SABBATH IN AMERICA. The first Sabbath-keeping church in America--Names of its members--Origin of the second--Organization of the Seventh-day Baptist general Conference--Statistics of the Denomination at that time--Nature of its organization--Present Statistics--Educational facilities--Missionary work--The American Sabbath Tract Society--Responsibility for the light of the Sabbath--The German S. D. Baptists of Pennsylvania--Reference to Sabbath-keepers in Hungary--In Siberia--The Seventh-day Adventists--Their origin--Labors of Joseph Bates--Of James White--The Publishing Association--Systematic Benevolence--The work of the preachers mainly in new fields--Organization of the S. D. Adventists--Statistics--Peculiarities of their faith--Their object--The S. D. Adventists of Switzerland--Why the Sabbath is of priceless value to mankind--The nations of the saved observe the Sabbath in the new earth. The first Sabbatarian church in America originated at Newport, R. I. The first Sabbathkeeper in America was Stephen Mumford, who left London three years after the martyrdom of John James, and forty-four years after the landing of the pilgrim fathers at Plymouth. Mr. Mumford, it appears, came as a missionary from the English Sabbath-keepers.1 Mr. Isaac Backus, the historian of the early New England Baptists, makes the following record:--"Stephen Mumford came over from London in 1664, and brought the opinion with him that the whole of the ten commandments, as they were delivered from Mount Sinai, were moral and immutable; and that it was the Antichristian power which thought to change times and laws, that changed the Sabbath from the seventh to the first day of the week. Several members of the first church in Newport embraced this sentiment, and yet co...

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