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SECOND ADVENTISTS

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 235 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADVENTISTS  , members of religious bodies whose distinctive feature is a belief in the imminent See also:physical return of Jesus See also:Christ . The first to See also:bear the name were the followers of See also:William See also:Miller, and adherents have always been more numerous in See also:America than in See also:Europe . There is a See also:body of Seventh See also:Day See also:Adventists who observe the old See also:Sabbath (Saturday) rather than the See also:Christian See also:Sunday . They counsel abstemious habits, but set no See also:time for the coming of Christ, and so are spared the perpetual disappointments that overtake the See also:ordinary adventist . They have some 400 ministers and 6o,000 members .

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