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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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SECOND

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

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