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In the Early nineteenth century the Seventh-day Adventist church was in what movement? |
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Who was the founder of what was called the Millerite movement? |
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In the first years of the nineteenth century, William Miller abandoned his Baptist religion for what belier that rejects Christianity with its miracles and supernatural revelation? |
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What was William Miller's method of Bible study; and other than the Bible, what other book did he use? |
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Comparing Scripture with Scripture/Cruden's Bible concordance |
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How many years did William Miller intensively study his Bible? |
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From around 1843, William Miller reached his conclusion that Christ will return to earth and what book of the Bible did he reach that conclusion? |
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William Miller reasoned that Christ would return to earth at the end of what prophetic period? |
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2300 days of year prophecy found in Daniel 8:14 |
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How many years did William Miller study the 2300 days-of-prophecy? |
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According to the Millerites, Christ would return at the beginning of what? |
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AFter studing Daniel 8:14, WIlliam Miller entered into a solemn covenant that if God opened the way, he would do what? |
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Go and teach about the second coming |
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What happened within a halp hour of William Miller's agreement with God? |
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He has his first request to preach on the Second Advent |
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The most significant ministerial conver was who, and what church was he the pstor of? |
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Joshua V. Himes; Pastor of the Chardon Street Chapel in Boston |
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Joshua V. Himes published what magazine to get the Advent message befor the world? |
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In addition to Signs of the Times, in 1842, Himes began publishing what magazine to wake up New YOrk City to the nearness of CHrist's return. WHat was that magazine? |
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In July 1841m the Adventist publishing comittee emp[loyed a Methodist minister to serve as its general agent, who was this minister? |
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Joshua V. Himes initiated the first General Conference of Christians expecting the Advent of Christ when? |
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Joshua V. Himes had a forceful role in develping what, and pioneered in the use of what? |
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Developing of Adventist camp meeting and pioneered the use of tents. |
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The Millerite method for world-wide outreach was generally not to send missionaries, but to place their poublications on what? |
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Ships bound to various seaports |
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After 1843 the Millerites came under progressivlely more riducule and often had to decide between what? |
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Their Advent beliefe and that of their denominations |
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Charles Firth ( a popular Millerite minister of the Congregationalist denomination) preached a sermon on Revelation 18 in the summer of 1843, focusing on the fall of Babylon, what was that sermon? |
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"Come out of her, my people". |
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According to William Miller's conclusion based on the 2300-day prophecy of Daniel 8:14, and the Jewish calendar, Miller predicted that Christ would return sometimes between what dates? |
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March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1944 |
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Charles Fitch argued that Babylon is antichrist, and anyone who opposed the personal reign of Jesus Vhrist over this world is antichrist. Fitch's definition of the antichrist included? |
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All Catholics and Protestants who rejected the teaching of a soon-coming Christ. |
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What church was William Miller a member of thhat expelled him? |
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THe Low Hampton Baptist Church |
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After March 21, 1844, Joshua V. Himes, used two scripture readings to encorage the dissappointed Millerites. What were these scripture readings? |
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Habakkuk 2:3 (For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay) and Matthew 25:5 (The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.) |
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After the first dissappointment, the Millerite Adventist entered what special time? |
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What were the Seventh-Month Movement anf the "True Midnight Cry", and what Millerite minister presented this? |
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S.S.Snow through a variety of mathamatical calculations that the fullfillment of the 2300-day prophecy of Daniel 8:14 would take place in the autumn of October 22, 1844 |
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On what date did Joshua V. Himes announce that the Advent Herald, previously Sign of the TImes, would cease publication? |
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Before October 22, 1844, what did some Millerites do to prepare for the Coming of Christ? |
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Left their crops unharvested, closed their shops, and resigned from their jobs. |
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What movements came out of the Millerites movement after the GReat Dissappointment? |
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- ALbany Conference movement
- Spiritualizers movemnet
- Seventh-day Adventist movement
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What movement was the last to gain visibility? |
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The SEventh-day ADventist movemnet
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WHo was the Methodist farmer of Port Gibson, New York, that has a vision that Daniel 8:14 referred to the sanctuary in heaven to be clensed and not the earth or the church? |
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In the articel written by O.R.L. Croiser, entitled, "THe Law of Moses", what were the six point of this articel? |
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- A literalsanctuary exists in heaven
- The earthly sanctuary was patterned after the heavenly santuary
- two-phase ministry of christ is heavenly. The first phase began in the holy place at His ascension, while the second startedon OPctober 22, 1844.
- The first phase of Christ's ministry dealt with forgiveness the second involves the blottin out of sins
- The cleaning of Daniel 8:14 was a clensing from sin and therefore accomplished by blood rather than fire
- CHrist would not return to Earth until He completedHis seconf apartment ministry
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What became the building blocks of Seventh-day ADventist theology? |
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The Sanctuary, adn the Second Coming of Christ |
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Pre-Adventist judgement is kn as the? |
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Who were the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church? |
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- James White
- Ellen Harmon WHite
- Joseph Bates
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Regarding church organization, what was George Storrs summation? |
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"No church can be organized by man's invention but what it becomes Babylon the moment it is organized". |
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Prior to the Millerite Movement, James White and Joseph Bates had belonged to what religiouse movement? |
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Ellen Harmon was a member of what denomination? |
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Methodist Episcopal Church |
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What were the names of the conferences that helped with the development of Seventh-day ADventism? |
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Where and when was the first Sabbatri=an conference held? |
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Rocky Hill, COnnecticut in the spring of 1848 |
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Beyond Joseph Bates' pamphlets, what was the first joint publishing venture of the Sabbatrain leadership? |
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"A Word to the Little Flock" |
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An Ellen White vision in Dorchester, Masssachusetts, during November 1848 stimulated a major transition in Adventism? |
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An Ellen White Vision in Dorchester, told her husband to "begin to print a little paper and send it out to the people..from this small beginning it was shown to me to be like".? |
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"streams of light that went clear round the world" |
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In 1852, James White began publishing the YOuth Instructor, what is it modern successor? |
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By the end of the 1850s, the Sabbatrarian publishing effort had become a major business venture, where was the first bublishing house established? |
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Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1855 |
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As a result of the Sabbatrain aggressive outreach through conferences and publishing aimes at the large body of searching Millerites, their adherentds went from about 200 in 1850 to approximately what, by 1852? |
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What was the Sabbratarian Adventist mean of "Gospel Order" |
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THe Sabbatarian Adventist faces several problems as a result of having no church organization, what were they? |
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- They has no way to certify clergy
- They had no way to distribute funds to ministers
- THey had no legal organization for holding property
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THe first significant discussiions amoung Sabbatarians regarding "Gospel Order" took place in? |
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In order for the celebration of the "ordinances of the Lord's house to take place, the early 1850s congregarions were ordaning...? |
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By 1853, who were issuing signed identificantion cards to traveling men in order to thwart imposters? |
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Joseph Bates and James WHite |
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In the book "Early Writing", Ellen White wrote, "There is order in heaven. THere is order in the church when Christ was upon Earth...ANd now in theses last days, while God is bringing His children into the unity of the faith, there is more real need off..."? |
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What was the nickname given to Systematic Benevolence? |
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In 1859, what was the proposed plan that came to be known as Systematic Benevolence? |
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- Men were encouraged to contribute five to 25 cents per week
- WOmen two to 10 cents
- Assesd to one to five cents per week for each $100 property
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When was the present day tithing plan adopted by the Seventh-day Adventist Church? |
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What was the first Seventh-day Adventist conference organized and who was teh layman who was elected as its president? |
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- Michighan Conference
- WIlliam A. Higley
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When was the "General COnference" organized, and who was its first president? |
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- May 21, 1863
- John Byington
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By the time the General COnference was organized, how many members did it have? |
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What was the meaning of the "shut door"? |
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The door of mercy had closed in October 1844 for all but those who had accepted the soon coming of Jesus before the Great Dissappointment |
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By early 1849, Ellen WHite had begun to tie shut foor termiology to what doctrinal belief? |
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When di James WHite switch to an open-door evangelistic policy? |
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Who were the men who had the gift of prophecy befor Ellen G. White |
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Ellen G. White recieved her first comprehensive health reform vision on? |
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In Manuscripts , Vol. 1, 1863, Ellen G. White is quoted as saying? |
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"THe more perfect our health, the more perfect will be our labour". |
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Who was an all-around health reformer for many years prior to ELlen G. White's vision on the subject? |
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Joseph Bates discarded what from his table prior to the Millerite movement? |
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Tea, coffee, mean, and highly seasoned foods, strong drinks and wine |
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THe first ADventist to accecpt the Seventh-day Sabbath heard of it from what religious group? |
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Who was the woman who challended an Adventist preacher, Pastor Frederick WHeeler, belonging to the Methodist CHurch to keep all of GOd's commandments, inclluding the Seventh-day Sabbath? |
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Who published a tract entitles "The Seventh Day Sabbath, a Perpetual Sign" in August 1846? |
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What were Joseph Bates three contributions to th eprophetic understanding of the Sabbath? |
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- Connection between Sabbath and the sanctuary
- Three angel's messages of Revelation 14
- The validity of the gift of prophecy
- THe obligation to observe the seventh-day Sabbath
- The immortality is not an inherent human quality but something people reciene only through faith in CHrist
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By 1848 the Sabbatarian Adventist leaders, through extensive and intensive Bible study, had come to basic agreement on at least five point of doctrine, what were they? |
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- The personal, visible, premillenial return of Jesus
- The clensing of the sanctuary, with Christ's ministry in the second apartment having begun on October 22, 1844
- The validitu of the gift of prophecy
- The obligation to observe the seventh-day Sabbath
- That immmortality id not an inherent human quality but something people recieve only through faith in CHrist
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THe enemies of the Sabbath, according to Ellen White in REview Herald, December 15, 1863, says they not only strive to abolish the ten commandments, but they also wanted to abolish? |
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One of the most interesting examples of the dynamic, developing quality otf "present truth" among the early Adventists is the topic of? |
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In November 1859 James WHite argues extensively, on the basis of Acts 10 and other texts, of what permissible food allowed in gospel dispensation? |
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Who did Ellen WHite rebuke for agitating the question on God's people not eating swine;s flesh? |
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In Testimonies to the CHurch, Volume 1, pages 206, 207, Ellen WHite admonishes God's people to b elead by the SPirit regarding eating swine's flsh, what did she say? |
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"If it is the duty of the church to abstain from swine's flesh, God will discover it to more than two or three. Hewill teach his church their duty". |
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Once the doctrinal and organizationa steps were in place, what became the next step in the development of Adventism? |
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What were some of the lifestyle health issues Adventists taught? |
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- Frequent bathing
- Germs cause diease
- the harmful effects of tabbacco
- the danger of certain types of drugs
- balanced diets
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Name the non-Adventist who taught much of the ADventist health reform package in the late 1830s? |
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AN overworked and intemperate James WHite suffered a paralytic stroke on what date? |
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In 1865, the Seventh0-day ADventist Church teetered on the brink of disaster from? |
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Poor health habits of its leading ministers |
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Who was appointed at the age of 24-years-olf as chief administator of the Western Health Reform Institute? |
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The Western Health Reform Institute changed its name to what? |
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What was the second lifestyle issue confronting the newly organized denomination? |
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One of the issues regarding military service was the? |
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Should Adventist men serve in the military? If the answer of the question was yes, then should they? |
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Bear arms, and kill other human beings |
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James WHite made an extremely controversial suggestion, "In the case of drafting," he said, ? |
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"the government asssumed the responsibily of the violation of the law of God, and it would be madness to resist." |
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What was the satisfactory solution for members of the Seventh-day ADventist Church regarding military service? |
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THe gevernment developed provisions for drafted consciention believer to do hospital and other work that provided the opportunitu for them to serve in the nation without killing |
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What was the third lifestyle development of the Seventh-day ADventist Church? |
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Focusing on the nearness of the end of the world, early Adventists regarding Christian edication, questioned? |
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the need of sending their children to school if the wordl id soon to end |
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The first independent Advensti Christina School that opened in 1853, was in? |
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By 1867, what was the first established denomination supported school and who was its proncipal? |
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- Battle Creek, Michigan
- Goodlow Harper Bell
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According to Ellen G. White, what was the emphasis of Christian Education? |
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developing mental, physicalm and spiritual powers. |
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