p. 265 | THE AMERICAN CHURCH

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · April 22, 1880

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 55, No. 17

“THE AMERICAN CHURCH.”

IS IT COMING?

The following item is taken from the Detroit Post of March 30, 1880. We are fast approaching a great “American Sabbath,” why not also have a great American church to foster it? Is this to be the case? The following item shows what may be “a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand,” giving us an indication in that direction:—

“A religious movement of significance is on foot in New York, being none other than the establishment of an American Independent Church organization. The effort seems to be anti-Roman Catholic, but meets with indorsement from various Protestant conferences.”

Is this the beginning of what a Mr. Havens foreshadowed, when, in a speech delivered in New York, a few years ago, he said:—

“For my own part, I wait to see the day when a Luther shall spring up in this country, who shall found a great American Catholic Church, instead of a great Roman Catholic Church; and who shall teach men that they can be good Catholics without professing allegiance to a pontiff on the other side of the Atlantic”?