The Editor, Sir:

Last year I began attending the Seventh-day Baptist Church in my area. Since then I have received several responses from my friends and relatives regarding my decision to do so. Many genuinely never heard of that church. Some voiced their disapproval of the Seventh Day Adventist Church (believing that was what I had said).

This is just to clear the air. The Seventh day Baptist is one of the oldest (if not the oldest) of the Sabbath-keeping churches in the world today.

It was institutionalised early in the 17th century. Compare this to the Adventist movement institutionalised just after the middle of the nineteenth century.

Accepting the idea

As a matter of fact, it was a Seventh-day Baptist who in 1845 introduced the sabbath - as a day of worship - to two members of the Millerite movement after their great disappointment in 1844. Those members then put the idea to Elder and Mrs White, who resisted at first and then later accepted the idea.

It is known, however, that the Seventh-day Baptists were asked to come down to Jamaica, early in the 20th century, by some members of the Adventist Church who had become dissatisfied with that organisation.

I am, etc.,

'Making Clear'

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