Smith and others argued falsely that Ellen White had been shown Jupiter in a vision/dream - though she never claimed any such thing. The fact that you cannot sustain your false accusations from what Ellen White actually said "is instructive".
I have never claimed that Uriah Smith had inspired messaged from God - nor has any other SDA that I know of -- and we have a lot of non-white SDAs as it turns out.
As for the fact that you don' know what you're talking about.
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[FONT="]"God is punishing this nation for the high crime of slavery[/FONT][FONT="]. He has the destiny of the nation in his hands. He will punish the South for the [FONT="]sin of slavery[/FONT]... At the Roosevelt conference, when the brethren and sisters were assembled on the day set apart for humiliation, fasting and prayer, Sabbath, Aug. 3, the Spirit of the Lord rested upon us, and I was taken off in vision, and shown the [FONT="]sin of slavery[/FONT]."[/FONT] -Review and Herald, Aug. 27, 1861
[FONT="]God is punishing this nation for the high crime of slavery[/FONT][FONT="]. He has the destiny of the nation in His hands. He will punish the South for the sin of slavery, and the North for so long suffering its overreaching and overbearing influence.{1T 264.1}[/FONT]
[FONT="]At the Conference at Roosevelt, New York, August 3, 1861, when the brethren and sisters were assembled on the day set apart for humiliation, fasting, and prayer, the Spirit of the Lord rested upon us, and I was taken off in vision and shown the sin of slavery, which has so long been a curse to this nation. The fugitive slave law was calculated to crush out of man every noble, generous feeling of sympathy that should arise in his heart for the oppressed and suffering slave. It was in direct opposition to the teaching of Christ. God’s scourge is now upon the North, because they have so long submitted to the advances of the slave power. The sin of Northern proslavery men is great. They have strengthened the South in their sin by sanctioning the extension of slavery; they have acted a prominent part in bringing the nation into its present distressed condition.{1T 264.2}[/FONT]
[FONT="]"Christ came to this earth with a message of mercy and forgiveness. He laid the foundation for a religion by which Jew and Gentile, black and white, free and bond, are linked together in one common brotherhood, recognized as equal in the sight of God."
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[FONT="]"'You have never looked upon slavery in the right light, and your views of this matter have thrown you on the side of the Rebellion, which was stirred up by Satan and his host. Your views of slavery cannot harmonize with the sacred, important truths for this time. You must yield your views or the truth. Both cannot be cherished in the same heart, for they are at war with each other. . . . Unless you undo what you have done, it will be the duty of God's people to publicly withdraw their sympathy and fellowship from you, in order to save the impression which must go out in regard to us as a people. We must let it be known that we have no such ones in our fellowship, that we will not walk with them in church capacity.'"[Ref 5] Testimonies, vol. 7. , pp. 359, 360[/FONT]
[FONT="]At a time when slavery was an open question for Americans, Mrs. White declared that Adventists holding pro-slavery views were anathema [/FONT]
[FONT="]Even in the North, abolitionists were considered extremists. A few days after Pennsylvania Hall, built especially for abolitionist meeting Philadelphia, was first opened, a pro-slavery mob burned it to the ground. William Lloyd Garrison, commemorated today by a statue in Boston, was mobbed by Bostonians trying to tar and feather him for abolitionist agitation. As one historian has said, "To be an abolitionist in Boston, Philadelphia, or Cincinnati meant courting social ostracism, business ruin, and physical assault." [Ref 10] Frank Thistlewaite, America and the Atlantic Community (1959), p. 116[/FONT]
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Among the variety of anti-slavery groups, Adventists identified themselves with the radical, abolitionist minority. Sojourner Truth, one of the black heroines of abolition, visited a Millerite camp meeting in 1843, though she did not agree them. Years later she settled in Battle Creek. There she had Seventh day Adventist friends, and early Battle Creek College students often visited her. At least one edition of her biography printed by the Adventist’s - Review and Herald for its author, Frances Titus. [/FONT]
[FONT="]Joseph Bates the former sea captain who had so much to do with Adventists, accepting the Sabbath, first supported the American Colonization Society, later helped found the abolitionist society in his home town. [/FONT]
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Even within this extreme reformist segment of American society some were more radical than others and Adventist stood with the more activist. "Abolitionists" were also divided on the matter of devoting time and energy to assisting fugitive slaves.[Ref 13:] Larry Gara, "Who Was an Abolitionist?" The Anti-Slavery Vanguard, p. 39[/FONT]
[FONT="]Prominent Adventists had no such qualms. John Preston Kellogg, the father of John Harvey Kellogg and W[FONT="]. [/FONT]K. Kellogg was one of the incorporators of the Seventh Day Adventist publishing association and a member of the Seventh day Adventist Church to the end of his life. He used his farms in Michigan to harbor slaves fleeing their former owners. [Ref 14] SDA Encyclopedia (1966), pp. 650, 1060.[/FONT]
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John Byington. the first president of the General Conference of Seventh day Adventists had earlier left the Methodist Episcopal Church because it did not take a stand against slavery. At his farm in Buck's Bridge, New York, he maintained a station of the Underground Railroad, illegally transporting fugitive slaves from the South to Canada. [Ref 15] 15 SDA Encyclopedia (1966), p. 181
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[FONT="]Anyone who thinks these men were aberrations with the Adventist Church should remember that Mrs. White herself said that, "the law of ou[FONT="]r[/FONT] land requiring us to deliver a slave to his master, we are not to obey." [Ref 16] Testimonies, vol. 1, p. 202[/FONT]
[FONT="]Great men professing to have human hearts have seen the slaves almost naked and starving and have abused them and sent them back to their cruel masters hopeless bondage.... They have deprived them of their liberty and free air which heaven has never denied them, and then left them to suffer for food and clothing. In view of all this, a national fast is proclaimed! Oh, what an insult to Jehovah!" [Ref 23] Testimonies, vol. 1, p. 257.[/FONT]
