Schleiermacher,
Canright and Paulien
When
Schleiermacher started to read literature that was
forbidden at his college library to read, he got invested in his mind of Higher
Criticism around 20 years old. He rejected faith, he rejected the virgin birth
of Christ and writing to his father, puritan pastor Schleiermacher, he lament
that he can no longer follow the faith position. His father in tears wrote back
to him that he rejects him although he wants to hold him by his own breast, for
he no longer follow the faith of his father and mother. He pointed out that
they have painted Jesus before his eyes their whole life. And that young
Schleiermacher was now senseless. Then
there was Canright who’s wife died in 1878 and he remarried in 1881
but seemingly the second wife did not fancy to be a pastoral wife? He bought a
farm in 1882 in Michigan and then in 1887 rejected Adventism. “Then,
quite abruptly, in 1887, Canright and his [second from 1882] wife, Lucy
Canright, left the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It was a decision he had been
mulling over for a year. In severing his relations with his home church, the Otsego
Seventh-day Adventist Church, Canright stated the following, as recorded by the
church clerk: That
he had come to a point where he no longer believed that the Ten Commandments
were binding upon Christians and had given up the Law, the Sabbath, the
Messages, the Sanctuary, our position upon [the] U.S. in prophecy, the
Testimonies, health reform, the ordinances of humility. He also said that he
did not believe that the Papacy had changed the Sabbath. And though he did not
directly state it, his language intimated that he would probably keep Sunday. He
thinks that Seventh-day Adventists are too narrow in their ideas, and that in
quoting so much as they do from the Old Testament are going back into the
moonlight rather than experiencing the sunlight of the gospel of Christ. He
thought we were exalting the law above Christ. Also has no faith in the
missionary work as conducted by our people, feels as if it is not the way God
designed to do the work. He
still claimed to believe that the coming of Christ was near, making the same
application of Daniel 2 and 7 and Matthew 24 that he always had, but did not
believe that there was to be any special message preceding Christ's second
coming in the sense in which Seventh-day Adventists teach. — Church
clerk's record, February 17, 1887, Otsego, Michigan Seventh-day Adventist
Church.” Then
there is Paulien who a few months ago said the same as Canright “did
not believe that there was to be any special message preceding Christ's second
coming in the sense in which Seventh-day Adventists teach”. . . . End
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