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A CENTURY of ADVENTISM in the BRITISH ISLES Proprietor: C CENTURY OF ADVENTISM 1 EDITORIAL Contrasts and Constants stood amazed at the images of Dwight Nelson and Doug Batchelor beamed around the world by satellite and introduced to Britain and Many contrasts could be drawn between the Church in the British Isles The Way Forward Ireland through the enthusiasm of Alan Hodges and Dalbert Elias in at the beginning of the twentieth century and the Church at the end. NET ’96, ’98 and ’99. These contrasts emerge in the articles written by our various authors. One undoubted innovation of the twentieth century – which had no by C. R. Perry As we have edited their work, however, again and again we have been equivalent in the work of the early pioneers of the movement in Britain struck by the constant factors in both the Church and Society (see – was the work of the Adventist Development and Relief Association page 8). (ADRA). This, together with the genius of the Adventist Chorale and the These constants are not apparent in the text of the magazine Croydon Gospel Choir, gave the Church a prominence at the end of the he Seventh-day Adventist Church TheThe challenge challenge • 49% of babies were baptized or blessed because little is said by our various authors about the evangelistic twentieth century which it could only have dreamt of at the beginning. in western Europe must inevitably Our great challenge is to make a serious in their first year of life scene in the last two decades of the twentieth century. The evangelistic Similarly, those who took the two-week course under S. H. Lane in operate against the background of • 60% of those marrying for the first time scene then was remarkably similar to that of the final decades of the spiritual inroad into the majority population Heneage Road, Grimsby, in 1883, to prepare themselves for ministry, a growing obsolescence of the of over 56 million. The questions which arise did so in church nineteenth century. There were, of course, major differences of scale – would, perhaps, have felt ill at ease with the current emphasis on T traditional and shifting values of • 90% of all funerals took the form of a are, ‘What is the way forward?’ and ‘How can both of endeavour and of converts. academic excellence; as, for that matter, would those who studied an age of relativity. One hundred and twenty The evangelistic endeavours of John Loughborough, S. H. Lane, the Adventist Church in the British Union Christian ceremony under Homer Salisbury at Duncombe Hall after 1901. years have not lessened the pain of growth of and even Judson Washburn, were outshone by those of their twentieth- halt the indigenous decline and move the In any whistle-stop tour of a century like this one, someone’s our Church in the British Isles. TheThe generations generations century counterparts. Among these were Fitz Henry, Dick Barron, Mark contribution is bound to have been overlooked. The contribution of whole Church together successfully into the Finley, Dr Calvin Rock, Lester Elliott, Errol Lawrence, Ron Halvorsen Despite the slow growth of the Adventist twenty-first century?’ This is the conclusion arrived at by Mike Pastor Ken Gammon – both to the Deed of Covenant programme and Church in the early twentieth century, many and Roosevelt Daniels. Loughborough, with his penchant for tent to the groundwork of the John Loughborough School project – is one Humanly speaking, the task before us is Brierly, a Christian research statistician: indigenous Christians in England, Wales, campaigns, would have strongly approved of the tent campaigns on of the most conspicuous of these. impossible. The trend in our postmodern ‘Many call themselves Christian; not so London’s Highbury Fields, Clapham Common and Hackney Marshes One final development at the end of the century that echoes a Ireland and Scotland became Seventh-day society is to minimize Christianity – only 9% many live as Christians.’ He noted also that during the 1980s and 90s. Washburn, with his preference for hired development at the beginning is the accession of women to positions Adventists. At one time, nearly 8,000 of the population attend church on anything the generation gap is widening as outlined halls, would have had much in common with Walter Pierson, Mark of prominence. Between 1889-1892 a woman served as Editor. In the members from the majority population sang below: Finley and Jeff Youldon. like a regular basis. Core Christian beliefs years before World War I, women served as conference secretary- from the pews of our churches, ‘A Mighty have also been cast aside. In a recent survey • Seniors – 73 and older – 4.5 million A. A. John and Stephen Haskell, with their liking for prophetic charts treasurers and on the Union committee. As the century ended, women Fortress is Our God’. among a number of clergy, only three • Builders – 54 to 72 – 12 million and apocalyptic approaches, would have applauded the Daniel were serving in ministry and, in the case of Dr Andrea Luxton, as the Unfortunately, this type of growth was not believed in a literal creation. A survey • Boomers – 35 to 53 – 15.1 million seminars and Revelation seminars conducted by scores of ministers principal of Newbold College. sustainable because of political, sociological, and laity up and down the country in the 1980s and early 90s. conducted in 1995 in the UK on the religious • Busters – 16 to 34 – 14.6 million DAVID MARSHALL, EDITOR industrial, demographic and multicultural Loughborough and Haskell’s generation, however, would have CECIL PERRY, PROPRIETOR disposition of the population revealed the (Generation X) factors. Two world wars, the demise of the following statistics: • Mosaics – 15 and younger – 12.6 million British Empire, the failure of organized • 65% of the population called themselves The outlook on the future among the religion, the changes in industrial relations Christian various categories is stark and conflicting. and growth in secular ideologies did nothing • 71% believed in God, though 27% did Seniors, builders, and boomers tend to to promote spirituality in society. not, and 2% were not sure think linearly and logically; busters think Our Church experienced, however, mini revivals in the early thirties and early fifties – Top Stories of the Century the R. A. Anderson and G. E. Vandeman eras – when hundreds queued to attend religious ✦ In 1900 Dr and Mrs Olsen came from the United States to join Dr and to accommodate the 10,000 people who had turned out to hear him. meetings up and down the country. This was Mrs Kress in pioneering health evangelism, operating a sanitarium at not to last, as modern trends began to Caterham, supporting a health food company (founded in 1899 at Redhill) ✦ In 1964 The Stanborough Press burned down on Stanborough Park. In impact. As the industrialized societies John Loughborough and launching the Good Health magazine. 1966 it relocated at more modern premises in Grantham. emerged from the worst effects of the war and economies began to improve, (1832-1924) ✦ In 1907 Stanborough Park was purchased and soon became the home ✦ In 1974 Dr Gertrude Brown’s health institution in Crieff came into Church of a new sanitarium, a greatly expanded printing and publishing work, the ownership. In 1977 the denomination expanded the health work in Crieff preoccupation with capitalism took When John Norton Loughborough landed at Southampton on headquarters of the British Church and Stanborough College (ministerial through the purchase of Roundelwood. precedence over the strengthening of 30 December 1878, shortly before his 47th birthday, he was training had begun in 1902 at Duncombe Hall, London). Christian values. already in his thirtieth year of ministry. One of the first Adventist ✦ In 1978 – four years after being presented with a positive programme for literature-evangelists and an early supporter of the health reform ✦ The end of World War I signalled the beginning of the first ‘Golden Age solving ethnic tensions in Britian – GC president R. H. Pierson visited Britain MulticulturalMulticultural inflow inflow message, he had served as president of the important Michigan of Evangelism’. J. D. Gillatt, O. M. Dorland, George Hyde, William Maudsley, and brokered a ‘package’ which owed much to the four-year-old pro- The morally liberal, permissive sixties Conference and as General Conference treasurer. In 1868 he Lionel Barras and R. A. Anderson were to be the big names. gramme. The arrival in 1979 of ten top-drawer pastors, largely from the created a dismissive generation that started the Seventh-day Adventist work on America’s West Coast, where he established the California Conference. Caribbean, led to a period of church growth and harmony. overthrew the values of an already indulgent, ✦ A proven administrator, evangelist and breaker of new In 1932 a Queen Anne mansion, Newbold Revel, became the ministerial spiritually weak society. However, a ✦ ground, Loughborough was an obvious choice to send to develop the work in England, but he training centre. In 1980 the John Loughborough School was founded in Tottenham, demographic change was about to take place North London. It attracted massive media attention and, in 1998, achieved found the Old World difficult to adjust to. He had enjoyed great evangelistic success in the mid- ✦ In 1940 Stanborough School occupied the building which had been Grant Maintained status. as the doors of Britain opened to immigrants western United States with tent missions, and used the same methods in England; but Victorian home to the college. The first Adventist school had been founded in from its former colonial territories. The new Britain was much more class-conscious than America. In 1887 Ellen White wrote, ‘If our brethren Kettering in the previous century. Adventist secondary education had begun ✦ In 1981, at the South England session held in the Portsmouth Guildhall, invitees brought their religious ways of had .
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