1. The Seventh-day Adventist Encydopedia, p. 707. See also George R. Knight, From 1888 to Apostasy, the Case of A. T. Jones (Washington, D. C.:Review and Herald Pub. Assn., 1987).
2. Signs of the Times, Review and Herald, and American Sentinel.
3. The Third Angel’s Message, sermons given at the General Conference session of 1895 by A. T. Jones, published by John O. Ford (Angwin, Calif.:Pacific Union College Press, 1977); The Conscrated Way to Christian Perfection (Mountain View, Calif.:Pacific Press Pub. Assn., 1905); Lessons on Faith, a selection of articles and sermons, published by John O. Ford (Angwin, Calif.:Pacific Union College Press, n.d.).
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4. Knight, p. 255.
5. LeRoy Edwin Froom, in Movement of Destiny, ignores almost entirely the role and message of A. T. Jones. 6. Knight, p. 256.
7. Ellen G. White, letter 24, 1892. Quoted in A. V. Olson, Through Crisis to Victory, pp. 315, 316.
8. For example, see Ellen G. White, Selected Messages, book 1, pp. 37-379.
9. Ellen G. White, manuscript 1180. See Robert J. Wieland, Ellen G. WhiteEndorsements of the 1888 Message, as Brought by Jones and Waggoner (St. Maries, Idaho, Lmn Publishing, n.d.).
10. Arthur L. White, Ellen White:The Lonely Years (Washington, D.C.:Review and Herald Pub, Assn., 1984), pp. 412, 413.
11. Alonzo T. Jones, in Review and Herald, Feb. 18, 1896; Nov. 16, 1897; Apr. 11 and 18, 1899; Dec. 4, 11, 18, and 25, 1900; Jan. 1 and 22, 1901.
12. See General Conference Bulletin, 1893 and 1895.
13. Alonzo T. Jones, The Consecrated Way to Christian Perfection (Mountain View, Calif.:Pacific Press Pub. Assn., 1905), reprinted by Upward Way, Dodge Center, Minnesota, 1988.
14. Ibid., p. 16.
15. Ibid.
16. General Conference Bulletin, 1893, p. 207.
17. Ibid.
18. See General Conference Bulletin, 1895. The last 16 studies have been published by John O. Ford, The Third Angel’s Message, Sermons Given at the Genral Conference of 1895. by A. T. Jones (Angwin, Calif.:Pacific Union College Press, 1977).
19. General Conference Bulletin, 1895, p. 330.
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20. See William H. Grotheer, An Interpretive History of the Doctrine of Incamation as Taught by SDA Church (typescript), ppp. 30, 32.
21. See Ralph Larson, The Word Was Made Flesh, p. 67.
22. General Conference Bulletin, 1895, p. 231.
23. Ibid., p. 232.
“In this argument, Jones was echoing Edward Irving, who had declared that Christ took our fallen nature, is most manifest, because there was none other in existence to take’ (Works 5:15)” (Grotheer, p. 30).
24. Ibid., p. 233.
25. Ibid.
26. Ibid., pp. 233, 234.
27. Ibid., pp. 266, 267.
28. bid., p. 267. See also Jones, The Consecrated Way to Christian Perfection, pp. 40, 41.
29. Ibid.
30. Ibid.
31. Ibid., p. 303.
32. Ibid., p. 435.
33. Ibid., p. 448.
34. Ibid., p, 311.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid., p. 327.
37. Ibid.
38. Ibid., p. 328.
39. Ellen. G. White, in Review and Herald, July 5, 1887.
40. A. T. Jones, in General Conference Bulletin, 1895, pp. 332, 333.
41. Ibid., p. 333.
42. See Knight, p. 139.
43. A. T. Jones, in General Conference Bulletin, 1895, p. 328.
44. Ellen G. White confirms Jones’s point of view. On the one hand, she said that Christ did not possess
“the like passions∙∙∙ of our human, fallen natures” (Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, pp. 202, 508); on the other, that
“He had all the strength of passion of humanity” (In Heavenly Places, p. 155).
45. A. T. Jones, in General Conference Bulletin, 1895, p. 303.
46. Ibid., 1893, p. 207.
47. Ibid., 1895, p. 329.
48. Ibid., p. 331.
49. —————, in Review and Herald, Apr, 18, 1899. Quoted in A. T. Jones and E. J. Waggoner, Lessons on Faith (Angwin, Calif.: Pacific Union College Press, 1977), pp. 90~92.
50. Ibid.
51. Knight, on the jacket of From 1888 to Apostasy.
52. Ellen G. White, letter 57, 1895. Quoted in A. L. White, p. 414.
53. This name is a reference to the message of the third angel of Revelation 14, which contains essentially the message of justification by faith. But this expression very often also refers to the combined message of the three angels of Revelation 14.
54. Ellen G. White has best defined the divine and human nature of Christ in these words:
“The completeness of His humanity, the perfection of His divinity, from for us a strong round upon which we may be brought into reconciliation with God” (letter 35, 1894).
55. Ellen G. White, letter 24, 1892. Quoted in A. L. White, pp. 474, 475.
56. Ibid., in A. L. White, p. 475.