The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

A Separate People Chosen to Receive New Truths

The purpose of the Lord can be clearly discerned in bringing out a distinct people under the proclamation of the second angel’s message—the second call to the “supper”—and the “midnight cry.” Precious truths for the last days were to be searched out and proclaimed—a work which could not be done in “creed-bound” churches any more than the heralding of the gospel to the world could be accomplished by the apostolic church while retaining a connection with the Jewish sects. God called for separation there, ⁹ and he also called for separation of the advent believers from those who would seek to hold them in the circle of their creeds. GSAM 178.3