Ellen G. White: The Progressive Years: 1862-1876 (vol. 2)

Seventh Day Baptist Delegate

As Uriah Smith reported the conference session he mentioned, “This year as last, a pleasant feature of the occasion was the visit of the S. D. Baptist delegate.” Immediately following the seating of the regular delegates on Friday morning, December 29, J. H. Waggoner announced that Nathan Wardner, a representative of the Seventh Day Baptists, was present, on the invitation of church leaders, and he was seated as a delegate to the session. At this point and others he spoke of the interest held in common on the vital truth of the seventh-day Sabbath. In the conference resolution welcoming Wardner it was stated, “We rejoice that there is even one religious body in our land that we are able to meet on common ground on the important subject of the Sabbath of the Lord our God.”—Ibid. On Wardner's invitation, James White was appointed as a delegate to represent Seventh-day Adventists at the next conference of the Seventh Day Baptists. Waggoner was named as an alternate. 2BIO 335.3