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ADVENTISTS. live forever only through faith in Jesus Christ; that death is a condition of unconsciousness to all till the resurrection at Christ's second coming, when the righteous will receive everlasting life and the wicked will be punished with complete extinction of being; and that salvation is free to all who in this life will accept the conditions. They have, in different parts of the United States, 912 ministers, 610 churches, and 26,500 members, with a Bible institute. The principal publication society is in Boston. The missionary society, with a total annual income of about $14,500, sustains foreign missions in England, the Cape Verde Islands, India, and China. In home missions, it is aided by the Eastern, Western, and Southern Boards, and by the woman's society called "the Helper's Union." It also has charge of a church extension fund. The leading periodicals are: The World's Crisis, and Sunday school publications (all Boston): All Nations' Monthly (missionary) (Rockland, Me.), and other journals. Literature: J. G. Wellcome, History of the Second Advent Message (Yarmouth, Me., 1874); Charles L. Ives, The Bible Doctrine of the Soul (Philadelphia, 1877); E. A. Stockman, Our Hope (Boston, 1884); Mrs. L. C. McKinstrey, The World's Great Empires (Haverhill, Mass., 1887); Rev. H. Constable, Hades, or the Intermediate State of Man (Boston, 1885).

The doctrine of the obligation of the seventh day as the Sabbath was adopted by a body of Adventists at Washington, N. H., in 1845. A journal started at Paris, Me., was removed to Battle Creek, Mich., and a publishing house was established there in 1860. The belief is general among them that the cleansing of the sanctuary and the beginning of the investigative judgment were the events marked in the prophecies for 1843-44, which came to their fulfillment then. The Seventh Day Adventists hold that the dead sleep until the judgment and the unsaved are destroyed; apply the vision of the two-horned beast in Revelation to the United States; believe that the gift of prophecy still abides, and that the revelations of Mrs. Ellen G. White were inspired; insist on total abstinence and the care of health as religious duties; are vegetarians, and practice tithing. They had, at the close of 1903, 553 ministers, 2105 churches, and 76,102 members, with seven publishing houses in America, Europe, and Australia, health institutes or sanitariums and educational institutions in several States, and a missionary society which has extended its work into nearly every quarter where missionaries go, and has built up church organizations in several countries. The general conference is their chief and supreme court. The district conferences are grouped into thirteen union conferences coöperating with the general conference. Periodicals: The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald (weekly) (Battle Creek, Mich.); Signs of the Times (weekly) (Oakland, Cal.); The General Conference Quarterly (Battle Creek, Mich., 1870); 86 periodicals in 12 languages, 14 in the United States. Consult: J. N. Andrews, History of the Sabbath and First Day (Battle Creek, 'Mich.. 1873); Mrs. Ellen G. While, The Great Controversy (Battle Creek, Mich.. 1870); ''Spirit of Prophecy. Testimonies (1870); Elder James White, Sermons; Uriah Smith, Thoughts on Daniel and the Revelation'' (1882).

This was formed after a division among the Seventh Day Adventists, 1864-65, concerning the acceptance of the revela- tions of Mrs. E. G. White as inspired and the application of Revelation xii: 11-17 to the United States. It holds to the mortality of man and unconsciousness in death; resurrection of the righteous to everlasting life and of the wicked to judgment and final extinction; ob- serves the seventh day and practices tithing. The general conference is the head of its work and the State conferences are subordinate to it. It has 19 ministers, 26 churches, and 647 mem- bers, with a publishing house at Stanberry, Mo., and a sanitarium at White Cloud, Mich. Peri- odicals: The Bible Advocate, The Sabbath School Missionary (Stanberry, Mo.). Literature: A. P. Dugger, Bible Sabbath Defended (Marion, la., 1881); Jacob Brinkerhoff, Kingdom of Heaven Upon Earth (1882); W. C. Long, The End of the Ungodly (1886).

Organized 1860. The distinctive feature of its belief is that those who die in sin have no resurrection, but are doomed to sleep eternally, while the righteous lise to immortality. A general conference meets every year, and quarterly conferences have been instituted in some places. Four eamp-nieeting3 are held every year — in New England and Vir- ginia. The missionary work is carried on, in the home field only, by two societies, one of whiqji is organized among the young people. The Union has in the United States 60 ministers, 28 churches, and 3800 members. Periodicals: The Herald of Life, weekly (Springfield, Mass.). Literature: 0. S. Halstead, The Theology of the Bible (Newark, N.!., 1860); Discussion Between Miles Grant and J. T. Curry (Boston, 1863); Pile, W. N., The Doctrine of Conditional Immor- tality (Springfield, Mass.): The Coming King- dom of God ( Springfield, Mass. ); Brown, Wm. E., The Divine Key of Redemption (Springfield, Mass.); "A Disciple," Redemption (Springfield, Mass.).

(Age-to-Come Adventists) believe in the final restitution of all things; the establishment of the kingdom of God on the earth, with Christ as king of kings and the immortal saints joint heirs with him; the restoration of Israel; the final destruction of the wicked, and eternal life only through Christ. The journal, the Restitution, was begun in 1851, and a general conference representing thirteen States was formed in 1888. The Churches have 94 ministers, 95 churches, and 2872 members in the United States, and churches in Canada. Periodicals: The Restitution (Plymouth, Ind.); The Rock, and Words of Cheer (both Brooklyn, N. Y.). Literature: J. P. Weethee, The Coming Age (Chicago, 1884).

ADVEN'TIVE (Lat. ad, to + venire, to come). A plant which is but incompletely naturalized (see ) is said to be adventive. Most adventive plants are spontaneous for a few years and then disappear, while a few species become more and more numerous and ultimately become naturalized.

ADVEN'TURES OF AN AT'OM,. A satire by Tobias Smollett, published in 1769, and treating, under a Japanese disguise, of English politics during the preceding fourteen years.

AD'VERB (Lat. adverbium, from ad, to + verbum, word, verb, "the word" of a sentence