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This volume was published at the pivot point of Adventist mission development. By 1886 the young church had been in the foreign mission business for a dozen years, yet it had only four missions (three in Europe and one in Australia/New Zealand), and those four were just moving beyond infancy stage. By late 1886 the Adventists were becoming ever more committed to foreign missions. Historical...

they had not rejected it.10 These increasing accessions were forcing a reinterpretation of the shut door. As early as February 1852 James White had begun to teach explicitly the open door theory of mission, writing: “This OPEN DOOR we teach, and invite those who have an ear to hear, to come to it and find salvation through Jesus Christ. There is an exceeding glory in the view that Jesus has OPENED THE DOOR into the holiest of all … and now stands before the Ark containing the ten commandments.… If
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