not a mission of general Christianity to the heathen. Responsibility to the heathen would remain outside the scope of Adventist missiology until the 1890s. Borge Schantz accurately summarizes the Adventist attitude between 1874 and 1890 when he writes that “mission to non-Christians was approved of and praised” by the Adventists, but “it was regarded as the task that other evangelical missionary societies could take care of. When they [evangelicals] had brought people to Christ, the SDAs were committed