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History of Thanksgiving

 

From writings of Ellen White --  How to Celebrate  Thanksgiving
Christmas and New Years  --  RH, Jan. 1884

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   God has a church, but it is the church militant, not the church triumphant. We are sorry that there are defective members, that there are tares amid the wheat. Jesus said, “The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way . . . The servants of the household came and said to him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in the field? For whence then hath it tares? He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. . .

   Let both grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.”

  In the parable of the wheat and the tares, we see the reason why the tares were not to be plucked up; it was lest the wheat be uprooted with the tares. Human opinion and judgment would make grave mistakes. But rather than have a mistake made, and one single blade of wheat rooted up, the Master says, “Let both grow together until the harvest” then the angels will gather out the tares, which are appointed to destruction."  ( Read entire section from TM ) 

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History of Thanksgiving

From the writings of Ellen White

How to Celebrate  Thanksgiving
Christmas and New Years  --  RH, Jan. 1884


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Update:  Report to Annual Council - Oct. 2016
by G.T. Ng, Executive Secretary of General Conference

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