The final chapters of this book are from Seventh-Day Adventism Renounced, which was first published in 1898 and reprinted many times but is currently out of print. D.M. Canright, who died May 12, 1919, was a leader in the Seventh-day Adventist denomination for 28 years. He joined Adventism only 14 years after it started in 1844 and knew its leaders, people, and doctrines intimately, having been one of the chief elders of the Adventist denomination, together with James White and Ellen G. White, Adventist prophetess. In the late 1860s, Canright was one of the three members of the general conference committee that controlled Adventist work throughout the world.

After leaving Adventism in 1884, Canright joined a Baptist church at Otsego, Michigan, and became its pastor until it was built up into a prosperous church. In 1887, he moved to Grand Rapids, took a new mission and built it up to become one of the strong churches of the city, with several hundred members. When he died, he was pastor emeritus of this prospering New Testament church.

The testimony of such a man cannot be taken lightly, and in these days when Seventh-day Adventism is trying to put on a new, more biblical face, we will do well to pay attention to the words of this man of God. In this day of doctrinal carelessness, many are saying Adventism is not a false cult. The late Walter Martin popularized this view with his writings, particularly in Kingdom of the Cults, which is used as a textbook on false teaching in a great many Bible schools and seminaries, as well as in private study by church leaders. Though Dr. Martin had perceptive insight into many cults, he was frightfully wrong about Adventism, which is founded upon great doctrinal error and confusion.

Adventism’s foundation is corrupt, and it’s distinctive doctrines are contrary to Scripture, as we will see clearly from Canright’s testimony.

When challenged with the strange, unbiblical teachings and practices of Ellen White, Adventist leaders today sometimes want to argue that they no longer hold to some of their early teachings, that they do not uphold Ellen White as an infallible prophetess. But they do.

Modern Adventist publications continue to teach that Ellen White was a prophetess of God, that Sunday worship is an abomination, that the Sabbath holds authority over the Christian, that the dead have no consciousness, that law and grace work together in justification, that Christ is presently in the heavenly holy of holies performing his "investigative judgment," that hell is not eternal, that the Adventist Church is the one and only true last-days Remnant of God.

All of these heretical positions are presented in a recent Adventist publication, Seventh-Day Adventists Believe: A Biblical Exposition Of Fundamental Doctrines, published in 1988 by the Ministerial Association of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, and professing to be "an authentic resource on Adventist doctrine."

The fact is that Seventh-day Adventism is just as deceptive and false today as it was during its early history. It’s time that this again be sounded out loudly.