Name Albion Ballenger | ||
Albion Ballenger is a 19th-century Seventh-day Adventist minister and author.
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Biography
Born as Albion Fox in 1861 on a farm near Winslow, Illinois and was a son of Seventh-day Adventist Church John Fox Ballenger. In 1880s he was a liberty advocate and five years later got a license from SDA. In 1890 he was elected as secretary of the National Religious Liberty Association and by 1893 served as assistant editor of the American Sentinel magazine. In 1897 he began a movement called Receive Ye the Holy Ghost which also became his most popular sermon. The same year he also wrote a book called Power for Witnessing which is still printing and reprinting. In the early 20th century he was invited to the Great Britain for some evangelical work. During the same years he rewrote Seventh-day Adventist doctrine which was in need of revising at that time by adding the epistle to the Hebrews.
Controversy and punishment
His revision stated that the Christ came into the Holy of Holies site which was a part of Tabernacle by 1844. On May 20, 1905 General Conference Session reviewed his views and warned him not to publish them. The same day, a Seventh-day Adventist prophet named Ellen White decided to press charges against his views by issuing a letter in which she accused him of being a part of a satanic agency. On May 24, 1905 she published another accusation letter in which she mentioned that he made a specious error and demanded to accept the truth. He refused to do it, and so got fired. Couple of years later the same prophet have issued seven more letters of accusation which were published in January 30, 1906, June 29 of the same year and on July 4, 1907 respectively. In 1909 Ballenger wrote a book called Cast Out for the Cross of Christ in which he expressed his views and by 1914 founded a magazine called The Gathering Call. His views are unapproved still even though he died in 1921.