After over 40 years of separation these “two Reform churches” met at the General Conference level to find out whether there was a possibility for unity between them. Peace committees were chosen on both sides and several weeks were spent examining the doctrines of both churches and their histories to establish the cause of their separation and to find the guilty party. The following confessions were made and written out.
“We recognize that the walking out of the delegates from the meeting room, in protest, in the morning of May 20, 1951, should not have happened.”
“We regret that the eleven delegates took organizational steps hastily.”
Prior to that, these committees agreed to and signed the “Reisenbach Accord” which contains the confession:
“We recognize that the Principles of Faith of 1925 were not changed.”
In essence these confessions effectively acknowledge that the separation happened without an apostasy. A new movement was created without a valid reason.
”God has ordained that the representatives from all parts of the earth, when assembled in a General Conference, shall have authority” [Test Vol, 9. Pg 260]. The General Conference functions by the majority. Every issue is decided by voting; Therefore 14 out voted 11.
It has been established that only one of these two churches can be the original reformation and the other, a man-made church which does not bear divine credentials.
The last part of the work in which the peace committees engaged was: how to unite and here is where the difficulty arose. A proposal was made that both reform churches should be dissolved. A new church would be established under a new name and with a new registration with the governments. This would also mean that the original Reformation which God had established would be dissolved, and we would also be adding a new angel to the Revelation prophesy. There would also be established three reform churches as all members would not leave their existing churches, but would continue in them .
What is then the answer to this problem? Is it not to study the history and the Prophesy individually with prayer and without prejudice and establish in our own minds which one of these two reformations is the original and take our stand with it Then it becomes our duty to. invite the lost sheep back into the fold .
‘There is no confusion with God, the confusion is with men. As we pray and study to know the will of God confusion will be removed and a clear voice will be heard saying; “This is the way walk ye in it ” lsa. 30: 21.