by Ronald Lawson, PhD | 5 July 2019 | The American Civil War forced the Adventist Church to grapple with the issue of military service just as it created its organizational structure in the early 1860s. After an open debate, and after the introduction of conscription in March 1863 obliged it to publicly embrace a […] Source: https://atoday.org/adventists-war-and-oppressive-governments-ww1-to-the-present/