7th Day Adventists try to get Freemason to quit

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Nathaniel Faulkhead was a 7th Day Adventists who was also a Freemason, but because of his excessive involvement in the secret society, church leaders asked him to leave and when he did not he was eventually relieved from his employment with the Adventists

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NATHANIEL FAULKHEAD: FREEMASON TO ADVENTIST

NATHANIEL FAULKHEAD’S EARLY CONVERSION
As Nathaniel Faulkhead made his way down the narrow hallway his mind recalled a dream he had had the previous night in which he had seen Ellen White presenting him with a special testimony. At present, he was on his way to meet her having been informed by her son Willie White that she had requested to see him.

The Faulkheads had chosen to become Seventh-Day Adventists around 1886 or 1887 and Nathaniel Faulkhead was appointed as treasurer of the Echo Publishing House shortly thereafter. He was an amiable man with a generous heart and sharp business acumen. At first, he served in his role wholeheartedly but gradually another aspect of his life began to overshadow his spiritual interests.

At the time he became a Seventh-Day Adventist Faulkhead was the member of several secret societies. By his own admission, he was a high ranking member of the Freemasons, The Knights Templar and several other secret societies. He continued to serve these societies in these roles even after his baptism and soon they began to soak up a considerable amount of his time and attention.

When Ellen White arrived in Australia in 1891 she was given visions regarding the general condition of the publishing house and its workers. She was also given specific testimonies directed at certain individuals and one of these was Nathaniel Faulkhead. The testimony she received with regards to Faulkhead dealt with his involvement with Secret Societies and the detrimental effect this was having on his spiritual life. She wrote out the entire testimony which ended up filling fifty pages of written manuscript and prepared to mail it. However, something held her back and she had a distinct impression that it was not yet the right time to send it because the Faulkheads would not receive her testimony then.

Bundling together the thick sheaf of papers Ellen White slid them into a drawer and left them there for about a year. Neither did she mention anything regarding the testimony to anyone. The only tell-tale sign that she had received the vision was the deep interest she took in the spiritual wellbeing of Nathaniel Faulkhead and his wife thereafter. However, it wasn’t just Ellen White who was concerned about him. His colleagues at work had noticed his steady spiritual decline and the decided uptick in his absorption with the Secret Societies. They pleaded with him to disengage himself from all involvement with these organisations but he refused, later stating “my heart was full of those things, in fact, I thought more of them than I did of anything else”

He met the appeals of his brethren with the defiant and bold statement that he would not give up any of his connections with the Freemasons regardless of what G.B. Starr or W.C. White or anyone else might have to say about the matter. This was a distressing development and it soon became apparent to the leaders in charge of the work that unless there was a decided change in his course of action and his attitude he would have to find employment elsewhere.

Writing about the incident Ellen White remarked “none could reach him in regard to Freemasonry. He was fastening himself more and more firmly in the meshes of the enemy and the only thing we could see to be done was to leave him to himself.” In a vision, she was shown that his spiritual condition was similar to that of a man, precariously perched on the edge of a precipice and in danger of losing his balance and falling off the edge.