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Albion Fox Ballenger (1861-1921) 

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Historical Dictionary of the Seventh-day Adventists (pages 31-32):

"BALLENGER, ALBION FOX (1861-1921). Seventh-day Adventist minister and later critic of the denomination. Born in Illinois, Ballenger began working in the Adventist ministry in 1885 and was ordained in 1893. He worked primarily in religious liberty affairs from 1889 to 1897. Attracted to Holiness themes, from late 1897 through 1899 he traveled throughout the United States on behalf of the General Conference preaching "Receive Ye the Holy Ghost." His book Power for Witnessing (1900) drew from his sermons. In 1901 he went to Great Britain, serving as an evangelist and church administrator until he expressed doubts about the sanctuary doctrine. He returned to the United States in 1905 and lost his ministerial credentials in that year. During the next few years he worked as a farmer in Virginia until moving to California in 1908. He published his criticisms of the sanctuary doctrine in Cast Out for the Cross of Christ (c. 1909) and, although for a time continuing to farm and do odd jobs, gradually developed a preaching and writing career. Between 1911 and 1919 he made six extended cross-country trips, speaking primarily to disaffected Adventists. He became editor of The Gathering Call, a magazine begun by a Church of God minister in 1915, and published two books, Forty Fatal Errors Regarding the Atonement (c. 1913) and The Proclamation of Liberty and the Unpardonable Sin (1915), in addition to various tracts."