Fred Wright (1925-1997) was born and raised in the small town of Mirani, in North Queensland, Australia. His mother read herself into the Seventh-day Adventist faith, and passed that on to her children.
Fred was the eldest of three sons and entered Australasian Missionary College (now called Avondale) at the age of 19. Marriage in 1949, and some debts incurred while attempting colporteur work, forced him to stop college, and in 1953, he eventually found work as a woodwork and building construction teacher in New Zealand Missionary College, and became a local church elder.
While teaching in the college, the rebellion and resistance of some of the boys tested Fred’s patience beyond its limits and he found himself filled with anger and fury towards their stubbornness. This anger was kept under control in the classroom but usually vented itself upon his wife and children on the weekends, where a torrent of angry words would be unleashed. Then came remorse, and regret, and confessions to God and pleas for forgiveness. But there was no deliverance. The sad pattern would repeat over and over in his life, and nothing seemed to help.
At this time there was a revival of the 1888 gospel message of A.T. Jones and E.J. Waggoner in the Seventh-day Adventist church. Their writings had been rediscovered, and brought to the attention of many. It was through contact with that message of living victory and deliverance that Fred finally found rest and peace in his heart, and the terrible power of anger that had controlled him was broken. He came to a realization that sin is “not what you do, but what you are,” and that real forgiveness involved not just taking away guilt for wrong actions, but removing of the roots of sin in the heart of man.
This book is the first one written by Fred (originally published in 1970), and is the clearest presentation of the principles of that everlasting gospel message which brought him peace and freedom, and has blessed many others all over the world since then. Download it here.
My Personal Testimony
This book was originally published in June 1970, and to my knowledge has not been republished since. It was my pleasure to learn of the ministry of Fred Wright (1926-1997) in the early 1980′s. At that time I had been a Seventh-day Adventist for about 2 years, having been baptized by Brad Thorp (currently president of the Hope Channel satellite TV station) during an evangelistic series in Surrey, BC.
Although I was a good member of the church outwardly, and loved the truths of Adventism, I was very much struggling with inward sin, and failing constantly. I had just started to learn about the gospel message of A.T. Jones and E.J. Waggoner, “the 1888 message,” as it is called today, which God gave to the Adventist people in those early days, when I learned of the ministry of Fred Wright.
His experience, and the ministry that grew out of it, were based upon that “most precious message” of 1888. In that message, as Fred taught it, I found deliverance from the enslaving power of sin.
This book is the clearest modern presentation of the 1888 message. I have prepared this reprint for the blessing of God’s children in Laodicea (Revelation 3:14-21), so that they may understand, know, and receive the gold, white raiment, and eyesalve that Christ freely offers them.
