p. 17 | Friday Evening Service

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 20, 1909

Friday Evening Service

A LARGE congregation more than filled the pavilion Friday evening to listen to a sermon by Elder A. G. Daniells. He spoke from Rev. 14: 6-14. He stated that these verses are the basis of the belief and the message of the Seventh-day Adventists to the world, and that this is a message for to-day and not for the future, and that it knows no nationality in its scope and application. He said, in part:—

“In the book of Daniel, the eighth chapter, with supplemental information in the ninth, we find a very remarkable time-table, a period of 2300 prophetic years, beginning 457 B. C., and extending down to the fall of the year 1844. The religious movement of that time, chiefly under the direction and leadership of William Miller, attracted world-wide attention, and it is a well-known matter of history, because it called attention to the Bible doctrine of the second coming of Christ.

“William Miller had studied the prophecies of Daniel and become convinced that it contained a message for the peoples of the whole world. Believing the cleansing of the sanctuary meant the cleansing of the earthly sanctuary, and this would mean the coming of Christ and the end of the world, he boldly proclaimed that the end of the prophetic period of 2300 years would see the ushering in of the long-looked-for reign of righteousness and the setting up of the kingdom of God on the earth.

“The 2300 years did end Oct. 22, 1844, and the close of that period marked the beginning of a religious movement whose representatives to-day are here from every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people. The cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary above commenced in 1844, and the message we are carrying is the last gospel message of God to all the world. It is still the message of Jesus’ coming.”