p. 8 | The Former Days by WASHINGTON MORSE

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 8, 1909

The Former Days

By WASHINGTON MORSE

WASHINGTON MORSE

I WISH a little space in the good old REVIEW to call to remembrance the former days, and thus celebrate my ninety-third birthday. Since the close of our Conference, I feel like the man who was healed (Acts 3:8)—“walking, and leaping, and praising God” for the third angel’s message. Never in my experience in fifty-nine years have I seen the greatness of this message as now. No wonder that the unmixed wrath of God is to be poured out upon those who are found, when probation comes to an end, worshiping the beast and his image.

What has the beast done? He has put to death fifty millions of God’s people; he has taken away God’s holy Sabbath, and brought in the first day, a counterfeit sabbath.

In 1 Sam. 10:6-9 we learn that the Spirit of God came upon Saul, and he was turned into another man. This

was my experience in 1831. In 1838 I became acquainted with Elder William Miller. I followed him from town to town, and became a happy believer. From that time I was an active worker all through the campaign up to the passing of the time, Oct. 22, 1844. In 1851 I saw the light upon the sanctuary, and embraced the true Sabbath, and by the advice of Elder James White I began to labor. In 1853 I was ordained by the laying on of hands, Elders A. N. Hollis, G. W. Holt, and S. W. Rhoads officiating.

The first angel’s message was based on time; this is brought out more clearly in Revelation 10 than in Revelation 14. We did lift our hands to heaven and swear that time should be no longer. It was true that prophetic time did end; but we supposed it was probationary time. In Revelation 10, this angel is clothed with a cloud. We did not understand that we were to meet such a disappointment, nor did we understand the sanctuary subject. It was sealed up from our view. Yes, we were under the cloud. Neither did we see the third angel’s message. Our work was to show the world that the judgment would begin at the end of the twenty-three hundred years; this message was preached in every known kingdom in the world.

In Rev. 11:15 we have brought to view the seventh trumpet. This is the third woe trumpet, which began to sound Oct. 22, 1844, and in Rev. 10:7 it is said, ‘In the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished.’ And this seventh trumpet began to sound with the beginning of the judgment. This is the time when the Lord comes to reckon with his servants. Matt. 25:19. In Rev. 11:18 we are told of the ‘time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and great.’ The hope of your aged servant is by all means to be one of that number.

De Land, Fla.