p. 48 | Time-Setting

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 1, 1867

Time-Setting.

THE following is a specimen of the bitter fruit borne by the continual time-setting indulged in by most Adventists who have rejected the true application of the prophetic periods. Floating around without chart or compass, they shift from this date to that, with apparently as little consideration and as little evidence, as they would indulge in any guess-work. Having rejected the truth, they are ready to fix upon almost any date that may be suggested, like the Jews who rejected the true Messiah, and were then ready to run with alacrity after any impostor who might show himself upon the stage of action. Probably more ears will be shut against the doctrine of the Advent by their pernicious course, than by almost any other one thing. The item we clip from the Springfield Republican: “Rev. Dr. Cumming, who has been predicting the end of the world in 1866, has put it off to 1868, which gives him the opportunity to preach quite a number more of ‘great tribulation’ sermons. Quite a number of Adventists in this country expected the grand winding up at the time of the remarkable conjunction of the sun, earth, and several other planets, this month, but nothing came of it. The Louisville Journal exclaims irreverently, ‘As if God couldn’t judge the world without first getting the sun and planets into a straight line!’”