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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, October 15, 1867

FromThe Advent Review & Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 18

JOSEPH HOAG'S VISION.

Probably the most of our readers are familiar with an article purporting to be a vision of Joseph Hoag, which has gone the rounds of the papers for several years, and has been variously commented upon by the press. It was also published in the last volume of the Review, No. 13.

Whether it be true or false, it has met with a most signal and literal fulfillment thus far, and there remain but a few points yet to be fulfilled, and the signs of the times would indicate that there is a strong probability of the remaining portion of it meeting its fulfillment as literally as that which is already past.

The view purports to have been given in 1803. The substance of it is as follows: The guiding hand of the Lord is shown in conducting our forefathers from a land of oppression and establishing them in this country, and whilst they remained humble they were blessed and became a numerous people, but in their prosperity they became proud and haughty, and forgot that God who had nourished and protected them in the wilderness, and returned to every evil abomination and practice of which the Old Country was guilty, and suffered a dividing spirit to come among them. This dividing spirit commenced in the Church on points of doctrine, and next appeared in the lodges of the Free Masons, and last of all it entered Politics throughout the United States, and did not stop until it produced a civil war, in which the Southern States lost their power and slavery was banished from our borders.

Thus far its fulfillment is a matter of history. It concludes as follows: “When a monarchical government arose, and established a National religion, which made all societies tributary to support its expenses. Whilst beholding property taken from dissenters to