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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Third-day, November 26, 1867

SUSPENDED. The Herald of the Bridegroom, Newark, N. J., which has for the past two years advocated the coming of the Lord in the year 1867, has now suspended publication, the point to which it looked, having passed by. We would that Adventists might learn wisdom by these repeated failures, and be led to see the folly of continually attempting to readjust the prophetic periods when they have once been scripturally and harmoniously fulfilled. In its issue of Nov. 13, the Herald said:

“As we are now within a few days of the testing point in our argument, we have determined to suspend the issue of the Herald. This number therefore will be our last. For over two years we have been warning the Church and world of the coming of the Bridegroom, and now, having acted in harmony with our honest convictions, we calmly await the issue. By the time this number reaches our readers we shall have entered upon the period of the ‘Feast of Tabernacles,’ which is the last Jewish feast in the year. We are shut up to the faith that deliverance must come by its close at the latest, and therefore consistency demands that we suspend our labors and await the result. Believing as we do, we bid our readers, who are standing in a state of preparation to meet the Lord, adieu for a few hours, hoping to meet them in Isaiah’s ‘chambers.’ Oh! ‘keep your hearts in the love of God, and in the patient waiting for Christ.’”

Some, we trust, will have their eyes opened by this disappointment; some will, no doubt, be thrown from the track, and suffer a total wreck of their faith in divine things; the wicked will have new occasion to scoff; and the ears of many who perhaps might otherwise have been reached, will be more firmly closed against the reception of the truth. We rejoice that the “’67 movement” has been so limited in extent; and for the same reason we regret the movement on 1868; since from being a more extensive movement, its failure will be more disastrous.