Disappointed Time-Setters.
By James White
The following item we copy from a Michigan secular paper :— "The Adventists of Chicago confidently looked for the second coming of Christ on Monday evening last at about eight o’clock, the hour when spectacular performances usually begin, and had made all their arrangements accordingly. These people seemed to be sincere in the expectation that the end of all things was to be reached on the 19th instant." It should be known that not all "the Adventists of Chicago" were guilty of this folly. W. C. Thurman professed to prove by the Bible, mathematics, astronomy, and corrected chronology that the Lord would certainly come on the 19th of April, 1875, and among professed Adventists who reject the true theory of the termination of the prophetic periods and the advent message as given in Rev. 14, he found some as fanatical as himself who were sure the end would be April 19. If they would learn wisdom by their experience we would rejoice at their late discomfiture; but the past course of Thurman and his deluded followers leaves little room to hope that their future course will not bring reproach to the Advent cause. We are glad, however, that the position of Seventh-day Adventists has become now so well known that the vagaries of the time-setters do not greatly injure the cause of the great and important truths they hold. J. H. W.