p. 252 | REVIEW OF THURMAN by James White

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 31, 1868

REVIEW OF THURMAN.

By James White

The following notice we clip from the Advent Herald. A brief conversation with Mr. Thurman satisfied us that he was a man of unbounded egotism and assurance, and that he was not careful of any rules of criticism when a point was to be made. This opinion was confirmed on examining his book; and we can say with the editor of the Herald, “we only wonder that it found so many admirers.” J. H. W.

REVIEW OF “THE SEALED BOOK OF DANIEL OPENED,” Showing it to be Totally Unreliable. (By special request.) Also a Brief Statement of the Argument for 1868. By A. Hale. Boston, 1868.

The work of W. C. Thurman, which is here reviewed, is one in which we never had much interest, and never considered it “reliable.” The author's claim that he was “commanded” of God to write the book (page 55,) we never felt disposed to submit to, and only wondered that it found so many admirers. Eld. Hale, in his pamphlet of 64 pages, has effectually exposed many of its weak points—though the style in which he has done it is rather severe. Here is a specimen of his severity: “As a ‘reference book’ there is scarcely a material fact that is not placed in a false light; scarcely a question that is truly stated; nor a party brought to view that is not placed in a false position. God, his angels and prophets, interpreters, historians and chronologists, are all worked by the same profane hand into the performance of the same profane service. . . . I protest against this work of Thurman’s as an unmitigated and unpardonable scandal!” We advise the admirers of Thurman’s chronological views to get the pamphlet and read it. For sale at this office. “Price 15 cents; postage 2 cents.”