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WHO ARE TIME-SETTERS?

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 30, 1869

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 23.

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WHO ARE TIME-SETTERS?

By Albert D. Rust

THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS, as a people, have never set a definite time for the consummation of all things earthly; nor have they failed to make their position known to the world. And yet the world would have them suffer the reproach of the passing of the predicted time, and tantalize them with the same.
Time has frequently been set for the coming of the Lord, or, as many say, the end of the world. Now the question, “Who sets these times for so great and important an event to come?” may be answered. The no-sabbath or first-day Adventists frankly admit that they have set the time and failed in their predictions, and again set the time, and again failed. Now while the professed Christians, as well as non-professors, are eagerly seeking to shoulder the failures above mentioned upon the Seventh-day Adventists, they themselves are setting time as well as the first-day Adventists. In an article under the caption, “The Mystery of the Sun,” now going the rounds in the secular papers, I notice some very remarkable statements concerning the condition of, and changes now taking place in, the sun, which are said by scientific men to be the precursors of a great solar magnetic storm, about to visit this planet.
The writer, after having noted some of the latest and most important discoveries of the solar system, says: “Meantime we shall watch with anxious interest for the great magnetic storm of 1870.” “Perhaps,” he says, “the growing solar chromosphere, bursting its bonds, will write on the dial-plate of eternity the warning which, reflected in magnetic sympathy on the flashing wires girdling the world, will bring about the consummation of all things.”
We here notice at least one prediction of the coming end. But whatever these things may or may not indicate, we, with our high profession, should be prepared for the coming of that great event at any day.
ALBERT D. RUST.