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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Nov 19, 1903

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 80, No. 46.

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Words From a Pioneer

By Washington Morse

I wish to express hearty thanks to God that I live to celebrate the fifty-ninth anniversary of one of the grandest events in this world's history. Oct. 22, 1844, the long period of the twenty-three hundred days of Dan. 8:14 ended, the time came for the cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary which was to involve the blotting out of all the sins that had been confessed. See Acts 3:19, 20.
Around this date there shines a halo of glory. It was the antitype of the yearly cleansing of the earthly sanctuary (Leviticus 16), the time when the long record of confessed sins was to be forever blotted out from the books of heaven, and the names of all those who had clung to unconfessed sins were to be forever removed from the book of life.
From 1832 to 1844 the Lord raised up God-fearing men who proclaimed in mighty power that the judgment would begin about 1844. And such was the case; it did begin as described in Dan. 7:9, 10, and now God has commissioned many thousands of his servants to go forth proclaiming that the time of the judgment has come. Rev. 14:6, 7.
October, 1903, completed the fifty-ninth year since this work began. It can not continue much longer. O, my brother, my sister, are you ready to have your name come up in the court in heaven for a final decision? When we were giving the midnight cry in the summer of 1844, we had to separate ourselves from the world and from every organized church, and lay ourselves and all we had upon the altar. The things of this world had no charm for us; our theme was, The Lord is coming the tenth day of the seventh month, which fell on the twenty-second day of October that year. O the power and glory that accompanied the midnight cry! It stands a beacon light to guide us through to his glorious appearing.
This truth will soon triumph gloriously, and all those who overcome will be clothed in white raiment, and their names confessed before God and his angels. Truly, “there shall be delay no longer.”
WASHINGTON MORSE.
Peterboro, Ontario.