Which Is the Greater Delusion?—From the Christian Work we clip this item:—
“The Saints,” a sect of belated but still hopeful Millerites, waited at Binghamton for four days and nights for the end of the world. Then they adjourned for a season. They still nurse the unconquerable belief that this oblate spheroid is a bad risk, and the last scene of the last act of this tragi-comedy is getting mighty near. There have been such dreamers for ages, and they die without the sight they long for, as millions of others will, too. We have no defense for the deluded people who persist in setting times for the Lord to come, altho there is plenty of evidence that we are living in the last days, and the soon coming of the Lord is no delusion. 2 Tim. 3:1-7. It is a serious question whether it is not even a greater delusion to scoff at those who have proof that the time is near, and therefore assume to set the time. Christian Work should be aware that “there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” 2 Peter 3:3, 4. This is much the tone of Christian Work’s criticism, and is the language of those of whom the inspired Word says, “they willingly are ignorant.”