How Far Will the Fanatics Go?
By Uriah Smith
THE Lord said that no man knew the day or hour of his coming. But some, driven on in their reckless career of time-setting, not only override all this and fix the day and hour, but with astronomical nicety now even essay to set the minute. We shall expect the second next. A printed circular, to which no one, apparently, dared risk his name, headed, “The Last Great Warning to the World,” has been sent us. Near the close of its concluding paragraph we read: “On the first day of March, at midnight, shall appear the sign of the Son of man in the heavens, and on the first day of April, 1876, at twenty minutes past four o’clock, morning, the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven to raise the dead and change the living.” How much farther can they go? U. S.