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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 26, 1877

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 50, No. 5.

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By Uriah Smith

The Daily Leader of July 11, 1877, published at Bloomington, Ill., says:— “The seventh of July passed, and again the over-confident Second Adventists are compelled by the force of circumstances to admit that they were mistaken in their figuring as to the day appointed for the final destruction of this earth.”
We calculate to keep pretty well informed in regard to the doings of that class of Adventists who are continually dabbling in time; but we did not know of any one’s setting the 7th of July as the time for the Lord to come; and we do not believe that any one did set that day. We are well aware that there has been enough of the foolish work of time setting with a certain class of Adventists to justify to a great extent the disgust expressed by many secular and religious journals. But when papers get into such a chronic habit of sneering at the Adventists that they will manufacture times for them, and then hold them up to ridicule, that, to borrow from the vocabulary of their own slang, is getting altogether “too thin.” U. S.