THE SECOND ADVENT by J. G. Wood

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 24, 1878

THE SECOND ADVENT.

By J. G. Wood

[I am glad to see that the Lord is moving upon the minds of the people both in this country and England to investigate the great and important prophecies of the Bible relative to the second advent of Christ and the establishment of his kingdom upon earth. The following, which I cut from the Sedalia (Mo.) Daily Bazoo, of Sept. 20, was copied from the New York Sun. J. G. Wood.]

CHRIST’S SECOND COMING.

A Great Council of Protestants to Discuss the Subject in New York.

There was, last evening, a well-attended meeting, both of laymen and ministers of all Protestant denominations, in the chapel of the Church of the Holy Trinity, to make preparations for the great Conference to be opened in this city next month to discuss the second coming of Christ.

The Rev. Dr. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., presided. The meeting was opened with prayer, and the hymn “When Jesus Comes.” Then at the suggestion of the chairman most of those present repeated a scriptural text referring to the expected coming of Christ.

Dr. Tyng said that last June there was a meeting of believers at Clifton Springs, at which it was resolved to call a Conference similar to one which lately met in England to discuss the question of the Lord’s coming. The call was drawn up, and signed by more than two hundred of the most popular clergymen and laymen of the country. Letters have been received from many of the large cities, including Chicago, begging that the meeting might convene there; but it had been decided to hold it in the Church of the Holy Trinity, New York, on Oct. 30 and 31 and Nov. 1. Mr. Moody, Dr. Tyng said, would probably be there, and many other skilled evangelists. He was sure the Conference would be largely attended from all parts of this country, and many distinguished English clergymen had been invited, and would be likely to attend. He hoped to see even the Rev. Dr. H. Bonar.

The Rev. Drs. Stephen H. Tyng, Jr., and J. D. Herr, and the Rev. Mr. Gillespie, were appointed to nominate sub-committees of arrangements, and, before closing, Dr. Tyng, in reply to a question, said he was firmly convinced that the Lord Jesus Christ would veritably come again to this world to take his church and establish his kingdom upon earth.