The Prophetic Conference.
The N. Y. Sun of Nov. 2, 1878, contains a report of the closing session of this Conference, in which we find the following reference to the resolutions adopted:— “After Dr. Grammar of Baltimore had prayed, a committee, with Dr. Willis Lord at its head, presented resolutions embodying the doctrines on which the Convention could and did agree. The chief points were: A belief in the supreme authority of the Bible; the belief that, as the prophecies concerning Christ’s first coming were fulfilled, so those concerning his second advent would be fulfilled; that the second coming was imminent, and might occur at any moment, yet the day and the hour were unknown; and that the Bible did not teach that the world would be converted and the millennium ensue before Christ came, but that at his coming would be realized the prophecies concerning the millennium; and that it was the duty of the church to watch and pray, work and wait, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature, and thus hasten the coming of the day of God. “The resolutions were passed unanimously, as was another presented by Dr. Brookes, declaring that the doctrine of the Lord’s pre-millennial advent, instead of paralyzing evangelistic and missionary efforts, was one of the mightiest incentives to earnestness in preaching the gospel to every creature till he comes.”