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Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Mar 27, 1879

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 5, No. 13.

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Sadly Amusing.

By Editor

WE cannot say that the first of these words is generally considered the proper one to qualify the second, but we do not know of any other combination which exactly expresses our feelings on reading a comment, by a correspondent of an Adventist paper, on Isaiah 65: 20.
The comment amounts to this: "the child" is prophetic, and means the United States government; it was born when its independence was achieved, in 1783; it will be "an hundred years old," in 1883, and, of course, die at that time, when all the sinners will be accursed.
The editor properly warns against such conjectures; but we doubt the propriety of letting such conjecturers present their silly dreamings to the public through a paper devoted to Bible truth on the advent and kindred subjects. It is calculated to cause people to look with suspicion upon the investigation of the sacred prophecies.