Millions of Years Yet by M. W. H.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 3, 1863

Millions of Years Yet.

By M. W. H.

A FEW weeks since, a professedly Christian minister in a public lecture, threw himself into the ranks of latter-day scoffers in a way altogether new. Thinking it may be of interest to others, I give it, as an illustration of the infinite pains some take, as also the straits to which some are driven, to refute what the onward progress of the world is daily making more apparent.

His reasoning (for reasoning I suppose he regarded it), was this: "A thousand years with God are as one day, and one day as a thousand years. Since God was six days engaged in the work of creation, and each of the six days are equal to, or stand for a thousand years, we have six thousand years before the millennial thousand." You are ready to say there is nothing new here. But hold! He then worked into his service the day for a year rule for interpreting prophecy, and thought he made it appear, because he asserted, "that each day of each thousand years was pledge for

a year of time;" and he had ciphered it out so exactly, that he declared how many millions of years the present order of things was to last, although in his short-sightedness he had affirmed, we had no proof that only about 6,000 years had elapsed since the creation.

It was indeed a new version of the soothing peace and safety cry, and gives plenty of time for the upward development theory, which is such a favorite scheme with one class, who join the latter-day-scoffer's cry, "Where is the promise of his coming?"

M. W. H.

Malone, N. Y., Feb. 1863.