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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 20, 1863

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 22, No. 21.

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The Age to Come.

By M. Curry

BRO. WHITE: As I once for a time was identified with the readers of the Review as belonging to that body, and had some personal acquaintance with many, and as it was well known to them that, on account of my views relative to the Age to Come (so-called), we were separated, I regard it as my duty to them and to my God to say that by long and careful investigation of the word of God, I have come to a final conclusion that the Age-to-Come doctrine, as taught by J. Marsh and many others, is an error.
I feel truly humiliated to learn myself so deeply involved in so great an error of some fifteen years' standing, and the more so when I know that it has stood in the way of others, and has blinded my eyes to many important truths. It was not until an efficient teacher of that doctrine ventured the assertion that in all probability all the sects, and those who were blinded by their spurious gospel, would be on probation after the Lord comes, and that 2 Thess. i, 7–10, has its fulfillment in the Age to Come, and that Christ was coming to bless (not curse) the world and nations, &c., that I began to examine the ground on which I stood. This was nearly two years since. I began to fear, notwithstanding I repudiated the temporal millennium as taught by the sects as a peace-and-safety cry, that the Age to Come was of the same character.
I now think that it is a delusive snare of the enemy, and I rejoice that I have seen my mistake. Preach and believe it who can, I cannot. I never preached it much, because it had no tendency to set people to work out their salvation in this day of probation. Not being original in the great points of my faith, I have taken hold of some errors that have been handed over by the leaders of the people, and as the time is at hand when nothing but the true currency will stand, I think it highly important to confess the truth at all hazards.
M. CURRY.
Bunkerhill, Mich.