Again, of this stirring proclamation he says:— GSAM 166.1
“It seemed to us to have been so independent of human agency that we could but regard it as a fulfillment of the ‘midnight cry,’ after the tarrying of the Bridegroom, and the slumbering and sleeping of the virgins, when they were all to arise and trim their lamps. And the last work seems to have been done; for there has never been a time before when the respective advent bands were in so good a state of preparation for the Lord’s coming.” GSAM 166.2