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The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

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    Many Discovering the Light

    As this knowledge was “sealed up” until the Lord’s appointed time came for its opening up to the understanding of his people, so just as truly when the “time of the end” came, many were to “run to and fro” through the Scriptures, searching out these things. By comparing a few translations of the text, this idea will be made very plain.GSAM 85.1

    Dr. Adam Clarke says: “Many shall endeavor to search out the sense; and knowledge shall be increased—by this means.”GSAM 85.2

    In the German Bible of Luther, revised, we read: “So shall many come over it, and find great understanding.”GSAM 85.3

    The German Parallel Bible reads: “Many shall run it through, and so the knowledge will be increased.”GSAM 85.4

    The German Bible of L. Van Ess, admitted also by the pope to Catholic readers, translates it: “Many will search it through, and the knowledge will be great.”GSAM 85.5

    The Swedish Bible reads: “Many shall search in it, and knowledge shall become great.”GSAM 85.6

    The Danish-Norwegian, revised, reads: “Many shall eagerly search, and knowledge shall become much.”GSAM 85.7

    We read in the Midnight Cry of June 15, 1842, of this searching for and obtaining knowledge on that which previous to 1798 was sealed up: “Is it not a wonderful coincidence that so many writers, without any knowledge of one another, came to the same conclusion about the same time?”GSAM 85.8

    We here with present a list of twenty different parties who discovered the truth concerning the close of the twenty-three hundred days, not by communication with each other, but as the result of diligent searching of the Scriptures, led by the influence of the Spirit of God. Heading this list we place William Miller of the State of New York; then follow A. J. Krupp, of Philadelphia, Pa.; David McGregor, of Falmouth, Maine; Edward Irving, of England; Archibald Mason, of Scotland; W. E. Davis, of South Carolina; Joseph Wolff, who labored in various parts of Asia; Alexander Campbell, in his debate with Robert Dale Owen, in 1829; Captain A. Landers, of Liverpool, England; Leonard Heinrich Kelber, of Stuttgart, Germany; Laucunza, of Spain; Hentzepeter, of The Hague, Holland; Dr. Capadose, of Amsterdam, Holland; Rau, of Bavaria; priests of Tartary, in 1821; Bible students of Yemen, in their book called “Seera;” Hengstenberg, in another part of Germany; Russians on the Caspian Sea; Molokaners on the shores of the Baltic, etc.GSAM 86.1

    As to how this subject opened from time to time to the students of prophecy, and that too without a knowledge of one another, the following will show:—GSAM 86.2

    In the Midnight Cry of June 15, 1842, are these words: “Just received, a book, with the following title, ‘Two Essays on Daniel’s Prophetic Numbers of 2300 Days, and a Christian’s Duty to Inquire into the Church’s Deliverance, by Archibald Mason, minister of the gospel, Wishawtown, Scotland, Newberg. Printed from the Glasgow edition, by Ward M. Gazeley, 1820.’ In this book Mason says, ‘I have lately seen a small pamphlet, which was first published in America, by the Rev. Wm. E. Davis, of South Carolina, and republished in 1818 at Warkington, in the south of England. This author asserts that the twenty-three hundred days commenced with the seventy weeks (chap. 9:24). In this opinion I am constrained to concur.’ ”GSAM 86.3

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