From the 1700's into
the early 1800's interest
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increased in the
prophecies found in Daniel
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and Revelation.
Those who studied believed
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that some important
event would soon occur.
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In Italy, a man by
the name Manuel Lacunza
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secluded himself to
spent time studying the Bible.
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He prayed for the Holy
Spirit open his mind to the
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prophecies of
Daniel, Paul and John.
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While studying he
became convicted that Jesus
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would soon return and
so he wrote a book about it
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that was later translated
and circulated to nearly
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half the world.
Joseph Wolff traveled
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extensively as a
missionary to Europe and Asia.
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To share his faith in
Christ especially to the Jews.
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While in England, he
learned of the prophecies
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that pointed to
Jesus is soon return
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and began sharing
them with the many to whom
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he spoke. In
Sweden, the state church
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outlaw the teaching of
the second coming of Christ,
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but in 1842 and 1843
reports began circulating
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the children who are
ruled by some unseen force
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to preach the message
"Fear God, and give glory
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to Him; for the hour
of His judgment is come."
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And in the United
States, there was William Miller
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Miller was raised
in a Christian home,
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but became agnostic, who
had no faith in the Bible
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that he believed
contradicted itself.
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But thoughts of
life after death and the
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judgment troubled
him being honest at heart
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Miller decided to sit
down with only the Bible
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and concordance and
to study for himself
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to see if the
apparent contradictions
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could be resolved. After
two years of Bible study,
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Miller was unable to
justify his position.
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In fact, he found
in Jesus, a best friend
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and savior. The book of Daniel
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became one of the
chief objects of Miller study
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especially was ----- by Daniel
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8:14 where it said
"Unto two thousand and
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three hundred days;
then shall the sanctuary
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be cleansed.
Miller as well as many
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scholars today
believe that Daniel
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prophecy represented a year.
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Believing of the cleansing
of the sanctuary spoken
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of an prophecy was
the cleansing of the earth
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by fire at the second coming.
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Miller thought
that he could discover
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when the 2300 day
prophecy would end.
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He could learn when
Christ would come again.
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Taking the
prophecies found in Daniel
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8 and 9. He was able to
construct this timeline.
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Daniel was told that
the 2300 day prophecy
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would began at the
rebuilding of Jerusalem.
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Miller found that
that day was 457 B.C.
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The next event on
the prophetic timeline
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was 27 A.D., which
according to prophecy
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was the coming of the
prince, the anointed one.
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This day turned out to
be when Jesus was Baptized
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and began his public ministry.
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A prophetic week or
seven literal years later
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was to be the end of
the time determined upon
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Daniels people
and his Holy city.
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At this point on the
timeline, Steven was stoned
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ceiling the
rejection of Christ by the Jews
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as a nation and the
beginning of the time
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when the Gospel
was to be preached
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to the gentiles. The
prophecy also said that in
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the midst of the week or
three and a half years after
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27 A.D. He shall
cause sacrifice and
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oblation to cease.
This is when Christ died
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on the cross and put an
end to the system of sacrifices
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that it pointed to his
death. So far all the dates
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had matched up with key events
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in Christian history. As
Miller continued to study,
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he realized that the final event
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on the timeline was just
a few stored years ahead.
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He determined that the prophecy
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would end somewhere
around 1843 or 1844.
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At first, Miller
was reluctant to share
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his studies of prophecy, but
as you will learn in a moment.
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God open the
door in a special way.
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To learn more
about William Miller
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and the times in which
he lived we join Jim Nicks
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of the Ellen G. White
estate as he will tour
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of William
Miller's restored home
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in Low Hampton, New
York. The exterior of the house
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has just been restored
in the last year or two
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they've been working on
it. If you had seen the house
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when we acquired it in
1984 it look considerably
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different. Let me
tell you it was a mess,
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and the shutters were
gone. It had green siding on it
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that's all been removed
well over the green siding
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was even some
other siding in parts
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of the house. It's been restored
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considerably by volunteers
all the work that you see
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almost all the work that you see
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has been done by
volunteers. Just briefly about
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these two front rooms
because there are the rooms
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that are most closely
related to how they look
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back when William lived
here. This was William Miller's
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parlor on this
side. Now the furniture
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that's in the parlor
today was not William Miller's.
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But it is 19th century,
Victorian parlor furniture
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and it belong to
William Miller's daughter
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little Lucy, you will
also see a very interesting
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flora pattern in
there that's painted
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it's a very crude
primitive flora pattern
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that does go
back to Miller's time.
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You gonna want to look at that
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because that is
kind of an unusual art
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consultant, historical
consultants say that's kind
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of an unusual
feature defined one that just
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hand stance on the
floor. Now on this side
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this was William Miller's study.
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This was where he
prepared his sermons.
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If you would come
to visit William Miller
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this is where you
would've been assured in to see
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him when he lived here
now there are a few pieces
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of furniture is this
room here that actually
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belong to William
Miller that have been donated
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to us by descendents and
they are so back here for us
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to enjoy. The bed that
William Miller slept in
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and died in is
there in the corner
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that is his bed. The
desk is not his, it is one
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that he has been
donated and it is of that era
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but it is not his.
But the chair that's there
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in front of the desk
is William Miller's chair.
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There is also a deacons bench
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a set tea type
thing. I guess it is still
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on this wall, looks like it is
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that set tea that deacons bench
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was in the Miller
family. So there are owners
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rocking chair in
there that rocking chair
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belong to William
Miller. So we have four pieces
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of furniture in there
that belong to William Miller.
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When Miller first came
to his initial conclusion
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1843 was still about 25
years into the future. He
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was impressed that he
needed to share this information
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with others, but
he was reluctant.
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For five years, Miller
reanalyzed his position
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to be sure that he had
not overlook something.
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It wasn't until 13 years later
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in August of 1831
that is burn to share
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his findings seemed
overwhelmed. In order
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to ease his
conscious, he promised the Lord
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that should he receive a
call to preach this message
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he would go, he sat
back feeling confident
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and no one would ask a
simple farmer to speak.
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However within 30 minutes,
a knock on his front door
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brought his first
invitation. Miller was so upset,
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that Lord would take
him up on his promise
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that he stormed out of the house
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to this nearby Maple
growth to wrestle with God.
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Finally, he
submitted to the will of God
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and decided to go.
As he did a piece came
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upon his heart and when he
spoke at that first meeting
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the people
responded very favorably.
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When he returned
home from that first
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speaking engagement,
he found another request
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waiting for him.
Many more would follow
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so many in fact that he
could not accept them all.
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From October
1834 to June of 1839,
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the record shows that
Miller gave 800 lectures.
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As the year 1843,
Grunear interest in what Miller
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had to say increased
helping the spirit of this art.
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was what happened in
the night of November 13,
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1833 that was the
night the stars fell.
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This spectacular heavenly
display extended all over
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North America and
caused quite a stir.
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One newspaper editor
wrote, "We pronounce the rain
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of fire, which we saw
on Wednesday morning last,
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an awful type,
a sure forerunner,
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a merciful sign, of
that great and dreadful
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day which the inhabitants
of the earth will witness
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when the sixth
seal shall be opened.
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The time is just at
hand, described not only in the
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New Testament, but
in the Old Testament;
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and a more correct
picture of a fig tree casting
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it's fruit when
blown by a mighty wind,
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it was not possible to behold."
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This event was seen by some
as a fulfillment of the words
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of Christ found in Mathew 24:29,
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When speaking of the last days
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he had said " the stars
shall fall from heaven."
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For the first eight
years of his ministry,
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Miller preached
to little churches
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in small towns.
However, while preaching
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in Exeter, New
Hampshire. He met a man who had
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changed all that. That
man was Joshua V. Himes.
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Himes asked Miller,
why he was not getting
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his message out to the
world. Miller responded
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that he had tried to
reach every town and village
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where he was
invited, Himes was shocked.
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What about the
source in the large cities?
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It was then that Joshua
Himes became Miller's promoter.
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He gave him the access to
the large cities of America.
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Another key individual to
join the Miller like movement
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was Charles Fitch, a
congregational pastor
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from Boston. One of Fitch's
contributions to the movement
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was his 1843 chart,
which provided a visual
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representation of
the prophecies Miller's
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spoke of. This is one
of the original charts
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printed at the time.
A symbolic beast were
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illustrated by pictures.
And important dates were
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highlighted. The
flow of the chart
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was also designed to
show how different prophecies
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all ended in the year 1843.
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This broadside or
handout was also printed
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to help
illustrate the key aspects of
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Miller's
presentation. The striking title
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and images portrayed, no doubt
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help to attract attention
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to the contents.
Jim Nix also took us
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to Portland
Maine, where Miller spoke
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to a congregation
at the Casco Street
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christian church.
He describes the impact
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of Millers message.
This is the Casco Street
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Christian church as it appeared
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after it was a church,
but before it was torn down.
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This is where William Miller
spoke by this time you could
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see its a Carriage and
Sleigh manufacturing company.
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So, we don't know of
the picture of the church
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as it appeared when
Miller was speaking there,
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but it still look
like a church by the time
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this photograph
is taken much later.
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This is the place where
Miller held his meetings
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in 1840 and 1842.
You probably recall
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reading Ellen White
talking about the impact
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that Miller's
preaching had on this town.
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And how the
solemn, the meetings were.
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The newspapers tell us
that after Miller was here
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in town that four weeks
at 11 'o clock every morning.
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The bankers would get together
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not to count their
money, their gold and silver
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but for Bible study
that was a kind of impact
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that William
Miller's preaching had.
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Very solemn, if you
accepted it even if you
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didn't accept his teachings
it was biblically based
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enough that you kind a
kept one eye on the heavens
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especially on October 22
to see if maybe the Miller
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writes were right after
all. You see when William Miller
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would preach, the
place was always packed.
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I don't care where it was
this church or other places
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Miller was a popular
preacher people came to listen
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and so the place
was always packed.
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And you can picture
someone coming into the back
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of the hall looking around,
trying to find where another
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person could squeeze
in, can't see a place
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Miller up there in a
poppet looking down can see
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where another
person could squeeze in,
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and so he leaves the
poppet goes escorts them
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to a seat get some
seeded and then goes back up
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and resumes preaching.
Now I've never seen that
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happened, but you can
begin to see why people
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even who
disagreed with his theology
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talked about his
sincerity, he practiced
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what he preached.
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Although, he did
not set an exact date.
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Miller believed that
Jesus would come between the
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Spring of 1843 and
the spring of 1844.
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Based on the Jewish calendar.
When the spring of 1844
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past without
incident the believers were
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understandably disappointed.
But they turned again
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to God's word, had
they made a mistake was
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there are miscalculation.
Upon the reexamination
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of the evidence,
they found one key point
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they had missed.
They had supposed
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that they creed
to rebuilt Jerusalem
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had got into effect at the
beginning of 457 B.C., which
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coincided with the spring
of our present day calender.
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As a result, they had
come to expect Jesus to return
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between the spring of 1843
and the spring of 1844. However,
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upon closer study they
found out that the decree did
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not actually going to
affect until the fall of 457 BC.
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2300 years from that date
would be the fall of 1844.
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The believers were
revived. A man by the name of
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Samuel Snow
discovered even more evidence
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to support this new
date. He found that Jesus died
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not only at the exact year
stated in Daniel's prophecy
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but he also died at passover.
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At the exact time,
the sacrifice were being
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presented in the
temple along those same lines.
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He discovered that the
Jews celebrated the day
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of atonement the
cleansing of the sanctuary
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in the fall. Could
it up also be expected
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that God will fulfill
the prophecy to cleanse
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the sanctuary of
the exact date as well.
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In 1844, that day fell
on October 22, the believers
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also related the
parable of the 10 versions
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to their
experience. They believed that
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they have been in a waiting time
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just before the
bride groom was to appear.
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They now went out
with what they term
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the midnight cry.
Behold the bridegroom
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cometh. Those early believers
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were hardened in their
faith. In New Hampshire,
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a man by the name
of Leonard Hastings
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refuse to
harvest his potato crop
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as a decoration of
his believe in christ
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imminent return. Jim
Nix took us to that field
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and told us the story.
Behind you was a field, it's
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still a field there, but
that was a field that played
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significant part
in Adventist history.
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Today and tomorrow, we
will be doing something
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with the Miller
writes as well as the early
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Sabbath keepers and
living in this area.
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His farm was here,
his house was on this side
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was this man by the
name of Leonard Hastings.
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Now you all know the
story of Leonard Hastings,
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you may never have
seen a picture of him
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and doubtless you
don't even know his name.
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But you know that in the
fall of 1844, there was a man
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who did not dig his potatoes.
He left them in the field.
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Alright, his
house was right here
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right, where these pumped trees
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is out there that
is where his house was
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and his field that famous field
00:14:57.41\00:14:59.76
in Adventist history
is right behind this.
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It's still a field,
but now it's got some
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stones in it, not
potatoes. But this is the man.
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Now you may never
have heard his letter.
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I love to read this
to teachers especially.
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I have printed it
on the back side of
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a photocopy of
his handwritten letter
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that he wrote to
the orthodox church
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here, the orthodox
congregational church
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when he asked to
have his name dropped.
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The reason I would
like read this to teachers
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is because these guys back then,
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these pioneers they
knew how to pack a lot
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into a sentence. This whole
thing is two sentences long.
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Now, let me, I can't read
this to you, I can't read one
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sentence on one breath,
but here we go September
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17, 1843, believing is I
do that the second advent of
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the Lord in 1843 is
plainly and clearly taught
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in the Gospel and also
the Christian perfection
00:15:44.82\00:15:47.28
or
sanctification is required of us
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in God's word and
that in and through the
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atonement of the lord
Jesus there is ample provision
00:15:51.63\00:15:54.00
made for our sanctification
and full redemption
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in this world.
And knowing as I do,
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there is a church you
do regret and make light
00:15:58.35\00:16:00.58
of these glorious
true and ever say that men
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may go on sinning to heaven
and also the Christ cannot
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come in the clouds of
heaven these 1000 years.
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I therefore feel it my
duty and compliance was
00:16:07.83\00:16:10.19
what God says by
John the revelator to
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come out for my
people that you may be
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not partakers of our
sins and that you receive
00:16:14.95\00:16:16.81
not our pledges,
do request of you
00:16:16.84\00:16:19.24
that my name be erased from
the church record as I shall
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no longer consider
myself a member of your church.
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That was the first
sentence as I say they do
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you had a pack a lot in
to a sentence, here is the
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second one, I feel
that I do this in conformity
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to the
requirements of the great head
00:16:31.73\00:16:33.14
of the church.
And now in his name
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I'll beseech you all
not to make lie anymore
00:16:35.21\00:16:38.04
of the coming of
the blessed lord.
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For at that appointed
time, he will come and not
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Terry. All the
unbelief of the world
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will not stop
him. So do get ready
00:16:44.29\00:16:46.49
by making a full
consecration of yourselves
00:16:46.52\00:16:48.78
to the living God for
as in the days of Noah.
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So, shall the coming
of the son of man be.
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That was his appeal to
them and of course then the
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following year in
October, he left those potatoes
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in the field as a
testimony of his faith.
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He would not even
dig them and sell them
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and then you know the story
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you've all heard the story.
How potatoes blight disease.
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Rotted potatoes
that were dug here in New
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England that fall
and so in the spring
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when Hastings
went out into his field
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apparently kicking
around in the dirt little he
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realize that the
potatoes had not frozen
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and he dug the
potatoes and they were good.
00:17:23.71\00:17:26.47
And he sold them for
more then he had because
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all the potatoes are rotted.
He sold them for more then
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he would have received
had he dug them in the fall.
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Now if you are
skeptic like I am about some
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of these stories was that really
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a potato blight
was that really a
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rot of the potatoes. Is this
story could possibly be true.
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Well, I want to
show you a photocopy
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of a paper, this was Xerox copy
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that I made out of a
paper that I own. So, I know
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it's a good paper because
I have it in my library at
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home. It's the Gospel banner
published in Augusta Maine
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October 26, 1844, the
very week of the disappointment
00:17:57.44\00:18:01.78
and it talks about
the potato disease.
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In fact, if you go
back to old farmers
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papers from that
year. You'll find there was
00:18:05.80\00:18:09.07
a lot of discussion
about the potato disease.
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They did not know what was
happening to their potatoes
00:18:11.49\00:18:14.05
except they knew
they were all spoiling and
00:18:14.08\00:18:15.52
rotting. So yes the
story has a very firm basis
00:18:15.55\00:18:18.96
and the man who had the faith
00:18:18.99\00:18:21.27
and left his potatoes
there. As I said lived here
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and had his
field across the way.
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Expectations arouse
as the October 22nd date
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neared. The thought of
Christ returning moved people
00:18:31.29\00:18:34.45
to sell their
businesses and pay off debts.
00:18:34.48\00:18:36.38
To leave food in the fields
and orchids and harvesting,
00:18:37.18\00:18:39.27
to men broken relationships
with friends and family.
00:18:39.30\00:18:42.29
And to look forward to
see loved ones from whom
00:18:43.21\00:18:45.00
they have been
separated by death.
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Jim Nix took us
to ascension rock
00:18:48.79\00:18:50.44
next to Millers farm
in Low Hampton, New York.
00:18:50.47\00:18:52.41
The place where tradition
says William Miller waited
00:18:53.80\00:18:55.43
with family and friends
for Christ to return to earth.
00:18:55.46\00:18:58.16
We are standing
on ascension rock.
00:18:59.72\00:19:01.87
Ascension rock gets
the name from the fact
00:19:03.12\00:19:05.18
that we're told by
members in the Miller family.
00:19:06.63\00:19:09.35
So this is the
very old tradition
00:19:10.41\00:19:11.58
in the Miller
family that on October 22,
00:19:11.61\00:19:14.70
1844, the Adventist in this area
00:19:14.73\00:19:18.44
came here to
William Miller's farm
00:19:18.47\00:19:21.42
to this
outcropping of lime stone
00:19:21.45\00:19:23.94
and here they waited for
Jesus to return that day.
00:19:23.97\00:19:27.26
Now you can feel or imagine
what it must have been like
00:19:28.34\00:19:32.47
back there in 1844.
You have to imagine a
00:19:32.97\00:19:35.06
little now because
this was the working farm.
00:19:35.09\00:19:37.36
Some of you may
have seen the picture
00:19:37.39\00:19:39.08
in the display
case over in the house
00:19:39.11\00:19:40.70
of how this farm
even looked in 1950.
00:19:40.73\00:19:43.26
This was a working
farm, so all these trees
00:19:43.92\00:19:45.54
were not here at that time.
So this outcropping of rock
00:19:45.57\00:19:48.96
would have given you a
view, if we didn't have these
00:19:50.31\00:19:52.65
trees here, a view
from arisen to arising.
00:19:52.68\00:19:55.63
So that you could come out here
00:19:56.29\00:19:57.26
and watch for the Lord to come
00:19:57.27\00:19:58.98
on that day. Now we don't know
00:20:00.34\00:20:02.16
how many people
were actually here.
00:20:02.19\00:20:04.10
There is no
record, not even a rumor
00:20:04.13\00:20:06.81
of how many people
gathered that particular day.
00:20:06.84\00:20:09.64
But as I was trying to describe
00:20:10.80\00:20:12.61
in the chapel
earlier it must have been
00:20:12.64\00:20:15.89
something very special
to be here or in a grove
00:20:15.92\00:20:18.96
or in a church
somewhere that day.
00:20:18.99\00:20:20.97
Believing that
after all these years
00:20:22.01\00:20:24.29
preaching then being
left at by your neighbors
00:20:25.57\00:20:27.82
and scorn ridicule Jesus
was finally coming on this day.
00:20:27.85\00:20:32.14
And then what a disappointment
00:20:33.04\00:20:35.08
and you can see why
they called it as a great
00:20:35.11\00:20:37.89
disappointment. Just
one illustration to help you
00:20:37.92\00:20:41.88
realize why they call the great
00:20:41.91\00:20:43.44
disappointment.
Charles Fitch one of
00:20:43.47\00:20:46.04
the prominent
Millerite leaders who had been
00:20:46.82\00:20:50.12
preaching in September.
He was, he did a Baptism
00:20:50.15\00:20:53.79
in a lake, he
caught a cold and he died
00:20:53.82\00:20:56.73
Monday, October
14th, so just a weak
00:20:56.76\00:20:59.86
and a day before. His obituary
00:20:59.89\00:21:02.68
was sent to the editor
of the Millerite paper,
00:21:02.71\00:21:05.22
The Midnight Cry,
and it didn't arrive
00:21:05.25\00:21:08.52
in time to get into
that October 19th issue
00:21:08.55\00:21:10.59
the last issue that came out
00:21:10.62\00:21:11.80
before October 22. So
it was published in the
00:21:11.83\00:21:14.75
next issue, which
came out October 30
00:21:14.78\00:21:17.04
a little over a week
late, but let's give the editor
00:21:17.07\00:21:21.53
a little bit of slack,
he expected to be in heaven
00:21:21.56\00:21:23.79
he had not thought about
putting out another paper.
00:21:23.82\00:21:25.59
So, it was few days late
getting that next issue out
00:21:25.62\00:21:27.61
we can understand,
but Charles Fitch is
00:21:27.64\00:21:29.84
obituary in there,
talks about his illness,
00:21:29.87\00:21:32.46
talks about his death,
and in the last sentence
00:21:32.49\00:21:35.27
of that obituary
gives us an insight
00:21:35.30\00:21:38.30
into what it must have been like
00:21:38.33\00:21:39.54
and why it was called
the great disappointment.
00:21:39.57\00:21:41.52
Is that last
sentence said that his widow
00:21:41.55\00:21:44.50
and fatherless
children are now at Cleveland
00:21:44.53\00:21:47.56
confidently expecting
the soon return of our Lord.
00:21:47.59\00:21:50.67
And that doesn't
take a lot of imagination
00:21:52.70\00:21:53.67
does it to picture that funeral.
00:21:53.68\00:21:55.58
Mrs. Fitch, the
children and she says to those
00:21:55.61\00:21:59.52
children who were
crying their by the casket
00:21:59.55\00:22:01.45
of their father, don't
cry next Tuesday when Jesus
00:22:01.48\00:22:05.28
comes we'll see Papa
again. And you could begin to
00:22:05.31\00:22:09.62
understand why it
came to be known as
00:22:09.65\00:22:11.70
the great disappointment.
00:22:11.73\00:22:13.15
Now after the
spring disappointment
00:22:14.78\00:22:16.55
spring of 1844, the first
one that I talked about earlier
00:22:16.58\00:22:20.27
William Miller who is a poet,
00:22:20.30\00:22:21.73
I don't know if you knew that
00:22:21.76\00:22:22.98
William Miller wrote
poetry, wrote number of poems
00:22:23.01\00:22:25.52
but he wrote one
expressing his disappointment
00:22:25.55\00:22:28.19
in the spring of
1844 just three stanzas
00:22:28.22\00:22:31.16
I would like to read it to you.
00:22:31.19\00:22:32.32
How tedious and
lonesome the hours,
00:22:33.89\00:22:35.60
While Jesus my Savior delays.
00:22:35.63\00:22:37.95
I've sought Him
in Solitude's bowers,
00:22:37.98\00:22:40.89
And looked for
Him all the long days.
00:22:40.92\00:22:43.42
Yet He lingers.
I pray tell me why
00:22:44.40\00:22:46.12
His chariot no sooner returns?
00:22:46.15\00:22:47.89
To see Him in clouds of the sky
00:22:47.92\00:22:50.23
My soul with intensity burns.
00:22:50.26\00:22:52.60
I long to be with Him at home,
00:22:53.52\00:22:54.91
My heart
swallowed up in His love.
00:22:54.94\00:22:57.90
On the fields of
New Eden to roam.
00:22:57.93\00:23:00.78
And to dwell
with my Savior above.
00:23:00.81\00:23:03.89
The day after October 22nd
got great disappointment in
00:23:10.01\00:23:12.66
the ranks of the
Millerites what had gone wrong?
00:23:12.69\00:23:15.64
The evidence was so
strong soon after the event.
00:23:16.59\00:23:19.35
William Miller sent a
letter sharing his feelings
00:23:19.38\00:23:21.91
on the topic.
Historian John Wood
00:23:21.94\00:23:24.22
shares that letter.
Eight days after the
00:23:24.25\00:23:27.97
so called great disappointment
00:23:28.00\00:23:29.52
and Christ hadn't come
on the day of atonement
00:23:29.55\00:23:32.89
as figured in
the Karaite calendar
00:23:33.74\00:23:35.13
in 1844, he wrote a
letter that did indeed
00:23:35.16\00:23:39.78
go to The Midnight
Cry stating his position
00:23:39.81\00:23:42.73
On what had
happened in October of 1844,
00:23:42.76\00:23:47.00
This is
significant I want to read one
00:23:47.03\00:23:49.19
statement from the
letter. This is a test
00:23:49.22\00:23:54.66
to them who look for him
he will appear second time
00:23:58.42\00:24:00.11
without sin unto salvation
00:24:00.14\00:24:01.65
I must and will
submit for God is good
00:24:03.80\00:24:06.27
that he knows the day.
I pray that you have the
00:24:06.30\00:24:11.03
Spirit of God in your convention
00:24:11.06\00:24:12.97
referring to New York
City and ask an interest
00:24:13.00\00:24:15.43
in your prayers
that I maybe resign
00:24:15.46\00:24:17.86
would ever
comes. My hope is strong
00:24:17.89\00:24:20.55
and my faith in
1844 has waved not,
00:24:20.58\00:24:24.78
come Jesus come.
What's interesting here is
00:24:24.81\00:24:30.64
that immediately
after the disappointment
00:24:32.41\00:24:33.50
Miller was still
holding to the idea that
00:24:33.53\00:24:37.88
something
significant happened in 1844.
00:24:37.91\00:24:41.05
Soon after the disappointment
00:24:42.58\00:24:43.62
Hiram Edson
gathered with some friends
00:24:43.65\00:24:45.96
to pray earnestly
that the Lord would show
00:24:45.99\00:24:47.66
them why he had not come.
00:24:47.69\00:24:49.22
Later, while crossing
the field with the friend
00:24:50.69\00:24:52.19
Hiram stopped in his tracks,
00:24:52.22\00:24:54.13
it was as if God
was directing his mind
00:24:54.16\00:24:56.71
to an important
event that have taken place
00:24:56.74\00:24:58.75
in heaven. In
Old testament times
00:24:58.78\00:25:02.04
the Lord directed
Moses to set up a sanctuary,
00:25:02.07\00:25:04.47
an earthly temple as
a copy of the heavenly
00:25:04.50\00:25:06.86
one shown him. This
structure and it's services
00:25:06.89\00:25:10.30
were designed to
illustrate how God had chosen to
00:25:10.33\00:25:12.72
deal with sin. As
part of the service a lamb
00:25:12.75\00:25:15.77
was slain for the
sinner. The Millerite saw this
00:25:15.80\00:25:19.23
as a representation of
Christ died and pass over.
00:25:19.26\00:25:21.97
But that was only
part of the ceremonies
00:25:22.49\00:25:24.46
associated with the sanctuary.
00:25:24.49\00:25:26.01
Once a year, the high
priest would enter the most
00:25:27.47\00:25:29.81
Holy place to make
final atonement for sin.
00:25:29.84\00:25:31.90
In a way, it was
final judgment of sin.
00:25:33.41\00:25:35.38
Those Israelites who
refuse participate will
00:25:35.41\00:25:38.44
cut off among the
people. By studying references
00:25:38.47\00:25:42.38
to the sanctuary
found in scripture
00:25:42.41\00:25:43.94
the Millerites
will let to believe
00:25:43.97\00:25:45.72
that after
Christ arose to heaven.
00:25:45.75\00:25:47.70
He entered the Holy
place of the heavenly sanctuary
00:25:47.73\00:25:50.57
October 22nd was
now seen as the time
00:25:51.90\00:25:54.01
when he left the Holy
place to enter the final phase
00:25:54.04\00:25:57.06
of his work. A work of judgment
00:25:57.09\00:25:59.29
in the most Holy
place. They now saw
00:25:59.32\00:26:02.80
that instead of
Christ returning to cleanse
00:26:02.83\00:26:04.56
earth with fire as
they had first believed.
00:26:04.59\00:26:06.83
It actually entered the
most Holy place of heaven
00:26:06.86\00:26:09.42
to begin a special
cleansing work there
00:26:09.45\00:26:11.58
The final phase of
judgment before he would
00:26:12.86\00:26:14.36
return to earth to
a award the righteous.
00:26:14.39\00:26:17.72
Through the experience
of the great disappointment
00:26:18.46\00:26:20.25
a group of
believers was to be formed,
00:26:20.28\00:26:22.26
today it is known
as the Seventh-Day
00:26:22.29\00:26:24.44
Adventist Church. A
church whose doctrines
00:26:24.47\00:26:27.41
are the result of much
Bible study and prayer.
00:26:27.44\00:26:29.99
As Adventist we
continue to look forward
00:26:31.90\00:26:33.50
to the soon
coming of our savior.
00:26:33.53\00:26:35.15
And although we
know not the day or hour
00:26:36.19\00:26:37.83
of his coming. We
are certain of one thing.
00:26:37.86\00:26:40.23
He is coming
again. If you would like
00:26:41.31\00:26:44.15
more information and
the Biblical references used
00:26:44.18\00:26:46.75
to support the doctrines
presented in this program.
00:26:46.78\00:26:49.09
Please write to
3ABN P.O. Box 220
00:26:49.88\00:26:52.64
West Frankfort, IL
62896 or call 1-800-752-3226
00:26:52.67\00:27:00.09
and ask for the
second coming offer.
00:27:01.13\00:27:02.76
Jim Nix took us to many
other sites of historical
00:27:13.94\00:27:16.04
Adventist interest.
It was in the Washington
00:27:16.07\00:27:18.47
New Hampshire area that
we discovered the birth place
00:27:18.50\00:27:20.72
of the present day
Seventh Day Adventist Church.
00:27:20.75\00:27:22.98
Jim Nix tell the story.
Okay, this Church was built
00:27:23.99\00:27:27.13
in 1842, it was at that time
a Christian connection church.
00:27:27.16\00:27:33.03
This was a group of
sort of independent churches
00:27:33.80\00:27:37.78
that kind of
agreed on the theology
00:27:37.81\00:27:39.38
and the members and this
into the western community
00:27:39.41\00:27:41.89
decided they
wanted to build church.
00:27:41.92\00:27:43.86
Now, we went by the church
up there on the town green
00:27:43.89\00:27:46.14
that's were other people
work the other end of the
00:27:46.17\00:27:48.60
community, but this
was the forming community
00:27:48.63\00:27:50.30
down here there
was no church, so they
00:27:50.33\00:27:51.30
this built church in
1842. Shortly thereafter,
00:27:51.31\00:27:54.99
the Millerite movement
came through this part of
00:27:55.02\00:27:57.25
New Hampshire and the
majority of this church
00:27:57.28\00:27:59.33
the members became
Millerite Adventist.
00:27:59.36\00:28:02.96
So, now we have
Christians who are Millerites
00:28:02.99\00:28:06.90
they have an ------ minister
00:28:06.93\00:28:09.16
one who lived
over in Hillsborough.
00:28:09.19\00:28:11.11
His name was Frederick Wheeler
00:28:11.14\00:28:12.92
he would come
through here occasionally
00:28:12.95\00:28:14.53
on Sunday and he
would be holding services
00:28:14.56\00:28:17.09
in his church. Now I
realized this picture
00:28:17.12\00:28:19.91
Of Fredrick Wheeler
makes him look very old.
00:28:19.94\00:28:22.18
He lived to be 99, but in
the 1840s he was in his 30s,
00:28:22.21\00:28:25.93
so if you just darken up
the beard and take it clear off
00:28:25.96\00:28:28.50
in your imagination
that you can picture how
00:28:28.53\00:28:30.80
he would have looked on
a Sunday when he was here
00:28:30.83\00:28:33.10
preaching in this
church people would come.
00:28:33.13\00:28:35.80
Now the winter of
1843, 1844, there was a widow
00:28:35.83\00:28:40.13
who came to this community,
you all know her name.
00:28:40.16\00:28:42.81
Rachel Oaks or
sometimes you've heard as
00:28:42.84\00:28:45.45
Rachel Oaks
Preston, she came as a widow
00:28:45.48\00:28:48.39
and she found the man.
Oh! She found someone to get
00:28:49.70\00:28:52.02
married to here by the
name of Nathan T. Preston
00:28:52.05\00:28:54.44
and so she left here
as Rachel Oaks Preston
00:28:55.66\00:28:57.61
but she became Rachel
Oaks. Her daughter Delight Oaks
00:28:57.64\00:29:00.87
was invited to be
local school teacher
00:29:00.90\00:29:02.67
and so we have a
picture of Rachel Oaks here.
00:29:02.70\00:29:05.95
Here she is, this lady
was The Seventh-Day Baptist.
00:29:07.19\00:29:10.54
She was not a Millerite,
but she was Seventh-Day Baptist
00:29:11.41\00:29:14.24
and since she was
here and had her room
00:29:14.27\00:29:17.28
apparently listed
daughter room for a while
00:29:17.31\00:29:19.40
or rented a room
from Cyrus Farnsworth
00:29:19.43\00:29:21.51
who live not too far over here.
00:29:21.54\00:29:22.92
One of the early members
of this congregation, why
00:29:24.13\00:29:25.83
probably that's were Rachel
would have stayed also and so
00:29:27.25\00:29:31.27
said she was
closes to this church
00:29:31.30\00:29:32.78
on Sundays even
though she was a good Sabbath
00:29:32.81\00:29:35.22
Keeper. She was a
Seventh-Day Baptist.
00:29:35.25\00:29:36.97
She would come to this church
00:29:37.00\00:29:38.80
for Christian fellowship,
she kept Sabbath at home,
00:29:38.83\00:29:41.10
don't
misunderstand, she kept Sabbath
00:29:43.23\00:29:44.53
but then she came here
to be with other Christians.
00:29:44.56\00:29:46.51
and that's how come
during that winter of 1843
00:29:47.48\00:29:51.27
and 1844 probably late
1843 when Fredrick Wheeler
00:29:51.30\00:29:57.32
was here preaching
a community sermon.
00:29:57.35\00:29:59.72
Rachel Oaks was also
here sitting on somewhere
00:30:00.99\00:30:03.56
on this side of the
church this was the ladies side
00:30:03.59\00:30:05.66
of the church, there is
was the men side over here.
00:30:05.69\00:30:09.13
So, she was
sitting over here somewhere
00:30:09.16\00:30:13.31
and she can hardly keep her seat
00:30:13.34\00:30:14.31
when Fredrick
Wheeler you know the story,
00:30:14.32\00:30:16.32
I'm just reviewing it
since it happened here.
00:30:16.35\00:30:18.20
Fredrick Wheeler
announced to the congregation
00:30:18.23\00:30:21.56
that all of those who
planned on participating
00:30:21.59\00:30:24.42
in the
community service that day
00:30:24.45\00:30:26.58
should be keepers of
God's Ten Commandments
00:30:26.61\00:30:29.08
and here is this
good Seventh-Day Baptist
00:30:30.73\00:30:32.19
sitting there on Sunday
listening to the preacher
00:30:32.22\00:30:34.77
you can imagine, she
can hardly keep her seat,
00:30:34.80\00:30:36.24
but she apparently did
and eventually she met him
00:30:37.36\00:30:40.14
later in the
week in town somewhere
00:30:40.17\00:30:42.97
and she said I
---- to talk with you
00:30:43.00\00:30:45.68
and she gave him a Bible study
00:30:46.12\00:30:47.09
probably gave
him some tracks too
00:30:47.10\00:30:48.33
I don't know for sure.
And Fredrick Wheeler then
00:30:48.36\00:30:51.39
being a good honest
soul he studied it out
00:30:51.42\00:30:54.30
and he decided
that she was correct,
00:30:54.33\00:30:56.73
the Biblical evidence
supported the Seventh-Day
00:30:56.76\00:30:59.53
as the day, we
should worship on.
00:30:59.56\00:31:01.64
And so not here,
but according to his son
00:31:02.83\00:31:05.00
George Wheeler in
a memory statement
00:31:05.03\00:31:07.57
the first sermon
that Fredrick Wheeler
00:31:07.60\00:31:09.55
preached was
over in Hillsborough
00:31:09.58\00:31:11.52
on March 16, 1844
that was his first sermon
00:31:11.55\00:31:16.04
advocating the
Seventh Day Sabbath.
00:31:16.07\00:31:18.82
Now, not much was
said about the Seventh Day
00:31:18.85\00:31:20.67
Sabbath in the Millerite
Movement. Oh! There are
00:31:20.70\00:31:22.74
some articles that
appear in the fall not too
00:31:22.77\00:31:25.47
just a few weeks
before October 22.
00:31:25.50\00:31:27.30
There is a couple
of articles that appear
00:31:27.33\00:31:29.00
so that we know there
was some agitation going on
00:31:29.03\00:31:31.43
here there was apparently
some there may have been
00:31:31.46\00:31:33.76
some elsewhere, but the
feeling of the Millerites
00:31:33.79\00:31:36.13
was we are focusing on
one thing, Jesus is coming.
00:31:36.16\00:31:38.77
We don't want
anything that gives us any
00:31:38.80\00:31:41.07
doctrine or division
and they were sure about the
00:31:41.10\00:31:43.46
Sabbath and so Jesus is
coming that were focus on
00:31:43.49\00:31:46.33
and if we are
supposed to keep Sabbath.
00:31:46.36\00:31:48.89
In a few weeks, we'll
all be keeping it in heaven
00:31:48.92\00:31:50.64
that's fine, if we
are not suppose to and
00:31:50.67\00:31:52.51
it's not that significant,
well then it was fine too.
00:31:52.54\00:31:54.22
So, there was not much
said about the Sabbath.
00:31:54.25\00:31:57.10
After the disappointment
of October 22, 1844
00:31:57.13\00:32:01.03
of course the pioneers
went back to their Bibles
00:32:01.06\00:32:03.58
trying to discover
why Jesus hadn't come
00:32:03.61\00:32:05.80
and they discovered
other things too not just
00:32:07.01\00:32:09.67
the answer to that
question. One of the things
00:32:09.70\00:32:12.87
they studied and decided,
our pioneers decided was
00:32:12.90\00:32:16.23
about the Seventh Day Sabbath.
00:32:16.26\00:32:17.63
Anyway, William
Farnsworth have been studied
00:32:18.63\00:32:20.76
thinking about the
Sabbath and according to his son
00:32:20.79\00:32:24.64
in January of 1845
sitting in this church
00:32:24.67\00:32:29.33
on the Sunday morning
maybe the congregation
00:32:30.37\00:32:32.28
is still Sunday
keepers he stands up
00:32:32.31\00:32:34.61
and he said that his
forth he and his family.
00:32:34.64\00:32:38.14
Now, at that point
all 22 have been born, but
00:32:38.17\00:32:40.57
there was several small
Farnsworth's here by there.
00:32:40.60\00:32:43.30
That he and his family
will going to keep the Seventh
00:32:43.33\00:32:46.32
Day Sabbath and William's
younger brother Cyrus stood
00:32:46.35\00:32:49.61
up and said he was
going to do the same thing
00:32:49.64\00:32:51.03
and the parents Daniel
and Patty Farnsworth, we don't
00:32:51.06\00:32:54.39
have a picture of the
mother, but there is a father
00:32:54.42\00:32:56.66
Daniel
Farnsworth, the Farnsworth and
00:32:56.69\00:32:58.98
few other stood up
and said they will be
00:32:59.01\00:33:01.05
Sabbath Keepers.
Now that divided the
00:33:01.08\00:33:03.83
congregation. The
majority of the congregation
00:33:03.86\00:33:06.72
did not want to keep
the Seventh Day Sabbath.
00:33:06.75\00:33:09.03
So, this church became
the oldest Sabbath keeping
00:33:10.17\00:33:16.28
Adventist congregation
because few of the members
00:33:16.31\00:33:19.86
were often met at homes
on Sabbath, but the majority
00:33:19.89\00:33:23.95
of the congregation
remains Sunday keepers.
00:33:23.98\00:33:26.22
So the building itself remain
the Sunday keeping church.
00:33:26.25\00:33:29.29
And we don't know
exactly what a change has,
00:33:30.52\00:33:32.15
but by 1862 at the
latest somewhere between about
00:33:32.18\00:33:34.65
1857 and 1862 this
had changed the majority
00:33:34.68\00:33:38.62
of the Sunday keepers had left,
00:33:38.65\00:33:39.92
remember these were typical
knowing the church is back
00:33:39.95\00:33:42.07
in those days and the
people have build the church
00:33:42.10\00:33:44.75
own the church
embody into it, owned it.
00:33:44.78\00:33:46.48
So when the majority had left
and so lot, and now with the
00:33:47.16\00:33:50.27
majority, the new
majority were Sabbath keepers
00:33:50.30\00:33:54.01
and so this became the
Seventh Day Adventist church.
00:33:54.04\00:33:56.44
So, this is not our oldest
Seventh Day Adventist church
00:33:56.47\00:33:59.65
as such because it
doesn't become one until about
00:33:59.68\00:34:02.81
1862, so there is
somewhere in there.
00:34:02.84\00:34:05.65
But it is the oldest
congregation of Sabbath
00:34:06.20\00:34:08.02
keeping Adventist to this day
00:34:08.05\00:34:09.02
if you come here
formal about mid May
00:34:09.03\00:34:12.32
until all mid
October there is a group
00:34:12.35\00:34:16.28
that meets here.
Now, from this church
00:34:16.31\00:34:18.36
several things well
not several because Sabbath
00:34:18.39\00:34:22.10
went out from this
church and I see if I can help
00:34:22.13\00:34:26.11
put it together for you quickly.
00:34:26.14\00:34:28.86
We have never been able
to Prove, where T. M Prebble
00:34:30.33\00:34:33.49
as I say William Seventh
Adventist historians have
00:34:33.52\00:34:35.36
never been able to
prove conclusively where T. M.
00:34:35.39\00:34:39.34
Prebble obtained the
Sabbath idea. T. M. Prebble
00:34:39.37\00:34:43.00
lived over here
in ---- New Hampshire
00:34:43.03\00:34:45.57
which is not very
far from Hillsborough
00:34:45.60\00:34:47.72
where Fredrick Wheeler lived
and Fredrick Wheeler being a
00:34:47.75\00:34:51.39
good itinerant minister
if he is gonna be talking
00:34:51.42\00:34:54.09
with other pastors
where what's one of the things
00:34:54.12\00:34:57.56
he would be talking
about, he would be talking about
00:34:57.59\00:34:59.76
the Seventh Day
Sabbath and Prebble became the
00:34:59.79\00:35:03.39
Sabbath Keeper in
the summer of 1844,
00:35:03.42\00:35:06.27
so he became a Sabbath
Keeper before Fredrick Wheeler,
00:35:06.30\00:35:08.93
I mean before
William Farnsworth stood up
00:35:08.96\00:35:10.95
here in January 1845, he
became the Sabbath keeper.
00:35:10.98\00:35:14.83
He wrote a pamphlet
which we already showed you
00:35:16.61\00:35:18.72
it was there at Paris
Hill it was an article
00:35:18.75\00:35:21.36
that was printed
in the hope of Israel
00:35:21.39\00:35:23.53
came out February 28,
1845 then it was reprinted in
00:35:23.56\00:35:26.38
pamphlet form, but now
we are gonna think about
00:35:26.41\00:35:28.09
the other form
that came out first
00:35:28.12\00:35:29.59
the article in
the hope of Israel.
00:35:29.62\00:35:31.19
One of subscribers
at the hope of Israel
00:35:31.22\00:35:33.60
which is published at
Portland Maine, the ones
00:35:33.63\00:35:35.66
subscribers was Joseph Bates
00:35:35.69\00:35:37.92
down on the
coast of Massachusetts
00:35:37.95\00:35:38.92
living it ---, he reads
it he looks up all the text
00:35:38.93\00:35:43.06
he is convinced that the
Seventh Day Sabbath is correct.
00:35:43.09\00:35:46.00
Now as soon as it warming
up at least I don't why I said
00:35:47.32\00:35:53.26
that because I've never
seen Father Joseph Bates
00:35:53.29\00:35:55.94
but anyway in the
spring later in the spring
00:35:55.97\00:35:58.03
maybe took it little
while to look up at the text.
00:35:58.06\00:36:00.26
He decided he wanted to
come up here and learn more
00:36:00.78\00:36:03.35
about the Sabbath.
Now he apparently knew
00:36:03.38\00:36:07.34
something that we didn't
know because even though he had
00:36:07.37\00:36:09.52
read T.M. Prebble's
article when he came up here
00:36:09.55\00:36:13.16
and some of you
would know the story.
00:36:13.19\00:36:14.16
No he did not go to
the Prebble's house,
00:36:14.17\00:36:17.04
where did he gone to.
He came to Hillsborough
00:36:18.00\00:36:19.36
not wonder he walked
whether he wrote the stage
00:36:19.39\00:36:21.53
coach how he
got it we don't know
00:36:21.56\00:36:23.19
he given away
most all of his money
00:36:23.22\00:36:24.19
as a Millerite so he may
not have stage coach fair
00:36:24.20\00:36:27.10
to walk a 100
miles ------ faced him
00:36:27.13\00:36:29.10
at all, he did
much more in that way
00:36:29.13\00:36:31.60
later on, so I
gonna face him at all.
00:36:31.63\00:36:33.26
But he came up here
got to Hillsborough about
00:36:33.29\00:36:36.63
10'o clock at
night, knocked on the door
00:36:36.66\00:36:39.31
you can see a sleepy
eye of Fredrick Wheeler
00:36:39.34\00:36:41.32
getting up, wondering
who the world is at his door
00:36:41.35\00:36:43.83
at 10'o clock lighting a lamp
00:36:43.86\00:36:45.54
----- called But whatever candle
00:36:45.57\00:36:50.21
whatever he happened to
have going there to the door
00:36:50.24\00:36:53.12
and here is Joseph
Bates all that's we say
00:36:53.15\00:36:54.80
bright eye bushy
tail here he is already
00:36:54.83\00:36:56.92
he has walk through come
there 100 miles and he is ready
00:36:56.95\00:37:00.10
for a Bible study.
Fredrick Wheeler was up
00:37:00.13\00:37:04.06
to it, he had his
Bible and the two men
00:37:04.09\00:37:06.31
studied about the
Sabbath all night, the next day
00:37:06.34\00:37:09.97
they came over here to
Sabbath at Farnsworth house
00:37:10.00\00:37:11.75
and in front of the
under the two Maple trees
00:37:11.78\00:37:15.24
that stood until 1988
and that blown down in storm.
00:37:15.27\00:37:18.27
They studied
some more on Sabbath
00:37:18.30\00:37:21.63
and then Joseph
Bates get to back home.
00:37:21.66\00:37:24.48
He found what he came for,
00:37:24.51\00:37:26.49
so 100 miles back
and again we don't know
00:37:26.52\00:37:28.57
whether he walk to took
the stage or having other
00:37:28.60\00:37:30.57
took the train having back down,
00:37:30.60\00:37:32.24
but he came into
the --- and you all
00:37:32.27\00:37:34.99
refer the story how he
was walking across that old
00:37:35.02\00:37:37.51
wood frame bridge that used
to cross the good steam river.
00:37:37.54\00:37:40.25
He met a friend a
very patriotic man
00:37:40.28\00:37:43.06
Janice Madison
Monroe now brother hall
00:37:43.09\00:37:47.16
knew he was a neighbor or friend
00:37:47.19\00:37:48.65
of Bates. He knew
Bates have been out of town
00:37:48.68\00:37:50.34
and seeing round back
in those day everybody knew
00:37:50.37\00:37:52.22
what everybody else was
doing in small town and all.
00:37:52.25\00:37:54.45
He knew Bates wasn't
around, so when he saw down
00:37:54.48\00:37:56.78
the bridge he hailed him
Captain Bates what's the news
00:37:56.81\00:37:59.85
and what was Bates response.
The news is Seventh Day
00:38:01.36\00:38:03.63
Sabbath. Come on
rest of knew that story.
00:38:03.66\00:38:06.38
The news is the
Seventh Day, that' right,
00:38:06.41\00:38:09.18
Sabbath Day is the Sabbath.
00:38:09.21\00:38:10.18
That was the
most exciting thing,
00:38:10.19\00:38:11.16
he just come 100 miles
00:38:11.17\00:38:12.28
back there you
know, he would thought
00:38:12.31\00:38:13.58
he can proudly said something
else because that was most
00:38:13.61\00:38:15.83
exciting that he knew
the seventh day is a Sabbath.
00:38:15.86\00:38:17.88
See we need little enthusiastic.
00:38:19.12\00:38:20.09
Miller and Bates
also used to say that.
00:38:20.10\00:38:21.45
Now we talk about
and we used to say
00:38:21.48\00:38:22.88
---- bless at hope,
but Spicer says that
00:38:22.91\00:38:25.97
Bates had another saying
ever Bates used to go around
00:38:26.00\00:38:28.85
and say Oh! How I
do love this Sabbath.
00:38:28.88\00:38:31.38
Bates is a Sabbath keeper,
but his wife proves is not.
00:38:31.41\00:38:36.89
Proved that Bates
does not accept the Sabbath
00:38:38.77\00:38:40.27
until 1850 and she
is a beautiful wife.
00:38:40.30\00:38:42.98
Have you seen the
picture of Prudence
00:38:43.01\00:38:43.98
before this, there is
only one known picture
00:38:44.00\00:38:45.65
that I am aware of may just
00:38:45.68\00:38:46.81
that I remember
maybe another one
00:38:46.84\00:38:48.86
and this one around
here of proves base he called
00:38:48.89\00:38:51.00
her pretty. Now you
know, the famous story
00:38:51.03\00:38:54.66
well, first we got to getting
writing his first edition
00:38:54.69\00:38:56.94
of the Sabbath track
1846 he has read Prebble
00:38:56.97\00:39:00.71
he now wants to say
more then what Prebble did
00:39:00.74\00:39:03.62
so he brings out a larger track.
Somewhere in all these files.
00:39:03.65\00:39:08.38
I have a photocopy of that track
00:39:09.59\00:39:10.92
very rare maybe
two or three originals
00:39:12.59\00:39:14.50
in existence so
this is the photocopy
00:39:15.82\00:39:17.61
of his 1846 track.
He set one of these,
00:39:17.64\00:39:20.31
now he has gone
there in Massachusetts.
00:39:20.34\00:39:22.30
He set one of these
up to the newly weds
00:39:22.33\00:39:24.47
James and Ellen White
got married in Portland Maine
00:39:24.50\00:39:26.82
in August 30, 1846
and they read in sometime
00:39:26.85\00:39:29.86
in September or
October anyway early fall, late
00:39:29.89\00:39:33.31
Summer, early fall of
1846 they accepted the Sabbath.
00:39:33.34\00:39:35.11
Not based on
vision, --- critics like
00:39:35.14\00:39:38.58
to say that we base all
of our doctrines on vision.
00:39:38.61\00:39:40.91
Not based on a
vision, based on the text
00:39:40.94\00:39:43.02
in this pamphlet. And they
studied out in the scriptures.
00:39:43.05\00:39:47.83
It wasn't until April of 1847
that talk so much she had to
00:39:49.52\00:39:52.50
Halo of glory
vision about the Sabbath.
00:39:52.53\00:39:55.82
And seeing there is
the -- have been sanctuary.
00:39:56.45\00:39:58.22
Now based well so
you're not be going down there
00:39:58.25\00:40:02.26
to fair even, let me just
remind you of another story
00:40:02.29\00:40:05.70
about Joseph Bates
this man of such think,
00:40:05.73\00:40:08.96
I mean he had incredible
faith. Joseph Bates decides
00:40:08.99\00:40:15.40
he needs to write
another track in 1847.
00:40:15.43\00:40:18.74
That thing
brought up to six or seven
00:40:19.31\00:40:21.07
I forgot which tracks altogether
00:40:21.10\00:40:22.98
in the 1840's.
Joseph Bates decides
00:40:23.01\00:40:26.24
to write another
track, but he has no money
00:40:26.27\00:40:27.82
and again you know
the story, it is just
00:40:27.85\00:40:29.23
quick review. And so he
is sitting there on his desk
00:40:29.26\00:40:33.15
thinking and his wife
comes in and she says to him.
00:40:33.18\00:40:36.67
Joseph I need to do some baking,
00:40:36.70\00:40:39.27
but I don't have any
flour how much flour do you need
00:40:39.30\00:40:43.40
about 4 pounds, she responded
00:40:44.51\00:40:46.02
and so he got up left
went down to the store
00:40:47.11\00:40:49.67
and there he
bought 4 pounds of flour
00:40:49.70\00:40:51.93
and he came back home and
gave to his wife Prudence.
00:40:51.96\00:40:55.68
She exclaimed, she
was quite surprised.
00:40:56.87\00:40:58.41
She exclaims why
did you bring 4 pounds.
00:40:58.44\00:41:00.82
Now see she was
used to her husband went
00:41:00.85\00:41:03.42
he would always
buy a barrel of flour.
00:41:03.45\00:41:05.58
Now it is just 4 pounds
and so for the first time
00:41:05.61\00:41:09.97
in her life she finds
out what their financial
00:41:11.83\00:41:13.80
condition really is.
He said for that 4 pounds
00:41:13.83\00:41:17.61
I spend the last
money that I had on earth.
00:41:17.64\00:41:20.32
These are one of
these things -----.
00:41:20.35\00:41:22.20
Now she says to her
husband what we going to do?
00:41:23.12\00:41:25.31
and so I'm on the right track.
00:41:27.01\00:41:27.98
Yeah, what are we
going to do, I think
00:41:29.24\00:41:30.21
she probably met.
What you're gonna do
00:41:30.22\00:41:31.45
about getting up off,
you know, what and going
00:41:31.48\00:41:33.22
to work and get some money
he was going to write the track
00:41:33.25\00:41:36.62
How we are gonna
live and Joseph Bates
00:41:38.49\00:41:41.60
stock answer from
the bottom of his heart
00:41:42.30\00:41:45.03
the Lord will provide.
Now let you know all he say
00:41:46.29\00:41:49.06
and she went
into have a good cry
00:41:49.09\00:41:50.71
according to the old
story. Joseph Bates as you know
00:41:50.74\00:41:53.75
was sitting there on
his desk and he had the
00:41:53.78\00:41:56.53
impression that
there was a letter for him
00:41:56.56\00:41:59.29
at the post
office. No home delivery
00:41:59.32\00:42:01.75
in those days, so
he went to post office
00:42:01.78\00:42:03.53
he asked the postmaster if
there was any mail for him.
00:42:03.56\00:42:07.44
You picture in your mind
the postmaster going to all
00:42:08.85\00:42:10.65
of those slots ---- stock places
00:42:10.68\00:42:12.66
that they used to do pull it out
00:42:12.69\00:42:13.82
you know, look
through it yes here's one
00:42:13.85\00:42:16.82
5 cents postage do.
Now this is the type of
00:42:16.85\00:42:20.85
letters we have in
United States back in those days
00:42:20.88\00:42:22.92
unless you are somebody
rich and fancy you just took
00:42:22.95\00:42:25.38
a piece of paper you
wrote the letter on the inside
00:42:25.41\00:42:27.66
and then you fold it
up and then you addressed
00:42:27.69\00:42:30.60
it on the outside and
before the ---- start issuing
00:42:30.63\00:42:33.26
stamps you could
send the letter out
00:42:33.29\00:42:35.79
two ways either you
could pay the postage
00:42:35.82\00:42:37.85
ahead of time and
then the postmaster would
00:42:37.88\00:42:40.18
mark paid on the
envelope and that man when you
00:42:40.21\00:42:43.30
went to the post
office to pick the mail
00:42:43.33\00:42:45.09
it was already
paid you got for free
00:42:45.91\00:42:47.28
but in often letter a lot
of letters are set like this
00:42:47.81\00:42:49.90
you just took it out and
you dropped it into mailbox.
00:42:50.94\00:42:52.71
Then the person
of the other hand
00:42:52.74\00:42:54.09
had to decide whether
or not it was worth to
00:42:54.12\00:42:56.22
hear from this person.
And if you do want here from
00:42:56.25\00:42:58.94
it wasn't worth not too much.
00:42:58.97\00:43:00.69
You just left
with the postmaster
00:43:00.72\00:43:02.13
and it went to that letter box.
00:43:02.16\00:43:03.13
Well, Bates was interested
in hearing for this person
00:43:04.11\00:43:06.20
because he had been impressed
that there was money in there.
00:43:06.23\00:43:08.20
But, he had no money
himself and so he said to
00:43:08.66\00:43:11.03
the postmaster, I
think there is money in there
00:43:11.06\00:43:14.03
in the envelope if you open it
00:43:14.06\00:43:17.07
and take out the
postage do if there is any money
00:43:17.10\00:43:20.68
then I'll take the balance.
and sure enough postmaster
00:43:20.71\00:43:24.62
opened the envelope and
there was $10 dollar bill in it.
00:43:24.65\00:43:27.61
It was a lot of
money in that time
00:43:28.40\00:43:30.08
and we are talking
about 50 cents a day
00:43:30.11\00:43:31.35
was a average
wage for any worker
00:43:31.38\00:43:33.37
for common worker
in the United States
00:43:33.40\00:43:35.11
would earn. So, it's a
pretty good size donation
00:43:35.14\00:43:36.92
already said in wrote
letters ----- impressed
00:43:36.95\00:43:39.61
to send you this money
to help in your ministry.
00:43:40.58\00:43:42.41
So Bates paid 5
cents, we didn't have nickels
00:43:43.13\00:43:45.72
in those days, but have
these things half dollar
00:43:45.75\00:43:47.45
of 1847 of time. So
he paid to five cents
00:43:47.48\00:43:50.52
to the postmaster. He took
his 9 dollars and 95 cents.
00:43:50.55\00:43:53.78
He goes back to the
store. If you don't think these
00:43:53.81\00:43:56.07
pioneers had a sense of humor
00:43:56.10\00:43:57.86
you listen to the
rest of the story.
00:43:59.21\00:44:00.18
He went back to the
store he brought now a whole
00:44:00.19\00:44:02.70
barrel of flour, he
brought some other things
00:44:02.73\00:44:04.88
then he said to the delivery boy
00:44:04.91\00:44:06.48
you take this stuff
down he given the address
00:44:06.51\00:44:08.73
and he said now
the women in the house
00:44:09.78\00:44:11.01
you see you know your spouse
00:44:11.04\00:44:13.33
you know, how you gonna react
00:44:13.36\00:44:14.36
Joseph Bates knew
what is gonna happen
00:44:14.39\00:44:15.76
he said now the women in
the house is going to come out
00:44:15.79\00:44:17.82
and she is going to
tell you this stuff doesn't
00:44:17.85\00:44:19.25
belong there, but
you leave it anyway
00:44:19.28\00:44:22.09
and so then he want to
make certain that this whole
00:44:24.26\00:44:25.72
scenario had time to workout,
00:44:25.75\00:44:27.45
so he walked
across that same little
00:44:28.56\00:44:29.97
on bridge -- over the ---
00:44:30.00\00:44:32.10
He went over to
Mr. Benchman Lenzy
00:44:32.13\00:44:34.39
who was a printer there
same printer who had printed
00:44:34.42\00:44:36.62
his first track
for Sabbath track
00:44:36.65\00:44:39.40
and he arranged,
he brought some paper
00:44:39.43\00:44:41.39
and pen, more ink
whatever needed to write
00:44:41.42\00:44:45.53
and then he
arranged with Mr. Lenzy
00:44:45.56\00:44:47.23
that he would make
some payments on this
00:44:48.42\00:44:50.04
pamphlet until he would paid off
00:44:50.07\00:44:52.23
and in fact who himself
now I am sure all the scenario
00:44:53.10\00:44:56.36
you know the delivery
boy been there and the wife
00:44:57.46\00:44:58.43
all have been
flustered about this and
00:44:58.44\00:45:00.48
now its all fine I can go home.
00:45:00.51\00:45:02.59
So, he walks back
innocently of course you know,
00:45:02.62\00:45:05.70
back across the
bridge slips in a side door
00:45:05.73\00:45:08.97
sits down as he
tells his wife is there
00:45:09.00\00:45:10.86
but it's not true all
before she goes back the door
00:45:12.16\00:45:13.42
and she sees her
husband sitting at his desk
00:45:13.45\00:45:15.43
and you can imagine
what a tizzy she was it.
00:45:15.46\00:45:18.65
She said Joseph, yes what
happened while you've gone
00:45:18.68\00:45:21.58
and with this trader
face he says you keep
00:45:22.79\00:45:24.61
he said, no I have no
idea what do you think
00:45:24.64\00:45:27.68
what, what
happened one delivery boy
00:45:27.71\00:45:30.18
came and he brought some flour
00:45:30.21\00:45:31.86
and he brought some other things
00:45:31.89\00:45:32.86
and I tried to tell
him it didn't belong here
00:45:32.87\00:45:34.58
and we didn't have any
money Joseph said that my dear
00:45:34.61\00:45:39.09
didn't I tell you
that the Lord will provide.
00:45:39.12\00:45:41.07
Yes, but how we
are going to pay for it
00:45:41.10\00:45:42.99
and he handed her that
letter where this person
00:45:44.64\00:45:45.79
sent through post
we've find $10 dollars
00:45:45.82\00:45:47.30
I felt impress by God
to send you this little
00:45:47.33\00:45:51.19
gift to help with your ministry.
00:45:51.22\00:45:52.44
And the whole story
tells us the Prudence shown off
00:45:53.78\00:45:55.66
to have another cry.
This time a bit different
00:45:55.69\00:45:58.42
than it was
before. The early pioneers
00:45:58.45\00:46:01.50
lived in harder
times not only was money
00:46:01.53\00:46:04.15
scares, but the
lack of medical knowledge
00:46:04.18\00:46:06.39
made life very painful at times.
00:46:06.42\00:46:08.26
The older Nix took us to
the house in Thompson Maine
00:46:09.46\00:46:11.51
where something particularly
tragic happen to Ellen White
00:46:11.54\00:46:14.21
one of the
cofounders of the church.
00:46:15.24\00:46:16.33
And then James and Ellen White
00:46:18.40\00:46:19.49
rock the boys
up here to Thompson
00:46:19.52\00:46:22.27
and they left Henry
and Edson the others
00:46:22.30\00:46:26.35
really they left the
three boys with the -----
00:46:26.38\00:46:30.28
while they went
traveling to visit churches here
00:46:30.31\00:46:34.64
in Maine and you'll
recall that one of the things
00:46:34.67\00:46:38.81
that James White
assigned the boys to do
00:46:38.84\00:46:41.12
while they were here
was to take these charts.
00:46:41.15\00:46:43.97
Now most of the
charts that we printed
00:46:44.00\00:46:45.65
back in those early days
were printed right on cloth
00:46:46.45\00:46:48.02
this particular chart was
not it was printed on paper
00:46:49.11\00:46:51.29
and then had to be
glued to canvas and so James
00:46:51.32\00:46:54.51
White informed the boys
that they should glue these
00:46:54.54\00:46:57.88
paper charts down
to this canvas backing.
00:46:57.91\00:47:01.79
And they left the
whole stock of these things
00:47:01.82\00:47:03.29
that would be
done. Now apparently
00:47:03.32\00:47:06.10
as you know the river is right
hand, we just crossed the bridge
00:47:06.13\00:47:09.42
so apparently at that
time in season they were
00:47:09.45\00:47:11.87
floating logs down the river
00:47:11.90\00:47:13.46
and Henry and Edson
would like to go down
00:47:14.45\00:47:15.91
and watch and so
they would do that
00:47:15.94\00:47:20.28
in between they are
working on these charts.
00:47:20.31\00:47:23.32
Now I am not
exactly sure what happened,
00:47:25.25\00:47:26.69
but someway it
sticks in my mind I should
00:47:26.72\00:47:29.91
review this, this morning,
but it sticks in my mind
00:47:29.94\00:47:32.25
that they would take these
charts when they were gluing
00:47:32.28\00:47:36.09
them and they would put
piece of damp cloth in between.
00:47:36.12\00:47:40.33
So, that they would
dry evenly the whole thing
00:47:40.36\00:47:42.33
anyway after the
boys have been down there
00:47:43.09\00:47:45.06
playing along the river
and watching these big logs
00:47:45.09\00:47:48.12
at the woods been
cutting down and floating
00:47:48.15\00:47:50.43
down the river at the
sawmills, while the boys
00:47:50.46\00:47:52.69
came back and apparently
Edson laid down to take
00:47:52.72\00:47:57.18
little nap one some
of these wet clothes.
00:47:57.21\00:47:59.03
Anyway whatever it was he
caught cold, Henry, I'm sorry
00:47:59.06\00:48:03.57
Henry got a cold and
eventually it turned into
00:48:03.60\00:48:07.42
pneumonia. Now James and
Ellen White were all traveling
00:48:08.01\00:48:09.75
at the churches, no
telephones back in those days
00:48:09.78\00:48:11.99
you couldn't call and
say there is a problem
00:48:12.02\00:48:13.97
or anything like
that, but James White had
00:48:14.00\00:48:16.39
an impression that there was
something wrong with the boys
00:48:16.42\00:48:18.69
so he told to Ellen
that they needed to get home.
00:48:18.72\00:48:21.32
Get back here to
Thompson and so they came
00:48:21.35\00:48:24.52
and the account
says that Edson and Henry
00:48:24.55\00:48:29.03
really they were
all at the train station
00:48:29.06\00:48:30.78
to meet the
parents when they came in,
00:48:30.81\00:48:32.48
everybody seem to be fine
maybe Henry had little cough
00:48:32.51\00:48:35.44
but everything seem to be fine
00:48:35.47\00:48:37.04
but within just
a very short time
00:48:37.07\00:48:38.95
it was obvious
that he was very ill and
00:48:38.98\00:48:42.41
had pneumonia and he died
here in this house in 1863.
00:48:42.44\00:48:46.04
Here is a picture
of Henry Ellen White
00:48:47.02\00:48:48.71
called her first
born her sweat singer
00:48:48.74\00:48:51.82
he was very musically
like to play the melodeon
00:48:52.90\00:48:54.62
he sang and this is a
picture of Henry White,
00:48:54.65\00:48:57.85
Ellen White first
born died at the age of 16.
00:48:57.88\00:49:01.03
He is buried in
Battle Creek Michigan
00:49:02.02\00:49:04.49
next to his youngest
brother little baby Hoover
00:49:05.25\00:49:08.30
who died in 1860. The
funeral was held there
00:49:08.33\00:49:12.47
in Battle Creek
and then the next year
00:49:12.50\00:49:15.69
the funeral program
live sketch letters that
00:49:15.72\00:49:19.43
were written, letters of
condolence that were written
00:49:19.46\00:49:21.22
to James and Ellen
White were all printed
00:49:21.25\00:49:23.70
in little book.
Paul appeal to the youth
00:49:23.73\00:49:26.09
this is published in
1864 it has you arise
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miss funeral sermon for
Henry has an old picture
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of Henry in the cover
in the front of the book.
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But this little
book is a reminder to us
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again that these
people were very, very human
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here and they
lost their first born
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they have lost their youngest.
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I was talking one
time with Ellen White's
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youngest
granddaughter Grace White ---.
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she is still living.
She is a 94 years of age.
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and she told me
that she was 15 when her
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grandmother died, so
she had lot of memories
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of her grandmother,
she told me that the only
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time she could
recall her grandmother
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every being
upset about something
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really agitated about something
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she said one time her
grandmother was talking
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to her daughter-in-law
that would be Grace's
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mother may Willy
second wife remember
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Willy's first wife
died in tuberculosis in 1890
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and he married 1895.
So Ellen White was talking
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to her daughter-in-law
and she said to her
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may if we had known
then what we know now
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we could have saved
Henry. Typical again what you
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would expect here is a
mother 50 years after the death
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of her first born
still grieving over the loss
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of her first born
son. And Grace said as her
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grandmother was saying
this she was ringing her hands
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that she was saying if
we knew then what we know
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now we could save Henry.
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The spirit of Evangelism
was strong in the hearts
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of those early believers.
Ellen White had a twin
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sister that she was
anxious to win for Christ.
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In God name other
next holders of her way
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that she attempted
to reach her sister.
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This is from
selected messages book II,
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page 260 as a little
influence come forth immortal
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from the dusty beds they
immediately wing their way
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to their mother
arms. They meet again
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never mortal part, but
many of the little ones
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have no mother there.
We listen in vein for the
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rapture song of
triam from the mother.
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The angels received
the motherless infants
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and conduct them
to the tree of life.
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Jesus places the
golden ring of light
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the crown upon
their little heads.
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God grant that
the dear mother of Eva
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may be there that her
little wings maybe folded upon
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the ---- of her mother.
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Now, if you ever
read that quotation
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if you discussed in
class the ministers here
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in class of the
seminary and wondered exactly
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what
theologically that's all about.
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Let's put it now historical
respective not theological.
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Okay, Ellen's niece
Eva dies, Ellen's sister
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Lizzy is not a
Professing Christian
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and a twin
appealing as an evangelist
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whatever you else you
may think of Ellen White
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she was first and
foremost an evangelist.
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She will use anything
that she can litigable
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think of to try to
influence another person.
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She takes the death of her
little six week old niece Eva
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and writes to her
sister and says God grant
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that the mother of
baby Eva will be here.
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Hoping against hope
that maybe that, that hope
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would convince
Lizzy to accept Jesus.
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From a human standpoint
the sister reaching out
00:52:54.98\00:52:58.73
to a twin trying
to find another way
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to get a twin to accept Jesus.
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We also visited the grave side
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of a man who
used his tomb stones
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to testify of his faith.
It's known as the tomb stone
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of the man who died twice.
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Again here is Jim Nix.
Here in the Varney Cemetery
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in Brunswick, Maine
is an interesting grave.
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You can see its
George Cob it's known locally
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as the grave of
the man who died twice
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you look at the wording
there born June 10, 1794,
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died November 10, 1843
and then at age 88 years
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he fell asleep May 9,
1882. So you can see why its
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referred to is the grave stone
of the man that died twice.
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I have been told it's
in Ripley's believe it
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or not, I have
never looked at up.
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So I don't know if that's
true, but I have heard that.
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George Cobb was
James White's foremen
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when he was down
cutting stone on the road
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cut just north of Freeport
where we were few minutes ago.
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And he apparently became
a Millerite, it look like
00:53:59.75\00:54:02.56
there November 10,
1843 that's when he died
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to his whole life. He
is died to the life of sin,
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but he fell asleep in
Jesus because James White
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converted him to our believes
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and so he fell
asleep in Jesus May 9, 1882.
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You notice at the top
Even though its almost
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gone out, so faith is
the Sabbath commandment
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remember the
Sabbath Day to keep it Holy.
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Those pioneers
believe when they believed
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they even left money
to have their tomb stones
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erected to testify their faith,
00:54:30.65\00:54:32.89
their actions
everything they did
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was to testify the
faith that they hail so dear.
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Our tour of
Adventist history ended at
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William Millers
grave near his house
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in Low Hampton, New York.
00:54:43.13\00:54:44.32
Miller died five years
after the great disappointment
00:54:45.62\00:54:47.46
of 1844, but still
strong in the faith
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that Jesus would return.
This famous quotation from
00:54:50.92\00:54:55.55
early writings that
you're all familiar with.
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I think is a fitting way
to close this is from early
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writings page
258 and talks about
00:55:01.54\00:55:04.38
this pioneer who did
not come to some of the
00:55:04.41\00:55:09.00
understandings that we
did, but of course died
00:55:09.03\00:55:11.52
as I mentioned fully
expecting his best friend
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Jesus to return. God suffered
him to fall under the power
00:55:14.37\00:55:17.32
of Satan, Ellen White
wrote, the dominion of death,
00:55:17.35\00:55:20.68
and hid him in the
grave from those who were
00:55:20.71\00:55:22.81
constantly drawing
him from the truth.
00:55:22.84\00:55:24.56
Moses erred as he
was about to enter the
00:55:24.59\00:55:26.82
Promised land. So also I
saw that William Miller erred
00:55:26.85\00:55:29.91
as he was soon to
enter the heavenly Canaan,
00:55:29.94\00:55:32.20
in suffering his influence
to go against the truth.
00:55:32.23\00:55:35.20
Others led him to this,
others must account for it.
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But angels watch the precious
dust of this servant of God,
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and he will come forth at
the sound of the last trump.
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As we gathered
around the place were
00:55:48.24\00:55:51.14
William Miller
rests, awaiting to be raised
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When Christ returns.
We thought of the trials
00:55:53.64\00:55:55.87
and joys of the early
Adventist had gone through.
00:55:55.90\00:55:58.42
and looked forward to
meeting them in person
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at the second
coming. As we stood together
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we joined and singing
to him lift up the trumpet.
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Lift up the trumpet,
and loud let it ring:
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Jesus is coming again!
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Cheer up, ye
pilgrims, be joyful and sing:
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Jesus is coming again!
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Coming again, coming again,
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Jesus is coming again!
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