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difficulties are involved in the answer: If it was of
Heaven, we cannot give it up; but how, then, can we account
for the mistake connected with it, without compromising its
heavenly origin? But if it was of men, how shall we solve
the still harder problem of accounting for the presence and
power of God that so manifestly attended it? p. 200, Para.
1, [LOOKING].
Now if in 1840, 1843, and 1844, the last prophetic periods
did end, that fact would be a sufficient reason why God's
hand should be in the movement based upon that fulfilment
of his word, even though there might have been adopted
wrong views in reference to the event to occur, just as the
disciples of our Lord had adopted wrong views of the work
of the Lord in their time, when, in fulfilment of his word,
they escorted Jesus into Jerusalem, as their immediately
expected King, shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David.
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." Matt.
21:4-9. p. 200, Para. 2, [LOOKING].
With this view, therefore, that the prophetic periods did
expire, but the mistake was in relation to the event, it is
not necessary to repudiate and throw away that great work.
It can be given its place in the prophecy, and be gratefully
acknowledged, together with the wonderful work of God
connected with it. p. 201, Para. 1, [LOOKING].
But if the ground is taken that the prophetic periods did
not then expire, the whole work falls to the ground as
wholly false and unscriptural. For if the termination of
the prophetic periods is yet future, another like movement
must be made to mark their termination, and the one that
has already taken place was a counterfeit and a fraud. Then
we must attribute to fanaticism that work which gave every
evidence of being wrought by the Spirit of God, and admit
that in this important age, marked as "the time of the
end," when the world is to be warned of coming judgment,
the most devoted and intelligent students of prophecy, and
the most consecrated servants of Christ, were left to enter
upon a false movement, and make an unpardonable mistake,
which was calculated to destroy the confidence of the world
in all prophetic investigation. But such a conclusion cannot
for a moment be entertained by any candid and consistent
mind. Hence it must be that the mistake was made, not
in the prophetic periods, the evidence for which as we have
seen, remains unshaken, but in the views then entertained
of the event to take place at their termination. p. 201,