The Great Controversy - Righteousness is Love

546THE SAVIOUR WERE SO IGNORANT OF THE TEACHINGS OF THESCRIPTURES AS TO SUPPOSE THAT ROBES WHICH THEY COULDMAKE WOULD BE NECESSARY FOR THAT OCCASION. THE ONLYROBE WHICH THE SAINTS WILL NEED TO MEET THE LORD ISTHE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST. SEE ISAIAH 61:10;REVELATION 19:8.FOR A THOROUGH REFUTATION OF THE LEGEND OFASCENSION ROBES, SEE FRANCIS D. NICHOL, MIDNIGHT CRY(WASHINGTON, D.C.: REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSN.,1944), CHS. 25-27, AND APPENDICES H-J. SEE ALSO LEROY EDWINFROOM, PROPHETIC FAITH OF OUR FATHERS (WASHINGTON,D.C.: REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSN., 1954), VOL. 4, PP.822-826.ORIGINAL TEXT PAGE 374. THE CHRONOLOGY OF PROPHECY.--DR. GEORGE BUSH, PROFESSOR OF HEBREW AND ORIENTALLITERATURE IN THE NEW YORK CITY UNIVERSITY, IN ALETTER ADDRESSED TO WILLIAM MILLER AND PUBLISHED INTHE ADVENT HERALD AND SIGNS OF THE TIMES REPORTER,BOSTON, MARCH 6 AND 13, 1844, MADE SOME IMPORTANTADMISSIONS RELATIVE TO HIS CALCULATION OF THEPROPHETIC TIMES. DR. BUSH WROTE:"NEITHER IS IT TO BE OBJECTED, AS I CONCEIVE, TO YOURSELFOR YOUR FRIENDS, THAT YOU HAVE DEVOTED MUCH TIMEAND ATTENTION TO THE STUDY OF THE CHRONOLOGY OFPROPHECY, AND HAVE LABORED MUCH TO DETERMINE THECOMMENCING AND CLOSING DATES OF ITS GREAT PERIODS. IFTHESE PERIODS ARE ACTUALLY GIVEN BY THE HOLY GHOST INTHE PROPHETIC BOOKS, IT WAS DOUBTLESS WITH THE DESIGNTHAT THEY MEDE, SIR ISAAC NEWTON, BISHOP NEWTON,KIRBY, SCOTT, KEITH, AND A HOST OF OTHERS WHO HAVELONG SINCE COME TO SUBSTANTIALLY YOUR CONCLUSIONS ONTHIS HEAD. THEY ALL AGREE THAT THE LEADING PERIODSMENTIONED BY DANIEL AND JOHN, DO ACTUALLY EXPIREABOUT THIS AGE OF THE WORLD, AND IT WOULD BE A STRANGELOGIC THAT WOULD CONVICT YOU OF HERESY FOR HOLDINGIN EFFECT THE SAME VIEWS WHICH STAND FORTH SOPROMINENT IN THE NOTICES OF THESE EMINENT DIVINES."