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R. F. C.

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · September 17, 1867

FromReview and Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 14

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On the 7th of September a friend put a pamphlet into my hands to convince me, as I understood it, that the Lord would come this year. Before reading it half through, I found the following statement:
“As to the time in the year we cannot say positively, but the events in 1792, marking the end of the 1260 years, indicate very strongly the coming of the Lord in the fore part of the year. At all events, his coming cannot be delayed beyond the month of August, for then not only were the Catholics massacred and banished from France, in 1792, but the monarchy itself was overthrown. Therefore, to extend the 1260 years later than that is utterly impossible, and, consequently, the 1335 years cannot extend to a later point in the present year, 1867.”
Did my friend give me the book a few days too late? or did he intend to convince me that the Lord had already come? Circumstances seem to indicate that a new and revised edition of the work is speedily demanded. R. F. C.