p. 202 | TO CORRESPONDENTS by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · March 25, 1880

FromThe Review and Herald, Vol. 55, No. 13

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

By Editor

A. M. JOHNSON: The Constitutional Amendment party have by no means gone out of existence, as your friends claim, but are working on with a steady purpose to secure the ends they have in view. See reference to them and their work in REVIEW No. 7 of the present volume. Their organ, The Christian Statesman, is published in Philadelphia, Pa.

J. L. M.: What is written in these days about the prophetic character of the great pyramid, we consider baseless assumption, and the wildest kind of conjecture. Who knows that the great star Alcyone is the “governing star of the pyramids?” “It is claimed” (!) that its date of erection was 628 years before the exode. On what ground? Who knows anything about it? But that date is essential to the conjecture. Don’t we need something better on which to build a theory? So of a thousand other things that might be named about this new discovery. When we begin to give ourselves up to such conjectures, there can be found millions of objects, the measurements of which will correspond, when sufficiently expanded, to the distance of some planet, or the time of its revolution, or the length of some prophetic period. But there is nothing to any of it. The Bible is the great fountain of revealed truth; and he who will study that carefully, will find enough on which to base his faith without resorting to the wild conjectures of the pyramidgets.