n:
ctc. XIIUmore. they saw llirn go in, U I I - I c o m i a ~ ,to ciose up tile Jewish, 2nd Int1.0der ihe sail
jdesir. ,111d iie wiil come I ducz tile gospei nqe, and fiur >races, a t tills
back to tile chnrch, in Iilce manner as tliep 1 advent: for we were even then Drearninz a
s
saw him s o ; a n d nor, in an invisible manner. Eourt!i stage. or tlle coming with I ~ i saincs.
Hence, h e wiii a q i n zcash hi.$&
witil nra- , to complete tile se&nci zdvent, nnd introt e r by the n o r d , jusz as lie nasned it. during j duce tile miileiinial age. 3 a t aci4nlttinr:::ac 2
that *' forty davs, ' after ile zntered tiie true / four stages in this harvest and time o f t r o u b
tabernacle or sanctuary, and before iie en- / le, ending in 1911, and which compieteiy
tered the -710s~Holy. 2'. e. whiie on his way cioses the t i 6 e G f the Gentiles, are riecessain. A n d rve know t h e t r u e tabernacie, cal- ry. whiie 'out three stages were n e c e s s a v in
led t!;e sanctuary, (Heb. 9 : 4 1, and outside 1 tile corresponding and parallei period, O ~ C ~ O S the " second vail," is n u t :he alorified churcli / ing u p the Jewish economy, still, 1 had nevas some afirm, since thesanctzcary was to be i e r supposed that our expectations looking to
cieansed after h e 3300 iiays. and a glorified the spring of 1878, as the third stage oJ' the
adve~ztwere realized ; I was not aware that
church requires r ~ ocleansing.
W h e n oiir Hi+ Priest comes, the church a n y one clain~edthat Christ came as K i n g ,
in tile spring of 1378; much less that any
" bone of his bone. and flesh of liis flesil,"
are again to be " washed with water by the ' one has proved it. 111 that case rlle coming
word, even as they were washed on his way of Christ, in ail irs stages, all that he is ever
in. Anti this is when and how the whole 1 to come, is in the pasr. F o r there is no Bihorizon of the c l ~ u r c his to be ligiited up, 1 ble io prove chat Christ corn& US Xinc/,
but
bv the coming, (parousia, yresence) of the 1 once. If h e is ro come as icing twice, per- )
~ b ofn m a n ; w e n as :he naturai horizon is, haps h e may so come. a third, or perhaps a L,
by rhe lightning whicil shines from one part fourttl time. B u t ?s there is no proof that /
under heaven, to tile other part under heav- / Cllrist came in a third character. in 1878; I'
when the time passed. me had to renounce ;
en'
oun
that arrangement of the paralleis, just as we
had to renouncbour expectation of translaI n the spring of 1875,
the '. iiarx-est " or the
rion a t that time. B u t this does not meaken tile system of paraiiels between zhe law
ing a definite period
gan in :he autumn of 1874: our immediate and gospel, because that system is a scripturconclusion was, that C i ~ r i s thad come. T h e 1 ai fact. It o n l r proves, wnat has h e n true,
1 in eacn and every ?base of this whoie move3s,-as
the prc~!ii~etic
us in be;ie\-ini. *hat the - c time / ment from '43, to the present time, viz. At
of harvest " of the gospei age has cvmmenced, I each poinr. where we espected t r a ~ s l a t i o n ,
Christ [Link] be here.-"In
the tirne of 1lar / there iias, of necessitv, been a premarure arves: i \xi11 saz to die rezperq." etc. (31 >tt. rangement. or [Link] of events. HOW
I :0 ) . Anairi. in the a s t e r n oi pnraiiels 1 could we expect translation, unless all the
, events due hefore transiation, couid beincorbetween the Jewish mid gospei c~ispencatio~~s,
we taugilt that Jesus came '13 n sin oifering porated into our appiications? In 1 U 3 we
at his b ~ r r h ,as r e a p - , a t !,is baptisn;: a n d haci nll the events oi tile whole f ' d a oi tile
as [Link] prior to his crucifixion. T h u s Lord." crowded into a nucsi~eil,as i~ were.
making three stages, at tile first advent. , A n d so, as the movement iias gone on, aiid
S o w , tile pamileis, (*so we said), demand light has increased. there has been less and
three s:agtts , (no more, n o lessj, a t Iiis sec- less of this crowding of events; because, as
ond c o r n ~ i ~ ~ : - - Xt sh r scapegoat, at the enti tile movement was hifilied. t h e increased
of the " 0 9 t1a.r~.or in lS4i ; a, reap?, in light enabled us to detect those p;arts wiiicil
the :Lntu:rtn ot l>7i : and as killl/, in tile were spurinus. ,4nd so, as racii prlase oi the
span: of 1s::: : a n t i n i l ~ c i l three stages 1 movement has p s s e d , those wito h a v e been
s / ~ ~ Ih?a L
r e~cornpiered
J
t h e sec>olzd comin2, in a posiiioli to do so, have seen d i e zreat
if tile parililcls r v e r ~perfect,
~
nnii our appil- tan21ed web or coniusiol~, mixed with t h e
crrfio17corl-ett, (:is or11 breti~ren,whose ianlps little truth we iiad in 1843, gradua!ly unfbid
went o u t mhtn the )c,?zr+ otc!?p+/ ut '. oil " was and fall into a true Scri1,turai-position.
T l ~ i serrand readiustirlg nmonp t h e ciosins
require(i in tile spring of l r i k , still claim).
B u i unfortun:ttel!--i(,r them. tiiat 1)arucui:tr featuresniici details of each a n u e v e r p argun;.rar:[Link] ot paraiit.i,, and ; u I\ ilicll they, ment, (.tnd this of t h e parnilels, is no excep~ : L \ . ~ T I ; 110 ncivancei; licllt,
- srrll ciing, has a tionj. cannot oi course, be so f d y appreci-
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ated bv those
parativelv n e r
aspiring :he!%
as jeauers. :.
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a n d that of
ties. as ail k.3
shir, on the pi
tabcmacic, .Atar, its cnnr
etc. : and t i r t
E a c h aiso en&
separation. a d v e n ~of CT h a t thesg 1
in t ! l e m s e i ~ ~ s
a good of l
to the encii;
doubt : but tiia
our applicarioni
t o grow ins
sitions, is r-There are r j
leis are dm=&
between t
advent of :n,
tures, that is.
a n d proph - d
required t
C
,
in of tile 11i;i1 priest : washing his flesi~,j fatal --r,eaknes, viz. It makes three stares of
<
wi~icil
those which
have to w -
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