Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-04-23
Age Of the Would

lCopy Of letter to Sylvester bliss, Ed. Adynt Herald
Mr. HINES Seeing that one of the princi-
pal pillars of the doctrine of the soon coming
of the Lord is the age of he world. | desire to
look into that subject i...lr. | am aware
that Mr. Miller figured tho age Of the world to
be 5000 years in y d. 1913, and YOU then in
dorscd that opinion Your doctrine then was
and now is, that the Second Advent of the
Lord viii take place when the world is 5000
years old. This makes it a matter of the ut
most Importance to Adventi5ts, if not to cv-
cry one, to know when the world will attain
that age, if it has not already done so ; and it
certainly has not yet done so, or the doctrine
of the Advent at that time is wholly hum
uug. And that event has not vet tran
spircd, it proves Enthusiastically that Mr. Miller
was wrong in 1910 in figuring out the age of
the world to be 5000 years in 1913, and that
you were not only wrong then, but that YOU
are yet 50, for you are still saving, The
world IS NOR about 5000 wears old And So
you and your followers will probably coutin-
uc to say for more than hundred wears to
come. The world was obD,t 6O00 years old IN
1915 is about 600O wears old now: and Will
be about 5000 years old when YOU and your
grands0ns are 05Ot dying with old age. But
let me advert more particularly to your own
words When together at Mr. Scott's in So,
aad about starting off to night meeting, You
asked me if l could tell you by the Dominical
letters when the world would be 5000 years
old? | told YOU that | could and sand it
then lacked IA years of being that old You
replied: " | will row vou up Salt river to-
night" So We started offup Salt river " to-
you pulling manfully at the "ars and telling
what Paul said, acts IS; 2O,) but presently
You stranded on the shoals of | Kings, 6; l.
You looked about Tor deeper water, and at
length you found it, or imagined YOU found It,
in some old copy of tho Bible, which, you said,
read Hcc hundred and eighty, instead OF tour
hundred and eighty. This seemed to answer
your purpose for the time, and was in perfect
keeping with what YOU said in 1912, in reply
to a question put to Miller by the A'o'ora, in
the following words: : BY what authority docs
he make it III years from the Exodus to the
building Of the Temple, when il is expressly
said Il Kings vi. l, that it was 4So ycaIs I? E."
our reply then was He does not. The
AHOrH will please look again. He makes
what he gives from the authority referred TO
IN the table. JAMS Hebrew Commonwealth
shows the $50 wears of Kings, u. l, to have
been an error originating with some tran
scriber Pauls testimony, Acts Xiii, 20, al
lowing $50 years for the Judges, shows it to
be an error. The book of Judges, also in the
references given in Nj. Miller's table as also
Joscphus, all prove that period TO be errone-
Gus, and Miller rcorrect.-Nid'sighC Cry, No. D
This was your language in 1912, and thus
it seems to be yet. So it seems you are like
the man who once said, =" One error well per
sisted in is worth two truths poorly vindi-
Gated"
But what about the Millcr's table says
one. He makes the world to be 1901 years
old at the carrying away to Babylon.
Then in the Herald of Dec. 4th, 1858, YOU
say, When the decree went forth for the
restoration Of Jerusalem, that decree was
issued 25l5 years in the past, to which we
viii add 20 years for the captivity, and We
have the following result:
Age Of the world to the captivity 3561 years
No. Of years the captivity 23l5 "
Total age of the world in 1S5s.....-..--.. 52i6 "
Thus we have the sum total of 5246 years
for the present age Of the world, lin 1851
according to your own calculations, Il Ulcan
the Adyentsts,) which lacks 5i years of
5000, the number contented for by Miller in
1913, and which YOU then, IS years ago, said
was " correct"
Now, in order to show You how accurate
YOU are in what you say about the book of
Judges, Josephus. the $50 years of l. Kings
vi. /, &c, | have prepared the following
table