Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-04-22
FAILED 10 MATERIALIZE.
How the New Jerusalem Did Not Put
In an Appearance at Chicago as
Expected.
Chicago Tribune, April y.

GulcEEO 1EluuucB
The Adventists did not wear particu-
larly jubilant look yesterday, although still
continuing in the faith. Elder Thurman
has been uneasy for a couple Of days past.
According to his reckoning, the battle Of
AmageddOn should have begun before this.
He expected fighting to begin on the 18th
inst, and has been troubled at the Obsti-
nately peaceful condition Of affairs. And
then, again, Matthew xiv. 80, says: And
then shall appear the sign Of the Son Of
Man in heaven; and then shall all the
tribes Of the earth mourn. They have
been somewhat troubled about the delay
in appearance of that sign, and considera-
bic nervousness and anxiety was manifest
in their manner. But ifthey were little
nervous for fear that after all it might not
be, there were a great many more who were
nervous for fear it would. Persons Of the
| Adventist belief have been applied to a
great deal recently for information on the
subject, and the Book Of Daniel has been
cOnned studiOusly. A good many people
said their prayers last night with extraor-
dinsry ferVOr, and resigned themselves to
sleep with some perturbation Of feeling.
The Adyentists have been receiving acces-
sions to their number all during the past
week. Yesterday morning, three persons
were
| DIPPED IN THE LAKE,
and thus received into their communion.
| To be plunged face downward three times
/ IN ies-eold water is an unpleasant ordeal,
and with the high wind and heavy wash of
| yesterday the ceremony was very severe to
the flesh.
| Elder Thurman secluded himself from
/ al
/ Of the time to earnest, agOniZing entreaty
70 God. The majority of them during the
| morning and afternoon were gathered to-
| gether at their place Of meeting, No. 10
| Desplaines street. They sat about the
room with their dinner-baskets and other
impedimenta, presenting a rather spiritleSs
! appearance. The front of the hall is par
/ titioned Off for the residence of family
and here dinner was cooked and a table
/ spread, at which they ate. Children ran
| about, played and squal ed, and, although
/ together, the company looked more like
party Of emigrants than a company of
| saints awaiting the coming Of their Lord.
| They were greatly annoyed by continual
| invasion on the part Of Sight-seers. The
| nymphs who reside along Hasted and
/ other streets in the vicinity sailed in,
stared, and giggled. The railroad hands
| made it a lOunging place and were often
| rude and offensive in their department.
| They bore all these annOyances with great
meekness, however, and cOmforted them
selves with thoughts Of their approaching
| triumph.
The aged, white haired woman wEO has
been such a conspicuous figure at their
| gatherings shook her withered head at some
| of the intrudeTs, and said, "YOu may scOff
/ now, but tonight you will be dumb with
/ fear and trembling" The children dis
played a fluency in the use of scriptural
/ phraseolOgy that would have delighted
| Brother Hammond, had that converter Of
| the infantile heart been present. One the
| OlOgian Of or made himself conspicuous
/ by his parOt-like iteTatiOns OF opinions in
! regard 20 tie approaching event.
Notwithstanding the depression Of feeling
that was manifest, there were
CONVERTS
almost up to the last hour. At $50 some
| of the brethren consulted together in re-
| gard to three persons who wished to be
/ baptized. They estimated that Christ
/ would appear at Jerusalem in about an
| hour and a half, and although it would not
/ be until midnight that this portion Of the
/ earth would roll around so as to come IN
der the seat Of His glory, it was a mOOted
/ point whether this difference Of time could
be held to count prior to His coming, and
so afford time in which persons could be
| still taken into the church by baptism, OF
whether the fact that He had actually come
/ to the earth would override all other con-
sideTatiOns. The Adventists showed them
| selves to De wise in their generation in not
| revealing the place where they were to hold
| their last supper on earth.
They believed that it would not grow
dark last night, as declared by the scrip
/ lures. 1t will be recolleCted that during
the thunderstorm, yesterday evening, there
/ was a peculiar yellow ligkt diffused
| through the air. This gave them fresh
/ heart and hope. This same thunderstorm,
! however, which lightened their hearts, sad
/ dened those Of hundreds OF others. There
were many nervous people who viewed
| with terror these darkening skies and fash
| lug lightnings. They were less inclined
to disbelief than the day before, and ac-
| tually began to imagine that there was
| something in Elder Thurman's calculations
after all, and that it might be we'll to
'smake their souls" The stOrm came up
| Just as the tOilers were returning home, and
the Second Advent was the only subject Of
! conversation on the cars. That little
| thunderstorm was of interest, in that it
showed how great is the reserve fund Of
| superstitiOus fear in the human breast. No
one can be found to-day who will own that
he satup till midnight, but there were un-
| dOubtedly many Of them.
The Adventists slipped off in order TO
avoid being bothered by the inevitable
mob of curious. They took the chairs at
| Stanley Hall, loaded them on a wagon
| driven by one Of the brethren, and sent
them of: The reporter, however, could not
/ afford to lose so peculiar a sight as that Of
| their solemn awaiting Of the Advent day,
and so set out in pursuit of them, with a
/ very uncertain clew. His labOrs were re-
| warded with success, and he finally dis
! covered them at Syea Hall, on the corner
of Wells and Superior streets. This place
is controlled by the Scandinavians, who
have contributed many adherents to the
| faith, and was obtained without difficulty,
which would not have been the case with
I the Catholic or many Of the German halls.
They needed a large room, since, including
the children, there were fully $50 Of them.
They had 70 eat the passover supper, for
which purpose a paschal lamb had been
procured some days previous, and hence a
long table had to be spread.
On the street door of the hall was the
! following warning, the last plea for a dy-
| ing world, quite as sincere as Noah's re-
marks to the antedeluYians who had no
| faith in that delUge.
CHICAGO, April 2O.-Frieuds God
loves you yet, although you are deceived,
and the only way for you now is to turn
back upon the old paths Jeremiah vi, 16),
and try to keep the Commandments Of
/ God and the faith of Jesus, and then you
/ might escape the condemnation that is
soon going to fall on a scOfing and sneer-
ing world. From a friend who wishes to
see you all on the right way that leads to
eternal life. Remember. Revelation xiv,
II and xii, II.
The multitude which had brought with
them their bread and wine were assembled
in the hall upstairs, Elder Thurman at the
head Of the long tables. After the wash
ing of feet, the eating of supper, etc,
which cannot now be fully described, they
knelt, waiting impatiently the coming of
midnight. It came, but did not bring with
It "the white robe and the palm" Still
they waited, prayeTfully expecting the
| opening heavens and the celestial array,
until it grew near dawn, when hope de-
serted them, and, dszed and stupefied by
the ruin Of their hopes, they scattered
among the houses Of their brethren.