The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-30
FIXING THE DATE.
Evangelist Allen Makes a
Prophecy.
THE MILLENNIUM IN 1890.
Figures 1t All Out by Lunar
and Solar Time.
49,
PROPER USES OF MOON AND sun
The Natural Chronology for Work.
ing Out All of the Biblical
Prophe cies.
PROPER USES OF MOON AND SUN

Rev. J. R. Allen. the evangelist, who / s
holding nightly meetings st the Lutheran
church on Mission street. is rather unique
in his way, and advances some theories
concerning religious matters that are novel
If not startling He claims to have figured
out the exact date upon which Jesus
Christ will reappear upon the earth. lie
does not contend that by wars panics.
shooting stars, yellow fever. hazy moons
and war stories atone is he able to fix the
exact date, but together with these numer-
GUS signs he employs arithmetic. Figures
cannot lie" be declares, land by means of
time and signs of times the exact period of
the millennium can be arrived at 1t is not
matter of guesswork," says this time
ologist..' "but the resurrection of Christ
can be ascertained and established by
adding up the years" AS for the milleD-
MUM. he says, that will occur in 1899.
Mr.. Allen is an evangelist of twenty
years standing and says lie halls from Hi
nois. He has 20 creed. When asked to
explain hew he arrived at these concln-
sions he said:
II prove the second coming of Christ
the same way that prove the other
prophecies of the Old and the New Tesla
lu6uks bIC CUiISCb as ~ lu6 Ol
years before their fulfillment. l discard
altogether the old system of chronology
and have made one of my own. The old
method mixes me all up and throws me
into state of confusion. Now, God in
the beginning of creation states that the
sun and moon were for time, and why
should we not use them in compiling our
biblical dates. The signs of the times tell
US when the time is about up. so that use
them in connection with my work on
prophecy,
Now to illustrate how / figured out q
prophecy. Take the first coming OF
Christ. In Daniel ix:25 it reads
Know, therefore, and understand, that
from the going forth of the command
asent to restore and to rebuild Jerusalem
unto the Messiah, the Prince, it shall be
seven weeks and three-score and two
weeks; the street shall be built again and
the wall even in troublesome times The
prophet is speaking here of week of
years and not week of days, 80 that time
in our language would be 489 years before
the coming Of the Messiah. In Ezra and
Nehemiah the same statement appears
again, but one chapter is written fourteen
years before the other. Here is a seeming
contradiction in Gods word. but my sys-
TEN Of chronology sells things right. The
one in Ezra is lunar time and the other one
IS solar time. You add 469 solar years to
each and you find Jesus standing in the
River Jordan and proclaimng that he is
the Christ and God. speaking from the
heaven: This is the beloved Son in whom l
am we'll pleased the Holy Spirit descend
ing from heaven Amounting him.
by means of solar and lunar time I am
able 20 avoid all mistakes and to verify all
my work. Here is where a great many
writer's fall into error. They forget that
God uses the moon in his time calcuIa-
tons But we are obliged to take him at
his word when he says that the sun and
moon are for time.
Il might 60 on and prove that the other
prophecies are correct in regard to time.
tine two times which / use in comput-
ing the second coming are the 5000 years
spoken of in the Old Testament. This be-
gins with creation and extends down to
1899 and TO the lime spoken of in the New
Testament in regard to the gentles.
Those too. one solar, the other lunar, will
connect in 1892