The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-10
MILLER WAS AWAY OFF
He Figured Out a Problem Only to
Meet Disappointment.
DID NOT MAKE THE ASCENT
william Pot In ~ Years Of Earnest
Study and BeguiIed $4,000 Ad-
herents Into the Belief That
the Day Would Soon Come.

BUTTE, April 9.-About 60 years ago
William Miller began preaching in New
York state the near approach OF the mil
lennium and second coming of Christ. He
appointed the 10th day of the seventh
month of the year 1874 as the time for the
fuIfllment of his prophesies. He sue
ceeded in talking about $1,000 people into
believing as he did. When the seventh
month approached they gave themselves
up to watching and waiting. They sowed
no more, neither did they reap, but
simply waited for the end OF time, and
when the 10th day came and went there
were so, 900 people disappointed and prob
ably $1,000 more who werc not ready for
the event brcathed easier. The next day.
II is written, the wicked boys on the
streets laughed at Miller and his follow
ers and asked them: why did not you
go up yesterday"
Elder Palmer of Bozeman, one of the
Seven Day Adventist revivalists who are
holding meetings in Butte, preached an
interesting sermon this evening on "The
Mistakes of Miller" and explained how
that early New York millennarian hap
pened to get a little off in his dates. Ac-
cording TO Elder Palmer, William Miller
was in early life an iniidel and then he
put IL solid years on it. He read the
prophesies of Daniel and compared them
with the revelations. The Bible told him
that at the end of $500 years, beginning
456% years before Christ, there would be a
cleansing of the sanctuary and he figured
it out that that meant that time should be
no more, as told in Revelations. The end
of the 2,3o0 came in 1874 and Miller selec-
ted the day of atonement, on the 10th day
of the seventh month as the exact time.
Miller was Baptist. the Baptists en-.
dorsed him and looked for the coming OF
the end. but when the day passed by with
out fulfillment of the prophesy they
called him q crank. Elder Palmer said
that Miller was all right in his figures but
wrong in their application. Ii was not
the earthly sanctuary that the prophesy
referred to. but the heavenly sanctuary.
The date fixed by Miller for the end of
time was the end of the prophetic period,
and on that date court convened in
heaven and the cleansing of the records
began there. Cases were called for trial
beginning with the first dead, probably
with Abel and the case of each man was
called for review and trial, and when the
cases of all the dead are disposed of the
cases of the living will be called.
The world is now in the anti-typical
days of atonement. Christ Is in heaven
as a mediator, and as long as he is there
pleading, the judgment of the court will
be tempered with mercy. but whom he
steps aside and returns TO earth, there
will be no more mercy and the wrath of
the Lord will DO unmixed with mercy and
there will be no more pardons and no APP
pcals for the wicked. Elder Palmer said
that since the close of the prophetic
period no one could predict what would
happen and that any one who attempted
to fix the period for the end of the world
or for the second coming of Christ simply
made fool of himself and displayed his
ignorance.
The Seventh Day Adventists do not fix
a time, hut they believe that the time is
near. Nearly every other denomination,
however, has fixed the time at some
period or other. The Catholics had the
end of the world fixed for the year 1000,
and deeds, contracts and other papers
drawn up in that year read that they were
drawn in the last year. The elder said il
was only the wise men who knew that the
end of time was approaching. 1t was not
necessary to be educated to be wiss. but
wisdom was required TO apply knowledge.
Tomorrow evening Elder Stone will
preach a sermon and give further proof,
from the Adventist view, of the approach
inc end of the world.