Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-03-18
Mlllenlal Dawn.

You don't remember when the Ad
ventists or Millerites" as they yer.
mora frequently called, produced &
States '.You were too young tc
havs felt the thrill of the excitement
of that time. Every county bad them
Juniata county hal a good m,ny
In Tuscarora Valley, they had a
meeting place in al old mill. OLa
night wag who WAS a genuine res
urrectionist, who believes in the res.
direction day, but who knows that
finite man cannot measure mans
time with Gods time or who cannot
measure the time of the universe with
the time OF the earth no mora than a
man can measure the ocean with a
quart pot. Well that wag had hid
Ill the mill before the Aiven lists
came, and after listening to their
speeches and talk, hs sst the mill in
motion. The effect upoa the Ad-
vsntists can better be imagined than
described in brief notice for news
papsr. They thought they had made
q miscalculation Of the tIms, and that
time had besn then called, and they
raA out to be translated 1 don'r
know but if 1 should search Tusca-
r)ra Valley, 1 might b. abe to fnd a
few who were in the old mill thai
night"
Our older citizen continued: you
don't remember a railroader named
Frederick Espenschsde, an uncle of
Sir. Frederick E.penschade of Milf.
tiintown. At the time of the .Nilien-
isl Dawn time of the Millerites, Es
perFcha6e was a locomotive engi-
Reer on the railroad between Phlla
de!phia and Lancaster. He was q
level headed man, and like the Tus
csrora man, who routed the Miller-
itss out of the old mill, he knew tha.
nsu's time reckoned by the revolu
tioDs of the earth around the sua is
not the time with which t. count
Gods coming events that sra meas |
ured by the time of the unive. Sc, and !
Therefore, he too, vas adisheliever in |
the doctrines OF the Adven.ists and |
PARTICULAR Y in the ;ime they Lad sci
for the Millenial Dawn He believed
III the Scriptures, that it is not given
to man to find out when the great
events are to take place, thai are set !
in Gods ISLANDER, and that inducsd (
him TO make sport of the false and |
dcluded prophets.
While he pittied them for their de-
lusion or halucination, he could not
help but crafty his desire to excite
them On the eventful morning when /
thsy expected to put on their ascen-
sion robes and go to heaven, and
leave the wicked unbeiievirg people !
on the earth to be dealt with after
wards. He had the genius to know
how to produce n sensation all along
the railroad route. He had great
horn made, the small end of which
tit place on the engine from which
he could turn into or :urn steam out
of it al will. That horn with steam
going through it, was n sumner.
No fog horn ever eqIa!ed it, and on
the morning of Ascension day bsfore
daylight, when he was several miles
out ui Phlladelpbla and when he
turned steam into the horn, it arous-
ed the people far and near. The
Millerites thought it was Gabriei's
horn. The effect along the railroad
was almost marvellous. The ascsn-
sionists rushed to their meeting
places to answer the summons of tile
trump of the Archangle only to be
disappointed as the sound of Espen-
schade's horn ever and anon broke
tbs stiffness miles away, and gradu-
ally died out entirely in the distance
1t was not long till all the paopls un-
derstood the cause of the unusual
trumpet sounds that seemed to come
from the sky on the morning of the
Nillerite ascension day, and grelt
was the merrimsnt Of the un5elievers
and great the disgust Of the Miller
ties. The rsilroad officials were not
tainted with the Millerite nonsense,
bat they looked upon Espenschade's
fun as a little too much levity for the
dignity of the corporation to put up
with, and ne was suspended for some
time.