The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

The Message in Holland

The doctrine of the second advent was proclaimed in Holland by Hentzepeter, said to have been at that time, the ablest minister in that country. He was keeper of the Royal Museum at The Hague, under the appointment of the king. He says of himself, in a letter written to the editor of the Midnight Cry, in June, 1844, that his attention was first called to the subject by a very impressive dream. He investigated the Scriptures on the subject, and in the year 1830 published a pamphlet setting forth the doctrine. In 1841 he published another pamphlet on the end of the world. In the same letter he says the first information he received in regard to William Miller and the others who were proclaiming publicly the doctrine of the near approach of Christ, was in 1842, by conversing with a man who had come to Holland from America. GSAM 104.1