The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

Three Thousand Proclaiming the Message

Pastor G. W. Mitchel, of Zanesville, Ohio, another minister who himself proclaimed the doctrine, said to the writer in a conversation at Newark, Ohio, Aug. 8, 1894, that Elder William Miller told him, in a conversation at McConnellsville, Ohio, in September, 1844, that he had the “names and addresses of three thousand ministers in various parts of the globe who were proclaiming, ‘Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come,’ the greater portion of these being in North America and Great Britain.” GSAM 105.4

William Miller, in speaking of the extensive spread of this “cry,” said:— GSAM 105.5

“One or two in every quarter of the globe have proclaimed the news, and all agree in the time,—Wolff of Asia; Irving, late of England; Mason of Scotland; Davis of South Carolina; and quite a number in this region, are, or have been, giving the cry.” ¹¹ GSAM 105.6