The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

Professor Bush’s Testimony

Professor Bush said: “Whoever attacks Mr. Miller on his point of time, attacks him on his strongest point. His time is right; but he is mistaken in the event to occur.” Bush was a believer in the conversion of the whole world before the coming of Christ. His theory was that the millennium would begin in 1844. GSAM 111.3

The ministers of the advent faith taught in their public discourses that the world’s history showed the various nations to be in just the condition symbolized by the image of Daniel 2, when the stone was to smite the image on the feet, and the God of heaven set up his kingdom; and in chapter 7, when “the kingdom and dominion and greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to the saints of the Most High.” They also called attention to the fact that the signs—physical, political, and moral—were just what the Scriptures foretold would be seen when the Lord was about to appear. GSAM 111.4