The Great Second Advent Movement: Its Rise and Progress

Boquist’s Testimony

In the The Review and Herald, October 7, 1890, is a very interesting narrative in regard to the children’s preaching, written by O. Boquist himself. He says:— GSAM 141.1

“In the year 1843 a religious movement occurred among the people in Karlskoga Parish, in Orebro Laen. The leaders in this movement were children and young men, who were called ‘rapare.’ These preached with divine power, and proclaimed before the people, with great decision, that the hour of God’s judgment had come. GSAM 141.2

“In the fall of the same year, I, O. Boquist, then fifteen years of age, with another young man, Erik Walbom, eighteen years of age, became so influenced by this unseen power that we could in nowise resist it. As soon as we were seized by this heavenly power, we began to speak to the people, and to proclaim with a loud voice that the judgement hour had come, referring them to Joel 2:28-32 and Revelation 14:6, 7.” GSAM 141.3