Millennial Dawn 121 has been carried into the most hopelessly degraded and igno- rant sections of our planet by the most devoted and truly apostolic servants of Jesus Christ since the first century. For thirty years all special favor to the Gentiles has ceased! This in the face of the most fruitful years of missions for almost ten centuries. The Dawnists have matchless courage. For bald assertion their equals it would be hard to find. 7. The final consummation of the age will take place in October, 1914 . (Vol. II, p. 234, Vol. I l l , p. 153.) This date, 1914, as terminating absolutely the present order of things of the world, is taken as fixed beyond doubt or per- adventure. Dozens of times the writer of these books sets it down as positive and unalterable. He finds its parallel in the ministry and the rejection of the Saviour by the Israelites, A. D. 33 to A. D. 70, when Jerusalem’s overthrow occurred and the Jews went into an exile which still endures. So the “harvest”, or the final testing, runs from A. D. 1874 to 1914 when Gentile rule will be destroyed, Christendom be annihi- lated, all wrong end, and righteousness and peace fill the re- deemed world. I t is then that the Millennium, so long ex- pected and so long yearned after, finally comes and the planet celebrates its glad, its unending Jubilee! One grows weary of this everlasting attempt to fix chrono- logically the end of the age. For nearly a thousand years men, many of them devout and earnest Christians, have been quite sure that they had discovered the key of chronological prophecy and confidently announced the time of the end. Awhile before the year A. D. 1000 the world became panic stricken, for it was believed that date would coincide with the final judgment and world’s end. Miller, Cumming, El- liott, Dimbleby, Totten, and one does not know how many more, tried their hands at fixing the date of the consummation, on chronological and astronomical grounds ; they settled both day and date with exactness, and ignominiously failed, of
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