Wendell: evidences for the Lord’s coming “this year, 1873”

Present Truth, or, MEAT IN DUE SEASON. By J. WENDELL, Edenboro, Pa. Giving some of the Evidences for the Coming of our Lord and Saviour, this year, 1873. To which is added an Essay on “THE END.” “The wise shall understand.” Understand what? The principles of godliness in the heart, is the ready answer of many. But Daniel says, “I understood not.” Were not the principles of godliness understood by him? Certainly not, if they were what the wise were to understand. What, then, were they to understand? By consulting Dan. 12. and the preceding chapters, it will be clearly seen that the time when the events predicted should take place is what they would understand. No other reasonable interpretation can be given, or meaning attached to the expression under consideration. But was not Daniel a wise man, and more capable of understanding the time than any one in this day? True, Daniel was a wise man; but wise as he was, he could not tell future events, only as they were revealed unto him: and as certain events were to mark the commencement and termination of certain times named in the prophecy, and as those events did not occur in Daniel’s day, of course he could not tell when the times would commence and terminate. But those not as wise as Daniel, living after the occurrence of the events which marked the commencement of the times, and knowing how to reckon prophetic time, could understand the matter, and very accurately calculate when those times would end.