Practica Prophetica

Advocates for Sunday allowed their zeal for their tradition to get the better of their scholarship, and misused the writings of the early church Fathers (100AD-300AD) in order to gather support for the idea that Sunday was an apostolical institution, observed immediately as a replacement for the Sabbath in the early church. Because of this, … Continue reading The Complete Testimony of the Fathers

This interesting article was written by Sylvester Bliss, a minister, editor, and author in the Millerite movement. Written in September 1844, shortly before the disappointment of October 1844, this booklet covers some of the history of the German Reformation under Martin Luther (taken from D’Aubigne’s History of the Reformation), and draws some parallels between that … Continue reading The Reformation: Yesterday & Today

God does not work miracles to exalt us.

William Miller was the man who began the Advent revival in America, in the late 1830’s to mid 1840’s. The two articles that make up this work were taken from a collection of Lectures, published in 1842. In this work, the seven churches of Revelation 2 and 3 are treated prophetically, as covering seven periods … Continue reading The Seven Churches of Revelation

Appearing in the 1908 Medical Missionary periodical, these articles cover the first 8 chapters of Genesis. It seems they were intended to cover the whole Bible, but the series was never finished. There are, however, some very nice gospel insights, and these studies contain the only explanation of the everlasting covenant spoken to Noah, in … Continue reading Through the Bible