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  • Emperor of Rome, became the patron of the church, her hierarchy, tired of figuring upon them, secured a long respite from that troublesome subject by claiming to have made other calculations, which put off the time of fulfillment to the year 1000; and from history we learn when the time arrived the whole of Christendom was fearfully agitated upon the subject: Since then every generation has been vexed with the fallacies of second adventism; and the facts of the case justify the charge that the clergy, by teaching that the prophecies refer to events yet to occur, are perpetuating a most stupendous fraud upon Christendom, and an earnest and efficient protest should be inaugurated against the further agitation of the monstrous delusion of second adventism, which is frightening thousands of weak-minded people into insanity and causing a vast amount of social distress.

    Astral Worship J. H. Hill

  • But the solemn pretensions to divine revelation, mixed with elements borrowed from the prevalent revivalism, and from the immediate-adventism which so easily captivates excitable imaginations, drew a number of honest dupes into the train of the knavish leaders, and made possible the pitiable history which followed.

    A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897

  • In one age men cure diseases by potable gold and strengthen their faith by a belief in witches, in another they substitute animal magnetism and adventism.

    The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Edward Eggleston 1869

  • Halle page 296 -- It was an unpardonable offense [original has offence] page 335-immediate adventism [original has hyphen between words] page 353 -- gendered strifes that still delay the reintegration [original has redintegration] page 427 -- _Requerimiento_ [original has Requirimiento] of the

    A History of American Christianity Leonard Woolsey Bacon 1868

  • But the solemn pretensions to divine revelation, mixed with elements borrowed from the prevalent revivalism, and from the immediate adventism which so easily captivates excitable imaginations, drew a number of honest dupes into the train of the knavish leaders, and made possible the pitiable history which followed.

    A History of American Christianity Leonard Woolsey Bacon 1868

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