This
needs verification or refutation.
After
a failed prediction general among Advent Christians that Christ would come in 1885,
most pointing to January that year. “Rev. Mr. Sergisson, an Advent Preacher of
Philadelphia” was interviewed by a newspaper. The interview was republished in The
Beverly Banner. Sergisson reviewed Adventist history, discussing the
influence of “Time-ists,” saying:
“Many
such cases have thinned our ranks; perhaps Nelson H. Barbour’s prediction of
1873 caused the loss of as many as others. Barbour was a hatter’s clerk in Rochester,
N. Y. His story was that an angel appeared to him in a vision while at sea and
imparted to him the hour at which the world should end. Then the angel bade him
tell all men what he had seen. He declared that the end would come in a certain
day in April 1883 [sic. a Typesetter’s Error for 1873.] He had many opponents
among the ministry, still thousands flocked to him.”
Can
we establish or refute the claim that Barbour was for a while a ‘hatter’s clerk’?
Can
we establish or refute the claim that Barbour saw a vision?
If
we can do neither, what do you see as most probable?
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2 comments:
Did Sergisson leave behind any published writings or interviews that elaborate? Don't know much about Barbour but I would zero in on the source of the statement.
Without any corroborating evidence to support the connection to being a hatter’s clerk, I wonder if the story is a lie to denigrate Barbour. The phrase ‘mad as a hatter’ comes to mind, with all its etymology and historical significance.
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