95 pages nor was it published in several numbers, so that I did not know what those “signs of the times” were, to which Noyse has reference, except that Joshuah Himes, the head of the Millerite imposition was publishing at that time a paper, entitled “Signs of the Times,” and since he announced, that he would publish also such views regarding Christ’s coming, which were not in accordance with the views of his sect, I expected to open the door to the circulation of our message of Peace through that paper.  I wrote therefore a preparatory article, in which I touched only such matters as that sect of adventurists could bear.  And that my article was published in that paper.  But when I offered the second article which touched nearer the Millerites’ absurdities and follies, expecting Christ on the clouds and other paraphernalia, he refused to publish it, and is yet deceiving his disciples, although in the year 1840 opportunity was given to Millerites, to come out from their dreadful delusion.  Whether Joshuah Himes was the first who misrepresented in so dreadful a manner our message[S], or Noyse perverted what the other deceiver published, they may decide; because the other is also a dreadful deceiver, who had opportunity to communicate to his readers our disclosures concerning Christ’s Coming, but he refused to publish our article.  But to the conclusion of this treatise Noyse belongs.

On the 5th of January, 1837, at 5 o’clock P.M.  I received from a Heavenly messenger the order to prepare for starting to America.  But at that time I did not know more than that in this country preparations were to be made for establishing the promised peaceable reign of Christ on earth.  But my extraordinary mission commenced to be made manifest after the events which happened A.D. 1838 in connexion with my mission and which are explained in my above mentioned three German volumes.  Instead of having studied those volumes and then reported accordingly, there came such ambassadors of darkness as we have here a specimen of John H. Noyse.  Greater impudence could not be expected than to write about me without having studied my books in which I have published what should have been translated from the German also In other languages.  In the third volume it is shown, where Swedenborg, Wm. Miller and others stand, who wrote before me on the second Coming of Christ.  But before I undertook to write about their standing, I read their books; then I have shown, how parties and sects, each in their own way have given testimony to our mission.  The principal of those parties have been mentioned in my third volume, which was published A.D. 1840.  But John H. Noyse and his sect were not at that time so famous as to having been brought to my notice.  At length a “noise” of his existence came to me in the following manner: