At that time there was much expectation in the public mind that the Savior might soon appear, the public mi brain whirling and I began to investigate. I went to work in the Chicago public library and I dug out my lecture on the "Second Coming." As a result of that investigation I went to work and wrote my lecture. Theidea of that lecture is briefly this: That the second coming of Christ ocourred on the destruction of Jerusalem, in the clouds directly over Jerusalem; that it was an event in the spiritual world, and that the destruction of Jerusalem was the outward sign of his coming. I hold that ]hteen centuries the churches have all in error in supposing the second coming of Christ to be in the future. That is the proposition on which my lecture was written, and that was the result of three of four years' investigation on that subject.
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