would sustain me."(602)

Thus he persevered in his labors until the message of the judgment had
been carried to a large part of the habitable globe. Among Jews, Turks,
Parsees, Hindoos, and many other nationalities and races, he distributed
the word of God in these various tongues, and everywhere heralded the
approaching reign of the Messiah.

In his travels in Bokhara he found the doctrine of the Lord's soon coming
held by a remote and isolated people. The Arabs of Yemen, he says, "are in
possession of a book called 'Seera,' which gives notice of the second
coming of Christ and His reign in glory; and they expect great events to
take place in the year 1840."(603) "In Yemen ... I spent six days with the
children of Rechab. They drink no wine, plant no vineyard, sow no seed,
and live in tents, and remember good old Jonadab, the son of Rechab; and I
found in their company children of Israel, of the tribe of Dan, ... who
expect, with the children of Rechab, the speedy arrival of the Messiah in
the clouds of heaven."(604)

A similar belief was found by another missionary to exist in Tartary. A
Tartar priest put the question to the missionary, as to when Christ would
come the second time. When the missionary answered that he knew nothing
about it, the priest seemed greatly surprised at such ignorance in one who
professed to be a Bible teacher, and stated his own belief, founded on
prophecy, that Christ would come about 1844.

As early as 1826 the advent message began to be preached in England. The
movement here did not take so definite a form as in America; the exact
time of the advent was not so generally taught, but the great truth of
Christ's soon coming in power and glory was extensively proclaimed. And
this not among the dissenters and non-conformists only. Mourant Brock, an
English writer, states that about seven hundred ministers of the Church of
England were engaged in preaching this "gospel of the kingdom." The
message pointing to 1844 as the time of the Lord's coming was also given
in Great Britain. Advent publications from the United States were widely
circulated. Books and journals were republished in England. And in 1842,
Robert Winter, an Englishman by birth, who had received the advent faith
in America, returned to his native country to herald the coming of the
Lord. Many united with him in the work, and the message of the judgment
was proclaimed in various parts of England.

In South America, in the midst