There was in the first place the
question as to whether the whole congregation should be told. He
found that he could not decide about this, and when he left the
judgment to Thurston, Thurston told him that, in his opinion, "the
less that they knew about it the better." It was then that the first
suspicion came to him as to whether some of the Saints "doubted." He
questioned Thurston as to the effect of this message upon the
Saints. Thurston explained to him that "many of them had been very
troubled. They had not expected It to come so soon." Thurston
explained that they were, after all, only poor human clay like the
rest of mankind, and to prepare for a Second Coming in general,
something that might descend upon the world, say, in a hundred
years' time, was very different from a Judgment that might be
expected, definitely, in about three weeks. One or two of them, in
fact, had left the Chapel. Others begged for some clearer direction:
"Give it them a bit more clearly, Master. Tell 'em a few facts what
the Lord God looked like and 'ow He spoke and in what kind of way He
was coming. Supposing He wasn't to come after all .
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