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The European Union in Prophecy
in power and glory was extensively proclaimed. And this not among the dissenters
and nonconformists 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 of barbarism and priest-craft, Lacunza, a
Spaniard and a Jesuit, found his way to the Scriptures and thus received the truth of
Christ's speedy return. Impel