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forward by the ex-President, John Quincy Adams, in one of the houses of
Congress, the House unanimously granted to me the use of the Congress
Hall for a lecture, which I delivered on a Saturday, honored with the
presence of all the members of Congress, and also of the bishop of
Virginia, and of the clergy and citizens of Washington. The same honor
was granted to me by the members of the government of New Jersey and
Pennsylvania, in whose presence I delivered lectures on my researches
in Asia, and also on the personal reign of Jesus Christ.”—Ibid., pages
398, 399.
Dr. Wolff traveled in the most barbarous countries without the
protection of any European authority, enduring many hardships and
surrounded with countless perils. He was bastinadoed and starved, sold
as a slave, and three times condemned to death. He was beset by robbers,
and sometimes nearly perished from thirst. Once he was stripped of all
that he possessed and left to travel hundreds of miles on foot through the
mountains, the snow beating in his face and his naked feet benumbed by
contact with the frozen ground.
When warned against going unarmed among savage and hostile
tribes, he declared himself “provided with arms”—“prayer, zeal for
Christ, and confidence in His help.” “I am also,” he said, “provided with
the love of God and my neighbor in my heart, and the Bible is in my
hand.”—W.H.D. Adams, In Perils Oft, page 192. The Bible in Hebrew
and English he carried with him wherever he went. Of one of his later
journeys he says: “I ... kept the Bible open in my hand. I felt my power
was in the Book, and that its might would sustain me.”—Ibid., page 201.
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, Hindus, 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.

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