In the same number of the Midnight Cry, the editor said, “Davis’s book must have been written about 1810.” Speaking of the reasoning set forth in the book, he states, “The reader might really fancy himself reading the productions of Miller, Litch, Stores, or Hale, but we believe that no one of the present second advent writers knew of the existence of this book till last week. The editor of this paper [the Cry] never heard of it before. Davis’s position on time, endorsed by Mason, was that the twenty-three hundred days would end with the Jewish year 1843—our year 1844.” GSAM 87.1