The eighteenth century roll of prophetic witnesses is closed with the testimony of a college president, a college librarian, several preachers, and lastly the president of Yale whose tenure spanned the latter years of the French Revolution and the close of the 1260 years. The continuity of evidence is remarkable, and the luminous Daystar of the returning premillennial advent hope reappears in the midst of the heavy pall of postmillennialism that had spread over the New World as well as the Old. PFF3 227.1