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1. To write for the average reader, but in such detail and with such documentation as would meet the expectations of the scholar.

However, by midweek boats and trains brought delegations from the churches, fully doubling the number expected. The camp meeting planners faced a minor crisis.

The food provided was plain and substantial, but plentiful. Instead of the dozen people first expected, about 30 took their meals in the dining tent.

Sunday, April 23, 1893, she arose early—at half past three—to prepare the mail bound for Melbourne, expecting it to leave on Monday.

From Oakland she responded by telegram that she expected to be in Battle Creek August 4. That would be on a Wednesday ( The Review and Herald, July 29, 1880 ).

Monday he had a severe chill. Tuesday he did not rally as expected, but we thought the disease an attack of fever and ague [malaria], and supposed that it would soon yield to treatment ( Manuscript 6, 1881 ).

The next Monday, August 22, with her two daughters-in-law, Emma and Mary, Ellen left for Colorado, where she expected to spend a few weeks in retirement and rest and rejuvenation.

As I fully expect you will come, I will not write more regarding this matter. We shall make the best arrangements we know how for your entertainment (Ibid.).

… to expect Him in their day. “Let no man deceive you by any means” ( 2 Thessalonians 2:3 ), are his words of warning. Should they indulge expectations that were not sanctioned …

… , and expected to be changed to immortality. But they were destined to be again sadly disappointed. The time to which they looked, expecting deliverance, passed …