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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. Impelled to give the warning, yet
desiring to escape the censures of Rome, he
published his views under the assumed name
of “Rabbi Ben-Ezra,” representing himself as
a converted Jew. Lacunza lived in the
