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Abstract:

In the early 19th-century there was world-wide and fervent expectation that during the 1840s the return of Christ would take place. Did this happen, or was it all a dream?

Notes:

See also another, older Index to Thief in the Night.

Text first distributed online in Ocean. This version adds formatting and proofreading by many people. Also available in Microsoft Word format. Also at archive.org/details/thiefinnightor00sear.

Thief in the Night:

The Case of the Missing Millennium

William Sears

London: George Ronald, 1961

Download: sears_thief_night.pdf.

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