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Getting in the Wood. Lesson 40 “The Midnight Cry”. Two hundred years ago in America, most people kept warm with a fire. Katie & Ian. If your home had several rooms, often there was a fireplace in each main room. Alijoyy. Steve Elgersma.
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Getting in the Wood Lesson 40 “The Midnight Cry”
Two hundred years ago in America, most people kept warm with a fire.
If your home had several rooms, often there was a fireplace in each main room.
In America at this time, people also cooked over a wood-burning fire.
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When canopy beds were used, it was mainly to help one stay warmer during the night.
By 1914 things were changing. Radiator heat was beginning to be used among the wealthy, and electricity became available within some cities.
Text Ian Turk Everybody loved radiator heat!
But something still had to heat the water in the radiators. Sometimes it was coal.
But at the Pittock Mansion in Portland, Oregon, it was wood!
Michael Henley Pittock Mansion, Portland, Oregon, finished in 1914
To stay warm in the winter and to be able to cook food, you had to plan ahead.
In 1843 and 1844, many people were preparing for the second coming of Jesus--they devoted time and energy to their own personal preparation and to telling others about it. They believed they understood Daniel 8:14 correctly and, therefore, had no reason to harvest their potato crops or do other things normally done at that time of the year. They were greatly disappointed, and most people stopped believing in the soon return of Jesus.
Joshua Himes, for example, walked away from the Advent believers and became an Episcopal minister. William Miller could not understand that the sanctuary to be cleansed was actually the heavenly sanctuary. But a few people remained loyal to a soon-appearing Saviour, and from them grew the Seventh-day Adventist Church.