1. 1 Getting in the Wood Lesson 40 “The Midnight Cry” Lesson 40 “The Midnight Cry”

2. 2 Two hundred years ago in America, most people kept warm with a fire.

3. 3 Katie & Ian

4. 4 If your home had several rooms, often there was a fireplace in each main room.

5. 5 Alijoyy

6. 6 Steve Elgersma

7. 7 In America at this time, people also cooked over a wood-burning fire.

8. 8 Donna62

9. 9 Kheel Center,Cornell University

10. 10 NeenahHistory

11. 11 And many areas of the world still use wood stoves.

12. 12 Costa Rica Arturo Sotillo

13. 13 Nepal Chris de Rham

14. 14 International Rivers

15. 15 When canopy beds were used, it was mainly to help one stay warmer during the night.

16. 16 Richard White

17. 17 donielle

18. 18 Thomas Ault

19. 19 imperialroom.jpg

20. 20 By 1914 things were changing. Radiator heat was beginning to be used among the wealthy, and electricity became available within some cities.

21. 21 David Numan

22. 22 cliff reppart

23. 23 Everybody loved radiator heat! Text Ian Turk

24. 24 But something still had to heat the water in the radiators. Sometimes it was coal.

25. 25 Aaron Muderick

26. 26 But at the Pittock Mansion in Portland, Oregon, it was wood!

27. 27 Pittock Mansion, Portland, Oregon, finished in 1914 Michael Henley

28. 28 The basement of the mansion

29. 29 To stay warm in the winter and to be able to cook food, you had to plan ahead.

30. 30 Francis Eatherington

31. 31 John O’Neill

32. 32 Virginia Guard Public Affairs

33. 33 Marek Tomaszewski

34. 34 The Forest History Society

35. 35 Iain Turner

36. 36 Tony Hisgett

37. 37 nyweb2001

38. 38 The U.S. National Archives

39. 39 Peretz Partensky

40. 40 Eva Funderburgh

41. 41 evelyn

42. 42 WHardcastle

43. 43 Andrew Pescod

44. 44 Cliff Muller

45. 45 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.

46. 46 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.