The "Day-Dawn" of Canandaigua, New York: Reprint of a Significant Millerite Adventist Journal
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Abstract
The Day-Dawn, first published in Canandaigua, New York, in March 1845, was unknown to scholarshp in the twentieth century, except for four later issues and scattered secondary references.Enoch Jacobs, editor of the Day-Star, another Millerite paper, noted in his Apnl 15,1846 issue (p.36), that the Day-Dawn showed a "good spirit," though he didn't deem its contents much dfferent from several other contemporary Millerite Adventist papers.Jacobs's brief and enigmatic reference to the Dy-Dawn only whetted the interest of later scholars of Mdlerite Adventism to know exactly what the initial number of the Day-Dawn actually contained.But for most of the twentieth century, no extant copies of the inaugural issue of the Dq-Dawn were known.In April 1995, while going through microfilm copies of area newspapers at the Canandaigua, New York, Historical Society, I found, in the Ontario Messenger of November 1844, various references to, and one anonymous defense of, the Millerite position.To my great surprise, in the issue of March 26, 1845, I discovered that the entire back page of the Ontan' o Messenger contained the &st number of the Dg-Dawn.I suspect that the &st number of the Day-Dawn was printed as a broadside.Since the newspaper office had printed the Day-Dawn on a contract basis and already had the type set, the editor decided to include it on the last page of the newspaper as an item of interest.The bulk of the broadside was devoted to an article by Crosier suggesting that the answer to the October 1844 disappointment was a correct understandmg of the heavenly-sanctuary ministry of Jesus.'He tentatively suggested that Jesus had begun a special extended atonement in the heavenly sanctuary on the tenth day of the seventh month, the Day of Atonement accordmg to the Karaite calendar.A year later, Crosier set forth h s matured understanding in a seminal article, 'The Law of Moses," which took up an entire issue of the Dy-Star Extra, February 7,1846.His exposition of the earthly and heavenly sanctuaries became a major foundation of Seventh-day Adventist theology.But without the earlier exposition in the Day-Dawn, it was impossible to trace in detail the development of Crosier's sanctuary theology.The initial issue of the Day-Dawn, so long sought, is here republished for the &st time since 1845.Except for minor corrections, the publication appears just as it did on the back page of the Ontario Messenger, Canandaigua, Ontario County, New York, March 26, 1845.Following the Dq-Dawn is an article offering a preliminary assessment of its significance for Millerite Adventist history.' As a periodical, the Dg-Dmvn also contained a second article by T. F. Barry.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.045 | 0.007 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".