Some mistakenly think that Mrs. White indicated that Christ will come at midnight. A careful reading of the statement in Early Writings, page 285, and The Great Controversy, pages 635, 636, reveals that God's people are "at midnight" delivered from the death sentence, and events from that hour happen rapidly until, according to The Great Controversy, page 640, "Soon there appears in the east a small black cloud, about half the size of a man's hand."