1920 PREMILLENNIAL PROPHECY. Hand-Painted 8 Foot Canvas Chart on Second Advent. Rare!

An absolutely irreplaceable and tactile piece of ephemera dating to the 1920's. The present chart was created by Elmer G. Marsh [1880-1972].  Marsh was a leader in the God's Revivalist branch of the Methodist Holiness movement founded by Martin Wells Knapp. He attended his first God's Bible School camp meeting in 1910 and enrolled at the school the same year. An earnest student, especially of prophecy and the doctrine of holiness, he graduated in 1912 and immediately began teaching.  He also began traveling and teaching at camp-meetings on the subject of prophecy, the second coming of Christ, and current events' place in the prophetic timeline. As he was wont to say, "God's clock keeps perfect time." This likely would have traveled with him, been tied up with rope on the platform, and used as his teaching aid throughout the 1920's and 1930's.  And here, the uniquely American roots of the Methodist and Methodist holiness movements are evident. Martin Wells Knapp was originally from Albi