BE GLiB TIDINGS O]f THE ' KINGDOM AT HAND.
'
Weekly Numbers will be issued, if time ~ontinue, for Fifty Cents.
I. The word of God teoPtes tlutt tltis cart.~ is to be rcge-
Mf'al.ed, in the restitution of all thing~. resf{lrcd to ifs Eden
-~~ate, as it came {rom tM hands of its Maker b~fore the faU.
mt4 is to be tkc etcnzal ahorle of the right(ous i·n their re-
~-~twn si4te.
orlly Millenittm fmmd in tltc word of God 1's the
s~.a!.e
of the righteous in tile New Ea.rth, 1rl1crein
righteousness,
Tlte f'flly restora."i.on of Israel yet f lliure, is the 1·e-
of t'll.e sai11ls to the New Earth, w,icn the Lord my
M.aJJ, com~, and all his saint.s zvitlL kim,
IY. Tfte signs u:,\iclt 10ere to precede the coming of our
S'l.'Oior 1tpue all b~en givn; a?td the prophecies have a!l been
but tMse ?vlaick relate i<J the anning of Christ, tke
t:nd of this world, and the restitution of all tlti1tgs, A1Ul
Y. Tlwre are none of tlw f1Topltelic periods, as u·e 1tnder-
tAem, that extend beyond the year 1843,
olJove '"' slwJJ, ever maintain as the immutable truths
rcord of God; 4M IJ&trefl e, till ottr Lord CIJmt, toe
...
0,,...,_,,... ~--- Wokfor kU rdurn as next event in historical
OJ: 1>1FFERENCE BETWEEN US AND
. otlt 0\'PONENTS.
daim tMt tlte prfYJJ!tet:ies of Daniel and JoM& are
propll4t:ia, extmding to the end of time, ~ all
Atwe ll,eld, according to the 1t'}f.(/Qu/Md testi:nWnJ! of
R1J Oftr, day~ And we do no& see tlr.oJ, the e?Ul is
i.dlltiJt·wrm at tUl, if it i& 11.0t in these propltecics,
t/1 St61} the least, .Jemn 'll$ in douht whether
.im 11U been fulfilled in the past,
that the nin.fll. of Daniel i& an appendix to
and that the sevmt:y tce.eks, and tlw 2,300 days or
toge/Mr. Our fYJJpon.enlJ den?! this.
"EXCEEDING GREAT HORN" of Dan,
RO.VE, as all standard Protesta1tt CIJTil?ttenlldors
it fo&ws t!&aJ, tl&e 2,300 dtt?IS must be ?fears, And as
ria?Js extend f.o tM cleansing of the sanctuary, and
lilt JI'IJ.1 t.f'l:w'I'Tfl is to be desolaled to tlte e1ul of the world; if
begin. with tlte scvcnl?! ?ceeks, it follu!cs that 1ve have ap--
p1'ti.IIC/t.ed tM ver1J con:zu·nmatwn, and 'TIIQ:I) look daily for tlte
coming of the S:m of God.
THE ADVENT DEPOT
at ROCHES'fEit, N. Y., is now open in the Aa-
No. 17, up stairs, where Books on the Ad-
iD 1843 may be obtained, written by :Messrs.
Litcb, Fitch, Storrs, Hale, Fleming and
together with Hymn Books, Papers, Tracts,
&;c. All letters, or orders, should be di-
(post paid) to 1. V. H111U, Rochester, N.Y.
.-...·..w.w~-. please caD-We give to the pcor.
.
L. D. FLEMING, Aa't Editor.
MoNROE Co., N. Y.- TnuasDAY, JUNE 29, 1843. No.2.
out molestation, as 1\fr. Taylor generously tendered
the lot in Fitzhugh street free of charge.
'Vhat renders the conduct of l\Iessrs. Hall and
Thompson (who are proprietors of the Eagle Ho-
tel, by the way,) still more reprehensible is, that
they did not e.dvise the committee of their intentions
until the committe.e had expended much labor and
money in putting the lot in readiness.
The conduct ?f the proprietors of the "Eagle' 1
reminds us of the dog in the fable, who lost his
meat by catchii~g at his shadow.
If the multitudes of our friends who come in from
• THE GREAT TENT. the surmuuding country are wilHngto go so far from
We here present our readers with a Yery correct the encampment as the Eagle Hotsl now is, they will
vie\\; of our Tent.'V e have thought fit to do so, as have an opportn~ity of requiting good fo'r evil.
a great many varying accounts have been given,
and many have no correct idea of its appearance.
INTERESTING COINCiDENcE.
The centre pole, or mast, is about SIXTY feet; the It seems almost incredible that the following
posts at the sides, about 7 feet; the diameter is 120 could have been written and published in 1820, by
feet, making the circumference 330 feet. It contains Archibald l\Iasl)l!, minister of the Gospel in \Vis haw·
about 2,300 yards of duck cloth; and it is supposed ton, Scotland. 1s it not a wonderful coincidence,
that 5,000 people can get beneath its shade. Its en- that so many writers, without a knowledge or eaeb.
tire cost has been from GOO to 700 dollars. other,. c~tm~ tv the same conclusion about the same
On Saturday, the 24th inst., the very s~vPr<:> etorlll time? But to the extract:
of wind aQ.J} .rain uporienced in ffie city blew down " Having endeavored to fix the date of the '70:
our Tent, doing it much injury. At the time of its weeks, or 490 years, and having shown that ~
fall, Elder T. F. Barry was preaching; and not- 2,300 days, pr ye~r~. mpst eommence with them,
withstamhng a lal'ge con~(jg~ occupied the Tent the calculttion of t.he latter number may be
at the time of its fall, not an .individ.ila1i 80 far as we antt I hope sa~tpqly~ The ~00
began 490 b~~ M.cl'eatli of our Lord
can learn, was .injured . Christ, and 457 years before his birth, at which the
We had almost abandoned the iata o~recting Christian era commenced. Iffle subtract 4~'1' from
the Tent again in this city, owing to the expenses 2,30_0, the rrmaindcr will give that year in t!Jc Chris ..
incurred in doing it, which would now be much in- tian era when the 2,300 years will expire. By tWa
creased by the r~pairs that would be necessary to put simple operation, we find this number will eb~ in
1843. IN THAT YEAR. the Lord's sanctuary, shall
on to it. But the deep interest which a large and
be cleansed, the church and the nations 'Yill 11e de-
respectable portion of the citizens have evinced in livered from the abominations of the mother of har-
having it reared again-otlering to bear all expenses lots, and popery will perish from the ~<).rth~"
of repairing, erecting, and fitting up-has induced
us to comply with their urgent solicitations, and 'VM. MILLER.-What has 1\.i:r. Miller done wo~­
again rear the Tabernacle on the same spot. thy of death or of bonds, or wotthy oC the viQlen.t
denunciations heaped upon hi~.? Like the nohi~
The dimensions of the Tent, which were too Bereans, he has "studied the Scriptures daily, to
unwieldy to stand before the heavy gusts of wind see if these things are so," This he has done fo~
in this climate, have been so diminished as to render many years; and being :m intelligent, honest-minded
it quite permanent in a severe storm. The diameter farmer, and devoted Christian, he has dared. withou.t
having the fear of " learned ministry" before 1:\is
is now 100 feet, and the circumference 300.
eyes, to publish the result. "Dost thou. bejng ig-
STRANGE PROCEEDING. norant, teach ~ ?'t say they. "Are our learning.
THE GttE.-\T TENT AGAIN REMovEn.-A com- our foresight, our faithfulness, all to be hrot.Jght in
mittee of the citizens procured from Mr. Taylor question by the researches of one man, and he an
full permission to erect the Great Tent on a lot in unlearned farmer 1 Are the weak things of the
Fitzhugh street, and they accordingly ·proceeded to world (thus] 'to confound the mighty? Forbid it,.
arrange for the same ; but after expending nearly ull our pride and selfishness. Let us all unite in
thirty dollars, Messrs. Hall & Thompson have most crushing this son of a Nazarine. A, way with him-
unexpectedly demanded the sum of five dollars per crucify him."-Bostan Post.
day for the use of the vacant lot.
Not wishing to encounter any litigation, as Mr. LETTERS RECEIVED
'raylor has gone to New York, the Miller Commit- DURING THE 'VEEK ENDING JUNE 28.
tee announce, that the tent will be removed to the PosTl\IASl'ERs.-'Vm. S. 1\Iiller, Low HamptQn 1
old spot, north of Main street, behind the Stoneware N.Y. C. Hastings, New Ipswich, N.Y., $1~
Factory. \V e shall make some strictures on this
most extraordinary proceeding to-morrow.-Ev. lNDIVIDUAJ,s,-T. L. 'rullock, N.Y.
Post. W. D. Tuller, Clevela,11d, Ohio, $10.
The affair alluded to is truly a "strange proceed- John Walbone, Miudletown, Pa.
A. J. \Villiamson, Toronto, U. C.
i 1g." Such are the circumstances, that we do not
Charles Fitch, Newark, N.J.
consider Mr. Taylor at all implicated in this ungene- B. Matthias, Patchogue, N. )"'.
rous matter. Had 1\lr. Taylor been at home, we N. South"rd, N.Y.
doubt not the committee would have gone on with· Augustus B ' j.lpenllteiiJn, N. 'y,
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OBJECTIONS TO CAI~CUIJATING THE PRO- reason to believe, from the prophec~:es, the events of Tl~at Daniel is particularly referred to by
PHETIC TIMES CONSIDERED. history, and the signs oft~c times, that the period h_i\8 here, rs evident from three considerations:
come for the question -of tm1e to be unde ·tood. That the only one of the prophets who has gll'ell
0~~> mode by which the God of truth commends his it has generally been supposed, in every nge of the time in connection with "the sufferings of
word to men, is, by exhibiting the absurdity, some- church, that the time in wliJCh the end of all things is the glory that sho'uld f'Ollow." Dan. ch
times the wickedness, of the positions which are taken to take place, is indicated to us in the })rophecies of 2.. To him "it was rev~aled that not unto h
in opposition to his truth. So Christ repelled the Daniel, we mirrht giYe a lonrr list of her most worthy (1id minlster," in the thmgs named hy
blasphemous slander of the Jews, on one occasion, who names to prov~; and although there mny h:1ve been a Dan. viii. 26,27; xii. 4, 8, 9. 3. "The
charged him with casting out devils through Beelzebub, difference of opinion upon the time for commencing brought to ''iew as having taken a particular
the prince of devils. "If I, by Beelzebub, cast out the prophetic periods of his vision-s, every aze, we be- in these "tl&ings" ·when ""commumcated to
devils, by whom do your sons cast them out1" Are lieve, has spoken with the strongest confi(lence that Dan. ''ii. 16; viii. 13, 14, 16; ix. 21; x. 10-21;
they connected with Beelzebub 1, So, also, the reply of they would lie understood before the end shvuld actu- 5-7.
Christ to those who complained of him for receiving ally come; but if the church had not thus looked upon Now to Daniel, with the other prophets, 'WI$ '1ft
"sinners and eating with them," was intended to con- tlre subject during tlils long period, the statements and specially directed to guide us on this subject. (2 P!ter
tr:1st the position which they condemned with their d"irections of the apostles would be suflicient to settle iii. 1, 2.) To their "word" we do well that we tak~
own position. As much as if he had said, "Yes, I re- that point. Peter has given us an undoubted explana- he-ed, as unto a light that s~ineth in a dark place, un~l
ceive sinners and cat with them-you do not; very tion of t.:1c design of these prophecies of Daniel in par- the day dawn." 2 Peter 1..19.. An<! by ~~~e ~lam
well; let us make a comparison or two. (See Luke ticula.r, (though others of course are included,) and he, terms of the prophecy of Dam~l 1tself, the VISIOn IS to
xv.) The father of the prodigal is on my side-and with Christ and the other apostles, directs us repeatedly be understood "at the time of the e11d :"-that is, a
the man who lost a sheep, he is on my side-and the to the prophets fi>r "light." Luke xvi. 20-31; xxiv. short period before the end shall actually come. And
woman who lost a piece of silver~ she is on my side- 25; Rom. xvi. 25, 2t3; Rev. i.'3-10; x. 5--7; Jude is there not good reason to believe, that, according to
and the angels of God-these are all on my side. But H-18. every series of prophetic events, we haYe nothing else to
yott don't 1·eceive sinners! nor eat with them; very Let ua hear Peter.-1 Peter i. 3-13. For whose look for but" the end?" Can any man p\J.t his finger
well, I do." Every age has had its contests for and benefit did the prophets understand their message to be upon the prophecies, and point out a single event,
against some particular fonn of truth, a.nd the opposi- intended 1 Unto tchom (the prophets) it n·as reeealed, which has DOt already taken place, except those events
tion is always characterized by ignor11.ncc and absurdity. that NOT UNTO THEl\1SELVEs, BUT UNTO us they did min- which are to accompaoy or follow the coming of
If ever there was a time when all the antitypes of ister THE THINGS whch are now reported unto yott lJy Christ 1 And while these prophecies all tell us that
the old recorded enemies of the truth, from the magi- them that have preached the gospel unto yott with the the "time of the end" is come; "the signs" w~ich
ciaus of Egypt to Simo!ll Magus, were on the stage at Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the were immediately to precede his coming, hav ~lJen
once, and all ~f tt'hem actively engaued, the day in angels desire to look into. "· 12. Here, then, are their note of warning c:nd retired, or are noto .
which we live must be the time; and if there is any "things" brought to Yi.ew, to communicate which the ovC?' the very point we occupy, to assur·e us that hu
one particular part or form of truth in refermwe to prophets '' did minister;" and "them that have preach- ing "is near, even at the doors!"
which their special anxiety is manifested, it h; the sub.: ed the gospel with the Holy Ghost sent down from Have we not reason, then, to believe that the
lime and clearly stated doctrine of Chrises second heaven, have reported;" and "which the angels desire has come for the visio!l to be unsealed 1 May
coming. No person who is at all acquainted with the to look into." Now if these" things" should happen expect to understand the" TIME'' as well as the
subject can doubt for a moment, that, if a heathen to imolve the coming of Christ, and the' time {)f his "thing1" of which it speaks! For ourselves, we
should come among us, and compare the va.rious and coming, let those sneer and scoff who will; they do it there is at least tenfold more reason to believe that the
contradictory opinions which prevail everywhere, in not to men, but unto God. end of all things will come before another year shall
reference to it, he must certainly think that the Bible ·what, then, are the" thiJtgs," in reference to which have passed away, (though w-e cannot but expect it
has said nothing about the subject, or that we do not it is said, "unto us they <lid ministed" I. " Tlze every day and every hour,) than those "·ho were ex-
believe our Bibles. The Bible, however, has predicted prophets have inq1Lired and searched diligently,-search- posed to the de1nge-the fires of Sod'Om-the famine
exactly the eta.te ofthiRgs which we Row witness upon ing WJf.AT the spirit of C?ll'ist which was in thrm did of Egypt, her plagues and the ruin of her ar11m'.es--\lb8 .
this subject; it has warned ns lu ~icw of it, and point- signify," "WHEN IT TESTIFIED BEFOitEHAND'' of a destruction 'Of Babylon or Jerusalem, imd to
ed out the only safety-" Behold," says Christ, "I ·· ~ult.•af;on" which consisted "of the grace that should those events at the time they came. V\T c are sure
haYe told you before," &c. Matt. xx.iv. 25. "Be come unto you," and tcllich you should rcccire "as the truly serious person, whose mind is sufficiently eo-
mindful of Lhe words which were spoken before by the end of your faith, et:&n the sahatipn of your souls." lightened upon the prophetic scriptures to: appreciate
holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the v. 9, 10. \Vhat grace 1 " The grace that is to ~e at all their·cleir':and full and awful burden, will lightly
apostles of the Lord and Saxiour: knowing this first, brought untu you AT THE REVELATION OF JESUS trea:t't}iis suestion.
that there shall come in the last davs scoffers, walking CnRr. T." · v. 13. And the "salvation'' was that · co~SEQUENCES.
_ ._..._..,.,....._. their own lusts, a.nd sn.ying, \Vhere is the promise "uuto" whid1 they were "kept by the power of
his coming1" &c. 2 Pet. iii. 2-4. God, through ~'lith," and their faith looked "to an Dut you object to making- calculatimu; 'flf the !ime
But,the pa.rticub:r question involved in the subject, inheritance incorruptible, and tmdt'}iled, and that fadcth for fear of consequences. ·what consequences~ \V hy,
ngainst which" the head and tail" of society is mo\·cd, not away, rcsen.:ed in heavcn"-and "READY TO BE if we make our " calculations of the time and the event
t.s the question of timq, This is the question :--gaiust REVEALED IN TIIE'LAST TI1-m.:' v. ·1, 5. \Vhich "faith, does not come, others will not believe when it is actu-
•\l'hich the scoffing infidelity, nfined and Yulgar ,-much more precious than gold which perisheth, though tried ally coming." \Vell, perhaps the Siaare which you
of 1he reputed christian wisdom,-and not a. little of the with fire," the apostle desired "might be found unto are anticipating for other generations, is the one
uucloub~cd pie~y of the land, stand forth in their most praise and honor and ff!ory AT :nE APPEARIXG OF' which the preseut g"eneration may be taken.
express1ve att1tudes of scorn, contempt, or horror. JEsus CIIRIST." v. 7. These "tlungs" are "WHAT" others who have fixed the time, haYe been ·
To the infidelity we have no apology to make, (though "the prophets inquired about, and apostles reported," we know, and tlmt should inspire us with
we rejoice to know that not a few,of. its more candid and" an![els desire to look i_nto<' .. caution ; but it no more proves that tht: trn
votaries have been converted to Clmst, through the ~. " 1'h.e JJrophets hat:e mqwred and searched dzh- be known upon tl,e subjed, than the fact t
special instrumentality of Mr. l\liller.) To the literati gently WHA'r MANNER OF TilliE tke spirit of Christ been mistaken on other subjects proYes
ecnlesiastical, who look upon l\1r. Miller with so many which was in them did signify, tchen it testified before- on those subjects can never be discoYcred.
airs of am·onted superiority,-we say, Point out the hand the S1~ff'crings of Christ, and THE GLOitY THAT all, is it not better that there should be ten
mistakes, arLd give us a more scriptural explanatio-n ·of SHOULD FOLLOW." v. 11. The" time," which refer- than that there should be one surprise
these prophecies. vVe solemnly aver, that if any ma.n red to "the sufferings of Christ," has been filled HI>· warning~ And may it not be as likely that
will do this, we will not only ub~ndon the explanation " The glory," which belongs particularly to "HIS AP- alarms in times past have been given by the
now defended, but we willl:lbor to dissemina.te the bet- PEARING AND KI~GDOM," has not yet been realized. The emy to lull the present genNation to sleep,
ter one to the utmost of our ilhility; but, to tell us that 70 weeks •vhich indicated the tilue of the szif)'crings ~f may be taken in the" snare," as that this
we havs ' 1 no business to meddle with the prophecies," Christ, explain the "manner" in which the prophetic alarm to which some future generation may
or th1.t " we cannot understand the prophecies until tlmes of Daniel are to he understood; and by their ex- means of quieting themselves when the
they arc fulfilled," will not do. \V e have never been act fulfilment give us a demonstration that <:at the suppose, may actually come 1
able to perceive the value of a. chart that would not tell timo appointed the end shall he," when Daniel saw "one You tell us again-" It will make infidels, if
the sailor where to find his port, until after he hadar- like the Son of man come with the clouds of he:lYen, make such calculations, and the end don't
rived. We have become the disciples, and advocates, and came to the Ancient of days, aud they brought him Who will be made infidels! Not those,
of 1\Ir. Miller's theory from a sincG~ conviction of its near before him. And there was given him DO!I-ll~ION, are opposed to our views. And it wo11!d be
truth, in opposition to all onr prejudices and worldly. AND GLORY, AND A KINGDO)l, that all people, nations, and ble indeed if those who are neutral, or "halting
interests,-we do not wish to he deceiveu ourselves, languages, should serve him: his dominion is an ever- tween two opinions," should suppose the Bible
and we would not for our lives deceive others. If we lasting dominion, which shall not pass away: and his failed, and therefore" throw it away," after time
~ne mistaken, we will thank any man to set us right. kingdom, that which shall not be destroyed." Dan. have proved our views not to be the correct ex'plana11ic.1f
To the piety of the land we huw with the most sincere vii. 13, 14. "\Vhen the SoN or !11AN sHALT, coME IN HIS of it, when they notv decline to receive our views
respoct and tender sympathy. \Ve would not take a GLORY, A~D ALL Tlili: HOLY .A!\GELS WITII HIM, THEN the doctrine of the Dible.
step Or speak a Word to gi,·e offence for our right SHALL HE SfT UP.ON THE TIIRuXE OF HIS GLORY;:' There can be none to "make infidels" of, then,
hand, and wherein we may seen). to ofiend we frankly (Matt. xxv. 31 ;) "and them that sleep in the dust of believers of the doctrine. And why should
and fully give the reasons for so doing. We feel that tl1e e~>!lh shall awake ; and they that be wise shall infidels 1 They have taken their position not
we ha.ve the fullest authority, from the plain statements shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they from what they believe the prophetic periods to
and directions of the word of God, to give our attention ~hat turn many to righteousness as the stars forever but also from those prophecies which bring the
to tni·. p:J.rticula.r <JUestion; and that we have every and ever." · view in connection with the history of the world, WF'I.WiiJI

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signs of the times :'' so that we must still believe
to be near, even if the year '43 s-hould pass
we may not fix upon any other time for
nt. And we think those who have exhibited
;eail~udle enQugh to bear the opposition already shown
on account of their faith, will not be quite
t 'WI~•t···~-·J to turn infidel even if they should see a few more
on earth, and it should be their lot to suffer more
they have yet suffered. May we here ask (IUr
n to pray that they may have grace enough to
bear with us, if we should not happen to turn infidels,
should we be spared to see '44, though their predictions,
in that case, might fail as well as our calculations J
But this objection anticipates the results with as
much confidence as any " prophet" might be permitted
to do. vV e do not see any special necessity for such
a conclusion. Why should the non-fulfilment of proph-
ecy according to our calculations lead to more startling
results than in other cases 1 AccordinD" to the calcu-
lations of Professor Stuart, Mr. Dowling, and a host
of others who believe with them, these prophetic times
have never been fulftlled, and are they infidels 1- We
ean, at least, fall into the popular current-" have
nothin!J to do with the prophecies"-arid be as good
Christtans as others. We would ask, in turn, where is
the propriety, in reference to this particular subject, <>f
leaving the question, first to be considered, Is it true .l
and rassing to the queGtion, What will be the results?
or, iu looking at the results, to inquire, " What if it
't eome J'' instead of asking, v'lrhat if it does come?
the danger lies there. What if it docs come J
OBJECTIONS.
Our object, however, in this artic1e, is to direct your
attention to the character of the objections to these
ealcnlations. If the calculations are so very "absurd"
and "ridiculous," it could be no very difficult thing for
some of their able opposers to point out some mistake
in the facts or dates on which they are based, or in the
. . Pl~in<~tples involved in the theory, without resorting to
and slander, or at least without throwing
y the most valuable labors of the old defenders of
Bible and Protestantism, or certainly without im-
~;jeaching the Bible itself.
But we as&ert it, in the full e:JGpectation of speedily
meeting the Judge of all the earth, that '.ve do not know
of a single writer who has opposed the doctrine, (and
some of them we would not speak lightly of, as Chris-
tians, for our right hand,) who has not entirely omitted
the only inquiry, which, in the very nature of the case,
could amount to any t.hing, and apparently labored for
the mastery in some one or all of the above fruitless,
not to say wicked experiments.
No doubt they supposed they were dning God ser-
and that the cause they had undertaken to defend,
•IJandE~d the best efforts \vhich could be made for it;
were the only efforts they could make, it
bly occuf to them that they were doing
might come, as they understood it, Ol'
were making concessions to the cause they
which must satisfy all candid spectators of the
that nothiug could be fairly done against it.
shall speak only of the objections brought
the calculation of the time. And yet not all
against this, but against that view of it which
time so near; for many who pretend to ob-
" fixing the time," as they call it, when the
*ttlalaorts which bring ns to the end in '43 are men-
go right on and make other calculations which
~ff perha1~s 20, 50, 100: or a thousand years "to
CHRONOLOGY OF THE WOitLD.
is said there are difficulties connected with the
which make it impossible to fix upon any thing
certainty, and none but fanatics will have any
.. ,ll,,•.,. ...~."' to do with it. We will say nothing of the re-
which such a view of the subject casts upon
who has dirf'cted us to the prophecies to guide
the midst of the greatest dangers, for what is it
tatttal!zJ,ng us to give such a direction if the proph-
cannot answer their design! The supposed dif-
·lil.lltltit~s. however, are not so great as we at first sight
.......... ,.~......,, ... apprehend. " It is impossible/' we are told,
~11y one to tell the ar,re of the world." Very
No one pretends to tell, positively, how long
has stood, but still it is believed there are
reasons for supposing that its age is not far
6000 years. And if a general tradition,-which
11
supposes that the present order of things is to be D·----D
changed at the end of six thousand years, and which B - - - - - - B C--"'"'----C
appears to be founded upon some portions of the word E E
of God, may be worthy 'of our attention,-from what
we can tell of the chronology of the W()rld, it appears The period from Samnel to Christ is no more ac·
to harmonize with the more certain indications of the cording to one calculation of the period of th Judges
plainer' prophecies. Dr. Weeks has strung up a catlt- than the other. And all the intermediate pc ds or
logue of what he calls "mistakes of Mr. ~Iiller and his dates between Samuel and Christ stand related to acl1
friends, in relation to his chronology," to the number other exactly alike, according to either computathm (If
of sixty. He might, on the same principl(l, l1ave car- the period of the Judges. Now all the prophetic pe-
ried the number up to as many thousands, and then he riods imolYed in Mr. Miller's theory begin after Sam-
might find as many more in every other system of uel ; so that the addition of 153 years before his time
chronology, But how he will make the apparent con- only affects the relation of the events in the two grand
tradictory statements of Josephus ; and the variations sections of time which lie before and after the Judges,
from Ferguson, Rollin and Jahn, with Mr. Miller's to each other : that is, it makes the time from Adam
literary and theological deficiencies, "mistakes of Mr. to Christ, or from Moses to Christ, 153 years longer ;
Miller and his friends in relation to his chronology," but as the prophetic periods all begin this side of
and all this without any criterion m; wltich to make the Samuel, they are not affected by the addition.
test,-those who have the time and ability to devote to "MILLER'S RULE."
the subject can tell better than we. If any one should
think it worth the while to make a new collection of Again it is charged upon 1\Ir. :Miller as the very
"Curiosities of Literature," they would find the Doc- clirrtax of " absurdity" and "ignorance,n that he
tor's article a rare specimen; it would be a. perfect reckons the prophetic periods by supposing them to
match for the celebrated performance of a clerical pro· express in days the number of years intended. And
totype, who preached some score of sermons on the to make the alleged absurdity most palpable, we havf
leHer 0. \Ve wonder if the Doctor ever had anything been told by those who prefer the charge, that ''Mil
to do with a permutation lottery! The Doctor seems ler's rule of a day for a year would leave N ebuchai •
to have fallen into the common "mistake" of making nezzar at grass at the present time and 130 years :J
a jest of the subject, and to have forgotten that he is remain. And apply it to the 70 years c::tptivity of the
old enough to " put away childish things." The fact Jews at Babylon, they have at present more tim; to
that our Bible adopts the Hebrew record of time, and fulfil than has yet ebpsed ; " and " that the end of
that this has been deemed of superior merit to the this ·world, on his own terms, cannot come yet for
Samaritan, Septuagint, &c., is argument enough in thousands of years~" It is no new thing for those
favor of the source of our chronology, in the mind of who are base enough to attempt to m::tke fools of
all but those whose hyper-criticism has destroyed or their neighbors, sometimes to make fools of them-
impaired their confidence in the truth and faithfulness selves. ·
" These c::tlculations" which are ignorantly or de-
of God. And until some one can show that we may
not rely upon it, or will furnish a better account, we signedly ascribed to Mr. Miller, or are said to be
cannot but regard its statements with some respect. "according to his rule," are no more "according to
That the Hebrew text gives a correct record of time his rule" than the calculations in " Bowditch's Practi-
from Adam to Moses, and from Saul to the time when cal Navigator."
the Old T.::stament s riptures close, \Ve think there is The rule of Mr. Miller in tl10 case is precisely tb .t
little room to doubt. The period ftom which the diffi- of every intelligent writer upon the interpretation of ~JJe
culties arise is the time of the Judges. vVe have, so word of God, including some of his most noted and
to speak, the depots and mile-posts all along on the influential opposers. \Ve will insert the rules giYen
track of time from Adam down to that period, and by Horne, a standard author in biblical interpretation,
again from SaLll down to the time of Ezra and Nehe- that the re(1der may compare them with the rules of
miah. According to Mr. Miller's calculation of the Mr. Miller.
"The received signification of a tcord is to be retain-
period of the Judges, the time before Ghrist ~·ns 4157
years; according to Usher, 4004. That Mr. M. is near ed, unless tceighty anrl nccr;$snn; reasons 1·equire that it
~he truth, we have no doubt; that he or any other man should be abandoned or neglected." Horne's Introduc-
can tell the exact time, we do not expect. The time tion, vol. ii. p. 50,1. " }Vhere the lilc'ral meaning of
given for that period by l)aul, Acts xiii. 20, is very words is contrary eithrr to common sense, to the conte:rt,
strongly in fa,·or of Mr. Miller's chronology. to ppralll passages, or to tl.e scope of a passage, it must
Dr. Clarke, in his preface to the book of Judges, be g'ircn up." lb. p. 563. And again, in giYing the
makes this remark on "the Chronology of Archbishop meaning of the word day, in his " Jndex to the Sym-
Usher on this period," which is the stand:J.cl generally bolical Language of the Scripture,~' he says, "DAY-
adopted: "ITs coRRECT:KEss IS JCSTLY QUESTIONED." I. A year in prophetical language. Ezek. iv. (3; Rev.
Dr. Clarke also quotes from Dr. Hales as follows: ii. 10. :J. An appointed time or season. Is~. xxxiY.
"It is truly remarkable, and a proof of the great skill 8; lxiii. 4." Vol. iv. p. 494. •
The rule of Professor Stuart is similar to the first
and accuracy of.Josephus in forming the outline of this
period, that he assigns, with St. Paul, a reign of forty one ginm by Horne. Hints, p. 68.
years to Saul, (Acts xiii. 21,) whieh is omitted in the \Vc insert ~Ir. Dowling's ' ·iew of the rule in ques-
Old Testament. His outline also corresponds with &. tion, ·with the note he l1as appended, for the sake of
Paul's period of four hundred and fifty years from the the important testimony it contains in favor of it-a
division of the conquered land of Canaan, until Samuel witness who will not be suspected of any parti::tlity in
the prophet." See Dr. Hales' Chronology, Yol. i. pp. the case.
"I uclicve, nR 1\fr. Miller does, and indeed most protestant
16, 17; vol. ii. p. 28.
Now if the reader will take the trouble to examine commentator<:', that the 1260 years denote the duratiou of tl1e
dominion of tha l>ap;-,1 AntiC"hri~t."
Mr. l\lillcr's chronology, in the diagram appended to
this arti~le, and compare it with the Dible, he can "'Ve \u\\'e every reason to conclude thott the time of the con-
tinuance of this persecuting: pnwer is cqua~ly true, 1 i.z: a tin. r,
judge, perhaps as well as any one, of its claims to his times, ancl half a timr, 11hieh, \\e have hdore seen, JS the pro-
serious consideration. But let that be c~rrect or not, phetical dc•signation of 12~() year,.,"~'.. Dowling's Reply to 1\Ir
the prophetic periods which are imohed. in his theory Miller, pp. 26, 27, 42. N. YorkEOJtwn.
are not affected by it ; they all begin this side of the
time of the Judges. In reference to these there is not >!<I have read attenti1cly the attctilpt of a diHingui~hed f!l"urew
the uncertainty which exists in reference to the chro- scholar, in the Biblical i~cpos;tory, to prove that days in pro-
] f h ld phetical lan"n•ge me almt)~ to be nmlentood literally, and
no ogy 0 t e wor · ne,·et· ~ignif.)~ years~ bu~ ~m by no 111eans con.vinc.ed by .hi;; at gn-
The supposition has been named that the addition of ments. The iuterpretatton of th() prophwrs 111 whtch thc,;;e
153 years to the age of th.e ":orld must dera1~ge the expres~ion,s .-.1C. fonncl, is 'infinitciJ more impr.olmble ,\ncl inco~1-
whole matter of the prophe1lc tunes, by throwmg tl10 Kiat\}nt, upqn hs scheme, than upon that 1duch untlc;t f't<!nds 111
date of events into confusion. A simple ilhtstration will I these pnssages, as EzekJCI 11as .r.on1m~nded, {ch .. t'. ti,) ".a
show that these dates are not affected by this addition. day for a )ear." .EYen the. we1ght ot autho~tty 1 ~ Yastly m
T. 1 fill · d' BB t th ( fu1·or of tllJ:c~ latter mtcrpretatton. On the former ~1dc, are,
tn t 10 . o owmg tagram, .represen s e Ime snppo 8 e, most of the Andon!r school of eli vines, sitting at the feetI
from Adam to Joshua. C C the t;me from Samuel to of their Gennnn oracles, li·orn whom the doctrine advocated in
Christ. D D represents the penod of the Judges, the abo,·e article is imported; and on tim other, Fuch men as
according to the shorter calculation. E E the same Sir Isaac Newton; Bishop Nc•wton, l\Iede, Faber, Adam
period according to the longer calculation, Clarke, Scot<, Ful'er, Robert Hall, ~c.
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'' The· great .......a.Y of the 'Lord is near, IT IS IfBA.R, ~d

B.&STETB greatly."·--Zeph. i.I4.

A ULUE TO THE TIDE.

BY LEWIS HER.SEY.
TaB great God hath showed us, by hlS servant the the first verse that this viswn is after, or hire the one! zne tTUunt) ro A. lJ. lo4:5. And now .,, sure as Christ
rrophet Daniel, that there shall arise five great king- we have been cons.illering in the preceding chapter, was cnt oii at the end of 4.90 years from ~he going forth
doms to the supremacy in this world i and that the four w~th the exception of the Babylonish empir~, and bl"gil_ls of th~ _deere~, (which O';Ir strongest UJ:~nent~ admit,)
first shall be earthly, sensual, devili:;h; that they will wilh the Pers1an. Then follows the Grecian; anum thP. t>1swn will run out m 1843. and Chnst w1ll come,
tread upon and persecute the subjects preparing tor the the 8th verse he DOticcs the changes in that empire. with all those that sleep m Jesus, ana re-ammatt: ihcu
fifth kingdom during their whole existence, down to the In tha 9th verse he introduces the little h<:-rn, Popery, bodtes, change all his living ones to im:nc:rtality, bum
time that the King of the fifth kingdom shall come, on again, and delineates hts character and work oo clearly, the bodies of all the hving wicked, at the same time
his "white horse,·: with'' many cro'l\ns ' ' on his head, that it is not e:.;.sily evaded; and in the angel's further the earth and elements are mehing, and set up his ever-
fullvwed with the armies of heaven, also on "wl.ite description of this wonuerfullittle horn, in the 23d, 24th, lasting kingdom in the then new earth.
b o r~es," and ''miserably destroy those wic\r~d men, and 25th versl"s, we see the identical same personage And here it is worthy of special notice, that tha in-
and let out his vineyard to others," and "bind the as was ~rought tv ...mr view in the seventh chapter, an;l S]Jird "determined upon" r,cventy weeks, like 11 great
strut.g m::Ln [Satan] and spoil his goods," purify ancl his end, by being broken witho~t hand. That this will arch, span:s the only coubtful spot in our chronology,
ma~ e new the earth, raise and glonfy the bodies of all not be till the stone strikes the ima.ge, is certain from and plar.es its broad bu!tress on this si ..le, in the wlid
hi~ subjects, and thus set up his everlasting kinguom the whole tenor of the seventh chapter, as well as the elay-buttom of our Anno Domini. With this admitted
over the whole earth. Thus "shall the nghteous in- account Paul gives us of his end m 2 Thess. ii. 8 : tmth staring us full in the face, who can, with their
hent the lan l and dwell theiein forever i'' thus ":.hall "Whom the Lord ~hall destroy with the brightness of eyP.s and heart open to see and believe the word of God,
the righteous never be removed, anu the wicked not ia. his coming." Now is it not reasonable that Daniel would res,.;t the conclusion that Daniel's \·i~ion, wherein he
habit the earth." wish to know bow long th1s vision, which he had had at saw the nations broken to pieces and blown away
We will begin our investigation$ with D:mirl ii. 31. three different times, and all bringing lnm down to the "like the chaff of the summer threshing-floor," atd
Here we cannot fail to perceive. in his expl:lnations of dny of jUtlgment, would be? Now look at the question "the JUdgment sit, and the bovks opened," nnd the
the king's dream, the four earthly kingdoms, and that in the 13th verse. "How long snall be the liisiou? ,, little horn, that "stood up against the Prince of princes,
the last, which was the Romar1 1 should be diY"ided into The answer is in the next verse, " unto 2300 days; then broken without hand," which was shown Daniel to be
ten, signified by the toes of the image; and in verse !jhall the sanctuary be clPat.lsed." This must be the 2300 years long, 490 of which expired with Christ on
44 we read, tc In the days of these l;"ings shall the GoLl time that l\lalachi speaks of, when it shall butn n.s an the cross, will nm out in 1843, and the awful scenes of
of heave;'l set up a kingdom, which shall nc~:~er be de- oven; when all the wicked shall be burned to ashes; judgment commence?
stroyed; and the kingdom shall not lJe left to other when he shall send forth his angel'<', and gather out of Now from what we have seen we learn the following
pi!ople, but it shall break in pieces and consume all his kmgdom all that offend, and when he gather:.> the facts, viz., that Daniel had a great ontline of this world's
these kingdoms, and it shall stand fore:~er." This tares in bundles to burn. But now, when Daniel sought history, down to the day of judgment, at three separate
clearly shows us that when the $lone strikes the image for thi meaning, as is said in the 15th verse, he beard times: he is then told by a. saint thnt this vision was
and breaks it to pieces, and tho wind carries it aw>Jy a man's voice, whtch called and said, Gabriel, make 2300 days long; then Gabriel comes, and tells him this
like the chaff of the summer threshing-floor, then the this man to understnnu the visio1t. And he came, and vision will include the time of the' end; he then tells
stone becomes a great mountam, or ki11gdom, and fllls stood, and said unto me, Understand, 0 son of man, for him the end shall be at the appointed time; then he
the whole earth. 1f there is a doubt on the mind of the vision shall be at t4e time of the end. AnJ then tells him the vision of the evening and of the morning
any that this vision brings us down to the day of judg- further, in the 19th verse,-" I will make thee k1wrv what is true, and commands D;4niel to shut it up, for it
ment, let us turn over to the seventh chapkr and secl shall he in the hst end of the indignation, for at the shoul.rt be for many clays. Gabriel comes again, and
what that will teach us. time appoin!ed [to wit, 2300 days] the end shall be." tells him he has receiv-ed order~, and has come to sllmo
.fn the first seven verses we perceive the four grr:ul Now in ihe 26th vers<! Gabriel SU)'&, "the vision of the h~ m and nlll.ke him understand the t'isionj and now, in
beasts repre.>ent the same four great kingdoms that the evening and the morning ·which was told is true; where- his &tory about the seventv weeks, he positively sbowE
four metals of the image diu in the second chapter; the fm'P. ;hut tbuu up the risiou j for 1t shall be for many us~ when to b~gin the 2300 days, and that they must
division of the last, or Roman, into ten, signified by dn.y~." And in the last verse, Di\nicl says he wns a.s- be understood years; and as the de-ath of Christ seals
the ten horns, the same as the toes of the image; but tonishrd at the visiou, but none understood it. But it up the t•i$ion, so we have only to add 490 and 1810 to
now iu the eighth verse, while Daniel was considering, had all been explained to h:m, exc·cpt two thing::;; these ma.ke out the whole vision, the first number being
he saw the little hom malnng its way up among thz were, when to begin It, and what he was to unciersta.nt~~· down to the sca.l, the last n. umber from the seal dow11
ten, pushing out one, an:l another, and another, by the hy the 2300 d:~.ys. For the~e two important points we to A. D. 1~-13. 1 ,
roots, ·with i•s eye~, and its mouth speaking great things; must look to the next ehuptcr. r.·, And nr,w let me ask, are you prepared for this grent
-a most beautifnl representation of the rise and esta!J- • Commence Wlll. the 20th \'"ers'.!. Here Daniel says, day? If not, delay not a moment, fl.y to Jesns, maka the
lishrn~nt of Papacy. Rut now in the Oth and lOth v-erses, "while he was ronfessing his. sins, and the sins of h.isl Judge your friend; for no ma!l can tell how ~oon t~e
b!essed be GoJ, the Anwmt of Days 1s seen commg, on 1 p~ople Israel~ the man Gabnel, whom he had ~een m door of mercy will clo~e. What an awful mo nt lS
I
his throne of fiery flame. propdle cl on wheels of burning' the vision at the beginning, informed him, and talked this! F0urtcen months past the sixth trnsnpet and ·ec·
ftre, With a fiery stream 1::>sumg nnll commg forth from ! with·him, and said, 0 Daniel, I am now coma forth to ond wo, and "the tlmd wo cometh quicldy.'' Fuleen
I
before him, with the fiflh kingdom with htm; for let us I give thee skill and undtrstandin!. At the beginning of months may finish Daniel's vision, and the fifth king·
lakt'. notice that John, in Rev. v., lOth and 11th verses, thy supplications the comma.nclrnent <:arne forth, and I dom come in all its ~lory; the very last sanrls of the
ha~ the- s:nne ten thousand times ten thousand, nnd am come to sh01r thee; therefore understand the mat· 2300 days running out; iniqnity is abounding; the
lhvu., ands of thous:mds, who say of themselves "that ter, and consider the vision." Now if these four last love of many has waxed col,l; 1\nowlrllge has increased;
th.,·, shall reign on the eanh." And, says 1J;,.nicl, "the verses are not the key to cpen the only two l'iark part~ the power of the holy people is scatteretl; many have
jncgment was set, nod th<' boPks were opened." Query. in the vision, tben Gab1iei disobeyed the command, ana been purified ancl made white i the gospel has been
Dues Daniel's vision include the judgment? Daniel is proved a. liar, neither of which will be admitted for a published in all the world; the church is in her Laodi.
beheld still further, till he saw the beast slain, and his moment. The first of these verses says that ~eventy ccan state; Ottoman ::;upremacy is gone; and, of coun;e,
~ody ~iven to the burning tlame, the So~ ?f n.a.n com- weeks are determine~ upon, to fini ..!t the. t:a~sgressi?n, the seventh trumpet m~1st be near sounding; perilous
mg Wtth he clouds of heaven, and recrtvmg bts "do- to m1.ke 11.n end of sms, to make reconc1hat.ton for m- time~> have come ; profcs~ ors are lover.s of themselves
minion and glory and kingdom." Now what says Dan- iquity, to bring m everlasting righteousness. to seal up more than lovers of uod. Again, I a~k. Are you ready 1
1
icl in the 16th verse? "So he told Ir.::! 1 and made me the vi.<i.on and prophecy, and to :moint the l\lost Holy. Are yon living for God or for yourself, fur heaven or
kn.o111 the interpretatwns of the things;" and in the 17th And in the next verse we find the time to commencc 1 for earth? Will you risk endless torments for a ti,lw
and 18th verses are comprised the whole vision of the the seventy weeks, viz., at the going forth of the decree months' earthly piea:;ure? How can you endure ever
five kingdoms; and if eternity is not stamped on the to restore and build Jerusalem. Now we have all we lasting burnings? How ran you fore-go everlasting
Ji.fth, then no words can express it. Again, says Dan- 'l'ant; we know when to begin the 2300 days, and that ghry? llli11isters of Christ, I entreat you to lay aside
iel in the 21st and 2.2d "erse!', "I beheld, and the same they must be taken for years, as it would be impossible the books of men, and examine God's book with prayer,
horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against to do all those things spoken of in seventy weeks of and see if these thin as are not sc. Your hearers ant
them ; until the Ancient of Dars c~dne; and judgment clays, or in about one year anJ a third. Let us keep in watching every worl you say upon this sLtbject with iR
wa.s given to the saints of the 1\lost High; and the time mind that we are looking at Gabriel's explanation of tense interest. Many of you hate adnuttell it may rome
:arne that the saints _possessed the kingdom." Query. the visi011; if \l·t do, we cannot but see that the 2300 shortly; many more, th3.t Daniel's vi;;ion is out in 18~3.
Where is any ~o~ . a millennium before the judg- rlays and the seventy \Veeks begin at one and the sa.me These I entreat to examine the second, se\·cnth and
ment? And in the further eapl~at' ons in this chap- time, and are of the same nature, that is, a day stand- eignth chapters, and see if they all do not take nol.-1 011
ter, tha who!.e is gone over agaitl.~'-'"' a. minuteness ing for a year. Now look mto your large Bible, over judament.
tqualled only by the grandeur qf the subJect, and winds Ezra, seventh chapter, where you w1ll find the decree, "'
Jrinadom and uominion and the arcalncss of the kina-
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np with that glorious, soul-cheering promise. "and the and you see 457 B. C.; to this add 1843, and you llave • rr an i~spiwl penman k1.d Raid there had been eevent~ wtells
the 2300 which is the whole vision. or take the 70 from the gomg fo_rth of the comman.dment to mtorc.and b~Jid Jeru·
th salem to thll cutttn¥ otT of the Me>~~Jab, who would d1spute •t 1 .8ut
0
.J "' d' h h 1 h ' b lbl b · h k 'h· h · 490 1 bt' t · t 1'
i..lvmun crt.ew ~e eaven,s.a e gtventot epco-~wee s,w tc lS years, am.s.u rae~ rom ellisadi 7 ineduclamttonthatitsha1lwsoanyl.llllstrottgandcenain1
ple of the saints ot the l\1ost lllgh." 2300, and you have 1810 remammg, whtch extends By no moa.ns. It was e~act.ly fuldlkcL
Now let us look at the eighth chapter. We seem .from the death of Christ (which, recollect. was to seal

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A :BIBLE CHRONOLOGY FROM ADA~I TO CHRIST.
(.}:·
BY WILLIAM MILLER.

No. I
Names of Patriarchs, Kings, &c. Age. A.l\I. B. C. Book. Chapter. Verse. RC111UU.

- .. - . . . . .. . . .. . .. .. .. .
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Creation 1 4157 G€nesis i.. ii .
.
.. .. . . . . . . ..
1. Adam 130 130 4027 " Y, 3
2.
3.
Seth
Enos ..
..
..
. . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 105
90
235
325
3922
3832
"
"
"
"
6
9 .,

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4. Cain an 70 395 3762 " " 12

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5. Mahalaleel 65 460 " II
6. Jared .. 162 622
3697 " 15 - ·.
7. Enoch .. - . . . . . . .. G5 687
3535 " '' 18
:
3470 "' l " 21 .. -·
oj

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8. Methuselall 187 874 3283 H
25 ,,
..
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9. Lamech • 182 .·
10. Noah •
1056 3101 " " 28
6 To the Flood.
600 1656 2501 " vii.
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The Flood .-
Shem
1 1657 2500 " viii. 13
11. 2 1659 2498 " xi. 10
12. Arphaxad
13. Salah •
Heber
.. ..
.. .. . . . .. . . .. .. . . . . . 35
30
1694
172t1
2463
2433
"
"
"
"
12
14
14.
. .. . . . : . . 34 1758 2399 " " 16
15.
16.
Peleg •
Reu . . .. . . .. .. . .
. .. . . . .. . .
,30
32
1788
1820
2369
2337
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"
"" 18
20
.. .. .. . .. .
17. Serug •
. .. ..
30 1850 2307 " " 22
18.
19.
Nahor
Terah's life .. .
. . . .. .. .... .. .... .. ... . .. .
29 1879
205* 2084
2278
2073' "
" "
"
24
32 * The Exode did not begin until Terah's
20. Exode &,, 430t 25H 1643 Exodus xii.40,41 deatla; then Abram left Haran and the
21.
22.
\Vildernt-ss
Joshua - .. . . . . . . . .. . . . . 40 2554
25:j: 2579
1603
1578
Joshua v . 6
xiv. 7; xxiv. 29.
Exode began, as is clearly proved by Acts
vii. 4.
1.
2.
3.
Elders aud Al:l!.lt by~ •
Undcr(;lt.·l•:IJ
Otlll.it'l
•
. . . . .. .. . . . . . . 18
8
2597
2605
1560
1552
See Josephus.
Judges iii. 8
t Exode in Egypt from Abrabam to wilder-
* ness state •
.. . . . .. . . 40 2645 1512 " " 11 Joshua was a young man when he came
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4. Eglon 18 26()3 1494 " " 14 out of Egypt, Ex. xxxiii. 11 ; could not
5. Ehud 80 27113 1-n4 " " 30 have been more than 45 years old then.
.. . . . . . ..
6. Jab in iv.
r
20 2763 1394 "" 3 85 when he entered Canaan, and 110
7.
8.
9.
Barak -
Miuianitl'~<
Gideon
. . . . . . .
. . . . . . ..
40 2803
7 ~ 2810
1354
1347 "
v.
vi.
31
1
when he died, leaves 25 years.
§ Judges begin. See Judges ii. 7-15.
10. ALimt'lect1
Tot a -
. . . . . . .
.. . . . . .. ..
40
3
2850
2853
1307
130<1 "
" viii.
h.
28
22
. . . . . . . .. .
11. 23 2876 1281 " x• 2
Jair
12.
13. Phili<:f
iq(•S . . .
. . . . . . . .. ..
. .. . 22
18
.2898
2916
1259
1241
"
"
"
"
3
8
.. . . . . . . ..
14. Jephthan 7
lb2an ..
6 2922 1235 " xii.
15.
16. Elon - . . . . . . . .
.. . . . . . . .
7
10
2929
2939
1228
1218 -- "" "
"
!
11 '
.. . . . . . .. .
Abdon. " 14
17. 8 2947 1210 " xiii.
.. . .. .. . . . . ..
18. Philistines 40 2987 1170 " 1
19.
20.
Eli
Samuel, pr:;rhet •
. . . . . . . .. .. .. . . 40 II 3027
24~ 3051
1130
1106
1 Sam. i\r,

" " vii.

18
2-17
" This ends the Judges--448 years. Acts
xiii. 20; also chap. viii.
. . . . . . . .. . 1f Samuel could not have been more than
1. Kings-Sa • 40 3091 1066 Acts xiii. 21
.. . . . . . . ..
2. David 40 3131 1026 2 Sam. v• 4 38 when Eli died. Then, Israel was la-
3.
4.
Solomon
Rehoboam . . . . . . . .
.. . . . . . . ..
40
17
3171
3188
986
9611
1 Kings
2 Chron.
xi.
xii.
42
13
mentin(J' the loss of the Ark more than
20 yea~s. Samuel judged Israel some
. .. . . . . . .. -
5. Abijam 3 3191 966 1 Kings xv • 2 years after, and became old, and his sons
6.
7.
As a
J ehoshaphat .
. . . . . .. . . . . . .. .
..
41 3232
25 3257
925
900
"
" xxii.
" 10
42
JUdged Israel. He must have been 62
or 63 when Saul was m~de king.
.. .. . . . . . .
8. Jehoram. 5 3B62 895 2 Kings viii. 17
9. Ahaziah
. . . . .. . 1 3263 894 " " 26
10. Athaliah, his mother
. . . . . .. 6 3269 888 " xi. 3, 4
11. Joash - •
.. . . . . . - .
• 40 3309 848 " xii. 1

. . . . . .. . . - .. . .. - .. .
Amaziah 2
12.
Interregnum'**
29 3338 819
808
" xiv.
1, 2 uSee 2 Kings, chapt~rB nv. and n.
11 3349 " xv .
13.
14.
Azariah -
Jotham . .
.. - . . . . . . . - .
52
16
3401
3417
756
740
"
"
"
"
2
33

. .. . .. . .. . . . .. . .. . ... .
I

Hezekiah .
15. Ahaz 16 3tl33 724 " xvi. 2
16.
Manasseh
29 3462 695
()1!0
" xviii. 2
1
17. 55 3517 " xxi.
18. Amon-
Josiah -
- . . . . - . . . .. 2 3519 638 " " 19
19.
20.
. - . -. . . - - -
J ehoahaz, 3 months - . . . 31 3550
3550
607
607 "
" xxii.
xxiii.
1
31
I

21. Jehoiakim 11 3561 596 " " 36

The 70 -rears· of captivity began here, ended 1st} 70 3631 526
" xxiv.
2 Chron. :x:xxvi.
2-16
5
. . . .. . . . . . . . .
year ot Cyrus • • • - • • •
-10, 15-23
Cyrus - . 6 3637 520 Rollin, vol. i. page 354
I

.. . .. . - .
Cambyses • • 7 3644 513 " " " " 366
.. . . - - .. . .
~

Darius Hystaspu 36 3680 477 " ii. " 0 "

. .. . -. . .. - . - ...
Xerxes -
Artaxer:xes Longimanus • .. ' 13
7
3G93
3700
464 " "
457 Ezra vii. 10-13
" " "
Birth of Christ tt .. 457 4157 t ~ See Ferguson's Astronomy; also Pli-
.-. -
Adu present year, 1840 deaux's Connection.
To 1843 - - . ..- - -
1840
3
5997
6000
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16 THE GLAD TIDINGS OF THE KINGDOM AT HAND.
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I Qtljt 6lab Qtibings.
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ROCHESTEH, JUNE 29, 18,13.
o::J" We present to our readers this week, a double num-
ber, containing a great amount of valuable matter. Read it
carefully.We commend it to the particular notice of all.
We publish two numbers in one for the purpose of expe-
diting our great work; and it also saves half of the postage
where it is sent by mail.
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THE TRIUMPHING OF THE WICKED
IS SHORT.--Job.
"Rejoice.not against me, 0 mine enemy; when
I fall I shall arise."-Micah.
" All things work together for good to them that
love God."-Paul.
The apparent calamity that befel our Tent at the
commencement of our meeting, caused many of our
opponents to rejoice. It 'seemed to be matter of no
little diversion to them, and some of the daily papers
made themselves quite merry in the matter, and
ventured to anticipate our calculations, and to notify
the public that the tent would not be raised in this
city again; in addition to which, they tendered us
some gratuitous advice, which we assure them we
duly appreciate.
-. In the providence of our Heavenly Father, the
very events ovenvhich our enemies exulted, and for a
short time " triumphed,'' are turning out signally,
for the furtherance of the cause we advocate
-which we firmly believe to be the cause
of truth. It is true, tM prospects for rearing
our tent the second time, were somewhat forbidding,
as we hat! already incurred a heavy expense, and
hardly felt able to bear the additional expense of re-
pairing and raising it again. But in that critical
juncture, the good citizens came up to the rescue,
I' // oy and proposed to be at all the expense of repairing
~ rJf J 1 ana re-erecting our Tabernacle themselves.
A meeting was accordingly called of the citizens
I . interested, on Monday morning, when a large num-
ber convened, organized and made arrangements for
prosecuting the work, the result of which is before
r the people.
The Tent has been repaired, and erected again
on the same spot where it stood first.
Hence, it is evident, that what seemed to be our
calan1ity, has turned out for good. Those citizens
who have taken so deep au interest in rearing the
Tent again, and in preserving the best .o f order, as
they mean to do during the meetings, will not be
indifferent to the claims of so intensely interesting a
..
subject as that of Christ's Second Coming. That
people so much interested will give a hearing, we
cannot doubt; and all who candidly listen, we feel
assured will be profitably atl'eeted.
May that God who holds the winds in his power,
and does all things according to His will, continue
to direct, and great good be upon this people as the
result of our humble efforts, for which let the devout
pray.
'.rHE MARKEl.' PJ... ACE.
On Sunday last, the Tent being down, Brotl;er
Himes addressed the people three times in the .Mar-
ket, where it was supposed several thousand persons
~?·• assembled to hear the word. Multitudes came in
from the surrounding country who could not find
the place of meeting, and returned disappointed.
The attention of the audience was most profoJlnd,
which evinced a very deep interest in what was pre-
sented. The time occupied in the three lectures
was probably not much short of eight hours; and
the people were not tired of hearing, though nearly
all had to stand up.
DR. WEEiiS vs. MILLERISM.
Millerism, alias Christ's Advent, seems a most
he knows) his solitary self; though he thinks be has
a fellow somewhere, but where he cannot tell. That
troublesome tloctrine to some of our cotemporaries. b, he knows of no true orthodox but himself, but
Some time since, the New York Observer and thinks there must be ONE .HORE!! 'Yonder how
the Evangelist and Observer will like this "learned
Evangelist thot1ght that Wm. R. 'Vecks, D. D., had e.111osition" on "'rhe 1\vo \Vitnesses.'' Of course
so completely exploded and annihilated the views they cannot be among the onhodox. Now, accord-
we advocate, touching the Second Coming of Christ, ing to the Doctor's own logic, they must take the
that it was quite useless to say any more about it. whole or none; for the Dr. does not allow of taking
a person's testimony on one point and re,icc:ting it on
But oflate they seem to have changed their minds,
another. (See his lectures on l\liller's Chronolo~?:y.)
for some reason, for in their papel', of the 17th, we Therefore, if they admit that l1is lectures on Chro-
find almost an entire page of the Observer, taken up nology are correct, they must do the same for the
with an article from Dr. \Veeks on the 'mistakes one on " 1'he Ttco Witnesses." Ergo, the Doctor
of111.illaism.' Why do our neighbors spend so much being one of "~he 'rwo Witnl.'sses," he, of course,
settles the Advent question. We suggest to our
ammunition in exploding what is already annihila-
neighbors to adopt the Doctor's "learned exposi-
ted? But this is one of the peculiar features of this tion,., and thus settle this great question without
subject; it will not stay annihilated. It wants repeat- toil; for n' the Dr. be one of'·1'he 1'wo Witne~ses,"
ing every few days, and so discouraged are these from his testimony and decisions there can b~ no
religious editors, in this annihilating campaign appeal. This course will make a long and tedious
matter short and easy. Wliat do you say, breth-
against the doctrine of Christ's speedy coming, that
ren?
they say, in a disheartened manner, that they fear
that it will still trouble the Churches!! 'Vho would POPERY AT \VORK.
have thought it! What! the prospect of our Lord's "And the same HORll made WAR with the 5aints, and pre-
vailrd against them, until the Ancient of Days came."-
speedy return a source of trouble to his church? Dan. vii, 21. ~
Then must that bride be a treacherous, a RECREANT The history of Papal craft, agStinst Protestant in-
bride, to be dismayed at the thought of the return of stitutions and the Scriptures of Divine truth, has
the bridegroom ! ! been exhibited in a manner calculated to excite
We know not how to illustrate the character of much alarm, in the efforts of their priests to banish
the Doctor's opposition better, than by comp;ning the Scriptures entirely from the public schools.
it to an attempt to destroy the Bunker Hill Monu- They are making one encroachment after another,
ment by simbly raising an enormous cloud of dust and gradually undermining the great principles of
around it. For a short time it is hid from the vis- our religious liberty. They have succeeded in this
ion of those who are in the dust. They imagine it state, on the subject of the School Fund. They
is destroyed; but soon the wind blows away the are now busily engaged in making the fate of the
dust, aud the stately monument stands unscathed. Ursulian Cocvent, in Mass., an entering-wedge for
Precisely so in this case. The Doctor lms raised a an actual and open experiment of their power at the
great dust, and many of his friends have really Ballot Box. They have lately succee ed in re-
thought that this monument of truth was destroyed. moving from the schools in the 14th ward, in the
But soon the dust settles, or is blown aw11y, and the city of New York, the Scriptures as a school book:
beautiful edifice still stands erect, not showing a and what may we not soon expect? This bare-
scar from the ruthless hand that would fain grind it faced and daring act has called forth an able sermon ,
to powder. from Rev. Mr. Cheever, making an expose of their
Doctor Weeks has probably made as many, if
not more blunders than he attributes to Mr. Miller;
anti-American and Antichristian principles, from
which we make the following extracts :
and were it not imposing a most monotonous and
useless task upon our readers, we would enter the
lists and show it. In his last article, there are but
"It is astonishing that even an attempt could be
made to exclude the Bible, that grand source of in-
tellectual and spiritual liberty and power, from our
very few items that have any direct bearing on the public system of education. There is cause for
subject, and the fallacy of those are most apparent, alarm in the existence of such a state of careless-
ness, indifference, or apathy, in regard to our best
as we shall probably take occasion to show here- blessings, as could give occasion to the attempt. 'I
after. Take away the Bible from our public schools!
With all the Doctor's erudition and sl;.ill in oppo-
Why. truly, a few years ago it would have been
sing the doctrine we advocate, there are not pTobablythought that we were going headlong into the career
fifteen members of his own church or congregation of infidelity. An open. acknowledged proscription
of the Biule in the heart of the greatest city in the
who are not believers with us. Perhaps, lwwever, United ~tates-a war with it~ to drive it from the vi-
injustice to the Doctor, we sboultl say that his ave- talities of our country's existence-is what a few
rage congregation does not probably exceed from years ago uo man could have believed possible. And
TEN to z'IFTEEN hearers, and some of those, among whence comes it, that in a land famous for its jea-
whom is one of the deacons of his church. to our lousy of the domination of any one religious sect
over another, and for its care against the laying of
personal knowledge, are strong believers in the doc- the hand of sectarianism on the ark of our civil in-
trine of Christ's speedy coming. stitutions-this particu1ar sect of Roman Catholics
In conclusion, we will subjoin the following from can be permitted to enter and drive this sectarian
the "l\Iidnight Cry," as being well calculated to wedge? Whence the indulgence for this act of
illustrate the skill of Doctor \Veeks in interpreting bigotry in them, which, had it been undertaken by
any other sect under heaven, would have brought
prophecy. - do,vn the anitnosity of all classes in its reprobation 1
THE TWO WITNESSES. If the Presbyterians, or the Baptists, or the Metho-
'Vhile the Observer and Evan~relist are so much dists-not aliens, but native Americans-had at-
taken up with the learned dissertations of the ltev. tempted such a movement, it would have been
Dr. \Veeks, who they think evinces so much erudi- treated with unmingler.l obloquy and scorn. There
tion and skill m the interpretation of prophecy, or is scarce a press in this city but would have con-
rather Chronology, we would suggest that they pub- demned it with the extreu;e of severity. If the
lish his lecture on ••TirE Two \VITNESSEs," in Presbyterians had undertaken it, you \Vould never
which he has made himself ONE of the witnesses, have heard an end of the denunciations that would
and supposes his fellow will be found somewhere in have been poured out upon thE.m.
the person of some one who is as sound and or~ho- The reason is plain. Romanism, by its insepa-
dox as himself! ! Consequently, all have departed rable connection of church and state, is essentially a
from the true failb, and are tainted with the heresy political sect; and by means of its spiritual bondage,
of Arminianism, or some other ism, except (so far as I its whole masses may be moved to the ballot at the
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.will of one man. Political parties arc therefore \V e cut the following notice from the Evening W Lectures commence in the Tent this even- ~
afraid of otfenuino- it. Taking aeva·1tage of this fear, Post, a daily paper published in this city. It show ing-to continue three times each day for one or two
there is no fores~eing the 1;1easures which in that the candor with which some men can treat a subject weeks.
sect may be tolerated. The attempt to tal\e the
word of Goll out of our public sohools shall cer- that is at variance with their own views. \Ve regret
BROTHER 1\IILLER'S HEALTH.
tainly be spoken of as it deserves. A Protestant that so few of the presses in our "land o.fthefrcc"!!
from abroad, accl uaiutcJ with the history of the papal luwc the moral courage to be candid and just on sub-
o::7" \V e have just received a line from the son
system in its insidious edvances, and acc1uaiuted by of brother MILLER which gives us the pleasing in-
jects that happen not to he ensconded under the
observation with its nature in actual operation in the telligence that his father is rapidly recovering from
wing of popular opinion.
world, as a'so with the danger by which our liberties his severe illness, and that there are good reasons to
are beset, would certainly exclaim, 1 Are you in your " The misfortune which befel the great l\Iiller
Tent on Saturday, has awakened the active benev- hope that he will soon be well again.
senses, in permitting, even to he attempted. this ex-
clusion of the light of divine truth from your edu- olence of many of our most respected citizens, who AN U.LUSTRA.1'IVE ANECOOTE.
cational system? Are you acting like wise men, have determined that the Tent shall once more
arise, and our citizens beneath the shelter of its It is related that Galileo, who invented the teles·
like freemen, in pennitting a proscri:>tion of the best cope with which he observed the satellites of J u-
book of ed11cation in the world, the best book for the shade hear the doctrines of 1\Iillerism fairly expoun-
formation of your children's minds, the best book for ded. This is as it should be. \V e ought at all piter, invited a man who was opposed to him to look
their acquisition ::tnd preservation of a pure idiomatic events to listen, and calmly and dispassionately bal- through it, that he might observe Jupiter's moons.
style in their native language, the best book to pro- ance in the mind, the arguments adduced in sup- The man positively refused, saying, " If I should
mote and secure the purposes of family government port of their peculiar points of doctrine.
All mankind do not think alilte-nor reason alike see them, how could I maintain my opinions which
in its purity and power at home, the best book to I have advanced against yout· philosophy?'' '.rhis
make your children enlightened and good citizens of -and it is difficult to ascertain whose opinion is cor-
rect, particularly on mysterious subjects connected is the case with many. They will not look at the
of your republic-the best book, in fine, to preserve
them from all evil, and train them up to all good?' with religion. truth. They will not hear it, for fear that the argu-
\Vhat does tt mean? Can there be any objection The professors of the Miller interpretation of tl~e ments which they have framed will be destroyed~
scriptures are evidently gentlemen well versed m
to the New Testament as a school book? Is the and they be obliged to give up their vicious indul-
the subject-thoroughly conversant with theology-
. New Testament, without note or comment, secta- gences.
have given deep study to this particular branch, and
rian? Ah, no! it is not sectarian enou~h. And
collected the opinions of the most learned commen- The following, from the Daily Achertiser of this city,
this is the very reason why the sect of Ron~anists
tators on scriptural prophhecy. All these things s-hows that the good citizens are resolved upon good order,
wish it to be excluded. It does not teach thetr sys-
cannot fail to render their lectures of peculiar and to nccompliob which, they have taken the matter into their
tem. Without note or comment, it is against their
great interest."
system. '.rheir jealousy of it as .a school book is n?t own hand~:
at all wonderful. But if they Wish to educate thetr
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\Ve have received the first No. of a new paper "DISTURBANCE OF RF.LIGIOUS 1\hETINGs.-Yc-stcrdny
own children wtthout it, if they wish to defraud their entitled the" Coming of Christ,'' hy E. Jacobs, of Alexander Fo~tm· was braught up on a charge of diRtnrb-
own children of the bread of life, and to give them in"' thE' 1\Iillerite mPrling, at the l\Iarket, on Suml~y. The
stones instead, then Jet them do it in schools of their New York. It contains several valuable articles on di~turbance con.i~tcd in throwin~ ink on one of the map;;,
own, and not attempt to take the elements of life the subject of Christ's Second Coming. The fol- containin~ the pictnrial illu~trntior.s of the prophccie:<, o.s
from our schools. It is the element of life, an~ vo- lowing are the publisher's TERMS : expounded uy the Second Advent disciples. Fost<'r wa:;
lumes miD'ht be written on the excellence of the Bi- convict<'d, and ~cntcncecl by Justice \Varner to three dayd 1
"The terms of this paper are made easy, to cor-
ble as a s~hool book, and the indescribable impor-
imprisonment. in the county jail, and ten tlollars fine.
respond with the pecuniary emba~-rassmeuts of t.he
tance of still keeping it where our forefathers laid it,times; READ and CmcuLATE bemg the only pnce SECOND ADVENT CAMP MEETING.
as the corner-stone of our invaluable system of public that is asked. 6,000 copies may be had upon these There will be a Second Advent Camp l\leeting
education.'' terms. All onlers directed to E. Jacobs, 123 Hen- held in Sennet, (if time continue,) about six miler,
Such are the strides, then, that Romanists are ry-st: cet, N.Y., post paid, wil~ meet wit.h prompt easL of Auburn, abouth:tlfa mile north ofthe n.. ·.!l-
making in our country; and Protestants arc talking attention. We make no promise ever to tss ne ano- road, and one mile cast of Sennet village, on .lthe
of soon converting the world-nay, of converting the ther number. If, however, it should fall into tbe farm of Judge Scnnet, in the grove called '1 The
hands of any of God's stewards, whom he ~1ay di- Pine \Voods." To commence on Satupln·.f, July
Romanists themselves! But the Church's last and rect to aid in spreading this truth, so obnoxious to 1st, and continue until .July 11th.
only hope (and, oh! it is a glorious hope,) is, that the wotld and worldlv minded profe,:;sors of religion,
All those that love the appearing of our Lord are
the Ancient of Days will soon come and give aud funds should thus be for ·trded for this purpose,
requested to come and bring their teP.fs with them;
judgment to the saints, and give them the everlast- we will pr01nptly issue another number as soon as
those that are not provided with t·ents, can be ac-
a sufficient amount is received. If a sufficient
ing kingdom. Co..\IE, BLESSED S.\VIOUR ! co~IE commodated at tlte rate of $1,5rJ per week 1 or 121
amount should not be received soon, what does come cents per meal.
QUICKLY!
will be applied to publishing the :Hidnight Cry, or By order of the Commit'tee,
PlTSEYISlll. for any other purpose, as sllall be directed.
Dr. Pusey, the leading spirit in the great Oxford E. JACOBS."
June 12th, 18·13. J. ·wRIGHT, Secretary.
Tract enterprise, which h~s excited so much interest
BROTHER CHARLES FITCH, whom we expected A CHA~GE ANI> MISTAKE.
and apprehension for some time past, is evidently
here some days since, has not yet arrived. \Ve 'l'he abovt: meeting w~s first appointed to com-
approaching a cRisis. He has long been at work
have received a letter from him, informing us that mence on the 24th o( the i>resent month, in the
with Jesuitical tact in secretly cutting a channel from
he has been dctainrld by sickne:ss ; hut as he was town of 0ato, but ~ms been changed to the 1st of
the Protestant River to the Roman Sea; and the
recovering when he wrote, we shall look f..>r him the July, and to the rown of Sennet. Both the Signs
prospect now is, that much of those waters 'viii be
last of this week, to join us in our labors in this of the 'rimes and the Midnight Cry have made a
diverted from their wonted course, and poured as a
field. mistake, in not omitting to publish the first notice of
mighty libation into the lnpofthe l\Iotberof Harlots.
A GREAT l\Irs·r.o\KE.--Those who are nei- l\Iay 30th, on the receipt of the notic~ bem·iug date
We learn by the late arrival, that Dr. Pusey, in
June 12th. ._ ·
preaching a sermon before the Oxford Uuiversity, ther looking for nor loving the appearing of
vindicated the CELEBRATION OF MAss. This con- the Savior, seem to have supposed 1843 is TOKENS.
firms the view we have long taken of the subject, the time when we should cease to look for I lnF.LA:-<n.-Some Romiln CathoE~ Bish~ps ~re
and at which we have before strongly hinted. It is the Lord. In this they greatly mistake. a~o~tt to prepare a pnyer for the s~1tety of Damel
· · th • I bn ' t' · I c 0 Connell.
a" sign" worthy of notice that Dr. Pusey, one of Tl liS IS
r
e yem W ~en \\ e '-'~m ,J .100 ~ 10r rl'lw troops stationed in Ireland will amount in
the leading theologians of the established church of the Lord. We beltevG that he Will come June to 25,000 men.
England, has been so arduously at work for years to this year, and shall look for him till he Almost every lloor in the city of Cork has chalked
turn the great current of Protestantism back to the comes. .A sailor about entering a foreian upon it, "Repeal or Blood!"
church of Rome. Thus the little horn is making P
ort. concludes he shall enter by a cert~n All the Irish fort..~. castles, and bat~lement~ have
~ d been inspected by a government engmeer, and or-
day. If he does not entm t~e da! ~xpecte ,
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war and 11rcraiting. derecl to be repaired and placed in a state of perfect

he does not conclude there IS no port ahead.
So bold and daring has been this last step of Dr. utility. Indeed, the preparations of government are
Pusey, that the Vice-Chancellor of the University That was onlv the day wh.en he would be- such as would indicate that a civil war is not very
gin to look, at1d wouhf continue to look until
has ordered the Doctor to be suspended from preach- fur distant.
ing for two years. the port was entered. So with those who OuTRAGP..-Rev. Samuel Aaron, pastor of the
are looking for the Lord : the time has ar-
Dr. Pusey is said to pave protested against this de- Baptist church at Norristown, Pa., was assailed ~t
cision, and demanded a hearing before his judges.
rived when he might be expected, when we that place by two men, Dr. McClenahan and l~!s
h 1 d · 11 brother, armed with a cowskin, dirk and loaded pts-
have begun to our y an contmua Y expect tols. They gave him about forty lasl_1es, threatell-
While our Tabernacle has been repairing Brs. him, and we shall look for his appearing ing to kill him if he made any res1st:mce. The
Teal, J ohuson, and others, have been engaged in from this hour, till the parting skies shall preteudrcl provor.ation given, was in a tou1perauce
holding some meetings in various places. reveal him.-Sgns of the T~mcs. address delivered by l\lr. A. 1

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UURA. TION OF EARTHLY 101\GDOMS. interesting snbjrct of this vision, (it certainly was to the fhst v1s1on we are left merely to 1'1tjer that the
Daniel,) is the "little horn"-the abomination that "kingdom of the God of heaven" is to be possessed
THERE is one prominent peculiarity of the prophecy maketh dcwlate. Here is its first portrait, with the at all, by the phrase "it shall not be left to other pe~
of Daniel which cannot fail of commanding the a1ten- chronology of an important period of its history in a ple." In the second vision it is repeatedly stated that
tiun of every intelligent and thoughtful mind. It is form wl1ich can hardly b@ perverted Ol' mistaken, and "the saints of the Most High" are to possess it; but
most happ1ly described by the prophet Isaiah, xx-viii. whirh givr.s an almost infallible clue to the correct ap· in the last and more literal description we are told tr1at
10, 13. Tltc 1oord of the Lord teas unto them )l(ttept plication of the portrait itself, and of the other prophetic all "w}JO are found written in the book," whetlwr
upon precept, precept upon precept; line ttpon line, line periods which do not admit of a literal application. they "sleep in the dust of the earth," or "wait''
upon line; here a little, and there a little. The prophe- The subsequent visions of Daniel, in a similar man- among the living, "shall shine as the brightness of
cy, as a whole, may be looked upon as the different ner, fill up tl1e first general outline, by unfolding new the firmament and as the stars foreY"er and over;'' and
views of an extended scene, of which the first vision is features _of the field first conterop1ated, or by showing the prophecy closes up with a particular promise to
the well-defined outline, while the grouping of the the relations of its more important parts to each other. Daniel that he should partake of its rewards-" 5tand
parties, and the expression of character, and. the de- The visions are, therefore, necessarily involved in each in his lot at the end of the days."
tail of objects, and pl:.tce, and time, and catastrophe, other; and no person can obtain a full and clear view This feature of the prophecy is not confined to
are given in the after visions. of the great panorama described hy the prophet, in all events; but is equally striking in reference to the
The first gr~nd communication of prophetic light its parts, unless he bas the several sketches of the times of the prophecy. \Ve have not only the chro-
was expressly mtended to unfold "what shall be in prophetic pencil before his eye at the same time. nology of the whole vision from Persia down to the end,
the latter days,'" and by connecting a succession of As instances that each succeeding view of tha and of several other important events brought to view,
earthly kingdoms with the everlasting kingdom of God, scene adds to the fust or previous, and more genmal with a double statement of the time when the end is
time is connected with eternity, and of course the -view, the following examples c.annot fail of being at to come, in the last chapter; but we have even the
whole field of this world's history is comprehended ·in once recognised. In the first vision, the four king- duration of the Saviour's ministry, noted exactly as it
the first prophetic survey. The second vision contem- doms are referred to only in the most general manner; was fulfilled-" one week," which, according to the
plates the same ground, but with greater particularity in the vision of the eighth chapter the second and scriptural rule in the case, is seven years.
in ~he description of some of tho more impurtant third of these kingdoms are called by name-Persia The vision of the eighth chapter is now to be con-
features of the scene. The kingdoms are the sarne. and Grccia. In the second vision the division of siderecl, with which the ninth stands connected as a
The fourth is here divided into "ten bngdoms.:' Greece into four parts is expressed by the four heads sort of appendix. It commences with the second of
'l'he catas' rophe in this vision, though the same in its and 'vings of the leopard; in the third, by the four the four great kingdoms brought to view in the previ-
results, is not effected by smiting, but by "the burning horns of the goat. In the more literal description of ous visions, as the first, Babylon, had nearly or quite
flame." This brings us to the END, in which THE the ele>enth chapter, (v. 4-15,) the particular history run out its a1)pointed time. Jer. xxv. 12.
ANciENT or DAYS SITS r~ JUDGMENT-THE SoN or of two of the more important of those divisions is This vision brings particularly to view the relation
.MAN COMES IN THE cLouDs Or HEAVEN, "and there is given. In this chapter, indeed, the particulars of per- of tho kingdoms of this world to the church and her
given him dommion, and glory, and a l(ingdom, that sonal and family injury and revenge-of intrigue and inheritance, and the fate of the last of the four,
a~l peop!c? na~ions, and lan~;uages, ~h_ould se~·ve him: diploJ:?acy-of the mustering and marc?ing of arrnies- (though other visions assure us that all th~ othc! king-
Ins domuuon 1s an e:·erlastmg dommwn, '' hJCh shall of defeat and conquest, as they have smce taken place doms are to be destroyed at the same t1me,) m con-
not pass away, and lus kingdom that which shall not in Persian, Grecian, Egyptian, Syrian and Roman nection "'"ith the deliverance of the church and "the
be destroyed." Dan. vii. lei. But perhaps the most, history, are all portrayed by the prophetic hand. In redemption of the purchased possession."

. J?an. vi11 ..1, 2. In the third yea1· of the reign of king Belshazzar, a rision appeared unto me-, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first. And I saw in a
nswu; and 1t came to pass, when I saw, that I was at Shm,han in the palace, which is in the province ofElam; and I liaw in a -vision, and I was by t11e ril'er of Ubi.
Verses 3, 4. Verses 5-S. I Verses 8, 9. Verse 10. Verses 11, 12.
Then I lifted up mine eyP~, And as I was e?nsidering, behold, A And when he was strong, the great And it waxed great, Yea, he magnified himself even to THE
and saw, and behold, there stood HE-GOAT came Jrom the_ west on the horn was broken; and for it came up even to the host of heav- PRINCE OF THE HOST, and by him the
before the rirer A RA:It WHICH t:1ce of the whole earth, ;mel touched not FOUR NOTABLI: ONES, toward the four en; and IT CAST DOWN DAILY sacrifice was taken away, and the
HAD TWO ao:'NS; and th.e two the ground; and the goat had a notable winds of hearen. And out of one of SOlliE OF TilE HOST, place of HIS SANCTUARY WAS CAST OWN.
h?l'lh3 were h1gh; hut one was hornbctwccnhi~eyc~. Amlhecameto them came forth A LITTLE HORN, AND OF THE STARS, Andahostwas given himagaimttheDAILY
h~gher than the other, a~cl the the ram that had two hon1s, which I had WHICH WAXED EXCEEDING GREAT, ·ro THE GROUND, and sacrifice by reason of transgression, 'l.nd IT
h1;;hcr came up last. 1 saw the seen s!an~ling bcfiJrc the rirer, and ran to\vard the SOUTH, and toward the stamped upon them. CAST DOWN THE TRUTH TO THE GROUND;
ramJ·osnJNGI'I'UTWAno,A1\lluntohunuJthcfuryoflli$powcr. And EAST, mul toward the I'LEASANT audit practisedandprospered.
NOTtTHI\'ARD, AND SOUTH- I saw him come clos~ lllltO the ram, and LAND. [Dan. ix. 2{). And the
I''ARO; so thut NO li!::\STS he was mo1£>d with chok•J' ag-ain~t him, people of the p1·incc tbat [Dan. xi. 86. And the king shall do accord-
MIGHT STA:-<n BEFOJH; lJDJ, ;~nd sn1ote the ram, awl umke hi!! two ahall come shall destroy ing to l1is ,~ill; and he shall exalt himself, anQ
neither was there ANt THAT horns; and there was no power in the the citv and the sanctml- magnify himself abo'e ewry god, and ;:hall
COULD DEL!H:fl OUT OF HIS t;am to st:tnd bcf,Jre hi~n, but he cast him R1 MARTt. The dirisions of Greece ry; at;d the end thereof speak "mar-vellous things against the God of
HAI\D; bnt hcDTD ACC'ORDll\G no1rnto the ground, and :>tamped upon ,· .. rr·.M.u•edon,inthewe~t; Thrace,in shall bewithaflood,and gods, and shall prosper till the indign<ttion be
ro IllS WtLL, A!.D lll::CAM~- him; and there wa;, none that coultl de- the north; Syria, j~ the east, and Egypt unto the encl of the war accomplished: for that that is determined
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1 he .nl one salllt speal,ing, and another s.lint ~aid unto that ccrtai11 saint which Fpake, How LONG SHALL BE THE VISION concerning THE DAlLY ,<acr!fice, AND THE
TltAl\SGRESS!O:< OF IJF.SOLATJO:O:, TO G!V~: BO:H Tllr: SAl'iCTUA!lY AND THE HOST TO n~: TRODDEN UNDER FOOT1 14. And he said unto me, UNTO TWO THOUSAND AND
1' H 1U:F; HIJ NORED DAYs: TH t: N SHALl. THE SA~ CTUA RY RE CLEANSED. 15. And it came to pass, when I, eYen I Daniel, HAD SEEN THE VISION, and SOutrht for THE MEANI~G,
th "n, behold, there ~hod before llll' as the appearance of a man, 16. And I hearcl a man's Yoice between the banks ofUlai, which called, and said, Gabriel, MARE ~'HIS niAN TO u~DER­
STAND THE VISION. 17. S,1 he came ncar where I stoorl; and when he came I was afraid, and fell upon my face; hut he said, UNDEUSTAND, 0 son oi man, FOR AT THE TIME OF
T1~1<: J<~ND SHAL~ JlF: 'l'HF. VISION. IS. Now as he was ~;peaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on my face toward the ground; but he touched me, and set me 11pright. 19. And he
Salll, Behold, 1 11dl make thee know WHAT SHALL Bl: TN THE LAST ESD OF TirE INDIGNATION; for AT THE TIME APPOINTED, THE END SHALL BE,
20. THE RA.:,r which thou 2!- And the rough GOAT i:; the kin.gi 22. ~o": that being brolien, ~\·hereas four ~tood up fo.r it~ FOUR RINGDO~fS shall stand up out of the nation,
sa west ha,·ing TWO HOR'\5 arc of GRECIA; and the g-reat hom that 1s but not 111 Ius power. 23. And m the latter t1me of their kmgdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, A
the king~ of MEDIA anJ P Ell- between his eyes, is the first king. KING o~· FIE!!.CF. cOUNTENANCE, and tmderstanding dark sentences, shall stand up. 24. And his power shall
SLA, he mighty, bu1 not by his own power; and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper and practise, and shall
de~troy the mighty Ulld the hely people. 25. Aud through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his har,d;
and he shall magnifvhimsclfin IJjg heart, anc1 by peace shall destroy many; HE SHALL ALSO STAND UP AGAINST
nu: PiliNCK 0}' P.RINC~:s; llUT HE SHALL BE BROKEN WITHOUT HAND. 26. And the vision of the evening
anclthe morning/which was told, iij true; wherefore, shut thou up the '·ision, for it shall be for many days.

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The first thing attempted in the interpretation of host'' of "the mnsomcd qf the Lord,!' delivered from and wheat. Matt. xiii. 37-43. And he assmef! us
this vision, is to show that it extend::; to "THE E!'D,n the power of death and the grave, and their opprcs- that "at the end of this world" the righteo11s "shall
(v. 17 ,) the exact inen.ning of which is explained to sors on earth, " sltal!?·cturn and come tt'ilh singmg shine forth as the sun in the llingdom of their Father."
be "THE LAST E~D OF THE INDIGNATION," (v. 19,) unto Zion,· and everlasting joy shall be upon their Now "all these wondcn" are to "oe finished,"
and, that" the vi~ion," and the time gity;n in it, ter- head." "when he 8hall have accompliEhed to scatter the pow-
minate together,-" AT THE TIME APPOINTED THE This cleansing is to take place at tbe last end of the er of the holy people." The testimony of Christ,
E~D SHALL BE. (v. 19.) Al~ this was said by Gabriel indignation. A remark or two will show that this is (Luke xxi. 24-27 ,) is equally clear, that the desola-
before a wonl was said about the historical emblems to come at the time of Christ's coming to judge the tion of " the sanctuary, the holy mountain," is to end
of the vision-the ram, goat, &c., e\·idently implying world, to raise the righteous dead, and to enter upon at his comi11g ro judge the world, and to reign forever.
that these points were the most important to be un- hi::> glorious and everlasting reign. If there were any '·'And Jerusalwz shall be trodden dotcn of the Gentiles,
derstood. 'V e will therefore consider them first. doubt whether this indignation were God ·s general in- UNTIL THE Tlii!ES oF THE GENTJLES BE FULFILLED.
1Vlwt, then, is "the time appointed?" It must be dignation against a guilty world, or against the wic1•- And there shall be signs in the sun, cfc. AND THEN
the time mentioned in" the vision;" for it was "the ed and unworthy occupants of His "heritage"-the SHALL THEY SEE THE SoN oF MAN cOMING IN A cLOUD
meaning" of" the vision" Daniel sought, (v. 15,)-it promised land, it would make no difference as to the with power and great gl01y." H ere the coming of
was the vision Gabriel was sent to "make" him" un- events which are to take place at the last end, or tcr- Christ is intimately connected with the fulfilment of
derstaud," (v. 16,) and it was the vision Gabriel mination of it. In the most general sense it must the times of the Gentiles, the period during whfch
"came" to explain to him, (v. 17 ;) the time appoint- bring the last manifestation of God's wrath against Jcru~alem shall be trodden under foot. Of course the
ed, the~efore, must be the time given in" the Yision," sinners, and that we know will not be till" the day of whole country follows the condition of its capital. It
or Damel's prayer was answered with moekin~Y, Ga- judgment and perdition of ungodly men." must continue in this condition till Christ comes.
briel forgot his commission, and directed his at~ntiou But the indignation is eTidently that which is so "And in that day thou shalt say, 0 Lord, 1 will praise
to something foreign from the matter to be attended to. often spoken of by the prophets, whiclt was pour~d thee: though thou tcast angry 1L'ith me, thine anger is
No other time is given in the vision but the "2300 out upon the covenant people of God on account of tn~d,.-away, and tho1l cornjo1·test rne." Isa. xii. 1.
days," (v. 14,) and that this was specially designed to their sins, which first subjected them to the donJinion t < Comfort ye, comjo1·t ye 11l!J people, saith your God.
be communieated to Daniel is evident from this fact: of foreign masters, and afterwards removed them from Speak ye con!fO'rlably to Jerusalfm, that her warfare,
when the question was asked, "How long- the 'L'ision ?" the land of their fathers, to be fugitives among all na- (APPOINTED TIME, margin,) is accomplished, that her
thou.gh it does no.t al?pear to have been proposed by tions. See Isa. v. 5-7, 13; x. 5, 6; xlii. 24, 25; iniquity is pardoned: fo?· she hath 1·eceivcd at the Lord's
Damel, the answer IS addressed to him,-" And he Jer. vii. 17-34; ix. 13-16; E7ek. xxxvi. 17-19; hand double for all her sms." Isa. xl. 1. "For
said unto me," &c. Dan. ix. 7-12, 16. your shame you shall have double, and for confusion
This, then, is" the time appointed," at the end of Now we haYe the clearest proof tl1at this condition they shall 1·rjoice in tllei1· portion: thcnj'ore lN THEIR
which "the vision" .a oro and,-" the sanctuary shall of "the sanctuary"-" the holy mountain," which LAND THF~Y SHALL POSSESs THE DOUBLE; et·e1·lasting
then be cleansed"-" the last end of the indignation" "the Lord hath chosen for ms IIAlliTATION TO DWELL juy shall be ttnlo them." Jf;a. ]xi. 7. See also Isa.
come, and the power repre:sented by the" little horn" rN IT FOREVER;" and which without doubt is 1o be the lxvi. 13-16.
"shall be broken without hand.'' ]oealion of "the CITY oF THU: GREAT Knw," "when By "the r:anctuary," then, I m1derst:mu to be
What are we to understand by the" cleansing the the LoRD OF HOSTS shall reign in Mol'NT ZroN, AND meant," the place which the Lord made fN himEelf
sanctuary 1" To "understand" this correctly we IN J ERllSALE,r, and brfm·e his ancients gloriou.~?y," to dwell i12, the movntmn of his inheritrmce, ·'-the land
must ascertain what is meant by "the sanctuary.': "KrxG OVF.R ALL THE EARTH;" and which "the gieen to Alraham, "the land wherein he was a stran-
The word sanctuary is u::>ed by the inspired writers in heirs" are "to possess as an everlasting inheritance," ger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting posses-
the following significations. 1. It is the name of a together with "the kingdom and dominion vndcr the sion ;" of 'vhich he received, during his life, according
particular part of the temple. Heb.ix. 2. 2. The wltoleheaven,''-wehavetheclearest proof,Irepeat, . tothea.postle,(Actsvii.5,) 11 noneinhe1'i/anceinit,no,
different apartments of the temple-:- Jer. li. 5-1. 3. that this condition of the sanctuary is to terminate at 1 net so much as to set his foot on;" for it was the
The temple itself. 1 Chron. xxii. 19; xxviii. 10. the coming of Christ, and not till then. Daniel., in "place which he should after 1·ece·ive for an inhe?·i-
1. Places ofworship generally, true or false. Amos the 0th chapter, the appendix to the 8th, where he tm.~." B ch. xi. 8,
vii. 9; Ezek. xxviii. 18; Dan. viii. 11. 5. Heaven gives us the fate of "the city and sanctuary," says 1 ·lh this sense Daniel seems to ha~·e used the word
~s called the ~anetuary. Ps. cii .. 1_9. 6. The.P.rom- "'for the oYersprcading of abominations he shall make in the 9th chap. verse 17. He had JUSt pr::~yed, " 0
1sed land. Ex. xv 17; Ps.lxxvm. 54; Isa.lxm. 18. it desolate, EVE:-1 lJNTIL THE CONSU!\IMATION." And Lord, I ~esccch thee, let thine ange1· and thy fury br.
7. The tabernacle of God in the heavenly state. Ezek. also xii. 1-7, the accomplishment of the predic1ed turned mcay .from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy moun-
xxxvii. ~6, 28. These are the principal significations "scattering qf the power of t!te holy pcople"-in other lain," cfc., and continues in this verse, "Now, there-
of the word sanctuary, in the word of God. Accord- word,;, the dcsolatiP n, or "trea~ing un~er foot," of fm·e, 0 our God, hear the praya of thy serrant, and
ing to which of these signifir.ations is the word to be the inheritance-i the point at whi~;h the "wonders" his supplication, and cause thy face to shine upon thy
understo d in the text before us 1 I think the most ob- before stated are tt)" be finished." 'Vhat are " these sanctuary that is de.~olate." Can ° Thy (God's) sax:c-
viuilS sense is that which points out the promised land; wonders 7" tuary" mean a.nythinl?' else here but" Jerns.a]em, thy
for it must be evident to every one that the sanctuary 1. "At that time shallltficlwel stand up, the great holy mountain," the same as that to l-VhiCh Moses
here spoken of must be capable of being" tPodden Prince zc!tich standeth for the children of Lh!J people.'' applies the word the first time it occurs in the llible 1
underfoot," and of being" cleansed," and, as I think Michael is on~ of the names which is applied to Jesus Ex. xv. 17.
we shall see, of being cleansed at the coming of Christ Christ. It means, " Who ·1s like God?" To " stand By the cleansing the sanctuary I understand to be
and t/w resul'l'cction of the righteous dead. The text up," means, in this prophecy, to reign. xi. 2-4. meant, 1. Its purification from the wicked agents of
should also be_ understood in a sense that will har- .The first of these wonders, then, is the reign of Jesus its desolation, and, 2. The removal of the curse which
monize with othercases in which the word is used by Christ; whieh is always stated to commence with the is upon it, at the termination of its predicted desola-
D~niel in particular, with the views of the other destruction of all earthly kingdoms. See Dan. YU. tion. Isa. i. 2i, 28; xlix. 13-17, 19.
prophets, and the word ofGod generally. 9-14; Rev. xi, 15-18. Wh en "He whose right It may be asked, perhaps, how can this particular
The promised land, of which old Jerusalem was the it is" t.o reign takes the throne, his kingdom will be land be possessed in the eternal state 1 Will it s:nnive
metropolis, was given to Abraham, (Gen. xvii. 4-9,) " all the earth;" and "the throne" of evnry usurper the cont4'tgra.tion 1 To what cxteiJt the geological and
and to his seed after him, FOR AN EVERLASTING Pos- shall b~ "cast down," and their trouble shall come in geographical features of the earth will be affected,
SESSIO:.-r, in a. covenant established with Abraham, and [one Ja.y, drath and mourning and famine. , when "changed," or "melted" by the fire unto which
l? be estabLished with his seed after him tn thei·r gene-ra- 2. "And at that time thy people shall be delivered: i1 is reserved, we do not pretend to say. That it will
t~on~. ~nd this seed are thus to possess it as a peen- aery one that shall be found 1l:ritten i1L the book." exist in the same form in 'vhich it now exists, a globe,
liar mhcntance when the promise to Abraham that he There is 110 other "time, in which the" deliverance" is (Wident from the fact that there is to he, day ana
should be the heir of the habitable earth (kosmou) sha.ll of" people" is to be determined by referring to "the night, though" the city hath no need of the sun, neithe
be realizeu. · book," bnt in the judg1u~t scene . . Dan. vii. 10; Rev. of the moon, to shine in it;" (Rev. vii. 15; xx, 1~ i)
There will be the "city which hath, foundation.!, xx. 12, 15; xxi. 27. Tlie secnd of these wonde-rs is, and if it exist in its present form there must be the
whos~ builder and maker is God," to which they have therefore, the judgment :scelte, which brings" trouble" same diversities of latitude and longitude; and a pr1r·
" looked" while " strangers and pilgrims on the earth." to the wicked and deliverance to the righteous. tion of the new ea11h which eonesponds wit 1! the lati-
There "the king shall be seen in his beauty,"-" upon 3. "And many of them that sleep in;~;!k1st of the tude aud longitude of the promised land in this old
t.he throne of Dayid! to. order and to establish it with earth shall awake, :some to everlastmtf·~~Jf.e~-;,fome to earth, may be selected for the location of the hca.Yenly
JUdgment and Wlth yusttce, fT'om henceforth even forev- shame and everlastmg contempt." _'1li~s 1s a che~t~tate- Jerusalem, "the city of the g·reat King."
er, ,; '' Foa THE LoaD HATH cHOSEN ZroN : he hath ment that the 1·esurrectinn, particul~~·ly'of tlie righteou~, Dut from the repeated assurances that '' the land
desired it FOR His HABITATION." "Tms IS MY REST will take place when the predicted scatt~}·iqg of the holy promised to Abraham, Isaac and hcob," "the moun-
r.oaEVER: HERg WILL I DWELL; for I have desired it." people is " accomplishe•L" It takes place " at his tains of Israel," " the holy mountain," "Mount Zion,!'
Ps. exxxii. 13, 14. "This is the hill which God de- (Christ's) coming." 1 Cor. xv. 23; 1 Thes. iv.l4-17. &c. &c., are to be H possessed fore'\'er," "stand for·
st,eth to dwell in; yea, THE LoRD WILL DWELL IN IT The third of" these wonders," therefore, is the resur- ever,"" never to be removed," &c., we 111ay suppdse
FOREVER." .Ps. lxviii. 16. See also Ex. xv. 17, 18; rection. - tha.t some of the present features of the earth \\ill
Is:t. lx. 13; Ezek. xxxvii. 24-28; Rev. xxii. 3. On 4. "A'!Jd thmJ that oe wise shall shine as the bright-~ sun·ive the conflagration.
this territory the great battle is to be fought, which ness of. the firmament; and thC'Ij that tum many to It may be asked again, "Will not the process .of
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will make an end at once of the desolator a.nd the des- 1·io-hteousness as. the stars Jorever and eve-r .'' This cleansing·-" the great battle," and "the burmr.g
olati.ons. Isa. xiv. 2:1-27. See also XJ~:ix. 5-8; ca":t rf}ean nothing less than the glorification of the flame," &c. require a longtime for its accomplishment l
xxx1. 4,. 5 ; xxxiv. 1-:8; lxiii, 1~ ; Joel iii. 9-16; righteous. Pal!l uses simila~ language in speaking We cannot tell I:ow long a time it will req~:ure to com-
Zech. x1v. 3; Rev. XVl. 13-16; XlX. 11-21. on the same })Omt. 1 Cor. xv. 41, 42. The Saviour plete the work; 1t may be but~ few days, Jt m~y be as
" Then shall the sanctuary be cleansed," "and the uses very similar language in his parable of the tares 1 many years as the Israelites were in conqu.enng the

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Canaanites, after they entered the land-se~en years ;
it may be more or less ; but that ii will be commenced
suddenly, and by the personal interposition of the
" King of kings and Lord of lords," and that its com-
mencement will be decisive upon the hopes of man-
kind, is clearly stated in the word of God. Sec Zeph.
i. 18; Isa. lx. 22; 2 Thes. i. 7-10; Jude 14, 15.
The vision ends when tlte sanctuary is cleansed, (or
justified, as the margin reads,) and the last end af the
indignation comes, at THE TilliE APPOINTED-THE END
OF THE 2300 DAYS.
·when does the period terminate ~ To determine
that we must ascertain "the manner" in which it is tu
be understood, and when it began. It is sufficient to
settle the question whether thi!S period is to be under-
stood literally or not, to know that 2300 days, literally,
will not cover the history of the power which con-
tinued for the shortest time of any one in the vision-
the "king" represented by "the great horn" of" the
goat''-Alexander.
If anythmg more were needed, the fact that all
\vho have attempted to apply it literally, have failed
do so, many of them confessing it unequivocally,
puts it forever to rest. It must, therefore, be under-
stood symbolically, as equal to 2300 years.
The commencement of this period is indicated to us
in two ways. 1. By stating the condition of Persia,
the first kingdom in the vision, represented by the
ram, at the time in her history when the vision began.
What was the condition of Persia at the point con-
templated in the vision ~ 1. '; I saw the 1·am pushing
westward, northward and southward, so that NO BEAST
MIGHT STAND l3EFORE !II!Il," 2. " Neither was there
~NY THAT CQULD DELIVER OUT OF HIS HAND." 3.
But HE DlD ACCORDING TO HIS WILL and became
great."
i'i1is must d~note a state of complete triumph over
all op11osing nations, and of course Persia must have
been at the zenith of her power and prosperity at the
time. 'l'he vision cannot commence at any point in
her history after she had passed the zenith. "When
I was Persia in such a condition~ I know of no histo-
rian whose statements will allow us to begin this vision
at a la.ter period than the reign of Artaxerxes Longi-
manus. Though the Persians were successful in
many of their expeditions after his reign, there cer-
tainly is nothing in their history to correspond with
the represPntations of this vision.
Rollin, in speaking of the "vices which first causeJ
d~J"'ine, and at last the ruin of the Persin.n empire,''
says, "The death of Darius Codomanus, (B. C. 130,)
may very justly he considered as the era, but not as
the sole cause. of the destruction of the Persian Mon-
archy." * -. " vVe easily perceive that this de-
cline was p·epared at a great distance, and carried on
lo its end by visible steps which denoted a total ruin.':
Vol. 1. pp. 5-13, 5H. Harpers' Edition.
The period of its decline is thus noted in the Ency-
clopedia Americana, -Art. Persia: "Under Artax-
erxes Lo!1gimanus, the Ahasuerus of the Scriptures,
(until425 B. C.,) the first symptoms of decline becamt;_
visible." The period, then, must be commenced prior
to 425 B. C. But ,Artaxerxes reigned from 401 to
425 B. C. In the third year, B. C. 461, he reigned
from India ercn unto Ethiopia, orC'r a hundred and seren
and twenty provinces; (seven more than there were in
the time of Da.rius, Dan. vi. 1;) when he made ag-rea
fe~tst unto all his princes and his servants ; the power
· • and Persia., the nobles and princes of the
vinces, beinO'0 before him. Esther i. 1, 2.;.:' But if
2300 days, 0r years, had commenced ea-rlier than
the sixth of Artaxerxes, B. C. 458, they would have
expired by this time. They must, necessarily, there-
fore, have commenced between the sixth and thirty-
ninth year of Artaxerxes, a period of thirty-three
years. How long before the close of his reign these
" symptoms of decline appeared," we are not exactLy
infin·med.
The seventh of Artaxerxes, 457 B. C., was dis-
tinguished by some of the most remarkable events in
the history of his kingdom, or that of the Jews. On
that year Esther became his wife and queen, in the
place of Vashti, on which occasion '' the king made a
great feast," " and he made a release to the provinces,
*The reasons for supposing Artaxerxes Longimanus to have
been the husband of Esther, may be found at length in Pri-
deaux' Counexions. See also Dr. Clarke's Commentary, Pref.
to/EsLher. R111lin declines the discussion of the point.
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KI~~GDOl\f AT HAND.
and gave gifts, according to the state of the king." 1of course there was no reason to expect the sanctuary
E~ther ii. H>, 18. to he clean~ed, for it was to be 'trodden under foot'
On that year the famous decree mentioned Ezra vii. until the vision should end. "Consider the vision!"
was issued in favor of the Jews. , Daniel. Has the ram-the kings of Media and Persia,
And at that year must be dated the commencement been conqt1ered by the rough goat-the king of Grecia 1
of the ~ cventy weeks of Daniel ix. And according to lias Greece, after being a unit, been divided into ''four
the vision and history of Persia before us, the 2300 kingdom:>~'' And have these been followed by a
days may begin there also. I" king of fierce countenance," who '\vas to arise" in
2. But we have a more exact indication of the com- the latter time of tl1eir l<ingdom-and who f'hOHlu
men cement of this period in the 9th chapter. " de&troy wonderfully, and destroy tl1e mighty and the
\Vhat are the reasons, it is frequently asked, for holy people-stand up against the Prince of princes 1"
supposing the 8th and 9th chapters to be connected &c. Co:\SIDER THE VISION ! So far is it from lun·ing
together, so that the latter is to be considered explana- nm out, ~hat" 70 weeks (sevens) of tl1e ''ision are de-
t .. ry of the foTmer! We answer, termined, or cut off,* upon thy people, and tby holy
1. That 1t must be, in th@ nature of the case, that city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end
\ ru'l ma~ters conte~plated in the 9th chapter are in- ol tiin~, (fill up their iniquity by putti~g: t•~ death tl.lc!r l\.1es~iah,
eluded m the 8th, JUSt as a part of a thing must be th~ c,·~nt wluch ?hall]. make reconCihatwn fo~· 1111qmty, and
included in the whole. The vision of the 8th sun·eys lmng ~~~ ~verlastmg nghtcousne~s, [a.nd by tlus al~o}to,•eal
tl ·l 1 fi ld f· p ., h d.. l < up the YJSIOn and prophecy, aud to anomt the Mo8t Holy.'
le \\ 1? e e. IOID ~ISla to t e en ' t le Ut 11, Now the point to he settled is, "hat" vision" did Galn·ie}
though 1ts spemal burdan IS the 70 weeks, also reaches refer to1 It must be evident to all that he refers to what is
" even to the confilnnmation." stated in the 9th chapter, or to some prfvious rision. This
2.• But the nature of the view taken in both cases must be admitted, or Gubriel spoke nouseuse. If what is said
points out the special bearing of one u11 on the other. in c~nnection '~i~h tl;e 70 weeks may, with ~ny p~opri~ty, be
The vision of the 8th sllOWS the particular relation of conmlere~ a nswn, lt ~~. to_ say the lea~t 4Jf 1t, qUite swgular
th e 1~mg.. · d 111 f th' . Jd h 1 , h " l1 h , that Gabnel should call Dame! to "consHicr and under~tund''
? S o_ IS \'or to t e c nne - t ~ ost, a rision before it had been given. In all other <'ases the \·i~iou
and l~cr 1~1hentanc~-" the sanctuary." Th1s, with is first unfolded, and then, after special prayer for its meaning,
what lS saHl of the t1me, character and results of the in most ca~ee, the interpretation is given; Lut in this case, that
mission and death of Messiah, is also the whole bur- uniform and natural order is departed from, unless some ~;titer
den of the 9th. vioion besides that in the 9th chapter, (sopposing it to be a
3. The great question of . t t t D · 1 111 · tl o v!s~on,) is t!te one i1~temled by Gabriel.. Well, w!Jat .other
.· , . m eres 0 ame lv \Js1on could Jt bc1 "hy, the one spealung to Dame! Ill the
'·1s10n of ~he 8th, w,_as, as we have seen, "limo long 9th chapter is "the man Gabriel, whom he had seen in the
the treadmg under root of the sanctuary and the host" vision at the beginning," but we have no ac<'ount of his being
was to ~~1ntinue 1 It was this also which led him to seen in any other lis ion than that of the Sth chapter, verse 16;
the acts-" to seek by prayer and supplications, with and then• he is commanded to make Daniel understand the
fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes''-which introduce Yi~;ion.
Here, then, is the same messcngcr, Gabriel, seen in the pre-
the !)th, and which ca!Jed forth the communications Yious Yi~ion. His 1wrk is the same-to make Daniel "under-
contained in it. Read chap. Dth, verse 3d to the e11d. litmHI." The manner of his address implies that he had come
4. From all the circumstances of the mission of to finieh up the wo1 k assigned him in that ,-is ion-" to show"
Gabriel, as recorded in the 9th chapttr, it is plain that Daniel its commencement, the ~nly point before omitted. Tl1e
Daniel labored under some mistake in the case. u;ords declare it. " Consider the vi5ion," Daniel, to "tmd£r.stand
"While he was speakinD'0 in prayer, Gabriel, Leing the"'wtlt.r."
_tlnd, to put the last qnery in the ca~e to rest, be atlds ,-
caused to fly swiftly, touched him and talked with "Krww, TI:IlmEFOr.E, AND UNDERSTAND, tlmt from th
him, and said unto him, 0 Daniel, I am now com~f01·th going forth of the commandr~tcnt to restore and to build Jerusa-
to give thee skill and understanding." And again, lem, tlltfo the Messiah the Prince, shall be u1•tn tveeks, and three-
" I am come to show thee." There must have been ~core and two weeks'' = 69 \Yceks, "ann he shall confirm the
somethinD' that was not understood by Daniel, or Ga- co\·enant with many for one week," "hich added to the 69
briel would not have been sent thus, on express, as it make out the 70. This makes "the m~ttcr" plain. The 70
\\eck:> arc made a pa1 t of the 2300 davg, or \cars, by telling
were, "to show" him about it. But what could have us they arc to be "na off" li'om the ~i~ion referred to; and
been Daniel's mistak~ ~ It was not i~ sufposing that being a part of that period, they fix its commeucement. For
the " 70 years" pred1cted by "Jerelhial, 1ne prophet" the 70 "eeks cannot be cuT oFF f1 om the 2300 days, unless
had comQ nearly or quite to an end_ ; no, that was nn-jthey ':ere included in t!tatJJeriod;_ a1~d if <'llt off, tl.1ey must ~e
derstood. "I, Daniel, understood by books the number cut oft_ ~o many wee~o l~·om the begmnzng of the penod; and 1f
0if .V . . J '
I
the ?ears." v. 2. From Daniel's praver and the cut oft from the bcgmmng, tluy nttt.'t co~uncnce together. And
from \\hat we are told \las to he done m the 70 weeks, tbry
course taken by Gabnel, the m1stake seems to have mu·t have terminated at the death of Christ· and this ~cttlcs
been this: Daniel supposed that" to accomplish 70 years the qne~tion that tht'y arc to be u~clerotood t~ ~xp•·ps~ in days
I
in the desolations of Jerusalem" would make an end the ntwtber of years intended. There being 490 clny;s in 70
of her desolations. Mark the 'vords as they fell from weeks, we l~aYc only to go back that liUnJLe!·of year;; lrum t~1e
his lips in prayer. After confessing the sins of the dcl<lh of Chnst and \~c arc brought neces~aJJ!y to the Jear 4o7
"1nngs,· '
pnnces, r. th
1a. ers an d a11 tl· 1e peop1eo fth.e 1an d , " _B. C t Tbat ·vc>~.r, 1s the remarkable
. sermth year of .tlrtaxcr.us,
. · , .
and that" the curse poured upon them'' by" the Lord -J~A Hebrew scholar, of h_Jgh ~-eput:.t.tJOn, ma!'es the !ollo\~ll!g
their God," was" righteous:'-being also a fulfilment remark~. upon th;,wonl wllll·h 1s tJ:an~lalc~~ '· dl'ternuncd,: m
f" 1 · d "h d " 11 es'ecl thee 1 Let our wrswn.-" 1 he H'rh chathak ( 111 the N 1phal form, pa~>~n·c,
O . us wo.r s, e pro:ee s-. . J ~ 1 • . ' • . ucdttak,) is founcl only in D.anicl ix ..24. Not ~u,wther in-
thtne ange1 and thy fwy be. tu,1,ncd at;,ay f1 om ~-IY 1 Ctly stance of it~ u~e can he t1:ac?d 111 the cut1re IleiJ~·ew l c~tament.
Jerusalem, thy holy mountazn. 2. Opr:n tlune eyes, As Chald;uc and Rablnnmc,ll usage mu>t gl\e us the tn.e
and behold our desolations, and the city which is called ~eusc of the \lord; if \\Care guided hy thc·~e, iL has the sinp.le
by thy name." 3. '~And cause thy fare to shine upon signi~cati:m. of c.~'l:TI:·~? Oft cu.'l";I:sG ,o,n_.. I~, the Ch:•!;
thy sanctuary that ts desolate, fot the Lord's sake." ~leo-ha~bl.nntc Dlwon<ll) of Sto~kms, tl.e \H•ld clwthak,
I lzcar, 0 L ord ',jiorgu.e
· ·· · i 0. I-' ord ' hearken 1 ~ tlws cchned :
'1· " 0 L on' ' , ";::Jcidit, ab~ridit, conscidit, inseidit, f'Widif'-To cut, to
~ND D?; D8FF:~ NOT, for tltme ?u:n ,.~a!.e, 0 my God. <'Ut away, to cut in pit'cPs, to cut or cugr~\e, t.J cut olf..
:::luch 1mportumty brought Gabncl irom hcaven~-not .l'tlcrccrus, in his'' 'flle~auru;:," furm~hrs a fpecuncn of
to tell him his prayer should be answered, but to show RaLbinnieal t":age in the phrase cbathikah shclba8ar-" a
him that" the city and sanctuary" sho~1ld be" destroy- pie~c of ile:;l!," or". a cut of -~:~s,l~.'' . __Ile. t,t;ansl~tcs the w~1~d
ed " and continue "desolate ercn unttl the consumma- as lt occur~ In Dan. 1;'· 24, h) .~o~~r 1 ''t est -~v~~s CUT 0 ~ 1 •
·' " B h 1 ld D · 1 1 1 · t·l . 1 In the htcral verswn of Arws 1\Iontanus, Jt ts translated
twn... ut w y s lOll ame rna. ce .sue" I al .nus b <lJW , · " l 1eCI~a
•. ·t "-\\'AS cu'l' on,. ·' in the maro-inal
e:< , o
readhwt>'
T here d~es not ap~ear to lle anyt hmg m t Je oo {S which i.; grammatically correct, it is rendered by the plural,
of Jeremmh, to whwh he refers, to warrant such an ex- "dccioae sunt"-were cut o.ff.
pectation. The ro:::.ost obvious reason which can be ln the Latin Yersion of Junius and 'fremellins, nechtak is
assigned is, that Daniel supposed that the vision of the render~d '.' deci.;ae su_nt':-w~re ~ut_ o!f: . . . .
8th cha ter which brought to view the time when AgaH:, m Thr?dutiOn s ~leek \Cil'J~n of Dame!, .(1dueh 18
p ' d · 'fi d , the \erswn used Ill the Vattcan copy of the Septuagmt 115 be-
" the sanctuary sh~mld be cleanse , or. JUS~l e .' .run ing the most filithful,) it is rendered by ,uvt-r,Ul &n,<.<v, "were cut
out_ at the sam~ tzme wztlt t!ze 70 yems ot Jmemtah. off," and in the Venetian copy by 7 n,wit 7 a 1, "have bem cvt."
Tlus appears stlll further evHlent from the first attempt 'fhe idea of cutting off ie pur~ned in tlw Vulgate; wbere the
of Gabriel "to show" Daniel. " I am come forth to phrase is "abbrcviatae s~nt," haYe been ebortened. ,
show thee; therefore understand the matter, and con- Thus Chaldaic nnd Rabbmmcal auJhonty,and that of the earlz-
sider the vision." How could he" give" him "skill e~t versions, tlzc St:ptu(lgint and "Vulgate, gn:c the,sn\GLE sw-
d · tand'nO'
1 :::.'." ,and , "shO\V" him by tellinO' him NIFICA.TION OJ.' CUTTING OF}' '1'0 THIS\'ERU,
an d un e:s . ' "' t Tlle 70 weeks were closed up by the c_u:tmg o.fj' of ll!essiaJ~, ~nd
to "cons1der the VlSlOn ~ Damel could not but see the "i'C<J.t tran~actions ,, hich were es.>ontml .. to make reconeJlJatJon
that the vision had not run out with the 70 years, and for i~1ir1uity, to bring in cYcrlasting nghtrou~''c.la, and to anoint tl}t
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'1\·h~n the ram did accordmg to 'll.11 U'lll. That is the year in
~rluch the decree of Ezra ,·ii. was issued; and when, accord-
I philosophers into their pnl.:ees, in order to intrust them with
the education of their children, and to impro'l'e them~elres by
ttndi'T foot "fi·om the days of the king~ of Assyria unto tlus
day." Neh. ix. 32.
1!1g to the r!ain declaration of the vision,-thc undouhtc>d tes- their instruction." Rollin, Book 20, Art. 2, sec. n. If anything were wanting to ronfirm our "l'iews of the liu 1
tunony of lu~tory,-~nd the nidrnt connection of the Sth and "The conque.st of Greece at once put them in possession !torn, the daily, &c., it is found in the exact agreement ol
fllh chapters of pam~!, the 2300 years commenced, and of of cvel')'thing most rare, curiou~, or elegant." Guthrie, Int. hi~tnrv with the words of the prophecy.
course they temunate m 1843.• Gcog. p. ·19. • 'l'beir succe~s in the conquest of Greece deter- \V;;s pagani~m "taken away by" the Roman chi! power~
, 'l'lu~y make sure," sr·al up," the vision; and they demon- mined their future history as a nation as it dirl their relation 'Ve pre5ent the following statement of the must important and
~trate " the manner" in which the whole period is to he to the rhm·ch of God. Thus it was' that Rome arose out of well··known transactions in the history of the church and the
reckoned. If the weeks are weel<s, or se,·eus, of yt>ars, the one of the divisions of Greece, and ' also" in the lattct· time world, whi<"h \\e belie,·c to be intended by thi~; prophec) I
days arc CJf rour:;e to oo understood in a corresponding man- of their kingdom, when the transgressors had come to the refers to Con;;tantine, the first Christian Emperor.
ner. And you can no more cut 70 we~:k~ of years from 2300 full." "A. D. 32-1. His first act of government was the df'spatrh
days !~.teral_ly, !han ~·ou l'an rut 7 times 70 yards of broadcloth ~g~pt and Syria were the di,isions .of Greece whi~h ha1l of an edict throughout the empire, cx.horting his 1mbjects tu
from -300 mches ot llroadcloth. exlllblted the d1aracter of transgressors, m that form winch al- emlirace Chri~tiauitv." Croly, p. 55.
5. From all these reason~, drawn from the mo~t general wavs has, and alwa,·s will, call forth the marked interposition ·what can be meant by the "sanctuary" of paganism 1
charact:r of the prophecy to the most 1ninute particulars of of Divine juotice; i.hey were bla~phemers of God, and perse- Pa~uism, and error of en•rv kincl, hrne their sanctuaries, as
the subJeCt of the two chapter~, we nrc a~sured of such a cutors of His cause and people. Rome was the instrument of well as truth. These are die temples or a~ylums c•msccraled
connec.tlon a~ we have supposed between them. . their punishment. to their service. Some particular and renowned temple of
A gam; Without l'ttch a conncetion, one of tne portions of 2. Did R~me wax great gP.ographically to,mrds the south, pagauis1n may, then, be supposed to be here ~poken of. "rhich
the prophecy could not be understood, though an c>xrress com- the east, and the pleasant land? .Acconlinrr to 'Worcester's of its numerous di~tinguished temples may it he'! One of tl:e
!Dand to." make" it undt".~>food ~·;as giren; and the other is Ancient Atlas, the Roman empire included all of northern most magnificent specimens of cla8sic arrhitectmc is called the
mvoh·cd m the stl·an;est d1fficulucs. Af~·ica, from Thebes i.n Egypt to the 30t,ll degree flf north PantllPon. The name 11ignifies "the temple or a~ylu.m of all f/,c
. We cann~t t~ICrelore uut reg•u:d the 9th rhttpter as a de- lat1tude on the AtlantiC; the "hole of _E,urope to the 60th .t;ods." The "place" of its location is P..omc. (G~Jodrich's
s1gne1! nnfl 111d1spensable append1x of the Sth chapter. As degree; and all of Asia west of the Caspian sea, and north Uni,·ersal His., and Guthrie's Geog., p. 606.)
such, 1t .g!''es the unduub~cd due to the chn.nolog-ical periot! of the Euphrates, with" the pleasant land," Pale~tine. See The idols of the nations conquered by the Romans wert
of the ns10n, both as to 1ts commencemC'nl, anJ '·the manner L~1ke ii. 1. sacredly depo~ited in Fome niche or apartment of thiri temple,
o.( time the spirit did si~nifv" by that period. We al5o ron- 3. Did Rome "wax great even tG the host of hea,•en '!" and in many cases became objects of worship by the Romano
s1der the exact fulfilment of the 70 weeks of the 9th chapter 'Vas Rome the conqueror and pt:rsu:tllor the prophecy clescribes 1 themseh·es. Couhl we find a temple of paganism that wa,.
as a pledge that _the uohalf. p~riJd, w~ich rtaches to the end, will These quc~tiunti hardly need to be answered. Rome, in the m~re strikingly "hUI sanctum·y?" Wos Rolllc, the city 01
be as exactly renficd at the tune appomtnl. peBon of tl:c Pope, claimed to be •; G'od's vicegerent upon place of the Pantheon," cast down hy" the authority of the
earth." state 1 Read th<' following well-kno\\ n and rcmarkaule facts
HISTORY· Jiome was mighty, but not by its own power; for, 1et. It of history:
. ~Jaring dwelt so long upon the chronological heariil~S of thi~ "coul,l ha\'e no power except it were giren from above." It "The deatl1 of the last riml of Constantine had sealed the
\'IBJon, and the events whi('h arc to come at its termination, wad an agent and instrument, like other great nations, to peace of the empire. Rome was onre more the undisputed
bnt little need be said npon its historical interpretation and effect the work and will of God. Or, 2d. By its" craft and queen of nations. But, in that hour of elevation and ~plcndo1·,
application. No difticulties exist here, except in the case of policy," and" dark sentences," it made the conqnered nations she had been rais.?d to the edge of a precipice. Her next
the "little horn," and some of his transactions; upon the the in~tnuncnts of its own designs. Sec Rollm, Bot•l< 19, step was to be down1carda. and irr~cOFeTable. The rl;an;!"t; 1•f
meaning of thr ram, he-goat, or the four lwms whi<·h came up chap. 1, sec. 7. "By this means their authority gaiucJ the omcrnment to Consrant1nople st1ll perplc~es the lustunan.
in plac~ of the great hom, there ill no diflercnce of opinion. strength daily, and prepared the nation;; fur entire ~ubjection." It \\~Is an al't in direct r.:'PU~nance to the whole course of the
Upon the meaning of the little horn, &r., I helicre our op- lkr armies were the terrol' of the world. The Romans did ancient and honorable pre}uJires of the Roman mi~d. It was
po~ers hare hccowe uniteri in apply in!; it to Antiorhus Epipha- "d~stroy I he might~ and the holy people;" they" took away the work of 110 lu~nrions Asiati<!, devoted to the mdulgenecs
ne•. The ah~urdities of this application hare been l!O often then· plare and natwn." Rome "cast down the truth, with of earitern customs ancl climates, !all of an iron c... nc;:ICrvl',
pointed ottt, nut only since, but lono before, the present a•ri- some of tlu~ host ami the sl:lr~, to the gronntl." Hev. xii. 4. born in !he we~t, and contemptuous, like all Roman~,_ ~f.the
tatiun of the suhjert hegan, that I sh~lil not state them here." RcY. x,·ii. 6. See Book of ?\l;u·tvl-s, o1· anv chnrch history. habits of the orientals; it was the work of a keen pohtlcmn,
The proplwcy g-ives us, ht. The on'gin of his prophetic Did Rome ·~stand up against the Prince of princes~,· A vet it was impolitic in the lllost palpabl:> degree. Yet Con-
career, v. 9 <UHl 23. 2d. IIi$ character,-gcographical, v. 9; Roman governor comlemued him, and Roman soldier,; nailed ~tantine ahandonrd Rome, the great citadci U11d throne of the
political, v. 10, 11, 2~; military, -r. 2H, 2-1, 25; and as a per- him to the cross, "and one of the soldiers with a spear C::C'sar~, fol' rlll ob~cure corner of Thmce, and e)<pended thr
sccut01·, v. 10, 24, 2o. 3J. Some of the most noted of his pir.rccd his side." remainder of his vigorous and ambitious life in the l!··uble l_'.lil
oprrations are •tared, Y. 11, 12, 25, 65. And last, we han~ I.i~ Ditl Rome "take away th~ daily (srrcrifice,) and rast down of rai~inrr a colony into the capital of his empire, and cln;r!ldmg
fate, v. 25. Now, whate1·er may he denoted bv this little the place of his sanc:tuary '!" and wa:l there "a ho~t given tltP capit~l into tl;e fc.eble hun.ors and hwniliat~d wwgtfl of a
hom, it is the only power brought to view after the dili~ion him ag.1i -~ the daily (sarrijicP) by reason o[ ~ransgre!lsion '!" colony." Croly, p. 207-8.
of Alexander'$ kingdom, d~wu ttl tile time when the sanctuary If the Jc" 1~h won:lup were here mtenrled, 1t 1s true of Rome. "'as there a ho~t gin•n to the state or goverl}mcnt of Rome
is to be cleansed, an~ the last curl of the intlia:n:ttion comes; ~~!t the Jewish worship r~nnot be_ iutended hy the daily (sac- "bv reason 11f transgression 1" And, if so, "hat traus·
enough, _one \~ou~d. thmk,_ to assure us that it ne:er. eoul~l apply ry1rr.) Unr reasons fur tlus assertion are a9 follows : gre~sion '! "r c ehonld suppose, at fi1·st sight, that, i~ a host
to aay sm•lr. mdzLzdu.J lor the last end of the md1guatwn bas 1. The Je,, i:;h wCJnhip is nerer s'J called in the Bible. was gi1·cn a;pin5t l'agani~m by rca~on of ~ransgre~;;wn, the
not yet cvmr., no1· has thl! s:mctuarv been cleansed. Tht,rc would he as much propriety iii callin!' it the ?;early, t~·anrgre~<ion ~u~t be o~ the part ol Png-::ull;:m. \\hat p~r­
A-s this 1i~ion evidently harnH:tiize~ "ich the other ,·is ions mon~li!!J. WCtkiv, trcniug, o1· mnrnlng ~acri1lc~, as the daily llrular cnormuy could Jt be 1 'Vhat IS the transgre~~1ou
of D;tnicl in its scope-nntl design, this litt!c hom must curre- ~acl'lhl'f'. whil'h God has nnil<mnlv interposed to puni•h '! Is it m•t
spoud with the fourth king1!fJ1JJ of the other 1i~ions, a:; the 2. Th~ plmue ocrllr~, as a propel' nall1C, only in tJ,,. h=k hrouaht to licw in tlJP t'r.ll.u··;·~ hrinf ''"' frig_htful ilelll f
ram and he-goat do with the beconJ and third, and the fourth of Daniel; and il• ead1 of the li1·c plac·e;; in \\hith i[ is fimnd, hbtory ~ ·
kingdom u1ust I.e Rvmc-R?mc in itscomprchmsit·c clmracltr,- the word "~acritiee" is in it<• lie!'!, implsing th:Jt the original "A. D. 303. The progress of the faith 6ti1wd up thr )Qilt
pagan a/l(l pupal, a wzit or dkidcd. 11 o•,ld nPt nuthtJI'ize it~; insertion, but that the trunslators iu- paroxysm of expirin~ Pngani~m. The ~?''ereig~1s, )Jax.irnistn
1. Can it be said th;Jt Rome "came fo1lh out of one" of troduccd it to c-:.;press what they ~ouppo. ··d to be the scuse of anol Ualcriu~,-f<•rocJous ~old1ers, and U\\'1ng thC'Ir elryatwn to
the fom·. di,·~sions of Alexanue•·'s empire 1 The desi:.:n uf ihe the pa~sage. the sworrl,--had already been secret pcr~ecutors in their cnmps
prophec!e!! !S !!•;t t::; gi\'l! a hi:;tory of the 1iations of I\ hicb Can nnytL::1g be done, then, to determine t.he applicat!on and palaceB. The supcr;;ti.tion of ~he mother ef Galeriu•; ~he
they speak, in tltrm.sclva considtretl, but in thei1· r!"lation to the of that word! Have we any other source of b::;ht '! I thmk insolence of the tyrant h1mself, mflatcd by recent Pe1 s1an
cam<e aucl Jleoplc of God. It is ia thi3 sem;e O?!l!J, therciiJrP, we haw•. It is the principle of analogy, or comparil;on; 'ictory; the uri ific.es of the priesthood, dre;~di;-g the rapi-'
that the power inter.dcd by this little horn can he snppo~eu to "c.omparhl!r ~1J!ritu.althings H·ith spiritual." extinction of their shrines; and the cold ami lllfinn nature of
be refened to. The great Euhjcct of the vioion, and to which the question Diot;ldian, perhaps alarmed at the growing multitude of the
The fu·5t eonnectiun of the Jews a11d Romnn~ Wu3 bv the of the ,-j~ion refers, is, thr condition of thP. church and the chosen Christian2,-hatl worl,erl together, umil the 11·hole 1enge:lllce
league mentioned in ll\Iac. Sth chap., whicll look pbcc auuut illht:ritancf, H tro!ldcn under foot." Now, \\hat ag~nts are exploded in one burst of popular, king-ly, an1l military rcrfe-
B. C. years. brought to 'iew, in the most clear anrl strikin~ representations cution. The 23d of F(•bruary of the year 303, the clny of the
he r divisions of Alexamlcr'~ empire, accortlin,. tn of the w01nl tlf G6d, as sustaining this rclatwn to the church festin1l of the terminalia, was appointed for lt:,clling to tl:e
Rollin, were, "Syria, Egvpt, Mal'edon, aaHl 'l'hracc." ;\l;ce- Daniel, in ~peaking nf the city and
and the prmaisecl laud'! O"l'OlliHI the principal thurch of Nicomcclia, the imperial resi-
onia was conqurretl hy.Romc, ;md rnade a proYince of the ~anctuarv, rhap. 9th, says," For the oYer~preadiug of abomi- dence. On the next d<J1', the General Decr<'e of lJcrsecutioq
empire, B. C. 168. Rollin, Book 20, Article 1, chap. 4. The nation~, '(plural,) he Phall mal;e it dPsohte even till the con- was issued, commanding (1) the insta11t demolition of all the
remainder of Greece shared the same fate B. c: 1-Hi. H\St!llllllati.m." A,; this prophrcy, EO far as the agents are con- Christian J!lp.cts of t('Orship; (2) the droth of ,1/l u·lw dared to
this 1t will be seen, that Rnmc :mpcr~eded une of the four ccrncd, has l•Ct'•Jmc histon·, there can be no mi~takc allout its worship; (:3) the deli1·ery of tJ,c ScriJ!lw·es ttJ Le burned; (4)
division,; of Alexander's empire, a lew yrars llefu1·e the ti111c met!ning. The desolation· was completed by Rome, to whom the confiscation of all property hdong1ng to the.l'lmrches; ~5)
of its first connection with the Jewa. Now, if this were alii
Chri~t undoulJ!Ptlly refers, Luke xxi. 20, as one of the agents the arceptan.u hy the trihnnals of Ctfry _charge hi'Olt~ht agm~~~
that Cf;u}d he said, it would be true that Rome "came forth of the work; it had bccu pcrpetunted hy Home, pagan 01· a Christi'ln, the rrfusnl of eury complamt Lrought by a Chrn-
out of one of them," in the same sense that the t<'n horns of papal, nnJ the l\loh:.unedans, till the pre~ent time. t ian and finally, the exclu..•ion of the trlwle Lod.ll from the pro-
the filurth beast of Dan. 7th came out of the fourth or Rilmao L'.1gani sm and Popery arc <~l:m brought to 'irw, as the grC'at Mti;n J the law." Croly, p. 209. Sec Fox' Book of
kingdom; uot that they were not inrlcpcndent nation~ heforr. orrrani1.ations of dcprm-ity by which the church has been "trod· Martns.
but on the conc1uest of Rome, and the possession of her terri: de71 undr:r loot." The littlu horn of Daniel 7th (Popery) is If ·e,•er the Almighty interposed to a'•enge the injnrie~ of
tory, they were first bro>Ught (the greatest number ;-,t least) to "make w!lr and prevail against the saints until the judg- His people, mi:;ht we not expect it in this ca~e 1 .
mto an important relation to the church of God. But it i.;; a mm! ;" the same power that l'aul anti Julm saw" destroyed uy 1t ouly remains, then, to inquire whether Ro111c JS rescn·ed
fact, of winch all histo1·ians on the subject are full, that Rome the hrightncRs of Chri:;t's coming." t(w such a fate as that contemplated for the little horn-" to be
ewell all for which she became distinrruished, except, perhap~ Thlre can lH• no donut that Paul spoke of Pagan Rome and bmkc-11 t!•itlwut hand." The t:1tc ,,j Rome nmy he learned by
her military prowe~s, to the conqneot of Greece. "The em~ Popery in 2 Tl!c$~. ii., or tlmt the former ia "tcl!at 'll'ithheld," rcfclTiug to the doom of the image-" brokm to f?ieces by the
perurs thcm8elvC's, who could not go to Greece, brourrht Greece
that the latter" might be reYcaled in his time." stone cut out H•ithout hands;" "destroyed, and g1ven to the
0
1n a manner home to thcJD, by receiving the most celchrated John is still more clear. The "great red dragon," Re\'. lmrnin:r flame!" Dan. 'ii.
xiii. 3, is the admittct! spnbol of Pagan Rome. After he and Her~ then 1\C have a most literal and exact fulfilment of
J11o;t Holy;" all of which were effl!ctcd ncar the time-curtainlv in his angels hat! fought and prerailed not, v. 7, S, still, deter- £'\cry p:ut of'the ]JI'Ol'hery of thi~ little horn in the history ,of
the same y~ar-of the death of Chri;t. · mined to make war with the wo111an ant! her seed, 17, he Rome; and 1t cannot be fuuad,-lt nrv'-7" has been found,--vut
In 7~ woob, or seven~, of year~, gives his scat, aml power, and great authority, unto the beast, in part, in the histvry of any other '[XJtcer:! . .
(I'operv,) xiii. 2; and the game world that wonohipped the 'Ve ha1'e mom only to rema1·k, that, of the penod gwen for
there aro 4W years. The death of Christ took place A. D. 33. dragon; worships the be~~t abo, 3, ·1; also clmp. xvii. the desolation of the sanctuary ,-the 2300 years,:-the 70 wee~s
detluct From 4~ All the arj;l!lments li·om analog)· will lJe 8ccn, we think, to i~ both the seal of its truth, and tho pledge of 1ts fulfilment m
' be in faror of :Hr. l\liller's suppo~ition tl1at this "daily," or 1843.
and we have 457 for the year B. C. when the 70 weeks must have continual, denotes Paganism.
begun. Ih the different forms of Paganlsm,-which was the daily, NoTE.-,Ve have not room to explain the date of the .:han~e
*
taka
From 2300 years, the whale period,
457, the year B. C. O!l which th~y began,
01' thm C.t·i~tin; auomiuation of"Daniel'~ day, and the" trans- of the erclesia~tical charD<"ter of Rome from . Pagan to Papal.
gression of desola!ion," Pop,l':-y,-" the sanrtuary," (God's All the histories of the tr:..nsition point us to A. D. 508 a.s the
aad A. 0. 1&.13 is the year for thcil' tenninalion. "heritage,'')" and the hv5t," {his church,) have hecn trod.Jcn tilne tuhm it took place. See Second Adl'ent Manual

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that grca.t.pcrcecutu.g ::;yst.~m bhuulo cuwe to JUlll. " upvu the sea. a.ud u
Z.lUN ;
"1'he sounding of the seven trumpets I under- 1t to heaven; and swa,re
HOLY
OJ' J ESU'S (.;HJUS'f, and HI!. UGlNS BUI
GLORIOUS ~lim ltVEJt!.ASTING "ttElGN."
stand to shadow forth the instrumentalities by 1and ever, who created 1:.u,.._ •. .,~~ . . .a .. ~ 2. lt announces THE TIME OF THE DEJID THAT
. . . · which the Roman empire was t.o be overthrown/therein are, and the THEY SIIOULD BE .JUDGED.
ANOT~ER of the senes of prophetrc events by and subverted, and finally ruined." therein are, and the et~, .~.,.-,,.., ·~'-IF 3. TJJE TIME TO REWARD GoA's SERVANTS, THE
which we are. brought do~\'n to the end of all ea~th- For a full explanation of the whole sq·ies of therein, that there showa h .. +i>'~&a.J!Iro.OI PRoPHETs, &c., and
ly things, and to the set~tug up of the everlasting. trumpets, see Litch ·s Exposition, vol. 2, from 1
the da.ys of the voice of 4. ll1s WRATH IS COME, AND TBE 'l'lM&. T& D:&-
kingdom, is brought to new by the seven tnmpets. which the above extracts are taken. Our prcsent 1 shall begin to sound, the STROY TU.EM THAT DESTROY THE EAILTH,
"TJJ great lea.Jina feat~ues of Daniel's visions plan will allow us only to refer to the last three of be finished, 3.1:! he ha.tl-J declared. to There ean be ne doubt tllen of the evenJJ ~
were the tour great goveruments of antiquity, be- them, aud of course, if we can show you that the prophets." Rev. x • .5-7. f&l"e to come at the souading of the aeveJHh• ~~
ginning with th~ Babylonian, and ending with ~he events of the 5th and 6th have taken l!la?c, it will "'file mys~ry oirGed/' he~e referrecl ~o~ is pet.. Ha.ve we any reason to believe ilui.t· ..u.Ml
Homan in its papal form. Not so, however, wlth follow that the former ones have been fulfilled also. made more plam by tt.··~latwn of the oiWJnal ptDphecy has all been filled up bu~ these -eve11te 1
John; he lived when three of these governments But first we wish to know what is to come at text, as given by som6 Of taae·best wxite:rs-" The Let us sao. We will go back to the fifth uumpe~,
had passed away, and. the fo.u~th and last was i~ the end. of the series. . We ba.ve a double state- mysterr ~ God :shall be :fltijjhed acawding to the chapter ix. 1-12. •
being and in the he1ght ot 1ts glory, as anum- ment ot the evants wlnch are then to take place. gLad t,dtngs wh1ch he hat. deela.red," &c. ,&c. It ie generally agreed QY commentators that the
versa/ monarchy. . Under. that government John Their awfully i~nport.aut ch.aracter is first intimated Th~t to ~hie~ the glJ,d tidi~s, th.e gospel, under fifth and s1xth trumpet give ti.e prophetic historJ
was in banishment m the Jsle of Patmos, ' fiJr the by the declaratwn of a m1ghty angel who comes all Its varwus 1o.t;ms, ha.s pomted, JS then to be re- of Mahomed.anism.
word of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ.' down from heaven, on purpose, it would seem, to alized. But the revelator makes it very plain by '1'l1e manner in which these trumpets are intro-
Accordingly, instead of ~redicting the rise aud apprize ttuJ world, ~r at least ~l~e chu:;ch, .to look what he say~ of the Bounding ?f the. ~venth an- duced denote the afllicting character of the events
triumph of either of those tour gre~t g?vernmeuts, out ~or the change m her cond1t10n wluch IS to be gel, Rev. XI. 15-18. Here 18 a. distmct state- of whieh they speak. They are thus announced
it was his part to give the prophctlC lnstory of the rettlJzed, by the events of the seventh and last ment o($everal ,·ery important particulars. by the' c .Jestial messenger, who acts the part of a
fall of the last, and the various mea.ns hy which trumpet. ''And the angel which I saw stand 1. THE KI.NGDO~ff OF THJS WORLD B~:coM.E THE herald in the case.
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·- saying,

TO THE INHABITERS OF THE EARTH, BY REA~ON OF THE OTHER VOICES OF THE TRUMPET Oi' THE THREE ANGELS, WHICH ARE YET TO SOUND.

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1:..-v. ix. I. Ancl the filth angt'l omuuded, and I ~-;aw a 5, (~. And to them it was ginm that they should not kill
And the sixth angel .mundecl, and J heard a Chap. xi. 14. 15. A•td the :-.cvcJith u.ngel sound-
13--15.
~ t:l'r t:dl from lwaven unto the earth; and to him was gin: n tharn, hut. TIJ .n· THEY l'HOUI.v tu: TOR:.a: ."iTJ<:D FIVE \'r>ir.e fnllll th~f<mt· hornl! of the golden altar which is he!- The :-e(:ond woe i11 eel; and THERE WERJO: GBJ:AT
l !,c !- £y of the buttumlel:!s pit. MON'I'Il!>; aJHI thcit· torment was ru; the torment of a saot·- fiH·eGocl : :tying to the l'i. tb angd which h<td thfl trumpet, p:•~t; ., .. .) hdwld, VtHCl' S IN UI!.A.VF.lll saying
pion, wh e n lu~ striketh a man. And ill thnsc days shall Loose the four angqls \I hid1 arc hound in the great nver 1' H B 'I' HI R J; ~· . ' '
.uen ~eek dt:ath, :t11d ~h a lluot find it; al'ld shall desire to Euphra~e :<. And tlll'TtHII' angels were loosed, which were \VOE GOMETII
die, and tle ath :-hall tl<>e from tltPlll. prepared FOR AN JlOUR, A~ll A DAY, .UfD A. MONTH, QUICI\:LY. T11 E
AND A. Yl!;AR, FOR 'fO SLAY THE THIRD PART 0& li.KN. ~OIM.~ 6;
THIS
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ARE BECOME THE KINGDOM~ OF OUR LORD.
A:--rD OF IIIS CIIHI:5T; ANn HE SHALL REIGN
FOR EVEit AND EYER.
l&-18. And the four rrml twl'ntf elders, '' bich sat be-
fori' <iod on their :;cat~, fell upon their f:u~es, and worship-
ped God, s;,yiug, \Ve give thet: thanks, 0 Lord God Almigh-
tv,whi<:lc nrt, and wast,antl arttocume; Lecausethonhast ·
taken to thct! thy great power, and hast reigned. AND
T~E NATIONS WERE ANGRY, and 'I'HY WRATH IS
COMP:, llllfl THE TDIR O'f THE DE.AlJ, THAT '!'HEY
A. n. 622. SHOULJJ BF. JU l>GF.D, and that thou shoultlcst give reward
2--'-4. And he op!lned .the bottomlc~i! pit_; and th~re unto thy "'l'rvants the prophete, and to the saints, and them
arul"e a ~;moke out ot the ptt, as the ~mnke ol a g1·ent lu:·- J u 1y 27, 12U9. that fear thy name, small ami gnmt; AND SliOULDJr:ST D.lt-
nacc; and the sun.and the air were dnrkened hy reason ?f i-12. And the ~hapPs of the locusts Wl're likP. unto STROY THEM WHICH DESTROY THJo: EAR
the Kmokc of the p1t. And then• <'a,'ne ou~ 0 ~ the smo~e horse~ prepared unto battle; a!ld on their head;; we~l' aR it J..nc 1e m•~er of the army of the hor11emen A IS·
wc1·c two huuh·ed thousand thum•aml: nnd I hewd. the _u_~_·-.1_,_ _1._·~--·-----------­
locm•tl:l upon the Cllrth; and nnto the m '"''" g"en J?OWt.r-,. we 1·e crown:s like goLI, and thf'tf' faces were as the laces of 1 0
us the scorpion~ of the em·th h:n·e power·. Ar~ r.t was nwn. Aut! thev had hair as the hair of women, anal thei1· numhcr oftlum. And thus I ~aw the horsed iuth~· · n,
commanded them that they .should .n11t hurt the gr:;~Rs of Jl~e teeth were as the tcl'th of lions. And they had hrca:<tplates, and them th"r ~a.t on thelll, ha1 ~~~ br~' a:;tplates o_f rl of jacinth? a1~<l hri~~<tone; and the heads of the ~orsea "~~'':re
earth, ne ithPr. any greell tlung, neJther any u:ee ; ~ u_u.t only ;1s it were breastplate!' of iron; and the so unci of th.cir as the Ju•m!s ~f IHms; and ont uf thr.1r muuths lS.IIIJtl .fire, and s111ol,e, ami hrnnstone. Bv these three was the tllt~d
tho.-e men winch have not the l!leal of God m thcll fore- winrrs was as the sound of charints of many horset~ runn111g part nf.m ~n liill~d, by the fin•,. and by th~· smoke., an~ by. the brirn~tonc, "~Vhich issued out ol thei1· mouths. ~or the1r
heacl;.. to bttttle. AllCI they lmd tail:3 like. unto !'corp ion~, :~1111 power ·~ 10 t~en· mouth, and 111 th1•1r tad!!: for thfltr ta1ls wet·e hkc unto :::erpents, and had heads, anrl wtth the~
there were stings in their rail~.: and the it· power w.as to burt men five mon.th~. And they h.ad a l.:~nA' ~ver ~1em,. wht~h they clo hnrt. Ancl the rest of the. men ~vhich w~rc not killed hy th~~e plagues yet repented not of the wurl{!< ~~f tl~tr
is the angel of the bottomles 11 pit, whose name m the Hd.lrew tongue t& Ahacldon, but 10 tl1e Greek ton.,ue hath Ius hand~, that tM•y sll<'uld not worl<lup devds, and 1rlols of gold, and .sll\'cr, and Lra!'s, an? stone, and of w_ood: wluc.h
11ame Apollyon. ONE woJo; IS P.lST; and behold, thue come two woes more hercaftET. ne ither c•.an g,e, nor heru·, nor walk: neither repented tltey of lheu· murder«, nur of their sorceries, n01· of t~1r form-
ettion, llfl l' d' their thefts.

vVe have here l"everal importa nt particulars unto them was given power as the scorpions of the 1ca.~ gi1:m rhnt they Mould not. tltl!m, but tlwt they fwd hreastplui'.i os it u;ere b,·eastplat,•s of iron ;
stated, a few only of which we shall be able to em·th have power. And in those da1JS shall men seek they 's!to~'fd6e torm~~ed }it!~ months. ond t!te sour~d o{ tAcir w:•tg.'l was as the sound nj
notice. death, and shall not .find it, and shall desire lc- die, 4th .. I he descnptwn of thetr appearance and dw riot.<; ,~r many horses r!mnivj.g to battle. And
1st. The origin of Mahometanism. and death shall {fee from them. operat1o:1s. t the?! had tails like unto swrpions, and there u:ere
The bottomles.~ pit. 3d. Their comrnission. ~ A.nd the !!tapes of the lorusts were like unto hor.~~s stinr;s in their tails.
2d. Its character and cfff!cts. · And it was command•d them that t!tey should not lrwepured unto. battle, and on. their head:> wet·e as it 5th. 'fhe time of their operations •mder the king
And the sun a!ld the air (Christianity) were dark- hw·t the grass of the earth, neither any rrreen thing, were crawns~tke gold, and t~:zrfacr~ wc:e o~ the.face.~ named.
ened biJ rea.~on of the smoke of the t'it. Anrl there n either any tree ; but only tlwsP. m en wlncl:. lvwe n~t of men .. .f~td they had han as the. hmr4!J wvmen, Aile! thl?ir power was to hurt men fit't! months.
r~nne 01/.l nt' the .~mnkr:. lor?IS/~ 117JOn thr> mrt!t; anrl , tlu> .~Ml or
Gorl in thri·l' (orPiwad.~. And fa tlwm 11 I and t!t elr f:t'lh. 1N~re as the teeth '!/ bons. And And tlte:l had a king over them, which is the angel of

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 rite bottomless pit, whoM name tn the HebretiJ tongue
u Anadtlon, but in the Gret:k tongue hath its narne
Apollyon. · obtm:ned it, before he presumed to calllumself sove·
Tha.da.te of the Heg-ira or flight of Mahomet, is
A. D. 62~. Abubeker, who succeeded Mahomet
as the leader of the locust armies in 632, was the
first Caliph. The government of the Caliphs con-
tinued till the thirteenth century. In the latter
part of that century Othman united the Mahometan
clans and provinces into one grand' monarchy, since
known as the Ottoman Empire. The first assault
made upon th0 Greeks under this kingly form of
Mahometan ,..p ower, was, according to Gibbon, on
'he 27th July, 1299. It was under this form of
power that 1he terribl0 mission of the Mahome-
tans, during tho period specified, '\\"as to be ciicct-
ed. Five months understood prophetically, 30
days to the month, would express 150 days, or
veara. Add 150 to 12!J9, it brings us to H49.
"During that whole period tl:e Turks were en-
gaged in an almost perpetual war with the Greek
empire, but yet without conquering it. They
seized upon and held several of the Greek pro-
vinces, but still Gr-P.ek independence was maintain-
ed in Constantinople."
"ONE WOE IS PAST, AND BE::IOLD THERE COME
TWO WOES MORE HEREAFTER."
The events of the sixth· trumpet differ from those
of tbe fifth in several important particulars.
1. Instead of an army of Locusts from the smoke
l!f the bottomless pit,four angels are summoned to
the work of thts teoe.
2. Instead of tormenting, they slay the third part
of men.
3. Their work is effected by different agencies.
4. The period assigned them is, "an lwur, a
'day, a month, and a year."
This period, understood prophetically, or sym-
bolically, would amount to three hundred ninety-
one years and fifteen days.
A prophetic year, 360 days= 360 solar years.
A prop'bs.tic month, 30 days = 30 solar years.
A prophetic day, - - =. 1 solar year.
A prophetic hour, being a 24th · who feel fully coitlpetent to settle all the t~u.cuJrtaSJI might a
part of a day, is equal to a 24th
part of a prophetic year, or 15 days.
Thi!! period amounts to - 391 15
To which add 150 days or years, 150
W.hole p8Dodofthese trumpets, 541 y'rs 15 days.
Commencing, A. D. - - 1299 July 27
42
31
Brings us to 1840 Aug. 11
:Q.i!t- the p~, or implied, change in the
Ottom'*l: powel' 1ti.eb. take place! In answering
thi&'CJ.u-.,n, let tis inquire what the change was to
be? It was uot the destruction of the Mahometans
or their ~ We should suppose at first sight
that the change wdUld pla.Ce the Mabometan pow-
er and the Christian powers, as to their relation to
each other, in a condition similar to that in which
they stood prior to the commencement of the sixth
trumpet, 1449.
"In the year 1449, John Paleologus, the Greek
..
emperor, died, but left no children to inherit his
and Constantine Deacozes succeeded to it.
llllfi!IIUI.. n<r~;r; ~ tG ascend the throne with-
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out the consent of Amurath, the T11rkish Sultan. He ·m<f pny:JO$ed to put a stop to tho operations · of
t !tercfore sent ambassadors to ask his consent, and 1; reh emft. ~ •
A ~~oljfclflnce of theF!e nations was held in Lou-
reign." don, J,;tly 15th, 1840; their nmbassadors at Con-
" This shameful proceeding seemed to prcs:Jge stantitw ole notified the Sultan of their in~ntion,
the appro:tching downfall of the empire. Ducis, ami he ~t mcepted the intervention of t~J[t"611t
the historian, counts John Palcologus tiJr the lasl ers...: ' Mv tite1lr Otto·man. ';['he Sheikh
G1·eek emperor, without douht, hecau~:>e he did not repr~sentt..· d tbe " 'Sublime Porte' 1 at tbjjs
consid01· as such a prince who had not dared to Pncc. Tlu. doiogs of that conference, aud
reign witlwut the permission of hi.~ enemy." ticipa.ted re~·1lt, were thus noticed at the time:
" Judging from the manner of the commence- "The pqv ers have, together with the 0T1'
ment of the Ottoman supremacy in Constantinople, PJ,EN IPotE;triA RY, drawn up and signed a Jfe!.' ,
that it was a voluntary acknowledgment on the part \.:vhereby tht Su.i'ta.n offers the Pacha. the h e l i
of the Gretf• emperor that he only reigned !Jy per- govemm niof El!.·ypt, and 3'11 that~ ql .
mission of tlte Tudrisll sultan, we should naturally exterl · lithe Q'Ulf -of Saez tO" t~ l.W -
conclude that the fall or departure 'd" thf! Ottoman hcrinst ~h the provin~e ~ AeMi; itt life;
independence -..vould he brought about in the same the P · , ~' e•acuattJJg all othft p-.118
way; that at the end of the specified period. the of the 1 · ions now occupied- by-Nm,
Sultan wou,ld voluntarily surrender his independence and re.U i~ th~ an .'teet. A GertaU& space
into the hands of the Christian powers, from whom of" time it s en · • to accede to thtset~.·
he received it." and, as¥ c ropos Su.l{an and hi& a/Jaes~
Has such a change taken pb.ce! Hear the fol- tlze jim~( . · wcr.-r, do no Nlmit ·~f any cltan~e or
lowing- testimony: .qualific an, if the Pacha refuse to .accede to them,
"First testimonv.-The fol1owing is from Rev. ihs evi t ·that tlte eviJ conseq11ences to fall upon
Mr. Gootlell, missionary of the A mcrican Doard at him will ;,attriblJta.hle aol~ly to his own fault. 91
Constantinople, addressed 1o the Board, and by This Jtllposal of the Sultan anci the great pow-
them published in the Missionary Herald, for ers wasJ>fwarded to 1\lt:hemet by a government
April, 1841, p. IGO : - steamer, which left Constantinople, Au
" The power of Islamt.~m is broken forever; and As soo~n this p~~posal wa. put into the '"'-'""' . .. 1 ' ' •., . ,,.
there is no concealing the fact even from them- Mehem if lte .YIJ}VM!l tn, comply toith its t~tj£.
selves. They exist now by mere su,fferance. And peace, t Sultan t,nust Withdraw from the ~n~st.
though there is a mighty effort made by the Chris- and leaF Mehemet in the hand• of the u great
tian governments to sustain them, yet at every powers.' If'he accepted the. terms, of ·courS6 the
step they sink lower and lower with fearfu.l veloci- Sultan "*mld be a party in the settlement. THAT
ty. And thougft there is a great endeavor mwe DOCUM~ \vAS OOT INTO THE HANDS OF MEHE'&IET
to graft the institutions of civilizecl and Christian oN ;r:ME 11th AuGusT, 1840, AND HE REFUSED TO
countries upon the decayed trunk, yet the very coMPLY··;liTH ITS Ttea.Ms. ON THE SAJIU: DAY ." A
root itself is fast wasting away hy the venom of its NOTE DxQEilED B7 THE FOUR AMBASSADORS, ~
OWn poison. How wonderful it is, that, when all ANSWER JTo A QUESTION PUT TO THE~B:Y TBE
Christendom combined together to check tne pro- PoRTE, ( ultan,) as to •rHE PLAN TO BE~OP<rED
gress of Mahomed~n power, it waxed exceedingly IN sucH EVENT, simply states, that> prtnilsion
great in spite of every opposition ; and now wlfen been de, and there i8 no necl!$1ity fw t4e Di-
all the mighty potentates of C»J.ristian oj:_ ing itself about an~ contingency Uud
arcls a·rise." Correepondent of
and arrange all the affairs of the whole Morn ron. at Constantinople. ·
leagued together for its protection and N t us suppose a ca.sSfand ask a
down it comes, in spite of ali their fostering " e an ~itious ~litician at tlll!F~!Jil'4J"']
Second.-" Tlie London Mornin~era.ld, west .tthe U~)ln. H~ dra."fS ~E~l~Ht1~lJ/I.!J'I!J'd'lii4ttl~nt11rn.v,e.rt,ftfJroJ~<P»e.r
the capture of St. Jean d'Acre, speaking of the heteroj.!l eous F~, Spaiiieli,
state of things in the Ottoman empire, says: 'We ulatiawb Louisiana:itnd Florida,
(the allies) have conquered St. Jean d'Acre. We leader i~ ebellion ttf'a.inst~..~e·~··--!"'"gg~1).Jl~~!Ji:t~f'~:r.d,
have dissipated into thin air the prestige that lately Our n ia m~edf and - --~-,.£· .........
invested as with a halo the name of Mehemet Ali. captur t~ "aDd sets our
We have in all probability destroyed forever the Presid is ~educed to such ex1tre1mit;y tliutt blr,.ill''l .iina
power of that hitherto successful ruler. But have to ~oopl the intervention
we done auxht ta restore strength to the OttQman They, · by theil' ambassadors
empire.? WE FEAR NOT. WE FEAR THAT THE! ington,. e upon tJe O.tf'fn:ed
SuLTAN HAS BEEN REDUCED TO THE RANK OF .\ rebel. y tell him . \\rill pe .
PUPPET'; AND THAT THE SOURCES OF THE TURK- he has4J;fptured, and hu~ '¥'~••rv~•...w~ -t.~~1ill'!""'
ISH EMPIRE'S STRENGTH ARE ENTIRELY DESTROYED. rest of~Union, they
" ' If the supremacy of the Sultan is hereafter be eld hfm and his
to he maintained in Egypt, it must be maintained, to be his ring his life.
we fear, by the unceasing intervention of England these with the
and Russia.' '' that, if are not .,.,~J!....,.~.:.•
Other testimony might be introduced, but this is friendly • may
sufficient. · hands. the
·when did this change take place 1 Everybody the
has heard of the troubles of the Turks by Mehemet
Ali. The loss of the Sultan's army and fleet in
1839, involved in suehdi:fti.Uties, that in 1840
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24 THL GLAD TIDINGS OF THE KINGDOM AT HAND,
CONNECTION BETWEEN THE 8th AND cleansed in 1843, whatever this means. Let atl hie te1iglt>ti8 belief of a future
9th CHAPTERS OF DANIEL. objectors, on a different view of this matter, his instincts• ·
It has been alleged in opposition to the
judgment of some of the best interpreters,
that the usually admitted exegetical connec-
tion between these chapters is arbitrary, and
assumed upon insufficient principles ; that
it nas nothing to sustain it but the fact that
the word "vision," occurs in the 9th chap-
ter. This is incorrect ; the relation pled
for is assumed neither arbitrarily, or because
of the word ''vision" occurs in the 9th
chapter. Many other passages · of holy
scripture ha vc in them the word " ·uision,"
and yet there is not on that account the
slightest connection between them and the
8th chapter of Daniel.
It is not its occurrence but the manner of
its occurrence in this chapter, that forms,
with attendant cireurnstances, • the real
ground by which the 9th chapter is assumed
as explanatory of the 8th. We will suppose
a case and explain the illustration. Suppose
one man from the West negotiates with an-
other man in the East, New York, for 400
acres of land. The bargain is \Vl'itten out
favorably enough to the purchaser, but some
of its clauses arc not sufficiently understood
by him. He is referred to the clerk. And
as God said to his angel-" Gabriel, make
this man (Daniel) understand the vision," the
proprietor says to his clerk, "Mr. Robinson,
make this man understand the bargain." Mr.
Robinson does say a few things explanatory
of some parts, but still the affair is not who!-
ly und erstood; the man says so, but departs
from New York for the '\Vest with a copy
of the bargain as it is, and takes possession
of the land, which is yet unpaid for. Fif-
teen years after, a stranger .app~illA at the
purchaser's house, whom he recogOi.Zeg lis
Mr~ Itohlustn. u.rwtmm ne had been referred
in the beginning of the affair, and who was
commanded to explain to him the bargain.
He says to the farmer, Greatly p~lexed a-
bout the bargain, "l am come to ~lain and
give you light and ski~); wherefore_ u?,der-
stand the matter, constder the bargam. In
such a case would either the farmer himself
or any other person be at a lo3s to know
what bargain was referred to in this matter
by Mr. Robinson 1 Certainly no. Precise-
ly sir;nilar is the case of Daniel and God's
messenge Gabriel, who had a command·
ment to e~i.u a vision to him ; and when
he says I am come to explain-to give thee
skill-wherefore understand the matter, con-
sider the vision--can we be at a loss to
know what vision is referred to? But let us
v:uy the illustmtion. Suppose the clerk,
l\Ir. Robinson, had gone to a farmer who
had never rmfde--1 bargain with his mas-
ter for land or any. thi~ else, and told
him to understand the thatter, recollect the
bargain ; would not he have spoken down-
right nonsense '? Apd is nonsense in the
mouth of a man, ~ense in the mouth of an
angel 1 The defimtJveness of the expression
then, and the manner in which the word
" vision," is employed both by Daniel and
Gabriel, make it, in my judgment, imperious
and indispe11sable .t~at we understand both
to refer to the vtsron of the 9th chapter.
And then th@ 490 years are a part of the
2 . 300 days. They will be co-etaneous in
their commencement, and the sanctuary be
ancl as1Jirilltio~• 1
make the angel speak good sense, and we glo,y, honor a•UfJilPrtiJ11lY
shall stand corrected. tual and me~ral;:!l'ifili.. JIIIit~
WALTER ScQ'lT. resurrection to etdtailrtJ
spond, "Even
WHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURES1 good in thy sight. ch.
Let any hypothesis be utterly at variance How important a !-tlfe globe
with truth, says the most finished of modern in ruins and the heavens on fite. How final,
writers, it will yet have rendered us an im- yet how reproductive a ca~trophe !...:.the
portant service-and a legitimate service- elements of our animal nature gone, forever
if it shall have prompted us to pursue, assid- lost, burnt !-the germ of future existence-
uously and eagerly, any path of biblical in- the element of immortality-all of moral
quiry. 'Ve have committed ourself to the consciousness-all of intellectual personality
second coming, a doctl)ne which the apostles --of spiritual activity, impulse, intensity,
deemed no.t unworthy of the church's ear passion, affection, feeling translated to a pu·
and heart in the days of her nascent and rer sphere where cares vex not and no ills
purest history-a fact which will always annoy. Great change, hail! Thrice wet.
justify us in recurring in any age to this high come, day of God. Life shall thenceforth
and holy hope. · It is indeed the church's be no more a day-dream-an enigma~
prerogative to recur to it in every age until mystery, but a glorious reality-a solved
it is verified-until Christ comes. And the problem-a pure revelation. Lord
minister who shall be an instrument in the come quickly.-Cm·thage Evangelist.
hand of God to give this direction to the
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the truth, but by the truth itself, into 'a path The tiJl!owing numbet·s comprise the library:
of biblical inquiry,'. the most instructive- 1. l\Iilll"r's Life and Views, 37~cu.
the most delightful. 2. Lrctures on th" Second Coming of Christ. 87
3. Exp,1sition of the 24th of Matt., and Hosea ,.f,
The seeond coming of . the Lord is colt- I Stet>.
templated in scripture under two aspects- 4. Spaulding's Lectures on th~ Secon,l Coming
first as a necessary element of the gospel ; 37 5. ~ct~.
Litch's Address to the Clergy on the Second
and second, as a predicted fact to be fulfiled 18,!ct.;.
in a particular age. There can be no 1m- 6. Miller on the trul" Inheritance uf the Saint~, and
propriety, therefore, in contemplatin~ it un- twl'l\'e hundl"l·d and sixty day$ of Daniel and John.
7. Fitch's Letter on the Advent in 1843. 12cta,
der these two aspects, or of prosecutmg our 8. The pl'C'.ertt Cri~ia, by the Rev. John
biblic·a·I inquisitions in regard to it a~ing­ England. lOet.~.
ly. that is, we may 1egitimate1J in~sQk:tte ' 9.ro. Miller op tbeGiet}laltg of tbo Sanctuary.
E'rirfbr>dy, by an ~~
it as a part and pare!l !Qf. th·e gospel ; or we ho id I-teuerlo
come quickly." 6cu.
may discuss its character as a truth of a par- 11. R,..futatiun of " Dllwling's Reply to Miller,"~ J.
ticular age. It i.s at present prophecy. It Litch. 15r.tll.
1':2. The: " Midnight Cry," by t. D. FlPmi
will Ly and by be history, and it has its 13. MillE'r's ReviewofDimmick'i
chronology ; we may, therefore, inquire in- not .IJel." lOcu.
to its chronology : 14. Miller on~ ~ 'Sa!ibatbi7J
Touching this great event as a necessary lOct11. 15. The glory of .()ocl1n the Earth.
truth of the gospel, we are warranted, in 16. A Wonde1ful aad Iiorride
the light of hoty writ, in viewing it, of su- Fitch. 6~cts.
17. Cox.'a Letters on the
pernatural rather than natural causation; ISlets.
<lnd therefore as such it may, like the whole 18. The Appearin( and Kir.gdom
class of miraculous interruptions of the es- Christ. By J. Sabine. 12&1:ts.
19. Prophetic Exposition~. By J. Litcb,
tablished order of nature to which it belongs, 20. •• " "
vividly impress us with the most absorbing 21. Tht~ 'Kin~dom orGod. By Wm.
ideas of the divine power, and of oiir own 2'1. Miller's Rt-ply to Stuart.
Millenia! Harp, or Second
destiny ; but tha fact must be rendered re- 223.L Israel and the Holy L*-the
markably more impressive, when at any H. 0. Ward· Price 10 eta.
time it forces itself upon us aR one belong- 23. Inconsistencies of Colver'• "
ing to our own age, and likely, h1 all its su- Daniel'~> P1·ophecil's," &bown by S.
26. Blis~' Exposition of Matt. 24th.
pcrnatural weight and gr~atness, to be veri- 27. Synopsi:~ of Miller's View&. 6jeb.
fied in om· personal experience. 29 • .ludnism overthrown. By J. Litch.
2':1. Chri,;t's First and"Seco•d Advent, witll
Is it the prerogative 'of our own age then sion~ hnnnooizcd and Explained. By N. Hervey.
to beli~e that the moment when the pro- 30. New Heuv!'ns and New Earth, wjth the
found and unlimited resources of the divine Supne1· of the Lamb. By N. Hel'\'ey. 12Acts.
Srarkwratht<1''s Narrative. lOct!.
intelligence shall be opened afresh, is almost 31. 3~. Bn•wu'~ ~:xperieoce. 12}cts.
arrived '? Ha e almost reached the cri- 33. Fihle Ex \miner. Bv Georsre Storl'l.
sis so repeated redict.cd in scripture by 34. The Seco:d Advent "Doctrine Via~L.Ct!l'l .l!l
at the cledir.ation of the TttJt>mae14'r .bpi
the holy prophets, when the present heavens prenchL•d
Hawle '· With the ad4ress of the Tabernacle
and earth shall evanish 1 when from the re- PP· 107. 20 Ct!.
nascent nucleus of a globe dissolved by a 35. A Solemn 1\ppeal to Mini11ters nud
to those of the Baptist denominariou.
fiery analysis, a new heavens and a new cially Cook. lOcts.
earth shall arise t When man bidding a 36. Second Advent Manual. By A. Hale.
long, long adieo-to this intransitive .animal
structure, shall leave ft forever behind, and
in a dye and form of beauty excelling hu- Beautiful Pollkct Editiop., for •ale at the
man, behold his physical reasons for, and
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