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Adams county, where there had never heen a lecture.  
The Academy was full of attentive  listeners both  
evenings, and not a word of opposition was raised.  
Our Camp ground is about five miles south of this  
village, only eight miles from Maryland line. We  
shall expect a large attendance on the Sabbath. We  
have scattered publications among the College stu- 
dents, but have not seen the Theological students  
yet, who are connected with the Lutherean Seminary  
here. Next week I expect to return to New York  
by the way of Baltimore, as that will be much the  
cheapest and quickest way from here.  
In haste, yours in the blessed hope,  
N. SOUTHARD.  
DEDICATION.  
The building formerly occupied and known as the  
Franklin Theatre, in Chatham Square has been leased 
by the Second Advent Association ofthe eity of New  
York, and will (Providence permitting) be dedicated to  
the worship of the Almighty God on Sabbath, Aug.27th,  
1843. Our friends from Boston, Philadelphia, Albany,  
and other places, are respectfully invited to meet with  
us on that occasion. In behalf of the Committee,  
E. JACOBS.  
P. S. Will the lecturers please announce this notice  
to their several congregations on Sabbath next.  
FROM THE EDITOR.  
A private letter from Bro. Southard, Dated at Get- 
tysburg, Pa,, Aug. 11, 1843, says :  
I lectured on Monday evening at Harrisburg, the  
capital ofthe State, to a well-filled house, (occupied 
by the united brethren, where Bro, Jacobs had spo- 
ken twice the day before, and given out notices- 
There was very close attention and apparently deep  
interest. At the close I requested those who were 
determined to seek light with their whole hearts> and 
follow wherein it might lead, and to make sure work  
for eternity, to rise. About two-thirds of the con- 
gregation did so. Arrangements were then made  
for a Bible class, for which a considerabla number  
gave their names, and appointment was made for its  
meeting the next evening. Bro. Augustus Wyeth,  
a teacher in Harrisburg, is an accomplished scholar.  
He was with us at the camp-meeting, and rendered 
us essential service by translating from the original  
the several passages on which a question was raised  
in our Bible class. The truth has taken deep hold  
on his heart.  
From Harrisburg, I come on towards this place,  
lecturing on Tuesday evening to a good audience, as- 
sembled at short notice on a rainy evening, in the  
house of the " Church of God," called Winebrenner- 
ious. The editor of the Gospel Publisher received  
us cordially. He is the one who wrote and publish-
ed those excellent articles in favor of Bro. Hale, last 
winter. Two evenings we spent in Petersburg*  

The meetings in the Apollo on Sabbbath last were  
very interesting ; the congregations were larger than 
usual; they have for some time been on the increase.  
In the evening eight came forward for prayers, and  
two of the number experienced pardon.  
Our friends in this city manifest a disposition to hold  
a Camp-meeting at or near Bridgeport, Conn., and 
also one at Fort Lee, on the North River, near the  
city, as soon as the friends in those places can make 
suitable arrangements.  
THE TENT MEETING AT BUFFALO  
Commenced the 5th of August under the most flat- 
tering and encouraging circumstances. The Tent is  
located in an enclosure connected with a large and  
beautiful Park. The Tent is seated for about 1500, 
and with the alteration now holds 3,500 persons. In  
connection with this, we have prepared seats in the  
Park, only a few steps from the Tent, to accommo- 
date a large congregation. Here we hold meetings  
when the wind is high, or when it is very warm ; so  
we find ourselves accommodated in all respects as  
to location, with the best place in the country. We  
are protected also from all beer-shops and stands,  
that have been such nuisances to us elsewhere.  
It was supposed that society in Buffalo being of a  
mixed character, and unfavorable to our views, would  
make it difficult for us to sustain a meeting with the  
order and success desired. But our meetings have 
been held three days without the least confusion, or 
annoyance. On the Sabbath we had a large crowd of  
the citizens of the city and vicinity ; and of all places 
I have yet visited with the Tent, I must say, we were  
never treated with greater respect, or had better order  

among the multitude, than in this place. We doubt  
not it will continue so through the meeting.  
Bro. Fitch is with us, and thus far has done most of  
the lecturing. He had a good hearing on several 
very important points, relating to the manner and  
time of the Advent.  The impression made, has  
been favorable and very powerful. The whole city 
is roused. The people are anxious for light. We  
have distributed publications by the thousands, and  
they are being read in every part of the city.  
We had but few here to help us at all, in the com- 
mencement. Friends are now coming in, and we 
doubt not we shall receive some aid in the enterprise.  
Thus far we have received nothing; though it is the  
most expensive campaign that we have ever had.— 
The work is the Lord's and he will not suffer it to  
sink. Bro. Storrs is now in Rochester, and will be  
with us to follow Bro. Fitch on Thursday next.  
J. V. H.  
Cottage Garden, Aug. 7. 1843.  
Under date of August 11, Bro. Himes writes :  
BUFFALO TENT-MEETING.—This meeting continued  
prosperously up to Aug. 11. Meetings full—great 
interest in the community to hear and examine the  
subject of the Advent. Bro. Fitch lectured one 
week, and has returned to Cleveland, O. Bro. Storrs  
is there, and will continue during the continuance of  
the meeting.  
Bro. Himes visited Toronto, Canada, on the 9th  
inst. He had a very interesting visit with the breth- 
ren there- Arrangements were made for Bro. Fitch,  
to give a course of lectures in that city about the first  
of September.  
THE BIO TENT will be pitched in Cincinnati the  
15th of September. Brn. Storrs and Himes will be  
in attendance. Let there be a ge"neral rally.  
SECOND ADVENT CAMP MEETINGS.  
At Ballston Springs, N. Y., to commence August  
25th, and continue about ten days. Brn. Storrs, Marsh  
and others are expected to attend this meeting.  
Camp-meeting at Cincinnati, O., will commence on  
the 15th of September. Brn. Ilimes, Storrs, and other 
lecturers from the east will probably attend.  
At Malone, Franklin Co., N. Y., commencing Au- 
gust 23.  
TENT MEETING AT SCHENECTADY.—By divine per- 
mission there will be a meeting in the Great Tent, at  
Schenectady,at such place as the friends may select for  
pitching it, to commence about the 1st of September.  
ON LONG ISLAND.—Bro. Matthias writes, that a  
Camp-meeting will commence on the 17th inst. at 
Speonk, on the south side of the Island.  
Also another, at Waiding River, 1 mile  from the  
Sound, near the village ; to commence on the 1st of 
September and continue several days.  
Our Second Advent friends and others from New  
York and the Connecticut shore are invited to attend.  
HWeSBKEBSBSfflBgSSfflSSSa®  WBSW


PARAPHRASE ON DANIEL 12TH CHAPTER.  
[Continued from page 7.]  
Verses 1, 2. And at that time shall Michael stand up,  
the great prince which standeth for the children of thy  
people ; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never  
was since there was a nation even to that same time : and  
at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that  
shall be found written in the book.  
2. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth  
shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame 
and everlasting contempt.  
Paraphrase.—And at the same time named in the  
40th verse of chapter 11th, viz.: " the time of the enjl" 
which is a period, beginning in 1798, and continuing  
to the end itself; shall  Jesus Christ begin his reign :  
and there will be a time of trouble on account of the 
pouring out the seven last plagues in which is filled  
up the "wrath of God. And at that time Daniel's peo- 
ple, the Jews, shall be delivered from their dispersion 
and bondage, and even from death, " every  one that  
shall be found written in the book," and none others.  
It is not the whole Jewish race, even among the living,  
that will be delivered then. " And many" Jews who  
" sleep in the dust of the earth will awake," not all of  
them then. For some will come forth to everlasting  
life, at the first resurrection: "some to shame and  
everlasting contempt," at the last resurrection. So  
will God gather all his true Israel then. It is the 
same deliverance spoken of in Ezek. 37th chapter.  
Verse 3. And they that be wise shall shine as the bright- 
ness of the firmament; and they  that turn many to right- 
eousness, as the stars, for ever and ever.  
Paraphrase.—They that are wise, the true children  
of God, and they that turn many to righteousness, shall 
shine in glory as the Saviour did, on the Mount of  
Transfiguration, " FOR EVER AND EVER."  
" Oh glorious hour, O blest abode,  
I shall be near and like my God,  
And sin and flesh no more control,  
The sacred pleasures of the soul."  
Verse 4. But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and  
seal the book, even to the time of the end : many shall run 
to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.  
Paraphrase.—But thou, 0 Daniel, shut up the words,  
and seal the book, until the overthrow of Popery ; then 
many will turn to and fro through the book, and light  
will gradually increase until the matter is understood.  
Verses 5, 6. Then I, Daniel, looked, and, behold, there  
stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the  
river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river.  
6. And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was  
upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the  
end of these wonders >  
Paraphrase.—One said to the man clothed in linen,  
How long shall it be to the reign of Christ, the gather- 
ing of the saints, and  resurrection of the just 1  
Verse 7. And I heard the man clothed in linen, which  
was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his  
right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by 
him that liveth for ever and ever, that it shall be for a time,  
times, and a half; and when he shall have accomplished  
to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things  
shall be finished.  
Paraphrase.—And I heard the answer of the man  
clothed in linen, given under the sanction of a most  
solemn oath. " That it shall be for a time, times, and 
a half;" until the 12G0 years of papal authority is out. 
And then a period more to complete the 2520 years  
scattering of the power of the holy people, all these  
things will be finished. Those 2520 years go on 45  
years after the end of the 1260.  
Verses 8, 9. And I heard, but 1 understood not: then  
said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things ?  
9. And he said, Go thy way, Daniel; for the words arc  
closed up and sealed till the time of the end.  
Paraphrase.—I heard his answer, but I did not un- 
derstand its meaning. Then I said, O my Lord, what 
shall happen in that terminating period, "^Heil he  
shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the  
holy people 7" And he told me, go thy way, Daniel;  
the words are closed and sealed until the fall of popery,  
the end of the 1260 years; after that the seal will be  
broken.  
Verse 10. Many shall be purified, and made white, and  
tried ,• but the wicked shall do wickedly : and none of the  
wicked shall understand ; but the wise shall understand.  
Paraphrase,—When the time of the end comes,  
many shall be converted, great revivals of religion  

520  will prevail; but wickedness corresponding with this  
remarkable grace will prevail. None of those who  
scoff at God's word, and trust in man's wisdom, shall 
understand; but the wise shall understand. Those 
who make God's word the rule of their faith, and bow  
implicitly to it, regardless of men's opinions, will have  
the light, when " the time of the end'''' comes.  
Verse 11. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall  
be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate  
set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety  
days.  
Paraphrase.—-From the time the " Mystery of ini- 
quity.j" (2 Thess. 2,) " the daily," (Dan. 11 : 31) the  
pagan abomination, shall be taken away, and " that  
man of sin," "that wicked," (2 Thess. 2,) the abomi- 
nation that maketh desolate set up, (see paraphrase on  
11th ch., v. 31,) there shall be 1290 years. That  
abomination which maketh desolate, was set up or  
gained supremacy in Rome, in 503. Then 1290 years 
comes to 1798, and popery fell.  
Verse 12. Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the  
thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.  
Paraphrase.—Blessed is he that gets all ready and  
waits and comes to the 1335 years from the setting up  
of the abomination which maketh desolate. But none  
can wait, who are not ready.  
Verse 13. But go thou thy way till the end be : for thou  
shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.  
Paraphrase.—You will rest in death, Daniel, but  
stand up in the resurrection for your inheritance in the 
promised possession at the end of the 1335 years, which  
begin at the same point as the 1290, in 508, and in  
1843.  
I have given what I conceive to be the simple mean- 
ing of the 11th and 12th chapters of Daniel, not so  
much for the benefit of the quibbler, as for the edifica- 
tion of the humble followers of Christ, and sincere  
inquirers after the truth. I have merely thrown out as  
suggestions, an outline, for the reader to fill up. The 
history is principally from Rollin, Gibbon, Scott's  
oile^v^ well—the  
Lord is at the door.  
THE 24th OF MATTHEW.  
THE 24th CHAPTER OF MATTHEW, is at the present  
time eliciting great attention; but not more than its  
importance demands.  
" When shall these things be, and what shall be the  
sign of thy coming and of the end of the world."  
" These things," refers to the events of the second  
verse, the destruction of Jerusalem. " What shall be  
the sign of thy coming,'''' refers to his remark in the  
close of the 23d chapter ; "ye shall not see me hence- 
forth until ye shall say blessed is he that cometh in the  
name of the Lord." Thus intimating that when a 
race should be there, who should say thus, he would  
come again; but that time has not yet come; hence  
his coming is yet future. " Jlnd of the end of the 
world,'''' refers to the 13th chapter, the explanation of  
the parable of the tares of the field. "The harvest is  
the end of the world." " So shall it be at the end of  
THIS (aionos) WORLD ; the son of man shall send forth  
his angels," &c., and "cast them into a furnace of  
lire." "Then shall the righteous shine forth as the 
sun in the kingdom of their father."  
Jesus said, "Take heed that no man deceive you.  
For many shall come in my name saying, I am Christ, 
and shall deceive many." This is not a sign, either  
of Jerusalem's overthrow, nor of his coming, but a  
general characteristic of every age. For there has  
been no age since Christ, but what has had its false 
Christs or false prophets. " Wars and rumors of  
wars," were to come, " but the end is not yet." These  
were not signs of the end but common incidents.  
"Famines," '•'•pestilence,'" '•'•earthquakes,''''  &c., were  
to come as a matter of course, but they signified nei- 
ther the destruction of Jerusalem nor the end of the  
world,  
"Then shall they deliver you (Christians) up to be  
affiifeied, and shall kill you, and ye shall be hated of  
all nations for my name's sake." This foretells the 
persecutiohs of the church, both under imperial and 
papal Rome, through her whole history, but are no  
sign of the end.  
He that endureth to the end [of his probation] the  
same shall be saved." " This gospel of the kingdom  
must be preached in all the world for a witness to all 
nations, then shall the end come." This is the only  
sign he gives in the first 14 verses, either of Jerusa- 
lem's overthrow or the end of the world.  
The gospel is now preached in  all the world for a  

witness; or at least, there is no known nation which 
has not heard it. Hence, we look for the end soon.  
Then, in verse 15th, he begins to answer the first  
question. " When ye, therefore, shall see the abomi-
nation of .desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet,  
stand in the holy place, (or holy land,) whoso readeth  
let him understand." This sign was the only one  
given, by which the disciples were to know when the  
city was to be destroyed. This abomination of deso-
lation is foretold, Dan. 9 : 26, 27. " Then let them that  
be in Judea flee to the mountains." These verses con-
tain a series of instructions to the disciples, by the ob- 
servance of which they were all saved—not one per-
ishing in the siege.—They saw the Roman army come  
up, and again retire. When they saw it they all fled 
to Pella, a city in the mountains, and were saved.  
Verses 21,22. " For then,"  after your flight from  
Jerusalem, and dispersion over the earth, "shall be  
great tribulation," on the church, not on the Jews. 
" Such as was not sihfce there was a nation to that  
same time, no, nor ever shall be." During the siege*  
1,100,000 Jews perished in various ways. But under  
papal persecution in the dark ages, more than 50,000,- 
000 of Christians perished, beside the millions under  
Pagan Rome. They, the Jews, some of them per-
ished by famine, so have multitudes of others. They 
ate their own children. Others might have done it,  
had they not chosen rather to starve. It proves their 
extreme wickedness, ratfer than greater sufferings than  
others have endured.  
The siege of Jerusalem continued a short period ;  
but the persecutions of the chureh for many ages.  
The church was safe during the siege of Jerusalem,  
but this was to be tribulation which should affect the  
church.—" For the elect's sake, those days shall be  
shortened."  
Should the persecution contmne through the whole  
period of the church's dispersion, " no flesh (compara- 
tively) should be saved." There would be BO oppor-
tunity to spread the gospel" but for the elect's sake," 
to gather in an elect people, " those days shall be  
shortened."  
" The tribulation" began to subside in the  reforma- 
tion under Luther, but continued to rage in a measure 
until the days of Wesley and Whitfield ; since which,  
there has been no very general war against the church, 
and apostolic revivals bfegan to prevail, and great num- 
bers were gathered into the charch. But how little  
was done during the dark ages to spread the gospel! 
What could have been done had that darkness and 
persecution continued ?- "No flesh should be saved," 
said the Saviouf,  
Verses 23—-28.—" Then," after and during your  
state of dispersion, " if any man shall say unto you, Lo,  
here is Christ, or there, believe it not. For there shall  
arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show  
great signs and wonders; ir^omuch, that if it were  
possible, they shall deceive the very elect. Behold, I 
have told you before ; wherefore, if they shall say unto 
you, he is in the desert, go not forth; behold he is in 
the secret chamber, believe it net. For as the light- 
ning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the 
west; so shall also the coming ofthe Son of man be." 
There will be no ignorance of the fact when he comes,  
that one should apprise another ; all will' see him. As 
certainly as the eagle by instinct finds IiiVi prey, so will 
all the saints find their Lord in the air.  
The Sign* of Christ's coming.  
Verse 29.—" Immediately after the tribulation of  
those days," the persef'wtion of the church, " the sun  
shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her  
light, the stars shall fall from, heaven, and the powers  
of heaven shall be shaken."  
The great persecution and darkness of the dark ages  
has passed away, and but little ha3 been known of it  
since Wesley's day, or for a century past.  
The signs have also passed by. In 1780, the sun  
was supernaturally darkened, on the 19th day of May.  
(See Phil. Alarm, No. 6.) There have been several  
other days of the kind since. One in Franee, in 1788. 
One in England, in 1806.  
" The moon shall not give her light."*--Although  
there was a full moon at the time of the dark day of  
1780, yet the night was so dark " that a sheet of white  
paper, held within a few inches of the eyes, was  
equally invisible with the blackest velvet."  
" The stars shall fall from heaven."—That this sign  
has been accomplished, those who saw the shower of  
meteors, on November 13th, 1833, cannot doubt.  
On that extraordinary phenomenon, Professcr Olm- 
stead, of Yale College, has the following remarks :  
"The extent of the shower of 1833 was such as to  
cover no inconsiderable portion of the EARTH'S SURFACE,


from the middle of the Atlantic on the east, to the Pa-
cific on the west; and from the northern coast of South 
America, to undefined regions among the British pos-
sessions on the north, the exhibition of shooting stars  
was not only visible, but everywhere presented nearly  
one and the same appearance.  
" The duration and maximum, or period of greatest  
display, were characterized by a similar uniformity. 
In nearly all places, the meteors began to attract no- 
tice by their unusual frequency as early as eleven  
o'clock, and increased in numbers and splendor until 
about four o'clock, from which time they gradually de- 
clined, but were visible until lost in the light of day. 
The meteors did not fly at random over all parts of the  
sky, but appeared to emanate from a point in the con-
stellation Leo, near a star called Gamma Leonis, in 
the bend of the sickle.  
" A similar phenomenon was witnessed on the 12th  
of Nov. 1799, and at the same season of the year in  
1830, 1831, and 1832. The meteoric shower was re- 
peated on the morning of Nov. 13th or 14th, for seve-
ral years, but on a scale constantly diminishing until  
1838, since which period the exhibitions have been  
too little remarkable to be worthy of particular no- 
tice.  
" I feel assured that this is no atmospheric or terres- 
trial phenomenon, but that these fiery meteors come to 
us from the regions of space, and reveal to us the exis- 
tence of worlds of a nebulous or cometary nature, ex- 
isting in the solar system, and forming constituent  
parts°of that system. Nor are these conclusions built  
on mere hypothesis, but are necessary inferences from 
certain facts.  
" The present generation may consider itself privi- 
leged in having witnessed grander displays of fiery me- 
teors, than are to be found recorded on the pages of his- 
tory." " In displays of the Aurora Borealis, also, we 
have been similarly favored. Such visitations of this  
spectacle, as we have enjoyed since Aug. 1837, to the  
present time, are by  no means of constant occur- 
rence."  
" Those who were so fortunate as to witness the ex- 
hibition of shooting stars on  the morning of Nov. 13th,  
1833, probably saw the GREATEST DISPLAY of celestial  
fire-works that has ever been seen since the creation of the  
world, or at least within the annals covered by the  
pages of history."  
" This is no longer to be regarded as a terrestrial,  
but as a celestial phenomenon; and shooting stars are  
now to be no more viewed as casual productions of the 
upper regions of the atmosphere, but as visitants from  
OTHER WORLDS, or from the planetary voids.''''  
"Subsequent inquiries have led me to the belief,  
that the body was so distant as hardly to exhibit any  
apparent parallax, but was projected on very nearly the  
same part of the sky by all observers. This fact at 
once shows that the source of the meteors was far be-
yond the atmosphere, and confirms the preceding 
conclusion that it was wholly independent of the  
earth."  
" The powers of heaven shall be shaken.'''' This sign  
is yet to take place, and will come in immediate con- 
nexion with " the sign of the Son of Man in Heaven,"  
when " all the tribes of  the earth shall mourn, and  
they shall sec the Son of Man coming in the clouds of  
heaven with power and great glory. And he shall  
send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet,  
and they shall gather together his elect from the four  
winds, from one end  of heaven to the other."  
The parable of the fig-tree is then given to illustrate  
how definite this sign is to be. When it puts forth 
leaves, ye know that summer is near. So likewise ye, 
when ye see these things come to pass, know that it is 
near, eyen at  the door. Verily I say unto you, this  
generation (who see these things begin) shall not pass 
away until all be fulfilled. A generation is three score  
years and ten, 70 years. The signs began 1780, 
nearly G3 years ago. The generation will soon be 
nassed, but not before the events transpire.  
" But of that day and hour KNOWETII no man," &c.  
They were to know, by the signs, when it is near, 
even at the door, but not  the exact day or hour; for  
that they must watch.  
The signs having come to pass, what have we to  
look for but the coming of the Saviour in power and  
great glory.  
Christian, are you ready? Do you look for and  
hasten to the glorious day 1 Are you doing your ut-
most to bring your friends to Christ, and prepare for  
Vthe great event  
Reader, are you among those who say, my Lord de- 
layeth his coming, and are smiting their fellow ser- 
vants, and eating and drinking with the drunken 1 If 
so, beware!  

THE WOE TRUMPETS.  
Revelation, 9th Chapter.  
THE SEVEN TRUMPETS.—The revelator, unlike Da- 
niel, lived when three of the great anti-Christian mo- 
narchies of the world had passed by, and the fourth was  
in the height of its glory. He, of course, only had to  
look forward, as a prophet, to the fall of that which yet  
remained, the Roman empire. The instrumentalities  
by which that government was to be brought to ruin,  
were predicted under the symbols of the sounding of  
seven trumpets. The first four of the trumpets seem  
to have been appropriated to the overthrow of the west-
ern empire, by the hordes of barbarians who overran 
and conquered Europe. The Turks and Saracens were 
reserved as the agents of Providence, by which the 
eastern empire was to fall. The seventh trumpet sig- 
nalizes the overthrow of Babylon the great, when, like 
a mighty mill-stone, she shall sink in the deep to rise  
no m°re at  all.  
TTie sounding of the fifth and sixth trumpets are  
those we shall particularly notice. Rev. 9th chapter.  
"And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall  
from heaven unto the earth; and to him was given the  
key of the bottomless pit. And he opened the bottom-
less pit; and there arose a smoke out ofthe pit, as the 
smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were 
darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. And there 
came locusts out of the smoke of the earth; and unto  
them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth 
have power. And it was commanded that they should 
not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing,  
neither any tree; but only those men which have not  
the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was  
given that they should not kill them, but that they 
should be tormented FIVE MONTHS."  
There is a very general agreement at the present  
day, among prophetic expositors, that the subject of  
this prophecy is Mahommedism. I shall not, therefore,  
enter into a particular explanation of the various figures  
used in the prophecy, but take it for granted that those 
who thus apply it are correct, and confine myself prin-
cipally to the examination of the prophetic periods  
mentioned in the chapter, and endeavour to show their 
fulfilment. If this can be done, it is in itself the strong- 
est evidence that a right application is made of the  
prophecy, when it is applied to Mahommedism.  
The first prophetic period which occurs in the chap- 
ter, is in the 5th verse; " that they should be tormented  
five months.'''' A prophetic month consists of 30 days,  
as in Rev. 13, and each day represents a year. Five  
months will amount to 150 years. During  150 years  
the locusts (or warlike armies of horsemen,) which 
came out of the smoke, (the Mahommedan errors,) for  
the propagation of his religion, were to torment a cer-
tain nation of men. But what nation ? And when  
were they to begin the work ? These are questions to  
be settled.  
I shall endeavour to determine the first question by  
settling the second. When, then, were the Mahomme-
dan armies to commence their torment on a certain  
people for 150 years ?  
Verse 10, the period is again referred to, " And their  
power was to hurt men five months." The 11th verse  
pointed out the time when those months were to com- 
mence. " And they had a king over them, which is  
the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the He-
brew tongue is Abaddon, (that is, a destroyer,)' but in  
the Greek tongue he hath his name Apollyon," (de-
stroyer.)  
The beginning of the five months, then, is when  
these armies have ONE king over them, of the charac-
ter above described.  
After the death of Mahomet, his followers were  
divided into various factions, under several leaders. In  
this state they continued until the close of the 13th 
century. They were then united under one govern- 
ment, under Othman, the founder of the Ottoman or  
Turkish empire. The founder of tbe goverment, as  
well as the government itself, was truly described when  
called Abaddon, or Apollyon, a destroyer.  
But this king was to be the angel, or chief minister,  
of the bottomless pit, or of the religion which arose  
from thence under Mahomet. Such was Othman; and  
such have been his successors. Like the Pope of Rome,  
the Turkish Sultan has exercised supreme power, both 
civil and ecclesiastical, throughout his dominions. This 
empire was established A. D. 1299. "And on the 27th  
day of July, 1299, Othman first invaded the territory  
of Nicomedia," to commence his attack on the Greek 
empire. (See Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall  
of the Roman Empire.)  
Beginning in 1299, the 150 years would end A. D.  
1449. In that year, Palealogus, the Greek emperor,  

died, and left no children to succeed him in the throne;  
and his brother, Constantine  Deacozes, was to succeed  
him. But, from some cause or other, although it was a 
time of peace, before he dared to ascend his brother's 
throne, he sent ambassadors to Amurath, the Turkish  
Sultan, to ask his permission; and having obtained it,  
he assumed the government of the empire. Thus, for  
150 years, from 1299 to 1449, although the two powers  
were almost continually engaged in broils and conten-
tions, yet the Turks could not prevail against the 
Greeks. "Their power was to torment," by sudden 
excursions. Thus far they might go, but no farther.  
The 150 years ended, and with it virtually ended the 
Greek empire; because from that time the Greek em- 
peror only reigned by permission of his deadly foe.  
Thus closed the sounding of the fifth angel, and thus  
ended the first woe. The men, then, which they were  
to torment, were the Greeks.  
Sounding of the  Sixth Angel.  
Verses 12—15. " One woe is past, and behold there  
come two woes more hereafter. And the sixth angel  
sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns ofthe  
golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth  
angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels  
which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And  
the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for 
an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, to slay  
the third part of men."  
One woe ended with the 5 months or 350 years, and  
two more were to succeed it. The second woe began  
when the sixth angel began to sound. The same power  
which had restrained the Ottomans to the work of tor- 
menting men five months, on the sounding of the sixth 
angel, commanded that restraint to be taken off. " Loose  
the four angels which are bound in the great river  
Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed."  
" The four angels" are the four principal nations of  
which the Ottoman empire is composed, located in the  
neighbourhood of the Euphrates. They had hitherto  
been confined to the work of tormenting the Greeks,  
without politically putting them to death. But from  
this time they were to slay, politically kill, that nation.  
Accordingly, when the 150 years ended, the Turks  
were loosed, and the independence of the Greeks ceas-
ed, by their voluntarily acknowledging that they only 
existed politically by the permission of the Turkish  
Sultan.  
But the duration of their dominion over the Greek  
empire is limited to "an hour," 15 days; " and a day,"  
one year; "and a month," 30years; "and a year" 
360 years; the whole amounting to 391 years  and 15  
days. Both periods, the 150 years, and 391 years and  
15 days, are 541 years and 15 days. The first period  
was fulfilled, and the four angels were loosed. Hence,  
we may expect that when the second period closes, 
with it will close the reign of the Ottomans in Con- 
stantinople. If the time for commencing the periods  
was at the time of the first onset of the Ottomans upon  
the GreekB, July 27th, 1299, THEN THE WHOLE PERIOD  
WILL  END IN AUGUST, 1840.  
Accomplishment of the foregoing calculations.  
When the above was written, the result was in fu- 
turity, and was purely a matter of calculation; but  
now, however, the time is passed, and it is proper that  
we should inquire whether the event has answered the 
calculations.  
1. HAS,  THEN, THE OTTOMAN SUPREMACY IN CON- 
STANTINOPLE  BEEN BROKEN, OR HAS IT BEEN LOST "?  
1st Testimony. The London Morning Herald, after  
the capture of St. Jean d'Acre, speaking of the state  
of things in the  Ottoman empire, says; " We (the  
allies) have conquered St. Jean d'Acre. We have dis- 
sipated into thin air the prestige that till lately invested  
as with a halo the name of Mehemet Ali. We have,  
in all probability, destroyed forever the power of that  
hitherto successful ruler. But have we done aught to  
•restore strength to the Ottoman empire? WE FEAR NOT.  
WE FEAR THAT THE SULTAN  HAS BEEN REDUCED TO THE  
RANK OF A PUPPET;  AND THAT THE SOURCES OF THE  
TURKISH EMPIRE'S STRENGTH are ENTIRELY DESTROY- 
ED."  
" If the supremacy of the Sultan is hereafter to be  
maintained in Egypt, it must be maintained, we fear,  
by the unceasing intervention of England and Russia.""  
What the London Morning Herald of Nov., 1840,  
feared, has since been realized. The Sultan has been 
entirely, in all the great questions which have come 
up, under the dictation of the christian kingdoms of  
Europe : and on them he has been dependent for sup- 
port against Mehemet.  
2d Testimony. The following is from Rev. Mr.  
Goodell, missionary of the American Board at Con- 
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stantinople, addressed to the Board, and by them pub- 
lished in the Missionary Herald, for April, 1841, page  
" The power of Islamism is broken forever; and  
there is no concealing the fact, even from themselves.  
They exist now by mere sufferance. And though 
there is a mighty effort made by the christian govern-
ments to sustain them, yet at every step they sink  
lower and lower with fearful velocity. And though  
there is a great endeavour made to graft the institutions 
of civilized and christian countries upon the decayed  
trunk, yet the very root itself is fast wasting away by  
the venom of its own poison. How wonderful it is,  
that, when all Christendom combined together to check 
the progress of Mohammedan power, it waxed exceed- 
ingly great in spite of every opposition; and now, 
when all the mighty potentates of Christian Europe,  
Avho feel fully competent to settle all the quarrels, and  
arrange all the affairs of the whole world, are leagued  
together for its protection and defence, down it comes,  
in spite of all their fostering care."  
This, let it, be remembered, is the clear, positive tes- 
timony of an eye-witness, a man who is on the spot,  
and who knows whereof he affirms. For truth and  
veracity, he has the confidence of the American Board  
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and they, in 
their official organ, have given publicity to the testi- 
mony. Reader, please review this witness's testimo-
ny, and mark its point and strength.  
3d Testimony. The following i3 an extract from a  
London paper; the article is headed, " The Waning  
of the Ottoman Empire," It has been copied into  
most of the leading journals of this country, without  
one word of dissent on the part of any. Thus the  
whole editorial corps in this country have given it 
their official sanction.  
The objecf of the writer is to show the relative con- 
dition of the Turkish and Christian powers of Europe. 
In former times the Turkish empire exceeded in power  
every kingdom in Europe. But the scene is changed;  
the Turks are weakened and the Christian nations  
strengthened. The article concludes thus : " The day  
they (the nations of Europe) counted their numbers, 
was to be the. last cf Constantinople; AND THAT DAY HAS  
EVERYWHERE COME."  
So, according to all our leading periodicals, the last  
of Constantinople has come.  
4th Testimony. Dr. Bond, editor of the Christian  
Advocate and Journal, N. York, in one ofthe May(1841) 
numbers of that paper, concludes his account of East- 
ern affairs thus : " The Mohammedan nations are effectu- 
ally in the hands and at the mercy of the Christian go- 
vernments.''''  
This is granting all we ask. Turkish supremacy is  
gone, and is in the hands of Christian powers. With  
one more, I shall close the testimony on this point.  
5th Testimony.—Rev. Mr. Balch, of Providence, R.  
I., in an attack on Mr. Miller, for saying the Ottoman 
empire fell in 1840, says, " How can an honest man  
have the hardihood to stand up before an intelligent 
audience, and make such an assertion, when the most 
authentic version of the change of the Ottoman empire 
is, that it has not been on a better foundation in fifty  
years; for it is now reorganised by the European king- 
doms, and is honourably treated as such."  
Christian Europe REORGANISED the government! ! And  
treats it honourably as their creature! This is the  
strongest argument ever attempted against the view  
above given.  
The empire now exists, by sufferance of Europe, as  
the Greek empire did by the sufferance of the Turks 
from 1449 to 1453.  
2d. WHEN DID THE OTTOMAN INDEPENDENCE DE- 
PART ]  
Perhaps it maybe said in reply, " it has been decay- 
ing for years." True, it has. But if its power is  
broken for ever, as Mr. Goodell declares, there must  
have been a point when it was broken. If it is dead,  
there was a moment when it ceased to be alive, and 
became dead. When was that crisis 1 To answer  
this question understandingly and clearly, it will be  
necessary to take a view of the eastern difficulty, and 
the means adopted for its settlement.  
For some years Mehemet Ali, Pacha of Egypt, had  
manifested a disposition to throw off the Turkish yoke 
and maintain an independent government. He gradu- 
ally increased in power and extended his conquests, 
wresting one province after another from the Sultan, 
adding it to his own dominions. In 1839, a war broke  
out between Mehemet and the Sultan, in which the  
Sultan's army was cut up, and his fleet taken by Me- 
hemet, and carried to Egypt, which he refused to sur- 
render and return to the Sultan; threatening to burn it, 
if an attempt should be made to take it.  

The following extracts from the translation of an  
official document, which appeared in the " Moniteur  
Ottoman," of Aug. 22, 1840, will show the  turn of the  
affair at this juncture.  
" Subsequent to the occurrence of the disputes  
alluded to, and after the reverses experienced, as 
known to all the world, the ambassadors of the great  
powers at Constantinople, in a collective official note,  
declared, that their governments were unanimously 
agreed upon taking measures to arrange said differ- 
ences, and the sublime Porte, with a view of putting 
a stop to the effusion of Musselman blood, and to the  
various evils which would arise from a renewal of hos- 
tilities, accepted the intervention of the great powers. 
His Excellency, Shekih Ejfendi, the Bey likgis, was  
therefore despatched as plenipotentiary, to represent the  
sublime Porte, at the conference which took place in 
London (July 15, 1840), for the purpose in question."  
The conference was composed of England, Russia,  
Austria, and Prussia, together with the Sultan's am-
bassador. The following extract from the same official 
document above quoted, shows the decision of that  
conference.  
" It having been felt that all the zealous labours of  
the conferences of London in the settlement of the 
Pacha's pretensions were useless, and that the only  
public way was to have recourse to coercive measures 
to reduce him to obedience in case he persisted in not  
listening to pacific overtures, the powers have, together 
with the Ottoman Plenipotentiary, drawn up and signed 
a treaty, whereby the Sultan' offers the Pacha*3 the  
hereditary government of Egypt, and of all that part 
of Syria extending from the Gulf of Suez to the Lake 
of Tiberias, together with the Province of Acre, for  
life; the Pacha, on his part, evacuating all other parts  
of the Sultan's dominions now occupied by him, and  
returning the Ottoman fleet. A certain space of time  
has been granted him to accede to these terms, and as  
the proposals of the Sultan and his allies, the four  
powers, do not admit of any change or qualification, if  
the Pacha refuse to accede to them, it is evident that the  
evil consequences to fall upon him will be attributable 
solely to his own fault. His Excellency, RIFAT BEY,  
Musteshar for foreign affairs, has been despatched to  
Alexandria in a government steamer, to communicate 
their ultimatum to the Pacha."  
The reason why the Sultan thus submitted the de- 
cision of the question to the Christian powers is inti- 
mated in a manifesto which he issued about the 20th  
of August, and caused to be read in the mosques, day 
after day. It was because he felt his weakness and  
the danger of his throne.  
"The Porte, in order to counteract this, (the preten- 
sions of Mehemet), has deemed it necessary to publish  
a manifesto, laying before its subjects a statement of  
affairs from the commencement of the quarrel up to  
the present time, and  proving to them, by the clearest  
arguments, that the Pacha himself is the enemy of 
their religion, and that the object he is aiming at  is to  
dethrone the Sultan."—Corres. Lond. Morn. Chronicle.  
If we can place any confidence in the declaration of  
the Sultan, he did feel his throne to be in danger; and 
this was his reason for throwing himself on liis allies 
for support.  
The ultimatum of the London conference, it seems,  
was put into the hands of the Sultan, to treat with Me- 
hemet, and, if possible, settle the difficulty without the 
further intervention of his allies. But if Mehemet  
refused to accede to the terms, which admitted of no  
change or qualification, the great powers were pledged 
to use coercive measures. While, therefore, the Sultan  
held the ultimatum in his own  hands, his independence  
was maintained; but the question once submitted to 
Mehemet, and it was beyond his control. Tiue, if  
Mehemet accepted the ultimatum, the Ottoman inde- 
pendence would remain ; but if he rejected it, there 
was no alternative but for the Christian powers to 
interpose and put him down.  
Rifat Bey left Constantinople for Egypt, with the  
ultimatum, August 5th, 1840.  
" He arrived at Alexandria on the 11th of August,  
and was by Mehemet's orders placed in quarantine  
until the 16th." —Thus on the 11th of August the  
question of war or peace was taken from the Sultan's  
hands and placed in Mehemet's, so that the Sultan 
could no longer control the affair.  
The 541 years 15 days, commencing July 27th,  
1299, would end on the 11th of August; just the day  
Rifat Bey arrived at Alexandria.  
Mehemet gave his answer to the Sultan in the fol- 
lowing note:—  
"Wallah, hillah, tillah," (an oath, by God.) "I  
will not yield a span of the land I possess, and if war  

is made against me, I will turn the empire upside 
down and be buried in its ruins.  
MEIIEMET ALI."  
This was the decisive stroke, and under it the Otto- 
man power was thrown into the hands of the Christian 
nations of Europe. And the very next day, the consuls  
of the four powers took up the affair, and remonstrated  
with him for his coufse, and threatened him if he did 
not submit. Since then, the Sultan has been under  
the necessity of submitting to the dictation of the 
European powers in all the affairs of his empire*  
Bid the. Mahomedan independence of CONSTANTINOPLE  
cea.se on the 11 th of August, 1840 ? The following fact  
will answer the question. A correspondent of the 
London Morning Chronicle, in a letter dated Con-
stantinople, August 12th, 1840, after giving an account  
of the ultimatum, says, "The manner, however, of  
applying the force, should he (Mehemet) refuse to 
comply with these terms,—whether a simple blockade  
is to be established on the coast, or whether his capital  
is to be bombarded, and his armies to be attacked in  
the Syrian Provinces,—is the point which still remains  
to be learned. Nor does a note delivered yesterday in  
answer to a question put to them by the Porte (Sultan), 
as to the plan to be adopted in such an event, throw 
the least light on the subject. It simply states that  
provision has been made, and there is no necessity for  
the Divan alarming itself about any contingency which  
mio-ht afterwards arise."  
Thus the Sultan was as good as told, in his own  
capital, in an official document, from Christian Europe,  
that a matter involving all the interests of his vast 
dominions, was none of his business, — and that, on  
August 11 th, 1840. READER, THINK !  
The second woe, then, or 6th trumpet, passed, in  
August, 1840. The third woe, and 7th and last trump, 
when the dead shall be raised and the kingdoms of 
this world become Christ's, cometh QUICKLY, Rev. LL;  
14, 15.  
Reader, keep yoiir garment, and watch unto prayer.  
THE TWO WITNESSES.  
Revelation 11 th Chapter,  
The 9th and 11th chapters of Revelation, are paral- 
lel. The seven trumpets carrying us through the 
events of  the overthrow of the Roman empire, and the  
agents which should oppress the church in the place 
of the imperial power of Rome, after it fell. The di- 
rect line, so to speak, comes down through the sound- 
ing of the 5th and 6th trumpets, and g-ivlng the his-
tory of the Mahomedan power. Closing that view 
with the departure of Mahc »iedan supremacy in 1840, 
a new scene is presented, in chapter 10th. *An angel 
with a little book, containing another line of events, 
parallel to the former; the history of the two witnesses  
'under the Western Anti-Christ. This line comes down  
to 1840,  and presents at that time the prominence of  
the witnesses, and the influence they are exerting  over  
the earth; and the two lines there meet, and fill up in  
one stream the period called quickly, when we come to  
Christ's eternal kingdom.  
Revelation xi. 3. " And I will give power unto my  
two witnesses, and they shall prophecy a thousand two  
hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth."  
I. The OBJECT and CHARACTER of a witness.  
The OBJECT. It is to tell the truth on the subject on  
which he testifies.—" The truth, the whole truth, and 
nothing but the truth." A witness must testify only  
to what he knows.  
His CHARACTER for truth and veracity must be good  
—unimpeachable. It may be a living oral witness 
personally present—or it may be a written document, 
which under some circumstances, as the last will and 
testament of a person, &c., is of equal or greater 
weight than a living oral witness.  
II. Whose witnesses are they, spoken cf in the text 1  
"My two witnesses." Christ is the speaker, and  
claims the witnesses for his.  
III. What art the witnesses ? Some say the church.  
But the church is a multitude in her individual capa- 
city—one in her united character. She does not know 
the whole truth on each point relative to Christ. Nor 
do a succession of Christian ministers. Beside, Christ 
declares, John 5 : 34, " I receive not testimony from  
man."  
The Old and New Testament are two. They are  
claimed by Christ as his witnesses, Matt. 24 : 14.  
" This gospel of the kingdom must be preached in all  
tke world, for a witness unto all nations." The Old  
Testament, John 5 : 37—39. " The Father himself hath  
borne witness of me—ye have neither heard his voice  
at any time, nor seen his shape"—so the witness is  
not oral. " Search the Scriptures"—" they are they  
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that testify of me.1' These two witnesses do testify  
the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth,  
respecting Christ. They testify all that can be known  
of him until he comes again.  
IV. The history of  these witnesses. 1. They pro- 
phesy. They foretell all that is known, or ever  Can  
be known of Christ. They foretold his first advent,  
his sufferings and death, together with the time of his  
death. They foretell his second advent, his glory, and 
the time of that glory. They prophesy the leading  
events in the world's history. They prophesy through  
the whole gospel dispensation'; but they prophesy  
1260 days, or years of that time, " clothed in sackcloth."  
2. Sackcloth is the  emblem of obscurity. Rev. 6 : 12.  
"The  sun became black as sackcloth of hair"-—denot- 
ing partial obscuration, but not entire darkness. These  
witnesses were darkened by the usurpations of Popery.  
In 533, in his crusade against the Arian heresy, Jus- 
tinian, the Greek emperor, conferred supreme power in  
the church on the Pope of Rome, and Constituted him  
the first of all bishops—head of all the churches—the  
true and effective corrector of heretics, &c. In 538,  
Justinian conquered the Ostrogothic kingdom of Rome,  
an Arian kingdom, and subjected the whole church to  
the churGh of Rome, and set up the papal hierarchy.  
The scriptures were soon suppressed—the Greek and  
Latin languages ceased to be Spoken as living lan- 
guages, and the people Were unable to read them.  
They prophesied still, but their light did not shine be- 
cause they were in a language the people did not un- 
derstand. The Catholic chufch have prohibited the 
reading of the Scriptures by the people without the 
permission of the priests.  
3. " These have the power to shut heaven that it rain  
not in the days of their prophesy." Rain is the em- 
blem of Grace, or the outpouring of the Spirit. Dur- 
ing the dark ages of papal rule, there were but few 
conversions; until the reformation under Luther and 
his associates, when the Bible began again to be trans-
lated into the languages of Europe and was read by 
the people. Then revivals began. The suppression  
of the Scriptures restrained or hindered the Work of  
God.  
4. " These have power over waters to turn them to  
blood; and to smite the earth with all plagues as oft as 
they Will." All the plagues which have ever come on  
the earth or ever will, whether on nations or indivi- 
duals, ate in accordance with the principles laid down  
in the Bible. They have the power to pronounce those  
judgments.  
5. " If any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of  
their mouth and burnetii up their enemies. If any man  
hurt them he must in this manner be killed." The wold  
of God pronounces its own sentence on all who injure 
it, and just what they pronounce will be fulfilled. " I  
testify unto every man that heareth the words of the  
prophecy of this book. If any man shall add unto  
these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that 
are written in the book. And if any man shall take 
away from the words of the book of this prophecy, 
God shall take away his part out of the book of life,  
and out of the holy city, and from the things which 
are written in this book." Rev. 22 : 18, 19.  
6. " When they have finished their testimony, (or as  
Mr. Faber renders it, When they are about to finish  
their testimony,) the beast which ascendcth out of the bot- 
tomless pit shall make war on them, and kill them  
A. "beast," in the symbolical language of Revela- 
tion, signifies a government.—" The beast from the 
bottomless pit," is a government that has no founda- 
tion to build upon, but rises up without religion and 
illegitimately. Such was the Revolutionary govern-
ment of France, at the close of the last century. It  
was founded in Atheism and the rejection of religion  
in every form—and from a nonentity became the terror 
of the world. That government made war on the  
Bible, and swore to exterminate it—declared it to be a  
lie, Jesus Christ an imposter, death an eternal sleep,  
and, finally, that there is no God. They closed the 
churches of France, and executed the clergy. They 
abolished the Sabbath, and every other institution  
founded on the Bible. The worship of God in all  
forms and kinds was discarded and prohibited. It was  
thus, this government made war on the witnesses and  
killed them. They gathered Bibles in heaps, and  
burned them. They tied a copy of the Bible to the  
tail of an ass, and dragged it through the streets of  
Lyons, while the populace followed with shouts and  
acclamations.—The abrogation of religion took place  
September, 1793; and in 1797, in the month of March,  
(after just three and a half years.) the law Was passed  
revoking the decrees against religion, and granting 
toleration to all Christians.  
7. Thus, during the three days and a half, their dead  

bodies were not permitted to  be put in graves, although  
they lay dead in the streets of the great Roman city,  
which spiritually, or by the Spirit, is called Sodom  
and Egypt, from its gtoss licentiousness, and oppres- 
sion of the people of God—the crying sins of Sodom ;  
"where, also our Lord was crucified," in the person  
of his members and disciples. From thirty thousand 
tb fifty thousand Huguenots were slain in France in  
one night, on St. Bartholomew's eVe, 1572.  
" They of the nations shall see their dead bodies three  
days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to  
be put in graves."  
Although condemned and denounced in France, yet  
in other nations the Bible still lived in the sight ofthe 
people. The boast of the infidels to exterminate the  
Bible, Was brought to notight.  
8. After three days and a half, the spirit of life from  
God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet and  
great fear fell upon them which saw them.''''  
The resurrection of the witnesses and their exalta- 
tion to heaven, is the revocation of the laws against 
religious worship and the Bible, 1797, three and a half  
years from the prohibition in 1793.—Great fear fell on 
the infidel world when they saw the triumph of the  
Bible, and it spread over the earth. The great Voice  
from heaven saying to them, " Come up hither," is the  
universal demand of the moral World for the Bible.  
So that since 1798, it has been translated, either in  
whole or in part, into more than 150 different lan- 
guages, and spread in nearly all nations-.  
9. " The same hour there was a great earthquake, and  
a tenth part of the city fell."  
Earthquake, when used symbolically, signifies a re- 
volution of a kingdom. The  hour signifies period, the  
same period. The city, the Roman Empire.  
Thus Rev. 17 : 18, " That great city which reigneth  
over the kings of the earth," or the Roman Empire.  
"Tenth part of the city fell" ceased its allegiance to  
the Roman power, and threw off the yoke of popery,  
and finally took aWay the papal dominion in Rome  
itself.  
10. " Were slain of men," or as in margin, " names  
of men seven thousand." To slay the names of men,  
is to abolish their titles and dignities. This was done  
in the French revolution, when all names, titles and 
dignities of the clergy and nobility Wefe abolished, 
and only the simple title of citizen Was allowed to any  
man. The number seven, signifying the perfect an- 
nulling of all titles.  
11. " The second woe is past—^lke third woe cometh  
quickly."  
This event is now past; the 6th trumpet, which is  
the second Woe, ceased to sound, as I have shown  
you, on the 11th of August, 1840.  
The third woe, or the 7th trumpet cometh quickly.  
It can be but just before us. The 7th is the last trump, 
at Which, according to Paul, 1 Cor, 15, the dead are  
to be raised.  
The 7th angel sounded, and there were great Voices  
in heaven saying, the kingdoms of this world are be- 
come the kingdoms of our  Lord and his Christ, and he  
shall reign forever and ever. There is no millennium  
until this trumpet sounds. Then instead of the tem- 
poral spiritual reign of Christ, it is the time of God's  
wrath, and of the dead that they should be judged,  
and that he should give reward unto his servants the  
prophets, the saints, and them that fear his name, small 
and great, and destro3r them that destroy the earth. It  
is a woe on the world, and its destruction, not its con-
version. A woe is not the universal conversion of the  
world to Christ. Are you prepared for such a scene ?  
Can you lift up your head and rejoice t Or do you  
tremble for your fate in that day ?  

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THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES.  
The first question to be settled in reference to the  
seven last plagues, is, are they, any or all of them,  
past, or are they all future 1 It is the opinion of most, 
expositors ofthe Apocalypse, that there are at least six 
of them already executed. The time has been when I  
was disposed to fall in with the prevailing opinion; but 
more recently have been  constrained to dissent from  
that view, and consider them what they are emphati-
cally said to be—" THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES," in 
which " is FILLED UP THE WRATH OF GOD." The 
chronology of their execution seems to me to be in the  
future, and after the second advent. Some of the rea*  
sons for this opinion are the following:  
1. They are introduced after the Son of man comes  
on a white cloud to " reap the harvest of the earth,"—  
the saints,—for they are the wheat. Then the vintage 
will come, and the vine be cast into the great wine- 
press of the wrath of God. Rev. xiv. 14—20.  

2. The redeemed are represented as standing on the  
sea of glass, having the harps of God, arid singing the  
song of Moses and the Lamb, before the vials are pour- 
ed out. But the song of Moses is the song of triumph  
and deliverance^ See Ex. xv. So also is the song of  
the Lamb. " Thy judgments are made manifest." See  
Rev. xv.  
3. Another reason for considering them all future, is  
analogy. In the destruction of the old world, God se- 
cured Noah in the ark, before the flood came on the 
Ungodly. Before the storm of fire came on Sodom,  
God, by a special interposition, and the ministry of his  
angels, brought righteous Lot out of the devoted city,  
to a place of safety.  
When destruction was to come on Jerusalem, the  
Saviour took care to deliver those that trusted in him,  
and they were led to a place of safety before the dread- 
ful siege began, and not a Christian perished there.  
4. Yet again, the very first vial, when it is poured  
out upon the eafth, will affect the men who have the  
mark of the beast, and them that have WORSHIPPED HIS  
IMAGE. Rev. xvi. 2. The image of the beast did not 
exist until the  present century, and could not be wor- 
shipped before it existed. And also those who gain the  
Victory over the IMAGE tf the beast are to stand on the  
sea of glass before the vials are poured out.  
Although the saints are to stand oti the sea of glass,  
as it were mingled with fire, before the vials are poured  
out, no man Can enter the temple of heaven until all  
the plagues are fulfilled, Ret. xv. 5-^S. The saints  
will be caught up to meet the Lord in the air, to be  
forever With him, in a moment, at the last trump. But  
the New Jerusalem will not come down and the saints  
enter it, until the earth is desolated, and the new hea- 
vens and earth appear, and the New Jerusalem comes  
down. Then the saints shall have right to the tree of  
life, and enter in through the gates into the city.  
The vials, I must regard, as producing the same  
literal effects ascribed to them in the iGth chapter of  
Revelation. The plagues are almost identical with 
those which came on Egypt when God delivered his  
people, and I can see no reason why these will not be  
as literal as those.  
THE VIALS AND THEIR EFFECTS.  
Revk xvi. 2: " The first went, and poured out his  
vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and  
grievous sore upon the men who had the mark of the  
beast, and upon them which worshipped his image."  
Some of those will be alive who HAD the mark of the 
beast in his day; and those will be alive who "wor- 
shipped his image. " The beast will have passed and  
the image be alive.  
" Noisome and grievous sore." This will be best  
illustrated by referring to Ex. ix. 6—11: "And the  
Lord said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you  
handfuls of ashes ofthe furnace, and let Moses sprinkle  
it toward the heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. And it  
shall become small dust in all the land of Egypt, and  
shall be a boil breaking forth with blaias upon man, 
and upon beast, throughout all the land of Egypt. And  
they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh,  
and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it be- 
came a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and  
upon beast. And the magicians could not stand before  
Moses because of the boil; for the boil was upon the  
magicians, and upon all the Egyptians." Why will 
not the antitype be as real and  literal ?  
Verses 3—7: "And the second angel poured out his  
vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead  
man; and every living soul died in the sea. And the 
third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and  
fountains of waters: and they became blood.  And I  
heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, 
O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because 
thou hast judged thus. For they have shed the blood  
of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood  
to drink ; for they are worthy. And 1 heard another 
out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true 
and righteous are thy judgments."  
In illustration of these two vials, read Ex. vii. 17—  
21: " Thus saith the Lord, In this thou shalt know  
that I am the Lord: behold, I will smite with the rod  
which is in mine hand upon the waters which are in  
the river, and they shall be turned to blood. And the 
fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall  
stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the  
water of the river. And the Lord spake unto Moses, 
Say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and stretch out thine  
hand upon the waters of Egypt, upon their streams,  
upon their rivers, and upon their ponds, and upon all 
their pools of water, that they may become blood ; and  
that there may be blood throughout the land of Egypt, 
both in vessels of wood, and in vessels of stone. Anil  
Moses and Aaron did so, as the Lord commanded: and  
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he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in  
the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of  
his servants; and all the waters that were in the river 
were turned to blood. And the lish that was in the  
river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians 
could not drink of the water of the river: and there was  
blood throughout all the land of Egypt." This judgment  
will be a retribution for " the blood of the saints."  
Verses 8—111 "And the fourth angel poured out  
his vial upon the sun; and power Was given unto him  
to scorch men with fife* And men were scorched with  
great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which  
hath power over these plagues \ and they repented not  
to give him glory. And the fifth angel poured out his  
Vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was  
full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for  
pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven* because of  
their pains and sores, and repented not of their deeds."  
The scorching of fire in the midst of their trouble, will  
be terrible in the extreme.  
Ex. x. 21—23, will illustrate the fifth vial: "And  
the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thy hand toward  
heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of  
Egypt, even darkness which may be felt. And Moses  
stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was  
a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days: 
they saw not one another, neither ro?e any t'rom his  
place for three days; but all the children of Isfael had 
light in their dwellings." What a terrible scene ! with  
all their grievous sores, blood to drink—stagnant blood  
-^and putrid fish filling the waters, scorched with  
burning heat; and then, to crown the whole, the whole  
kingdom of Anti-Christ is to be full of darkness. O, 
what a picture of wo! Reader, make haste to escape 
it. " Watch ye, and pray always, that ye may be ac-
counted worthy to escape all these things, and to stand  
before the Son of man."  
Verses 12—16: "And the sixth angel poured out  
his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water  
thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the  
east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean  
spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, 
and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth  
ofthe false prophet For they are the spirits of devils,  
working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of  the  
earth, and of the whole world, to gather them to the 
battle of that great day of God Almighty, Behold, 1 
come as a thief* Blessed is he that watcheth, and  
keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they  
see bis shame. And he gathered them together into a  
place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon," The  
sixth vial is to prepare the Way for the battle of that  
great day of God Almighty, The three unclean spirits 
like frogs, go forth from the beast, popery; the dragon, 
Mahomedism, (for the Mahomedans now possess the  
imperial power of the east;) and the false prophet,  
infidelity. These all are  the spirits of devils, working  
miracles, or prodigies, like the magicians of Egypt, by  
which Pharaoh was deceived and fought Against God  
and his hosts, even to the last, So the world of the  
ungodly will be deceived, and gathered against him  
that sitteth on the horse and his army, with the vain 
hope of triumph, They will go to gather the kings of 
the earth, and ofthe whole world, to the battle of that  
great day of GOD ALMIGHTY. The great river  
Euphrates will be as literally dried up, to make a high-
way for the nations to come to that battle, as the Red  
Sea was for the Israelites to pass over dry-shod,  
That the kings of the earth and of the whole world  
will be gathered together to battle against Christ when  
he shall appear in his glory, appears to many to be ex- 
ceedingly incredible; bee a use they must know, it is 
said, that they cannot prevail. So might Pharaoh have  
known that he could not conquer Israel, after all the 
manifestations of God's power which he had witnessed ;  
but yet he rushed madly on, with his eyes open, time 
after time, into ruin. Why did he do it? 1 answer,  
"the spirits of devils," in his magicians, deceived him.  
" The magicians did so with their enchantments." So  
" the spirits of devils" with their miracles and prodi- 
gies, will deceive the kings of the earth and of the 
whole world, not to pursue the saints into the R^d Sea, 
but to go up to  battle with the great KING Of KINGS,  
AND LORD OF LORDS, HIMSELF.  
The Lord has declared this gathering of the nations  
by the mouth of his prophets. Joel iii. 1, 2: " For be- 
hold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring  
again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also  
gather all nations, and will bring them down into the  
valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there  
for my people, and for my heritage Israel, whom they  
have scattered among the nations, and parted my land." 
Also, verses 9—16, of the same chapter: "Proclaim  
ye this among the Gentiles: Prepare war, wake up  
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the mighty men, let all the men of war draw near: let 
them come up: beat your ploughshares into swords, 
and your pruning^hooks into spears, let the weak say, 
I am strong.j Assemble yourselves, and come, all ye  
heathen, and gather yourselves together round about; 
thither Cause thy mighty ones to Come down, 0 Lord.  
Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley  
of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the  
heathen round about. Put ye in the sickle; for the 
harvest is ripe: come, get you down ; for the press is  
full, the vats overflow; for, their wickedness is great.  
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for  
the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.  
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars  
shall withdraw their shining. The Lord also shall roar  
out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and  
the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the Lord 
will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the  
children of Israel." The same great event is likewise  
predicted by Zephaniah, iii. 8: "Therefore wait ye 
upon me, saith the Lord, until the day that I rise up to  
the prey; for my determination is to gather the nations,  
that I may assemble the  kingdoms, to pour upon them  
mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the  
earth shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy."  
From these, and many other passages which might  
be quoted, it is clear that God wil gather all the na-
tions of the eaith together to the battle of the great  
day. The kings of the earth and their armies, will  
be "gathered together, to make war against him that  
sat on thS horse, and against his army. Rev. xix. 19.  
" The great river Euphrates" will be as literally  
dried up to make way for the kings of the eastern world 
to come up to Jerusalem and Palestine to that battle,  
as the same river Was dried up before Cyrus, when he 
entered and took the city of Babylon; or as the Red  
Sea and river Jordan were dried up to make a highway  
for Israel through their bed. The effects of the sixth  
vial will be, first, to dry up the waters of the river, to  
make a highway ; and, secondly, to send forth the 
spirits of devils to deceive, by miracles, the kings of 
the whole earth, and their armies, and gather them.  
Being gathered by the sixth vial, under the seventh  
vial the battle will be fought.  
Verses 17—21; " And the seventh angel poured out  
his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out 
of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is 
done. And there were voices, and thunders, and light- 
nings ; and there was a great earthquake, such as was  
not since men were upon the earth', So mighty an earth-
quake, and so great. And the great city was divided 
into three parts, and the cities ofthe nations fell : and  
great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to 
give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of  
his wrath. And every island fled away, and the moun-
tains were not found. And there fell upon men a great 
hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a  
talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague 
of the hail; for the plague thereof Was exceeding 
great."  
Let us now carefully mark the instrumentalities by  
which the battle will be fought, on the part of the Lord  
and his saints.  
" Into the air." Denoting an a!l-pervadir,g and uni- 
versal judgment.  
" Saying, It, is done." It is the last vial, and under  
it all the judgments of God are to be consummated,—  
the wicked be swept from the earth, and the conflagra- 
tion of the world take place,  
" There were voices.'''1 The voice of the Lord is to  
be heard in that day, declaring his wrath upon his  
enemies. Joel iii. 16; "The Lord also shall roar out  
of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the  
heavens and the earth shall shake; but the Lord will 
be the hope of his people, and the strength of the chil- 
dren of Israel." Jer. xxv. 30, 31 : "Therefore pro- 
phesy thou against them all these words, and say unto  
them, The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his  
voice from his holy habitation ; he shall mightily roar 
upon his habitation: he shall give a shout, as they  
that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants ofthe 
earth. A noise shall come, even to the ends of the 
earth ; for the Lord hath a controversy with the nations;  
he will plead with all flesh ; he will give them that are  
wicked to the sword, saith the Lord."  
" And thunders, and lightnings.''''  Ex. ix. 23 : " And  
Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the  
Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon  
the ground." As truly as the thunders and lightnings 
of Jehovah came on Egypt, and destroyed the Egyp- 
tians and the produce ofthe field, so truly it will come  
on the ungodly world, when God fills up the cup of 
his fury.  
" A great earthquake such as never was since men were.  

upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.''''  
The terrors of an earthquake are more easily expe-
rienced tnan described. The account given of the 
earthquake at Aleppo will afford some faint idea of its  
terrors. What can exceed the terrors of stich a scene ?  
But 0, When it shall not desolate a single city only,  
but desolate the globe !!! For " the OREAT CITY,"  
Rome, " was divided into three parts, and the CITIES  
OF THE NATIONS FELL." They were laid in a  
heap of ruins. Think of ten thousand human beings 
buried in the ruins of the earthquake of St. Domingo  
last spring! But what is that to the time when all the 
cities of thfe earth are destroyed at a stroke, by the  
power of Omnipotence; when "every island shall flee  
away and the mountains are not, found!'''' What a pic- 
ture is presented of this scene of destruction in Ezek. 
xxxviii. 19, 20 : " For in my jealousy, and in the fire 
of my wrath, have I spoken, Surely in that day there 
shall be a great shaking in thfe land of Israel; so that  
the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and  
the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that  
creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon  
the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence; and  
the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep 
places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the 
ground." It is at that time God will fulfil his pro-
mise, to "shake not the earth only, but also heaven;"  
that what can be shaken maybe removed; and that  
the things which cannot be shaken may remain, even 
the kingdom of the saints, which cannot be removed, 
but mtist endure forever and ever.  
" And there fell on men  a great hail out of heaven.  
This is the most dreadltd of all God's judgments.  
After the cities fall, the islands flee away, the moun-
tains, walls, fences, and steep places are all thrown  
down, and fio place of refuge is found; then the over- 
flowing hail-storm follows on the naked heads of a 
guilty race. Think, read'ei, for a moment, of this ter- 
rible scene. Think of Egypt again. Ex. ix. 22—25 :  
"And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand 
toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land  
of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every 
herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt. And  
Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven : and the  
Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon 
the ground ; and the Lord rained hail upon the land 
of Egypt. So there was hail, and fire mingled with  
the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it  
in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation. 
And the hail smote throughout all the land of Egypt, 
all that was in the field, both man and beast; and the  
hail smote every herb of the field, and brake every tree 
of the field." And is God less faithful to fulfil his 
threatened judgments now than in the days of old?  
Or he is he less able to do it? No, in no wise. For 
the treasures of the hail are still his. And to the  
wicked God has given the assurance (Isa. xxviii. 17)  
that he "will fay judgment to the line and righteous- 
ness to the pi (unmet, and the hail shall sweep away  
your refuge of lies." It will satisfy you that God is  
in earnest in bis denunciations of Wrath. How awful  
too, the view given of the same scene, Ezek. xxxviii. 
22 : " And I will plead against him with pestilence  
and with blood ; and I will rain tipon him, and upon 
his bands, and upon the many people that are with  
him, an overflowing rain, and great hail-stones, fire, 
and brimstone."  
" Ever-y stone about the weight of a talent." Richard  
Watson, in his Bible Dictionary, says a talent is a  
hundred and twenty-five pounds. Others say ninety- 
six pounds, and some sixty pounds. Whichever it  
may be, nothing could stand before such a shower. A 
hailstone falling from heaven, would produce all the 
effect of a lead or iron ball of the same weight. What 
Could endure a shower of cannon-balls falling from  
heaven, each one weighing one hundred and twenty- 
five, or even sixty pounds? Yet God's mouth hath  
spoken this word. The following account from Fisk's  
Travels in Europe, will give the reader some faint idea  
ofthe power of such a storm; and how perfectly easy 
it will be for the Almighty to prepare such an engine  
of destruction:—  
" The University of Padua once had 18,000 scholars,  
but like all the other universities of Italy, it is greatly 
fallen. It has able professors, however, and lectures  
in the various departments, with a library of 100,000  
volumes. The most prominent department is that of 
medicine.  
" There is a beautiful public square in this city, sur- 
rounded with statuary, all of which is now, from an  
extraordinary cause, in a very mutilated state. In  
1835, there was a violent hail-storm of stones as large  
as cannon-balls, which fell, in twenty-seven minutes, 
to the depth of one foot and a half. It broke in the  
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tiles of the roofs of a great many edifices, and made 
great havoc of the trees, and broke off the fingers, arms,  
noses, &c., of this extensive company of statues."  
Such a storm of hail as this must be dreadful: the  
stones the size of cannon-balis. But what are such  
hailstones when compared with those spoken of under  
the seventh vial 1 Reader, have you found a refuge  
from such a storm 1 The only place of refuge is the 
name of the Lord of hosts.  
" The battle of that great day o/GOD ALMIGHTY."  
It is not man's battle; but God's. Let us look again  
at its terrors, as described by Jeremiah, xxv. 15—17,  
26, 30—33 •: " For thus saith the Lord God of Israel  
unto me, Take the wine-cup of this fury at my hand,  
and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to 
drink it. And they shall drink, and be moved, and be  
mad, because of the sword that I will send among  
thern. Then I took the cup at the Lord's hand, and  
made all the nations to drink, unto whom the Lord had 
sent me. And all the kings of the north, far and near,  
one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, 
which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of  
Sheshach shall drink after them. Therefore prophesy  
thou against them all these words, and say unto them, 
The Lord shall roar from on high, and utter his voice  
from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon  
his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that  
tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the 
earth. A noise shall come even to the ends of the 
earth ; for the Lord hath a controversy with the na- 
tions; he will plead with all flesh ; he will give them  
that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord. Thus  
saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from  
nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised  
up from the coasts of the earth. And the slain of the  
Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth 
even unto the other end of the earth : they shall not 
be lamented, neither gathered nor buried : they shall  
be dung upon the ground." Such a war of extermina- 
tion God has declared; and he will accomplish it.  
There will be no refuge then left. It is the day de- 
scribed in Proverbs i. 24—33, when the wicked shall  
call, but God will not answer, but will laugh at their 
calamity, and mock when their fear cometh; when  
their fear cometh as a desolation, and their destruction  
as a whirlwind ; when distress and anguish cometh  
upon them. The Lord have mercy on the impenitent 
now, and save them before the terrible day overtake 
them !  
The same great battle is described in the 38th and  
39th chapters of Ezekiel. God and Magog are all the 
devil's armies, whether before or after the second or  
final resurrection. After the Lord has taken his people  
out from the earth, all who are left constitute Gog and  
Magog.  
The 37th chapter describes the first resurrection, the  
gathering of the whole house of Israel from their 
graves, bringing flesh and sinews upon them, covering  
them with skin, putting his spirit within them, as the  
vital principle, and bringing them into the land of  
Israel. Then David, or Christ, the heir of David's 
throne, is to be king over them for ever. They shall  
never more be dispersed or plucked up out of the land  
of the saints.  
Then follows, after thus harvesting the wheat by  
Christ in the resurrection of the just, the vintage, when  
the wicked are to be destroyed. In a moment, in the  
twinkling of an eye, at the last trump, the dead shall  
be raised incorruptible, and we be changed. See 1 Cor. 
xv. All these will be caught up to meet the Lord in 
the air. See 1 Thess. iv. They are to stand on the  
sea of glass mingled with fire ; having the harps of  
God, and sing the song of victory and deliverance, as  
did the Israel of God, when they stood on the eastern  
'bank of the Red Sea, and their enemies were for ever  
left behind, overwhelmed in ruin. It was not until  
they had passed the sea that the tribes were marshalled  
according to their tribes, and their government organized  
under Moses. So now our prophet, like Moses, will  
bring his people from their enemies' land, to a place of  
safety; then organize his kingdom on the sea of glass.  
This kingdom, thus organized, will smite the image of  
Dan. ii., on his feet, and grind the whole to powder. 
First, it is said the stone will do it; then that the God  
of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall do it.  
The stone and kingdom then are  identical. The king- 
dom of Christ, thus organized, will come down, accord- 
ing to the prediction of Enoch, the seventh from Adam.  
Jude's Epistle: " Behold, the Lord cometh with ten 
thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all,  
and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all  
their ungodly deeds, and hard speeches," &c.  
Then, too, the second Psalm will be fulfilled, where  
it is promised Christ that he " shall break" the kings  

ofthe earth, the rulers, the Gentiles or heathen, together  
with the unbelieving people of the Jews who rejected 
him, " with a rod of iron, and shall dash them in pieces  
like a potter's vessel."  
He will then, also, as he has promised in Rev. ii.,  
give to them that overcome, power over the nations, to  
rule and break them with a rod of iron, as he has  
received of his Father. The saints are to be joined in  
judging the world, with Christ. " This honour have  
ALL his saints." They will not sit to try and pass sen- 
tence on the world; this is not their prerogative, but 
the Lord's; but to execute the judgment written, is the  
prerogative of the saints. Ps. cxlix. 5—9 : " Let the 
saints be joyful in glory; let them sing aloud upon 
their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their 
mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand, to execute 
vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon 
the people; to bind their kings with chains, and their  
nobles with fetters of iron; to execute upon them the  
judgment written; this honour have all his saints.  
Praise ye the Lord."  
The "Lord, and all his saints with him, is to come  
down on the Mount of Olives to fight the battle and 
drive out all the wicked from Jerusalem, and take pos-
session of the place and fight the battle spoken of by 
Ezek. xxxviii. and xxxix. The scenes of the last day  
will not be filled up instantaneously, as we have been 
accustomed to think. The old Israelites were seven  
years, after entering the land, in subduing their ene- 
mies, before they enjoyed their sabbath, or year of rest.  
So Ezekiel tells us, that the whole house of Israel will 
be seven years (literal years) in burning up the weapons  
of their enemies; and seven months after the battle in 
burying the dead bodies of the wicked, on which both 
beasts and fowls have feasted at the supper of the  
great God ; and then men of continual employment  
will be appointed to cleanse the land of dead bodies  
and bones.  
But, says an objector, you do not suppose the glori- 
fied saints will be set at work to bury the wicked ]  
That is too absurd and.humiliating a thought! In- 
deed ! why so 1 If God has thought that " it shall be 
to them a RENOWN," as he has declared it shall be,  
(Ezek. xxxix. 13), why shall we be displeased 1 We  
can know nothing of the future, except what is  
revealed ; and if God has revealed that Israel, when 
brought back from their graves to eternal life, shall  
bury the dead bodies of the wicked, it will be so.  
That it is revealed, cannot be denied, until we deny 
the word of God.  
If the saints are to remain on the earth until the  
judgments are all executed, it is moie reasonable that  
they should bury the dead, than that  they should be  
left upon the earth to pollute it a long time.  
The same great battle is described in Rev. xix. 11—  
21. The two scenes, as described by Ezekiel and  
John, are so nearly alike, that we cannot fail to per-
ceive that they refer to one and the same event.  
A SYNOPSIS OF EZEKIEL, THIRTY-SEVENTH, THIRTY  
EIGHTH, AND THIRTY-NINTH CHAPTERS.  
1. The 37th chapter, from the 1st to the 10th verse,  
presents Ezekiel's vision of the dry bones.  
2. The 11th to the 14th verse, is an explanation, in  
literal terms, of the import of the emblems of the vision, 
showing it to be the resurrection of the bodies of the 
whole house of Israel:—not of all the Jews ; nor yet 
of all the believing Jewrs alone. For they are hot  
" all Israel," that is, do not constitute " all Israel,'''' 
who are. descended from Israel, or " are of Israel."  
" But the children of the promise are accounted for the  
seed." "If ye be Christ's, ye are Abraham's seed, 
and heirs according to promise." They will be raised  
up and brought into the land of promise.  
3. From verse 15th, thpough the chapter, follows a  
view of the unity of ali the skints in the house of  
David, under Messiah's reign, tor*dvermore; also the  
perfection and immutability of their holiness, and the  
glory and happiness which shall for'ever attend them.  
4. Then follows, chapter xxxviii. 1—7, an enumera- 
tion of the company of Gog and Magog.  
5. From verse 8—13, the time of the gathering of  
Gog, and the motive by which he will be induced to  
go up against the land of Israel.  
FIRST, the time. " In the latter years.'''' " When ihe  
mountains of Israel are brought back from the sword.''''  
When those who are brought back from out nf the nations,  
all dwell safely—all of them dwelling without wall and 
gates or bars.  
Under these circumstances, the army of Gog will  
come like a storm to cover the land.  
SECONDLY, the motive. " Things shall come into thy  

mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought." The  
evil thought is to go up and take a spoil and prey and  
riches, gold, silver, cattle, and goods. Sheba, Dedan  
and the merchants of Tarshish, will be inspired with  
such a thought to join the company, together with all  
the young lions thereof.  
6. Then, from verse 14th, to the 20th verse of the  
39th chapter, follow a description of the great battle, 
and the means by which they shall be destroyed,  
together with the time to be occupied by Israel in de- 
stroying their enemies, burning up their instruments 
of war, not for culinary purposes, but to destroy them;  
and also the supper of the great God, prepared for the 
beasts and fowls.  
7. From verse 21 to 29, we have the effect which  
this battle and its accompanying scene will have on 
both the saints and the heathen.  
FIRST, the heathen shall see God's glory, and know  
why the. house of Israel went into captivity; that it  
was for the abuse of peace and independence when  
they enjoyed it, that God hid his face from them and  
gave them into the hand of their enemies.  
SECONDLY, Israel is to learn by it that the Lord is  
their God, from that time forward. All God's mercies 
hitherto have been insufficient to convince the church  
effectually that God is their helper and deliverer. The  
Jewish church went after idols, even amidst the thun-
ders of Sinai; and while the meat God gave them was  
in their mouths, they murmured. The disciples rose  
from the feast of the loaves and fishes, while the  
Saviour was with them, and were troubled because  
they had taken no bread. But they will now be con- 
vinced, and never more forget, that the ALMIGHTY  
GOD is theirs. They shall know too, that their God  
has gathered them from among the heathen into their 
own land and has poured out his spirit upon the whole  
house of Israel, and constituted them glorious and 
immortal.  
THE CLOSE OF THE PLAGUES.  
The conflagration of the heavens and the earth, will  
close the dreadful scenes of judgment. The heavens  
being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements melt 
with fervent heat; the earth and the works that are  
therein shall be burned up. But is the conflagration 
the conclusion of the plagues'? Certainly. " For in  
them is filed up the wrath nf God." But " ihe earth is 
defied under ihe inhabitants thereof, because they have 
transgressed the laws, changed Ihe ordinances, and broken 
the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse de- 
voured ilie earth-, and they that dwell therein are desolate.  
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and  
few men left." "The earth is utterly broken down ; 
the earth is clean dissolved ; the earth is moved ex- 
ceedingly. The earth shall reel to and fro like a 
drunkard, and be removed like a cottage; and the 
transgression shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall 
and not rise again. Isa. xxiv. Until the earth falls, 
therefore, the wrath of God is not filled up."  
Then we look for a new heaven and a new earth ;  
and for Jerusalem a rejoicing. When the new earth  
appears, and not before, the new Jerusalem will come 
down from God out of heaven, and the saints enter  
into it. But we are taught, in Rev. xv., that no man 
will be able to enter the temple until the seven plagues 
are fulfilled. When they are fulfilled, then the para- 
disical earth will come, and the bride appear, the 
guests enter her gates, and the marriage-feast be cele- 
brated for a thousand years.  
In view of these dreadful plagues, well might the  
prophet Daniel say, " there shall be a time, of trouble,  
such as never was since there was a nation to that 
same time." God is in earnest in these declarations 
of wrath ; and they are made in merey to a perishing 
world. But if men will not believe and be moved to  
seek a refuge from the stormy blast and the windy  
tempest'that will sweep over the earth, they must suffer 
the consequences. No doubt, to many, the writer of  
this will seem as one that mocks! So, also, seemed  
Lot to his friends in Sodom, in the day of their ruin;  
but their unbelief did not disannul the word of Jehovah,  
nor will it now. God's judgments will surely come,  
perishing mortal, whether you  believe or not. 0 come  
to Christ, and seek a refuge without delay. Can you  
still determine to resist God's proffered grace until his  
day of vengeance comes, and his wrath is poured out  
without mixture1? Think of that scene of anguish  
which has been but feebly pertrayed in these pages.  
My heart yearns over you, dear reader. If you are  
still resisting God's grace, casting off fear, and restrain- 
ing prayer, I tremble for your fate! O, forsake your  
sins, that your soul may live. Like the  wise man,  
build on the rock.  
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INDEX TO VOLUME 4  
A. PACE.  
A Question, .... 30  
A Test, .... 133  
A Millennium Impossible, . 133  
A Touchstone, . . . 185  
A Comparison, . . . 192 
A Golden Sentence, . . 65  
Address to the Public at the opening  
of the Tabernacle, Boston, . 65  
A modern Theology Sermon, 65 
Alleged Prediction of 1843, . 73 
A Strange Thing, . . 112  
A Fitness for the Kingdom, . 114  
Appeal for the Midnight Cry, 129  
A Splemn Appeal to Ministers and  
Churches, .... 161  
An Illustration, . . . 173 
A Map of Busy Life, . . 180  
An Old Bible, ... 181  
An Interesting Relic, . . 193  
A Paraphrase on the 11th chap, of  
Daniel, .... 198  
B.  
Behold the Bridegroom Cometh, 22  
Brother Whiting—Correspondence, 56  
Brethren Campbell and Heyes, 70 
Books, , . . " . . 89  
Beware of the Doctrine of a Tempo- 
ral Millennium, by C. Fitch, 110  
Bible Preaching, . . . 134  
Brother Marsh, . . 182  
Babylon's Fall, . . .185 
C.  
Chronology, . . . 11 
Charity, . . . 11  
Cause in Michigan, . . 16 
Climax of Falsehood, . 25  
Covenant, . . 25 
Cheering Testimony, . . 80  
Cleansing ofthe Sanctuary, 126  
Cincinnati, . . 129 
Capital ofthe Christian World, 156  
Celestial Railroad, . 156  
Cause in Vermont, . .181 
Continuance of the Cry, . 189 
Cosmopolitan, . .193  
Camp Meeting near Cincinnati, O. 74  
do Middletown, 193  
do Carthage, O. 131 
do Hempstead, O. 121  
do Port Washington, 177  S>.  
Dangers which the Believers in the  
Second Advent should avoid, 62  
Daniel's Testimony what shall be in  
the Latter Days, . . 94  
Duration of Earthly Kingdoms, 99  
Disunion in the Church, . 112  
Declaration of Principles, 112 
Distress of Nations with Perplexity, 148 
Death of Bro. Thos. Goodman, 17  
" Bro. Chauncey E. Dutton, 24  
Delusion, April 23d, 31  
Dr. Weeks' Criticism, . 57  
do do on Acts 13: 20, 62  
Doctrine of the Second Advent Sus- 
tained by the Voice of tne Church, 170  
Dr. Weeks vs. Dr. Weeks, . 182  
Distress in England, . . 193  
43.  
End of Prophetic Periods, S. Bliss, 13  
ditto Geo. Storrs, 15, 131  
Enos K. Baxter's Review, G. Storrs, 28 
Exposition of Daniel 2, by G. Storrs, 33  
" 7, " 34  
" " 8, " 37  
" Zach. 65, " 44  
« Rev. 11, " 47  
" Daniel 2, by J. Litch, 195  
« " 7, " 196  
Experience of G. F. Cox, . 71  
Eagerness for Truth in Ohio, 74  
Effects of Preaching Christ's Coming  
at Hand, . . 133  
E. Jacobs' Address, . . 151  
Editorial Candor, . . 160 
Exciting Ordination, . . 169  
European News, . . 174  
Explanation, . . . 181  
F.  
False Prophets Indeed Come, B. Jones, 25 
False Accusers, . . 29  
Fruits of Modern Preaching, 52 
Fall of the Ottoman Supremacy, 69 
Fundamental Principles on which the  
Second Advent cause is based, 121  
First Principles of the Sec. Ad. Faith, 121  

Fact of Christ's Second Advent, 129  
Fruits in Ohio, . . 135 
F. G. Brown's Experience, . 181  
Fitch,Charles— Lectures in New York, 89  
G.  
Great Day of the Lord near, . I  
" Glad Tidings of the Kingdom at  
Hand," . . 129  
Glorious Hope, . . 145 
H.  
Hope of Israel, . . 1 
Harmony of Zach. 14, by G. Storrs, 45  
" Rev. 19th, 20th, and 21st,  
by G, Storrs, ... 45  
Harmonious Testimony of the Wit- 
nesses, . . . 119  
Hopes of the Papist, . . 134  
Hints to Ministers, . . 149  
Holiness of Heart, . 172  
Historical Prophecy, Daniel 2d, 195  
I.  
Is this a Heathen Country 1 . 16  
Insanity, . . . 21  
Incidents of Travel, . . 84  
Important Truths, . . 126  
Influence of the Established Church, 134  
Imitate Christ, . . 135  
Importance and influence of the Sec- 
ond Advent Faith. . . 167  
J.  
Jewish Calendar, ... 30  
L.  
Light in the West, J. Shannon, 10  
Little Horn Prevailing, . . 24  
Lectures, ... 89  
Little Children, Keep Yourselves  
from Idols, . . 152  
Length of the Vision, . 197  
Letters,' extracts from . . 12  
" " 22,23  
. 32  
" " 58  
" " . . 87  
" " 120 
" " . 135 
" " 148  
" " . . 189  
" 190  
Letter from J. R. Gates,  
" P. Jaques,  
" S. Hawley,  
L. C. Collins,  
" Geo. A. Sterling,  
F. G. Brown,  
" C. B. Hotchkiss,  
Wm. Miller,  
" Asahel Chapin,  
H. V. Teall,  
" Wm. Guernsey,  
S. S. Brewer,  
" Michigan,  
" Maryland,  
" Almond Owen,  
" Mississippi, 
" Olive Maria Rice,  
" R. M. Lampard,  
" Lewis Hurd,  
Stanley G. Hill,  
" N. Hervey,  
" Jno. Y. Pinto,  
" S. S. Brewer,  
'' J. Marsh, 
" the South West,  
C. R. Hamlin,  
" E. Jacobs 
" J. Litch, 
" Linus Wilcox  
Letters of Isaac to Abraham, No  
" " " No  
Letter to J. H. Martyn, No. 1,  
HI.  
Mistake of Dr. Weeks,  
Millerism—Insanity,  
Mistakes of Millerism,  
Mr. Miller's Originality, 
Modern Theology, Charity and Cour- 
tesy,  
Ministers of the Gospel at the Last  
Days,  
More Millerites,  
Meetings in Boston,  
" Williamsburg,  
" at Rochester,  
" in Williamsburg,  
Men's Heart's Failing, 
Music.—Advent Triumph,  
Millennial Glory,  

11  
11  
11 
17 
18  
29  
86,174  
96  
117  
118  
118  
127  
127 
128 
136  
149 
152 
156 
160 
168 
168 
169  
172  
174 
182 
182 
182  
187  
66  
i, 86 
188  
10  
21 
69 
78  
111  
113  
96  
153  
160  
169  
188  
200  
192  

The Rest, the Hope and the Home  
of the Christian Laborer, 184  
N.  
Nebuchadnezzar's Humiliation, 5  
New Pamphlets, . . 81  
O.  
Opposition, . . 29  
Opening of the Tabernacle in Boston, 56  
Objections to Calculating the Pro- 
phetic Tines Considered, 90  
Open Door, . . 127 
Ottoman Empire, . 134  
P.  
Philo to Autoptes, . 8 
Pastor vs. The Prophet, . 10  
Primitive Doctrine of the Millennium, 18 
Picture  of the Times, . 20  
Prediction of the End in Days Past, 58 
Plymouth Brethren, . . 60  
Picture of the Times, . 61 
Portrait of Avarice, . . 62  
Philadelphia Meetings, . 73  
Public Morals, 85, 127 
Protestant Popery, . 112 
Pictures of the Times, , . 116 
Progress of Christianity, . 118 
Points of Difference between us and  
our Opponents, . . 121  
Perplexity of Nations, . 172 
Plan of Calculating Prophetic Time, 175 
Pres. Wethee, . . 182  
Person of our Lord, . 183  
Popery, . . 191 
Poperv in the Baptist Church, 200  
SI.  
Remember  Lot's Wife, . 11  
Rev. Moses Springer's Corrections, 20 
Return of the Jews, G. Storrs, 41 
Restoraton of Israel, by E. S. Snow, 57  
Reformers, . 63  
Rich Men, . .64 
Remarkable Coincidence, 1843, 114 
Reports of the Committee to exam- 
ine the financial affairs of the Ad- 
vent Cause, . . 161  
Ravages of Popery, . 183 
Right application of a Sermon, 191  
S.  
Severe Distress in Michigan,  
Signs, Men's Hearts Failing, 
Signs of the Times, 
Scoffers and Signs,  
Signs of the Times in England, 
Signs in the Heavens, 
Short Lectures. Nos. 1 and 2, 
Separation at Christ's coming, 
Signs in the Moon, 
Synopsis of Miller's Views, 
Strange Omission, 
Suggestions of an Inquirer,  
Special Revelations,  
Schools in New York,  

5 
9  
10  
57 
64 
67  
83, 118  
88 
88  
105  126 
127 
147  
172  
Singular Phenomenon in the Heavens, 192 
Second Advent Conference at Akron,  
Ohio, . . 53  
do at Hartford, Ct., . 57 
do at New York City, 68 
do at  Philadelphia, . 81  
do at Boston, . . 84 
do " 96  
T.  
Twenty-three hundred Days, by R.  
Gilbert,  
Traitors and Truce Breakers, 17 
Throwing away the Key, . 19 
Time of Christ's Crucifixion, . 19 
Thenty-third day of April, . 48 
The Contrast, . . 49 
True Millennium, . 50  
The Better Times or the Earth Re- 
newed, by L. D. Fleming, . 54  
That Day and Hour, . 56 
Then Shall the End Come, , 56  
The Pope in America, . 63  
The Cause in England, . 65 
The True Seed and True Kingdom, 67  
The Kingdom at Hand, . 73 
Thoughts on the Second Advent, 74  
The Pope—His Dominion Gone—The  
Dates, . . 78  
The Concentrated Argument, . 84 
The Image and the Four Kingdoms, 94  
The Beasts and the Four Great King- 
doms, , 97  
The Trumpets, . .103 
The Glorious Resurrections, 111  
The Last Days, by E. Jacobs, 115  

j The Prince of the Host, . 118  
Translation of Daniel, chap. 8 and 9, 132  
j The " Daily," or Continual, 136  
The Vision, by E. Jacobs, . 137 
To the Watchmen, . . 141 
Tent Meeting at Rochester, 129,148,173  
To the Doubting, . . 149  
The Pope's Temporal Power, 152  
The New Creation, by John Wesley, 154 
The Great Assize,or Day of Judgment,  
by John Wesley, . .155  
The Land filled with Violence, 172 
The four Visions of Daniel, . 180 
Tent in Buffalo, . . 185  
To the editor of the Baptist Advocate, 187  
The Bible under the new School Law, 188  
The Press, a Sign of the Last Day, 189  
The Seventy Weeks, . . 193  
The Restoration of the Kingdom to Is- 
rael, . . 194  
V.  
Voice of the Pious Dead, . 7 
Visit to the Prison, . .16 
Visit to the N. Y. City Prison, 72  
Version of Daniel 2d, . 55  
7th, . . 71  
Vain Religion, . . 183 
W.  
World's Folly, . .11  
Words to the Truly Wise, . 62  
What Constitutes a Millerite, . 68  
Who are the Millerites 1 . 76  
Want of Faith at Christ's Coming, 81  
Where are we 1 . .97  
Wonderful  appearance, . 135  
What will you do 1 . .136  
Wide Departure from Truth, 144  
William Miller at Home, . 145 
Which  shall we Believe] . 177  
Wesley in 1777, . . 133  
Weyley's Sermon, . . 158  
POETRY.  
Abomination, . . .168  
Behold He Cometh in the Clouds, 168  
Dialogue, . . .72  
Even so, Come Quickly, . 80  
Farewell Hymn to E. Jacobs, . 16  
Jesus is There, . . 72  
Looking for Christ, . . 176  
Lift up your Heads, . 120  
Musings, by Mrs. S. J. Hale, . 64 
Matthew 13: 38, . . 80 
Second Advent Address for 1843, 88 
The Christian Prospect, . 16 
Timely Thoughts for the Christian, 24  
The New Earth, . . 64 
The Signs Appear, . 80 
The Saviour Comes, . . 144  
The far off Land, . . 152 
Watchwords, . . s . 152 
Wholly the Lord's, . . 176 
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