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NEW YORK OBSERVER:  
" An honest confession  is good for the soul."  
Some weeks ago, we published an extract from the  
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I hope our friends will be so active in every good word 
and work, that they may always sustain the character 
of tract missionaries and temperance men.  
CHRONOLOGY—A DIFFERENCE. — Dr. Jarvis proposes  
to prove that the common Bible Chronology is incorrect  
in an important point, in order to show that we have no  
reason to expect Christ this year. HE is highly applaud-
ed. When we appeal from that Chronology, and give  
chapter and verse for our reasons, WE are condemned.  

"THE HOPE OF ISRAEL;53  
OR, THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL IDENTIFIED WITH  
THE RES If ERECTION OF THE DEAD.  
The following- article appeared first in the Methodist  
Quarterly Review for April, 1842. The writer, though  
a believer in Christ's near coming, rests not his faith 
on the prophetic periods. He has presented an unan-
swerable argument, in favor of the great doctrine of  
the apostles, which, for the past hundred years has 
been so strangely buried.  
The restoration of the Jews, so abundantly  
foretold by the prophets, is the doctrine also of j  
the apostles. The New Testament harmoni-
zes with the Old Testament. Israel, the seed 
of the house of Jacob, are themselves in the Bi- 
blebut ashadow of the heavenly family in Christ'  
as their tabernacle, their temple, their ritual, their  
Jerusalem, their Canaan, their Joshua and Da- 
vid, were shadows of the heavenly patterns.  
And as the shadow is lost in the manifestation  
of the substance, so does the Jew vanish in the  
manifestation of the sons of God, and the Jew's 
Zion vanishes in the manifestation of the New  
Jerusalem, and his Canaan in the world to 
come, and his restoration vanishes in the resur- 
rection from the dead. For all the sons of God  
will be restored in the likeness of their elder  
brother Christ, the first fruits of the dead, at his  
appearing and his kingdom.  
This is the true " hope of Israel ;" a hope not  
seen in this world, a hope anchored within the  
veil, and to  be realized when death is swallow- 
ed up in victory.  
The concord of the two Testaments is seen in  
that ihe promise of the land, (which is the prom-
ise of the LAW,) and the restoration to the land,  
(which is tbe burden of PROPHECY) and the glad 
tidings of the kingdom, (which is the GOSPEL of 
Messiah,) all meet and are fulfilled in " JESUS  
AND THK RESURRECTION." Their concord is fur- 
ther seen by observing how the most devout 
and learned rabbis hold by the law on the sub- 
ject of the resurrection and restoration at Mes- 
siah's coming, and by observing the identity of  
tbe common-wealth of Christians and Jews in  
Israel, the oneness of their hopes, of their De- 
liverer, and of their promised land. Such are  
the views which we shall attempt to unfold in  
this brief article.  
Both Moses and the prophets speak eloquent- 
ly of Israel's return to their own land, to be  
cast out no more forever : but Moses never 
speaks in plain terms of the resurrection of the  
dead, and the prophets rarely. The Testament 
discourses of the resurrection, and of the king- 
dom of God ; but never says a word about the  
return of the Jews to Palestine. Moses and the  
prophets delight to speak  of the land of prom- 
ise, and of the glory of the son of David, and of  
the empire of the Jews ; but of the world to 
come, and of the kingdom of heaven, they only  
stammer and faintly speak; while the gospel  
takes not the least notice ofthe Jewish empire  
in this world, but of the world to come it is full  
from beginning to end. Moses and the prophets  
did not teach one thing, and the gospel another.


The law and the prophets veil the doctrine of  
the New Testament under the garb of Judaism.  
What the gospel declares, they only insinuate  
darkly. The Mosaic dispensation was a dis- 
pensation of types ; the patterns were shown  
to Moses in the Mount. The law was a shad- 
ow of  good things to come ; but the body is of  
Christ : the substance of the shadow is in the  
kingdom of heaven. The seed of the house of 
Jacob, the holy people, will return and come 
into possession of the substance in the resur-
rection of the dead, and in the kingdom of God- 
Israel, and his family names are the types  
of the chosen people of God in Christ, circum- 
cised or uncircumcised, out of every age and  
nation; and Jesus is their exalted Prince and  
Saviour. Where ver this Prince and his people  
are spoken of, we may know them, although 
they are called in the Old Testament by the 
names of David, Israel, Judah, &c. We make 
no difficulty of understanding Christ in the pro- 
phets by the name of Joshua, or David, Zerub- 
babel, or the Branch ; and we should also un- 
derstand all his people by the name of Israel,  
Jacob, Ephraim, or Judah ; else we mar the fix- 
ture, and defeat the instruction given by the 
prophets. His peculiar people are neither call- 
ed by their Christian name in the prophets, nor  
should they be mistaken by their appropriate  
family name, Israel ; and when David is said  
to gather and to rule over them in their own  
land for ever, we should consider not only that  
Christ is the David of prophecy, but that the  
celestial country is the seat of his throne, and  
the risen saints are his people {rath^red out o<  
all nations, by the voice of the nrchangel and by 
the trump of God. This is the holy people  
whom our Joshua will lead Into the heavenly  
Canaan, and over whom our David will reign  
for ever and ever.  
The New Testament .teaches of the coming  
and kingdom of Christ, in the times of the  
restitution of all things which God hath spoken  
by the mouth of all his holy prophets, since the  
world began:'' which is in remarkable coinci- 
dence with the doctrine of the learned and de- 
vout rabbis drawn out of the Old Testament. 
For the prophets with rapture, from the king on  
the throne to the shepherd in the fields, describe  
the land, and people, and Prince ofthe world to  
come, in names of this world ; and to Chris- 
tians it is plain that the Prince has burst the  
gates of death, and that his people follow him 
into the promised land by the way he went,  
through the grave ; and to the Jewish rabbis it  
is plain that the country the holy people inherit  
is delivered from the curse of sin, and the 
plague of death, and is situated in the new  
heavens and earth wherein dvvelleth righteous- 
ness.  
Menasseh Ben Israel, in a treatise on the  
resurrection of the dead_, teaches that it  will  
occur in the days of Messiah, conjoined with 
Israel's deliverance and restoration to the^r own 
land in the world to come. He closes the fifth  
chapter of his third book in this sort :—-'What  
we have said here of the world to come, is  not  
our invention, but is the ancient and faithful 
tradition. For, as 1 have before said, the rabbi  
Moses Gerundensis, and all other men of learn- 
ing, by ' the last days,' (Isa. 2 : 2.) understand  
the days of Messiah—and that the resurrection  
of the dead will be joined with, the gathering of the  
captives of Israel'." This testimony to" the an-
cient and faithful tradition," maintained by all  
Jews " of learning," that the resurrection ofthe  
dead will be joined with Israel's deliverance in  
I the days of Messiah, may be confirmed by quo- 
| tations from the most renowned rabbis to be  
! found in the writings of the learned Mede, Dr.  
i Gill, and others.  
1 98  

The rabbi Eleazer lived in the early days of  
the second temple, and taught with Jonathan,  
the Paraphrast, who lived also before the Chris- 
tian era, that Israel's return in the days of Mes- 
siah will be accompanied with the .resurrection  
of the dead. Also the  Sadducees asked  Gama- 
liel, Paul's teacher, whence he could prove by 
the law, thai God would raise the dead. This  
demand would probably puzzle the learned of a  
more .enlightened age, who ..would be forced to  
give it up, we fear, and to  yield to the creed of  
the unbelieving Sadducees ; tor the Sadducees 
allowed Gamaliel no rest until he quoted D-eut.  
9 : 21, Which land the Lord sware unto your  
fathers, to give them :"  and, from their not  
having received the land, Gamaliel argued that 
they must be raised from the dead, or in respect 
to them, the promise would fail, which is im- 
possible. Many are the proofs of the sort quot" j 
ed by Gamaliel, and besides these we know not. j 
any stronger in the five books of Moses, to con- ! 
vince us of the resurrection of the dead. And  
so far as these texts go to prove that doctrine,  
they identify it. with" the hope of Israel," even  
their restoration to the promised land. Rabbi  
Kimchi on Isa. 26 : 19, Thy dead men shall  
live," says, " The holy blessed God will raise 
the dead at the time of Israel's deliverance." 
Another says, "When the King Messiah comes,  
the holy blessed God will raise up them that 
sleep, as it is written: He will swallow up 
death in victory."  
The promises and threatenings of the Old  
Testament are usually addressed in the second  
person to you, and not in the third person to 
them, who may come after; and to be literally  
fulfilled, as all promises should be, those to 
whom they were personally spoken, you, of all  
generations, must live again. Of these promi-
ses, the restoration of Israel to their own land  
is among the most frequent and important, and  
if Gamaliel's and Ben Israel's interpretation be 
correct., it settles the question of their return,  
as an event of the world to come. The inter-
pretation is spiri'ual, is personal, and  it is of  
universal application, and of eternal moment to  
the faithful, whether Jews, Medes, Parthians,  
Greeks, Romans, or Americans ; it conforms  
exactly to the doctrine of the New Testament ; 
it repels the error of the Sadducees ; and it  
preserves, in the highest degree, the testimony  
of Jesus in the spirit of the ancient prophecies.  
We cannot see any reasonable objection to it  
in the mind of a Gentile ; a Jew born may ob- 
! ject, that it al iows him no pre-eminence ; though  
if his faith and truth do not obtain him pre- 
eminence. it, may be doubted whether his being  
a son of Abraham will.  
A learned rabbi quoted by Gill on Matt. 22 :  
31, says, "The holy blessed God promised to 
our fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he  
would give them the land of Israel. Hence we  
learn that they will be raised, and that hereaf- 
ter God will give them the land of Israel." But 
Paul is most explicit when he identifies ' the  
hope of the promise made of God unto the  
fathers,"—(Acts 26 : 6,) with the hope of the  
resurrection from the dead, of which he was  
called in question by the Jews ; and again with  
" the hope of Israel," (Acts 28 : 20,) for which  
he was bound with a chain. Paul's interpreta- 
tion did not satisfy his enemies, who pursued  
him as a ringleader of the Nazarenes ; but it  
accords with Gamaliel's ; it satisfied the Phar-
isees, who rose up in the council and strove for  
him ; and it should satisfy Christians.*  
*" It was the opinion ofthe Jews that there should be  
a resurrection in the days of Messiah. The Chaldee 
paraphrast on Tsa. 49 : 8, reads, 'I give thee for a cove- 
nant to the people, to raise the righteous  that lie in the  
dust.' Kimchi on Isa. 26: 19, says, 'The holy blessed  

The promise of the land is the promise of the  
law ; the restoration to the land is the burden  
ofthe prophets: and the glad tidings of the  
kingdom at hand is the gospel of Jesus Christ  
our Lord. In hmi all the promises, prophecies,  
and glad tidings meet; in him they unite; in  
him they will be fulfilled together. He is the 
King of glory, who will recover his people from 
the land of their enemies, sin and death, and  
will lead them into the promised land of eternal  
life, and give them rest ; and he will rule over 
them with equity for ever. This is the law  
and the prophets ; this is the gospel of Christ 
and of the kingdom of heaven ; this is " the 
hope of Israel." a people to be manifested in the  
resurrection of the dead.  
" All are not Israel who are of Israel;" and  
many are Israel who have not the blood ol Ja-
cob in their veins. We caii on Israel's God as  
our God ; we invoke his blessing, and expect  
the answer for the Christian Church, the mod- 
ern Israel, and heirs of the promises, as well as 
the name, of Israel. God is not. the God of the  
Jews only : Christ is  not the King of the Jews  
only, but of all the faithful : and what is a re-
storation to Palestine in the flesh to the faith- 
ful among the Gentiles ? Let the natural seed  
have this Jerusalem : to the spiritual seed be- 
longs the inheritance of the New Jerusalem,  
which has foundations, and Jesus her Lord.  
This is the spirit, of prophecy. Let the natural 
seed take their inheritance in this world, even  
the kingdom of  this world : to the spiritual seed  
belongs the kingdom heaven. Give Palestine  
to the natural Israel, and they will possess what  
Abraham did not: he only pitched his tent  
th ere : he sojourned in Palestine with a prom- |  
ise. So his seed, Christ, sojourned with the gos-
pel : and his spiritual seed live as pilgrims,  
seeking a city, and dying in the faith of a bet-
ter country, and in the hope of " A BETTER RE- 
SURRECTION :" Israel's hope according to the law  
and to the gospel. Give Israel all the world, | 
and they| could have it but a few days: they  1  
should despise it in the faith ofthe glory which j  
is to be revealed in the celestial world to come, j  
This is she spirit of the promises and of the 
prophecies ; this is the gospel of Jesus Christ, j  
and of his kingdom: this is " the hope of !  
Israel."  
Bring into one field of view the entire pro- 
phecies relating to "the hope o/Israel," and the  
doctrine will be found upright in the resurrec- 
tion, supported in all its connections by life  
from the dead : and unshaken by carnal views |  
of divine favor to tbe natural seed ef Abraham. ;  
To this the literalist objects: "The resurrec- i  
tion of the body is repeatedly used by the pro- j  
phets t.o typify the political revival of Judah 
and Israel.''—Faber.  
We are also literalists, and as such we main- 
tain the literal word of prophecy, respecting j 
the resurrection of the dead: and as literalists j  
we protest against subverting the doctrine of i  
the resurrection, and robbing it of its heavenly ! 
God will pise the dead at the time of deliverance.' And :  
on Jer 23: 20, ' In that he saith YE shall consider it and j 
not they shall consider it, it intimateth  the resurrection  
of the dead.' Aben Ezra on Dan.  12: 2, says, 'The - 
righteous  that died in the captivity shall revive when the  
Redeemer cometh'—and this was so far the opinion of  
the nation that they understood the term ' the world, to  
come,1 ofthe days of Messiah."—Lightfoot,  vol. 5, p. 255:  
quoted by Vint, p. 293.  
Vint also quotes as follows :—"They shall be gather- 
ed from their captivity  ; they shall sit under the shadow  
of their Messiah ; and the dead shall live."—Tar gum on 
Hos. 14 : 8.  
" The Jews call the world to come, the times of Mes- 
siah."— Gill. Heb 4 : 9.  
From such testimony to the prevalent opinions of the  
Jews as is borne by Menasseh Ben Israel, Lightfoot,  
Mede, and Gill, the learned reader can make no appeal ;  
for higher authorities cannot easily be found.


glory, to typify a scene of political glory in this  
transitory world ; we protest against burying 
the holy doctrine of the resurrection, and of the  
New Jerusalem, under the carnal rubbish and  
dust of Jerusalem secular and political : for, if  
the Scripture passages concerning the resur- 
rection, used by the literalists  to typify the na- 
tional return, and the political dominion of the  
carnal Jews, be turned from their literal inter- 
pretation, the Old Testament light of immortal-
ity is extinguished  ; it3 rays are quenched in  
the darkness and dreams of Judaism : its vital  
power is submerged in the dead sea of Saddu-
cean unbelief: for the Old Testament does not  
speak of the resurrection, except it be in those  
passages which the learned, devout, and hon-
ored defenders of the literal interpretation  
usually quote for the political use and benefit 
of the natural seed of Abraham. They inad- 
vertently rob the Pharisee of the stE^F of " the  
hope of Israel," and they make a covenant with  
the Sadducees to overthrow the faith of the an-
cient Scripture doctrine of the resurrection of  
the dead. They are no longer literalists,  when  
they turn plain descriptions of the resurrection  
into political types and figures of worldly glo-
ry : and when they interpret the prophecies  
which promise life from the dead, chiefly for the  
revival of the national glory, secular power, and  
wide dominion of the natural Israel. They are  
not literalists,  when they turn away from the  
literal interpretation put by the Holy Spirit in  
the New Testament, on the letter of the Old  
Testament: " They which are of faith,  
the same are the children of Abraham." " If  
ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and 
heirs according to the promise :" that is, heirs  
of the promised land, given to Abraham and his  
seed.—Gal. 3 : 7.  
Inexplicable Prophecies of Messiah and the Jews.  
We neither know how to alter nor to amend  
the doctrine already taught: but we can add to  
it what we have no  ratiopal powers consistent- 
ly to join ; therefore, we attempt the junction,  
by the aid of a well-known  fact for a sodering  
illustration.  
The prophets foretold that Messiah vyould be  
a man of sorrows, and also the Savior of Israel; 
that he would be despised and rejected of men, 
maltreated and scourged; and also that he  
would be the King of glory : that he would be  
sold for money, and cut off", not for his own  
sins ; and also that he would reign over his  
people on the throne of his father David forever. 
Now, had we lived in the days of the Maccabees,  
and sought to know the whole truth relative  
to Messiah, we could never have reconciled  
these matters in any conception we might have  
formed. One prophecy would have so clashed  
with another, that we could not have imagined  
their union in one person- Had we described 
Messiah as glorious and renowned • nay, one 
might say, he will be despised and rejected of  
men. Had we supposed he might be put to  
death as a malefactor; nay, one might say, he  
will live and reign for ever ; and so far from be- 
ing put to death, he will slay all his enemies.  
Had we supposed his price would be counted  
out in silver, at the rate of a common slave,  
how could we reconcile it with his coming of 
the royal line of David, and swaying the scep-
tre of universal empire ? We do not learn that  
the scribes, or rabbis, disputed on these points,  
though they could not tell how he should be 
David's Lord, and David's son. They stead-
fastly looked for him, and their eyes were daz- 
zled with the promises of his glory, so they  
failed to recognize him in his humility,  even  
when they saw the miracles which he wrought.  
The delightful  theme of the prophets is the ma- 

jesty of his wide dominion, the eternity of his  
throne, the righteousness  of his sceptre, the  
perfection of his people, the splendor of his  
crown—and, overwhelmed by this display of  
glory, the believers of the prophets ga\e no 
heed to the mysterious  notices of his sufferings,  
humiliation,  arid cruel death. We should have  
fallen into the same error—we should not have  
known him-—or walking with him, as his dis- 
ciples did, we should have fled, when the high  
priest took him ; and though our hearts bled,  
we should have given him up when the Romans  
nailed him to the tree between two thieves. We 
should have returned home in sadness, not only  
for the base death of the innocent Jesus, but also  
for the grievous disappointment  of our trusted  
hope, that it had been he who should have re- 
deemed Israel. Yet these things were reveal- 
ed ; and now they are fulfilled, we see them so  
distinctly that we wonder at the Jews' blind- 
ness, and hardly suspect that we might have 
fallen into the same dazzling error, or do fall  
into one still more glaring.  
This is the fact : the illustration follows. 
The restoration of the captive daughter of  
Zion, and the return of Israel to the land of 
promise, are no less magnificent  themes of hea- 
venly prophecy than the glories of the Son of 
David, who will gather them from their disper- 
sions, and lead them from Jerusalem to victory, 
and to empire over the conquered world. In-
deed,jjthe two themes are everywhere united in 
close relations, and, doubtless, they belong to  
the same time, as they do to the same deliver- 
er ; and they are mainly one and the same 
great event; to wit: "The hope of Israel," the  
coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead,  
the gathering of the chosen people out of all  
countries to meet the Lord in the air ; while  
this world and its Jerusalem pass away, and the  
New Jerusalem comes down with new heavens  
to the new earth. This seems to be the great  
and glorious truth veiled, and yet revealed, iri  
the promise of the Jews' return to Jerusalem ;  
the great truth is " Jesus and the resurrection,"  
and through Jesus the resurrection of the just,  
who are found worthy to obtain that world.  
From the name and character of the Prince, we  
must infer the name and character of the peo- 
ple ; and from the nature of his coming, we  
must infer the nature of their return. He is  
not carnal, nor are the weapons of his warfare  
carnal, nor are his people carnal. But all this  
does not absolutely forbid a return of the Jews 
in the flesh. Many texts seem to require us to  
believe that they shall be gathered in Palestine  
of this world. The passage Deut. 30 : 1—8, is 
of this number ; and others are found hard to 
be understood, without a restoration of the nat- 
ural Israel. These may, with improved and  
keener vision, all be consistently  explained of  
the resurrection ; or they may accurately de- 
scribe a minor part, in the grand drama of time,  
yet to be performed, introductory to the over- 
whelming scene of the resurrection and the  
judgment day. It is impossible for us always  
to discriminate between the restoration of the  
natural and of the spiritual Israel, if they be  
two distinct  and future events. We cannot un- 
derstand how the race of the first Adam is to 
be continued in the world, after the present  
dispensation ends ; how the race of the first 
Adam can be transferred in the blood to the  
new earth, and yet " flesh and blood cannot in- 
herit the kingdom of God," I Cor. 15 : 50.  
When the Lord comes, the graves are opened,  
he judges the quick and the dead, he gives to 
both small and great their reward, he changes  
the faithful, both living  and dead, into the like- 
ness of his own glorious body, he takes away 
the sins of his people, he cuts off all the ungod- 

ly race, and makes all things new, holy and  
immortal; and in this state, it is impossible to 
conceive how any of the race of old Adam can 
be left, though they may be natural children of 
Abraham. But the words and ways of God are  
above our thoughts  ; men before the deluge  
could not tell how the flood should come ; men  
before the birth of Christ could not tell how 
Messiah should come ; and now the under- 
standing is probably darkened relative to the  
manner of his second coming. Many illustri- 
ous particulars we know, but no m >:n can sketch 
them in one fair group, giving its proper time 
and place, and due proportion to each one, sort- 
ing out every one which does not belong to the  
scene, and neglecting none that will appear 
conspicuous in that day. Especially are the  
prophecies relative to the natural Jews a tissue 
difficult to weave into the immortal picture, if  
they belong in it. A learned rabbi thanks  
Christians for allowing his nation all the evils  
of their dispersion literally, while denying  
them the benefit of a literal restoration. He  
would like to have the literal benefit, as well as  
the literal curse ; which seems reasonable.  
The Jews are universally  expecting such a re- 
storation. and stand ready to march at Messiah's  
command.  
But this political restoration is involved in  
impenetrable obscurity. They are not to con- 
stitute the fifth monarchy, though they think 
they are. That monarchy belongs to the saints  
of the Most High, and is the next great event  
to come in the order of prophecy, and in the  
succession of time, after the fourth, which is  
now upon the stage, has passed away. The  
hope of that monarchy is eminently the hope  
of the natural Israel. They believe Messiah  
will give it them ; and they did believe John  
and the Lord Jesus meant that kingdom when 
they preached,'' The kingdom of heaven is at 
hand." Even so " the promise made of God  
unto the fathers, unto which promise our twelve  
tribes, instantly  serving God day and night,  
hope to come," is eminently  the hope of Chris- 
tian Israel, or " the saints of the Most High ;?'  
that Messiah will return and come with my- 
riads of saints triumphant over death and the  
grave, to reign on the earth. Paul cherished  
this hope ; " Believing all things which are  
written in the law and the prophets." Paul  
had " hope which they (the Jews) themselves 
also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of  
the dead, both of the just and of the unjust," 
Acts 24 : 14. For preaching this hope through  
Christ,, Paul felt himself accused by the chief 
priests at Jerusalem ; and at Rome he declared  
to his countrymen, " For the hope of Israel I  
am bound with this chain." These ihings per- . 
suade us, that Paul understood " the hope of Is-
rael" to be •' the kingdom of heaven" in the re- 
surrection of the dead, which he labored through  
life with his might to attain ; " If by any means,"  
said he, "I might, attain unto the resurrection of 
the dead," Phil. 3 : 11—and that he understood  
the ingrafting  of Israel to be nothing " but life  
from the dead."*  
* Tcrtullian on the Resurrection says (p. 408, A., Par- 
is ed., folio, A. D. 1634,) "The apostles taught of the  
resurrection nothing new, except they preached it in the  
day of Christ's glory. The doctrine itself is familiar to 
the Old Testament. So Paul before the Sanhedrim said, 
I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee ; arid of the hope,  
and of the resurrection of the dead, I am called in ques-
tion before you. So, likewise, before Agrippa, he said, he  
advanced nothing BEYOND what the prophets have taught; 
therefore, he professed the doctrine of the resurrection, 
also, just as the prophets proclaim it. By Moses, the  
Lord declared that he will require at the hand of every  
man and of beast, the blood of the slain ; that is, he will 
restore the slain : he will recover them from the hand  
of their murderers. Nor did the Athenians understand  
Paul otherwise when they mocked; for they would not  
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To this result ali our demonstrations come  
with the same fidelity that the needle points to  
the pole, whatever way we turn the compass or  
the figure. In the succession of prophetic em- 
pires the God of heaven has revealed the course  
of empire to the end of time. The fourth mon- 
archy is now generally acknowledged 10 be in 
the extreme part of the last stage of its dura- 
tion ; and it is to be supplanted, not by the  
kingdom of the carnal Jews, we think; but by  
the kingdom ofthe saints and ofheaven, which  
shall never pass away nor be destroyed. The  
Jews appropriate the promises and the prophe-
cies to their own peculiar use, and among them 
this of Daniel the prophet, relative to the fifth 
monarchy : they suppose it will be a Jewish  
empire ; but no Christian supposes any such  
thing, except with material qualifications. 
" They which receive abundance of grace, and  
ofthe gift of righteousness, shall reign in life 
by one, Jesus Christ," Rom. 5 : 17. " The saints  
shall judge the world," lCor.6 : 2. "We ^Cor- 
inthians) shall judge angels."—ibid. " When  
the Son of man shall sit. in the throne of his  
glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones,  
judging the twelve tribes of Israel," Matt. 19:  
28. It is not credible that the twelve tribes of  
Israel here mean the natural seed of Abraham 
only, any more than that Christ is the Savior of 
those tribes only, or any more than it includes  
every individual of those tribes, both bad and  
good. To him that overcometh will I grant  
to sit with me in my throne :—to him will I give 
power over the nations," Rev. 2 : 26. and 3 :  
21. "And we shall reign o.i the earth ;"-"and 
they shall reign for ever and ever.* Rev. 5 :  
10, and 22 : 5. " And the kingdom and the do.  
minion, and the greatness of the kingdom un- 
der the whole heaven, shall be given to the  
people of the saints of the Most High, whose 
liingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all do- 
minions shall serve and obey him," Dan. 7 : 27.  
These and a multitude of similar passages—  
" Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in  
earth,"—prove there is to be a final or fifth 
monarchy, in the earth, universal and eternal,  
under the sceptre of Messiah and the risen 
saints, according to the New Testament, but of  
Messiah and the restored Jews, according to the  
Old Testament. Wherefore, plainly, these peo-
ple with two names and one king, may be one  
and the same people, as much as the English 
and the British are one : for they have the, same  
Messiah, the same empire, and the sami.i eter- 
nal reign. They are called in the Old Testa- 
ment Jews and Israelites : and in the Gospel  
they are called saints and Christians : their 
empire begins in the coming of Messiah in his  
glory, and is called in the law and the prophets  
Israel's return to the promised land ; and is call- 
ed in the Gospel, the kingdom of heaven, the  
abode of the risen dead ; and of this kingdom  
have mocked him only at. bearing ofthe restoration ofthe 
soid. That was the prevalent doctrine of their philoso- 
phy."  
St. Clirysostom says on Heb. II, of the promises to  
the fathers, " To thee will I give this land (earth) and to  
thy seed :" " It is said not t,o thee in thy se*d; hut to  
thee and thy seed ; and neither he (Abraham,; nor Isaac,  
nor Jacob obtained the promise ; for it is said, ' All these  
died in the faith, not having received the promises ; but  
seeing and recognizing  them afar off.' Here a mystery  
is implied ; to wit, that all this which was promised, they  
understood to belong to future times, the resurrection,  
the kingdom of heaven, and the other things of which  
Christ preached."  
St. lrenceus says, " In that desh in which they suffer- 
ed, the saints will receive the reward of their labors ; es- 
pecially since the whole creation expects it, and God has  
•promised it to Abraham and his seed "—Iren. Contra. Her.,  
lib. 32.  
" It is necessary that he should receive it with his  
seed (that is, they who fear God and trust in him) in the  
resurrection of the just."—Ibid.  
lOO  

there is to be no end. Agreeing in these par-
ticulars, in one king, in one universal and eter-
nal empire, "under the whole heaven,"it seems  
impossible but that the citizens of the empire  
should be one people., notwithstanding they are  
called by various names.  
To carry out this mode of reasoning still fur- 
ther, we briefly notice some of the peculiar  
beauties of contemplating " the hope of Israel" 
in the identity of the promises made to the  
Jews and Christians ; in the oneness of their  
hopes, their king, and their fellow-citizens ; the 
country of their dispersion, their promised  
land, and restoration, and the time of their de- 
liverance.* If we mistake not, Israel ofthe Old 
Testament embraces Christians of the New 
Testament; the promises to the former are  
promises to the latter ; the hope of the prom- 
ise, and the hope of Israel, are the same in both 
Testaments ; and the promised empire and ho-
ly land are the same kingdom of Christ and of  
heaven in both Testaments ; the two testaments  
being two witnesses whose language differs,  
while their testimony is the same ; the future  
things spoken by the prophets to the Jews being 
preached by the gospel to the Gentiles. This  
seems to he "trie testimony of Jesus" and "the 
spirit, of prophecy," while the other doctrine,  
that the Jews in the flesh are to be the masters 
ofthe world, seems to be rank and intolerable 
Judaism.  
To be continued.  
* Justin Martyr, speaking of Joshua as a type of  
Christ, says: " He gave them a temporal inheritance ;  
but this Jesus, after the resurrection, will give us an eter- 
nal possession. Whence, from whatever country, 
whether slaves or freemen, believers in Christ know that  
they shall be together with him in that land and possess it 
for an everlasting and incorruptible inheritance."—With  
Trypho, sec. 113, 135.  
St. Cyprian comments thus on the words of the Lord's  
Prayer, Thy kindom come :—" We pray for the coming  
of that our kingdom, which has been promised to us by  
God. and was gained by the blood and passion of Christ,  
that we who have continued his subjects in the life be-
low, may afterward reign in Christ's kingdom, according  
to his own word, ' Come, ye blessed of my Father, inher-
it the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the  
world.'" Thus he identifies the kingdom to come in the  
earth with the kingdom of the saints' inheritance in glory  
with Christ on his throne. The Assembly's Catechism 
interprets the prayer in the same manner. Likewise St  
Jerome interprets it. in the same manner, and adds 
this remark: "How much boldness and purity of 
conscience it requires to ask for the kingdom of God [to 
come] and not fear judgment!"  
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, A. D. 350 says : " This Jesus  
who hath ascended cometh again from heaven, not from 
earth ; and I say not from earth, because many antichrists  
are now to come from earth ; for, as thou hast seen,  
many have already begun to say, I am Christ. And, be- 
sides, there is to come the abomination of desolation, 
usurping the name of Christ :  but do thou look'for the true  
Christ, the Son of God, the only begotten, who is hence- 
forth to come, not from the earth, but from heaven, ap-
pearing to all brighter than any lightning or other bril-
liance, with angels for his guard, that he may judge the  
quick and dead, and reign with a kingdom heavenly, eter- 
nal, and without end."—Oxf. Trans . p. 41.  
But what is more than all are the comments of the  
evangelist on the prophecy of Caiaphas: "And this 
spake he (Caiaphas) not of himself ; but being high priest  
that year, he prophesied that  Jesus should die for that  
nation ; and not for that nation only, but that also he  
should gather together in one the children of God that were 
scattered abroad," iohn 11 : 51,52. The above follows 
the resurrection of Lazarus, and shows how the holy  
people will be gathered and restored to the promised land, 
" not of that nation only," but of all " the children of  
God."  
BEAUTIFUL  REPI.V.—One of the deaf and dumb in the  
institution of Paris, being desired to express his ideas of  
the eternity of the Deity, replied—" It is duration, with-
out beginning or end ; existence, without bounds or di-
mensions ; present, without past future. His eternity is  
youth, without infancy or old age ; life without birth or  
death ; to day, without yesterday or to-morrow."  
There is nf> union between the. thoughts, the words,  
and the action^ ofthe wicked •• but the thoughts, words  
and actions of the good all agree.  

CHRONOLOGY OF DANIEL.  
Each hew investigation uncovers new evidences for  
our faith, or removes seeming difficulties.  
Two objections have been raised against our belief  
that the 70 weeks in the 9th of Daniel, are a key to the 
2300 days ofthe 8th, and that Persia, Greece and Rome,  
are represented by the Ram, He-goat, and exceeding great  
horn, as they are by the bear, leopard, and terrible beast  
if the seventh chapter, and the silver, brass, and bruising  
iron of the second.  
Objection First.—Although the resemblance between  
these chapters is striking, yet why is Babylon left out in 
the eighth 1  
Objection Second.—The angel's visit in the ninth chap- 
ter, was fifteen years after the vision in the eighth. How,  
then, can we suppose he came to explain a vision seen 
so long before 1  
These objections are founded on the belief that the  
Lord's ways must conform to our notions.  
Arts. No. \. No new revelation was needed respecting  
Babylon, and why should the Lord introduce it, mereiy  
to keep up the symmetry of the visions 1  
Ans. No. 2. If the Lord waited fifteen years before ex- 
plaining the vision, it is ours to say, " Even so, Father,  
for so it seemed good in thy sight." The Lord's time is 
the right time.  
But easy as it is to answer these objections, so as to  
leave no real difficulty to the humble soul, it may be more 
pleasant to see them removed. Townsend's Chronology, 
based upon Lightfoot's Chronicle, removes them entirely.  
" John Lightfoot, D. D., a most eminent English Di- 
vine," says the Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, 
" was born in March, 1602. At Cambridge, he made ex- 
traordinary proficiency in Latin and Greek. At 27, he  
was well acquainted with the Latin and Greek fathers,  
and with the ancient heathen writers. He was highly 
distinguished in the Assembly of Divines in 1643. In  
1655, he became vice chancellor of Cambridge. He  
was a true Christian, In the discharge of his cler-
ical duties, he was zealous and active. As to his  
learning in the rabbinical way, HE WAS EXCEL- 
LED BY NONE, and had few equals. The most  
j complete edition of the works of this learned author,  
j is comprised in 13 volumes octavo. London, 1825 " 
I In the Preface to his Arrangement to the Bible, Town- 
! send says :  
j " The Chronicle ofthe learned Lightfoot has been made  
j the basis ofthe following Arrangement. Of all the wri- 
i ters of the day in which he lived, this celebrated divine  
| is supposed to have been the most deeply versed in the  
knowledge of the Scriptures. It was his custom  
I for many years to note down, as opportunity pre-
1 sented in the course of his talmudical and other  
• studies, the order and time of the several passages  
I of Scripture, ?as they came under his consideration, 
j By pursuing • this method, he gradually formed that  
invaluable Chronicle which his biographer, and the  
editor of his works, has placed before all his other  
publications, as the most useful and important. The 
title of this celebrated tract is, A Chronicle of the Times,  
and the Order of the Texts of the Old Testament, wherein  
the Books, Chapters, Psalms, Stories, Prophecies, tf-c. are  
reduced in/o their proper order, and taken up in their proper  
place*, in which the natural method and genuine series of  
the Chronology requireth them to be taken in. With reason  
given of Dislocations where they come. And many remark- 
! able Notes and Observations given all along fur the better 
! understanilirig of the Text; the difficulties of the Chronicle  
| declared ; the Differences occurring in the relating of Sto-
; ries reconciled ; and exceeding many Scruples and Obscuri- 
ties of the Old Testament explained. Lightfoot was so 
eminent, that Bishop Walton consulted him both on the  
Polyglott Bible, and the Samaritan Pentateuch, Dr. Cas- 
tel on his Heptaglott Lexicon, and Pole on his Synopsis  
Criticorum Buxtorf, Dr. Outram, Thorndike, and Mori- 
nus, with other distinguished men, openly expressed how  
much they admired and venerated him. The most learn- 
ed foreigners came to England to visit him. In the as-
sembly of divines at Westminster, he was the most dis- 
tinguished for his learning and ability ; opposing the  
more violent measures, and frequently by his arguments  
changing the sentiments of the majority."  
The conclusions of this learned man, however, are  
not relied on by Townsend without thorough scrutiny. 
He says:  
" Since the time of Lightfoot, biblical literature has  
been so much the object of general attention, that it was


necessary to consult the labors of many modern divines,  
as well as of those who immediately preceded him. The  
union of these authorities, it is hoped, will give addition- 
al sanction to the work. Where a difference of opinion  
has prevailed among these various writers, the Arranger  
has been compelled to decide on the validity of opposing  
arguments ; and at other times from a consideration of 
the internal evidence, tbe context, the circumstances, and  
the primary object of a passage, a psalm, or a prophecy,  
he has been induced to act upon his own judgment, which  
has occasionally led him to differ from those authorities,  
on which he has ever been inclined to place the most de- 
pendence."  
Let it be remembered, that Usher, Archbishop of Ar- 
magh, and author of the common chronology ofthe Bible,  
was born 22 years before Lightfoot, who, consequently  
must have had the benefit of all that learned ctironolo- 
ger's researches. With all the helps which that age of 
learning could give, and with the facilities he must have  
enjoyed as vice-chancellor of Cambridge, Lightfoot came  
to the conclusion set forth in the following note, which  
we now copy entire, from Townsend. p. 1069.  
Who the Belshazzar of Daniel was, and the time of his  
death, has given rise to much conjecture, and both are 
uncertain. This uncertainty arises from the difficulty  
of ascertaining the succession of the kings of Babylon,  
between the death of Nebuchadnezzar, and the accession  
of Cyrus to the Babylonian empire, after ttie death of  
Darius. The extreme confusion which prevails among the 
historians of this period, may be seen from the following  
table :  
Succession of the Kings of Babylon, according to  
JOSEPHUS.  
Nebuchadnezzar reigned 43 years.  
Evil-Merodach 18 
Niglissar 46' 
Laborosoarchod 9 months. 
Belshazzar, or Naboandelus 17 years.  
Darius, or Cyrus  
But in his treatise  against Apion, Josephus assigns  
two years only to Evil-Merodach, and four to Niglissar.  
JOSEPH SCAL1GER.  
Nebuchadnezzar reigned 44 years.  
Evil-Merodach 2  
Balthasar, or Belshazzar 5  
Nabonadius, or Darius the Mede 17  
Vide Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the World, book  
iii. chap. i. sect. 4.  
PRIDEAUX.  
Nebuchadnezzar reigned 45 years.  
Evil-Merodach 1  
Neriglassar 3  
Laborosoarchod 9 months.  
Nabonadius, Belshazzar 17 years.  
Darius, Cyrus.  
LIGHTFOOT.  
Nebuchadnezzar reigned 45 years.  
Evil-Merodach 23 " 
Belshazzar 3  
Darius and Cyrus.  
CANON OF PTOLF.MV.  
Nabopolassar, or Nebuchadnezzar, reigned 23 years.  
Ilvarodam, or Evil-Merodach 3  
Nericolassar, Neriglassar, or Belshazzar 5  
Nabonadius 17  
Cyrus.  
DR. HALES.  
Nebuchadnezzar reigned  
Evil-Merodach  
Belshazzar  
Darius the Mede  
Cyrus.  
SIR WALTER RALEIGH.  

44 years.  
3 "  
5  
2  
22  
44 vears  Nebuchadnezzar reigned  
Evil-Merodach ) reigned during  part of Nebuchadnez- 
Nifocus ( zar's Ute"  
Evil Merodach reigned altogether 26 years. 
Balthasar, or Belshazzar 17  
Darius, Cyrus.  
SCRIPTURE,  
(Which mentions three only,  
Nebuchadnezzar,  
Evil-Merodach,  
Belshazzar.  
The duration of these reigns is given variously by com- 
mentators. After examining the several hypotheses here  
inserted, I cannot but think that the system proposed by  
Lightfoot is the most consistent and the most conform- 
able with Scripture. Three facts seem to be implied in  
the book of Daniel :  
1.—That Belshazzar was of the family of .Nebu- 

chadnezzar; for he is repeatedly called his son, and Nebuch- 
adnezzar is said to be his father, (see Dan.v 18); and in 2  
Chron. 36 : 20, it is said, that the captive Jews should con- 
tinue the servants of Nebuchadnezzar and " his sons, un- 
til the reign of the kingdom of Persia." Again, Jeremiah  
(xxvii. 7.) prophesies that all the nations ofthe east shall  
serve this king, and "his son, and his son's son, until the  
very time of his land come."  
2.—Belshazzar reigned only 3 years. Daniel saw the  
vision related in chapter viii. 1, 2, at the palace of Shu- 
shan, in the province of Elam. Now Shushan, in the 
reign of Belshazzar, was not a city of Babylon, but of  
Persia ; neither was Elam a province of Babylon ; Eiam  
was another name for Persia, of which Shushan was the  
capital, and this country had been  engaged in perpetual  
wars with Babylon for the space of twenty years  before  
its overthrow. We have no reason, therefore, for sup- 
posing that Daniel was ever absent from the city of  
Babylon, a place where he was held in much honor, till  
he was removed either by Cyrus or Darius. Lightfoot 
therefore interprets the first and second verses of this  
chapter to signify, " In the third year of Belshazzar, after  
the fall of that monarch, Daniel was taken by the king of  
Persia to his own capital, where he saw this vision."—  
The expression in verse 2, " I rose up, and did the king's 
business," refers to the business which was entrusted to  
his care by Cyrus and Darius, king of Persia, and not by  
Belshazzar the king of Babylon.  
3.—Belshazzar was the last of the Babylonish kings.  
Immediately after his death, his kingdom was divided, and  
given to the Medes and Persians, (Dan. v. 28, 30, 31.)  
Scripture assures us, that Nebuchadnezzar should have 
" sons, and son's sons," to succeed him on the throne of 
Babylon; and it confines itself to three generations,  
father, son, and grandson, to whom the Jews should con- 
tinue captives for the space of seventy years: now, if we  
suppose that Belshezzar was not of the seed of Nebu- 
chadnezzar, and that his kingdom was possessed by the  
Medes and Persians before the expiration of the appoint- 
ed seventy years, these prophecies must have failed of 
their accomplishment. God likewise threatens to punish 
the king of Babylon and the land of the ^Chaldeans, by  
bringing " many nations and great kings" against them,  
(Jer. 25 : 12, 14, and 1, 18) ; but this prophecy again  
could not have been fulfilled, if at the end of the seventy 
years the family of Nebuchadnezzar was extinct, and no 
longer filled the throne of Babylon. The evils denounced 
against the kings of Babylon were caused not only by 
their iniquities, but for cruelties inflicted on the Jews  by  
the family of Nebuchadnezzar Isaiah foretells (chap.  
21.) the capture of the city at a feast, the " night of plea- 
sure turned into fear ;" and in Isaiah 44, God promises  
to dry up the rivers, and to break in pieces the gates of  
brass, before his anointed servant Cyrus ; who was to  
build Jerusalem, and lay the foundations of the temple ;  
Isaiah 45 : 1, 2. It cannot be thought probable, then,  
that the Almighty would inflict oil any other family, the 
evils which Nebuchadnezzar's conduct had brought upon  
his own; and consequently whoever was the reigning 
monarch when Cyrus gained admittance into the city,  
must have been a son, or a descendant of Nebuchadnez-
zar.  
I have therefore, according to Lightfoot, supposed that  
Evil-Merodach, who succeeded his father Nebuchadnez- 
zar, reigned twenty-three  years; and that at his death  
Belshazzar his son came to the throne, who was slain in  
the third year of his reign. Herodotus represents the  
last king of Babylon as being the son of the great queen  
Nitocris ; in which case she must have been the wife of  
Evil-Merodach, for by this king only could she have been 
the mother of a son that was son's son to Nebuchadnez- 
zar.  
Profane writers give a variety of names to the last  
king that reigned in Babylon ; he is called by Berosus, 
Nabonnedus ; by Megasthenes, Nabonnedochus ; bv He- 
rodotus, Labynetus ; and by Josephus, Naboandelus, who,  
he says, is the same as Belshazzar ; but these authors  
are, on many occasions, so contradictory and inconsis- 
tent, that when they at all interfere with Scripture, their  
evidence must lose its authority. They agree in the im- 
portant fact, that Babylon was taken during a festival ;  
and both Herodotus and Xenophon relate the draining of 
the river by Cyrus ; by which stratagem he gained ad-
misson for his troops.  
The causes of the contradictory accounts related in the  
ancient writers, may in some degree be ascertained from 
the hints they give us of the state ofthe kingdom of Baby- 
lon after the death of Nebuchadnezzar, or perhaps during  
his distraction. Evil-Merodach, or foolish Merodach, his  
successor, was, as his name implies, a weak prince ; and 
taking advantage 'of this circumstance, several of the  
princes mentioned by these different authorities may  
have opposed him, and successively exercised the regal  
power, while he only nominally retained it. And to these  
usurpers, in all probability, may be attributed the various  
accounts handed down to us of the Babylonish succes- 
sion during this period. The injured nobleman, in the  
Cyropaedia, repeatedly praises the father of that king of  
Babylon whom Cyrus was proceeding against; whom  

the latter calls the Assyrian. And from the description  
given by Isaiah (14: 29) of the three kings of Babylon,  
when he describes Nebuchadnezzar as a serpent, Evil- 
Merodach as a cockatrice, and Belshazzar as a fiery-fly-
ing serpent, that is, worse than his cruel predecessors, it 
is not improbable, that Belshazzar was the king who 
was guilty of the acts complained of by the friends of 
Cyrus, and likewise of those cruelties recorded by Xeno-
phon.  
Sir Walter Raleigh, in his History of the World, pro- 
poses an opinion, that the manuscript of Berosus must 
have been altered by the carelessness of a scribe ; and  
that it originally assigned twenty-three years to the reign  
of Evil-Merodach. In the short account of the reign of  
Evil-Merodach given in Scripture, we are only informed  
that he released Jehoiachin from prison, and "that he eat  
bread continually before him all the days of his life ;" 2  
Kings 25 : 29, 30. From this expression v\ e can alone infer  
that Jehoiachin lived many years after he was restored to  
liberty, and that during his life-time Evil-Merodach was 
still king.  
Second Advent believers can see additional reasons  
for the conclusions of Lightfoot and Townsend.  
1. It brings the eighth and ninth chapters within a few  
months of each other, accounts for their manifest con- 
nection, and leave but a short time in suspense. When 
Gabriel came, Daniel knew him at once, and calls him 
" the man Gabriel, whom I had seen BEFORE IN THE VIS- 
ION." SO the  old Geneva Translation reads.  
2. It accounts most satisfactorily for the omission of  
Babylon, which according to this chronology,  HAD FALLEN  
WHEN THE VISION IN THE EIGHTH CHAPTER WAS SEEN.  
While on this subject, we copy another note from  
Townsend, on the eighth chapter, p. 1072.  
" From the fourth verse of the second chapter, to this  
chapter, Daniel has made use of the Chaldee language, 
because his prophecies and writings related to the Chal- 
deans. His remaining prophecies are written in Hebrew,  
because they treat of events subsequent to the times of that  
nation, and principally regard the Church and people of  
God.  
" The second empire in the former vision (the Medo- 
Persian) is the first in this ; and what was there com- 
pared to a bear, is here prefigured by a ram. This ram, 
having two horns, according to the explication of the an- 
gel Gabriel, ver. 20, was the empire of the Medes and  
Persians. The propriety of the emblem appears from  
hence, that the kings of Persia wore a ram's head of  
gold, and precious stones, instead of a diadem, and a ram  
was the armorial ensign of that empire. The he-goat is  
the .Macedonian empire. The first king ofthe Macedo- 
nians, 200 years before Daniel, called his capital city  
J3gese, or --Egse, a goat being their ensign. ' The rough  
goat,' ver. 21, represents the Greeks or Macedonians un-
der Alexander : ver. 6 and 7 describe the Grecians over-
throwing the Persian empire. The final and principal en- 
gagement in which Alexander overcame the Persians,  
was at the river Granicus. in Phrygia, ' standing before 
the river,'ver. 6. The four 'notable' horns that sprang  
up in the room of the first great horn, are the same as  
the four heads of the leopard in the former vision, and de- 
note the four kingdoms of Greece, Thrace, Syria, and  
Egypt, which were thus divided 'toward the four winds  
of heaven' by Cassander, Lysimachus, Seleucus, and  
Ptolemy about fifteen years after the death of Alexander,  
and the murder of his descendants.  
" The 'little horn,' which is described as rising among  
the four horns of the Grecian empire, ver. 9, is supposed  
by the generality of commentators to signify THE ROMAN  
TEMPORAL POWER. It was this power that magnified it-
self against ' the prince of the host,' 'stood up against 
the Prince of princes,' ver. 25, crucified the Messiah, the 
Lord of life, took away the ' daily sacrifice,' destroyed the  
temple of the Jews, (ver. 11,) and made a desolation of  
the holy city. But, as 'the stone,' in Nebuchadnezzar's  
dream, was ' cut out of the mountain without hands,' 
that is, not by human, but supernatural means, so like- 
wise shall this kingdom ' be broken without hands.'  
Compare chap. 2 : 34, and chap. 7 : 11 and 26. All 
which passages seem to imply that the dominion of the  
Romans shall be finally destroyed with some extraordi-
nary manifestation of the Divine power.—Bp. Newton.  
Thus Townsend testifies that in the application of this  
horn we have the " generality of commentators" with  
us. The ground on which we are opposed by many, 
is that we disagree with the great commentators. If  
that proves us wrong in some cases, it proves us right 
on this point, according to Dr. Weeks, whose articles  
are an "unexceptionable" "model."—[N. Y. Obs.] 
This being granted, the rest of our faith follows we think  
irresistibly.  
I©1


POPERY.  
MODERN POPISH FRAUD.  
A pamphlet has been re-published in this city pur- 
porting to give an account of some miracles which  
God has recently wrought, as a seal to the truth and  
holiness of the Popish Church. It is pretended that a  
female in Youghal, Ireland, an inmate of a Magdalen  
Asylum, whilst mentally contemplating the sufferings  
of Christ, exhibits in her person the marks of the  
thorns, the nails and the spear, and these wounds ap- 
pear to bleed on Thursday evening and Friday of  each  
week. The Cork Examiner, a Romish paper, ridi- 
cules the whole affair, as a deception.  
A Popish priest, .however, writes very enthusi- 
astically about the miracle, but when a Protestant  
asked for an examination, it was replied that it  
rested with the Bishop of the Diocese, or those whom  
he should depute. To this, seven Protestant clergy- 
men have replied, that the Church which makes use of  
such things to prove her exclusive claims, is unworthy 
of being a witness, certainly not fit to be  the sole judge  
in the case. This is a specimen of the present arts 
of Popery, getting up "a daring and blasphemous 
falsehood" to deceive the people.  
FRUITS OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIGION.—The  
following extract of a letter from a gentleman on a visit 
at Montevideo, to a  friend in this city, presents a glance  
at the morals which prevails under the unbroken influ- 
ences of popery. In Montevideo the Church of Rome  
exhibits to the world its unbroken spirit and character,  
unobstructed by Protestants. And these are its legiti- 
mate fruits:  
" We have now been twelve days in this place  
(Montevideo,) and I am quite sick of it. The Protes- 
tant religion is not tolerated by these Vandals,—so 
following the example ofthe entire population, on Sun-
day last I attended the Cathedral in the morning, the  
bull fight in the afternoon, and the fancy ball in the  
evening. The most ancient, and best families here 
spend the afternoon of each Sunday in witnessing these  
disgusting exhibitions; the best and prettiest ladies  
are seated around the arena, approving by their pres- 
ence and actions, a scene of ruffianism and cruelty on  
the Sabbath day that would disgust a cannibal. The  
Catholic religion is dominant here, and such are its  
fruits."  
THE QUEEN, THE POPE, AND LOUIS PHILLIPPE.—  
It is rumored, that, within these few days, a letter has  
been received by Her Majesty from the King of the  
French, strongly recommending the recognition of the  
Pope as the head of the Church, stating, as a reason  
for such extraordinary counsel, the universal peace at  
present prevailing throughout the world. As might  
have been expected, it is said to have created a great  
sensation in the Palace. We have heard also that the 
Pope is expected to consecrate, in person, of course  
with unusual splendor, the Romish Cathedral now  
erecting in the neighborhood of Westminster Abbey!—  
Edinburgh Witness.  
From the N. Y. Evangelist.  
THE POPE'S DOMINION—Presents a striking con- 
trast with the sway with wrhich he once ruled kings  
and kingdoms. The poor Old man, shut up within his  
narrow territories, has even there scarcely the shadow  
of his sceptre left him. The Journal of Commerce re-
cently published a letter from an intelligent lady in  
Italy which contained this striking intelligence  :  
" There has been a sort of revolution in Rome, in  
consequence of a papal decree that the Clergy and  
Nobles should be taxed the same as the people, and be  
subject to trial by the civil tribunals for offences of a  
criminal character. A monk, under this decree, as  
we are informed here, has been executed, on a crime  
being proved against him. The Clergy and Nobles  
were outrageous at this, and endeavored to excite a re- 
volt among the people ; and the Pope was obliged to  
take refuge for a time in the Castle of St. Angelo;  
but as the people were pleased with the decree, he 
was soon set at liberty."  
The correspondent ofthe New York Observer.wri- 
ting from the capital of this republic says :  
The Roman Catholies are vigilant and laborious in  
their way. They watch all our movements. They are 
interested in all our measures. They have made with*  
S4>£  

| in a few years far greater exertions to strengthen them- 
selves in Baltimore and in this District than ever they 
have before.  These men unblushingly defend the  
monstrous absurdities of Transubstantiation, Purga-
tory, Penance, the invocation of saints, and the like.—- 
But it is by that part of their system, which they address  
to the imagination and the senses, that they must suc- 
ceed.  
Of a new congregation formed in this city within three  
or four year 3j they claim halfcis obtained from the ranks  
of Protestants, or at least has being constituted of those  
who were not Catholics till they joined them. They 
are busy with schools for children, and their hearts warm  
with the most devoted charity to the children of Protes- 
tant parents. They boast the occasional attendance  
ofthe President, whose sister, in humble life, a widow, 
and the keeper of a boarding house, joined them some  
time since. They have erected a large church edifice 
in the "court end ofthe town," in full view of the Pre- 
sidential, surmounting the cornice with a gilded cross ; 
and there they expect to maintain themselves, I suppose,  
till this Republic is bowed under their sway, and the  
Roman priesthood can dictate measures to the Ameri- 
can Cabinet.  
FUSEYISM.  
The editor of the Britannia, which is styled " the  
ablest and most influential of the London weekly pa-
pers," says :  
" The attempts to introduce Popery into the Church  
of England, are notorious. The feebleness of all remon- 
strances on the subject is unluckily not less notorious.  
The timidity with which authority has ventured within  
sight of the discussion is actually melancholy, and the  
triumphant tone which has been adopted by  the party  
is arrogant and offensive."  
The Dublin Warder, an able Protestant paper, says,  
in reference to the changes marking the progress of  
Puseyism, " Woe unto them that wink at them. But 
it is tod -plain that A GREAT NUMBER of our bishops 
have winked, and more than winked. Surely it is time 
for the bishops of a different class to lift up their voice  
like a trumpet, lest Nehushtan, be pronounced against  
their Order at large."  
WARNING TO WATCHFULNESS.  
MATTHEW 24 : 48—50.  
"But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My  
Lord delayeth his coming, and shall begin to smite his  
fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken,  
then shall the Lord of that servant come in a day he  
looketh not for him, and in an hour he is not aware  of,  
and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion  
unto the hypocrites ; there shall be weeping and gnash-
ing of teeth."  
This text shows the necessity of our living constant- 
ly in preparation for the coming of Christ to judgment,  
or for being called suddenly away, so that our accounts  
may be sealed up to that solemn day. But permit file 
to suppose a case where the text will apply very close-
ly, and—viewing the language as prophetic—will  be  
most completely fulfilled. The character ofthe above-
named servant is deceitful and impatient. While he 
looks for the approach of his master, he keeps himself 
prepared to meet him ; but because he. does not arrive  
at the very hour fixed in his mind for his return, he can-
not wait for him, but immediately begins to do those  
things he ought not. It is almost impossible to con- 
vince some persons that every second advent preacher 
has not fixed a certain day of April for the great day ;  
and if He does not appear till the month after, such per- 
sons may be emboldened to scoff, and when their minds  
become entangled in the  cares and pleasures of the  
world, then the Lord may " come in a day they look  
not for Him."  
I know, at the time appointed by the Ldrd; the end  
shall be. It may come before April, or during that  
month, but I shall not be surprised if it does not Come  
for a few months after, or until sufficient time is given  
those persons who are very anxious to prove Mr. Mil- 
ler's theory incorrect, an opportunity to begin saying 
those things they are preparing in their minds to say  
to us, as soon as a certain period, fixed in their minds,  
is about over. Now I beg those individuals not to be  
too hasty. There is much said about exercising pa- 
tience in the New Testament. Above all things, if you  
think you are prepared to meet your Lord during the  
spring months, continue to watch and pray during the  
remainder of your stay in this world. Remember the  
end of that evil servant.  

To show you that the ways of God are mysterious,  
and that it is hard for us now to form  a correct idea  
about the very day and hour that the Lord will come, 
and also to show our opponents that they should not  
be too positive in saying he will not or cahnot come at  
this time, let us look back to the time when Jesus 
was on earth. It appears that but few of those who  
attended his ministry were acquainted with the peculiar 
circumstances connected with his birth and early life.  
The weightiest objection brought forward against his  
being the true Messiah, was the general impression  
that he was born at Nazareth; and we are nowhere in-
formed that any one tried to correct this mistake. See  
John 7: 42—52. On this occasion, could Nicode- 
mus have proved that Jesus was indeed born at Bethle- 
hem, it seems to me that, however unwilling they were 
to receive him, they would have been forced to yield  
his claim to the Messiahship. It is not my design to  
excuse the Jews, but to warn those who wish to be 
Christians. The Jewish priests and scribes imagined  
they understood the Scriptures ; but had Caiaphas un- 
derstood what he prophesied about, John 11 : 50—52, 
he would never have said or  done aught against the  
Saviour. It is not for me to say why it was so ordered  
that the Lord should be called Jesus of Nazareth, but I 
beseech you all to be ready for his second coming, and  
not to place too much confidence in the opinions of  
great men. Very few of the learned men believed on  
Christ when he was on earth. They were mistaken  
then, and some of them may be mistaken now with re-
gard to the time of his second coming. The language  
of some  of the people then was, " Have any of the  
rulers or Pharisees believed on him V It is of the same 
import now with regard to the second advent doctrine.  
A certain minister, in a lecture against this doctrine,  
said he believed Milierism to be a judgment sent from  
God upon the church for her unfaithfulness and un- 
watchfulness. If he is correct, how necessary it is that 
Christians should all double their diligence and watch- 
fulness, lest a worse evil come upon them. In conclu- 
sion, let me ask the reader to examine my text care- 
fully. Whichever way you may choose to apply it, the  
instruction is good. It admonishes us to be prepared,  
and to keep yourself prepared ; " for in such an hour 
as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh." May God  
give us grace, that we shall be able to wait patiently  
till he comes, and to do our duty in every case till that 
time, to abstain from all appearance of evil, and to  
practice every good work, that we may be found spot- 
less and blameless before him at his corning;. Amen.  
SANDWICH ISLANDS.—The  spread of the Gospel  
among the nations of the earth will extend, as might 
be expected, the triumphs of " temperance," which, 
according to the Bible, is one of the " fruits of the  
Spirit." We have a fine illustration of this influence  
at the Sandwich Islands. The King and the Chiefs  
have signed the following temperance pledge :  
" W e, the signers of this pledge, unite ourselves in  
a society for the purpose of putting an end to the rise  
of intoxicating liquors in the Sandwich Islands.  
" Therefore, we pledge ourselves before God and  
men, to forsake entirely the use of all intoxicating  
drinks. We will neither drink distilled liquors nor  
wine, nor any thing that intoxicates. We will not 
drink in imitation of others, nor for pleasure. We will 
not buy nor self nor give to Others intoxicating drinks,  
nor will we do any thing opposed to the spirit of this  
pledge ; but will do all in our power, and which is pro- 
per for us to do, to put an end to the use of intoxica- 
ting drinks among all men."  
THE DIFFERENCE.—" Massa," said a slave the other  
day to his master, of whom he borrowed a Second Advent  
paper—"Massa, what do  you think of it?" " I don't  
know what to think of it," said the masier. "But are 
you ready for it ?"  said the slave. " Well, I am not afraid  
to have it come ; but to tell you the truth, Bill, I had rather  
stay and enjoy my family a little longer " " Ah, massa,"  
said the slave, " if I had a thousand times as much as  
you have, I would let it all go, for the Lord to come."  
" THE COMMON PEOPLE HEAR HIM  GLADLY.—The dis- 
ciples tell us that this was the state of things at the ap- 
pearing of Christ. Why then should we be surprised that  
not many Wise or mighty now receive the tidings of his  
near approach in gladness. Even so, for it is a hard  
thing for any that are rich in worldly goods or reputation,  
to forsake all, and become of no account for the TRUTH'S 
sake.  
RELIGION.—When religion is made a science, there  
is nothing more intricate; when a duty* there is nothing 
more easy.


"MISTAKES" OF PROF. STOWE, COR- 
RECTED.  
A. pamphlet has lately appeared which contains the  
substance of Prof. Stowe's lecture, which was referred 
to in the article headed "Professor's Theology," in the  
Cry of March 3.  
He says, in conclusion, that it was his- main object to  
expose the fallacy of the assumption that " day means  
year." On this subject, we think he was fairly answered 
by the N. Y. Evangelist. See Midnight Cry, March 24.  
He does not mention Br. Miller at all, but there is an  
allusion to the Second Advent belief which deserves no- 
tice. His pamphlet is addressed to Dr. Mussey, and be- 
gins thus :  
"My Dear Sir,—You lately expressed a desire, ihat Ih  
sentiments you had heard from me. in preaching and  
conversation, respecting the millennial calculations  
which some people are now so busy in making, might be  
given to the public.  
" Though there are various methods of making these  
calculations, they all proceed on one assumption ; and that  
assumption will be the chief object of discussion.  
" The general rule of millennial arithmetic is this :  
• Find the date of the great apostacy predicted in 2  
Thess. 2 : 3—12, (and other passages ;) add to this date 
the number 1260, found in Rev. 12: 6, (and the parallel  
texts ;) and you get the date of the Millennium.'  There  
are modifications of this rule, but this may serve as a 
specimen, and a specimen is all that is necessary to the  
purposes of this letter."  
He then argues his "main point" that a day does not  
represent a year, in these prophetic periods, and says :  
" But allowing that the numbers are what the millen- 
nialists affirm them to be, there is yet another difficulty  
which of itself would preclude the possibility of an accu- 
rate estimate, if there were nothing else in the way.—  
To fix the time of the millennium, the 1260 days sup- 
posed to be years must be added to the Christian era in  
which the great apostacy commenced, or in other words,  
to the year in which the church of Rome became Anti- 
christ ; and God has never told us when this was, and it  
is impossible for any human being to know. More than  
twenty different epochs, I should judge, have been  
defended at different times ; and the arguments generally  
are about equal for all the twenty. The most common 
and popular dates, next to the one which brings on the 
Millennium in 1843, are the following."  
He then goes on to mention 606, 610, 666, and 752. 
The Professor betrays great ignorance of the belief of  
those who expect Christ's personal coming in 1843. It  
w-ill be seen that he goes upon the supposition that we  
reckon the great apostacy at 583, and add 1260. to get  
the time of the mellennium in 1843. He has not said it in  
plain terms, but his statements imply it. The reporter  
who made out an abstract for the Evangelist, " with the  
consent of Prof. Stowe," in that abstract said, "A. D  
583 is the date fixed by Miller, but 1843 will pass away 
and his prophecy be unfulfilled."  The great mistake here  
betrayed is not confined to the Professor.  
A Postmaster in Ohio, writing to a friend in Brooklyn  
j who had sent him publications, says: "A. D. 583 is  
the time fixed by Miller, which, added to the 1260 years,  
spoken of in prophecy, brings the millennium in 1S43, 
but there is so much conjecture about the precise date  
of the great apostacy, I am led to believe he is mis- 
| taken."  
This Postmaster was evidently led to his blunder by  
I the Professor, for no other author or speaker that we  
j ever heard of ever used the same dates. 
| In reply to both, we say, that we belive the 1260 years 
I began in the year 538, by the event which the angel  
points out in the place where the number equivalent to  
1260 days occurs. See Dan 7 : 25, compared with Rev.  
12 : 6, and 14. Speaking of the eleventh horn on the  
fourth beast, before which three horns fell, the angel 
says: [Bernard's Bible] "He shall speak great words  
against the Most High, and shall oppress the saints of  
the Most High, and expect to change times and laws,  
and THEY SHAT.L BE GIVEN INTO HIS HAND UNTIL a time  
and times, and the dividing of time."  
Now, if we can find one time when the saints were  
given into the hands ofthe Pope, we find the mark here 
referred to, and if any date is once fixed, no later date be 
true. If a piece of property is put into my hands by 
deed, and I take possession under that deed, I may have  

a hundred documents in relation to the property after- |  
wards; but they  do not cause the least doubt as to the  
time when it was given into my hand.  
Now, as a matter of fact, the Pope was declared  
" head ofthe churches, and true and effective CORRECTOR  
OF HERETICS," by the emperor Justinian, who SUBJECTED  
to him all the priests of the whole East," in the year 533  
But the enemies ofthe Pope had possession of Rome at  
that time, and the Pope did not exercise his power there 
till 538. In that year, then, the saints were first " given  
into his hand," in FACT and FORM. The 1260 prophetic 
days, corresponding to the 42 months of Rev. 13: 5,  
which occur in six different places in the Bible, mani- 
festly relate to the length of the papal dominion. They 
cannot be literal days, then, for that dominion undenia-
bly continued hundreds of years. It is equally manifest  
that they have ended, for the Pope no longer rules over 
the kings ofthe earth, (Rev. 17 : 18,) nor can he wear  
out the saints of the Most High, as facts abundantly 
show.  
It is equally evident that, till the year 1798, the Pope  
had the dominion. In that year, says Dr. Clarke, " The  
French Republicans, under Berthier, entered Rome, and  
entirely yuperseded the whole papal power."  
These facts are very strong arguments for the belief  
that a day represents a year, for the days were so ful- 
filled.  
Then the periods at theend of the book of Daniel seem  
to show that Daniel's resurrection will be 45 years from 
the end of that prophetic period. Until the event occurs  
which we expect, or the time passes awav, it is certain- 
ly the part of wisdom to "discern the signs of the times,"  
and be ready to receive Christ, who will destroy them  
that corrupt the earth when he comes to give reward to  
his servants the prophets. Daniel will certainly be one  
to share in this reward. Those who "love the appearing"  
of Christ will share in his reward. Reader, do you love 
the thought of his appearing 1  
QUOTING SCRIPTURE.  
Professor Stowe lays down one proposition, which he  
defends by a quotation of Scripture, which amazes us.  
He says:  
" The most common metaphor which our Saviour uses  
to represent his coming is that of a thief, as in Matt. 25 ; 
43, already quoted, and Luke, 12 ; 39. I will come on thee  
as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come  
upon thee. Rev. 3 : 3 Behold I come as a thief; blessed 
in he that waichcth. Rev. 16: 15. The same word is  
used for the same purpose in 1 Thess. 5 : 2, and 2 Pet. 
3 : 10. The passage in Rev 3 : 3, indicates where the point  
of the comparison lies, as do also the texts in Matt. 24 :  
43, and Luke, 12; 39. A thief conies when people are  
not expecting him, for it would frustrate his purpose to  
come when they are expecting him. So Christ, will come  
when people are not expecting him. But if Christ has 
<dven us the means of calculating tbe time of  his approach,  
then there is no sense in the metaphor ; or it must be  
that he is coming to steal, for there are only these two  
ways in which he can come as a thief."  
Now, how shall we account for the fact that the Prof,  
leaves out the very foundation of the text he comments  
upon '! The Lord Jesus, in his fifth epistle to the church- 
es, says: " IF, therefore, thou shalt NOT watch, I will  
come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know," &c.  
Has not the Prof, grossly misrepresented Christ's  
words7  
In his reference to 1 Thess 5: 2, he has done equal in- 
justice to tbe apostle Paul, who wrote to the Thessalo- 
nians thus : [Wakefield ]  
"But I wish you, brethren ! not to be ignorant with re- 
spect to them that are asleep, lest ye sorr.ow, as other men  
without hope. For, if we are persuaded that Jesus died  
and came to life again, then must God through Jesus  
bring with him them also, that are asleep. For this we  
declare unto you by a declaration from the Lord ; that  
those of us, which are left alive at the coming of the Lord,  
will not go before them that are asleep ; because the Lord 
himself will come down from heaven, with a commanding 
voice of an archangel, and a loud sounding trumpet ; and 
they, who have died in Christ, will first come to life ; af- 
terwards we, who are left alive, shall be caught up to-
gether with them in clouds to meet the Lord in the air ; 
and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore en-
courage each other with these doctrines.  
"But about the exact time, brethren ! it need not be writ- 

ten to you : for ye yourselves know perfectly, that the day  
ofthe Lord is coming as a thief by night. For, whdst  
THEY are saying Peace and safety! sudden de- 
struction cometh ON THEM, like the pains on a woman with 
child ; and there can be no escape. But YE, BRETHREN ! 
ARE NOT IN DARKNESS, THAT THE DAY SHOULD SURPRISE YOU 
LIKE A THIEF. Ye are all sons of light and sons of day ;  
we are not of night nor of darkness. So then, let us not  
sleep like the rest, but be watchful and sober : for the 
sleepers sleep by night, and the drunkards are drunken 
by night: but let us,who are of the day, be sober, puttingon  
a breast-plate of faith and love, and for  a helmet a hope of  
salvation : for God appointed us not unto punishment, 
but to attain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ;  
who died for us, that, whether we live or die, we might  
dwell together with him. Wherefore, encourage each  
other and improve each other, as indeed ye do."  
We turn, also, to Paul's letter to the Hebrews, where  
he said : [9: 28.]  
" Christ, having been once offered up to bear away the  
sins of all, will appear a second time, without any sin-
offering, TO THEM THAT ARK WAITING FOR HIM, unto salva- 
tion."  
A little farther on, he wrote, thus : [10: 23.]  
" Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without  
wavering; (for he, who hath promised, is faithful) and let 
us consider each other to excite in ourselves love and good  
works : not abandoning our association in the gospel, as  
the manner of some is ; but encouraging each other, and  
so much the more as YE SEE THE DAY APPROACHING."  
Let us compare all this with Christ's words to his dis- 
ciples. in the discourse on his coming in the clouds of  
heaven, in which he s lys : " Take heed to yourselves,  
LEST at any time your hearts be oppressed with surfeit- 
ing and drunkenness and the cares of life, and SO that  
day overtake you unawares : For as a snare will it come 
on all them that dwell on the face of the whole eaith.  
WATCH ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye may be  
accounted worthy to escape all these things which shall  
come to pass, and to stand before the son of man."  
Now, let any one compare all these texts, and can he  
fail to see that Christ comes like a thief to those who do  
not obey him, and watch ;—who are not looking for him, 
but crying, Peace and safety, and who will not escape'  
Surely the Lord meant to teach us that it would be un- 
speakably awful to have him come on us like a thief. In  
the 24th of Matthew he has described a character to  
whom the corning will be unexpected. We give the dis- 
course in its connection:  
" Learn then the comparison of the fig-tree. When its  
tender branch is already come, and the leaves spring 
forth, ye know that the summer is nigh; so likewise  
know, when ye see all these things, that he is nigh, even  
at the door. Verily, I say unto you, this very generation  
[or that sunn generation, so Penn translates h ytvzwavrn] 
will not pass away, till all these things be done. The  
heaven and the earth will sooner pass away, than these 
words of mine pass away. But the very day and hour  
no one knoweth ; not even tbe angels of heaven ; but my  
Father only. As the days, however, of Noah were, so too  
this cor&ing ofthe Son of man will be. For, as in those  
days before the flood, they were eating and drinking,  
marrying and given in marriage, until the day of Noah's  
entrance into the ark, and were not aware of the flood  
that was coming to carry them away: so too this pre-
sence of the Son of man will be. Then, of two men at  
the farm, one will be taken, and the other left. Of two  
women grinding at the mill, one will be taken, and the  
other leit. Watch, therefore, for ye know not at what  
hour your master cometh. But this ye know, that if the  
master of the family had known in what watch the thief  
was coming, he would have kept awake, nor have suffer- 
ed his house to be broken into. Therefore, be ye also  
ready ; for in an hour, when ye are not expecting him,  
the Son of man will come. Who then is that faith- 
ful and prudent servant, whom his master set over the 
servants to give them their sustenance in its season 1  
Happy that servant, whom his master, at his coming,  
shall find thus employed ! Verily, I say unto you, he will 
give him the charge of all his substance. But if the ser- 
vant be wicked, and say in his heart, My master is long  
in coming ; and begin to beat his fellow-servants, and to  
eat and drink with drunkards ; in a day, when THAT SER- 
VANT is not expecting, will his master come; and in an 
hour, when HE is not aware; and will cut him in two, and  
appoint his portion with the ungodly : there will be weep- 
ing and gnashing ofthe teeth."  
O let us strive earnestly, that we may not be of this  
unhappy number.  
Every one looking downwards becomes impressed  
with ideas of his own greatness ; but looking upwards,  
feels his own littleness.  
103


For the Midnight  Cry.  
PHILO TO AUTOPTES.  
THE NEW THEORY OF INTERPRETATION.  
(Continued.)  
The language which occurs in Daniel 9 ; 24, if com- 
pared with historical testimony and with the Scriptures,  
proves that days are used for years, by the prophet,  
"Seventy weeks"—(tjlS^'j fc^M—Shabuim shibitn—  
"weeks seventy")—are determined (^tini —nechtak—  
" cut off") upon thy people and upon thy holy city, &c.  
The 25th verse fixes the commencement of these weeks  
at "the going forth of the commandment to restore and  
to build Jerusalem." This commandment was given in 
the seventh year of Artaxerxes, B. C. 457. See Ezra  
7th. Those, who have supposed the commission granted  
to Nehemiah in the 20th year of this king, still reckon  
the same period of time with others, who fix on the  
seventh year. In short, all agree that 490 years expired 
from the going forth of the commandment until the cru-
cifixion, when the Saviour " made reconciliation for in- 
iquity," and they are equally agreed in reckoning each  
day of these seventy weeks as a year. Unless this is 
done, the prophesy would be absolutely falsified. Now it  
is worthy of notice, that our vision is strjctly literal.—  

[ by days. In all the passages, which have been quoied  
] (and many more might have been added,) the word  
yamim is not in the genitive, but in the accusative case, 
the word, wljich immediately precedes it not being in the  
construct form.  
It is true that the word ^IB (feminine gender,)  
shel?a—and ^y^' (masculine,) shjbfch, seven, has the 
same radical letter,; as fche word sluibfla. week, that the  
latter is a derivative of the former; but the new theory  
would lead the English reader Xo beli,eve that they are  
identical, which is not. true.  
In the construct form, j-^', sheba, becomes  
sheba—"a seven of," while shibah, becomes  
tlSSffl. " a seten of." The plural of j^j is siy^',  
"shibim," (not seven, but) seventy. It is worthy of no-
tice, that the plural forms of the numerals (if we except  
-IITO5, echad, one—plural, t^f-j^,  echadim, ones, or  
certain ones, and ten—plural, rrhfes. asaroth, 
tens)—always represent ten times as much as'the singu- 
lar; hence r'kr«, three, in the plural form, is tJ^'bui.  
thirty, not threes. To express the idea of threes, the  
Hebrews would repeat the ordinal thus, ^'ilS a'^jrj—  
three, three—or, "by threes." Thus, Gen. 71 2, "Of  - ••'•(i.t., nuot.—>u, i)y unees. inus, Lren i • a "Of  
There is no qualifying term in the Hebrew, connected every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens"-
with Shahmm " wp.pks " nnfhin.r n i;i.„ "J oc,cl'°  with Shabuim "weeks," nothing in the passage like  
" weeks of years." The advocates of " the new theory,"  
aware that this passage is fatal tq their views, have  
labored to get rid of its testimony by a criticism on the  
word " week," which is equally novel and ill-founded. 
They tell us that the word s^ia (" shabua," or  
n " T  
shebua, in the masc.) construct form, y^ffi, dual  
S^affl shebuayim, plural shabuim—feminine  
plural rriynid shabuoth,) merely signifies seven, and of  T  
course that its plural signifies seeens. Hence, say they, 
the word, if employed in the sense of our English word  
week, must be followed by the word days, and that in 
such cases, it would imply " a seven of days."  
Now I maintain, that with the exception of a single  
passage in Ezek. 45 : 21, which will he noticed hereafter,  
Hebrew usage does not afford a shadow of proof in favor  
of this criticism, and that even  this passage, ou examin- 
ation, will be found to give them no aid ; that the He- 
brew word " shabua" has precisely the same signification  
with the English word " week," and like that word, it  
signifies a period of seven days. An English reader, on  
perusing the assertion made by the friends of " the  
theory," would conclude that there was not in Hebrew  

itsnta wS.'ntp shibah shib&h—seven seven, and so in all  
similar cases.  
The result of these facts is that week and seven are  
distinct words in Hebrew—as distinct as they are in 
English, Latin or Greek ; that in Scriptural usage, they 
are never confounded or interchanged, and that the as- 
sertion, which would lead us to suppose the contrary, is 
not supported by proof.  
I shall now quote the passages where week or weeks  
occur in the Hebrew Testament, and also some in  
which such phrases as seven days, &c., occur, that you  
may arrive at a result founded on facts.  
Deut. 16: 9—"Seven weeks (n'^a shibah  
shabuoth) shalt thou number unto thee : begin to num- 
ber the seven weeks  (shibah shabuoth) from such time,"  
&c. Now if the "theory" were true, and shabuoth sig- 
nified merely sevens, the qualifying word yamim, days,  
ought to be used after shabuoth, which is not the fact.—  
In this chapter we have "seven days" in verses 3, 4, 13,  
15, here expressed in Hebrew by tnto^ tveSlp. s hi bath  
yamim, "a seven (hrpta.de) of days." So in verses 10,  
16, we have the phrase "feast of weeks" expressed by  
ni^nia an ehag shabuoth. In this case, had it been  

of time, viz : Dan. 10 ; 2, ^^ ^JIV sMoshah  
; T • \ : T t  
shebuim yamim. Here, ajthough the word days occurs,  
it is used, as has already been noticed, pleonastically, and  
merely signifies as to time If the idea designed to be  
conveyed had been " three sevens of days," then shebuim 
must have had a construct form, shebue—although  
no instance of such a form of this word is found in the  
language. Tjie .other case occurs ,in Dan. 10: 3, which  
differs from the last quotation only in placing three in the 
construct form, " shelosheth," so that the phrase signi- 
fies " a three of weeks as to time."  
PHILO.  
(To be Continued.)  
any appropriate word for week : in short, that such was jJ •  
•U • f .U • 1 , , r the design of the writer to sav " feast of seven davs " the DOvertv of their ammairp that thp pw« ivom  J  the poverty of their language, that the Jews were com- 
pelled to use the phrase, " seven days," or " a seven of 
days," when they wished to express the idea, which we  
can convey by the single word week. Nothing can J;e mure 
false than such a supposition.  
To make this apparent, it may be proper to state, that  
the word " days,'' (yamim,; is used pleonastically'after 
words designating a definite portion of time Gesen ius,  
the Hebrew Lexicographer, under the word tni, (yom—  
"day,") says, " tji^i (yamim,) in the accusative is  
often put pleonastically after words designating a Certain  
and definite time." Thus, in Gen. 41 : 1, " two years,"  
(E. V., " two full years,") is expressed in Hebrew, by  
shenathayim yamim, literally "two years as to days."  
So in Gen. 29 : 14—" the space of a month," " ohodesh  
yamim"—literally "a month as to days." See D^ut.  
21: 13; 2 Kings 15: 13 In Daniel 10: 2, shssldsh&h  
shebuim yamim, " three weeks as to days," /E. V ,  

the words would have been "chag shibath y&mim  
Genesis 29 : 27, 23—" week," shebua—without any  
qualifying term like days, which would certainly have  
been necessary, if shebua signified seven, or a. seven.  
S.q in Levit. 12 : 5—" two weeks" is the proper trans,  
lation ofthe dual number, biyija, shebuayim. Numb.  
S3; 26—"your weeks," Minora, shabuothekem— by  
comparing thi^ verse with Levit. 23 : 15, it will be seen  
that " weeks" has reference to the period of nin^W  
sheba shabb»th6th, "seven Sabbaths." Jer. V: 24—  
" appointed weeks—' shebuoth'—of harvest." No  
qualifying term occurs here.  
The phrase " feast, qf weeks" occurs in Exod. 34 : 22  ;  
Deut. 16; 10, 16; 2 Chron. 8: 13. without the word  
" days." In Heb. ryissto chag shabuoth. '  
T —  
In the prophesy of Daniel, week and weeks occur in the  - • j. I J uuu Wl/l/'lO 111 Lilt/  
three full weeks." Daniel 10; 3, shelosheth shebuim j following passages.' Daniel 9 : 27 (twiqe,) " week "  
yamim " a three of weeks as to days." In these and j shabua. Daniel 9; 24—'-"seventy weeks'"  
similar cases, it is obvious that days is used simply with 1 r T , ,  
7 , U11 j fc'i^ia tl^ri®. §h,lbuun shibim. Verses 25, 26 • three- the sense of tune, as in a correct translation wpuld ' 1 ' "v^ ' ' " 
properly be " a time [or space] of two years," " a time j *GOr* S"d tW° Weeks' t^®® shabuim 
of three weeks," &c. The same kind of logic used by I shabuijp ushenayim." Verse 25—seven' weeks—  
the new interpreters to prove, that because the word ' iTSSTp SlSSta- shabuim shibah. In none of these cases 
"days" may sometimes be found in connection with rii« n,nr,t nr  ... does the word days or year occur, as must have been the  shebuim, (weeks,) that therefore it merely signifies 
sevens, would also prove, that the word translated  
case if shebua merely signified seven.  
month or year had no definite signification unless followed J"? °ther CaS6S °CCUr iri this ProP^y, in which  
shabuim occurs, both referring to the very same period  101  

"IT IS NOT FOR YOU TO KNOW," &c.  
REPLY TO BISHOP HOPKINS.  
No theory can be true to which the proper meaning  
of the word of God stands opposed. Complex as the  
truths of Scripture appear, there must be some simple 
principles which harmonize them all.  
One principle,  undoubtedly, is this: God has revealed  
truth under veils, which have been gradually removed 
as advancing time has called for fuller disclosures of  
truth. When the Saviour was first foretold, it was un-
der the emblem of the seed of the woman bruising the  
head ofthe  serpent. This obscure intimation raised a  
hope in the  human family, which was successively con- 
firmed by clearer predictions, It is worthy of remark, 
however, that the second coming of Christ was the sub- 
ject ofthe next prophecy of which we have any know- 
ledge. "  Enoch, also, the seventh from Adam, pro- 
phecied against these, when he said, Behold the Lord 
comes, with myriads of his holy ones, to execute judg- 
ment upon all." [Doddridge's Translation, Jude 14.]  
But there is, in the New Testament, a clearness on  
the subject of the resurrection and Christ's coming, so  
much beyond anything in the Old, that it is said, " He  
hath brought life and immortality to light through the  
gospel."  
Christ said, before he left his disciples, "I have many  
things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now."  
They evidently needed to have their earthly hopes so 
completely dissipated by his ignominious death, and  
their hearts so humbled that they'would receive the  
truth, concerning the kingdom of God, which they were  
to enter THROUGH much tribulation. When he was 
about to ascend from them, he  said, " It is not [conve- 
nient] for you [now] to know those times and seasons,  
which the Father hath reserved in his own power."  
[Doddridge's Paraphrase, Acts 1 : 7.]  
For an explanation of this, let us turn back to Daniel  
(8 ; 26,) " Shut thou up the vision, for it shall be for  
many days;" said Gabriel, in the very chapter in which 
he had told him of the 2300 days. He afterwards gave 
him a prophecy, in which he describes a historic event  
which takes place " 4T THE TIME OF THE END." This,  
we apply, without difficulty, and with striking fitness,  
to the events of 1798, in the career of Napoleon Bona-
parte. The angel proceeds, in a continued discourse,  
in which, a few verses onward, he says : " 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." We could scarcely  
be more clearly informed that the seal would be broken 
at the time of the end, including a short, space in which  
knowledge should be increased. Surely no period of  
the world corresponds with this prediction so accurate-
ly as the last 45 years.  
But when Gabriel had thus closed his last recorded  
message to man, previous to his coming to announce the  
forerunner of Christ, that GLORIOUS PERSON himself be-
came the speaker, and said : " Go thy way, Daniel,  
for the words are shut up and sealed TILL THE TIME OF  
THE END. None of the wicked shall understand, but  
THE WISE SHALL UNDERSTAND."  1


Now the words of our ascending Lord to his apostles,  
must be interpreted according to these declarations to  
Daniel, from which we learn that there would be a time,  
SCONNECTED WXTH THE END, when the wise shall under- 
tand what had before been shut up. This view of the 
subject presents a perfect harmony and consistency 
throughout the Scriptures.  
" But do you pretend that we now know more than  
the apostles did"?" says an objector, in amazement.  
Let us hear one of those apostles in a parallel casei  
We quote Doddridge's paraphrase, in which his trans-
lation of Peter's Words is in italic, and his amplification 
of the subject in Roman. After referring to the various 
trials Christians were called to endure, Doddridge pro- 
ceeds with Peter's cheering reference to the unutterable  
and "glorified joy" which awaited them at  the revelation  
of Jesus Christ, and says : (1 Peter 1 : 10.)  
" Concerning ivhich salvation, the prophets, who pre- 
dicted, the grace ofthe gospel, [which was appointed] to 
you, sought and diligently inquired; Searching, with  
the deepest and most attentive reflection, lo what pe- 
riod, or to what, manner of time, the Spirit of Christ 
which was in them did refer, when he testified long be- 
fore they came to pass the various sufferings which  
were to  come upon Christ, and the exalted and perma- 
nent glory ivhich was to succeed them, and render him 
and his kingdom so perpetually illustrious, and his ser- 
vants so completely happy. To the memorable testi- 
mony of these prophets it becomes us to pay a sincere  
and profound regard, to whom such extraordinary dis- 
coveries were made, as no attentive reader can view  
without conviction and astonishment; and it was re- 
vealed* to them among other things, that [it was] not to  
themselves, but to us that they ministered these things;  
they knew that we, when the events arose, should have  
a more complete understanding of these oracles, than  
any who declared them had."  
Lecturers on science delight to tell their pupils that  
children can now understand truths which Newton did  
not know. The events of Providence are designed to  
throw light upon  his word, and to these Christ refers  
when he says ; " WHEN these things come to pass,  
KNOW that he is nigh, even at the doors." [Wakefield.]  
But did not Christ, in the same connection, say :  
" Ye know not when the time is 1" He certainly did 
but his words cannot contradict themselves. We are  
commanded to know when the time is near, even at the  
doors, but we are to watch for the precise time, because  
it may be at midnight, at the cock-crowing, or in the  
morning.  
Obj. But is it not perverting Christ's words to apply  
them to so narrpw a point ?  
Arts, Surely this comes with an ill grace from  
those who narrow down the great prophecies which 
reach to the END—even to the LAST END of the  
indignation, when Daniel shall stand up in his lot—to 
the days of Antiochus.  
Christ gives us the best authority for understand- 
ing his words literally, when he says : " I tell you in 
THAT NIGHT, two shall be in one bed, one shall be taken  
and the other left." This can apply to nothing else  
than a literal night of twelve hours. In his remarks,  
he refers to persons in the field as if it were mid-day—  
in the bed, as at night—at the mill, as in the morning  
and evening twilight, and says : " Watch, for ye know 
not when the time is,"—'that is, the prccise time, though  
you may know when it is very near.  
Doddridge collects the words of Christ as reported  
by all the evangelists, and enlarges upon them thus:  
" And therefore, that no calamities of life or solemni- 
ties of judgment may be dreadful to you, take heed to  
yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overloaded,  
and your rational powers depressed and stupified by  
gluttony and drunkenness, or distracted with worldly  
and secular cares; and by this means that awful and  

important day of which I have been speaking, should mark of the Bishop deserves notice. In reference to the  
come unexpected upon you. For the character of the time of the end, he applies it to the very end itself, which 
generality of mankind at that time will be such, that it  
shall come on the greatest part of all them, that dwell on  
the face of the whole earth,* as a snare upon a thought- 
less bird which, in the midst of its security, finds itself  
inextricably taken. (Compare Eccles. 9: 12.) Let 
me therefore address this most serious exhortation to 
you with an earnestness proportionable to its impor- 
tance : Watch ye against every temptation to negli- 
gence and sin take heed of every thing which might 
lull you into a dangerous security, and pray always, 
with the most fervent importunity, that through  divine  
grace, you may be accounted, worthy to escape all these 
calamitous and destructive things which shall assuredly  
cOme to pass just in  the manner I have described them,  
and may be happily enabled, even in the day Of his uni- 
versal judgment, to stand forth with courage and ac-
ceptance before the Son of Man; for you know not  
when the time of his appearance is, [or] at what hour 
your Lord does come to summon you before him.  
"But this you know, and would do well to consider it,  
that if the  master of a house that has at any time been  
plundered by robbers, had known exactly in what watch  
of the night the thief would have come, he would un-
doubtedly have watched then, and taking care to be  
provided for him, would not have suffered his house to  
be broken open, or have left the thief to make his ad- 
vantage by coming at an unexpected time.. And there- 
fore, as it is of so much greater Consequence oft this  
occasion that you should be prepared against an unsea- 
sonable surprise, be ye also ready, and learn, from such 
a common occurrence, to be upon your guard : for I  
tell you again, That at an hour when you think not of  
it, the Son of Man cometh; and multitudes of people 
will be as much surprised as if they had never heard in  
their whole lives that he would come at all. (Compare  
Luke 12 : 39, 40.)  
All this is perfectly consistent with the fact that the  
wise shall understand, and those who watch, and discern 
the signs of the times, will know when his coming is  
even at the doors.  
Ot>j.—If the angel Gabriel came to make Daniel under- 
stand the vision, and that vision reaches to the end, how 
could Christsay, Of that day and hour khoweth no man,  
no not the angels in heaven 1  
To this we might reply, It is a difficulty of your own  
creating. Gabriel's explanation does not refer to the  
DAY or HOUR.  
Obj.—But you understand a day to represent a year in  
Daniel, why not in the words of Christ]  
Ans.—Because the same rule (laid down by Prof.  
Stuart) which requires it in one place, forbids it in the 
other. In Daniel, days are used as measures of long  
periods of time, which have been accurately fulfilled  in  
years. In Christ's words, day and hour refer to a point ol 
time.  
Obj.—But I choose to apply day, in Daniel, and in  
Christ's words, in the same way.  
4MS.—-Even then, there is no difficulty. Christ speaks  
of angels in the plural number, and merely says that the  
day and hour was not known to the angels, but he does  
not deny that one angel had been sent to make Daniel 
understand the vision, reaching down to that day and  
hour.  
Obj.—I do not like that reply. I think Christ meant  
that no angel knew anything about it.  
—Our duty is to receive Christ's words in their  
proper connection, as he said them, not as you think he  
meant. But the angels could be the messengers bearing  
information to future readers and hearers, which they did 
not fully comprehend, as well as the prophets. Indeed)  
Peter intimates as much when he says, in the same con- 
nection in which he spoke of the prophets' ministering to  
others, and not to themselves:—" Which things the  
angels desire to LOOK INTO."  
Thus we see, that our opponents raise their objections  
upon inferences, and they are weak as well as baseless.  
The objections to which we have replied form the sub- 
stance of an article from Bishop Hopkins, of Vermont,  
just published in the Episcopal paper at Utica. One re- 

is to come unexpectedly to all, and adds :—" Assuredly,  
there is nothing forced or  unreasonable in this interpre- 
tation."  
When a man says there is  nothing " forced or unreas- 
onable" in his argument, he seems to feel that his assertion  
is needed to meet the objection which will naturally arise  
in the hearts of his readers. He argues on rthe ground  
that the prophecy reaches to Christ's second coming. 
This obvious view shows the absurdity of applying it to  
the days of Antiochus Epiphanes. Our opponents thus 
demolish each other's arguments completely. Leaving 
them to gather up the fragments, we prefer to stick to the  
words ofthe angel in Dan. 11 : 40. Surely this is the 
time when all should WATCH.  
* To whom it was ravealed, <$-c.] I think this text plainly proves  
that the prophets had some general intimation that their prophecies  
referred to the Messiah ; bat that they did not understand every  
clause of them in their full force, NOR SO WELL AS WE UNDERSTAND  
THEM, who are capable of comparing them with the event.—Doddr.  

"AS IT WAS I1V SODOM."  
There is a fearful emphasis in these prophetic words  
of our Saviour.  
The New York Evangelist urging the importance of  
laws against seduction, gives the following view of the  
state of morals:  
" The fearful events which have transpired in Phila- 
delphia and New York, of late, are enough to teach 
every mind that so long as the law will not avenge these  
irretrievable injuries, the relatives will take tbe wea-
pons of vengeance in their own hands, and inflict severer  
evils than cool and judicious legislation would ever 
do. The expression is common in many circles, both 
in reference to the murder of the young man in Phila- 
delphia, and also of Corlies, in this city, that they de- 
served it, and that nothing better could be expected 
while the law remains deficient. False and dangerous  
as this reasoning is, the fact of its prevalence is in it- 
self a powerful reason for immediate legislative action.  
There are many causes conspiring at the present time  
to give the subject a favorable aspect. The serious  
interest in eternal things which is so extensive ; the  
HOUR OF GLOOM and comparative uninvitingness which 
is shed over worldly fortunes in general, &c :  
The editor considers it notorious that " The earth  
is filled with violence," and " men's hearts are failing."  
MURDERS AND SUICIDES.—These have been unusu- 
ally frequent within the last two months. We have 
not recorded all that have come under onr notice, be- 
cause the moral effect of the frequent presentation of  
such cases is by no means beneficial. Yet we think it  
proper to allude to their unusual number, that the pious 
may be disposed to mourn over the guilt of the land,  
and to put forth every suitable effort to reform the  
principles of its inhabitants.—Baptist Advocate.  
While murder is thus perpetuating itself, the follow- 
ing is a specimen of what society is doing to perpetuate  
immorality.  
HORRIBLE.—A widow has been deprived of the ser- 
vices of her son during five months. He was the main  
support Of the family. Being needed as a witness, he  
was imprisoned among convicts and felons, and he comes  
from the Tombs ruined in principle and character.  
The only compensation which the court allows for  
shch irreparable injuries is $25 :  
* It shall come upon all them that dwell, The exhortations  
that are connected with this clause limit the extent af the word all 
to a considerable number : for were it to be taken otherwise, there  
could have been no room to offer them.—Doddridge.  

HINTS FROM OUR OPPOSERS.—A writer at Newton,  
Mass., in opposition to brother Miller, asks the follow- 
ing questions, which we earnestly commend to all  
our readers:  
" Are those who are so sanguine in the statement,  
making ready to meet their Lord and Master 1 Some  
of them say, 4 they shall rejoice to see the day, and  
hail the brightness of his coming ;' and some go so far  
as to represent the condition of themselves and others  
on that day. But how little do such reflect on the im- 
portance of such an event ! Are such bringing them- 
selves down in tbe vale of humility, or are they living 
on in the vain superfluities of a fashionable world ? Let  
the observer answer. Meanwhile, such may reflect on 
the words of their Master, whom they expect to meet 
the second time, 'without sin unto salvation :' 'He  
that exalteth himself shall be abased ; and he that hum-
bleth himself shall be exalted.' ' Let no man deceive  
himself.'"  
105


HONOR. FROM MEN.  
Christ said to the Pharisees, " How can ye believe  
who receive honor one of another V' It seems then, that  
honor from men is dangerous, even when it comes from  
professed teachers of religion. It raises a curtain of pride 
to stop the windows through which the light of simple  
truth might shine. Respecting the title Reverend, the 
venerable John Hersey writes, in the Christian Advocate 
and Journal:  
" I dare not give it to any created, fallible, dying mortal.  
' I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my  
Maker would soon take  me away.' I believe the term  
reverend occurs but once in the Bible, and then it is ap- 
plied to the high and lofty One, who inhabiteth eternity,  
whose name is Holy.  
" The Lord Jesus cautions his followers against being  
called rabbi, (a term of less honorable import, I presume, 
than that of teverend,) assigning as a reason, that he who  
exalts himself shall be abased. Again, Christ asks  
' How can ye believe, which receive honor one of ano- 
ther 1' Now, as I cannot satisfactorily and consistently  
answer that important interrogative, and receive, or give  
to any man the honorary title of reverend, I deem it best,  
as regards myself, not only lo avoid danger, but the very  
appearance of evil. Another reason for my singularity  
in this particular, is, a deep and honest conviction of my  
own ignorance, dependence, and unfaithfulness. Pride  
has ever been my besetting sin ; and as it is hateful to  
God, and must exclude me from heaven, if the slightest  
touch of its dark s'tain is found on my garments, it be- 
hoves me carefully to guard every avenue by which that  
deadly poison may be introduced into my own heart.  
Walker defines the term ' reverend,—honorary epithet, of  
the clergy ; worthy of reverence.' 'Reverence—to regard  
—awful respect—to revere, to venerate,' ' Reverential,— 
expressing reverence, awful, respectful."  
"From such an eminence of distinction I am constrain- 
ed  
to turn away, alarmed at the appearance of the preci- 
pice to which it conducts me. It is a source of some 
consolation to know, that I have not always been alone  
in my sentiments on this important subject. Samuel  
Drew, a celebrated metaphysical writer, who rose by the  
energy of his own gigantic mind from a cobbler's seat to  
a considerable eminence in the literary world, and in the  
Methodist Church in England, remarks, ' Let those be- 
ware, too, of seeking the honor that cometh from men. 
In my estimation, and that of many others, the preachers  
went down several degrees, when, by a vote of confe- 
rence, they assumed to themselves the title of reverend:  
Appendix to Drew's Life, p. 338."  
This disposition to seek honor from men is one of the  
greatest obstacles to the reception of truth, relating to  
Christ's near coming. A writer in the Christian Mirror 
at Portland, Me. rejoices that no regularly educated con- 
gregational ministers have embraced Mr. Miller's views  
Thus they are glorying in the dignity of what, they call 
" our sect." Is that seeking the honor which comes from  
God only ?  
The Philadelphia Daily Chronicle, notices Dr. Weeks'  
lirst Lecture on chronology, thus :  
" FATHER MILLER.—The Rev. Dr. Weeks, of Newark,  
N. J., a distinguished  theologian, has recently delivered  
a course of Lectures in that town on tbe doctrines advanc-
ed by Father Miller and his followers. The Reverend  
gentleman has very ably handled the subject, and proves  
beyond the shadow of a doubt that Miller is entirely  
wrong in his calculations, and that he bases his theory 
on false and perverted data. He quotes from the most  
celebrated writers upon sacred history, and states  that  
most of them were very cautious upon a subject which it  
is almost impossible for the mind of man to comprehend.  
According to the  learned Doctor, Miller has made more  
than thirty mistakes in his Scriptural dates, perverts well  
authenticated facts, and founds most of his calculations  
on mere conjecture. That portion of Dr. Weeks' lec-
tures which we have read, display great research, and an 
extensive knowledge of the Holy Scriptures, as also the  
writings of ancient and celebrated theologians.—Father  
Miller, we think, has been 1 used up,' if we may apply a  
vulgar, but comprehensive expression, by the learned  
Doctor, and any person of common sense, who will read  
his lectures, will come to the same conclusion. We have  
ever looked upon the advocate of the Second Advent as  
more knave than fool, and have pitied the poor deluded  
beings whom his false and pernicious doctrines have led  
astray. We trust that when this year runs out, and his  
doctrines are falsified, as most assuredly they will be, and  
the glorious sun will be found to shine as brightly as  
ever, and old earth still revolving upon its axis, that Mil- 
ler and his followers will then come to their senses, and 
be satisfied with this world, and not be so anxious hereaf- 
ter to bring it to a premature end."  
This  
writer loves this present world, and Christ says .  
«' If ye love the world, the love ofthe Father is not in  
you." Praise from such a source is dangerous,  
1©S  

THE TIME.  
The following article from the LONDON ' Morning  
Watch,' published in A. D. 1829, vol. 1 page 271, will no  
doubt be read with deep interest by our readers. Al- 
though the author, (the Rev. PH. HOMAN,) does not pre-
cisely harmonize with us on the character of the event,  
yet there is a harmony in the computation of prophetic  
time, that is worthy of note. 
Remarks on the period assigned in Scripture for the  
Restoration of Israel. By the Rev. PH. HOMAN.  
Every person who carefully examines the Divine re- 
cords must perceive that the fortunes ofthe Jewish nation  
are intimately connected with a grand period of seven  
times, or 2520 years ; and that at the close thereof their  
restoration may be expected. There is snch a remarka- 
ble coincidence in the result of the following computation,  
that I am disposed to think that We are now within a  
few years of that most glorious event, so much to be de- 
sired by every Christian.  
1. The captivity of Israel by Esarhaddon, in ihe reign  
of Manassah—a captivity referred to in the seventh chap- 
ter of Isaiah—-took place B. C. 677. If from this well- 
marked event we date the seven times, they will termi-
nate in A. D. 1843.  
2. From the eighth chapter of Daniel, we learn that the  
Sanctuary is to be cleansed at the end of 2,300 days.— 
Now, what period can be so appropriately fixed on for  
the commencement of these 2,300 days, as that so well  
defined in the next chapter, namely, the decree for restor-
ing the civil and ecclesiastical polity of the Jews, and 
which must be considered as typical of the future more  
glorious restoration, when the sanctuary is cleansed 1  
According to the best commentators, this decree was  
made in the seventh year of Artaxerxes, B. C. 457 : con-
sequently, the 2,300 days, reckoned from this, terminate  
in A. D. 1843.  
3. There can be no doubt but that the Restoration of  
Israel will take place in a year of  Jubilee, that remarka- 
ble festival so clearly typilying their restoration to their  
own land. According to the computations of many chro- 
nologers, the next year of Jubilee will occur in 1843 or  
1844.  
.4 Is it fanciful to mention also the time specified in  
the ninth of Revelation 1 The continuance of the Otto- 
man power so long the scourge of tbe Jews, is there limit- 
ed to an hcur, a day, a month, and a year—equal to 391  
years ; which being dated from the capture of Constan- 
tinople in 1453, will end in A. D. 1844  
GOOD SENSE.  
Our neighbors of the Tribune have not only corrected  
two falsehoods, but given utterance to important truth in  
the following.  
"MILLERISM  AND INSANITY.—We lately published a state- 
ment that a Mr. Shortridge, of New-Hampshire, had run  
mad with Millerism,  and attempted to ascend to Heaven  
from an apple-tree, but, found the  attraction of gravitation  
too strong for his celestial aspirations, and came to the  
ground with such momentum as to cause his death. We  
have just seen two letters of late date from different  
sources in Portsmouth, N. H., stating that letters had  
been received there from this same Mr. Shortridge, mak-
ing no mention of his 'ground and lofty tumbling' or  
death, circumstances so remarkable that they could hard- 
ly have escaped his notice had they actually occurred —  
We have heard from another source that this same Mr.  
S was crazy ten years ago. So in the case ofthe woman  
who poisoned her children and attempted to commit sui- 
cide some weeks since— her insanity was attributed to  
Millerism, but entirely without reason. Doubtless the 
like has heen the  case in many other instances. Those  
who know any thing of Insanity are aware that it very  
commonly takes its hue from the most exciting topic of 
the hour, so that hundreds of persons have been reported 
as victims of' religious mania,' when in feet their insani- 
ty was caused by functional disorders, often having its 
seat in the digestive organsand only by sympathy affecting  
the brain. Of those who are currently reported as ren- 
dered insane by 'Revivals' or 'Millerism,' a great portion  
would be found, on due inquiry, to have been constitu- 
tionally disposed to insanity, and often to have inherited 
that malady. In other cases physical derangement, con-
sequent on personal excesses, such as intemperance, 
gluttony, and other forms of sensuality, was the true 
cause. We cannot exclude from our columns accounts  
remarkable casualties, but our readers will know how 
to make due allowance for the causes to which they are  
often mistakenly attributed."  

"Some of Miller's followers, we understand, array  
themselves at night, in grave-clothes, in order IO be found  
ready ; and others have been driven to distraction, and  
to the PERPETRATION OF CRIME."  
The Bay-State Democrat, at Boston, makes the follow- 
ing announcement:  
" MILLER DELUSION.— Tt is now WELL KNOWN, that in  
this city, MANY of the believers in the doctrine that the  
world will come to an end this year, are having ascen- 
sion robes made, with which to mount up to the regions  
of bliss."  
It Was recently stated in this city, that a merchant in  
Pearl-street had an order for $5000 worth of silk, to be  
sent to Danbury, Ct„ (where Brother Chittenden lately  
lectured) to be used for ascension robes! !!  
The National Egis, at Worcester, Mass., which is re- 
ferred to by the New York Observer as authority for one 
of its statements about insanity, in the very article from  
which the Observer quotes, makes these remarks :  
" It is no marvel, under such circumstances, that men  
and women run from the solemn to the ridiculous,  and  
elothe themselves with ' ascension' garments. And yet 
it is not less pitiable than ludicrous, that persons should  
deck themselves with flounces and furbelows, in which,  
avoiding death and the grave, they are to be caught up to 
a world which they call spiritual."  
We trust our readers will pardon our seeming insult to  
their understandings in publishing these weak inventions  
of those who love lies. When our editorial brethren be- 
come sane enough to cease this scornful trifling with the 
credulity of their readers, and make a confession of their  
wrong-doing, we will announce the fact with great joy.  
There is an ascension robe which  MANY will possess, for  
"MANY will be purified and made white and tried," but  
scoffers and liars cannot be among this happy number, 
unless they repent.  
ASCENSION ROBES.  
We begin to feel the force of Montgomery's eloquent  
line—  
" The tide of lying tongues I stemmed."  
Opening the Churchman, in this city, we read :  

TIMELY THOUGHTS.  
The editor of the Shelby (Ky.) News, commenting  
upon Mr, Miller's views, a synopsis of which he pub- 
lishes, says :  
We know the end will come, and in our opinion it is as  
probable that it will be this  year as the next.  
Who knows to the contrary 1 Is it not foolish to under- 
take to prove that the world will not come to an end this  
year 1 Would not Ambassadors of Heaven be better ful- 
filling the purposes of their commission by exhorting all 
to prepare for the event ; and to be always ready 1 And  
then if Christ himself did not come ; but should send his  
messenger DEATH, to call you to him, where would be the  
difference 1 Life is uncertain—Death is certain. To  
many, if not to all, this year will be the end of Time ; and  
who can tell whether he will live to see whether Miller's  
calculation be true or false ! Better be ready, and wait-
ing : for at an hour when you least expect it, Time with  
you may end.  
The second coming of the Lord was an object of hope  
and desire in the days of the Apostles ; and the earliest  
Christains loved to dwell upon it; and the Apostles always  
spoke with pleasure of the day as being nigh at. hand.— 
The time of that coming We think but a small matter to  
being ready for it at all t,mes.  
Who, if he loves a friend, is disturbed or troubled at  
the prospect of an early visit from him 1 Do you not  
joyfully prepare yourself to receive him with gladness  
and with honor '! Prepare, then, for the messenger, or a  
visit from your Lord, if you love him ; and if it so be,  
that He sends his messenger for you, why, great should  
be your joy : but if he comes for you, oh ! how much  
greater will be that joy !  
SELF-SACRIFICE.  
The Christian Advocate and Journal, publishes a letter  
from a poor woman, who says she is compelled by  ne- 
cessity to stop her paper. In recounting the sacrifices  
she had made to continue it, she says :  
" We have met with so many losses, by fire, and other- 
wise. that it is indispensably necessary for us to relin- 
quish the paper at the present; but I will assure you it  
will be no longer than we have the means to pay for it.  
The Discipline  forbids our getting in debt without a proba- 
bility of paying, and I can see no way at present. We 
had two large buildings, well furnished, burnt. Nothing  
saved, only eight hundred dollars insurance to commence  
with in old age. We thought it would be cheaper living  
in the country. We purchased five acres, with a good  
orchard. We thought we could sell some dried apples to  
pay for the paper. When we got them to market they  
fetched us only three shillings and sixpence per bushel, 
and that in trade.  
" We then concluded, we wpuld deny ourselves one meal  
in twenty-four hours. THIS WE HAVE TRIED FOR ONE  
— i  •••..B.I—.II.—I


YEAR ; but mortey is harder to be got than ever. Before  
we agreed, to abstain from our usual quantity of food, I  
had written to say, ' Stop my paper ;' but did not send  
it. 
" And now, dear doctor, although unknown, yet welt  
known, if you have at any time an old paper, do not for- 
get your old reader. You know not how highly we prize  
them I never cut but one of them in my life, and my  
conscience upbraided me for that.  
" And now, I think I see you laugh at an old, and almost  
blind woman for troubling you with so long a letter, when  
I might have said, Stop our paper. No, I am not quite  
willing yet, if there can beany way devised for us to pay  
for the paper. If we could pilt up in the fall some first- 
rate apples, and send them by some of the merchants go- 
ing for goods, or otherwise, we would try to get them 
there. If not, amen. The good Lord give you ten, in-
stead of this one. So prays your unworthy sister in  
Christ."  
We suppose there is no insanity in this self-denial and  
effort to get a weekly paper. We hope our readers will  
profit by such examples.  
Let it be said of each, in reference to every good work,  
" She hath done what she could."  
Benevolence—A Lowell Girl.  
We clip the following from the Baptist Record.  
" A LOWELL GIRL.—Much has been said by others of  
the industry, intelligence  and energy of the ' Lowell  
girls,' but we have the pleasure of saying a word, this  
week, in illustration of their Christian benevolence.  
" A young lady employed in one of the factories of that  
flourishing place, Who had succeeded in saving three 
hundred dollars of her earnings, sought an interview with  
her pastor, and expressed her desire to appropriate a por- 
tion of it for objects of Christian benevolence, and that  
he should undertake to transmit it to the appropriate  
treasuries. To his astonishment she handed him one  
hundred dollars for that purpose. He suggested that it 
was a large proportion of her means, but it was unavail- 
ing ; she replied that it was in accordance with an in- 
tention she had formed before she had earned a dollar.  
" We are happy to add that fifty of it was given to the  
Home Mission Society—a gratifying act in this time of 
its special need, and another example worthy of imitation.  
What could not our benevolent societies do* ff all who  
profess to love the cause of Christ would appropriate for  
its promotion as large a share of their surplus earnings 1 
And even then, who would not have reason to say :  
' O to grace how a great a debtor  
Daily am I constrained to be.'"  
In another part of the paper, the editor says ;  
41 Do not overlook the article headed, ' The Lowell Girl.'  
Read it a second time and ask, • have I contributed as  
liberally according to my ability 1' 'Was she more  
| indebted to God than I am, or under stronger obligations  
to contribute liberally 1' We are acquainted with Chris- 
tians, owning thousands, who give not during the year  
an amount equal to the single donation of the Lowell  
factory girl. Were all the disciples of Jesus prompted by  
such a spirit, all complaints of our benevolent Boards  
would cease ; and soon the Missionary would be heard,  
and the Bible be read by 1 every creature.' "  
We could publish many such facts in relation to the  
believers in Christ's near coming ;—but the dear self- de- 
nying brothers and sisters are called crazy, if they give  
up part of their earthly treasures from love to Christ.  
We trust our readers will not need the stimulus of such  
examples, when Christ has given them his examples of  
self-denial and death on the cross for us, " while we were  
yet sinners." "If we have not the spirit of Christ, We  
are none of his."  

LETTJBRS.  
We have reason to praise the Lord for the intelli- 
gence we receive.  
A writer in Ontario, Wayne county, says :  
" In December last I attended a course of lectures  
on the coming of Christ in 1843, given by Bro. George  
J. Adams, 'from Massachusetts. My mind was awa-
kened, and interested, and my heart opened to receive 
the truth. A meeting was commenced at the Baptist  
church in Webster* where he lectured, and nearly 100 
have been brought ' out of darkness into his marvellous 
light.' A meeting was held at the same time in the  
M. E. Church, in the same town, and about the same 
number have been enabled to testify ' that the Son of  
man hath power on earth to forgive sins.' In many  
other places in this section of country where Bro. A. 
has lectured, powerful revivals have followed his ar- 
dent labors. I praise God that in my own family some  
have been reclaimed and some converted, and we are  
now looking for that ' blessed hope, and the glorious 
appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus 
Christ.' I have circulated my Midnight Cry among  
my neighbors and acquaintance. Some are convicted,  
others converted, while many who ' love this present 
world,' say, 'where is the promise of his coming"?''  
Praise of Bad Men.  
"What evil have I done, that this bad man praises  
me 1" This question of a heathen has a moral worthy of  
attention from a Christian. There were some who did 
not confess Christ because they loved the praise of men  
move than the praise of God. What a false estimate 
they made 1 What an unhappy choice ! yet multitudes  
make the same. And they had their reward." God  
grant that our distinguished theologians may not be turn- 
ed off, with the same miserable return j—but the symp- 
toms are alarming.  
Who can reflect upon the state of our civilized  Chris- 
tian country, and not be convinced that it is " as it was  
in the days of Noah," (our Saviour's description of the  
time of his coming,) and that the Lord Will also, as he  
did then, •' see that the wickedness of man is great in the  
earth," and come quickly in wrath to take vengeance on  
"those who destroy the earth."—Phila. Alarm.  

A writer at Yevay, Indiana, encourages us by a pre- 
cious letter, which shows that the seed takes root in 
the right soil,—among the poor, devoted and humble.  
He says :  
" I am a Baptist minister, located in this western  
country, where we have not had the privilege of hear-^  
ing a single lecturer upon the all-absorbing subject of 
the Second Advent, which is beginning to create some  
considerable excitement in this country, as well as in 
the east.  
" This morning I went down to the Pdst Office,where  
I happened to see the last Midnight Cry, which you had  
sent to the P. M. I have read it with thrilling inter- 
est. I have for some weeks felt my mind much agita- 
ted upon the signs of the times. But not haying ac-
cess to any of your works, I am at a loss for informa- 
tion. I therefore beg of you to send me (if you can,  
commencing with the first No.) the 'Midnight Cry,'  
and if I can, I will try to send you some money after a 
little time. I want to know the truth. And if I find  
that I have been in the dark heretofore, none can be 
more willing than I to sound the alarm. Would it not 
be well for some Brother to come out west, and lec- 
ture 1 for sin doth greatly abound. So far as 1 have  
read your paper, I am fully convinced that you are in 
the right. And I think, so far as I can judge, the  
public mind is very much awakened. But they want 
light. Do send me a paper, occasionally at least. I  
would be glad, however, if you could send it regularly.  
And I promise you that I will give it circulation.  
Yours, in the hope of eternal life,  
WM. WADSWORTH.  
" P. S. I am poor, and get scarcely a living for my  
family. Consequently you will please make allowance  
for my not sending money, or paying the postage on 
this letter. W. W."  
A Postmaster in St. Lawrence county writes for  
books, charts and papers for a neighbor who is con- 
vinced that the second coming of Christ is at hand,  
and assures us that " what is sent will be put to the 
most important use." From the letter we judge the  
person wishing books is a preacher. The P. M. pro- 
ceeds :  

that men would be  wise, and regard their own welfare.  
But little is known in  this part upon the subject, and I  
fear the expectations of the wicked will be suddenly cut  
off. Miller is not unfrequently spoken of with sneers  
and ridicule. It is because they know nothing about  
the subject, neither desire to. I fear that thousands  
will, some day or other, regret the contumely and re- 
proach they have so lavishly heaped upon Miller and  
others, who are proclaiming the Midnight Cry. I have 
myself been heretofore rather skeptical of the doctrine ;  
but never did I feel to ridicule it. If my eyes are now 
being opened, I hope it may not be in vain. 'He which 
testifieth these things, saith, Surely, I come quickly;  
Amen. So come Lord  Jesus.' "  
A writer in North Carolina says :  
" I wish your last No. of the Midnight Cry sent me  
immediately by mail. The public mind seems yet  
deeply interested,—large increase of sale of Bibles and  
Testaments—scoffs and sneers and lies still abundant—  
and the opposition of many who occupy high places, as  
decided as ever ;—many, however, are seriously and  
deeply impressed. I am more and more confirmed in 
the gospel expectation of' the appearance of the great  
God our Saviour Jesus Christ,'—and amid the jeers of 
some, and the pity of others, continue joyfully to submit  
to the reproaches of Christ."  
A writer in Georgia says :  
"There is an increased inquiry for the papers."  
A Post Master in Ohio writes :  
" There is an increasing anxiety here respecting the  
coming of our blessed Saviour. Many look for His  
speedy coming, while others treat the subject with 
scorn and contempt. I shall strive to do all I can to  
give circulation to a subject of such vast importance."  
A Postmaster in Indiana, who writes like a " Friend,"  
"He says, 'If the Bible contains the doctrine that  
Christ will make his appearance, why is it  not possi- 
ble that he will appear this year 1 Why is it not as  
likely that he will come at one time as another "? It is  
natural for us to put far off the day, and many I have 
heard say, 'I believe he will come, but it cannot be yet.'  
Ask them the reason, and the main one which can be  
extorted is, 'I do not wish to see him ; I had rather live  
in this world a little longer.' They will bring their ob- 
jections, without looking at the subject; and will not  
hesitate to say they have no disposition to examine—  
and some, professors of religion too. The Christian  
loves the appearing of the great God and our Saviour  
Jesus Christ—and I believe it his duty and privilege  
to live as though he expected to see Christ the next 
minute coming in the clouds of heaven with his saints.  
Alas 1 but few desire His appearance—this world has  
such attractions—the pleasures of this life are so ex-
quisite, that the joys of heaven are not desired. Oh,  

says:  
" The Midnight Cry and Voice of Warning are stir  
ring up the people in this country considerably ; there  
appears to be a great many who are seriously inquiring 
after the truth, and are almost willing to believe, while 
there are a number of others who are Very much dis-
turbed, and greatly fear that 'the great day of the Lord  
is near.' There are also a few scoffers, and some who  
' cry peace and safety,' and ' my Lord delayeth his  
coming,' &c. But yet I believe the gospel is gaining  
ground, and I hope will continue to spread from day to 
day, and from place to place, till the last trump shall  
sound, and that many, who now scoff, may yet repent 
and live."  
From Peoria county, Illinois, we receive a request for  
the paper without money ;—the letter costing us 25  
cents. We always comply with such requests ; but 
how we shall get means to meet these repeated calls  
we can see only by faith. God has supplied our need  
thus far, and we trust he will continue to do  so. Those  
who cannot send us monesy, are requested not to sub- 
tract from our small funds, by unpaid letters. Post- 
masters will frank orders for papers. But  let him  
speak for himself:  
" It is with some delicacy that I request you to send  
me the above publication without remitting to you the  
money. It is unnecessary for me to say that the doc- 
trine of the second advent is producing considerable  
excitement in  this place and vicinity, and while the  
multitude raise their objections to it, there are but few  
disposed to think seriously of the matter. I think, how- 
ever, the doctrine is progressing. Those of us who 
believe it. are poor in the things of this world, and are  
to a great degree ignorant of the ground taken by Mr.  
Miller and others who are writing on this subject.  
'Fitch's Reasons for Believing in the Second Advent 
of Christ,' is all that I have seen on this important sub- 
ject. If you will send me such publications as will help  
forward the cause of truth, I may probably be able to 
pay before long. But for the hard times, several would  
subscribe for the paper in this village."  
Brother J. B. Cook writes from Middletown, that he  
cannot visit us immediately, in compliance with our re-
quest, and adds:  
" Allow me to say a word through you, to those as- 
sociated with you. Daniel learned by books that God  
would restore his people from captivity at the end of  
70 years. Then he did not renounce all care and say,  
if I am ready it will make no difference. No. He  
made the promise of God the ground on which he threw 
himself, soul and body, and poured out an agony of de- 
sire that it might be fulfilled. No one was ever more  
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sbsorbed in supplication than the beloved prophet  
eems to have been, in view of a promise that was ab- 
solute. ' When 70 years are accomplished, I will pun- 
ish the king of Babylon,' &c. How essential the pro- 
phet's prayer was to the accomplishment of the divine  
promise we are not told ; yet we may be fully assured  
that he would not have been qualified to act the part as- 
signed him had he been less prayerful. Now God has  
given us a greater promise, comprehending all the call- 
ed, and the chosen, and the faithful,—a promise which,  
when fulfilled, will be hell's discomfiture and heaven's  
jubilee. And shall we not give ourselves to prayer as  
did Daniel 1 We have ' learned by books,' that the  
! days of ' the little horn' are numbered, ' the last end of  
the indignation' is just arrived, and the time that the  
saints shall possess ' the kingdom1 is at hand, and I  
want to pray all the time, with all my heart, and soul,  
and mind, and strength—with every beating pulse I  
want to pray the effectual, fervent prayer, ' come, Lord  
Jesus, even so come quickly,' Amen! In this over- 
whelming prayer I want help—never did I feel myself  
so weak—never so much in need of strength to pour  
out my soul in believing, agonizing, unceasing supplica-
tion, " Thy kingdom come /"  
" O Lord, when thou didst appear ' a child born,'  
there was but one Simeon and one Anna to welcome  
thee! Now, blessed Jesus, pour thy spirit upon all who  
love thine appearing. O let Zion travail in prayer, till  
thou shalt come in thy kingdom and appear in thy glo-
ry. Amen!  
" When we are waiting, as Daniel waited for the ter- 
mination of the captivity, we shall be blessed—thrice  
and forever blessed. Then with joy we'll welcome our  
descending Deliverer. 0 for prayer, the world over,  
that the sanctuary may be cleansed ! Lord, fulfil thine  
own promise. Amen!"  
Brother Flavell writes to his wife from Lancaster,  
Pa., March 25, as follows :  
" I have given two courses of lectures since my last.  
In Mount Joy there was not one who believed the doc- 
trine before I went there. I called on thg congrega- 
tion when I had done, by request, to know how many  
believed fully in 1843. There were, I believe, more  
than fifty stood up. Among  them was a minister, Mr.  
Tucker. There were a great number seeking religion  
when I left.  
" The minister of the Methodist Church came and  
handed me a notice to read, stating that he would  
preach against the doctrine. I gave it out, and advised 
the congregation to go and hear him. I went and re-
plied to all the points, the same night. He came to  
hear me. There were so many of  his arguments so  
absurd, that I think he was ashamed.  
" I was strongly solicited by some ofthe friends to go  
to Lancaster, a pretty large city. They had been  
wanting lecturers for some time. When I got there 
the trustees met. They asked me for my credentials.  
I told them I had none. They said, as I was a stran- 
ger, they did not like to open the house except I could 
show my standing. I told them to use their pleasure,  
as there were many places wanting lectures. I was  
immediately going off in a sleigh. The gentleman, in  
turning the sleigh, broke it, and I could not go. I went  
to the church that afternoon, and they requested me to 
open the meeting and speak a few words. I did so, on 
the coming of the Lord. They seemed to be affected.  
The trustees met again and gave me the church. There  
was a revival going on, but after two or three lectures  
it broke out in a most powerful manner. There is a  
strife who will get a place first to kneel down at the  
end ofthe service. I am going to Washington to-day, 
and from there to Carlisle. If the Lord does not come  
before I fill those two places, I think I will go home. I  
still continue to lecture twice every day. I sometimes  
think from the answers I get in prayer, while praying  
for you, that you will all be gathered. Pray much and 
have strong faith in God."  
After brother Flavell's letter was in the printer's  
hands, we opened the Gospel Publisher, and read as 
follows:  
"LANCASTER, Pa., March 27, 1843.  
" Brother Weishampel,—Let us record the loving  
kindness of the Lord to guilty and wretched men in  
these last days. All around us the heavenly light is  
spreading, and multitudes are gathering unto Him who  
alone is able to save.  
"Our meetings have been kept up for several months  
past, and have resulted in the awakening and conver- 
sion of many precious souls. I suppose we have re- 
ceived into church fellowship this season about one  
hundred persons. A larger number, doubtless, have  
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professed conversion. Last night about fifty came for- 
ward to seek the Lord as penitent sinners, and seven 
or eight professed to find peace. Our congregations  
are very large, serious and well-behaved. We have  
been favored with visits from brothers Thomas and  
Ross, and likewise brother Flavell, a second advent  
lecturer.  
" I again say, that visits from any of our preachers  
or exhorters will be kindly received.  
| " I see just ahead the day of glory and joy which  
prophets and apostles saw afar off; the day when  
Christ shall come again to this fallen, guilty  world, to  
make all things new, and holy, and happy.  
" J. FLAKE/'  
The editor of the Christian Palladium writes  
"We are doing what we can to throw light on the  
great subject of Christ's second coming, and have con- 
stant calls from all parts of the country, where the Pal- 
ladium is read, for light, light, light! and for second  
advent publications. We give all we can, and recom- 
mend the Midnight Cry, &c. The Lord can work, and  
none can hinder."  
A writer in Canada having read three numbers of  
the Cry, and " finding the subject important and the ar-
gument both scriptural and reasonable," is anxious to  
know more. He says his neighbors are anxious to  
read. This is a pleasing contrast to the opposition of  
many who will not " prove all things."  
A postmaster in Indiana writes :  
" The Midnight Cry has been very interesting to me,  
and much sought for by others. Please to forward  
your paper so richly embellished by Scriptural truths."  
Another postmaster in the same state says : " The  
people here are poor. Money is an article we of the 
West do not possess. If you  will send a dozen or two  
of your papers, I will see thatthey are circulated."  
A brother in Greene county writes :  
" There are a few in this section of country that are  
looking for the appearing of our blessed Redeemer this 
year. For my part, I can say, that the Midnight Cry 
has been to me as cool water is to a thirsty soul. It  
is now a little more than five years since I obtained a  
hope in Christ, and I have ever loved him since. And 
when I first heard the joyful sound, ' Behold the Bride-
groom cometh,' it Was music to my soul, and I wanted  
and was anxious to investigate the subject for myself,  
and to see if there was a shadow of hope of redemption  
being so nigh at hand; and I  came to the conclusion  
that it was a Bible doctrine. I can say that 1 feel wil- 
ling to be called a Milleritc, or bear any other reproach  
for the sake of Christ who has done so much for me. I 
love Jesus, and I love his appearing, and my prayer  
shall ever be for the success of his glorious cause."  
A writer in Missouri says :  
" I have seen one number of your paper called the  
Midnight Cry, and  wish you to send it to me. I am of  
the opinion that it will do a great deal of good, for, in-
asmuch as we know not the day nor the hour, it certain- 
ly is wisdom to try to prepare for the great event of 
which this paper is a herald. Please send such publi-
cations as you may deem most important upon this mo-
mentous subject. This paper is the first of the kind 
that I have ever seen. May the blessing of God rest  
upon the endeavors of his people to rouse the people 
from their lethargy !"  
A postmaster in Alabama expresses his thanks for  
the paper, says he believes with us in part, and writes  
for more, thinking it possible he may thus be induced 
to " believe in toto." May the Lord bless all such  
candid inquirers.  
A brother in Illinois writes :  
" Since I became convinced of the truth of your  
doctrine, I have been spreading it, and commenced in  
my own town by giving lectures publicly, and in the  
adjoining settlements. Many are much interested in  
the subject. I am a private individual, and not used to  
speaking in public. Though called insane, weak, and 
opposed, yet not dismayed, I fear not the consequences.  
My domestic affairs prevent me from spending much  
time in this way, yet I embrace every opportunity.  
Some, in distant towns, have felt the force of my argu- 
ments. I have now—(it is only about a month since I 
became fully convinced)—written letters to my corres- 
pondents, who reside throughout the United States. I  
gave them my views—from the extreme northern part  
of New York to Florida—and to the extreme western  
part of Western Louisiana, on the Texan line."  

A postmaster in Kentucky says : " I believe your  
writings are doing'much good, in this our land."  
A writer in Mississippi says: " There is a deep  
anxiety manifesting itself everywhere to read Mr. Mil- 
ler's views."  
Silas G. Strong, Marysville, O., writes :  
"DEAR BROTHER HIMES,—For such I feel to address  
every one who is laboring in the glorious cause—the  
giving the call to a sin-polluted world, ' Behold, the  
bridegroom cometh.' Some years since, my mind 
was called to the  subject of Christ's second cominc  
and I was fully convinced of the truth and certainfy  
of a complete fulfilment ofthe great prophetic period  
in 1843. But. I found none in the sphere of my ac- 
quaintance who agreed with me in these views, and  
as I was only a layman in the church, our pastor or  
preacher thought me inclined to be fanatical. I was  
induced to let my light be hid under a bushel, for  
which 1 now feel to mourn.  
" On reading the few numbers of the Midnight Cry  
which have come to my hand, I have, as I trust, gained  
some light, and more particularly as to my course of  
duty. I have spoken to the citizens of this place twice 
in public, and every private opportunity is improved.  
" A Mr. Prior, a M. E. cl ergyman on a circuit fif- 
teen miles north of this, sent for me to assist him in  
presenting the subject to his people on his circuit,  
where I found a number of believers."  
PHILADELPHIA—LOVE  FEAST, &C.—A letter just  
received from Philadelphia says :  
" I never witnessed such a scene as I did last Sab- 
bath afternoon. The large saloon of the Museum was  
full, and in some places very crowded. We had a love  
feast for about an hour, and truly it was a feast of love  
We had no misimproved time. As fast as one indivi-
dual was done speaking about the goodness of the Lord  
to their souls, there was another ready to testify. Per-
sons of different denominations and all ages, from the  
aged down to the little child, gave in their experience  
in their own simple way. After that we commemorated  
the dying love of our blessed Lord. In all probability,  
it was the last time. I think there were no less than  
12 or 1400 who communed. In the evening, Bro.  
Chittenden lectured to a very large and attentive au- 
dience in the same place. Bro. Osier closed with an  
exhortation, and stated it was his firm conviction the  
blessed Lord would come before the month of August  
would roll around. Bless the Lord, all the second ad- 
vent brethren and sisters seem to be happy this week. 
Bro. Caldwell lectured last evening in the Brickmaker's 
Methodist Church."  
In this city the brethren and sisters met to show forth  
the Lord's death in the way He appointed, last Tuesday 
evening. Nearly 300 united. It was a time of calm re- 
joicing in the Lord. Fourteen persons had been immer- 
sed by Bro. Jacobs at noon, the same day, in the pre- 
sence of a crowd of spectators, who flocked to the wa- 
ter's edge and looked on without uttering a word, or  
moving a finger to disturb the interesting and solemn 
transaction.  
ALBANY.  
In consequence of Bro. Miller's sickness, the circus at  
Albany has been given up. While the meetings were  
continued there, Bro Himes wrote as follows :  
" Our meetings are full and deeply interesting. Bro- 
ther Bernard preached in the Circus on Sabbath evening. 
His lecture was excellent. He is on his way west.  
^''The alarm has been given in this city and vicinity  
with great  effect. It is said, by those who are opposed  
to us in sentiment, that the very extensive revivals still  
in progress here chiefly originated through the Advent  
doctrine, and frequent reference is made, by the converts  
to the Tent Meeting last year on Arbor Hill, and to the 
' house of prayer,' as the means of their awakening.  
"The scoffers, also, are deeply affected. The devil has  
come down in great wrath because he knows his time is  
short. The most ridiculous and blasphemous caricatures  
are now got up in this place, as well as in other cities, 
and circulated by the children of the devil to keep their  
courage up. This shows that the truth is giving them a  
deal of trouble ! May God have mercy upon them."  
Many other letters have been received, some ofthem  
from ministers, who call for light, and express a deep 
interest in the subject. Most ofthem have been called  
forth by the papers we have sent to every Post Office 
in the United States. We shall be happy to continue  
sending in large quantities, if the Lord's stewards will  
supply the means.


THE BIBLE-HINTS FOR ITS STUDY.  
We cannot prize the Bible too highly, nor study it  
too carefully. It is a light shining in a dark place. It  
is from the only source of true light. We have a right 
to use our reason, in inquiring whether the Bible is 
God's word, just as Abraham used his senses in deci-
ding whether God spoke to him. That question being  
settled, we ought to exercise the same unwavering, un- 
questioning faith which Abraham had. In proportion  
as we reverence the Bible, we shall strive to get a clear  
idea of what it teaches. There are many important  
facts connected with the Bible, for want of knowing  
which, some persons see the truths it contains as they  
see objects reflected in rippled waters,—distorted  in  
shape- 
1. The Geography of the places mentioned.  
2. The dates of the several  transactions recorded,  
and the connection between the different parts.  
3. The original meaning of the names mentioned.  
For want of geographical knowledge, many read the  
histories of Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah, and the trav- 
els of Paul, &c., as if they were reading of transac- 
tions in the clouds, or the fables of the fairy land, of  
which they have about as much knowledge as of the  
places mentioned in the Bible histories.  
For  want of comparing dates, our Bible knowledge is  
often without form, and void of any proper vivid im-
pression on our minds. A reputable member of a church 
in Boston once seriously inquired if Abraham did not  
live after the time of Christ. Many who are amazed  
at his ignorance, may unconsciously cherish mistakes  
almost equally glaring. In our Bibles we read the  
book of Ezra, and then pass on to the book of Job, and  
thus, in spite of our better knowledge, we imagine that  
Ezra lived first,—whereas  Job undeniably lived about  
the times of Abraham ; and Ezra not till after the times  
of Daniel, leaving nearly 1600 years between them.  
The connection between different parts of the Bible  
is almost entirely overlooked by many.  
For instance, we read the story of David's guilt in the  
matter of Uriah, in 2 Samuel 11, 12, and, perhaps, 
months afterwards, we read the 51st Psalm, the beauty 
and force of which is almost wholly lost, if we do not  
connect it with the history. In Townsend's Bible, all  
the parts are arranged in the order of time as near as  
possible. The whole book of Job follows Gen. 11: 26.  
The book of Psalms is scattered among the historical  
books. The 90th Psalm comes first in order, and it  
follows the 14th chapter of Numbers, in which the Lord 
declared that the generation which came out of Egypt  
should die in the wilderness. The 1st Psalm and the  
119th come last in order. The first is supposed to have  
been written by Ezra as a preface to the whole book,  
and the 119th is considered a manual of devotion  pre- 
pared by him about 444 years before Christ. Thus the.  
90th Psalm was doubtless written more than 1000 years  
earlier than the 1st and 119th.  
The first portion of the Prophecies is the book of  
Joel, which follows 2 Chron. 26  : 15. Then follow  
six verses more  ofthe history,and we come to the 1st  
chapter of Isaiah. Then the history in the Kings,  
Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther are intermin-
gled with the prophecies to the end of the Old Testa-
ment.  
The book of Daniel commences after we have read  
Jer. 45: 5. When we have read seven verses of 
Daniel, we read 2 Kings 24 : 3, 4, and part of verse 1,  
" In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came  
up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years," ,  
and then read 2 Chron. 36 : 6, 7. Then follows a '  
large portion of Jeremiah's prophecy, which was de-
livered during the early part of the captivity, and should  
always be read in that connection. Next we find Psalms  
79, 74, 83, and 94. Then come the Lamentations of  
Jeremiah, after reading which, we pass on in the 1st  
chapter of Daniel from the 8th verse to the end. Then  

comes the whole book of Ezekiel, together with the  
history in 2 Kings 25 : 22—26, and in Jeremiah, chap- 
ters 40, 41, 42, 43, 46, 44, and 52. After these pro- 
phecies and histories, we pass on in the 2d chapter of  
Daniel, to read the interpretation of Nebuchadnezzar's  
dream, which taught that proud monarch that the king- 
doms of which he then stood at the head would even-
tually be dashed in pieces, and which encouraged Dan- 
iel and his oppressed countrymen with the hope of the  
everlasting kingdom which should be set up when all  
these oppressive kingdoms should become like the chaff  
of the summer threshing-floors.  
Next, we read the 3d and 4th chapters of Daniel, and  
then Jeremiah 52 : 31—34, and 2 Kings 25: 27—30. 
Then comes the 7th chapter of Daniel, followed by  
Psalms 137, 130, 80, 77, 37, 67, 49, 53, 50, 10, 13, 14,  
15, 25, 26, 27, 36, 81, 92, 93, and 123. Then comes  
the account of Belshazzar's impious feast in the 5th  
chapter of Daniel, after which we read the prophecies  
in the 8th and 9th chapters. Then follows the 102d  
Psalm, which appears from verse 13, to have been  
written on the same occasion with Daniel's prayer,  
about the close of the captivity. At the close of that 
Psalm, we read the history of Daniel being cast into 
the lion's den, in the 6th chapter. Next we find Ezra  
1: 1—4 and Psalms 126 and 85, and 2 Chron, 36 : 22,  
23. Then we pass on, in the book of Ezra, to the 3d 
chapter, 7th verse, and then read the Psalms composed  
on the return from the captivity, such as Psalms 107,  
87, 111, 112, 113, 114, 116, 117, 125, 127, 128, 134.  
Then we read in Ezra 3 : 8—13, about the joy of the 
people when they laid the foundation of the new tem-
ple, followed by Psalms 84 and 60, which were proba- 
bly written on that occasion. Then we read the ac- 
count ofthe interruption in the building ofthe temple,  
Ezra 4 : 1—5, followed by Psalm 129. After this, we  
read the last three chapters of Daniel. We are thus 
particular in noticing the Scriptures connected with the 
book of Daniel, that our friends may search, and get all  
the light which Scripture throws upon it. More anon.  
SCOFFERS.  
" I think the Lord must be coming soon" said a brother  
who has heard many lectures without becoming strong 
in the faith. He had just been in Wall street and seen  
the horrib'e pictures and blood-chilling blasphemies there  
displayed in the shape of caricatures, not merely of  
" Millerism," but of the sacred words of that God who  
is a consuming fire," and before whose judgment seat  
we must soon stand. A brother in Massachusetts, said  
he could not refrain from shouting " Glory to God," when  
he saw one of these papers. It seemed so striking a sign  
that the wickedness of the wicked will soon come to an 
end, and the Lord will reign in righteousness. " Amen," 
said the venerable Apostle whom the devouring " terri- 
ble beast" had banished to Patmos. " Even so, come  
quickly."  
The scoffers and false accusers so abound, and their  
works are so notorious, that w^e have excused  ourselves  
from the painful task of noticing them this week.  
Let us all possess our souls in patience, exercise  
steady faith in God's word, and keep watchful, steadfast,  
immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.  
STATE OF THE TIMES.  
The St. Louis Gazette, of March 21, speak thus :  
"Any one at all conversant with the spirit ofthe press,  
or with the public sentiment, of which it is but the echo,  
will have observed the uniformity and earnestness with  
which the evils of the times are depicted and enlarged 
upon. We do not wish to assert that the existence of 
complaint is novel,—we merely allude to its intensity and 
universality. ' Hard times,' is an exclamation which  
may have been heard 1 many a time and oft' by the rea- 
der. But, true it is, the voice of complaint is more ear- 
nest as well as louder, now, than usual. The times are 
sadly out of joint. To ' hard times,' and ' money  
searce,' may also be added ' want of confidence between  
man and man.' "  

The True  Sun of last Tuesday speaks thus :  
"Scarcely a day passes in which we do not hear of some  
most awful outrage of the Divine and human law. Se-
duction, murder and other crimes stalk through our land,  
and each new tale seems more dreadful than the last.  
"A few months since, a fiend in human form, and called  
a merchant, in Pearl street, became acquainted with a 
young lady of 18 years of age, in Brooklyn, and was af- 
terwards received as her avowed suitor. She was an 
only child. Her mother dead. The villain ruined her ;  
and when her father discovered her situation he went to 
the young man. and with tears besought him to make the  
only possible reparation—to marry the girl ; offering him 
at the same time ten thousand dollars to put into his bu-
siness. The young scoundrel refused to have any thing 
more to do with his victim, and told the broken-hearted  
old man ' that he was not to be hired to marry a prosti-
tute.' The old gentleman, being too feeble to insist up- 
on justice, or take revenge, the seducer escaped punish- 
ment, and still moves among men. The old gentleman  
is worth property to the amount of fifty thousand dol- 
lars, and has left his home with his daughter, and gone, 
his friends know not whither."  
ON TIME.  
Heard you that knell 1 It was the knell of time.  
And is time dead \ I thought time never died ;  
I knew him old, 'tis true, and full of years,  
And bald, except in front, yet he was strong  
As Hercules. I saw him grasp the oak,  
It fell ; the tower, it crumbled ; and the stone,  
The sculptured monument, that marked the grave  
Of fallen greatness, ceased its pompous strain  
As time came by. Yes, time was very strong,  
And, I had thought, too strong for death to grapple :  
But I remember now, his step was light, 
And though he moved at rapid rate, or trod  
On adamant, his tread was never heard.  
And there was something ghostly in the  thought,  
That in the silence of the midnight hour,  
When all was hushed as death, and not a sound  
Crept o'er my chamber's stillness, or awoke 
The echo slumbering there—in such an hour  
He trod my chamber, and I heard him not.  
Time's movements ! O, how fleet! and yet how still- 
Still as the morning sunbeam, as it kissed  
The blushing flower, but shook not e'en the tears  
Of night, the lingering dew-drops, from its leaves,  
Nor woke the wild bee slumbering in its folds.  
LETTERS RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK END- 
ING APRIL 6.  
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INMVIDUALS.—John Tuffree—O Gibson—Thomas  
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H- Pearce, $6.—J. Litch, $20.—J. V. Himes—A.  
Waller—J. B. Cook—D. D. Irons—A. Hyslop—A.  
K. Wolfington—H. W. Smith—Thomas Allen—D. A.  
Vindex—An Inquirer—C. Hubbell—J. C. Morgan- 
Edwin Adrean—Wallace and Mason—Wm. Dempsey  
—J. E. Smith—Thomas Allen—Charles Friend.  
TERRIBLE FIRE.—In the midst of a comic play, at the  
theatre in St. Petersburgh, a fire broke out, behind the  
scenes. The curtain was drawn up that the people might  
see the devouring flames. From THREE to FIVE HUNDRED  
of them were burned to death ! 1 Thus the Lord, by his  
Providence says :" Be ye also ready."  
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From the Christian Palladium.  
TITLE TO THE LAND OF CANAAN.  
BY G. W. PEAYEY.  
In the examination of this subject our minds  
should be divested of prejudice, and all precon- 
ceptions that are not based on the word ofGod ; 
and we should approach that word with the  
prayerful inquiry, O Lord, what hast thou re 
vealed upon this important point'/  
It is a well settled principle in law that there  
can be but one valid title to any piece of pro- 
perty. That the original proprietor or the land  
of Canaan was Jehovah, I presume will not be  
questioned by those who believe their Bibles.  
This being admitted, we then inquire has he  
disposed of it, and if so, to whom ? For tbe  
proper solution of this question, it will be ne-
cessary to examine the will ; Gen. 17 : 7—10  
—" And I will establish my covenant between  
me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their  
generations, for an everlasting covenant to be a  
God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And  
I will give unto thee, and to thy seed af;er thee,  
the land wherein thou art a stranger—all the  
land of Canaan—for an everlasting possession, 
and I will be their God. And God said unto  
Abraham, Thou shalt keep my covenant there- 
fore, thou, and thy seed after thee, in their  
generation. This is my covenant which ye 
shall keep between me and you, and thy seed  
after thee ; every man-child among you shall  
be circumcised." In this clause of the will, we  
lind that the original proprietor has conferred 
the title upon Abraham, and his seed after him, 
for an everlasting possession, on condition that  
they kept the covenant of circumcision. This  
Abraham kept. But how did he keep it? An- 
swer : in faith, as his history abundantly proves,  
and not in form merely, as did those who fell  
in the wilderness, or as did those of our Sa- 
viour's time ; and as a multitude of professed  
Christians attend to the external requirements  
ofthe gospel, while their hearts are filled with  
the love of the warld, or some other forbidden  
object, and consequently can never inherit it 
with, faithful Abraham ; for that covenant must  
be kept in faith, and not with a heart full of un- 
belief. Gal. 3 : 7—"Know ye therefore that they  
which are of faith, the same are the children ol  
Abraham." But it may be asked, is circumci-
sion perpetuated under the gospel ? I answer,  
yes. See Rom. 2 : 28, 29—" For he is not a  
Jew which is one outwardly, neither is that cir- 
cumcision which is outward in the flesh ; but  
he is a Jew which is one inwardly, and CIRCUM- 
CISION IS THAT OF THE HEART, in the spirit, and  
not in the letter; whose praise is not of men 
but of God."  
But has Abraham yet possessed the land ?—  
For a solution of this question we shall exam- 
ine the testimony of Stephen, Acts 8 : 5—"And  
he gave him none inheritance in it—no, not so 
much as to set his foot on, yet he promised that  
he would give it to him for a possession, and to  
his seed after him, when as yet he had no  
child." This evidence assures us that he had  
not inherited it in the days of Stephen : and he  
certainly has not since that time, from the fact  
that it has been in the hands of the Gentiles,  
who are to retain possession of it " until the  
times of the Gentiles be fulfilled." Luke 21 : 
24—" Until the fulness of the Gentiles be come 
in ; and so all Israel shall be saved." That is, 
all the true Israel who have kept the covenant  
in faith—those Jews who are such inwardly  
and not outwardly. " As it is written, There  
shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall  
turn away ungodliness from Jacob ; for this is  
my covenant unto them when I shall take away 
their sins."—Rom. 11 : 25—27. As yet, then,  
Abraham has not possessed it, but is to come in  
110  

possession when "the fulness ofthe Gentiles  
be come in." For then the Deliverer will come  
out of Sion, and deliver his people from all their  
enemies. Even death, which is the last, will  
be destroyed at that'time. Abraham will there- 
fore possess it at his resurrection ; and he has 
not, neither can he, previous to that time. Nei- 
ther did he expect to possess it previous to that  
event, as Paul unequivocally declares, Heb. 11 ;  
8—10—" By faith, Abraham, when he was  
called to go out into a place which he should  
after receive for an inheritance, obeyed ; and  
he went out, not knowing whither he went.—  
By faith he sojourned in the land of promise as  
in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles  
with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him ofthe  
same promise. For he looked for a city which 
hath foundation, whose builder and maker is 
God." Very well, says one, Abraham's seed  
are expecting to possess it before that time, if 
he does not. 1 answer that I am aware that, 
many of our teachers are holding out this delu- 
sion in favor of a race of men that they assert  
are Abraham's seed. But when the middle wall  
ol partition was thrown down, they wereforever 
disinherited, and now have nothing to look for  
but " indignation and wrath, tribulation and  
anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil,  
of the Jew first and also of the Gentile."—Rom  
2: 8, 9.  
But who are the true seed ? This question  
is clearly settled by Paul, Gal. 3: 16—" Now  
to Abraham and his seed were the promises  
made.  He saith not, and to seeds, as of many,  
but as of one, and to thy seed, which is Christ."  
Here is evidence as clear as a sunbeam, that  
Christ, and not the degenerate Jews, is the seed  
—the heir to the land of promise, and with him  
all those who have been circumcised in heart.  
See 27—29 verses—" For as many of you as  
have been baptized into Christ have put on  
Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there  
is neither bond nor free, there is neither male 
nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.  
And if ye be Christ's then are ye Abraham's  
seed, and heirs according to the promise."—  
The land of Canaan therefore belongs to Abra-
ham—to Christ the true seed, and to all those  
who have been or may be made joint heirs with  
Jesus Christ to that incorruptible inheritance of  
which the land of Canaan was the type.  
But, says an ohjector, there was a law given  
430 years afterwards, by which the  Jew" has  
some claim to the land ? For the adjustment  
of this claim, we will again quote Paul. See 
Gal. 3: 17, 18—" And this I say, That the 
covenant that was confirmed before of God in  
Christ, the law which was four hundred and  
thirty years after cannot disannul that it should 
make the promise of none effect. For if the  
inheritance be ofthe law, it is no more of pro- 
mise ; but God gave it to Abraham by promise."  
Then according to Paul and the Holy Ghost,  
the Jew has no claim ; and I think that  there is  
quite as much of truth in their testimony as  
there is in the statements of those" who are  
pleading the cause of the infidel Jew.  
" Wherefore, then, serveth the law," says an  
objector, " if it does not give the Jew a claim ?"  
Answer, Gal. 3 : 19—" It was added because of  
the transgressions, till the seed should come to  
whom the promise was made," But to use a  
familiar illustration, the Jews had rendered  
themselves quite unworthy to possess the vine- 
yard by their profligate and idolatrous practices. 
It was therefore leased to them till Christ, the  
promised seed, should come, thus giving them a  
chance to reform. But instead of improving  
this favor, they persisted in their idolatrous,  
profligate career, abusing those servants that  
were sent to them to receive the fruit of the  

vineyard until the heir came. They then held  
a council, in which it was determined to kill the  
heir, and seize the inheritance as their own.—  
See the illustration our Saviour has given of thU  
subject, Luke 20 : 9—19. And the murderous  
claim is all the claim the Jew has to the land of 
Canaan. (By Jew, I mean those who are such  
outwardly, whose praise is of men and not of  
God.) Mark. The law or lease was to con- 
tinue till Christ should come, and no longer;  
lor " the law was our school master to bring us  
unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.  
But after that, faith is come, we are no longer  
under a school master."—Gal. 3 : 24,25. °So  
that whatever claim the Jew  may have had by  
the law previous to the coming of Christ, he can  
have none since that event; the law, with all its 
claims, expiring at that time.  
Indulge me with a  familiar illustration. Kind  
reader, suppose you have a fine farm that you  
wish to lease for a few years. You succeed in  
finding a tenant that you think is suitable. You 
make an agieement, and he enters upon the dis- 
charge of his duties. At the appointed time, 
you send a servant to receive your share of the  
products, but he is abused and sent away empty. 
You wait till the proper season arrives, when  
you send another, who shares the same fate as  
the first; and a third, but you meet with no 
better success. You have an only son—your  
heir. You conclude to send him, thinking that  
they will have some respect for him. They  
see him approaching, but instead of their hearts 
being filled with respect for him and gratitude  
to you for your long suffering and patience, they  
immediately conspire to murder him and take  
possession of the farm. They carry their plot  
into execution, and entirely nullify the lease.— 
I ask, what you would do ? Do ?' say yon, do ? 
I would not have waited half as.long, but would  
have taken it from them and leased it toothers.  
But suppose you had waited till that time be- 
fore you had turned them away, and the mur- 
derous deed was accomplished. However,  
your son is raised from the dead, and the time  
arrives when you think of placing him in pos- 
session of said farm ; and immediately these 
murderers set up a claim, and oppose the  
owner's possessing it until they have been  
restored to its possession, and had another 
privilege of abusing and insulting the proprie- 
tor.  
And what, you ask, is the plea for such a f  
claim ? Why, simply this ; that they once had 
it leased to them for a time, that during this time  
they not only disregarded the lease, but abused  
and insulted you in every possible way—even  
murdering your only son. And to complete the  
illustration, you have a neighbor that is a law- 
yer, and well acquainted with all these facts.  
What would you think of that neighbor, should  
he espouse the cause of those murderers, to the  
utter disregard of all your rights?  
The foregoing is'designed to illustrate the  
claim that the Jew has to the land of Canaan by  
virtue of the law ; and the examination of that  
question clearly shows that their only claim is  
that of murderers. The conclusion, therefore,  
is irresistible, that those who plead the cause  
of the Jew, by virtue of the law, are pleading  
the cause of the murderer. Instead of teaching 
them submission to him, they are encouraging  
them in their rebellion to their lawful sovereign.  
But their efforts will be worse than useless.  
The Saviour has forever settled the question,  
that the Jew can never again possess the land 
of Canaan. Luke 20 : 15, 16—" What, there-
fore, shall the lord of the vineyard do unto  
them ? He shall come and destroy these hus- 
bandmen, and.shall give the vineyard to others."  
There is, therefore, nothing but destruction


tie is an imperfect one. The latter conclusion . 
cannot be true. The first, therefore, must be  
true; not, however, by  specifying an event of j  
which nothing can be known. But by such de- 1  
clarations as the following : " When ye shall !  
see all these things, know that it is near, even 
at the doors."—Matt. 24: 33. "And Jerusa- 
lem shall be trodden down ofthe Gentiles until  
the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled."—Luke 
21 : 24.  
[For the argument that these times expire  
this year, see other articles in this paper.—  
ED.]  
This year, we expect the great trump of ju- 
bilee will be heard by the astonished nations of  
earth. This year, we expect the angels will be 
commissioned to gather the elect from the four  
winds, from one end of heaven to the other.—  
This year, we expect to seethe tombs yield up  
their victims. This year, we expect to see  
those friends who have fallen asleep in Jesus 
clothed with immortal vigor. This year, we 
expect, if found faithful in the discharge of duty,  
to be changed to the same immortal vigor, and  
together with those friends, ascend and meet  
our Lord in the air. Reader, are you ready ?  
Charlton, N. Y., 1843.  
CONTENTS OF THE SCRIPTURES.  

2 Peter.—The encouragement of a spiritual  
warrior.  
1 John.—The glass of love or charity.  
2 John.—The pattern of a pious matron.  
3 John.—The mirror of hospitality. 
Jude.— A picture of false prophets.  
Revelation.—Daniel Redivivus. The open- 
ing of the treasury of fu ture events.  
The designation of Daniel is very just. The  
i word Apocalypse is derived from the Greek  
word, which signifies to uncover, to reveal. Isaiah  
was an Evangelical prophet, but he left his  
sublime pictures of future glory so intermin- 
gled that we needed Daniel to take us on an 
eminence, and uncover the future path of the  
Church, leaving a chart of it, which could not  
be fully understood till the passing of certain 
points should settle all disputes respecting the  
scale of measurement. Those points we have 
passed, and we can look back upon the reveal- 
ing chart, and trace the whole course, with ad- 
miration of the accuracy with which it has been 
delineated.  
The Revelation is Daniel " renewed again,  
revived, returning afresh," as Ainsworth defines  
the Latin redivivus. A revelation is a manifesta-
tion of truth, not a concealment of it.  

awaiting the Jew who refuses to accept mercy  
at the hand of  Christ. But all those who have  
been made partakers of his spirit will, at his  
coming, possess the promised land forever.  
It is evident from the examination of the  
original title, together with the exposition that  
Paul has »iven of it, that the Jew who is such  
according to the flesh only, has not the shadow  
of a title to the land of Canaan .• but that it be-
longs to Abraham, to Christ, and to all ot his  
| faithful followers. It is also apparent that they 
\ are not to inherit it till those are raised from the  
dead who may have died previous to the com- 
ing of Christ. It is also evident from the testi- 
mony of Paul in reference to the law, that they  
have no claim there. 1st, from the fact that  
it svas given to Abraham by promise 430 years 
previous to the giving ofthe law. 2d, from the  
fact that the law cannot disannul the promise. 
3d, from the fact that the law expited at the  
coming of Christ. Consequently no claim  
whatever can be sustained by that law since  
that time.  
But when defeated here, there is a resort to  
the promises contained in the Old Testament 
prophecies. But those promises evidently re- 
fer to the original promise made to Abraham,  
and to his seed after him, and are expressive of  
what they are to enjoy when Christ shall come  
the second time, without sin unto salvation ;  
and having proved that Christ and his people 
are the seed of Abraham, these promises, there- 
fore belong to them, and not to the unbelieving  
Jews. This view has been clearly presented  
by Paul, Gal. 3 : 16—"Now to Abraham and  
his seed were the promises made." This broad  
declaration evidently embraces all the promises  
contained in the Old Testament, leaving the un- 
believing Jew neither the law nor the promises.  
What a pity it is that Paul had not been favored 
with a lesson or two from some of our modern  
theologians, on  the return ofthe Jews.  
In the examination of this subject we have  
found a clear title to the land of promise—the  
new earth, of wrhich the land of Canaan was a  
type. We have also found that this title belongs  
to Christ and all his people. This title is evi-
dently a perfect one. A knowledge of the  
character of its author is evidence sufficient to 
establish that fact. A being whose character is  
infinite perfection will never leave his work 
imperfect. With these self-evident truths be- 
fore us, I wish to ask one question. Can that  
be a perfect title in which no time is specified  
for those to take possession to whom the in-
heritance is conveyed by said title ? Reader, 
suppose you were to purchase a farm, and on  
receiving the title, you find no time specified  
when you are to take possession of said farm ;  
you would say, I cannot receive such a tiile.  
The man of whom you made the purchase in- 
quires, why can you not receive the title ? You  
reply, it. is imperfect ; it does not specify any  
time when I shall take possession. 1 would not  
j give a fig for such a deed. Dear reader, ifyou  
would not receive a title to a farm in which no  
time is specified for you to take possession, can  
you believe that Jehovah has given us a title to  
that incorruptible inheritance, and no time spe- 
cified when we shall take possession of it ?—  
You answer, No : we believe he has specified  
the time, by assuring us that we shall receive it  
at the coming of Christ. Well, do you know 
when Christ is coming ? O no, we know no- 
thing about that. Then an event of which you  
confess you can know nothing, is your SPECIFIED  
time for receiving that inheritance. I now ask, 
would you accept the title to your farm on such 
conditions as these?'. Let common sense an- 
swer the, question. One of two things, there- 
fore, is certain; the time is specified, or our ti- 

About 200 years ago, a tract was published  
in England entitled, " A design about disposing  
the Bible into a Harmony ; or, an Essay con-
cerning the transposing the order of Books and  
Chapters of the Holy Scriptures, for the redu- 
cing of all into a continued History. By Sam-
uel Torshell."  
The author shows great good sense, in de- 
signating the several Books, as  a few speci- 
mens will show.  
Genesis.—The cabinet of the greatest anti- 
quities.  
Judges.—The mirror of magistrates and ty- 
rants.  
Ruth.— The picture of a pious widow.  
Ezra, Neherniah.—An idea of church and  
state reformation.  
Esther.—The great example of God's provi- 
dence.  
Job.—The school of patience.  
Psalms.—The soul's soliloquies; the little  
Bible ; the anatomy of conscience ; the rose  
garden ; the pearl island.  
Proverbs.—Divine ethics, politics, economy.  
Isaiah.—The evangelical prophet. 
Daniel.—The apocalypse of the Old Testa- 
ment.  
Hosea.—Sermons of faith and repentance.  
Joel.—The thunderer.  
Amos.—The plain dealing reprover.  
Malachi.—The bound stone of the two Testa- 
ments.  
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John—The four trum- 
peters, proclaiming the title of the great king.  
Acts.—The treasury of ecclesiastical story.  
Romans.—The principles of Christian faith,  
the Catholic catechism.  
Galatians.—The epistle to the Romans epit- 
omized.  
Ephesians.—The opening of the great my  
tery of salvation.  
Colossians.—A brief rule of faith and man- 
ners.  
1 Thessalonians.—Practical  theology.  
2 Thessalonians.—Polemic  theology.  
Hebrews.—A commentary upon Leviticus.  
James.—The golden alphabet of a Christian.  
1 Peter.—A Theological summary.  

THE KINGDOM WHICH WILL SOON BE SET UP—What  
lover of peace can oppose the return of our law- 
ful Prince, who shall abolish all earthly governments, and  
set up one of eternal blessedness 1 Who is not sick of 
present administrations, kingdoms, and legalized op- 
pressions 1 We boast much of our American Republic, 
as the motto of earth and the home of liberty. But we  
should rather tremble, and consider with shame, the dark  
vista that opens before us, if the Lord appear not speedily  
to restore the earth to its primitive purity and loveliness.  
Let those who are dreaming of reforms, advancement,  
and the world's conversion, look at the following picture :  
" Scenes in the American Paris—a French REVOLUTION  
in Embryo.—A Washington correspondent of the New  
York American makes the following frightful statement :  
"There is a general determination among the friends  
of peace, to adjourn every day at 4 o'clock. It is firmly  
believed, by most experienced and judicious persons, that  
a candle light sitting would bring on riot, fighting, use of  
knives, pistols, and murder in the Hall of Representa- 
tives.  
" Several of the southern members I know are armed,  
and, on the first blow, deadly weapons would gleam 
throughout the Hall, and pistol balls would soon whistle  
among them.  
" I fear you have not the least conception ofthe slum- 
bering, latent horrors of the scene. At a distance you  
cannot know a hundredth part of the heinous facts which  
we sbu ider at knowing here. From my own observations  
of the past and the present, from my knowledge of the 
demoniac rage still suppressed, and which inspires bloody  
men here, many of whom are reeking from the murders  
which gave them honor and eminence in their own coun- 
try, I am prepared to see the Hall drenched in blood, in a  
general melee, on such provocation as  one hasty word  
may give. One south-western member has threat- 
ened the life of another, and tho latter now goes  
armed, with the determination to take the life of his  
threatening foe, if he comes within a certain distance of  
him."  
*' A CITY OUT OF SIGHT."  
Isaiah 26:1, 2,3,4.  
" In that day shall the song be sung in the land," 
" We have a strong city," upheld by God's hand ; 
" For bulwarks and walls," salvation is set,  
Psalm 85: 10.  
And " Mercy and Truth together are met;"'  
Isaiah 60 : 18.  
Throw open the gates, those gates which.are "Praise,"  
That the people may enter who " walk in His-ways ;"  
That the nation " which keepeth the truth?' may  
pass in ;  
And " dwell safely," and free from sorrow and sin.  c. a  
It is said that in the single city of Pekin, China, nine  
thousand infants are destroyed annually, and that the 
proportion is as great all over the empire.  
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2. "0 Calvary is a mountain high,  
T is much too hard a task for me!  
And I had rather stay  
In the broad and pleasant way,  
Than to walk in the garden of Gethsemane."  
3. It would not appear such a mountain high  
Nor such a task, dear sinner, for thee,  
If you lov'd the Man  
Who first laid the plan  
Of climbing the mountain Calvary.  
4. "I'd rather abide in this pleasant plain,  
My gay and merry friends to see;  
And tarry awhile  
In the joys of the world,  
Than to climb up the mountain Calvary "  
5. Your gay companions must lie in the dust:  
Their souls are bound for misery;  
And if you ever stand  
On Canaan's happy land,  
You must climb up the mountain Calvary. 
6. "There is no pleasure that I can behold,  
And it is a lonely way to me;  
For I have heard them say  
There are lions in the way,  
And they lurk in the mountain Calvary."  
7. It is a peaceful, pleasant way,  
Poor wand'ring soul, could you but see ;  
And you shall have a guard,  
Yea, the angels of God,  
To conduct you o'er mountain Calvary.  

8. "I'd rather have peace, and live at my ease,  
Than to be afflicted thus by thee;  
When blooming youth is gone, 
And when old age comes on,  
I will climb up the mountain Calvary." 
9. There is no better time than youth,  
To travel the mountain, as you see;  
When old age comes on,  
You are burden'd with sin;  
Then how can you climb up Calvary ?  
10. " 0 leave this melancholy theme f  
I cannot enjoy any peace for thee j  
There is time enough yet,  
And the journey's not so great;  
I can soon climb the mountain Calvary."  
11. 0 hark, I hear a doleful sound!  
You greatly should alarmed be;  
A blooming youth is gone,  
And is laid in the tomb,  
"Who refused to climb Mount Calvary.  
12. "Alas, I know not what to do!  
You greatly have alarmed me,  
For in sin I've gone on,  
Till I fear I'm undone;  
Lord, help me to climb up Calvary!"  
13. 0 tarry not in all the plain,  
Lest it prove a dangerous snare to thee!  
But look to the Man,  
Who was slain for your sin,  
And he '11 help you to climb up Calvary.  
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2 Arise and get ready;  
Hasten to the marriage supper, 
While the Bridegroom is calling,  
And poor sinners are a falling.  
See the Lord of life descending,  
And the judgment trumpet sounding,  
For to gather all the nations  
To the final judgment-day.  
3 0 what a happy meeting,  
When salvation is completed,  
And tribulation's ended,  
And the spotless robe prepared  

For the bride to be adorned,  
In the jasper wall be crowned,  
Saying, " Worthy is the Lamb," 
In the New Jerusalem.  
4 O, sinners, don't be  doubting,  
While the sons of God are shouting;  
Come and join the happy army,  
And there's nothing that will harm you. 
If you follow Christ the Savior,  
And break off your bad behavior,  
And repent and be converted,  
You may sing his praises too.