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S 
BLISS, showing from the Scriptures and undisputed 
authorities that we are near the end of 6000 years from 
Creation. 
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CHRONOLOGY OF THE 
BIBLE, 
Review 
of Dr. 
Jarvis, 
No. 4. 
BY 
S. 
BLISS. 
That the coming of Christ would be at the 
end of six thousand years from the 
creation, 
has been the belief of those who look for the 
pre-millennial advent, ever since the days of 
the primitive church. 
And such a tradition is 
also traceable before the Christian era, among 
the Jewish writ&rs, who expected, then would 
be fulfilled those great and glorious promises, 
given in the-Old Testament. 
For such a belief, we have no direct and pos-
itive proof in the word of God, but there are 
many passages from which it might be inferred. 
That one day. is with the Lord as a thousand 
years, taken in connexion with the six days-of 
creation—a \ype of the world's 
continuance, 
and the fact, that ajperiod of one thousand years 
is to intervene between 
tbe first and second 
resurrections, may be considered as an instance 
of this nature. 
While therefore we do not rely 
upon the age of the world as any proof 
of 
Christ's immediate advent, yet if it can be 
shown from the most authentic source, that we 
must be near the end of the six 'housand years, 
it may be regarded as strong collateral evidence 
in favor of the nearness of that event. 
We do 
not for one moment presume to say that we can 
prove this world is to a year, just six thousand 
years old, as some portions of history are so 
obscure that we can only affproximate'to a cor-
rect chronology. 
We shall, therefore, only 
endeavor td show from the Bible and other 
sources, that, no man can disprove that we are 
at, or near the very end of six thousand years 
from creation ; and that the evidence is suffi-
ciently conclusive for us to expect its comple-
tion in the end of all the prophetic 
periods, 
about the year 1843. 
Dr. Jarvis justly remarks, page 49, that " If 
it were not for God's revelation, the past, be-
yond a comparatively small circle, would be al-
most as dark as the future. 
The books of the 
Old Testament afford us the only light by wh ch 
we 
can eradicate 
the 
gloom." 
We 
shall 
therefore attempt to follow the Bible, and that 
alone, as far as it informs us ; and what is re-
markable, the Bible gives us an almost unbro-
ken chain of chronology till within a few cen-
turies of the Christian era ; and where the Bible 
fails us, the united testimony of different and 
independent chronologists, is so 
harmonious, 
that there is but little dispute as to the chrono-
logy of that period. 
Where alone/there is any 
dispute, we have the Bible for our guide. 
It has been objected to the chronology ofthe 
Bible, that the Egyptians, Chinese, and other 
oriental nations, trace the history of their re-
spective countries far beyond the era assigned 
by us for the creation. 
But it has been shown 
by able writers, that these supposed early pe-
riods of history are regarded by those respect-
ive nations as merely fabulous and 
traditionary, 
and 
that 
the authentic 
history 
of 
no 
nation 
reach es back as far as the era we assign for 
'the 
flood. 
The historic period of the Chinese 
begins only B. C. 2356 years—that of the Ro-
mans, which Varro calls the Mythic, B. C. 2353 
years, and that of Egypt B C. 2338 ; all of 
which fall about 150 years short of the 
flood. 
All profane history beyond that is professedly 
fabulous. 
We will now 
begin with the creation, and 
present the evidence which the Bible gives us 
ofthe age of the world, according to the literal 
reading of the present Hebrew Bible. 
And in 
no case shall we deviate from it, unless prefer-
ring the sum of the years occupied 
by the 
Judges, as obtained by footing the several items 
given by the text, to the sum total in 1 Kings 
vi. 1, should be so considered. 
CHRONOLOGY FROM CREATION. 
Gen. v. 3—"Adam lived an hundred 
A.M. 
and thirty years, and be-
gat a son in his own like, 
ness after his image, and 
called his name Seth." 
130 
130 
" 
6—"And Seth lived 105 years 
and begat Enos." 
105 
235 
" 
9—"And Enos lived 90 years 
and begat Cainan." 
90 
325 
" 
12—"And 
Cainan 
lived 
70 
years and begat Mahala-
leel." 
70 
396 
" 
15—"And Mahalaleel lived 65 
years arid begat Jared." 
65 
460 
" 
18—"And 
Jared 
lived 
162 
years and begat Enoch." 162 
622 
" 
21—"And 
Enoch 
lived 
65 
years and begat Methu-
selah." • 
65 
687 
" 
25—"And 
Methuselah 
lived 
187 years and' begat La-
mech." 
187 
874 
" 
28—"And Lamech lived 182 
years arid begat a son, 
and he called his name 
Noah " 
182 1056 
vii. 
6—"And Noah was 600years 
old when the flood of wa-
ters was upon the earth." 
viii. 13, "And it came to 
pass in the 600 and 1st 
year, in the first month, 
the first day of the month, 
the wateis were dried up 
from ofF the earth." 
600 1656 
10—" Shem was 1 00 years old 
and begat Arphaxad two 
years after the 
flood." 
2 1658 
1>2—And Arphaxad lived 
35 
years arid begat Salah." 
35 1693 
14—"And Salah lived 30 years 
and b^gatEber." 
* 
30 1723 
16—"And Eber lived 34 years 
and begat Peleg." 
34 1757 
18—"And Peleg lived 30 years 
and begat Keu." 
30 1787 
20—"And Reu lived 32 years 
and begat Serug." 
32 1819 
22—"And 
Serug 
lived 
30 
years and begat Nahor." 
30 1849 
25 
xt. 
Write th e vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie • though it tarry wait for it • becan™ 
its-will surely come, it will not-tarry. 
.
u
s
e 
Gem xi. 24—"And 
Nahor lived 29 
years and begat Terah." 
« 
32—"And the days of Terah 
were 205 years ; and Te-
rah died in Haran." 
A. 
M. 
29 1878 
205 2083 
40 2553 
Acts vii. 4—Stephen says of Abra-
ham, "And from thence when his fa-
ther was dead, he removed him into 
this land wherein ye now dwell." 
The Exode must therefore have be-
gun with Terah's death. Ex. xii. 40, 
41, " Now the sojourning of the chil-
dren of Israel was -130 years. 
And 
it came to pass at the end of 430 
years, even the self same day it came 
to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord 
went out from the land of Egypt." 
This agrees with St. Paul, Gal. iii. 17. 430 2513 
Josh. v. 6—"The children of Is-
rael walked 40 years in the wilder-
ness." 
NOTE. 
TO this period the Bible 
has given us a connected unbroken 
chain of Chronology ; but here we 
have a break in the chain, which the 
Bible does not suppls —viz. the length 
of the reign of Joshua, and the con-
tinuance of the elders and anarchy. 
Josephus says, that of the former was 
25 years, and that of the latter, 18 
vears. 
The question then is, does 
Josephus give .us a •probable length of 
time for these periods 1 
In support of this, the Bible gives 
us the folowing evidence. Ex. xxxiiu 
11, "And the Lord spake unto Moses 
face to face, as a man speaketh unto 
his friend. 
And he turned again into 
the camp ; but his servant Joshua, the 
son of Nun, a young man, departed 
not out of the tabernacle." 
Joshua 
could not have been more than 45 at 
this time,arid been considered a young 
wan. 
This would make him six years 
older than Caleb, see Josh. xiv. 7. 
Then 40 year3 in the 
wilderness 
would make him 85 at the death of 
Moses, when 
he 
entered Canaan. 
Josh xxiv. 29. "And it came to pass 
after these things, that Joshua the 
son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, 
died, being 
110 years old." 
This 
would make his reign 25 years. 
Dr. 
Jarvis assigns the same time to him. 
25 2578 
For the elders and anarchy, Mr. 
Miller gives 18 years on the authori-
ty of Josephus. 
This interregnum 
continued till the death of all the el-
ders who outlived Joshua, Judges ii. 
7, 8, 10, "And the people served the 
Lord all the days of Joshua, and all 
the days of the elders that outlived 
Joshua, who had seen all the great 
works of the Lord, that he did for Is-
rael. And Joshua the son of Nun, the 
servant of the Lord, died, being a 
hundred and ten years old." 
"And 
also all that generation were gather-
ed unto their fathers : and there arose 
another generation after them, which 
knew not the Lord nor yet the works 
which he had done for Israel." 
As all who entered the wilderness 
over 20 years except Joshua and Ca-
leb, died in the wilderness : and as 
Joshua could not have been less than 
45 when he entered, he must have 
been at least 25 years older than any 
of the elders who came out of the 
wilderness. 
18 years is, therefore, a 
26 
reasonable time for this period. 
But 
A. M. 
as Dr. Jarvis assigns 16 years, and 
as we wish to differ from him only 
when the Bible compels us, we shall 
call it the same. 
16 2594 
Thus far we have not Varied from 
the chronology ©f Dr. Jarvis. 
But 
fluw we have a period extending to 
the reign of Saul, which is covered 
by the chronology of the Bible ; and 
all the light which can be thrown up-
on it, must be obtained from the Bi-
ble. 
There is a discrepancy here, 
between the sum of the years occu-
pied by the Judges, as obtained by 
footing the several items given by 
the text, which will be seen below, 
and the sum total in 1 Kings vi. 1, 
which gives 480 years from Egypt to 
the building of the temple in the 
fourth year of Solomon. 
This would 
give but 311 years from Joshua, till 
the time of Samuel, which Paul says 
was about 450 years. 
Acts xiii, 20, 
"And after that, he gave unto them 
udges, about the space of 450 years, 
until Samuel the prophet." 
Paul ac-
cords with Josephus, and also with 
the sum of the items in the text of 
Judges, which with the elders is 446 
years. 
There must, therefore, be 
some error in the text of the Judges, 
or in the text of Kings. 
The latter 
would seem the most likely, as there 
the mistake would be all in one pas-
sage, whde an error in the text, of 
the Judges must occur in many pla. 
ces, as there is no one period of the 
length of the discrepancy. 
We know 
not that there are any different read-
ings ot the text in the Judges; while of 
the text in Kings, the Jews in China, 
who separated from their brethren in 
the first century ofthe Christian era, 
read 592 years. 
Jahn's Hebrew Com-
mentary. 
To reconcile the length of 
the Judges with the text in Kings, 
the only plausible method has been 
to suppose some of the Judges were 
contemporaneous ; but this is oppos-
ed to 
the language of 
Scripture, 
which describes one judge as being 
after another. 
Judges iii. 7, 8,—" And the 
chil-
dren of Israel did evil in the sight of 
the Lord." 
"Therefore the anger of 
the Lord was hot against Israel, and 
he sold them into the hand of the king 
of Mesopotamia ; and the children of 
Israel served Chushan-rishathaim 8 
years." 
8 2602 
Judges 
iii. 9, 11—And when the 
children of Israel cried unto the Lord, 
the Lord raised up a deliverer to the 
children of Israel, who delivered them, 
even Othuiel the sonofKenaz." And 
the land had rest 40 years." 
40 2642 
Judges iii. 12, 14—" And the chil-
dren of Israel did evil again in the 
sight of 
the Lord, 
and 
the 
Lord 
strengthened Eglon king 
of 
Moab 
against Israel." 
"So the children of 
Israel served Eglon, the king of Moab, 
18 years." 
18 2660 
Judges iii. 15, 30—" But when the 
children of Israel cried unto the Lord, 
the Lord raised them up a deliverer, 
Ehud, the son of Gera." 
"So the 
land had rest 80 years." 
80 2740 
ludges iv. 1—3—" And the chil-
dren of Israel did evil again in the 
sight of the Lord, when Ehud was 
dead 
And the Lord sold them into 
the hand of Jabin, king of Cannaan." 
" And 20 years he mightily oppressed 
the children of Israel." 
Judges iv. 4, 14,23—" And Debo-
rah. a prophetess, the wife of Lapi-
doth, she judged Israel at that time." 
41 And Deborah said unt> Barak. Up; 
for this is the day in which the Lord 
hath delivered Sisera into thine hand." 
" So God subdued on that day Jabin 
the king of Canaan." 
v. 31, " And 
the land had rest 40 years." 
Judges vi. 1—" And the children 
of Israel did evil in the sight of the 
Lord : and the Lord delivered them 
into the hand of Midian 7 years." 
Judges vi 14—The Lord appeared 
unto Gideon. " and said, Go, in this 
thy might, and thou shalt save Israel 
from the hand of the Midianites."— 
viii. 28, "Thus was Midian subdued 
before the children of Israel. 
And 
the country was iu quietness 40 years 
in the days of Gideon." 
Judges viii. 33; ix. 6,22.54—" And 
it came to pass, as soon as Gideon 
was dead, that the children of Israel 
turned again, and went a 
whoring 
after Baalim." 
" And all the men of 
Shechem gathered together, and all 
the house nf Milo, arid went, and made 
Abimelech king." 
"When 
Abime-
lech had reigned three years over Is-
rael, then God sent, an evil spirit be-
tween 
Abimelech and 
the men of 
Shechem." 
" And he died." 
Judges x. 1,2—" And after Abim. 
elech there arose to defend 
Israel, 
Tola." 
" And he judged Israel 23 
years, and died." 
Judges x. 3. 5—" And after him 
arose .lair, a Gileadite. and judged Is. 
rael 22 years." 
" And Jair died." 
Judges x. 6, 7, 8—" And the chil-
dren of Israel did evil again in the 
sight of the Lord." 
"And he sold 
them into the hands of the Philis. 
tines." 
" They vexed and oppressed 
the children of Israel 18 years." 
NOTE. 
Here the Lord raised 
up 
Jepthah, who to the demand of the 
children of Amnion, that he should re-
store the land to them that Israel took 
from them when they came out of 
Egypt, replied, xi. 26. ' While Israel 
dwelt in Heshbon and her towns and 
Aroer and her towns, and in all the 
cities that be along by the coasts of 
Arnon, 300 years, why therefore did 
ye not recover them within that time?" 
This would imply that Israel had been 
firmly settled before that time. 
To 
the beginning of the captivity out of 
which they were just delivered, from 
the elders and anarchy was 301 years, 
according to this chronology. 
Judges xi. 32—" So Jepthah passed 
over unto the children of Ammon to 
fight against them ; and the Lord de-
livered thein into his hand." xii. 7— 
" And Jepthah judged Israel 6 years." 
Judges xii. 8, 9—" And after him 
lbzam of Bethlehem, judged Israel." 
" And he judged Israel 7 years." 
Judges xii. 11—"And after him 
Elon. a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and 
he judged Israel 10 years." 
Judges xii. 13, 14—" And 
after 
A. 
M. 
20 2760 
40 2800 
7 2807 
40 2847 
3 2850 
23 2873 
22 2895 
18 2913 
6 2916 
7 2926 
10 2936 
-V 
him Abdon" 
" judged Israel," 44 and 
he judged Israel 8 years." 
Judges xiii. 1—44 And the children 
of Israel did evil again in the sight of 
the Lord; and the Lord 
delivered 
them into the hands ofthe Philistines 
40 
years." 
During 
this 
captivity 
Sampson judged Israel 20 years, xvi. 
31. 
Prom the first eaptivity we 
have 
had an unbroken chain of chronology, 
to the death of Sampson, 
flow long 
Israel 
served the 
Philistines after 
Sampson's death before their 40 years' 
servitude ended, we are not inform-
ed ; but that this servitude did end 
before Eli arose to judge Israel, we 
learn from Judges 
xxi. 24, 25, after 
they had slaughtered the children of 
Benjamin, we read, that 44 The 
chil-
dren of Israel departed thence at that 
time every man to his tribe, and to his 
family, 
and 
they 
went 
out 
from 
thence every 
man to his inheritance. 
In 
those days there was no king in Is-
rael : every man did that which was 
right in his own eyes." 
After this we read, 1 Sam. iv. 10, 
11, 18, that " the Philistines 
fought, 
and Israel was smitten, and they fled 
every man into his tent, and there was 
a very great slaughter." 
44 And the 
ark of God was taken." 
When Eli 
heard this, 44 he fell from off his seat 
backward, by the side ofthe gate, and 
his neck brake, and he died : for he 
was an old man and heavy. 
And he 
had judged Israel 40 years." 
Judges vii. 2—44 And 
it came to 
pass while the ark abode in Kirjath-
jearam, that the time 
was long ; for 
it was 20 years." 
Judges 
vii. 
15,—4< And 
Samuel 
judged Israel all the days of his life." 
How long he judged Israel after the 
ark was restored, we are not inform-
ed; 
but as he lived to be old, and 
could not have been 
more 
than 38 
when Eli died, it is reasonable to sup-
pose that he judged 
Israel after the 
ark was restored, before Saul was 
made king ; but as we have no cer-
tain evidence, we shall add no addi-
tional time. 
Ac's 
xiii. 
21—44 And 
afterwards 
they desired a king: and God 
gave 
unto them Saul the son of Cis," 
44 by 
the spaee of forty years." 
2 Sam. v. 4, 5—44 David was 
30 
year3 old when he began to reign, 
and he reigned 40 years, 
in Hebron 
he reigned over Judah 7 years and 
six months: 
and in Jerusalem 
he 
reigned 33 years over all Israel and 
Judah." 
See 1 Kings ii. 10, 11. 
1 Kings ii. 12—'• Then 
sat 
Solo-
mon upon the throne of David his fa-
ther." 
2 Chron. ix. 30, 
44 Solomon 
reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel, 
40 years." 
2 Chron. ix. 31—And 
Rehoboam 
his son reigned in his stead." xii. 13, 
4> Rehoboam was 41 years old when 
he began to reign, and he reigned 17 
years in Jerusalem." 
2 Chron. xii. 16—"And 
Abijah his 
son 
reigned in his stead." 
xiii. 2, 
44 He reigned 3 years in Jerusalem," 
1 Kings xv. 
8, 10—44 And Abijam 
(Abijah) slept with his fathers " 44 and 
Asa his son reigned in his 
stead." 
A. 
M. 
8 2944 
40 2984 
40 3024 
20 3044 
40 3084 
40 3124 
40 3164 
17 3181 
3 3184 
44 And 41 years reigned he in Jerusa- 
A. M. 
lern." 
41 3225 
1 Kings xv, 24—" And Asa slept 
with his fathers." 44 And Jehoshaphat 
his son reigned in bis stead." xxii. 42, 
Jehoshaphat was 35 years old when 
he began to. reign ; and he reigned 25 
years in Jerusalem.." 
25 3250 
2 Kings, viii. 16, IT—And in the 
fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab 
king of 
Israel, Jehoshaphat 
being 
the n king of Judah, Jehoram the son 
of Jehoshaphat, king of Jadah, began 
to reign." 
44 And he reigned eight 
years in Jerusalem." 
NOTE. 
As Jehoram began to reign 
while his father was still king of Ju-
dah, if we give the whole of the 25. 
years of Jehosbaphat's reign, we must 
give the reign of Jehoram only from 
the death of his father. 
We find by 
2 Kings iii. 1, that 44 Jehoram the son 
of Ahab began to reign over Israel in 
Samaria, in the 18th year of Jehosha-
phat, king of Judah, and reigned 
12 
years." 
Jehoshaphat must therefore 
have lived to the 8th year of Joram of 
Israel; and as Jehoram of Judah began 
to reign while his father was king, in 
the 5th year of Joram of Israel, he 
must have reigned 
three years with 
his father, and five alone. 
Dr. Jarvis 
gives 8 years for this period. 
5 3255 
2 Kings viii. 24, 25,26—44 And Jo-
ram slept 
with his fathers;" 
44 and 
Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead. 
In the 12th year of Joram, the son of 
Ahab king of Israel, did Ahaziah the 
son of Jehoram king of Judah begin 
to reign : 22 years old was Ahaziah 
when 
he 
began 
to reign, and 
he 
reigned one year in Jerusalem." 
1 3256 
2 
Kings 
xi. 
1, 2, 3, 
20—"And 
when Athaliah the mother of 
Aha-
ziah saw that he was dead, she arose 
and destroyed 
all the seed royal." 
"Joash the son of Ahaziah" was "hid 
in the house of the Lord 6 years. 
And Athaliah did reign over the land." 
44 And 
they slew Athaliah with the 
sword." 
6 3262 
2 Kings xii. 1—44 In the 7th year 
of Jehu, Jehoash began to reign ; and 
40 years reigned he in Jerusalem." 
40 3302 
2 Kings xii. 20, 21—44 And his ser-
vants arose, and made a conspiracy, 
and slew Joash." (Jehoash.) 
44 And 
Amaziah his 
son 
reigned 
in 
his 
stead." 
xiv. 1. 2—4< In the 2nd year 
of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Is-
rael, reigned Amaziah the son of Jo-
ash king of Judah ;" 44 and reigned 29 
years in Jerusalem." 
29 3331 
NOTE.—Here 
we 
find 
an 
inter-
regnum after the death of 
Amaziah 
of 11 years. 
It is thus shown. 
Je-
hoash king 
of 
Israel 
reigned 
16 
years. 
(2 Kings xiii. 10.) 
Amaziah 
of Judah began to reign in the sec-
ond year of Joash, and reigned 29 
years, (2 Kings xiv 1, 2,) or 15 years'! 
after the death of Jehoash, (2 Kings 
xiv. 
17.) Jehoash of Israel was suc-
ceeded by Jeroboam, who was 
con-
temporary with Amaziah 15 ysars ; so 
that Amaziah was slain in the 16th 
year of Jeroboam ; and was 
subse-
quently succeeded 
by his Son." 
2 
Kings xv. 1, 44 In the 27th year of Je-
roboam king of Israel, began Azari-
ah son of Amaziah, king of Judah, to 
reign." 
From the 16th year of Jero-
boam, when 
Amaziah died, 
to the 
27th year when 
Azariah began 
to 
reign, was 11 years of interregnum. 
In this, Archbishop Usher and 
Dr. 
Hales, and also Dr. Jarvis, concur. 
2 Kings xv. 2—4i Sixteen years old 
w.as he (Azariah) when he began to 
re^n, and he reigned 52 years in Je-
rusalem." 
2 Kings xv. 7—44 So Azariah slept 
with his fathers 
44 and Jotham his 
son 
reigned in his stead." 
33 
v. 
44 And he reigned 16 years in Jerusa-
lem." 
2 
Kings 
xr. 
38—44 And 
Jotham 
slept with his fathers ?" 
44 and 
Ahaz 
his son reigned in his stead." xvi. 2, 
44 Twenty years old was Ahaz 
when 
he began to reign ; and reigned 16 
years in Jerusalem." 
2 Kings xvi. 20—44 And Ahaz slept 
with his fathers ; 44 and Hezekiah his 
son reigned in his stead." 
xviii. 2, 
44 And 
he reigned 29 years in Jeru-
salem." 
2 Kings xx. 21—" And 
Hezekiah 
slept with his fathers ; and Manasseh 
his son reigned in his stead." 
2 Kings xxi. 9—12 "And Manasseh 
seduced them to do more evil than 
did the nations whom the Lord de. 
stroyed before the children of Israel. 
And the Lord spake by his servants 
the prophets, saying, because Manas-
seh king of Judah hath done these 
abominations, and hath done wicked-
ly above all that the Amorites 
did, 
which 
were 
before him, and 
hath 
made Judah also to sin with his idols : 
Therefore thus saith the Lord God of 
Israel, Behold 
I am bringing 
such 
evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that 
whosoever 
heareth of it, both 
his 
ears shall tingle. 
And I will wipe Je-
rusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wip-
ing it, and turning it upside 
down. 
And they shall become a prey and a 
spoil to all their enemies ;" 2 Chron. 
xxxiii. 
11, 
" Wherefore 
the 
Lord 
brought upon them the captains of the 
host of the king of Assyria, 
which, 
took Manasseh among the thorns, and 
bound him with fetters, and carried 
him to Babylon." This was B. C. 677, 
and from this time they never recov-
ered their independence. 
Here 
be-
gan the seven times or 2520 
years 
that the power of the holy people was 
to be scattered, xxi. 1—14 Manasseh 
was 
12 years old when he began to 
reign, and reigned 55 years in Jeru-
salem. 
2 Kings xxi. 18. 19—And 
Manas-
seh slept 
with his father's," 
And 
Amon his son reigned in his stead." 
44 And he reigned two years in Jerusa-
lem." 
2 Kings xxi. 23, 26—44 And the 
servants of Amon conspired against 
him, and slew the king in his own 
house." 
44 And Josiah his son reign-
ed in his stead." xxii. 
1—114 Arid he 
reigned 31 years in Jerusalem." 
2 Kings xxiii. 30, 31, 34, 
36— 
4< And the people of the land took Je» 
hoahaz the son of Josiah, and anoint-
ed him, and made him king in his fa-
ther's stead." 
44 And 
he 
reigned 
3 months 
in 
Jerusalem." 
44 And 
Pharaoh-neehoh made 
Eliakim 
the 
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2 33945 
16 3410 
16 3426 
29 3455 
55 3510 
2 3512 
31 3543 
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i 
son of Josiah, king in the room of 
Josiah his father, and turned his name 
to Jehoiakim." 
"And he reigned 11 
years in Jerusalem 
2 Kings xxiv. 6, 8—" So Jehoiakim 
slept with his fathers : and Jehoiaehin 
his son reigned in his stead," " and 
he reigned in Jerusalem 3 months." 
10—12, 14, ' And at that time the 
servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of 
Babylon, came up against Jerusalem, 
and the city was besieged. And Ne-
buchadnezzar king of Babylon came 
against the city, and his servants did 
besiege it. 
And Jehoiaehin the king 
of Judah went out to the king „of Ba-
bylon, he and his mother, and his ser-
vants, and his princes, and his offi-
cers : and the king of Babylon took 
him in the eighth year ofhis reign." 
" And he carried away all Jerusalem, 
and all the mighty men of valor, even 
10,000 captives, and all the craftsmen 
and smiths; none remained save the 
poorer people of the land:" 
NOTE. 
Here then began the 
70 
years 
captivity predicted 
in Jere-
miah xxv. 9—11," Behold, ! .will send 
and take all the families of the north, 
saith the Lord, and Nebudchadnezzar 
the king of Babylon, my servant, and 
will bring them against this land, an.d 
against the inhabitants thereof, and 
against all these nations round about, 
and will utterly destroy them, and 
make them an astonishment, and a 
hissing, and perpetual 
desolations. 
Moreover I will take from them th.e 
voice of mirth, and the voice of glad-
ness. the voice of the 
bridegroom, 
and the voice of the bride, the sound 
of the millstones, and the light of the 
candle. 
And this whole land shall be 
a desolation, and an astonishment; 
and these nations shall serve the king 
of Babylon 70 years." 
This is a 
period covered by the sure word of 
prophecy, which thus marks its com-
mencement. 
The close of this period is also 
marked in the, prophecy, Jer. xxv. 12, 
" And it shall come to pass, when 70 
years are accomplished, that 1 will 
punish the king of Babylon, and that 
nation saith the Lord, for their ini-
quity, and the land of the Chaldeans, 
and will 
make it perpetual desola-
tions." 
This is shown by Daniel to 
have been literally fulfilled. 
Dan. v. 
1, 4, 5, 30, 31, " Belshazzar the king 
made a great feast to a thousand of 
his lords, and drank wine before the 
thousand. 
They 
drank wine, and 
praised the gods of gold, and of silver, 
of brass, of iron, of wood, and of 
stone. 
In the same hour came forth 
fingers of a man's hand, and wrote 
over 
against the candlestick 
upon 
the plaster of the wall of the king's 
palace : and the king saw the part 
of the hand that wrote. 
In that night 
was Belshazzar the king ofthe Chal-
deans slain. 
And Darius the Median 
took the kingdom, being about three-
score and two years old." 
These 70 years 
must therefore 
have ended with the death of Bel-
shazzar, and the subversion of the 
Chaldean empire, in the first year of 
Cyrus king of Persia. 
It is supposed that in the attack 
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upon Babylon, when 
Darius, 
the 
uncle and 
father-in-law of 
Cyrus, 
took the kingdom, that Cyrus 
com-
manded and acted for his unc^e ; and 
that Darius 
was 
associated 
with 
Cyrus in the government at Babylon 
during 2 years to his death. 
This 
is also the view of Dr. Jarvis. Conse-
quently, the 
first ,of Cyrus 
began 
ith the death of Belshazzar, which 
harmonizes Ptolemy with 
Daniel; 
and also Dan. v. 31, with 2 Chron. 
xxxvi. 22, 23, '• Now in the first, year 
of Cyrus king of Persia, that the 
word of the Lord spoken by 
the 
mouth of Jeremiah might be accom-
plished, the Lord stirred up the spirit 
of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made 
a 
proclamation throughout all his 
kingdom, and put. it also in writing, 
saying, thus saith Cyrus king of Per-
sia. All the kingdoms of the earth 
hath the Lord God of heaven give® 
me ; and he hath charged me to build 
him a house in Jerusalem, which 
is 
in Judah. 
Who is there anvng you 
of all his people? The Lord his God 
be with him, and let him go up." 
We have thus brought down 
the 
chronology of the world to the end of 
the 70 years captivity, which is as far 
as the chronology of the Bible gives 
us any clue to the time. 
But what i3 
remarkable, where the chronology of 
the Bible fails us, we have no less 
than three distinct and 
independent 
chronologies, of as many different na-
tions, all agreeing. 
The end of the 
70 years captivity, according to Dr. 
Jarvis, was in the year B. C. 537— 
the first year of the sole reign of Cy-
rus or 536 years before the Christian 
era. 
From the Christian era t© the end 
of the current year, is 
A. M. 
536 4460 
1843 6003 
70 
3624 
Thus far we have followed the chronology of 
the Hebrew text ; and for every period where 
that has failed us, we have taken the chronolo-
gy as given by Dr. Jarvis ; and such is the re-
sult. 
Our object has not been to prove this earth 
just 6000 years old, but only 
to show from the 
the best evidence, that it cannot vary far from 
it: and that we may live continually in expec-
tation of the consummation of that period. 
It 
will be seen that we have made no allowance 
for the odd days, or months, that some of the 
periods may 
have varied 
from even 
years, 
when they are given in round numbers. 
The 
sum of these might reduce the 6003 to 6000. 
We feel more satisfied with this result, than we 
should if it gave no time with which to make up 
such a deficiency. 
We 
have before us the Chronology of an 
Episcopal clergyman, the Rev. A. B. Chapin, 
A M. Mem. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sci. ; Mem. 
Yaie Nat. His. Soc. ; and Minister St. James 
Church. New Haven, Ct. 
It was first publish-
ed in the Quart. Christ. Spect. Nov. 1838, be-
fore Mr. M's Chronology appeared ; and in ev-
ery instance where we have varied from the 
chronology of Dr. J., and taken that of the Heb. 
text, with the exception of the reign of Jehoram, 
it agrees with the chronology here given. From 
the 7th year of Artaxerxes Longimnnus, to the 
Christian era, Mr. Chapin makes 2 years less 
than Dr. J. has given, and in our view is correct. 
This, 
making no allowance for odd days 
or 
months, would make the 
chronology 
of the 
world 6001 years; and brings the 7th year of 
Artaxerxes Longimanus, in the year B. C. 457, 
where 
we commence the 2300 days 
and 70 
weeks of Daniel. 
After the 70 years captivity 
commenced. Nebuchadnezzar made Mataniah 
his father's brother, king, and changed his name 
to Zedekiah, who reigned 11 years in Jerusa-
lem, during the 70 years captivity, doing evil in 
the sight of the Lord. 
" For through the anger 
of the Lord, it came to pass in Jerusalem and 
Judah, until he had cast them out from his pre-
sence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king 
of Babylon." 
2 Kings xxiv. 17—20, and also 
compare 
2 
Chron. 
xxxvi. 
14—17, 
19,-21, 
"Moreover, all the chief ofthe priests, and the 
people, transgressed very much after all the 
.abominations of the heathen: and polluted the 
house of the Lord whieh 
he had hallowed 
in Jerusalem. 
And the Lord God of their 
fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising 
up 
betimes, and sending: 
because he 
had 
compassion on his people, and on his dwelling-
place : but .they mocked the messengers of God, 
and despised his words, and misused his pro-
phets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against 
his people, lilt there was no remedy. 
Therefore 
he broughtaipon. them the king of the Cha'dees, 
who slew their young men with the sword in 
the house of their sanctuary, and had no com-
passion upon young man or maiden, old man, 
or him that stooped for age ; he gave them all 
into his hand- 
And they burnt the house of 
God, and brake down the wall of 
Jerusalem, 
and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and 
destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof. 
And 
them that had escaped from the sword carried 
he away to Babylon ; where they 
were ser-
vants to him and his sons until the reign ofthe 
kingdom of Persia ; to fulfil the word of the 
Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land 
had enjoyed her Sabbaths ; for as long as she 
lay 
desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfil three-
score and ten years." 
Some date the 70 years from the destruction 
of the temple to the time it was rebuilt. 
The 
prophecy, however, seems to indicate that the 
first captivity is the time from which to date it. 
But the 70 years are fulfilled in either case. 
The above evidence draw.il from the word of 
God, in connection 
with those chronological 
periods respecting which there is no dispute, is 
conclusive evidence, we be!ieve, that the vision 
will not necessarily be longer delayed, for the 
prophetitic periods harmoniously to terminate 
in the fulness of times, at the expiration of six 
thousand years from creation. 
According to Dr. Jarvis, the commencement 
of the first servitude was from creation 
2594 
According to Mr. Chapin, this was be-
fore the Christian Era. 
1563 
Since the Christian Era, is 
1843 
This makes the sum total from creation, 6000 
THE 
ANTIQUITY 
OF THE TRADITION 
OF 
THE 
EARTH'S 
EXISTENCE 
TO 
CONTINUE 
6000 
YEARS 
IN 
ITS 
PRESENT 
STATE. 
Antiquity can never prove error true ; neither 
can the plea of novelty disprove a truth. 
We 
therefore refer to the antiquity of the tradition 
of the 6000 years' duration of the present dis-
pensation, not as any proof of its correctness, 
but simply to take from it the prejudice of sin 
gularity and novelty, with which many regaid 
it. 
We first find it brought to view by the 
ancient Jewish Rabbins. 
" As for my opinion," saith R 
Menasse, " I 
think that after six thousand years, the world 
shall be destroyed, upon one certain day, or in 
one hour; that the arches of heaven shall make a 
stand, as immovable ; that there will be 
no 
more generation or corruption; and all things 
by the resurrection shall be renovated, and re-
turn to a better condition." 
Menasse also as-
sures us that "this out of doubt, is the opinion 
of the most learned Aben Ezra," who looked 
for it in the New Earth of Isaiah 65 : 17. 
IREN^US flourished A.D. 178. 
He was Bishop 
of Lyons, and says, " in as many days as this 
world was made, in so many thousand years it 
is perfected ; for if the day of the Lord be as it 
were a thousand years., and in six days those 
things that are made were finished, it is mani-
fest, that the perfecting of those things in the 
six thousandth year, when anti-Christ reignine 
1260 years, shall have wasted all things in the 
world, &c., then shall the Lord come from 
heaven in the clouds, with the glory of his 
Father. 
BARNABAS says, " The spirit of the Lord is 
upon me, because he hath appointed ME to pro-
claim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the 
day of restitution." 
He then adds—" Further-
more, it is written concerning the Sabbath, 
'Sanctify the Sabbath of the Lord with pure 
hands and with a clean heart.' And elsewhere he 
saith-: ' if thy children shall keep my Sabbaths 
then will I put my 
MERCY on them ;' (alluding 
to the 
mercy promised to 
Abraham :) 
and 
even in the beginning of creation he makes 
mention of the Sabbath : 4 And God made in six 
days, the works of his hands, and he 
finished 
th em on the seventh 
day^ and 
he vested 
on 
the 
seventh day, and sanctified it. 
Consider, my 
children, what that signifies :—' He finished them 
in six days.' 
The meaning is this : that in six 
thousand years, the Lord will bring all things 
to an end. 
For with him one day is a thousand 
years, as Himself testifieth saying : 'Behold 
this day shall be as a thousand years,' therefore, 
children, in six days (i. e. in 6000 years) shall 
all things be accomplished. 
And what is that 
he saith,—'He rested the seventh day V 
He 
meaneth that when his Son shall come, and 
abolish the Wicked One, and judge the ungodly, 
and change the sun and moon and stars, then 
he shall gloriously rest in the seventh day. 
He 
adds, lastly : '• Thou shalt sanctify it with clean 
hands and a pure heart, (alluding here to cir-
curnfision being of the heart.) 
Wherefore we 
are greatly deceived if we imagine, that any 
can now sanctify the day which God hath made 
holy, without having a heart pure in all things. 
B hold, therefore, he will then truly sanctify it 
with blessed rest, when we have received the 
righteous promise ; — when iniquity shall be no 
more, a/1 things being renewed bv the Lord ; and 
shall then be able to sanctify it, being ourselves 
holy." 
See sec. xiv. xv. Epistle of Barnabas. 
CYPRIAN, Bishop of Carthage, flourished A. 
D. 222. 
His writings are held in great esteem 
among all the Godly. 
He speaks of the six 
thousand years' completion and perfection ful-
filled. 
The testimony of all the fathers is so 
general and concurrent on the universality of 
this belief, that this point cannot be denied 
without impeaching their veracity. 
LACTANTIUS, who lived about A. D. 310, says 
in his "Book 
of Divine Institutions," 
"Let 
philosophers know, who number thousands of 
years, ages since the beginning of the 
world, 
that the six thousandth year is not yet conclu-
ded or ended. 
But that number being fulfilled, 
of necessity there must be an end, and the state 
of human things must be transformed into that 
which is better." 
This he proves from God's 
making the world in six days. 
The learned JOSEPH 
MEDE, called the "illus-
trious Mede," says, "The divine institution of 
a Sabbathcial,or seventh year's solemnity among 
the Jews, has a plain typical reference to the 
seventh chiliad, or millenary of the world, ac-
cording to the well known tradition among the 
Jewish Doctors, adopted by many in every age 
of the Christian church, that this world will at-
tain to its limit at the end of sisc thousand 
years." 
The Rev. RICHARD 
CLARK, in'his essay on the 
number seven takes a singular view. 
He also 
says in his treatise on the prophetical numbers 
of Daniel and John, that "The 
six thousand 
years preceding the Sabbath of rest" " will be 
cut short in righteousness." 
THOMAS 
BURNETT, 
in his " Theory of the 
Earth," printed in London A. D. 1697, states 
that it was the received opinion of the primitive 
church from the days of the apostles 
to the 
council 
of Nice, 
that this earth would continue 
six 
thousand years, when the resurrection 
of the 
just and conflagration of the earth, usher in the 
millennium and reign of Christ on earth. 
The above are but a few of the many testi-
monies which might be adduced in proof of the 
antiquity of this belief; but here are enough to 
show that it is of no modern origin. 
As there-
fore we are evidently at the very termination of 
the 6000 years, we are at the very point of 
time when all the honored names of antiquity 
would be looking for the coming of the Lord. 
Well, then, may we live in continued expecta-
tion of this glorious event, when we find the 
fulfilment of the prophecies the signs of the 
times, and the prophetic periods, all harmoni-
zing in the completion of this period. 
Boston, Sept. 1st, 1843. 
THE 
MIDNIGHT CRY. 
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1843. 
STATE OF THE CAUSE. 
The intelligence from every direction, concerning 
the state of the Advent cause among believers, is a 
of a most cheering character. Instead of relapsing into 
a cold indifference, as many have prophesied and hoped, 
there is a faithfulness and firmness, of a higher char-
acter than we have ever witnessed before. 
It is not 
an evenescent light that has flashed upon us, to glitter 
for a moment, and then disappear, leaving us in increas-
ed darkness. 
But the divine light that has broken 
upon us through the word of God, is a light that will 
NO DOUBT shine brighter and BRIGHTER to the perfect 
day. 
The hopes of believers are more and more confirm-
ed by the signs of the times, as the crisis approaches. 
They regard the tokens of a character not to be mis-
taken. 
Cod is manifestly in this great work. It bears 
the seal of divine approbation. 
No enterprise has 
ever, perhaps, gone on with such rapidity, and echoed 
its sound to the whole world in so short a time, as the 
doctrine of Christ's speedy coming. 
With such an ar-
ray of evidence as is presented to the judgment, the 
heart, the eyes, and tbe ears of Adventists, are they to 
be shaken and turned away from their glorious hopes 
and expectations l By no means ! ! The confusion of 
our opponents, which is so strikingly manifested in 
their mutually neutralizing each other's arguments 
—the weakness of their strong men, in opposing this 
great truth—the successes and conquests of the undis-
ciplined and " ignorant,'''' so called, all conspire to con-
firm our expectations. 
There are also constant accessions from among the 
heart and life of the Church. 
Many, that have been 
heretofore indifferent to the claims of the subject, are 
now giving it their attention, and embracing it with 
their whole heart. 
Indeed, we have the greatest rea-
son to thank God, take courage, and lift up our heads, 
assured that our redemption draweth nigh. 
PROTEST. 
We have reason to be thankful for the good order 
as well as good feeling which has characterized our 
camp-meetings hitherto. 
But the meeting near 
Bridgeport, Ct., near its close, exhibited some scenes 
of fanaticism, at which most of the brethren present 
were much pained. 
A few young men, professing to 
have the gift ofthe discerning of spirits were hurried 
into extravagances which they themselves since re-
gret, and we have reason to hope that nothing of the 
kind will again occur. 
Bro. Litch Was present, and 
the following is his protest. 
Dear -Brother 
Southard, 
I find in the papers of this morning an account of 
the Second Advent camp-meeting hear Bridgeport, 
Ct. The picture is, to be sure, a dark one, but no more 
so than the truth will warrant. 
All the scenes de-
scribed there are true, without exaggeration. A more 
disgraceful scene, under the garb of pietv I have 
rarely witnessed. 
For the last ten years I have 
come in contact nearly every year, more or less, with 
the same spirit, and have marked its developments, 
its beginning and its result; and am now prepared to 
say that it is evil, and only evil, and that 
continually. 
I have uniformly opposed it, wherever it has made 
its appearance, and as uniformly have been denoun-
ced as being opposed to the power of God, and as 
resisting the operations of the Spirit. 
The origin of 
it, is, the idea that the individuals thus exercised are 
entirely under the influence of the Spirit of God, are 
his children, and that he will not deceive them and 
lead them astray ; hence every impulse which comes 
upon them is yielded to as coming from God, and fol-
lowing it there is no length of fanaticism to which 
they will not go. 
That good men, yes, tbe best of 
men, have fallen into the error, and have been ruined 
for life, so far as their Christian influence is concerned, 
is a lamentable fact. They begin well, but are pushed 
beyond the mark, become captivated by the dulusion 
ofthe devil that they are divinely inspired to perform 
certain acts, and are infallible, until they are beyond 
the reach of advice or admonition. 
The only way to deal with it, is, to nip it in the 
bud, and stop it at once. 
They may be hurt; but de-
pend upon it, one had better suffer than many 
As a duty I owe to the Second Advent cause, to 
the church and the world, I wish to enter my most 
solemn protest against the whole concern of fanati-
cism as I witnessed it at the Stepney camp-meeting. 
I wish to have no part nor lot in such a concern.— 
And if Second Advent meetings must be the scenes of 
such disgraceful proceedings as I there witnessed, I 
protest against more being held. 
It would be better 
for the cause never to have another at such a price. 
This is not a ha3ty passionate ebullition of feeling, 
but a deliberate 
sentiment. 
The 
Bible—THE 
BIBLE, is the rule of faith, 
duty, and feeling, 
with 
Adventists. 
It is a sufficient rule in all cases. 
God 
has given us reason, to guide a nature sanctified by 
the Spirit of God, and that reason instructed and en-
lightened by the w0rd—the unerring word. 
I believe in being under the influence of the Spirit 
of God, in being led by the Spirit, and being filled 
by the Spirit. But the fruits of that Spirit are " love, 
joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, 
meekness, faith, patience and temperance, against 
which there is no law." 
We are always safe in fol-
lowing, or being led by that Spirit; but we are not 
safe in following blind impulses without trying the 
spirits by the word. 
This thing is not peculiar to 
the Advent cause; John Wesley and his coadjators 
always had to meet and contend with it, and they do 
to this day. It ruined the Advent cause in England 
under Edward Ervihg, so that it has never recovered. 
29 
May the Lord 3ave us from all such fanaticism the 
few days which yet remain, until he comes. 
I hope this affair will be a beacon to all concerned, 
and that such a spirit will henceforth meet with no 
encouragement from our brethren, 
Yours in hope, 
J. LITCH. 
Philadelphia, 
Sept. 11 th, 1843. 
G. S. MILESJ writing from Albany, on the 4th 
inst, says; "I am informed that the Lord has done a 
great work in Clinton Co. 
More than a thousand 
souls have been converted through the labors of Bro* 
Hutchinson and another Second Advent lecturer. 
In 
another county about 800, of which I have never seen 
any notice." 
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THE DAYS OF 
NOAH. 
Sears' Bible Biography has been very highly commend-
ed by most of our religious papers. 
Here is an excellent 
extract from the article upon Noah. 
It applies the scrip-
tures in exact accordance with the second advent faith. 
" Awful as the contemplation ofthe deluge is, yet there 
is another revolution in prospect still more momentous 
and awful. 
There shall not, indeed, he an overwhelming 
flood of water upon the earth, but a stream of devouring 
fire, which will burn up all the works of nature and of art. 
A sudden destruction shall come upon the workers of in-
iquity, and as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be 
then ; 
'They were eating and drinking, marrying and 
giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into 
the ark : and knew not until the flood came and took 
them all away: so shall also the coining of the Son of man 
be ' 
Matt. xxiv. 38, 39. 
Infidelity and immorality will 
prevail to an extraordinary height in the latter days ; and 
though the prophetic signs will be clear and striking to 
considerate and religious minds, yet upon the generality 
of men they will have no effect. 
' Blessed are those ser-
vants, therefore, whom when the LORD cometh he shall j 
find watching.' 
When destruction shall come as a whirl- | 
wind, and vengeance shall be poured down from on high, j 
th^y shall be safe, being sheltered in the ark of divine j 
mercy. 
Then cometh the judgment, when all the mys- i 
tenons ways of Providence shall he cleared up, and every ! 
dispensation thereof be fully vindicated, to the confusion ! 
of the wicked and the glory and happiness of the right- j 
eous. 
; 
" The solemn scene ended, and old things being done j 
awav, 'all things shall become new.' 
There shall be j 
' new heavens and a new earth,' in which righteousness j 
only shall dwell. 
' Peace shall flourish in that happy j 
stale ) mercy shall descend thereon as the dew, and ' 
righteousness spring out of the ground.' 
No evil, either i 
natural or moral, shall disfigure it, for 'all shall know and i 
obey the LORD, from the least to the greatest.' 
The in-
habitants of that world shall not labor in vain, nor bring 
forth in trouble ; for they are the seed of the blessed of! 
the LORD [or of 
the 
MESSIAH] 
and 
their offspring with ; 
them. 
And it shall come to pass, saith the LORD, * that j 
before they call I will answer; and while they are yet | 
speaking I will hear. 
The wolf and the lamb shall feed 
together; and the lion shall eat Btraw like the bullock ; 
and dust shall he the serpent's meat. 
They shall not 
hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord." 
Isa. lxv. 17, &c. 
What a glorious prospect is here expanded to the view 
of the Christian ! 
Is he apt to look back with a kind of 
regret upon a paradise lost, through the weakness of our 
first parents 1 
He turns with rapture to contemplate a 
paradise before him infinitely more glorious, in which is 
the pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceed-
ing out ofthe throne of God and of the Lamb. 
" In the 
midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, 
there is the tree of life, bearing twelve manner of fruits, 
and yielding her fruit every month ; and the leaves ofthe 
tree are for the healing of the nations. 
And there shall 
be no more curse ; hut the throne of God and ofthe Lamb 
shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him ; and they 
shall see his face, and his name shall be in their fore-
heads. 
And there shall be no night there; and they 
need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord 
God giveth them light, and they shall reign for ever and 
ever." Rev. xxii. 2, 3, 4, 5. 
If the Christian looks back upon a world destroyed by 
30 
water, and sees the ark preserving Noah and his family, 
with the various living creatures necessary to stock the 
new world, he admires the wonderful goodness of God 
blending itself with his judgments; and on viewing in 
prospect the last dreadful destruction ofthe earth, he re-
joices that there is a salvation appointed for all who 
shall flee from the wrath to come, and also an inherit" 
ance reserved for them, which is incorruptible, undefiled, 
and that fadeth not away 
The covenant 
with Noah is typical of that made 
with Christ for the preservation of his church: "For 
this is as the waters of Noah unto me, smth the Lord ; 
for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah should no 
more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I would no 
more be wroth with thee nor rebuke thee. 
For THE 
MOUNTAINS 
SHALL 
DEPART, 
AND THE NILLS BE REMOVED, 
but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither s .all 
the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord 
that hath mercy on thee."—Isa. liv. 3, 10. 
It is an unspeakable blessing to be interested in this 
divine and precious promise—to be included in that cov-
enant of grace to which it is given. Many, however, are 
professedly baptized into communion with Christ's spirit-
ual body, who have never been renewed in the disposi-
tion of their minds. 
A mere outward profession of 
Oh ristianity, and attaching ourselves to some branch 
of the Christian church, gives no man a claim to the 
promise, but will rather serve to add to his condem-
nation 
in the world 
to come. 
There was an 
un-
righteous, idolatrous Ham in the ark, who inherited a 
curse instead of a blessing ; and the same will be the case 
with respect to many now in the visible church of JESUS 
CHRIST. 
In her communiou, it is to be feared, there are 
numbers who are not united to the HEAD by a true and 
living faith, who marvel much at the declaration of TRUTH 
itself, ''YE 
MUST 
BE 
BORN AGAIN," (John 
iii. 
7)—who 
know nothing of real religion, are destitute of all pious 
feeling, and who. when tried in the balances ofthe sanc-
tuary, will be found wanting. 
Nothing short of - BEING 
BORN OF THE SPIRIT,' can 
make us heirs of 
the 
promise, 
children of G OD, and consequently inheritors ofthe king-
dom of heaven. 
Let it be, therefore, our serious care and concern not 
to have ' the form of godliness' merely, but the ' power of 
it also,' (2 Tiiu. iii. 5,) in our hearts, and manifested in 
our lives and conversations. 
Noah walked with GOD in 
this manner, and had that test, both here and hereafter, 
which his name implied; and hereby we also must live in 
all holy obedience, in the midst of"' a dark and corrupt 
generation, as lights of the world,' (Phil. ii. 15,) if we 
would enter into that rest ' which remaineth for the peo-
pie of GOD.' Heb. iv. 9.'" 
For the Midnight Cry. 
WATCH! 
" Watch therefore, for ye know not what how 
your Lord doth 
come."—MATT, 24 : 42. 
This is a very important injunction, especially at 
the present crisis, or age of the world ; yet 1 very 
much fear the import of it is but little understood by 
the generality. 
Not to mention the many misapplica-
tions made ofthe text, I might say it is applied to almost 
every subject but the right one ; but more frequently, 
perhaps, to the subject of death, as if Christ comes 
every time death comes ! 
Most second advent believers, however, if I mistake 
not, consider it an exhortation to watch particularly for 
the second appearing of our coming Lord. 
And "so I 
understand it, when applied to the present generation. 
But in opposition to this view of the text it is said, the 
injunction was made to primitive Christians more than 
1800 years ago, and most certainly they could not be re-
quired to watch for this event so long beforehand. That 
it was made to the early disciples is readily admitted, 
and that it stands recorded on the sacred page intimately 
connected with the second appearing of ourblessed Lord 
no one can reasonably deny. 
But while I firmly be-
lieve that all at the present time are, by this injunction, 
exhorted to watch for the personal return of Christ ; 
yet its application to the early disciples was rendered 
somewhat different, by the different* position in which 
they stood in the world's history. 
Our Lord had told 
them he was going away, but would come again, and 
exhorted them to watch. But lest they should mistake, 
and expect his return too soon, he gave them way-
marks, by which they might know, as they passed 
along, where they were. 
Way-marks had been given 
in general before, particularly as recorded in the 2nd 
chapter of Daniel, 
Five great monarchies, one suc-
ceeding the other, were there described ; four of which 
were to be earthly, sensual, devilish. 
The fifth was to 
be the kingdom of Christ • to be set up at his second 
appearing. 
Three of these way-marks, or sensual 
kingdoms, had been already passed, and they were 
passing the fourth. 
It would be natural then for them 
to think themselves very near to the setting up of the 
fifth kingdom. Our Lord, therefore, that they might not 
mistake, and think themselves nearer than they really 
were, informed them that certain things, in successive 
order, must previously transpire. 
He told them Jeru-
salem should first be destroyed or trodden down of the 
Gentiles, after which Christians would " suffer great 
tribulations, such as was not since the beginning ofthe 
world, nor ever should be." 
And that, succeeding 
this, "The sun would be darkened, and the moon not 
give its light;" and still following, " the stars shall 
fall from heaven,"&cM to which is added by Luke, "Dis-
! tress of nations with perplexity, men's hearts failing 
them for fear, and for looking after those things thai 
are coming on the earth." 
Now these events are way-marks, one succeeding 
the other, and reaching down to his second coming, 
which our Savior gave to his disciples, by which they 
might know where they were, and when to look for 
his return. 
And these ivay*marks are the very things 
for which the early disciples were called upon to 
watch. 
Now the injunction presents itself to my inind 
in this light: As if a man, being a stranger, desired 
direction to a certain city. 
He is put on the right 
course, and told there are 11 mile-stones" 
all the way. 
Watch, a3 you pass along, and you will know by these 
way-marks when you get near it. 
But for what is he 
to watch 1 Surely not for the city until he has passed 
the last mile-stone. He is first to watch for these Way-
marks, and when the last one is passed, then for the 
city. 
So in the case before us. 
We have our way-marks the whole distance from 
our Saviour's incarnation. 
They stand in successive 
order, and reach to his second advent. 
And I ask, 
where are we now 1 Who, in his sober senses, can 
but see, we are passing the very last, which is " dis-
tress of nations, with perplexity—men's hearts failing 
them," &c. 
We are now, then, to watch for the coming of Christ 
to gather his saints, and take vengeance on the un-
godly, as the next great event to transpire. 
And we 
shall be continually watching, as we " know not what 
hour our Lord will come. 
Every man has seen the 
last " way-mark" 
yet how few are watching for the 
Lord, and for the city-—the new Jerusalem. 
The cry 
has gone out, " Behold, the bridegroom cometh ;" yet 
how few give heed to the things they hear ! 
They 
pass on, ministers and people, saying, " Where is the 
promise of his coming ]" (2 Peter 3 : 4.) 
The last 
way-mark troubles them, yet they hear it not; and I 
ask what more can be done 1 
My brethren in the ministry, and people of my for-
mer charge, I do most affectionately entreat you, not 
to pass over this subject lightly, lest, when your Lord 
cometh, you be found sleeping, or with your lamps gone 
out. 
Weigh the subject well before you reject it, lest 
you be found fighting against God. 
Look again and 
again at the way-marks, snd see where you are in the 
world's history. 
Sure 1 am that we are near its close. 
And, too soon for those that scoff at the "Midnight 
Cry," will the Lord appear to take vengeance on a 
wicked world, and vindicate his people. 
" Be wise 
to-day, it is madness to defer." 
And I ask, why, O ! 
why will you die ? 
B. B. 
BROWN. 
Fort Ann, Sept. 5, 1843. 
LETTER FROM BRO. JONAS D. JOHNSON. 
| 
BROTHER SOUTHARD,—I believe that the " TIME OF 
THE END" has come, and will present some of my rea-
sons. 
I understand by the " time of the end" 
not a 
point of time, but a space of time, in which certain 
events are to transpire, which could not take place in a 
point of time, simultaneous with the end itself. 
It is a 
space of time, in which God's people are to see the 
signs of their Lord's speedy coming, and are to " know 
that it is near even at the door,"—when they are to 
" run to and fro, and knowledge be increased" in every 
respect, and especially in the prophecies which before 
were to be sealed up, in a great measure, particularly 
on the time, until it would be of practical importance to 
that age on whom the end was coming. 
Then the time ofthe end must be a space of time.— 
If sealed up until the end, it would be no revelation, 
and would not have been given us ; for " secret things 
belong unto the Lord our God. 
But, things revealed to 
us and to our children, Deut. 29: 29." 
We are not 
meddling with God's secrets then, in endeavoring to 
understand his revelations, but observing his com-
mands : "Search the Scriptures." 
" When ye see all 
these things fulfilled, THEN KNOW ye that the Kingdom 
of God is nigh at hand," and are regarding the " sure 
word of prophecy" as Peter suggests, 2 Pet. 1: 19. 
How long were the people of God to fall under the 
Papal abomination ? 
Answer Chapter 11, verse 31 to 
35, " even till the time of the erul, because it is yet for 
an appointed time.'''' And are the saints now falling un-
der the cruel Roman Catholic power ? or, have they 
been, since 1798, as in ages past? 
No, says all Christ-
endom. 
Then the time of the end must have 
come.— 
Would that all the church might hear it: the time must 
have come if the saints are nat now falling 
ly 
sword, 
captivity, 
and spoil. 
As the opinion is so general that we are not to under-
stand any thing respecting the end, before it comes, and 
that the prophecies and prephetic periods cannot he un-
derstood, I wish here to introduce the opinions of dis-
tinguished Commentators, whom they delight to honor. 
Dr. Clark says on Daniel 12: 4, "many shall endeavor 
to search out the sense, and knowledge shall be in-
creased bv this means, though the meaning shall not be 
fully known till the events take place ; THEN the seal 
shall be broken, and the sense become plain. 
This 
seems to be the meaning of the verse, though another 
has been put on it. 
Many shall run to and fro preach-
ing the gospel of Christ, and therefore religious know-
ledge and true wisdom be increased ; this is true in it-
self, but it is not the meaning of the Prophet's words." 
Dr. Scott says, on the same passage, '' the angel by 
way of conclusion intimated to Daniel, that this prophe-
cy would remain obscure (as a sealed book) of which 
little would be understood " till the time of the end," 
i. e. till the things predicted drew to (or near) a con-
clusion. 
In these latter ages, many have bestowed 
great pains in searching into history to illustrate those 
parts of the prophecies which are already accomplish-
ed, and by comparing them with other Scriptures, to 
form some judgment of what yet remains to be fulfilled, 
and thus much light has been thrown upon them ; as 
they shall.gradually be more and more accomplished, 
they will be better understood, and future generations 
will be far more surprised and instructed than we are. 
Dr. Gill, who wrote a hundred years ago, says in his 
commentary on Dan. 12: 4, " It was to remain a secret 
until the time of its accomplishment was come, or near 
at hand. 
It reached to times at a great distance. Till 
these times were come, or were near, it would be a 
sealed book." 
(Then let it no more be inquired why 
the time has not been understood by our wise men be-
fore ; they tell us it was sealed till near the end.) 
" Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge 
he in-
creased';" " that is," savs the Dr., " toward the end of 
the time appointed, many shall be stirred up to inquire 
into the things delivered in this book," (these words 
! ought to written over the door of every minister's study, 
| rather, I should have said, on their hearts,) "and will 
| spare no pains or cost to get a knowledge of them :— 
I compare one passage ivith another, spiritual things with 
j spiritual, in order to obtain the mind of Christ: and 
! things will appear plainer and clearer, the nearer tire 
i accomplishment of them is : especially when accom-
| plished, when prophecy can be compared with facts. 
I 
never have found a commentator but those who have 
j lately opposed the Second Advent doctrine, who did not 
j allow that something is to be known or understood 
I about the time's being near, when it was right at the 
i door. 
Why 
will not the professed 
servants of God 
obey the command, 
" know ye that it is near, even at 
I the door.'''' Has not the time come to understand? It 
! most certainly has it'saints are no longer falling under 
! persecution. 
This is the first reason ; a second reason 
is that we have the career of Bonaparte in the last part 
ofthe 11th Chap., where it is expressly stated, 11: 40, 
that at the time of the end the king of the south shall 
push at him, &c., and this was precisely fulfilled in 
1798. 
And third, MANY are studying into these things 
delivered in this book, or in other words, many are run-
ning to and fro as they never were before, in the visions 
and prophecies of Daniel. 
Therefore 
the wise may 
now 
understand. 
Yours looking for that blessed hope in '43, 
JONAS 
D. 
JOHNSON. 
Rochester, Aug. 15, 1843. 
LETTER FROM BRO. LUTHER CALDWELL. 
Dear Bro. Southard,—I am yet proclaiming the glad 
tidings ofthe kingdom at hand, in Central Pa. 
Since 
I left you at the Gettysburg camp meeting, I have 
been busily employed. 
From that meeting I went to 
Petersburg and lectured the 
same evening. 
The 
Academy was filled with ladies, and the gentlemen 
stood on the sides and in front. 
I spoke to the 
people for an hour and a half, on the time of our Sa-
viour's glorious return. 
The next morning I went to Shiremanstown. There, 
the people calling themselves " the Church of God," 
were holding a camp meeting. 
I found among them 
many strong believers in our Saviour's immediate com-
ing. 
I left this meeting, and went to Harrisburgh, 
where I lectured in the house belonging to " the United 
Brethren." 
From there I went to Middletown,- and 
lectured once. 
Thence proceeded to a camp meeting 
in York county, held by " the people of God." 
I ex-
pected by this name, that I should have had the liberty 
of presenting the subject of our Lord's coming, to the 
people. 
But my message was reject ed. The Advent-
ists were abused. 
One preacher called us hypocrites, 
&c. 
Another said it was nothis duty to preach Christ 
as a Judge. 
He said he would preach Him as a Sa-
viour. 
Is not this the doctrine of the Universalists. 
Do they not preach Christ as a Saviour ; but not as a 
Judge? 
I love the old apostolical preaching 
Peter and Paul 
preached the resurrection—the Judgment—and 
the 
coming of the Lord ; and the effect was powerful. 
" Howbeit, on one occasion, many of them which heard 
the word believed ; and the number of the men was 
about jive thousand."''—Act 4. 
On another occasion, 
Paul, by preaching the judgment, made the governor 
" tremble" before him. 
Besides, it is the only hope 
which the Christian has in this world, to sustain him 
amid trials and temptations. 
Bless the Lord for this 
hope, which is like an anchor to the soul, both sure and 
steadfast. 
Well might the inspired Apostle call it a 
" BLESSED HOPE." 
I lectured, however, three times in 
a grove, a short distance from the meeting. 
Brother 
Palen, who was convinced by hearing Bro- Litch, on 
the 11th of Daniel, atMiddletown meeting, was present. 
He stood bv the cause, as also did Bro. Prier, and Bro. 
Shelly. 
From this meeting I went to Newbury. 
And from 
that place to Middletown, where I learned that a Metho-
dist minister was to preach against our views. 
I went 
to the meeting—the house was crowded—and many 
standing without. 
But the preacher was taken sick, 
and could not attend. 
I was invited to improve the 
time, which I did by giving a lecture on the Judgment. 
From Middletown 1 went to Smoketown, above Car-
lisle. 
The brethren here were with us heart and hand. 
I have since that meeting, lectured in Lewisburg, 
and Lisbon. 
I find that there is a desire to hear in 
places hitherto closed against us. 
In Middletown, our 
friends are much encouraged. 
The Lutheran preach-
er in Middletown has embraced our views, and is 
preaching them boldly. 
My faith is strong, that our 
Saviour will soon come. 
Then we shall obtain joy and 
gladness ; sorrow and sighing will flee away. 
Even so, 
Lord Jesus, come quickly. 
Middletown, 
Pa., Sept. 5th, 1843. 
Extracts from Dr. Gill's Commentary. 
WRITTEN ABOUT 100 
YEARS AGO. 
Titus 2 : 13—" Looking for 
that blessed hope, and 
the glorious 
appearing of the great 
God and our Sa-
viour Jesus 
Christ." 
Now this, the gospel directs and instructs believers 
to look for, to love, to hasten to, most earnestly de-
sire, and yet patiently wait for, most firmly believing 
that it will be ; and this the saints have reason to 
look for with longing desire and affection, and with 
pleasure, since it will be not only glorious in itself, 
but advantageous to them ; they will then be glorified 
with Christ, and be forever with him. 
Rev. 3 : 20—" Behold 
I stand at the door, 
and 
knock," 
dfc. 
The phrase, " standing at the door," may be ex-
pressive of the near approach of Christ to Judgment ; 
and his knocking may signify the notice that will 
be given of it. by some of the immediate forerunners 
and signs of his coming ; which yet will be observed 
by a few, such a general sleepiness will have seized 
all professors of religion ; and particularly may in-
tend the midnight cry, which will, in the issue, rouse 
[awaken the attention] ot them all. 
" If any man 
hear my voice," in the appearances of things, and 
providences in the world, " and open the door," or 
show a readiness for the coming of Christ, look and 
wait for it, and be like such that will receive him 
with a welcome, " I will come in and sup with him 
and he with me." 
To and among these will Christ 
appear when he comes in person, and these being 
like wise virgins, ready, having his grace in their 
hearts, and his righteousness upon them, he will take 
them at once into the marriage chamber and shut the 
door upon the rest, when they shall enjoy a thousand 
years' communion with him in person here on earth, 
when the Lamb on the throne will feed them with the 
fruit of the tree of life, and lead them to fountains of 
living waers, and his tabernacle shall be among them. 
Letts 
from Bro. Challacombe. 
HONESDALE, PA , August 28, 
1844. 
Dear Bro. Himes,—I am not ashamed to acknow-
ledge that I am looking for the appearing of our Lord 
Jesus Christ ; and if I delight in any thing, it is in read-
ing of our Lord's return to our world, to save his peo-
ple with an everlasting salvation. 
I sincerely thought, before 1 heard brother Reed last 
fall, that I could confute the doctrine with one single 
passage of Scripture, and wondered why people should 
be so foolish as to trouble the Church and world with 
such a doctrine. 
But now I conceive that the Bible 
teams with the good tidings of our Saviour's speedy ap-
proach ; and thank God, a few brethren in this vicinity 
with myself, are daily rejoicing in prospect of soon en-
tering upon our promised possessions. 
We enjoyed a 
course of lectures from Bro. Teal, last winter, and his 
labors were blessed. 
We want more light on the subject here. 
Could not 
some good lecturer be sent to this place ? 
There is a 
desire to hear, and I think great good might be done. 
Yours in hope of speedy immortality, 
THOMAS 
CHALLACOMBE. 
DR. ADAM 
CLARKE. 
It is a source of no small peiplexity to the mass ofthe 
church and the world, that the coming of the Lord is by 
Adventists proclaimed as being specially nigh. 
But the 
following from Dr. Adam Clarke's Commentary, or illus-
trations of Dan. 2d chap., will be found of the same cast 
If the great day was so near as to justify the following ar-
dent appeal from D( etor Clarke in his day, are we not 
justified in faithfully giving the word of warning NOW 1 
Oh, that people would be wise and heed the truth con-
cerning the COMING and KINGDOM of the Lord in season 
to be benefitted by it. 
The Doctor evidently supposed that the Great Day of 
the Lord would come at the close of the six thousand 
years from the creation, which period is doubtless just 
upon us. 
He says : 
According to the ancient tradition there were, 
1. Two thousand years void ; that is without the 
law. 
2. Two thousand years 
under the law. And 
3. Two thousand years under the Messiah. And 
at the termination ofthe third the endless sab-
bath should commence. 
The comments on this 
ancient tradition go on to state, that at the ter-
mination of each day's work of the creation it 
was said, The evening 
and the morning 
weie 
the 
first.,—second,—third,— 
fourth,—fifth, 
and 
sixth 
day ; but when the sabbath is introduced, 
and 
God 
is said to rest Jrom 
his work, and to have 
hallowed this day, there is no mention of the eve-
ning 
and 
the 
morning 
being 
the seventh 
day. 
That is left without termination ; and therefore 
a proper type of the eternal 
sabbath—that 
rest 
which remains for 
the people 
of 
God. 
And are we indeed so near the time when 
the elements of all things shall be dissolved by 
fervent heat.; when the heavens shall be shriv-
elled up like a scroll, and the earth and all it 
contains be burnt up ? 
Is the fifth empire, 
the 
kingdom 
of the stone, and the kingdom of the moun-
tain, so near its termination? 
Are 
all vision 
and prophecy about to be sealed up, and the 
whole earth to be illuminated with the 
bright 
beams of the Sun 
of righteeusness ? 
Are the 
finally 
incorrigible 
and impenitent 
about 
to 
be swept off the face of the earth by the besom 
of destruction, while the righteous shall be able 
to lift up their heads with ineffable joy, know-
ing their final redemption is at hand ? 
Are we 
so near the eve of that period 
when they who 
turn many to righteousness 
shall shine 
as the 
stars 
for ever and ever ? 
What sort of persons should 
we then be in all holy conversation and godli-
ness ! 
Where is our zeal for God? 
Where, 
the sounding of our bowels over the perishing 
nations who have not yet come under the yoke 
of the Gospel ? 
Multitudes of whom are not 
under the yoke,because they have never heard 
of it ;—and they have not heard of if, because 
those who have enjoyed the blessings of the 
Gospel of Jesus have not felt, (or 
have 
not 
obeyed the feeling,) the imperious duty of di-
viding their heavenly 
bread with those who are 
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31 
sag ' 
j famishing with hunger ! arid giving the water of 
life to those who are dying of thirst! How shall 
they appear in that great day when the conquests 
of the Lion of the tribe of Judah are ended ; 
when the mediatorial kingdom is delivered up 
unto 
ihe Father; and the Judge of quick and 
dead sits on the great white throne, and to those 
on his left hand says,—1 was hungry and ye 
gave me no meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave 
me no drink." 
I say,—How shall they appear 
who have made no exertions to tell the lost na-
tions ofthe earth the necessity for preparing to 
meet their God ; and showing them the means of 
doing it by affording them the blessings of ihe 
Gospel of the grace of God ? 
Let us beware 
lest the stone that struck the motley image, and 
dashed it to pieces, fall on us, and grind us to 
powder ! 
A YOUNG DISCIPLE. 
Bear 
Brother 
Southard,—Perhaps 
it will 
be interesting to some of your 
readers if I 
should relate to them how a little boy in our 
city has been recently converted to the love of 
Jesus, and the hope 
of his coming this year. 
Charles was in his 13lh year when his mother 
first heard the doctrine of the second 
advent 
nigh. 
At first he wept, and begged her not to 
1 read to him about it, for lie knew he 
was a 
sinner, and unprepared to rejoice in this truth, 
his heart rose in opposition and he used every 
argument which he could glean from the scof-
fing world to refute it. 
He became very un-
I iiappy and unkind to all about him. 
The more he resisted 
the truth, the 
more 
miserable he was, and he was a cause of great 
grief to his kind parents. 
He went 
with his 
mother very unwillingly to attend the lectures 
on the second coming 
of Christ, and after a 
time became fully convinced, through the sim-
plicity and power of the scripture 
arguments 
which he heard, that the end of all things is at 
hand, and that he must soon stand before a Sa-
viour whom he did not love. 
He felt that he 
I
should be lost, and he began to seek for mercy 
with great earnestness. 
He found that he 
could do nothing to make himself 
better, and 
he cast himself on the Saviour's promise, who 
hath said, " he that seeketh me early, shall 
find me." 
He believed this promise, and was 
forgiven, and his heart was filled with joy and 
love. 
He now rejoiced that he should so soon meet 
the Saviour, and every doubt of his coming was 
removed. 
He loved Christians, and the place 
1 where they met to pray, and often testified with 
streaming eyes, how "the Lord had blessed his 
soul. 
He then endeavored to persuade every 
one he knew, to seek the pardoning love of 
Jesus, and be ready for his appearing. 
It was not long after, that a number of little 
boys were also converted, and they meet week-
ly "to sing and pray together, and several others 
were added to their little band by their humble 
endeavors. 
He now learned to read the Bible, 
and says the Lord helps him to understand it. 
When "he meets with any temptations or trial, 
I he steals away alone ancl tells Jesus, and re-
I ceives immediate comfort and peace, he knows 
I that his prayers is heard and answered, the love 
I of God is shed abroad in his heart, and he is 
very happy; 
He is looking constantly for the 
Saviour, believing that in a few days, he WILL 
COME and receive him to himself. 
Yours truly in this blessed hope, 
Philadelphia, 
C. S. M. 
! 33 
For the Midnight Ciy. 
CAMP-MEETING AT GREENVILLE, R. I.-
BRO. SOUTHARD—This meeting commenced on 
Wednesday P. M., the 6th inst., on the land of Bro. 
Daniel C. Tourtellot. 
The attendance up to Monday, 
when I left, was good. 
The excitement in that com-
munity was greater than at either of the camp-meetings 
I have attended this season. 
This, in a measure, may 
be accounted for from the fact that it is the first camp-
meeting that has been held in the state of Rhode 
Island for the last twenty years. 
There were between 
twenty and thirty of the Second Advent friends from 
Providence, that attended the meeting the first day, 
and some others came afterwards. 
They had a large 
tent, 30 by 50 feet. 
The Wrentbam and North Scitu-
ate brethren each had large tents upon the ground. 
There were six tents in all. 
Seats were provided in 
the open air for about 2000 people, but the attendance 
on the Sabbath was so large that not more than 
half of the people could be seated. 
The meeting was opened with a very appropriate 
discourse, by Dr. Huntington, from the following text: 
" The testimony 
of the Lord is sure, making wise 
the 
simple." 
The lecturing was done by Brethren J. S. 
White, of Wrentham, 
Snow, Mears, of Worces-
ter, Mass., and myself. 
Several other preachers were 
present and some of them took part in the exercises, 
among whom were Bro. Durfee, of North Scituate, 
Bro. Macomber, of Block Island, Bro. Adams, of 
Attleboro, and others whose names I did not learn. 
Good attention was paid to the lectures, and many 
came out openly and avowed their strong belief from 
the sure testimonies of the Scriptures, that the Lord 
would come in 1843. 
The word took a deep hold on 
the unconverted, some of whom sought and found the" 
pardoning mercy of God. 
The people of God were 
revived 
and encouraged ; and I look 
for great 
good to 
result from this meeting. 
I am the 
more assured of its good results from the vigi-
lant efforts of the subjects of Satan on the oc-
oasion. 
They had their camp a little distance 
from ours—where, of course, their father's will was 
done. 
Not having sufficient employment at their 
own camp, they came on Sabbath evening and made 
an effort to disturb ours ; but finding no one there to 
show fight, they went away as they came, howling 
most horribly, no doubt because their master's king-
dom is so near at an end. The friends are greatly in-
debted to Bro. Tourtellot for his hospitality, and 
also to Bro. H. Lonsdale, of Providence, for the ex-
cellent order in the management of the meeting. 
I 
left them on Monday noon in the midst of a most 
heavenly season. 
The meeting was to continue till 
Wednesday, on which day the Lord's Supper was to 
be celebrated. 
Yours in haste, 
E. 
JACOBS. 
FALL OF BABYLON. 
FROM AH OLD HYMN 
BOOK. 
Hail the day so long expected, 
Hail the year of full release, 
Zion's walls are now erected, 
And the watchmen publish peace. 
From the distant courts of Zion, 
The shrill trumpet loudly roars : 
Babylon is fallen, is fallen, is fallen, 
Babylon is fallen, to rise no more. 
Hark, and hear the people crying, 
See the city disappear ; 
Trade and traffic all are dying, 
Lo! they sink to rise no more ! 
Merchants who have bought her traffic, 
Crying from a distant shore : 
Babylon is fallen, is fallen, is fallen, 
Babylon is fallen, to rise no more. 
All her merchants cry with wonder, 
What is this that comes to pass ? 
Murmuring like some distant thunder ; 
Crying, O ! alas ! alas ! 
Swell the sound, ye kings and nobles, 
Priests and people, rich and poor. 
Babylon is fallen, is fallen is fallen, 
Babylon is fallen, to rise no more. 
Lo, the captives are returning, 
Up to Zion see them fly : 
While the heavenly host rejoicing, 
Shout them welcome through the sky. 
See the ancients of the city, 
Terrified at the uproar: 
Babylon is fallen, is fallen, is fallen, 
Babylon is fallen, to rise no more. 
Blow the trumpet in mount Zion, 
Christ will'come the second time, 
Ruling with a rod of iron, 
All who now as foes combine. 
Babel's garments we've rejected, 
And the wedge of golden ore : 
Babylon is fallen, is fallen, is fallen, 
Babylon is fallen, to rise no more. 
ANTICIPATION". 
Rev* 1: 5—7 
the Prince o f the Kings of the Earth cometh with 
clouds, and every eye shall see him." 
The conflict is over, the struggle is past— 
The Earth and its tried ones are free, 
Our Prince has returned to his kingdom at last, 
No longer an exile to be. 
The myst'rv is finished and darkness has fled, 
With sin, and its poison, and woe, 
The ransomed in triumph have come from the dead, 
The power of redemption to show. 
The world from the fire of its cleansing is pure, 
And glows with the radiance of heaven ; 
A paradise bright which shall ever endure, 
The home of the meek and forgiven. 
In glory unveiled to the joy of the blest— 
With love and thanksgiving to share, 
And the sunlight of holiness smilesfon their rest, 
I 
For the King in his beauty is there. 
C. S. M. 
BELLYILLE CAMP-MEETING. 
A Second Advent Camp Meeting will be held at. Bell-
ville, N. J., Lin " Capt Whitfield's Orchard, in William 
street,"] to commence on Friday, Sept. 15. 
Persons from Newark are requested to take the 
lower road,—the bridges being only passable on that 
route. 
Passengers from New York city will take passage 
on board the steamboat " Proprietor of Passaic," at the 
foot of Vesey street. ... Fare to the camp-ground, 18 3-4 
cents. 
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