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taining The Bible Examiner, No. 1, [which is a con- 
nected Exposition of the 24th chapter of Matthew]—a  
Lecture on the 8th and 9th of Daniel; both by Bro. Storrs.  
Also the Chronology of the world, by Wm. Miller ; a  
connected view of Daniel's visions illustrated by en- 
gravings, &c. &c.  
We have devoted a large space to Popery, for several  
reasons :—1. We are convinced that the Lord has made  
it a prominent topic of prophecy, and it is therefore im-
portant that we should understand it.  
2. Prof. Stuart, the chief teacher of theology in a large  
portion of the Church, is explaining those prophecies  
away ; so much so, that a Protestant clergyman, who is, 
if possible, more hostile than himself to what he calls 
" Millerism," said recently : " Prof. Stuart must be get- 
ting crazy."  
3. If those prophecies relate to popery, then the argu- 
ment we deduce from them appears irresistible.  
The Diagram of Daniel's Visions contains an interest- 
ing view of their chronology. The date (534) wnich is  
given for Justinian's decree, should have been 533. 
Berthi&r entered Rome on the 10th of Feb. 1798. The  
castle was surrendered on the 1.5th. This fact should be  
noticed in order to harmonize a seeming contradiction in  
two statements in this paper.  
The article on Public Morals will be objected to by some  
because we give such facts, and because we quote from  
the Herald. The Bible has given such facts, both in his- 
tory and prophesy. We quote from the Herald as one of  
the most accurate reflectors of the morals of a large part  
of the community. We believe more money is paid for it  
than for any other paper (not of larger size) on this conti- 
nent. We do not deny that it is horribly corrupt, but it is  
what its readers make it. Its editor is their servant. What  
must be the state of morals when such a paper has such an  
immense circulation 1  

LECTURES  IV NEW YORK.  
On Thursday and Friday evenings of last week, Bro- 
ther Whiting lectured to very large audiences at the 
Baptist Tabernacle in Mulberry street. He gave a very  
clear proof that the 2300 days of Daniel end in 1S43.— 
Many doubtless were convinced.  
On Saturday evening, Brother Storrs commenced a  
course of lectures at the corner of Grove and Hudson  
streets. Notwithstanding the evening was one in which 
people in the city very seldom attend meeting, the house  
was crowded to access. The crowd was still greater on 
the Sabbath. On Monday evening, the number around  
the door was so great that Brother Hyatt lectured to  
the crowd in the street. On the same evening Brother  
Whiting was lecturing to a large audience at Niblo's Sa- 
loon ; and Brother French to another at the National  
Hall in Brooklyn. Brothers Whiting and Storrs have  
continued to lecture to crowded~houses.  
CROTON HALL OPENED.  
The interest on the coming of Christ and end of the  
world has so increased in this city and vicinity that our of-
fice is completely overrun with visitors day by day. Under 
these circumstances, a friend has hired Croton Hall, No. 
7 1-2 Bowery, which will be open each dayTKuntl'ays ex- 
cepted, from early in the morning till dark in the evening,  
for the reception of visitors. All the variety of Second 
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our office. Croton Hall is a neat and spacious place, and  
will accommodate several hundred persons. It is intended  
to hold religious meetings, lor prayer and conversation,  
some part of each day. For the present they will be held  
there at 3 o'clock, P. M.  
SECOND ADVENT CONFERENCE AT PHILA- 
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the last Tuesday in this month, and continue one week.  
Let the friends make it a general convocation.  
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ICP" METHODIST MINISTERS.—The Weekly " Midnight  
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Maine, and Genesee Conferences, of the M E. Church, 
by a friend, who has paid us the cash for that purpose ;  
and no charge is made to those Ministers. Please read  
and circulate. Time is short.  
Notices of interesting meetings, ana cheering reports  
from the country are reluctantly crowded out.  
THE LOVE OF SOULS.—Christ, loved souls and came all the  
way from heaven to earth to save them. Every Christian 
has the spirit of Christ in him. How can we call ourselves 
Christians if we do not love souls 1  Christ's spirit is al- 
ways the same in all men who have it in possession. But if 
we say we do love them, what evidence do we give of that  
love? Do we labor to pull them out of the fire 1 Oh, 
Christian professor ! awake to the work of God : pray and  
weep, and wrestle before GoJ, until you feel the love of 
God aud souls kindle in your heart. It is a gift for which too  
few weep, seek, and pray. Think how the Saviour labored,  
and wept, bl?d and died, for sinneis, and then go and imi-
tate him. What you do must be done quickly. The world  
is perishing ; fly to the rescue.  
To PARENTS.—Do you believe Christ will soon come 1  
If so have you done all you can to induce your children to  
go with you into the Ark 1 It it to be expected that many  
will do as Lot's sons-in-law did the day he fled from Sodom.  
He seemed to them as one that mocked. But be 3ure you  
do your duty; warn them  in all plainness, and carry them  
before God in earnest prayer."  

THE KINGDOM OF GOD.  
On no subject have we been more deluded than on this  
all-important one. The old Catholic commentary on 
Daniel 2 : 44, is this—" The Church of Christ is the only  
kingdom which can never be destroyed." By this they 
mean their own church, for, it is a part of their creed  
that there is no salvation out of it. Of course, they can- 
not fancy that Christ's kingdom is out of it. A notion,  
much like the Popish one, has infused itself into the  
Protestant church, till almost all of us have beeh taught  
that Christ has a visible kingdom on earth, which will  
grow until all earthly dominions will be subject to it, and  
the saints shall possess " the kingdom and dominion,  
and greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven,"  
in this sin-cursed earth, before Christ comes. How dif- 
ferent is the language ofthe Bible from this notion of men!  
" In the world ye shall have tribulation," said Christ,  
John 16 : 33, and he also said: "It is your Father's  
good pleasure to give you the kingdom." Luke 12 : 32. 
We are not enjoying the glories of the kingdom, while  
we are undergoing the trial, in preparation for it. So  
the Apostles preached to the Christians in Lystra, Ico- 
nium. and Antioch : " Confirming the souls of the DIS- 
CIPLES, and exhorting THEM to continue in the faith,  
and that WE must, through much tribulation, enter into the  
KINGDOM of God." Acts 14 : 22. If the kingdom were  
earthly, they had it already, but they were exhorted to  
continue in the faith, that they might enter into it. Peter 
addresses the " elect" Christians, as " a chosen genera- 
tion, a ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, which, in time past were not  
a people, but are now THE PEOPLE OF GOD : dearly be- 
loved, I beseech you, as STRANGERS and PILGRIMS, 
abstain from fleshy lusts." A pilgrim wanders from  
place to place without a home. Can he sit on a  
throne at the same time \ In his second Epistle Peter  
says: "Wherefore, the rather, brethren, give diligence 
to make your calling and election sure : for so an EN- 
TRANCE SHALL BE ministered unto you abundantly INTO  
THE EVERLASTING  KINGDOM of our Lord and Saviour Jesus  
Christ."  
In this world, it is our duty to "seek first the kingdom  
of God," which we do, when, by patient continuance in  
well doing, we " seek for glory, honor, and immortality,"  
and thus we seek, or " LOOK for a city which hath  
foundations," as Abraham did. But Jet us not forget  
that we are only "heirs of the kingdom," living in a  
strange land,—an enemy's country,—where wicked  
powers will rule, till Christ comes.  
" But why do you insist so strongly on this point ?" it  
may be asked.  
Because the church is so worldly. They seem to have  
forgotten that Christ said: " My kingdom is not of this  
world." The devil is called the Prince of this world,  
John xii. 3], and the god of this world, 2 Cor. iv. 4. The  
world hated Christ, John vii. 7, it has rejoiced at his ab- 
sence, John xvi. 20. The kindreds ofthe earth will wail 
when he returns, Rev. i. 7. Professed disciple, are not  
you insensibly conforming yourself to the world ? If so, 
may the Lord chasten you, that you may not be condemn-
ed with the world. Do you glory only in the cross of  
Christ, by which you are crucified to the world 1 Can it  
not be said of you, " He is of the world, therefore  
speaks he of the world V' (1 John iv. 5.) O remem- I 
ber that Christ hath chosen his followers out of the  
world. So far from having a kingdom here, " our citizen-
ship* is in heavei.', from whence we also LOOK for the  
* So the word rendered conversation signifies,


Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ." 0 "love not the 
world," but "strive to save yourselves" and the souls of  
others, " from this untoward generation."  
On the subject of the kingdom, we have published some  
excellent extracts from Bro. Litch's Prophetic Exposi-
tions. See daily Midnight Cry, Nos. 14 and 18. After  
considering the person and character of Christ the king,  
he oroceeds to consider  
V. His KINGLY CHARACTER AND DOMINION.  
1. He is the promised Son and heir of David.  
That Christ is David's Son, and the Son of  
promise, and his Son " according to the flesh,"  
is abundantly established by Peter, Acts ii. 30 :  
" Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that  
God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the  
fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he  
would raise up Christ to sit on his throne."  
This promise and oath to David is found, 2  
Samuel, vii. 12, 16,— " And when thy days be 
fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers,!  
will set tip thy seed after thee, which shall pro- 
ceed.out of thy bowels, and I will establish his  
kingdom. And thy house arid thy kingdom  
shall bo established forever before thee ; thy 
throne shall be established forever." Accord- 
ing to these strong testimonies, David's throne 
and house is to be perpetuated eternally in  
Christ. The temporal succession of kings of 
David's line have failed. But the everlasting  
succession has not failed, nor will it; this, 
David foresaw, and spoke before of the resur- 
rection of Christ, that his soul was not left in  
hell, neither did his flesh see corruption. The  
same flesh that went into the tomb came up, and  
is now in heaven. And he has " the key of  
David," [Rev. iii. 7,] signifying that he only has  
the heirship of that house so long shut, and can 
open and no man shut, and shut and no man  
open. That house was shut when Nebuchad- 
nezzar destroyed Jerusalem and carried Zede- 
kiah captive to Babylon. God pronounced the  
doom thus, by Ezekiel xxi. 25,27,—" And thou  
profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day is 
come, when iniquity shall have an end." " 1  
will overturn, overturn, overturn it; and it shall  
be no more, until he come whose right it is :  
and 1 will give it him." From Zedekiah's cap- 
tivity and the ruin of Jerusalem, there has been  
no king of David's line reigning in Jerusalem. 
There never will be, until he comes whose 
right it is, and takes the kingdom. " The Lord  
God will give to hi:n the throne of his father  
David, and he shall reign over the house of  
Jacob forever, and of his kingdom there shall be  
no end.'"—Luke iv 32, 33. " Of the increase of 
his government ami peace there shall be no end,  
upon the throne ofHMvid and his kingdom, to  
order it, and; establish it, with justice and judg- 
ment, henc'efg.rtf|, and forever."  
2. i/fVis to be personal and visible.  
This i!s cleal'fpom the fact that Christ is the  
Sdii qf David according to the flesh, and is to  
sit on"" David's'; thronc.v> That tlyroue was on  
earth and at Jerusalem^-,. And " The Lord of  
Hosts [is to]  reign in''M^iint Zion, and in Jeru- 
salem, and before his > ancients gloriously."  
Is a. xxiv. 23. "The taberng|sle of God is with 
men, and He will dwell wifht'he^." RoV^xi. 3.  
Were he, in bis peculiar kingly .^character,  
pure spirit, like the infinite  
or parts, his reign 1 ifcpJaMltlr*"mi. h JajtWPp\\vWt  
spiritual reign. . Burmot so ; ]  
the fuln§s,s.,of,the GqdheadI fs a  
&llm an'ity consifts>0iQp eculiar  
and^Jpteig kingly character a period 
is to arrive in the history of his existence, when  
in some subjected sense he is to reign as the  
Son, " and God be all and in all," 1 Cor. xv.  
Being, then, a king, accordbi ,T to the flesh, and  
of David's line, and his re'^gn being over the  

saints, it must be a personal and visible reign.  
And for this purpose he is to come again on  
earth, just as he went into heaven, which was  
bodily and visibly ; with a body of flesh and  
bones. Luke xxiv. 39. If it be objected to this,  
that Christ did not go into heaven with the same 
body in which he arose from the dead, but that  
it was spiritualized when he ascended to hea- 
ven, I reply, I shall grant it when the law and  
the testimony can be produced which declares  
it. But the Bible not only affords no intimation  
of such a change, but the whole tenor of its tes- 
timony is, that he went up as he arose from the  
grave, and will come again in the same man-
ner.  
VI. THE TERRITORIAL  DOMINION OF CHRIST.  
1. It is to be all the territory now occupied  
bv the great image of Nebuchadnezzar's dream.  
"'Wheresoever the children of men dwell, the  
beasts of the field and the fowls of heaven hath  
he given into thy hand, and hath made thee ru- 
ler over them all." Dan. ii. 38. "A stone was  
cut out without hands, which smote the image."  
"Theu was the iron, the clay, the brass, the sil-
ver, and the gold broken to pieces together,"  
"like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors,  
and the wind carried them away." "And the  
stone that smote the image became a great moun- 
tain and FILLED THE WHOLE EARTH."—  
Dan. ii. 35. Then, in verse 44, when the ex- 
planation is given, it is said, "In the days of  
these kings the God of heaven shall set up a 
kingdom which shall never be destroyed. It  
shall break in pieces and consume all these 
kingdoms, and it shall stand forever." The  
stone is to break these kingdoms, and the king- 
dom of God is to do it. Then the stone, Christ,  
and the kingdom of God, are the same. The  
enlargement of the stone will be by gathering 
together, in the fulness of the dispensation of  
times, all things in him, whether they be things  
in heaven, or things in earth, or things under  
the earth, even in him. Eph. i. 10. Thus will  
his body be perfected and his kingdom organi- 
zed. Then the meek will inherit the earth.—  
The second Psalm is also another testimony on  
this point: "Yet have I set my king on my holy  
hill of Zion. I will declare the decree : the  
Lord hath said unto me thou art my Son, this  
day 1 hare begotten thee'. Ask of me, and I  
shall give thee the heathen for thine inheri- 
tance, and the UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH  
for thy POSSESSIONThe testimony here is  
decisive on the point, that the Son of God is  
to possess the uttermost parts of the earth. He  
adds, "thou shalt break them [the heathen] with  
a rod of iron, and shalt dash them in pieces like  
a potter's vessel. "This is all the conversion of 
the heathen promised in the second Psalm.  
2. The Saviour himself has taught us the same  
thing in Matt. xxv. 34 : "Come, ye blessed of  
my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for 
w0u from the foundation of the world." There  
was a kingdom prepared for and given to man as  
soon as he existed, and even before he was  
brought into being. That kingdom or dominion  
was "all the earth and also all that earth, air,  
and sea contained. Gen. i. (See Sec. 1.) I he  
Bible furnishes us with no hint that God ever  
prepared any other kingdom for man when he 
(laid the foundation of the world. This kingdom, 
i then, Christ is to restore and give to his saints  
I 3 A text already noticed, (Rev. xi. lo,)  
teaches the same doctrine : "There were great  
voices in heaven, saying, the KINGDOMS OF THIS  
WORLD are become the kingdoms of our Lord  
and his Christ, and he shall reign forever and  
ever " Numerous other texts might be present- 
ed, all showing the same thing. But these  
must suffice for the present.  

VII. THE METROPOLIS OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD.  
1. Its locality. It is Mount Zion and Jerusa- 
lem. Ps. ii. 6 : "Yet have I set my king on  
my holy hill of Zion." Isa. xxiv. 23 : "Then  
the moon shall be confounded, and the sun asha- 
med, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount 
Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients  
gloriously." The throne of David, which Christ  
is to inherit, and on which he is to reign lor- 
ever, was established there, and is forever to be  
there. Ps. cxxxii. 11—18 : The Lord hath  
sworn in truth unto David, he will not turn from  
it, of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy  
throne. If thy children will keep my covenant,  
and my testimony that I shall teach them, their  
children shall also sit upon thy  throne forever- 
more. For the Lord hath chosen Zion ; he hath 
desired it for his habitation. This is my  rest  
forever : here will 1 dwell; for 1 have desired it.  
I will abundantly bless her provision ; I will sa- 
tisfy her poor with bread. I will also clothe  
her priests with salvation ; and her saints shall  
shout aloud for joy. There will I make the 
horn of David to bud : 1 have ordained a lamp for  
mine anointed. His enemies will I clothe with  
shame ; but upon himself shall his crown flour- 
ish." Nothing can be more clear and strong  
than this declaration of the Lord that he will 
dwell there forever, and the throne of David be  
there, and his horn (kingdom) flourish there.  
2. The City. Not "Jerusalem that now is,  
and is in bondage with her children," " but Je-
rusalem that is above, and is free, and is the  
mother of us all." Gal. iv. The "New Jeru- 
salem, which cometh down from God out of 
heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her  
husband." Rev. xxi.  
It is the city for which the patriarch Abra- 
ham looked, (Hcb. xi. 10,) "which hath founda- 
tions, whose builder and maker is God." For 
this city he looked as the promised inheritance  
of the'laiul of Canaan. And a city twelve  
thousand furlongs, or fifteen hundred miles 
square,  as is the city described in Rev. xxi.,  
would require all the territory promised Abra-
ham, for its location. And if all the saints of  
God are to "have right to the tree of life, and  
enter in through the gates into the city," such 
a city would be none too large for their ample  
accommodation. This is "the city of the living 
God;" the tabernacle of God which shall be  
with men, in the NEW EARTH.  
Until that time comes, Jerusalem is to be  
trodden down of the Gentiles, even until the  
times of the Gentiles be fulfilled; or until the  
image is dashed in pieces, and no place is found  
for it and the stone fills the whole earth. Then  
there will be a race at Jerusalem who shall say,  
-'Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the  
Lord." They will be the redeemed from the  
east, west, north and south, who shall sit down  
with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom  
of God; while the unbelieving Jews will be  
cast out into outer darkness, where there shall  
be weeping and gnashing of teeth.  
VIII. THE SAINTS OF GOD WILL BE FELLOW-HEIRS  
WITH CHRIST.  
The inheritance, by purchase and by promise,  
belongs to Jesus Christ the Son of God. "But  
as many as receive him, to them he gives power  
or privilege to become the sons of God, even to  
them that believe on his name." God sends 
forth the spirit of his Son into their hearts,  
crying, Abba, Father. And the Spirit itself 
beareth witness with our spirit that we are the  
children of God ; and because children, then  
heirs, heirs of God, and joint-heirs, with Christ.  
Rom. viii.  
Christ is the head, and the church the body


composed of the members of Christ. He is the !  
true vine for whom the goodly vineyard, the  
land promised to Abraham, and once occupied  
by the men of Judah, (see Isai. v.) was prepar- 
ed, arid to whose use it is now soon to be devo- 
ted ; his believing people are the branches of  
that vine, and with the vine and root, or good  
olive tree, they will be transplanted into that holy  
soil, to flourish in immortal bloom and vigor  
forever and ever. In the explanation of the vi- 
sion of the four beasts, (Dan. vii. 18,) ii is  
said, "But the saints of the Most High shall take  
the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, 
and ever." Also, in the 27th verse ofthe same  
chapter, "The kingdom and dominion and the  
greatness ofthe kingdom under the whole hea- 
ven shall be given to the people of the saints of 
the Most High." Again, (Matt. xxv. 34,) "Come,  
ye blessed of my Father^ inherit the kingdom." 
These constitute the seed of Abraham. "If ye  
be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and  
heirs according to the promise." Gal iii.—  
These, too, constitute the house of Jacob, over  
whom J es.us Chiist is to reign forever and ever.  
Luke i. 33. They wiil reign with Christ as his  
subjects, and assist, under him their king and  
head, in the government of the kingdom ; and  
enjoy all its immunities. The kingdom will be  
the same as when God originally gave it to Adam  
and his family. They had dominion, but Adam,  
by virtue of his relution to them, was their superior  
and head ; but they were all children, and were to  
reign with him. "Let them have dominion."—  
Christ is the last Adam, and sustains a similar re- 
lation to the church as Adam did to the race.— 
Adam gave them mortal life ; Christ eternal life.  
Now if we suffer with him we shall also reign with  
him.  
IX. THE TIME AND CIRCUMSTANCES WHEN THE  
KINGDOM OF GOD WII.L BE SET UP.  
1. It will be when the times of the Gentiles shall  
be fulfilled. The governments of the Gentiles,  
shadowed forth in the great image, ^Dan. ii.) have  
certain predicted changes to pass through, and cor,,  
not pass away until they have fulfilled the predic- 
tion. When they have  done that, the stone, Jesus  
Christ, will demolish them, and the God of heaven  
set up [or cause to stand] his kingdom.  
2. It will be when one like the Son of w-.an shall  
come with the clouds of heaven. "1 saw in, the night  
visions, and behold one like the Son of man came  
with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient  
of days, and they brought him neajr be/ore him, and 
there was given him dominion, atid glory and a  
kingdom," &c. Dan. vii. 13. This kingdom is  
eot to be given to the Soil of man until he comes  
sa ihe clouds of heaven. He cannot set up his  
kingdom until it is given him. But he has not yet  
coine with lbs clouds of heaven. Hence his king- 
dom is not yet set up. But it wiil be when he so  
comes,  
3. It will he when the seventh trumpet sounds.  
The seventh is the .last trumpet ; and at it the dead  
are to awake. "In a moment, in the twinkling of  
an eye, at the last tramp, for the trumpet shall  
sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible,  
and we be changed." 1. Cur. xv. Thus also the'  
Revdator, chap. xi. 15 : "Ti:e seventh trumpet  
sounded, and there were great voices in heaven,  
saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the 
kingdoms of our Lord and his Christ, and he shall  
reign forever and ever." "Saying, we give thee  
thanks, O Lord God Almighty," "because thoa hast  
taken to thee thy great power and hast reigned;  
for the nations were angry, and thv wrath is come,  
and the time of the dead that they should be judged, 
and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy ser. 
vants the prophet®, the saints, and them that fear  
thy name, small and great, and shouldst destroy  
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4. It will be when the Nobleman (Christ) who is  
gone into afar country to receive a kingdom returns.  
The object of  the parable, (Luke, xix. 11)—27, was  
to correct the false notions of those who " thought  
the kingdom of God should immediately appear." 
The parable taught them that Christ, the noble-
man, would first go away and receive his kingdom,  
and in the meantime leave his servants in possession 
of his property to occupy till his return ; that at his  
return, he would reckon with and reward his servants  
if faithful, and cast them off if unfaithful : and then 
bring forth and slay his enemies. Such a return  
ofthe nobleman has not yet taken place, nor have  
the servants of Christ yet received their reward in  
his kingdom. Nor have his enemies yet been de- 
stroyed. Then he has not yet received his king- 
dom or set it up.  
5. It will be at the end of this world (or age.)—  
The parable ofthe tares ofthe field, (Matt. xiii. 24—  
30, 36—43,) is designed to teach us the same great  
doctrine. "The kingdom of heaven is likened unto  
a man that sowed good seed in his field : but while  
men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares amor,g  
the wheat, and went his way," Both the tare:, and  
wheat sprang up, and the servants came ^nd in- 
quired, "Sir, didst not thou sow good seed ?"  
"from whence then hath it tares ?" "-An enemy  
hath done this " "Shall we go and gather up the  
tares?" "Nay, let both grow together until the  
harvest," &c. "Declare to us the parable of the  
tares ofthe field." "He that soweth the good seed  
is the Son of man ; the fiel<?4 js the world (ko.rnos)  
the globe and its creature^." "The good good seed  
are the children of the kingdom," its heirs. "The  
tares are »Ua children ofthe wicked one ; the e;nemv  
that sov/ed them is the devil ; the harvest is the  
end of the world ; the reapers are the angels. As 
therefore the tares are gathered and bU'rned in the  
fire, so shall it be  at the end of this world. Ttie  
Son of man shall send forth his angels, and. they  
slip.il gather out of his kingdom all thing- that of- 
fend, and them which do iniquity; ar,d ".shall OP-'  
'.hem into a furnace of fire ; there f',,a|| ' \'-w'  
and gnashing of teeth. Then shaT . ' «'f'P>ng  
shine forth as the Run in th*> kj,v . , nMhte°us 
ther." Now the tares ,nowV ^ their Fil'  
wheat in the world, or wia t°geU'erI with th*  
for his kingdom ; then Vne tares be^rast'ou^'ard  
t car?„hoT&Kf'0'^ '!! 
xi cannot take place until the end of the world or  
which began with the preaching of JoIn the  comirmed 0 But's ^ laW ,he P*  
-s P eached Th T ^ kmgdom  s pleached I hat was the last age, or disnensn  
P^hationary time. When it e u  
tares and wheat will be separated, and the ot be  
burned up, and the. other glorified. UntiJ that  
akes place there can bo no such stam on ea th as  
haf where<» "H «h«H know the Lord, from the least  
to the greatest. Then it will be thus; fc  
Mf not through a glass darkly, ^  
X. THE EMBRYOTiC STATE OF THE KINGDOM. 
There are various texts in the Bible which  
seem to convey the idea of the present exis  
ence and the progressive character of the  
kingdom of God. It is from such texts the no- 
ion has been derived that Christ set up his  
kingdom at the time of his first advent,  
of those texts we will consider.  
i. The parable of the mustard seed. Matt xiii  
31,32: "Another parable put he forth unto  
them, saying, The kingdom of heaver, is like  
unto a mustard seed, fthich a man took and  
sowed in his field ; which indeed is the least of  
ail seeds ; fcut when it is grown, it is the great- 
est among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that  
the birds of the air come and lodge in the branch,  
es thereof." The usual construction of this  

only;of the twelve apostles of Christ sent out  
to evangelize the world ;  that this little begin- 
ning is to eventuate in the universal triumph of  
the church of Christ, and the conversion ofthe 
world and introduction of millennial glory.  
But is not the meaning obviously this, that  
Christ, is the mustard seed ; that in his death he  
was planted, and in his resurrection he germi- 
nated into new life ; and that every soul saved  
through his death and resurrection is an addi-
tional branch to the tree 1 The branch of the  
mustard tree no more literally lives and flour- 
ishes and bears fruit by its union with the stock  
and root, and the sap it receives from that root,  
than the Christian has spiritual and eternal life  
from the indwelling of that quickening spirit  
which raised up Christ from  the dead. It is to  
the church the sap of life. The indwelling  of  
the quickening spirit of Christ in the believer is  
the iiiystery of godliness. It is religion ; so that  
er^ch believer can say, "Hive, yet not I, but Christ  
liveth in me, and the life that I now live in the  
flesh is by the faith of the Son of God." It is  
the resurrection power and eternal life. The  
blood of Adam, which all men derive by natural 
generation, does not give them second life, or  
raise them from the dead to eternal life ! But  
the spirit of him that raised up Christ from the  
dead, if it dwell in us, will quicken our mortal  
bodies also. This being the case, it will readi- 
ly be perceiver] that the perfection of the tree  
cannot consist in its universal triumph all over  
the Wbrld in any one age of probationary time.  
For while there"is yet one more raera^' '  
added to the tree, or wllile d-- ' ' 7 - «> be  
world, the tree must 0f llecess-^ *G1°ns the  
of imperfection and immaturity ® * St8te  
dispensation of the fulness . ^ Jn the 
"gather together " the times he shall 
both which U . one> things in Christ,  
ear*' - - are ln heaven, and which are on  
even m him." Eph. i. 10. Then there  
will be a perfection of the tree, and each branch 
will be in its place, mature and perfect. If can- 
not be before. ' 44  
2. The parable of the leaven. Matt, xiii 33- 
Another parable spake he unto them ;' The  
kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a 
woman took and hid in three measures of meal,  
nil the whole was leavened." This, like the  
o mer parable, has been supposed to predict the  
ultimate and universal triumph of Christianity  
m tins world. The leaven is the gospel ti e  
three measures of meal the world of mankind •  
the leavening process the increase ofthe means'  
of grace and conversion of sinners through those  
means, until the whole world shall be convert- 
But does it not rather express, by a figure, a*  
definite for an indefinite number of persons* 
win ;0fn!> r m rueoeivi^ the spirit of Chris'i will, if the leaven be permitted to work there  
be conformed, when Christ appears in glory, to  
his glorious image.  
"And when Jesus doth appear,  
Soul and body,—soul and body,  
Shall his glorious image bear."  

II  
But those measures of meal, (persons,) which  
do not receive this spirit, have no life in them,  
Some | they can have no hope of glory. Reader, have  
you that blessed spirit dwelling in you ? Ex- 
amine yourself and see whether you be in the  
taith. Christ is in you except you are a repro- 
bate. But if the three measures of meal mean  
the whole world of mankind, t^en the leaven- 
ing process will gQ on till all are saved; and  
Universale is true. But it is not so ; but each  
of Adam4 race is a measure, and each must re-


ved disciple. So were Abel and Enoch, and a  
host of worthies in Old Testament times, in  
Christ by faith, as well as apostles and martyrs 
under the gospel ; the embryotic kingdom was 
begun when the great plan of redemption by  
Jesus Christ was first promulged. It was no  
new kingdom which Christ established when he 
came on earth. He introduced a new dispensa- 
tion or age, and the last one which the world  
will enjoy before his kingdom comes.  
Christ was born to be a king ; but his kingdom  
is not of this world. That is, say some, it is not  
an outward and visible kingdom ; but a spiritual 
reian. Nay, but Christ has nowhere taught us  
that his reign is spiritual; but, it is "according  
to the flesh ' he is David's son, and is to sit on  
David's throne. His kingdom, although to be a  
visible one, and on the renewed earth, yet is not  
of this world, under its present organization,  
and while the Gentiles have the dominion of it,  
but in the world to come. Christ is now exalt-
ed to his Father's throne, to be "A PRINCE, and  
a Saviour." He is an heir to, and expectant of  
a throne ; and will come to it at the time ap- 
pointed of the Father. But a prince, although 
an heir to a throne, is not de facto, a king. He 
is to set on his Father's throne until his foes be  
made his footstool. Then he will come to dash  
his enemies in pieces, and give his saints the  
kingdom.  
xr. THE MINIATURE EXHIBITION*OF THE KINGDOM  
OF GOD.  
"L nC transfiguration. Luke ix. 27—36. The  
Lord Jesus nad just told his people of their suf- 
ferings and self-denial, if they would follow  
him,  and also the consequence of being asham- 
ed of him before men ; viz., that he will be  
ashamed of them " when he shall come in his  

glorious appearing, to reward every man ac- 
cordingto his works."  
When this kingdom is set up, then it will be  
true that the least saifit who shall enjoy its glo- 
ries will be greater than ever John the Baptist  
was in this world of temptation, sufferings, sor-
row and death. Then Peter—when in Christ's 
kingdom, with his fellow apostles, he shall set 
on his throne with his master, to judge the  
world—then Peter can with safety be entrusted  
with the keys of the kingdom of heaven. But  
it does appear to me, that, in this world of pas- 
sion and prejudice, it would be rather hazardous  
to entrust the keys of the kingdom of heaven  
either with Peter or the Pope. There, under 
the immediate eye of the great Master, and  
with passion and prejudice removed, and a  
rectified judgment, it will be safe, if it so seem  
good to the Lord, to place Peter at that post,  
own glorv, and in his Father's, and of the holy  
angels."" Then, that they might h*vo the as- 
surance ofhis so coming, and know that u  was  
not a fable, he told them, "I tell you of a truth,  
there be some standing here, which shall not  
taste of death,till they see the kingdom of God."  
This promise he fulfilled about " an eight days  
after," in his transfiguration on the mount, in the 
presence of Peter, John and James.  
1. Jesus Christ appeared there in his own  
personal glory. His countenance shone like  
the sun, "and his raiment was white as the 
light.  
2. The glory of the Father was there ; it was  
« a bright cloud" of the divine glory, out of  
which'came the Father's voice, saying, "this is  
mv beloved Son ; hear him."  
3. The glory of the holy angels, (messsen- 
gers,) was&ihere. Two ihen, which were Mo- 
ses and Elias ; the one from the dead, the re-
presentative of those saints who shall be raised  
at Christ's coming, and clothed with glory ; the 
other. Elias, the representative of those who  
will be alive and be changed at the appearing  
of Christ.  
4. This scene was revealed on earth, not in  
heaven: thus teaching the disciples that the  
kingdom of God will be revealed on earth at  
the appearing of Christ.,  
5 The use the apostles made ol the scene.—  
The apostle Peter was one of the witnesses  
and in view of the importance of the kingdom of  
Christ, he, in his 2d Epistle, has given the church  
of all coming ages instruction how they may en- 
sure an abundant entrance "into the everlasting  
kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ." " For we  
have not followed cunningly devised fables  
when we made known to you the power and  
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye  
witnesses of his majesty: 2 Pet. i. 16.  _ This  
he says was " when we were with him in the  
hoiv mount." The scene was a demonstration  
of the reality of Christ's second, personal and  

POPERY. ;  
POPERY A SUBJECT OF PROPHECY.  
Self-evident truths have been denied and ridiculed, by  
some, in ail ages. No absurdity has been without its  
adherents, and no abuse without its defenders; but the  
absurdities into which our opponents are running, in  
these last days, are nevertheless somewhat amazing.  
Mr. Hatfield tries to pave the way for his comments, 
which leave Rome and Papacy out of those prophecies  
in which almost all Protestants have seen them so con- 
spicuous, by saying—" Yielding to none in attachment  
to Protestantism, nor in my inmost loathing of prelacy or  
papacy, I am unable to follow in the track of all those  
who meet the Pope at every corner."  
He then proceeds to twist the prophecy in the seventh  
of Daniel, out of its plain natural shape into a most dis- 
torted one, in order to make an insignificant Syrian king  
fulfil a prediction which almost all the world has applied 
to Rome. 'We should almost as soon think of proving  
that the sun shines, or that the Old Testament contains  
predictions of Christ, as to prove that it also refers to the  
Papal Antichrist. That Paul also refers to the same  
thing, is very, evident. We here give Wakefield's trans- 
latio°n of 2 Thes. ii. 1—10. The reader will compare it  
with the common translation, and one may help elucidate 
the other.  
CH. II. Now we entreat you, brethren ! concerning 
this cominf of  our Lord Jesus Christ and our assem- 
2 bling unto him, that ye be not hastily moved from your  
understanding, nor troubled by any declaration of the  
spirit, nor by any expression as from us, as if the day  
3 of the Lord were at hand. Let no one deceive you by  
any means; for that falling off must first come, and 
that man of sin, that son of mischief, be displayed,  
4 who oppose'.h and raiseth himself up above every  
one, that entitleth himself a god or derruindeth rever- 
ence; so as to place himself in the temple of God as a  
5 god, declaring himself to be a god. Do ye not remem- 
ber,'that, whilst I was yet with you, I told you these  
6 things 1 And ye know what hindereth now; so that 
7 he will  display himself in his proper time : though in- 
deed this mystery of wickedness is showing itself al-
ready ; but he, who now hindereth, must be removed ;  
8 and then will this wicked person be displayed : and the  
Lord will consume with the breath of his mouth, and 
with the manifestation of his presence will destroy  
9 him, whose coming is according to the operation of  
i Satan, with all imposture of miracles and of signs  
18 and wonders, and with every wicked seduction,  
among them prepared for their destruction, because  
they receive not the love ofthe truth for their preser- 
vation.  
In his notes on this passage, Dr. Clarke says :  
Bishop Newton has examined the whole prophecy with  
his usual skill and judgment. The sum of what he says, 
as abridged by Dr. Dodd, I thiftk it right to subjoin. The  
principafpart of modern commentators follow his steps.  
He applies the whole to the Romish church : the apostacy,  
its defection from the pure doctrines of Christianity ; and 
the man  of sin, &c., the general succession of the popes  
of Rome. But we must hear him for himself, as he  
takes up the subject in the order of the verses.  
3) 4. For that day shall not come, except, &c —" The  
day'of Christ shall not come, except there come the  
apostacy first." The apostacy here described,. is plainly  

not of a civil, but of a religious nature; not a revolt  
from the government, but a defection from the true reli- 
gion and worship. In the original, it is  THE apostacy,  
with an article to give it an emphasis ; the article being  
added, signifies, " that famous and before-mentioned  
prophecy." So likewise is the man of sin, with the like  
article, and the like emphasis. If, then, the notion ofthe 
iman of sin be derived from any ancient prophet, it must  
be derived from Dan. vii. 25, and xi. 36. Any man may  
be satisfied that St. Paul alluded to Daniel's description,  
because he has not only borrowed the same ideas, but  
has even adopted some of the phrases and expressions.  
The man of sin, may signify either a single man, or a suc- 
cession of men ; a succession of men being meant in  
Daniel, it is probable that the same was intended here  
also. It is the more probable, because a single man  
appears hardly sufficient for the work here assigned ; and  
it is agreeable to the phraseology of Scripture, and espe- 
cially to that  ofthe prophets, to speak of a body, or  num- 
ber of men, under the character of one : thus, a king,  
Dan. vii. 8. Rev. xvii. is used for a succession of kings. 
The man of sin being to be expressed from Dan. vii. 24,  
according to the Greek translation, he shall exceed in evil  
all that went before him ; and he may fulfil the character 
either by promoting wickedness in general, or by ad-
vancing idolatry in particular, as the word sin signifies  
frequently in Scripture. The son of perdition is also the 
denomination of the traitor Judas, John xvii. 12, which 
implies that the man of sin should be like Judas, a false  
apostle ; like him, betray Christ; and like him, be devo-
ted to destruction. Who opposeth, &c. is manifestly co- 
pied from Daniel, He shall exalt himself, &c. The fea-
tures exactly resemble each other. He opposeth and ex-
alteth himself above all; or, according to the Greek, above  
every one that is called God, or that is worshipped. The  
Greek word for worshipped, is ccpaa/ta, alluding to the 
Greek title of the Roman emperors, atfias-os, which  sig- 
nifies august, or venerable. He shall oppose ; for the pro- 
phets speak of things future as present; he shall oppose,  
and exalt himself, not only above inferior magistrates,  
(who are sometimes called gods in Holy Writ,) but even  
above the greatest emperors, and shall arrogate to him- 
self Divine honors. So that he, as God, sitteth in the tem-
ple, &c. By the temple of God, the apostle could not  
well mean the temple of Jerusalem, because that, he  
knew, would be destroyed within a few years. After the  
death of  Christ, the temple of Jerusalem is never called  
by the apostles the temple of God ; and if, at any time,  
they make mention ofthe house, or temple of God, they  
mean the church in'general, or every particular believer.  
Whoever will consult I Cor. iii. 16, 17. 2 Cor. vi. 16.  
1 Tim. iii. 15. Rev. iii. 12, will want no examples to  
prove, that, under the  Gospel dispensation, the temple of  
God is the church of Christ; and the man of sin's sit- 
ting, implies his ruling and presiding there ; and sitting 
there as God, implies his claiming Divine authority in  
things spiritual as well as temporal; and showing him- 
self that he is God, implies his doing it with ostenta- 
tion.  
5j 6, 7.—Remember ye not, &c.—The apostle thought  
it part of his duty, as he made it a part of his preaching 
and doctrine, to forewarn his new converts of the grand  
apostacy that would infect the church, even while he  
was at Thessalonica. From these verses it appears that 
the man of sin was not then revealed ; his time was not 
yet come, or the season of his manifestation. The mys- 
tery of iniquity was indeed already working ; the seeds of  
corruption were sown, but they were not grown up to  
maturity; the man of sin was yet hardly conceived in 
the womb; it must be some time before he could be  
brought forth; there was some obstacle that hindered  
his appearing. If we may rely upon the concurrent testi- 
mony of the Fathers, it was the Roman empire. Most  
probably it was somewhat relating to the higher powers,  
because the apostle observes such caution ; he men- 
tioned it in discourse, but would not commit it to wri- 
ting.  
8. Then shall that Wicked be revealed —When the ob- 
stacle. mentioned in the preceding verse, should be re- 
moved, " then shall that Wicked," &c. Nothing can 
be plainer than that the lawless as the Greek (o avo^os,)  
signifies, the wicked one, here mentioned, and the  man of  
sin, must be one and the same person. The apostle was  
speaking before of what hindered that he should be re- 
vealed, and would continue to hinder till it was taken 
away ; and then the wicked one, &c. Not that he should  
be consumed immediately after he was revealed. But 
the apostle, to comfort the Thessalonians, no sooner  
mentions his revelation, than he foretels also his destruc- 
tion, even before he describes his other qualifications.  
His other qualifications should have been described first,  
in the order of time, but the apostle hastens to what was  
first and warmest in his thoughts and wishes, Whom 
the Lord shall consume, &c. If these two clauses refer  
to two distinct and different events, the meaning mani-
festly is, that the Lord Jesus shall gradually consume  
him with the free preaching and publication of His word,  
and shall utterlv destroy him at His second coming, in  
the glory of His Father, with all the holy angels.  
I 9_12 Whose coming is after, &c. The apostle was


eager to foretel the destruction of the man of sin ; and  
for this purpose, having broken in upon his subject, he  
now returns to.it again, and describes the other qualifi- 
cations by which this wicked one should advance, and  
establish himself in the world. He should rise to credit  
and authority by the most, diabolical methods; should  
pretend to supernatural powers, and boast of revelations,  
visions, and miracles ; false in themselves, and applied 
to promote false doctrines. Verse 9. He should like-
wise practice all other wicked acts of deceit; should be  
guilty of the most impious frauds and impositions upon  
mankind ; but should prevail only among those who are 
destitute of a sincere affection for the truth, whereby  
they might attain eternal salvation. Verse 10. And in-
deed, it is a just and righteous judgment of God, to give  
them over to vanities and lies in this world, and to con- 
demnation in the next, who have no regard to truth and 
virtue, but delight in falsehood and wickedness. Verse  
11, 12.  
Upon this survey, there appears little room to doubt of  
the genuine sense and meaning of the passage.  
This  apostacy, all the concurrent marks and charac- 
ters will justify us in charging upon the church of Rome.  
The true Christian worship is, the worship of the one only  
God, through the one only Mediator, the man Christ Jesus;  
and from this worship the church of Rome has most no- 
toriously departed, by  substituting other mediators, and  
invocating and adoring saints and angels : nothing is  
apostacy if idolatry be not. And are not the members of  
the church of Rome guilty of idolatry, in the worship of  
images, in the adoration of the host, in the invocation of  
angels and saints, and in the oblation of prayers and 
praises to the Virgin Mary; as much, or more, than to  
God blessed for ever 1 This is the grand corruption of  
the Christian church ; this is THE apostacy, as it is em- 
phatically called, and deserves to be called ; which was  
not only predicted by St.  Paul, but by the prophet Daniel  
likewise. If the apostacy be rightly charged upon the  
church of Rome, it follows of consequence that the man 
of sin is the pope ; not meaning any pope in particular, 
but the'pope in general, as the chief head and supporter  
of this apostacy. He is properly the man of sin, not on- 
ly on account of the scandalous lives of many popes, but  
by reason of their  most scandalous  doctrines and princi- 
ples ; dispensing with the most necessary duties, and  
granting, or rather selling, pardons and indulgences to 
the most abominable crimes. Or, if by sin be meant  
idolatry in particular, as in the Old Testament, it is evi-
dent how he has perverted the worship of God to super- 
stition and idolatry, of the grossest kind. He also, like  
the false apostle Judas, is the son of perdition ; whether 
actively, as being the cause of destruction to others, or 
passively, as being devoted to destruction himself. He  
opposeth : he is the great adversary of God and man ; 
persecuting and destroying by croisades, inquisitions, and  
massacres, those Christians who prefer the word of God  
to the authority of men. The heathen emperor of Rome 
may have slain his thousands of innocent Christians, but  
the Christum bishop of Rome has slain his ten thousands.  
He exalteth himself above all that is callcd God, or is wor- 
shipped ; not only above inferior magistrates, but. like-
wise above bishops and primates ; not only above bishops  
and primates, but likewise above kings and emperors ;  
deposing some, obliging them to kiss his toe, to hold his  
stirrup, treading even upon the neck of a king, and kick- 
ing off the imperial crown with his foot; nay, not only  
kings and emperors, but. likewise above Christ, and God  
himself; making even the word of God of none effect by 
his traditions ; forbidding what God has commanded, as  
marriage, the use of the Scriptures, &c , and also com-
manding, or allowing what God has forbidden, as idola-
try. persecution, &c. So that he, as God, sitteth in the  
temple of God, &c.-, he is, therefore, in profession a  
Christian, and a Christian bishop. His sitting in the tem- 
ple of God, implies plainly his having a seat, or cathedra,  
in the Christian church: and he sitteth there as God, es-
pecially at his inauguration, when he sits upon the high  
altar in St. Peter's church, and makes the table of the 
Lord his footstool—and in that position receives adora- 
tion. At all times he exercises Divine authority in the  
church ; shoiving himself that he is God ; affecting Divine 
titles, and asserting that his decrees are of the same, or  
greater authority than the word of God. So that the  
pope is, evidently, according to the titles given him in  
the public decretals, the God upon earth ; at least there 
is no one like him, who exalteth himself above every  
god ; no one like him, who sitteth as God in the temple 
of God, showing himself that he is God. The foundations 
of popery were laid in the apostle's davs, but the super- 
structure was raised by degrees, and several ages passed  
before the building was completed, and the man of sin re-
vealed in full perfection. The tradition that generally  
prevailed was, that which hindered was the Roman em- 
pire : this tradition might have been derived even from  
the apostle himself; and therefore the primitive Chris- 
tians in the public offices of the church, prayed for its 
peace and welfare; as knowing that, when the Roman  
empire should be dissolved, and broken in pieces, the em- 
pire of the man of-skr would be raised upon its ruins. 
In the same proportion as the power of the empire de- 

creased, the authority of the church increased ; and the  
latter at the expense and ruin of the former; till atiength 
the pope grew up above all, and the wicked, or lawless 
one, was fully manifested and revealed.  
The Lord shall consume him, &c. This is partly taken  
from Isaiah xi. 4, " And with the breath of His lips shall  
he slay the wicked one," where the Jews put an empha- 
sis upon the words the wicked one, as appears from the  
Chaldee, which renders it, " He shall destroy the wicked  
Roman."  
The man of sin is now upon the decline, and he will  
be totally abolished when Christ shall come in judgment.  
Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Origcn, Lactantius, Cyril of 
Jerusalem, Ambrose, Hilary,  Jerome, Augustine, and  
Chrysostom, give much the same interpretation that has  
here been given of the whole passage. And it must be  
owned, that this is the genuine  meaning of the apostle ;  
that this is only consistent with the context; that every 
other interpretation is forced and unnatural; that this is  
liable to no material objection : that it coincides perfectly  
with Daniel; that it is agreeable to the tradition of the  
primitive church ; and lhat it has been exactly fulfilled in  
all its particulars, which cannot be said of any other in- 
terpretation whatever. Such a prophecy as this is an  
illustrious proof of Divine revelation, and an excellent  
antidote to the poison of popery." See the Dissertations 
on the Prophecies, and Dodd, as above.  
Dr. Macknight proceeds, in general, on the plan of  
Bishop Newton ; but, as he thinks that the apostle had  
the prophecy of Daniel, in chapter vii. and viii. particu 
larly in view, he collates his words with those of the  
prophet, in the following way.  
3. That man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition— 
'O avdpuiro; rrjs a/iaprias, b vio; rrj; airoXetai. "Til<3 article,"  
says he, "joined to these appellations, is emphatical, as  
in the former clause, importing that the ancient prophets 
had spoken of these persons, though under different  
names, particularly the prophet Daniel, whose descrip- 
tion of the little horn and blasphemous king, agrees so ex- 
actly in meaning with Paul's description of the man of 
sin, and son of perdition, and lawless one, that there can 
be little doubt of their being the same persons ; but this 
will best appear by a comparison of the passages .  
PAUL.—2 Thess. ii. 3  
And that man of sin be re- 
vealed, the son of perdition  
PAUL —2. Thess. ii. 4.—  
Who opposeth and exalteth  
himself above all that is called  
God, or that is worshipped ;  
so that he, as God, sitteth  
in the temple of God, show- 
ing himself that he is God.  
PAUC..—2 Thess. ii. ?.—  
Only he who now letteth.  
will let, until he be taken  
out of the way.  
PAUL—2 Thess. ii. 8  
And then shall that wicked  
one be revealed.  
PAUL.—1 Tim. iv. I.—  
Giving heed to seducing  
spirits, and doctrines of de-
vils.  
3.—Forbidding to marry.  
PAUL—2 Thess. ii. 8  
Whom the Lord shall con- 
sume with the Spirit of His  
mouth, and shall destroy 
with the brightness of His 
coming.  

DANIEL vii. 21.—And the  
same horn made war with  
the saints, and prevailed 
against them.  
25.—And he shall speak  
great words agajnst the  
Most High, and shall wear  
out the saints of the Most  
High.  
DANIEL xi. 36.—And the  
king shall do according to 
his will, and he shall exalt  
himself above every God, and  
hall speak marvellous  
things against the God of 
gods.  
DANIEL vii. 25.—He shall  
also stand up against the  
Prince of princes.  
DANIEL vii. 8.—I consid- 
ered the horns, and behold,  
there came up among them  
another little horn, before  
whom there were three of  
the first horns plucked up 
by the roots.  
DANIEL vii. 25.—And he  
shall think to change times  
and laws, and they shall be  
given into his hand. See  
Dan. viii. 24.  
DANIEL ix 38.—In his  
state he shall honor the god 
of forces, (Mahuzzim.)  gods  
who are protectors, that is,  
tjjtelary angels and saints.  
DANIEL xi. 37.—Neither  
shall he regard the God of  
his fathers, nor the desire  
of women.  
DANIEL vii. 11.—I beheld  
then, because of the voicg of 
the great Words which the 
horn spoke, I beheld, even  
till the beast was slain, and  
his body destroyed and giv- 
en to the burning flame.  
26.—And they shall take  
away his dominion to con- 
sume and to destroy it to the 
end.  
DANIEL viii. 25.—He shall  
be broken Without hand."  
After entering into great detail in his Notes, he sums  
up the whole in(the following manner:  

" Now, as in the prophecies of Daniel, empir es go  
erned by a succession of kings, are denoted by a single 
emblem ; such as, by a part of an image, a single beast,  
a horn, &c. of a beast; so in Paul's prophecy, the man 
of sin, and son of perdition, and the laivless one, may de-
note an impious tyranny, exercised by a succession of  
men who cause great misery and ruin to others ; and 
who, at length, shall be destroyed themselves.  
" The facts and circumstances mentioned in these pro- 
phecies, are, for ,the most part, so peculiarly marked,  
that they will not easily apply, except to the persons and 
events intended by the Spirit of God. And therefore, in 
every case, where different interpretations have been  
given of any prophecy, the proper method of ascertaining 
its meaning is, to compare the various events to which 
it is thought to relate, with the words of the prophecy,  
and to adopt that as the event intended, which most ex-
actly agrees in all its parts to the prophetic description.  
" According to this rule, though many different inter- 
pretations have been given of the prophecy under con-
sideration, that, in my opinion, will appear the best foun- 
ded, which makes it a prediction of the corruptions of 
Christianity, which began to be introduced into the  
church in the apostle's days, and wrought secretly all the 
time the heathen magistrates persecuted the Christians ;  
but which showed themselves more openly after the em-
pire received the faith of Christ, A. D. 312, and, by a  
gradual progress, ended  in the monstrous errors and  
usurpations of the bishops of Rome, when the restraining 
power of the emperors was taken out of the way by the  
incursions of the barbarous nations, and the breaking of  
the empire into the ten kingdoms, prefigured by the ten  
horns of Daniel's fourth beast. Now, to be convinced-of 
this, we need only compare the rise and progress of the  
Papal tyranny, with the descriptions of the man of sin,  
and of the mystery of iniquity, given in the writings of 
Daniel and Paul.  
" The mystery of iniquity, or the corrupt doctrines  
which ended in the errors and usurpations of the see of  
Rome, were working secretly in the apostle's day, as he 
affirms, verse 7, and the power of the Roman emperors,  
and of the magistrates under them, was that which then, 
and during the succeeding ages, restrained the mystery 
of iniquity in its working, and the man of sin from re- 
vealing himself. For, while the power of the state con-
tinued in the hands of the heathen rulers, and while they  
employed that power in persecuting the Christians, the 
corrupt doctrines and practices introduced by the false 
teachers did not spread so fast as otherwise they would 
have done. At least they were not produced to public  
view as the decisions of heavon, to which all men were  
bound to pay implicit obedience."  
Dr. Macknight here describes the usurpations of early  
councils, and then says :  
" Idolatry and superstition were recommended to the  
people by false miracles, and every deceit which wick- 
edness could suggest; such as the miraculous cures pre- 
tended to be performed by the bones, and other relics of 
the martyrs, in order to induce the ignorant vulgar to  
worship them as mediators ; the feigned visions of an- 
gels, who said they had appeared to this or that hermit, 
to recommend celibacy, fastings, mortifications of the  
body, and living in solitude ; the apparitions of souls  
from purgatory, who begged that certain superstitions  
might be practised for delivering them from confinement  
—by all which, those assemblies of ecclesiast ics, who by 
their decrees enjoined these practices, showed them- 
selves to be the man of sin, and lavdess one, in his first 
form, whose coming was to be with all power, and signs, 
and miracles of falsehood ; and who opposed every one  
that is called God, or that is worshipped. For these gen- 
eral councils, by introducing' the worship of saints and  
angels, robbed God of the worship due to him ; and, by  
substituting saints and angels, as mediators, in the place  
of Christ, they degraded Him from his office as Mediator, 
or rendered it altogether useless. However, though they 
thus opposed God and Christ by their unrighteous de- 
crees. yet did they not exalt themselves ahove every one 
who is called God, or an object of worship; neither did  
they sit yet in the temple of God as God, and openly 
show themselves to be God. These, blasphemous ex- 
travagancies were to be acted in after times, by a num- 
ber of particular persons in succession—I mean by the 
bishops of Rome, after the power of the Christian Roman  
emperors, and of the magistrates under them, was taken  
out of the way. For the bishops of that see, having very  
early obtained from the Christian emperors decrees in 
their own favor, soon raised themselves above all other 
bishops ; and, by a variety of artifices, made the authori-
ty and influence of the whole body of the clergy centre in 
themselves ; and claimed that intallible authority which  
was formerly exercised by general councils, of making  
articles of faith, and of establishing rules of discipline for  
the whole Christian community; and of determining, in  
the last resort, all differences among the clergy ; and of  
anathematizing every one who did not submit to their 
unrighteous decisions. In this manner did the bishops  
of Rome establish, in their own persons, a spiritual do- 
minion over the whole Christian world. But not content


with this height of power, by dexterously  employing the  
credit and influence which the ecclesiastics,  now devoted  
to their will, had over the laity, in all the countries where 
they lived ; they interfered in many civil matters also,  
till at length they reared that intolerable fabric of spirit- 
ual and civil tyranny conjoined, whereby the understand-
ing, the persons, and the properties, not of the laity only,  
but also ofthe c'ergy themselves, have, for a long time,  
been most grievously  enthralled, in all the countries  
where Christianity  was professed. '  
"This height of spiritual and civil tyranny united, the  
bishops of Rome did not attain, till, as the apostle fore-
told, that which restrained was taken out of the way; or,  
till an end was put to the authority ofthe Roman emper- 
ors jn the west, by the inroads ofthe barbarous nations ;  
and, more especially, till the western empire was broken  
into the ten kingdoms,  prefigured in Daniel's vision, by  
the ten horns of the fourth beast. For then it was, that  
the bishops of Rome made themselves the sovereigns of 
Rome, and of its territory ; and so became the little horn  
which Daniel beheld coming up among the ten horns, and  
which had the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great  
things; to show that its dominion was founded on the  
deepest policy ; and that its strength consisted in the  
bulls, excommunications,  and anathemas, which, with  
intolerable audacity, it uttered against all who opposed its  
usurpations. And, in process of time, the bishops of 
Rome, having got possession of three of the kingdoms  
into which the western empire was broken, signified  by  
three of the horns of Daniel's fourth beast, being plucked  
up by the roots before the little horn, they called them- 
selves the vicars of Christ, on pretence that Christ had  
transferred His whole authority  to them. They also '  
thought to change times and laws, as Daniel foretold, for  
as the vicars of Christ, they assumed the power  of saving  
and damning men at their own pleasure ; and altered the  
terms of salvation, making it depend, not on faith and  
holiness, but on the superstitious  practices which they  
had established ; and sold the pardon of sins past, and  
even the liberty of sinning  for the future, for money.  
" Farther, as it is said the man of sin was to be re- 
vealed in his season, there can be little doubt that the 
daik ages, in which all learning was overturned by the  
irruption ofthe northern barbarians, were the season al- 
lotted to the man of sin for revealing himself. Accord- 
ingly, we know that, in these ages, the corruptions of  
Christianity,  and the usurpations of the clcrgy, were car- 
ried to the greatest height. In short, the annals of the  
world cannot produce persons and events to which the  
things written in this passage can be applied with so  
much fitness as to the bishyps  of Rome. Why then should  
we be in any doubt concerning the interpretation, and appli- 
cation of this famous prophecy ?"—See Dr. Maoknight's 
Commentary and Notes, vol. iii. p. 109, &c.  
"Dr. Macknight,"  says the Encyclopedia of Religious  
Knowledge, " was for thirty years, one ofthe ministers  
of Edinburgh. He died in 1800. He published a Harmo- 
ny ofthe Four Gospels, and a much admired translation,  
with commentaries and notes, of all the Apostolic Epis-
tles. This last was the great labor of his life." Dr.  
Clarke, though  he had expressed some doubts respecting  
the application of Paul's language to pojpery, concludes  
the whole subject thus :  
" I must acknowledge that the most pointed part of  
the evidence tends to FIX THE WHOLE ON THE  
ROMISH CHURCH, AND ON NONE OTHER."  
Long as this article is, we cannot forbear quoting the  
substance of an excellent communication,  providentially  
and opportunely furnished in the New York Evangelist  of  
Jan. 5, 1843. It is by their Cincinnati  correspondent:  
PAPAL INDULGENCES.  
" And all the world wondered after the Beast."  
When our Savior, on a certain occasion said unto one  
"sick of the palsy," " Son, thy sins be forgiven thee,"  
the Jews, on the supposition that Jesus was a mere man,  
justly exclaimed, " Why doth this man thus speak  
blasphemies!  Who can forgive sins but God only '!" It  
seems a  truth intuitively  perceived, that God, the law- 
giver, only can forgive a violation of his law.  
In no respect has the Papal Church more accurately  
fulfilled the Apostle Paul's predictions, in 2 Thes. ii. 4,  
than in its arrogating to itself the power of forgiving sin.  
"The Man of Sin" " has exalted himself  above all that is  
i worshiped: so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of  
God, showing himself that he is God." He has claimed,  
and pretended to use this prerogative of deity, and thus  
for centurieshas deluded unwary victims, bringing  them  
"into the. snare of the devil." The Papal Church has  
used this power of pardoning sin in several ways, but  
perhaps the most monstrous  of all is found in the doctrine  
of indulgences. And-inasmuch  as the practical exempli- 
fication of this doctrine by Tetzel, was the occasion of  
waking into life the mighty energies of Luther, thus giv- 

ing birth to the Reformation, it may not be useless or un- I  
interesting  to inquire how this doctrine is stated by the |  
Papists, and what have been the enormities practised  
under it.  
As we proceed, the fact will be very noticeable, that  
although the doctrine of  indulgences,  as stated by stand- 
ard Papal authorities,  is sufficiently  bad, yet the practice  
ofthe Church has very far surpassed its own definitions. 
One thing more of great importance will be noticed, that  
the doctrine, as stated by the noisy, licentious,  debauch- 
ed Tetzel, received the public sanction of Pope Leo X. so 
that infallibility  has stamped Tetzel's doctrine as a gen- 
uine article of belief ofthe Church.  
Peter Dens, a received theological  writer of the Ro- 
manists, thus defines the doctrine.  
" Wh«tis an indulgence?"  
" It is the remission of the temporal punishment  due  
to sin, remitted as to the guilt, by the power ofthe keys, 
without the sacrament, by the application of the satisfac- 
tions which are contained in the treasury of the Church !  
" What is understood by the treasury of the Church 1"  
" It is the collection of the spiritual  goods remaining  
in the divine possession, the distribution  of ichich is in- 
trusted to the Church."  
" From whence is this treasury collected ?"  
u In the first place it is collected from the superabund- 
ant satisfactions  of Christ, next from the superfluous  
satisfactions of the blessed Virgin Mary, and of the other  
saints. The treasury is the foundation or matter of in- 
dulgences, and is that infinite  treasury made  up in part  
from the satisfactions  of Christ; and it daily receives the  
superabundant satisfactions of pious men" (.') Elliot, vol. I.  
This horrible doctrine might have been expressed  
thus : "Many Catholics have done so many good deeds, 
besides loving the Lord with all their heart, that they  
have laid up a stock of good works to be carried to the  
credit of other Catholics, who wish to serve God  and  
Mammon for the "salutary " purpose of enabling them to  
enjoy the pleasures of sin and yet obtain salvation."  
" Peter Dens is a standard writer, and his sentiments  
are proclaimed again and again a thousand times by all  
classes of writers, from the fulminating  Pope, to the most  
insignificant  priest cringing at the feet of his lordly supe- 
riors. Here let me quote from a Bull of Leo. X. who, if  
for no other cause than that, he dashed Jove-like thunder-
bolts on the .head of Luther, will be considered good au- 
thority.  
" ' The Roman Pontiff,  the successor of Peter in re- 
gard to the keys, and the vicar of Jesus Christ on earth,  
possessing the power of the keys, by which power all hin-
drances are removed out ofthe way of the faithful,  that  
! is to say the guilt of actual sins, by the sacrament of pen- 
ance, and the temporal punishment due .for those sins, 
according to divine justice, by ecclesiastical indulgence ;  
that the Roman Pontiff may for occasional causes {'•)(&'  
g. for handsful of gold and silver !) by his apostolical au- 
thority, grant indulgences out ofthe superabundant means 
of Christ and his saints, to the faithful  who are united to  
Christ by charity, as well for the living as for the dead-,  
and that in thus dispensing  the treasure of the merits of  
Jesus Christ and the saints, he either confers the indul-
gence by the method of absolution,  or transfers it by the  
method of suffrage. Wherefore all persons, whether liv- 
ing or dead, who really obtain any indulgence of this kind, 
are delivered from so much temporal punishment,  due ac- 
cording to divine justice for their actual sins, as is equiv- 
alent to the value of the indulgence bestowed and recor-
ded." (Elliott.)  This was sent abroad about the year 1516,  
and finally was the cause of that moral earthquake which  
convulsed Europe, and well nigh swallowed up the " Old  
Man at Rome." This bull was Tetzel's voucher, for the | 
infamous  tratfick in which he engaged throughout Germa- j  
ny. And as we read it, how much Leo reminds us of one j 
as " God sitting  in the temple of God !"  
The writings of St. Bernard in the 12th century, show j  
that the doctrine of indulgence,  in most obnoxious terms,  
was held at his day. This canonized saint ot Rome de-
scribes the abounding corruptions of the Papal church in  
the most glowing and indignant  language. He declares  
the priests to be ambitious,  gluttonous,  drunken, ignorant,  
indolent, robbing the poor. Among other things,  he uses  
these remarkable words, " The priestly dignitary goes  
through his boundary, only that he may fill his bag (sac- 
cum,) for which purpose he sells the privilege of commit- 
ting homicides incests, fornications, sacrilege, perjury, i  
and he fills his bag to its very mouth."  
In D'Aubigne's History ofthe Reformation, vol. I. we j  
learn that John XXII. who occupied the Papal throne at  
the commencement of the 14th century, put out a scale 
for the regulation  of this trafiick, and that more than forty  
editions of this are now extant. This scale gauged the  
price to be paid for the indulgence of different crimes,  
with the same accuracy that a merchant uses in his com- 
modites ! " Incest was to cost, if not detected, five  
groschen ; if known, or flagrant, six. A certain price was  
affixed to the crime of murder, another to infanticide,  
adultery, perjury, burglary, &c." The most dreadful fea- 

ture of this corrupt state of the priesthood developed in  
the sale of indulgences,  was its generality. Occasionally  
a Roman priest could be found, who in noly indignation  
would exclaim with Claudius of Espersa, " 0, shame to  
Rome !" but the mass eagerly availed themselves of the  
privilege to plunge headlong into this loathsome stream  
of filthy abominations.  
During the 15th century, the evil gradually increased,  
until Europe, superstition-bound  and priest-ridden  as it  
was, nauseatized with such drugs, groaned and heaved, 
as it were, with a deadly sickness.  The system, borne  
onwards to its legitimate  consequences, was rapidly pre- 
paring that mine which soon was to explode beneath Pa-
pal Rome, rocking its trembling  throno like the bosom of  
a volcano.  
This doctrine is still proclaimed from the throne of in- 
fallibility at Rome. In 1809 the splendid Cathedral at  
Cork was completed, on which occasion, Pope Pius VII.  
sent to Dr. Moylan, Bishop of Cork, a bull of plenary in- 
dulgence "to each and to every one of the faithful  of  
Christ, who after assisting  at least, eight times in the ho- 
ly exercise of the mission in the new Cathedral church 
of Cork, shall confess his or her sins, etc." In 1834, Leo.  
XII. sent forth the following : " We have resolved, by  
virtue ofthe authority given to us from heaven, fully to 
unlock that sacred treasure, composed of the merits, suf- 
fering. and virtues of Christ our Lord, and of his Virgin  
Mother, and all the saints, which the Author of human  
salvation has intrusted to our dispensation.  To you,  
therefore, venerable brethren, patriarchs, primates, arch-
bishops, bishops, it belongs to explain with perspicuity 
the power of indulgences,  etc." (Elliott)  
THE DOMINION GONE—YET PREVAILING.  
"THE POOR POPE." Such was the heading of an arti- 
cle in the Journal of Commerce, a few months ago. rl he  
editor proceeded to show how completely the Pope has 
lost his dominion at home, and how wonderfully he is ex- 
tending his influence  abroad. This state of things  har- 
monizes exactly with the predictions of the Bible. In 
Daniel 7 : 26, it is said, "They shall take away his DO-
MINION, to consume and to destroy it unto the end."—  
And in the same chapter,—"The same horn made war 
with the saints, and prevailed against them until the An- 
cient of Days came, and the time came that the saints  
possessed the kingdom."  The saints will not possess  
the kingdom before the resurrection, for flesh and blood  
cannot inherit the kingdom of God. That the Pope's  
DOMINION has been taken away is a fact perfectly notorious.  
Says the N. Y. Sun of Jan. 7, " An insignificant  priest- 
dom\s ALL that remains of the once mighty mistress of  
nations."  
When was the dominion taken away 1  
On this point, a clergyman recently asserted that we  
had made a mistake of a whole year,—that the Pope was 
humbled in 1797, instead of 1798. This leads us to  
investigate  the point anew, and, as in every similar pre- 
vious case, we find the facte fully confirming the belief 
that the end is nigh, EVEN AT THE DOORS. " The  
History of the Wars of the French Revolution,"  by Ed- 
ward Baines, (an Englishman,)  has been long before the  
public. In his preface he says : "A better defined pe- 
riod of history than that embraced in these volumes it 
is impossible to imagine."  We quote from the Philadel- 
phia edition of 1835, " carefully revised and compared  
with the original authorities,"  by William  Grimshaw,  
who was himself the author of a history of France.  
After Mantua had  been taken by Napoleon, and its  
Austrian defenders signally  defeated, in Jan. 1797, the  
author proceeds:  
"The papal See, which had relied with the most im- 
plicit confidence on the success of the Austrians, was 
menaced with sudden ruin, for Bonaparte, on the day  
preceding the capture of Mantua, had published a procla-
mation, in which, after reproaching the holy father with  
subterfuge and perfidy, he declared the armistice to be at  
an end, recalled the French minister from Rome, and 
threatened all those who opposed the progress ofthe Re- 
publican columns, with the most exemplary vengeance."  
A treaty was at length made, atTolentino, on the 20th  
of February, by which  
"His holiness was obliged to renounce all claims to  
Avignon and the Venasin, to relinquish the three legations  
of Bologna, Ferrara, and Romagna, to furnish the statues, 
pictures, and treasures stipulated in the former conven- 
tion ; and to pay the sum of fifteen millions  of livres to- 
wards the expenses of the war."—French Revolution, 
Book 1. Chap. 24. pp. 196, 197.  
It was, doubtless, this event which led to the clergy- 
man's mistake : but read on.


The author opens his history of 1798 thus :  
"This year, teeming with great political events, was  
ushered in by the Congress of iladstadt, in which it was  
proposed to discuss and settle all the disputes between  
the French Republic and the German Empire."  
Is it possible these two careful historians,  who wrote  
and revised this book, could be mistaken about so im- 
portant an event 1  He proceeds:  
" While this assembly was coldly discussing  the terms  
of a pacification,  so intimately  connected with the pros- 
perity of the continent, THE HIERARCHY WHICH  
HAD GOVERNED A CONSIDERABLE PART OF  
ITALY, AND FORAGES REGULATED THE CREED  
OF A CONSIDERABLE PORTION OF MANKIND,  
CEASED TO EXIST. The assassination  of Duphot,  
chef de brigade in the service of the French republic,  
served to rekindle the spirit of hostility  which the treaty  
of Tolentino was supposed to have extinguished.  Du- 
phot, having repaired to Rome, towards the end of the  
year 1797, expressly for the purpose of espousing  that  
sister of Bonaparte who was afterwards married to Gen-
eral Murat, became one of the victims ofthe commotions  
which took place on the 28th of December. On that fatal  
day, a mob, consisting  of about one hundred persons, as- 
sembled at the palace of the French embassador, Joseph  
Bonaparte, and demanded the assistance of France, for  
the purpose of overthrowing  the papal tyranny, as they  
designated the government, and establishing  a republic  
in its stead. Joseph Bonaparte, being altogether indis- 
posed to countenance so hopeless a project, despatched  
Duphot to disperse the insurgents,  and to prevail upon  
the papal troops to retire from the precincts of the em- 
bassador's court; but while the General was engaged in  
this service, he was shot by a Roman fusileer, who dis-
charged his musket into his body, and afterwards treated  
his remains with savage cruelty. Joseph Bonaparte, af-
ter a lapse of fourteen hours, finding that no measures 
had been taken to avenge the late outrage, or to provide  
for the future security of his own person, retired into  
Tuscany.  
" No sooner were the murder of Duphot and the re- 
treat of Joseph Bonaparte made public at Milan, than the  
people exclaimed, ' Death to the assassin pontiff! Ven-
geance tor our deliverers!' Troops were immediately  
levied, artillery prepared, and a declaration published, in  
which the fate of Rome was truly and confidently  pre- 
dicted, and the late events not only detailed, but so far 
aggravated, that the odium of the murder of the French  
General was cast upon the pope and his counsellors.  It  
was perfectly clear, however, from every part of his con- 
duct, that this disastrous  event produced the deepest dis- 
quietude in the breast of his holiness, and that the only  
crime of his officers consisted in the remissness of the  
General who had command of the Roman troops, and  
whose duty it unquestior^ibly  was to protect the French  
embassador and his suite from excesses of the military,  
and the presence of a lawless mob.  
" The Directory [who were Napoleon's tools at Paris]  
feeling or affecting  to feel a high degree of indignation  at  
the insult offered to their ambassador, and at the loss of 
their General, transmitted  instructions  to General Ber- 
tbier to inarch to the Roman capital. On the 10th of  
February, 1798, the French army arrived tat that place,  
and the castle of St. Angelo, containing the Pope and 
the greater part of his cardinals, surrendered on the first 
summons. The inhabitants, freed from restraint by the  
captivity of their rulers, and encouraged by the presence  
of the French army, assembled in the campo Vaccino,  
the ancient Roman Forum, and, at the instigation  of two  
of the nobles, and an advocate of some reputation, planted  
the tree of liberty in front of the capitol, proclaimed their  
independence, and instituted  the Roman Republic. All  
the splendor and magnificence,  of which the Catholic  
worship is susceptible,  were employed to celebrate this  
> m mor able victory over the head of its faith. Every church  
in Rome resounded with thanks to the supreme Disposer  
of events, for the glorious REVOLUTION that had taken  
place; and while the dome of St. Peter was illuminated  
without, fourteen cardinals, dressed in the gorgeous ap- 
parel appertaining to functions  which they were fated  
soon after to abdicate, presided at a solemn Te Deum,  
within the walls of that superb basilic. The DEPOSED  
PONTIFF, exiled from his country, was conveyed, by  
order of the Directory, first to Braingon, and afterwards  
to Valence, in France, where the infirmities  of age, and  
the pressure of misfortune,  terminated his existence, on  
the 29th of August, 1799, in the 82d year of his age, and  
24th of his Pontificate."—Book  II. Chap. 4. pp. 222, 223.  
Can we believe here is a year's variation from fact in  
a matter involving  so many dates and such public  
events 1  
Let us pause, a moment, to admire the wonderful  
working of Providence in overruling a seemingly  chance  
shot from a Roman soldier, so that, the Roman " HIER- 
ARCHY CEASED TO EXIST." Thus writes the his-
torian's pen.  

Dr. Clarke refers to the same period thus : • 
" In 1798, the French republican army, under General  
Berthier, took possession of the city of Rome, and EN- 
TIRELY SUPERSEDED THE WHOLE PAPAL  
POWER. This was a DEADLY WOUND, though at  
present it appears to .be healed, but it is but skinned 
over,  and a dreadful cicatrice remains."—See  Note on  
Dan. 7 : 25.  
In a chronological  table, at the end of" General His- 
tory, Ancient and Modern," by Alexander F. Tytler, we  
find the following items :—  
1798. The Papal Government SUPPRESSED by  
the French. The Pope quits Rome Feb. 26.  
1799. Death of Pope Pius VI. 
1800. The new Pope Pius VII. restored to his govern- 
ment, by the Emperor [Napoleon]. July 25.  
1804. The Pope arrives at Fontainbleau,  and has an  
interview with Bonaparte. November.  
1808. The French troops enter Rome, and seize the  
Pope's dominions. February.  
1810. A decree was issued, uniting  Rome to France.  
Feb. 17.  
3 813. A decree of the Spanish Cortes, for abolishing  
the inquisition  in Spain, was carried into effect. April.  
Rev. George Croly, of England, a learned and accur- 
ate writer, in his work on the Apocalypse, published in  
1827, says:  
"On the 10th of February, 1798, the French army under  
Berthier, entered Rome ; took'possession  of the city, and  
made the Pope and the cardinal prisoners. Within  a  
week Pius VI. was deposed ; Rome was declared a Re-
public : the tree of liberty was planted ; and the city and 
the states were delivered up to a long series ofthe deep- 
est insults,  requisitions,  military murders, and the gener- 
al injury and degradation of the feelings and property of  
all classes of the people. Pius VI. died in captivity. 
Pius VII. was dragged across the Alps to crown Napoleon,  
was held in duress, and was finally restored only on the  
fall of the French Empire. The papal independence was  
abolished by France, and the son of NapO'Ieon was de- 
clared King of Rome." See also Thiers' French Revo- 
lution, Vol. 4. p. 246.  
We have not room to refer to the multitude  of other  
writers who give the same date, but will simply glance at  
a few illustrations  ofthe fact that the dominion is gone.  
The following  is the language of Pope Pius VII. in his  
instruction  to the papal nuncio at Vienna, issued 1805.  
We copy it from " Tracts on Romanism,"  published by  
the American Tract Society, p. 53, of the series, and p.  
33. of "Romanism contradictory to the Bible," Tract No.  
255 :  
The pope there declares that the church had establish- 
ed, as the penalty of the crime of heresy, the confiscation  
and the loss of all property possessed by heretics. " To 
be sure," his holiness goes on to say, "we are fallen into  
such calamitous times, that it IS NO 1' POSSIBLE for the 
spouse of Jesus Christ TO PRACTICE, nor even expe- 
dient for her to recall HER HOLY MAXIMS OF JUST  
RIGOR against the enemies of the faith , but although  
SHE CANNOT EXERCISE HER RIGHT of deposing  
heretics from their principalities,  and declaring them de- 
prived of their property," &c. &c. &c.  
Here we have the Pope's own testimony that the do- 
minion had departed in 1805.  
Another striking testimony  is in a volume entitled "A n  
Introduction  to Christianity,"  by J. Sutcliffe. It was  
published in this country " by J. Soule [now Bishop] and  
T. Mason, for the Methodist Episcopal Church in the  
United States." We copy from the edition of 1817, "Se-
cond American from the second (improved; English  
Edition." p. 151. It had, therefore, been exposed to 
rigid examination.  
" The two thousand three hundred days ; that is,  
years, of Daniel, for the God of heaven to set up an  
everlasting  kingdom, and cleanse the sanctuary, are ex- 
pired, or nearly so, Dan. 8 : 13, 14. Likewise, the fall of  
the tenth part of the city by a great earthquake, and the  
slaughter  of the seven thousand men, seems to have  
been STRIKINGLY ACCOMPLISHED by the French revolution.  
Their bidding defiance to the powers of the pontificate 
was sudden and unexpected as an earthquake, and at- 
tended with the slaughter of more than a million men. 
The aggrandizement  of this empire, and the titles assum- 
ed by Bonaparte, emperor of France, and king of Italy,  
are declarations to the world, that THE TEMPORAL  
POWERS OF THE POPE EXIST NO MORE. There  
need be no more disputes about the doctrine of the two 
swords. His holiness,  now, is of little more consequence  
to the church, than that of a degraded priest granting 
absolution to the crimes of France. The reformed  
churches have uniformly considered this empire as that  

tenth part of the city, and it is sufficiently  evident they  
were not mistaken,  for none of the Protestant nations  
were emancipated with such great political commo- 
tions."  
The author's introductory address was dated 1808.  
As an index to the present position of the Pope, read  
the following anecdote from the Liverpool Albion.  
" A Quaker, who had been shocked at the desecration  
ofthe Sabbath in Fr'ance, mentioned the subject to "His  
Holiness." The Pope assured the Quaker that he was  
not ignorant of the open violation  of the Sabbath in  
France, and was extremely anxious that it should be, as  
ought, kept holy. The time was when the person  
occupying the chair of St Peter, could directly interfere  
in the affairs of foreign States, and when EMPERORS* 
KINGS, AND PRINCES, ATTENDED TO THE BEHESTS OF THE  
VATICAN ; but the times had changed ; he could not new  
exercise ANY TEMPORAL AUTHORITY beyond the  
limits of the Papal States."  
See also the Pope's letter dated Sept. 18,1840, publish- 
ed in the last Midnight Cry, in which he says :  
" You well know, Venerable Brothers, how great are  
the calamities with which the Catholic Church is beset on 
all sides in this most sorrowful age,  and how pitifully she  
is afflicted.'"  
"Indeed, are we not (Oh how shameful!)  compelled to  
see the most crafty enemies ofthe truth ranging far and  
wide with impunity  \  
" We refer to facts, Venerable Brethren, which not  
only are known to you, but of which you are witnesses  ;  
even you, who, though you mourn, and, as your pastoral 
duty requires, are by no means silent, are yet compelled 
to tolerate in your diocesses these aforesaid propagators of  
heresy and infidelity.  
" Hence it is easy to conceive the state of anguish into  
which our soul is plunged day and night."  
STILL PREVAILING.  
From the Christian Advocate and Journal, the great  
organ of Methodism, we cut the following, which was 
copied from the Christian Intelligencer,  the organ ofthe  
Dutch Reformed Church in America.  
From the Christian Intelligencer.  
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.  
In our last number, we presented our readers with a  
remarkable editorial article of the London Times. In 
another part of the present number, we have transferred  
to our columns the able comrnentary of the British  
Chronicle upon the article. Taken together, they define 
the position of the king of Prussia, in reference to interests  
ofthe very highest, concern. The king of Prussia, hither-
to regarded as at the head ofProtestantism  on continental  
Europe, and indeed regarded as a man of personal piety,  
is seen invading the freedom of opinion and the rights of  
conscience, in his efforts to consolidate the Lutheran and  
Calvinistic  Churches, and establish uniformity  of faith  
and discipline in the anti-popish  part of his kingdom ; and  
by authority, imposing upon them a creed of his own.  
Nor is this all. He distinctly  shows his intention of im- 
posing prelacy upon them. He has, m a recent visit to 
Cologne, attended at the celebration of the mass, and also 
lent his aid in laying the corner stone of a Popish cathe- 
dral ! And all this is regarded with favor by the leading  
ministerial  journal of the British empire.  
Turn we to Britain itself, and what do we find to be  
the growing tendencies of the Established Church 1 
Puseyism is spreading on every hand, and is now Popery  
almost without disguise. The recent numbers of the  
British Critic, the constant advocate and expounder of 
Puseyism,  openly denounces the Reformation, advocates a  
return to Popery, and asks, " Why may not the Pope  
be the supreme bishop ?" And we grieve to write the con- 
viction to which we are compelled, that episcopacy every-
where is tending more and more to exalt ecclesiastic  
forms, ceremonies, and pretension, and to give a higher 
place to the ministry, the sacraments, and a specified  
outward observance, than to faith, holiness, and spiritual 
religion.  
In reference to our own beloved country, Popery is  
alarmingly  on the increase, mainly by immigration,  but to  
a far greater extent than is generally believed, by prose- 
lyting also. In every part of the land it is found. In  
every important point, it is, with the utmost sagacity, at  
great cost, and with untiring  assiduity,  fortifying  itself.  
Cathedrals and churches, colleges and nunneries are mul- 
tiplied. To the widest extent possible, the education of  
the young is monopolized. There is no mingling  with  
others. Where now are their children or youth educated  
but among themselves  ? In political matters, their in- 
fluence is already powerfully felt. Hundreds of thousands  
every year reach our shores from Ireland, Austria,  
France, and other countries; and recently the plan of a  
society, spread abroad for public approval in Ireland, for  
the express purpose of sending out to these United States 
Roman Catholics in masses, accompanied by their priests,


vo colonize whole districts of our fertile West, the society  
to pay the cost of transportation and provide the soil, and  
to be remunerated by the proceeds of three years' labor  
ofthe colonists ; leaving, at the end of this period, them-
selves and their lands in the hands ofthe priesthood, the  
instruments of their arbitrary pleasure.  
Who has not been startled by the hardihood ofthe pas- 
toral letter recently put forth by Bishop Hughes, in which  
trustee boards are assailed, the right of the priesthood to  
all church property asserted, mixed marriages forbidden, 
and secret societies denounced, under the severest penal- 
ties upon their members, living and dead 1  
The outrage upon the Sandwich Islands by Papists,  
under the sanction of the French government, is fresh in  
the recollection of all. And, indeed, almost wherever  
Protestant missions are found, Popish emissaries are met,  
RESISTING AND IMPEDING every good work.  
We inquire, then, is there not danger to be apprehend- 
ed from this perpetual enemy to liberty, civil and religious  
—this despotism, the constant ally of ail that is despotic 1  
Let the Papacy of our land, organized as it is, and capa- 
ble of being moved in one mass by a single mind, and that  
mind the Pope's, feel that it holds the balance of power, 
and at that moment our civil liberties and our rights of 
conscience are gone. Christians of this land may yet be  
called to a higher test of fidelity to their Lord than is at  
present apprehended.  
What then is to be done 1 Abstain from aiding to build  
up a power, which, if it gains the ascendency, cannot fail  
to crush us. Maintain an elevated standard of piety ;  
and for love to the souls ot the  ignorant, superstitious, and  
perishing, in all kindness of manner, seek to do them  
good. At every toil and i expense, fill the  great West  
with Bibles, tracts, and missionaries. Diffuse knowledge.  
Employ every means for the promotion of spiritual reli- 
gion, and let prayer to Him who has all hearts in his  
hand be importunate and unwearied.  
The N. Y. Evangelist, of Jan. 5, contains the follow- 
ing :  
PUSEYITE DEVELOPMENTS.—The London Patriot gives  
the name of a Puseyite clergyman, who has published a  
new edition of the prayer book, in which the prayers are 
printed in English on one page, and in Latin on the other, 
each paragraph commencing with a red letter. The Pu- 
seyites are marching towards Babylon as rapidly as the  
Catholics can wish for. Lighted candles are now placed  
on the altars of a large number of the London churches,  
the Bishop of London having fully sanctioned the practice.  
Prayers in Latin and image worship cannot be very far off.  
Meanwhile, the question is daily assuming a more fearful  
importance, are the pious portion ofthe Episcopal Church  
to remain and see all this incense offered to the Mother of  
Harlots without a note of remonstrance.  
LETTERS TO EDWIN F. HATFIELD.  
NO. IX.  
HONORED SIR,'—'You lately said, the Second Advent be- 
lievers find the subject ot Daniel's prophecy, (" the horn  
which spake very great things,") in the Christian Bishop  
of Rome, a pastor of the flock of Christ. I do not com- 
plain of charitable feelings or language, but T do think 
that Antichrist*cannot be mentioned thus without weak-
ening the abhorrence we ought to feel towards the Man  
of Sin," whose coming has been "after the working of  
Satan, with power, and signs, and lying wonders."  
It is a striking " sign of the times," that it is now  
necessary to prove to a Protestant Clergyman that, papacy 
is the manifestation of Antichrist. When we see the  
Episcopal churches of England, and even in this country, 
marching back into the enticing arms of the Mother of  
Harlots, we have a right to expect that those who love  
the pure simplicity of the gospel of  Christ will echo the  
heavenly call: " Come out of her, my people, that ye be  
not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her 
plagues." The feelings you manifest towards popery,  
alarm me.  
" Seen too oft, familiar with her face,  
We first endure, then pity, then embrace."  
I beg of you to review the testimony that Popery and  
the papal power are the subjects of many prophecies,  
given us by Daniel, Paul, and John. The vision in the  
seventh of Daniel brought the Roman empire so plainly  
to view, that the early Christians had no difficulty in see- 
ing the striking resemblance. They could understand  
what was coming, in that empire,—so clearly did the  
light of prophecy shine down into the otherwise impene- 
trable future. Justin Martyr, a native of Sychar in Sa-
maria, who was beheaded in the year  166, and knew the  
companions of the apostle John, considers " the Man of  

Sin," orfts he elsewhere calls him, the " man of bias- I  
phemy," as altogether the same with the little horn of |  
Daniel; and affirms, that he who shall speak blasphemous 
words against the Most High, is now at the doors."  
Irenasus, who also lived in the second century, and  
was the disciple of Polycarp, who was the Apostle John's 
disciple, hath written a whole chapter of the fraud, and  
pride, and tyrannical reign of Antichrist, as they are de-
scribed by Daniel, and Paul, in Thessalonians.  
Tertullian, who became famous at the latter end ofthe  
same century, expounding those words, "only he who 
now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way," 
says : " Who can this be but the Roman state, the divi- 
sion of which into ten kingdoms will bring on Antichrist,  
and then the wicked one 0= THE LITTLE HORN «o 
shall be revealed."  
In his Apology, he assigns it as a particular reason  
why the Christians prayed for the Roman Empire, be- 
cause they knew that the greatest calamity hanging over  
the world was retarded by the continuance of the pagan 
empire of Rome.  
Origen, the most learned father, and ablest writer of  
the third century, recites the language of Tertullian at 
large as spoken of him who is called Antichrist. To the 
same purpose he likewise alleges the words of Daniel as  
truly prophetic and divine. Daniel and Paul, according  
to him, both prophesied of the same person.  
Lactantius, who flourished in the beginning of the  
fourth century, and was tutor to Constantine's children,  
describes Antichrist in the same manner and almost in 
the same words as Paul; and concludes, "This is he who  
is called Antichrist, but shall feign himself to be Christ, 
and shall fight against the truth." A more complete  
character of the pretended Vicar of Christ at Rome could  
not be. drawn by Knox or Luther. Cyril, of Jerusalem, 
in the same century quotes this passage of Paul, together  
with other prophecies concerning Antichrist, and says,  
that " This, the predicted Antichrist, will come when 
the times of the Roman Pagan Empire shall be fulfilled,  
and the consummation of the world approach. Ten kings  
of the Romans shall arise together, in different places in-
deed, but they shall reign at the same time. Among these  
the eleventh is Antichrist, who, by magical and  wicked  
artifice, shall sieze the Roman power."  
Ambrose, archbishop of Milan, in the same century,  
or Hilary, the deacon, or the author (whoever he was) of 
the comment upon Paul's epistles, which passeth under 
the name of St. Ambrose, affirms, " that after  the failing  
or decay of the Roman Empire, Antichrist shall appear."  
Jerome, Austin, and Chrysostome, flourished in the lat- 
ter end of the fourth, or beginning of the fifth century. 
Jerome, in his explanation of this passage, says, " that  
Antichrist shall sit in the temple of God, either at Jeru-
salem (as some imagine) or in the church (AS WE, MORE 
TRULY JUDGE,) showing himself that he is Christ and the 
Son of God : and unless the Roman Empire be first deso- 
lated, and Antichrist precede, Christ shall not come.—  
" And ye know what withholdeth that he might be reveal-
ed in his time," that is, ye know very well what is the  
reason why Antichrist doth not come at present. He is  
not willing  to say openly, that the Roman Empire should  
be destroyed, which they who commanded thought to be 
eternal. For if he had said openly and boldly, that Anti- 
christ shall not come, unless the Roman Empire be first  
destroyed, it would have caused a severe and bloody per-
secution for the extermination ofthe church, as seditious  
and rebellious, by the  ruling powers of the Imperial state.  
Jerome was himself a witness to the barbarous  nations  
beginning to tear in pieces the Roman Empire, and upon  
this occasion exclaims, " He who hindered is taken out 
of the way, and we do not consider that Antichrist ap- 
proaches, whom the Lord Jesus shall consume with the  
spirit of his mouth," so that Antichrist was not the in- 
gress of barbarous nations, but a mock religious person- 
age in the church, establishing himself as God.  
St. Austin having cited this passage, affirms, that "no  
one questions that the Apostle spoke these things con- 
cerning Antichrist—and the day of Judgment (for this he  
calleth the day ofthe Lord) should not come unless Anti- 
christ come first." "And now ye know what withhold- 

eth," implying the church's universal opinion and belief  
that the Apostle meant the Roman Empire, but was not  
willing to write it openly, lest he should be falsely accus  
ed of wishing desolation and evil to  the Roman Empire,  
which was hoped for and believed to be eternal."  
St. Chrysostome, in one of his Homilies upon this  
passage, speaking of what hindered the revelation of  
Antichrist, asserts, " that when the Roman Empire shall  
be taken out of the away, then he shall come; and it is  
very likely : for as long as the dread of  this Empire shall  
remain, no one shall quickely be substituted ; but when  
this shall be dissolved, he (Antichrist) shall sieze on the  
vacant Empire, and shall endeavor to assume the power  
both of God and man."  
Thus did the light of prophecy shine upon these Chris- 
tian writers. They felt that Daniel and Paul had drawn 
a chart, representing the dangers which would beset the  
church in its future voyage. We have passed those 
rocks and whirlpools, and found them just what the  
chart led the early voyagers to expect. The events have 
illustrated the prediction, as face answereth to face in 
the glass. Let us not shut out the light ofthe sun, and  
then follow a glimmering taper. Let us not fill our eyes  
with little Antiochus, till Rome, the dreadful and terrible  
beast, is hid from our sight. Do not trifle with the an-
gel's words, for they are the words of Goa.  
The leopard with the four heads, in Daniel's vision,  
(chapter 7,) represents Greece and its four divisions. 
The goat, in the eighth chapter—its one horn and its 
four horns—represent the same things again.  
May the Lord grant me abundant patience to review  
your application of the little horn in the 7th chapter to  
the Syrian king.  
" The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon  
earth," said the angel. The third beast, with its four  
heads, (Greece and its four divisions) must be subdued  
before it, for it devours the WHOLE EARTH. TREADS  
IT DOWN, AND BREAKS IT IN PIECES. Rome  
fulfilled this prophecy, for Rome conquered Greece, and  
became the mistress of the world. Can one head of the 
third beast be the whole of the fourth, which subdues the  
third with all its heads 1 It is impossible. I need not 
therefore, notice the other impossibilities involved in  
your application of the horn, on the fourth beast, to An- 
tiochus, but let me give an index to a few of them.  
1. It rises " among" ten horns, and before it there were  
three of the first horns plucked up by the roots. This 
important fact is mentioned three times in one chapter.  
Nothing of the kind ever occurred in the history of Antio- 
chus. He was therefore, not the horn. It was exactly 
fulfilled in the rise of  papal Rome.  
2. This horn made a deep impression on Daniel, who in- 
quired eagerly respecting it, because it was that horn that 
had eyes, and a inouth that spake very great things,  
whose look was MORE STOUT THAN HIS FEL- 
LOWS." Compare this language and that which you apply  
to him in chapter 11: 36, " And the king shall do according 
to his will," with the following item from history.  
"When the two brothers, Ptolemies, the sons of Cleopa- 
tra, were besieged by their uncle (Antiochus Epiphanes)  
in Alexandria, the Roman ambassadors came ; one of whom,  
Marcus Papillitis Lenas, when he had found him (Antio- 
chus) standing on the shore, and had delivered him the de- 
, cree of the Roman Senate, by which he was commanded to  
j depart from the friends of the Roman people, and to be  
content with his own empire; and he would have deferred  
th.vmatter to consult with his friends; Papillius  is said to  
have made a circle in the sand with the stick that he held in  
I his hand, and to have circumscribed the king, and to have 
j said, ' The People and Senate of Rojne order, that in that  
j place you answer wherein you now stand, what is your iu-
j terition.' Hieron in loc. With these words, being fright- 
ened, he said, 'If this pleases the Senate and People of  
Rome, we must depart;' and so presently drew off his  
army. The reason of the Romans acting in this imperious  
manner, and of Antiochus Epipbanes so readily obeying,  
was, as Polybius, the historian, suggests, the total con- 
quests that JSmilius, the Roman consul, hat! just made of  
the kingdom of Macedonia." He led back his forces into  
Syria, grieved and groaning, but thinking it expedient to  
yield to the times for the present. Polybius Legat. 92. I.  
29, c. ll.— " Whose look was more stout.'" &c.  
3. Daniel saw in vision, that " The same horn prevailed  
until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given to


the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the  
saints possessed the kingdom." You say, Christ's king-
dom was set up at his crucifixion. Paul says, Christ shall  
judge the quick and the dead at his appearing, and his  
kingdom. According to your view the three years which  
Antiochus  prevailed, expired 197 years before the saints  
possessed the kingdom. I)o you think 197 years out of 
200 is so small a fraction that truth did not require a men-
tion of it in the words of inspiration  1  
You attempt to remove this difficulty  from your system  
by finding  one in our application of tho fourth beast to  
Rome. I understand you say there is a gap between the  
death of Alexander and the conquest of Greece by the 
Romans. But, praise the Lord,—he has left no such diffi  
culties in this great chain of truth. The four heads in one  
presentation of the vision, and the four horns in the other  
representing the four "KINGDOMS" into which Grecia  
was divided, leave no space unfilled.  
I remain your fellow servant of our corning Lord,  
N. SOUTHARD.  
P. S. You will excuse the abruptness of this conclusion,  
when you notice the little space left for a  
CILOSING AS>B>RE§§  
TO ALL WHO HAVE READ THIS SHEET.  
READER !—You wish to know why we say so much  
about Rome and Popery. You shall know. Please read  
the whole of Daniel, 7th chapter, before you proceed  
You admit that the fourth kingdom, or universal  empire,  
is Rome. The ten horns are ten kings  which stand to- 
gether, for they are called " fellows," that is, companions  
or equals. Three of them being plucked up by the 
roots, must mean, that three of the ten kingdoms  are  
subverted. The angel's calling them kings will not per-
plex you, when you notice that the four GREAT EMPIRES  
are called kings, in v. 17, and yet they are KINGDOMS, 
as you see in v. 23. The little horn which arises is the  
papal power or popery. Behold its marks.  
" Eyes like the eyes of a man." The Pope is called  
the "overseer of overseers." Hence the title of his 
bishopric, " Apostolic SEE," or " SEE of Rome."  
" A mouth speaking very great things."  He claims  
infallibility.  
" He shall speak great words against the Most High."  
Dr. Clarke gives us the reading : " He shall speak as if 
he were God." Think of his titles. " My Lord God the  
Pope," " His Holiness,"  " Supreme Head of the Church,"  
"Most Holy Lord," &c. See Tracts on Romanism, pub- 
lished by the American Tract Society, and Dr. Brown- 
lee's " Letters."  
" He shall make war with the saints."  -Popery has  
waged open and declared war against the pious Walden- 
ses and Protestants,  whom the Romanists call heretics.  
See the note in the llheimish  New Testament, on Matt.  
13:29. " Where ill men, be they hcrctics or other male- 
factors, may be punished or SUPPRESSED, without dis- 
turbance and hazard of the good, they may be and  
OUGHT, by public authority, either spiritual or temporal,  
to be chastised or EXECUTED "  
But their war against the saints has not been in such  
murderous words only. Says the Encyclopedia of Reli  
gious Knowledge :  
" It has been computed that FIFTY MILLIONS of  
Protestants  have, at different times, been the victims of  
the persecutions of the Papists, and put to death for their 
religious opinions. Well, therefore, might the inspired  
penman say, that at Mystic Babylon's destruction '  was  
found in her the blood of prophets, of saints, and of all 
that were slain upon the earth.' Rev. 18: 24."  
You may ask, " Do not the Catholics repel this  
charge 1" Hear how they repel it, in their note on Rev.  
17: 6, which says ; " I saw the woman drunken with the  
blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of  
Jesus,"&c. Mark well their note, in the Testament "pub-
lished by the English  College of Rheims  
" The Protestants foolishly  expound it of Rome, for  
that THERE THEY PUT HERETICS TO DEATH,  
and ALLOW of their punishment  in other countries; but  
their blood is not called the blood of saints, no more than  
the blood of thieves, (!) man-killers,  (!!) and other male- 
factors, (!!!) for the shedding of which, by order of justice,  
no commonwealth shall answer."  
I need not ask you to consider the length, and breadth,  

and depth of this note, surcharged with murder, both of  
the body and the reputation of Protestants.  
" They Lthe saints] shall be given into his hand." Ob- 
serve the language of Justinian to the Pope, A. D. 533 —  
" We hasten to SUBJECT and unite to your holiness all  
the priests of thewhole east." In another document of the  
Emperor's, dated March 25, 533, he refers to the previous  
one, as having been already sent to the Pope, whom he  
calls " Head of all Bishops, and the true and effective 
corrector of heretics."  
But was not the pope proclaimed universal bishop by  
Pliocas in 606 1 Yes, but the title "conferred upon 
him NO NEW POWERS,"  says the historian.  Hear the  
learned Croly, on this point : " The highest authority  
among the civilians and annalists of Rome, spurn the  
idea that Phocas was the founder of the supremacy of 
Rome. They ascend to Justinian,  the only legitimate  
source, and rightly date the title from the memorable 
year 533."  
Suffer us to refer to these points with still greater mi- 
nuteness, in the words of Croly, in another place.  
" On reference to Baronius, the established authority  
among the Roman Catholic annalists,  I found the whole  
detail of Justinian's  grants of supremacy to the Pope, for- 
mally given. The entire transaction  was of the most au- 
thentic and regular kind, and suitable to  the importance  
of the transfer. The grant of Phocas was found to be a  
confused and imperfect transaction, scarcely noticed by  
the early writers, and, even in its fullest  sense, amount- 
ing to nothing beyond a confirmation  of the grant of Jus- 
tinian. The chief cause of its frequent adoption by the  
commentators, seemed to be its convenient coincidence  
with the rise of Mahometanism."  
We will also open that great repository of Christian  
learning, the Encyclopedia of Pteligious  Knowledge. Un- 
der the article Antichrist.,  it says: " Mr.  Keith has made  
it appear certain that the supremacy of the Pope was  
complete as early as the year 533, the year that the In-
stitutes of Justinian  were published."  
But the provisions of the Justinian  code could not go  
into effexjt at the time they were issued, because Rome 
was then possessed by the Ostrogoths, who were violent- 
ly opposed to the religion of Justinian. It was not till  
the conquest of Rome, in March, 538, that the Catholic  
bishop could exercise the power with which he was  
clothed by the Emperor. For the particulars  of that  
event, stated at length from Gibbon, see Hale's Review 
of Dr. Pond In March, 538, the papal supremacy was  
complete in FACT as well as FORM. The dragon had  
then gived him " bis power, his seat, and great au- 
thority."  
But for how long a time shall he haye this dominion 1  
Let the angel answer: " Until a time, times, and the  
dividing of tirne."  
What does this mean'! " You can make what you  
please of it," said a clergyman, recently. We will ask  
the Lord to tell us, and listen reverently to his answer.  
In Rev. 13, we evidently  see the same beast. Compare  
the descriptions.  
DANIEL vii. 7, A fourth beast,  
dreadful and terrible, and strong 
exceedingly. [The lion, bear, and  
leopard, having fallen, were merg- 
ed in Rome, which John saw in  
its papal form.]  

JOHN, Rev. xiii. 2, The beast  
which 1 saw was like unto a LEO-
PARD, and his feet were as the feet  
of a BEAR, and his mouth as the 
mouth of  a LION.  
JOHN, Rev. xiii. 2, And the  
dragon gave him his power, and  
his seat, and groat authority.  
JOHN, Rev. xiii. 7, It was given  
unto him to make war with the  
saints, arid to overcome them.  
JOHN, Rev. xiii. 5, There was  
given him a mouth speaking great  
tilings, aud blasphemies.  

DANIEL vii. 26, They ftbe  
saints, and times and laws,] shall  
be given into his hand.  
DANIEL vii. 21, The same horn  
made war with the saints, and pre- 
vailed against them.  
DANIEL vii. 8, 20, 25, A mouth  
speaking great things. —A mouth 
that, spake very great things.— He 
shall speak great words against 
the Most High.  
DANIICI. vii. 25, They shall be  
given into his hand until A TIME,  
and TIMES, aud the DIVIDING 
OF TIME.  
DANIEL vii. 26, They shall take  
away his dominion, to consume  
and to destroy it unto the end.  

JOHN, Rev. xiii. 5, Power wa«  
given him to make war FORTY  
AND TWO MONTHS.  
[See marginal reading.]  
JOHN, Rev. xiii. 10, He that  
leitdeth into captivity shall go into 
captivity.  
Here the Lord teaches us that time, times, and a half,  
equal 42 months.  Let time be called 12 months, arid  
times, 24 months, and half a time 6 months, and we have 
the 42.  
But the Lord will give us further light if we seek it.  
While the dominion of the horn lasts, the true church is  
driven into the wilderness. Compare the two following  
statements of this fact:  

Pev. xii. 14 , And to the woman Rev. xii. 6, And the woman fled  
were given two wings of a great into the wilderness, where she  
eagle, that she might fly into the hath a place prepared of God, that 
wilderness into her place, where they should feed her there a thou-
she is nourished for a time, and sand two hundred  and threescore  
times, aud half a time. [31 days. [1260 days.] 
times.] 
Let us compare the information  we have thus gained. ^  
42 months times  
30 360  
1260 days = 42 months 1260 days = 3$ times  
The time, then, in which the horn has dominion, is called  
1260 days. Are they literal days 1 Let us try and see :  
1260 days from March, 538,  will reach to August or Sep- 
tember, 541. Was the dominion taken away then 1 O no,  
we have not used the right scale. Let us try again, using  
the Loid's scale, " each day for a year." Beginning  at  
538, the 1260 years will carry us to—1798. We have found  
it; we have Jound it. Read the article headed ; The Do- 
in nion Gone, in this paper.  
Here, then, the Lord has given us two great monuments,  
msrking the beginning and the ending of the 1260 years ;  
and it is scarcely less striking  that he has given us two  
smaller monuments  by the side of them. In the Christian  
Advocate and Journal, Dec. 28, 1842, we read the following 
extract from " The French Revolution by Dr. Croly."  
" France, from the commencement of the Papal suprem- 
acy, had been the chief champion of the popedom ; so early 
as the ninth century, had given it temporal dominion ; and  
continued through all ages fully to merit the title of ' Eldest  
Son of the Church.' But France had received in turn the  
fatal legacy of persecution. From the time of the Albi-
genses, through the wars of the League, and the struggles  
of the Protestant Church during the seventeenth century,  
closing with its ruin by the revocation of the edict of Nantes,  
in 1685 ; the history of France was written in everv page 
with the blood of the Reformed. Frequently contesting  the  
personal claims of the popes to authority, but submissively 
bowing down to the doctrines, ceremonial, and principles  of  
Rome, France was the most eager, restless, and ruthless of  
all ihe ministers of papal vengeance.  
" In a moment, a.l this submission was changed into the  
direst hostility.  At the exact close of the prophetic period,  
in 1793, the 1260th year from the birth of the papal suprem- 
acy, a power, new to all eyes, suddenly started up among  
nations—an Infidel Democracy."  
The Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge says—" It is  
a remarkable fact, that the DOMINION of the papacy, in that 
very kingdom which had been its chief stay for ages, was 
DESTROYED and disannulled by an act of the French Assem-
bly in the year 1793, just 1260 years from its establishment."  
Here then we ha ye four marks fixed thus :  
533 1260 years 1793  
1260 vears  
53§  
Can we ask for any more proof that this application of the  
prophecy is the right one 1 Though we need it not, it is  
given In the 10th, 11th and 12th chapters of Daniel, we  
have a continued discourse from the angel Gabriel, con-
ducting Daniel's view to the glorious period, when " they  
that turn many to righteousness  shall shine as the stars for- 
ever and ever." Daniel hears the question asked by a  
heavenly messenger, " How long shall it be to the end of  
these wonders V'  
The answer is given by the Lord Jesus Christ himself,  
" when he held his right hand and his left hand unto heaven,  
and sware by him that liveth forever [a solemnity  well be- 
fiiting the subject] that it shall be for a tirne, times and a  
half." Here we nave the same period whose beginning  and  
ending have been so carefully marked Daniel says : "1 
heard, but I understood not " He then, for the first time,  
asked a question relating to tirne, himself, "O my Lord,  
what shall he the end of these things ?" In the answer he  
is told. " The words are closed up and scaled till the 
time of the end,—the wise shall understand,—and from the 
time the daily [abomination]  shall be taken away to set up  
the abomination that maketh desolate shall be 1290 days."  
Two questions come tip here:—1. What was taken  
away to make room for popery! Ans. Paganism.—2.  
When was it taken away ] Ans. In 5('8, when the last  
of the ten kings (whose kingdoms were the ten horns of 
the fourth beast,) was converted to Christ.  
1290 years.  
508 * 1798  
Here let us attend to the last words of our Lord to  
Daniel:  
" Blessed is he that WAITETH and cometh to THE 1335  
days; but go thou thy way till THE END be, for thou 
shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of THE DAYS."  
As the 1290 terminated in 1798, THE 1335 must end in  
1843.  
Reader, where will be Daniel's lot! Shining  as the  
stars, forever and ever. Will yours be with him 1


" The great B^Y of the Lord is  near, IT IS IWBJULlL, and  
HASTETH greatly."—Zeph. i. 14.  
#  
B¥ LEWIS MERSEY.  
THE great God hath showed us, by his servant the  
prophet Daniel, that there shall arise live great king- 
doms to the supremacy in this world; and that the four  
first shall be earthly, sensual, devilish ; that they will  
tread upon and persecute the subjects preparing for.the  
fifth kingdom during their whole existence, down to the  
time that the King of the fifth kingdom shall come, on 
his "white horse," with "man}'' crowns" on his head, 
followed with the armies of heaven, also on "white  
aorses," and "miserably destroy those wicked men,  
and let out his vineyard to others," and "bind the  
strong man [Satan] and spoil his goods," purify and 
make new the eahh, raise and glorify the bodies of all  
his subjects, and thus set up his everlasting kingdom  
over the whole earth. Thus "shall the righteous in- 
herit the land and dwell therein forever;" thus "shall 
the righteous never be removed, and the wicked not in-
habit the earth."  
We will begin our investigations with Daniel ii. 31.  
Here we cannot fail to perceive, in his explanations of 
the king's dream, the four earthly kingdoms, and that  
the last, which was the Roman, should be divided into 
ten, signified by the toes of the image; and in verse 
•14 we read, "In the days of these kings shall the God 
of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be de- 
stroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other  
people, but it shall break in pieces and consume ail  
these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever." This 
clearly shows us that when the stone strikes the image 
and breaks it to pieces, and the wind carries it away  
like the chaff of the summer threshing-floor, then the 
stone becomes a great mountain, or kingdom, and fills  
the whole earth. If there is a doubt on the mind of  
any that this vision brings us down to  the day of judg- 
ment, let us turn over to the seventh chapter and see 
what that will teach us.  
In the first seven verses we perceive the four great  
beasts represent the same four great kingdoms that the  
four me,'o.ls of the image did in the second chapter; the  
division of the last, or Roman, into ten, signified by  
the ten horns, the same as the toes of the image; but 
now in the eighth verse, while Daniel was considering,  
he saw the little horn making its way up among the 
ten, pushing out one, and another, and another, by the  
roots, with its eyes, and its mouth speaking great things; 
—a most beautiful representation of the rise and estab- 
lishment of Papacy. But now in the 9th and 10th verses, 
blessed be God, the Ancient of Days is seen coming, on  
his throne of fiery flame, propelled on wheels of burning  
fire, with a fiery stream issuing and coming forth from 
before him, with the fifth kingdom with htm; for let us  
take notice that John, in Rev. v., 10th and 11th verses,  
has the same ten thousand times ten thousand, and  
thousands of thousands, who say of themselves "that  
they shall reign on the earth." And, says Daniel, "the  
judgment was set, and the books were opened." Query.  
Does Daniel's vision include the judgment? Daniel  
beheld still further, till he saw the beast slain, and his  
body given to the burning flame, the Son of man com- 
ing with the clouds of heaven, and receiving his " do- 
minion and glory and kingdom." Now what says Dan-
iel in the 16th verse ? " So he told, me, and made me 
know the interpretations of the things ;" and in the 17th 
and 18th verses are comprised the whole vision of the  
five kingdoms ; and if eternity is not stamped on the  
fifth, then no words can express it. Again, says Dan-
iel in the 21st and 22d verses, "'I beheld, and the same  
horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against  
them ; until the Ancient of Days came, and judgment  
was given to the saints of the Most High ; and the time  
came that the saints possessed the kingdom." Query.  
Where is any room for a millennium before the judg- 
ment ? And in the further explanations in this chap- 
ter, the whole is gone over again, with a minuteness  
equalled only by the grandeur of the subject, and winds  
up with that glorious, soul-cheering promise, " and the  
kingdom, and dominion, and the greatness of the king- 
dom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the peo  
pie ofthe saints ofthe Most High."  
Now let us look at the eighth chapter. We see in  

the first verse that this vision is after, or like the one 
we have been considering in the preceding chapter,  
with the exception of the Babylonish empire, and begins 
with the Persian. Then follows the Grecian ; and in  
the 8th verse he notices the changes in that empire.  
In the 9th verse he introduces the little horn, Popery,  
again, and delineates his character and work so clearly,  
that it is not easily evaded; and in the angel's further  
description of this wonderful little horn, in the 23d, 24th,  
and 25th verses, we see the identical same personage  
as was brought to our view in the seventh chapter, and  
his end, by being broken without hand. That  this will  
not be till the stone strikes the image, is certain from  
the whole tenor of the seventh chapter, as well as the  
account Paul gives us of his end in 2 Thess. n. 8 :  
"Whom the Lord shall destroy with the brightness of  
his coming." Now is it not reasonable that Daniel would  
wish to know how long this vision, which he had had at  
three different rimes, and all bringing him down to the 
day of judgment, would be ? Now look at the question  
in the 13th verse. "How long shall be the vision ?" 
The answer is in the next verse, " unto 2300 days; then  
shall the sanctuary be cleansed." This must be the 
time that Malachi speaks of, when it shall burn as an  
oven; when all the wicked shall be burned to ashes; 
when he shall send forth his angels, and gather out of 
his kingdom all that offend, and when he gathers the  
tares in bundles to burn. But now, when Daniel sought 
for the meaning, as is said in the 15th verse, he heard  
a man's  voice, which called and said, Gabriel, make  
this man to understand the vision. And he came, and  
stood, and said unto me, Understand, O sori of man, for 
the vision shall be at the time of the end. And then 
further, in the 19th verse,—" I will make thee know what  
shall be in the last end of the indignation, for at the  
time appointed [to wit, 2300 days] the end shall be."  
Now in the 26th verse Gabriel says, " the vision of the 
evening and the morning which was told is true; where- 
fore shut thou up the vision : for Lt shall be for many  
days. And in the last verse, Daniel says he was as-
tonishe'iat the vision, but none understood it. But it  
had all been explained to him, except two things ; these  
were, when to begin it, and what he was to understand  
by the 2300 days. For these two important points we 
must look to the next chapter.  
Commence with the 20th verse. Here Daniel says,  
"while he was confessing his sins, and the sins of his  
people Israel, the man Gabriel, whom he had seen in 
the vision at the beginning, informed him, and talked, 
with him, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to 
give thee skill and understanding. At the beginning of  
thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I  
am come to show thee; therefore understand the mat- 
ter, and consider the vision." Now if these four last  
verses are not the key to open the only two dark parts  
in the vision, then Gabriel disobeyed the command, and 
is proved a liar, neither of which will be admitted for a  
moment. The first of these verses says that seventy  
weeks are determinsd upon, to finish the transgression, 
to make an end of sins, to make reconciliation for in-
iquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up 
the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy. 
And in the next verse we find the time to commence  
the seventy weeks, viz., at the going forth of the decree  
to restore and build Jerusalem. Now we have all we 
Walit; we know when to begin the 2300 days, and that 
they must be taken for years, as it would be impossible  
to do all those things spoken of in seventy weeks of 
days, or in about one year and a third. Let us keep  in  
mind that we are looking at Gabriel's explanation of  
Hie vision ; if we do, we cannot but see that the 2300  
days and the seventy weeks begin at one and the same 
time, and are of the same nature, that is, a day stand- 
ing for a year. Now look into your large Bible, over  
Ezra, seventh chapter, where you will find the decree,  
and you see 457 B. C.; to this add 1843, and you have 
the 2300, which is the whole vision; or take the 70  
weeks, which is 490 years, and subtract it from the  
2300, and you have 1810 remaining, which extends 
from the death of Christ (which, recollect, was to seal  

the vision) to A. D. 1843. And now as sure as Christ  
was cut off at the end of 490 years from the going forth  
of the decree, (which our strongest opponents admit,)  
the vision will run out in 1843, and Christ will come,  
with all those that sleep in Jesus, and re-animate their  
bodies, change all his living ones to immortality, burn  
the bodies of all the living wicked, at the same time  
the earth and elements are melting, and set un his ever- 
lasting kingdom in the then new earth.  
And here it is worthy of special notice, that the in- 
spired "determined upon" seventy weeks, like a great  
arch, spans the only doubtful spot in our chronology,  
and places its broad buttress on this side, in the solid  
clay-bottom of our Anno Domini. With this admitted  
truth staring us full in the face, who can, with their 
eyes and heart open to see and believe the word of God,  
resist the conclusion that Daniel's vision, wherein he  
saw the nations broken to pieces and blown away  
"like the chaff of the summer threshing-floor," and  
"the judgment sit, and the books opened," and the  
little horn, that "  stood up against the Prince of princes,  
broken without hand," which was shown Daniel to be 
2300 years long, 490 of which expired with Christ on 
the cross, will run out in 1843, and the awful scenes of  
judgment commence?  
Now from what we have seen we learn the following  
facts, viz., that Daniel had a great outline of this world's  
history, down to the day of judgment, at three separate  
times: he is then told by a saint that this vision was  
2300 days long; then Gabriel comes, and tells him this  
vision will include the time of the end ; he then tell? 
him the end shall be at the appointed time ; then he 
tells him the vision of the evening and of ihe morning 
is true, and commands Daniel to shut it up, for it  
should be for many days. Gabriel comes again, and  
tells him he has received orders, and has come to shorn 
him and make him understand the vision; and now, in  
his story about the seventy weeks, he positively shows  
us* when to begin the 2300 days, and that they must  
be understood years ; and as the death of Christ seals  
up the vision, so we have only to add 490 and 1810 to  
make out the whole vision, the first number being  
down to the seal, the last number fiom the seal down  
to A. D. 1843.  
And now let me ask, are you prepared for this great  
day ? If not, delay not a moment, fly to Jesus, make the 
Judge your friend ; for no man can tell how soon the 
door of mercy will close. What an awful moment is  
this ! Fourteen months past the sixth trumpet and sec- 
ond wo, and "the third wo cometh quickly." Fifteen 
months may finish Daniel's vision, and the fifth king-
dom come in all its glory; the very last sands of the  
2300 days running out; iniquity is abounding; the  
love of many has waxed cold; knowledge has increased;  
the power of the holy people is scattered; many have  
been purified and made white; the gospel has been  
published in all the world ; the church is in her Laodi- 
cean state; Ottoman supremacy is gone; and, of course, 
the seventh trumpet must be near sounding; perilous 
times have come ; professors are lovers of themselves  
more than lovers of God. Again, I ask, Are you ready ?  
Are you living for God or for yourself, for heaven or 
for earth? Will you risk endless torments for a few  
months' earthly pleasure? How can you endure ever  
lasting burnings? How ran you forego everlasting  
glory ? Ministers of Christ, I entreat you to lay aside 
the books of men, and examine GoiJ's book with prayer, 
and see if these things are not so. Your hearers are  
watching every word you say upon this subject with in 
tense interest. Many of you have admitted it may come 
shortly ; many more, that Daniel's vision is out in 1813. 
These I entreat to examine the second, seventh and  
eighth chapters, and see if they all do not take hold on  
judgment.  
* If an inspired penman had said there had been seventy weeks  
from the going forth of the commandment to restore and build Jeru- 
salem to the cutting off of the Messiah, who would dispute it ? But  
a divine declaration that it shall be so any less strong and certain J  
By no means. It was exactly fulfilled.  
tt7 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads ; for your redemption draweth nigh. And he spake to them a parable ; Behold  
th3 fig tree, and all the trees ; When they now shoot forth, ye see and know of your own selves that summer is now nigh at hand. So likewise ye, when ye see these  
things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.—Luke xxi. 28—31.  
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.—1 Thes. v. 4.


DIAGRAM OF DANIEL'S VISION.  
8*  
J5 <3  
V 'h  
e* *  
Cm i;  

o) 2  
a  b  c  d 2300  e f davs. Dan. viii. 14.  

a  
g h  
Persia and Grecia .  
299 years. \  1335 days, Dan. xii. 12.  
Pagan Rome, or Mystery  
Iniquity, 2 Thess. ii. 7.  
Rev. xiii. 18.  
whose age is 666.  

Dan.  It  
Rev.  

vn. 
xn.  
xi.  
" xii.  
tt n  
" xiii.  
2 Thess. ii.  

25.  
ft  
14.  
5.  

END OF THE VISION.  
Dan. vii. 9,10, U,  
• J 3, 14, 21, 22 !  
2 Thess. ii. 8. j  
Rev. xix. 20. i.7.  
Acts iii. 20. i. 11.  
Psalm 1.3.  
EXPLANATION OF THE ABOVE DIAGRAM.  
a A is the length of the vision, 2300 davs. Dan. viii.  
14.  
a J is from the commencement of the vision to the  
league between the Jews and Romans, a period of 299 
years, during which time the Persian and Grecian king- 
doms exercised their power over the Jews successively.  
The Jews enter into this league with the Romans that  
they may be saved from the power of the Grecians, 158  
years B. C. 1 Mac. viii. Dan. xi. 23. Here com-
mences the history of the fourth or Roman kingdom, 
Dan. vii. 7, 8, as a persecuting power under its dif-
ferent forms; 1st. Pagan Rome, 666 years. 2d.  
Christian  Rome,  or the ten kings, who have their power  
one hour with the beast, Rev. xvii. 12, which we shall  
prove is 30 years. 3d. Papal Rome, or the union of the 
civil  and ecclesiastical powers of Rome, to the time of  
the end, or taking away of the civil power, 1260 years. 
Dan. vii. 25, xii. 7 ; Rev. xi. 2, xiii. 5. 4th. From the 
taking away the civil power to the final destruction of 
Daniel's fourth kingdom, with the brightness of the  
coming of Christ, 2 Thess. ii. 8, a period of 45 years.  
b c is from the league  to the birth of Christ, 158  
years.  
c d is the life of Christ, 33 years.  
d is the death of Christ, which seals or establishes  
the vision at which seventy weeks of years of the vision 
are accomplished. Dan. ix. 24.  
The question  may be asked, how are we to know the  
seventy weeks, equal to 490 days, were fulfilled in 
years, each day a representative for a year?  
Ans. The seventy weeks are divided into three  
parts. Dan. ix. 25—27. Know therefore and understand, 
that from the going forth of the commandment to re-
store and buiW -1—»salem unto the Messiah the Prince  
shall be seven WCCKS and  sixty-two weeks, and he shall  
confirm the covenant with many for one week, 27.  
lit. The 7 weeks of yrs.™ 49 yrs. was literally ac- 
complished under 
Ezra and Nehemiah, 
who were governors  
over Jerusalem 49  
3rears, in  which time  
the walls were re- 
built.  
2d. The 62 weeks of yrs.=434 yrs., brings us down  
to 26 years after  
Christ's birth, and to  
• the 15th year of the  
reign of Tiberius  
Cassar, Luke iii. 1,  
and to the beginning  
of the gospel of Je- 
sus Christ. Mark  
l. 1.  
3d. 1 week of yrs.=» 7 yrs. The ministry of  
Christ commencing  
at his baptism. See  
— — Luke 3: 21, 22. 23.  
70 490 years.  
Here then we have 70 weeks of the vision, or 490  
days, fulfilled in years, whicn brings us down from its 
commencement to the death of Christ, which establish- 
es the vision, and gives the length of a prophetic day.  
" As further proof," says a late writer, " let any one  
examine the chronology, a? given by Rollin or Jose- 
phus, from the 7th year of Artaxerxes to the 22d 
year of Tiberius Caesar, which was the year our Lord 
was crucified, and he will find it was 490 years."  
It is the opinion of some, that Christ was born four  

years before the commencement of our Christian era. 
But admitting this a fact, it does not alter the seal of  
the vision ; it only makes Christ four years older at his  
death, which some of the learned suppose was the fact.  
Let it be distinctly understood, that " the vision"  
which foretels the death of Christ, fortels his second 
coming, and his death, not his birth, seals " the vision;"  
hence we reckon back from d to a 490 years, and from 
d to h forward to his second coming, which includes 
the whole vision, 2300 years.  
Now from Dan. viii". 14, 2300 days or vears, as has  
been proved, take " iz. 24, 490 " "  a  
and we ascertain that 1810 years from the death  
of Christ, his second coming and the first resurrection  
take place.  
d e is from the death  of Christ to the taking away of  
the daily  sacrifice or pagan worship, a period of 475  
years, which we obtain from the numbers given in Dan.  
xii. 11, 12, represented by e g, 1290 days, and e h, 1335. 
That the 1335 days end at the first resurrection, is evi- 
dent from Dan. xii. 13, for Daniel was to rest, that is, 
to die, and stand in his lot at the end of the days, that 
is, at the resurrection.  
It has been ascertained that the line d h, that is, from  
the death of Christ to the resurrection; is 1810 years. 
The careful reader will observe that the lines d li and 
e h end at the resurrection, or at the end of the vision. 
Now to ascertain when the daily sacrifice was taken 
away and the abomination that maketh desolate set up,  
Dan. xii. 11, from dh — 1810 years,  
take e li 1335 "  
We find d e to be 
Christ's age,  
475 years.  
33  
To d e add c  
and we find that in A. D. 508 the daily sacrifice was  
taken away. See Dan. viii. 11 ; xi. 31; Rev. xvii.  
16, 17.  
In the A. D. 476, the Western empire fell, and before  
A. D. 490, ten kings had arisen upon its ruins, Dan. vii. 
7, ana formed ten separate kingdoms; France was the 
principal. These kingdoms were all governed by Pagan  
kings ; and  we are informed by history, that in the city  
of Rome and other places in the empire, these Pagan 
conquerors sacrificed men, women, and children to their 
supposed deities; and that in A. D. 496, Clovis, king of 
France, was converted and baptized into the Christian  
faith ; and that the remainder of these kings embraced  
the religion of Christ shortly after, the last of which 
was christianized A. D. 508 ; since which Christianity 
has been the religion of Rome. At this period com-
mences Christian Rome, or the ten kings, who have their 
power one hour with the beast. See Rev. xvii. 12. At 
this period the abomination that maketh desolate is set 
up for 1290 days which, from Christ's quotation, (see 
Matt. xxiv. 15, and Luke xxi. 20,) we learn to be the  
Roman armies or civil power of Rome, and when these  
ten kings ghe their kingdom or power unto the beast., 
Rev. xvii. I'd—17, then commences the reign of the  
little horn or papal power, (see Dan. vii. 8—24,) whose 
age we find to be 1260 days. See Dan. vii. 25; xii. 7 • 
Rev. xi. 2 ; xiii. 5.  
1290 days, the time that the  Now from e g  
abomination that maketh 
desolate is set up, take f g-.  
pal Rome, and we have  
«/, the age  
Christian Rome. Add ce ••  
and we have ef  

: 1260 the reign or ?ge of pa- 
30 dav5. each day a year, of  
= 508  
a 538, the A. D. that the papal  

power was established. A. D. 534, Justinian,  the Greek  
emperor, constituted the Bishop of Rome head of all the 
churches, and 538 conquered Rome and established 
the pope in his see. We are now brought down to g, or  
end of the civil power of Rome, Dan. vii. 26. A. D.  
1798, the pope of Rome lost his civil power. On the  
fifteenth of February, Berthier, a French general, en- 
tered Rome with a French army, deposed the pope, 
abolished the papal government, and erected the repub- 
lic of Italy. The pope was taken prisoner, was carried 
by them a prisoner first 10 Lienna in Tuscany, from 
thence to Florence, afterwards to Grenoble, then to  
Valence, in France, where he died, on the nineteenth of  
August, 1799 ; since which time the pope of Rome has 
exercised no power over any of the kings in Europe,  or  
the Protestant church.  
We are \>ow brought to g, the commencement of the  
time of the end, (see Din. xii. 9,) or taking away of the 
civil  power of the pope.  
Now from eh — 1335 days  
take e g — 1290 "  
and we have gh — 45 years, or time of the end from  
the taking away of the civil power to the resurrection.  
As a part of the vision from its commencement to the  
death of Christ was fulfilled in years, each day a year, 
it proves that all of it is to be fulfilled in years, there-
fore I shall use years in recapitulating our reckoning  
of the vision.  
Years.  
Line a b = 299.  
b c 
c d  
d e  

158.  
33.  
475.  
« f " 30.  
fg « 1260.  
Sh" 45.  

From the commencement of the vis- 
ion to the league, Dan. xi. 23.  
From the league to the birth of  
Chrst.  
Christ's agj. 
From Christ's death to taking away  
daily sacrifice.  
Christian  Rome.  
Papal Rome.  
The time of the end.  
" a h — 2300 year.--, the length of the vision.  
Let us now prefix the date to the several letters.  
A 457 B. C.  
b 158 " "  
c Christ's birth,  
d 33 A. D. Christ's death.  
e 508 Daily sacrifice taken away.  
f 538 Papal power set up.  
g 1798 Civil powrer of the pope taken away.  
h 1843 End of the vision, or Second Coming of  
Christ.  
NOTE.—And now, dear reader, do you frelieve that  
Christ will appear personally again on this earth, to  
raise his dead saints, change his living  to immortality,  
receive them to the marriage supper of the Lamb, and 
by his angels gather everything out of his kingdom  
which offends, and them which do iniquity, that the  
righteous may shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of  
their Father, that he may be glorified in his saints, 
and admired in all them that believe ?  
Are you willing to believe that in a FEW  
MONTHS, these awful and glorious events will take  
place according to promise and prophecy ?  
If you are, then lift up your heads and rejoice, for  
your redemption is nigh. See to it that your lamp is  
burning, that your faith is active, that your loins are 
girt with truth, that you are established in the truths of 
God's word. For the vision is yet for an appointed 
time; but at the end it shall speak and not lie.  
Needham, Ms., Sept. 14th, 1842. C. FRENCH.  
Gf wtn6h salvation the prophets have inquired and searched diligently, who prophesied of the grace that sliould come unto you : Searching what, or what manner  
of TIME the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was  
reveakd, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you,, with the  
Holy Ghost sent down from heaven ; which things the angels desire to look into.—1 Pet i. 10—12.


DAY FOR A YEAlt —LENGTH OF A YEAR.  
Rev. Abel C. Thomas, our Universalist opponent in  
Brooklyn, among his wonderful discoveries, announced  
the following at the Broadway Tabernacle, when called  
by the Berean Institute to prove, not only that " my Lord  
delayeth his coming," but that he never would come:—  
"Miller adopts the reckoning of 360 days to the year. A  
deficiency of nearly 5£ days per annum, since Christ's 
death, amounts to an error of more than 26 years ! Take  
26 from 1843, leaves 1.817!"  
ft is hard work, when time is so short, to spend a mo- 
ment to correct such errors, but duty to the well-meaning 
persons who are deceived by them, requires it. An  
erroneous impression has been imbibed by some, that  
Jewish years were shorter than ours; but this is an  
entire mistake. A year is the  complete revolution o£the  
earth round the sun. Its precise length is  365 days, and  
nearly one quarter of another. As this fraction of a day  
amounts to about a whole day  in four years, every fourth  
year contains 366 days ; but, as this fraction falls about  
11 minutes short of 6 hours, 3 leap years must be omitted  
in every 400 years. Thus the years are regulated so as  
to correspond with the seasons. Among the Jews, the  
contrivance was the same in principle: but, as their 
months were governed by the moon, they added a whole 
moon to their reckoning, when it became necessary. As  
a moon lasts about 29£ days, their first month contained  
30 days, and was called a full, or complete month. The  
next contained but 28 days, and was called incomplete,  
and so on alternately through the year. The new moon  
was always the beginning of the month, and that day  
they called NEOMENIA, new moon, or new month. As 12  
such months would not make a complete year, the Jews 
added a thirteenth month every third year, and once in  
19 years, they had 2 years  in succession, each containing  
13 months. Thus 19 years with the Jews was just the  
same as 19 of our years ; or, in othei words, they  corres- 
ponded, almost perfectly, with 19 solar years, or revolu- 
tions round the sun.  
Now, Mr. Miller has not made, or fancied any  mode of  
reckoning time, which will not correspond with the  
courses of the sun and moon, which God created "for  
signs and for seasons, for years and days." But when  
he looked into prophecy, and found that 42 months, and  
3£ times, each equal 1260 days, he perceived that a month 
was used to designate 30 days, and a time meant 360  
days. On this point, Mr M.ller and his learned opponent,  
Prof. Stuart, are happily agreed. The great question is :  
Do these days represent years in the prophecies of  
Daniel, and in the Revelations 1 In trying to prove that  
they do not, Prof. Stuart gives a rule which is a sufficient  
foundation for proof that they do. He says : " The plain  
and obvious interpretation of numbers in the prophecies  
is to be followed, unless there be cogent reasons for a  
departure from this rule. There are only two sources  
from which reasons of such a nature can be drawn. The  
first is, analogy in other parts of the Scriptures ; the  
second the exigencies of the context." By the exigencies  
ofthe context, he evidently means, that if the prophecy  
is ofsucha nature that it cannot be fulfilled in literal days  
we must look next for its fulfilment in periods represented  
by days. On this point he proceeds to say,—"The  
GREAT MASS of interpreters in the English and Ameri- 
can world have, for many years, been wont to understand 
the days designated in Daniel, and in the Apocalypse, as 
the representatives or symbols of years. So ancient and  
wide-spread is this opinion, that he adds,—" I have found  
it difficult to trace the origin of this general, I might say. 
almost UNIVERSAL CUSTOM." Now, let us consider  
the nature of a few prophecies, and see if there is no  
reason for believing that days stand for years, according  
to the " almost universal" opinion of the pious and 
learned. In  the second epistle from Christ to the  
churches, it is said, " The devil shall cast some of you  
into prison, that ye may be tried: and ye shall have  
tribulation ten days." Who ever heard of a general  
persecution against a church, which lasted only ten natu- 
ral days ? But there was a persecution of ten years, in 
the second age of the church, of which the following is a  
sketch :—"It began iu the 19th year  of Diocletian, A.D.  

302. In this dreadful persecution, which lasted ten  
years, houses filled with Christians were set on fire, and  
whole droves were tied together with ropes, and thrown  
into the sea. It is related that seventeen thousand were 
slain in one month's time, and that, during the continu-
ance of this persecution, in the province of Egypt alone, no  
less than one hundred and forty-four thousand Christians  
died by the violence of theii persecutions ; besides seven  
hundred thousand that died through the fatigues of banish- 
ment, or the public works, to which they were con- 
demned."—Enc. Rel. Knowl.  
That the blasphemous horn described in Daniel 7: 8,  
11, 20, 21, 22, 25, and the blasphemous power described  
Rev. 13 5, 6, 7, are the same papal power, seems too  
obvious to be disputed by any Protestant. Its continu-
ance is described in different phrases, but each is equiva- 
lent to 1260 days. Compare Daniel 7: 25, and 12 ; 7,  
with Rev. 13 ; 5, and 11 : 2, 3, and 12; 6, 14. If this  
refers to Popery, then the conclusion is unavoidable, that  
days represent years. For proof of this fact, see other  
articles in this paper. So well established is this use of  
a day for a year, that the Encyclopedia of Religious 
Knowledge refers to it as a settled point. After mention- 
ing the different significations of the word day, it adds : 
" And there is another distinction which may be called  
prophetic ; the prophets being the only persons who call  
years, days ; of which there is an example in the expla- 
nation given of Daniel's seventy weeks."  
If the reader still doubts whether a day ever repre- 
sents a year, let him trace a  perfect fulfilment of pro- 
phecies in years, which never have been, and never could 
be fulfilled in days, and we see not how he can shut his  
eyes to the light which God's word and Providence evi-
dently shed on each other. For examples, see Midnight  
Cry of Jan. 6, and the Daily Midnight Cry, bound.  
In Numbers, 14: 34, it is said : " After the number of  
the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days,  
each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even  
forty years." Here were years which had been symbol- 
ized or typified by days. They were fulfilled in precisely 
46 years, for the Jews ate the Passover the night before 
they left Egypt, and the night before they entered Ca- 
naan. Of the 430 years in which Abraham and his chil- 
dren sojourned in a strange land, it is said : " AT THE  
END of the 430 years, even the sclf-same day, it came to  
pass that all the hosts of the Lord went out of the land 
of Egypt." Ex. xii. 41.  
The Lord was doubtless equally exact in fulfilling the  
430 years, symbolized by days, in the fourth chapter of  
Ezekiel, though the fulfilment is not recorded. Of the 
70 weeks, however, it is known they that were fulfilled in  
490 years, and that Christ was crucified on the self-same  
day when they terminated.  
We have reason to believe that the 1335 days, and the  
2300 days will be fulfilled in the same manner in perfect  
years, measured, as years always have been, by the rev-
olution ofthe earth round the sun, a measurement which  
has not varied a second, since the Lord set the earth in 
motion.  
Let us close this article by one or two remarks.  
1. We do not say that a day in prophecy always means  
a year. Hence, all those sneers, whether uttered by 
infidel scoffers, or orthodox ministers, about Nebuchad- 
nezzar's eating grass 2520 years, and the like, show  
nothing but the folly of those who utter them, and weigh  
nothing against our views.  
2. In view of Prof. Stuart's rule, we see the folly of  
the objection based on the text, "Of that DAY and  
HOUR knoweth no man," &c. The words, day and  
hour are to be understood literally, unless there is some- 
thing in the connection to show the contrary. But so 
far from there being any thing of the kind, Christ, in im-
mediate connection, says, "Then KNOW that it is  
nigh EVEN AT THE DOORS." This  plainly shows  
that the words day and hour do not mean a thousand 
years, or any long periods of time, but are to be under- 
stood in their natural sense.  
3. We believe the 1335 days expire 45 years from the  
taking away of the papal dominion, which it will be seen  
in this paper was in 1793. Time will speedily show  
whether we are right in this. I  

3. No one can now prove that we are not living in the  
very last hours of these prophetic periods. If we are  
thus living, and . are yet unprepared, we are in awful  
danger.  
4. Noah was " moved by fear" to prepare an ark. Lot  
was meved by fear to escape for his life. " Let us there-
fore fear," and escape for our lives and flee to the ark  
while there is time. If we neglect the time God gives  
us, we cannot complain, if he cuts it off forever.  
5. Christ's coming will be sudden as the lightning —  
There will be no time for preparation then. O flee NOW  
from the wrath to come.  
For the Midnight Cry.  
SECOND ADVENT REFERENCES.  
"Search the Scriptures."—John 5: 39, >  
Question. To what has Christ reference in Matt. 16:  
28. Answer.—Matt. 17: 1—5, Luke 9 : 26—35, 2 Peter  
1 : 16—18.  
What other and better evidence of Christ's second  
coming than the transfiguration ? 2 Peter 1: 19, Matt. 
24: 15.  
Where is this prophecy found ? Daniel 2, 7, 8, 9, 11,  
12 chapters.  
What is the great question as to time ? Dan. 8 : 12.  
ANALYSIS OF THE QUEeTioN.  
What does the vision embrace ? Daniel 8 : 3—13. 
What is the interpretation ! Dan. 8 : 11—25. 
Is the little horn Rome 1 Compare Dan. 8 : 23, with  
Deut. 28 : 49, 50, Matt. 24 : 15, Luke 21: 20. Also, 
Dan. 8 • 25, first clause, with Dan. 11 : 23, Luke 13 : 32, 
Dan. 8 : 25, third ||clause, with Acts 4 : 26—28. Also,  
Dan. 8 : 25, last clause, with Dan. 2 : 34. _  
What do the daily sacrifice and transgression of deso-\  
ation embrace? Rome pagan and papal. Dan. 11 :l  
31—36, Dan. 12: 11—13, and 2 Thess. 2 : 3—8. -S  
What does the treading the sanctuary under foot em- 
brace 1 Dan. 9 : 26, 27, Luke 21 : 20—24, Romans 11 :  
25, 26.  
ANSWER TO THE GREAT QUESTION DAN. 8 ; 14.  
Where are these days explained ? Dan 9 : 21—27. 
Where do the 70 weeks begin ? Ezra 7 : 13.  
What is done the first seven weeks ? Dan. 9 : 25,  
last clause.  
What is done during the week after the seven weeks  
and sixty-two weeks 1 Dan. 9 : 27,  first clause, Mark  
I : 14, 15.  
I Where do the seventy weeks end ? John 7 : 8, Matt.  
27 : 35, first clause.  
How many years from Ezra 7 : 13 to Matt. 27 t 35 ?—  
490.  
If seventy weeks or 490 days are fulfilled in 490 years,  
in what time will be 2300 days be fulfilled'! 23[)0 
years.  
If they begin 457 B. C., when will they end ? 1843. 
How long before the end was the daily sacrifice taken  
away? 1335 prophetic days. Dan. 12; 11,12.  
When did Rome begin to have dominion over the  
people of God] 158 B. C. Dan. 11 : 23, 1 Mac. chap- 
ters 8 and 9.  
What was the age of the Pagan beast 1 666. Rev.  
13 : 18.  
Was not this the papal beast ? Rev. 13: 5.  
If pagan Rome began in its connection with the Jews  
158 B. C., and continued 666 years,  when did it end ?—  
A D. 508.  
When did Daniel's 1290 days begin? A. D. 508.—  
Dan. 12 : 11.  
If they began A. D. 508, where did they end ?—  
1798.  
What began then! The time of the end. Dan.  
II : 40.  
When did the fleet fitted out by England on the North,  
Spain, Sardinia, and Italy on the South, sail against Bo- 
naparte ? 1798.  
If the " time of the end" began 1798 at the end of the  
1290 days, when will it end? 1843. Daniel, 12:  
11—12.  
If the daily sacrifice or Pagan Rome was taken away  
A. D. 508, when will the 1335 days end ? 1843.  
If the time, times and a half, or 1260 days of Daniel's  
little horn, end in 1798, Dan. 11 : 35, at the beginning of 
the "time of the end," when did they begin? A. D.  
538.  
MOSES' SEVEN TIMES.  
How long were God's people to be chastised ? Lev  
26: 27,28.  
How long is a time? Rev. 12 : 6, compared with the.  
14th verse.  
How many times in  " time, times, and a half? Three  
and a half.  
If three and a half times equal 1260 days, how long is  
a time? 360 days.


What would they do to those that rob them ? Ezekiel I  
39: 9, 10, last clause.  
With what fire ?  Rev. 12: 11.  
Ilow long would they burn them 1 Ezek. 39: 9. 
When did Moses' seven times and Ezekiel's seven  
years begin ? 677, B. G. Isaiah f : 8, Jer. 15: 4—7,  
2 Chron. 33 : II.  
If they were prophetic periods, and commenced 677,  
B. C , when do they end ? 1843.  
Does Daniel speak of seven times ? Dan. 7: 25, and  
12: 7.  
Does John speak of seven times ? Rev. 11: 2, 3. 
In what other places does John mention things of the  
same duration as Daniel's little horn ! Rev. 12 : 6, 14,  
and 13: 5  
JUBILEES.  
How many years in a jubilee ? 50. Lev. 25 : 8. 
When was Judah carried captive ? B. C. 607. Dan.  
1 : 1, 2.  
When will forty-nine jubilees from that time end ?—  
1843.  
What mav reasonably be expected then? Leviticus  
25: 54, 40, 41.  
THE TRUMPETS.  
According to Gibbon, the first battle was fought by the  
Turks against the Greeks, July 27, 1299.  
How long were the locusts to hurt men ? 150 years.  
Rev. 9: 10.  
What then would be past? Rev. 9 : 12.  
What would sound then ? Rev. 9 : 13.  
How long would it sound ! 391 years and fifteen days.  
Rev. 9 : 15.  
What would be past then 1 Rev. 11 : 14.  
When will the third woe trumpet, which is the seventh  
and LAST trumpet soundl After August 11, 1840.—  
Rev. 11 : 14.  
TWO DAYS OF IIOSEA AND CHRIST.  
How many days before the resurrection ? Hosea 6 : 2.  
When will Christ be perfected ? Luke 13 : 32.  
What kind of days are these ! Luke 13 : 33, 2 Peter,  
3:8.  
What is meant by that fox ? Dan. 11; 23.  
If the two days of Hosea, and the to-day and to-mor- 
row of Christ, commenced 158 B. C.,when will they end !  
1842.  
As 1S43 begins the third day, what will then take  
place? Hosea 6: 2, Luke 13 : 32.  
What will take place at the end of the Vision ? Dan.  
8 : 25, last clause, and 2 : 34, Ps. 2 : 8, 9.  
What will take place at the end of the transgression  of  
desolation1. 2 Thess. 2: 8,  Daniel 7: 21, 22, and  
11 : 36.  
What at the end of treading down the sanctuary?—  
Luke 2L : 24, Rom. 11 : 25, 26,  
What at the end of the 1335 days? Dan. 12: 13. 
What at the end of " the time of the end?" Daniel  
12 : 2.  
What at the last day ? John 6 ; 40, 44, 54, and  
11 : 24—26.  
Who have part in the first resurrection ? Rev. 20 : 6. 
Where are the rest of the dead during the thousand  
years? Mai. 4 : 3.  
When will the rest of the dead be raised? Rev.  
20: 5.  
What else will take place at the end of the thousand  
years? Rev. 20 : 7.  
Whom will he go out to deceive ? Rev. 20 : 8.  
Of whom will those nations consist? Rev. 20: 5 .i  
For what will he gather them ? Rev. 20 : 8. 
Will ihere be a battle ? Rev. 20 : 9.  
GATHERING OF THE JEWS.  
Who are the Jews to be gathered under the gospel ?—  
Rom. 2 : 28, 29, 9 ; 6—8, Gal. 3 : 29, 5 : 24, Romans 
8 ' 9  
Where will they be gathered from ? Ezek. 37: 11—14,  
Romans 11 : 15.  
Where will they be placed? Rev. 5; 10, Heb. 10:  
34—37.  
What earth? Rev. 21 : 1, Isa. 65; 17, 2 Peter,  
3: 13.  
How long? Rev. 20 : 4, last clause. 
What is meant by this generation in Luke 21: 32 ?—  
Matt. 24 : 3, 1 Peter 2 . 9, Ps. 22 ; 30.  
When will they pass away ? 1 Cor. 15 : 52, 1 Thess.  
4: 16, 17.  
What will pass away next? Luke 21 : 33, 2 Peter 3 :  
10, Rev. 21: 1.  
What else will take place when they that are Christ's  
are raised? 1 Cor. 15 : 23.  
In^what manner will Christ come? Acts 1: 11, 1  
Thess. 4 : 16.  
Up to what time is no man to know the day or hour ?  
Dan. 12; 4, 9, Acts 1 ; 6, 7.  
Is it to be known then ? Acts 1; 8, Matt. 24 ; 38, 39,  
compared with Gen. 7 ; 4, and Rev. 3:3, 1 Thess. 5 :  
1—5, Dan. 12 : 10.  
Is not the gospel to be preached more extensively  as a  

witness? Matt. 24 ; 14, Acts 19 ; 10, Rev. 2 ; 5, Col.  
1 ; 23, Rom. 10 ; 18.  
Is the world to be converted ? Matt. 13 ; 30, 37—43,  
47, 50, Matt 3 : 12. 2 Peter 3 ; 3, 2 Tim. 3 ; 1—5, Ps.  
2; 8,9, Luke 17; 26—30, Luke 18: 8, Matt. 24 : 12,  
Dan. 7 ; 21, 22, 2 Thess. 2 : 8. AUGUSTUS BEACH.  
SIGNS.  
From the creation of the world, when the lights in the  
firmament were set for signs, to the winding up of the  
whole drama, when the " sign of the Son of man shall be  
seen in the heavens," have mankind required a sign, like  
the unbelieving  Jews ; and when God has granted the re- 
quest, some natural cause has generally been given, which  
has served as a quietus, especially when any thing calami- 
tous was the thing signified ; and though the superstitious  
and credulous have multiplied signs almost ad infinitum, 
yet the Scripture gives abundant proof that God has conde- 
scended to use them, not only as monitors to the church, 
but to the ungodly, from the days of proud Pharaoh to the  
scoffers of the nineteenth  century.*  
There shall be signs in the last days, said the prophet,  
and though some of these signs have been definitely  marked  
both by prophets and the Saviour himself,  yet vain, boast- 
ing man, would fritter them away, and put far off the evil  
day, because he loves not the appearing of our Lord and  
Saviour.  
When the Saviour told the disciples what should be the  
sign of his coining, he enumerated a variety—nearly  all in  
the plural, though they had asked only a sign, nor did ho  
tell them whether these signs should proceed from natural 
or supernatural causes, so that the labored searches and re- 
searches of the wise Greek are all turned to foolishness, 
when, by his learned philosophy,  he has sought out the  
causes.  
No one can look at the rainbow without seeing a sign of  
God's faithfulness,  who said—"I do set my BOW in the  
cloud, and IT shall be for a TOKEN of a covenant between  
me and the earth.—I will establish  my covenant with you ;  
neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a  
flood ; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the 
earth.—It shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the 
earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud, and I will 
look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant  
between God and every living creature of all flesh that is 
upon the earth."  
Thus we have a sign, almost daily repeated, produced by  
natural causes—causes connected with the waters—to show 
that those waters shall never swell and destroy the earth by  
a flood All are willing to receive this sign. We have also  
signs, of a fiery character, showing that the world shall be  
destroyed by fire, " I will show wonders in the heavens and 
in the earth, blood and fire, and pillars of smoke." We have  
not time, now, to speak of these signs at length. The tes-
timony is abundant, that the predicted signs have all taken 
place, of which we may speak more fully in our next.  
We begun to write now, at the request of a friend, by  
whom we are told that strange events have occurred in the 
Capital of the United States—and certainly strange things 
have proceeded from it, if the state of our country is any way  
concerned with it. The Great Chandelier of the Senate  
Chamber fell without any perceivable cause, and was dashed 
to atoms. The right hand of Justice, one of the collossal 
figures, above the principal entrance to the Capitol, broke  
and dropped, cleaving in sunder the Constitution  of our  
boasted republic, which she held in her hand. As our  
friend stood before the door of that great national building,  
the broken arm spoke, in silent eloquence, to his heart.  
The figure of Justice is part of a group, wrought by Per  
sico, out of the solid blocks of free stone, as they stood 
cemented in the wall. A little book about the " Public  
Buildings  and Statuary of the U. S. Capitol " says :  
"In the centre stands the presiding genius, America, with  
the cap of Liberty upon her brows, and the spear, the 
shield, and the eagle, by her right and left side. Hope  
is on her left hand, resting on the emblematic anchor, and  
seems to be encouraging  America with the high destiny  
that awaits her starward career. JUSTICE on the right,  
with uncovered eye, cognizant of the" truth, weighs the  
rights of the free, against despotism, with an equal hand."  
* The -word sign, either in the singular or plural, occurs more  
than ninety times in the Bible, besides the many records of signs  
where the word is not used.  

As it now stands, Justice holds out the stump of her  
broken right arm, as a token of her helplessness,  while  
a fragment of a scroll at her feet, dis- \ ~  
plays this piece of a broken word ; I  
our nation's present appropriate sign. I  
Would it be untimely  to inquire, if these facts do not  
carry a little weight along with them ? May we not ask, if  
the light that Was lit up in those halls is as brilliant as when  
the voice of JohnQuincy Adams resounded in her chambers 
as President ; and would it be impious to say, that the light,  
if not totally extinguished,  is but a flickering one. And  
when we talk of  justice and our Constitution  ; if justice  
have not fallen there, as well as in cor streets, then we  
wholly misunderstand the import of their proceedings—we  
wholly misunderstand  why the persevering appeal of the un- 
tiring Adnms was rejected on the right of petition, if the  
Constitution is held as sound as when signed by that united,  
patriotic band. Then are the tumults—'.he  party divisions  
that overwhelm the nation—neither  signs or realities ?  
Let us be serious. God is showing us that the adminis- 
tration which the Prince of darkness has held for nearly six 
thousand years, is, to say the least, a very tumultuous,  op- 
pressive, and bloody one, and that age does not improve it  
—that the cockatrice eggs of the present century produce  
as venomous serpents as the fiery flying  ones which trou- 
bled the Israelites.  
Reformer has followed reformer, and what have they done?  
They have begun to show us what is to be done—exhausted  
their funds—while  the tares of the adversary are thicker  
and taller, and must and will grow till the time of harvest. 
And look upon the fields—are they not ready for the sickle ? 
Will not the husbandman soon send forth his reapers, and  
bind the tares in bundles to be burned, and gather his wheat 
into the garners ?  
SINGULAR PHENOMENON.  
"There shall' be signs in the sun."  
The following appears as editorial in the Wednesday  
Mercury, Danville, Ky., Jan. 4, 1843. Each reader will  
think of it as he pleases :  
" The citizens  of this village were much astonished,  on  
the 1st inst. at the appearance of one of those singular  and  
unusual exhibitions,  termed parhelia. It was about 2 o'- 
clock, P. M. that we first observed the singular phenome- 
non. At this time the heavens presented the following ap- 
pearance : Around the sun there was a circle of light, 
such as is frequently seen around both this and the moon.  
The diameter of this appeared to be about 45 degrees ; out- 
side of this there was another circle, or rather segment of a 
circle, for it was not complete, seeming likewise to have the  
sun for its centre, and whose diameter was about twice 
that of the former ; and only the upper portion, perhaps the 
half, was visible. Extending around the whole horizon, and 
apparently equally distant from it in every part, was a third 
circle, cutting the former at. right angles, and passing  
through the sun. At the points of intersection  between  
this and the inner circle, surrounding  the sun, were two  
colored images, very distinct,  which might have been, and  
were, for an instant mistaken for the sun by persons who  
were in such a situation  that they could not see the sun it- 
self. In this same horizontal circle were two otner less  
brilliant and white images—one each side of the two for- 
mer, and apparently at equal distances from them, and also, 
of course, from the sun. These two last images were aech  
perhaps about 100 degrees from the sun. There was also  
a fourth segment of a circle, presenting the appearance and  
brilliant colors of the rainbow. About one-third the circle  
could be seen. It was high above the hor zon, and seemed  
to have a point in of near the zenith  as its centre ; if com- 
pleted, its diameter would have been, perhaps, 45 degrees. 
It was, of course, convex towards the sun and just touched  
the outer circle surrounding  the sun. The colors of the  
rainbow were exceedingly distinct—the  red being next to  
the sun and the others in order.  
"At about a quarter past two, the appearance was the most  
orilliant, the four images and the four circles being then all  
visible. From this time it began to fade away, the circle 
and images disappearing one at a time, until about 3 P. M.,  
when nothing unusual could be seen.  
" Will the learned give us an explanation of the phe- 
nomenon?"  
This last request reminds us of the following Scriptures. 
"The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the  
Chaldeans and the soothsayers. And the king spake and  
said to the wise men of Babylon, whosoever shall read thi»  
writing and show me the interpretation  thereof, shall be  
clothed with scarlet and have a chain of gold about his neck, 
and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom. But they  
could not show the interpretation of the thing."


PUBLIC MORALS.  
Are we in the dawn of the Millennium or in the state  
of morals predicted as marking the " last days!" Let  
us open a few of the daily papers, those " map3 of busy  
life," and read their testimony. Compare it with 2 Tim  
I 3 : 1—5.  
Opening the Herald of Jan. 7, we read :  
PUBLIC MORALS.—While the Navy Yard and  naval  
circles are excited with the awful tragedy on board the  
Somers—while Wall street and the financial classes are  
up to their eyes with defalcations and robberies—the  
Court of Sessions has been the scene of a more general /  
excitement for some days, created by the trial of sever- I 
al persons for a most atrocious and diabolical outrage i  
committed on a young woman at the Broadway Cottage,  
a most disreputable groggeryin Broadway, nearly oppo-
site the hospital.  
For several years past, the public manners and morals '  
as exhibited in our public streets, and particularly in  
Broadway, have been a disgrace to the age and a shame  
to New York. It has been of late almost impossible for  
a respectable female to walk in any public street, in open  
day, without being insulted by some of those atrocious  
scoundrels, blacklegs, or rowdies, who prowl about, many  
of them in mustachios and in the dress of gentlemen."  
The Sun of Jan. 10, has a list of defalcations and em- 
bezzlements for' 1842, from which it appears that seven 
persons in high stations have robbed the public of $670,- 
000, in this city in a single year.  
The same paper states from official documents, that  
there have been 19,317 petitioners for the benefit of the 
bankrupt act, in 15 states, or districts.  
The Morning Chronicle of Dec. 10, says : 
"At present it is evident that neither truth nor justice  
reigns on earth. A new body and a new spirit must be  
born into society before the world can be regenerated."  
The contents of our daily papers may be judged from  
the headings of the articles: Old Thieves, Attempt at  
Rape, A Thieving Visitor, Horse-stealing, Passing Spu- 
rious Money, The Obscene Prini Venders, Perjured Wit- 
nesses. These are from one page of one small paper.  
On the subject of the recent frauds in New York, the  
papers make the following remarks :—  
" LA THERE NO FAITH 1—The shock which such repeat- 
ed acts of dishonesty in the management of money con- 
cerns, must give to our social and national character, can  
hardly be measured."—N. Y. Amei ican.  
" Such examples of wholesale robbery, by men in whom |  
the highest confidence has been placed, are of most per-
nicious tendency, aside from the damage they occasion  
to the interest of their employers. The number of such  
examples shows that the disease is epidemic, if not conta- 
gious. And when such men fall as were some of these,  
who can he trusted V'—Jour. Com.  
" DEFALCATIONS.—The recent defalcation of Mr. Nicoll  
[of $250.000] has excited much feeling in this community, 
and every one asks, where will all this end 1 Who is to j  
be trusted 1 We have fallen upon evil times, and men  
are growing worse and worse every day."—Union.  
" Mr. Nicholl has enjoyed, for many years, four thou- 
sand dollars salary, and a much larger sum from trust es- 
tates, making his income not much, if any, short of ten  
thousand dollars a year ; a sum that ought to satisfy 
any ordinary mind, particularly in these hard times."—  
Express.  
He was in the habit of stealing hundreds of dollars  
from the large sums placed in his hands, and making  
false entries to balance the books of the Company.  
" FRAUDS IN THE CITV DURING THE JAST YEAR.—The  
disclosures of frauds during the past year have been most 
astounding.  
If frauds ofthe above magnitude can be perpetrated in  
our very best and highest institutions—if the funds ofthe  
widow and  the fatherless are not secure in our best banks  
and trust companies—who can, or who will put confi- 
dence in them 1  
Such an exhibition of the extensive frauds during the  
past year, together with those that might be added up for 
the few years past, is calculated to make a deep impres- 
cion upon the public mind. It is at. least a strong mani-
festation that there has been no improvement in public 
morals.''—Express.  
The editor proceeds to contrast the ^resen^Jmanage- 
ment of public funds with the past, and says:—" We are  
struck with astonishment at the different state of things  
that now exists," which he calls " this fall in the public  
morals," and adds, " Thirty years ago; a clerk or an of- 
ficer who defrauded the public or a bank of even a hun- 
dred dollars, was a ruined man. He would not dare to  

show his face in the public streets, or if he did, he would I  
be frowned down by an insulted community. Then the  
standard of morals was so high, that but few had the  
courage to face the rebuke of an outraged and indignant  
community,"  
" Such" says the Herald, " i3 a picture of the morals  
ofthe monied institutions in Wall street, drawn by their  
own organs and editors. Is it not enough to sink the  
whole community as deep in a gulf of fire and brimstone  
as ever Sodom and Gomorrah were? Yet the disease is  
only beginning. With such developments as we have  
seen since 1837, what can we expect to see in the next  
five years 1 If such negligence in managers—such dis- 
honesty in agents—such demoralization all over, prevail  
longer, will it not ingulf every corporate institution in  
Wall street 1 What confidence can exist in the future 1  
'•In the celebrated years of 1825-6 and 7, we all remem- 
ber the excitement created by the explosion of the Life  
and Fire Company of that day, including a few other  
baseless concerns—not equal to half a million in all.  
Wre remember ihe cry for justice—the movements of the  
grand juries—the uproar in Wall street. Yet in the year  
1842, we see before us the ruins of half a dozen institu- 
tions, and the wreck of nearly fifteen millions of property 
belonging to the widows, orphans, and retired citizens,  
annihilated as completely as if it had been burned up in  
the great fire of December, 1835. The financiers seem 
to make as much havoc with the property of the trades-
people that may be entrusted to them, as the bankrupts 
now taking the benefit of the act. They eat, drink, and  
spend it in all manner of extravagance, leaving a mere  
shell for the owners, and then repudiate and run away, or  
take the benefit of the act.  
"Will the honest, industrious, producing classes ofthe  
people, unite and try to stem the torrent of rascality that  
overwhelms this devoted city V'  
The New York morning Chronicle publishes an arti- 
cle two successive days, (Jan. 6 and 7,) headed, " What 
are the clergy doing in the service of God and the human 
raceIt says : " The social world is left to drag on in  
corruption and iniquity, without any attempt on their part  
to purify the HIDEOUS MASS of discord and misery  
which defaces it." " Where do we hear of the clergy  
animated by a sincere sympathy for the sufferings of a 
DEGRADED RACE ! No where."  
" Only yesterday we observed an announcement of a  
lecture by a distinguished and talented divine, and what  
was the subject 1 Why, ' English Poetry with illustra-
tions and comments.' Enlightening the world upon the 
beauties of English Poetry! Is this divine work, when  
COUNTLESS MILLIONS of wretched beings are cry- 
ing out for deliverance from spiritual and temporal des- 
titution."  
" But the distinguished divine we spoke of, is not  
alone in this literary desecration of pastoral robes ; ano-
ther distinguished clergyman, a short time since, illus- 
trated the glorious life and war-like achievements of the  
renowned Captain John Smith !  
Are the clergy serving God and the Human Race, or  
themselves 1 Whom do they glorify 1"  
In the same Chronicle from which we cut the above,  
we find the following illustrations ofthe state of morals:  
" THIEVES did a pretty-considerable-stirring  business  
at the Assembly Chamber in Albany, on Monday even-
ing last, more power to their fingers*! Many people lost  
their coats, cloaks, hats, &c;., which we hope will be a  
sufficient caution to them to keep away from such places  
another time, or, at least, to transact their business and  
come away as soon as possible. We don't object to 
pocket picking at political meetings. It is a pity the  
practice cannot be introduced into  Congress itself."  
" We learn by the Grand River Inquirer, that a murder  
has been committed by two men named Miller and Ho- 
vy, on the person of an Indian squaw in Kent county.— 
It appears after gloating their passions on her they left 
her a corpse in the woods where they had camped for the  
night. They are both in jail.  
The police reports and various other items are too dis- 
gusting to be repeated, but we subjoin the following 
shocking illustration of immorality and scoffing.  
" Mil .LERISM.—A number of persons in the Northern  
Liberties, Philadelphia, have lately become greatly alarm- 
ed in consequence of their belief in the truth ofthe doc- 
trines of Miller. They are holding lectures every night.  
—Exchange Paper.  
" No wonder the worthy people of Philadelphia have an  
abhorrence of the day of reckoning, for if it be sinning to 
shave half the world with bank rags—to tread the poor 
in the dust, and regard poverty as a crime and a degrada- 
tion, and to sympathise with wealthy murderers, and  
save them from the gallows, they are sure to catch it.—  

We opine that when the great day comes, the Philadel- 
phians, in the fulfilment of a prophecy in the Revelations, 
will be no ways slow in calling upon* the hills and moun- 
tains to fall dawn and cover them."  
"As it was in Sodom.'"  
" Brutality it seems, is actively on the increase in this  
city."—Herald, Jan. 16. g^-jj  
PROGRESS OK LICENTIOUSNESS.—The perpetrator of an  
abominable outrage  on a modest and vjrtuous young wo- 
man of this City was brought up in the Circuit Court on  
Saturday, (having evaded a criminal trial by forfeiture,)  
and will probably to-day have meted to him some small  
portion of his deserts. It cannot be denied that outrages  
by violence and diabolical stratagem upon the honor and 
peace of those whose innocence and weakness should be  
their protection from all bus the plotting villany of a fiend  
or the blind fury of a brute, are on the increase in our  
City. The very night that Dingier was convicted, a young  
girl, who was going home through the Bowery,unattended,  
from the bedside of a sick friend, was caught up and  
thrown into a cab by two monsters in human shape, who 
there held her and stifled htr cries until they had effected  
her ruin. No trace of them or the driver of the cab has  
yet been obtained. Every day many young girls—gener- 
ally poor and friendless, often orphans—are lured by hags,  
whose trade is the murder of virtue, into their dens, and  
there subjected to flattery, fraud, drugging and violence  
until their ruin is accomplished. All this goes on with  
the ribald and infidel press, owned and conducted by no-
torious libertines, ridiculing those who appeal to She Le-
gislature for laws against this flood-tide of licentiousness,  
and foully libeling all who interpose to defend them ; and  
on the other hand, a large portion of the virtuous, con-
founding ingorance with innocence, and crying out against 
any exposure of these horrible doings and their abettors 
in reputable journals, lest the yvmg be contaminated !—  
Tribune of Monday Jan. 16.  
" MEN'S HEARTS FAILING THEM FOR FEAR."—The fol- 
lowing picture ofthe times is from the Leesborg Genius  
of Liberty, of Jan. 7 :  
" In prostration laid  
Is every thing beneath the sun.  
'Twould seem that sixty years and more,  
Of our nation's bold career,  
Has left us not one thing in store.  
Save an INCUBUS OF FEAR."  
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.  
UTICA, N. Y., Jan. 13, 1843.  
Dear Brother Southard,—On my way to this city, I  
visited Lansingburgh, N.Y. and gave three lectures in the  
Baptist church, we had full houses, and the congregations  
were deeply interested in the subject. This interest had 
been awakened by Bro. Miller's lectures the preceding  
week at Waterford. just across the river. The whole  
vicinity is waked up ; the truth has taken a powerful 
hold upon all classes. At the close of Bro. Miffer's last  
lecture, the 8th inst., one hundred and twenty souls came  
out voluntarily for prayers. The most of them were 
men, and many of them professional men, who had heard 
the lectures through, and were convinced of the truth of  
the doctrine. And what may be heart-cheering ! to our  
psuedo friends, who are so much c oncemed about our mati- 
ng Infidels, we have the happiness to state, that among 
the number that came forward, and of some who were  
converted, there was a large number of Infidels who be- 
came "obedient to the faith." God has wrought a glo-
rious  work in Waterford. May it be perpetuated till all  
are brought in.  
On the morning of the 9th inst. we took leave of our  
faithful friend, J. J. McMurray, and his kind family, 
at Lansingburgh, and started for this city, where we  
arrived in safety in the afternoon. A wide and effectual  
door is opened here. Bro. Miller is lecturing afternoon  
and evening to crowded and very attentive audiences.  
The prospect of doing good is cheering. The clergy  
help us, as usual, by their lame opposition. We hope in  
some way to lead them to a thorough examination of the  
subject. They will be obliged to do something. The  
people will not be satisfied, unless they come out and  
show the truth or falsity of the present alarm.  
J. V. HIMES.  
P. S. "MILLER USED UP FOR (A SHILLING," has been  
sent here to comfort the wicked during our labors in this  
city (Utica.) You know this is a part of the very learn-
ed handbill, put out in flaming capitals by Mr. Dcncling's


agent to advertise his " Reply to Miller." This same  
agent is a Baptist clergyman ! How natural it must be  
for such men to talk about the " scurrility" of Mr. Miller.  
"Miller used up for a shilling 1" How profound! How  
respectful to the great subject in question ! Such are our  
opponents. Sinner, beware they do not " use up" your  
soul for eternity !—and for a paltry shilling too !! 1  
PROGRESS OP THE CAUSE.  
A letter from Portsmouth, N. H. says : " The Second  
Advent brethren have recently held a conference in this  
town. Many brethren in the ministry were present  
from several towns and participated in the proceedings. 
The interest was intense. The audience was large.—  
They were deeply interested. Many have submitted to  
Christ, and become the recipients of his great salvation. 
The work is extending throughout the churches. The 
members are quickened, wanderers have returned to  
their first love, and many who had known not the pre- 
ciousness of Christ, the excellencies of the religion of  
Jesus, have consecrated themselves to God."  
A letter from Newark says:—"The interest is very  
great. Last evening the house was most densely 
crowded, and many could not get in. Many were for-
ward for prayers, and several experienced a hope. I  
think if we could now have some lectures, and a series  
of meetings night and day, we should see a great in- 
gathering of souls. Can they not be had V'  
A letter dated, Madison county, N. Y., Jan. 11, 1843,  
brings us the following cheering intelligence:  
Dear Brother Southard,—Feeling anxious to cheer my  
brothers in this good cause, and let you  know the state of  
taxings here, with the prospects, I send you a few lines^  
'""God is doing a wonderful work here. I commenced lec- 
turing here in a place called Hubbard's Corners, noted for  
a strong hold of Universalism and unbelief. The people  
came to hear,—commenced reading their Bibles, and 
you can judge the effect. The houses are crcWdad ;  
many are seeking to find a long-neglected Saviour. We 
held a prayer-meeting on Monday evening. Oh, my soul!  
what a time! We broke up at 11 o'clock, after enjoying  
a most precious season of refreshing front the presence 
of the Lorff^  
The preacher at Brookfield who formerly opposed our  
views, has invited me to accept of his pulpit, and com- 
mence a course of lectures next Sunday. O my God,  
help, help. /Bro. Yarrington,  a*preacher of great celeb- 
rity, who has heard all my lectures, told me he firmly  
believed that this is the last call to man: that this year ends 
the great drama of all sublunary things. He is going to  
preach it, and has publicly, in my presence, identified 
himself with the cause. We have a glorious work in  
progress.^^  
YoursTm the hope of seeing our triumphant, conquering  
King in a few months,  
SIDNEY S. BREWER.  
In a letter on the same sheet, Brother Rhodes says : 
" I have had the pleasure of seeing the fruits of those  
publications that I sent to this section before I left New  
York city; they have produced a great excitement in  
the country, and have already been the means of some  
conversions ; and from present prospects there will be a  
great work of the Lord here through the instrumentality 
of our dear Brother Brewer. We have had no opposition  
as yet."  
0° Brother A. HALE, writes from Ilarrisburg, Pa.:  
" I have just closed a course of lectures at Middietown,  
(Lutheran church,) where a deep interest is waked up in 
the Second Advent cause. Our congregations were 
crowded almost to suffocation, while the exhibition of 
our views was listened to with the deepest attention.— 
A general seriousness pervades the town : a considerable  
number have set out to seek the Lord : Christians have  
been quickened, and many express a strong conviction ot  
the truth of our views who have formerly regarded them  
only with contempt."  
A letter from Woodbury, Long Island, says:  
A protracted meeting was commenced at Woodbury,  
Long Island, Jan. 4, 1843. The subject of Christ's  
speedy coming was presented tothe people the first evening  
and has been kept before them ever since. The result 
of the meeting thus far has been glorious. Although  
our meeting was held in a school house, and in a country  
place ; yet the number of conversions has been almost  
unprecedented. About 80 precious souls are either  
happy in a Saviour's love, or are earnestly seeking.—  
Glory to God, we have the most indubitable evidence that  
He is blessing the preaching of this glorious doctrine.  
Yours in the hope of the glorious appearing of our  
Lord and Saviour,  
S. CURRY.  
Woodbury, L. I., Jan. 17.  

» EXCELLENT THOUGHTS.  
The editor of the Countryman, published at Perry,  
Wyoming Co., speaks in the following appropriate man- 
ner to his readers.  
SECOND ADVENT.—Not only do the peculiar views of  
Mr. Miller gain converts in many places, but some ofthe  
most popular and learned theologians have reasoned them- 
selves into a mass of incongruous, and it would seem, 
even to themselves, misatisfactory conclusions, in endea- 
voring to refute them. This subject is arresting the at- 
tention of the profound believers in Christ everywhere,  
and our theological giants at length appear, preparing, in 
some degree, to give it that investigation its importance  
demands. To man, it is the most weighty and momentous  

With regard to your assertion, that Mr. Miller had  
founded a position on the wrong reading of the text,  
" and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the  
power ofthe holy people," I can only say, that if you had  
commenced reading from Mr. Miller's work a few lines 
above the sentence you chose, your audience would have  
seen that he  quoted the text fairly ; and had you read to  
the end of the lecture, your hearers would also have seen 
that it was the power of the holy people that he meant,  
and not the people that were scattered.  
You say, if the Turkish Empire is down, you have yet  
to learn it. Have you not learned, that in 1840-41, many,  
very many periodicals and missionary reports, both in  
this country and in Europe, teemed with the cry, that  
the Ottoman Empire had fallen. never to rise again ; and  
its career through time, will find sooner or later,  
or ikshall be well with them that trust in God, though the  

7 ----- ..:-«>--'  . ilrocontm| tn ; are you ignorant of the  fact, that the government of that  
subject that ever was or, in th.s h e can be Presented to 1 8 nt hands of lhe cornbined 
that consciousness with which God has endowed him.— 1  
Its importance may be magnified in the minds of some by 
estimating the nearness of the event; but every reflecting 
mind must perceive that the certainty of the evont, and 
the attending consequences, are in reality all that give it 
importance, and render it superior in all its bearings to  
any other subject ever presented to the consideration of  
man. Notwithstanding the variety of opinions in this vi- 
cinity, regarding the views of Mr. Miller, we are happy to  
observe a disposition to examine and investigate, rather 
than to ridicule and deride. That important events in 
regard to the history of this world are on the tapis, no  
careful observer ofthe " signs of the times" can doubt.  
In the final issue, every reasoning being has an interest  
of which he cannot divest himself; and that " every one  
shall give an account of himself to God," is as true now, 
and as worthy of otr consideration, as it was when first 
uttered by the inspired messenger of God. Whatever (  
awaits the world, the hand that rolled it into being will 
still control its destinies, and render it subservient to 
his purposes, while the intelligences that abide upon it  _ .1 U * : ~....; 11 ^ ,\v latcii- "that  
earth be removed out of its place.'  

powers :  
Now, brother B., I do hope you will correct these er- 
rors before your hearers,lest you prove to be a blind leader  
of the blind.  
I beg leave to direct your attention to and prayerful pe- 
rusal of 1 Cor. ii. chapter, and also Matt. xxiv. 45—51.  
" Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his  
Lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them 
meat in due season'!  
" Blessed is that servant whom his Lord, when he  
cometh, shall find so doing.  
" Verily I say unto you, that he shall  make him ruler  
over all his goods.  
" 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 ;  
" The Lord of that servant shall come in a day when  
he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not  
aware of;  
" And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his por- 
tion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and  
gnashing of teeth."  
Yours, &c., DAN'L E. STEARNS.  
Dccembei 27, 1842.  
TO ELDER BELLAMY,  
Pastor of the Baptist Church worshipping in Stanton Street.  
This letter has been in hand several weeks, but delayed  
by a press of other matter.  
DEAR BROTHER,—  
At the request of a friend, I attended to hear you on  
Sunday evening, December 11th, 1842, expose the errors 
of "Mr. Miller," in some of his expositions of prophecy.  
I was much pleased to hear you speak in that charitable  
manner of brother Miller's Christian character, which he 
merits from all who know him. But instead of being 
convinced that such errors existed, in brother Miller's  
expositions, I was the more confirmed in the belief that 
the beam was in thine own eye.  
First—You labored hard to dispose of the 2300 days,  
to suit your argument; and thereby overthrow brother  
M's " main pillar." I understood you to say, that Antio-
chus Epiphanes had the whole, or part of his history, in  
the 2300 days, who, you say, stood in the holy place, or at 
least his idol, Jupiter Oiympius, for three years, which 
you still say was the abomination that maketh desolate.  
If so, in what way will you dispose of the 55 days'! for 
our Savior's command was, " Gather up the fragments, 
that nothing be lost." In what basket will you put your  
odd days, " that nothing be lost?" Josephus says. Antio-
chus Epiphanes died 164 years before Christ. Now, if 
Josephus tells the truth, how could Christ mean Antio- 
chus Epiphanes, or his idol, when he says, (Matt. xxiv.  
15) " When ye, therefore, SHALL SEE the abomination  
of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in 
the holy place ?" Our Savior could not, in the text above,  
have had reference to Antiochus; he spoke of what 
should be in the future, and the same was foretold by  
Daniel xii. II. Therefore, neither Christ or Daniel  
could have had allusion to the anti little-horn, Antiochus,  
as the " abomination that maketh desolate." Therefore, 
the mighty pillars of brother Mdler still stand firm, and it  
is the 1150 pillars of brother B. that "are fallen !"  
You say. Mr. Miller calls Italy "God's holy mountain."  
You quoted from Zechariah viii 3. With regard to the  
holy mountain spoken of by that prophet, we shall not  
differ:—in Daniel xi. 45, it is said, he shall plant the 
tabernacles of his palaces between the seas, in the glorious  
holy mountain, (or as in the Hebrew, " mountain of de- 
light") Now, sir, if you can point out to me any coun- 
try in the known world, except Italy, that answers the  
description of the place in point, I will be content.  
God, in the passage before us. is not speaking of New  
Jerusalem, his holy mountain, Mount Zion, the Church,  
but a mountain of location.  
Again, you say,  Mr. Miller calls God's holy sacrifice an  
abomination. Now, brother B., why had you not the  
honesty to tell the people that the word sacrifice was put 
in by man, and not by God 1 If there is an error, it rests  
with those who translated the Bible, and not with bro- 
ther Miller.  

For the Midnight Cry. ,  
THE WARNING.  
To my ear is borne the loud midnight cry, 
Proclaiming, " the day of the Lord is nigh ;" 
Prepare to meet him—the trumpet will sound  
Soon, waking the dead beneath the cold ground.  
Then sinner, and saint, and watchman, and all, 
Must answer the dreadful judgment call;  
And those who would wish that the coming might stay  
Will meet, what  they dread, the great burning day.  
The youthful and gay then must tell to their Lord  
WThy they slighted his mercy, mistrusted his word—  
And the aged, too, who the grtbat truth should have  
known,  
Their neglect with deep shame and confusion will own.  
Ay, we all must be there,—why put far away, 
To many the dreaded, but near coming day 1  
Oh ! sure it were best to make peace with our God,  
And trust in his true, his unchangeable word !  
Stay, scoffer, reflect! it will not soothe thy pain 
To think that you 've trifled with warning again ;  
Oh ! stop in your madness, unless you would lie, 
WTith the soul gnawing worm which never can die.  
D  
New York city, Jan. 10, 1843.  
ABUNDANCE  OF FOOD AND HAKD TIMES.—One of our  
wealthiest and most charitable citizens, bought a few days  
since, of a countryman in market, sevemquaiters of fine  
beef at one cent per pound, to be delivered at bis house.  
Another farmer close by, who had eight quarters of beef,  
overhearing the bargain, started off to the gentleman's  
house, delivered his beef and received his pay from the 
steward ; he was closely followed by the real  Simon Pure,  
who explained the trick. However, all the beef was ta- 
ken, the greater part of which was handed over to chari-
table institutions. When independent farmers bring fine  
beef to market and use trickery and deceit to get a sale  
for it at one cent per pound, who will deny  that the times  
are hard.— Cin* Times.  
NEVER CHEAPER.—Flour was selling in Cincinnati on  
the 5th inst. at two dollars a barrel !  
SINNER—A WORD TO YOU.—Are you not convinced you  
can never be happy in time or in eternity, without an in- 
terest in Christ 1 Why, then, delay the work one instant! 
Will you not this day begin to pray and give your heart to  
God 1 Flee for thy life to the Lord Jesus. The day of  
the Lord is near and hasteth greatly.  

A


SECOND ADVENT HYMN- 
1. When thou ray righteous Jndge shall come,To call thy ransom'd people home,Shall I among them stand.'Shall such a worthless worm as I,Who sometimes am afraid to die,Be found at thy right hand?  
££  TZ^  e:  
I Jove to meet among them now,  
Before thy gracious feet to bow,  
Though vilest of them all,  
But can I bear the piercing thought, 
What  if my name should be left put,  
When thou for them shalt call ?  

Prevent it Lord by thy rich grace,  
Be thou my soul's sure hiding place, 
In this the expected day ;  
Thy pardoning voice, 0 let me hear,  
To still my unbelieving fear,  
Nor let me fall I pray.  

Let me among thy saints be found, 
Whene'er the Archangel's trump shall sound,  
And see thy smiling face;  
Then loud with all the crowd I'll sing,  
While heaven's  resounding mansions ring,  
With shouts of sovereign grace.  
ANTIOCHUS—IMPOSSIBILITIES.  
While so much is said about Antiochus, by those who are explain- 
ing away the Judgment and resurrection from the book of Daniel,  
our readers will bear with us if we repeat a few of the proofs that it 
is impossible to apply the horn mentioned Daniel viii. 9, to that trib- 
utary king.  
1. Antiochus was king of Syria, and as such was a  
part of one of the four horns or kingdoms, into which the  
Grecian Empire was divided, and not another coming out  
of them.  
2. It is impossible to make the most remarkable  
horn of the vision mean an individual king, and that one  
a tributary, when all the other horns mean independent  
kingdoms,—as is plainly proved from the Angel's lan-
guage : " The rough goat is the KING of Grecia, and  
the great horn that is between his eyes, is the FIRST 
KING. Now, THAT being broken, whereas FOUR 
stood up for IT, four KINGDOMS shall stand up out of  
THE NATION." Dan. 8; 21, 22. Here the single horn  
expresses as much as the whole goat, viz. : " THE NA- 
TION." It was not till 22 years after the death of Alex- 
ander, that four separate " kingdoms" were established 
in " the nation." The breaking up of the single Mace- 
donian NATION, and the setting up of the Egyptian,  
Syrian, Macedonian and Thracian, could not be more 
clearly represented by emblems. In Dan. 11; 3, 4, the  
angel mentions the same thing in  these striking words :'  
" And  a mighty king, [Alexander] shall stand up, that  
shall rule with great dominion : and when he shall stand 
up, his KINGDOM shall be broken, and shall be divided  
towards the four winds of Heaven."  
3. This horn was to come up in the latter time of their  
kingdom, (i. e. of the four horns.) The line of Syrian  
kings numbered 25, and Antiochus was the  8th in order,  
and hence was not in the latter time of their kingdom !  
4. This horn was to stand up against the Prince of  
princes, viz. Christ. Antiochus died 164 years before  
Christ was born.  
5. This horn was to cast down the place ofthe sanctu- 
ary. Antiochus did not cast down the sanctuary, or the 
place of it.  
6. He was to DESTROY the holy people. It is said  
that. Antiochus destroyed about eighty thousand Jews.  
But Rome, in a single siege, destroyed 1,100,000, and the  
remnant were carried captive into all nations.  
7. The angel gives us a regular gradation.—Persia,  
which ruled over 127 Provinces, is called " greatj" (v.4.)  
Grecia, of which it is said, (Dan. 2 : 29,) the third king- 
dom, " shall bear rule over all the earth," is called " very  
great, (v. 8.) and the horn, which represents the suc- 
ceeding power, is called " exceeding great." Antiochus 
cannot be this last named power. It is perfectly natural  
to apply the angel's language thus :  
Great. Very great. _JExceeeding great.  
PRRSIA. GREECE.  
It is impossible to apply them thus i  
f [Great. Very great. _ Exceeding great.  
PERSIA. GREECE.  
8 This horn is little at first, but it grows great by  
conquests towards the east and south. Antioches came  
into possession of a kingdom already established, and Sir 
Isaac Newton says ; He did NOT enlarge it." He did  
not fulfil this prophecy, and therefore was not the object  
predicted in it. Rome'did fulfil it, and therefore is the  
object predicted.  
The opinions of Josephus, the Jew, and Rollin, the  
Roman Catholic, cannot convince us ofthe truth of im- 
possibilities and contradictions.  

Fot rhe Midnight Cry.  
KNOW THAT HE IS NIGII EVEN AT THE  
DOOLT."  
O, what a glorious jubilee,  
Draws nigh to those who love the Lord ;  
When from their earthly fetters free,  
Their songs of victory shall be  heard !  
Rejoice ye friends of Christ, and sing,  
We soon shall see our heavenly King  
What, though the sons of sin assail,  
And try our faith to overthrow ;  
The word of God shall never fail,  
But triumph over every foe !  
The Archangel's trumpet soon shall sound,  
And Jesus come with glory crown'tl.  
Prepare! 0, unregen'rate soul,  
While Christ, in pity, pleads thy cause ;  
He speaks to thee—" wilt thou be whole 1"  
O comc, while now his spirit draws.  
The day of grace will soon be o'er,  
When he will intercede no more!  
But if thou wilt his love despise,  
Thy wretched soul his wrath shall feel;  
When thou shalt see him in the skies,  
Approach to sink thee down to hell!  
Oh then be warn'd while mercy's free,  
For time will end in forty-three.  
Newark, Dec. 30, 1842. JOHN LYLE.  
AN ANTHEM.  
WHAT sound is this salutes my ear ?  
'Tis Gabriel's trump methinks I hear !  
The expected day is come ;  
Behold, the heavens, the earth, and sea 
Proclaim the year of Jubilee,  
Return, ye exiles home !  
Behold the fair Jerusalem,  
Illuminated by the Lamb ;  
In glory doth appear !  
Fair Zion, rising Irom the tombs,  
To meet the Bridegroom, lo he comes ;  
And hails the festive year!  
My soul is striving to be there ;  
I long to rise and wing the air,  
And trace the Heavenly road.  
Adieu, adieu, all mortal things ; 
0 that I had an Angel's wings,  
I'd quickly see my God !  
Fly, gracious moments ! fly, 0 fly !  
1 thirst, I pant, I long to try—  
Angelic joys to prove.  
Soon shall I quit this house of clay,  
Clap my glad wings, and soar away !  
And shout redeeming love !  
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