VOLUME 
I. 
NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 
17, 1842. 
NUMBER 
26. 
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though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry." 
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it or hi,"— " The harvest is the end of the world." He j upon the above interpretation, (admitted by yourself to 
says, truly, that the words rendered '-world" are not alike jl>e correct,) have themselves been driven to the necessity 
in the original Greek. 
The first, (kosmos.) is rightly °f 5efTti.n^ t0 ^e absurdity of applying the little horn 
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rendered. 
The second, he says, should be rendered 
K7 We had thought of bidding farewell to our readers, 
in a few hints to those who may read the Midnight Cry 
no longer. But we trust you will all continue the weekly, 
and that our intercourse will be continued till we.meet 
Christ in the clouds, to be forever with the Lord. 
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the very God of peace SANCTIFY you WHOLLY 
And I 
pray God your whole spirit and soul and body De pre 
served blameless UNTO the COMING of our Lord Jesus 
Christ." 
How 
LONG 
THE 
VISION '!"—A 
press of matter, 
which it was absolutely necessary to insert in this paper, 
has left us no room for a continuation of this subject, in 
the letters to Brother Hatfield.* 
This is the less to be regretted, because the weekly, 
being a larger paper, will give us room to consider the 
question fully, and show how irresistibly the Scriptures 
conduct us to the belief that very soon there will be NO 
LONGER DELAY, but that, m.l843,this defiled sanctu-
ary will he purified, and God's everlasting kingdom setup. 
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Hereafter, those wishing for publications, and who ex-
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Those wishing for publications who have not 
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and we will do the best we can for them, according to 
0Ur means ; but in order so to do, our agents must make 
immediate returns. 
"The harvest is the end of the World." 
Mr. Thomas, a Universalist minister, has been lectur-
ing in Brooklyn, at a shilling a night, hoping to build up 
Universalism by opposing our views of a judgment to 
come. 
There are many points on which we could show 
the falsity or unfairness of his arguments, but we have 
room to notice only one, where, we admit, his statement 
18 correct, though his conclusion by no means follows. 
Iq Matt. 13:'38, 39, it is said : « The field is the 
" age." 
Well, what follows ! 
What age is intended 1 
Let Christ answer. 
It is the age in which the tares and 
the wheat both grow together. 
It will not end until 
" The Son of Man shall send fonh his angels, and they 
shall gather out of his kingdom all things that ofFend, and 
them which do iniquity, and shall cast them into a fur-
nace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of 
teeth" 
Now, Mr. Thomas, wishing to cry peace and safety, 
tries to show that no such event is coming ; and how 
does he prove it 1 
His argument is this : 
1. These things were to be " at the end of the age." 
2. That age ended at the destruction of Jerusalem. 
3. Therefore, all which Christ here describes HAS 
TAKEN PLACE ! and there is NO JUDGMENT TO 
COME. 
Wonderful comfort! 
He divides time into ages, to suit his own fancy, tak-
ing eare to have one end soon after Christ's day. 
Does 
he fix that date as a ratiotial man would, by enquiring 
when the event actually took place ! 0 no. He guesses 
that Christ meant the age ending at the destruction of 
Jerusalem. 
Therefore, Christ did mean so. Therefore, 
the judgment is past. Then we can no longer pray 
" Thy kingdom come," for it has come already. 
The 
righteous do shine forth as the sun in the KINGDOM. 
Here are no tares nor anything which offends, and no me 
does iniquity ! Inasmuch as all this is true, Mr. Miller 
is mistaken ! 
Wonderful reasoner ! indulge us in one request.— 
Please tell us the day when ajl this took place, that we 
may celebrate the joyful event '! Our Bibles and his 
tories do not inform us. 
Impenitent reader, can you be lulled to sleep bj such 
absurdities I 
0 flee from the wrath TO COME. 
It will be seen by this letter, that Dr. Brownlee has 
blundered into some astonishing misrepresentations. We 
have the name of the writer, and have full confidence in 
his statements. We much regret to see a D. D. contend-
ing against—he knows not what,—which we regard as 
the great truths of God's word. 
LETTER TO REV. DR. BROWNLEE. 
SIR,—The writer was an attentive hearer of your ser-
mon on the Millennium last Sabbath evening, and would 
respectfully state some objections to your Tiews of the 
subject—and to show that you entirely misrepresented 
Mr Miller's theory. 
On the first part of your discourse, I have but little to 
say, as I am unacquainted with the history of the per-
sons and sects enlertaining the 
erroneous views which 
you so successfully attacked and demolished. In the next 
place you attempted a review of Mr. Miller's dates and 
expositions of prophecies. 
1 cannot believe that Dr. 
Brownlee would intentionally misrepresent the views of 
an opponent—you must have taken the slanderous and 
lying reports of the penny press for your authority, as MR 
Miller does NOT entertain the views which you made the 
subject of so much ridicule. 
You said that MR M. ap-
plied the " little horn" of Daniel's fourth beast, 7th ch , 
to " Antiochus Epiphanes," and not to Papacy, which I 
understood you to say'it does represent. Now, if you had 
ever examined Mr. Miller's writings, you would not have 
made such an assertion. 
Mr. M is not so ignorant of 
the common construction of language, as to suppose that 
a third beast can be the fourth. 
He has always applied 
the fourth beast to the Roman Government, and the little 
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horn to Papacy, It IS a notorious fact, that some of Mr. 
„ recently that the Jew, understand the 70 weeki to 
M.'s learned opponents, to avoid his conclusions, based 
be part of the 2300 days, and thit they stand for yean —ED. 
At the head of those learned Doctors 
stands Prof. M. Stuart, of Andover. 
See his " Hints on 
Prophecies," recently published—also the labored arti-
cles in the religious papers of the day, trying to make all 
the prophecies of Daniel end with the death of Antiochus 
—who, according to Stuart, died with clwlert 164 years 
B. C. Surelv Mr. Miller's learned opponents are driven 
into close quarters, and I can see no chance for them to 
retreat, except they come out at the little end of that 
wonderful " little horn " 
I think you will readily admit that you have done Mr. 
Miller great injustice, and that he is at least entitled to as 
public and frank an apology from you, as you made to 
Dr. Smith, the Geologist. 
See your letter, N. Y. Obser-
ver, Dec. 3d. If Mr. Miller is so ignorant and erroneous 
as you represent him, why do not the learned clergy 
agree upon some consistent explanation of the prophe-
cies, and settle the public excitement on this all-import-
ant subject 1 
Mo$t of the clergymen of every denomina-
tion—Romanists and Universalists included—are preach-
ing against Militarism, as they suppose; but the truth is, 
they are only opposing each other. You sav the Millen-
nium will begin about the year 2016. 
Prof Bush says it 
has already passed. Prof. Stuart says the little horn is 
Antiochus. 
You say the days in Daniel mean years. 
Rev. Mr. Hatfield, of Broome street, says they are literal 
days. 
Rev. A C Thomas, Universalist, agrees with 
Rev. Mr. Hatfield. The Catholic clergyman in Barclay 
street, says " No man knoweth the day nor the hour." 
Now, " who shall decide when Doctors disagree !" 
Again—as to the character of the Millennium. 
You 
say it will be.'' the golden age"—a time of great prosper-
ity to the church—that toward the close of that glorious 
era, the church wii! become corrupt—that the infidel 
power, Gog and Magog, will prevail, and nearly extin-
guish the true church. Now what proof can you bring 
from the Bible to sustain such barefaced contradictions 1 
Who can corrupt the church whilst the tempter is under 
chains of darkness, and not permitted to deceive the na-
tions until the thousand years are ended 1 
He is then to 
be loosed for a little season to deceive the rest of the 
dead—who at the same time are raised—and he, together 
with them, comes up and they surround the beloved 
city—and fire comes down from God out of heaven, and 
devours them. 
This is an age of inquiry. 
People are beginning to 
examine the Bible for themselves, and they can find no 
proof of a temporal Millennium—it is a tradition of 
men ! 
Your false exhibitions of Mr. Miller's dates, (which 
so amused your audience,) next deserves attention. 
You say he has no authority for selecting the third of 
the six dates which you referred to. 
You will find Mr. 
Miller's authority in Daniel ix. 23—27. 
The seventy 
weeks began with the decree of Artaxerxes 457 B. C., 
and ended at his death, A. D. 33—added to 457, makes 
490 years—" each day for a year." 
Mr. Miller believes that the seventy weeks, or 490 
years, is a part of the vision of 2310 days or years, which 
will .bring the end-1843, when Daniel is to stand in his 
lot—Dan. xii 13.* 
It is astonishing that there should be 
such a diversity of opinion among the learned divines up-
on this plain subject. 
The last three verses of the 56th 
chapter of Isaiah clearly describe the character of some 
of the watchmen who now stand upon the highest parts 
of the walls of Zion. 
Now pause for one moment, and reflect upon this all-
important subject. What if Mr Miller'3 calculations are 
correct 1 
What are you doing 1 1 have heard not a few-
impenitent persons say that they were willing to rest the 
event on Dr. Brownlee's positive assertions—that the 
world could not end in 1843. The excitement on this 
subject is increasing and spreading all over the world-
then why not meet and examine the testimony candidly 
and fairly—remembering that " if it is the work of man, 
it will come to nought, Rut if it be of God, ye cannot over-
throw it." 
Acts v. 38, 39. 
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Bridegroom ? 
And are you awake to this important 
subject? 
What say you? 
If this parable to which 
I have directed your minds, has reference to the last 
day and the coming of Christ; if fhe "virgins" has 
reference to all men in this probationary state, and di-
viding them into two classes, wise and foolish; if the 
"lamp" is the word of God, and " oil" means faith 
ia his word, or grace in the heart, as some say,—then 
my conclusions are just, and the evidence is Strong 
that we live at the end of the gospel kingdom, and 
upon the threshold cf the glorified state of the righ-
teous. 
Then examine your Bibles, and if you can as 
fairly prove any other exposition of this parable, as I 
have this, then believe yours, and time must settle the 
issue; but if you can find nothing in the Scriptures 
to controvert plainly my explanation, then believe, and. 
prepare to go out to meet the Bridegroom; for be-
hold he crtmeth. 
Awake, ye fathers and mothers in 
£ion ; you have long looked and prayed for this day. 
Behold the signs! 
He is near, even at the door. 
And, ye children of God, lift up your heads and re-
joice, for your redemption draweth nigh. 
For these 
things have begun to come to pass. 
And ye, little 
lambs of the flock, remember Jesus has promised to 
carry you in his arms, and that he will come and take 
vou to himself, that where he is there ye may be also, 
fcut remember, all of you, the wise had oil in their 
lamps, and they were trimmed and burning. 
Search 
deep; examine yourselves closely ; be not deceived ; 
and may the Spirit which searchcth all things, and 
knoweth what is in the mind of man, assist you. 
But, my impenitent friends, what shall I say to you? 
Shall I say, as the master in the parable, "Behold, 
the bridegroom cometh: go ye out to meet him?" 
Prepare to meet your Judge. 
Now he has given you 
a time for repentance ; you have had a probationary 
season, and possibly now the sceptre of mercy is held 
out to you. 
Repent, or it will soon be said to you as 
Jeremiah said to the virgin, the daughter of Egypt, 
"In vain shalt thou use many medicines; for thou 
shalt not be cured;" or as in the parable, "I know 
you not." 
Have you no oil in your lamps? 
Delay 
not a moment; believe the gospel, and you will live; 
believe in the word of God; receive the love of the 
bridegroom, and make no delay ; for while they went 
to buy, the bridegroom came; and they that were 
ready went in with him to the marriage, and the door 
was shut. 
0, think what must be the exercise of 
your minds when these things shall be real; when you 
will stand without and knock, saying, Lord, Lord, 
open unto us. 
Again I ask. Will you repent, believe, 
and be saved? 
Are you determined to resist the 
truth until it is too late? 
Say, sinner, what think 
ye? 
" We will risk the consequence. 
We do not 
believe in your day you tell us of. 
The world is the 
same it always was; no change, nor ever will be; 
but if it should come, it will not this ten thousand 
years ; not in our day, certainly. 
You do not believe 
it yourself. 
If you did, we should call you a fool." 
Are these your arguments, sinner? 
Yes. 
Well, 
if I had brought no more, no stronger arguments than 
these, I would not blame you for not believing, for 
not one of yours can you or have you supported with a 
particle of proof. 
They are mere assertions; yonr 
believing or not believing will not alter the designs of 
God. 
The antediluvians believed not. 
The citi-
zens of the plain laughed at the folly of Lot. 
And 
where are they now ? 
S ufFering the vengeance of eter-
nal fire. 
LECTURE 
XIII. 
SIGNS OF THE PRESENT TIMES. 
MATT. xvi. 3. 
But can ye not discern the signs of the times I 
OUR text is a question proposed by Christ to the 
Pharisees and Sadducees, at a time when they came 
to him, tempting him for a sign from heaven; and is 
a reproof upon them for their unbelief in the signs al-
ready given by the Old Testament riters, which they 
professed to believe, and which were actually fulfilling 
before their eyes, yet disregarded. 
The Pharisees and 
Sadduqees were two of the most learned and popular 
sects among the Jews; many of them were scribes, 
lawyers, doctors, and teachers of the law; yet so per-
fectly blinded, that they could not or would not apply 
the most simples rules of interpretation to the law or 
prophets. 
They would apply the rules of common 
Observation and common sense io the weather, but 
neither the one nor the other were versed in understand-
ing the Scriptures. 
They were well versed in the 
skill to tell the weather for the morrow, but had no 
skill in the promises, prophecies, and word of God. 
" When it is evening, ye eay it.will be fair weather, 
for the sky is red; and in the morning, it will he foul 
weather to-day, for the sky is red and lowering. 
0 
ye hypocrites! ye can discern the face of the sky, but 
can ye not (by the same simple rule) discern the signs 
of the limes V 
All the signs given in the word of God, concerning 
the first coming and person of the Messiah, were ful-
filling before their ^eyes; yet they were demanding 
more and greater signs from heaven. 
Christ had, and 
was then performing miracles which no man on earth 
could perform, and they ascribed it to the power of 
Beelzebub. 
No evidence had or could be presented, 
which they were not ready to evade or deny; and 
yet they claimed all the learning, all the wisdom, and 
all the piety of that day. 
This was the character of 
those whom Christ calls hypocrites, and to whom he 
addresses the question, " But can ye not discern the 
signs of the times?" 
And happy would it have been 
for us, who live in this day of gospel light, when the 
gospel shines with greater effulgence than at any'other 
period of time since the world began, if hypocrisy had 
died with the Pharisees and Sadducees; but it was 
not so. 
Any man of common capacity of mind, who 
can divest himself of prejudice, or who will try to see 
the character of man as developed at the present day in 
matters of faith, will discover the same unbelief, the 
same disregard, the same taunting, tempting spirit, 
concerning the second coming of the Messiah, as the 
Pharisees and Sadducees manifested in their conduct 
and conversation with our ble&sed Redeemer. 
And the 
question may with equal propriety, and I fear with ten-
fold force, be put to us at this day, if Christ was here, 
as then. 
And I have much reason to fear, that many 
may be found among our great, learned, and teachers 
of divine things, who would receive from our divine 
Master the same reproof, were he as then a teacher 
among us. 
" Let him that thinketh he standeth take 
heed lest he fall." 
I shall, then, in treating on this 
subject, use my text as a reproof to us. 
I. I shall show a number of signs which the Jews 
had in that day, as evidences of Jesus being the true 
Messiah. 
II. Show the signs that Jesus Christ, the prophets, 
and apostles have given us of his second coming, now 
fulfilling in this day in which we live. 
Under my first head, the signs of Jesus being the 
true Messiah, were, 
1. The universal peace at his birth. Of this Isaiah, 
ii. 3, 4, had prophesied 760 years before, " And many 
people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to 
the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of 
Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will 
walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the 
law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. 
And 
he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke 
many people ; and they shall beat their swords into 
ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks. 
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither 
shall they learn war any more." 
This prophecy was 
accomplished at his birth. 
For the temple of Janus 
was shut the very year our Savior was born, which 
denoted universal peace; and this must have been 
known to the Jewish rulers. 
Also the doctrines of 
Jesus Christ taught that they should forgive and pray 
for their enemies and learn wai no more. 
" Peace on 
earth and good will to men," was sung by the heaven-
ly band when they announced the birth of the Savior 
in the city of David. 
2. The star that appeared and guided the wise men 
to the place of his nativity, prophesied of by Balaam, 
Num. xxvi. 17. 
" There shall come a star out of 
Jacob," &c. 
3. A root out of Jesse. 
Isa. xi. 10, " In that day 
there shall be a root out of Jesse, which shall stand for 
an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek," 
&c. 
That he was a descendant of David, was well 
known tc the Jews, for they were very scrupulous in 
their genealogies, and from the fact that he was born 
in the city of David when his parents went up to be 
taxed where their names were enrolled. 
4. Born of a virgin. 
Isa. vii. 14, " Therefore the 
Lord himself shall give you a sign. 
Behold, a virgin 
shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name 
Immanuel." 
This was evidently fulfilled. 
5. At Bethlehem. 
Micah v. 2, " But thou, Beth-
lehem Ephratah, though thou be little *unong the 
thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall he come forth 
uMo.me that is to.be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth 
hare been from of old, from everlasting." 
This was 
fulfilled, according to their own showing, to the wise 
men from the east. 
6. Herod slaying all the children in Bethlehem, 
from two years old and under, prophesied of by Jere-
miah, xxxi. 15, "A voice was heard in Rarnah, la-
mentation and bitter weeping, Rachael weeping for her 
children," &c. 
This must h^tve been known in all 
Judea. 
7. Land forsaken of both of her kings. 
Isa. vii. 
16, " For before the child shall know to refuse the 
evil and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest 
shall be forsaken of both her kings." 
Herod and his 
successor both died before Jesus was of the common 
age to refuse the evil and choose the good. 
Called out of Egypt. 
Hosea xi. 1, "And called 
my son out of Egypt." 
9. His forerunner, John. 
Isa. xl. 3, " The voice 
of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the, 
way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a high-
way for our God." 
All Judea and Jerusalem went 
into the wilderness to John, and of course must have 
seen this sign. 
10. Coming suddenly to his temple. 
Mai. iii. 1, 
" And the Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to 
his temple." For the fulfilment of this prophecy, read 
John vii. 11—14, " Then the Jews sought him at the 
feast, and said, Where is he? 
Now about the midst 
of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught." 
11. The gospel preached. Isa. lxi. 1, " The spirit of 
the Lord God is upon me ; because the Lord hath anoint-
ed me to preach good tidings unto the meek ; he hath 
sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liber-
ty to the captive, and the opening of the prison to them 
that are bound." 
12. The covenant confirmed one week or seven 
years. 
Daniel ix. 27, "And he shall confirm the cove-
nant with many for one week." 
John preached three 
years and a half, and Christ three and a half. 
13. The blind see. 
Isa. xlii. 7, " To open the 
blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, 
and them that sit in darkness out of the prison-house." 
14. The lame walk. Isaiah xxxv. 6, " Then shall 
the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the 
dumb sing." 
15. The deaf hear. Isaiah xxxv. 5, " Then the 
eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the j 
deaf shall be unstopped." 
16. The dead are raised. Isaiah xxvi. 19, "And the 
earth shall cast out the dead." 
17. His humility when on trial. 
Isaiah liii. 7, "He 
was oppressed, and he was afflicted ; yet he opened not 
his mouth. 
He is brought,as a lamb to the slaughter, 
and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he 
opened not his mouth." 
18. 
The manner and circumstances of his death. 
Psalm xxii. 13—18, " They gaped upon me with their 
mouths as a ravening and a roaring lion. 
I am poured 
out as water, and all my bones are out of joint: my 
heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bow-
els. 
My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my 
tongue cleaveth to my jaws, and thou hast brought me 
into the dust of death. 
For dogs have compassed me ; 
the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they 
pierced my hands and my feet; I may tell all my 
bones; they look and stare upon me. 
They part my 
garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.'' 
This Psalm was indited more than 1000 years before 
Christ's crucifixion, and yet every word had an exact 
and literal accomplishment in that transaction, and the 
Jews saw it. 
19. His resurrection. 
Psalm xvi. 10, "For thou 
wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer 
thine Holy One to see corruption." 
20. The pouring out of the Holy Spirit on the day 
of Pentecost. 
Joel ii. 28, " And it shall come to pass 
afterward that I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh: 
and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy ; 
your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men 
shall see visions." 
The apostle told them that this 
scripture was fulfilled at the day of Pentecost, and this 
transaction was well known to the Jews. 
' 21. The fulfilment of the seventy weeks spoken of 
by Daniel, ix. 24—27, which I have shown, in a for-
mer lecture, was accomplished to a day. 
And the 
Jews well understood it; for Caiaphas, being high 
priest that year, said to the Jews, " Ye know nothing 
at all, nor consider that it is expedient for us that one 
man should die for the people, and that the whole na-
tion perish not. 
And this spake he not of himself, but 
being high priest that year he prophesied (or taugnt 
the prophecy in Daniel) that Jesus should die for that 
nation, and not for that nation only, but that also he 
should gather together 
one the children of God U»<*1 
were scattered abroad." 
John xi. 4©—60. - 
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«an,) and unclean, signifying they are not holy things 
This prophecy is now accomplishing. 
What nation, 
within our knowledge, ie not already divided into three 
political parties ? None, whieh is in any way known 
to your speaker. 
17. The church has fulfilled her 1260 years in the 
wilderness, spoken of in Rev. xii. 6, 14, " And the 
woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place 
prepared of God, that they should feed her there a 
thousand two hundred and threescore days." 
These 
days were evidently accomplished in 1798, since which 
time the Protestant church has enjoyed privileges even 
in the city of nations, the Roman empire ; and, accord-
ing to Daniel, forty-five years will complete the whole 
plan of redemption. 
18. The two witnesses prove that the 1260 years 
are ended ; for it is evident that the Old and New Tes-
tament are not now hid nor kept from the common < 
people, but have arisen from their dead state, and are 
now performing the office God designed they should, 
conveying light to the world. 
They are not clothed 
in sackcloth, but, through the missionaries of the cross 
and Bible societies, are testifying to the world of 
Christ and his second coming. 
19. The civil power of anti-Christ is destroyed, and 
the 1260 years, in which she was to rule over kings 
and tread the church under foot, were completed in 
1798, when the French army took the Pope a prison-
er, and erected Italy into a republic; since which time 
the Pope has exercised but little or no power over 
kings, or the Protestant church, and she is evidently 
sinking by the weight of her own corruptions. 
20. It is very evident that the sixth trumpet has 
sounded, and the 391 years will be completed in 1839, 
when the seventh trumpet will begin to sound, and the 
mystery of God will be finished, all that he hath de-
clared to his servants the prophets. 
If the fall of the 
Eastern Empire at Constantinople was included in the 
sixth trumpet, which all the principal commeritators, 
whom I have consulted, agree in, .and that trumpet 
was prepared to sound an hour, a day, a month, and a 
year, which makes, according to the reckoning of time 
in John's prophecy, 391 years and 15 days, then the 
sixth trumpet is almost finished. The whole appear-
ance strengthens this exposition of the text; for the 
power of the Turks has diminished more rapidly within 
fifteen years, than any politician, however anxious he 
could have been for the event, could have antici-
pated. 
21. The opening of the sixth seal, revealed in the 
6th and 7th chapters of Revelation, was opened in the 
French revolution, and carries us through a sealing 
time unto the opening of the seventh seal, which ush-
ers us before the judgment-seat of God. 
No one can 
deny but that, since the revolution in France, a sealing 
time has passed ; many have been born into the spirit-
ual kingdom of Christ, more than has ever been known, 
in the same period of time, since the apostles' days. 
This seal, then, is evidently opened, and is a strong 
evidence that the book of life will soon be opened, and 
the dead Will be judged out' of the things written in 
the books. 
22. The sixth vial was poured out about the year 
1822, when the Ottoman power began to be dried up. 
This is an important sign that we are on the brink of 
the judgment day. 
Rev. xvi. 12, " And the sixth an-
gel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; 
and the waters thereof were dried up, that the way of 
• the kings of the east might be prepared." 
This pre-
paration is for the last great battle, which will take 
place at the pouring out of the seventh vial, in the 
year 1839 or 40. 
At the pouring out of the seventh 
vial, a voice from" the throne will pronounce the words, 
It is done. 
The kingdoms of the earth and govern-
ments of the world will be carried away, and their 
places not found. 
Every writer, of any note, will and 
have applied this vial to the Turkish government, and 
of course must acknowledge that this vial is poured 
out, for the power of the Turkish government is but 
little more than a name, and the strength of the Otto-
man power dried up. 
23. Another evidence is Daniel's resurrection at 
the end of the 1335 days. 
This evidence is very plain 
and evident, for Daniel says, xii. 11—13, " And from 
the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, 
and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there 
shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days." 
This cannot be the Jewish sacrifice ; for if so, then it 
must have been fulfilled about five hundred years past; 
and as no event took place then which would warrant us 
in so understanding it, I can see no rational objection to 
understand this daily sacrifice to mean Pagan rites and 
sacrifices, which was the original beast of which the 
abomination of desolation was only an image, and, as 
1 have shown in a former lecture, was to continue six 
hundred and sixty-six years ; and as Paul tells us, that 
when he was taken out of the way, the man of sin would 
be revealed, agreeing in language with Daniel, I think 
the proof is strong that from the taking away of Pagan 
worship, A. D. 508, to the end of the Papal civil 
power, would be 1290 years, which would end in the 
year 1798, and thus agree with all of John's nunlbers 
in Revelation. 
And then Daniel says, or the angel to 
Daniel, " Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the 
thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. " 
Thus add 1'335 to 508, will bring us down to the year 
A. D. 1843. 
" But go thou thy way till the end be, 
for thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of the 
days." 
And "Blessed and holy is he that hath part 
in the first resurrection." 
Then Daniel will stand in 
his lot, and Job will stand on the earth in the latter 
day. 
24. Daniel's vision of 2300 days long. 
I have in 
some former lectures shown clearly that Daniel's 
vision concerning the four great monarchies which 
were or were to come, included the whole history of 
the world, so far as God saw fit to reveal it, down to' 
the judgment day, and the coming of the Son of man 
in the clouds. 
I then showed that the question was 
asked, How long should be this vision? 
The answer 
was given—2300 days. 
I then proved that days 
were to be counted years, by the command of God, by 
the example of Jacob, and by the fulfilment of a part 
of the vision. 
I then showed you when this vision 
began, by the angel Gabriel's own declaration, who 
was commanded to instruct Daniel into the vision. 
According to this instruction I showed you that 490 
years were accomplished of this vision, to a day, at 
the crucifixion of Christ, both events happening on the 
12th day of the first month, 490 years apart. 
And 
then I inquired, if 490 years of 2300 were fulfilled 
when our Savior was crucified, how much of the vision 
remained after his death ? I answered, 1810 years. 
I 
then inquired, what year after his birth that would be; 
and the answer was, in the year. 1843. 
I then begged 
the privilege, and do now, for any person to show me 
any failure of proof on this point, or where, possibly, 
according to Scripture, there may be a failure in the 
calculation I have made on this vision. 
I have not yet, 
by seventeen years' study, been able to discover where 
I might fail. 
Lastly. Another sign of the last day you will find 
given by Paul, 1 Thess. v. 2, 3, " For yourselves 
know perfectly, that the day of the Lord so cometh as 
a thief in the night. 
For when they shall say, Peace 
and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon 
them, as travail upon a woman with child ; and they 
shall not escape." 
Compare 2 Pet. ii. 17—22. 
The doctrine of peace and safety, and that there is 
no punishment in the future state, had but few or no 
advocates until very recently. 
I am not certain but 
the first preacher of this soul-destroying doctrine is 
now living ; and they now boast of their multitudes of 
followers and advocates. 
There have been, in past 
ages, a few who preached the doctrine of the restora-
tion of all men, after a suitable punishment in hell; but 
to modern Universalists belongs the invention of preach-
ing "^>eace and Bafety when sudden destruction com-
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1 called on some persons who partly examined this 
subject some time ago, but were now undecided,and some 
of them apparently indiflerent about the result of those 
things. I gave them some papers to read for themselves 
first, and then lend them to others ; by this means manv 
may be engaged in spreading the alarm to the careless. 
I gave some papers to persons in the streets ; others I 
left at houses, and some I laid on counters of shops where 
I did not stop to enter into conversation with the persons 
there. 
But few refused to take them, among these was 
A CafhoJic, who told me it was HO use " to leave them at 
his people's houses, for they had religious books enough 
of their own :" but advised me to " gi?e them at the 
hedges of those who have no religion at all 
And added 
that there was plenty such houses in the city. 
I could 
not help feeling convinced that this man's last observa-
tion was, alas! too true, for there are hundreds in this 
city who indeed have no religion at all, but are without 
God and without hope in the world, and aliens from the 
commonwealth of' Israel, who never pray to God or at-
tend to any of his requirements. 
Header, do you belong 
to this class! 
If you do, try to get your name off the 
list immediately—fly for refuge to the hope set before 
ycu in the gospel—become a C hristian in deed and in truth; 
let no one have it to say any longer, that you have no re-
lig'on at all. 
Some try to prove that this world can never be 
destroyed, when Peter has declared in plain and glowing 
language, that it shall be burned up and all the works 
therein. 
Wh*>n I remind them how God destroyed the 
eth." 
Jf this sign is not fulfilled in the pioochers of 
this order at this time, I ask, How can it be fulfilled ? 
and what must the doctrine of those be who preach 
"peace and safety?" Surely, no human being can invent 
a doctrine so full of (promised) " peace and safety " to 
the wicked as this; and no other denomination on our 
globe ever have opposed the doctrine of the coming of 
Christ, the judgment day, and future punishments, but 
the modern Universalists; and if this is the doctrine 
that Paul had reference to in our text, as, I am fully 
satisfied, every candid and religious mind must and will 
allow, then we may reasonably suppose " sudden de-
struction cometh upon them, and they shall not escape." 
Therefore, my dear reader, I shall now, with a few 
closing remarks, leave you to your own reflections. 
The Jews had twenty-one signs in the Scriptures 
given them of the first coming and person of JesuB 
Christ; yet many rejected him as an impostor. 
You 
say, if you had lived in that day, you would have 
believed ; and you in your hearts condemn them as a 
hardened race of unbelievers; and notwithstanding 
their great pretence to piety, you say they were justly 
denounced by our Savior as a generation of vipers and 
a band of hypocrites. 
But, my hearers, be careful your 
own hearts do not condemn you for your unbelief in 
the signs which the prophets, Christ, and the apostles 
have given you as tokens of his second coming and the 
judgment day . 
I have brought from the word of God 
twenty-five signs of his second coming, end of the 
world, and judgment day, and all apparently fulfilled 
within the age of many present, or fulfilling now before 
your eyes. 
And do you believe? 
Many of you 
profess to be pious; many of you say, Lord, lord ! "but 
do you believe his word? 
Are you willing to risk 
your life, yottr character, your all, on his word? or are 
you fearful and unbelieving ? 
Now is the time to try 
men's souls. 
Now, if you wish to be sure, examine 
closely, and see whether youj: faith will stand in the day 
of trial which is coming; yes, has already come, in a 
thousand ways, to draw you from the gospel of Christ 
to another new gospel, which is not the gospel of God. 
" Can ye not discern the signs of the times?" 
Let 
me give you one rule by which you may know a false 
doctrine. 
They may have many good things in their 
creeds, they may be very plausible in their arguments, 
and after all deceive you. But examine them closely, 
and you will find they deny, ridicule, or try to do away 
some prominent doctrine of the Bible, such as the divin-
ity of Christ, his second coming, office of the Holy Spi-
rit, eternal punishment, doctrine of grace, election, con-
viction for sin, regeneration, repentance, or faith. And 
when you hear or see them make light or scoff at any-
thing of this kind in the word of God, go not after 
them nor bid them God-speed. " Can ye not discern 
the signs of the times?" 
And to you, impenitent 
friend, God has at all times given warning of his 
approaching judgments. 
If you repent, believe his 
word, and break off your sins by righteousness, he is 
faithful and just to forgive you your sins. 
Why not 
take warning by the past ? 
Is there no example for 
you? 
Look at the antediluvian world. 
Sodom and 
Gomorrah, Nineveh, Babyloii, Jerusalem, and the 
once enlightened Asia, now worse than in heathenish 
darkness. 
Will God punish nations and not indi-
viduals ? This cannot be, for nations are composed of 
individuals; and God is just, for he hath appointed a 
day in which he will judge the world in righteousness. 
" Can ye not discern the signs of the times? " 
Will 
God's word fail of .being accomplished? 
Can you 
show a single instance? 
Why not listen, then, to the 
warnings and admonitions, to the calls and invitations, 
to the examples and precepts contained therein? 
" Can ye not discern the signs of the times?" 
Will 
God cut off the unbelieving Pharisee for not discern-
ing the signs of the times, and let you, with twofold 
more light, go free? No : how can ye escape, if you 
neglect this great salvation? 
Watch, then, "the 
signs of the times." 
I say, Watch. 
old world by a flood—Sodom and Gomorrah, in the same 
way we expect that this world will be destroyed; and 
how he caused the destruction of Jerusalem and other 
cities, they tell me that people were more wicked then 
than they are now. 
But I am not certain of that. I 
hope there are more of God's people in the world now 
than in other ages, but I believe the wicked do as wick-
edly as any people ever did. 
And now, reader, let me ask you to examine your New 
Testament on the subject of the coming of Christ; see 
if the apostles have told us any thing about a mil-
lennium, or any thing else taking place first; ex-
cept the revelation of the Man of Sin, which all Pro-
testants believe means Papacy, which is now being con-
sumed by the spread of the gospel, and will be destroyed 
by the brightness of Christ's coming. 
This evidence was well understood among the rulers 
of the Jews ; yet notwithstanding all this scripture was 
fulfilled before their faces, and all these signs were ac-
tually accomplished in the short space of thirty-five 
years, and a cloud of witnesses testifying to all these 
facts, and they themselves had to consent that notable 
miracles had been done, they believed not. 
Well may 
you say, dear hearer, that they deserved wrath, and 
God was just in destroying their nation and place. 
But how is it with us ? 
Do we believe in that word 
which we blame them for rejecting ? Are we clear of 
the sin of unbelief? The Jews were looking for a tem-
poral king and kingdom. 
And are not we looking for 
a temporal millennium—one in which the Christians 
will have the rule of the world ? Let us see to it that 
we do not stumble at the same stumbling-stone ; possi-
bly we may have carnal notions as well as they. 
Therefore, let us inquire, 
II. What signs are now fulfilling, which are given 
us by Christ, the prophets, or apostles, of his second 
coming and glorious reign ? And, 
1. Christ tells Us, Matt. xxiv. 14, "This gospel of 
the kingdom shall be preached in all the world as a 
witness, and then shall the end come." 
Is not this 
sign already accomplished ? Bible translated into more 
than 200 different languages; missionaries sent among 
all the nations known to us on the globe, and reforma-
tion succeeding reformation in every town, nook or 
corner in this land. 
The gospel has now spread over 
the four quarters of the globe. 
It began in Asia. 
In 
the apostles' days, that quarter was full of light. 
From thence it went into Africa ; and, for a number 
of centuries, Africa stretched out her hands unto God. 
Europe, too, has had a long visitation of gospel bless-
ings ; and now xlmerica, the last quarter of the globe, 
is reaping a harvest of souls for the last day. 
The 
gospel, like the sun, arose in the east, and will set in 
the west. 
2. The pouring out of the Holy Spirit, and last reign 
of grace. Daniel tells us, (after Bonaparte should come 
to his end, and none should help him,) xii. 1, " And at 
that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince 
which standeth for the children of thy people." 
This 
I have shown, in a former lecture, is the same angel j 
that stood upon the waters of the river, clothed in 
linen, Daniel xii. 6 ; also the same angel that John 
saw, Rev. x. 1—6, standing, his right foot upon the 
sea, and his left upon the earth, and in his hand a little 
book open. 
This angel told John that he must " pro-
phesy again before many people, and nations, and 
tongues, and kings;" meaning that the gospel must 
again be published, as it had been in the apostolic days. 
And then would this angel lift his hand to heaven, and 
swear by him that liveth forever and ever, that time 
should be no longer. 
Again, James says, v. 7, 8, 
" Be patient, therefore, brethren, unto the coming of 
the Lord. 
Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the 
precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for 
it, until he receive the early and latter rain. 
Be ye 
also patient; establish your hearts, for the coming of 
the Lord draweth nigh." 
And now, can any man, 
who has any knowledge of the present times, deny 
that God has poured out his Spirit, in a remarkable 
manner, for twenty years past? 
Has not the gospel 
been spread in as rapid and extensive a manner, as in 
the apostolic day ? 
Has not opposition and persecu-
tion of the kings of the earth, of the woman that sitteth 
on many waters, the sea, been in a great measure kept 
in check and powerless, by some invisible power, some 
mighty arm, until the servants of God should be sealed, 
the latter rain of grace descend, and God's purposes be 
completed concerning this latter day? Here, then, we 
have a clear and visible sign that the coining of the 
Lord draweth nigh. 
. 3. "Many running to and fro." 
This is another 
important and evident sign of the end. 
Daniel xii. 4, 
" But thou, 0 Daniel, shut up the words and seal the 
book, even to^the time of the end. 
Many shall run to 
and fro." 
Whether the prophet means to be under-
stood, "many shall run to and fro" in a religious 
sense, or in a civil or temporal sense, or whether he 
means in both, is perfectly immaterial for my purpose. 
A 1 must acknowledge that this text is remarkably 
iinfilled in this day, in either point of view. 
If it 
means missionaries of the cross, no man can dispute 
the fulfilment. 
See the heralds of salvation crossing 
and re-crossing on every part of the habitable globe. 
« it means common travellers, or (he rapid means of 
travel, still our text holds good, and the fulfilment 
obvious. 
No man, unless he is wilfully ignorant, 
fulfilled^ that ^^ Sig" ^ n0t actUaily and literall>r 
4- The great increase of knowledge, given in the 
8ltne text as above. " Even to the time of the end 
many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be 
increased." 
View this in any point you please, whe-
ther theological or scientifical, it is literally true ; in 
this day of invention and improvement, knowledge 
increases. 
What of the fifty different moral societies, 
which have become general in the Christian world ? 
Is there no increase of knowledge in our Bible socie-
ties, Sabbath schools, tract societies, 
temperance 
societies, and a catalogue of others for moral reform? 
What can we say of all the inventions in the arts? 
What of all the improvements in science ? 
In all this, 
is it not very evident that this sign is now fulfilling to 
the very letter ? 
5. The great increase of riches, and desire for lay-
ing up worldly treasures, as described by James, v. 1— 
3, " Go to, now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your 
miseries that shall come upon you; your riches are 
corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten; your 
gold and your silver is cankered, and the rust of them 
shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh 
as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for 
the last days." 
When, since the writer of this epistle 
was on our earth, has there been such an increase of 
gold and silver, and treasures Of this life, as at this 
day? 
Our rich men are laying up their gold, silver, 
and treasures in abundance. 
But, as though this indi-
vidual exertion for riches would not completely fulfil 
our text, they have entered into all manner of compa-
nies and monopolies, to "heap treasure together." 
When, in the history of the-world, can there lie shown 
so many banking institutions as now ? When so much 
insurance capital as is heaped together at this day? 
Are not our rich men perfectly infatuated with stocks 
of all kinds? 
And monopoly is the order of the day; 
to grind down the poor, and heap treasure together for 
the last days. 
Can any man, who has any knowledge 
of these things, deny that this sign of the last days is 
not evidently accomplished? 
Go to, ye rich men, 
weep and howl, for your miseries are come upon 
you. 
6. The unwillingness of men to hear sound doctrine, 
taught us by Paul, 2 Tim. iv. 1—4. " I charge thee, 
therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who 
shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing 
and his kingdom. 
For the time will come, when they 
will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own 
lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having 
itching ears ; and they shall turn away their ears from 
the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." 
My 
brethren, need I say one word on this passage? 
There is none of you so blind, but you see that this 
passage does actually describe the most fashionable 
preaching at the present day. 
How many thousands 
do run after that kind of preaching which is only 
relating fables, and that doctrine which gives all power, 
to man ? 
7. Scoffers, saying. " Where is the promise of his 
coining?" as Peter informs us in his 2 Epistle, iii. 3, 
4, " Knowing this first, that there shall come in the 
last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and 
saying, Where is the promise of his coming? 
For, 
since the fathers fell asleep, all things continu« as they 
were from the beginning of the creation." 
A right 
understanding of this text would show us, at once, that 
many of us, who fancy we are in the highway to 
heaven, are belonging to this class of scoffers, 
lirst, 
they walk after their own lusts; that is, after their 
own carnal notions concerning the coming of Christ. 
They say all things will continue as they were from 
the creation ; they must have a temporal millennium; 
man must be married and given in marriage ; the world 
will not be burnt; and, My Lord delayeth his coming, 
some say a thousand years, and some say 365,000 
years, and all the moral change that takes place on 
our earth will be performed by the agency of man. 
Therefore, many scoff and ridicule the idea that Scrip-
ture tells us of the second coming of Christ, the man-
ner, object, and time. 
And many are willingly igno-
rant, will not hear Or read on this subject. 
8. " Perilous times," as described in 2 Tim. iii. 
1—7, " This know, also, that, in the last days, perilous 
times shall come; for men shall be lovers of their own 
selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, dis-
obedient to 
parents, unthankful, unholy, without 
natural affection, truce-breakers, false accusers, incon-
tinent, fierce, deepisers of those that are good, traitors, 
heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasure more than 
lovers of God, having the form of godliness, but deny-
ing the power thereof; from such turn away. 
For of 
this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead 
captive silly women laden with sins, led away with 
divers lusts, ever learning, and never able to come to 
the knowledge of the truth." 
What better description of domestic aad public soci-
ety could we expect from the most close observer o£ 
private characters, domestic circles, and public societies 
of our times, than is here given ? One would conclude, 
had he found this in any other book but the Bible, that 
it was from a modern writer, well acquainted with the 
human heart, and the generations now on the earth. 
9. " Departing from the faith, giving heed to sedu-
cing spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking liee in 
hypocrisy ; having their conscience seared with a hot 
iron ; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain 
from meats:" 
Thus Paul tells Timothy, 1 Epistle, 
iv. 1—3, " Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that 
in the latter times some shall depart from the faifn," 
&c. 
This, we must acknowledge, has been, and is 
now fulfilling. 
The whole, almost, of the Christian 
world have departed, or changed their faith within 
fifteen years; seducing spirits are evidently at work; 
hypocrites are multiplying among us; Roman Catho-
lics, Shakers, Pilgrims, Fanny Wright, Owen, and 
others forbid to marry. 
Roman Catholics, and many 
others among us, are teaching to abstain from meats 
and drinks, which God hath created to be received 
with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the 
truth. 
10. 
False teachers, making merchandise of the 
gospel. 
See 2 Peter ii. 1—3, " But there were false 
prophets, also, among the people; even as there shall 
be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in 
damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought 
them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction; 
and many shall follow their pernicious ways, by reason 
of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of; and 
through covetousness shall they, with feigned words, 
make merchandise of you, whose judgment of a long 
time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth 
not." 
The apostle then goes on to show, that, as it 
was in the days of Noah and Lot, so it would be in the 
days of thiese false teachers ; one generation would not 
pass off before the judgment would overtake them, 
who make merchandise of the gospel, and like Balaam, 
who loved the wages of unrighteousness. 
11. Jude gives us a sign, 4th to 19th verse, inclusive, 
" How they told you there should be mockers in the 
last time, who should walk after their own ungodly 
lusts; these be they who separate themselves, sensual, 
having not the Spirit." 
Some preachers deny the 
agency of the Spirit in regeneration. 
12. Christ gives a sign in Luke xxi. 
25—28, 
" And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, 
and in the stars; and, upon the earth, distress of na-
tions, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring ; 
men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking for 
those things which are coming on the earth ; for the 
powers of the heavens shall be shaken ; and then shall 
they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with pow-
er and great glory. 
And when these things begin to 
come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads, for 
your redemption draweth nigh." 
13. Christ gives another sign in Matt. xxiv. 23, 24, 
" Then, if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is 
Christ, or there, believe it not; for there shall arise 
false Christs and. false prophets, and shall show great 
signs and wonders, insomuch that, if it were possible, 
they shall deceive the very elect." 
There can be no 
doubt of this sign being fulfilled. 
14. The fulfilment of the parablp of the ten virgins 
—the midnight cry has gone forth from every quarter 
of God's moral vineyard, " Behold, the bridegroom 
cometh." 
The world has been, and are now, " trim-
ming their lamps ;" witness the Bible translated into 
all languages; the Bible societies sending Bibles to 
every nation and family on the earth;' the Sabbath 
schools and Bit>le classes studying its sacred precepts. 
15. The scattering of the holy people and division 
of sects, as prophesied of by Daniel, xii. 7, " And 
when he shaR have accomplished to scatter the power 
of the holy people, all these things shall be 
finished." 
This prophecy is now fulfilling in a remarkable man-
ner. 
Not one sect, who profess holiness, but are divi-
ded and subdivided into contending Bchisms, and that, 
too, within twenty years. 
16. The division of the political world, as prophe-
sied of by John, Rev. xvi. 12—16, " And I saw three 
unclean spirits, like frogs, come out of the mouth of 
the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out 
of the mouth of the false prophet, for they are the 
spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto 
the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gath-
er them to the battle of the great day of God Almigh-
ty "—and 19th verse, " And the great city was divi-
ded into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell." 
That these spirits are political, is evident, from the 
fact that they oome out of the mouth of the dragon, 
(kings,) and beoat, (Catholic,) false prophet, (Mahom-