VOLUME II. NEW-YORK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1843. NUMBERS 9 & 10.  
Write the vision, and make it plarh upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie ;  
though it tarry, wait for it ; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."  
BY JOSHUA V. HIMES.  
THE MIDNIGHT CRY—WEEKLY.  
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BROTHER BERNARD,  
Whose letter appears to-day, is well known as the  
publisher ofthe revised Version of the Bible. It is only  
a few weeks since he commenced a thorough examina-
tion of the subject. He was " more noble" than some,  
in that he received the word with all readiness of mind  
and searched the Scriptures daily, whether these things  
were so. He speedily saw the light, and gladly embrac- 
ed it, without waiting to inquire how much reproach  
those who Jove this present world might heap upon him  
We trust all who read his letter will follow his example.  
CONFERENCE IN N. Y.  
After the close ofthe Conference in Philadelphia, we  
expect to commence one in New York, of which we  
shall give more full notice hereafter.  
OUR NEXT PAPER  
Will contain but 8 pages, unless the Lord shall send  
us the means of printing a large sheet, without incurring  
debt. We are very anxious to insert a Review of Prof, 
Stuart, by Wm. Miller, a brief Reply to Mr. Dowling,  
and many other important articles.  
LECTURES IN NEW YORK.  
Brother Geo. Storrs, providence permitting, will lec- 
ture at Niblo's Saloon to-morrow (Saturday) at three  
o'clock and at 7 o'clock, P. M. which will close his  
labors there.  
He will also lecture at the corner of Catharine and  
Madison streets, on the Sabbath, morning, afternoon and  
evening, at the usual hours, which will probably end his 
public labors in New York.  
LECTURES IN BROOKLYN.  
Brother T. Hyatt will commence a course of lectures  
next Sabbath morning, at 10 o'clock, at the National  
Hall, Brooklyn. 
Meeting In Jamaica, Vt.  
Brother S. C. Chandler, whose labors were so abun- 
dantly blessed in this vicinity, has commenced a series of  
meetings in Jamaica, Vt., with very cheering prospects.  
A New Paper in Ohio- 
Brother Fitch has issued, at Cleveland, one number  
of a paper called the " Second Advent of Christ." It  is  
nearly filled with " The Restoration of the kingdom to  
Israel," a timely antidote to the Judaizing doctrines so  
prevalent among those who profess to be followers of  
Him who came to break down the middle wall of par- 
ition and make all one in Him.  

WEEKLY—NO. 36 PARK-ROW.  
CHEER!NO LETTERS.  
From the hundreds of letters recently received, wecan  
publish only a few brief extracts. They comedo us daily  
from various quarters, calling for light. Of four letters 
received yesterday morning, one ordered 26 papers, week" 
ly. in Ontario, Wayne, and Yates counties in this State.  
One from Ohio, another from Michigan, and another  
from Georgia, enclosed money for publications, which  
we gladly sent The P. M. in Georgia, says :—" I re- 
ceived a copy of the Midnight Cry, lately, but there are  
so many persons wishing to read it, that I have not had  
an opportunity of reading it myself."  
A brother in Bridgeport, Ct., writes :—  
" Brother H. A. Chittenden visited our city the 12th  
inst., and commenced a course of seven lectures, which  
resulted in the commencement of a most glorious work of  
grace. Scores have been induced to look to God for par-
don of sins, and have found plenteous redemption in a  
once crucified Savior, and scores more are saying :  
' What shall we do to be saved V while thousands are  
rejoicing that the Midnight Cry has been sounded in  
Bridgeport."  
Brother Chittenden himself writes thus :— 
I have been in Bridgeport and Danbury since I left  
New York The good Lord has revived his- work most 
gloriously in the former place. Probably from 150 to 200  
have found the Saviour precious to their souls.  
Danbury was a very hard place, but some souls were  
hopefully converted, and I expect to hear great things  
from that town soon A story was started ot my death at  
Danbury while lecturing. which made considerable of a  
stir in Bridgeport, New Haven and Hartford, (Where it 
was announced in the Churches with appropriate remarks)  
and in the neighboring towns. It was a complete' hoax- 
made out of whole cloth.  
I spoke in this city, [Hartford] last evening, to a  
crowded house, and am going into the country this even- 
ing.  
I am often astonished at the apparent success of my  
labors, a revival always follows, for which bless the Lord.  
Brother Stoddard, a Second Advent lecturer, is speak- 
ing with great success ; the blessing follows truth. But  
O how few will be ready when the Lord shall come !  
From tho Disciple.  
PREPARE TO MEET  THY GOD.  
Reader, that meeting is an event you are certainly to  
experience ! And it is soon to occur—how very soon,  
who can tell! Every step you take carries you towards  
it. Every pulse bears your spirit on towards its mee;ing 
with Him who gave it, and placed it in this life to glorify  
and enjoy him. Have you done it '! Are-you doing it ?  
Only your frail breath that is in your nostrils detains you  
from that meeting with your God, to render the account  
of your stewardship. Your mortal life, your flesh and  
blood, is the curtain between you and the visible presence  
of Him who is a consuming fire to the guilty. That cur-
tain will quickly drop—it may drop to-day—this hour— 
and your spirit sensibly meet Him who is a spirit. That 
meeting will be, on your part, ineffable bliss, if you are  
prepared for it. If unprepared, it will overwhelm you in  
agonizing remorse and eternal despair. O prepare for it  
NOW, while yet you may.' The golden moments of  
probation may run out even sooner than the few remain-
ing pulsations of your mortal life. Time itself may end  
even sooner than your frail breath, in the coming of the  
Judge of the living and the dead—who will say it will not  
be this day, this hour. Prepare to meet thy God ! Re- 
pent—abandon all your sins, fully and forever. Believe  
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and receive the baptism of the  
Holy Ghost, unto the full sanctification of soul, body and  
spirit. Love God with all the heart, and your neighbor  
as yourself. Break off all fellowship with wickedness, 
and be ready to every good work. " Be ye holy, for the  
Lord your God is holy." Without holiness you are un- 
prepared to meet him. Yet you must meet him—and O, 
how soon ! Delay not a moment. Prepare ! Prepare!  
PREPARE! #  

READ AND CH1CLLATE.  
LETTER OF DAVID BERNARD.  
(A BAPTIST MINISTER,)  
ON THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS CHRIST.  
JANS 2d, A. D., 1813. *  
Very Dear Friend,—It is with feelings of  
deep and overwhelming interest, that I address  
you on the subject of CHRIST'S SECOND PERSON- 
AL ADVENT FROM HEAVEN. Yotl, doubtless,  
profess to believe this important truth of Di- 
vine Revelation. It is there recorded in plain  
and explicit terms. But, with the great mass  
of men, you may have, until now, felt, " my  
Lord delayeth his coming." With them, you  
may have supposed that God has given us no  
intimation in his word of the time when this 
event will happen. You may have been kept 
in ignorance of the truth, by a wrong apprehen-
sion of Christ's words—"of that day and hour  
knoweth no man"—and the false opinion that  
" Prophecies are not to be understood until  
after their accomplishment." If the words of 
Christ refer to the end of time, (which some 
doubt,) may they not accord with the ev«nt be- 
ing made known to the People of God previous 
to the appearing of our Lord ? Or is that day  
to come upon them unawares ? There is a pre- 
diction in Daniel, xii; 4—9, which many- 
believe refers to this event: the words (per- 
haps the import of them) were to ' be shut up'  
(kept secret) and sealed, " until the time of the  
end." Hence, at the time of the Saviour's in- 
carnation the lime of the event was not known—  
for the " ikne ofthe end" had not then come. But  
if the time of the end has now come, or in other  
words, if we are on the eve of the time when the  
Lord is to appear—though the " wicked will do  
wickedly and none of the wicked shall under- 
stand,'' nitty it not be possible, as Daniel says, 
that the " wise shall understand ?" (Dan. 12 :  
10.) And does not the Apostle say, "but ye,  
brethren, are not in darkness, that, that day  
should overtake you as a thief ?" Is it not  
possible, that there is a mistake concerning the 
time not being known? The wisest of unin- 
spired -men have erred on other subjects. May 
it not be possible that they have been in error 
on this subject also? And is it not strange, 
that those very persons, however wise, who 
contend that "we can know nothing about the 
time " and that " prophecies are not to be un- 
derstood until after their accomplishment," are  
perpetually, in their prayers, and sermons, and  
missionary publications, interpreting the pro-
phecies ! They predict, or say, that the prophe- 
cies predict, a time of universal peace and pros- 
perity in the church and in the world. How do 
they know this, if the prophecies are not to be 
understood until after their fulfilment ? They  
say, moreover, that this universal peace and  
prosperity will continue for one thousand years.,  
and that then there will be a declension by the  
influence of Satan, who wiil be 44 loosed out of  
his prison and go out to deceive the nations,  
(see Rev. 20 ch.) and that then will the end  
come. Now, do not those who entertain these  
views not only interpret the prophecies, but also


declare that the time will be known ? If this is  
to be the order of events, it will not be difficult,  
I think, to know the time. But is it certain that  
the Bible teaches this doctrine ? Most of the  
ancient Fathers did not believe it. Martin Lu- 
ther did not. He believed that the end would 
come before 1846. Dr. Gill did not believe it—  
nor did*Cotton Mather. They thought that the  
end of all things was at hand ! The scriptures,  
which, it is believed, inculcate the doctrine of a 
temporal millennium .1 have carefully examined,  
and there is no evidence at all satisfactory to  
my mind, that they will admit of such an inter-
pretation. It is true that the heathen are to be 
given to Christ for an inheritance, but the same  
scripture informs us that he will break them to  
pieces with a rod (sceptre) of iron—will dash  
them in pieces like a potter's vessel, (Ps.. 2 : 8,  
9.) It is also true that the Gospel was to have  
been preached in all the world for a testimony  
to all nations before the end should come,"  
(Matt. 24: 14.) But has not this been done  
already ? Was it not " preached every where"  
to " every creature under heaven?" So says  
the Bible. That scripture had its literal ac-
complishment before the destruction of Jerusa- 
lem. And it has had a second accomplishment,  
(if that were necessary,) since that event ; for  
it has been prsached in the four quarters of  
the glube, for a witness to all nations, of the  
mercy and grace of God.  
The angel who was seen flying in the midst  
of heaven, having the everlasting gospel lo  
preach to them who dwell on the earth, to " eve- 
ry nation and tribe and tongue and people"—  
cried fear God and give glory to him, for the  
hour of his judgment is come." Is there not rea- 
son to believe that this angel is now fulfilling  
his commission ? If so, the judgment is near!  
The Bible says, " the kingdoms of this world  
are become the kingdoms of our Lord and his  
Christ, and he will reign forever and ever.'' 
But this is after the sounding of the seventh  
trumpet, (which is the' last,) at which time " the  
nations are enraged, and the wrath of God is  
come, and the time of the dead that they should 
be judged, and that God should reward his ser- 
vants, the prophets, and the saints, and those  
who fear him, both small and great, and should  
destroy those who destroy the earth."—(ilev.  
11 : 15—18.)  
There are other scriptures frequently addu- 
ced, like Is. ch. 25, to prove a temporal millenni. 
um. But it seems to me the language is too  
strong, and the blessings predicted too full and 
perfect for a temporal reign of Christ; for, while  
the prophet says, that God will make " unto all  
people a feast of fat things, and will destroy the  
vail that is cast over all nations1'—he declares  
that he will SWALLOW UP DEATH IN VICTORY—  
will wipe away the tears from all faces, and will  
take cCway the rebuke of his people from all the earth,"  
And at this time the sun will be confounded and  
the moon ashamed when the Lord dwel'eth in  
Mount Zion before his ANCIENTS gloriously," (See  
Is. ch 24.) Will not such language apply with  
more propriety to a celestial than to a temporal 
reign of the Messiah ?  
There are many who still cherish the idea  
that the Jews are to be restored to their nation- 
al land ; and others, that they will be converted. 
But I cannot entertain, for a moment, the faith,'  
that God will restore Judaism, which he has  
long since abolished—nor that the Jews, as a  
nation, are to be converted. " All Israel will be  
saved." " The Deliverer will turn away un- 
godliness from Jacob." But Israel has not ob- 
tained that which they have sought—but the  
election has obtained it, and the rest are blinded."  
" He is a Jew who is one inwardly and circum- 
scision is of the heart-.'''' " If Ave are Christ's,  <  

then we are Abraham's seed and heirs according 
to the promise,"  
The limits of this letter will not permit a full  
and through investigation of the whole subject.  
But I wish to say enough to induce you to ex- 
amine it for yourself, if God has given us any  
intimations concerning the time of the world's  
destruction, it is very important that we should  
understand them. He informed Noah, 120  
years before the flood, when he would destroy  
the world. Our Lord informed his disciples 
of the approaching destruction which awaited  
Jerusalem—of the signs which should precede  
it, and that the event should not extend beyond  
that generation. And it. is not contrary to rea- 
son, nor the character of God's general govern  
ment, nor revelation itself, for him to inform us  
when he will destroy the world by a deluge of  
fire. The only question is, has he done it 1  
Let us examine the subject candidly, carejully,  
and prayerfully, and then judge.  
Please to read carefully the entire book of  
Daniel. You will learn that the 4 great image '  
of Nebuchadnezzar's vision, as in'erpreted by  
Daniel, represents the four great monarchies  
which succeeded each other—which exercised  
universal empire, and are the*Babvlonian—tl\e  
' Medo-Persian'—the Grecian and the Roman :  
That the vision of Daniel in the 7th ch., repre- 
sents the same as that of Nebuchadnezzar : And 
that the one in the 8th ch., is nearly analogous 
to the other—with the exception, that in the  
last, the Babylonian kingdom is not represented.  
I wish you to observe, that the ' great image,'  
representing the four great monarchies, was  
dashed all to pieces by a stone, cut out without  
hands, which stone, (the kingdom of God,) " fill-
ed the whole earth."  
And that the "little horn" (Dan. 7 : 8—11,)  
was succeeded by the coming of the "ANCIENT  
OF DAYS"—the slaying, destruction and burning  
of the Beast.  
And also, that that same " horn (7:21, 22,)  
" made war with the saints and prevailed against  
them until the Ancient of days came, and judg-
ment was given to the saints of the Most High ; 
and the time came that the saints possessed the  
kingdom."  
How strikingly does all this accord with the  
account given by Paul, (2 Thess. ch. 2, of the  
" man of sin" and his destruction by the coming  
of Christ!  
In each and every instance, where the Roman  
power is spoken of, it is represented as being de-
stroyed by the coming of the Lord !  
The " Man of Sin"—the " Papal power," then  
is to continue until the ".end of the world."  
How little does this accord with the doctrine  
of a "Temporal Millennium !"  
It seems that Daniel had a strong desire to  
know something which had not been told him,  
concerning the vision. What was this 1 Every  
thing had been explained, except the time when  
the 2300 days commenced. It was on this  
point, then, he desired information. To in- 
struct him, Gabriel was commissioned : "Un-
derstand the matter," said he, "and consider the  
vision." What matter? What vision? Cer-
tainly, the one which had already been the sub- 
ject of his thoughts and desires. What follows,  
(Daniel 9 : 24-27,) is not avision, but an explana- 
tion of the one already seen. In making all 
this plain, Gabriel gives him additional informa- 
tion, by which, also, the certainty of the vision 
and its end can be demonstrated.  
"Seventy weeks are determined, (cut off, it  
should be rendered, for the Hebrew will not on- 
ly justify it, but requires it—so say some of our 
best Hebrew scholars,) on thy people," &c.—  
The seventy weeks are 490 days. "Days," in  
Daniel's prophecies, says New ton, "are put for  

years." These 490 years, then, are cutoff [rom 
the 2300 years. And as these 490 years are a  
part of the 2300, being cut off from them, and com- 
menced at the time of the Decree of Artaxerxes,  
King of Persia, to restore Jesusalem. (see Ezra,')  
which was 457 years before the birth of Christ  
—the 2300 years commenced at that time, (457  
B. C. or 490 years before the death of Christ,)  
which will bring us down to 1843.  
In the year 1843, then the "Sanctuary will be  
cleansed."' But what sanctuary is this," that is 
to be cleansed in 1843 ? A sanctuary is a place  
of worship. Under the Jewish dispensation, 
the Tabernacle, the Temple, and Jerusalem it-
self, were places of worship. Under the Chris- 
tian dispensation, the place of worship is not  
restricted to any particular place—the world  
itself is the sanctuary of the Lord. And this  
is-evident from Ex. 15: 17. Hence the earth is 
to be purified. "The elements will tnelt with  
fervent heat," and "we," according to hi3 prom- 
ise "look for a new heaven and a new earth,  
wherein dwelleth righteousness." (See 2 Pe- 
ter, ch. 4.)  
The other numbers in Daniel seem to corres- 
pond with the above. The "time, times and  
dividing of time," in Dan. 7 : 25, and the "time,  
times and a half," in Dan. 12 : 7, doubtless ie. 
fer to the same period spoken of in Rev, 11 :  
2,3. This is 1,260 years—the reign of Anti- 
christ. In other words, the time of the Papal 
supremacy commenced in 538, and ended in  
1798, when the sceptre of the Pope was broken  
—he being taken captive and imprisoned by the  
French.  
The 1290 days in Dan. 12 : 11, may com- 
mence in 508, when Pagan Rome ended, by the 
conversion of the 10 Pagan Kings, and the  
commencement of the first Papal war.  
The Pagan Rites were then abolished, and  
the " abomination that maketh desolate," or  
the Papal power, began with a strong hand to  
persecute the saints. The 1290 days end in  
1798. "Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh  
to the 1335 days," (Dan 12: 12 ) This period 
very naturally commences in 508, as no other  
time is given—and ends in 1843.  
At this time, (at the end of the days, 1843,)  
Daniel is to "stand in his lot," (Dan 12 : 13.)  
Now if we are not to expect a Temporal Mil- 
lennium before the coming of Christ, and the  
four great kingdoms with their descendants  
are to be dashed to pieces j.nd pass away, so  
that there will be found no place for them—and 
the stone, which is the kingdom of God, is to 
fill the whole earth, and to stand forever—and 
the termination of this vision is to be in 1843, 
is there not reason to expect immediately the  
coming of the Lord ? The time of the cleansing 
of the Sanctuary—the time when Dauiel will  
stand in his lot, seem to be the same, and all  
those are made blessed, who wait for, and attain  
it. What can all this mean but the end of  the  
world—the resurrection of the dead—the com- 
ing of the Lord ?  
But the "wicked will do wickedly, and none  
of the wicked shall understand—but the <viso  
shall understand." "Behold, the Bridegroom 
cometh! go ye out to meet Him !"  
And now, my dear friend, are you and 1 ready  
for this event ? We have heard of it from the  
pulpit—we have read of it in the Bible, and 
perhaps with some interest. But has not the  
feeling always been—'it is far distant ?" Owing  
to this sentiment, has not the impression been  
slight and transient as the morning cloud ? But 
now, if the "coming of the Lord dravveth nigh"  
—if in a few days—a few weeks at the longest—  
the end of all things will come, what an im-
pression ought such truth to produce on the  
mind ! God is to leave the mercy seat—Jesus


to close the intercession—the Holy Spirit to be  
withdrawn—the Gospel proclaimed no more—  
prevailing prayer no more to be offered—the  
day of mercy and time of salvation to  end, and  
the eternal destinies of all men, both saint and 
sinner, fixed, and made known to an assembled  
universe !  
O ! my dear friend, this subject deeply affects  
my heart. Though a professor of religion, I  
cannot contemplate the probability of this event  
being so very near, without the deepest anxiety  
on my own account! I have a hope  in the  
mercy of God, in Christ Jesus. And this is all 
my hope of being able to stand in that day. " I  
am not mad." But I think of this subject every 
moment—I cannot banish it from my mind—it 
is written as with a pen of iron on m.ij soul. I  
have come solemnly to the determination, by  
the grace of God, to be ready, and to do all I  
can to  induce others to prepare to meet the ap- 
proaching God !! If the time should pass, and  
the sequel prove I am mistaken, I shall not be  
sorry for the trial nor for the preparation. For  
whether the last trumpet shall sound this year  
or the next—time with me and with all men  
will soon close ! But should my expectations 
be realized—should the Lord indeed come, no  
language will be able to express my joy ! !  
And now, my dear friend, will you not give  
heed to this warning? The time is short, to  
make up your mind and prepare for such events  
as the BURNING OF THE WORLD—the JUDGMENT OF 
ALL MEN—and the RETRIBUTIONS OF ETERNITY ! ! !  
DAVID BERNARD.  
P. S. If we have made no mistake in our  
exposition of the Prophecies of Daniel, the  
Lord will come in 1843. Should there be a  
mistake—which is possible—still I believe,  
from" the other prophecies, that the end of all  
things is at hand. I SHALL LOOK FOU HIM TILL  
HE COMES !!!  
SIGNS.  
Every word of God is true, and not one jot or tittle,  
(that is, not one letter or point) of his word shall fail.—  
1 ue signs of the last days must all be fulfilled  ; yet, in  
the midst of their fulfilment,  in the same " last days,"  
scoffers will say, " Where is the promise of his com- 
ing  All things continue as they were." In view of  
this prediction, the attempt of philosophers to explain  
away the signs of these times, should excite no surprise.  
They do not know that they are themselves  fulfilling  
the predicted signs of the last days, and making them  
complete. In our paper of Dec. 23d, we devoted a page 
to descriptions  of those showers of "shooting  stars," as  
they are called, which have appeared during the present  
generation, but of which there is no record earlier than  
1779.  
Those who wish to read further on the subject will be  
interested in the following extracts from Litch's Exposi- 
tions, and from Jones' Letters.  
From Litch's Prophetic Expositions.  
Luke 21 : 25.—" There shall be signs in the sun, and in  
the moon." What these signs are, we learn from other  
parts of the Bible. Matthew, in referring to the same  
signs, says, " the sun shall be darkened, and the moon  
shall not give her light." Joel 2 : 31, that " the sun sh ill  
de darkened and the moon shall be turned to blood, before  
the great and terrible day ofthe Lord come."  
Has the sun been darkened in these days, as predicted  
by Joel and the Saviour 1 It has ; and that within the  
memory of many now living. I refer to the dark day of  
A. D. 1780, May 19th. That was a day of supernatural  
darkness. It was not an eclipse ofthe sun, for the moon 
was nearly at the full. It was not owing to a thickness  
in the atmosphere, for the stars were seen. The darkness  
began about 9 o'clock, A. M., and continued through the 
day, and also into, if not through the night. Such was  
the darkness, that work was suspended in the field and  
shop, beasts and fowls retired to their rest, and houses  
were illuminated  at dinner time. Such a day of darkness  
has never been known, so far as I can learn from history,  
(and I have searched for it most diligently,)  since the  
crucifixion  of our Saviour. There have been several such  

events since, in different countries. If any can produce i  
evidence of such an appearance before 1780, I will thank I  
them most heartily for the information, and make a cor- j  
rection of this statement.  1  
" And in the moon." At the time ofthe dark day, May .  
19, 1780, there was a full moon, or nearly so, [the moon j  
fulled the 18th] yet the night was as dark as " Egyptian 
darkness." The moon (did) not give her light."  
The following  extract from Gage's History ofthe town  
of Rowley, Mass., on " the dark day" of May, 1780, will  
set this point in a clear light.  
DARK DAY OF MAY NINETEENTH. 1780.—Mr. Gage j  
says, "The sun rose clear, and shone for several hours ; j  
at" length the skv became overcast with clouds, and by j  
ten o'clock, A. M , the darkness was such as to occasion j  
the farmers to leave their work in the field, and retire to j  
their dwellings  ; fowls went to their roosts ; and before j  
noon, lights became necessary to the transaction of busi- j  
ness within doors ; the darkness continued through the  
day ; and the night, till near morning, was as unusuady j  
dark as the day."  
Rev. Mr. Tenny, of Exeter, N. II., quoted by Mr. Gage, I  
in some speculations  upon the cause of the darkness, for- 
warded to The Historical Society," in which he says 
that " no satisfactory solution of it has yet appeared,"—  
in remarking upon the following evening,  says, "  The  
darkness ofthe following  evening was probably as  gross  
as has ever been observed since the Almighty  first gave  
birth to light. I could not help conceiving  at the time,  
that if every luminous  body in the universe had been  
shrouded in impenetrable darkness, or struck out of exis-
tence, the darkness could not have been more complete.  
A sheet of white paper held within a few inches of the  
eyes, was equally invisible  with the blackest velvet."  
" The moon to blood " The following extract of a litter  
from Mr.  Beadle, at Aleppo, and published in the Mission- 
ary Herald of June, 1812, page 234, will illustrate  this  
point. It is an account of an earthquake at that place  
in 1822. He says, "On the night of the earthquake  
there was something  peculiar in the atmosphere, the  
moon appearing as red as blood. This greatly alarmed 
the inhabitants,  who were continually  crying out, ' Now  
we shall hear the trumpet sound ! and the dead will rise !  
the day of judgment has arrived-!' "  
The following description of the fore-mentioned earth- 
quake is from the same writer :  
" About ten o'clock the earth began suddenly to move,  
as if it had been placed upon the waves ofthe sea. This  
rapidly undulating  motion continued for  some seconds,  
but produced no very serious injury. Some walls cracked, 
but resumed their places when the earth rested. A mo- 
ment after the undulating  motion ceased, came the dread- 
ful shock. It was.striotly vertical, seeming to strike di- 
rectly beneath the city. The confusioti  and ruin which  
succeeded that awful moment are beyond all description.  
The crash of falling  houses, the shrieks ofthe dying and  
wounded, husbands calling for wives, and wives searching  
for husbands, children entreating help from parents, and  
parents vainly seeking for their lost children, mingled 
with prayers and groans in many languages, presented a  
scene of suffering and wo from which the mind turns in- 
stinctively  away.  
"The first impulse ofthe surviving  inhabitants  seemed  
to be to rush to the gates ofthe city. Many were crush-
ed in their flight, and those who were permitted to reach 
a place of comparative safety outside the walls, were 
compelled to pass over mangled and dead bodies, and fly 
amid t:  
' ten thousands deaths 011 every side.' "  
" And in the stars." The sign in the stars is, that " the  
stars shall fall from heaven as a tig-tree caste! h her un-
timely figs when shaken of a mighty  wind." Rev. 6:13,  
and Matt. 24 : 29 Has such a phenomenon taken  
place 1 The remembrance of the shower of meteors, on  
the night of Nov. 13, 1833, is fresh in the mirrds of the  
present generation. The scene could not be more truly  
described than it is by the Revelator. Such a scene I  
find described as having occurred in 1779, on the 12th of 
November, and as having been visible-frorn  South Ameri- 
ca to Germany and Greenland. From where they were 
witnessed in South America, on the coast of Brazil, to  
Weimer, in Germany, is 10,800 miles ; and from the  
same place to Herrenhut, in Greenland, 7,000 miles. This  
was the earliest shower of meteors, of any considerable  
magnitude, I can find on record. This was about six  
months before the dark day. There are several instan- 
ces of'the kind on record since that. Indeed, the 12th 
and 13th of November seem to be their anniversary. But, 
it is objected, meteors are not " stars." I would ask the  
objector, then, what it was ^vhich went before the wise 
men and guided them to the place ofthe Saviour's birth 1  
Was it a fixed star 1 Can one of these fiery orbs fall on  
the earth, and not destroy it 1 Certainly not. Then they 
must be meteors.  
But admitting  it to refer to the fixed stars, will not the  
conflagration  of some ofthose bodies within a few years",  
as recorded by astronomers, answer the prediction ? The 
signs have most certainly appeared in the stars.  

Recapitulation. I. The sun has been supernaturally  
darkened from morning to night : in some places it being 
cloudy, and t.iie sun entirely invisible,  and in others it be- 
ing visible, but having the same appearance as when to-
tally eclipsed ; and the stars being visible. I have both  
these accounts from many living witnesses, in different  
parts of the country. It being cloudy in the north and  
clear in the south of New England.  
2. That the moon, although  it fulled the 18th, the clay  
before the dark day, and must have arisen soon after sun- 
set, gave no light at all. Also the bloody hue ofthe moon  
has appeared.  
3. That signs in the stars have appeared, whether it  
be understood of the showers of meteors, or of the burn- 
ing of the fixed stars.  
Observe :—Each of these events has made a deep im- 
pression on the world that it presaged the great and ter-
rible day ofthe Lord : some in each time believing it had  
come ; others that it would soon come. It was thus on  
the dark day, when the moon was turned to blood, and 
during the showers of meteors. To the people, generally,  
at the time they were witnessed,  they were a sign. If  
they do not fulfil the prophecy, it cannot be fulfilled.  For  
if it is ever done,-it must be by just these appearances.  
If this does not accomplish the prediction, the repetition  
ofthe same thing again would not do it, but would  
rather produce infidelity  by the commonness of the phe- 
nomena. I must therefore, believe the signs to have al- 
ready appeared.  
v From Jones'Let! eis.  
" FEARFUL SIGHTS," " GREAT SIGNS," &C.  
Mr. Editor,-— Tt is known to those who have heard  
most ofthe falling stars of 1833, that Professor Olmsted 
of Yale College, has written the most conoerning them, 
and has been probably the greatest observer of that phe- 
nomenon of all who have noticed them. A single com-
munication of his, in the American Journal of Science,  
vol. 17, on this subject, occupies nearly a hundred 8 vo.  
pages, treating it however as a matter of scientific,  rather  
than of religious improvement, while, so far as I have  
learnt, he has given no sanction to the sentiment  of these  
articles, that the phenomenon was a fulfilment  of foretold  
" wonders," "sights,"  and "signs"  of the judgment at.  
hand. Yet the great attention he has ghen to this ques- 
tion, and the station he fills as a philosopher, astronomer  
and meteorologist,  attach to his observations and  
opinions concerning it, a very special importance. With- 
out room to quote largely from his writings, as might  
otherwise be desirable, I now give a few extracts there- 
from, prepared to my hand, and copied from the Signs 
ofthe Tidies, Boston, of Nov. 30th, 1842.  
Extracts f>om Professor Olmsted's Writings, of the falling Stars.  
" The extent of the shower of 1833, was such as to  
cover no inconsiderable part of the EARTH'S SURFACE, from  
the middle of the Atlantic on the East, to the Pacific on  
the West; and from the Northern coast of South Ameri- 
ca, to undefined regions among the British possessions  
on the North, the exhibition  of shooting stars was not  
only visible, but every where presented nearly one and  
the same appearance."(l)  
" The duration and maximum, or period of greatest  
display, were characterized by a similar uniformity.  In  
nearly all places, the meteors began to attract notice by  
their unusual frequency as early PS eleven o'clock, and  
increased in numbers and splendor until about 4 o'clock, 
from which time they gradually declined, but were visible  
till lost in the light of.day. The meteors did not fly at ran-
dom over all parts of the sky, but appeared to emanate 
fiorn a point in the constellation  Leo, near a star called  
Gamma Leonis, in the bend of the sickle.  
" A similar phenomenon was witnessed on the 12th of  
November, 1799, and at the same season of the ye;r in  
1830, 183 f, and 1832. The meteoric shower was r< peaf- 
ed on the morning of Nov. 13th or 14th, for si veral  
years, but on a scale constantly  diminishing  until 1838,  
since which time the exhibitions  have been too lit'.Je re- 
markable to be worthy of particular not ice.  
" I feel assured that this is 110 atmospheric or terrestrial  
phenomenon, but that these fiery meteors come to us  
from the region of space, and reveal to us the existence  
of worlds of a nebulous or cometary nature, existing 
in the solar system, and forming constituent  parts of  
that system. Nor are these conclusions built on mere  
hypotheses, but are necessary inferences from certain  
facts.  
" The present generation may consider itself privileged  
in having witnessed grander displays of fiery meteors, 
than are to be found recorded on the pages of hhtory.'' 
" In displays of the Aurora Borealis, also, we have been  
similarly  favored. Such visitations  of this spectacle, cs  
we have enjoyed since Aug. 1827, to the present time,  
are by no means of constant occurrence."  
" Those who were st» fortunate as to witness the ex- 
hibition  of shooting stars on the morning of Nov. 13th,  
1833, probably saw the GREATEST DISPLAY of celtstial.fire- 
works that has ever been seen since the creation of the world,  
or at least within the annals covered by the pages of liis-
tory.(2)


" This is no longer to he regarded as a terrestial, but  
as a celestial phenomenon  ; and shooting stars are now  
i to be no more viewed as casual productions of the upper  
i regions of the atmosphere, but as visitants  from OTHER  
WORLD?, or from the •planetary voids.'  
j " Subsequent enquiries have led me to the belief, that  
the body was so distant as hardly to exhibit any ap- 
! parent parallax, but was projected on very nearly the  
same part of the sky by all observers. This fact at once  
shows that the source of the meteors was far beyond the  
atmosphere, and confirms the preceding conclusion, that 
it was wholly'independent  of the earth." (3)  
NOTES BY H.  JONES.  
(1) From my OH n researches and enquiries, I am satis- 
fied that this testimony is correct in regard to the vast  
extent of territory, over which those wonders were ex- 
hibited. The witnesses of the phenomenon, therefore,  
are too numerous and two well agreed as to the " fearful"  
appearance of the sight to admit of its ever being regarded 
as unworthy of a place in the fulfilling  of prophetic  
" wonder in the heavens," &c  
(•2) No doubt, as the Professor observes. " The present  
generation," has " witnessed grander displays offiery me- 
teors" and " the GREATEST DISPLAY of celestial fire 
works," ever seen by mortals; because, occasionally  
they have seemingly brought before our very eyes, the  
fiery appearance of the last day, " when the heavens  
being on fire, shall be dissolved," " and the stars of hea- 
ven fall unto the earth," &c. Therefore, above all who  
have gone before, it becomes us to tremble at such ful- 
filled words of the Lord, and prepare without delay for  
his soon coming in "flamingfire,"  &c.  
(3) Though it does not seem logical to suppose, as  
Professor O. does, that the falling stars are " visitants  
from OTHER WORLD*," we may suppose with him that  
their " source" " was far beyond the atmosphere," " and  
wholly independent of the earth." Then should not frail  
men. who " are but of yesterday and know nothing,"  
cease their attempts to give a philosophical  or second  
cause for that astonishing,  very alarming and foretold  
wonder of 1833 ! But when the Almighty is thus speak- 
ing as with a voice of thunder and terrible alarm, not  
only by his word long ago given, but by its present strik- 
ing fulfilment,  in showing his coming to judgment at  
hand; does it not now specially become us all to "Be 
still and know that" he is " God," and that he " will"  
soon " be exalted in the earth," the " new earth," in the  
establishment  of his everlasting kingdom1?  
A NEW YEAR'S ADDRESS  
TO SECOND ADVENT BELIE VEU3,  
FOIL 1843.  
BY WILLIAM MILLER.  
DEAR BRETHREN :—This year, acco/ding to our faith,  
is the last year that Satan will reisn in our earth. Jesus  
Christ will come, and bruise his head. The kingdoms  of  
the earth will be dashed to pieces, which is the same  
thing. Anil he whose right it is to reign, will take the  
kingdom and possess it forever and ever.  
And the God of peace shall "tread Satan under your feet  
shortly." Therefore we have but a little time more to do 
as our good brother Paul was commanded, Acts xxvi,  
18, " To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness  
to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they 
may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance  among  
them which are sanctified by faith that is in me." Let  
us then put forth our best energies in this cause, let every  
one of us try by persuasion, by the help and grace of God,  
to get one at least of our friends to come to Christ, in this  
last year of redemption, and if we succeed, what an army 
of regenerated souls may we not hail in the new heavens  
and new earth. I pray God, tny brethren, that nothing  
may deter you from this work. Let scoffers scoff, and  
liars tell lies, we must not suffer ourselves to be drawn  
from this work. Yes, the glorious work of salvation,  will,  
within a few short months, be finished forever. Then I  
need not e>hortyou more on this point—you yourselves  
know the value of this great salvation.  
And another thing it is well for„us to remember.  
The world will watch for our halting. They cannot  
think we believe what we speak, for they count our faith  
a strange faith, and now beware and not give'them any  
advantage of ground over us. They will perhaps look for  
the halting and falling  away of many. But I hope none  
who are looking for the glorious appearing, will let their  
faith waver. Keep cool, let patience have its perfect  
work, that after ye have done the will of God, ye may  
receive the promises. This year will try our faith, we  
must be tried, purified and made white, and if there  
should be any among us, who do not in heart believe,  
they will go out from us : but I am persuaded there can- 
not be many, for it is a doctrine so repugnant to the car- 
nal heart, so opposite to the worldly minded, sofar from the 
cold professor, the bigot and hypocrite, that none of them  
will, or can believe in a doctrine so searching as the im- 
mediate appearing of Jesus Christ to judge the world.  
I am therefore persuaded better things of you, brethren,  

although I thus speak. I beseech you, my dear brethren, 
be careful that Satan get no advantage over you by scat-
tering coals of wild fire among you ; for if he cannot  
drive YOU into unbelief and doubt, he will then try his 
wild fire of fanaticism  and speculation, to get us off  
from the word of God. Be watchful and sober, and hope  
to the end, for the grace that shall be brought unto you 
at the revelat'on of Jesus Christ.  
Think not, my brethren, that I stand in doubt of your  
perseverance. I know your faith, your love, and hope., to  
be rooted and grounded on the word of the Almighty.  
You are not dependant on the wisdom or commandments  
of men ; many, if not all of you have examined for your- 
selves, you have studied and found true, what at first was 
only reported unto you. You have found the Bible much  
more precious than you had before conceived—its doc- 
trine to be congenial with the holy and just character of  
God—its precepts to be wise, benevolent and kind—its  
prophecies to be clear, and lucid, carrying conviction  
strong of the truth and inspiration of the Scriptures, a  
harmony of manner, and matter, from Genesis to Reve- 
lation. In one word, you have found a new Bible, and I 
hope and believe you have read it with new delight. I  
fear not that you can ever be satisfied with the views of  
our opponents. The manner of explaining  Scripture,  
which they adopt, is too carnal to satisfy the devoted  
child of God.  
Then let me advise a continual  searching for the truth,  
both for faith and practice, and wherever we have wan-
dered from the word of God, let us come back to the  
primitive simplicity  of the gospel once delivered to the  
saints. Thus we shall be found ready at his coming to  
give an account of our stewardship, and hear our blessed  
Master say. " Well done thou good and faithful  servant,  
enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." Every fruth We  
get from the blessed book prepares us better for his com- 
ing and kingdom. Every error prevents us, in part, from 
being ready.  
Let us then stand strong in the faith, with our loins  
girt al->out with truth, and our lamps trimmed and burn- 
ing, and waiting for our Lord, ready to enter the promis-
ed land, the true inheritance of the saints. This year, 
the fulness of time will come, the shout of victory will be  
heard in heaven, the triumphant return of our'great Cap- 
tain may be expected ; the new song will commence  
before the throne; eternity begin its revolution, and  
time shall be no more. This year, oh blessed year ! the  
captives will be released ;  the prison doors will be open- 
ed, death will have no more dominion over us, and life,  
eternal life, be our everlasting  reward.  
This year, a glorious year ! ! The trump of Jubilee  
will be blown, the exiled children will return, the pil- 
grims teach their home, from earth and heaven the scat-
tered remnant come, and meet in middle air ;—the fath- 
ers before the flood, Noah and his sons, Abraham and  
his, the Jew and Gentile, a;i who have died in faith, of  
every nation, kindred, tongue and people, will meet to 
part no more. This year, the long looked for year of  
years, the best, it is come.—I shall hope to meet you all.  
through faith in God, and the blood of the Lamb.—Until  
then, farewell. May God bless you, and sustain you in  
the faith.  
May you be patient in all tribulation  and endure unto  
the end. May you this year be crowned with immortal- 
ity and glory.  
And finally, my brethren, " T pray God, your whole  
soul, and spirit, and body be prt*served blameless, unto 
the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ." W. M.  
Low Hampton, Jan. 1, 1843.  
IECTPRE AT BROADWAY TABERNACLE.  
Last Sabbath evening, Mr. Andrews, Pastor of the  
Congregational  Church in the Broadway Tabernacle,  
gave a discourse on the Second Advent. That spacious  
building was densely thronged. To say the least, his dis-
course was lucid, convincing,  and solemn.  
He took his text from the 20th of llev., and went on  
to prove the doctrine of a thousand years of glorious tri- 
umph to the church, when Christ should descend and 
crush the kingdoms  of this earth, as. a " potter's vessel,"  
and live and reign with his people in this glorified state.  
He then presented a multitude of ancient and modern  
writers, from the apostles down to Sir' Isaac Newton,  
Dr. Gill, Fletcher, etc., to show that this doctrine was  
both old and new, that it was not disputed in the church 
till the third century- that it was ever a kind of anchor, 
when in persecution, that Christ should again come as a 
Judge, and put his enemies under his feet, and that the 
disciples were exhorted " to comfort one another with  
• these words."  
Few could have passed away, without being instructed  
if not convicted, of the truth, that Christ is marshalling  his  
host for the great battle of the Lord God Almighty, and  
" who shall be abls to stand !"  

Who can abide the day of his coming 1  
It is too late in the day for the church to be spinning  
her spider-web net of a spiritual millennium,  introduced  
by Sabbath-schools,  Bible-classes, tracts, and the multi- 
plication of splendid churches : for while they are 
" busied here and there," the portals of the sky may open  
upon them, and manifest to their astonished eyes, the  
King in all his power and glory.  
The above was written two weeks ago. Last Sabbath,  
Mr. Andrews lectured again, on the Scriptural argument,  
and showed conclusively  that Chrises coming will be  
personal, introducing  the perfect millennium  on the new  
earth. He agrees with Dr. Chalmers, whose eloquent  
sermon on this subject, we published last week.  
The Tabernacle, which holds about 4000 persons, was  
crowded, and multitudes  were going away long before  
the lecture commenced, for want of room. He continues  
the subject two weeks from next Sabbath evening.  
REMARKS ON DANIEL'S VISIONS.  
In the Lord's teaching, he gives precept upon precept,  
line upon line, here a little and there a little. Thus to  
Daniel, he repeated truth under different symbols, all  
harmonizing,  but some of them enlarging  on one point,  
and sjome on another.  
Christ refers to a thing foretold by "Daniel THE  
PROPHET," as yet to come when he spoke, and says;  
" Whoso readeth let him understand."  To these sure  
words of prophecy we " do well that we take heed, as 
unto a LIGHT, shining  in a dark place."  
When the mighty Nebuchadnezzar  " was troubled  
with dreams," and sought the meaning,  " then was the  
secret made known to Daniel in a night vision."  Nebu- 
chadnezzar, js king of Babylon, was the head of " fine  
gold." In Isaiah 14: 4, Babylon is called " the golden 
city." Its wealth was immense. Its power reached  
" wherever the children of men dwelt." After the head  
of gold arises " ANOTHER KINUDOM." That was the Medo- 
Persian kingdom, for when " Belshazzar the king" was  
"weighed in the balance and found wanting," "his 
kingdom was given to the Medes and Persians." Grecia  
was the third kingdom which " bare rule over all the  
earth ;" for the Bible and common history show that Per- 
sia was subdued by Grecia. Then come the iron legs,  
which "BREAK IN PIECES AND BRUISE." Mat- 
thew Henry says : " The Roman kingdom was strong as  
iron ; witness the prevalency of that kingdom against all  
that contended with it for many ages. It broke in pieces  
the Grecian empire.1' Toward the latter end of it, it  
grew very weak, and branched into ten kingdoms, which  
were at the toes of these feet. Some of them were weak  
as clay—others strong as iron-" Nebuchadnezzar saw  
this image, till a stone cut out without hands, smote the  
image upon the feet that were of iron and clay, and  
brake them to pieces ; then all those solid metals became  
like chaff, and the wind carried them away, and the  
stone that smote the image became a great mountain,  
and filled the whole earth. This represents the fact, that  
when the Roman empire has been divided into ten king- 
doms, " the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom which 
shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, 
and 11'  shall stand FOREVER."  
Here we have "the DESTRUCTION of all earthly  
kingdoms to be followed immediately by the setting up of  
Christ's everlasting kingdom, that kingdom of which the  
rich in faith are now " heirs,'" and which they will " IN- 
HERIT" when Christ shall come in the clouds of heaven. 
See Matt. 25 : 34.  
Forty-eight  years afterwards Daniel saw the same  
kingdoms,  which, to the earthly-minded  king appeared  
as an image " whose brightness  was excellent." To him  
they appeared as four beasts ; three of them were among  
the most ferocious which God ever created, and the  
fourth more terrible still. These powers prevail till "  the  
judgment is set," with wondrous pomp, "and the books  
are opened," Then it is that the fourth " beast is slain 
and his body destroyed and given to the burning flame."  
Concerning the rest of the beasts, we learn that their  
iives were prolonged when their dominion ws>3 taken 
away. The nations which composed the first three em- 
pires continued to exist though the dominion passed 
lrom one to the other till Rome "devoured the whole  
earth." Rome will iule, either as a consolidated empire,  
or in its ten divisions,  or by its papal power, till, at the  
judgment, its lile and its dominion cease together. Three  
expressive phrases describe its end. It is slain, its body  
destroyed, being consumed by the burning flame.  
Pas-ing into the 8th chapter we find Babylon left out, for  
the best of reasons, but Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome 
retained, and the angel who explains the vision says : " I  
will make thee know what shall be in the LAST END  
of the indignation  ;" and, " At the time of the end shall  
be the vision," and, " At the TIME APPOINTED shall 
THE END be." See Clue to the Time, for a further  
elucidation of this subject.


Read Daniel II, VII and VIII. "Whoso readeth, let him UNDERSTANDS  
"NOTED IN THE SCRIPTURES OF TRUTH," "FOR OUR LEARNING."  
BABYLONIAN EMPIRE, B. (3, 677.  
In its glory, it was like a lion, soaring  
with wings as the eagle. But in Bel-
shuzzar's time, it had lost its wings and  
; its lion-heari, becoming feeble and faint.  
MEDO-PERSIAN  EMPIRE. B. C. 538.  
The two arms meeting irone breast.—the bear raising up  
me side, or dominion,—and the ram with two horns, are all  
pproprwte emblems of  Medo-Persia. » The Syrian bear, In  
• rength and ferocity scarcely yields to the lion," savs Pixtn».  
Ancient historians st gniatize the Medes and Persians as  the  
g eate.-t robbers and spoil-
ers that ever oppressed the  
nations." 1 hi: bear repre- 
sents the nature of the  
monarchy,but. the ram with  
two horns was its well- 
Si, known national emblem.  
GRECIAN EMPIRE, B. C. 331,  
This was founded by Alexander. It was like the laopnrd,  
xctive, crafty and cruel. The lion h id 2 wines, but the leopard  
had 4,—Grecia being moro  
rapid in its conquests than  
Babylon. But the goat was 
the known embh-ra of  
Rreece. It came against  
the ram with incredible  
swiftness, making up in  
speed what it lacked in  
size. Alexander conquered 
Persia with a very small  
army. J  
ROMAN EMPIRE, B. C. 158.  
" Behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible,  
and strong exceedingly, which was diverse from all  
the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of 
IRON, and his nails of brass ; it devoured, and brake  
in pieces, and STAMPED the residue With the feet  
of it It had ten horns."  

Daniel saw the vision of the ram, he-goat, and exceed- 
ing great horn, two years after he saw the representa- 
tions ofthe four heasts. According to Lightfoot,  Town- 
send, and other eminent chronologers, it was after the 
fall of Babylon ; hence he was " inTShushan,"  the capi- 
tal of Persia. Babylon being then a subject of history,  
had no place in this prophecy.  
" Behold, a ram which had two horns, and the two  
horns were high, but the h;gher came up last." The ram  
which came from the east, with its two horns, was Me- 
dia and Persia ; and the rough goat which darted upon  
him from the west, was Grecia:—so said the angel. The 
Grecian empire was at first united, as is represented by 
the single horn of the goat. It was afterwards divided 
into four parts, represented by the four horns, of which  
the angel said—" Four KINGDOMS shall stand up out  
ofthe nation," Here we are taught, in the plainest man- 
ner, that a horn in this vision means a kingdom.  
MEDO-PERSLA.  
GRECIA.  
"I considered 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 -.—that horn had eyes, and a mouth that  
spake very great things,  whose look was more stout  
Tor who was more mighty, as Luther's German  
Bible reads] than his fellows."  
Papacy.  
"I beheld, even till the beast was slain, and his  
body destroyed, and given to the burning flame."  

That the power which is described next after these  
is Rome, is evident from these and many other reasons.  
1. It rises " In the latter part of their kingdom,"—-that  
is, of the four kingdoms. So did Rome, as far as its place  
in the prophecy is concerned. Its connection with the 
Jews commenced 158 years before Christ.  
2. It was " of fierce countenance."  So tvas Rome —  
See Deut. 28 : 49, 50.  
3. It was "little" at first. So was Rome.  
4. It waxed " exceeding great," towards the east and  
towards the south." So did Rome.  
" From this horn increasing towards the south and east,  
particularly  Sir j§aac Newton sagaciously infers, that it  
arose in the northwest corner of the Goat s dominion i. e.  
in Italy,—which points directly to the Romans." '  
4. It cast down some of the host and of the stars to  
the ground* So did Rome;—persecuting  Christians,  Apos- 
tles and ministers  of Jesus, % no other power ever did  
6. "He magnified himself  even to the Prince of the  
host So did Rome, when the Pope became the " head  
of all the churches." But the margin reads  more pro- 
perly, " He magnified himself AG.MXST the PRINCE of  
the host, ' and in the interpretation  the angel says •  " He  
shall stand up against the PRINCE of princes'." Thus  
d'd Rome, when both Herod and Pontius Pilate con- 
spired against  the holy Jesus.  
7. " He shall destroy wonderfully, and shall destroy  
the mighty and holy people." Thus did Rome,  
8. " He shall be broken without hand," So will Rome.  
(See oh. 2.) " Broken by the stone, cut out without hands."  
9. Rome was the only, power which could be referred  
to, for it was the only '^XCKSBINB GREAT' power which  
succeeded the four kingdoms,  and fulfilled  all parts of  
the description. Finally. As Medo-Persia and Grecia sue- 
ceed each other in this vision, just as they had been  
seen twice before, it is absurd to suppose that the power  
which follows them in this vision is a different power fraiu  
the one which twice before had been seen succeeding-them.


THE TWO RESURRECTIONS.  
The Congregational Journal, the organ of that denom- 
ination in New Hampshire, contains a sermon or essay,  
in opposition to our views, " Written in compliance  
with an appointment of the Deerfield Association, and  
read before the same at their meeting at Deerfield, Nov.  
8, 1842, by Rev. NATHANIEL WELLS :—Published in the  
Journal at the request of the Association " It is not 
calculated to shake the railh of those who undetstand the  
subject, but it may excite prejudice in those who do not.  
The chief argument is founded on the belief that there  
is to be but one resurrection. The readerwill take no- 
tice that they derive this belief from prophecy, which  
they profess, on this point, to understand. Here, then, is  
an important principle, assumed at. the outset : viz. Un- 
fulfilled Prophecy may be understood. The article which  
we shall consider as the production of an association,  
and not of an individual, commences thus :  
" Vain would be the attempt to follow Mr. Miller  
through all his hypotheses, assumptions, and strange  
combinations of.very important truths with his own  
groundless conjectures."  
On the subject of the two resurrections they proceed  
to quote from Mr. Miller's lecture on Rev. 20 : 6. They  
do not name the text, however: " Blessed and holy is  
he that hath part in the FIRST RESURRECTION, on such 
the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests  
of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand  
years." If there is a FIRST resurrection, there must be  
another, and of course, the doctrine of two resurrections  
is clearly proved by this one text, unless it can be ex-
plained away. Instead of attempting this difficult task,  
they quote three other passages from which they infer 
there is to be but one resurrection, but not one of which  
proves it. They therefore leave us the easy task of  
balancing between the authority of God's express declar-
ations on the one hand, and their inferences on the  
other. We will therefore leave them for the present,  
and consult God's word, with this question in our minds :  
Do other parts of the Bible teach that the righteous and the  
wicked will be raised at different times 1 We beg our  
readers to let GOD answer this question, and not intrude 
their own answers before reverently listening to His.  
See 1 Thessalonians, 4: 14, "For if we believe that  
Jesus died and rose again, so them also that SLEEP IN 
JESUS will God bring with him. For this we say unto  
you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive,  
and remain unto the coming of our Lord, shall not pre-
vent [go before] them that arc asleep. For the Lord 
himself shall descend with a shout, with the voice of the  
archangel, and the trump of God,  and the DEAD IN CHRIST  
shall rise FIRST."  
Here, then, is the same first resurrection mentioned^  
Revelations, for it is impossible there can be two essen- 
tially different resurrections, and each of them be proper- 
ly called the FIRST.  
The Apostle proceeds, (verse 17,) "Then we which  
are alive and remain, shall be caught up together with  
them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, so shall  
we ever be ivith the Lord." It is not said we shall ever 
be in the air, but ever be with the Lord ; and John, in the  
21st of Revelations, which was originally connected with  
the 20th, tells us where we shall be- -in the new Jerusa-
lem, "the Tabernacle of God with men, and he will  
dwell with them."  
Let us now turn to the 15th chap of 1 Cor., where the  
resurrection is largely dwelt upon, and see if the same  
truth is there taught us. The apostle says we are to be  
raised ; " every man in his own order ; Christ the first  
fruits, afterwards, THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S AT HIS  
COMING. Then cometh THE END."  
Of course, the righteous dead are-raised AT Christ's  
coming, and the rest of the dead '< live not again" till  
after " the END," whatever it may mean, which comes  
"THEN." Paul does not tell us how long after the first  
resurrection the second will come, but John says it will be 
a thousand years. Both spake by the same Spirit. Their  
words harmonize without the least violence. Shall we  
add to the words of Paul and explain away those of John,  
because they do not aecjrd with our notions ? Paiii  

must be speaking of a literal resurrection in which the  
righteous only have a part. In the progress of his dis- 
course we  learn that it introduces the subjects of it into  
a kingdom which flesh and blood cannot inherit, (verse  
50,) and it shall be " in  a moment, in the twinkling of  
an eye, at the LAST TRUMP, for the trumpet shall sound, 
and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be  
changed." (verse 51.)  
What will this change be? Refer to Phil. 3 : 20, 21—  
" For our conversation, [i.e. our citizenship, as the most  
eminent divines render it,] is in heaven, from whence  
also we LOOK for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ,  
who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned  
like unto his glorious body, according to the working  
whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto him- 
self." Our opponents cannot reconcile this language  
with their notion that the first resurrection is  only a revi- 
val, introducing  their expected millennium. They can- 
not call it the first revival, for there have been  many re- 
vivals from the days of Christ till now, and the millen- 
nium has not yet come. But these passages are all con-
sistent with our belief in two resurrections. The apostle  
tells us the dead in Christ shall rise, and it shall be their  
blessedness to be ever with the Lord. John says, they  
shall reign with Christ, and adds, " Blessed and holy is 
he that hath  part in the first resurrection." It appears,  
then, that the first resurrection is a rising to salvation.  
Now, the apostle to the Hebrews, says: (9: 28,)  
" Christ was Once offered to bear the sins of many, and  
unto them that LOOK for him shall he appear the second  
time, without sin, unto salvation." These passages, like  
an unbroken chain, bind together the first resurreciion,  
and Christ's second "coming, showing them to be at the  
same time, and for the same purpose—the glorification  
of his followers.  
We will turn to a few other Scriptures, which would  
be obscure and difficult on any other interpretation. In  
the third chapter of Philippians, Paul declares that " we  
[Gentile believers] are the circumcision which worship  
God in the spirit, and rejoice IN CHRIST JESUS, and have  
no confidence in the flesh."—[i. e. in descent ] Pie then  
goes on to say, that though he was of the stock of Israel, 
of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews, as 
touching the law of Pharisee, yet he considered these  
things all worthless ; yea, he says, " I count all things  
but loss for the excellency of tbe knowledge of Christ  
Jesus, for whom 1 have suffered the loss of all things, if 
by any means I MIGHT ATTAIN unto the resurrection of the  
dead." Examine the whole passage, from the first verse 
to the eleventh, and then tell us what Paul means by at- 
taining to the resurrection of the dead, if all mankind have  
part in the same resurrection as a matter of course.— 
But, it may be asked, whyxlid not Paul name the first 
resurrection ? Those who are skilled in Greek give us  
a ready answer to this question, an(J by so doing furnish  
us with an overwhelming argument for the two resurrec- 
tions. The expression in the original implies that Paul  
was seeking for a peculiar resurrection OUT FROM  
AMONG the dead. He considered it of infinite impor- 
tance that he should have part in the first resurrection,  
and not be among those who would be left behind to  
suffer the second death.  
Again, in the 11th of Hebrews, a host of worthies are  
mentioned who stopped the mouths of lions, quenched  
the violence of fire, &c., "and others were tortured, not 
accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better re 
surrection." This language certainly implies that'there  
is one resurrection inconceivably better than the other. *  
Turn also to Luke 14: 13, 14, where our Saviour says :  
"When thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed,  
the lame, the blind ; and thou shalt be blessed ; for they 
cannot recompense thee, but thou shalt be recompensed  
at the RESURRECTION OF THE JUST." Here it is evident  
that THE JUST are to have a resurrection peculiar to 
themselves; otherwise Christ might have said, at the 
general resurrection, but it is remarkable that no such  
expression ever occurs in the Bible.  
Paul says, he believes there will be a resurrection,  
BOTH of the just, AND of the unjust, (Acts 24: 15,) and  
this is among the "things which are written in the law  

and in the prophets." Christ had mentioned the " resur- 
rection of the just." Paul here adds that he believes in  
the resurreciion of the unjust, also. Why is this dis- 
criminating phraseology always used, if there is not a  
discrimination between the resurrections of the just and 
of the unjust ? But Christ himself expresses this dis- 
crimination still more strongly, when he says : " All that  
are in the graves shall hear his voice ; and shall come 
forth, they that have done good, UNTO THE RESURRECTION  
OF LIFE, and they that have done evil, unto the resurrec- 
tion of damnation." John 5 : 28, 29. Would our read-
ers imagine that this is one of the three texts quoted to 
shoiv the falsity of the doctrine of two resurrections ! Yet  
so it is. The only color of support they can derive from 
this text is, from Christ's saying that " the hour is com- 
ing" when these resurrections shall occur. From this  
expression they infer that the resurrections cannot be a  
thousand years apart. To this we might merely reply,  
that if the Bible elsewhere declares the resurrections  
shall be 1000 years apart, it must be true, and Christ's 
language cannot contradict any truth, for then his words  
would be false, which is impossible. Let us see then  
how Christ uses the word hour, only three verses above  
the one quoted. " The hour is coming and now is, when  
the dead shall hear the Voice of the Son of God, and  
they that hear shall live." Our clerical opponents, 
would all agree, that the dead here spoken of are the  
dead in sins. The hour in which they are converted had 
then commenced, and will continue till the door of mercy  
is closed, which, according to their belief, will be a  
thousand years besides the 1800 already passed away.—  
Surely, if an hour extends so far in one verse, it may ex- 
tend 1000 years in another, and the use of the word does 
not prove that the two resurrections here spoken of are  
not the same as the resurrection of the " blessed and  
holy" of " the rest of the dead," mentioned in the 20th 
of Revelations. The fact that Christ uses the word re- 
surrection twice in one sentence, and designates the two 
by such opposite characteristics, is an argument not 
easily disposed of in any other view.  
They also quote the text in Daniel (12: 2,) which says :  
" Many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall  
awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and 
everlasting contempt." They certainly give great  
weight to the prophecies of Daniel, when they undertake 
to prove that a doctrine taught in the New Testament 
cannot be true, if Daniel records the language of an angel  
on the subject, in which it is not also taught. They cer-
tainly will not contend.that Gabriel contradicts the doc-
trine of two separate resurrections, though it was no  
part of his business to teac-h any thing more than that some  
would rise to everlasting life, and some to shame and ever- 
lasting contempt. When it is prophesied that Christ shall  
come to " proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and  
the day of vengeance of our  God," both phrases might  
seem to mean one period, but there is nothing in the  
prophecy to show that the acceptable year might not  
commence at his first coming, and the day of VENGEANCE 
be deferred to the second, when he shall be " revealed  
from heaven in flaming fire, taking VENGEANCE." Thus 
we understand the prophecy in Isaiah by the light of the 
New Testament: may we not be guided by the same  
light in understanding the words of Gabriel to Daniel,  
and thus see that the " blessed and holy" rise to ever-
lasting life one thousand years before the "rest of the  
dead !" "rise to shame and everlasting contempt."  
It will be seen that these clergymen find the resur- 
rection revealed in the book of Daniel. They had not  
been taught the new theology of Prof. Stuart and others,  
who deny that this text has any reference to the final  
resurrection, or'that any  text in Daniel refers to the end  
of the world. #  
But the main argument against the two resurrections  
is thus stated—  
"Once more. According to our Savior's representa- 
tion of the day of judgment, in the 25th chapter of Mat- 
thew, both the righteous and the wicked of all nations 
shall stand before him at the same time ; and a final sepa- 
ration shall at that time be made, the righteous being  
placed on his right hand, and the wicked on his left. To  
the former he will say, 'Come, ye blessed of my Father, in-


herit the kingdom prepared for yon from the foundation of  
the world.' To the latter he will say, ' Depart, ye cursed,  
into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels.'  
And in the closing scene it is said, that ' these latter 
shall go away into everlasting  punishment,  but the right- 
eous into life eternal.' But it cannot be necessary to re- 
peat again what a different representation  Mr. Miller's  
doctrine gives of this tremendous scene."  
Here, again, these ministers  should have understood  
the fashionable theology which is brought up against us ;  
viz., that all this was fulfilled  at the destruction of Jerusa- 
lem. They admit the important truth that it relates to  
the judgment.  
Can any one believe that all tbe scenes ofthe judgment  
will be finished in a day of twenty-four hours 1 Of course  
not. A single scene is therefore introduced to show the  
object and nature of that judgment. Matthew Henry says,  
on this discourse : "Some passages in it are parabolical, 
as the separating between the sheep and the goats, and  
the dialogue between the Judge and the persons judged."  
Here it seems as if the wicked would speak to defend  
themselves,  but from another parable we learn that they  
are " speechless." In the parable, (Luke 16) the rich  
man in hell is represented as being within speaking dis- 
tance of Abraham, whom he "SAW," but this, according  
to Scott, does not " determine whether condemned spirits 
actually know or see what takes place in the realms of 
bliss." It is an admitted principle among theologians, 
(see Home's Introduction,)  that the plain language  of  
Scripture is to be the standard with which parables are to  
be compared, and no doctrine can be  established merely  
from an expression in a parable.  
But this discourse of our Lord cannot prove any thing  
on the subject of the resurrection, till it is first proved  
that it relates to the resurrection. The learned Dr. Ma- 
ther says : "Theprocess  of judgment on the sheep and  
goats, in the 24th chapter of Matthew, has not one of the  
raised from the dead concerned in it, but is a quick division 
and decision made by our Lord among the Christians  who  
cry for mercy, when they see the fire of God ready to  
seize upon them, determining who shall be caught up to  
meet the Lord, and who shall be left to the perdition of  
ungodly men, in the flames before them." Now, when  
theologians  can raise such opposite doctrines from this  
language, and it certainly is not declared that any are  
raised from the dead to take part in the scene, we should  
certainly be careful not to make our infeienccs on this 
passage the standard by which to cut down the plain lan-
guage of other Scriptures.  
The transactions of the judgment cannot be supposed  
to be all described in a few short verses, but all the de- 
scriptions of it must harmonize together. In Rev. 20: 13,  
we have this scene introduced—"And I saw the dead,  
small and great, stand before God : and the books were  
opened ; and another book was opened, which is the 
book of life; and the dead were judged out of those  
things which were written in the books, according to their  
works." We might at first imagine that this was a com- 
prehensive sketch, reaching from the beginning to the 
end ofthe judgment. But after this, we have the follow- 
ing scene described;—how long it occurs after the other', 
we must learn elsewhere.  
" And the sea gave up the dead which were in it, and  
death and hell, [or, the grave, as in the margin,] delivered 
up the dead which were in them, and THEY were judged  
every man according to THEIR WORKS.  . . . And whoever  
was not found written in the book of life, was cast into 
the lake of fire."  
Observe the difference between these descriptions.  
In the first, we have the dead, BJULL and gieat," which  
includes infants,  for "of such is the kingdom of God."  
In the second, they are not mentioned. In the first, the  
book of life is said to be opened, but not in the second ;  
nor is it said that any in the second scene meet any other  
doom than to be " cast into the lake of  fire." The second  
scene, we may therefore conclude, is connected with the  
second resurrection, which is the " resurrection of dam- 
nation."  
In John 6: 40, the promise to those who believe in  
Christ is this : " I will raise him up at the last day."  
Why was this special promise to those who believe in  
Christ, if all are to be raised up together 1  

Look, also, at the conversation between Christ and the  
Sadducees, (Luke 20: 34, 35.) " They^who shall be ac- 
counted worthy to attain that world, and THE RESURREC-
TION FROM THE DEAD, neither marry nor are given in mar-
riage," &c. Here the original conveys the idea of a  
rising in which some are accounted worthy to be raised 
out from among others who are left behind. But what 
meaning can there be to this expression, in view of any 
doctrine, which denies the two* resurrections 1  
Other passages might be referred to whieh clearly im- 
ply two resurrections, but till some Scriptural proof is 
brought in opposition, it is not necessary to do more than  
to state this jingle proposition—No  DOCTRINE CAN AGREE  
WITH ALL THE TEXTS ON THIS SUBJECT, BUT THE DOCTRINE  
OF TWO RESURRECTIONS : consequently,  no other doctrine  
can be true, for that DOES AGREE with every text.  
This, then, is the conclusion to whieh the Scripture so  
clearly guides us, viz : When Christ comes the second 
time, which will be personally, in the clouds of heaven,  
all living believers in him will be caught up to meet him, 
together with all who have slept in Jesus, when all re- 
jecters of Christ will be burned, and the rest ofthe dead  
will live not again, till a thousand  years are finished,  
when they will rise to be adjudged worthy of the second  
death !  
Reader, does this thought terrify you 1 Then fly to  
Jesus, who is now inviting  you to flee from the wrath  
which is to come. Judge yourself now, that ye be not 
adjudged to the second death.  
For the Midnight Cry.  
MILLERISM REFUTED, &c.  
It will probably be recollected by most of our readers,  
that in No. 20, ofthe Daily Midnight Cry, we published a 
long article under the above heading, written against our  
v&ws, by a theologian of New Haven, Ct., signing  him- 
self "B.," in connection with a reply. A " review" of 
our reply, has just come to hand, which perhaps should 
have a passing notice. We associated this "B." with 
one, of which we had occasion to say something in No.  
16, under the head of " Wrath and Bitterness," but we  
are happy to learn by the article now before us, that this  
is quite another " B.,7 and we are not at all surprised  
that he is anxious to have the fact known.  
As it regards the " Review" before us, we can find but  
little that bears the semblance of argument, or deserves  
a reply. The writer takes exceptions to our remarks on  
Ps. ii: 8. He makes a quotation from Mr. Scott's opin- 
ion, which, by the way, is as much, or rather more, in  
favor ofthe view we gave of it, than it is in favor ofthe 
view he advocates. The following is a specimen of the  
harmony, or rather confusion  of our friend " B's" arti- 
cle. He says, " They, (the heathen) are not given to  
him (Chr'st) not in orderthat he may dash them to pieces,  
but in order that he may govern them by his rule," &c.  
He then adds, " It is nevertheless  true, that all who do  
not embrace the religion of Christ, will he broken with a  
rod of iron, and dashed in pieces like a potter's vessel."  
Now, this is conceding to us all we claim—our entire ar- 
gument. All that are convened to Christ of course 
cease-to be heathen. Now let the reader look at Ps. ii : 
8, 9, and he will no doubt be fully satisfied ofthe correct- 
ness of our position on this point.  
We will here introduce one more specimen of our  
author's argument, the imbecility  of which, we do not  
attribute at all to a lack of ability, but the ulter unten- 
ableness ofthe cause he advocates.  
Speaking of our "copious argument"  proving that the  
8th and 9th chapters of Daniel refer to the same sub- 
ject, he says, "This I do not deny. But granting it," he  
adds, " it will not prove that the two periods, (i. e. the 
70 weeks, and the 2300 days) commence at the same  
time." Now this is a naked assertion, without even an 
attempt at argument. When we say, that if the 8th and 
9th chapters refer to the same subject, it does clearly  
prove the identity of the starting point of the two num- 
bers, our say so is just-as  good as his. And our premi- 
ses admitted, I believe every candid logician would not  
deny that it is a conclusive argument. But now for a  
little argument. I ask what sense would there be in 
Daniel 9 : 24, if it did not refer to the vision of the 8th  
chapter, of the 2300 days 1 The Angel says, 9 : 22, 23,  
24, " O Daniel, I am now come to give thee skill and 
understanding.  Therefore understand the matter, and  
consider the vision. Seventy weeks are determined (cut  
off) upon thy people." &c. First Gabriel came to make  
him understand the vision, of the 8th chapter, of course,  
for there is no vision in the 9th chapter. And all of the  
8th chapter had been explained, but the 2300 days. Se- 
cond, if 70 weeks were cut off, they must be cut off from  

some greater number, and the 2300 days is the on'y num- 
ber given. Mr. " B." has conceded us so much of our  
premises, that his argument is like throwing dust against  
the wind—it returns to his own eyes.  
Speaking of our date for setting  up the little horn,  
which we make A. D. 538, he says, " There are many  
other periods which have more probability for the dates,  
&c." But there is one argument which we have never  
seen assailed for fixing  the date of the setting up of the  
little horn, or  Papacy, at 538. The ten horns represent  
the ten divisions of the Roman Empire, which were es- 
tablished between the years 356 and 4S3. The little horn  
came up among these ten, three of which fell before it. 
Now if they were rooted up by the little horn, the latter  
must have eome up just about the time the third one fell,  
which was A. D. 538. Now is it probable that the little  
horn which uprooted the three, the last of which fell in  
538, did not itself come up till 606 1  Mr. Croly says,  
" The annalists  of Rome, spurn the idea that Phocas was  
the founder of the Supremacy of Rome. They ascend to  
Justinian  as the only legitimate source, &c."  
It is unnecessary here, to repeat the law of Justinian,  
with the dates, &e., they having been so often presented 
to our readers. We are not obliged' to come down to  
1798 and count back to find the point, but we find it in  
history in 538, and then in 1798 we find au event corres- 
ponding to the great subject, and we find it so perfect,  
that it will work both ways : we can count to it, or from  
it. 
The following paragraph indicates a candor which we  
hope will lead to a discovery and acknowledging  of the  
truth :  
" In conclusion,  we unite with the writer in saying,  
' look well to the subject.' It will do you no harm to ex- 
amine Mr. Miller's theory; but examine it with prayer,  
and with a careful study of the Bible ; and- do not em-
brace it without a careful examination.  Many have ridi- 
culed Mr. Miller? and called him an ignorant  fanatic.  
This we entirely disapprove. We believe there are few  
individuals  in this country who have as good a knowledge  
of Scripture and those parts of history relating to pro-
phecy, as Mr. Miller."  
For ourself, we say, if we err, let it be in looking for  
the coming Lord too soon. But we entertain no fears 
that God will not fully justify  his word, and take care  of  
his despised and taunted people, who are willing to for- 
sake every thing  for Christ. O sinner, get ready, for the  
coming ofthe Lord drawet'n nigh. L. D. F.  
THE LUNAR PHENOMENON,  
The beautiful Lunar Phenomenon which was seen at  
Newark on the evening of the 15th inst. was gazed upon  
by hundreds with thrilling  admiration. It was first ob- 
served between eight and nine o'clock in the evening, 
the moon being about at its zenith. It was surrounded 
by three concentric circles, beautifully  marked with all I  
the varied colors of the rainbow, of the most brilliant  }  
hue, the centre space within the circumference of the \  
lunar circle, being of beautiful silvery whiteness.  
The opposers of the speedy coming of Christ seem to  
have been somewhat agitated by this phenomenon, and  
anticipated an application of it for us.  
A clergyman at Newark, on seeing it, said, " I sup- 
pose the Milleritcs will see something  of Miller in it."—  
Probably he " supposed" we were not philosophers enough  
to see GOD in it !! x  
An elderly lady, who despises " Millerism,"  on seeing  
it, made the following, beautiful prophetic observation—  
•'The Lord has promised that he will not drown the  
world with water any more, and he has set the rainbow  
in the clouds for a sign. But now he has closed the  
bow, and is going to burn the world with fire."  
SCOFFERS.—Who are they 1 Those who shall arise in  
the last time and say where is the promise of his Coming.—  
It would seem as if the glorious doctrine of Christ's per-
sonal coming to reign on the earth were to be revived in the  
church a short time before the reality should take place.—  
Witnesses for this truth would arise who would proclaim it  
throughout the length and breadth of Christendom.  But as  
it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be again. Ridicule,  
and jest, and witticism  will attack what reason cannot over- 
throw. These are the weapons which those will use who  
"love not his appearing." The wicked servant who says, 
" My Lord delayeth his coming," and the scoffer who cries, 
"Where is the promise of it," can neither of them pray 
with sincerity. " Thy kingdom come," for that in which  
alone the answer to their prayer consists they revile, viz :  
His coming to take to himself  his great power and to reign.  
—Millcnarian.  
SECOND ADVENT.—We understand that the French  
Catholics in Canada, are adopting to a very considereble  
cxtext, the views of Mr. Miller—also the Protestant  
Methodists and Freewill Baptists, both clergy and laity,  
are said very generally to believe and teach the same  
doctrines.—W. 11. Cabinet.


LETTER FROM MICHIGAN.  
A brother in Brooklyn has sent the Midnight Cry to  
his son-in-law in Michigan, from whom he has received 
a letter, portions of which we are permitted to publish :  
" I send you my sincerest thanks for the key you have  
sent us, with which we have unlocked the heretofore  
hidden mysteries of revelation : I mean the Midnight  
Cry. I doubt not, however, but you will be repaid lor 
your trouble, by learning that after a careful examination  
of the subject, my wife and myself have both embraced 
the doctrine of the second advent of our blessed Saviour 
this year, and so great is the call for information on the 
subject here, that we did not get time lo read all the pa- 
pers before our neighbors carried them off Some of them  
have been to Northville, four miles and a half from here  
Elder Wisner, a Baptist preacher in that place, read an  
extract from one of them to his congregation. It is  
said to have been listened to with great solemnity. 1  
presume if a copy of the Cry was sent to Rev. Mr. Wis- 
ner, Northville, Wayne County, it would be the means of  
doing much good. I do not know as Elder Wisner is a  
believer in the second advent at hand, but I understand  
from Deacon Flint, who is a member o: his church, that  
he has spoken well of the paper. The clergy in the back  
woods are not corrupted by popularity so much as I pre-
sume many in the cities are. 1 hope Dr. Brownlee will  
not in future ridicule Mr. Hatfield's Antiochus doctrine,  
for of all things I detest civil wars. It is bad enough for  
people to 'kill their enemies, but when they fight their  
friends it is horrible. The first question to be considered, 
it appears to me, is, does a prophetic day mean a year ?  
If so, then, does the 70 weeks of Daniel 9th commence  
at. the same time with the 2300 days of  Daniel 8th? Then,  
if the 7!> weeks end at the crucifixion, and who can doubt  
it, and the 230D days end at the second corning of Christ,  
we have but to go back from the crucifixion, 490  
years, to find a starting point, which will bring us to  
1S43, without the help of Antiochus or Rome either.  
Could a nation succeed us as we have the Jews, they 
would look back on the blindness and obstinacy of unbe- 
lievers of the present day with as much astonishment as  
we look on the conduct of the Jews, who would not be- 
lieve when they saw the dead corns forth from the grave 
at the command of our Saviour.  
" As for myself, you are aware that I have long been a  
believer in universal salvation, as I was well aware there 
was much ot the Scriptures the most learned did not pre- 
tend to understand, so it was an easy matter to set down  
all such passages as prove future punishment to the ac- 
count of 'sealed visions,' or inexplicable Scripture;—but  
when  I came to see the vision unsealed, and to realize  
that ' all Scripture is given by inspiration, and is profita- 
ble,' &c., (2d Tim. 3 : 16.) I was obliged to give up the  
doctrine ; and I now look for the second coming of the  
Judge of the whole world with joy and hope. 1 rejoice 
that there is a prospect th it an end will be put to sin and 
oppression, and that ' man's inhumanity to man' will no 
longer make 'countless thousands mourn.' Indeed, it.  
seems to me that it is impossible for this J2arfh to remain 
much longer without some more terrible revolution than  
has ever yet agitated it. The corruptions of public offi- 
cers, the pride, arrogance and  oppression of wealth, par- 
ticularly in England, where the poor are starving and the  
rich rioting, are becoming insupportable. But those who 
are so unspeakably happy as to have en the wedding gar- 
ment when the ' Bridegroom cometh,' hive reason to re- 
joice in the hope of soon being beyond tlje reach of afflic- 
tions, where they will sing the new song for ever and 
ever. In view of this glorious state-of things, what are  
riches, fame, and worldly honor.ss which have so long en-
gaged my attention ? They aw at best but empty bubbles,  
which afford no real pleasure.  
"The Aurora borealis, spoken of in the Midnight Cry.  
and which was seen in London, was also seen here I  
saw the said Aurora on  Tuesday evening, the 3rd of  
September, 1833. It was truly a grand spectacle, but it  
conveyed to my mind the idea of beauty and sublimity, 
rather than fear " .  
The writer proceeds to mention aluminous sickle, ap  
parently among the stars, which was distinctly seen by  
himself and brother-in-law, in 1838 ; also another singu- 
lar appearance in the Spring of 1841. "This was a  
bright bow, of a reddish cast, which spanned the heavens  
from west to east; the ends being dim, were curved to  
wards the north. It was seen at the same time at Ken-
yon College, in Ohio."  
The Lord has told us he would send us signs, and  
though multitudes have been already recordeu, so that 
all are without excuse who slight  them, yet we do not  
feel at liberty to decline publishing additional well au- 
th entioated facts of this kind, however much we may be  
sc ofFed at for so doing.  

A DREAM.  
A few weeks ago, the editor of the Midnight Cry'heard  
of the fact that a girl in Brooklyn, aged about twelve  
years, had an interesting dream. It conveyed an im- 
pressive lesson to her, and we publish it that others may  
heed the instruction it gives.  
In November last, I had a singular dream 1 thought  
some person sent a message to us to prepare to go to a  
certain city which ha 1 lately been discovered. We were  
told we must have our clothes all washed clean, or else  
we could not enter. We sent after a certain woman,  
who had often helped us, to come and wash our clothes.  
She said she could not wash them clean—and besides,  
she was going herself, and must wash her own. Then  
we sent out for another person, who came, but she could  
not do all the washing alone. Then mother and myself  
took hold and helped.  
The washing was finished, and  the morning came, on  
which we were to start. It was a fine morning. The  
sun shone bright. We started about 10 o'clock. We  
first went over to New York. We went up a little way  
from the wharf, anrl came to a large block of buildings.  
It had many magnificent houses. We walked around it  
several times, and kept looking up and talking. Present- 
ly the sun was darkened, and we found it was caused by 
a cloud of smoke that rose from the buildings. W§ im- 
mediately started for the river, and in a few minutes a 
boat came up. It was long enough to reach across the  
river. It had a white awning over it, but had neither  
sails, engine, or wheels. As the boat came up, we went  
on without be ng told !  
As the people ranged themselves under the awning,  
each one placed himself in front of an anchor, of which 
there were just as many as there were passengers.  
Some were large and some were small, but they were  
all very bright and shining.  
A man soon came with two rolls. He was a pleasant- 
looking man,, dressed in white, and had siLvery hair.  
When he came on the boat, he opened the paper roll and  
read it. He then told them all to sit down and get their 
strings ready to give him.  
He then gave me the other roll, and  told me to wind  
the strings they should give him, on that.  
A woman came on with two dogs, and staid outside  
the awning. The man clothed in white told her to go in  
and sit down with the rest. She refused, but she s«t  
down by the door until the fire came close to her. Then  
she got up and wont .in the middle of the boat. The man  
then went around and got the strings, each family by  
themselves, and tied them in a singular knot, and gave  
them to me to wind. When he came to that woman, he  
asked her for her string She said she had none. He  
then told her that she must go off. She started, but her  
dogs did not follow. She soon came back and cried for  
her dogs. He got them for her, and then she went out  
and sat down on the dirty dock, with her dogs each side  
of her. The pleasant man, with the silvery hair, con- 
tinued to collect the strings. I saw Mr. Miller in the  
crowd, who looked very happy as he  held out his string,  
and said, " Take it—here it 13." His string was very 
long, and the man tied a singular knot in it.  
Ho then came to a young man who was standing out- 
side of the awning, and said to him, " Friend, why do you 
stand here ? Why don't you go in and sit with the rest?  
Have you got a string '." The young man answered,  
" No." "Then you must go off," said the man in white.  
He went off, but turned and looked back wishfully, and  
then walked on.  
After he had collected all the rest of the strings, the  
man asked me for mine. I told him that I left it on the 
dock. The thought then struck me that it bad fallen in  
the water. He asked me how far it was. I said it was 
not very far. He told me to make haste, for the boat  
might start, so that I could not get in after all I went  
after it, and found one end hanging towards the water.  
I picked it up and hurried back, for fear the boat should  
be gone It had not started. I gave him the string, and  
he tied it on with the rest. He then gave me the roll,  
and told me to keep it. Then turning round, he asked  
what time it was He was answered, " In half an hour  
the time will be up."  
When it was time, the boat started. As it glided from  
the dirty shore of the burning city, we could see the fire  
raging fast, and the people darting about, hitting each  
other ; when all at once a white sheet rolled down, and  
hid it from our view.  
We passed on smoothly, and in a few minutes we  
came to where we saw some beautiful flowers. One was  
of a light color, and it shone. It was surrounded by ma- 
ny others, which were not so large and bright. As we 
walked on, I saw little infants walking as if they had  
been grown people, with their strings in their hands. We  
all stood in little groups, talking, when my mother's  
younger sister came up alone, and began to converse  
with her.  
Presently, I heard beautiful singing. It sounded like  

the hymn I have often heard sung—" See the Judge de» 
scending." Then I awoke.  
Reader, you know not how soon your Lord may ceme,  
when you must perish with a burning world, if you are  
not ready to go with Him to the beloved city. Are you 
ready now ?  
OTTOMAN SUPREMACY GONE.  
The departure of the Ottoman, or Mahomedan supre- 
macy, it was long since believed by Mr. Miller, would  
mark the close of the sixth trumpet. Brother Litch's  
lecture on this subject was published in 1838, maintain- 
ing that the sixth trumpet would cease Aug. 11, 1840, if 
the prophetic period, Rev. 9 ; 15, was to be understood  
" a day for a year." The event fully justified the inter-
pretation. The papers at the time headed their columns  
of eastern news, " The Ottoman Power Down"—" The 
Turkish Empire fallen." Now, that they see the appli- 
cation of the fact, many are denying that such an event 
ever took place. Mr. Bellamy, pastor of the Baptist  
Church worshipping in Stanton street, recently said, if  
the Turkish empire was down he had yet to learn it —  
He might have read in the N. Y. Observer, Aug. 1841,  
"The Turkish Empire is but a mere corpse."  
But the truth will often come out on a subject, when  
one has occasion to refer to it incidentally.  
The Baptist Advocate of Jan. 28th, says :  
" The Turkish government in Syria appears to give  
little satisfaction either to the inhabitants or to the Allied  
Powers who RESTORED IT."  
What occasion had they to restore a government, if it  
was not down? Again, the editor says ;  
" The inherent weakness of the Turkish Empire be- 
comes every day more apparent. England and Austria  
wish to sustain it as a bulwark against the encroach- 
ments of Russia. But a body that CANNOT STAND  
OF ITSELF, is a weak bulwark."  
THE LITTLE HORN PUSHING.  
" And the same horn made war with the saints, and  
prevailed against them until the Ancient of days came." 
Dan. 7; 21, 22.  
Nothing is more clear, than that the spirit of the little  
horn is disseminated through the Protestant as well as 
the Romish church; and it will prevail against the  
saints till the personal coming of our blessed Lord.  
While the cry is heard in every direction, "WATCH- 
MAN, WHAT OF THE NIGHT !" with the deepest in-
tensity, the watchmen, (too generally,) are saying, We  
know nothing about it. Hear the word of the Lord—  
Ezek. 33: 6, " If the watchman see the sword coming,  
aud blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned, 
and any be taken away in his iniquity, his blood will I  
require at the watchman's hand." See from the first to 
the twelfth verse.  
What a fearful responsibility rests with the watchmen  
on the walls of Zion. We fear that the watchmen feel  
more concern for their particular sect, than they do for  
the crowning hope of Israel, and the salvation of souls.  
The following article, which we find in last week's  
Christian Advocate and Journal, gives a painful illus-
tration of the spirit of many of those who are placed as 
watchmen. It is from the pen of a Methodist clergyman 
of Newark, N. J.  
"The  Millerites have organized a church (I) in this  
city. A few ^2) Methodists are involved in the fanati- 
cism, some of whom, silly doves, if doves at all, have  
condescended to receive the Sacrament from the hands  
GIFA Christian [Unitarian (3) ] minister. S. WINNER."  
1. They have NOT organized a chureh, but a Second  
Advent Association, from among all denominations.  
2. Not a few, but MAN v.  
3. Will brother Winner tell us what he means by a  
Unitarian 1  
Are such the best arguments our opponents have to  
offer against our views ? If so, we predict that many 
more " doves, if doves they are," will plume their wings,  
and claim the privilege of flying where they can feed 
upon the grains of eternal truth, uncaged and unscared ;  
j where they can study—believe—and talk about what  
' they esteem as truth, unmolested.


f NOTE -In March, 1842, an article appeared in the Christian Review, published at Boston, entitled " Remarks on the Book of Daniel,' extending through 46 p?ges  
of that Baptist Quarterly It was written by the learned Prof. Chase, of the Newton Theological Institution. A commendatory notice soon alter appeared in the Christian  
WatchmanToThis Bro Hersey, a plain mechanic, belonging to the same denomination with the learned Professor, prepared an immediate reply, which first appeared in  
the SOTS of the Times We re-publish it because it shows the absurdity of some of the arguments now advanced by Messrs Stuart, Dowl.ng, Bellamy, Cookson, Per- 
kiL Hatfield, and Xrs. The reader will perceive that the writer could not put forth his whole strength, as he was cramped both for want of room, and want of freedom  
given him to express his thoughts, in the Watchman, for which his article was prepared ]  
A BRIEF REVIEAV OF  
REV. IRAH CHASE'S "REMARKS ON  THE BOOR OF DANIEL."  
MESSKS. HIMES AND LITCH :—  
These remarks were prepared for the Christian Watch- 
man ; but although Mr. Crowell admitted "C. P. R.'s"  
article extolling Dr. Chase's « Remarks " very  highly, yet  
he was unwilling to publish mine, unless I would reduce  
them very much, and leave out many parts that he con- 
sidered objectionable. I could not consent to this, and  
so offer them to you for your consideration.  
In that paper of July 22d, over the initials "C. P. R.,"  
the attention of its readers was called to ihe first  
article in the March No. of the Christian Review, enti- 
tled " Remarks on the Book of Daniel.'i With the re-
commendation of its correspondent I immediately com- 
plied. I had before given it a hasty reading, but now 
sat down to the reperusal with earnest attention. But I  
did not get the satisfaction from it that "C. P. i?." ex-
pressed in his first sentence. I fully agree with him in 
his second; in the main I agree with him in the third;  
but in the  fourth I cannot, for I must say I think the  
"Remarks" are unworthy of the "talents and biblical 
learning of the highly respected theological professor;"  
and that " the candid reader will fail to perceive sound- 
ness of judgment, critical acumen, and devout reverence  
^ for divine truth, which might be expected from a ripe  
scholar, and an able interpreter of the saCred Scrip-
tures." To the fifth, I have no particular objection;  
none to the sixth, except the word " happily," in the last 
line ; none to the seventh ; fully  do I agree with him in  
the eighth; but in the last one, I cannot. I do indeed  
" thank the reverend author for this excellent model ot  
courteous discussion," but I cannot agree that it  is  
a "truly valuable contribution." Here, now, I take my 
leave of "C. P. R.,:' and with your indulgence I will 
proceed to state my objections to some of the sentiments 
in the " Remarks."  
And now, in the outset, I will sav/1 shall endeavor to  
be governed by the book of Daniel; for when we leave  
the inspired word, and wander through the mazes of pro- 
fane history, the opinions of the fathers, or even the more 
modern commentaries, there is great danger of imbibing 
their errors imperceptibly ; and then, turning back to the 
inspired word, look at it through a distorftd medium ;  
and so our wrong views are cherished and continued. 
But when we come up, with a praying heart, to the  
Standard of Truth, willing to see and believe all that that  
teaches, we are sure of gettiag the truth ; and after find- 
ing it, the praying heart is still needed, to enable us to  
adopt it, and to relinquish all our preconceived opinions,  
however long they may have been entertained, or ar- 
dently cherished. .  
In Daniel ii. 28, it reads, " But there is a God in hea- 
ven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the  
king what shall be in the LATTER days." I am afraid 
the'professor did not keep this in mind as much as he 
should, in coming to the conclusion that he has, that all  
that was shown to Daniel, (except the seventy weeks,) 
was finished up and concluded with Antiochus, who died  
1(54 years B. C.  
As there is no dispute about the first and second em- 
pires, we will pass to the consideration of the third.  
Dan. ii. 39, says : " And another third kingdom of brass,  
which shall bear rule over all the earth." Now turn to 
chapter viii. 21: " And the rough goat is the king of  
Grecia; and the great horn that is between bis eyes is 
the FIRST KING." Mark these last two words. Now  
look back to the 7th verse : " And I saw him come close  
unto the ram, and  he was moved with choler against  
him, and he smote the ram, and brake his two horns;  
and there was no power in the ram to stand before him, 
but he cast him down to the ground, and stamped upon  
him ; and there was none that could deliver the ram out  
of his hand." 1 Now, if these quotations fail to prove that  
Grecia is the THIRD kingdom, and that Alexander is only  
the first king, I might as well stop here: but believing  
that it will convince every praying, candid mind, I will 
proceed. Chap. ii. 40: "And the fourth kingdom shall  
be strong as IRON ; forasmuch as IRON breaketh in pieces  
and subdueth all things; and as IRON that breaketh all 
these, shall it break in pieces and bruise." Chap. vii. 7:  
"After this, 1 saw in the night visions, and behold a  
fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly :  
and it had great IRON teeth : it devoured, and break in 
pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and  
it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it:  

BY LEWIS HERSEY.  
and it had ten horns." Now, Mr. Editor, is it the ob-
tuseness of my intellect, or what is it, that I am ntterly  
unable to perceive the least resemblance in the kingdom  
of Seleucus, Ptolemy, &c., to the above inspired descrip- 
tion of the fourth kingdom? Will the "reverend pro-
fessor" show us wherein his fourth kingdom was strong  
as iron; wherein it was diverse from all that were before  
it ? Will he tell us when, and where, it broke in pieces,  
and bruised ? Nay, is it not certain—will the professor 
deny it ?—that from -the death of the "first king" it  
began to dwindle, and that " over the regions beyond  
the Euphrates, where Seleucus and his successors  
reigned only seventy years before there was a successful  
revolt, under Arsaces, which led to the establishment of 
the Parthian empire ;" and finally it became extinct, by  
the Romans gaining the battle of Actium, and Egypt  
became a Roman province about thirty years B. C.  
Will he show us wherein it was so "dreadful and ter- 
rible, and strong exceedingly" above all the kingdoms  
which were before it? But when we apply it to the 
Romans, it seems to me the inspired description is exact  
in every particular.  
Looking at the relative duration of his four kingdoms,  
we see a disparity worthy of notice. Babylon from Pul,  
241 ; Persia, 207 ; Alexander, 8; his successors to Anti- 
ochus, 137.  
That Alexander's is not the third, and his successors'  
the fourth, may be further proved, by looking at the 
23d verse of the 7th chapter: "Thus he said, the fourth  
beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which 
shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the  
whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in  
pieces." And now, in the sincerity of my soul, I would  
place myself at the feet of the "reverend professor,"  and  
ask, with the humblest desire after truth, how this de- 
scription of the fourth kingdom by Daniel's heavenly  
instructor, can apply, in any respect; to the kingdom of  
Alexander's successors? Leaving out ail other consid- 
erations, this one alone would prove fatal to his theory,  
viz., that his third conquered the whole earth, for his  
fourth : whereas the above words of inspiration show  
us that the fourth devoured and trod down the whole  
earth. How could his penetrating mind fail of seeing 
this ? Did Seleucus, Ptolemy, &c., ever do anything an- 
swering to this ? On the contrary, was not theirs in its 
zenith, at the very moment of its commencement?  
Will he point us to a single nation that was added toj  
the vast conquests of Alexander, by his successors?  
Nay; had not that new power, which had begun to nse  
in the west, commenced its inroads already? Will the  
professor deny, that Rome had conquered very many  
places, which had been under the Greeks, besides Spain.  
Carthage, Cisalpine Gaul, Liguria, fee., within one hun- 
dred years from the death of Alexander ?  
On page 10 he says: " It was no longer united, al- 
though its several parts had many characteristics in 
common ; it was divided among Greek commanders that  
had been trained in the ambitious and bloody school of  
the great conqueror. The earth trembled'and groaned  
under the collisions, the long continued and destructive 
wars which ensued." If his fourth empire was thus torn  
with internal wars, so as to make the earth groan and 
tremble, how, I would ask, could it be '.'strong exceed- 
ingly," as Daniel declares the fourth should be ? On  
the same page he says, " It was strong as iron, and yet  
it was divided, partly strong, and partly broken." And  
here I can hardly refrain from saying, that this looks  
a little like perverting the meaning. Does the professor  
need to be informed, that  the clay comes not up into the  
" legs of iron ?" But here now comes the eastern and 
western division; 41st verse: "And whereas thou  
sawest the feet and toes part of potter's clay and part of  
iron, the kingdom shall be divided."  
Again, I would ask, does the Spirit mean nothing ii.  
describing the fourth empire in the 7th, 19th, and 23d  
verses of the 7th chapter, where it has the word diverse  
in each verse ? On page 10 he says, " It was different  
from the other empires ; for it was not under the sway of 
one individual, or of one dynasty, but of several; and 
especially, at one time, of fo'ii, and at a  later period of  
two." Can it be possible, th.s is all the Spirit meant to 
convey to our minds, by using this word, diverse, in each  
of these verses :—four, and at a later period, two dy- 
nasties, instead of one? I think not. But the mo- 
ment we turn our eyes to the Roman, we see this 
diversity in several respects j in its different forms of  

government, which varied at different times, from the 
pure democracy to the absolute imperial. Their lan- 
uage, also, was different: their mode of warfare, also,  
was different: so also were their weapons. The Roman 
broad-sword, which, in the hand of a skilful man, would  
take off a man's head, or lay open his breast, or sever 
his shoulder at one blow, was something new to the 
Greeks and Asiatics. In all these things the professor's  
four empires varied but little.  
Well now, if 1 have succeeded in proving that the  
fourth is the Roman, ihen all he says about the ten  
horns out of his fourth empire, falls to the ground, of  
course. But, before we take our eyes off this "exceed- 
ing dreadful" beast, we had better take a more minute 
survey of his ten horns. After our " learned professor"  
has labored, with a tact and ability worthy of a better  
cause, to prove that the Greek empire constituted the  
third and fourth, he finds himself in a dilemma, from  
which, with all his "critical acumen," he is unable to  
extricate himself. If I understand him right, he takes  
the gold head—the lion—for his first; the silver arms 
and breast—bear and ram—for his second; the belly  
and thighs of brass—the leopard, and great horn—for  
his third;2 the legs of iron—terrible beast, and he-
o-0at— for his fourth. Here, now, he finds ten toes out  
of his fourth kingdom, in the first imagery; ten horns  
in the second; five horns in the third. The toes he  
does not notice. The ten horns, he  thinks are ten suc- 
cessive kings, or aspirants to the dynasty of Seleucus, 
one of the horns of the goat. Where does he get his  
authority for selecting that horn, on which to place his  
ten kings ? Why  not reckon up the kings, and aspirants  
too, for they must not be left out, of the four dynasties, if 
they together constituted the fourth empire! Why not,  
did I say? A very good reason, forsooth ; there would 
have been too many. But "exceedingly arbitrary" as  
this looks to me, it is not more wide of the mark, than  
his bringing up a succession of kings and aspirants, 
during a long course of years, as the fulfilment of the  
ten horns, that Daniel beheld, firmly rooted contempora- 
ries in the head of his fourth beast.  
It looks little less than outrageous, to me, to see Pto- 
lemy Philometer, who aspired to the throne, and Deme- 
trius, the young and only son, who was now far away, 
even a hostage at the metropolis of the real fourth king-
dom, (really this looks as if Rome had considerable power  
already, over the "exceeding strong" fourth kingdom 
of our professor!) and Heliodorus, the royal treasurer,  
placed up in the head of the beast as firmly rooted kings!  
tor it must not be lost sight of, that the little horn plucked  
up three standing ones, that had roots.  
But as " these great beasts, which are four, are four  
kings which shall arise out of the earth,"4 and " the ram  
which thou sawest, having two horns, are the kftigs of 
Media  and Persia," and " the rough goat is the king of  
Grecia," in these three passages kings are certainly put  
for kingdoms. And another: " when he was strong, the  
„reat horn was broken, and for it came up four notable  
ones, towards the four winds of heaven." The profes- 
sor will be the last person to deny that these four horns  
mean kingdoms, after having himself placed eleven  
kings upon one of them. Besides, the 22d verse says,  
four kingdoms shall stand up." So now, as "the ten  
horns out of this kingdom, are ten kings that shall arise,''  
t must believe they mean ten kingdoms also; which  
may be further argued, by referring back to our first 
quotation, Dan. ii. 28, where he informs the king that  
God had made known to him what should be in the  
LATTER days. With this in view, I see not how to 
avoid the conclusion, that the ten toes of the colossus 
are ten kingdoms ; which, with the modifications indi-
cated in the change among the ten horns, are to con- 
tinue, until the stone strikes the image and breaks it to  
pieces; or, as it is expressed in the second imagery, the 
beast was ain, and his body destroyed, and given to 
the burning flame; which is not yet done, and 1 think  
never can be until "the transgressors are destroyed 
together," (Ps. xxxvii. 38,) and "the slam of the Lord 
shall be at that day from one end of the earth, even unto  
the other end  of the earth;" (Jer. xxv. M;) and " all  
the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly—shal be burnea  
up-" Mai. iv. 1. And if the toes are kingdoms, then  
must the horns be also, for they indicate one and the 
same thing. After looking at the beast and his ten 
horns so long, we are prepared to look more particularly  
at the little horn, that had a mouth and eyes^ Now, a«


we think, we have proved that the fourth is the Roman,! 
and the horns are kingdoms; and as it was strong as]  
iron until the dismemberment, then it follows, of course, 
that the little horn cannot be Antiochus, for he was  
dead at least 500  years before the ten had come up in  
the head of the beast. Besides, "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."  Dan. vii. 21, 22.  
When the professor quoted the above passage, on his  
13th page, and omitted the' last clause, I inquired of my- 
self, what is the reason ? Is he afraid we should not see  
a fulfilment, in what took'place in the Jewish nation, at  
the death of Antiochus? Now, as "Ancient of days" 
and " Most High " must mean God ; and as he has no  
yet come, and given the KINGDOM to his saints; then it  
follows incontrovertibly, that the little horn cannot be  
Antiochus ; and equally certain does it follow, that it  
must be Papacy ; which had eyes to see, and a mouth to  
speak, unlike all his predecessors : whereas, Antiochus  
differed not, in anything essential, from tho.se that  pre- 
ceded him.  
THE "TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DAYS."  
As we have found our brother in some sad mistakes  
about " another third kingdom of brass, which should 
bear rule over all the earth," and " the fourth kingdom!  
that should be strong as iron," and also "a,bout the ten 
horns out of this kingdom, and  another that shall rise  
after them ;" so, I have some fears about taking him for 
a " pilot" to navigate my little craft through the "dan-
gerous waters, and amidst the concealed rocks and  
shoals," ofthe "deeply interesting" 2300 days.  
" In the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon,  
Daniel had a dream and vision of his'head upon his  
bed." vii. 1. So, then, he was abed and asleep. "In the 
third year of  Belshazzar, a vision appeared unto me,  
even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto 
me at the first. And-I saw in a vision : (and it came to  
pass when I saw, that I was at Shushan, in the palace,  
which is in the province of Elam,) and I saw in a vision,  
and I was by the river Ulai." yiii.-l. It is as certain that 
this was in the day-time, as it is that the first was in the 
night. Now read 26th verse : " And the vision of the  
evening and the morning which was told is true : where- 
fore shut thou up the vision, for it shall be for many  
days." From these three quotations, we gather the fol-
lowing facts, viz., that Daniel had a vision in the eve- 
ning ; in-three years after, he had another m the morn  
ing; and that they are one, by the Word being in the 
singular number in the last verse; and that.it is true;  
that it was to be shut up; and to be for many days.  
[Query. Is it likely Gabriel would call.three and a half  
years many days ?]  
, Whose voice but God's could it have been, from 'be- 
tween the banks of Ulai, directing Gabriel to make Dan- 
iel understand the vision ? " Understand, O son of man;  
for at the time of the end shall be the vision. Behold, I  
will make thee know what shall be in the last end of the  
indignation: for at the time appointed the END shall  
be." Solemn occasion! Jehovah commands Gabriel, 
and he instructs Daniel. Momentous truths and stupen-
dous events must be about to be made known, to have 
convened such an assembly. Well, what are they ?  
Why, that a wicked king should rise up, and trouble the 
Jews three and a half years, and then die ; and " blessed  
is he that waiteth and cometh" to hear of the death of  
Antiochus! Can "a ripe scholar," that is a Christian,  
believe this is all that is meant? Will the professor in- 
form us in <£hat sense the death of Antiochus was the 
time of the end?—how, and why, that could be called  
the last end of the indignation ? Will he inform us how|  
long it was before the Jews were overcome by the pa-| 
gan Romans ? If the death of Antiochus was the last end  
ofthe indignation to the Jews, then what is the meaning 
of Christ's words: "These be the days of vengeance,  
great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people; 
they shall fall by the edge ofthe sword, and be led away  
captive unto all nations?" And does not the present  
state of " this people " prove <that the last end of the in- 
dignation has not yet come ? I wait for an answer to 
these important questions.  
I have said, these three quotations show us that the  
visions are one; that it is true; that it was to be shut 
up; and to be for many days. That they are one in  
substance, may be further proved, by noticing the word 
after, iu the first verse of this chapter. I do not see how  
Daniel could mean after, in point of time, as he had in 
the line above told us it was three years later. I think  
therefore, it must mean like the first. That it is like the!  
first, we have only to look at the professor's view of the 
three last kingdoms, to ma.ke it certain; viz., the bear  
and ram, Persia; the leopard and great horn, Alexan- 
der ; the terrible beast and he-goat, Grecia; and the  
two little horns, Antiochus. That the vision is true, no  
believer will doubt; that it was to be shut up, and that  
too till " the time of t'ie end," it will only be necessary  
to read Dan. xii. 4, 9 to satisfy any person but an infi- 

del ; that it was long, is certain, from the fact that it  
was closed up until the time of the end; and also, from.  
Gabriel's saying it was for many days; and also, by what 
Daniel says in the first verse of the tenth chapter, in the 
third year of Cyrus, when he had his third vision, viz.,  
"but the time appointed was long;'" and by looking  
down this chapter, and reading at the 14th verse, "Now  
I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy  
people in the LATTER days : for yet the vision is for many  
days." In view of this clear and unambiguous revela- 
tion to Daniel, I see no way to avoid the  conclusion  
that this vision is identical with the first, which extends  
to the time " till thrones were placed, [tbe professors 
rendering,] and the Ancient of days did sit, his throne  
the fiery flame, his wheels burning fire; a fiery stream 
issued and came forth from before him, thousand thou  
ands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten  
thousand stood before him : the JUDGMENT was set, 
and the BOOKS were opened." Dan. vii. 9, 10. Can a  
sane Christian doubt for a moment that this is a sub-
lime description of the last day ?  
Now, if I have succeeded in proving that the visions  
are one, and that they extend to the judgment day, then  
the inquiry of one saint to "that certain saint which  
spake," "how long- the vision, the daily, and the trans- 
ression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and  
the host to be trodden under foot?" must involve in it.  
how long shall the wicked nations, represented by these  
ferocious and amorous beasts, trouble the people of God ;  
or, in other words, how long before the stone shall strike  
the image, and grind it to chatT, and the terrible beast,  
with his eigltt remaining horns, be given to the burning  
flame ?  
From the labored argument of the professor,  about  
these 2300 days being but 1150, I should think he over-
looked the idea, that the ambiguity cast around the  
question and answer was a part of the closing and  
shutting up of the vision; and that if it had been said,  
: how long before all the nations of the earth shall be  
destroyed, and the judgment set?' and had the answer  
been 'Unto 2300 years; then shall the end of this  
world come :' how, I should like lo know, could it have  
been closed, shut up, and sealed from the church and the 
world, until "the time of the end?" Did the professor  
ever think of this ? I suppose it is needless to add, that 
I think he has mistaken the question, and of coarse, 
given a wrong solution of the answer.  
THE "SEVENTY WEEKS."  
On page 39th he says, "In the ninth chapter is re- 
orded the vision of the seventy weeks." And here  
again I must be allowed to differ from our brother. 1  
can find no vision in this chapter. Let us look it over.  
In the first three verses there is certainly none ; and  
equally certain is it that there is none in his inimitable  
prayer, which goes to the end of the 19th ; certainly  
none in  the 20th. In the three next, he says, that while  
he was praying, " Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vis-
ion at the begimring," (spoken in the past tense,) 
"touched me, about the time of the evening oblation: 
he informed me, talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I  
im now come forth to give thee skill and understanding\  
At the beginning of thy.supplication the commandment  
came forth, and I am come to shew thee: therefore un- 
derstand the matter, and consider the vision." If this  
announcement to Daniel does not positively show, that  
Gabriel had come to explain to him a vision, which he  
had had some time previous to his long prayer, I am  
unable to see how words can be put together that will  
express it. Well; what do we find in iheSe four last  
verses? Anything in the first, but telling him what the 
seventy weeks are " determined " for? Anything in the  
next, but what should take place in the seven week:;,  
md what in the sixty-two; and when to begin his reck- 
»ning ? What  m the next, but that Messiah should be  
cut off, for others, not himself, and that a certain people  
should come, and destroy the city and sanctuary; and  
that desolations were determined unto the end of the 
war? And now, what in the last verse? That he 
should confirm the covenant with many for one week 
md cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease in the  
midst of the week, and he would make desolate, because  
of the overspreading of abominations, even until the  
consummation [end of the world] and that determined  
shall be poured upon the desolator; [the people who 
destroyed the city and temple.] Now, if there is a vis- 
ion iu this chapter, where is it ? which verse is it in ?  
I ask the " reverend professor " to point us to the verse,  
and if not, to acknowledge his mistake.  
Gabriel says, seventy weeks are det<J1*mined upon, to  
bring in everlasting righteousness, &c. But the profes- 
sor says sixty-nine  and a half accomplished all this.  
Gabriel says, he [Messiah] shall  confirm the covenant  
with many for one week. The professor saysv"What a 
period in the world's history were those seven years—  
the central point of which exhibited the Saviour expiring  
on the cross." The simple truth is, that Christ began 
this work, by his messenger, John, at the time the sixty- 
nine weeks ended. Then, in the midst of the last week,  

the very moment the great Antitype, on the banks of the  
Jordan, was officially acknowledged by the Father's  
voice from heaven, " this is my beloved Son," all the  
types withdrew and ceased forever. What need of  
shadows, when the substance had come ? Glory to God!  
"Lo, I come; in the volume of the book it is written  
of me, I delight to do thy will, O God "—is fulfilled to  
the letter; the.Son is inducted into office; the Father  
has officially acknowledged him; the Holy Ghost de- 
scended upon him; his forerunner gone to prison ; " the  
sacrifice and oblation ceased."  
THE EVENTS PREDICTED IN THE LAST CHAPTERS.  
As we have found Antiochus one of the chief charac  
ters, in the professor's  view, in what we have gone  
over, so now he figures largely in these last chapters.  
I find no particular fault with what  he says, until he gets  
to the 14th verse of the 11th chapter. Here we begin 
to differ. After detailing the bloody wars between Egypt  
and Syria, and after the true third kingdom had nearly 
destroyed itself by  its " long-continued, destructive wars,"  
we find anew power is introduced: "also the robbers  
of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vis- 
ion." Most certainly, here is a new power introduced. 
Could it be any other than the Roman ? WThat other  
power was able to step in, and exalt themselves ? Fur- 
ther wars between the north and south, in  15th verse.  
The 16th to the end of the 19th verse, I must believe,  
can be no other than Julius Cesar's wars, in  the heart  
of the third kingdom, and his assassination in the senate 
chamber.  
20th verse: "Then shall stand up in his estate a  
raiser of taxes, in the glory of the kingdom." " There  
went out a decree, from Cesar Augustus [the first Ro- 
man emperor] that all the world should be taxed."  
Luke ii. 1. I think there can be no mistake as to who  
this is, in this verse.  
The 21st and 22d verses must then relate to Tiberius  
Cesar, under whose reign the Prince of the covenant 
(who can possibly be none other than Jesns Christ) was  
broken. Here, now, we have arrived down to the end 
ofthe seventy weeks, or A. D. 33. Antiochus had then  
been dead just 197 years. 'Hold there!' says the ob- 
jector ; ' does not the professor say, that Antiochus is  
introduced in the 21st verse, and takes all the rest ofthe  
chapter?' Yes, he does say so; but I do not believe  
him; because I have found him mistaken in so many  
things about this book of Daniel. Besides, he tells us  
not a word about who the Prince of the covenant is.  
Look at another thing: Daniel's heavenly instructor  
takes only two verses in detailing the conquest of the  
whole world by Alexander the great, and its subsequent  
division  among his four generals, in this same chapter;  
and is it likely that this same angel would take twenty 
five in describing Antiochus ? Not at all, especially 
after having described him and his actions so minutely  
in the 7tkand 8th chapters, according to the professer's 
belief.  
Now, from the 23d to the end of the 35th verse, I  
shall say but little about; but I do believe that Rome, 
pagan and papal, is the chief actor.  
The 36th verse introduces the Jacobinical, Atheistical  
power, that arose in the French Revolution. If this  
awful power, which burst forth from the bottomless pit,  
and was permitted to scourge licentious France, and  
thrash the profligate nations of Europe, for a season, is 
foretold in the Old Testament, it must be in these verses, 
to the end of the 39th. Infidel France may be seen in 
every line of these four verses: "shall do according to  
his will; shall' exalt himself above every god; speak  
marvellous things against the God of gods; nor regard  
any god; he shall honor the god of forces; and shall 
divide the land for gain." Was there ever a more lit- 
eral fulfilment of a prophecy, than of every line of this 
in the French Revolution ?  
But we have now passed down the stream of time, to  
the year 1798; tp the commencement of " the time of the  
end," as is said in the 40th verse. If this be correct,  
(and I have not the smallest doubt of it,) then it follows,  
jas a matter of cotirse^that Bonaparte must be the one  
that figures in these last verses; ahd, indeed, I see nc 
way to avoid it. What other person ever did what is 
here described, " at the time of the end," but Napoleon ?  
How clearly the campaign to Russia, and its cause, are 
brought to our view, in the 44th verse. The tidings out  
of the east and north, that troubled him, was not the  
holy alliance, as some have thought ; but it was the  
reat preparation for war that Russia was making, and  
her opening her ports, and forming an alliance with 
England; which caused his going forth with great fury, 
at the head of 500,000 to destroy and utterly to make  
away many. " Yet he shall come to his end, and none 
shall help-him ;" which occurred in the year 1821.  
And at THAT TIME shall Michael stand up, the great  
Prince: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as  
never was since there was a nation even to that same  
time: and at THAT TIME thy people shall be delivered, 
every one that shall be found written in the book. And  
many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall


• awake; ailcl they that be wise shall shine as the bright- 
ness of the firmament: and they that turn many to  
righteousness, as the stars FOREVER and EVER.  
Where are we now ? At what point of time, have we  
arrived, but the ETERNAL GLORIFICATION of the righteous ?  
How  did we get here, but by closely following the divine  
narrator, who began this chain of great events to Daniel,  
with these words: "And now I will shew thee the 
truth?" If all the eleventh, with the three first verses  
of the twelfth chapter, are not a closely connected chain  
of events, from " there shall stand up yet three kings in  
Persia," to the shining of the righteous forever and ever, 
then I most earnestly entreat the professor to point us 
out the defective link.  
How, and where, does he get his authority for apply- 
in" nearly all the 11th chapter to the Avars between  
Syria and Egypt? What were the other horns about,  
and that other new power, further AA'est? Why does he  
not tell us, who the great prince, Michael, is ? I most  
earnestly call his attention to these first words: « and  
at that time.» What meaning is there m words, if  
these do not join the fall of Antiochus [if it means him] 
with Michael standing up, and the great time of trouble  
such as never Avas before ? (We must not forget that  
this time of trouble is after Antiochus has come to his 
end, and none to help him.) And  at that time deliver- 
ance comes to all Whose names are written in the book;  
the dead arise, and the righteous are forever glorified. 
Will the professor point us to the fulfilment of these  
things after the fall of Antiochus, AND AT THAT TIME ?  
" Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be  
increased. And when he shall have accomplished to 
scatter the power of the holy people, all these things  
shall be finished. Many shall be purified, and made 
white, and tried:—the wise shall understand." I would 
inquire of the professor, if there is any fulfilment of  
these things in this "time of the end?"  
I " And from the time the daily shall be taken aAvay.  
Here, noAV, I Avish to ask my brother to take his Hebrew  
/ lexicon, and look out the word here rendered ildailj^l  
and tell us vvhether that "best Hebrew scholar in New  
x York " Avas correct in saying, the meaning is " continual  
) wicked! " and if it is so, then how does he dare call it  
the Jewish sacrifice ?  
I cannot possibly agree with the professor with regard  
to these 1290 and 1335 days; but I do most cordially 
agree with him in the last verse. He says, "thou  
shalt go down to the grave in the cheering confidence  
that, ultimately,  as allotted thee by the gracious purpose  
of God, thou shalt participate in all the blessings of the 
Messiah's kingdom, the kingdom which shall not be 
destroyed."  
Mr. Editor, AVhat a melancholy sight have Ave seen !—  
a distinguished professor of Theology, an instructor of  
young ministers, issuing remarks on the book of Daniel,  
in the "RevieAv" of our denomination, and passing by 
such promises as are therein contained to " TIIE SAINTS ;"  
or if he notices them at all, it is only to mutilate, or ex- 
plain them to mean some vindication of the Jewish wor- 
ship. To what a state of things have we arrived, Avhen  
"a ripe scholar" could find four ancient universal em- 
pires, and the Roman not one of them ; and that all the  
nrophetic periods in this book (except the seventy Aveeks)  
:erminated with Antiochus, 163 B. C.  
'•'Our task is ended," and although we have not "as- 
sumed the office of a pilot," yet, how could we see " the  
waves strewed with another Avreck," without pointing it 
out? "We take no pleasure in differing from the good 
and devoted " professor. " But we must be permitted to  
bow with the profoundest reverence to the majesty of 
divine truth, whenever it is discovered." That this  
humble effort, undertaken and carried on by constant  
prayer, may be blest to the awakening of my respected  
brother to a re-examination of this; subject, is the most  
earnest prayer of L. H.  

3 If the Homan is not the fourth universal drnpire, then it must U  
Hie fifth • but I defy any man to find any fifth universal kingdom in 
the book of Daniel, but  the endless kingdom of "THE SAINTS  
which is to be set up WHEN the clay, iron, brass, silver, and gold of  
the image are broken to pieces together; and WHEN the fourth beast  
is alain. and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame ; and  
WHEN the little horn is broken without hand: and if it is ETERNAL, 
then its subjects must be hi their immortal bodies;—ergo, the r>o- 
man then is the fourth kingdom.  

Scoffer's Corner.  
1 How can any man of common understanding read this description  
of the he-goat's Coming on the wings of the wind, from the west,  
easting down, and stamping upon the ram, and then waxing very 
treat, without seeing the confusion which is introduced into the fair 
scriptural account of the four kingdoms, by adopting Mr. Chase's 
theory? Looking at this through his glasses, we see the fourth  
kingdom, flying from Europe, over the Hellespont, Asia Minor, and  
the Euphrates, charging upon and vanquishing the second kingdom ;  
(by the way, I had thought this fourth empire embraced the whole 
East, even as far as the Indus.) "We must not forget, it was the  
GOAT that came from the west, the GOAT that was moved with choler  
against the ram; the GOAT that brake the horns of the ram; it was 
the GOAT that cast him down, and stamped upon the ram ; and Pro- 
fessor Chase says the GOAT is the "fourth kingdom upon earth." I  
know it was the "first king" that directed his movements; but it 
was no less the goat on that account. While this was going on be-
tween the second and fourth kingdoms, where. I would ask, was the  
" third kinedom of brass, which should bear rule over all the earth ? "  
—where ? Why. it was high and dry, standing up, a mere appendage  
to the fourth. But after the goat had become very great, ti;e great  
horn was broken, and four came up in its stead; bul it waa the GOAT 
still.  
2 The dissimilarity in the symbols, setting forth the professor's  
third kingdom, must not be forgotten ; viz., belly and thighs of brass :  
four winged, four headed leopard, and one great horn. Where is the 
least resemblance in the two first with the last ? But put the two 
first with the goat himself, with his four horns, and  all is harmony,  
BUttablesness mid proportion.  

APPENDIX.  
As the foregoing remarks were prepared for the Chris  
tian Watchman, and as I well knew both Mr. Crovvell 
and the publisher were hostile to the Second Coming of  
Christ in 1843, I Avas obliged, of course, to content my-
self Avith merely overturning the professor's theory, Avith-
out building up any other; but, meagre as Avas my article  
in this respect, it was inadmissible to their columns.  
While I have been considering Mr. Chase's "Remarks,"  
and looking over Professor Stuart's <Hints on Proph- 
ecy," I have been led to inquire, Avhat can be the reason 
that our learned and good men are driven lo such ex-
tremities : to come out against nearly all their own  
standard commentaries ; the heretofore received opinions  
of the pious fathers ; so as to raise a universal shout of  
exultation among the Avicked; even to call forth the  
shrill notes of the "Trumpet" in their commendation?  
I did not need to inquire long." The reason is obvious  
" my Lord delayeth  his coming " was too visible in every  
line of their "Remarks," and "Hints," for the eagle eyes 
of the "nicked servants" not to see it; and when they  
saw it, it Avas natural for them to rejoice.  
"The end is not yet," says Mr. Dimmick . "Amen,'  
say all the TJniversalists in the land. "It is all moonshine," 
says Dr. Sharp: "Good," says Mr. T. Whittemore;  
"the doctor is a man of sound understanding." "The 
world mill stand centuries, and hundreds of centuries to  
come," says Mr. Rogers: "True," say Fiction Norris  
and Chameleon Lovell, of the " Olive Branch ;" the world  
is yet in its infancy, and will exist to a good old age.  
"It is only unlearned men v\'resting the Scriptures,"  
says Mr. P. Smith, of Carlisle. " That is it," echoes the  
o-reat mass of the wicked. " There always have been 
men, in every age, prophesying that the Avorld was soon  
coming to an end," says every opposing minister in the 
land, who has condescended to speak out upon the sub- 
ject ; ergo, the world will never come to an end. " The  
day and hour are not known to any man, or angel;" 
therefore it cannot come next year. TJniversalists quote  
this passage as often as any other, although this chapter 
was all fulfilled at the destruction of Jerusalem, accord 
ing to their belief. But enough of this..  
On the 12th page of Mr. Chase's Remarks, he says,  
It was in the days of these kings that the God of heaven  
should set up [cause to stand,] a kingdom, which was  
not to be destroyed; that is, he would preserve, sustain  
and gloriously vindicate the true religion, the worship 
connected with the promises made to the patriarchs and  
prophets, and with the coming of the Messiah, in whom  
all the nations were to be blessed." As he leaves out 
the best part of this passage, I Avill quote the remainder.  
Dan. ii. 44. "And the kingdom shall not be left to  
other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume  
all these kingdoms; and it shall stand forever." So, 
then, according to his vieAvs of this passage, the stone 
striking the image, and reducing it to chaff, and becom- 
ing a great mountain, and filling the whole earth, (for  
it cannot be denied that this 44th verse is the explana-
tion of that figure,) is nothing more than God's vindica-
ting the Jewish worship! My soul sickens over such  
an explanation as this, from a learned theologian. f  
On the next page, after quoting the first part ol  that  
passage, "I beheld, and the same horn made Avar with  
the saints," fee., he'says, " The INTERPOSITION here ex- 
pressed in few words, and some of its important conse- 
quences, are set forth more fully and vividly in the  
glowing vision described in a preceding part of this 7th  
chapter, from the ninth to the 14th verses." Worse and  
worse! Are the divines mad?—Thrones cast down; An- 
cient of days coming on his fiery throne, preceded by a  
fiery stream, with ten thousand times ten thousand and 
thousands of thousands standing before him; the judg- 
ment set, and the books opened; the beast [the fourth  
kingdom] given to the burning flame; the Son of man  
coming with the clouds of heaven, and receiving his  
dominion, and glory, and an everlasting kingdom, which  
shall not pass away! only, INTERPOSING in behalf of the  
JeAvs!! Oh, brother Chase, fall upon your knees, with  
the Bible open at this chapter, and entreat God to forgive  
you for Avresting the plain and vivid description of  
that tremendous scene, Avhich I most fully believe will  
burst upon a guilty world, and a sleeping church, in  
1843!  
rosTSCitir*.  
There is one thing in which we are supported by this  
highly respected theological professor," viz., both little  
horns are the same identical power. We heartily thank  
jhim for this.  

" There shall come in the last days scoffeis, walking after their own  
lusts."—PETER.  
The Miller tabernacle is going up at Boston. The  
beams and rafters are now laid, and the roof will be on 
shortly. There will be a large congregation at the dedi-
cation of this temple of folly, we doubt not.—Daily Ex-
vrcss.  
SE^EN WEEKS MORE.-—The editors of the Midnight  
Cry, the Millerite paper in this city, refuse to take sub- 
scriptions for more than seven weeks, when they expect  
the cry will be heard as well as seen. Seven weeks,  
however, is an ominous period in prophetic numbers.—  
What if these seven weeks should turn out, like the seven  
weeks of Daniel, to be  wee"ks ol mystical years—each one  
a year of years ? It is well that the time is so near when  
the question will be settled. What will then become of  
these Mvler dupes 1 If the result is like that of many  
similar fancies, not a few of them will reject the Bible, and 
Urn infidels, because tne predictions of the Bible, as in-
terpreted by them, have failed of fulfilment.—Journal of  
Commerce, Jan. 28, endorsed in part by N. Y. Express,  
Jan. 30, and Tribune, Jan 31.  
[A few months ago, it was a standing theme of scoffing  
that we were taking subscriptions one year in advance, 
when  the fact was that our terms were SI per volume—  
the volume extending six months. We have now pub- 
lished the Midnight Cry several months, making our terms  
for three months only, that no one might say we wished  
to get money for which we expected to render no equiva- 
lent. The consequence is, that our opponents turn pro- 
phets and manufacture future infidelity, just as they have  
heretofore manufactured riots and lynching ]—ED.  
(fjr* Jonah preached the destruction of Nineveh, and was  
as mad as a March hare because the Lord repented and 
saved the city. Old Miller will be terribly disappointed, 
and grievously annoyed, if his prediction should prove  
untrue. Wre will lay a small bet he'll swear like a pirate  
if this good world of ours heaves not from its firm base in  
April.—N. Y. Tattler, Jan.' 30.  
THE MILLER DELUSION.—The biggest lie that can be  
told comes to be believed as a Gospel truth, if boldly and 
continually asserted, and there is nobody at hand to con- 
tradict it. Thus it happens, that any opinion or doctrine,  
however repugnant to reason or common sense, is sure  
to find believers and followers; thus mountebanks and  
impostors have ridden upon the necks of men and wo-
men from the earliest records of society. This is a well- 
known principle of human nature, but its effects are no  
where so widely apparent as in matters of religion. A  
perversion of the u&es for which the sacred record was  
designed has led many to speculate upon such passages  
as are deemed lo be prophetical of future events, and to at-
tempt to predict from them the hidden mysteries of com- 
ing time. The ignorance of such an attempt is equalled  
only by its profanity and gross impiety. The Sovereign  
Ruler of Nature, revealed to us in the holy volume, Ave  
know also through His visible creation around us. Not  
that these laws transcend the power of His omnipotent  
will, but His wisdom refrains from marring the harmony  
of nature by an interruption of them, and they are suffi-
cient for the accomplishment of His own inscrutable  
purposes.  
We have been led to these reflections by noticing the  
very wide prevalence which the Miller delusion has ob-
tained throughout the country ; and as a part of the his-
tory of the times, and as serving to illustrate the nature  
and extent of human credulity, the subject is worthy of  
attention. Not that there is any thing remarkable in  
this particular delusion, for the whole history of society  
is full of acc«unts of similar vagaries. Dreaming, idle 
people, who have not enough to do to keep their minds 
employed, are very apt to be run away with by their im-
aginations ; hence every age has had its pretended 
prophets and apostles; some of them honestly believing  
themselves gifted with supernatural powers ; but the greater  
part mere cheats and  impostors. These things, it is true,  
generally corrcct themselves after they have run their  
course, but they nevertheless occasion a great deal of  
private mischief during their progress. Millerism espe-
cially' is likely to do a great deal of harm in this way, 
and we have heard of a number of cases of people giving  
up their ordinary occupations to wander round the coun- 
try, hearing and preaching these nonsensical doctrines.— 
This must lead to the breaking up of families, and to  
habits of idleness and profligacy.  
These things belong to the infirmity of human nature,  
and they are to be treated as one would treat the con- 
ceits of an idiot or crazy man. It is folly to use reason  
with any but reasonable people, and the attempt to con- 
vince a Millerite of his error by argument and grave ap- 
peals to common sense, would only serve to render him 
more obstinate in his belief, and by magnifying its impor- 
tance, give it further currency among the ignorant and  
unthinking.—N. Y. Sun, Jan. 28.


WISE SUGGESTIONS FROM " REASON."  
A writer in the Cincinnati Republican deserves the  
thanks of its readers for the plain way in which he re-
bukes the scoffing of the age, by suggesting a better train  
of thought. Hear him :  
" MR. EDITOR,—I know not whether this communica- 
tion may meet your approbation, your paper being more  
political than religious, yet viewing it as a medium  
through which a useful hint may be transmitted, I see  
no reason why it may not find a place.  
" With this premise, permit me to enquire if you have  
examined the so-called • Miller doctrine 1' Of course, I 
presume you have not; hut that with the immense mass,  
are content to glide listlessly with the current of popular 
cant—along with the Atheist ajid  Scoffer, whose poisoned  
shafts are often gilded by impious wit.  
" Is there a God ! Were there Holy Prophets 1 Have  
any of their prophecies been realized ? And are there  
yet any to be fulfilled 1 These are questions which all  
should lay to their hearts, in connection with this sub- 
ject, lest they suffer corruption by the ill timed jests, and  
callous sneers of the day.  
That the second advent of Christ has been foretold  
by the inspired prophets—preached by Jesus Christ and  
his apostles—and believed in by the Jews, are matters  
familiar to every one conversant with the Bible ; and  
constitute the hope of both Christian and Jew. It is true, 
that upon this, as in other matters, there is some differ- J  
ence of opinion. What we (Christians) term the second I  
advent—the Jew considers the first; whilst both Mil-'  
lerite and Jew look for a literal fulfilment of the prophe- 
cies—a respectable portion of- Christians look merely  
for a spiritual change, or Christ's Kingdom.  
" It is altogether an erroneous impression that the  
present view ofthe matter is new, or originated with Mr.  
Miller—the so-called 4 weak old man,' ' fanatic,' &c. It  
was sufficiently established in the last masterly lecture  
of the Rev. Mr. Winthrop, that it was not only the doc- 
trine taught by the Apostles and their disciples ; but that  
for many centuries after their time, no other interpreta- 
tion was thought of than a personal and literal reign of 
the ' Messiah with his saints upon earth.' Eventually,  
however, a new doctrine sprang up, of a spiritual reign, 
and appears to have swayed the Christian community  
until, comparatively speaking, a few years back. The  
revival of this old, but now called new doctrine, originated  
with certain Episcopalian Clergymen in Scotland. Mr.  
Miller having the moral courage, and Christian zeal first  
to preach these views, has so identified himself with them  
in America, as to be considered their founder—and is  

REVIVALS.  
We rejoice to hear of so many revivals in different  
quarters. The Lord is pouring out his Spirit, and we 
hope no professed Christian will stand in the way of the 
Lord's work. Those who are preaching against what  
they call " Millerism," would do well to inquire whether  
they are thereby promoting the cause of God. Here are  
a few notices of recent revivals :  
CLAREMONT, N. H.  
A writer in the Congregational Journal, who probably  
gave Mr. Miller no countenance while he labored in  
Claremont, gives the following sketch of the revival that  
followed his labors there :  
" While ministers and people felt that something must  
be done, Mr. Miller came and gave a course of his lec- 
tures. And as the result of Iris labors, not of his efforts to  
sustain his peculiar views, but of his solemn txhoilotions, 
some were awakened, and <it the close of his lectures, the  
ministers of the Baptist and Methodist churches and my-
self, had an interview, and agreed upon a united effoxt. Ac-
cordingly we commenced evening meetings, in the three 
houses of worship in rotation, and continued them, (Sab- 
bath days and evenings excepted) for several weeks.  
The result was most glorious. More than 150, I think  
I may safely say. were brought intq the service of God  
from the service of Satan."  
It is pleasing to observe that sectarian walls were  
broken down. That was one good step. It is not strange 
that the blessing followed.  
WILLIAMSBURG, L I.  
Brother Chandler commenced a course of lectures in  
the M. P. Church there, on Christ's Second Coming,  
about eight weeks ago. The meetings, in the church 
where he lectured, had previously been very thinly at- 
tended. A deep and pervading interest was soon awa- 
kened, and the meetings have been continued without  
interruption. Brother Smith, the pastor, says :  
" I have an account of no less than one hundred and  
sixty-five souls who have professed to have experienced 
the forgiveness of their sins through the atoning blood of  
Christ, one hundred and thirty-three of whom have uni- 
ted with us in church fellowship. Last evening, when 
the invitation was given to all who were seeking the sal 
ration of their souls to present themselves to the altar  
„ , , , , , , . ... i for prayers, it appeared that each was anxious to be be- 
really looked upon, and spoken of by sensible men, and j fore his neighbor, or to secure a place at the altar before  
men professing Christianity, as a wild, theoretical - - —  
dreamer.  
" Why do men thus seek to delude themselves ? Why  
this cowardly shrinking from investigation, so essential  
to their hopes of future happiness and life ! Do you be- 
lieve the recorded troth of the Bible? If so, you must  
believe that this Globe was literally created—was liter- 
ally deluged—and must be literally • purified by fire'—for 
so says the word of God. This must transpire some  
time. Why may it not occur as well in our time, as any  
other time! Are there any philosophical or revealed  
reasons why it should not 1 I believe those who will  
examine the subject will find strong reasons to believe it  
will.  
Some men will scarce believe anything connected with  
religion. They deny that the world will ever end,—was  
ever deluged,—or was ever created. Yet will they 
believe any record in profane history. Others believe', 
yet delay their repentance until it may be too late ;  
and many good Christians, even—wrapping themselves  
within the mantle of their ovyn salvation—moot not  
this terrible question ; but by their silence and 
smiles engender indifference, and yield that encourage-
ment*, so insidious and so ruinous. Are these things jus- 
tifiable in the sight of God, who,—be it in '43. '47, or  
later—will sit in judgment on their actions 1 Is it not  
the duty of every reasonable man tp examine this matter, 
whether he be a professed Christian or not,—and to ex- 
amine for himself, and not pin his mind to the faith of 
any man, or to the false and garbled statements so cur- 
rent in the publications of the day 1  
I am sure Mr. Miller's calculations and explanations  
are interesting and instructive ; and should he peradven-
ture form a PROPER INFERENCE from the revelations and  
indications ofthe times, can men escape by CLOSING THEIR 
EVES FROM LIGHT AND KNOWLEDGE!  
" REASON.  
" P. S. My purpose was really to solicit, through your  
paper, the publication of Mr. Winthrop's Lectures ; but  
accidentally hear they are to be published. I am very  
glad to hear it; as they are calculated to do much good, 
and should be read by every one.  
The Political Examiner, at Georgetown, Ohio, is pub- 
lishing Br. Litch's excellent work, on the  Second Advent,  
occupying two pages weekly. Who will copy this no 
ble example! We will give the books for republication.- 

it was filled up. The consequence was. that the females  
were entirely excluded from the altar, it being filled from 
one end to the other with males. This has been the  
case two or three nights in succession. There is no  
sign as yet that our protracted meeting will close soon,  
or the revival stop."  
A political paper in the village, dated Jan. 25th, says : 
" The attention to eternal things, which we noticed in  
a former number, still continues in our village. Many of  
all ages are now in possession of that hope which full  
of immortality. The change amopg qur inhabitants is so, 
striking, that the most careless must be compelled tp ad- 
mit, that ' there are more thipgs in heaven and earth 
than their philosophy hath dreamt of' We have heard  
similar cheering news from Brooklyn, and some parts of  
the city of New York.  
REVIVAL AT PLYMOUTH.  
DEAR BROTHER HIMES,—In this place, on the 17th of  
last month, Bro. Calvin French commenced a course of 
lectures on the second coming of our Lord in 1843 — 
Elders Lane, Harvey and Hermans were in attendance,  
—our meeting houce was crowded during the lectures,  
and at the close many  expressed their belief in the com- 
ing of their Lord during the present year. Bro. French  
confined himself principally to the absorbing subject that  
induced him to leave his home and family. Brother Lane  
went on as formerly and taught the people " what they  
should do to be saved," that they might be prepared for 
that coming. Through the united efforts of our brethren,  
and the blessing of our God, many have been hopefully 
converted from t he error of their ways. Elder Lane has 
immersed two hundred and fifty since Lord's day the  
18th of last month, and the work is still going on.  
Many people appear determined to strive to have " part  
in the first resurrection," believing that " on such the 
second death hath no powei." I will close by saying  
that a great many are convinced that our Lord's personal  
coming is near at hand, but the effect of that belief has  
not been such as many had anticipated. The people  
were calm and solemn,—no violent outbreaks,—but the  
utmost order and propriety was observed in all our  
meetings, and I think much good has been done There  
is every appearance of real reformation. Your friend and 
brother,  H. GAYLORD,  
Plymouth, Luzerne Co., Pa., Jan 7, 1843.  

I WORLDLINESS REPROVED.—A clergyman in one of our  
large cities lately addressed his people thU3 :—"My dear- 
ly beloved brethren, Jet me solemnly assure you that  
some of you might appropriate five, some ten or fifteen,  
some twenty thousand dollars, for charitable and benevo- 
lent pur-oses, and still retafn ejipugh to ruin your chil- 
dren." What a lesson ! Hpvy little regarded by parents  
in general! How fully borne put by the career of a large 
number of those who inherit independent fortunes, with- 
out the necessity of attending to business.—Christian  
Reflector.  
Many followers of Christ seem to forget that He said :  
" Wo unto you that are rich." Lay not up for yourselves  
treasures on earth." We recently heard of two profess-
ed Christians in an eastern town, who owned residences  
each worth two or three thousand dollars, but they wer«  
building houses worth fifty thousand dollars apiece. On 
mentioning this fact, lately, a brother remarked that he  
knew a Preshyterian elder in Philadelphia, who was  
building a house for himself,.worth $175,000. These are  
but, specimens of facts almost beyond number.  
Let them be compared with the reports of our Mission- 
ary and Bible Societies, harrassed with threatened bank-
ruptcy, and compelled to withdraw or withhold mission- 
aries from places which send the most affecting appeals.  
Do not many professors proclaim that they love fine  
houses, furniture, clothing and carriages more than they  
love the bodies and souls of those for whom their great  
Pattern suffered poverty, reproach and death 1  
REPORT FROM THE WEST.  
CONDENSED FROM THE HOME MISSIONARY.  
IOWA.—At every important point on the Mississippi,  
the Catholics have commenced their work and stationed  
their men. The amount which they have expended in  
the territory, in the erection of buildings is greater than 
that of all other denominations united.  
Rev. Mr. Burnham, a native of  New Hampshire, sup- 
plies four churches, and wishes a devoted itinerant would  
come to his relief in a field promising a great harvest.  
Joe Smith recently sent out 300 men, two and two  
through the country, to counteract the disclosures made  
of his profligate conduct by Gen Bennett. Error of every  
kind is full of life and activity. Iowa is already one of the 
most inviting sections for emigration and missionary la- 
bor. A territory has recently been purchased of the In-
dians and added to that of Iowa double the size of Massa-
chusetts ! Host upon host of emigrants have gone to 
take possession, but not a single Congregational or Pres- 
byterian minister. If the churches of the east will furnish  
the funds, the American Home Missionary Society says  
it " will make proof of the spirit of every unoccupied 
minister, who is fit for the work, by giving him a fair in-
vitation to enter upon it."  
WISKONSAN.—Many of the most important churches  
are destitute of pastors, whilst congregations and church-
es to an indefinite extent might be gathered in the teem- 
ing territory. A minister cries out in agony of spirit:  
O if the ministers at the East did but know the im- 
portance of now occupying this ground, and did but real-
ize the influence they might wield here for the cause of  
Christ, and if they had withal the spirit of Paul, there  
would he, to use a western phrase, 'a general rush' to- 
this field. If the whole truth were seen and felt on this  
subject, in all its force, it would be difficult to keep min-
isters enough in the older States to supply their wants."  
ILLINOIS -.-Campbellism, Mormonism, and other errors,  
are vigorous and prevailing on the hsautiful prairies of 
Illinois, as well as in other western States. The demand  
for more ministers is pressing.  
The ministers of the West complain of their discour- 
agements and trials from the evil example of many pro-
fessors from the East. They neglect connecting them- 
selves with any church. They desecrate the Sabbath ; 
they shun the sanctuary, and in many instances embrace  
fatal errors, as well as fall into vicious conduct.  
SCARCITY OF FUNDS.—The January number ofthe Mis- 
sionary Herald shows an alarming deficiency of funds 
contributed to the A. B. C. F. M. All our Bible and 
missionary operations appear to be in danger.  
The donations and legacies received during the month  
of November amount to $17,000. Last year, during the 
same month, they amounted to more than $49,000.  
With November closed the first third of the current  
financial year. The receipts for these four months fall  
below $64,000 ; while last year they exceeded in those  
months 8114,000.  
The necessary expenditures during the last four  
months have exceeded the receipts by more than $26,  
000.—Bap. Adv.  
The N. Y. City Tract Society is in debt more than 800  
dollars.


" The great DAT of the Lord is near, IT IS NEAR, and  
HASTETS greatly."—Zeph. i. 14.  
A CLUE TO THE TIME.  
BY LEWIS HERSEY.  
THE great God hath showed. Us, by his servant the  
prophet Daniel, that there shall arise five 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 " many crowns " on his head,  
followed with the armies of heaven, also on "white  
norses," and "miserably destroy those wicked men,  
and let out his vineyard tr others," and "bind the  
strong man [Satan] and spoil his goods," purify and 
make new the earth, 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 foreverthus "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 
44 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 all 
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 medals 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 rts mouth speaking great things;  
—a most beautiful representation of the rise and estab- 
lishment of Papacy. But now in the 9th and 10th verses,  
olessed 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 him ; for let us  
take notice that John, in Rev. v., 10th and 11th verses,  
hast 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 thingsand 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 6aints 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 
"xingdom, and dominion, and the greatness of the king- 
dom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the peo- 
ple of the saints of the 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, 0 son 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 it shall be for many  
days. And in the last verse, Daniel says he was as-
tonishe i at 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, j.  
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 j  
weeks are  determined 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 
Want; 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 
the 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 184-8, 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, whieh 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 up 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 the 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 show  
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 lo 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 can you forego everlasting  
glory ? Ministers of Christ, I entreat  you to lay aside  
the books of men, and examine God'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 1843. 
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 week*  
from the going forth of the commandment to restore and build Jeru- 
salem to the cutting off of the Messiah, who would dispute it J But  
is a divine declaration tltat it «hall be so any less strong and certain I  
By no means. It was exactly fulfilled.  
NOTE —The author of this diagram has been, for a number of years, an humble member of a Baptist church in Massachusetts. Three years ago he became fully  
convinced )f the doctrine he now preaches, and gave himself up to the work of proclaiming the midnight cry. Revivals have attended his labors, in which great multitudes 
have bten converted. For the result of his labors in PlymoOth, Pa., see notices of revivals.]—ED. MID. CRY,


4«  The great  of the Lord is near  and  
greatly."---Zepli. i. 14.  
Y LEWIS HEUSEY.  
THE great God hath showed us, by his servant the  
prophet Daniel, that there shall arise Ave 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 "many crowns" on his head, 
followed with the armies of heaven, also 011 "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 earth, 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 nol 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  
44 we read, "I11 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 all 
these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.'1'' 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.  
Tn the first seven verses we perceive the four great  
beasts represent the same four great kingdoms that the  
four mci.ii.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 coining forth from 
before him, with the fifth kingdom with him ; 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 sst, 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- 
ple of the saints of the Most High."  
Now let us look at the eighth  ehaptcr. 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. 11. 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 .'pries, 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 15'tli 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 son 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 it shall be for many- 
days. And in ihe last verse, Daniel says he was as- 
tonish e', at 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 20t.h 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 determined 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 Ave  
want; 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  
the 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 184*8, 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 up 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 the morning 
is true, and commands Daniel to shut it up, for it  
should be for many days. Gabriel comes again, and  
tells him ie 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. 1S43.  
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 -r 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 tor 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 can you forego everlasting  
glory ? Ministers of Christ, I entreat you to lay aside  
the books of men, and examine God'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 1843. 
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  
is a divine declaration that it shall be so any lass strong and certain) 
By no means. It was exactly fulfUlad.  
The Clue to the Time was written by a Bible student, who when he first heard of Mr. Miller's views, resolved to search the Scriptures daily, to see if these things  
were so. Being a city watchman, he had much time in the night  for reflection, and in the day for study. He placed his great Bible by his side on his shoemakers'  
bench, and studied Daniel, until he was convinced that Mr. Miller might be right. Further investigation  convinced him that he must be right, and he has here given a  
brief sketch of his reasons. Ponder it well. '


THE CAUSE IN ENGLAND.  
The editor of the Disciple, an excellent paper printed  
at Dover, N. H , has just received a letter from Thomas 
Smith, of Bradford, England, of which here is an ex- 
tract :  
"You have seen, I believe, some copies of my little  
publications on money. I now enclose three others on  
other topics. The Second Advent question is making 
very ragid progress in England. I think a thousand, peo- 
ple have received the true view—that it is to be pre- 
millenial—in meetings I have very recently held. More  
correct views as to Property, Peace, Oaths, and Temper- 
ance, are also making cheering progress. And what 
cheers my own mind most, I trust a primitive, holy flame  
of ardent love to THE CRUCIFIED REDEEMER is  
being enkindled."  
On this, the editor of the Disciple remarks :  
" The Tracts he sends, treat principally of the near  
Advent of Christ, and the terrible events immediately  
connected with it. No exact time or year is specified,  
but the events are regarded as close at hand. And  why  
should they not be 1 Has not the world had a sufficient 
probationary trial 1 Our Lord foretold the end would 
come when his gospel should have been  preached in all  
the world for a witness to all nations. We believe that 
witness has been borne through the . world—and the 
world now appears as the ground which, having received  
the rain of heaven, yet bearing only thorns and briers, is  
rejected, 4 nigh unto cursing, and whose end is to be 
burned.' Has it not produced sin, and misery, and death 
enough ? Thomas Smith's Tracts on this subject con- 
tain most excellent encouragement and instruction to h;s 
suffering countrymen, ground down to toil and starvation  
under the tyrannical Government and monopolists. The  
slaves and oppressed poor of this country are proper ob- 
jectsforthe same encouragement and instruction. We  
shall do what we can to have them enjoy the benefit of 
them, copying them into our paper, in this and future 
numbers, and perhaps publishing them otherwise.  
" Amidst the cheering reforms progressing in England,  
the writer of the above letter is cheered most by the evi- 
dence that a ' primitive holy flame of ardent love to the  
crucified Redeemer is being enkindled.' This expression  
greatly gladdens our heart. In proportion as he is truly 
loved, arid believed on, and learned of, refoim will pro-
gress. Where the preaching, in the power of the Spirit, 
of Christ and him crucified, fails—all must fail. The 
foolishness and weakness of this preaching is the wis- 
dom and power of God for human reform and refftniption.  
No substitute will answer. And we trust that primitive  
love and faith is enkindling, insomuch that when Christ  
shall come, he will find' a spark, a little flame at least, 
upon the earth."  
BETTER DAYS ARE COMING.  
[This is one of the Tracts by Thomas Smith, of Eng- 
land, sent us with his letter copied in another column. Its  
warnings and consolations are applicable to our country- 
men as well as to hid. We would be glad to speak these  
words to every slave and slaveholder—to all the " good  
distressed," and to all that distress them—to low and  
high, to the virtuous and the vile.—Ed. Disciple.']  
Fellow countrymen, ere long there will be peace and  
plenty throughout all the world. Better and brighter days  
are coming!  
Ere long, the crimes of the wicked, and the groans and  
sighs of the wretched shall come to an end. The noise 
and clamor of war shall soon be hushed. The struggle 
after power and wealth, now almost universal among all 
classes, shall soon cease, and the holy, happy, ransomed  
nations of the earth, shall delight  themselves in the  
abundance of peace, and flourish so long as the sun and  
J the moon endure.  
But, my fellow countrymen, a  most dark and dreadful  
day is also coming, and it is coming first. The Lord of  
heaven and earth will make a short work upon the earth.  
He tells you that his " determination is to gather the na- 
tions, and assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them his  
indignation, even all his fierce anger; for all the earth 
shall be devoured with the fire of his jealousy. And then  
will he turn to the people a pure language, that they may  
all call upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one  
consent." Zeph. 3: 8, 9. This is the rapidly approaching  
. destiny of the world in which we live. And now forevi- 
dence that what I say is true.  
The Bible says. " Jerusalem shall be trodden down of  
the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles," the times  
now passing away, " be fulfilled." And then, immedi- 
ately after "the tribulation of those days, Matt. 24: 29,  
" there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and  
in the stars, and upon earth distress of nations, with 
perplexity ; the sea and the waves roaring ; men's hearts  
failing them for fear, and for looking after those things  
which are coming upon the earth; for the powers of  
heaven shall be shaken. And then shgJLthey see the  
Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power  

and great glory." Luke 21: 24 to 27. The Lord God 
shall then come, and all the saints with him. And the  
Lord shall be king over all the earth ; in that day there  
shall be one Lord, and his name one. Zech. 14: 5 to 9  
He " shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty an- 
gels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know  
not God," and destroying "the man of sin by the bright- 
ness of his coming." 2 Thess. 1 and 2. Then, the hea-
vens having received tl.e Lord until the times of restitu-
tion, Acts 3; 21, the Lord arises up to the prey, Zeph. 3: 
8, and makes a short work upon the earth ; and the times 
of the Gentiles being then fulfilled, the times of restitu- 
tion do then commence. He gathers the nations and  
assembles the kingdoms, Zeph. 8: 8. The man of sin  
also ; " the beast," as well as the " kings of the earth,  
and their armies, are gathered together to make war  
against Him ;" but the beast is taken and destroyed, and 
the remnant slain. Rev. 19: 20. Then also are the seven  
last plagues poured out upon the earth. Rev. 16. The  
nations that will not serve Zion then perish—yea, they  
are utterly wasted. Isa. 60. 12. The whole earth is then 
consumed by the fire of the Lord's jealousy, and then is 
turned upon the people a pure language, and they will 
serve the Lord with one consent. Turn to your Bibles, 
as above, and read and compare, and determine for your-
selves.  
Fellow countrymen, prepare yourselves. Heed not  
your wealth or poverty—these are not worth a thought.  
Heed not your wrongs and grievances—they will soon  
cease forever. Brighter and better days are coming, but  
a most terrible catastrophe must intervene. Cease then  
your anxious, useless struggles. Leave all your wrongs  
with the Almighty Lord <?f Lords—he will redress them  
soon. Prepare yourselves! Turn to the Lord. Ac-
quaint yourselves with him, and be at peace. Send your  
treasures and your hearts to heaven. Devote yourselves 
to God, and live for him, and for your fellow men.  
Strive to turn many from their evil ways. Strive also  
to relieve their temporal necessities. This is the way,  
the only sure way to escape the terrors that must pre-
cede brighter and better days. Better days are coming, 
but a most dark and dreadful day is coming first!  
FROM BROTHER CHARLES FITCH.  
DEAR BROTHER HIMES.—A second box of books has  
oeen received, for which, blgss th^TTord. I am taking all  
ways that I can to distribute them as extensively as pos- 
sible. I receive but little money, and what I have received,  
I have been necessitated to appropriate to my daily expen-
ses, as I had not enough by considerable to meet the ex- 
penses of gettipg here, and as yet, have received nothing  
in shape of money, since I came, but from publications. I  
am trying, however, to be a faithful steward ofthe Lord's  
mysteries, and am distributing the works just as fast as 
opportunities offer for getting them abroad. The papers.  
&c., are excellent. We have some good ladies, sisters, I 
mean, who take  a lot of them and go into the streets and  
distribute them among those who come in from the coun-
try on business, and thus the light  goes abroad in all di- 
rections. I have seen a few preachers, honest souls, who  
have seemed to know no better than to believe God ; poor  
of course in this world's goods, and to such I have given  
books for distribution. To all who want books I give  
them, and when they have money to give in return I take  
it, but in no instance do I withhold light for want of money.  
I have the satisfaction to know, that some of our most in- 
telligent and pious christians here, from careful examina- 
tion of the subject, are becoming decided and enlightened 
believers in the second advent, and also that the Lord has  
been pleased to pour out His Spirit and convert sinners  
in this place, both at my first visit here, and since my re- 
turn. Everlasting=praise to His Holy name. I trust that  
we shall see a glorious work in this place. I am preaching 
every day, and this week we have a prayer meeting every 
afternoon. The spirit of God is with us, and sinners are 
turning to the Lord ; while watchmen on the walls, as  
they are called, are doing their utmost to oppose. May  
the Lord open their eyes. I have just received a letter  
from an Oberlin student; a thorough believer in the sec- 
ond advent, who is lecturing at Fort Wayne, Indiana,  
who wishes to receive some publications. I shall forward 
him some by the earliest opportunity. He is a good man  
and true—says that the Lord is giving him favor among 
the people, and that doors of usefulness are open on every 
side. This is a cold, stormy country. We have not seen  
a fair day for weeks—the terrible winds have been sweep- 
ing over the lake, and  many have found a watery grave.  
Its a cold, stormy world too, my brother, and thanks be to  
God for the prospect of soon seeing a better.  
To bring about an extensive and permanent reformation  
in this crazy world, I am convinced^is a hopeless thing.  
Never, till fire purifies if, and the wicked are destroyed 
out of it, and the devil chained and put into the pit, shall  
we have peace without—though we may within, thank 
God, have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.  
" Fly, lingering- moments, fly, oh fly !  
" t thirst, I pant. I long, I sigh,  
"Angelicjoys to prove."  
i Cleveland, Nov. 29th, 1842.  

Mar's department.  
" In the last days, men shall be false accusers."  
THE MILLER TABERNACLE.—The Mayor of Boston has  
put a stop to the erection of this building, in consequence 
of the frailness of its walls. Probably the Millerites  
thought it would stand as long as they should require it.— 
Journal of Commerce, Jan. 16.  
THE TIME PROLONGED.  
It ia understood that Miller and his associates have re- 
cently carefully reviewed the calculation upon which they  
found the prophecy of the near approach of the end of the  
world, when an error was discovered in the footing of one  
ofthe columns of a thousand years. This is a very im-
portant discovery just now. it will dispel the uneasiness  
about so sudden a go-off, and give promise that we are  
yet to witness the fulfilment of manv a bubble, and realize  
the enjoyment  of many a panic,  before the end of all  
things. The ascension robes with which many of the 
Millerites of Long Island have provided themselves are  
not likely to be wanted.—Journal of Commerce.  
This paragraph has been copied East, West, North, and  
South ; the secular papers heading it " Important News," 
and the religious papers calling it " Too good to be true.''  
It was got up by a clerk, and slipped into the paper with- 
out the sanction of either editor; but the HONESTY of  
" false accusers," " having the form of godliness" in  
these " last days" requires no correction of these "rich  
jokc^," with which one scoffing editor "humbugs"  
his fraternity.  
MILLERISM.—The editor of the Vermont Chronicle,  
a paper of high character, and which never indulges in  
random charges  or assertions, says, " From much in- 
quiry and various facts which have come to our know-
ledge, we have no confidence in the idea that Miller him- 
self believes his doctrine."— N. Y. Tribune, Jan. 27, and  
Chronicle and Tattler, Jan. 30.  
The interpretation of prophecy has becrazed a great  
many men,'and is becrazing more just now than for a  
long time before. If we are correctly informed, several  
ofthe disciples of Miller have already become tenants of 
our various insane hospitals. Many more of them, we 
fear, will be a burthen to the community in those charita- 
ble receptacles, long after the humbuggery which sent""  
them t'.ere has come to an end —Jour, of Com , Jan. 28.  
" That Mr. Miller has fixed the day  (23d of April) for  
the end of the world, is a fact perfectly notorious, For  
authority, I would refer to the N. Y. Sun."  
So said a writer in the Western Empire, Dayton, Ohio.  
The truth is, Mr. Miller has not even designated the  
month, and the 23d of April has no connection with any 
prophetic period in his interpretation of prophecy.  
" J. V. Himes, publisher ofthe Second Advent Books,  
recently  requested a settlement with the men he had  
dealings with, because he wished to have all his affairs  
settled up before Christ should come. When he found 
the balance in account with the printers was largely 
against him, he demanded a credit of nine months."  
So said a bookseller in New  
The truth is, Mr. Himes settled all his bills on the  
second day of January, the first day being the Sabbath,  
paying every creditor he could find, and he has directed 
all who do work for him to bring in their bills for pay" 
ment every month. So much for Boston. Respecting 
New York, we will let the printers speak :  
We have done printing for Mr. Himes, and furnished  
paper, to the amount of $2000, and lie has always ten- 
dered us payment in fu 1 as soon as the work was c'one.  
Feb. I, 1843. PIERCY & REED.  
MIT.LERITE TABERNACLE.—The Mayor of Boston has  
forbidden the erection of the slightly constructed fabric  
which the Millerites were raising in that city. It was  
regarded as unsafe by all competent workmen who had  
examined it. The judgment displayed in suc^ an at- 
tempt to expose the lives of numbers, is of a piece with  
the rest of the system.—Baptist Advocate.  
If the editor of this religious paper had looked into the  
Boston Daily Mail, he would have seen the truth stated  
thus :—  
" Several applications have been made to the city gov- 
ernment, to prevent the opening of this new establish- 
ment, but our worthy fathers have wisely determined that  
every man must be left to worship God according to the 
dictates of his conscience, until he interferes with the  
public peace.—Boston Mail.  
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HOW LONG, 0 LORD!  
1. How long, 0 Lord our Saviour, Wilt thou re-main a - way? Our hearts are growing wea - ry Of thy BO long de - lay.  
If^M  m 3  Tczzpr* i  
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ent When, brighter  
Mis  

when shall coine the moment When, brighter far than mo  
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• - - • - " ' - J-vn?  m  

The sunshine of thy glo - ry Shall on thy peo-ple dawn?  
i  
2 How long, 0 gracious Master,  
Wilt thou thy household leave ?  
So long hast thou now tarried,  
Few thy return believe.  
Immers'd in sloth and folly,  
Thy servants, Lord, we see ;  
And few of us stand ready  
With joy to welcome thee.  
3 How long, O heav'nly Bridegroom  
How long wilt thou delay ?  
And yet how few are grieving  
That thou dost absent stay !  

Thy very Bride her portion  
And calling hath forgot,  
And seeks for ease and glory  
Where thou, her Lord, art not.  
0 wake thy slumbering virgins;  
Send forth the solemn cry,  
Let all thy saints repeat it,  
"The Bridegroom draweth nigh!"  
May all our lamps be burning,  
Our loins well girded be,  
Each longing heart preparing  
With joy thy face to see.  
Sabbath Scene in the Capital of a Christian Nation.  
A writer from Washington calls that, the " metropolis  
oftho political, but Sodom and Gomorrah of the moral  
world."  
The correspondent of the Tribune, writing from there,  
Sabbath erg., Jan. 22, gives the following sketch of a hoax  
played off there, in the capital of a land where men speak  
" Oppression  and revolt,  
Conceiving  and  uttering  from the heart, WORDS of rALSEHOOP,  
And judgment  is turned away  backward,  
And justice standeth afai off;  
For truth is fallen  in the street,  
And equity cannot  enter,  
Yea, TROTH KAILETII :  
And he that departerh  from eivl is accounted  mad."  
" A great crowd of people of all sorts and descriptions,  
including many members of Congress, collected this after- 
noon in fwnt of the portico of  the Patent-Office to hear a  
discourse from Mr. Miller, of Millennium celebrity, who had  
been announced by handbills to preach at that place to-day.  
The crowd was immense, amounting to maov thousands — 
A railing was-extended across the lower flight of the lofty  
steps ofthe portico, and Police officers were stationed to  
preserve order and to keep the crowd off the stops After  
much waiting and some fighting between the officers and  
the sovereigns, who wished to be admitted to the upper flight  
of steps among the members of Congress and other digni-
taries who were asseinHffed there in privileged and exclu- 
sive dignity, it was announced by a clergyman from the  
portico, that " Mr. Milltr was not in town, and that there 
was no reason to expect him," and the Rev. speaker propos- 
ed to the " large and. most intelligent assemblage," as he  
facetiously termed it, that the mob should be turned into a  
Temperance meeting, and that the Hon. Mr Briggs be  
called out to address thetn. But the " highly intelligent"  
crowd expressed great unwillingness to take up with Mr. B.  
or any thing short of Miller himself, and thereupon tore  
down the railing, and showed their supremacy by taking  
possession of the Portico. A proper Sunday work !  
Yours, MANHATTAN.  

straw, the METAL CHAIN to bind a POTRNTSPIRIT  with, which  
a certain clerical gentleman so frequently brings into the  
pulpit, to arouse his hearers, and to show with what  
ease he can demolish a NONENTITY.  
Yours in Christ Jesus.  
SEEKER.  
New York, Jan., 1843.  
EXTRACT FROM A LETTER.  
A Post Master in Ohio writes to a friend in this city,  
at whose house he had stopped, during a recent visit 
here—  
" I find ' Miller's Views' have produced a great im- 
pression. Rev.  Mr. Fitch, formerly of Newark, N. J., a  
man of distinguished piety and worth, is the most promi- 
I nent advocate. He preaches at Cleveland, and some of  
the most respectable gentlemen of the place have em- 
; braced his views . . . The theory is now so well ma-
I tured, that it is difficult for candid minds, who hear its 
! facts and arguments to avoid being influenced by it, until  
they are furnished with the strongest arguments on the  
other side. . . . One thing is very certain,That those who 
are ' looking for, and hasting to' a preparation for the  
second advent, should they be disappointed, next year,,  
would be less injured by their opinions, than those whose  
hearts are overcharged with the cares of this life, and 
that day come upon them unawares."  
DAY AND HOUR " —A MINT.  
To THE EDITOR OF THE MIDNIGHT CKY :  
Dear Brother,—Among the various would-be arguments  
brought against your  view of the near approach of the  
Son of God, none appears to me more weak, or more  
common, than the following : " No man knoweth either  
the day or the hour," &c. So that, were I to assure you  
that a friend had promised me a visit in this city duiing  
the present.year, you are to deny the possibility of such  
visit taking place, because he has named neither the day  
nor the hour on which I am to expect him. Were you to  
offer such objection, and call it an argument, there is 
scarcely a child of 10 years old, who would not turn  
your assertion into ridicule. And yet grave and learned  
men, both clergymen and laymen, are making the above  
text the leading argument for rejecting your date of 1843  
It is just as much to the point at issue, as is that man of  

I MORALS IN A CHRISTIAN NATION.—A few days since,  
| Haalilio, the Ambassador from the King of the Sand-
! wich Islands, tioW in this country, was excluded from a 
j public table on board a steamboat, and obliged to take  
i his breakfast with the black servants ofthe boat, because  
his skin was dark Y. Daily Express.  
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