The Second Advent of Christ. Vol. 1. CLEVELAND, WEDNESD*Y, APRIL 5. 1843. � No. 11. Iti:v. C. FITCH, Morrow. � [Please Read and Circulate.] � T. H. SMEAD, PUBLISHER. Review of O. E. Dagget's Sermon TIME Or THE ENH t7NCERTAIN." It a. Itt.1.5. The lkveniber number of the "Nntionttl mintnins � moan, entitled. eTlie me uf the End uticei elite" by Rev. 0. E. I Daggett. pastor of the South Congregntionul ‘Imielt. Hertford. Ct. The object of this ,;iseouree oppeers to lie, to preve that we eau itovr know with oily vett:rimy. the time of lie Second Advetitt find therefore. that nu iiinfi fence setts tet iihiced in any of the evi- dence epee which the near approach of Hint vein is predicated. ht is singular that while century ago. the whole Protestant church were tetti;avuting to acqeire all the light pus- siLle twine the prorlteeiro of Dauiel and Juno, Ge. how. the same church is equaliy anxious to threw darkness upon those The di-counie under review has fur its text, Acts. 1: ti, 7. ••Witeu they therefore were ease tegettee, oey atJtod of torn. saying, Leese wilt thou at the, time retort avant +he k oedema Is Israel! And he said '.ale theta, II IV out for you to know the Ion.. ur tits ...ma. which the Falltior Lath put ta ho own putter.' it is ably antler). and, no far as we eat. discover, c•intione none of the bitterneos, which too often chioneterizes the writings of opponents. 'hue author does not discuss the questions of a temporal nellennium, the return of Me sews. awe or attempt any expoeitiou of the prophecies in stp;,:ri:tion to the vi..we of the tel.evers of the Second Advent. 0: the lime that et ent lie says, � anti not to show that :a Will nut take pace u: any particular titm, whether Ili the next century. lir next spring. er to-morrow: but only that we do not know when." P. '2.66. As lie has confuted himself . � that question, and Jaes nut alletnpt to sJiuw :oat it will not take place at any particular tow. it follows. that there can be nothing to this argument, but what will be equally valid the day before the Advent—however near, or ,Itetant in the future, that day may be—as it Mad the osy it was written. If this position is correct, that we canuoll know when the tine of the Advent will be, it will follow. that the present movement in ex- pectatten of that event may euti in disappoint. rums. We will therefore, briefly examme lbe arguments by which that position is sus- mined. believing that we may know the time of that crime. lie admits that "it may be possible to know something of its pproecli," that "there may 'se reasons for tette-Leiter it within one. or Iwo oeuturiese' and that "tor ought they know, I. may come a month utter tile premie." With three uthimisions, for aught that can tie proved ei the contiary. the adherents of Mr. Miller may lie perfectly tight in their expositions of prophecy, with the exception of on absolute knowledge of the face "Thal at is not tor an to feree.now the lino when tido drermeotiou will cod, or Christ's glorious renu unearth wits begin," he orgueo— I. .• From Ilse analogy to be finned at oilier ittral meats warier the goteramenl of God, end especially Ilse crest of deal/." Ile says. "if it be loved tl.at � administering him govirroarent ever Hoe world, Gakti has rules revealed toe oselsiaty or great events, yet commonly concealed tseirdatirs, so would properly expert mead the lame 'Slog true so to the soma rigaal delieetaaces of lee people, er* cows •gannit his enemies, yet to to, ..twines's. � ors, tees. to Mete two crate. of mews already recorded." p..67. To this we agree; and nould also add, that if it be build that the dates of great events taw cyies been revealed. "we wouid repel ly eapeet to fuel the smooching true us to feline erases. We are therefore willing to abide in the decision of this question, by "ate analugy felted is other great events in the goveri.inent of God." Thiu first event to which our atten- tion is called. is that of the flood; an event, uf which our Saviour said, •Ohus shall it be sa tbe day whets the Son of Man is revealed." We arc waling to mat the question un ilic apology to be found is thus event alone. Mr. 10. *Omits that "'i resealed to Noah Isis purpose to delay the weir, stud to save I � ..illy with his family, from among mankiud; mac with 'this annuoisomwent. the patriarch towhead minute diroetioas for the bulldog of nu ark." The precise time he thick* was, uot weeded to Notalt; to if we swells it ewer � MOW ereweeimemiewee4 was, that it dime not nppeur to have leen to know that (1 ,1 had purposed to drown the of Abraham should "be a stranger in a land ninth. ktt ,NV II to others. � wield; fur if Nosh did not reveal the time, me their's," 400 years; and alternerd they , the uriitaeli 'mist have warned them. and it slimed come out with great substance. , I. tits. it in � to to duitpolo0 that they were ignorant n ith Abraham's own sejournonade 4311 ..ari.. . id Noitat s expectations: therefore every plank , The children or Israel therefore, could, ‘it that wile added to the ark Was an athwitelesn, any lime dieing their captivity in I.:gip'. that the time of its completion was drawing! hate ealcieated the time of its tertniii ieuu, nigh; end when it ma. completed, and ready : by adding 400 years to tee time when the :ionrgthtek know of � it inmates, they thenlated of Abraham iglo) to listalllicted et o h v h r � e.iav was Peces.' strange lend. We :tier find that "it the tint wily 64 the necoinplitliment of God's per-' of the 430 year...eve:I liac seif-s one day. it pose. � ;came to pass tie.: all the Mete of the teed Weerhould therefore export in the trecond went out (ruin the Intel of l'.;flit." Es. xte destrelltioe of the weed. that God would not 41. reveniet any one time the whoa, er his pun.; � Notwithatauding it is set ceer, that the 1:ine pose, pexpectieg the time rind manner of its' was revealed before their captivity in Egypt ;tea willplisliment; but that it could be revealed: commenced, Yet it is also evident that iLe a iitileeliere rind a little there—in one place. predicted period had � elapsed nearly cui h be eealorrer .iri .tlite. the tonne, and in another the manner—' children of lintel were rears —in hilguage err plain, that the we,' faring I Pk'•ors; but before its end. they did under- man, *ought n fool, need nut err therein; and i stand, and made all necessary arrangement yht:detheit ash ItiLlsaien:ie:pre,l,sdomdiirgeeitf.iinavend ar,ix:bliuene: ' for securing She "great suledanee." that it 1 woe predicted they should entry out. dances( plausiblt, reasons on wheh to predi- ! There was also fine /ippon unity. for any mite their doubts. Even the tent, itself. we who felt disposed, to doubt respecting the tshould expect from ttie n weep., would be time; us they might with much show or rent.A. ; given 1st such a manner, that it inieia be con. have contended, that the 400 years owe to tendwith sonic showof reason. not to de. , be dated from the time that Jocoh and all his I note• duration of 'time, but only the defile. I children removed to Egypt; or it would have cent lif the temple by Antioch.; as the pre. I been Iktuoitile to have suppesed that it was to Ito the reduced age of mankind. We should arose that knew not Joseph." and who eve be doted from the tune that "another king I &nos of the time to the flood Is also applied! 'anlisgoli:truck„awthaos wthe ou I d time he osra saved would e‘.etit he drew nv ',entreated them,—tic seine ns trinity now con- ; tendohnt the rise of Popery ehouldiint tee dated f a more clear coirception of the great event; i I and when the time had about expired. would! IY from the commeacemeat of its power, but en- , all 011.1$1 the attitude of ,xpeetation of lb, I � , :, � or from the zenith of its power from the time it became quite formidati'-, !i•vvet; even the day itself might be k„,„: The "analogy" in this case would there- l serest days previous. On the other hand. we fore lend us to expect. tint the period which to ninny of them. (with stir opportunitylis to elapse before the end of the world would be a matter. tif prophecy---it definer prophetic should also expect. that those who will perish, to ahatesefet themselves with � ii"....4,4' pesiod—but that it would sot be fully wider- x � 1 � ..• � i 8..... 1... i manner of the end, but world none of then, mo,... MHO. Md....1.1%dd titre gat Ierathentison, belieVe in the reality of it--would know not; tint there might be a question from whet par- until the door of mercy is el.,.„a_iii other licular epoch it was to be dated; hut that tie words, that the wicked would de wickedly, . the period drew is,ir its termination. the Woe and none of the wicked would understand. hut I of the cud wculd Lie inure clearly undefeated, that the wn,e, who arc to shine us the bright-land at its &collimation thieve who are. delivered nest of the firmament. would all understand., would be all expecting inueedette deliverance; From the "analogy" we should expect till ? nor would those nut delivered be all ignotata this. And even if the prediction in Gen. vi. I that such was Sri expected event. There is 3, was not a predict inn nf the time to the flood• also in this case a most striking "analogy." the an.dogy would teach us, that It would not � Aglaia he says. "When at length they begaa their Come Its II thief in the night upon any of those m i. arehlble.fl. the wiLlettww, they ...ill eel !re.i who escape the sad catristrophe, for ns the 7::,:17,E„,":„„,'":*r,,,.,,,, "'„; '„" ii:, 7,...".. g.. irons. building of the eat was a warning to the old tin he their randtaur.ugd. Ills balk incurred andiron:- eel the measure al tom weeder...zit." ji. 267. If there is any "aisle[!." Ise:wren the:, knowledge of the end of their wanueringe. ant: our knowledgt of the Advent of Christ. teen surely, those who are delivered may have i. The second event alluded to ii the destruc- definite knowledge of "the time of the rod" tion of Sodom and Gomorrah. Here it is of our wow/cringe during the last 34 years of Raid "The hour was 110t foretold; nod we1 their centinnance. know teat how much time elapsed between � in all these events, the time of their fu151- the first announcement, and the vi-at of the meet mil-tears to have twee "clewed up tin' two angels, which was the evetiing before veiled," till stem "the time albeit end." they heeled away Lot." p. 247. � I when the tune of the end was more chart Dery again, we find that all who were .at seen. and expected by those delivered. � lie ved, were apprised of the event a sufficient says "astir captivities were of unknowu dates. time vrevious toenahle them to esenre, told , so ter as 1 lave ebrierred. rite the exceptret also to warn some of those who perished, un-' "f the 70 years in Babylon." pp. 267-0.— to wheel lsot seemed as one that stocked.-1There huwever appears to have been au ex- The *.estealogy" would therefuro welt us peetation of delivetanee pet immediately le . that before Christ conies. all the truly rights i fore their termination. sod the "andoeu." ',t eethe will be apprised of the fact. and know that i' is so near, that they must be "up," "for the Lord will JestmV this city." and yet ihey may not know the very "hear." until tiod take* them by the band to save Nearly fifty newsier reavations, more than a a...- then). We also learn by this. that acme of fired suet, a. we reekeu bon. Of sheet Vat mu.. te. beton, the time ot hie brat the fealty impenitent will be Willfully-15*qm hewed th.'„„T,17;,, wrie.„ ism.- p. tr,ti. "Ag is," he save, � Asa the deiteearlanta of Jacob roma; , � that eerv..uce My between too death wt. were � endure • creel bottlig* In Egypt, they were let to; whew it would lova, am how lung it woalit JosephOad tbeird,paritec ceder Meets, about 144 itud we. Caere:ere wily 'sport of � tine Wide eased the pr ...tie. to Abraham, sad olber para. le yet the predir,toa gave thew a opt to es. " eraser: and tt. time a the *vest was re. Peel vested thee by its kcessupslitsest." p. U7. Its � is case i: was predicted that the soed Ile � •••nme undersisnd (fen. c: � 'hi. day• ,hall il• I‘ II 111111(404 and twenty years,' or the triterest prethei, ! is the Sued: ' tin I sdd., ..1;ut hew could that be resod, when Nosh's three eon, were living, and prultab,y inorried at the 'hue or the prediction, yet were Isen seer lit wa. Ave laundry:I years old, sum thereto, were not over one hundred year. ski at the lute which was in he six huueredte year t" Tleit such W,o4 the ells° whoa torn command NHS g ten to build the Hilt as recorded in Cele 6: 14, is evident; but it is not 10, clear, that the predielien ill Gen. 6: 3, wax out given that lieteas of time lii,rtire the flood. In the connectiou as it there stands, there is no reference ill the a lede paragraph to the rhildren of Noah. With the 0th verse el. Gen. Otli, evidently begins a new barograph, which seems to have no couneetien with the preceding one, and bears the tierces of beteg a more full prediction of the snine event. gi% en ut a subsequent period of time, n hen it had pleased God to reveal his plans and pur- 1, lieu to Ninth mere fully. In the: 5th chap- :or is "the book of the generation of Adam," and hi* genealogy is continued till the time is brought to the eons of Noah. Inde pehdentiv of the hist,ry of other events. 'tViseit the record of that getieology is completed, duwn to the time of the flood, ti.eta Moses begins the sixth chap- ter, with. -Whoa area began to multiply," Sze., "end liod saw thee the wickedness of man was ge•ae" � therefore, IW•u began to Multiply uti the face of the cattle and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in it beliee the birth of Noah's sons, it may Al- so follow !list the prediction in the 3d verse, being � ;lie same connection with the record of the tit to facts, was also mode prior to their �We are satisfied that it is so to be underwood; and taus all dilii ulty is re- moved, nud the ..jaJatiel cavil" is equally set aside. 89 with the oilier interpretation. The other view of this passe:ye that "re- fers it to the reduced age of let nkind," is enceinpnased with still greater obstacles; for it cannot he shown to have been eats applica- ble+. Individuals can be referred to, whose ages were about or weie lin:cis:4 120 years. but it does not appear from the Bible. and that is the only nuthentic authority wit hare on this point, that this ass ever the avetage length of the ago of near. We find that for a lung limit after this prediction was made, the use of loan was extended far beyond this limit. Sheet unlined the age of Oter years; Arpliaxed lived 438; Sabah lived 433: Fiber lived 464; Peleg heed 239; Itcu lived 289; 'Serug lived 230; Nahor lived 148; Torah liv- ed 205; Abraham lived 175; Isaac lived 180; Jacob lived 147; Joseph lived 110. Moises was 120 when he died; and Joshua was 110. Thus it 'appears that fur about 1000 years after this prediction was made. the great ma- jority. of whose age we have any knowledge. attained a mulch greater longevity. After the flood, the fig, of man appears to have grade- oily decreased, until it reached the limit of three score years end ten. There appears to have been no sudden cutting short of the age of mart. Corn 900 to 120 rchrs, as we should expert to find, if this prediction could have had such en implication. Sr. e as we should nIso expect, do wo fed any period when this was the usual limit ofmate* life. From dieter considerations we can WO 110 propriety in applying this prediction to the reduced age of niau; elide the evidence to our mind is clear. .het it denoted the sign° that elapsed from the prediction to the flood. If ouch is the case, the ••analiwy" that is to be found in the event of the llood, is most etriking. Thus, let, we find that at one tiam God only revealed the time when he would destroy the world. without ievealing the man- tier. 2. Afterwards. time manner of that destruc- tion is goer), with a mute � revelattoa of 10- event. As the gore draws nigh, and there turn but seven days to the (Lod. the very day of tile event is given. Every individual soul, that is saved. is looking for the event at the very lime. other- wise they would trot have gone into the ark, red been saved. Many who perished bad as opportunity ed. bet that they will look upon time who � rc warn them, as ioirguided limbos. and men somtag i This is all very true. and vet we hind that "shut puck." As it was in the duty of this for 53* yeals previous to his comity. the re rt- evetit,(eo our Sat lieu assures us ..it will w,e, year a hi. death was a matter s.: prephecy in the, Nay when 0.e Sun of man it revealed." � Iles "artaieelf." of this event would teach us, that although iges inlet,: tell away. amid mina be ignorant e "the time of the cud." yet before the event itself takes place, the sea'. wool I be broken. se; that the wise• who are to shine as the brightness of the firmament. may understand. A. in all the events to winch we have allu• ded, the time has been retealed, fur c titer a longer or shorter period before its completion. so ..we weeli expect a *similar 14x:duos ;111 world, so when are seen the signs predicted by our Savior, we may knee, that it is near, EV KN AT THE 00051. The "analogy." there fare. iii this event, is most clear and satis- factory. the 70 years, certainly ind.cates a like ;et • dieted period to the end � time. He rays, "Tee premise of a Rieman we est-- bask to the very Deese of the best isawigierent. ei.t "That it is not for us to fore home the time when this di,pemmt,cm will end, or Christ's glorious reiga on earth will begin,•' he argues, 2. ..From the fact that such knowledge, on the part of man, does not seem desirable." p. 269. Ile admits "that this consideration, like the last. could not stand against any clear declaration of the Bible;" but gives weight to it. where "the Bible does riot explicitly de- termine beyond all suspense or doubt." This argument will therefore be set aside. if we can show that there is explicit evidence from the Bible that that day will not overtake the truly righteous as a thief. This we shall hope to do. For the present, we shall only endeavor to show that without such express declaration, it can be no argument. If it is sound reasoning to argue that the event will not be foreknown; because such knowledge would be undesirable, it would be equally an, to argue that the event itself will never take place, because it is undesirable; and the same reasoning might be ex'ended to any event. To a person under sentence of death, the knowledge of that fact would not seem t'esirable: but that would not prevent his receiving such knowledge. Again, if we could argue that if such knowledge were undefinable, it would not be foreknown, we might also argue. on the came principle. that' if it were desirable it would be fore-known. That this event will be fore-known to any who do not desire it. we do not believe; but we do believe that all who do desire to arrive at a knowledge of the truth. will be led in the way of all truth. That it is right to endeavor to obtain a knowledge of the events whit area subject of prophecy. and will soon take place. we have abundance of evidence. God lies at sundry times and in divers manners revealed to man a knowledge of future events: if all such knowledge was wrong, it would not have been thus revealed; and yet "the things which are revealed, are unto us and our children forever." God bas assured us that he "will be inquired of." And the speeds says that the "prophets inquired and searched ilifigently. who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you; searching what manner of ties the Spirit of Christ which was in them did airily, when it metaled beforehaed the puf- fins. of Christ, and the glory that should follow. Unto whom it was toweled, that pet unto themselves, but unto us they 414 minister which would convince us of ilie probability of its being near; then would be seen the signs by which we might know that it was isigA crew at the doors: and then we might other great events under the government of i of the whole Protestant church, has reference God, and especially the trod if death" we to events which will not all he fulfilled till the argue that "the wise shall understand;" and end of time: yet "he that readeth and they that the righteous will nut be "in darkness that hear the words of this prophecy," are that that day should overtake them as a thief." pronounced blessed; and surely our Saviour We also argud, that all who are thus over- would not bless that which is undesirable to taken, will be in the condition of those who be known. This prophecy nal only corn- would not heed the warning of Noah and Lot; mences, but it also clones with a blessing upon who despised, and wondered, and perished. � those that keep the sayings of the prophecy of this book. This blessing cannot be ob- tained without a knowledge of these savings; this knowledge therefore cannot be undesi- rable. He argues, p. 269. that if the event in question were "the universnl spread of holi- ness," the knowledge of the time would not be desirable, from the fact that if such knowl- edge should reveal to us that the event was far in the future, it would he neither a "pleasure or profit;" and that if near. al- theugh the prospect might "be to us delightful," yet "we are only a small part of all who have lived, and we cannot pronounce that knowl- edge on the whole desirable, which must have deferred their hope, merely because it would hasten oars." This argument is based upon the supposition that if it is revealed in the scriptures, "it has been discoverable there. in all its remoteness, for many centuries." But does it follow that every thing now re- vealed was equally discoverable irk the time of Daniel? If so, the prophets who searched diligently what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, would nut have been told "that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things which are now reported unto you." And when Daniel inquired, "0 my Lord, what shall be the end oh' these things?" had it been dis- coverable then, tie would not have been told that the words were "closed'up and sealed till the time of the end;" and yet that was "sealed up," which at "the time of the end," "the wise shall understand." This knowledge then-fore might be revealed to us. and "hasten our hope," without "doferring" the hope of those who lived long since. Mr. D. also argues, that "There is raison also to fear that such prospect, however pleasing, might now enervate instead of invigorating the hearts of good men; as the near prospect of success in any rate, pro., whers men haves pert, often retries their vigi- tepeeand activity, mole than all difficulties and delay it they haws encountered." It is believed thnt this has not been found to be the case in the political world; then why should it in the religious? If any thing could give vigor and energy to any effort, it would seem that a prospect of certain victory would accomplish it. And it would seem that nothing to the end of the present dispensation of the' the things which are now reported unto you wor:ds" them that have preached the grime& unto The last oaneogy" to which we are refers yeu, with the Holy Ghost sent down from red is the "analogy" "found in the event of heaven; which things the angels desire to death." Iii, saws"of all the events that can look into"-1 Pe,. 1: 10, 12. Daniel had so befall mankind.• none is more certain than earnest it desire to be instructed in the things Hes, tithe world continues us it has twee: id' the future, that he hesitated not to last et nothing is more unetirtnin as Iv its date.- "three whole weeks:" and his request was Ilcre again the "analogy" is me tinfavera- granted. He also, with his three friend*. nth' to the supposition 01111 we shah have some desired "mercies tif the God of heaven con• 1.nowiedge of the time of the end. � corning the score:" of Nebuchadnezzar's It is true, that death sonwillle's overtakes, &elm, end "the God that reveuleth secrets," its victim. without a inninent'e warning; but ' gratified that heathen rnonnrch with the know'• this is not usually the ,Ists, ii' it were. the i edge cif the thoughts of hi, Ilea. rt US to "what -anatary" would be steam., es, iteatIi, how- i should come to pass he reit itii r.-' Daniel also ever, usually admonishes us of its approach. thanked and praised the God of heaven, that During one whole existence, unless we are . he had made known to him the king's matter. of those who will be changed nt Christ's com- !bit had Daniel taken the position that such the Cra I the neiber of the saved ni ay on the whole in& death stands before us as a certain evoct, knowledge was undesirable, is it probable that ....;.;,,, rin rinse, Li, exceed list ofthejo.„.• p. ,.70. while we know not how fa L it iney be from i. he would !Inv, been thus enlightenedl . � As we approach the verge of life, sick- � 11' v reply that the event itself does not de- us � We arc assured that "all scripture is given ppm] upon our choice respecting n knowledge seas and pains, and disense, admonish us that i by inspiration of God, and is profitable for of it, and the infinite wii-alorn of God will do there is a probability that death is very ?war doctrine, for reproof. fur correction, for in• that which is for the best. Besides, we can its. As our discrete gains the mastery over !erection in righteousness; that the man of find no evidence in the went of God that reli- es, and hope or life trnneltes. we know that God ‘„„‘„ b„ perfect, thoroughly furnished � : � : is gam is � to spread and MIN, the majority or the time has come when we must shortly die; unto " and wilrl"' � - Tim• 3: 16. 17' If the human race, and to hope for the contrary and soon we are informed that we have not a all scripture is jirolitablit lor alit/ purpose, it of what God has revealed, would argue .tt day or .hour to live, told then we close our must be understood; aril any portion of scrip- distrnst of his wisdom and goodness. The eyes, and all earthly scenes fade forever from ture of which, we can have ieu knowledge can world, when the Son of man is revealed, is our mortal sight. � not be profitable to us. It is therefore desi- described to be in the condition of the world The "analogy" therefore to be 'found in the ruble that we should hay,• a knowledge, of all before the flood, and like Sodom and Gottn, t toot of death would teach us, that while the 1 that God has revealed iii his ward. � rah before their destruction. Our Sav:or ris- en I of time is far in the future, we should i � The Apocalypse is called "The Revelation sures us that the tares and the wheat will only be enabled to know that it is a certain , of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to grow together till the end of the world: and event which will one day, we ;snow not how; show unto his servants things which must Daniel is told that the "little horn'' will make soon, overtake the world: but as the event shortly come to pass; and lie sent and signified war against them until the Ancient of Days draws nigh. evidence would be exhibited i it by his angel unto his serveet John: who . � , � shall come. The saints are also said to be bare record of the weld of God, and of the redeemed out of every nation, and kindred, testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things and tongue, and people. These, with other that he saw. Blessed is lie that readeth, and, considerations, convince us that when Christ they that hear the wore of this prophecy and does come, precisely the same scenes will realize that time had nearly reached its i keep those things which are written therein: have to be enacted, as will occur if he comes fartherest limit. � , fur the tette is it hand." � in 1843; so that what would cause us to de- Thus 'Iron the analogy to be found in j This Revelation, according to the opinion sire the delay of his coming one Year, might cause us to desire it to be delayed forever. Neither can it be delayed for an indefinite period of time, for Daniel is assured that "at the time appointed, the end shall be." Any loss of happiness to those who can never have an existence because probatioil is cut short before their time, can not weigh in this case; whereas the misery which will he thus averted from multitudes who would be born, die, and go to perdition, were time to continue, is quite a consideration. And when we consider that the majority of those who are born, die in their sins—that the great ma- jority of those now alive would all probably die before the world could be converted—that the number of those who are yenrly born far out number those who are yearly converted, and that this melancholy proportion would con- tinue to swell the tide of human beings rush- ing to destruction, so long as probation con- tinues, benevolence and humanity would force us to pray, "Come, Lord Jesus, come quick- , Iv" Again, it is asked, "But looking at the supposed event by itself, and not es compared with universal holiness preceding it, would the foreknou ledge of it, so soon to arrive, be pleaeant and profitable to good men? It must be pleasant to a Christian,' ray some, 'bee,. he within 'eon see his Saviour.' but this may be said of death, also. and this wan the reason Paid gave for desiring death-not for desiring the end of the world—loving a desire to depart and be with Christ,' counting it 'gain to die,' though to him 'to live,' was 'Christ.' Yet surely every Christian is not of course eager iodic On the contrary, this world is desirable for him during his allotted � e, and Christ's intercession for his renewers was, '7 pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from the evil.' Because the vision of Christ itself appears inviting, whether by means of death or of big personal coming, we cannot infer that either event would make hie peorle happy at any other than the appointed time, and still less that it would be desirable for them to foreknow that time." Christ will restore all who are his to :h. earth, restored to is Eden state, in accord. ance with the covenant God made with nun it.ether Abraham, to give him and his geed the (lend. for an everlasting pessese On. 'This to the appearing to which �referred whet, hes:tel. .•1 le see Tie th there is luidupfornrcn eerie N of righteousness. which the Lord. the rightentes Judge. shall brine me AT THAT ass: 'tad not 10 me only. but veto all them also that love his appearing." t: TH.,. iv. fi. � Is it not mound that we should desire the nppronch of that day in which A+1.1. THE !: TEO(/' are to receive their ceews.1 And cuss we truly love his appearing tvi hunt the approach elf that day? That appearing cannot be our death. as some contend, for the 1st soiree. the epistle says that Chris' will "judge the quick and the dead at his se. peering and his kingdom."--To be contemned. Oarimix. March 27. 1842. DEAR BR. Fuca :--A friend handed me. a few minute,' since. the last No. of the eSec- oud Advent." in which I fled a few very touch- ing and uppropriate lines en the death of our little boy. f � your pen. I knew. brother. that you could and wall: sympathize with le, None but Dame who have been called to sim- ilar trials, can touch the cord that vibrates in the souls of those who have been called to part with the objects of their fondeot hopes. "Not long will your hived ono sleep in dust," tic. That thought has been a cordial to my soul. The ,day after oar boy died. while. reflecting u pon the dispensation of Giel's prov- idence towards us. I exclaimed to my wife. in the bitterness of a wounded spirit. "Why has my father driven the iron so deep into my soul?" Turning around, soon. my eye fell upon the large chart, which I had hung up behind the bed of our little Loy. to divert hie mind, while living, and the wound was heal- ed—the iron wus extracted. � 1 exclaimed from my inmost soul, "Blessed Jesus ! Now I love thee inure than ever ! Thou hest taken my child to thine own bosom !" 1 would have written some account of the Lord's dealings with us, ere this; but my in- cessant watching over our sick bay, with our tedious journey home, has prostrated toy health, so that I have not been able. Your notice of my labors, is, pettier.. suf- ficient. 1 want to. say n word in reference to my Second Advent experience. I have been thinking less or more on the subject, for more than four years. About one year ago. my attention was called anew to tile investi- gtion of it. Last summer I listened, day by day, to the other side. I kept my mind un- committed to any theory—examining, as I had opportunity. the "Threat" view. and when you visited Oberlin. I was in a complete state of non-committal—heard you through, pon- dered. prayed, and levitated—was unhappy. because in darkness; prayed on, determined not to force my mind. or make any effort to believe it, or any other doctrine, but le wait on the-Lord, day by day, believing that he would lead me into the old path, and the good way. 1 continued this shut three months. when the Spirit of the Lord led my mind so into an understanding of the truth, that I be- came settled and happy. Immediately the fire began to burn within my bones. I longed to "preach the accepta- ble year of the Lord. and the day of ven- geance of our God," to others. I saw the desolation-1 saw the darkness, that reigned over a large part of our State; and I said, JVho will go? I looked nt my little family; it might be at a sacrifice if I went—but. se.lto will go? was the demand again ; I said. i tell/ ; send me, Lord. I went. Has the sacrifice been too much! Aly child might have died, had we staid at home. But if not, is it too much 1 � God spared not his may son, but delivered him freely up for us all ; and shall I make no sacifice for perishing souls I � It is sot too much. I have laid all on the altar. There let God dispose of it. � I feel swinger than ever in the faith; yea.ethe ancient. primitive faith of the saints. I long, I sigh. to be per- fected with them. Often, while watching over the dying pillow of my precious boy. have I looked out at the window, and wished that I might see the sign of the Son of Man in the heavens, before I saw another sun rise. I longed for it more than they that ..wait for the morning." I shall not wait long in vain. Jeeua will come, and will not tarry. Not long will that little cherub harp with the one huudred and forty and four thousand, ere I shall be permitted to beer ;he strains celes- tial ; and though I outset Warn them, 1 may join in the chorus, and swell the synsphoey of heaves, in everlasting praise to God anti the Lamb. � G. NEEDHAM. desirable. Make the supposition, that God bait per posed the event shall lake place in the i next raniery. would it be beet for she world to know that it will not come before? Yet it God had revealedin his word, then, wherever that word has bsen read in seer past. the righteous might have been made to despond and the wicked to exult in the pi ()Tem," We reply to this areitinent, that it could not be time clue if such reef-Intim) were "closed cad sealed till hr im, of the emit" and we have the testimony of Daniel, that such is the case respecting the revelation in ques• "Or," lie mays, "make the supposition that God has purposed the event shall take place the next year. Do you rejoice In believing that probation will e.t.a, while nut more than a naginent of the whole adult Muunn family will have been saved, rather than be. lievos.; that it will continue for an indefinite period, dart, a which, by the greater spread and prevalence of It is certainly our duty to wait here our ap- pointed time, until our change come; nor have we any right to rush unbidden into the pres- ence of our God. We cannot meet Christ either by a natural death, or by his personal coming, before our appointed time, and there- fore we shall not discuss the question, wheth- er such a meeting would conduce to happiness; but none can question but that such a meet- ing, at the appointed time, would be a happy one. We may therefore desire to know that such appointed time is near. � Paul desired death that he might be with Christ, then why may not every Christian desire death for the same reason/ We have no right to set our affections on the things of this world, nor to lay up our treasures here. ror where our heart is there we shall receive our portion. would chin and dampen one's energy more We are but strangers and pilgrims here. and than doubt and uncertainty. � have no right to look open this world as our Holm" aloPP•84 lowboy'. the time is quas. home. Death is bcweverla very different tie. m, be est � wswoomowuww°1°‘. pests � fair from the personal etailniaLof Christ. To bellows ea earth, tot Christ's lisnowiwi small to d• and � into the woe,/ of spirits will Wog raise the 'Orem. dead. and to &atm his Asa," " r Nth* lereloserdelie of it use thew appear AM less us near le Christ, but the polemist (swift of I • SECOND ADVENT CONFERENCE. � •• Second Adutnt." To be held at Akron. (,f the Lord doen riot come � Reflections Cif MONOLOGirs The last Christian Rellec:or publishes a Chronological Table,"prepared by that Bap- tist clergyman wimeniancipated all his skives, henry Brisbane. At its clos,,, his says: "I have made my examinatiens with great care." The Table makes the world 6,000 years old in I $43. FALSE STATEMENTS. Our limited ,pace will not peon,' US to notice the thousand and one false statements respecting the el: feels of "Millet km," so called. The death of Mr. Shortridge, of Portsmouth, by jumping from a tree is contradicted on good authority. � So long as there eau be found individuals ready to believe any thing but the truth, just so long stories will be coined for their especial benefit. Dr. CRAM' has made inquiry of Bro. Ilunt, who bits charge of the Bette. for the insane, in Ilartlerd, and informed me that of the nisely•one patients now in the Retreat, there were NOISE whose insnnity could be ascribed in any'rcou to this doctrine; and ftethermore he had never known an instance where this had been the cause qf derangement." Ti e N, t'. Daily Ptebian thus contradicts one of the Uterrible effi stn of Milleriam" afloat: 'Mrs. Leverich, of Newark, who cormnit- ted murder upon herself and two children, is said i to have teaan or a family fibCied S, 'Oh her4diiary insanity; and is tend to have never nttehded any Miller meetings or had any coniteti,..11 with !Ile Second Advent Associa. THE SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST.! CLEVELAND, APRIL 8. 1943. _ WIC � N 17M OFR. Sistweribere will unle,pland that the !act number was doub'e, awl will answer for No:. and in. 1 II E WOOD. � A fry loads of wool might be mete � fr:ontl• � •11 to furnish mean* to pithlieli the paper in the, way. - - � - There was a shock (Van enyleriate in Verment en the 17th oh, It was very sensibly felt at nurliegi in end the neighhoring town*. It was en heavy Wee Crockery was jarred in the Itemise., and some hot rocked as though they would en over. A eeetia: shock was felt ,hoot 21 minutes alter the tire). A Fecund Earthquake took teace at 61111i1.!01.pe, W. I. on the 3d ult. It shook a vessel, which wee off the north part alba island, so that it was with Oilfield'', the crew kept on their feet. A dense cowl of ernolte ascended from the vicinity of Basseterre. It woe quite siekly at Point Pete, The comet was seen at St, Thomas on the 21 of last month: it canned considerable alarm to the in ush- itants, A shock of an earthquake was also IM1 at Si. Themes on the 5th inst. DISTRESS OF NATIONS. We have not room to notice the multitude of I acts re/ .ling the state of thine. throughout the w,•-bd. The...Liar feature eft he foreign news is that h rot el,- not the countries of Europe and Asia, gloom over trade, a feeling el clesponelestry prevail,. and while money is abundant, afrightfal was. of positive eteetiteliens and =nosey exists, and no present prospect of any improveinent. Thoae who live in this reentry need sot be told that there is a general pt ostrai ion of kiwi new all over the land: nor be reminded tl.:t thou- sands are availing themselves of the general aankrupt law. Truly there is perplexity. HARD TIMES. The editor of the Morning Star, a Western paper, ae• he has had to decline the offer of a cow and call- a Indiana. in payment of one dollar in advance, on subscription, because he had no way 01' realizing that amount of cash from it. INSANITY. The insanity of a Mr. Eat., mentioned in the Clev. Herald, was *opposed to have been occasioned by the preaching an the Second Advent. It has been ascer- tained, however, that he has tong been subject to in- eanity. He talks a good deal on this subject, just as others de, being the ',abject uppermoot in his mind. The HeraM has sine* aervectod the statement. Pawreciumm—In Guayaquil 1500 pencils have died in one week, by an unknown plague. The Chapel of the Mission Institute at TheOpolis, near Quincy, III. has recently been burned by slave- holders. A day of reckoning is very near at hand. BLIND CIVIDES. We have had Aegean occasion recently, to express oar utter astonishment at the course of these who ale writing in opposition to the doctrine of the near com- ing of our Saviour. The great aim seem. to be to perplex and throw darkness upon Onoat every point upon which they write. This is eimecially conopieu- sue in the articles of Dr. Weeks. Leaving the main pillar of cur argument almost entirely untouched, he has been pulling re nearly every clapboard in the edi. fice. The grand argument upon which we base our ex- pectation ot' Chris .'a near coming is the 2300 days of ante!, 9th chapter. Instead of attempting to an• rweeourargurnent.,I, insid:ously quotes Irvin Mr. Miller to show that Sr :.1. considers the visions of the 21, 7tb At SO' chapters of Daniel one vision, and then undertakes to prove THEREFROM that the vision of the 8th chap.—the ram, he rat and little horn—com• menete beck in the Babylonian empre, dating from a certain point of which kingdom. he snows that the 2301 years ended about the time of the Reformation umler Luther. He also dices the commencement at other points, part of which end before, and part after the time fixed up a by Mr. M. In this way he has endeavored to destroy wr light, without even aeon/d- rag to givens a better. Can that be an Aonest mind, that seeks In misrepresent an opponent. in order to sustain a theory? � Mr. biller does consider these three visions as representing the ram* things asfar as they go; but he never has intimated that the vision of the 8th chapter extended farther back than the MAL, Persian empire. In an article which was copied into the last Cleve. land Plain Dealer, Mr. Alexander Campbell take., the position that the Litt!. Horn represented "the person wbo was t• &emirate the sanctuary and to tread down the beet for11300 days." In Mb( r words the Little Horn represented the "vision," the "daily," and the .iranegreas'en of desolation." In other words still, hi understands that the vision concerning which the question was asked, "How long!" consisted of the sets of the Little Horn alone. If Mr. Campbell hail cestoulteil Dan. 12: 11, he would have ascertaito,1 that that past re' whet Daniel saw in the eighth chapter was to he arimpEelied in "a thousand two IiittiOrell and ninety these," 45 dep. after which (v. 12, El) Dan• del was tn "stand in iii. N,tw thin argument is very speeinns. The teanelas lee has inorted the wart "orrtec,nin;r." ( Dan. Fit 13,) showing that � not in the original. It wee probably this word in the question that load Mr. .timphell to suppnee the vision consietrd rinTe of the -daily'. and the "trerweression of deeolation." Let leek at the question en it ',tenths in the of 13: "flow long the vision, the daily, and the Hans- grssion of desolation, to give the sanctuary eial the host to he trodden tinder foot?" Here are three dis- tinct points, vie: I. The "rision," or the ram, he•gsat, e:e. which Daniel saw. 9. The "dallte," or that which was to be token away and the place (dine sanottia ry cant down. 3. The "trantigrension rf desolation," or that which was to destroy. It may be summed up atm. Flow long sleitl the sanctuary and the host be trodden under toot' Or, how long shall it be from the commencement of the vision till the sanctuary should he cleansed r Now, with what propriety can 5Ir. C. say that the visien consisted °wry of the last two points, when it embraces the whole scene wMcli was presented to the mind of Daniel, commencing with the rani and lie-goat, and extending down to the tone when the Little Horn should be "broken withouthand?" With kis reputed erudition, I ern at a lees to find an answer. The vision then began with the Medo.Persian em- pire, and allege the vanon began, there the 2310 days began, and must reach from that period to the eta' of indignation. Our Saviour pointed in the :24th of Mat- thew to the transgression of de,o'at inn as then future, which is proof that the 2300 days were not Inifilled in Lteral days, and are therefore symbols of years,— Indignation upon the people of Gott hes not ended.— The Jews were under indignation till they were east off—and the Gentiles were grafted in, and the churelt has been under indignation or tribulat on till this ihne. and will be till the end of the 2300 years. But thanks be to Cod, all opposing powers have done their work on the sionts, and the time is now at hand for the saints to possess the kingdom with Christ. The e300 years are within a few days of their termination.— Litt up your heads ye saintn, and rejoice, for your re- demption draweth nigh. THE COMET. We have purposely delayed an account oldie Comet till we could get a correct account of it. The follow. ing obeerrations are by Prof. Loomis, of the Western P.eserve College, at Hudson, Ohio: I have computed the elements of the comet's orbit (corn the uteervat ions of March I I th and 21st, combi- ned with the best estimate I could form of its position Feb. 28th, according to the loose newspaper state mints. The following is the result: Perihelion passage Feb. 24, 9695 Greenwich mean time. Longitude of perihelia n � 7' 31' Longitude of...ending node � leO 5 iodination of orbit � 36 4 Perihelion d Wince � 2'227 Motion direct. Computing the cornet's places from these elements the accordance is exact for the extreme observations; but for the intermediate time the error is about lour degrees. There Permit then good reason to believe that the cornet was actually seen Feb. 28, but not precisely n the place assigned it. According 10 my observations of March With the error ail this orbit in about three degrees. The above orbit then in but a ccarm aporoximation, yet will suffice to give a goner al idea ail the t onirt•s motion. When first discovered Feb. 2,1 the comet had just passed its point of nearest approach to the sun, being at its perihelion distant fium the sun twenty � of mi.er, met a imie;red and fifteen miles leant the earth. It is now more than eighty mahjong of mil. • trout the run, and about the same distance from the earth. Calling the apparent d:ameter or the head two minutes, its real diameter must be over 40,0(0 miles. Its tail has aleagth of about .00' millions of miles. The comet to now re- ceding both from the earth and sun, and ere long will disappear forever trom our view. Its angular distance Irom the sun hag been constantly increasing itice first observed, hut at a diminished rate. It will probably soon reach its greatest e,ot (mien. and alter- ,* ds slowly return towards the cos in his rap.— The shove elements do net sufficiently resemble those of any recorded cornet to justify the belief that tha one has ever been seen before. 'Thiel is then a new comet added to our list, making now one hundred and Lew Louse.. Lerrin Due W11,11111, devoted especially to the Refutation of Millerisru," a new paper just star- ted in Batton, says: "At the very threshold of our enterprise. mu rot( st against the MU roe pursued by ma- ny in relation to Mr. Mill, 'r dud his adherents. We protest sgainat the numerous falsehoods 'meted agniust them, the unchristian ridicule cast upon them, and the annolute 'thus,, that is sometimes applied to tin tn. The Miller people, many of then) are far better men than tin se who trcat them in this manner." The visit. mil' the le•nvenlv messengers is man, fiinoq � rtilly have: hurl a pa raliz ing and ore rw helni.eg it !None... No instance is recorded of ;in elret of :his kind to the es- tent of that � which Daniel was the stihy...c at his last interview—and Lem, we inter the cloning of the aeries of nie,nges rn!ie• prophet. the amazing and solemn trnr.ort the communication about to he wide. It emirate when Daniel was carried cal.: in,- ! to Ilithylon in the first year of \chin+ o1. nczzar, that he is thought to have twen twelve to twenty yearn oh' are. About tt years after this event, Ezekiel ranks him with Noah and Job, for his piety. He was a yout`g man when lie interpreted Nebuchadnezzar', dream, perhaps '20 to 29 years. He had the visions of the 711t charter 48 years after in- terpreting S;eliticlitidrieza f'A dream: 50 years after, :hat of the 8:11 chapter; 65 years after. the events of the 9111 chapter. and 70 Yeats Inter, the event') of the 111th, 11th, and chapters; nt which time he would have bee, upwards of 90 years old. Rehm• proceeding directly to the eoneide ra- tion of the 10th chapter. when: these 1,-.t in- structions been), it may be proper to mina rt.. that when any new, important, or special � - formation is about to he communicated to it", people, by the Lord. the circumstances. � - ceeding or a•tending such comtnunication, a" peculiar end significant. When the hold would call Moira to lend his people out Egypt. his attention is arrested while lending Jethro's; flock, by the "go at sight" of rite burning bush. When Israel was to he hrougi.! forth it was preceded by ''signs and wonders in the land if Flame." When he was chow. to give ''tables of stone, n law and c ,,,,, 'muni- ments," Sinai's towering rock quaked to its base, and its cloud cnpt top was invented wit's the ..thick darks, ss," anti now blazing with "devouring fire " When the Saviour was about to make his advent, Grt,eiel. who, 50,1 years before, hind been Pent to Ihmetel, cow.: to the priest-officiating Zacharias, and "tn.. hendmind of the Lord," on errands of glad tidings. Man is permitted to listen once for a moment to the songs of heaven, bearing down to earth the descending Saviour. When th, Gentiles are to have preached to them a com- mon onlvation, Peter :5 ialermed imy suitable indications of the Lord's will. John's visions are introduced by a view of Christ in the fits: chapter of Revelation, described with great sublimity. We will look at those cases of visions or the appearance of heavenly messengers, white are the most remarkable for their elli,ets, no. ting the precise language in which thorn, (Act,: are described. In the instance of Ezekiel, first chapter, he "fell upon his Isice.” When Gabriel came to Daniel the first time. in the 8th chapter. he "fell upon ilia face" and "was in a deep sleep, with his fnee to. ward the ground." 'flie keepers at Christ', tomb, for fear of the angel. "did shake told beenme as Bend men." l'he women at the sepulchre were afraid and bowed down th., faces to the earth at the presence of the two angels. And John, when he saw one like the Son of man, "fell nt his feet an dead.' lint the necount in the 10th chap. of Dane ;, of the effect of the appen re nee of the heaveriii messenger upon him. is without a paretic . it is suppes,c1 thi; is, as ;it ;lie first of Rev, - Intions. the Lord Jesus ('past—the descrip- tions being very similar. It appears Om: Daniel in Min instance, mention,' in *hat per: of the year therm things transpired. Before. he had given the date of his visions only as its such a year of the reigning king. 144 now, he gives time month. and tiny of the month. We can imngine how the first month, beginning of months" was regarded by a Jew. We can perhaps see why Datilei in this munt.i *Mould give himself te a season of protracted fasting and devotion. It wen in the first n30111.1 !lint Ezra went up to Jerusalem, and that Christ hung upcn the cross. The events re- lated in this 19010111p. seem to have occurred in the duty time by the side or the river 111W- dekel. Daniel says of thir men that were with him sad wlics saw not the vision. that .t great quaking Cali upon them, so that they tied—that there remained no strength in him —his comeliness or vigor was turned into cor- ruption--and when he heard the Voice of his words was in a deep sleep 013 his face toward. the ground. Theo a hand touched him that set him upon his hands and knee., and be was told to stand upright..--then he stesni t rembing. When the angel bud spoken Nan. r r- Isefitre that nate,) on � April 19th, 1014.1, I On the last lostruetions to Daniel-7V, at 10 o'cloi•k A. M. F'rien'ds trot. all ematteis see irs- � tending eireumitunees with which they 'ice vited to attend. Cannot broth, I, � he regent? i','117'1::.1::,'Oticant of their transcend i,,„. � , The Cincinnati Ledger eon that a Meteor horst over that city on the 10111 of Nov. 1841. 'I he editor says: ..On looking up we discovered, in the sir, Inrge fragments or fire, flying in thtiCtent di• rections--each of which looked lo tie as if they were pa. ticles of n star that lind burst asunder. 'rim moon became black no ink, and the stars all seemed an if they had dwin- dled stray. and nought ..cold be neen but the fiery frngments flying about the sky. These burnt for a few moments. and then gradually died nwny, until they could Le seen no more. A few moments after the explosion took place. the earth shook like an aspen, and the moon when she again shone forth, seemed trembling from the effects of the shock." The Vincennes In. Gillette thus iieecribes an extra- ordinary appearance which was seen there on the ICIM of December last: "Shortly alter the rising if the moon, two luminous appearances, similar to sun dogs, %acre observed near the planet, and in a few minutes after, the form of a cross, similar to that of rt Greek cross. Wan DISTINCTLY and CIF:ARIA seeit, extending from the top, bot• tom, right and left, :taking the moon a can- J Ire. This continued about half an hour." An English Journal mentions a splendid � umina• led Meteor that passed over the county of Nottingham recently. "It resembled a great body office of a blood red color. assuming various shapes. � Its ap- parent height wns trifling, but its velocity could not he less than 50 or tie miles in it minute. Those who observed it, although many miles asunder, fancied it fell within a short distance." About ten days mince, we observed a bright h Weir- de neatly over head, between 4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon. It resembled the rainbow in its color -the sky was clear in the region of it—and what rendered iteu6aua was the fact that the convex pert was turned Innards the sun, instead of having the sun for its centre. A bright sun•dug appeared in the N. W. at the eat. time. The Cincinuati Daily Sun of March 27, has a col- umn occupied in giving an account of a wonderful sight Peen by the l'ilot of the steamboat Wm. Penn, (Mr. Wm. French.) on Tuesday night, March 21, on the Ohio river. between Rising Sun and Aurora, abut eleven o'clock at night. The sky was clear.-- The Pilot was startled by an exceeding bright light which suddenly flashed. He at first thought i' was lightning, but the hrightne. continued. In the mouth- east he saw the outlines of a serpent in the sky. It turned to a livid red. In a few minutes alter it form- ed itself into the letter G, etterwards into an 0, and again into a 1), each letter very distinct. It then la- ded away. The Pilot says lie in "no Millerite." The Captain, Jam. l'ironnan, sow a pill of it. Thi• wants confirmation. • --- d � Itevirw of Dr. Weeks. � ! judge of the true merit's or the Doctor's Itru• I - /ion, if it were not for their evil tendeney o Y !tliose who rile re tie _timber of items in his 'catalogue. instead of the nature, of thee: a items. For matinee, .3i/stokes' No. 16. Ili. e. 87, turd 43, are all based upon whet the !Luc- y for calk a mistake of Mr. Miller in giving Jelsorien 5 years instead of 8. Out of that r, wee item. the Ductur lankvsfour mistakes, e I � istakes 10:a lid 52 are the same thine, e. t � st stakes ak, Hee mistakes out of (he itern. Mk- takes Nos. 17, IS, 19, 28, 30, 43. and 45. c' tire all 'snide out of the one disputed passage, 'Thusouthte reader will read- c. beget such a piageny of "misisikes." ' , � tee might exhibit multiplied example* of C the Doctor's modes operandi, in t � I• his respect; utiiintit,l, sik a eufficient to give the reader ff, ,, B � / y reading the first part of the Doctor' •e lecture. one +voted be led to Sappenw. g Olaf Mr. Miller had hefted his Chronelogy el- ! most entirely on the testimony of Josephue. 'int, 11,0 110 there makes of Jom•elitt s , is just c..leulated to make such an impreesion; when dn the fact is, ND. Miller has quoted hen in but ON?. SINGLE instance. 1 se course the Dieter 11 � 11V L. 0. 1 have been induced to innLe n brief review d of Dr. %Veeks' Lectures,. � delitmedin thePriebyeerian Clarets, in Nett ttrk, N. J., not ruin tiny eubstantial mesons which he leas miduced against the arguisseies nit which are bused the expectatiwis sil Christ's speedy ,,:.icty .1 beriberi. � FurI � I � • that los premises are false, the issue meet be t false of course. s � '1 he Doctor meketi the, following extract front the introduction of Mr. Miller's ciao- nological table. us publisetel in the Daily Mid- night Cry, No. 5, from which he lays down his preinie•s, whites premises are utterly false: e'ree world will he 6(1(10 years old in 1843. if I we reckon its age by the conenee ciireneiegy,1 except in the heck of Judges; tied for that one o � readingthe � k Judges) itself." After making the above iso- lated extract, the Dr. says, -This implies that Ale Miller has followed the common Chronology, meaning the Chronology printed in the Common Enelish Bible, except in the Beek of Judges. But it is not so. I have discovered several instances set which lie dif- fers from it. It is propeeto remark, that the little nrti- ele from which reflection is here made, was written by the junior editor, in the haste re- quired to issue a daily paper. In giving the substance of the article for the weekly paper of Jan. 27, it was written thus, as it should have been origicel/y : "The world *ill be six thousand years old lin LS33, if we reckon its age mainly by the common Chronology, exceie the time from the death of Moses to the building of the tem- ple, nod then follow the Bible in its plain reading." 'Elie paper containing this corrected para- graph was rent to Dr. Weeks before lie de- livered his first leetuie on Chronology, and if he had noticed the insertion of the word 4nainly,' which wee earelesely left out when the paragraph was first written, lie would have been saved the trouble of pointing out sgreat many unimportant things. which. to the deceiving of his renders, he has !engul- flied not, great mistakes. � But let us look at the original peragreph, and see if he eels justified in try ing Mr. Usher's stnndard. Cntoeoeciete.--Two things are nt ' generally iereesed on the public mind: first, that the world is about 5,846 years old; and, second. that it must continue about 6000 years in Its present rime. When this subject was suggested to Mr. Miller, in 1840, lie felt that it ea, an argument against Isis view of the prophetic Fried, Ile thought the matter over. and to length resolved to appeal FROM Archbishop lTsher, (the great standard in Chronology) TO the Bible." I risk. deem the above "imply that Mr. Miller has followed the common chronology?" Dr, Weeks saes so. But so far from it, it sass, "Ile (\I r. ?tidier) resolved to appeal c. FROM Archbishop Usher," dm Why did the 11r. thus misrepresent facts? Let him give use solution, if hr /intro& 1/r. Weeks says Mr. Miller has essayed to follow "the chronology its foam: in the murgin of the com- mon English Bible, except es the book of JuJi;es," while the article from which lie tries to rove it, says the very reverse of that. Mr. Allier appeals FLOM. 11111 0011110011 care- tiology to the Billie, but the 1)trctor tries him by the common, sir Usher's chronology; and in every inatatice where Mr. Miller diners front Usher, the Dr. Nets it down as a mis- take. Thus the Dr. proceeds, comparing Mr. Miller with Usher, Jowl:thus, Rollin, &kn. Ferguson, &c., tad whenever be flue dillkisnov betwixt theta and Mr. Miller, boom it down as ..tts/eiske." Nom, that the reader may be prepared to 1 in retttain Iltli1/1111c11. � The Dr. has laid down in the very consownet•ment. fis141. pet miles, II/C11 hays+ produced it tissue of blunders front beginning ho end, in les lectures on the 51' chronelegy. This Leine the curse, the work t � • ? the 1)octor mays must 1,••• lust se, because he ' , � man of reputed learmeg; therefore they : hike her granted till he :4,1ys. without evile- the neater fur themselves. Bet I must may, that 1 have seen no forma! � I med., to oppose the claims of the Advent ilierine, that IIONPOSSOK Il`PS point, tn. is more vulnerie 'ble, then the �assumed by 1)r. \Peeks. N1.ere it not entitele 'Mowing away tine., . nti useful end, I should here presume to • show that Dr. NV•e•l.s hiss made just at many 711C71 if straw, n-; he itemises Mr. Miller to have simile mistakes; niter he has reared them, he has gene to sulk to tear them to pieces. And t ! � lie lets made the straw fly; but not a dreg of bleed; for M r. � iller's tirgtiments coming, but because many himpose ilea all . r, Daniel set his face toward the ground nn ieecame dumb—then his lips were touch:d nu Lr ‘,1.`114sii his metal and said Ise retained n reneill--nor was any breath in him. The ee see totiehed again, anti strengthened, an eo te � strung--then lie was strengthened Fee whole account elbow* the ;petit eillots et en of the angel. to strengthen �Tie is not elsewliete found. � Fonts all until egy t141 this lime in the bible, we ask, wise ,,,,einetit these Things.—this overpowering el teem Daniel's mind and body ? 1Piatet i eat ilie revealing of thing!, to transpire it :eat see/ of the indignetiou—tile tatie .. • end—the end ttsql: There le ea direction es chap. 12: 4, to slum up Out a erd and sent the book to Or 'tine of the Fed � Are we es meet. thelefere :.net the wools are never to Ire understood Thete is 1111 expnete prousise (10th e.) gores iii ail the form of the most selemn aseevera lion while he alto was clothed its tine linen epon the ri+ en has uplifted "his light hand, atel his left hand 111110 IlenVell ewearitig by nun that lived. for ever 0011 ever'' lest "the wise shall understand!" (:an we tee !rule soy. ••tios :lay Is this seripiure fulfilJrd it Bair ears." If Daniel is not now untler.tood alien ail, he he? It is reinerkable that when the great period 111. 151113 la Daniel Sr., given, there are kist is that .... moment Iwo or .. e heuvenly InusseIi ger:: present in his vision. Its the reli chap.. the •'11‘0NDISSIOUL N1.11111E1111:1C W110 give 230,1 dais, in answer to the question el :tie ',titer "Saint." And in the 12th chap., •••.!.eic stood other two" when tee iieriuds :ion are levels. Lel not this 1:1041 extraor.li• nary fact be forgotten. Fran) the wise he addresses the wig . 1 , 10th Ampler 19th worse. Let toy Lon:, speak. !Lined becomes a profound listener to all the angel says. and never afier do., he reply, tee- dues a single word break from his lips +:!, in the progress of these instructiens, another significurit. :august arid very solemn .0e00 is presented of two additionel heavenly Eitemsigere, one of them himself enquiring. no ! lv nog � t �o these winders?" int:. which things the angels desire to ioult.) tt length Daniel becomes hived—his besom ewella and seems to respond to rue seine enquiry. He witnesses this now and amaz- ing scene—a scene of most !tole hail import ill the scripturee; and as he beholds. the profound silence lie has observed is broken by the strung emotions of his soul. poured out in the ins: wad the only words he utters. in the deep- ,y pathetic and interrogItive exclamation. LORD—WIIAT—SIIALI. BE THE END—OF THESE %FLUNG:3." And ..ere dies on Daniel's lips the pot lie had taken in this dialogue of car � drama, so rim deeply Misnaming to him, a indescribably momentous to all. Tire heavenly meseenger "loses. his hands still uplift,, with the as- aurae°, to Daniel. that be shell eland in leis at the mad of THE DAYS. This event we eelieve transpires in 1443. The time. lines and a hall- - the 1290 tsys—the 1335 days—the 2300 days of the slam 'sorest are now about wasted and pistesady to crumble and full into that gulf that swallows up all probation.. Toe phrase "the End" occurs 7 times in :ire 12th chapter and its equivalent "at that tome" v., tones more. Leery teem; about the manner of the closing el the inesiege hl � i/aserl full of meaning, and it seems � if tea angel would proclaim with I( iiinpt-t voice, he End, the End, the Rode-the Eud, the Easi--sui Dr. Scott tbiaks that when tbs. 1293 days are ended the millennium Men bogies, and assets Ilse 1333 days are cartailete it is fully up. � Now we agree with toe doctor as to the time of this event. only we If al' (ream lm in regard i0 the character of � event. e thisdifferense is a chasm no mind Call span. A. connected with the 2300 dsys, we ob.! serve, that Jerusalem, rising from its ash- es is the time of Ears at thu commencement of th.• 9390 days, was most entafently typical ei the New Jerusalem, -the beloved city," at me other sad of the scale. See Iles. 20; 9. Ai the omen(' Ezra ton, was fulfilled Isn,nh's prophecy. concerning the scauered and exiled !sirs over Moe "hundred twenty and seven provinces" by iliLt decrees of Pei sien kings, ;sonwitting ils•ir return. "And it shall coins se pees is that day that the great trumpet slid/ be blown and tbey shall cow which were seedy to perish." And Ibis was as typ. ;eat if*, great crest at tie opposite end of the IMO Stays whet the Mon of Men "shall owed hi. maple "idle; great sound oft tram- J list atelkiey shalt gather *livelier his elect a l'araidat fast *led s, feeds ate aid of heaven ehr whet.* �A. PiSM FIELD. • tensions rind � rgomvats, it will Le necessor to state Mr. Miller's true position. on chr nology. � Ills chronology is gathered from th Bible, :old out el more than 70 collected item he lets given the proof from the Bible in ever instance kit flee, � 110 hum 1111,1c11 J0,11/1111 oPer stud It1111111 f,ur times. � In every eilie instance he leis given look, chapter and ter& of the ILIA. And Ur. W'eeks, iu makieg ou his GO errors in fir. Miller's chrenelegy, ha prieemled to lind List Icw in relatiwi 10 111 lii1J;(`; 0110 ipr teen of w•Iiich, perhaps, claiu pissing incur e. The 14th Elill011 in the Dectoi's numeri cal order, is, that Mr. Nliller "letieter ell Samson altogether." &c. Now did het th Dr. know, that Sf1111S011'S time is imiluded the 40 years given to the Philistines/ If did knew a, he is in limit for reeresenting i otherwise; and if be del set know it, it i high time he learned teas he might by readin the following verse: "And he judged Israel in the days of the Plillietines, twenty years,' --Judges 15: 20. The days Isere mentioner ale doubtless those .1i) year., (13: 1,) which the children of Israel were "delivere into the hands of the Philistines," as the his- tory of Samson clearly shows they were during his lilt'. In error 10, the Dr. finds fault because fir. Miller gives only 5 years to Jammu while it ebould have been 8, according to '2 Kings 8: 17, where it is said, ••Ile reigned eigh years in Jerusalem." � Jelioram began Isis reign in the 5th year of Joram, king of Isra- el; Jelloslinpliat living still king of Judah, 2 Kings 8: 18. Joren, king of Israel, began his reign in the 18th year of .Iellostiaphat, 2 Kings 3: I. Jehoshaphat's whole reign was 25 years, and the Oth year of )(elan mus have been nearly 3 years before they ended Jeltorans, therefore, reigned but 5 years alone, mid three wills 6ir father. � l'he Dr. emild not have been ignorant of this fact.— Why, then, does he make an ERROR. out of what lie evidently knew to be cum:tier ! Error 28 is made from Mr. Miller's giving to Joshua 25 years, while Jahn gives but 17. Now. when loshutt came out of Egypt, lee was a young man, Ex. 33: 11—he could not have been more than 45, which would make him 811 when he entered Canaan, and 110 when he died, leaving 25 years stf.er entering Carman. See Joshua 14 : 7, 2-1: 29. When Caleb and Joshua are mentioned to- gether, the rinnie of Caleb always stand', first, from which we may well infer, that Joshua was nut much older than lie. � We know that Caleb was only 85 years old some- time alter entering Canaan, for in a speech recorded in Joshua 14 • 10, he says, ••1 am this day 85 jeers old." Joshua was 110 when lie died. Now we would very respectfully ask our readers if they can imagine any smaller bus- iness for a 1) 1)., liars trying to prove Mr. Miller mistaken because he does not agree with Jut/tn, when 11E. DOLS AGREL P/1111 TIM 111111610 The chronology on the margin of all the Bi- bles we have consulted gives Joshua 24 or '25 years. Thus Mr. flitter is right. accord- ing to the Doctor's own standard, and yet be sets up what he acknowledges a VALSC STAND- ARD. and because Mr. Miller does nut agree with it, sets that down us an error. Respecting Julie, we have only to retnark, that as he had sonde Biblical ate.quities Isis study, his authority stands high among theo- logians, on points where he had the means of getting authentic information. � When, therefore, lie says the Jews of China, who probably never heard of Paul's teetimeny, (and would Lave given it no weight if they had heard it.) agree with Paul in mucking the period of the Judges longer than the common Chronology, we consider that tin important item of testimony. � But because we take testimony as to a fact, must we let ti (Impelled to take him everywhere in opposi- on to the Bible? Our remarks respecting him as being "of the highest authority where the Bible leaves us in doubt," were intended to apply to his etanding among Theological writers. We regard the authority of none of these 'alibis, professors or doctors, when they merely give us their opinions. We uppeal to the Bible, on all potato where it gives us light. Mere follows the retract from a letter from Eats J. C Goff, respecting a Cismitalegy made out at Om La Fayette Ceder, at Ewan, Prime which egress with Mr. Miller's, publishes, I. the eth No. of this P.M] This examination covers the groirnd of one of the Doctor's strong objections, via., oa the fractions of yeah,—and still corroborates Mr. Miller's Chronology. h would lie diverting la take notice of the Doctor's inside of multiplying mistakes. which a number of instances is dime by repel.' So.inuch for Dr. Weeks' Lectures on the Chrnology. In the close of hie second Lec- ture, the Doctor says : "I have not thought it necessary to make out a Chronology for myself, iii order to sic - termilIC iii what year of the world is the pres- ent year, /843. 1 think the Scriptures here purposely left it in Uncertainty," &c. Now, if the Doctor does not know what is the right computation, how, I ask, does he know what is wrong! This is certainly an aneinolv. � If a man accuse., me of using false scales and weights, be cannot prove his assertion true, unless he has a perfect stand- ard to try them by. And in just such a dilem- ma is the 11ev. Dr. Weeks. lie protests that Mr. Miller is wrong, and confesses that lie does not know what is right. It certainly coma not be expected abet a matt of the talents, learning and erudition of Dr. Weeks, would have been so perfectly vulnerable in all his positions, had his cause been a good one. Such are the feelings of many, who are opposed to Mr. Miller's views, but since hearing Dr. Weeks, express them- selves an constrained to think the claims of the Advent Doctrine are strong. � God will even make "the wrath of man to praise flint." TIRE DOCTRINE IN ENGLAND. Bro. Litch, writes from Pittsburgh:—"We Lave just seen a brother from England, who says, about seven years ago, a Wesleyan preacher, by the name of Miller, in Notting- ham, England, preached to the people mu identical doctrine we now preach, and had a large chart which Le published and circulated, briaging out the visions of Daniel its 1843." ----- TERRes 'The pries of milesripthss has bees rolizool to lb owes fur the twelve Nos. As our skim h simply to Okay osmoses, we bave thisaglit thatmets as swab assay may be mime al this pries as al 611 eta.. has adopted. its leference to this author, to say the least, is calculated to give a wrong impression. and erejudice the inutile of the pet ••le. A Prolesseir of Theology has just coil- ed on us, who says lie underetotel from I/r. Weeks' articles, that Mr. Miller aiternated between Josephus and the Bible, for testimo- ny. as it suited his convenience. fir. Week,' quotes Mr. Miller as referring to what Mac- cabees tells us in Isis first beet:. This was written by NIr. Miller many years lief., be underteok to make out a ChfuliolOgy. but t � is No. 41 of the 80 mistakes. Suppose. its the hurry of writing, 1 once quoted whit Timothy tells us in his first epistle. it would be a great blunder, and prove me to be igno- rant or careless, in that expression, fur we have no epistle of Timm'sy on record. � But it would not weaken the truth of tire Scripture I might thus quote. nor would it be impossi- ble for rue, ever afterward, to quote Screen, correctly. There are certain histories,' book-, bound up in the Bible, called Nlaccebees, be- cause they record the exploits of 'the Slimily surnamed Maccabees. [Ile hammerer:1 bait no such explanation is given in any part of the Bible, and Ale. Miller made the above mistake in reference to them. Some years afterwards he enquires what the Bible teach- es about time, mentioning chapter and terse for almost every nein, and icierring to the best histories which record the facie not set • tied by the bible, and among these authorities the books called the Alaccabees are not men- tioned. � But the proofs sue ail nullified by the fact that Mr. Miller once mad* a mistake.'