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though it tarry, wait for it ; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."  
BY JOSHUA V. HIMES.  WEEKLY-NO.  S© PARK-ROW.  READ AO CIRCULATE.  
THE MIDNIGHT CRY—WEEKLY.  
Published every Friday, by J. V. HIMES. Assisted by L. D  
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THE MIDNIGHT CRY  
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.  
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 6th 1842.  
Dear Brother Southard,—On the 3lst ult., 1 left the  
city of Newark, and in company with Brother Himes 
and Flavell came to this city to attend the Second Ad- 
vent Conference, which is now in successful progress.— 
Brothers Litch and Hale have been faithfully at work in  
this great city and vicinity for some time past, and  al- 
though they have had to face a heavy opposition, their  
labors have not been in vain. Their efforts have just 
prepared the way for a most successful issue as the re-
sult of the present Convention. Depend upon it, Phila-
delphia is beginning to be aroused. Brother Himes gave 
several interesting lectures before brother Miller arrived,  
which were admirably calculated to prepare the way.  
Brother Miller commenced his lectures on Friday  
afternoon, the 3d inst. The friends have obtained the 
large Hall of the Chinese Museum, which will probably  
hold more people than any other place in the city ; and it 
is crowded w ith anxious hearers. The truth has got a  
strong hold here, and all the opposing watchmen cannot  
stop it, The common people hear, they WILL hear, and  
they hear gladly.  
Last evening brother Himes addressed an overwhelm- 
ing assembly for about two and a half hours, in which  
he presented in a most successful manner the perfect 
fallacy of the church's hope of a temporal, or spiritual  
Millenmuofcrto ;*dCede the Second personal Advent of  
our Lord. He contrasted the missionary operations and 
success of the Protestants, with those of the Roman  
Catholics, showing in a very lucid manner, that if there  
is to be a triumph of the religion of any sect, it must be 
that of the Romanists, or papacy. The Lord deliver us  
from such a Millennium.  God has emphatically told us  
that the little horn of the beast (Papacy) will make war 
and prevail, till the Ancient of days comes. This is un-
deniably the only hope of God's people, i. e , that  our  
blessed Lord will speedily come and destroy the beast 
with the brightness of his coming, give the body of the  
beast to the burning flame, and then the kingdom and  
the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven will 
be given to the saints of the Most High, and they will 
possess it for ever, even for ever and ever. May the  
Lord hasten the time.  
Although the mass of the clergy in this city oppose our  
views, yet there are some honorable exceptions. Some 
of the Methodist ministers are anxiously seeking the  
truth. Rev. Mr. Ramsey and Rev. Mr. Boyd, of the  
Presbyterians, are settled, I believe, in the time, and  
nearly so in the character of the event. Rider J. J. Porter  
(who is now quite sick) is full in the faith, and when weli  
is hearty in the work. The opposers are ill at ease, 
while the alarm is spreading all over the city.  
Brother Miller will continue his lectures through this  
week and over the next Sabbath. He has already pro- 
duced a great agitation, and the people are greatly disap- 
pointed in the character of his lectures. They were not  
aware that his calculations were based entirely upon the  
Bible. The vail of the mystical temple is being torn 
asunder, and the. people begin to see light in God's light,  
and marvel that they have been so long kept in the dark.  
The call for lectures is very pressing from every quar- 
ter. A tithe of the calls cannot be supplied. O that  
more of the watchmen would be willing  to take their  
reputations in their hands, and go out and proclaim " the 
year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God."  
O, how I long to be able to speak ; but my voice is but  
little if any better, and I have about relinquished the hope 
of recovering my speech until I reach the everlasting  

kingdom, which I am confident is nigh at ha^d ; then 
this stammering tongue will be loosed, thisw eble tene-
ment will be clothed with immortal vigor, ari J death will 
be swallowed up in victory. What I  do in the little rem- 
nant of time left, I am persuaded must b( one by the 
pen. May the Lord enable me faithfully to discharge  
this duty.  
Yours in the blessed hops,  
L. I). FLEMING.  
Since the above was received, a letter from brother  
Thomas Allen has come to hand, dated Feb. 8, calling for  
more books, which says :  
"Br. Miller lectured yesterday afternoon on the parable  
of the ten virgins. A host of the sons of Levi [ministers]  
were present, and the subject was very applicable. Last,  
evening, brother M. lectured from the 20th chapter of 
Revelation, to a very crowded congregation—after which, 
we held a prayer-meetirig. Many presented them- 
selves for prayer, among whom was a gentleman who  
had been an infidel, who got up about  10 o'clock, and  
declared to all the congregation what the Lord had done  
for him. Praise God, the interest is increasing and the  
work progressing."  
LETTERS RECEIVED.  
From the many cheering letters received during the  
week, we have room for only a few extracts.  
Brother J. P. Johnson, writing from Hartford, says :  
"The work goes well. All of the villages and towns  
around us are awakened, and hundreds of sinners are  
coming home to their Father's house, where there is  
bread enough and to spare. Oh, that all might prepare,  
with oil in their vessels, ready and going out to meet the 
Bridegroom when he shall come, that the door may not  
be shut against them. The harvest truly is plenteous,  
but the laborers few. O that the Lord of the harvest  
would swiri-Taore laborers into the fieh-jdflMht bless th .  
Lord for What my eyes see, and my eafl hear. Brothe- 
Chittenden is now giving us a course of lectures, which  
will result in much good, for the Lord is blessing his  
labors abundantly, to the salvation of many precious  
souls.  
" W'herever the Midnight Cry has been sounded, there  
the Lord has set  his seal to the work, and hundreds are  
looking for a coming Saviour dai'y. There is a large  
number forward for prayers every night, and many have  
found pardon. Some anxious ones here think it is too  
humiliating to be seen at the anxious seat at a Miller  
meeting—but they are awakened, and then go  forward at  
some more popular church. I have seen many of the  
young converts, and they tell me that they bless the Lord 
that they went to the Miller meetings."  
A few days since, our gentlemanly Postmaster in this  
city, received a letter which must have struck that popu-
lar official as being somewhat out of the line of his ordi- 
nary business. He politely handed it over to this office, 
and we gladly attended to the request it contains.  
"UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, Jan. 30, 1843.  
" Dear Sir,—The subject of Millerism is exciting some  
commotion  in this quarter. Indeed, some of our most  
intelligent editors and divines are advocating his doc- 
trines, both from the pulpit and the printing offices. I 
feel some interest in this subject, and would be very glad  
if you would send to me any papers which contain any  
of the doctrines, views, or arguments, or expositions  
of the Scriptures, by Mr. Miller. I beg you will not  
consider it forward in me in thus addressing you. The 
interest we must all feel in this great and solemn 
question, will be, I hope, sufficient excuse for this ap- 
parent breach of all the rules of etiquette. By sending  
these papers to me, or informing me where I can be  
able to get them, you will confer a favor that it may 
be perhaps in my power, at some time or other, to re-
turn.  
" I beg you to accept my sincere wishes for your  
happiness, &c. In haste,  
" JOHN L. PEYTON."  

REVIEW  
OF IVSR. ROBERTS' SERMON,  
AGAINST THE ADVENT NIGH, *  
Delivered al the Market Street Methodist Church,  
Newark, N. J. By L. D. Fleming.  
The following remarks are, strictly speaking,  
a review of Mr. " Dowling's  Reply to Mr. Mil- 
ler," rather than a review of Mr. Roberts' Ser- 
mon, as Mr. Roberts' entire argument, and even 
his criticisms, which were presented to the au- 
dience in such a rq.anner as to make them ap-
pear his own, were all taken from Mr. Dowling,  
almost verbatim ei literatim. Hence, our stric-
tures are on Mr. Dowiing in fact, but on Mr. 
Roberts by the way. Our limits will only allow  
us to take a very cursory view of those points  
on which the greatest stress was laid.  
1. Mr. Dowling seems to have become quite  
a text book among those who wish to oppose the 
doctrine of the Advent nigh. Speaking of our  
calculation as connected with the birth and death  
of Christ, " It is very unfortunate jor these calcw 
lations," says Mr. Roberts, or rather Mr. Dow- 
ling, " that the end of the world is past already, and  
that the event took place more than two years ago."  
This is made out by saying that Christ was 
born four years before the vulgar era. To this  
we will agree. But to the deductions of Mr.  
Dowling and his satellite we shall not agree.  
As Mr. R. did not produce the evidence to  
prove that Christ was born four years before the  
vu'gTt'r era, we will present it for him.  
According to Josephus, there was an eclipse  
of the moon during the last sickness of Herod, 
from which eclipse, to the vulgar A. D. 33, are 
36 years. It is evident that Christ must have  
been about one year old at the time of Herod's  
death, as he  was taken into Egypt to escape the  
hand of Herod, and was not brought back till  
after the death of Herod. Here we have as- 
tronomical proof that Christ was born four years  
before the vulgar era. Mr. D and his pupils 
suppose that Christ must have been crucified at 
the age of 33, however much the time of his  
birth may be carried back. Hence, putting it  
back four years, they have him crucified A. D.  
29, instead of A. D. 33, and they say our calcu-
lations must have run out in 1839. This is pe- 
titio principii begging the question! While we  
admit that Christ was born four years earlier  
than the vulgar era, we also show that he was 
37 when he Wets crucified. In Ferguson's As- 
tronomy, in ah article headed " The true era of  
Christ's birth," he demonstrates by astronomical  
facts that the common era of the death ofT)hrist  
is correct. The passover was always kept on  
the first full moon after the vernal equinox. 
Christ was crucified on a Friday at the time of  
the passover. And Ferguson says he could 
find no paschal full moon on a Friday (ox sever- 
al years on either side of the 22d year of the 
reign of Tiberius Caesar. "And this year,"  
says Ferguson, " was the 33d year of our Sa-
viour's age, reckoning from the vulgar era of his 
birth ; but the 37th reckoning from the true era  
thereof." And this was the time  of Christ's


j ; ; ~ ' 
I crucifixion. Then this view is not so " fatal to  
! 

j Mr. Miller's calculations," after all.  
" According to the Jewish law the priests could  
not take upon them that office, before the age of 
30. Luke says, iii. 23. " And Jesus began to 
be about 30 years of age" at his baptism ; after  
I. which time he went into the wilderness, where  
he fasted, and was tempted 40 days. He then  
went into Galilee, and at the very commence- 
ment of his ministry, he says, " The time is ful-
filled." What time ! The only time given, to  
which allusion could be had, was the 69 weeks  
(of Daniel) unto Messiah the Prince. He was  
to confirm the covenant with many for one  
week.  
' It has been said by some that John the Bap- 
tist fulfilled one half of this last week, but we  i 

afls not now prepared to adopt this view. It 
seems that both Christ and John commenced  
their ministry in the 15th year of the reiun of  
Tiberius Ceesar. Hence John could not have  
occupied more than half a day (or year) in ad- 
vance of Christ. It should be remembered that  
Christ was to confirm the covenant with many  
for one week, i. e. 7 years. Ilence Christ did  
confirm the covenant for one week, and must  
have been crucified in the 22d year of the reign  
of Tiberius Ceesar.  
Again, according to Luke, Herod was in Je- 
rusalem at the time of our Saviour's crucifixion,  
at which time Pilate and Herod made friends.  
Josephus informs us that Herod was on his 
march with his army against Aretas, his father- 
in-law. Being stopped by the passes, he return- 
ed to Jerusalem in order to offer sacrifices, it be- 
ing the time of the passover. While he was 
there, on the fourth day, the news came that  
Tiberius Caesar was dead. Being encouraged 
by Csisar to carry on the war, and not knowing  
whether the next Emperor would sanction it,  
he returned home with his army. This was  
the 22dyear of the reign of Tiberius Csesar. We  
have no account in history of Herod's being in  
Jerusalem with his army at any other time ;  
and this being the time of the passover, the  evi  
dence is indubitable, that this was the time of  
the crucifixion, which would make Christ-37  
In the same year, Phlegon, a heathen writer,  
says there was the most extraordinary eclipse  
of the Sun that was ever seen. But Ferguson  
informs us that there could be no natural eclipse  
at that time ; so it must have been the super- 
natural darkness that attended the crucifixion of  
Christ. But still further, the 70 weeks of Dan- 
iel were not fulfilled till the 22d year of the  
reign ol Tiberius Ceesar. All this evidence we 
have for the correctness of our position But if it  
could be shown that Christ was born four years  
earlier than we calculate, it would not affect  
our calculations in the least, because it does  
not change one ofthe prophetic numbers ; and  
whea it is said that 1810 years from the death.  
• of Christ, will bring us to A. D. 1843, it is ba- 
sed upon the vulgar era, and the objection  
vanishes. Mr. D. agrees with us in the pro- 
i phetic character of the 70 weeks, as well as in  
| the time for commencing them. This granted,  
j and we ask no more ; for  then our calculations  I 

are uninterrupted by any change or quibble  
j •.ouching the birth of our Saviour. So much,  
| for our unfortunate calculations," which  
' were made the great hobby of Mr. Roberts' bor- 
rowed argument. " Alas ! master, it was bor- 
rowed."  I 

II. A noftver point on which great stress is  
| laid by Mr. IWling, (and by Mr- Roberts, of  
| course !) is the commencing ofthe 2300 days, at 
j the same time with the 70 weeks. Pie object-
I to this on the ground that the original Hebrew  
j is a rav boker, i. e. evening-morning, and not  
j yam, days. Hence he thinks it must mean li- 

teral days, and not prophetic days ; or, he thinks 
that perhaps it means 2300 sacrifices, and only  
1150 days. Here Mr. D. has made two strings  
to his bow, and neither of them helps him out of  
his dilemma ; for one is 55 days too short, and 
the other about 100 days too long. Mr. D. ad- 
mits that the time, times and a half, the 42  
months, &c. of Daniel and Revelation, are pro- 
phetic days, although lie might object to it with  
the same show of propriety as to the 2300  
days.  
Mr. D. argues that the 2300 evenings and  
mornings were probably only so many sacrifices. 
Yet all will admit that evening and morning was  
used for ejjch day in the creation week. But  
according to Mr. D.'s reasoning, the world was  
created in three days, instead of six! ! Mr. D.  
while cutting down the 2300 days to 1150,  
should have taken off55 days more, and then he  
would have had a  fit for the time ofthe persecu- 
tion by Antiochus. What absurdity men will  
fly to, to evade the truth. Yet all this will not,  
defer  the Advent of our Lord for a single hour.  
Speaking ofthe desecration of the Jewish  
temple by Antiochus Epiphanes, Mr. D. ob- 
serves, that if we had been fully informed on 
the subject, " he doubts not that the time,} would 
come out just right. But with the best evi-
dence he can make out, he is minus 55 days, 
on one hand, and has about 100 days too many 
on the other hand! ! Such is the foundation 
of Mr. Dowling's argument for applying the  
vision of the 2300 days to Antiochus. We  
challenge the proof for the correctness of such 
an application.  
III. Mr. Dowling applies the little horn of  
Dan. viii. 9, to Antiochus Epiphanes, which  
evidently refers to the same power as that men- 
tioned in Dan. vii. 8, which Mr, D. himself ap- 
plies to Romanism. Now, Antiochus was king  
of Syria, and as such was one ofthe four horns  
or kingdoms ofthe Grecian monarchy, and not  
mother horn coming out of them ! How this  
difficulty could escape the notice of Mr. D. we  
cannot conceive. That those who adopt him  
.is their oracle for better or for worse, should  
not pause l(jt?|fc«'nough to see it, is no marvel.  
Antiochus w?s one of the four ! How then  
could he lie '• another?'''' Daniel says " out of  
one of them came forth a little horn,'" &e. To  
apply it to Antiochus is preposterous ! Again,  
he little horn was to become great, but not by  
his own power. But Antiochus did become 
threat, if he was ever great, by his own power,  
as much as any monarch ever did. Again, the 
I tt/e horn was to become very great toward the  
south, the east, and the pleasant land. How  
did Antiochus become great toward the south 1  
He had to fly from Egypt without achieving a  
conquest, at the command of the Romans. How 
did he become great toward the east 1 When  
his funds got low, he went to the east to rob a  
temple which Alexander had adorned with much  
gold and silver, in which attempt he was defeat-
ed. He went from there to Babylonia, where  
he got intelligence of the conquests of Judas  
against the Syrian army, which drove him into 
despair. How could Antiochus, who trembled  
at the word ofthe Roman Senate, be called a  
king of fierce countenance ? Anyone who has  
read the history of Rome, must see that the king  
of fierce countenance, was undoubtedly the Ro- 
mans. It is said " The Samnites were the most  
brave and warlike people that ever had engaged  
the Romans. The language of that people was, 
that they were unable to withstand the fierce  
looks, and fire-darting eyes of the Romans."  
Again, the little horn was to stand up against  
the Prince of princes, viz. Christ. How could  
Antiochus stand up against him, when he died  
164 years before Christ was born ? Christ was  

crucified under the Romans. These are a few 
ofthe difficulties in the way of applying the pro- 
phecy to Antiochus.  
While so much is said about Antiochus, by  
those who are explaining away the Judgment 
and resurrection from the book of Daniel, our  
readers will bear with us if we repeat a few of  
the proofs that it. is impossible to apply the horn  
mentioned Daniel viii. 9, to that tributary king.  
1. Antiochus was king of Syria, and as such  
was a part of one ofthe four horns or kingdoms,  
into which the Grecian Empire was divided,  
arid not another coming out of them.  
2. It is impossible to make the most remark- 
able horn ofthe vision mean an individual king, 
and that one a tributary, when all the other 
horns mean independent kingdoms,— as is plain- 
ly proved from  the Angel's language: "The  
rough goat is the KING of Grecia, and the great  
horn that is between his eyes, is the FIRST  
KING. Now, THAT being broken, whereas  
FOUR, stood up for IT, four KINGDOMS shall  
stand up out of THE NATION." Dan. 8 : 21,  
22. Here the single horn expresses as much 
as the whole goat, viz. ; " THE NATION."  
It was not till 22 years after the death of Alex- 
ander, that four separate " kingdoms" were es- 
tablished in " the nation." The breaking up of  
the single Grecian nation, and the setting up of 
the Egyptian, Syrian, Macedonian and Thraciun  
kingdoms, could not be more clearly represent  
ed by emblems. In Dan. 11 : 3, 4, the angel  
mentions the same thing in these striking  
words ; " And a mighty king, [Alexander] shall  
stand up, that shall rule with great dominion :  
and when he shall stand up, his KINGDOM 
shall be broken, and shall be divided towards  
the four winds of Heaven."  
3. This horn was to come up in the latter  
time of their kingdom, (i. e. of the four horns.) ; 
The line of Syrian kingsnuimbered 25, and An- 
tiochus was the 8th in order, and hence was j 
not in the latter time  of their kingdom !  
4. This horn was to stand up against the :  
Prince of princes, viz. Christ. Antiochus died j  
164 years before Christ was born.  
5. This horn was to cast down *he place of  
the sanctuary. Antiochus did not cast down ; 
the sanctuary, or the place of it.  
6. He was to DESTROY the holy people. !  
It is said that Antiochus destroyed about eighty  
thousand Jews. But Rome, in a single siege, 
destroyed 1,100,000, and the remnant were car- 
ried captive into all nations.  
7. The angel gives us a regular gradation.—  
Persia, which ruled over 127 Provinces, is call- 
ed "great." (v. 4.) Grecia, of which it is said,  
(Dan. 2 : 29,) the third kingdom, " shall bear  
rule over all the earth," is called " very great"  
(v. 8.) and the horn, which represents the suc- 
ceeding power, is called " exceeding great."  
Antiochus cannot be this last named power. It  
is perfectly natural to apply the angel's words 
thus :  
Great. VeryGreiit. Exceeding Creat.  
PERSIA, GREECE, ROME.  
It is impossible to apply them thus ;  
Great. Very Great Exceeding Great.  
PERSIA, GREECE, ANTIOCHUS- 
8. This horn is little at first, but it grows  
great by conquests towards the east and south.  
Antiochus came into possession of a kingdom  
already established, and Sir Isaac Newton savs : 
" He did NOT enlarge it." He did not fulfil  
this prophecy, and therefore was not the object 
predicted in it. Rome did fulfil it, and therefore 
is the object predicted.  
The opinions of Josephus, the Jew, and Rol-


lin, the Roman Catholic, cannot convince us of  
the truth of impossibilities and contradictions.  
Mr. D-, to give plausibility to the charge of  
error, has changed the reading ofthe text, and  
renders it, " How long shall the vision last, the  
daily sacrifice be taken away," &c., when the  
text is thus, " How long shall be the vision  
concerning the daily, and the transgression of  
desolation, to give both the  sanctuary and the  
host to be trodden under foot." The word sac-
rifice, supplied by the translators, is not in the  
original.  
The " absurdity" spoken of by Mr. D., (and  
by Mr. R. of course!) about dating the vision a 
long time before the Goat had an existence,  
comes with a very poor grace, until he will say,  
and also prove, that the ram was not a part of  
the vision !  
Another, and an insuperable difficulty in the  
way of Mr. D's application of the little horn to  
Antiochus, and the taking away ofthe daily to  
the Jewish sacrifice, will be found in Dan. xi.  
31, and xii. 11. A nd they shall take away the 
daily, {sacrifice is added by the translators,) and  
they shall place the abomination that maketh  
desolate." " And from the time that the daily  
shall be taken away, and the abomination that 
maketh desolate set up, there shall be 1290  
days." Now, we have never heard it disputed  
that the above passages have reference to the  
same abominations spoken of in Dan. viii. 13, 
which Mr. D. applies to Antiochus, and the  
Jewish sacrifices. The 1290 and 1335 days, 
let it be remembered, Mr. D. admits to be years.  
" And from the time the daily [sacrifice] shall  
be taken away," &c., there shall be 1290 days  
or years, and at the end of 1335 days or years  
from the taking away of the daily, Daniel is to  
stand in his lot, or in the resurrection with the  
righteous. Mr, D. says the daily sacrifice was  
taken away 16S years before Christ; accord- 
ingly, then, " most unfortunately for his calcula- 
tion," the resurrection of Daniel with all the  
righteous, took place A. D. 1167, which was  
675 years ago ! ! Such is Mr. Dowling's logic, 
and Mr. Roberts adopts it without a scruple ! !  
There were evidently two desolating powers,  
viz. the daily and the transgression of desola- 
tion. And Daniel informs us xii. 11, that the  
daily is not to be suppressed till about the time 
the other is set up. On this point of the subject  
Mr. R. excused himself from prosecuting the  
examination, for the want, of time. We request  
that he would take time, and give a solution of  
the daily in chap, xii., of the 1290, 1335 days, 
&c., and not leave us with the main pillars of  
our edifice untouched. But as Mr. D. has given  
us nothing very definite on this part of the sub- 
ject, we have little hope that Mr. R. will help  
the people out with it.  
Whatever the daily was, referred to in chap- 
ters viii. xi. and xii. we are given to understand, 
that it was not to be taken away until 1335  
years before the end, when Daniel was to  stand  
in his lot, i. e. be raised. The pagan daily was 
suppressed, or taken away, A. D. 508. We are  
informed by Gibbon, that " Yitalian with an ar- 
my of Huns and Bulgarians, mostly idolators,  
declared themselves the champions of the Catho- 
lie faith." This was A. D.508 ; and ihat  mighty  
revolution caused the taking away or the sup- 
pression of the daily, i. e. pagan rites.  
IV. Mr. R. said that he opposed the doctrine  
of the Advent nigh for the same reason that  
Paul did, in his letter to the Thessalonians ! !  
Well, now, what whre Paul's reasons for say-
ing to the Thessalonians(impliedly) that the day,  
or coming of Christ, was not as nigh as some of  
them supposed 1 Why, this, " There must be  
a falling away  first, and the man of sin must be  
revealed." It will not be denied by Mr. D. or  

R. that these are fulfilled. Then, to make Mr,  
R.'s statement correct, that he has the same rea- 
sons that Paul had, for his opposition to the Ad  
vent nigh, he must be inspired ; and if so, will  
he be so kind as to tell us what is to take place  
yet before " that day shall come V This he is  
bound to do to make his statement correct.  
Is it not a little singular that ministers of the  
gospel in this Nineteenh Century will quote 2d  
Thess. ii. 1,2, 3. as applicable to the present  
times to prove that the coming of Christ cannot  
be nigh at hand ; for all the things which Paul 
said intervened, have now, certainly been fulfill-
ed. Such an application of that passage at this  
age, savors of either ignorance or dishones- 
ty ! !  
Mr. R.  was very particular to state to his hear- 
ers that he did not say that Christ would not  
come as soon as 1843 ! But who, we ask, that  
has read Mr. Dowling's book, or heard Mr. R.  
read it, did not understand the whole of it to  
mean, that Christ will not come so soon ? No  
other impression could be received, than that  
''the Lord delayeth his corning." Indeed, the  
whole effort was to prove that the end is not so  
nigh !  
V. Mr. R. had much to say about the great  
injury this error will produce after 1843 shall  
have passed and proved the calculations false.  
He did not want the Bible to be held responsi- 
ble for the doctrine ! He expressed great so- 
licitude on this point. But he may give him-
self no uneasiness, for he may rest assured that 
God will justify his own word without any of  
man's help. While he had much to say about 
the injury that will accrue from our supposed 
error, he did not once intimate that if he were  
in error, awful consequences would follow !  
Now, we would ask, which view ofthe subject  
will be attended with the most fatal conse- 
quences 1 If the event does not come so soon  
as we calculate, it will simply prove that we 
have erred in our calculations. But, on the  
other hand, if it does come, awful will be the  
calamity that must result from preaching " my 
Lord delayeth his coining.'^  
if any who heard Mr. Roberts, or any others,  
are desirous of looking over his sermon, they  
will find it (as it has been in print about two  
years) in " Dowling's reply to Miller," Pages  
40, 42—52, 61, 70, 75, &c. Or if any feel de- 
sirous of examining both sides of the question,  
in pursuit of the truth, and would see the per- 
fect fallacy of Mr. D.'s whole argument, we  
would refer them to " Litch's Refutation of Dow- 
ling."  
VI. We have scripture authority to support  
us in the sentiment, that Christians may know  
about the time of Christ's Second Advent. Dan-
iel was commanded, chap. xii. 4, 9, 10, " to  
shut up the words, and seal up the book to the 
time of the end," when we are given to under,  
stand, many shall search and understand it.  
The best Hebrew scholars so interpret the  
above passages. Christ said when ye see such 
and such things, " then know that it is nigh,  
even at the doors." The Apostle says, " Breth- 
ren, ye are not in darkness that that day should  
overtake you as a thief in the night." But to 
the worldly and time-serving professor, and to  
the unbelieving, &c. it will  come as a thief,  
and they shall not escape. " As it was in the  
days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of 
the Son of Man." Did not God reveal the time  
of the coming of the flood ? He did ; and Noah  
proclaimed it. But few believed it. " So shall  
it be at the coming of the Son of Man." The  
following passages we think will settle this 
point. Dan. viii. 13—19; ix. 21—27; x. 1,  
14; xii. 10—13. Matt. xxiv. 32—39; xxv. 5,  
6. Who will give the midnight cry if none  

know of the time 1 See Luke xxi. 25—23.  
Rev. iii. 3.  
Great stress is laid on the following passage :  
" Of that day and that hour knoweth no man,"  
&c. The following is Mr. Wesley's note on 
the above passage :—  
Matt. xxiv. 36. " But of that day—the day of  
judgment; knoweth no man—not while our Lord  
was on earth. Yet it might be afterward  reveal,  
ed to St. John consistently with this." It does  
not say of that day and hour no man shall know, 
but simply no man then knew. It is also said 
to be correctly rendered thus, No man may  
make known, &c., but God only will reveal it.  
But says the objector, has not Christ said, no  
man shall ever know the time of his coming?  
Do you not give Christ the lie ?  
We will see presently who " gives the lie"  
to inspiration, we or our opponents. Our Lord  
says—"Of that day and hour no man knoweth, 
[in the present tense ; not 4 never shall know.' "]  
But let the objector be true to his principles.  
If he means anything, he means that, Our  
Lord's words authorize him in saying 4 no man  
shall ever know anything about Christ's appear- 
ing till he actually comes as the lightning.' "  
Very well ; now let him carry out his principles,  
and he proves that Christ himself will never 
know anything about it till he finds himself  
here !! For our Lord says, Mark xiii. 32, 44 Of  
that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the  
angels in heaven, NEITHER THE SON." If 
the objector is now afraid to follow out his prin- 
ciples, let him acknowledge he is mistaken in  
his interpretation of the words, 44 no man  
knoweth ;" for, if it is true, that no man ever 
shall know, it is equally true that the 14 Son"  
never shall know. Nor can he.escape from the  
difficulty by saying, li Christ did not know it as  
man," for it is the " Son of Man" that is t:j ap- 
pear 14 in the clouds of heaven." The fact is. 
the time of the end of the world was given in  
the book of Daniel, but he was commanded, 
chap. xii. 4, to 4i Shut up the words, and seal the 
book, to the time of the end;" and at the ninth 
verse Daniel is told, "The words are closed  
up and sealed till the time of the end ;" and  
then it is added, verse tenth, "Many shall be 
purified, and made white, and tried ; but the  
wicked shall do wickedly : and none of the  
wicked shall understand ; but the wise shall  
understand"—when ? In 14 the time of the end." 
That time has come.  
The word of God must be fulfilled.  4< The  
wise shall understand." Do you ask who are  
the wise ? Let the Lord himself reply. "The  
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."  
41 The testimony of the Lord maketh wise the  
simple."  
Our Saviour says—54 When ye see all these  
things, (viz.. the signs he had given them,)  
KNOYV that it is near, even at the doors." Now,  
who gives " Christ the lie," we who have seen  
all the signs, and hence believe our Lord's 
words, and " know it is at the door," or our op- 
ponents, who declare we can know nothing  
about it ?  
VII. Mr. Dowling and his disciples labor fo  
overthrow our argument by denying that the 
visions of the 8th and 9th chapters are one, be-
cause they are fifteen years apart. But we can- 
not make good sense of the prophecy unless we  
consider both chapters as speaking of one vision.  
After Gabriel had told Daniel (chap, viii.) to  
" shut up the vision, for it shall be for many 
days," Daniel says, "I was aslonished at the 
vision, but none understood it." Yet Gabriel  
was commanded to make him understand it.  
In the first vear of Darius, fifteen years after he  
had the vision, Daniel learned by books, that  
the 70 years of the Babylonish captivity were


accomplished. Arid as he had been informed  
(chap. viii. 14,) that the sanctuary would be  
cleansed at the end of 2300 days, he evidently  
supposed that, as the 70 years had ended, the  
sanctuary would now be cleansed ; and for this  
he began to pray. The prophecy is not divided  
as the chapters in our version divide it. The  
last thing he says in chap. viii. is, that noneun  
derstood the vision. He then goes directly on  
(see Coit's arrangement of the Bible) to the ex- 
planation of Gabriel, given in the 9th chapter.  
Now, let it be remembered that chap. ix. is not  
a vision, but simply an explanation of the vision  
spoken of in chap, viii.; lor he does not say in 
chap. ix. that a vision appeared unto him, as  
he does in chap, viii.; but he says, ver. 21,  
" Whilst I was speaking in prayer, the man Ga- 
briel. whom I had seen in the vision, touched  
me"' &c. Whom be had seen in what vision 1  
Why, the vision spoken of in chap. viii. of 
course. To speak of the 8th and 9th chapters  
as two distinct visions, savors either of igno- 
rance on the subject, or of being so pressed for  
argument, as to wilfully  violate common sense 1  
Let the enquiring read the 8th and 9th chapters 
in connection, and they cannot help seeing the  
fallacy of Mr. Dowling's argument; for no new  
vision is once mentioned in chap. ix. The fact 
alone annihilates Mr. D's entire argument on  
this point. Gabriel goes on to say to Daniel, 
(ix. 21.) "I am come to give thee understand- 
ing. Therefore understand the matter and con- 
sider the vision." What vision we ask 1 Will  
Mr. Dowling or his reflector tell us? if they 
say the vision in the 8th chapter, our point is 
gained ; and we challenge them to find a vision  
in chapter ix. Gabriel, after telling Daniel  
that he had come to  explain to him " the vision '  
(of chap. viii. of necessity) he says, "70 weeks 
are determined (i. e. cut off) upon thy people,"  
&c. He then told him, ver. 25, when to com- 
mence that period, viz. at the going forth of the  
commandment, which was in the seventh year 
of Artaxerxes, B. C. 457.  
Now, we have not the sagacity to see  how  
Gabriel gave Daniel any light or understanding 
on the subject, unless the 70 weeks are consid- 
er. d a key to the 2300 days. Will Mr. D. be  
so kind as to tell us, or at least to shine upon 
his satellites, that they may reflect a little light 
to dispel our great erior 1 But this seems too  
much like laboring to prove a self-evident truth. 
Our position is so clear that the unbiassed can-
not but perceive it.  
In conclusion, we would say to all who may  
chance to peruse these desultory obserpations,  
Look well to this great subject. Be cautious 
how you drink down the anodynes of those  
servants who are saying " my Lord delayeth his  
coming," " Can ye not discern the signs of  
the times V' Do not let others settle this great 
question for you. O! beware, lest that awful 
d iy overtake you as a thief in the night. Por- 
tentious clouds are hanging over the moral  
heavens. And those who oppose our views are  
constantly prophecying that some great event, 
is at. hand. And while they do not say what it 
is, we think we are authorized, not to prophecy,  
but to say lrom.the testimony of God's word,  
'-hat we beHlive the coming of the Loiddraweth  
1 »'Lh. O ! dear reader, let me say again, be ye  
also ready. ——  
Si nu» publishing the first edition of this little  
Review, we understand that Mr. R. being re- 
quested to ^eply to it, publicly refused, giving  
as a reason,that it was la falsehood,' for he  
said he had not. preached against the Advent  
NIGH. We shall «nter into no defence on this  
charge, but simply qvtote a few of his own words  
verbatim et literatim, i.tid leave the reader to  
judge for himself.  

Mr. R. speaking of the ill effects of our cal- ;  
culation after the time expires, says—" When  
these calculations fail, as fail they will," &c.  
Again, "Christians are taught to believe the time  
near, although it is atari immense distance off."  
Again, wave after wave of unnumbered centu- 
ries were to pass between the first and second  
Advents " And y*et Mr. R. says it is " false,"  
when we say such statements are against the  
Advent nigh.  
MEETINGS AT UTICA.  
From two Utica papers, both opposed to the belief  
of Christ's coming at hand, we extract the following  
items :  
From the Methodist Reformer, Jan. 26.  
" The lectures of Mr. Miller have produced consid- 
erable excitement in this city. Many thoughtless  
sinners and cold professors have been stirred up to  
be prepared to meet the Lord. Brother Plumb is a  
strong believer in Mr. Miller's views, and many of  
the members of the church of which he is pastor.  
Crowded meetings were held every evening last 
week in their place of worship, and several conver-
sions are reported. We believe those who have em-
braced these views are sincere, for many ACT as  
though they believed them.'1  
From the Baptist R-gister, Jan. 27.  
" Ofthe piety and sincerity of Mr. Miller we have  
no doubt, and of his design and desire to do good. If 
the result of the course should be to lead the multi-
tude of hearers to examine their Bibles more care- 
fully, the time spent by them will not have been un- 
profitably employed. Mr. Miller's appeals were often  
very pungent, and made a deep impression on the au- 
dience, and many came forward for prayer."  
OBJECTIONS TO MR. MILLER.  
The article from which we clipped these last three  
sentences, occupies more than a column, and it is  
almost all made up of objections to Mr. Miller, or his  
views. The editor complains of his " dogmatism,  
and severity," and of his " blundering" and "  forc- 
ed''interpretations of prophecy. After objecting to 
his application of the concluding part of the 11th of  
Daniel to Napoleon Bonaparte, the editor says :  
" But one of the most seemingly erroneous inter- 
pretations was that ofthe 4th verse in the l2th chap- 
ter : ' Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge 
shall be increased.' 4jpiis referred to the turning "of  
the leaves of the book of Daniel backwards and for- 
wards, or to and fro, in the study of his prophecy !  
Within twelve years past theie had been a greater 
examination of this book than at any previous peri-
od, and this was the to and fro referred to in the  
passage ! Interpretations of this  kind will not be  
received by many intel.igent readers of the Scrip- 
tures, we are confident."  
In another part of his strictures, the " intelligent"  
editor says :  
"Much that was instructive and excellent was bj  
no means new or original—much more was borrowed  
than most hearers were aware of."  
This editor is rather hard to suit. If Mr. Miller  
does not follow a beaten track laid down by some  
commentator, his opinions are " very exceptiona- 
ble," and if lie does walk in the same path with the  
learned and good men of the church, his views are  
" borrowed." In his views of Daniel 1-2 : 4, we 
know that he has the company of the most learned  
commentators in the English language. Dr. Clarke's 
note reads as follows :  
" Many shall run to and fro.] Many shall endeavor  
to search out the sense ; and knowledge shall be in- 
creased by these means. This seems to be the 
meaning of this verse ; though another has been put  
upon it, viz: ' Many shall run to and fro preaching 
the gospel of Christ, and therefore religious know-
ledge and true wisdom shall be increased.' This is 
true in itself; but it is not the meaning of the pro-
phet's words."  
The most eminent modern Hebrew scholars all  
agree with Clarke, in giving this sense. Scott's opin- 
ion seems to coincide with Clarke's, though he 
gives both meanings in his notes ; but manifest- 

ly give the preference to the one which expresses  
the idea of searching out the meaning of the pro- 
phecy.  
Matthew Henry comments  freely on the passage,  
and among other things says : Thev shall read it 
over and over, shall meditate upon it ; they shall  
discourse of it, talk it over, and sift out the meaning  
of it, and THUS knowledge shall be increased."  
The French translation, published by the American  
Bible Society, renders the passage following " the  
time of the end" thus : " When many shall run all  
over it, [or through it] and to them knowledge shall  
be increased."  
The old English Bible, printed by Barker in 1580,  
has this marginal note : " Many shall run to and fio  
to search the knowledge of these mysteries."  
The great commentators from whom we have  
quoted, would not consider themselves very highly  
flattered, by the  editor's confident assertion, that  
their deliberate views of this passage " will not be  
received by intelligent readers." A man who choos-
es to follow commentators should be careful not to 
sneer at any view until he has found nut whether it  
is sustained by them ; otherwise, he mav find him- 
self ridiculing Scott, Henry and Clarke when he fan- 
cies he hurts nobody but William Miller.  
The edit or afterwards quotes Mr. Miller's interpre- 
tation of Daniel 2 : 44, applying the description of  
the kingdom which shall stand FOREVER to the EVER- 
LASTING kingdom into which Christians in Peter's  
days were seeking admission, but which of course 
they had not then entered, and the kingdom of which  
James says the rich in faith were heirs, but which was  
then a subject of promise, not of inheritance. In op-
position to this view, our denominational editor says :  
"It has ever been supposed, particularly by Bap- 
tists, that the kingdom referred to here was that set  
up by Jesus Christ in the days of Imperial Rome, or  
the iron kingdom. In the opinion of Mr. Miller, this  
kingdom 1 eferred to that which would be set tip at 
the second coming of Christ, when the saints should  
descend and reign with him on the new earth after 
the destruction of the wicked. Such an interpretation  
as this seems to be disposing of the first advent of  
the Saviour and the establishment of his visible 
kingdom on the earth which is obviously set forth in  
this verse, in a very strange and remarkable manner, 
and we believe in face of the interpretation of the  
most intelligent commentators.''''  
When the editor has shown such contempt of the  
opinions of commentators in one case, he cannot rea- 
sonably blame us, if we reject this last argument en- 
tirely, and appeal to the Bible, which plainly de- 
scribes the setting up of Christ's everlasting king-
dom, when "He shall judge the quick and the°dead."  
We do not write thus because we love controver- 
sy, or wish to be in opposition to our learned edito- 
rial brethren. We feel that we have no time for un- 
necessary debate. We much piefer to unite with the 
closing remarks of our opposing editor :  
" The great difficulty with us all is, we do not study  
our Bibles sufficiently ; and the different lecturers 
who come along having made themselves masters of  
their respective themes, are so expert and plausible  
in their Scripture quotations that we are exposed to  
take up with erroneous expositions for the truth. Let  
what has repeatedly transpired, then, be an admonition  
to us to make ourselves more familiar with our Bi- 
bles, and LET THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST BE THE 
SUBJECT OF CAREFUL STUDY ; for to be prepared for 
that event, whether it come the present year or many  
years hence, all will acknowledge to be wise. One 
thing is certain—however distant the time of Christ's  
coming may be, in our estimation, the coming of 
death is not far off to most of us—and to many of us,  
no doubt, he will make his appearance the present 
year, and we are only wise in making daily prepara- 
ion. If we are prepared for this, we shall be pre- 
pared for both. May the Lord so secure our entire 
and undivided hearts, that we may be daily ' loving  
this appearing.' "


"THE SEA AND THE  WAVES ROARING."  
The papers have lately given us many accounts of ter- 
rible storms and shipwrecks. Among them, we can no- 
tice but few. The Washington papers contain full ac-
counts of the destructive storm which laid waste the  
beautiful island if Madeira, and others on the same group, 
in October last From the Liverpool Mail we make the  
following extracts i  
AWFUL ST 0 R M ,  
And bursting- of a Water Spout on the island of Madeira—Six Vessels  
Wrecked—With  a great Destruction of Property and Loss of Lives.  
Funchal, the capital of Madeira, and the whole of the  
Island, has been visited with one of the most dreadful  
storms, that has occurred since the flood in 1803, when  
upwards of 400 persons were swept into the sea: and  
had the late deluge occurred at night, as was the case in 
the former catastrophe, there is no doubt but hundreds  
of persons would have been drowned, in the city ; how- 
ever, as far as can be heard at present, few lives are lost,  
except in distant parishes, where several hundreds of per- 
sons have been carried into the sea.  
The last summer was exceeding hot and almost with- 
out rain ; the weather remaining beautifully fine until the  
15th of October, when the clouds began to envelope the  
mountains, which brought, on the following day, severe 
thunder storms, accompanied with heavy rain, continuing  
almost without intermission until the morning of the 24th 
of October, when the rain partly ceased  
About mid day, Oct. 25th, the whole island appeared  
buried in one vast cloud. The air became very oppres- 
sive with a strong sulphurous smell, and the wind veered  
about to nearly every point of the compass.  
At one o'clock the rain began to fall in torrents, and  
about an hour afterwards I perceived at a distance of 
about a mile from shore, AN IMMENSE RISING OF  
THE SEA, which was soon connected with a mass of  
dark clouds overhanging the bay, to appearance charging  
themselves, or drawing the water, from the sea, for the  
space of about ten minutes, followed immediately by a 
heavy swell or rising of the ocean, which swept towards  
the shore, and although I was at a considerable elevation  
above the level of the sea, it appeared high enough to  
sweep over the city ; its force, however, was broke, and  
it subsided on the beach. The rain still continued to fall  
in torrents, and at 4 o'clock the roar of the water in the  
river which was 40 feet in depth, began to give me some  
alarm, when looking out of the window of my house, I 
perceived that the bridge was being swept away, and that  
the water was running into the streets. I immediately  
left the house, and on reaching the street the appalling  
sight that appeared in every direction was enough to  
make the stoutest heart quake with fear. The street  
in front t>f the garden of my house was upwards of three  
feet deep with water, and hundreds of men, women and  
children wading their way up the stream flying towards 
the mountains, whilst others were flocking to the town,  
not knowing where to go for safety almidst the most  
dreadful shrieks and crie3 that can possibly be imagined.  
Streets in the neighborhood were all overflowed with  
water, and the inmates of the houses were escaping by  
ladders and over the roofs ofthe buildings. Upwards of  
200 houses have been destroyed or become untenantable  
by this disastrous flood ; and the wine, corn, &c., swept, 
into the sea, and destroyed is very great, but at present  
it is utterly impossible to state any thing like an estimate j 
of the amount of damage done.  
Six vessels were at anchor in the bay. As the sea  
broke with terrific fury over them, and the wind being  
dead into the bay, gave them no chance of escaping by  
making sail. At five o'clock, the American brig Creole  
dragged her anchor, and was soon on shore. The Eng- 
lish schooner Wave was doomed to the same fate, the  
whole of her crew being saved by the exertions of Mr. 
Henry Crawford, who secured them ropes,"&c., from a  
rock above where the vessel struck  
It had now become dark. We got up a bonfire as a  
signal for the vessels still at anchor, and then left to pre- 
pare another at the wreck of the Wave, where we found  
only a few boards left which we soon had lighted. We 
learned that the Sardinian schooner Gloria Madre Espar- 
anza had gone on shore to the east of Funchal, and not a 
soul saved or a vestige of her left.  
The news from the interior, or rather the coast—for  
from the interior we have none—is awful. Half of Ma- 
chico is swept away, and all the fishing boats belonging  
to the village. In the parish of Madalena, nearly-all the  
houses and part of the population are gone. In Calheta,  
many houses are washed away. Fayai and Porto Cruz 
have suffered much, entire vineyards having been swept  
into the sea.  
On the 28th, the Bishop, with the Governor and all the  
principal authorities, attended prayers in the Cathedral,  
after which, they had a procession, carrying the figure of  
the Saviour on the cross the size of life, as the Saviour  
of miracles, in having saved the city from being altogeth- 
er destroyed.  

" DISTRESS"—" PERPLEXITY."  
A STARTLINO FACT—The annual report of the water  
works made to the City  Council, states " That upwards  
of 500 hydrants are now shut off, and, owing to the uni- 
versal embarrassment and distress of the community, it  
is impossible to say, with any degree of certainty, what 
amount may be collected." If proof were required ofthe  
universal distress now felt in the city, it is found in the  
above extract. The supply of water shut off from 500  
families because they cannot pay the rent! Think of  
it.—Cincinnati Gazette.  
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE GOVERNMENT.—Here is  
the picture, as drawn by Mr. Calhoun in the  Senate :  
" Sir, the government is embarrassed beyond prece- 
dent. Politically,  what is its situation 1 We are clog- 
ged up ; we cannot move. Look at our situation. Our  
credit gone, our debt in two years swelled up to thirty  
millions of dollars, our revenue falling short of our ex-
penses, and things growing worse and worse every day.  
At the end of this year our debt will be forty millions of  
dollars, the interest of which will more than cover the  
income from the government lands. The whole burden  
of government is thrown upon commerce, and that  com- 
merce, already jaded and  worn down by the burdens cast  
upon her."  
HARD TIMES.—There were numerous Sheriff s sales at  
the Court House in Harrisburg on Friday and Saturday  
last, and never have we known real estate sell at such  
ruinous prices in this neighborhood. Newly built houses 
sold for prices which would not pay for the lumber used 
in their construction, and houses and lots sold for less  
than half the price -they would have brought two years  
ago. This is most lamentable state of things.—Venn. Intel.  
DISTRESS IN PHILADELPHIA.—The evidence of ex- 
treme poverty and acute distress, says the Spirit of the  
Times, stares us terribly every day in the face. Yester- 
day several persons begged one of our magistrates to 
send them to prison to save them from the pangs of hun- 
ger, and on Tuesday we saw a very handsome woman 
coax the Mayor to commit her to Moyamensing for the  
same reason.  
TIMES IN ILLINOIS.—In the Illinois Legislature, on the  
11th of January, the Secretary of State read a communi- 
cation from the Governor, urging upon the Legislature  
the immediate necessity of action in regard to the finan- 
ces ofthe state. Wood, which he stated could be pur-
chased for one dollar and seventy-five cents cash, the  
State now had to pay three dollar^ and a half for ; can- 
dles, which for money could be procured for thirty-seven  
cents per pound, now cost the State one dollar; and  
other things in the same proportion—all arising from the  
fact that there was nothing brt auditor's warrants to pay  
them with. It was with the utmost difficulty that money 
enough could be  procured to pa*- he postage on letters  
addressed to the Executive department.  
In Paisly, Scotland, the distress is still increasing.—  
There are nearly TWELVE THOUSAND hands unemployed. 
A great meeting was held there Dec. 9th, in which it was  
stated that an appeal had been made to the property- 
holders, which had been " but feebly responded to," and 
they call on Government " in the strongest terms to take  
up the matter of saving the lives of the people, and pre- 
venting the awful consequences of STARVATION ! !"  
" BEAUTIES" OF THE LATE WAR WITH CHINA.—An Eng- 
lish officer writing t.o his friends in England from Ching  
Kean-foo, says—  
" I never saw such a loss of life and property as took  
place here ; we lost officers and men enough, but it is 
impossible even to compute the loss of the Chinese, for 
when they found they c.iuld stand no longer against us, 
they cut the th roats of their wives and children,  or drove  
them into wells and ponds, and then destroyed them- 
selves—in many houses there were from eight to twelve 
dead bodies, and I myself, have seen a dozen women and  
children drowning themselves in a small pond the day 
after the fight. The whole of the city and suburbs are  
amass of ruins—whole streets having been burnt down."  
THE CRY IN ENGLAND.—Thomas Smith, in addressing  
his countrymen respecting Christ's coming, says :  
Fellow-countrymen, whether Churchmen or Dissen- 
ters, or neither: whether Whigs, Tories, Chartists or  
Radicals, are you ready for these tremendous events ?  
They are swiftly approaching. They may burst upon  
the world even whilst you read this paper. There is also  
already " on earth distress of nations," and already are  
" men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking for  
those things that are coming." The world is in suspense.  
Its schemes remind us of a hopeless wreck. Its ma- 
chinery is almost at a stand ;—the crisis is approaching.  
It is not very far from midnight. Nay, even now, in a  
thousand different and distant towns, in various nations,  
and by ten thousand voices there is a cry being raised,  
and it is echoing swiftly round the world, "BEHOLD THE  
BRIDEGROOM COMETH, GO YE OUT TO MEET HIM." If YOU  
are wise, you will not slight this midnight cry.  

MILLER'S EXPERIENCE, AND RULES OF  
INTERPRETATION.  
The following item of Mr. Miller's experience, was  
1 taken down as related by himself at the great Tabernacle  
Meeting at Newark. It is taken from brother A. Hale's 
Review of Dr. Pond's Letter, pp. 53—56.  
" Can any thing be done, then, to determine the appli- 
cation of that word? Have we any other source of  
light"! I think we have. It is the principle of analogy,  
or comparison. Comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 
I cannot state that principle,  in its application to the  
present case, in a more striking manner than by giving  
an item of Mr. Miller's experience, as stated by himself.  
Preaching on this text, ' All Scripture is given by ins >ir- 
j ation of God,' &c , he dwelt upon the mode of studying  
j the Bible. He said. ' I was once a deist, and continued 
j so for twelve years—and I will tell you how I came to be 
| a deist. I was taught to read the Bible from my youth,  
J by my father and mother, and at school. But 1 was 
: taught in such a manner that it seemed to be full of con- 
I tradictions. I used to go to our minister, when he called  
at our house, and ask him what such and such texts 
meant, and how to reconcile those which appeared so  
contradictory 1 He would say, ' You cannot understand 
it.' I would ask, Do you understand it 1 ' No,' he would 
say. Well, did God mean to keep us in the dark 1 ' Oh,  
it is revealed in a mystical manner.' But is not God a 
wise God, and could not he make it plain 1 Is he not just  
and good, and will he punish us for not understanding  
that which is a mystery 1 They at last would have no  
thing to do with me. I looked upon the Bible as priest- 
craft, and became a deist. I continued so till I came out 
of the service. I was in the army two years and a half.  
" In the month of May, 1816. I was brought under con- 
viction, and Oh, what horror filled my soul! I forgot to  
eat. The heavens appeared like brass, and the earth like  
iron. Thus I continued till October, when God opened  
my eyes—and Oh, my soul, what a Saviour I discovered  
Jesus to be ! My sins fell like a burden from my soul—  
and Oh, how plain the Bible seemed to me ; it all spoke  
of Jesus—he was in every page and every line. Oh, that  
was a happy day. I wanted to go right home. Jesus  
was all to me, and I thought I could make every body  
else see him as I saw him, but I was mistaken.  
" Dur.ng the twelve years I was a deist, I read all the  
histories I could find, but now T loved the Bible. It taught 
of Jesus ! But still there was a good deal of the Bible  
that was dark to me. In 1818 or'19, while conversing  
with a friend to whom I made a visit, and who had known  
me and had heard me talk while I was a deist, he inquir- 
ed, in rather a significant mariner, ' W hat do you think  
of this text, and thatP referring to the old texts I object-
ed to while a deist. I understood what he was about, and  
replied, 'Ifyou will give me time, I will tell you what  
they mean.' 'How long time do you want  V 'I don't  
know, but I will tell von,' I replied—for I could not be- 
lieve that God had given a - revelation-that could not be 
understood. I then resolved to study my Bible, believing  
I could find out what the Holy Spirit meant. But as soon  
as I had formed this resolution, the thought came to me,  
' Suppose you find a passage that you cannot understand  
—what will you do 1 This mode of studying the Bible 
then came to my mind—' I will take the words of such  
passages, and trace them through the Bible, and find out 
their meaning in this icay.'' I had Cruden s Concordance,  
which I think is the best in the world, so I took that  
arid my Bible, and sat down to rny desk, and read nothing  
else, except the newTspapers a little, for I was determined 
to know what my Bible meant. I began at Genesis, and  
read on slowly ; and when I came to a text that I could  
not understand, I searched through the Bible to find out  
what it meant. After I had gone through the Bible in  
this way, O, how hright and glorious the truth appeared !  
I found what I have been preaching to you. I \\,as satis- 
fied that the seven times terminated in 1843. When I 
came to the 2300 days, they brought me to the same con- 
clusion ; but I had no thought of finding out when the  
Saviour was coming, and 1 could not believe it; but the  
light struck me so forcibly, I did not know what to do.  
Now, I thought, I must on spurs and breeching ; I will  
not go faster than the Bible, and I will not fall behind it.  
Whatever the Bible teaches, I will hold on to it. But  
still there were some texts that I could not understand."  
The work from which the above extract *is taken, is a  
most able review of the great objections raised against  
the speedy coming of Christ. Price twelve and a half 
cents. For sale at this office. Contrast the above with  
the following scoffs.  
What fools are men who run a chain of  suppositions,  
about no one of which they are certain, and then, at the 
end of it, exult in absolute certainty. Yet such a fool  
would any man be who should attempt to fix with cer- 
tainty upon the century when the great conflagration shall  
occur. Then how unworthy to be ranked with common  
fools must be he who not only fixes the century, but the  
year and the month He deserves to be punished for his  
hardihood with the loss of reason, the high gift of God,  
which he has so much abused.— Journal of Commerce,


DANIEL'S VISIONS.  
A small paper has just been published at Brooklyn, call- 
ed the Spirit of Washingtonianism, by our fellow laborer,  
J. McChesney. It consists mainly of a series of articles 
originally prepared for the Washingtonian Daily News.  
The first three only were inserted, and the rest sup- 
pressed, leaving the subject unfinished. We here give  
the substance of the whole series of articles, and hope 
Washingtonians, and all others who may see them, will 
read them carefully.  
SECOND ADVENT OF THE MESSIAH.  
NO. I.  
MR. EDITOR,—I think there is nothing that would be  
more acceptable to the public at this moment than the  
facts connected with the spreading belief that the second  
advent of the Messiah is near at hand.  
Although I miy be the least competent for the task,  
yet I would offer to furnish an article for your paper from 
time to time, in as concise a manner as possible, embrac-
ing the reasons they have for such a hope, and the foun- 
dation on whieh their faith rests, as I conceive it to exist  
in the word of God.  
Who does not believe, who makes any pretension to  
Christianity, that our heavenly Father has set up along  
the dreary coast of the boisterous ocean of time light-
houses, for the benefit of his children, composed of those  
things (as in Daniel) which would transpire amidst the 
turbulent scenes of a blind world, by which means they  
might always know (especially when it is absolutely  
necessary) whereabout they are on their voyage to the  
land of their inheritancel  
And has he not appointed watchmen also to keep a  
perpetual watch, and be ready at all times to give due  
information, even should they have to " cry aloud and  
spare not V  
But, where are the watchmen 1 
" Watchmen, what of the night 1" In what part of the  
voyage are we ? Alas ! the poor wTatchmen have been  
asleep, (it is to be feared some of them at least,) " lying  
down and loving to slumber." And it is not surprising,  
that at a period when an alarm is sounded that this 
whole ship's company should be aroused.  
The watchman, no doubt, is the first thought of and  
called upon. He rubs his eyes, for they are yet heavy 
with slumber. He sees nothing, but finds himself in a 
state of shame and confusion, while all hands on board 
perhaps declare to him that they see a light.—Yet you  
may hear him cry otffc, O, it is nothing but Millerism, or  
some such thing. And if they tell him that they fear  
they are on the coast near the port, and in danger, he  
will cry out again, It is five, ten, or twenty years off;  
and although the gales blow and the breakers appear, he  
has been so long asleep his reckoning is lost, and will 
hear to no reason till the entire vessel and cargo is dash-
ed to pieces in sight of the desired haven.  
What an awful account some of the watchmen will  
have to give in that day. In view of these facts we can- 
not be too honest with each other in the bounds which 
love hath marked out.  
NO. II.  
It has pleased God to use emblems of those great  
events which were to transpire amid the degradation and 
confusion of time, and to mark out by the mouth of his 
prophets, for the benefit of those that love Him, things  
future. Among them Daniel seems to maintain a con-
spicuous position. So we will commence with the 2d 
chapter of Daniel.  
The 7th and 8th chapters also contain other,views of  
the same subject, which is evidently in keeping with  
Pharoah's dream, Gen. 41. The seven fat fleshed, and  
welt favored kine, the seven other kine ill favored and  
lean, which eat them up, and the seven full and good ears  
of corn, and the seven ears withered, thin and blasted, 
which devoured the good, was the same subject repre-
s nted by different figures. Thus, without any doubt, 
Nebuchadnezzar's image, Dan. 2 : 31, whose brightness  
was excellent and form terrible, and Daniel's vision in 
the 7th chapter, of the four beasts, which came up out of 
the sea, being diverse one from another, with the vision  
of the ram, he goat, and little horn, in the 8th chapter,  
ire ali the same subject, and have their fulfilment to the  
sating up of the fifth universal kingdom on earth, and  
the cleansing of the sanctuary in 1843.  
Nebuchadnezzar had a dream which troubled his spirit  
much, a;v(. in addition, the thing was gone from him."  
lie called tVe wise men, Chaldeans, &c., and demanded  
that they woald show him the dream, and tell the inter- 
pretation thereof, which they could not do. The king  
was wroth at their quack pretensions, so he ordered them 
all to be slain. And Daniel, as it appears, had been ne- 
glected till now, whence also was sought for to be slain 
with the rest. Daniel requested an audience with the  
king, when he informed him that if he would give him  
time, that he, Daniel, would show him the dream, and 
tell him the interpretation thereof. After this he went  

to his companions and requested them to ask mercies  
from the God of heaven, that they might not perish ac- 
cording to the king's command.  
Daniel prayed, and no doubt did his companions, and  
that same night did God reveal the thing to Daniel, which  
he brought before the king, as you will find from the 31st  
to the 46th verses of this chapter. Please read.  
Here we have a view of four kingdoms of universal  
empire, and the only kingdoms of the kind that ever were  
or will be on earth until the fifth one is set up, which is  
God's everlasting kingdom, which shall be done when  
" the stone cut out without hands shall smite the image 
ON THE FEET, and break it in pieces," so that with all its  
wealth, power and glory, it shall be forever destroyed,  
and no more oppress and tyrannize, but be made like the  
chaff of the summer threshing-floors.  
The first of these kingdoms was Babylon, " thou art  
this head of gold." It was founded by Nimrod, the great 
grandson of Noah, [Gen. 10; 8—10,] and lasted about  
1700 years, though under different names, and was in its  
glory in the days of Nebuchadnezzar, and ended with  
Belshazzar.  
39th verse. After thee shall arise another kingdom in- 
ferior to thee. What kingdom was this ! See 5th chap.  
28th verse, Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the  
Medes and Persians. Then the Medo-Persian kingdom  
was the second of universal empire, and is represented 
by the breast and arms of silver.  
The same verse, And another third kingdom of brass  
shall bear rule over all the earth. What kingdom was 
that 1 See chap. 8th: 5—7; also the 20th and 21st  
verses, where we learn that Grecia conquered the Medo-
Persian kingdom, and became one of universal empire.  
This took place under Alexander, and constitutes the 
third division of brass in the image.  
NO. HI.  
Verse 40—•" And the fourth kingdom shall be strong  
as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and sub-
dueth all things ; and as iron that breaketh in pieces all 
these, shall it break in pieces and bruise."  
What kingdom can this be 1 There is no other king- 
dom to be found which will answer this description ex-
cept the Roman empire. See Luke 2: 1,—"And it  
came to pass in those days that there went out a decree 
from Cassar Augustus that all the world should be taxed."  
Who was Ceesar Augustus ? A Roman emperor.—  
Then this will give us the fourth kingdom of universal  
empire upon earth, as represented by the feet and legs of  
this image.  
Verse 41—" And whereas thou sawest the feet and  
toes part of potter's clay and part of iron, the kingdom  
shall be divided." The western empire of Rome, be- 
tween the years A. D. 356 and 483, was divided into TEN  
divisions, or kingdoms, viz : 1. The Huns in Hungary,  
A. D. 356. 2. The Ostrogoths, in Mysia, 377. 3. The  
Visigoths, in Pannonia,if?eS. 4. The Franks, in France,  
407. 5. The Vandals, in Africa, 407. 6. The Suev-es  
and Alans, in Gascoigne and Spain, 407. 7. The Bur-
gundians, in Burgundy, 407. 8. The Heruli and Rugii, 
in Italy, 476. 9. 'rtie Saxons and Angles, in Britain, 
476. 10. The Lombards in Germany, 483. Thus the  
" kingdom was divided" as designated by the ten "toes."  
' But,"  after its division, "there shall be in it the strength  
of iron mixed with the miry clay."  
The Roman or " iron" power, through the influence  
and authority of Papal Rome, stretched itself among the  
" clay" so as to be " mixed with it," and thereby kept up 
" the strength of iron."  
Verses 42, 43—" And as the toes of the feet were  
part of iron and part of clav ; so the kingdom" "shall  
be partly strong and partly broken And whereas thou 
sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they" " shall mingle  
themselves" " with the seed of men ; but they shall not 
cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with  
clay."  
This has evidently been fulfilled.  Has Romanism, or  
the Romish Church, while it has mixed with all na  
tions, united with them. It has kept up its authority  
over its subjects, under whatever government they may 
have been located, so that the authority  of Rome has  
been felt by all the nations where her subjects have been  
" mingled with the seed of men " The fourth, or Roman  
kingdom is thus perpetuated, though " divided." That  
power will continue, not civilly, but by its eccelesiasti- 
cal authority, till " broken without hands."  
In speaking of the Roman church, as connected with  
the government, we wish it to be understood, that as a 
sect, our views and feelings respecting her, possess no  
more hostility than towards all or any of the other sects. 
Nay, it is our belief that there are and have been good peo  
pie in every church, and we know of no combination in  
any department of society under like circumstances but  
would have done perhaps the same, if there was given to  
them, " power and great authority."  
We shall pass on with these remarks, as this image  
will come again in review in further examination of the  
7th and 8th chapters. And now who would not thank the  
Great Author of all good, when they see the manner in  
which He has instructed his people 1  

Truly it is " line upon line, precept upon precept,  
here a little and there a little," and although "hidden 
from the wise and prudent," yet " He reveaieth it unto  
babes." " A scorner seeketh wisdom and findetli it not;  
but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth."—  
Prov. 14 : 6.  
In the above image we have a complete history of the  
political career of the world, through that grand channel, 
from the "head of gold down "to the restitution of all things  
spoken of  by all the holy prophets since the world be- 
gan," Acts 3 : 21, or from the kingdom of Babylon to the 
setting up of His everlasting kingdom. 24t.h verse, " And  
in the days of those kings [represented by the ten toes]  
shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall  
never be destroyed, and the kingdom shall not he left to  
other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all  
these kingdoms and shall never have an end."  
This very time here spoken of we purpose to show in  
our further communications to be 1843. And who, "that  
loves his appearing," but must rejoice that their Redeem-
er draweth near, when they contemplate the pride, arro-
gance and folly, combined in this entire image, which  
have oppressed, trodden down, and destroyed the sons of  
men without any cessation ? Since it had an existence,  
it has held this world in chains of vice and degra- 
dation, " and after crucifying  the Son of God, has made  
all nations drunken with the wine of its base fornica-
tion." I say again, who would not rejoice over its de- 
struction 1  
NO. IV.  
Daniel, 7th chap.— You will please read it, as it is im- 
portant that this history be brought before the mind, and 
in our space it is impossible, for we shall not only have  
to omit giving passages in full, but must pass many im-
portant features of this vision without notice. We have 
enlarged on the image in the 2nd chapter, and now only  
design to show that the remaining visions of the 7th and  
8th are the same subjects illustrated by other similitudes- 
4th verse. The first beast was like a lion, it had  
eagle's wings, it was lifted up from the earth and made 
to stand upon the feet, as a man. This will compare  
with the head of gold (Babylon )  
5th verse. The second was like a bear with three ribs  
in the mouth of it, and raised up itself on one side, &c.  
Medo-Persia, the breast and arms of silver.  
6th verse. The third beast was like a leopard, it had  
four wings of a fowl on its back, and it had four heads.  
This corresponds with the third division of brass in the  
image (Greece ) Alexander's dominion was divided be- 
tween his four generals, Macedonia under Cassander, 
Thrace under Lysimachus, Syria under Seleucus, Egypt  
under Ptolemy.  
7th verse. The fourth beast was dreadful and terrible,  
strong exceedingly ; it had great iron teeth. This cor- 
responds with the feet and legs of the image, which  
were also of iron. It had ten horns ; the imag§ had ten  
toes. If one represents the Roman power, so must the  
other.  
8th verse. " I considered the horns and behold there  
came up among them another little horn, befoie whom  
three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots, 
and behold in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man,  
and a mouth speaking great things." He beheld till the  
thrones were cast down and the ancient, of days did sit, 
and because of the great words which the horn spake he 
beheld even till the beast was slain and his body eiven to  
the burning flame.  
After Rome was divided into the ten toes of the image  
it was then a beast with ten horns. If time and space  
could be given to this work, a volume of evidences might  
be found to prove that the beast with ten horns as well 
as the iron division of the image (the legs and feet) re-
presents Pagan Rome, and in establishing Papal supre- 
macy three of the horns were plucked up by the roots be- 
fore it, which were the following:—The Ostrogoths,  
the Vandals and Heruli.  
We will now pass on to the  8t,h chap., believing that  
the position we have taken will not be contradicted ;  
that is, that  the four divisions in the image, and the  
beasts in the vision are corresponding descriptions of  
the same subject, and that the last division in the image, 
and the fourth terrible beast in the vision, represent the  
Roman empire, and the little horn, the pope's supremacy.  
Chap. 8 We will now examine the vision of the ram,  
he-goat and exceeding great horn.  
You will observe that Babylon in this vision is not  
spoken of, she had now numbered her days. The histo-
ry therefore commences with the ram which had the 
two horns, which fact is established in the 20th verse,  
" The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the  
kings of Media and Persia." 21st verse, " And the rough 
goat is the king of Grecia, and the great horn that is be- 
tween his eyes is the first king."  
The ram's horns were diverse, one higher than the  
other, and the highest one came up last, corresponding  
with the bear " which raised up itself on one side," (the  
Persian power existed the longest and properly came up  
last,) and the breast and the arms of the image we have 
already proved to be  the same.  
The next thing in the vision is a lie-goat which came


from the west, with a notable horn between his eyes,  
(this brings us into Grecia again.) He ran unto the ram in  
the fury of his power and smote the ram, and broke his  
two horns, cast him down to the ground and stamped  
upon him.  
8th verse. Therefore the he-goat waxed great, and  
when he was strong the great horn was broken, and for  
it came up four notable ones towards the four winds of 
the heavens. These horns are the kingdoms set up by  
Alexander's four generals, corresponding with the leop- 
ard's four heads, and the third division of brass  in the  
image.  
NO. v.  
We have come  to an important part of our subject—  
what may be called disputed territory—and it is import- 
ant for us to examine impartially every point; and 1 hope  
all who read will follow our remarks with the most cri-
tical honesty.  
We have found by the examination in our former com- 
munications, thSt the illustrations in the second and sev-
enth chapters of Daniel, and as far as we have gone with 
the eight h, to be parallel representations of the same sub- 
jects. We now have the little horn of the Grecian goat  
to dispose of, and should it n it, correspond with " the 
legs and feet  of iron" of the image in the second chap- 
ter, and the dreadful and terrible beast with great iron  
teeth, in the seventh, it would seem to place us on  
strange ground.  
Dan. 8 : 9, to 12, (please read.) This little horn  
was not one of the four horns, but came forth out of one  
of them. "It waxed exceeding great towards the south,  
the east, and the pleasant land—yea, even to the  host of  
heaven ; and it cast down some of the host and the stars  
to the ground, and stamped upon them. Yea, he mag-
nified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him  
was taken away the daily (sacrifice is added by the trans- 
lators—it is not in the original,) and the place of his 
sanctuary was cast down, and a host was given him  
against the daily (Pagan abomination, I will take the lib- 
erty to add) by reason of transgression, and it cast down 
the truth to the ground, and it practised and prospered."  
From the 20th to the 25th verses, Gabriel, by command,  
gives an explanation of this vision—verse 23," &c., "And  
in the latter time of their kingdom, (meaning the four  
Grecian kingdoms,) when transgressors are come to the  
full, a king of fierce countenance and understanding dark  
sentences, shall stand up, and his power shall be mighty, 
but not by his own power; and he shall destroy wonder- 
fully, and shall prosper and practise, and shall destroy 
the mighty and holy people. And through his policy also  
he shall cause craft to prosper in his hands, and he shall  
magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall he de-
stroy many. He shall also stand up against the Prince  
of princes, but he shall be broken without hand." This  
is the explanation given by the angel to Daniel. This  
little horn becomes " exceeding great," greater than any  
before him. The term king is often used in Scripture for  
kingdom, and a horn generally represents an empire ei- 
ther of a long or short duration. Now what can be found 
that will truly answer this history 1 Some have thought  
it was Mahomet, while others have applied it to Antio-
chus Epiphanes, while others have concluded it to be  
the Roman empire.  
We think it useless to say any thing about Mahomet,  
as no special reason occurs to  us why this station should  
be applied to him. It cannot be Antiochus, for he was 
one of the four horns himself, (namely, the Syrian,) and  
reigned as such.  
" He shail stand up against the Prince of princes."  
This he did by passing sentence of death and crucifying  
the Saviour. " And he cast down some of the host 
[saints of God] and the stars [the Apostles and  ministers  
of Jesus] and stamped upon them." While he existed  
as Pagan Rome he destroyed, it is supposed, about 3,900,- 
000 of Christians.  
But a change takes place in his character, " and the  
place of his sanctuary was cast down" "and a host was  
given against the daily [ Pagan abomination] which pre- 
vented the setting up ofthe "abomination of desolation"  
or " the Man of Sin." The one must be put down before  
the other could be set up. The power of paganism to  
prevent the supremacy of papacy, ceased in 508, and in  
538, the Pope was established by a decree of Justinian,  
head of all the holy churches, and a code of laws given 
him by which he persecuted heretics by fire, sword and  
torture,for 1260years, ending 1798.  
On the 15th of February, 1798, Gen. Berthier proclaimed  
Rome a Republic, and carried Pope Pius VI prisoner to 
France. Thus the Justinian code was destroyed and  
the sword stayed, in the persecution for religious  senti- 
ment. This 45 years is called, in Daniel, the time of  
the end.  
Although I have given the above view of this little  
horn, yet I think, with Mr. Litch, it is fully met in Popery  
alone without including Pagan Rome. 1. Popery came out  
of Greece, one of the four horns of the goat. 2. It became  
great by the power of the Greek Emperor, Justinian, who  
gave the Pope his supremacy and conquered and gave 
him Rome. 3. Popery has spread to the south into Africa  

—to the east all over the eastern world—and in the time  
ofthe crusades the banner of the Cross waved on Mount  
Zion. It boasts itself of being the exclusive Church of  
Christ, and the Pope professes to be the Vicegerent of  
Christ on earth ; and by the profession of the peaceful  
doctrines of the gospel (according to Brown's Enc. of  
Rel. Knowledge) during his possession of civil as well  
as ecclesiastical authority there were 50,000 000 of the 
saints of God destroyed. The daily Pagan abomination 
was taken away by or for him. The " abomination of  
desolation" could not stand up in the same place till it was  
taken away, (read 2 Thess. 2 chap.) and this power will  
stand up against Christ to the very last day, at the last  
battle. This is " a little horn ;" so was that which came  
up on the beast. It looks conclusive that they both mean  
the same thing; and that of the beast most decidedly is  
applicable to this great but arrogant power.  
However, this little horn means one or the other, or  
both of these powers, and which one it is a matter of lit- 
tle importance, so long as the entire beast and all its 
horns will be destroyed together, as parts and parcels of  
the whole, with the entire man of sin, by the brightness of  
Christ's coming.  
But when shall that time come 1 "At the time  appointed the  
end shall be," it is near, it hasteth greatly: Dan. 8 ; 13,  
" Then I heard one saint speaking, and another saint said  
untothatcertain saint that spake,how longshall bethevis  
ion concerning the daily and the transgression of desola-
tion, to give both the sanctuary and the host to he trodden 
under foot." The earth is now the sanctuary of God.  
Once the temple in Jerusalem was ; where God had re- 
corded his name, but Christ informed the woman at the  
well of Samaria, that the time was coming that we should  
neither go up to Jerusalem, nor yet to that mountain, but 
but they that should worship the Father, must do it in  
spirit, and in truth in all places. God can be found every 
where, even under our own vine and fig tree.  
14th verse—"And he said unto me, Unto two thousand  
and three hundred days, then shall the sanctuary be  
cleansed " It appears that after all that Daniel had seen 
and heard in this chapter, which astonished him, andmade 
him sick certain days, he fainted also under the weight of 
the subject Yet he did not understand the entire vis- 
ion, though Gabriel was commanded to make him un- 
derstand it, and no doubt he understood what had been  
told him. But there were things which were not told  
him at this time, and these are the things " which none4  
understood." What were those things 1 1. The Sanc- 
tuary—what it was. 2. The place where to begin his 
reckoning of days. But in the next chapter the thing is 
fully accomplished. Fifteen years had rolled round, du- 
ring which time Daniel no doubt.thou£ht of the sanctuary  
which lay waste at Jerusalem. . Hfe had read and exam- 
ined Scripture, and had "understood by hooks" the num- 
ber of theyears whereof the word of the Lord came to Jere-
miah the prophet, that he wouitt ^u^nnplish seventy  
years in the desolation of Jerusalem.,. So Daniel com- 
menced praying and confessing his* sins and the sins of  
his people, and it was in the very midst pf his prayer that  
' Gabriel, whom he had seen in the vision at the begin- 
ning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched him about the  
time of the evening oblation.Why SUCJ, haste 1 Be-
cause Daniel was wrong, and he camenow.togive him skill 
and understanding. He reqtAsted him (9th chap. 23d 
verse) to "understand the matter and consid^er^e vision.''  
What vision 1 There is none ih this chapter, consequent- 
ly it was the vision which was 2300 days Jong in the 8th 
chapter. It could be no other in the nature of things.  
24th verse—" Seveniy weeks" (or 490 years by va- 
rious authority even the notes'on this passage in the Dow-
ay Bible gives it so,) " are determined" (Doway Bible  
" shortened," in the original it reads " cut off") " upon  
thy people, and thy holy city to finish" (or restrain) "the  
transgression and to make an end of sins, (fill up their  
national crimes,) and to make reconciliation (by the death  
of the cross) "for iniquity to bring in an everlasting 
righteousness" (by opening salvation to his people from 
their sins) "and to seal up" (to make sure) "the  
vision and prophecy, and anoint the Most Holy."  
Therefore the above was to be accomplished in seventy 
weeks, or 490 days or years, and according to Dr. Adam 
Clarke, it was fulfilled in years to a day, at the crucifix- 
ion of Christ on the cross. This seals the vision, and  
makes it sure, and gives us a solid starting point which 
defies contradiction.  
This view is again established by the 25th verse  
"Know therefore, and understand, that from the going  
forth of the commandment" [t hat is the commencement  
of the 2300 days] "to restore and build [again] Jerusa- 
lem unto Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks," 
[49 days] "and three score and two weeks," [making 69  
weeks, in all 483 days.] 27th verse—"He shall con- 
firm the covenant, with many, for one week, [that is, du- 
ring his ministry, or as some think, during his and John  
the Baptist's ministry] which makes up agaimthe seven- 
ty weeks, or 490 days, which take [cutoff] from the  

Ferguson has ascertained hy astronomical calculation,  
which cannot be m staken, that it is just 1810 solar vears  
in April next, since Christ expired on the  cross.  
[But we are not left to rely solely, even on this striking  
testimony. In the 12th chapter of Daniel, there is ano° 
ther series of dates which start independently of the  
2300 days, and which are fixed by the time when the 
saints were given into the hands of the Pope, and the  
time when the dominion was taken away. Respecting  
the dates of these events, there is some dispute, which  
we shall endeavor to settle by overwhelming historical  
proofs in our next paper, and showrfhat they conduct us  
over a separate track directly to 1843. The particulars are 
omitted this week for want of room.—ED. MID. CRY.]  
But the common question will now be asked, " What  
will you do and what will you say, if it does not take  
piace 1 and how we shall laugh at you after this year is  
passed!"  
Well, I will do as I am doing now, waiting for his  
coming. But now. in my turn, let me ask, " What will  
you do [if this computation proves true, and your heart is 
still unreconciled to God's righteous government] in that  
dreadful morning, when He shall descend in glorious 
grandeur to  take vengeance on those " who would not that  
lie should reign over them," and to be admired in all them  
that love Him 1 Do you think you will laugh then 1 Cau- 
tion, on your part, certainly is wisdom. I would say for  
myself, I am thankful that I dare venture all on God's 
word, both for time and eternity, and leave the conse- 
quences with Him, and you to laugh if you can, "at the  
end of those days."  
You no doubt are in possession of that stereotyped pas- 
sage, " That day and that hour," which I know of no one  
that makes any pretension to the knowledge of. It  
; may be here in a moment for all that I know. His chil- 
dren are not to be in darkness, that that day should come  
upon them unawares. And when they see "all these  
things come to pass," they are commanded to "know that  
it is nigh, even at the door."  
The peculiarities  of that day, we leave you to judge : it  
is future. The stone [however] cut out without hands, 
[not carved nor polished by human art] shall smite the  
image on the feet, [break it in pieces, it shall become  like  
the dust of the summer threshing floor] and fill the whole  
earth ; theaneient of days shall take his seatin the judg- 
ment, The dreadful and terrible beast shall be slain,  
and his body given to the burning flame—the sanctuary  
shall be cleansed, and God's everlasting kingdom shall be 
established in all the earth—the wicked shall then cease  
from troubling, and " Daniel shall stand in his lot." We  
leave the  remainder for you to fill up from the Scriptures,  
" for at the time appointed the end shall be."  
ROBERT WINTER—CAUSE  IN LONDON.  
This brother, formerly from England, and late of Low- 
ell, Mass , is now on a visit to his native land. He is a 
full believer in the advent this year, and is giving the  
alarm to the extent of his means and influence. He 
writes from London, Dec. 9th, 1842, as follows :  
I have distributed several papers since I c ime to Lon- 
don, and they have produced a great effect among the  
people. Many come to me to inquire about these things,  
and seem quite anxious about it. I have lectured a few 
times in different parts of the city, and some few have 
embraced the truth as it is in Jesus, and are now preach- 
ing it to others, among whom is one preacher, another is  
a class leader.  
There seems to be a prospect of doing much good, and  
more especially would be done, if we had the means of  
publishing more of Miller's works; there is great call 
for them and papers, and they almost devour them. I  
am now re-publishing some of the " Clue to the Time," 
and brother Miller's reasons for believing the coming of 
Christ in 1843 ; and I intend to print some of the larger  
works as soon as I can raise the means so to do. 1  
think, on the whole, we are doing exceedingly well; they 
wish me to write to you for a missionary; Mr. Miller 
would be preferred, or yourself, or some good lecturer. 
I tell them what go< d meetings we have had in America.  
Do you send some one ; and here is a home for him, I 
will warrant you.  
I would write more if I had time, but I have so much  
visiting, and am now in great haste to visit a family to  
converse on this subject. We hold public meetings, and 
I instruct the people by my chart.  
MILLERISM.—It is said that Miller, the end-of the-world  
prophet, is building a brick wall round his farm, which  
will probably last hundreds of years. What consistency !  
This lie we first saw in the N. Y. Aurora, for which  
paper we suppose it was manufactured. The next day it  
whole vision of 2300 days or years, you have 1810 ; then j appeared in the Tribune, and thence has travelled all over  
add to this, 33 years from the beginning of our Anno Do-! fhe United States, till we find it now in the editorial col- 
mini to the crucifixion,  and you have 1843. umns ofthe Christian Guardian, at Toronto, U. C.


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Harmoniously join in the concert of praise,  
The saints, as they flock from the regions terrestrial,  
In loud hallelujahs their voices will raise :  
Then songs to the Lamb shall re-echo through heaven,  
My soul will respond, To Immariuel be given  
All glory, all honor, all might and dominion,  
Who brought us through grace to the Eden of Love.  

3 Then hail, blessed state ! Hail, ye songsters of glory!  
Ye harpers of bliss, soon I '11 meet you above !  
And join your full choir in rehearsing the story,  
" Salvation from sorrow, through Jesus's love :"  
Though 'prisoned in earth, yet, by anticipation, 
Already my soul feels a sweet prelibation  
Of joys that await me, when freed from probation:  
My  heart's now in Heaven, the Eden of Love.  
LETTER TO A FRIEND IN ENGLAND.  
The sister who wrote this, having given us a copy for  
publication, we insert the substance ofit, supposing it may  
be interesting to all the readers of this sheet, to know  
the effect of this doctrine On the souls who embrace it.  
My Dear Cousin,—Times are very bad in America, as  
well as in Europe. Mr. Miller's doctrine of the Second  
Advent is agitating the whole community. It is sur-
prising how many believe that Christ will come in 1843. 
I should have sent Mr. Miller's wtirks to you long ago, 
but I did not think the doctrine was true. In fact, I did  
not want such a glorious truth to be true. I loved the  
world too much, and could not  endure the thought of giv- 
ing it up so soon. Although 1 have, as you know, been 
a member of the church of Christ ten years, and often, 
with you, prayed, " Thy kingdom come," yet I could not  
bear to hear of its coming. It isa solemn truth, if we 
love not his appearing, we can be none of his—or, if we  
are, some idol is between us and Christ; and should He  
come and find us so, will we not have our portion with  
hypocrites and unbelievers 1 This thought led me to 
pray earnestly that God would remove every idol out of  
the way, and not only make me willing, but to love his  
appearing ; and when the blessing came, it was almost 
too much for me : I could do nothing but praise God.  
Now I can truly say, I feel ready, Amen ; even so, come  
Lord Jesus, come quickly. This is the language of  
many hearts, yes, of thousands, on this side the Atlan- 
tic. The midnight cry has gone all over the land, and 
the most devoted and godly of all denominations readily  
embrace it; but the worldly-minded professor, and time-
serving church, reject it. Only four weeks ago, I was  
among the scoffers, saying, " Where is the promise of  
his coming T" I, like very many others, never did believe  
much in a temporal millennium, or return of the Jews ;  
for the more I thought or read upon the subject, the more 
mysterious and dark they appeared.  
The first time I read Miller's Lectures, two years ago,  
I was convinced he was right in all but the time ; that  
seemed so near, I could not believe the world would end  
so soon. Then I began to search the Scriptures, to see  
if it were so ; and found all he said was proved by the 
Bible to be true. We have many faithful watchmen  
now on the walls of Zion, who are giving the midnight 
cry, and preparing the church for her coming Lord. We  
have glorious meetings ; if ever God owned and blessed 
a work, he does this. How then can Christians oppose 
it 1 and yet they do, when they see and hear of sinners  
being converted by hundreds and thousands. There  
never was such a time before, backsliders being reclaim-
ed, and those who were dead stones in the church made  
alive, putting on the whole armor of God. The wise  

virgins are trimming their lamps, and making ready to  
fb forth to meet the Bridegroom. My soul a witness is,  
to the good of this doctrine.  
If you have not heard much on this subject, I do hope  
all of you will prayerfully and candidly examine the  
books, and the chart of Daniel's vision, which I shall  
send with this letter, comparing every part with your  
Bible. Lay aside every prepossessed opinion, and know  
the truth. You will see that Daniel's vision ends with  
the destruction of earthly kingdoms, and the setting up j 
of Christ's kingdoKM»'hich shall be an everlasting one. j  
At the close of the book, Jesus Christ himself appears  
and tells Daniel he shall stand in his lot, at the end of the  
days. O, my dear Frances, may we be heirs of that  
glorious kingdom, which, I believe, will soon -be set up,  
where Christ will reign in righteousness. How is it 
with you 1 I feel ready, and am waiting, and watching,  
and looking for his coming. May you and 1 meet in the  
New Jerusalem, with all our dear, dear friends who, we  
now believe, are with Christ, and He will bring them 
with him, in a few short months,  perhaps, at most.  
I heard a devoted servant of the Lord, a few Sabbaths  
since, preach on the second coming of Christ. He clear- 
ly proved that every sign in the New Testament was ful- 
filled, and the last day of prophecy in the Old was nearly  
run out, that we ought to look for Him every moment  
till he came. There can be no Milennium in this  
world. Christ -expressly says, " My kingdom is not  
of this world," " the tares and the wheat shall grow  
together till the harvest, and the harvest is the end  
of the world." And again, " In this world ye shall  
have tribulation," and " they who will live godly in  
Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution." Respecting the  
fulfilment of the promises to the Jews, if we read our Bi- 
bles, we shall soon see there are no promises to the un- 
believing Jew. In Christ, there is neither Jew nor 
Gentile, bond nor free, we are all one in Christ Jesus, and  
" if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and  
HEIRS according to the promise." I think, if you do not  
already see that the doctrine of the Jew's return, and 
a temporal Milennium, is an error, which has crept into  
the church, to blind the minds of the people against the 
speedy coming of the Lord, you will very soon be con- 
vinced. This may be my last letter.—God only knows. I  
feel that it is. What a change has been wrought in me  
since 1  last wrote ! Sure it is the power of God. Nothing  
else could have effected such a work. I must now bid  
yod farewell, perhaps forever, on this earth.—May we  
soon meet again in " the new heaven and new earth, 
wherein dwelleth righteousness." I must conclude with  
exhorting you to be ready. 0 be ready for Christ's com- 
ing any moment. Yours affectionately, M. A. D.  
P. S. I wish you could be at some of our Second Ad- 

vent meetings, they are indeed a feast to the soul. The  
near coming of our Saviour is no delusion. It is no fa-
ble, 'tis a Bible truth, and the whole world cannot over- 
throw it.—Adieu—adieu.  
LEGISLATIVE SABBATH DESECRATION.—The Missouri  
House of Assembly passed resolutions, to celebrate the  
anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, and fire salutes 
on the Sabbath. The Senate disagreed to it. But the  
House regarded a man's glory more than God's honor.— 
And so on Sabbath morning early, one of the brass can-
nons was in front of the Capitol discharged several  
times ; sentiments were given, reiterated, martial music  
played, national songs sung, and a procession through 
the streets took place. At night an illumination  took  
place, martial music was parading the streets, and  
things went on as a festival day. This was all done in a 
christian country.—Mo. Repub.  
How absurd it is to pretend this is in opposition to the  
principles of the people, when the people unite in re- 
electing such men, year after year.  
ETERNITY.—Were the mighty ocean, which divide so  
many nations, and dash their waves upon so many shores,  
to be  suddenly changed into one mass of ink, and then  
to be employed in numbering figures, and the least figure 
to signify a million of years, what countless ages would 
be numbered before the last were finished ! before the 
oceans were emptied ! yet he who wrote the last figure  
might say, " These ages are not eternity. They are  
nothingness itself compared  with it ; less than one drop  
to all these waters less than one moment to all these  
infinite ages !"—Pike.  
WEEKLY MIDNIGHT CRY.  
The papers we have now published, and one single  
sheet more, will be equal to  13 weekly papers,which will  
be the amount we engaged to publish for fifty cents.  
We shall continue to print double sheets as fast as the  
Lord shall give us the means, which we have reason to  
believe, will be weekly. Present subscribers, who have  
not paid beyond the  next number, will forward us their  
names and money, if they wish to be entitled to the fu- 
ture numbers, which will be furnished at the rate of fifty- 
cents for the sheet of 8 pages, 3 months.  
DEPOTS or SECOND ADVENT BOOKS.  
Brick Church Chapel, 36 Park Row, New York.  
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MBIHI Ill 111 —• IIIIIHIMIIIHIII  
Meply to Prof. Stuart.  
It is well understood that Prof. Stuart, of Andover, is one of the most learned theologians in America. When the agitation of the public mind spread like the heaving  
waves to that ancient Theological Institution, he felt called upon to rise and say to the moving elements, " Peace, be still 1" He therefore published a book of 150 
pages, called " Hints on the Interpretation of Prophecy." In the preface he says :—" It is time for the churches, in reference to the matters now before us, TO SEEK  
SOME REFUGE FROM THE TUMULTUOUS  OCEAN ON WHICH THE Y HA VE OF LATE BEEN TOSSED, 'lo those who long for a quiet harbor, a chart,  
which offers even any tolerable grounds of hope that the course toward such a haven is marked out, will not be unwelcome." In the first half of his book, he gives " Hints,"  
most of which are valuable, but when he comes to the application of them to the Book of Daniel and the Revelations, he plunges into absurdities which his great learn-
ing very imperfectly conceals. It is an interesting sight to see a plain farmer, who studied his Bible in the intervals of his daily labor, so successfully showing up these  
glaring inconsistencies of the learned Professor. Mr. Miller had seen only the first edition of Prof. Stuart's book when he wrote. A reply to a note in the second edi- 
tion, will appear next week.  
MILLER'S REPLY TO STUART,  
OK  
PROPHETICAL INTERPRETATION, AND THE  
DESIGNATIONS OF TIME IN DANIEL  
AND JOHN.  
IN A SERIES OF LETTERS TO  
JOSHUA V. HIMES.  
LETTER I.  
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I have read the book you  
sent me, " Hints on the Interpretation of Pro- 
phecy, by M. Stuart." I find the writer, after  
an elaborate introduction, has divided the sub- 
ject which he discusses into three distinct parts :  
1st. " Occult or double sense of prophecy." 2.  
" Prophecy not intelligible until it is fulfilled." 
3. " Designation of time in the prophecies." I  
have been pleased* edified, and instructed, by 
reading this work. I was pleased to see the  
Christian spirit in which, apparently, the book 
was wrote, so unlike Mr. Dowling; the " Puri-
tan," or " Watchman," or any of the scurrility 
with which I have been assailed by a selfish 
priesthood, or a hireling press, that I must con- 
fess I felt a union of heart and soul, for the wri-
ter, which I rarely feel for any of our modern  
writers on theology. They are manifestly the  
most Christian, candid, and reasonable argu  
ments that I have ever met with, from any  
source whatever; and if I have not the truth, as  
it respects time—for on the two first points we ex- 
actly agree—I would as  readily yield the palm of  
victory to Moses Stuart* the writer of this book,  
as any man I have any knowledge of at this time.  
To be conquered by such a writer, would be  
an honor my vanity would almost covet: yet 
I dare not yield the truth of God's word to any  
man, nor for any consideration whatever, how- 
ever glorious it might be in the sight of my fel- 
low-men, or gratifying to an unbelieving multi-
tude. One thing I ask, and that will I seek- 
after. If truth compels me to disagree with this 
writer, whatever I may write, may it be done in  
the same spirit, as to me appears to possess the 
excellent writer of this little book before me;  
On his first head or question, " Are there  
many occult passages in prophecy which are  
pregnant with a double meaning?" I answer,  
very few, and with the writer I agree, " that if  
such a principle be admitted, how is it possible  
to ascertain within what bounds it shall be con  
fined." By this, I do not understand the writer  
to mean, that there are no types, nor analogies  
in the Bible* which types and analogies were 
once prophecies ; for instance, the destruction of  
the old world by water, which was a prophecy in  
the days of Noah, is by our Saviour applied as a  
type, or an analogy of  the destruction of the  
world by fire. Again* the travel of the children  
of Israel through the wilderness into the land of  
Canaan is applied unto us, by Paul, as a sample : 
if we conduct as they did, we shall meet with 
like judgments. Therefore I am perfectly 
agTeed with the writer, that there is no double  
meaning to words in the prophecies of the Old 
and New Testament.  

In his second part, as I have named it, " Pro- 
phecy not intelligible until it is fulfilled," I am  
pleased to see our views so perfectly harmonize.  
I say with the writer, if God has revealed any 
truth, that truth may be understood ; but I would  
not say, neither do I understand the writer of  
this book to say, that men will all see the truth  
and know it, and in all ages of the world, and 
at all times. No, for if that were the case, we  
should have no need of this book which he has  
written to teach us how to understand prophecy.  
Although God may have revealed things plainly 
and intelligibly,  yet it may by us be rejected, or  
clothed in a mantle of mysticism, and so hid for 
ages, for aught I can see, and then brought to light  
by the diligent application of some of his ser- 
vants. Surely, the writer will not deny this,  
for his object in writing this book is, as he says,  
to do away with an error, that has for years be- 
come almost or quite universal. So, you can  
see, we are happily and clearly agreed on this  
point.  
His next, and third part: " Designations of  
time in the prophecies." On this point, his  
rule, which he has laid down on page 65, is  
perfectly right, and must, I think, stand the test  
in all cases. " Every passage of Scripture, or  
of any other book, is to be interpreted as bearing 
its plain, and primary, and literal sense, unless  
good reasons can be given ivhy  it should be tro- 
pically (figuratively) understood.''''  
Thus far I can agree with the learned author;  
but here I must stop: his rules of interpretation  
are good, h}s general remarks on the nature and  
manner of prophecy I ndmire; but when he  
comes to apply those rTftes, I see neither reason  
nor common sense in the application.  
I shall not follow him through all his argu- 
ments and explanations; but shall select a few.  
And first, his views of the little horn, in Dan.  
vii. 7, 8, 20* 21—26, meaning Antiochus Epi- 
phanes, are wholly without evidence ; not even a  
color of testimony can be brought from the  
Scriptures to prove that point. Yet he asserts it  
as though no one ever doubted it: this proves  
that his reading on that point has been very  
limited.  
This horn does not belong to the Grecian  
cingdom, nor is it one of the four into which  
Grecia was divided. See Dan. vii. 7 : " After 
this I 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 brake in pieces, and stamped the  
esidue with the feet of it: and it was diverse  
from all the beasts that were before it; and it  
had ten horns." Now read the heavenly teach-j  
er. Daniel vii. 23 : " 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 treadit 
down, and break it in pieces." After Daniel 
had given the account of the Grecian kingdom  
in the sixth verse, he says he saw in his vision 
another beast, which is explained to mean the  
fourth kingdom upon earth. Is it possible to  
prove that a third can be the fourth ? A third  
may have four heads, but it is the same beast 
still. Here we have another one, different from  
jail other kingdoms that were before it. Where  

was the wide difference between the Syrian and 
the other three kingdoms into which Alexan-
der's was divided ? All arose in the same man- 
ner, all made war on each other, and each in  
its turn succeeded in its warlike enterprises.  
Neither one of them was able to subdue all the 
other three. Yet Daniel tells us that " three of 
the first horns were plucked up by the roots," 
and by the little horn, which our author calls 
Antiochus. Again, this kingdom was to have  
ten kings when this little horn should rise up:  
for he is to  rise after them, and among them, and  
subdue three of them. This, then, cannot, by  
any fair construction, be applied to Antiochus.  
This little horn is to make war with the saints,  
and prevail 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. See verses  
21, 22. What kingdom ? See verses 26, 27 :  
But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take  
away his dominion, to consume and to destroy  
it unto the end. And the kingdom and domin- 
ion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the  
whole heaven, shall be given to the people of  
the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is  
an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall  
serve and obey him." It is a " great kingdom," 
" under the whole heaven/' and an " everlasting  
kingdom," and, " all dominions serving and  
obeying him." Now if the Jews mean the 
saints, as our author tells us, according to his 
own showing, the Jews have not yet got the  
everlasting kingdom. See his own remarks, on  
page 139, on Acts i. 6, 7. And of course Anti-
ochus is yet alive, making war, and prevailing  
against the  Jews. No wonder our author com- 
plains against the English and American com- 
mentators ; if he follows them, all their wisdom,  
and his too, is not able to extricate him from a  
very foolish dilemma. Let him apply this to  
the Roman kingdom, and all will be clear and  
natural.  
We cannot avoid seeing, as I sincerely believe,  
that the kingdom which is given to the saints  
of the Most High at the destruction of the little  
horn, cannot be any kingdom possessed by the  
Jews at that time or at any time subsequent. 
If it is figurative, then the rules of our good bro- 
ther will not apply—for it is not used in the  
27th verse as a symbol or representation; but  
as an explanation of the 14th and 22d verses, by  
the heavenly visiter himself. See verse 16 : "I  
came near unto one of them that stood by, and 
asked him the truth of all this. So he told me,  
and made me know the interpretation of the 
things."  
Then by what stretch of imagination we can  
apply this little horn to Antiochus is to me ten  
times more mysterious than the occult sense, of  
which the writer so justly complains. Why not  
then make the application where it belongs, to  
the fourth or Roman kingdom, and the little horn  
to Antichrist making war against the true saints,  
until the glorious appearing of the great God 
(Ancient of days) and our Saviour Jesus Christ,  
in the clouds of heaven ? Surely there can be  
no objection against this hypothesis, because all  
must admit that then, when Christ shall come 
the second time, he will come to receive unto  
as**!


himself a kingdom which will be eternal. Luke  
xix. 15: " And it came to pass, that when he  
was returned, having received the kingdom,  
then he commanded these servants to be called  
unto him, to whom he had given the money, 
that he might know how much every man had  
gained by trading." Then will the saints  
possess the kingdom promised, James ii. 5:  
" Hearken, my beloved brethren, hath not God  
chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and  
heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised  
to them that love him?" Why, I ask again, in 
the name of all that is dear in heaven or earth, 
cannot our teachers apply the prophecies of the  
Old Testament .o the precious promises in the  
new? 1 Pet. i. 9—13: "Receiving the end of  
your faith, even the salvation of your souls. Of  
which salvation the prophets have inquired and  
searched diligently, who prophesied of the. grace 
that should come unto you: searching what, or 
what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which 
was in them did signify, when it testified before-
hand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that  
should follow. Unto whom it was revealed, that  
not unto themselves, but unto us they did min-
ister the things which are now reported unto  
you by them that have preached the gospel unto  
you with the Holy Ghost sent down from hea-
ven ; which things the angels desire to look into.  
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be  
sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is  
to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus 
Christ." Here is a plain rule of the application  
of Old Testament prophecy. Why not follow  
it ? Has God blinded the eyes of our seers and  
our teachers, so that they cannot see ? Or have  
our sectarian quarrels produced a confusion in 
the ranks of  our expositors of the word of God,  
so that truth has fallen in the streets, and but 
few men left ? In Daniel, 7th chapter, how  
perfectly plain do we trace the prophetic history  
of our world, from the days of Daniel to  the  
coming of the Son of man in the clouds of hea- 
ven, the judgment of the saints, and the ever- 
lasting kingdom of the glorified children of God. 
And yet this good man, this teacher in Israel,  
sees not a single ray of light this side of Antio- 
chus, a Syrian king, who died 164 years before  
Christ was born. If Christ should come now,  
would he find faith on the earth ? 0 God, have  
mercy, and open the eyes of our teachers ! 
Again ; he tells us, on pages 86 and 87, that the 
events predicted in the 11th chapter, from 21—45,  
and the whole of the 12th chapter, are to be  
referred, altogether, to Antiochus Epiphanes.  
This :o me is still more unaccountable, how  
men of such erudition as Moses Stuart, can for a 
moment suppose that all the description given 
here, can or ought to be applied to one man. 
Yes, and that too, describing the events that  
were to happen to the people of God in the lat-
ter days, beginning with the fifth king of Persia, 
and ending with resurrection ; Daniel x. 14 toi  
xii. 4. I know that Moses Stuart has the author- 
ity of some of the  expositors in the Roman  
Catholic church, for his understanding of these  
prophecies. He has given their sentiments in  
their own words, and I am afraid he has not  
been careful enough to compare their views  
with the word of God. They were too much  
interested in the conclusion, to be received by 
vie without a careful examination. And if it 
can be shown that the prophecy fails to be ful-
filled in Antiochus, in any one point, then the  
whole must fall. Matt. v. 17, 18: " Think not  
that I am come to destroy the law or the pro-
phets : I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.  
For verily, I say unto you, Till heaven and 
earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise  
pass from the law, till all be fulfilled." Let us 
then examine the first verse of the 12th chapter.  

" Then shall Michael stand up, the gr^at prince  
which standeth for the children of thy people."  
When did this happen ? If these expositors are  
right, " then " at the death of Antiochus or im- 
mediately afterwards, Michael stands up. Has  
any one been able to show satisfactorily who  
this is ? I answer, no. " And there shall be a 
time of trouble such as never WA# since there  
was a nation, even to that same time." Was  
there a time of trouble after Antiochus's death ?  
This is not tropical language; remember our 
rules. Con any man produce such a historical  
fact as to warrant this expression? Mr. S. tells 
us, page 92, " !No wonder that the angel pro- 
nounced those of the pious and believing Jews  
to be blessed, who lived to see such a day of de- 
liverance. The great enemy of their nation and  
their God had fallen ; Judas Maccabaeus had  
become everywhere victorious; the sanctuary  
was now cleansed of its pollution, pure wor- 
ship was restored, and the Hebrews had every  
prospect of independence." I will agree that  
the description given of these iimes by this  
writer, is highly wrought up, to meet another  
event in the prophecy under contemplation.  
Yet our time of trouble fails : " and at that time,"  
in this time of trouble, " thy people shall be  
delivered, every one that shall be found written 
in the book." Who are these, and what book is  
this they are written in ? Was this accom- 
plished at that time ? I answer, No. The  
author of this book dare not assert it, although  
he apparently wrought up our minds, by the  
glowing description which I have just quoted, to 
expect something very graphic; yet when he  
comes to the point, he slips over in perfect  
silence in this place, although he had before  
(page 88) acknowledged Daniel xii. 1—3 difficult 
to interpret. Why not then tell us what it does 
mean ? But as it happens, to the glory of God,  
we are not dependent on Mr. Stuart to tell us;  
the angel himself has informed us. " And 
many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth  
shall awake, some tc everlasting life, and some  
to shame and everlasting contempt."  
We must remember the rules given in this  
book of " Hints," &c. iV) tropical words where  
the sense is plain; no occult or double meaning  
in this passage. One of two things, then, must  
be true. Either the resurrection did take place  
in the time, times and a half, under Antiochus,  
and all the people of God, every one of them  
whose names are written, or ever shall be writ-
ten in the Lamb's book of life, did awake to  
everlasting life ; or Antiochus is not the one 
designated in this prophecy, as Mr. S.^says.  
iMow which dilemma shall we take ? I answer,  
I wiil choose to let Antiochus go, and take a  
resurrection to come, and I think our good Br.  
Stuart will do the same, if he is wise. " And  
they that be wise shall shine as the brightness  
of the firmament, and they that turn many to  
righteousness as the stars, forever and ever."  
This grand and sublime description cannot,  
without doing the utmost violence to tropical  
language, be applied to so barren and insignifi-
cant a circumstance as the Jews in their corrupt  
state, into which they were sunk, between the  
last of the prophets and the birth of the Messiah,  
being released from one petty tyrant to fall under  
others more severe within four or five years.  
See 1 Maccabees 7th and 9th chapters.  
Common sense would forbid such a construc- 
tion of this prophecy, and I am well satisfied, 
that with all Mr. Stuart's knowledge, he has not  
a clear knowledge of the history of the Jews at  
the time specified. This prophecy cannot have  
reference to Antiochus. The next verse shows  
that the book of Daniel was shut up and sealed  
until the time of the end. Mr. S. says, to the  
end of these troubles with Antiochus; but that  

would be departing from his own rule, unless  
he can prove that the resurrection, which is 
immediately mentioned before, was fulfilled at 
that time, which he has not done; Then, I am  
at liberty to fix my own construction; and he  
tells us, plainly, that there cannot, with any pro-
priety, be an occult or double meaning in pro-
phecy. And when the Bible tells us that  
" those that sleep in the dust of the earth shall 
awake," and to " everlasting life" too, I cannot,  
to accommodate myself to any man's theory,  
call it spiritual, when I believe in a literal one  
to come. This I am satisfied is Br. S.'s rule.  
Neither can I apply the words in Daniel vii.  
10—13, to a mystical sense, and in other places  
make the same words and sentiments literal,  
without a " thus saith the Lord." Therefore, 
when the angel tells Daniel that " those that  
sleep in the dust of the earth  shall awake," and  
Christ tells me " the hour is coming when all 
that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and  
come forth," I cannot believe one a mystical and  
the other a literal sense, without any further  
cause being shown, than my, or another's anx-
iety to have Antiochus mean the little horn. 
Daniel vii. 8—25, and 11—12 chap. And if 
this view which Br. S. has given of these pro-
phecies be true, then his principles of interpre- 
tation cannot be correct, without he allows him-
self, what he is not willing to  grant to others, to  
depart from his own rules, where his own views 
require such a departure.  
As it respects his exposition of times in Dan.  
7 and 12, we shall reserve it for future remarks, 
and examine now into his views on Daniel 8th  
chapter, p. 93. He says, " One, and only one  
more period in the book of Daniel claims our  
present attention; this is in chapter viii. 14. In  
the vision seen by Daniel, as there related, one  
angel inquires of another, ' How long the  sanc- 
tuary and the host were given to be trodden  
under foot.' The answer is, ' to  two thousand  
three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary  
be cleansed.'"  
Our teacher has made a very sad misstate- 
ment in stating  his question, not by design, we  
cannot believe ; for he is too good a man to mis- 
lead any one. True, my critical neighbor says,  
he discovers a trick or design in thus stating the  
question; but wherein ? say I. Do you see he has 
enclosed the question in a single comma, show- 
ing that it is but partially stated, while he has  
enclosed the answer in double commas, show-
ing it is all true ? says my neighbor. No, No, 
said I, this is all jealousy. Mr. S. is too good 
a man to favor deception at all; it is an inadver- 
tency ; he will correct it in a moment when he  
sees it. The question is not ' How long the  
sanctuary and host are given to be trodden under  
foot?' but it is, as Br. Stuart will acknowledge,  
" How long shall be the vision ?" or as some  
translate it, " For how long time shall be the 
vision," "concerning the daily (or continual)  
sacrifice (or wicked) and transgression of deso- 
lation, to give both the sanctuary and host to be  
trodden under foot?" The answer must be ac- 
cording to the question, or one of these heavenly  
messengers must be in an error—either the one  
asking, or the one answering the question; and 
surely I dare not say either is wrong. Then  
the question resolves itself into the following  
particulars : " How long shall the ram push 
against Grecia, or westward, northward and 
southward; and the he-goat coming from the  
west, breaking the two horns of the ram, smiting  
him and casting him down to the ground, and  
stamping upon him, and then becoming very 
great; and he must be broken, and then four  
more rise up in his room, and they continue to  
be very wicked, notably so ; and when they have  
accomplished their wickedness, then shall arise


another horn, which waxed exceeding1 great  
above all the horns before it, towards the south,  
east and north, it waxed great to the host of  
heaven, cast down the stars and stamped upon  
them, magnified himself in his heart, even to 
the prince of the host, and stood up against the  
Prince of princes, the Lord Jesus Christ, cast  
down the truth to the ground, and practised and  
prospered, Until the Ancient of days came, and  
the Son of man comes in the clouds of heaven,  
and these will be broken without hand ?  
This last horn is the one which take  
away the daily sacrifice, and places in the room  
of it, the abomination that maketh desolate, and 
is himself the desolator, and will only be de-
stroyed at the consummation. See Daniel vii.  
11, 26: "I beheld then because of the voice of  
the great words which the horn spake ; I beheld  
even till the beast was slain, and his body de- 
stroyed, and given to the burning flame. But  
the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away  
his dominion to consume and to destroy it unto  
the end." ix. 27 : " And he shall confirm the  
covenant with many for one week; and in the  
midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice 
and the oblation to cease, and for the over- 
spreading of abominations, he shall make it des- 
olate, even until the consummation, and that 
determined shall be poured upon the desolate."  
In this verse the same abominations are spoken 
of, as in Daniel viii. 13, and this sweeps away at  
one blow, Br. Stuart's exposition of the little  
horn being Antiochus; for no one can pretend  
that Antiochus lived after Christ; and yet we 
find the same desolator overspreading abomina-
tions until the consummation, and that deter- 
mined is poured upon the desolator.  
This too harmonizes with Christ's word  
given by Matthew (xxiv. 15) : " When ye, there-
fore, shall see the abomination of desolation, 
spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the  
holy place, (whoso readeth, let him under- 
stand;") and if our Br. S. would divest himself  
entirely of his prepossessions for Antiochus, and  
not be continually harassed by that old spectre, 
he would at once see that the Scriptures har-
monize, and would not have to resort to such  
ridiculous subterfuges as he has on pages 99 
and 100, to do away the force of Christ's  
words.  
He would also see the exact agreement be- 
tween Daniel's little horn, (xi. 36,) " And the  
king shall do according to his will; and he  
shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above 
every god, and shall speak marvellous things  
against the God of gods, and shall prosper til]  
the indignation be accomplished : for that that is  
determined shall be done," and Paul's man of  
sin, (2 Thess. ii. 3, 4,) "Let no man deceive you  
by any means: for that day  shall not come,  
except there come a falling away first, and that  
man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition:  
who opposeth and exalteth himself above all  
that is called God, or that is worshipped; so  
that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, 
showing himself that he is God." ' But there is  
but little hope for such men. Pride of opinion  
goes a great ways with men of his standing, and  
they are slaves to popular applause ; and all you  
can say or write will do him no good, nor the  
class in which he moves,'—whispers Satan in  
my ear, while I am writing. Get behind me.  
Satan, say I. A man who writes with so good  
a spirit, and gives us such good rules, will see 
that it is all a fable about Antiochus being pro- 
phesied of anywhere in Daniel, except in chap, 
xi. 11, 12; and that from the 14th verse of the  
11th chapter to the end of the 12th, all is a rela- 
tion of the things which have been literally 
and will «be fulfilled to the end of the gospel 
period, and the coming of Christ; and is all  

concerning the fourth and last earthly kingdom  
in our world.  
My limits will not allow me now to show  
that every word of Daniel xi. 14—45, has been  
literally fulfilled under the history of Rome, the  
fourth kingdom in Daniel's vision; and that  
that vision carries us to the end of all indig- 
nation, and to the consummation, when the body  
of this beast (Roman kingdom) is given to the  
burning flame. If then it can be shown that  
the history of Rome better fulfils the prophecy,  
and leaves no difficulty but what may be easily 
surmounted, why not leave the Antiochus sys  
tem of explanation to its fate, with all its insur- 
mountable difficulties, and take that which har-
monizes with all Daniel's visions, the history of  
the world, and New Testament writers ?  
I shall now examine Mr. Stuart'd remarks on  
the " designation of time," by his own rule.  
1st. Time, as specified in Daniel viii. 14:  
And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and  
three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary  
be cleansed." We have already examined the  
question, and find it does contain a history of  
the world, from the Medo-Persian kingdom to the  
end of indignation, when that which God hath 
determined shall be poured upon the desolator, or 
to the end of the transgression of desolation,  
which is the end of the Roman, or fourth king- 
dom in the world. Thus far the vision is as  
plain to my mind as the rays of the sun in its 
meridian splendor. The answer then is, " unto  
2300 days;" but, says the critic, it is " evenings  
mornings." No matter, all men seem to under- 
stand it days; for it is so translated in every  
language with which we are acquainted at the  
present day. Therefore this can never be made 
plainer, if this compound Hebrew word should  
be criticised upon until the judgment shall set. 
I am sick of this continual harping upon words.  
Our learned critics are worse on the waters of  
truth, than a school of sharks on the fishing  
banks of the north, and they have made more  
infidels in our world than all the heathen my- 
thology in existence. What word in revelation  
has not been turned, twisted, racked, wrested,  
distorted, demolished, and'ltnnihilated by these  
voracious harpies in human shape, until the 
public have become so bewildered, they know 
not what to believe ? " They have fouled the  
waters with their feet." I have always noticed 
where they tread, the religious spirit is at a low  
ebb; it becomes cold, formal and doubtful, at  
least. It  is the mind of the Spirit we want, and  
God's word then becomes spirit and life unto us.  
The words 11 evenings, mornings'''' convey to  
our mind the idea of days; thus this vision is  
2300 days long, says the reader. Yes. But  
how can all this be ? says the inquiring mind.  
Can three kingdoms rise up and become great; 
from a small people become a strong nation;  
conquer all the nations of the earth, and then in 
its turn be subdued and conquered by a king-
dom still more fortunate, and so on through 
three successive kingdoms, and do this in little 
over six years ? Impossible. But God has  
said it, and I must believe. Now the only 
difficulty is in time. How can this be ? Very  
well, says the dear child of God, I r emember me ;  
God says I must " dig for the truth, as for hid  
treasure." I will go to work, and while I am  
digging, I will live by begging. Father in  
heaven, I believe it is thy word; but I do not  
understand it; shew me thy truth. I had rather  
have one humble prayer of this kind, with an  
English Bible in my hand, than all the Hebrew,  
Greek, and Latin Br. S. ever knew. The child 
then takes the word day, and compares spiritual  
things with spiritual, to find what his heavenly  
Father means by days in a figurative sense; for 
he is satisfied it cannot be literal. The first text he  

lights upon is in Num. xiv. 34, " each day jor a 
year" May this not be it ? says the child. He  
takes hold of it by faith, carries it home, lays it 
up in his cell of sweets, richer than a lord, and  
again goes forth in search of more. He now  
lights upon Eze. iv. 6: " I have appointed thee  
each day for a year." He is now rich in very  
deed—two jewels in one ceil. He does not stop  
to criticise like a Stuart, and query, and reason  
himself out of common sense and reason too;  
but Abraham-like, he believes, and lays up his  
treasure at home. I see, says the child, this use  
of days was so ordained by my Father in two  
cases, and two witnesses is enough: but I am  
not certain that I have a right to use these  
jewels in this place; I will go and beg, and dig  
again. In this excursion he lights on Daniel  
23—27; " Seventy weeks are determined  
upon thy people," &c. Seventy weeks of what?  
says the critic. I do not care a fig, says the be- 
lieving child, whether you call it days or  years;  
I know how long it was in fulfilling. How  
long? Exactly 490 years, from the decree  
given in the seventh year of Artaxerxes, 457 
years before Christ, unto his death, 33 years  
after the birth of Christ, making exactly 490  
years, or seventy sevens of years of the vision.  
But of what vision ? says the critic. Why,  
says the child, it is the last vision Daniel had,  
jn the 8th chapter. Are you certain of that?  
I am; it can refer to no other; and as the sev- 
enty weeks were a part of the vision, cut off  
from the vision, and did seal the vision and  
prophecy, I want no better evidence to show 
that these jewels which I have laid up, now 
have an application; for 490 years cannot be a  
part of six years, and of course the 2300 must be 
so many years; and if all the skeptics in Chris- 
tendom, and the Stuarts in the habitable earth,  
should try to make me believe that the vision in  
the 8th chapter of Daniel was fulfilled under 
Antiochus Epiphanes, I could not do it. Thus 
would the believing child reason. This I know  
too by experience. But let me state this in 
another way. I find in the vision of Daniel  
things spoken of as the " abomination that mak- 
eth desolate." I find my Saviour mentioning  
the same thing, and showing that it would exist  
even forty years after his time. I cannot believe  
that he was mistaken, and the end of that same 
thing was two hundred years before. " For at  
the time appointed, the end shall be." But Br.  
S. may say that it was the end of the pollution  
of the sanctuary ; but this cannot be true, for we 
learn that twenty years or more after the death  
of Antiochus, Simon, the high priest, drove out 
the heathen who had polluted the sanctuary and 
the holy place; 1 Maccab. xiv. 36. Also our  
Saviour found the temple a den of thieves;  
therefore it could not mean the end of pollution.  
These reasons, with more which can be and  
have been presented, are evidence strong that this  
vision could not have been fulfilled in six years. 
Then the conclusion is that days are used m a  
figurative sense.  
Then I find, in the two cases above mentioned,  
they were used in that sense. Have we no right  
to compare Scripture with Scripture ? Surely  
Br. S. is wise above what is written. 1 Cor. ii. 
13 : " But he that is spiritual judgeth all things,  
yet he himself is judged of no man."  
The writer has admitted (page 76) that days  
in these two cases are symbols of years. Then 
why not use them  so in Daniel and Revelation?  
Because God has not told us plainly here to so  
use them, says Br. S. But  I say he has told  
us what is equal to it. He has given us definite  
time; he has told us what shall happen in that  
time. Common sense and a few years of experi-
ence show clearly it could not be, neither was  
it true, in a literal sense. Shall we charge our


heavenly Father with folly ? No. Let Us first  
take the precaution to be wise, compare Scrip- 
ture with Scripture, as did Daniel, (ix. 2,) pray as  
did Daniel, (ix. 4—20.) It may be, after all, ?  
symbol, methinks Daniel might have said. God  
revealed unto BelshazZar the end of his kingdom  
by a symbolic writing on the wall. Why not  
reveal unto us the end of all earthly kingdom  
in symbolic language on the sacred wall of his 
word ?  
Do not start so, Br. S.; I am only reasoning  
from analogy, and I perceive you have done the  
same, pages 137, 13S. But let us pursue our 
analogy. When God revealed this to this proud  
and wicked monarch, lie saw the fingers and  
symbolic writing, and was afraid; Daniel v. 7, 8  
" The king cried aloud to bring in the astrolo-
gers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And 
the king spake and said to the wise men of  
Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and  
shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be  
clothed in scarlet, and have a chain of gold 
about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in  
the kingdom. Then came in all the king's wise  
men ; but they could not read the writing, noi 
make known the interpretation thereof." Now  
the analogy. God has revealed by symbolic  
language the end of the world; Luke xxi. 26:  
" Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for  
looking after those things which are coming on  
the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be 
shaken." The world call on their D. D.'s, A.  
M.'s, Professors, Rev.'s, &c.—(Isa. xxi. 11: " The 
burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of  
Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watch- 
man, what of the night ? ")—but they are all con-
fused, no two of them can agree; some cry one  
thing and some another. We have seen the D.  
D.'s calling it all "moonshine;" the A. M.'s  
putting it off for "ages yet to come ;" the pro  
fessors throwing it all upon the back of Antiochus; 
the Rev.'s charging it all to old Jerusalem; and  
thus we are, " confusion worse confused."  
But the analogy: Daniel viii. 13—26: "Then  
I heard one saint speaking, and another saint 
said unto that certain saint which spake, How  
long shall be the vision concerning the daily  
sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation, to 
give both the sanctuary and the host to be trod-
den under foot ? And he said unto me, Untc 
two thousand and three hundred days; then  
shall the sanctuary be cleansed. And it came  
to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the  
vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold,  
there stood before me as the appearance of a  
man. And I  heard a man's voice between the  
banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel.,  
make this man to understand the vision. So he  
came near where I stood; and when he came, 1 
was afraid, and fell upon my face: but he said  
unto me, Understand, 0 son of man; for at the 
time Gf the end shall be the vision. Now, as he 
was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep on  
my face toward the ground: but he touched me,  
and set me upright. And he said, 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. The ram which thou sawest 
having two horns are the kings of Media and  
Persia. And the rough goat is the king of 
Grecia: and the great horn that is between his 
eyes is the first king. Now that being broken,  
whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms  
shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his  
power. And in the latter time of their king 
dom, when the transgressors are come to the  
full, a king of fierce countenance, and under- 
standing dark sentences, shall stand up. And 
his power shall be mighty, but not by his own  
power: and he shall destroy wonderfully, and  
shall prosper, and practise, and shall destroy  

the mighty and the holy people. And through  
his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in  
his hand ; and he shall magnify himself in his  
heart, and by peace shall destroy many: he shall  
also stand up against the prince of princes; but  
he shall be broken without hand. And the vis-
ion of the evening and the morning which was  
told is true : wherefore shut thou up the vision ;  
for it shall be for many days."  
And now we will be as wise as Belshazzar  
tt least we will call in Daniel. Hear him.  
Daniel ix. 20—27 : " And while I was speakin  
and praying, and confessing my sin, and the sin  
of my people Israel, and presenting my suppli- 
cation before the Lord my God for the holy  
nountain of my God; yea, while I was speak- 
ing in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I  
had seen in the vision at the beginning, being  
caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time  
of the evening oblation. And he informed me,  
and talked with me, and said, 0 Daniel, I am  
now come forth to give thee skill and under- 
standing. At the beginning of thy supplica- 
tions the commandment came forth, and I am  
come to shew thee ; for thou art greatly beloved:  
therefore understand the matter, and consider the 
vision. Seventy weeks are determined upon 
thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the 
transgression, and to make an end of sins, and  
to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring  
in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the  
vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most  
Holy. Know, therefore, and understand, that  
from the going forth of the commandment to  
restore and to build Jerusalem, unto Messiah  
the prince, shaH be seven weeks, and threescore  
md two weeks: the street shall be built again,  
ind the wall, even in troublous times. And 
ifter threescore and two weeks shall Messiah  
be cut off, but not for himself: and the people  
ff the prince that shall come shall destroy the  
•ity, and the sanctuary; and the end thereof  
shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the  
war desolations are determined. And he shall  
•.onfirm the covenant with many for one week :  
md in the midst of thg week he shall cause the  
sacrifice and the oblation to  cease, and for the  
verspreading of abominations he shall make it  
desolate, even until the consummation, and  
that determined shall be poured upon the  
desolate." What do we learn from him ? We  
learn that days are to be understood years ii 
his prophecy; (not the historical parts of it;  
for the seventy weeks were to seal up the vis-
ion and the prophecy, which it could not do,  
if the vision was only six years and a third in  
length; it would far exceed it. We see, in the 
27th verse Daniel carries us far beyond the  
leath of Christ, until the burning day, and de- 
struction of the abomination that maketh deso- 
late, or the desolator. Then this seventy weeks,  
for so it must  be rendered, (Professor S. to the  
contrary notwithstanding,) is 490 years of the  
vision of Daniel viii. 14: " And he said unto  
me, Unto two thousand and three hundred  
days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed."  
Then if 490 years was a part of this symbolical  
hand-writing, showing the end of earthly king-
doms, and especially the end of mystical Baby-
lon, I ask what night must she be slain ? When  
will the kingdoms of this world be weighed in 
the balance of God's justice and be found want-
ing ; be dashed to pieces like a potter's vessel,  
and carried away like the chaff of the summer's  
threshing-floor, and no place found for them?  
But what does Daniel further tell us ? See  
Daniel xii. 10—13: " Many shall be purified  
and made white, and tried; but the wicked  
shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked  
shall understand; but the wise shall under- 
stand. And from the time that the daily sacri- 

fice shall be taken away, and the abomination  
that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a  
thousand two hundred and ninety days. Bles- 
sed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thou-
sand three hundred and five and thirty days.  
But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou  
shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the  
days." "Many will be purified and made  
while." Was this done when Antiochus died ?  
If so, then I cannot understand what being  
clothed in white means. But it is explained,  
Rev. xix. 7, 8: "Let its be glad and rejoice,  
and give honor to him : for the marriage of the  
Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself 
ready. And to her was granted that she should  
be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for  
the fine linen is the righteousness of saints."  
It is the marriage of the Lamb, which could  
not have been 164 years before Christ was born.  
And tried." When is this ? Let  the apostle  
James tell us, (i. 12) : " Blessed is the man that 
endureth temptation : for when he is tried, he  
shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord 
hath promised to them that love him." " And  
the wicked shall do wickedly." So they were 
doing in Babylon, eating and drinking, and 
so they will be doing when Christ comes.  
Matt. xxiv. 48—51 : " But and if that evil ser- 
vant shall say in his heart, My Lord delayeth  
his coming; and  shall begin to smite his fellow- 
servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;  
the Lord of that servant shall come in a day  
when he looketh not for him, and in an hour 
that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asun-
der, and appoint him his portion with the hypo-
crites : there shall be weeping and gnashing of  
eeth." " And none of the ivicked shall under- 
tand." So it was in Babylon. Daniel v. 15:  
' And now the wise men, the astrologers, have  
been brought in before me, that they should read  
this writing, and make known unto me the in- 
terpretation thereof: but they could not shew  
the interpretation of the thing." And so will it  
be in the end of the world. See Luke xxi. 35:  
For as a snare shall it come on all them that  
dwell on the face of the whole earth." " But  
the wise shall understand." So it was when  
Babylon fell. Daniel v. 14: "I have even 
heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in  
thee, and that light, and understanding, and  
excellent wisdom, is found in thee." And so"*'  
will it be when mystical Babylon shall be de- 
stroyed by the brightness of Christ's coming.  
1 Thess. v. 4. " But ye, brethren, are not in  
darkness, that that day should overtake you as 
a thief." 2 Thess. ii."8: " And then shall that  
Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall con- 
sume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall  
destroy with the brightness of his coming."  
You need not be alarmed for your rules, br.  
Stuart. I am only reasoning from analogy; and  
surely you will not deny me the same privilege  
you have so abundantly improved upon your- 
self. And now, my dear Br. Stuart, let me 
give you some two or three good pieces of advice,  
as part payment for those you have given me,  
and I will pay you the remainder anon.  
1. Say  not, God cannot symbolize time, when  
he reveals all other parts by symbols.  
2. Ne ver write a book against any man, until you  
have read him, and thoroughly understand him.  
3. Say not in your heart Christ will not como  
in 1843, lest he come and find you sleeping.  
4. Take 490 from 2300, and add the life of  
Christ, 33, and you will find the true sanctuary 
cleansed, of which the temple at Jerusalem was  
only a shadow.  
5. Take away the veil of Judaism from be- 
fore your face, and you will look for the better  
promise; as did Abraham. W. M.  
(To be continued,)


LETTER II.  
DEAR BROTHER HIMES :-—I am aware, if the  
professor was the only person I expected to  
benefit by my remarks, I should not trouble 
myself to write nor others to read what I'have  
to present. If it was only to gain the mastery  
over Professor Stuart, I am not so visionary as 
to suppose, that, in the eyes of the world, I could 
have the most distant prospect of succeeding. 
It is a well known fact that the fashionable 
world do give to the men of letters what the  
ancients did to the priests of their idol gods— 
an implicit confidence in all they utter. The  
world, therefore, will laugh at my foolish daring, 
and my friends, if I have any, will stand aghast 
at my temerity in attacking this bearded lion in  
his den.  
I have nothing, therefore, to expect from  
the world ; and, if I fall, to hope for from my  
friends. One thing I ask, and that I shall  
expect to have, the prayers of all, that truth 
may triumph in the earth, and error be exposed, 
however plausible it may appear. I will not  
have it said in the great day, that truth had no 
advocates in this day of tribulation, for fear of  
men. Therefore, my whole strength and de-
pendence being put in God, I  will try, by his  
assistance, to undo the awful effects of the doc-
trine of peace and safety by this learned author.  
And first, HIS VIEWS OF THE LITTLE HORN in  
Daniel vii. 25: "And he shall speak great  
words against the Most High, and shall wear  
out the saints of the Most High, and think to  
change times and laws : and they shall be given 
into his hand, until a time and times and the  
dividing of time." Page 83: "The first pas-
sage in Daniel vii. 25, is so clear as to leave no  
room for a reasonable doubt. In verse 24 the  
rise of Antiochus Epiphanes is described; for  
the fourth beast in Daniel vii. 7, 8, 11, 19 to 26  
as all must concede, is the divided Grecian do- 
minion which succeeded the reign of Alexander  
the Great. From this dynasty springs Antio  
chus, verse 24, who is most graphically de  
scribed, in verse 25, as one who shall speak great 
words against the Most High, and wear out the  
saints of the Most High, and think to change 
times and laws: and they shall be given into  
his hand, until a time  and times and the dividin  
of time."  
In this vision of Daniel's we have brought into  
view, by the representation of four great beasts,  
four great kingdoms. Daniel vii. 3: " And  
four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse  
from one another." . Now read Daniel vii. 17 :  
' These great beasts, which are four, are four  
kings, which shall arise out of the earth :" and  
verse 23: " Thus he said, The fourth beast  
shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which  
shall be diverse from all kingdoms and shall de-
vour the whole earth, and shall tread it down,  
and break it in pieces." Can it be possible that 
this learned man can call this fourth beast Anti- 
ochus ? How can the Syrian kingdom be  
called " diverse from all kingdoms ? " It arose 
in the same manner as the other three, out of  
Alexander's kingdom. Antiochus never added 
either of the other three kingdoms to his; al- 
though he calculated to unite Egypt with his  
own ; yet the Romans prevented it. [Rol., Book  
18, chap. 2, sec. 2.] "And shall devoitr the ivhole  
earth, and shall tread it down, and shall break it  
in pieces."  
Thus far, it is very certain we cannot apply  
this prophecy to  Antiochus; and the professor  
knows that not one jot or tittle of God's word  
will fail, and therefore he passed over this in  
perfect silence. Where was his 'Bible exegesis'  
then ? It is very certain that Antiochus never 
came up among ten kings, neither did he have  

ten horns. If he, as the professor says, is the 
little horn of the fourth kingdom, then he must  
have come up among ten, and taken away three ; 
this fact his exegesis treats in silence, and I say  
cannot be applied to Antiochus.  
Again : Daniel says, verses 9, 10 : "I beheld  
till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient  
of days did sit, whose garment was white as  
snow, and the hair of his head like the pure  
wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and  
his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream is-
sued and came forth from before him : thousand  
thousands ministered unto him, and ten thou- 
sand times ten thousand stood before him: the  
judgment was set, and the books were opened;"  
and this too in the lifetime of the little horn;  
for verse 11—"I beheld then, because of the 
voice of the great words which the horn spake; 
I beheld, even till the beast was slain, and his  
body destroyed, and given to the burning flame,"  
declares his death. "  I beheld even till this beast  
was slain:" this was not true according to the  
professor's own statement; for he says this beast 
died with the cholera, as the professor supposes  
His body destroyed." Herein, too, Daniel was  
mistaken, for Rollin says his body was carried  
to Antioch, his capital, " and given to the burn- 
ing flame." It is all different from the history  
How mistaken Daniel must have been !  
But this is not all. What else did Daniel  
see take place? Verse 13: "I saw in the night 
visions, and, behold one like the Son of man  
came with the clouds of heaven, and came to  
the Ancient of days, and they brought him near  
before him." Can this be true ? Did this all  
happen, and no history extant to give us an ac- 
count—not even a tradition? Cannot our au-
thor contrive something to get us out of this dif- 
ficulty ? What do you say to  a " Sybilline  
oracle," as in the case of Nero, and so have An- 
tiochus rise up and defile the temple, when. 
Matt. xxvi. 64—" Jesus saith unto him, Here- 
after shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the  
right hand of power, and coming in the clouds 
of heaven"—shall come to pass ? Again : Dan. 
vii. 14: "And there was given him dominion, 
and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, na- 
tions, and languages, sl*mtid serve him: his  
dominion is an everlasting dominion, which  
shall not pass away, and his kingdom that  
which shall not be destroyed." Can this mean  
the Jews ? Were they called " all people, na- 
tions, languages?" also, "an everlasting king-
dom, which shall not pass away?" And yet in  
less than two hundred years it was taken away  
from the saints. Acts i. 6 : " When they there-
fore were come together, they asked of him,  
aying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore  
again the kingdom to Israel?" I do not under-
stand all these things. Why did not our good  
professor  enlighten us? Why leave the whole  
f this chapter, from the 7th to the 27th verse,  
all in the dark?  
Now, sir, we will tell you what the rational  
independent class of people believe about this  
vision : they believe that Daniel was a historical  
prophet; that he has given us a history of four  
great monarchies, which carries us to the end  
of all earthly powers, in the last of which (the 
Roman) they believe has arisen a power, com-
bining in one blasphemous head (the pope) two  
pretended powers, civil and ecclesiastical, which 
by craft rule over kings, and pretend to have  
the power of God. They believe that his  
power is to continue three and a half times,  
forty-two months, or 1260 days. They know 
this power has come; they have felt its effects; 
they have suffered under its laws; they have 
heard, and do hear, its great blasphemous words. 
In this you cannot deceive them.  
They believe—for why should they not ?—that  

Daniel has, in his vision, numbered the time;  
and if we should understand it literally, they  
know that this power has already exercised the 
same, 360 times its literal number. Then what  
shall we "do ? Shall we carry it back on to An- 
tiochus ? No. Why not  ? Because it will not  
apply to him, without making things figurative  
which God has not made figurative, and thus 
involve ourselves in darkness, and doubts, and  
inconsistencies. What then ? Let us examine  
and see if time is not used in a figurative sense,  
if so, all may be harmonized. They examine  
and find, according to the professor's own con-
cessions, two places, Num. xiv. 34 and Eze. iv. 
6, where a day was used as a figure of a year.  
They apply it then to Daniel, and first to the  
seventy weeks. It measures exactly. They  
now believe, for they remember that the seventy 
weeks were to seal up (prove, or make sure, as a 
man's will is made sure, when the seal of the  
court is affixed) the vision and prophecy. This  
is common sense, that all can understand. We 
need not go to the schools of criticism and  
skepticism to learn to " doubt" and " cavil," and  
wrest" God's word, to understand it.  
But why, say you, did not God reveal these  
things in a plain, literal sense ? Let Christ an- 
swer. Matt. xi. 25: " At that time Jesus an- 
swered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord  
of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these  
things from the wise and prudent, and hast 
revealed them unto babes." Read the context:  
he is talking of the judgment day. Compare 
Luke x. 21; also Daniel xii. 10 ; 1 Thess. v. 
3, 4. But has God in all cases revealed the  
time, having reference to the end of the world, in  
types and figures ? I answer, yes. Why not then 
keep it from us? Because he has said, (Amos  
iii. 7,) " Surely the Lord God will do nothing,  
but he revealeth his secret unto his servants, the  
prophets." And it is to be as it was in the days  
f Noah. Was it in a symbol, then ? I an- 
swer, it was. See Gen. vi. 3 : " And the Lord  
aid, My spirit shall not always strive with man,  
for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a  
hundred and twenty years."  
Now we suppose Noah began to preach that  
God would destroy the world in one hundred  
and twenty years. The professors, skeptics, and  
critics come around him and say, where is 
your proof? He refers them to the word of  
God, which I have quoted. "Ah," says the critic, 
" that does not say a  wTord about drowning the  
world now; it only means that man's life shall 
be shortened to one hundred and twenty years." 
Noah replies to them as in Gen. vi. 7 : "And the  
Lord said, I will destroy man, whom I have cre- 
ated, from the face of the earth; both man and  
beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the 
air: for it repenteth me that I have made them." 
" 0 yes, we believe that: but God does not tell us 
how nor when, in this place." Then he declares  
God's purpose, verse 17: " And, behold, I, even I, 
do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy  
all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under 
heaven; and everything that is in the earth  
shall die." " Yes, we admit that: but he does 
not tell us when: not at least until he destroys  
the earth ; as he himself has expressly declared : 
' The end of all flesh is come before me; for 
the earth is filled with violence through them :  
and, behold, I will destroy them with the  
earth.' And we know God will not destroy  
the earth, until ' the seed of the woman shall 
bruise the serpent's head,' and that is not done 
yet. And another argument, too; the world  
is in its infancy yet—not all inhabited. And  
we know God told our first parents to go forth  
and multiply, and replenish the earth. This 
command is not fulfilled. No danger; we un- 
derstand our duty. Do you think, Noah, we


can be scared by your humbugs ? God has not 
revealed the time." Yet he did reveal it, as Pro- 
fessor Stuart now acknowledges. But if that  
scene was now to be acted over again, do you  
think he would own it ? Never. It is now  
acting again, and he wants to have it revealed  
in plain terms.  
When God sees best, for wise purposes, to  
reveal himself in parables, and dark sayings—  
Ps. lxxviii. 2: " I will open my mouth in a par- 
able ; I will utter dark sayings of old; " Luke  
viii. 10: " And he said, Unto you it is given to 
know the mysteries of the kingdom of God; but  
to others in parables : that seeing they might not  
see, and hearing, they might not understand,"—  
we have no right to complain. The reason is  
obvious ; if it had been revealed in plain terms, 
sinners would have more abused God's mercies; 
and if it had been revealed any plainer than it  
is, how could scoffers say, " Where is the prom- 
ise of his coming ? " and at the same time be in 
the church ? God's word must and will be ful-
filled. It is evident that he did mean we should  
know when it would be near, even at the door.  
Mali:, xxiv. 33: " So likewise ye, when ye  
shall see all these things, know that it is near, 
even at the door." But it is just as evident  
that those who vainly imagine themselves to  
have the key of knowledge, and boast of their 
Hebrew, and Greek, and Scripture exegesis, will  
not understand Matt. xiii. 10—16, Mark iv. 33, 
34, Luke xi. 52.  
If, then, this fourth kingdom in Daniel vii. 7,  
&c., is the Roman empire, then the little horn  
can only apply to papacy, and the 1260 days in 
this vision, or " time, times, and a half," must 
be, of necessity, understood as symbolical days.  
We know that papacy has had "eyes like the eyes  
of man," more than three years and a half. But 
we may inquire what the eyes mean ? I answer,  
they are like man's eyes. And what are man's  
eyes ? Prov. xxvii. 20 : " Hell and destruction  
are never full; so the eyes of man are never sat- 
isfied." Daniel had just told us about a "horn  
between two eyes," which we all agree means 
the man Alexander. The eyes of Alexander were 
upon the kingdoms of the earth ; he could not be  
satisfied until he had conquered the whole world; 
and then wept because there was not another for  
him to conquer. So would this horn seek for, 
and not be satisfied, until it had obtained universal 
power over the earth. Herein we have a clue  
to know when this horn began ; when the pope  
began to desire and to seek after universal power  
over the saints, or the church, as in verse 21: 
" I beheld, and the same horn made war with the  
saints, and prevailed against them." " And a  
mouth speaking great things." This is certainly 
as applicable to the pope as to any power ever  
known on earth, and has proved to a demonstra- 
tion the prophecy of Daniel and of John to be  
of divine origin.  
Then, from the 9th to the 14th verse, is a  de- 
scription of the judgment day, the second advent  
of Christ, the reward of the righteous in the 
glorified kingdom of God forever and ever.  
How could the professor pass over all this grand  
and sublime description of the judgment, the 
glorious scenes of the revelation of the Ancient  
of days, (the great God,) and the Son of man  
coming with the clouds of heaven, (Jesus Christ,)  
and receiving a kingdom which will be eternal ?  
How could he treat all this with perfect silence?  
Surely his conscience must have felt a little  
sting. I ask every candid reader, where have 
we any clearer description of a judgment than 
here? If this passage does not describe the  
last judgment, then no man by the Bible can  
prove one. " The judgment was set, and the  
books were opened." Again: "Judgment was  
given to the saints of the Most High, and the  

time came that the saints possessed the king- 
dom."  
Is not this the kingdom spoken of in Matt,  
xxv. 34 : " Then shall the king say unto them  
on his right hand, Come, ye  blessed of my Fa- 
ther, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from 
the foundation of the world?" Surely this is an  
eternal kingdom,—" but the righteous into life  
eternal." And in Daniel it is an everlasting- 
kingdom. " But the saints of the most High  
shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom  
forever, even forever and ever;" 18th verse.  
Can it be possible that the Jewrs took possession  
of this kingdom in the days of Antiochus ? Can 
there be two eternal kingdoms ? I am con- 
vinced, that if our learned author understands  
Bible exegesis, and this is a sample of his ex- 
planation of Scripture, I shall forever have occa- 
sion to be thankful that I did not so learn to  
understand Christ.  
Again. He says (page 86): "Another par- 
allel passage to Dan vii. 25, which we have just 
examined, is Daniel xii. 7, where the same lim- 
itation occurs, and in connection (for this I can- 
not doubt) with the same individual, i. e. with  
Antiochus Epiphanes." What evidence has he  
brought that this time was limited to Antiochus ?  
I answer, none; or at least none satisfactory to  
my mind. He asserts that Daniel xi. 21—45,  
and xii. wholly, are concerning Antiochus. All  
was fulfilled under this petty king of Syria, in  
about six years' time. This is an instruction  
of the angel Gabriel, who came to inform Daniel  
what should befall the people of God in the latter  
days; and the time appointed was long, so Dan- 
iel says, (x. 1, 14,) or for many days. It is very  
evident, by this expression of Daniel, that he did  
not even suppose that it Avould be accomplished 
in six years. And we do know that it was not.  
For instance. Daniel xii. 1 : "And at that time  
shall Michael stand up, the great prince which 
standeth for the children of thy people." At  
what time ? At the time when Antiochus  
came to his end, the professor must say, to be  
consistent. " And there shall be a time of  
trouble, such as never was since there was nation  
even to that same timg," What! At the time  
when " Judas Maccabeus had become every- 
where victorious; the sanctuary was now  
cleansed of its pollution, pure worship was re- 
stored, and the Hebrews had every prospect of 
independence and happiness ?" as says our  
learned professor, page 92. Surely that cannot  
be true; but let us hear more : " And at that  
time thy people shall be delivered, every one of  
them that shall be found written in the book."  
Is this to be understood of the Jews, and them  
only ? Why say " every one zoritten in the book ? "  
What are they delivered from,—the tyrant's  power  
and captivity, slavery and bondage ? Short time  
of trouble, methinks; only three and a half years !  
If slaves in America could have been liberated  
every three and a half years, many human beings  
wouid have suffered much less misery. I ask  
what book is this spoken of? Surely one of those  
spoken of, Daniel vii. 10; and can mean no less  
than the Lamb's book of life. But the angel him- 
self has told us who they are that were delivered,  
from what, and whence they are. Daniel xii.  
2, 3 : " And many of them that sleep in the dust  
of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting 
life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.  
And 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."  
It is as evident as the light, to every unpre- 
judiced mind, that the time of trouble here spo- 
ken of, is the destruction of the wicked at the  
coming of Christ, the deliverance of the saints,  
the resurrection from the grave unto immortality  

and eternal life, and their glorified state in the  
kingdom of God. We cannot be mistaken  con- 
cerning this. But let us see what the learned  
professor says on this point. Pages 87, 88.  
The only difficult question that will arise here  
for the interpreter is, whether Dan. xii. 1—3 
is to be interpreted so as to refer it to the troubles  
which Judea experienced shortly before the 
great victory under Judas Maccabeus, which  
ended in the restoration of liberty to the He- 
brews, and also to the blessings consequent on  
their renewed liberty, thus making it parallel  
with Ezek. xxxvii. 1—14; or whether the pas- 
sage looks forward to the Messianic (why not  
say Messiah's kingdom?) period and final resur- 
rection. Into this question I cannot enter here ; 
nor is it important  to the object which I have in  
view." But I say it is important; for if this  
has a direct reference to the judgment day, then  
it harmonizes with the 7th chapter of Daniel,  
has a strong bearing on the question and answer  
in Daniel xii. 6, 7, and is a conclusive argument 
against the professor's supposition, that chap. xi.  
21—45, and xii. are a prophecy fulfilled under  
or by Antiochus, and shows that "people and 
saints," spoken of in this prophecy, cannot apply 
to the Jews exclusively; but to all saints, whe- 
ther Jews or Gentiles; and he has said there  
can be no double meaning in Scripture, and has  
admitted that this passage may  apply to the  
resurrection, and has brought no proof that it  
can be applied to the time of Antiochus. I can- 
not see why, as an honest man, he ought not to  
jaeld the ground he has assumed. I have not 
time to go into the 11th chapter, and show that  
what he calls Antiochus is a prophetic history  
of the Roman kingdom, from the time of the  
" league " with the Jews to the end of the world.  
But now let us examine his text. Daniel xii  
6, 7. The man standing upon the waters,  
clothed in linen, must be the Lord Jesus Christ,  
the same as is called Michael in verse 1. Com- 
pare Rev. x. 1—5. In both places it is the same  
person, and both represent the same time. In  
Daniel he designates the end of time by three 
and a half times, carrying us to the end of these  
wonders, i. e. the resurrection of the dead, and  
shows that the seven times twice three and a half  
(having given the other three and a half, chap- 
ter vii. 25) will be finished, as prophesied 
of in Levit. xxvi. 24—35; Dan. iv. 27—30;  
xxviii. 64. Jeremiah xv. 4—7; ix. 16; x. 21;  
Eze. xii. 10—16.  
Many more texts might be brought to prove  
that the people of God were to be scattered and  
torn by the  kingdoms of the wrorld, until seven  
times of captivity should pass over them, and 
then his people would be delivered into the glo- 
rious liberty of the children of God. This doc- 
trine is not only taught by prophecy ; but is also 
made known in types and allegories; Deut. xv.  
1; Jer. xxxiv. 8—14; Dan. iv. 25. Also Col.  
ii. 16, 17. I know our learned professor and his  
coadjutors will laugh and sport at the idea of 
types and allegories; but it is-their turn to laugh  
now, and mine to weep and mourn; but soon  
God will laugh at their calamity, and mock  
when their fear cometh. It must be so, or the  
allegory would not hold good. Dan. iv. 6, 7.  
I have seen holy things turned to ridicule and 
reproach by these pretended servants  of God.  
I expect them to employ ridicule where they can- 
not bring reason or truth. The people have, by  
their charity, raised up many a 'viper' to sting 
them, their benefactors, when they have been  
nourished and warmed in the bosom of their  
benevolence. And when these dominators over  
the minds, and thoughts, and tongues of their  
fellow-men, have served their turn with us, they 
turn and call us poor, ignorant fanatics, who 
never ought to think or speak until we have


learned of them what their most excellent wor-
shipfuls please to grant us, poor plebeians,  
to think or say. But, blessed be our hea- 
venly Father, when we  have passed the furnace  
of affliction, seven times hotter than it was wont1 
to be heated, we shall come forth like gold seven  
times purified. When we shall have been seven  
years in bondage to the kings and kingdoms of  
this world, we shall come to the year of release;  
and when the great men of the earth shall be  
beating and bruising their fellow-beings, and 
promising themselves peace and safety a Ion  
while yet to  come, and eating and drinking out  
of the vessels of the house of the Lord; then will  
be seen the fingers of a man's hand (what a feeble  
instrument!) writing on the walls ofthe now king- 
doms of the earth, " mene, mene tekel." That will  
be the period of the " end of these wonders," and  
not till that shall come. This must be evident 
to every Bible student who is humble enough to  
believe God's word.  
You will ask me, where is my rule for un- 
derstanding the word of God thus? I answer, 
Luke viii. 10; Mark iv. 10—13; 1 Cor. x. 6,  
11; 2 Peter ii. 1—6. It is as plain that the  
time in Daniel xii. 7, 13,  carries us to the resur- 
rection, as any truth revealed in the word of  
God. And when we see our teachers of the-
ology wresting these plain passages of Scripture  
from their obvious meaning, it is high time for 
the church to awake out of sleep, and an evi  
dent token that God's righteous judgment-is at  
the door; and soon the angel will lift his hand  
and swear that " time shall be no longer," and the  
mystery of God shall be finished as he hath de-
clared to his servants, the prophets. Rev. x. 7.  
" And token he shall have accomplished to  
scatter the power of the holy people, all these  
things shall be finished." Can it be in the  
power of a sane mind to believe that God did 
accomplish and finish the scattering of the  
Jews in the days of Antiochus ? They were 
scattered by the Romans 270 years afterwards,  
and have never been a collected people since. It 
is self-evident that the scattering of the Jews,— 
or dashing of them, as he is pleased to translate  
it,—was not accomplished or finished then; and  
yet all these things were to be "finished." For 
myself, I believe the " holy people" in this text  
means the Christian church, both Jews and  
Gentiles, who will all be gathered when the  
fulness of this time comes, and when the mys-
tery of God is finished. Eph. i. 9, 10 : "Hav- 
ing made known unto us the mystery of his will,  
according to his good pleasure, which he hath  
purposed in himself: that in the dispensation  
of the fulness of times, he might gather together 
in one all things in Christ, both which are in  
heaven, and which are on  earth, even in him."  
Also let the reader compare Eph. iii. 3—9 with  
Rev. x. 5—7, and Dan. xii. 7. If I am not very  
much deceived, no unprejudiced mind can be at  
a loss one moment where to apply this text.  
Suppose Professor Stuart had been a believing  
Jew, and lived in the time of Antiochus, and 
had been of the same mind he is now, or says 
he is, and one of his brother Jews had come  
along and prophesied or preached that the Jews  
were to be a scattered and a peeled people,  
dashed and scattered among all nations, more  
than 2000 years, then to come ; and suppose the  
professor had been then an expounder of the 
law and the prophets, and was called upon to  
explain this text as being then fulfilled,—what  
would be say to his brother Jew, the prophet ?  
He would say, as any man must say by him :  
" Sir, you are a false prophet; for God has told 
us plainly, in this very text, that when this three  
and a half years are fulfilled under which we 
are now groaning, then our scattering or dash-
ing will be accomplished—yes, and finished too.  

So says the word. Therefore do you keep  
away from my flock of Pharisees, for I do not  
want my people excited by your false, alarming  
doctrine. Do you not see that, at the end of  
1335 days, Daniel will stand in his lot ? And  
do you not see, sir, that his standing in his lot  
means the resurrection ?  Read the first three  
verses of this chapter." " Ah," says the prophet,  
11 that does not mean the resurrection: but ——  
" But  what ?" says the professor. " O, I do not  
know—difficult to understand," says the prophet.  
I see," says the professor, "you are a Sadducee:;  
you do not understand either the Hebrew or the 
Cnaldaic, or the exegesis of the Scriptures. How  
dare you prophesy evil of this nation, when God  
hath spoken peace after these days ? I say  
you are a Sadducee; I will have no fellowship  
with you. You must not come into my syna- 
gogue." Would not this be the natural result  
of such a case ? I leave it for the reader to  
judge.  
Or if we suppose another case: that the profes- 
sor was now in controversy with a Jew, a Sad- 
ducee, and was under the necessity of provin 
the doctrine of  the resurrection by the Old Tes- 
tament; would he not put into requisition thi 
very text, and prove by the s£me a resurrection 
unto eternal life ; and if he did not believe such  
plain and positive proofs as these texts would be,  
would he not consider him a poor, blinded Sad- 
ducee ? Let us be careful that our own mouths  
do not condemn us.  
If then these days can only end with the res  
urrection, it is impossible that these Scriptures  
can apply to Antiochus. And as the rules  
which he has given us in his Hints, are the same  
in substance, which I was forced to adopt more  
than twenty years ago, I cannot believe that An-
tiochus Epiphanes is even hinted at from Daniel  
xi. 14, to the end of the 12th chapter. And if  
the prophecy does not belong to Antiochus, then  
he must acknowledge that the little horn can  
apply only to the papal power; and must agree  
with nearly all protestant writers, that time,  
times and an half, are, together with the other  
numbers in this chapter, to be understood in a  
symbolical sense. And our question cannot be 
settled on any other  basis so fair and conclusive  
as this, and with me it is a matter of unshaken  
faith.  
And now, my kind reader, you must judge;  
and I hope, for the benefit of your own soul, you  
will judge righteously. I know brother Stuart  
has much on his side : he has talent, learning,  
popularity, public, opinion, and the carnal heart 
to uphold him ; he will have all the Catholics  
all the Universalists, all the skeptics, three- 
fourths of the Orthodox, nearly all of other sects,  
Mormons not excepted. He will no doubt claim  
all the learning, and wisdom of the men of this  
But he has not compared Scripture with  
Scripture, nor has he all of the arguments on the  
subject; nor has he made all men feel so much 
peace and safety as he desired. Men's hearts  
are yet failing them for fear, and the midnight  
cry is yet being made. He may have made some 
few lay down their watch, and some scoffers to 
scoff louder; he may have some applause  
from the fearful and unbelieving: but he will  
hear dreadful imprecations in the day of retribu- 
tion, if he is in an error. I hope, almost against  
hope, that he may see  and renounce his errors,  
before it is forever too late.  
Yours, in the truth, ^  
LETTER III.  
DEAR BR. HIMES :—My time has been so  
much taken up of late, I have not been able to  

finish my remarks on Professor Stuart's " Hints  
on Prophecy." I will now examine him on  
Revelation.  
His first argument is, that this prophecy was  
all, or nearly all, fulfilled at the destruction of  
Jerusalem, from the first chapter to the 21st  
verse of the 19th chapter. The main and only  
proof he has produced is from the texts, Rev. i.  
1, 3, and xxii. 7, 12, 20,—" Behold I come  
quickly;" and then says, page 106,—"The  
coming of Christ is the main subject of the book;  
so that the declaration here is, that what the book 
contains, will be speedily accomplished." Yet 
he has not come, as the professor implies in his  
remarks on pages 137, 138. And now I ask,  
what shadow of evidence has he produced, that  
the things here spoken of were accomplished at  
Jerusalem ? When the main subject of the  
book is the coming of Christ, and that yet future,  
I see no common sense, at least, in such argu-
ments ; and if the coming of Christ is prophe- 
sied of, as he says, then the time which inter- 
venes between the prophecy and his coming,  
would naturally be filled up, as in other cases in  
Old Testament prophecies, and in the twenty- 
fourth of Matthew.  
Surely the writer must know that the evi- 
dence preponderates strongly in favor of this  
book being written more than twenty years  
after Jerusalem was destroyed; and if so, then  
his Hints ought to be taken as mere hints, not  
worth minding. His effort to destroy the figu-
rative meaning of time in this book is like the  
mountain in labor; for, 1st, on the text Rev. xi.  
2,—" But  the court which is without the temple,  
leave out, and measure it not; for it is given 
unto the Gentiles : and the holy city shall they 
tread under foot forty and two months,"-—he  
has put this treading under foot of the holy city  
by the Gentiles, forty-two months, at the very 
time when the Jews held possession solely of  
the city of Jerusalem, until the last week of the 
time which he has specified, which, after all,  
lacked a number of weeks of fulfilling the time  
specified in the" prophecy. But never mind  
that; prophecy had better bend or break than  
Professor Stuart lose his popularity. And he 
has provided an armor for self-defence in this  
case; for he says, page 142,—"But let him who  
interprets these passages remember well that  
they are poetry." If this expression had come  
from any other quarter, standing in connexion  
as it does, in Professor S.'s book, the whole  
Christian world would cry out, Shame on such  
an author! But we live in a strange time;  
Bible can be changed to fiction, and fiction to 
reality.  
Again; the professor, at the same time he calls  
Jerusalem the " holy city," has another event  
transpire in which Jerusalem is called " spiritu- 
lly Sodom and Egypt." Here is a plain and pal- 
pable contradiction ; and if a common man had 
made a blunder so visible and easy to be detect- 
ed, the world would have called him in dotage, 
or insane. How inconsistent are the views of  
such writers as Professor S., at the same breath  
to call Jerusalem the holy city, and spiritually  
Sodom and Egypt! We know that the house  
of God and the city of Jerusalem had been 
made desolate by Jesus Christ more than thirty  
years before its destruction by the Romans.  
Matt, xxiii. 38: " Behold, your house is left  
unto you desolate." We know, again, if Jeru-
salem is meant by the " holy city," then the  
treading it down by the Gentiles is since its de- 
struction, rather than before, and must continue 
to the end of the gospel dispensation. See  
Luke xxi. 24: "And they shall fall by the  
edge of the sword, and shall be led away cap- 
tive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be 
trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of


the Gentiles be fulfilled." Now see the incon- 
sistency of this writer ; the forty-two months, or 
three and a half years, Rev. xi. 2, is the time  
When the Romans besieged Jerusalem, and trod  
the holy city under foot, and persecuted the  
Jews, the holy people; when it is a well-known  
fact, that the Jews had possession of the city,  
and kept out the Romans during the time he  
has specified, except a few weeks, which he 
acknowledges is wanting to fill up the time.  
He then tries to prove that God is not very par-
ticular about time; if, in giving three and a 
half years, he comes within a few weeks, he  
does well!  
Then, Rev. xi. 3, the 126C days of the two  
witnesses prophesying, clothed in sackcloth, is 
at the same time. He intimates that these two  
witnesses are two Christians, who could not  
obey their Lord, and flee to Pella or the moun- 
tains, but staid in the city, and were persecuted 
by the Jews. In this he is very unfortunate,  
having neither history, common sense, nor the 
resurrection of Nero to help him out of his diffi- 
culty ; for, if the reader will notice, it i-s Nero  
coming up out of the abyss, which, according to  
Professor S., is to make war with the two wit- 
nesses, Rev. xi. 7,—" And when they shall 
have finished their testimony, the beast that 
ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make  
war against them, and shall overcome them, and 
kill them;"—and, as he has failed to prove that  
Nero did come up out of the pit or abyss at the  
close of the siege of Jerusalem, his construction  
of this passage in Revelation must fall into the 
abyss of forgetfulness with his Nero, and remain 
only as a memento of the folly of our would-be  
great men, and the insanity of the wisdom of  
this world.  
Again, the church in the wilderness, Rev.  
xii. 6—14: " And the woman fled into the wil-
derness, where she hath a place prepared of  
God, that they should feed her there a thousand  
two hundred and threescore days. And there  
was war in heaven: Michael and his.angels  
fought against the dragon: and the dragon  
fought and his angels, and prevailed not; nei-
ther was their place found any more in heaven. 
And the great dragon was cast out, that old ser- 
pent, called the Devil, and Satan,  which deceiv- 
eth the whole world : he was cast out into the  
earth, and his angels were cast out with him.  
And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven,  
Now is come salvation, and strength, and the 
kingdom of our God, and the power of his  
Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast 
down which accused them before our God day 
and night. And they overcame him by the  
blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their tes- 
timony ; and they loved not their lives unto the 
death. Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye 
that dwell in them. Wo to the  inhabiters of  
the earth, and of the sea! for the devil is come  
down unto you, having great wrath, because he  
knoweth that he hath but a short time. And  
when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the  
earth, he persecuted-the woman which brought  
forth the man-child. And to the woman were  
given two wings of a great eagle, that she might  
fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she  
is nourished for a time, and times, and half a  
time, from the face of the serpent." This was 
fulfilled at the siege of the city of Jerusalem.'  
The Christians fleeing to the mountains is the  
church in the wilderness ; but who is the dragon 
making war with the church ? Not the Jews, 
for their persecution of the church ceased, as the  
professor says, when they left Jerusalem. Did  
the Romans cast out water as a flood, after those  
few Christians who fled from Jerusalem ? There  
is no account of such a war. Verse 17 : "And 
the dragon was wroth with the woman, and  

went to make w$r with the remnant of her seed, 
which keep the commandments of God and have  
the testimony of Jesus Christ." And the pro- 
fessor, instead of giving us facts on which to  
build his theory, is forced to bring in his vain 
and foolish traditions, and to suppose cases  
which history has not given, to give any color  
to his exposition of  these texts; and when he  
has done all he can do, he evidently leaves him- 
self and us in total darkness, and with this im-
pression,—that Christ, who gave this revelation,  
and John, who wrote it, for fear of being  
prosecuted for treason, made use of old wives'  
fables to represent facts which were com- 
ing upon the earth, and which facts never did  
exist, nor ever will; for Nero's head never was  
healed nor ever will be, before the three and a 
half years, as he applies it, are fulfilled.  
The reader must perceive that the beast in  
Rev. xiii. 3—5, is the beast with the deadly  
wound healed; and, according to Professor S.,  
the forty-two months were all fulfilled before  
the beast (Nero) was wounded to death. There- 
fore, what the author of this new theory has  
said in his book concerning the forty-two  
months in this chapter, is too silly to need a  
serious reply. No man can, or will, for a mo- 
ment believe his exposition of the text.  
All that Professor Stuart can or will claim.,  
if he is honest, will be, a cardinal's cap, as de-
fender of the Roman faith, from the pope. His  
writings partake strongly of Puseyism, and he  
seems to be opening the door for a reconciliation  
to the mother church. I would therefore advise  
him to go home, and no longer deceive the pub- 
lic with his Protestant profession. If papacy 
is not the head healed, and is not the woman  
sitting on the scarlet-colored beast, then is the  
Roman Catholic church the only true church on  
earth.  
As it respects the author's Messianic or Mil- 
lennium clay of which he speaks, pages 130  
—133, he has not pretended to bring a single  
proof from the Bible, neither can he bring any.  
He has blasphemously forbidden the Godhead, the  
dying love of Jesus, and the precious promises, 
to have anything but his millennium. He has told  
us that the close of this wrr4d will be a period of  
great prosperity and glory to the church, in plain  
contradiction to our Savior's own words, Matt,  
xiii. 40—42, xxiv. 38, 39. How inconsistent it is 
to suppose, that, after Christ has taken posses- 
sion of the whole earth, after he has thoroughly  
purged his floor, conquered death and him that  
lias the power of death, dashed the kingdoms  
of this world to pieces, and carried them away,  
that no place is found for them, set up a king-
dom under the whole heaven, which shall fill  
the earth, and that an everlasting kingdom, the  
subjects to be the same forever, never given to  
another people, and his tabernacle to be with  
men, his dwelling with them, and they made  
kings and priests to God and Christ, and reign  
on the earth with him—then, after all this, these  
temporal millennium advocates say that the 
world is to be burned up, consumed, and anni-
hilated ! This, to me, is both inconsistent and  
absurd, taught neither by Scripture nor reason.  
I believe the world must be cleansed, purged 
from the curse, from sin and sinners, before  
Christ will take possession and set up his glori- 
fied kingdom on the earth. I believe this will  
be done by fire. As the earth was once de-
stroyed by water, so it is reserved to be de- 
stroyed by fire, and in like manner. And this  
is to be when Christ shall descend from heaven 
in flaming fire; and then he will mate all  
things new, a new heaven and new earth. Can  
it be supposed that God will annihilate all the  
material heavens and earth, and make an en- 
tirely new work ? No, by no means; for if  

this was the case, then man must be annihilated 
too; for man must be made new, for he is one  
of the things that is to inherit the new heaven 
and earth. Then, before the kingdom of God 
can be set up on the earth, the same must be made  
new, as man must be made new before he can 
be admitted into the kingdom of God; for flesh 
and blood, in this imperfect state, cannot inherit  
the kingdom of God. So must the earth be  
purified by fire; and every man's work must be  
tried, so as by fire. As the earth was once 
baptized by water, so it is reserved to be im-
mersed in fire; and then the glory- of God will 
be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.  
I am truly astonished at the ignorance of the  
word of God manifested by our great men. I  
find among our common citizens more common  
sense, intelligence, much more, than in the  
higher ranks of our learned men. Wrhy is it  
so ? I cannot tell, without the same cause 
exists now as did when Christ used the words  
of Isaiah. See Matt. xiii. 14,15, Isa. vi. 9—11.  
I have come to this conclusion, that in nine cases 
out of ten our learned men have made the wis-
dom of this world their god, and they forget  
their dependence on God and his word; they 
learn to criticise, and cavil, but not to believe and  
obey. - 
There is one evidence which they all give.  
In all their writings not a particle of truth do  
they admit is furnished by second advent wri- 
ters. No credit whatever; they oppose every  
sentiment, however plain, like the judgment, and 
coming of the Son of man in the clouds, and the  
kingdom given to him, Daniel vii. 9—14; or  
the resurrection, in Daniel xii. 2, 13. This is a 
strong evidence that the God of this world has  
blinded their eyes. Many of them are denying 
the resurrection of the body and a judgment 
day. These things are strong evidences that  
there is some blindness on their part, at least 
among common-sense minds. The learned  
class, as they call themselves, may puff each  
other, but this only serves to sink them lower  
in the minds of all honest thinking people. If  
Professor S. had only given his rules of inter- 
pretation, and there left his cause, he would 
have done much good; but when he comes to  
put in practice his own rules, he has shown his  
object to be, not to get truth, but to darken it 
by a multiplicity of words without knowledge.  
Now let any man read his explanation of the 
little horn in Daniel vii. 8, 11, 21—25, and if  
this writer has got the truth, then I will, and  
must, acknowledge, that there is no rule binding 
in the Scriptures ; for a greater departure, from  
the plain, simple meaning of words was never  
seen.  
Again, his explanation of Matt. xxiv. 15,—  
also of the wounded head healed in Rev. xiii. 
3—7,—all these passages, with many more 
which might be shown, prove that the writer 
is hard pressed for arguments to support a 
theory of so feeble a texture that the illiterate  
and unlearned can demolish it at a blow.  
Let the Professor beware, lest he puts into the  
hands of his enemies a weapon which will, if  
used against his orthodoxy, as he has used it  
against the figurative meaning of time, sweep  
his creed and church by the board. But in my  
mind, he has confirmed me more and more  
in the principle that God has, for wise purposes,  
revealed the end of the world by figures in a  
symbolical sense; and that for the very reason  
which Christ has given, Matt. xi. 25: "At that  
time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, 0  
Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou  
hast hid these things from the wise and prudent,  
and hast revealed them unto babes." There- 
fore let us all be careful that we are ready, and  
no harm can befall us. WM. MILLER.