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it will surely come, it will not tarry.  
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THE MIDNIGHT CRY.  
LECTURES  
Will be continued, three times on the Sabbath, at the  
Apollo Hall, 410 Broadway,—and at Columbia Hall,  
263 Grand street, on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday  
and Friday evenings. Prayer meetings will be held  
on Thursday evening, at several private dwellings.  
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES  
ON WHICH THE  
SECOND ADVENT CAUSE IS BASED.  
1. The word of God teaches that this earth is to be  
regenerated, in the restitution of all things, restored to  
its Eden state as it came from the hands of its Maker  
before the fall, and is to be the eternal abode of the  
righteous in their resurrection state.  
II. The only Millennium found in the word of God  
is the eternal stale of the righteous in the New Earth, 
wherein dwelleth righteousness.  
III. The only restoration of Israel yet future, is the  
restoration of the saints to the New Earth, when the  
Lord my God shall come, and all his saints with him.  
IV. The signs which were to precede the coming of  
our Saviour have all been given; and the prophecies  
have all been fulfilled but those which relate to the  
coming of Christ, the end of this world, and the resti-
tution of all things. And  
V. There are none of the prophetic periods as we  
understand them, that extend beyond the year 1843.  
The above we shall ever maintain as the immutable  
truths of the word of God, and therefore till our Lord  
come we shall ever look for his return as the  next event  
in historical prophecy.  
POINTS OF DIFFERENCE BETWEEN  US AND OUR OPPO- 
NENTS.—1. We hold that the prophetic days of Daniel  
and John are years; as did Wesley, Scott, Clark, Fletch- 
er, the learned Joseph Mede, Faber, Prideaux, Dr. Hales,  
Bishop Newton, and Sir Isaac Newton, with all the  
standard protestant commentators. Our opponents  
claim they are simply days, or half days !  
2. We claim that the prophecies of Daniel and John  
are historical prophecies, extending to the end of time,  
as all Christians have held, according to the undoubted  
testimony of historians, till our day. And we do not see 
that the end is brought to view at all if it is not in these  
prophecies.  
Our opponents, to say  the least, leave us in doubt whe- 
ther they have not all been fulfilled  in the past.  
3. We claim that the ninth of Daniel is an appendix to  
the eighth, and that the seventy weeks and the 2300  
days or years, commence together. Our opponents deny 
this.  
If the "EXCEEDING GREAT HORN" of Dan. 8  
is ROME, as all standard protestant commentators admit,  
it follows that the 2300 days must be years. And as  

the 2300 days extend to the  cleansing of the sanctuary,  
and the sanctuary is to be desolated to the end of the  
world ; if they begin with the seventy weeks, it follows  
that we have approached the very consummation, and  
may look daily for the coming of the Son of God.  
HEMPSTEAD CAMP-MEETING.  
This was a season of refreshing to those who at- 
tended. At first, there seemed a determination on the  
part of the church members, to stifle all interest, curi-
osity, or feeling among the people. One Presbyterian  
said, a man who went there ought to be disciplined.  
When the hour for opening the meeting arrived, there 
was not a person on the seats, and but few in the vicin- 
ity. We commenced speaking on the parable of the  
nobleman in the 19th chapter of Luke. Before the  
close, from fifty to one hundred were present. A still 
larger number came in the evening, when brother Mat-
thias showed how unscriptural is the modern notion of  
a temporal millennium. The next two days, brethren  
Barry and Jacobs conducted. The audiences were  
much increased. A large part of the hearers seemed 
moved by idle curiosity, yet the truth was beginning to 
take effect. Thursday afternoon, brother Whiting  
preached, and brother Jacobs followed. The Holy  
Ghost was manifestly poured out, and many shared in  
the blessing. The first to bear his testimony was a 
colored man. Sister Fazon spoke in a very interesting  
manner upon sanctification. In the evening, brother  
Fitch spoke upon Acts 1: 6. The great doctrine of the 
restoration of the kingdom as future, and near, was 
impressed on many minds. The next day, (Friday,) it 
rained, so that we had but few of the neighboring peo-
ple present. The largest tent was crowded, however,  
and sister Fazon spoke in her accustomed simple and  
touching style. So many testimonies were then borne 
to the happiness enjoyed in believing, trusting faith, 
that no time was left for brother Fitch, for whom an  
appointment had been made at 11 o'clock. He com-
menced at one, and continued speaking to a deeply  
affected audience, till it was necessary to leave for the  
cars, which started at 4.  
Brethren Barry and Jacobs continued the meetings  
till the next day  at noon, when they took leave ; but  
so great had been the anxiety manifested to hear, that  
we then gave out notice for meetings the next day,  
(Sabbath,) although the tents had already been taken  
down, and brethren Whiting, Fitch, aud Barry, had  
already gone, and brother Jacobs was leaving. The 
attendance on the Sabbath was very large and orderly.  
We continued the meeting till nearly six o'clock, and  
the evident interest of the listeners seemed to promise 
that the seed would spring up. We gave away a large 
number of papers, and great anxiety was expressed for 
more. May the Lord bless the seed.  
We have reason to believe that many received the  
word with readiness of mind, and searched the Scrip-
tures daily to see if these things were so. Especially  
was this the case with the family of Mrs. Ludlow, who  
freely opened her doors, and liberally ministered to the  
wants of the preachers and others.  
We bade farewell to the islanders with thankfulness  
and hope.  

For the Midnight Cry  
FIRST PRINCIPLES OF  
THE SECOND ADVENT FASTH.  
WITH SCRIPTURE PROOFS.  
CHAPTER I.  
The Lord Jesus Christ will come to this  
earth a second time.  
Acts 1: 9—11. "And when he had spoken these  
things, while they beheld, he was taken up: and a  
cloud received him out of their sight. And while they  
looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, be- 
hold, two men stood by them in white apparel; which  
also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up  
into heaven/? this same Jesus which is taken up from  
you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye  
have seen him go into heaven."  
Heb. 9 : 28. " And  to them that look for him shall  
he appear the second time without sin unto salvation."  
Job 19 : 25—27. " For I know that my Redeemer  
liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon  
the earth : and though after my skin worms destroy this  
body, yet in my flesh shall I see God : whom I shall  
see for myself, and mine eyes shall  behold, and not  
another; though my reins be consumed within me."  
For proof that this will be at the resurrection, see  
Psalms 17 : 15. " As for me, I shall behold thy face 
in righteousness : I shall be satisfied, when I awake 
with thy likeness."  
Isa. 24 : 23. " Then the  moon shall be confounded,  
and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall 
reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his  
ancients gloriously."  
26: 21. "For behold the Lord cometh out of his  
place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their  
iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and  
shall no more cover her slain."  
59 : 20. " And the Redeemer shall come to Zion,  
and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob,  
saith the Lord."  
54: 1—4. "Sing, O barren, thou that didst not  
bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou  
that didst not travail with child : for more are the chil- 
dren of the desolate than the children of the married  
wife, saith the Lord. Enlarge the place of thy tent,  
and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy habita- 
tions ; spare not, lengthen thy cords and strengthen  
thy stakes; for thou shalt break forth on the right 
hand and on the left; and  thy seed shall inherit the  
Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.  
Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed : neither be  
thou confounded ; for thou shalt not be put to shame :  
for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt 
not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any 
more."  
66 : 15. " For behold, the Lord will come with fire,  
and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his 
anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire."  
Dan. 7 : 13, 14. " 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. And there was given 
him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all peo- 
ple, nations, and languages, should serve him: his do-
minion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass 
away, and his kingdom that which shall not be de-
stroyed."  
Matt. 24 : 30. " And then shall appear the sign of  
the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the 
tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of 
man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and  
great glory."  
Mark 13 : 34. "For the Son of man is as a man  
taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave au-
thority to his servants, and to every man his work ; and 
commanded the porter to watch."


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Luke 17: 26, 27. " And as it was in the days of  
Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.  
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they  
were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered  
into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them  
all."  
John 14: 1—3. " Let not your heart be troubled:  
ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's  
house are many mansions : if it were not so, I would  
have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And  
if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again  
and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye  
may be also."  
1 Cor. 15 : 22, 23. "For as in Adam all die, even  
so in Christ shall all be made alive. Bat every man in  
his own order : Christ the first-fruits ; afterward they  
that are Christ's at his coming."  
Philip. 3 : 20. " For our conversation* is in heaven ;  
from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord 
Jesus Christ."  
1 Thess. 2 : 19. " For what is our hope, or joy, or  
crown of rejoicing 1 Are not even ye in the presence  
of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming V  
3: 13. "To the end that he may stablish your  
hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our  
Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all 
his saints."  
4 : 16—18. " For the Lord himself shall descend  
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the arch- 
angel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in  
Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and 
remain shall be caught up together with them in the  
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air : and so shall we  
ever be with the Lord. Wherefore, comfort one an- 
other with these words."  
2 Thess. 2 : 1. "Now we beseech you brethren,  
by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by our  
gathering together unto him."  
Titus 2 : 13. " Looking for that blessed hope, and  
the glorious appearing of the great God and our Sa-
viour Jesus Christ."  
1 John 3:2. " Beloved now we are sons of God,  
and it doth not yet appear what we shall be : but we  
know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like  
him ; for we shall see him as he is."  
Rev. 1; 7. " Behold, he cometh with clouds ; and  
every eye shall see him; and all kindreds of the earth 
shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen."  
21 : 3. "And I heard a great voice out of heaven,  
saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, 
and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his peo-
ple, and God himself shall be with them, and be their  
God."  
22 : 20. " He which testifieth these things saith,  
Surely I come quickly : Amen. Even so, come, Lord  
Jesus."  
CHAPTER II.  
The second coming of Christ will be per- 
sonal and visible.  
Acts 1: 9—11. John 14: 3. 1 Thess. 4: 16.  
These texts have already been quoted. See chap. 1. •  
2 Thess. 1:7. " And to you, who are troubled, rest  
with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from  
heaven with his mighty angels."  
Matt. 24: 30. Matt. 16: 27. " For the Son of  
man shall come in the glory of his Father, with his  
angels; and then he shall reward every man according  
to his works."  
Mark 13 : 26. " And then shall they see the Son of  
man coming in the clouds with great power and glory."  
Rev. 1 : 7. Job 19 : 25—27. 1 Pet. 1 : 13—  
" 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."  
The Greek word parousia (coming) occurs 24 times  
in the New Testament, and in every instance it refers  
to the actual appearing or coming of the object referred  
to. People talk of Christ's coming spiritually. But  
as he has never left this world by his Spirit, he cannot 
be said to come spiritually again; for how can that  
which is with us, be said to come to us ?  
CHAPTER III.  
There will be no Millennium previous to  
the second coming of Christ.  
Dan. 7: 21, 22. "I beheld, and the same horn  
(Papacy) made war with the saints, and prevailed  
against them; until the Ancient of days came, and  

judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and  
the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom."  
Here we see that war is to be made upon the saints  
till the coming of Christ. If we have a millennium to 
precede the coming of Christ it must be infested with 
papacy. See also Dan. 12: 1—3, 10. "And at tha 
time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which  
standeth for the children of thy people : and there shall  
be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was  
a nation even to that same time : and at that time thy  
people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found 
written in the book. And many of them that eleep in the  
dust ofthe earth shall awake, some to everlasting life,  
and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they  
that be wise, shall shine as the brightness of the firma-
ment ; and they that turn many to righteousness, as 
the stars for ever and ever. . . . 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."  
Matt. 13 : 30. " Let both (the tares and the wheat)  
grow together until the harvest: and in the time of  
harvest I will say to the reapers, gather together first 
the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them : but  
gather the wheat into my barn."  
37—40. " He answered and said unto them, He  
that soweth the good seed is the Son of man ; The  
field is the world ; the good seed are the children of the  
kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the wicked  
one; the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the 
harvest is the end of the world ; and the reapers are  
the angels. As therefore the tares are gathered and  
burned in the fire ; so shall it be in the end of this  
world."  
The tares and the wheat are to grow together till  
the harvest, which is the end of the world.* If we  
have a millennium before Christ comes, it must have a 
mixture of tares with the wheat!  
Matt. 24 : 37—39. " But as the the days of Noe  
were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.  
For as in the days that were before the flood, they  
were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in mar- 
riage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and  
knew not until the flood came, and took them all away :  
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."  
Luke 17: 26—30. " Likewise also as it was in the  
days of Lot: they did eat, they drank, they bought, they  
sold, they planted, they builded; but the same day  
that Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brim-
stone from heaven, and destroyed them all; even thus 
shall it be in the day when the Son of man is re- 
vealed."  
Instead of there being a day of millennial glory be- 
fore Christ comes, it is to be as it was it the days of  
Noah and Lot.  
1 Tim. 4: 1—3. " Now the Spirit speaketh ex- 
pressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from 
the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines  
of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their con- 
science seared with a hot iron ; forbidding to marry, 
and commanding to abstain from meats, which God  
hath created to be received with them which believe  
and know the truth."  
2 Tim. 3 : 1—5, 12, 13. " This know also, that in  
the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall  
be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,  
blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,  
without natural affection, truce-breakers, false accu- 
sers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are 
good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures 
more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, 
but denying the power thereof : from such tarn away.  
. . . Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus  
will suffer persecution. But evil men and seducers  
shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being de- 
ceived."  
1 Peter 4 : 13. " But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are  
partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory  
shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding  
joy."  
2 Peter 3 : 3—7. " Knowing this first, that there  
shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their 
own lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of his 
coming 1 for since the fathers fell asleep, all things  
* Politeuma, citizenship.  
122  

* That the original word ai5n, here translated world  
does not signify the Jewish age or dispensation, is mani- 
fest from such passages as these where this word [aion]  
is rendered world. 2 Tim. 4 : 10 ; Luke 20 : 35 ; Titus  
2: 12; Eph. 1 : 21.  

continue as they were from the beginning of the crea-
ation. For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by  
the word of God the heavens  were of old, and the earth  
standing out of the water and in the water : whereby  
the world that then was, being overflowed with water,  
perished: but the heavens and the earth, which are 
now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved  
unto fire against the day of judgment, and perdition of  
ungodly men."  
Rev. 11 : 15,18. "And the seventh angel sounded ;  
and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The 
kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of  
our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for  
ever and for ever. . . . And the nations were angry, 
and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that 
they should be judged, and that thou shouldst reward 
unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and  
them that fear thy name, small and great; and shouldst  
destroy them that destroy the earth."  
This is far from presenting a picture of millennial  
glory to precede Christ's coming!  
CHAPTER IV.  
The Jews as a nation will not return to Pal- 
estine, because they are not the rightful heirs 
of the promised land.  
Matt. 3 : 9. " And think not to say within your- 
selves, We have Abraham to our father : for I say unto 
you, that God is able of these stones to raise up chil- 
dren unto Abraham."  
John 8: 39, 44. "They answered and said unto  
him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them,  
if ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works  
of Abraham. ... Ye are of your father the devil, and 
the lusts of your father ye will do : he was a murderer  
from the beginning, and abode not in the truth ; be- 
cause there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a  
lie, he speaketh of his own : for he is a liar and the 
father of it."  
Rev. 2 : 9. "I know thy  works, and tribulation,  
and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blas- 
phemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, 
but of are the synagogue of Satan."  
3 : 9. " Behold, I will make them of the synagogue  
of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do  
lie ; behold, I will make them to come and worship be- 
fore thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee."  
Isa. 65: 11—15. " But ye are they that forsake  
the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a 
table for that troop, and that furnish the drink-offering 
unto that number. Therefore will I number you to the  
sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter,—  
because when I called, ye did not answer; when I  
spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes,  
and did choose that wherein I delighted not. There- 
fore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my servants  
shall eat, but ye shall be hungry : behold, my servants 
shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty; behold, my servants 
shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed ; behold, my ser- 
vants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for  
sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. 
And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my 
chosen ; for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his  
servants by another name."  
Could the title of the carnal Jews to the land of  
promise, be denied in stronger language 1  
Acts 13 : 45, 46. " But when the Jews saw the  
multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake  
against those things which were spoken by Paul, con- 
tradicting and blaspheming. Then Paul and Barnabas  
waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word  
of God should have been first spoken to you  ; but see- 
ing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy  
of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles."  
Rom. 9 : 25—28,31,32. "As he saith also in Osee,  
I will call them My people, which were not my people ;  
and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall  
come to pass,that in the place where it was said unto them,  
Ye are not my people ; there shall they be called, The 
children of the  living God. Esaias also crieth concern- 
ing Israel, though the number of the children of Israel 
be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved :  
for he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteous- 
ness,—because a short work will the Lord make upon  
the earth. . . . But Israel, which followed after the 
law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of 
righteousness. Wherefore 1 Because they sought it  
not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. 
For they stumbled at that stumbling stone."


Isa. 6 ; 9—11. "And he said. Go, and tell this peo- 
ple, Hear ye indeed, but understand not; and see ye 
indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this peo- 
ple fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes,  
lest they see with their eyes,and hear with their ears,and  
understand with their heart, and convert and be healed.  
Then said I, Lord, how long 1 And he answered,  
Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant,  and the  
houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate."  
Deut. 28 : 61,63. "Also every sickness, and every  
plague which is not written in the book of this law, them  
will the Lord bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed. . .  
And it shall come to pass, as the Lord rejoiced over you  
to do you good, and to multiply  you; so the Lord will re- 
joice over you to destroy you and to bring you to nought;  
and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou 
goest to possess it."  
Jer. 23 : 39, 40. " Therefore behold, I, even I, will  
utterly forget you, and I will forsake you, and the city 
that I gave you and your fathers, and cast you out of  
my presence ; and I will bring an everlasting reproach 
upon you, and a perpetual shame, which shall not be  
forgotten."  
In the above passages we are taught that the Jews  
are to be left in utter desolation and blindness, till the  
land be without inhabitant, or till the end—and that in- 
stead of being restored, they are to be plucked up for- 
ever—to be an everlasting reproach, and a perpetual  
shame.  
CHAPTER Y.  
Believers,—Christians  are  the true Jews, the  
real Israel of God, the true seed, and the right-
ful heirs of the promised land.  
Rom. 2 : 28, 29.—" For he is not a Jew which is  
one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is  
outward in the flesh. But he is a Jew which is one in- 
wardly, and circumcision  is that of the heart, in the  
spirit, and not in the letter ; whose praise is not of men  
but of God."  
Those whom we call Jews  are NOT Jews.  
Rom. 9 : 6—8. " Not as though the word of God  
hath taken none effect; for they are not all Israel, 
which are of Israel. Neither because they are the 
seed of Abraham are they all children; but in Isaac 
shall thy seed be called. That is, they which are the  
children of the flesh, these are not the children of 
God, but the children ofthe promise are counted for the  
seed."  
Gal. 4 : 28. " Now we, brethren, [ALL who believe,  
whether Jew or Gentile,] as Isaac was, are the children  
of promise."  
We will now examine the original promise, as made  
to Abraham.  
Gen. 13 : 14, 15. "And the Lord said unto Abram,  
after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine  
eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward,  
and southward, and eastward, and westward ; for all the  
land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy  
seed forever."  
Gen. 17 : 7, 8.  " And I will establish my covenant  
between me and thee, and thy seed after thee, in their  
generations, for an everlasting covenant ; to be a God 
unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give  
unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein 
thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an ever- 
lasting possession ; and I will be their God."  
The following show that the promise was not of  
literal Canaan.  
Acts 7 : 4, 5. " Then came he out of the land of  
the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran, and from thence,  
when his father was dead, he removed him into this  
land wherein ye now dwell. And he gave him none in- 
heritance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot on;  
yet he promised that he would give it to him for a pos- 
session, and to his seed after him, when as yet he had  
no child."  
Heb. 11 : 8—10. "By faith Abraham, when he  
was called to go out into a place which he should after 
receive tor an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out  
not knowing whither he went. By faith he sojourned 
in the land of promise as in a strange country, dwelling  
in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him 
of the same promise. For he looked for a city which  
hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God."  
v. 13—16. " These all died in faith, not having re- 
ceived the promises, but having seen them afar off, and  
were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and con- 

fessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the  
earth. For they that say such things declare plainly  
that they seek a country. And truly, if they had been 
mindful of that country from whence they came out, they  
might have had opportunity to have returned. But now  
they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly; where- 
fore God is not ashamed to be called their God ; for he  
hath prepared for them a city:"  
v. 39, 40. And these all having obtained a good re- 
port through faith, received not the promise : God hav-
ing provided some better thing for us, that they without  
us should not be made perfect."  
Original promises to Isaac and Jacob.  
Gen. 26 : 3,  4. " Sojourn in this land, and I will be  
with thee, and will bless thee ; for unto thee and unto  
thv seed I will give all these countries, and I will per- 
form the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father.  
And I will make thy seed to multiply  as the stars of  
heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries : 
and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be  
blessed."  
Gen. 28: 13, 14. "And behold, the Lord stood  
above it and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy  
father, and the God of Isaac; the land whereon thou  
liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed. And thy  
seed shall be as the dust of the earth ; and thou shalt  
spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the  
north, and to the south ; and in thee and in thy seed 
shall all the families of the earth be blessed."  
Now who are THE SEED 1  
Gal. 3 ; 7—9. " Know ye, therefore, that they  
which are of faith, the same are the children of Abra- 
ham. And the scripture, foreseeing that God would  
justify the heathen through faith, preached before the  
gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations  
be blessed. So then they which are of faith are blessed 
with faithful Abraham."  
v. 16-19,26-29. "Now to Abraham and his seed were  
the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of 
many, but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.  
And this I say, That the covenant that was confirmed  
before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hun- 
dred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it 
should make the promise of none effect. For if the in- 
heritance be of the law, it is no more of promise ; but  
God gave it to Abraham bypromise. Wherefore, then,  
serveth the law 1 It was added because of trangres- 
sions, till the seed should come to whom the promise 
was made ; and it was ordained by angels in the hand 
of a mediator. . . For ye are all the children of God by  
faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as have 
been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There 
is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor  
free, there is neither male nor female, for ye are all one  
in Christ Jesus. And if ye be Christ's, then are ye 
Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."  
The above show to whom the promises belong. The  
following allegory presents the subject in a clear light.  
Gal. 4 : 21-26, 28, 30, 31. "Tell me, ye thatdesire to  
be under the law, do ye not hear the law 1 For it is writ- 
ten that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond-
maid, the other by a free woman. But he who was of  
the bond woman was born after the flesh ; but he ofthe 
free woman was by promise. Which things are an al-
legory ; for these are the two covenants r the one from 
the Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which  
is Agar. For this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and  
answereth to Jerusalem which now is,, and is in bond- 
age with her children. But Jerusalem which is above 
is free, which is the mother of us all. . , . Now we, 
brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.  
..... Nevertheless-, what saith the scripture ?  
Cast out the bond woman and her son ; for the son of  
the bond woman shall not be heir with the son of the  
free woman. So then, brethren, we are not children of  
the bond woman, but ofthe free."  
CHAPTER VI.  
This earth renewed is the promised ever- 
lasting inheritance ofthe saints.  
Gen. 13 : 14, 15. Gen. 17: 7, 8.  
Dan. 2 : 34, 35. "Thou sawest till that a stone was  
cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his  
feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. 
Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and  
the gold broken to pieces together, and became like the 
chaff of the summer threshing floors ; and the wind 
carried them away, that no place was found for them ;  
and the stone that smote the image became a great  
mountain, and filled the whole earth."  

v. 44.—" And in the days of these kings shall the  
God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be  
destroyed ; and the kingdom shall not be left to other  
people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all  
these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever."  
Dan. 7 : 13,14,27. " 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. And there was given  
him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all peo- 
ple, nations, and languages should serve him : his do-
minion is an everlasting  dominion, which shall not pass  
away, and his kingdom that which shall not be de- 
stroyed And the kingdom and dominion, 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 do-
minions shall serve and obey him."  
Heb. 11 : 8—10, 13, 16.  
Ps. 37 : 9, 11, 18, 22, 27, 29, 34. " For evil doers  
shall be cut off, but those that wait upon the Lord,  
they shall inherit the earth. . . . But the meek shall  
inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the  
abundance of peace. . . . The Lord knoweth the days 
of the upright, and their inheritance shall be forever.  
.... For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the  
earth, and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.  
. . . Depart from evil, and do good, and dwell forever- 
more. . . . The righteous shall inherit the land, and 
dwell therein forever. . . . Wait on the Lord and keep 
his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land :  
when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it."  
Ps. 7 : 8.—" The Lord shall judge the people : judge  
me, O Lord, according to my righteousness,  and ac- 
cording to mine integrity that is in me."  
The foregoing passages prove the extent and dura- 
tion of the inheritance promised to Abraham and his 
seed. Paul corroborates this viaw of the extent of the  
territorial dominion.  
Rom. 4 : 13. " For the promise that he should be  
the heir ofthe wmrld was not to Abraham or to his seed 
through the law, but through the righteousness  of faith."  
The earth is to be renewed before the saints possess  
it. It is called " the purchased possession,"  yet to be  
redeemed..  
Eph. 1: 13, 14. " In whom ye also trusted, after  
that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your sal- 
vation ; in whom also, after that ye believed, ye were  
sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the  
earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the  
purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory."  
2 Peter 3 : 6, 7.  
v. 10—13. " But the day of the Lord will come as  
a thief in the night; in the whieh the heavens shall  
pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall  
melt with fervent heat, the earth also, and the works  
that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that 
all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of per- 
sons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godli- 
ness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the  
day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be  
dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent 
heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look 
for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth  
righteousness."  
Where is the promise ? 
Isa. 65: 17—19. "For behold, I create new hea- 
vens and a new earth ; and the former shall not be re-
membered nor come into mind. But be ye glad and re- 
joice forever in that which I create; for behold, I  
create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. And 
I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in my people ; and 
the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor  
the voice of crying."  
John alludes to the same. 
Rev. 21: 1—4. "And I saw a new heaven and a  
new earth ; for the first heaven and the first earth were  
passed away ; and there was no more sea. And I  
John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down  
from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned  
for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of  
heaven saying, Behold the tabernacle of God is with  
men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his 
people, and God himself shall be with them, and be 
their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from  
their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither  
sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more  
pain ; for the former things are passed away."  
Rev. 11; 15.  
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CHAPTER VII.  
The wicked who are living on the earth  
when Christ comes will be destroyed by fire.  
2 Thess. 1: 7—9. "And to you who are troubled  
rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed  
from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire  
taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that  
obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ; who 
shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the 
presence ofthe Lord, and from the glory ofhis power."  
2 Peter 3 : 7, 10. " But the heavens and the earth,  
which are now, by the same word are kept in store,  
reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and per- 
dition of ungodly men. . . . But the day of the Lord  
will come as a thief in the night; in the which the  
heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the 
elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also  
and the works that are therein shall be burned up."  
Rev. 11 : 18. 18: 8. "Therefore shall her plagues  
come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine ; 
and she shall be utterly burned with fire ; for strong is 
the Lord who judgeth her-"  
Deut. 32 : 22. " For a fire is kindled in mine anger,  
and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume  
the earth with her increase, and set on fire the founda- 
tions ofthe mountains."  
Isa. 66: 15, 16, 24. " For by fire and by  sword will  
the Lord plead with all flesh ; and the slain of the Lord  
shall be many. . . . And they shall go forth, and look  
upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed  
against me ; for their worm shall not die, neither shall  
their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring  
unto all flesh."  
Ps. 37 : 10, 20, 38. " For yet a little while, and  
the wicked shall not be; yea, thou shalt diligently con- 
sider his place, and it shall not be. . . . But the wicked  
shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as 
the fat of lambs—they shall consume ; into smoke shall  
they consume away. . . . But the transgressors shall  
be destroyed together; the end of the wicked shall be  
cut off."  
Ps. 11: 6. " Upon the wicked he shall rain snares,*  
fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest; this shall  
be the portion of their cup."  
Prov. 2 : 22. " But the wicked shall be cut off from  
the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of  it."  
Nahum 1:5. " The mountains quake at him, and  
the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence,  
yea, the world, and all that dwell therein."  
Zeph. 1:3. "I will consume man and beast; I will  
consume the fowls ofthe heaven, and the fishes ofthe 
sea, and the stumbling-blocks with the wicked; and I  
will cut off man from off the land saith the Lord."  
Malachi 4; 1—3. "For behold, the day cometh  
that shall burn as an oven ; and all the proud, yea, and all  
that do wickedly, shall be stubble—and the day that  
eometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that  
it shall leave them neither root nor branch."  
Matt. 3': 12. " Whose fan is in his hand, and he  
will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat  
into the garner ; but he will burn up the chaff with un- 
quenchable fire."  
13 : 30, 40—42. " Let both grow together until the  
harvest; and in the time of harvest, I will say to the 
reapers, Gather ye together firstthe tares,and bind them  
in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat  into my  
barn. ... As therefore the tares are gathered and  
burned in the fire ; so shall it be in the end of the world.  
The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they  
shall'gather out ofhis kingdom all things that offend, and  
them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a fur- 
nace of fire,there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth."  
CHAPTER VIII.  
At the coming of Christ the righteous dead  
will be raised, "the righteous living changed, 
and together escape those things that shall  
come upon the earth.  
Job 19: 25—27. Ps. 17: 15. Ps. 50 : 3—5.  
" Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence ; a  
fire shall devour befoie him, and it shall be very  
tempestuous round about him. He shall call to the  
heavens from above, and to the earth, that lie may  
judge his people. Gather my saints together unto  
me; those that have made a covenant with me by 
sacrifice,"  
Isa. 26: 19—21. "Thy dead men shall live, to- 
gether with my dead body shall they arise. Awake  
* The word rendered snares, is, in the margin, quick burning coals,  
or burning wind, which more accurately expresses the original word.  
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and sing, ye that dwell in dust—for thy dew is as the  
dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.  
Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and  
shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself as it were 
for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. 
For behold, the Lord cometh out ofhis place to pun-
ish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the 
earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more 
cover her slain."  
Ezek. 36: 11, 12. "And I will multiply upon you  
man and beast; and they shall increase and bring  
fruit; and I will settle you after your old estates,  
and will do better unto you than at your beginning, and 
ye shall know that I am the Lord. Yea, I will cause  
men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and  
they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their in-
heritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave  
them of men."  
1 Cor. 15 : 22, 23, 51, 52. "For as in Adam all  
die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. But 
every man in his own order: Christ the first-fruits;  
afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. . . . 
Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all  
sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in  
the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump; for the 
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised in- 
corruptible, and we shall be changed."  
1 Thess. 4: 14—18. " For if we believe that  
Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which  
sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we 
say unto you by the word ofthe Lord, that we which  
are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord 
shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the  
Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout,  
with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump  
of God—and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then 
we which are alive and remain shall be caught up 
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord  
in the air; and so  shall we ever be with the Lord.  
Wherefore, comfort one another with these words."  
2 Thess. 2: 1. Rev. 20 : 6. " Blessed and holy  
is he that hath part in the first resurrection ; on such  
the second death hath no power, but they shall be 
priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him  
a thousand years."  
Luke 21 : 36. " Watch ye therefore, and pray al- 
ways, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all 
these things that shall come to pass, and to stand  
befoie the Son of man."  
CHAPER IX.  
The period of Christ's coming is fixed by  
the Scriptures.  
Acts 17 : 30, 31- " And the times of this ignorance  
God winked at; but now cornmandeth all men every  
Where to repent,—because he hath appointed a day,  
in the which he will judge the world in righteousness,  
by that whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath  
given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised  
him from the dead."  
Dan. 7: 13, 14. See chap. VII.  
When did this take place 1 At the breaking up of  
the fourth, or Roman Empire.  
Dan. 2 : 44, 45. " And in the days of these kings  
(feet and toes of the image) shall the God of heaven 
set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed ;  
and the kingdom shall not be left to other peopie,  
but it shall break in pieces and consume all these 
kingdoms and it shall stand forever. Forasmuch as  
thou sawest that the stone was  cut out of the moun- 
tain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the  
iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; 
the great God hath made known to the king what  
shall come to pass hereafter ; and the dream is cer- 
tain, and the interpretation thereof sure."  
Dan. 7 : 17, 18, 23, 26, 27. " These great beasts,  
which aie four, are four kings, which shall arise out  
ofthe earth. But the saints of the Most High shall 
take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever,  
even for ever and ever. . , . The fourth beast shall  
be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be di- 
verse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole 
earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.  
. . . 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 dominion, 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 king-
dom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him."  
Dan. 8: 19, 13, 14. " 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. ... And I heard one saint speaking, and another  
saint said unto that certain saint which spake, How 
long the vision concerning the daily sacrifice, and the  
transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctu- 
ary and the host to be trodden under foot? And he 
said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred  
days, then shall the sanctuary be cleansed."  
Dan. 9: 24,25. " Seventy weeks (of the 2300 days)  
are determined (i. e. cut off) 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 seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the 
Most Holy. . . . Know therefore and understand, thai  
(the commencement is) from the going forth of the 
commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem  
(which see, in Ezra, ch. 7, B. C. 457) unto the  
Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and  
threescore and two weeks ; the street shall be built  
again, and the wall, even in troublous times."  
Matt. 24: 27, 30, 33. " For as the lightning com- 
eth out ofthe east, and shineth even unto the west; 
so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. . . . 
And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in 
heaven ; and then shall all the tribes of the earth  
mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in  
the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. . ..  
So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things,  
KNOW that it is near, even at the doors."  
1 Thess. 5; 4, 5. " But ye, brethren, are not in  
darkness, that that day should overtake you as a 
thief. Ye are all children of light, and the children  
of the day; we are not of the night, nor of dark- 
ness."  
Matt. 24 : 37. 
How was it in the days of Noah 1 Ans. God re- 
vealed the time of the flood. Gen. 6 : 12, 13, 3.— 
The time was 120 years.  
Rev. 14: 6, 7. "And I saw another angel fly in  
the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel  
to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to  
every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, 
saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory  
to him ; for the hour of judgment is come ; and wor- 
ship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea,  
and the fountains of waters."  
It is obvious that this angel (or messenger) is the  
symbol representing men who should preach this 
gospel. That this judgment is a final one, wiil be 
seen by comparing verses 14—20 with Matt. 13 : 36 
—43. See also Joel 3 : 13.  
CHAPTER X.  
There will be two resurrections, 1000 years  
apart. The first, of ihe Righteous, to take  
place at the coming of Christ.  
Isa. 26: 19—21.  
Hosea 13 : 14. " I will ransom them from the  
power of the grave ; I will redeem them from death :  
O death, I will be thy plagues, O grave, I will be thy  
destruction ; repentance shall be hid from mine eyes."  
Dan. 12 : 2. "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."  
John 5 : 28, 29. " Marvel not at this ; for the hour  
is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall  
hear his voice, and shall come forth; they that have  
done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that 
have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation."  
Acts 24: 14, 15. "But this I confess unto thee,  
that after the  way which they call heresy, so worship I  
the God of my fathers, believing all things which are  
written in the law and in the prophets. And I have  
hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, 
that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of  
the just and unjust."  
1 Cor. 15 : 22, 23, 51, 52. 1 Thess. 4; 14—16.  
The following passages show a marked distinction  
between the resurrection of the righteous and the  
wicked."  
Luke 14: 13, 14. " But when thou makest a feast,  
eall the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind; and 
thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense 
thee ; for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrec- 
tion of the just."  
20: 34, 35. "And Jesus answering, said unto


them, The children of this world marry, and are given  
in marriage ; but they which shall be accounted wor-
thy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the 
dead, neither marry nor are given in marriage."  
Phil. 3 : 10, 11. " That I may know him, and the  
power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his  
sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; if  
by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of  
the dead." [Or, according to the Greek, out from  
among the dead, leaving some behind.]  
Heb. 11 : 35. " Women received their dead raised  
to life again; and others were tortured, not accepting  
deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrec- 
tion."  
Rev. 20 : 4—6, 13. "And I saw thrones, and they  
sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them ; and 
I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the wit-
ness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had  
not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither 
had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their 
hands ; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thou- 
sand years. But the rest of the dead lived not again 
until the thousand years were finished. This is the 
first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath  
part in the first resurrection, on such the second death  
hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of 
Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years. .  . .  
And [after the thousand years] the sea gave up the  
dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up 
the dead which were in them; and they were judged  
every man according to their works. And death and 
hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second 
death. And whosoever was not found written in the  
book of life, was cast into the lake of fire."  
The following extract from Dr. Gill's Body ol Di- 
vinity, shows that that very learned and godly man 
applied the Scriptures concerning the two resurrec- 
tions as we now do :  
" The distribution  of the persons to be raised, are  
of two sorts, the just and the unjust; that the just, or  
righteous ones, will be raised from the dead, there 
can be no doubt; since the resurrection ofthe saints  
is called, the resurrection of the just from them,  
Luke 14 : 14, it being peculiar to them ; and the first  
resurrection, Rev. 20 : 6, because they will rise first;  
and the better resurrection, Heb. 11: 35, being better  
than that of the wicked; and of which only some  
are counted worthy, Luke 20 : 35, and is what the  
apostle Paul desired to attain unto, Phil. 3 ; 11, called  
[exanastasis] a resurrection out from the dead, the 
wicked dead."  
CHAPTER XI.  
Christ's kingdom is not yet setup on the  
earth, bat is to be at his coming.  
Dan. 7 : 13, 14. Christ's kingdom is not set up till  
he comes in the clouds of heaven.  
Dan. 2 : 44.  
Luke 12; 32. " Fear not, little flock, for it is your  
Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom."  
19 : 11, 12. " And as they heard these things, he  
added and spake a parable, because he was nigh to Je-
rusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of  
God should immediately appear. He said therefore, A  
certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for  
himself a kingdom and to return."  
Christ is the nobleman who is gone to receive his  
kingdom.  
2 Tim. 4:1. "I charge thee therefore before God  
and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick  
and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom."  
Rev. 11 ; 15.  
Christ does not come into the possession of his  
kingdom till the seventh angel sounds—this  is the last  
trump.  
Rev. 10: 7. "But in the days of the voice of the  
seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mys-
tery of God should be finished,  as he hath declared to  
his servants the prophets."  
1 Cor. 15 : 51, 52. 
Luke 11/ 2. "And he said unto them, when ye  
pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed 
be thy name, thy kingdom come ; thy will be done, as  
in heaven, so in earth."  
Why pray for the kingdom to come, if it be already  
here.  

CHAPTER XII.  
The second coming of Christ in the glory of  
his Father, with his holy angels, is presented  
in the Scriptures as the great object of the 
desire, hope, and prayer ofthe saints.  
1 Thess. 1: 9, 10. " For they themselves show of  
of what manner of entering in we had unto you, and '•  
how ye turned to God from idols, to serve the living  
and true God ; and to wait for his Son from heaven, 
whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which de- 
livered us from the wrath to come."  
2 Thess. 1: 7. Titus 2: 11—13. " For the grace  
of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all  
men, teaching us, that denying ungodliness,  and  
worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously,  and  
godly in this present world ; looking for that blessed  
hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and  
our Saviour Jesus Christ."  
Rom. 8 : 18, 19, 23. " For I reckon, that the suf- 
ferings of this present time are not worthy to be  
compared with the glory which shall be revealed in  
us. For the earnest expectation of the creature  
waiteth for the manifestation ofthe sons of God. . . .  
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have  
the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan  
within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the  
redemption of our body."  
Phil. 3 : 20, 21. ... " Who shall change our vile  
body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious 
body, according to the working whereby he is able 
even to subdue all things unto himself."  
Heb. 9 :  28.  
2 Peter 3; 11,12. "Seeing then that all these  
things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons 
ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,  
looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day 
of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be 
dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent 
heat t"  
The word speudontas, rendered hasting, signifies  
"earnestly desiring." See Doddridge, Macknight,  
Campbell, and others.  
1 Peter 1: 3—5, 13. "Blessed be the God and Fa- 
ther of our Lord Jesus Christ, which, according to  
his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto a  
lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from 
the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, and unde- 
filed, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven  
for you, who are kept by the power of God through  
faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last  
time. . . . 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."  
1 Peter 4: 12, 13. " Beloved, think it not strange,  
concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as 
though some strange thing happened unto you : but  
rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's  
suffering ; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye  
may be glad also with exceeding joy."  
James 5 : 7, 8. " Be patient therefore, brethren,  
unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husaand- 
man waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and  
hath long patience for it, until he receive the early  
and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your  
hearts,—for the coming ofthe Lord draweth nigh."  
Matt. 25 : 31, 34. " When the Son of man shall  
come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him,  
then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory. . . . 
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand,  
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom  
prepared, for you from the foundation ofthe world."  
Dan. 12: 11, 12. "And from the time that the  
daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomina- 
tion that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a  
thousand two hundred and ninety days. Blessed is 
he that waiteth and cometh to the thousand three  
hundred and five and thirty days."  
Job 19 : 25—27. 
Psalms 49 : 14. " Like sheep they are laid in the  
grave; death shall feed on them ; and the upright  
shall have dominion over them in the morning; and  
their beauty shall consume in the grave from their  
dwelling."  
Rev. 22 : 20. " He which testifieth these things  
saith, Surely I come quickly ; Amen. Even so,  
come, Lord Jesus."  
It is when the seventh angel sounds, that the re- 
ward is given to them that fear the Lord.  

Rev. 11: 18. "And the nations were angry, and  
thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that  
they should be judged, and thou shouldest give reward  
unto thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and  
them that fear thy name, small and great; and 
shouldest destroy them that destroy the earth."  
Col. 3 : 4. "When Christ, who is our life, shall  
appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory."  
1 John 3:2. " We know that, when he shall ap- 
pear, we shall be like him ; for we shall see him as  
he is."  
2Tim. 4: 8. "Henceforth there is laid up for me  
a crown of righteousness,  which the Lord, the right- 
eous Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me  
only, but unto them also that love his appearing."  
The meaning of "THAT DAV," is plain from the  
first verse of the chapter.  
Matt. 16 : 27. " For the Son of man shall come  
in the glory ofhis Father, with his angels; and then  
he shall reward every man according to his works."  
Rev. 22; 12. "And behold, I come quickly; and  
my reward is with me, to give every man according  
as his work shall be."  
Heb. 10 ; 36, 37. " For ye have need of patience,  
that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might re- 
ceive the promise. For yet a little while, and he 
that shall come will come, and will not tarry."  
Compare 11 ; 29, 40. 1 Peter 5 : 4. 
Review this array of testimony, which shows that  
the righteous do  not receive their reward till Christ  
comes ; remember, the popular notion that the right- 
eous enter into complete glory at death, is mere  
"guessing," and you will not wonder that the Scrip- 
tures throw such a bright halo around the subject of  
Christ's second coming, and that, by precept and ex-
ample, they teach us to pray, hope, look, watch, and 
eagerly long for that day.  
CHAPTER XIII.  
The prophetic writings deserve the roost  
careful attention from all who would walk  
safely amidst the dangers of the world.  
2 Peter 1 ; 19—21. " We have also a more sure  
word of prophecy ; whereunto ye do well that ye 
take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place,  
until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your  
hearts ; knowing this first, that no prophecy of the  
scripture is of any private interpretation. For the pro- 
phecy came not in old time by the will of man ; but  
holy men of God spake as they were moved by the  
Holy Ghost."  
BRO. S. C. CHANDLER.—In a letter just received, he  
says—« J shall make arrangements to be in New York 
on or about the 23d, and shall hold myself ready to go  
to Pennsylvania, or any other part of the vineyard. I  
should be glad, if convenient, to spend the Sabbath  
following in Williamsburgh."  
We trust arrangements will be made accordingly.  
To AGENTS AND SUBSCRIBERS.—We would call the at- 
tention  of our Agents generally, to the importance of  
making immediate remittances of what is now due. We 
are in need of all that is due for the paper, and also for 
books.  
A Physician writing from Kentucky for the Midnight  
Cry, says : " Glory to God for the flood of light it is  
shedding upon a benighted world. I believe the doctrine 
of the Second Advent near is based upon the sure word  
of prophecy, the word of truth that never faileth. I have 
recently commenced, and if God assists, I will continue 
to give the Midnight Cry in Kentucky."  
A CORRESPONDENT, asks if we believe all of God's  
children will be looking for the coming of Christ, when  
he comes.  
We believe all who are truly his, will love his ap- 
pearing. Those who are unwilling  that Christ should  
come to set up his kingdom, are unwilling Tie should 
reign over them, and he has himself told us what will 
be their fate- We also expect that when Christ comes,  
he will find the saints in a state of expectation. That 
all his children will see clearly the time, we do not  
know; but they will at least love to have the glorious  
King appear.  ° " 135


THE MIDNIGHT CRY.  
THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1843.  
STRANGE OMISSION.  
It is a cause of devout thankfulness to God, that lie  
has blessed the Second Advent truth so abundantly ;  
but the manner in which religious papers become vehi-> 
cles of falsehood, by omitting the truth, is amazing. 
Last winter, brother S. S. Brewer and S. W. Rhodes 
went into the vicinity of East Hamilton, New York.  
The next day after their arrival, Mr. W. Fox, a Me- 
thodist minister, said to brother Rhodes, that he had  
been holding a protracted meeting of two or three 
weeks in East Hamilton, and could not make any im- 
pression on the minds of the people, and had given up 
the idea of doing any thing for such a hardened set of  
inhabitants ; and requested and earnestly solicited, that 
if they thought any thing could be done for the people, 
brother Brewer should come down and help him. He  
went, and the result was a powerful revival, for proof  
of which we do not depend on those who are known as  
our friends. In the Midnight Cry of January 20, we  
published brother Brewer's letter of January 11, writ- 
ten from that neighborhood, in which he said :  
"Bro. Yarrington, a preacher of great celebrity, who  
has heard all my lectures, told me he firmly believed 
that this is the last call to man ; that this year ends the  
great drama of all sublunary things. He is going to  
preach it, and has publicly, in my presence, identified 
himself with the cause. We have a glorious work in  
progress."  
We have just, received a letter from brother Rhodes,  
who gives a brief account of what he has done since  
last November, and says :  
" The power of God has been signally manifested in  
the conviction and conversion of many souls. . . . Out  
of a sense of duty which I owe to God and my beloved  
brethren in the cause of Christ, and in view of a report  
which appeared in the Methodist Northern Advocate, 
April 22, 1843, and in other Methodist publications, I, 
with other Second Advent brethren, request that  you  
would notice the following item of intelligence."  
We cheerfully comply with this request. The com- 
ment in brackets is by brother Rhoades.  
For the Northern Advocate.  
EAST HAMILTON STATION.  
BRO. ROBIN,—We are sharing in the glorious work  
of revival on this station. The spirit of awakening 
has been manifest in every part of the charge for a  
number of months past ; and, praise the name of the  
Lord, it has not yet subsided. A number of souls  
have been liberated from the bonds of Satan the last  
two weeks. Yes, the cry of victory, and the shouts  
of the redeemed of the Lord, are almost constantly  
heard in our borders ; they are falling most sweetly 
upon our ears in every direction. Never could we  
adopt the language of our Saviour With greater pro- 
priety than now. " Lift up your eyes and look on the  
fields, for they  are white already to harvest." Calls  
are being made on us almost daily, Come over and 
help. Indeed so numerous have been the calls, that 
all of them could not be heeded. Our strength has not  
been equal to the work. In this emergency, we cried  
to God to send forth more laborers into the  harvest. In  
this we were heard, God having sent to us brother S.  
B. Yarrington, [not a word mentioned about brother  
Brewer. Oh, what dishonesty in our ministers! Bro- 
ther S. B. Yarrington was converted to Second Ad- 
vent faith by hearing brother Brewer,] and Walter 
Jerome, who have rendered us efficient services. As  
to the result of our labors, under God, probably more 
than one hundred souls have been converted or re- 
claimed—some seventy of whom have united with us,  
and others are expected to do so soon. Many of this 
number are persons of influence and talent. They 
promise great usefulness to the church, &o.  
Our readers can judge whether this paragraph fair- 
ly exhibits the truth. We have permitted many such  
cases to pass in silence, but justice seemed  now to call  
for this exposure.  
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IMPORTANT TRUTHS.  
WHAT ARE THE SIGNS THAT THE EXPECTED MIL- 
LENNIUM IS APPROACHING 1 Hear the New York Ob- 
server. Its leading editorial last week is a comment  
on the statement of the Unitarian paper in Boston : 
" The leaven of Unitarianism now working in the Cal- 
vinistic churches, is one of the most remarkable signs  
of our age."  
On this, the editor of the leading Presbyterian paper  
in America says :  
" In those churches where preachers of late years,  
seized with a mania for intellectual preaching as dis- 
tinguished from spiritual, have been smitten with the 
soulless beauties of transcendentalism, and rising above 
the dull atmosphere of old and homely truths which 
have been from childhood their vital breath, now live,  
and think, and preach in a world of thought all new to  
them, and all unknown and unintelligible to their hear- 
ers ; in those churches ' the leaven of Unitarianism  
is working,' and bye and bye, it may leaven the  
lump.  
" It has been our misfortune, occasionally, to be un- 
der the necessity of listening to a sermon from preach-
ers of this stamp; men whose views are, in truth, of  
the transcendental school, or who affect the transcen- 
dental style; men, whose preaching meets precisely  
the Scotchman's definition of metaphysics, ' where the 
hearer does not know what the speaker means, and 
the speaker does not know what he means himself;' 
and we have not been surprised that men become infi-
dels under such preaching. He who professes to  
preach the gospel, professes to preach Christ and him 
crucified, and when a congregation of ungodly men  
hear from the pulpit nothing but the vapid essays of a 
transcendentalist, they must feel  that he, who thus  
seeks to entertain and not to convert them, does not  
believe in the spirituality of the gospel, and if they  
soon learn to despise the orthodox faith, and love that  
which denies depravity, and atonement, and regenera- 
tion, and all that is distinctive in the gospel as a Chris-
tian system, the result is as natural from the cause, as  
winter after the summer's sun has gone, or death when  
the spirit has been called away.  
"At the risk of being compelled to give the proof,  
we hazard the opinion that this soulless style of preach- 
ing is finding its way into our pulpits.  
" To arrest the progress of such an evil, to save our  
churches from sliding into error, and to bring sinners  
to repentance, the gospel must be preached in its pu- 
rity, pointedness, and power. The truth is the in-
strument ; the truth of God, and not the imaginings of  
conceited men. Fox in his Martyrology gives in these 
well chosen words, the sum and substance of the  
preaching of Bradford, one of those who went to hea-
ven in a chariot  of fire by the order of Bloody Mary.  
' Sharply he pointed out and reproved sin, sweetly he  
preached Christ crucified, pithily he impugned heresies 
and errors, earnestly he persuaded to godly life.'  
" That was martyr preaching. If the fear of the  
faggot and flame is needed to rouse the ministry, if  
men will preach like that  only when martyrdom is the  
reward set before them, we would almost pray, God 
send us persecution. Let the Romanists for a season  
have the power* and let the ministers of Christ be fired 
with apostolic and martyr zeal, and their lips, touched  
with living coals from the altar before the throne, shall  
be eloquent for the truth, and errOr confounded and  
affrighted shall flee awav. But IN DAYS OF PEACE  
AND PROSPERITY, THE STYLE OF PREACHING DEGENER- 
ATES ; THE SPIRIT AND THE POWER FAIL ; AND IN  
THE VERY SEASON WHEN NO DANGER IS APPARENT, 
AND GRADUAL ADVANCEMENT IN TRUTH AND RIGHT- 
EOUSNESS IS EXPECTED AS A MATTER OF COURSE, 
then THE ENEMY, BY NIGHT, DEPOSITES IN THIS PUL-
PIT AND THAT, A LITTLE LEAVEN OF HERESY, AND 
WHILE MEN SLEEP, THE WORK GOES ON,  LIKE POISON,  
THAT STUPEFIES TO DESTROY.'*  
Could any thing be more instructive than this 1 Our  
neighbors are fondly dreaming of a resurrection of the  
" souls of the martyrs" in the persons of the genera- 
tion of Christians who are to be born and reared un- 
der the influence of profound peace and unexampled 
prosperity. Let them receive this lesson of wisdom, 
which we have printed in capitals.  
O Christian, be not deluded into the ruinous notion  
that you will not need to wear the  whole armor as long  
as you are in this world. You need not hope to find  

Christ's words untrue: " Broad is the road which  
leads to destruction." Oh, do not shrink from the  
cross, lest you miss the crown. We well remember  
hearing Dr. Beecher, when he was the stated preacher 
at Park street, Boston, comment upon Christ's answer  
to the question, Are there few that be saved "? " Christ 
did not evade this question," said he. He answered  
it emphatically. The saved will be but few, and Dr. 
B. applied that fact, as Christ had done before, to stir  
up his hearers to strive to enter in at the strait gate. 
Our orthodox preachers are now telling their hearers  
that the number of the lost will be only as the number  
of criminals in our prisons, in comparison with the  
whole population. Is not this "modern delusion" do-
ing immense mischief ? Oh, beware of it! Labor for 
Christ with the assurance that " in the world ye shall  
have tribulation," and look for your crown when Paul 
expects his, when Christ shall appear in his kingdom, 
or, as Peter expresses it,  " when the chief Shepherd  
shall appear."  
CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY.  
The following is important, and will be read with  
interest. Brother Litch is of course alone responsible  
for it.—ED. CRY.  
Dear Bro. Southard,—Professor Bush is right.  
You recollect in our interview with him, the conver-
sation turned upon the word " cleanse." " Then  
shall the sanctuary be cleansed." He said it signified  
a " vindication"—then shall the sanctuary be " vindi-
cated." I think this is the true idea. The sanctuary  
was to be trodden under foot to the end of the 2300  
days, by that little horn which waxed exceeding great. 
The cause of that treading down, was God's indig- 
nation. The 2300 days reach to the "last end of the  
indignation." Then the little horn is to be " BRO-
KEN WITHOUT HAND." Is not that what is to  
be in the last end of the indignation 1 So it seems to  
me. " He shall be broken without hand." Look again  
at Isa. 10: 5, 6, 12, " O Assyrian, the rod of mine an-
ger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. I 
will send him against an hypocritical nation, and  
against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge  
to take the spoil, and to take the  prey, and to tread  
them down as the mire of the streets. Wherefore it  
shall come to pass when the Lord hath performed his  
whole work upon Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will  
punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of As- 
syria, and the glory of his high looks."  
The fruit of the Assyrian's stout heart, and " glory  
of his high looks," as the oppressor of the church, is 
indisputably ROME. Rome then is to be punished  
when the last end of the indignation against the sanc- 
tuary comes.  
Turn now to Dan. 9: 27, " He shall confirm the  
covenant with many for one week ; in the midst of the 
week he shall cause the sacrifice and oblation to cease, 
and for the overspreading of abominations he shall  
make it desolate until the consummation, and that de-
termined shall be poured upon the DESOLATOR." Rome, 
then, the desolator of Jerusalem, is to be punished at 
the end of the 2300 days, or at the consummation.  
Next we will look at Rev. 14:6, 7—" And I saw  
another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the 
everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on  
the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and 
tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, Fear  
God, and give glory to him ; for the hour of his judg- 
ment is come : and worship him that made heaven,  
and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters."  
That this angel has just flown, and his voice is yet  
echoing through heaven, I am fully satisfied. " The  
hour of his judgment is come," is the cry.  
The next that follows is the angel crying, " Babylon  
is fallen, is fallen, that great city." See verse 8th—  
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" And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon  
is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made 
all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her forni- 
cation." This angel, my dear brother, I think will cry  
before we see the Lord, for the reason, that when the  
Lord comes, he will take his people home to meet him  
in the air. But when this angel cries, he is followed  
by a third angel, saying with a loud voice, " If any man  
worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark  
in his forehead, or in his hand, the same shall drink  
of the wine ofthe wrath of God, which is poured out 
without mixture into the cup of his indignation ; and  
he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the 
presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the  
Lamb ; and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up  
for ever and ever, and they have no rest day nor night, 
who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever  
receiveth the mark of his name."  
When the third angel cries, will be drawn the sepa- 
rating line between Babylon and Zion. That line  
drawn, the world's last warning is given, and the  
white cloud and mighty angel, with his sharp sickle,  
appears, to reap the harvest of the earth. Verses 14- 
16—" And I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and  
upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of Man, 
having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a  
sharp sickle. And another angel came out of the  
temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the 
cloud, Thrust in thy sickle and reap ; for the time is  
come for thee to reap ; for the harvest of the earth is 
ripe. And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle  
on the earth, and the earth was reaped." The next is  
the vintage, or destruction of all the wicked. Verses  
17-20—" And another angel came out of the temple  
which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.  
And another angel came out from the altar which had  
power over fire, and cried with a loud cry to him that  
had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp  
sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth ;  
for her grapes are fully ripe. And the angel thrust in  
his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the  
earth, and cast it into the great wine-press of the 
wrath of God. And the wine-press was trodden with- 
out the city, and blood came out of the wine-press, 
even unto the horse-bridles, by the space of a thousand  
and six hundred furlongs."  
You will be ready to ask by this time, how do you  
make it appear that Professor Bush is correct 1 I an- 
swer, to vindicate a person or thing, is, to make appa- 
rent their innocence, and the justice of their cause.  
God has promised, when the last end of the indigna- 
tion comes, he will punish Rome—when Rome,there- 
fore, falls, Jerusalem will be vindicated, and the period  
of her punishment will be declared fully accompiished.  
I believe Rome will as certainly fall at the end ofthe  
2300 days, as Babylon did that night it was written on  
her palace wall, " God hath numbered thy kingdom, 
and finished it."  
Do you ask, how will it fall 1 I answer, like a  
mighty mill-stone, to rise no more at all. Read the  
18th chapter of Revelation, and learn her doom, in  
the most literal terms. It is that great city which  
reigneth over the kings of the earth.  
It will not be strange if the next arrival brings the  
news of her burning ; if not, I shall look for it with  
every successive arrival until I hear it. The world  
will stand aghast, and say Alas ! alas ! but stand afar  
off, for fear of her burnings. Rome NOW imagines she  
" sits a Queen, and is no widow," and shall see no  
sorrow. Hope is buoyant that she will take the world,  
when once Ireland strikes. Therefore shall her  
plagues come in one day. " For strong is the Lord  
God who judgeth her." Whether he will judge her by  
England, or his own Almighty arm, direct, I cannot  
tell; but I expect by superhuman agents. J. LITCH.  

SYRACUSE, N. Y.—Brother Hancock writes—"Du- 
ring the last Fall, our beloved brother Beach delivered  
a lecture here, which seemed to be blessed of God.  
The lovely spirit of brother B., together with the so- 
lemnity ofthe subject, accompanied by the influence of  
the Holy Spirit, tended to impress powerfully the  
minds of several persons in this place,, and my own  
among the rest." r  
He then describes his own views, and says—" We  
have, since brother Beach visited us a second time in 
the winter, been favored with the acceptable labors of  
several excellent  brethren, Second Advent lecturers.  
I would not omit to mention the very agreeable visit 
and pleasing labors of brother Teall of New York, who 
I believe came to us in the fulness of the blessing of 
the gospel of Christ, and who is remembered with gra-
titude by the lovers of truth, who will be thankful to  
hear more on the subject."  
NEW BOOK.  
" MODERN PHENOMENA OF THE HEAVENS, or Pro- 
phetic ' great signs' of the special near approach of 
the ' end of all things.' " By Henry Jones. This is 
the Bible Reader, No. II., and contains 48 closely 
printed pages, with seven engravings. It contains a  
great mass of testimony, which will be read with inter- 
est, and is very valuable for reference.  
AN OPEN DOOR.  
It is delightful to see the way opening for the work  
of the Lord. A letter just received from Middletown,  
Pa., says:  
" We are anxious to have a camp-meeting in this  
town, to be held from the 27th of June to the 10th or  
12th of July. A wealthy old farmer came to me a few  
days ago, and offered the use of a good piece of ground,  
with good conveniences upon it, and good water in a  
few rods. There are also two large farm-houses upon 
the farm, and the owner says that he can easily ac- 
commodate fifty persons with beds.  
"We intend to pitch three large tents—one for  
prayer-meetings, and the other two for lodging-tents  
for males and females. The owner of the ground has 
offered us the use of 10,000 feet of boards for seats, 
and to draw them to the ground, and he will use every  
exertion to carry forward the work. This place is 
about five miles from the village of High Spire. The  
camp ground is about half a mile from the rail-road and  
Susquehannah river, and one mile from this village, in  
a pleasant grove. We want brother Himes, Cook, 
Litch, Barry, Havvley, Brown, and Jacobs, and if  
brother Miller's health should improve in time, bring  
him along. We want among the preachers, one who 
will baptize by immersion."  
We hope our Philadelphia brethren will assist in  
this meeting. But few of the brethren here named can 
attend, but perhaps part of them can.  
SUGGESTIONS OF AN INQUIRER.  
" From your interesting exposition of Isaiah 11th, I  
am free to admit, ' one thing I know and see,' that the  
prophets of the Old, and the apostles of the New Testa- 
ment, all ' mind the same thing,' and open the eyes of 
faith, 'to look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein  
dwelleth righteousness'—but not until after the coming 
of the day of God,' wherein the heavens being on fire 
shall be dissolved and the elements shall melt with fer-
vent_ heat,' may tho believer anticipate the millennial 
reign of  our blessed Lord in a purified kingdom. For the  
order of occurrence in 2 Peter 3, the destruction of the 
present or existing heavens and earth, clearly has prece-
dence to the creation of the new heavens and the new 
earth, and mightily ought the trumpet cry to sound from  
within and without the churches,  1 awake thou that  
sleepest,' and as thou wouldst escape, lay hold on the  
'great salvation,' for the night is far spent, the  day is at  
hand. Oh, that every living soul, may be found of Him 
in peace, when ' He that shall come, will come.'  
Pouuc MORALS.—Every mail brings us fresh accounts  
of frauds perpetrated in high places. Boston Evening  
Bulletin, Friday, 20th.  
The highest and most profitable lesson is, the true  
knowledge of ourselves.  

LETTER FROM MICHIGAN.  
CHINA, St. Clair Co., May 29, 1843.  
Dear Brother Himes,—  
So soon as I received the Midnight Cry, and  
commenced to read, the vision appeared to be  
made  plain upon tables. Having read, 1 thought  
it my duty to run and read it to my neighbors,  
and though opposition stood on every hand, yet  
some of the most intelligent engaged with me 
in making a thorough investigation. Our plan 
has been this : One consults the two witnesses  
and another the Cry, and the rest judge :—and,  
Dowling* Weeks and others to the contrary not- 
withstanding, the result has been that some  
have been convinced that Daniel's vision is one,  
and that the twenty-three hundred days is the  
length of the vision, and that as the seventy  
weeks, or four hundred and ninety days, which  
are so many links of the chain of twenty-
three hundred links, were fulfilled in weeks of  
years at the death of Christ, so also have 1809  
links of the chain been fulfilled in years, and  
the particular events have taken place accord- 
ing to the vision. [We here omit a review of 
historical facts, extending along the links of the 
chain.'—ED. CRY.] We have placed our finger 
on the link which is the end of the chain, the  
2300th. We think it not right that we should  
take our finger oft' from the link until Christ 
draw it off with his powerful appearance to  
fashion our vile body like unto his glorious  
body.  
After some of lis came to the above conclu- 
sion, we appointed a meeting—the friends came  
in, and I endeavored to show that it is plain to  
him that understandeth :—brought several pas- 
sages of Scripture to prove the possibility of  
knowing the time, urged that it was high time to  
awake out of our sleep, because our salvation was  
nearer than when we first believed ; prayers  
were offered by several of the friends for un- 
derstanding hearts. Brother Lipscomb gave an  
appropriate exhortation, it was attended with  
power in the speaker and others, and at the  
close ofthe meeting, nine persons entered into 
covenant to seek the Lord by prayer and read- 
ing God's word, some of which are now liv-
ing epistles, read and known of all men.  One  
of them is brother C. Davis, merchant, who  
keeps the truth on his counter, and when his  
customers call to buy goods, so far as I can  
learn, almost without an exception, they are  
cautioned to buy the truth and sell it not.  
I have been lecturing on the Second Advent  
for several weeks, on the first day of the week.  
In most places have respectacle and attentive  
congregations, many of whom are possessed of  
inquiring minds, and follow me to my places of  
refreshment. We have an appointment for a  
three days' meeting,  to commence next Friday.  
The ministers iii this place are about equally  
divided on the question of the Second Advent  
in '43.  
In haste, yours,and the friend and companion  
of all who love Christ's appearing. Go on  
brethren. EBENEZER WESBROOK.  
LETTER. FROM MARYLAND.  
I should be glad if you will send me a few  
more publications. Those I have received  
have been faithfully circulated, but the country 
is thinly settled and many of the publications  
have gone to distant neighborhoods, and are  
loaned from farm to larm so that I cannot col- 
lect them again.  I have no books but Exposi- 
tions of Prophecy, by J. Litch, 1st and 2d vol. 
now. The rest ofthe books I left in the P. O.  
to be bought out for the postage, but called  
next day to take out what should be left, and 
found that all had been bought up with eager- 
ness. I have much hope of several ministers  
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of the gospel, whom I have prevailed to exam- 
ine your publications, and who are now enga- 
ged in doing so. They begin to preach on the 
subject, warning the people that it is coming,  
and will surely come, without speaking of the 
time ; while others among us are lulling the  
alarmed ones by saying it is a thousand years 
off.  
LETTER FROM ALMOND OWEN.  
Bridgeport, Madison Co., N. York, )  
May 29, 1843. $  
My Dear Bro. Southard.—I hope the Lord  
will give you grace to be watchful and humble,  
You must receive many very flattering commen.  
dations of the Midnight Cry, I think, if others  
value its visits as much aa I do, from those who  
wish to express their sympathy and affection, 
for the blessed truths it advocates. May all  
such expressions find no chord of vanity or  
pride in your heart, to vibrate at their touch,  
but only encourage you to boldness and faithful- 
ness, in the cause of Him that comethJ  
The Midnight Cry has been to me and my  
companion, a cry of alarm and warning—of  
peace, and of joy unspeakable. Can that teach- 
ing be falae which makes the Bibte more pre- 
cious, leads to self-examination, more prayer,  
more faithfulness, self-denial, watching and love  
to God ? This has been its effect upon us. Is  
Satan divided against himself ? Then must his  
kingdom fall. Mat. 12 : 26. Turn which way  
we will, the truth comes back upon the under-
standing and the heart, that the sanctuary will 
soon be cleansed. We believe it—we rejoice  
in it, and give thanks to God.  
To my understanding it seems almost as  
plain as figures can make it, that the 2300 days 
of Daniel 8: 14, represent years, and must be  
near their termination now, when the last  
earthly po>ver "shall be broken without hand."  
— v. 25. "How long the vision 1" What was  
the vision ? A view, evidently of Persiathrough  
a part of its history, Greece through its whole  
history, from the conquests of Alexander and  
its quadruple division, to the supremacy of  
Rome. Rome, down to the time when in its  
present divided state, it " shall be broken with-
out hand." Is not this the vision ? And do not 
the 2300 hundred days measure the whole  
vision? Oh then, how can  a " master of Israel"  
doubt that they represent years 1 By what rule 
of" correct biblical interpretation" can the " in- 
telligent" make them mean literal days, or half 
days ? Can learned theology so shorten tbe  
history of Persia, Greece, and Rome? But I  
should be modest. I am only a plain layman —  
still I must prefer the simple theology of the Bi-
ble, to such theology, and unsophisticated com-*  
mon sense to such rules of interpretation. OJet 
us be careful how we make the bible an unmean- 
ing book, it is full of glorious meaning.  
It appears to me to be almost a mathematical  
certainty, that the starting points of the 2300  
days of chap. 8th, and the 70 weeks of chap.  
9: are identical. It is plain from verses 21,  
to 23, chap. 9, that this chapter is explanatory  
of the vision in the 8th, that being the only 
vision in which Gabriel had been introduced,  
before the  vision which he had been command- 
ed to make Daniel understand, v. 16, but which  
he did not fully explain in that chapter, as is  
evident from the last verse: " I was astonished  
at the vision, but none understood it." This  
identity I think may be shown by the process  
mathematicians call The Reductio ad absurdum—  
thus :  
The 2300 days must have begun before the  
70 weeks, or at the satne time or afterward. Now  
that they did not commence before is apparent 
from the fact that they then would have expired  
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before now, and we should have seen " the end"  
and "the last end of the indignation," for " at  
tbe time appointed the end shall be," and this  
year completes 2300 since the commencement  
ofthe 70 weeks 457, B, C. But we have not 
seen the end, nor the sanctuary cleansed—  
hence they did not commence before the 70  
weeks. Again, they did not begin after the  
same time, for had they done so it would be  
apparent that a part of the 70 weeks must have  
expired before the beginning of the 2300 days,  
and only a part of that period could have been  
cut off from the days, and it would have been  
untrue in Gabriel, to say 70 Weeks are cut off,  
when in reality it was a less time that was cut  
off. But Gabriel told the truth with accuracy  
we know, for had he not, God would not again  
have entrusted him with His messages. (Luke  
1 : 19, 26.) Hence the 2300 days did not com- 
mence after the 70 weeks, and as it has been 
shown they did not commence before, it follows  
that they began at the same time.  
I write rather to express my deep sympathy  
with this precious cause, than with any expec- 
tations that any thing from my feeble pen will  
be worthy of the press. I am willing to be 
identified with the cause of what I think is  
God's solemn and blessed truth.  
Yours in the  hope of a better acquaintance  
soon in the New Earth. ALMOND OWEN.  

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SECOND ADVENT CAMP MEETING.  
There will be a Second Advent Camp Meeting held in 
Sennet, (if time continue,) about six miles east of Auburn,  
about half a mile north of the Rail Road, and one mile 
east of Sennet village, on the farm of Judge Sennet, in  
the grove called " the Pine Woods." To commence on 
Saturday, July 1st, and continue until July 11th.  
All those that love the appearing of our Lord, are re- 
quested to come and bring their Tents with them ; those  
that are not provided with Tents can be acommodated at 
the rate of 81.50 per week, or 12? cents per meal.  
By order ofthe Committee.  
J. WRIGHT, Sec'y.  
June 12th, 1843.  
SECOND ADVENT CAMP-MEETING.  
If time continues, a second advent camp-meeting will  
be held in the town of Warrensville, about ten miles 
from Cleveland, to commence on Wednesday the 28th 
day of June, to continue one week, and as much longer  
as the Lord may direct.  
It will occur to friends that, so far as may be, those  
coming from adjacent towns and country should provide 
themselves wi«th necessary tents, bedding, and provisions.  
We expect able and competent lecturers on the occasion,  
and we would here say to such brethren at the east, 
come over and help us. Brethren and friends, one and 
all, come ye up to the feast. Be sure and bring your  
Bibles.  

AN ADVENT CAMP MEETING.  
If time permits, will be held near the line between Cato 
and Lysander, Cayuga Co., N. Y., about one mile west  
of the~Cfiristian chapel at Plainville, to commence  
Saturday, June 24th, and to continue until July 3d.—  
Some of our efficient lecturers from the East are ear- 
nestly solicited to attend, and ministers and brethren in  
g eneral.  
G. W. PEAVEY.  
Brutus, N. Y., May 30, 1843.  
A. A. SAWIN,  
E. MATTHEWS,  
L. ST. JOHN, VCommittee.  
A. PE^FIELD, 
J. W. STUART, J  
Cleveland, [0/MO] June 2, 1843.  
A SECOND ADVENT CONFERRENCE  
Will be held at Lee, Mass (if time continue) on the 20th  
of July, at 2 anJ (TcTcrock P. M., and continue over the  
following Sabbath. Several lecturers are expected.  
C. MORLEY,  
E. WALKER.  
P. S. Morley will attend to calls for lectures after  
the meeting at Lee. Direct letters to Curtisville, Mass.  

THE GREAT TENT.  
ADVENT CONFERENCE AND LECTURES,  
At Rochester, N. Y., June  23.  
A camp-meeting will be commenced at Rochester,  
N. Y. on June 23, 1843,  (if time continue.) Brn  
Charles Fitch, T. F. Barry, and others are expected 
to be present, and give lectures on tbe coming of  
Christ this year.  
The citizens of Rochester, and people generally  
in that vicinity, are respectfully invited to attend.  
J. V. HIMES.  
THE GLAD TIDINGS OF THE KINGDOM AT HAND  
A paper by the above name, will be commenced in the  
city of Rochester, N. Y. about the 20th of June, 1843.  
Thirteen weekly numbers will be published (if time con- 
tinue) for fifty cents.  
It will be sent by mail to any part of the country desir- 
ed.  
Seven copies to one address for 83, thirteen copies for  
$5. J. V. HIMES, Editor and Publisher.  
Boston, June 3, 1843.  
ADVENT DEPOT AT ROCHESTER, N. Y.  
Will be opened about the 20th of .Tune, where  
Books on the Advent in 1843 may be obtained,  
wiitten by Messrs, Miller, Litch, Fitch, Storrs, and  
others, together with Hymn Books, Papers, Tracts,  
Charts, &c. All letters, or orders, should be direct-
ed {post paid) to J. V. HIMES, Rochester. N. Y.  
For the Midnight Cry.  
THE PRECIOUS BOON.  
One precious boon, O Lord, I seek,  
While tossed upon life's billowy sea ;  
To hear a voice within me speak,  
Thy Saviour is well pleased with thee.  
Earth's scoffs and scorn well pleas'd I'll bear,  
Nor mourn, though under foot I'm trod,  
If day by day I may but share  
Thine approbation, O my God.  
The friends I loved may turn from me—  
Their words unkind may pierce me through ;  
But this my daily prayer shall be,  
" Forgive ; they know not what they do."  
Let me but know, where'er I roam,  
That I am doing Jesus' will ;  
And though I've neither friends nor home,  
My heart shall glow with gladness still.  
To that bright, blest, immortal morn,  
By holy prophets long foretold,  
My eager, longing eyes I turn,  
And soon its glories shall behold.  
Then all the scoffs and scorn I've borne,  
For his dear sake who died for me,  
To everlasting joys will turn,  
In glorious immortality. C. FITCH.  
N. B. The above has appeared in the Christian Adv.  
and Journal.