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• V6L. VI.—No. 12.  NEW-YORK, THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1844  WHOLE NO. J17.  
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ICF Bro. Litch was in the city on Friday last, ancl  
lectured at St. Luke's Building. He left the following  
morning for Philadelphia.  
'v- Brethren I. E. Jones, II. V. Tea!l, H. .Tones, H.  
Heyes, and B. T. Young, lectured in this city on  
Sunday last, Bro. Whiting was prevented by indispo- 
sition.  
Bro. Teall left on Monday morning for Philadelphia,  
and is to succeed Bro. Storrs at Julianna street church.  
Bro. Israel E. Jones remains in the city, lecturing  
to great acceptance. Bro. S. S. Snow is expected at 
Franklin Hall next Sabbath.  
Bro. Storrs has returned from Philadelphia, and will  
leave in a few days for Portsmouth, N. H.  
Bro. Matthias returned to Albany on Friday last.  
BOSTON.—Things are prosperous at the Tabernacle.  
Meetings are full, and as interesting as at any former  
time. Brethren and Sisters are unshaken in faith,  
believing that the Saviour is at the door.  
LOWELL.—The cause in this city is in a happy and  
prosperous state- The recent conference was well at- 
tended, and the interest on the advent among saints  
and sinners, is unabated. Bro. Cole is laboring there  
with al faithfulness, and good success.  

THE YERNAL EQUINOX.  
This was the latest time of which Mr. Miller has  
written, as the time unto which the prophetic periods  
might continue. In his dates, for the events, from  
which he has reckoned the various prophetic periods,  
he has followed tbe most approved and standard chro- 
nologers. Those chronologers have never yet been  
shown to be in error respecting those dates ; and reck- 
oning from thence the prophetic periods as we under- 
stand them, cannot be shown .to extend beyond about  
A. D. 1843, the Jewish year. Mr. Miller always gave  
it as his opinion, in the early part of his labors, and in 
his printed lectures, that the advent would be about 
A. D. 1843. As time progressed, and those who en- 
deavored to invalidate the evidences of the Advent,  
failed in their efforts, he spoke more positively of the  
year 1.843 ; and after its commencement, he gave it as  
his opinion that the Lord would come some time be- 
tween the 21st of March, 1843,'and the 21st of March,  
1844. This time has now passed by, and we are a  
few days beyond the time to which he believed the  
days might extend. Mr. Miller has no other time for 
the termination of those periods than about the Jewish  
year A. D. 1843 ; nor can he have until those dates  
from which he has reckoned are shown to be errone- 
ous. He therefore still rests on  the same calculations,  
unless some error shall be shown, to wait and watch,  
while the Bridegroom shall tarry; which will be so  
long as the computation of time may have varied from  
an exact reckoning, which we have no evidence will 
delay it any length of time.  
j Although the Jewish year has not expired, but ex- 
tends to the new moon in April, as we explained in our  
last, yet our time will be regarded by our opponents 
as having passed by. To this we have no objection ;  
for we have no desire to extend the time, as  others have  
predicted we should do. WTe have no desire to avoid 
or defer the crisis ; and we freely say to all men that 
we expected our Saviour, before the present time  
would have been revealed. Our faith in the present  
I nearness of the consummation was never greater than  
now: and we still look for the Saviour this Jewish  
year. J* v- H- 
BRO. DAVID YouNcywriting from Hartford, 111., March  
16thj says, " I have been preaching the Second Advent  
ID" THE VOICE OF ELIJAH," Montreal, last number,  
contains several letters from friends in England, giving  
an interesting account of the progress of the cause in 
that country.  
We learn from a letter received from Cincinnati, O.,  
that Bro. Cook has left for St. Louis, Mo., and that 
Bro. Chittenden designs returning east.  
ST. Louis, Mo.—Bro. J. G. Smith writes, March  
27 : " There are many here who believe the Lord is 
near. Meetings are held three times a week."  
PROSPECT RIDGE, ALA.—We have received an in- 
teresting letter from Bro. Murfee, dated March 18. Are  
glad to hear that second advent publications have been  
such a blessing to himself and family.  
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doctrine for the last four years. If I am a 'Milerite,'the 
Bible made me one, for I embraced many particulars in  
the theory before I knew Mr. Miller was in being. I  
commence a course of lectures in this place next week "  
BRO. I. R. GATES.—We have received a letter from  
this devoted brother. He says, "As time advances, I  
grow happier and stronger in the faith of the Lord's soon  
coming." He has been laboring in Ithica, N. Y., for  
two weeks.. The brethren there have recently fitted up  
a plaee- a£ worship, which is known as " The House of  
Prayer. " On the last evening he lectured., about fifty  
came forward for prayers, and a number found -peace in  
believing. . .  
Bro. J. B. Mitchell, who has been travelling with him  
for the last eight months, delivered a course of lectures  
at Mecklenburg, with good success. Bro. G. left on the 
20th of March for Newfield, in company with Bro. Mitch-
ell, and commenced lecturing at the Baptist House, in 
that place to large congregations. Elder Sears, the  
pastor, is quite impressed with the truth of the Lord's  
soon coming.  

ELDER ELON GALUSHA'S ADDRESS.  
"TO ALL WHO LOVE OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST  
IN SINCERITY."  
Beloved Brethren,—Allow me, in all kindness  
and humility, to urge upon you a serious and  
candid consideration of the present crisis. To  
me, it appears that we are on the last crumbling  
verge of time. The rapid approach of the world's  
catastrophe is not, to me, a new thought. For  
several years past, at times, I have viewed the  
world as rushing with a rail-road speed, on the  
track of time, to the last depot—its bustle, like  
that of a person doing up his last work under a  
strong impression that his time is short—its rest- 
lessness, like that of an individual on his dying 
bed, each moment more and more anxious for a  
change of position as the time of his expiration  
draws near—its new discoveries, shedding sud-
den light on the human mind, like the flash of 
the taper just before its light expires, or the mo- 
mentary revivification of a person at the approach  
of death, when nature puts forth all her ener- 
gies, in the final struggle, and soon exhausts 
them in the last desperate effort. Hence, in  
years gone by, I have frequently expressed, in  
my public discourses, a conviction that at no  
distant period the world's history would be 
completed. Although I had previously read  
some of Bro. Miller's lectures, and deemed them 
worthy of a critical examination, as they evinced 
the laborious biblical and histoiical research, as  
well as the godly sincerity of the author, yet  
other subjects and other duties so engrossed my 
attention that I did not very seriously consider  
the subject of " the Saviour's Advent near," till  
something more than a year ago, when a beloved  
son who had embraced that faith, called my at- 
tention to the subject, by letters, papers, and  
publications, containing arguments and Scripture 
quotations in favor of the speedy coming of our  
Lo»d. These, to some extent, I examined, to- 
gether with authors who advocate opposite 
opinions. I consulted Rollin, Josephus, New-
ton, Gill, Pool, Henry, Whitby, and more  mod- 
ern writers on that subject, and sought the aid  
of the Holy Spirit in searching the sacred Scrip- 
tures.  
About a year since I received a kindly letter  
from Bro. N. N. Whiting, expressing the con-
victions ofhis own mind, the result of a thorough  
and patient examination of the subject, in which  
he sifted the arguments pro and con. As an 
old friend, he exhorted me to study the word of  
God with diligence and without delay, till I  
should be satisfied that I had obtained a knowl-
edge of the Divine testimony on the subject. As  
I deemed this as reasonable a request as it was  
friendly, I resolved to comply thex-ewith ; having  
already adopted the rule of biblical interpreta- 
tion observed by Bro. Miller, which appeared to 
me to be the only safe one,—that in ascertaining 
the meaning of any passage of Scripture, we 
should compare the various other portions of the  
Divine word embracing the same subject, and 
adopt such a construction as will harmonize the  
testimony of all the inspired witnesses. By ap- 
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plying this rule to the writings of Moses, David, 
the prophets, apostles, and the revelator, I be- 
came satisfied,  
1st. That there will never be a restoration of  
the carnal Jews as a nation, either to the favor  
of God or the land of Canaan, since they, as a peo- 
ple, are as utterly rejected as H agar or Ishmael.  
See the Apostle's allegory, Gal. 4, from the 24th  
verse to the close. Seeing also that all national  
distinctions are by the gospel entirely abolished;  
see Eph. 2 : 14 to the close ; also, Rom. 9 : 8, and 
2 : 28. Whatever is contained in the prophets  
respecting this people must be made to harmo-
nize with those and various other positive and  
unequivocal passages. The .36, 37, 38, and 39th  
chapters of Ezek., and the 12th chapter of Zach.,  
so generally referred to by the advocates of  
a literal restoration of the carnal Jews, were 
written, as appears, about half a century before  
their return from the Babylonish captivity, by  
which they were scattered among all nations or  
throughout the inhabited world, Nebuchad-
nezzar's kingdom being universal. See Dan.  
2 : 38. Hence, what was to be literally fulfilled in  
their return may have been accomplished at the  
end of that seventy years' captivity ; and some  
portions of those chapters evidently refer to the  
.final ingathering of all the true Israelites, in the  
eternal Canaan, when they shall come out of 
their graves, and Christ shall reign over them  
even "forever," as God promised to David. See  
Ezek. 37 : 12, 24, 27, compared with Rev. 21: 3,  
and Luke 1 : 32, 33. The 11th chapter of Ro- 
mans, the strong hold of Judaism, (as some con- 
sider it,) proves the national rejection of the  
Jews, and shows that there is no restoration but  
that of individuals by faith in Christ, and " life  
from the dead." So that " all (true) Israel,"  
whether Jews or Gentiles, according/to the flesh,  
"shall be saved" (by faith.) .See Rom. 11: 1,  
5, 14, 15, 23, 28, compared with Rom. 9 : 6, and  
Gal. 3 : 7, 16, 28, 29.  
2nd. That there is to be no millennium till  
the Son of Man shall come in the clouds of heav- 
en, became evident to me, from an examination  
of Dan. 7 : 13, 22, 27 ; also, Matt. 13,: 38—43, 
showing the prevalence of sin to the end of the 
world; also, Luke 13:23, which declares the  
way narrow, and that few find it; also, 2 Tim.  
3 : 12, which assures us that "all who live godly,  
&c., shall suffer persecution," so there can never  
be a time till this sin-cursed earth  is cleansed  
and the wicked destroyed, in which " all will be  
righteous," and none' be persecuted. I saw  
that the millennium was to be on the renewed  
earth, after the resurrection ofthe dead in Christ,  
and before that of the wicked, who will be  
burned up root and branch at Christ's coming,  
and be ashes under the soles of the saint's feet  
during the thousand years. For the first resur- 
rection, see Rev. 20 : 4—7 ; also, 1 Thess. 4 : 14  
to the close ; also, Phil. 3 : 11, where the apos- 
tle labors to attain unto the resurrection (exanas- 
tasis) out of, or from among the dead, leav- 
ing a portion of the dead (the wicked,) still  
under the dominion of death, or in their 
graves ; also 1 Cor. 15 : 23, showing that  
only they that are Christ's rise at his coming.  
For the destruction of the wicked who shall be  
alive on the earth (when»the living saints will be 
changed, as seen in 1 Thess. 4 : 17,) see Mai.  
4: 1, 3. At the end of the 1000 years, the  
wicked rise where their ashes were deposited  
by the fires of the conflagration, are deceived by  
Satan, (then loosed for a little season,) come up  
on the breadth of the new earth, encompass the  
beloved city, (that descended from heaven when  
the earth was removed ; see Rev 21 : 1—3,  
compared with Isa. 65: i 7, and 2 Pet. 3 : 13,)  
and are destroyed by the vengeance of God,  

the saints' reign, as joint heirs with Christ on' when Ephraim (i. e. the ten tribes) was to be  
broken that it • be not a people, and notice that  
Manasseh, king of Judah, was carried captive  
into Babylon at the same time, (677 B> C.,) see 
2 Chron. 33 : 11, we see that the pride of "both 
Israel and Judah's" power teas broken, and their  
punishment commenced 677 B. C. Then obser- 
ving that one prophetic time being 360 years,  
and 7 prophetic times being 2520 years, taking 
677 B. C. from 2520, leaves 1843 after Christ. 
Consequently their punishment must end with  
the fulfilment of the prediction, in the Jewish  
year 1843 ; upon which we have already entered.  
The next prophetic number we notice as re- 
lating to the "end" of God's "indignation" 
which is to be inflicted upon the rebellious in 
this world, is the 2300 days (years) of Dan. 8 :  
1 This embraces the vision of the " daily "  
see Rev.  
29«  
;0 : 9, which is the second death. For  

earth for a thousand years, see Rev. 5 : 10, and  
20 : 4.  
3d. By a  comparison of Dan. 2 : 44 and 7 :  
13—27, with Ps. 2 : 6—8, and Rev. 11 : 15, &c.,  
I was convinced that the eternal kingdom of 
which the saints are joint heirs with Christ, will  
be set up in the new earth, at the coming ofthe  
Son of Man in the clouds of heaven—(the No- 
bleman returning from a far country to take his  
kingdom)—that the millennium is the com- 
mencement of that endless reign, and marks the 
consummation of the happiness of the righteous, 
and that of the misery of the wicked. That  
this kingdom is identical with the future inheri-
tance ofthe saints, is evident from a comparison  
of Dan. 7 : 22, 27, and Rev. 11 : 15 with Ps: 37 .: 
9, 18, 20, 22, 28, 29, 34, and Prov. 10: 30, 
Matt. 5 : 5, (the meek shall inherit the earth,&c.) 
As soon as I was fully established in these views 
of God's word, I proclaimed them as a part of  
his long neglected truth, which sheds a glorious  
lustre on the pages of the holy scriptures, and 
gives vividness and tangibility to the objects of  
faith and hope, and shows us how the Son of  
God will accomplish the purpose for which he  
was manifested (" to destroy the works of the,  
Devil,") (1 John 3 : 8,) and, as the second Adam,  
reinstate man in the " kingdom prepared for him  
from the foundation of the world," which, by the 
first Adam, he lost, (Matt. 25 : 34.) Finding  
that the prophets searched for the time  of Christ's  
sufferings, and glory, as also the sort of time  
(Kendrick's translation) given for the computa- 
tion, and that the angels desire to look into the 
same, see 1 Pet. 1: 11, 12, Dan. 8 :13, 14; also  
12 : 5—7, I deemed the prophetic numbers and  
symbols suitable and desirable subjects of my  
anxious and prayerful inquiry. ' Observing that 
God had taught his servants to use a day as the  
representative of a year, see Num. 14 : 34, Ezek.  
4 : 6, and that the 1260 days of Rev. 11 : 3, the  
42 months of Rev. 13 : 5, the time, times and  
half of Dan. 7 : 25, were all fulfilled in the same  
manner, (a day for a year,) a literal time, (ac-
cording to Josephus, see Dan. 4 : 16,) being a 
year, and a prophetic time 360 years. I applied  
this rule to the various prophetic, periods which  
appear to reach to the end of time, and saw that  
they all pointed to the Jewish year 1843, and  
seem there to terminate as in a focal point. All 
the attempts of the learned to show the fulfil- 
ment of those prophecies in literal days, have  
proved1 abortive. The 70 weeks of Dan. 9 : 24,  
reaching from the going forth of the command-
ment to restore and build Jerusalem, recorded  
in Ezra 7, to the crucifixion of Christ, are seen  
by Ferguson's astronomical demonstrations, in 
which he refers to the Julian period, the Olym-
piad period, and the writings of Phlegon, to  
have terminated A. D. 33 ; 490 years from their  
commencement—-just as many years as there are  
days in the 70 weeks. These and other consid- 
erations are, to my mind-, satisfactory proof of  
the correctness of the opinion that the 2300 days  
of Dan. 8 : 14, as well as the 1290 and 1335 days  
of Dan. 12 : 11, 12, and the corresponding num- 
bers of Dan. 7 : 25, and Rev. 12 : 14 ; also 6th  
verse, and Rev. 11 : 2, 3, are so many years as 
there are days in each respective number. This  
is the only rule of interpretation by which they  
can be made to harmonize, and therefore must 
be the only true mode. Now if we apply this  
rule to Moses' SEVEN TIMES, which denote the  
duration of the punishment of rebellious Israel,  
from the time of breaking the pride of their power,  
and subjecting them to the power of their ene- 
mies, see Lev. 26:18,19, and Deut. 28 : 37, notice 
at what time this punishment was predicted,  
Isa. 7:8; 742 years B. C., and was to be in- 
flicted 65 years after, which brings us 677 B. C.,  

14.  
abominable, (as Hebrew scholars tell us the ori  
inal signifies,) or the pagan abomination which  
was to be ta^en away, and the transgression of 
desolation, or papal abomination, see Dan. 12 :  
11, 12, and 2 Thess. 2 : 1—10, where both these  
abominations are brought to view in their or- 
der, the one taking the place of the other. This  
period also extends-to the end of the treading  
down of the host or people of God—to the 
cleansing of the sanctuary, meaning the per- 
fection of the church of Christ in holiness, or  
the purification of the earth, which was once the  
holy place of God's worship, and will be again,  
when purified and filled with righteousness ; it  
also extends to the "last end of the indignation,"  
see verses 11, 13, 19. The 2300 days (years)  
then reach to the end of time.  
It is evident this number was all that Daniel  
sought to understand ; as the rest of the vision,  
as well as the preceding one, had been explain-
ed to him. See 27th verse. He searched books  
to obtain a knowledge of the time. See Dan. 
9 : 2, where he seems to have supposed it refer- 
red to the end of the Babylonish captivity, and 
that it was the literal sanctuary in Jerusalem, 
that was to be cleansed ; so his following prayer  
indicates. But Gabriel comes to correct 'his 
mistake, and show him that only 70 weeks of 
the time related to his people and the holy city.  
The remainder of the 2300 years related to God's  
people after the Jewish nation should be reject- 
ed ; and that instead of the sanctuary at Jerusa- 
lem being cleansed at the end of the time, it  
would long before that be destroyed' by the  
people of the prince, (Titus,) and that soon after  
the crucifixion of Messiah. See Dan. 9 : 24—26. 
Gabriel tells him to " understand the matter and 
consider the vision" (of the 2300 clays about 
which he was troubled.). Then says, "70  weeks  
are cut off," (as the best Hebrew critics tell us  
the original word should have been rendered.)  
Cut off from what 1 Why, surely, from the 2300  
days, the only period given in the vision. He  
then informs him what is to be accomplished in 
that 70 weeks, (verse 24,) which finishes the  
work of Messiah up to the time of his crucifix- 
ion. Then he gives Daniel the beginning of  
the 2300 days, from the first end of which the  
70 weeks were cut off; dividing also the 70  
weeks into, three parts, showing what should be  
accomplished in each ; and touches upon the  
subsequent destruction of Jerusalem and the 
over-spreading of the two abominations (Pagan 
and Papal) which were to reach to the consum- 
mation—the end of the 2300 days—the end of  
time : last 3 verses. Now taking the starting \  
point, the going forth of the commandment,  
verse 25, which we have seen in the decree of •  
Artaxerxes Longimanus, Ezra 7th chapter, as 1  
noted by Ferguson, (457  B. C.,) and the 70  
weeks, (490 years,) as he demonstrates, brings  
us down to the crucifixion, A. D. 33. Then  
deducting the 490 from 2300, leaves 1810, to :  
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which must be added the 33 years of Christ's 
life, (the 490 years reaching to his death,)  and  
we arrive at the Jewish year 1843. Or, which  
is equally plain, deduct 457 years, the time from 
the date of the decree to the birth of Christ,  
from 2300, and we have 1843 left ; the end of  
the vision and the end of time.  
In the 12th chapter of Daniel, 11th and 12th  
verses, the Pagan and Papal abominations are  
again introduced, as is  evident from the apostle's  
showing, 2 Thess. 2d chapter, where a most 
graphic description of the latter is given, and  
the former  is alluded to, as hindering its develop- 
ment, which was to be preceded by a falling  
away, (an apostacy.) That apostacy was brought 
about by the royal patronage of Constantine, in  
the early part of the fourth century, and gave  
scope to the spirit of Papacy, the mystery of  
iniquity which began to work in the Apostle's  
day, (see 7th verse of the above chapter.) By  
tbe best historical evidence, it appears that Pa-
pacy gained the ascendency overPaganism about  
508, which is the taking away of the daily and  
setting up of the abomination that maketh deso- 
late. The point at which the 1290 and 1335 
days begin and reach, the former to 1798 (the  
time of the end, see Dan. 11 : 40, and 12 : 4, 9,) 
the latter to 1843, (the end,) when Daniel is to  
stand in his lot, or inheritance, on the renewed  
earth, see Job. 19 : 25—27, which,  with various  
other passages, shows that it is at the resurrec-
tion of the saints. Thus it is clearly seen that we  
have three  different lines of prophetic clironol- 
ogy, commencing at distinct and distant points of 
time, and reaching, by the same rule of measure-
ment,to the same period, the goal of time. Again, 
the prophetic types point to  the same period.—  
The great year of RELEASE which is to set all the  
servants of God free, at the end of seven pro- 
phetic years, 2520 literal years, from the time  
they lost their liberty, which,  as we have seen,  
was 677 B. C., must come 1843, as appears by 
adding the 677 B. C. to 1843 after  Christ, which  
makes the 2520 : see Jer. 34 : 14. The great  
JUBILEE, also, in which the people of God are to 
receive their inheritance, reckoning from the  
time when they lost their possessions, by being 
carried into their enemies' land, in the days of  
Jehoiakim, 607 B. C., coincides with 1843, as ap-
pears by multiplying 49 by 50, which gives us  
2450, ihe time of the 50th jubilee, and the adding 
607 B. C. to 1843 after Christ: see Lev.  25 : 8,  
13. Omitting the notice of other types, which  
appear to denote the encl of time, and point to  
the same period, I remark that as the skillful 
surveyor in establishing an important corner,  
not only places the stake and stones at the end 
of his measurement, but also makes the corner  
conspicuous, by marking a number of trees in  
the vicinity as witnesses, in such a manner that  
each mark (or blaze) shall face and point to the  
corner, thus apprising every one who traces the  
line, to find the corner, when he  is near it; so  
God, by his prophets, has not only given us the  
chronological measurement which reaches to the  
termination of the present state, but has also 
marked several neighboring periods by events of  
prophecy, which point to the end, and show us  
when it is near. Of thi3 class is the reign of  
the papal beast, (see Rev. 13 : 5, compared with  
Dan. 7 : 8 : 11, 25,) commencing 538, when Jus- 
tinian gave him the three kingdoms, " plucked  
up," and executed the decree which constituted 
him "true and effectual corrector*of heretics,  
and ending 1798, when  Bqrthier took him from  
his throne  and abolished his civil power. This  
is the time of the end denoted by Daniel's 1290  
days, and reaches within 45 years of the termi- 
nation of the 1335—the end, when Daniel is 
to stand in his lot, or inheritance, (Dan. 12 :  
11—13.) Not to mention  several others already  

and exactly fulfilled, I will only refer to the  
sounding of the wo trumpets, (Rev. 9 : 1—19,  
and 10 ; 1—7, compared with 11: 15.) Here  
we have two periods given : 1st, five months  
(150 years) chap. 9 : 5, commencing according  
to Gibbon, when the Turks made their first in- 
cursion into the Greek territories, July 27, 1299,  
and terminating 1449, with the end of the inde- 
pendence of the Greeks, and that of the first wo ; 
then begins the period denoted by "an hour,  a  
day, a month and a year," (391 years and 15 
days, Rev. 9 : 15,) which terminated  Aug. 11,  
1840, with the surrender of the Sultan's inde- 
pendence into the hands of the allied powers.  
This is  worthy of more particular notice, as Bro.  
Litch, (see his Dissertation on the Fall of tbe Ot- 
toman Empire,) by a critical investigation of  
the prophecy, and history relating thereto, was  
enabled to ascertain the precise character of the  
closing events, as well as the preceding ones, and  
the very day of its accomplishment, and pub- 
lished the same to the world two years before the  
fulfillment. A striking proof of the correctness  
of the rule which we have adopted for the un-
derstanding and application of prophetic chro- 
nology, and a demonstration that, as the second 
wo is past, and the third comes quickly, Rev.  
11 : 14, which is identical with the seventh  
trumpet, see Rev. 10 : 7 and 11 : 15, the king- 
dom of our Lord and his Christ, in which he is  
to " reign forever," is about to be set up. The  
signs of Christ's coming are also fulfilled. The  
church's tribulation (Matt. 24 : 29) ended in  the  
last century, after which (1780) the sun was  
darkened, and the moon withheld her light, the  
stars of heaven fell, (1833—1835.) The sign of 
blood appeared 1837—that of pestilence  was seen  
in the terrific cholera, sweeping as a besom of 
destruction over the earth. Earthquakes have  
been frequent and fearfid, and in many places  
where they were before unknown. Then what 
shall we say of these things 1  Is not the Son of  
Man nigh, even at the door 1  
Now, my dear brethren in the Lord, although  
in the above sketch, for want of time and space,  
I have done little more than refer you to some 
ofthe principal data from which my convictions  
that tbe end of all flesh is at hand, are derived,  
I beg you to examine the subject most prayer- 
fully ; laying aside entirely, all prejudice, pride  
and love of human applause, and submitting  
your understanding to the  control of the word  
and Spirit of God, in all the simplicity and do- 
cility of a little child ; remembering your Sa- 
viour's words, " Verily I say unto you, whoso- 
ever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a  
little child, he shall not enter therein," Mark 10 :  
15, and not forgetting the words of the Psalmist,  
" The meek will he guide in judgment : and the  
meek will he teach his way," Ps. 25; 9.  Do  
not rely on popular commentators or preachers.  
If the Jewish Doctors, whose it was to expound  
the law of God, and explain the prophecies, could 
be so far blinded by their preconceived opinions  
as to fulfill those very prophecies which they  
read and interpreted every Sabbath day, by  
crucifying the Lord of life and glory, (see Acts  
13 : 27,) is it not more than probable, that pre- 
possession, long-cherished predilection,, pride of  
opinion, and a dread of the frown of a perverted  
public sentiment, may have blinded many of  
the Gamaliels of our day 1 Especially when  
we consider the fact, that not a few of  them  
have shrunk from the public vindication of great  
moral principles in their practical bearings,  
while they have seen outraged and crushed  
humanity bleeding at every pore, in the very 
bosom ofthe churches of their own denomina- 
tions. Have we no evidence of " blindness," in 
part, which has happened to Israel, in the pain- 
ful fact, that many of her teachers, especially  

where public opinion favors it, force the gospel  
of our blessed Savior into the support of a sys- 
tem of cruelty and injustice which legally anni- 
hilates the attributes of man, sunders every tie 
of consanguinity, virtually annuls holy marriage,  
tramples the helpless in the dust, and makes  
merchandize ofthe image of God 1 Do you not  
see evidence of blindness, also, in the melan- 
choly proof, that scarcely any thing renders a 
minister of the gospel so unpopular, even with 
the clergy of his owii order, as an uncompromis- 
ing war upon the prevailing sins ofhis own age,  
his own country, and especially his own church ?  
Have we not fallen upon " tbe last days," the 
"perilous times" predicted by Paul, when men  
shall be lovers of themselves V' (2 Tim. 1 : 2.)  
When I look at the present state of things in  
churches of our own, as well as other denomi- 
nations—the chain of caste that separates the  
poor from the rich—the practice of selling the 
most eligible seats in the house of God, often, to  
wicked men, for the sake of their support, and  
crowding  the pious poor into some obscure  
place—the odium of color—tbe love of office— 
the desire of titles of distinction, which a Baptist  
would have spurned fifty years ago—the smiting  
of fellow-servants for an honest difference of 
opinion ; the artifice resorted to to raise monies  
for religious purposes—the neglect to discipline  
opulent and influential church members, for of- 
fences for which the powerless widow and 
friendless orphan are excluded—the ministerial  
obsequiousness to public opinion, in regard to 
both morals and manners—the fashionable dissi- 
pation—the sectarian feeling, and denomina- 
tional pride which is substituted for pure chari- 
ty and holy emulation—the covetousness, selfish-
ness, worldly mindedness, &c. so prevalent, I  
Avould, were it in my power, utter in thunder 
tones, the Saviour's words, "Take heed  to your- 
selves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharg-
ed with surfeiting and drunkenness, and cares of 
this life, and so that day come upon you un- 
awares !" Luke 21 : 34. See also, Matt. 24 : 48 
to 51. To the incredulous in high places, who  
seem to regard their popularity as the very 
breath of life, and who charge with fanaticism, 
monomania, or a delusion of the devil, their once  
loved and respected brethren who are now look- 
ing for the speedy coming of the Saviour, 1 would  
kindly address the Master's interrogation, "How  
can ye believe which receive honor one of  
another, and seek not the honor which cometh  
from God only V' Be careful, my brethren,  
that ye be not "false accusers." It is of little  
consequence to me what use you make of my  
name, or what letters from " venerable corres- 
pondents" are published and republished, if in  
"the day ofthe Lord," I may be " free from  
the blood of all men." While I freely forgive 
my brethren who know not what they do, I sin- 
cerely thank God for tbe sweet consciousness I  
feel, that the acts for which I suffer reproach, are  
the most disinterested and self-denying of my life.  
To those who believe the end is nigh:—Dear  
brethren, be watchful—be prayerful—be humble  
—be holy ;—believe all that God has spoken ;  
do all that he has commanded : breathe a spirit  
of kindness to all ; avoid the spirit of controver- 
sy ; pray and labor for the salvation of sinners ;  
fix not your faith on March or  April, but on the  
Jewish year 1843 ; which, should it prove to be  
the civil instead ofthe sacred year, may extend  
to September. But be instantly and constantly  
ready, as we have no assurance of another day.  
We have evidently entered upon the last year of  
prophetic time—and can see nothing beyond,  
but the eternal state. The prophetic periods, the  
signs of the Saviour's coming, and the end of the 
world blaze around us, and bid us trim ou-lamps,  
gird our loins, be sober and hope to the end,  , to 299  
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Dear impenitent reader,—receive a friendly  
warning ; it may be the last—You may soon  
hear the trump of God, see the dead in Christ  
arise, feel the earth tremble beneath your feet,  
and behold the J udge descending from the part- 
ing skies ! And should the time seem to have  
passed away, and, Belshazzar-like, you should  
spread the bachannalian feast, deride our hope,  
and insult our God, your triumph  will be -short:  
—The song of revelry soon will cease; the  
voice of mirth be heard no more forever: the  
, chilling horror will suddenly seize upon you—  
the sheltering rocks will not protect you ; the  
falling mountains will -not hide you; the fiery 
stream will not spare you ; the wail of anguish  
will not relieve you—Nor gushing tears ; nor 
Mercy's name ; nor bleeding Lamb : will then  
avail you ! " Now is the accepted time ; now  
is the day of salvation." Now, while the last  
tide may be ebbing ; while the last sand may be  
falling ; fly to Jesus • swiftly fly : your sins con- 
fess ; for mercy plead; while He is on the  
mercy seat.  
Your unworthy servant for Jesus' sake,  
ELON GALUSHA.  
PROPHECY AND THE AGE.  
How deplorable the fact that the great and wonderful  
display ofthe meaning and import of prophecy which has  
of late been thrown by the mercy and munificence of God 
on to the breast and into the bosom ofthe church, should  
first have been ridiculed and afterwards rejected by the 
church, and finally thrown hack again into the face of 
her great Lord with disdain branded and burnt in its of- 
fensive forehead with the name " Millerism."  
No matter how sincere a man be ; no matter what his  
acquaintance with prophecy be ; no matter what his com-
petence to make up an independent judgment on the sub- 
ject be ; he may hav e sifted with the nicest skill of scho- 
lar and critic all commentators ; he may have winnowed  
with the fire of the finest mind every pile of chaff from 
his conclusions, and derived his convictions from the 
most sacred and authoritative sources ; yea, his bosom  
may glow with as warm a beam of benevolence as ever 1  
shot from the face of the Sun of righteousness into the  
heart of humanity, yet if he now, in these pure and pious  
times, mouth the word prophecy, except for the purpose  
of shaping out and showing off in all its fancied richness  
that gay, and gaudy, and frilled, and fimbricated robe, the  
Millennium, with which the church hopes to deck herself,  
during the latter days, then immediately all bis words 
and doings are supposed to -wear no longer the face of 
scripture, but the face of a man—he is a " Millcrite."  
Yet has not history almost entirely exhausted the pro- 
phecy of the metalic Image, Daniel 2nd '? Habershon  
the Episcopalian, than whom there was perhaps not on  
earth a man more entitled to an independent judgment in 
the case, vouches that the chronology and consequently  
the history of that image expires this present Jewish 
year.  
Can the leaders of this age furnish from the demon- 
strations of scripture any other great event that must  
occur anterior to the appearing and Kingdom of Christ 1  
If they know of any, O that they would point us to it.—  
Carthage Evan.  
! "WHAT WILT, YOU DO IF IT DON'T COME 1—To this oft- 
repeated query, manifesting such great concern lest God  
should falsify his word, and disappoint his people, we  
answer that we have no right to even suppose a failure  
possible. Doubting is not believing. W« shall stand in  
a very few weeks, where we can return an emphatic an- 
swer to two questions, that will cover the whole ground  
of our position. We shall then have walked by faith  
over the entire length of the great prophetic highway. 
We shall have walked upon the great prophetic lines  
which were stretched across the continent of time, and  
have reached the place where the last  and longest line of  
all has faded from our vision. Casting our eye back-
ward over this line, the question comes—What is behind  
you 1 A complete fulfillment of Prophecy, and the aggre- 
gate of probationary time ! What is before you 1—The  
Coming of Ghrist, and the boundless ocean of Eternity J—  
Voicc of Warning.  
O" The Great day of the Lord is near. It is near  
and hasteth greatly. Reader, live by the moment. There 
is no safety out of Christ, one hour now.  
EVIL AND GOOD.—To do evil for evil, is human corrup- 
tion ; to do good for good, is civil retribution ; but to  
do good for evil, is Christian perfection.  
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jrtffijmdnight cry.  
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1844.  
LIFE FROM THE DEAD, NO. 2.  
In speaking of the first great principles of second  
advent reform, in a former article, we endeavored to 
show that this work is of God, and consists in a re- 
turn to the simplicity and power ofthe Scriptures. It  
also includes a casting aside the weights of prejudice,  
the trammels of false interpretation, and a restoration  
of his living truth.  
Not only from the sackcloth shades of dead lan- 
guages,  and Papal traditions, but from the fearful so- 
phistry of modern ecclesiastical infidelity, the leaven  
of whose teachings has produced the Laodicean sleep, 
which now enchains our professing world. We appeal 
to the Bible, and insist that the Lord shall speak to us, 
and not man. We acknowledge no authority but his re- 
vealed will, and feel bound to search it diligently for 
ourselves, knowing that shortly before our Master,we 
shall individually stand or fall, as we have improved  
this priceless trust. We dare no longer rely on as-
sumed positions, or human creeds, but we would re-
turn to the simple energy of the primitive gospel.  
The gospel of the kingdom, as it was preached by  
Christ and his disciples, who said, " repent, FOR the  
kingdom of heaven is at HAND." We urge the same  
motive power, as did Peter, when he said, " seeing  
then that all these things shall be dissolved, what man- 
ner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation  
and godliness, looking for and hastening unto the com- 
ing of the day of God," for " the end of all things is at  
hand, be ye therefore sober, and watch unto prayer."  
The apostles plead the peculiar diligence necessary  
to those " upon whom the  ends ofthe world are come."  
How much more then should we incite each other to  
love and good works, now that we '< SEE the day ap- 
proaching." The zealous rivalry of sects, was not the  
incentive of early Christians, neither the shortness of  
life, and the fear of death, but "the COMING of the  
Lord draweth nigh." They were not allured by the  
dream of a temporal millennium, and a reign of peace 
and safety, to be enjoyed in a world, where the Master 
had assured them they should have tribulation. They  
were not rich, and increased in goods, and in need, or  
desiring nething, not even the return of the Bridegroom,  
but they had "need of patience unto the coming of the  
Lord." When we compare the example of New Tes- 
tament Christians, with that of those who now pro-
fess to be followers of Jesus, our hearts sicken at the  
contrast, and we areped despairingly to inquire, "when  
the Son of Man cometh, shall he find faith upon the 
earth !" Many, who make great professions of godli-
ness, have no faith in his promises, and deny the evi-
dence of his coming, or openly maintain that their  
Lord delays, and " begin to eat and drink with the  
drunken," and to despitefully entreat those who are  
waiting for him. These fearful symptoms of a profess-
ed church, demonstrate the last lukewarm stage of 
nominal Christianity. The expectation of the world's  
conversion, the return of the carnal Jews, and other  
modern traditions, like fatal opiates, effectuallv  seal the  
vision to the threatening omens of the coming crisis.  
We feel increasing confidence in our calculations of 
the prophetic periods, and firmly believe that the world  
will soon be convinced of the truth of our position, by  
their fulfillment. Yet aside from these, we are assur- 
ed daily by the threatentingaspect ofhuman affairs, "that  
now it is high time to awake out of sleep," " the  
night is far spent, the clay is at hand," and we would 
" therefore cast off the works of darkness," and put on 
the "armor of light." Though we feel that our time is  
SHORT, in a most thrilling sense, and that we are liable 
at any moment, to see the Son of Man coming in the  

clouds of heaven, yet we dare not relax one effort, if  
so be we may persuade some who are immersed in the 
love and care of this world, to awake, and secure a  
preparation for the coming day. As our message is an  
appeal of love to every heart, and affects the entire  
destiny of man, we might expect that we should enlist  
the sympathies of every true philanthropist, in this  
cause, but is it so? As the civilized world profess  
the Christian name, and adopt the Bible as their rule of 
faith, when we appeal to its teachings, without note 
or comment, as the reason of our entreaty, we might  
expect attention and regard to its authority, but it is  
far otherwise. Surely then, while our message is re- 
jected and despised by the world, and its would-be  
philanthropists, we may still hope to find co-operation  
and fellowship among the professed churches, of the 
coming Bridegroom, who have promised to love him 
with all the heart, and pray daily for his kingdom to 
come. The captive bride will rejoice at the news of 
the coming of her Lord, and each faithful watchman  
will echo back the alarm, until the whole world shall  
be aroused to prepare to meet their God. How far  
this expectation has been realized, the recording angel 
ofthe churches will soon reveal. We bring no railing  
accusation against our brethren, but the course that they 
have taken, shows the NECESSITY that is laid upon us,  
to GO OUT quickly into the streets and lanes, that we  
may bring in the poor and maimed, and  the halt and  
the blind, that our Master's table may be full. And 
now, although we stand upon the threshold of probation, 
we seem to hear an encouraging voice, from the pil- 
lar of fire, saying, speak unto the advent children, "that 
they go forward." c. s. M.  
Philadelphia, March 1844.  
TO CORRESPONDENTS.  
Bro. "D. P." of Utica will see at once the propriety !  
of omitting the  publication of his article, headed " J.  
S.—His Test of Saving Faith." The work bearing I  
that title, was not published by us, but on the author's  
own responsibility, and was advertised in our columns ! 
at his particular request. As the question on which  
Bro. P. is at issue with the author ofthe work refer- 
red to, is one which we have never admitted to have  
any vital connection with the grand subject of our : 
mission, and as it would probably lead to a controversy  
on a foreign subject, we must grant the article " leave  
to withdraw."  
The subject of the other letter of Bro. P. is also of  
the same relative character.  
The " P. M." of Greenville, N. Y., will find the best !  
answer to his question, that we have now at hand, in  
the Advent Herald, which we forward.  
Wre have read the article of "W. D. C." with con- 
siderable interest, and should be pleased to have the 
entire argument of the writer. We cannot of course I  
speak positively of its insertion, till the remainder shall 
be received. The letter of which he  speaks, sent ;  
"some months since," we cannot account for.  
Bro. " G. W. M." is referred to Bro. Litch's " Ex- !  
position," for light on Ezek. 38, and 39. On Ezek. 40 ; !  
see " Signs of the Times," Vol. 6, No. 24, which we  
forward.  
An article from Bro. Litch, entitled " Where are  
we," will appear next week.  
ID3 The first number of a small sheet called the  
" Voice of Warning," and published by Bro. 0.  
Squires, Utiffa, N. Y. has been received.  
IE? We have received several copies of a paper entitled  
" The sure word of Prophecy," published by Br. H H  
Gross, Albany, N. Y., " as often as duty may require "  
containing a luminous exhibition of prophetic truths prov- 
ing conclusively, that the time will be fulfilled about the 
end of this Jewish year.


REASONS FOR. WITHDRAWING FROM THE  
CHURCH.  
1. Simultaneous with my conversion to the Advent  
faith, I was overwhelmed with astonishment to find in 
what perfect confusion the religious world was, so that 
I involuntarily cried out, " O what a Babylon, what  a  
Babylon we are all in !" For a long time my soul was  
like a fountain of waters, which every view of the back- 
slidings, captiousness and infidelity of the professed  
church and ministry seemed to open afresh. Since that  
time, almost every day has furnished me with some,  
new proof that the dear brethren with whom I have  
heretofore been associated, have erred from the faith,  
and departed from the simplicity of the gospel. The  
most prominent among them have, in my humble opin- 
ion, adopted rules of interpreting the scriptures in  
common with Unitarians, Universalists, Papists, Skep- 
tics,and Infidels : of course I solemnly believe that they  
have, as a general thing,  and to a greater or less ex- 
tent, gone over to Unitarianism, Universalism, Papacy,  
Skepticism and Infidelity. I say this,.not in the way 
of reproach, but with the deepest pain, and because I  
conscientiously and before God believe it to be true. I 
feel therefore that as an Evangelical Christian, and as  
a teacher of religion, whose duty it is to " contend 
earnestly for the faith which was once delivered unto 
the saints," (Jude 3,) to publish my unqualified dissent 
from all such expositions of God's word ; and lest I  
should be thought to wink at such gross perversions  
of the plainest scripture, I do hereby dissolve my con- 
nection with such, heeding what 1 believe to be appli- 
cable to the present case,—2 Cor. 6 ; 14, 15. " Be  
ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers : for  
what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteous- 
ness 1 and what communion hath light with darkness 1  
and what concord hath Christ with Belial ? or what 
part hath he that believeth with an infidel 1"  
2. Both among the ministry and the laity, I have  
been grieved to find many who deny the doctrine 
of the resurrection of the body, (Phillippians 3 :21,) 
the second personal, glorious appearing of Christ:  
(John 14 i 3) and who question at least, the doc- 
trine of the final destruction of this earth, (2 Pe- 
ter 3:1,) with other kindred truths. These indi- 
viduals are in the fellowship of the church, and  
are suffered to remain there unmolested, while those  
who are guilty of believing in the pre-rnillennial ad- 
vent of our Lord, under the slightest pretext, are ar- 
raigned, tried and thrust out. Knowing therefore the 
contagious influence of being associated with those  
who wrest the Scriptures unto their own destruction, 
I must deem the following holy advise addressed to 
me, 2 Pet. 3 : 17. " Beware lest ye also, being led 
away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own  
steadfastness."  
3. I verily believe that they have " a form of godli- 
ness," but deny the power thereof. " They profess  
the power of God, but in works they deny him." This  
is evident everywhere and in every thing. They have  
publicly ridiculed the idea of arriving at the doctrine 
of the Lord's coming by means of prayer, and the  
teachings of the Holy Ghost, so as in some few in- 
stances at least, to shock every sentiment ofthe soul.  
" From such" Heaven calls upon me to "turn away."  
(2 Tim. 3:5.)  
4. I cannot think otherwise than that very many of  
them are the scoffers, and the false teachers who were  
to arise in the last days, and impiously to demand,  
" Where is the promise of his coming 1 (2 Pet. 3 : 4)  
and to say "Peace and safety." (2 Thess. 5 : 3.) In  
this general cry I dare not join, lest'" sudden destruc- 
tion" overtake me, and the blood of souls be found on  
the skirts of my garments. My duty is made clear 
therefore from 2 Cor. 6 : 17, 18. "Wherefore come  
out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the  
Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will re- 
ceive you; and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall  
be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."  
5. They are eating and drinking with the drunken,  
and thereby furnishing alarming evidence of their  
character  and doom. The counsel of the apostle is  
now applicable to me, Eph. 5: 11. ''And have no  
fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but  
| rather reprove them."  
j 6. They have beaten and smitten their fellow-ser- 
j vants, who have been watching for their Lord's re- 
iturn, and proclaiming his coming. They have opened  
Ijtheir pulpits for the discussion of almost every other  
j ^subject, and thrown open their houses of worship for  
I Ifeasts, and a variety of public entertainments, but have' 
; prohibited God's ministers from proclaiming in the same  
| "The hour of his judgment is come." They have there-
i by taken away our license to preach, and cast con- 

tempt upon us. Our affections are therefore alienated 
from them, and I can no longer regard them as the  
body of Christ. My duty is therefore pointed out in  
2 Thess. 3:6. " Now we command you, brethren, in 
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw  
yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, 
and not after the tradition which he received of us."  
7. They have excommunicated members for wor- 
shipping God apart by themselves, when they were  
neither allowed to pray, sing or speak in relation to  
Christ's coming, or to hear the doctrine preached in  
their respective houses of worship. Therefore, re- 
cognizing the gospel principle, Matt. 25 : 40, " Inas- 
much as ye have done it unto one ofthe least of these  
my brethren, ye have done it unto me,"—I feel ago- 
nized and desire to go with my persecuted brethren, 
and to be a companion with them in tribulation, and  
in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ. (Rev.  
1:9.)  
8. In addition to the wide disparity in our religious  
views, they have virtually divorced us from commun- 
ion in cases where they could find no plausible ground  
' for openly cutting us off. Why, therefore, should wa  
seek any longer to preserve a union, which after all is 
pnly nominal 1 "How can two walk together, except 
Ihey be agreed V Amos 3 : 3.  
9. If, as they represent, we are fanatics, crazy, de- 
ceivers, lying vagrants, why should they desire longer 
to retain us 1 "A little leaven leaveneth the whole  
lump." (1 Cor. 5 : 6.) Their good, therefore, on their  
own assumption, demands of us  to do for them, what  
as yet they have failed to do for themselves, viz. 1 
Cor. 5:7," Purge out therefore the old leaven, that  
ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For  
even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us."  
10. They are known to have evil designs in store  
for all who remain incorrigible in regard to the Lord's  
appearing, should the present Jewish year expire, and  
as it. is my purpose to look for the Lord until he come, 
and as I \yish to save them from incurring more of 
Jehovah's wrath by any future acts of rebellion, I do  
hereby proclaim mvself no longer subject to their su- 
pervision. Prov. 22 : 3- "A prudent man foreseeth  
the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, 
and are punished." The principle apparent in Prov. 
23 : 6, must govern my conduct—" Eat thou not the  
bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou  
his dainty meats."  
11. I honestly and solemnly believe the nominal  
church to be in its Laodicean state, as set forth in  
Rev. 3 ; 14—18. That Christ has already spued it 
out of his mouth, and that he will not own it as his  
bride when he shall appear. I desire therefore for 
one, to be " zealous and repent," and to urge on all. 
the necessity of watching, of trimming their laipps,  
and of going forth to meet the Bridegroom.  
12. My views of truth, of the awful state of the  
church, and of the world, together with what I believe 
to be my duty as an ambassador of Christ, require me 
to speak and write as is not consistent for one to do, 
who still retains his connection with the church. I  
therefore withdraw from it, that I may more freely  
execute my responsible duties. 2 Tim. 4 : 2—5.—  
" Preach the word ; be instant in season, out of sea- 
son ; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering 
and doctrine. For the time will come, when they will 
not endure sound doctrine. ; but. after their own lusts  
shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching  
ears; and they shall turn away their ears from the  
truth, and shall be turned unto fables. But watch  
thou in all things, endure afflietion, do the work of an 
evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry."  
13. If Christ is "at the door," as I confidently be- 
lieve, then there is no good reason why my name or  
influence should anv longer be with those who have  
cast Jesus and his humble followers out of their midst. 
I can no longer benefit them nor they me. Any fur- 
ther union with them would only disqualify me for  
meeting my Lord, "for whom I have suffered the loss 
of all things." (Phil. 3 : 8.)  
14. Whether Rev. 18 : 4, refers to the present or- 
ganized religious sects, and furnishes instructions for  
our present guidance, there is Bible enough inde- 
pendantof that to direct to the course I now undertake,  
and render it as clear and as imperious that 1 should  
withdraw from the church, as that I should profess  
my faith in the Lord's immediate coming.  
I have now discharged the most painful duty that I  
ever undertook ; it has been like cutting off a right 
hand, or plucking out a right eye. But God has seem-
ed to require it at inv hand, and I did not dare to diso-
bey. My prayer to God is, that he may have mercy  
on them that believe  not the truth, but have pleasure in  

unrighteousness. A crisis has arrived when some- 
thing ought to be done, if by any means they  may be  
aroused from their apathy, and rescued from their op- 
position to the Lord's coming. May God enable us  
all to see that it is our duty to be formally separated 
from them.  
Feb. 13, 1844. F, G. BROWN.  
SIFTED OUT.  
Amos. 9:9, " [ will sift the house of Israel among  
all nations, like as corn is sifted in a seive. Yet shall not  
the least grain fall upon the earth." Luke 22, 31. "Simon, 
satan has desired to—sift you as wheat."  
It is painful to witness the evident departures from  
the simple truth as it is in Jesus. God's truth detects  
hypocrites, and shoves them off. We see many who  
have perceived the revealed hope of the Christian,—the 
name of Jesus, as the Coming one, and the strong proba-
bility that the Second Advent is just at hand, who yet  
turn aside from a public avowal  of the .truth. Judging  
from the number of those within the circle of our ac-
quaintance, who have been so fully convinced, that they  
have been constrained to consent to the truth of our  
Lord's speedy coming, and who, notwithstanding, shrink  
back from the consequences of being decided, and perse-
vering in support of what appears to them to be truth, I  
conclude that tens of thousands have passed through  
God's great seive. They have fallen with the chaff and  
the tares. They once appeared well, but in them is ful- 
fiilled the language of Messiah, " By and by when perse-
cution ariseth, because of the word, they are offended." 
The tests of character which are applied to God's pro- 
fessing people, and the trials which attend an honest 
expression of their convictions, are his chosen method to  
shake the seive. All ' tbe tares,' and ' the chaff,' he 
will sift out ' to be burned.' None but those who  
will "forsake all,-' who "seek first the kingdom of God,"  
who Hose their lives' for Christ's sake, can expect, on  
scriptural principles, to be gathered "into the gainer" of  
God.  
" Think not," saith the Son of God, "that I am come  
to send peace on earth ; I come not to send peace, but a 
sword." Therefore the man who cannot bear the sword 
sooner than renounce the truth, will be sifted through. 
Those only who "endure tB the end shall be saved.".—  
Those who cannot (through fear of man. or love to their  
salary, or desire to be popular) endure to the end, will  
be found among the chaff that is sifted out. <Thus it is  
written, " ye have need of patience that after ye have 
done the will of God, ye might receive the promise ; for  
yet a little while, and the Coming One will come, and  
will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith; but if  
any man draw hack, my soul shall have no pleasure in 
him." Those who draw, i. e. shrink baclc from truth,  
because of any mere worldly considerations, may know 
that they are already  sifted out, and their impending  
doom is "perdition," Heb. 18 : 36, 39.  
" To serve the living and true God, and to wait for his  
Son from heaven," is to maintain the Christian's calling. 
To renounce the world and live, " looking for that bles-
sed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God,  
and our Saviour," is to cherish the Christian's hope,—-to  
proclaim, " Behold he cometh with clouds, and every eye 
shall see him ; all the kindreds of tbe earth shall wail  
because of hint: even so, Amen !" is to preach as did the 
apostles ; but those who shrink back from these truths, 
lest they  should be called Millerites, or the like, do  
"draw back"—down they fall among the chaff, to be  
speedily damned.  
To "know" that "the coming of the Son of Man is  
nigh, even at the doors," because his own words have  
been verified in "the signs," to "look up and lift up our  
heads,' assured that our "redemption draweth nigh"—to  
"understand" when we read the prophecy of Daniel, is to  
obey Jesus, our approaching judge ; therefore those who 
are too "fearful and unbelieving" to "understand," "look 
up," or "know," ought to see their character and  coming  
doom ; they are sifted out.  
To put' death, the triumph ofthe Devil, in place of our  
blessed Saviour's return to judgment  : to make death  
the source of motive to repent, confess Jesus and be 
faithful as Christians, (Acts 3 : 19, 21 and 17: 30 ; Matt.  
10 : 32 ; Heb. 10 : 25, 27:) to set aside the Christian's  
hope, or the Redeemer's name, by any human theory  
relative to the conversion of the world, is both to make  
and "love a lie." Rev. 22 : 15. Surely those make a  
lie, in the sense of this passage, who devise an error, or 
a gloss, to get around God's naked truth, on any subject.  
Those who use such gloss or mystical interpretation to  
escape "the reproach of Christ," do certainly love the  
"lie" which the other mads. Their doom is written with 
"whoremongers" and hypocrites. Such are certainly  
sifted out.  
Those who profess to believe in the Lord's return,  
should beware lest they be "removed away from tbe  
hope of the gospel." Should any become weary of wait- 
ing ; if when the vision seems to tarry they do not. wait  
as required, they also shall be sifted out. " Blessed is  
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j he that waiteth and cometh to the 3 335 days." Salva-
! tion and a crown awaits those who "look for" and "love"  
his appearing. Heb. 9 : 28 ; 2 Tim. 4 : 8. We should 
as soon be turned from the atonement as the coining of  
Christ.  
God sifted mankind before the deluge—he found only  
a "few, that is eight souls," who were not with the chaff 
blown away. The inhabitants of the cities of the plain 
were sifted, and only three grains of wheat (and those  
I not pure) were left in the seive. The Israelites in the  
wilderness were sifted, and out of those myriads two  
i who left Egypt were counted worthy of preservation :  
" Caleb and Joshua who followed the Lord fully."  
During the personal ministry of Jesus, who had his fan  
in his hand for years, " thoroughly " purging his floor,  
there were but few not fanned away ; the largest num- 
ber named is -," above five hundred brethren at once."—  
Those who were first detected and sifted out were the  
Doctors, the rulers of the synagogue, the distinguished  
among professors. The mass followed, and were found 
among the chaff, which he will burn up with fire un- 
quenchable. O thou searcher of hearts, who shall be  
saved 1 The wheat he will gather into his garner.—  
Those who will lose their lives for his sake shall find 
them. Those who do not flinch from truth or duty, will  
be counted worthy of the kingdom of God.  
The Jewish nation has generally been regarded a type  
of the church. We should not wonder, therefore, if the  
leaders in the church shall be sifted out : as it, is written,  
"when the Son of Man cometh shall he find faith on the  
earth 1" All who have not. faith, which "giveth us the 
victory" over the world, will be sifted out. We know  
from the highest authority that "as it was in the days of  
Noah, so shall the coming of the Son of Man be." Here 
we see the character of the saved. " By faith Noah,  
moved with fear, prepared an ark." Saving faith will  
move us to fear, and separate from the doom of an un- 
godly world. Those whose sympathies forbid their 
separation, those who will not justify God, as did Noah, 
should know that they have no saving faith. Their faith  
is merely conventional, like that of the Jews at the first  
advent. " He that believeth not," is to be sifted out to  
be damned.  
These remarks have been suggested by the searching  
inquiry, " Who may abide the day of his coming '! who  
shall stand when he appeareth ?" The Jews had their  
own plans formed, from which they would not be di- 
verted, either for Jehovah or their Messiah. They could  
not abide the trial of their faith : so they were sifted out  
as chaff* Thus it was in the days of Luther. The mass  
of professors had lost sight of the gospel plan of justifi-
cation by faith, and had formed one of their own. When  
it was made clear from Scripture as a sunbeam, the lead- 
ers could not receive it. It would have broken up their 
plans for self-aggrandizement,  and prostrated them in  
the dust, in penitence and prayer before God. It would 
have required a confession to the world for having uni-
ted with others to deceive them. They could not abide  
this trial of their faith. Thus their hypocrisy was dis- 
covered : they were sifted out.  
It is as plainly proved from God's word, as justifica- 
tion by faith can be, that the religious editors and minis- 
ters of our day. have to an alarming degree, lost sight of  
the Christian's  hope and calling, nay, of one of our Sav- 
iour's names, yet they will not believe. They could be- 
lieve, were it, in their esteem, either for their credit or 
their comfort. Surely no man's conscience, or common 
sense, or Scripture character, is shocked by the plain  
language of inspiration. Every one who is willing to  
listen to God can do so and enjoy the approbation of  
their conscience. One in this city who had strenuously  
advocated the fable of a temporal millennium, and the  
return of the Jews, told trie, that he had relinquished  
these notions. He also said repeatedly that he had no  
reason to give why lie should not. believe that the Second 
Advent would take place this year. Yet  this distin- j  
guished leader in the church is now opposing. I cannot 
learn that he ever honestly and openly avowed his con- 
victions, nor that he has got new light from Scripture to  
alter his Hi ind : therefore the conclusion is, irresistible  
that he is "not enduring to the end :" he seems to be  
shrinking or drawing back. If so, he will be sifted out.  
The promised salvation to those who "look for" the 
Saviour "the second time," has, it seems, less power  
over him, than the church and the world.  
The "Christian Secretary" should bear in mind who it  
was that said the 23U0 days of the prophecy of Daniel  
would end this year—who had no faith in a temporal  
millennium—who  said that "some great event is com- 
ing." Without any public avowal of a reason for believ- 
ing to the contrary (so far as I am informed) its conduc-
tors are writing as if no such ideas were ever suggested  
to their minds—God holds them accountable for letting  
their light shine. If they do not, conscience and Scrip- 
ture convict them of a want of that character which they  
seem to long to fasten, by way of anticipation, on those  
who, "if the vision tarry," would in obedience to God 
"WAIT B-OK IT." If we are honest, they say, we shali  
confess after the 21st inst. If they have had such con- 
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victions as they have expressed in private, are they hon- 
est before God in suppressing them 1 They should hon-
estly tell the church that the world is not to be con- 
verted—the prophetic period ends and " something is  
coming." If not, it is clear that something besides Scrip-
ture operates on their minds. I have dreadful apprehen-
sions that they are sifted out. They certainly are, in  
appearance, with the chaff, the world, so far as the hope  
of the gospel and the speedy coming of Christ is con-
cerned.  
Take an example from the ministry—one of a great  
many. He has professedly studied his Bible for forty 
years : yet he does not (probably cannot) tell what is the 
hope ofthe gospel. When his opposition is strongly ex-
pressed, and his feelings become manifest, he is told in 
an enquiring way, "then you do not want your Lord to 
comer' "NO, NOT A BIT!" was his reply. Such  
men are sifted out from all neighborhood with apostles.  
When the Saviour's coming was announced to the be- 
loved John, he exclaimed, "Amen! even so; come Lord 
Jesus."  
Many Bibles have been scattered over the world, and  
much light shed on this generation ; therefore the guilt  
of rejecting its contents is greater now than ever before.  
" Where much is given, much will be required."  
But the way in which the doctors are detected—the  
manner in which the leaders and their followers in the  
church, are sifted out by thedocrine of the Advent, sta- 
ted in Scriptural language, is truly wonderful. 0 how is  
hell moved to meet them at their coming ! Isa. 14 : 9.  
It is difficult to express my convictions  just as I desire.  
The mass of ministers, oppose us when quoting the  
plain language of God's word, relative to our hope, and  
the Saviour's name : therefore we know that God has 
detected them, as he did the papists by the reformation : 
as he did the Jews by the language of their Scriptures.  
Their sympathies are seemingly  with this world, "which  
is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to BE BURNED."—  
" Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure,  
having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are his."  
The devil will get none but the chaff: not one grain of  
wheat shall perish. The Lord's fan is in his hand, and  
he will thoroughly purge his floor. He will gather his  
wheat into the garner : but he will bum up the chaff with  
unquenchable fire. — [Western Midnight Cry.']  
J. B. COOK.  
The following address, from Friend Barton, will be read  
with interest by many. We are happy to know, that  
some among that hody or sect called Quakers, are look- 
ing for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing.  
"AN ADDRESS TO THE CHILDREN OF GOD scattered over  
the earth. To all who know God, and wish to obey the 
Gospel of his Son. Brethren, O come, let us worship  
and bow down : let us kneel before Jehovah, our maker.  
For he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture,  
and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his 
voice, harden not your hearts, as in the strife and as in 
the day of temptation in the desert. O sing to Jehovah 
a new song, publish his salvation, declare his glory among  
the heathen, his wonders among all people. For Jeho°  
vah is great, and greatly to be praised : he is terrible 
above all God's. Honor and majesty are before him,  
strength and beauty are in his sanctuary. Give to Je- 
hovah the glory due to his name: bring an offering and  
come into his courts. O worship the Lord in the beauty 
of holiness : fear before him all the earth. For the great 
day of his wrath is come, and who shall be able to stand.  
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High,  
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty."  
'• Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a  
vain thing," in supposing that the King of kings and 
Lord of lords will much longer permit them to trample  
his sanctuary and host under foot? The kings of the 
earth array themselves, and the princes take counsel to- 
gether against Jehovah and against his anointed, saying  
" Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their  
cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall 
laugh." Jehovah will deride them then. He will speak  
to them in his wrath, and trouble them in his fury. For he  
hath set his King upon bis holy mount Zion, and declared 
" Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. I will  
give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the ut- 
termost parts of the earth for tliy possession. Thou 
shalt break them with a rod of iron ; thou shalt dash them  
in pieces like a potter's vessel. Be wise, now therefore,  
O ye kings : be admonished ye judges of the earth. 
Serve the Lord with reverence, and rejoice with trem-
bling. Kiss the Son by bowing to his sceptre, and dash-
ing your own to pieces, lest he be angry, and ye perish 
from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little."  
Eighteen hundred years since, this King of Zion came  
to his inheritance, and proclaimed his law through all  
his possessions, through the agency of  his servants. But  
instead of obeying this Prince of peace, both Jew and  
Gentile rebelled against him, and they crucified him on  
Mount Calvary, and continue till this day to trample his  

law and authority under their feet. Not one town or  
city, or state, upon his whole possession, (the earth) can  
now be found, but what is in a state of rebellion against  
their rightful King. " Be astonished, 0 heaven, and give  
ear, 0 earth," saith the King, " for my people hath com-
mitted two evils ; they have forsaken me, the fountain  
of living waters, and hewn out to themselves cisterns,  
broken cisterns, that will hold no water." Yes, all the 
nations and sects of the whole earth, hath forsaken the  
government of Jesus Christ, and hewn out, or establish- 
ed governments of their own. He came and established  
his law and government at Jerusalem. But in a short  
time his real subjects formed an alliance with other kings  
and governments, and thereby were brought into captiv-
ity by those governments. And one anti-Christ then stood  
up among the subjects of Christ, and declared himself the 
true Christ ; and made war with the saints and prevail- 
ed against them, by good words and fair speeches, he 
deceived many, and others that he could not deceive, he 
put to death, till the possessions of the King were all  
stained with blood. Yea, more than 50,000,000 were 
thus slain by the hand of anti-Christ. But although those  
wicked rebels on the possessions of King Jesus, have  
thus triumphed for a season, by spilling the blood of the  
King and his faithful subjects,yet their triumph is but short. 
For the King, who was dead, is now alive, and liveth for  
evermore ; and he is about to rally hi3 forces again on  
the earth. A message from the court of his glory is now 
being proclaimed by his heralds, saying, " Behold, he  
comet,li with clouds, and with his mighty angels, to take 
vengeance on them that know not God," but serve the  
devil, who has usurped his throne on earth, and on them  
who obey not the law of Jesus Christ, who shall be pun-
ished with everlasting destruction from the presence of 
the Lord, and the glory of his power. Behold he com-
eth ; go ye forth to meet him, all ye his loyal subjects,  
for every eye shall see him, and they that have pierced  
him, and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of 
him. Yes, he cometh to judge the world, his work is  
before him, and tiis reward is with-him. The voices of  
millions  that have been slain by the wicked anti-Christ,  
is now heard echoing through all the palace ofthe King,  
saying, " How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not  
judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the  
earth." And another voice is heard from the throne,  
saying, " In righteousness, I will both judge and make  
war, for behold all things are ready," and mine armies in 
heaven are now ready to follow me upon white horses ;  
conquering and to conquer. And I am clothed with a  
vesture dipped in bIood--and out of my mouth goeth a  
sharp two edged sword, and with it I will smite the na- 
tions and rule them with a rod of iron, and r will tread  
the wine press of the fierceness- and wrath of Almighty 
God, for I am King of kings and Lord of lords. And no  
longer shall the subjects of satan possess my earth. Come  
then, and added to thy many crowns, receive yet one the 
crown of all the earth. Thou who alone art worthy ! It  
was thine. Thy saints proclaim thee King, and thy de- 
lay gives courage to their foes, who could they see the  
dawn of thy last advent, long desired, would flee for safety 
to the falling rocks." MICHAEL H. BARTON.  
Seneca Falls, N. Y. 3d mo. 7, 1844.  
BRO. M. BATCHELDOR. writes from Pownall, Vt. March  
26, that he has not time to write to his many friends  
in Connecticut, and therefore communicates for the Cry,  
a short account of his labors for the benefit of all. He  
arrived at Bennington  on the 16th March, and delivered  
four lectures there.  
The brethren in Pownall kindly offered their new Bap- 
tist Meeting House, which was dedicated one week before 
he arrived. He says, " No lectures have been given in  
this place, only Prof. Opkana, of Williams'  College, in  
preaching here, said he expected if he lived to the a^e  
of man, that he thought he should see the comin^ of the  
Lord." I have-preached ten sermons, and neverVelt the  
evidence more clcar and overwhelming that the Lord was  
at the door, than now. The congregation are full, and 
solemn as the judgment ; prejudices are overcome, and  
many are willing to receive the truth. There is a waking  
up among professors, and the scattered church are com-
ing together, and souls are crying for mercy, and some 
have found peace in Jesus. There is every appearance  
of a general revival in this place. Brethren from other 
denominations  come in to help, and as soon as this truth  
is received they diink into one spirit and talk the same  
thing. I cannot tell when my work will be done here, 
and I dare not leave until it is done. 1 have endeavored  
to preach every sermon so that I could meet the Lord at 
the close, and truly I can see no time before me only the  
present, for I am as fully persuaded that all the prophe- 
cies point to about this time as I am that Jesus is the  
Christ. The canon's mouths nor all the artillery of the  
scribes and pharisees can silence me on this subject, un- 
less greater light shall break forth from the plain reading  
of God's word. Here I must stand, sink or swim, the  
Lord is at the door. Brethren, the Lord not will leave us in  
the dark. No  ! lift up your heads for your redemption  
draweth nigh. Amen. My love to all that are looking  
for the consolation of Israel. M B


LETTER FROM CANADA WEST.  
HAMILTON, C. W., March 25th, 1844.  
Dear Brother*,—Some nine weeks since, I came to  
Hamilton for the purpose of sounding the cry, Behold  
the Bridegroom cometh; but could not gain admittance 
into any of the houses of worship, or school houses.  
I found some friends who were looking for the Lord,  
and lectured in  private houses a few times only. I  
then went west, hoping that on my return, if time  
should continue, a way might be opened for the spread  
of the glad news in Hamilton. At Southhold, about  
thirty miles west of London*! received a cordial re- 
ception, where I remained about twenty days. Souls 
were converted, and my labors were abundantly bless- 
ed. On my return to Hamilton, I found three brethren  
who were trying to make some impression upon the  
people of that place ; and we sounded the cry in the 
streets, and on all sides, four to seven miles around, till  
finally we obtained a house for the daytime only, (Sun- 
days excepted,) and procured another house to hold 
prayer-meetings in the evening. These doors yvere  
soon closed against us, but the work advanced, and  
friends to the cause increased daily, and were determined  
to hear on the subject of the se.cond advent. There- 
fore they have unanimously agreed to erect a tempora- 
ry building of their own ; and it is now nearly finished.  
We have the colored people's chapel at present.  
We have experienced a considerable opposition,  
and mostly by young men, members of the different 
churches. There is also a magistrate here who has  
been very much interested against us, but, praise the  
Lord, he has increased the favor of the public towards 
us, so that we fear now no more molestation. This 
man, no doubt, has prevented much good in arraying 
himself against us. He told Bro. Poor, who lectured  
near his place, that he was a false prophet, and the  
doctrine was the doctrine of the Devil, from hell. In 
consequence of the abuse  Bro. P. received from him,  
he refused to answer his questions and objections. Be- 
low you have a copy of a letter addressed to me.  
FRIDAY, 8th March, 1844.  
" SIR,—This is to give you notice, that one of  your  
preachers refused to answer objections on Tuesday  
last, at the school-house on the township line, between  
Glanford and Burton, * * but said if a day was ap- 
pointed, you would attend to prove your doctrine. I  
have accordingly appointed Thursday night, the 14th  
inst., at 6 o'clock in the evening, precisely; and I  
have affixed a written notice against the school-house 
door, stating that on that evening, at the hour appointed 
1 will, by the blessing of God, prove that there is no 
truth in you ; that you are false prophets; that you  
have Christ our Saviour on your lips, but you deny his  
words. And if you sincerely believe the doctrine, I 
sincerely hope the discussion of that evening may  
show you the sin that you commit, and that it may 
bring with it a true repentance for the many injuries 
and miseries you have occasioned to many in this coun- 
try, and that you will depart in peace out of this coun- 
try. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,  
JAMES S. WETENHALL."  
For the satisfaction of the people I met the gentle- 
man on the evening named, and answered his objec- 
tions, which were, 1st. The sanctuary to be cleansed  
at the end ofthe 2300 days, (which he admitted to be 
years,) is the Jews sanctuary. (Which he did not at- 
tempt to prove.) 2nd. No man knoweth the day nor  
the hour, and therefore no one has any business with  
the time. (Which he brought no proof to sustain.) 
3rd. The Jews must return to Palestine, and rebuild  
Jerusalem. For proof of which, beside mere assertion,  
he quoted Deut. 30: 1—7, without noticing its order, 
or the chronology of the prophecy, and Heb. 8 : 7—13,  
which, of course, is an overthrow of Judaism, being an  
abolishing of the temporal covenant made with the 
fathers, by the eternal covenant ofthe gospel, and ap-
pertaining to the New Jerusalem state. I answered  
his first objection by the following texts, after showing  
the different senses of the term sanctuary, and what  
sanctuary is to be cleansed, or justified, which is the  
world. (My text being Prov. 22 : 20—21.) Rom.8:  
22. Acts 3 : 21. Dari, 8 : 14, 19. Isa. 26 : 19—21,  
John 5:28. 1 Thess. 4: 16. 2 Thess. 1: 7, 8.  
2 Pet. 3: 7, 13. Rev. 11: 15—18. Isa. 65: 17.  
Rev. 21 : 1. I answered the 2nd by showing that a  
literal day and hour is only intended. Mark 13 : 35.  
Matt. 24 : 36, 44: and that we may search for the  
time. Matt. 24: 32,33. (See margin.) Rom. 15 : 4.  
2 Pet. 1: 19. 2 Tim. 3 : 16. The gentleman ad- 
vised his neighbors not to have any thing to do with  
the prophecies, as it was contrary to the teaching of  
the Saviour, who -has commanded us to " search the  

Scriptures. His 3rd objection was answered as fol- 
lows : 1st. God is no respecter of persons. Acts 10 : 
34,35. Rom. 2: 7—11, 28, 29. Rom. 10: 12, 13. 
Rom. 1: 16—18. Rom. 3: 9. Rom. 11 : 25. Luke  
21 : 24.  
2nd. The holy land does not belong to the literal de- 
scendants of Abraham as such ; but to  the true seed.  
Matt. 21 : 33—41. Matt. 3 : 9, 10. Eph. 2 : 14, 16. 
Eph. 3 : 14—16. John 8 : 39—44. Rev. 2: 9. Rev.  
3: 9.  
3rd. Promises to Abraham not yet fulfilled. Gen. 13:  
14,15. Gen. 17: 7, 8. Acts 7 : 1—5. Heb. 11;  
8—18.  
4th. The true heirs of the promises. Gal. 3 : 6—9,  
15—19, 27—29.  
5th. Original promises to Isaac. Gen. 26: 3,4. The  
heirs of the promise. Gal. 3 ; 1—16. Gal. 6: 9—18.  
Gal. 4:22—31. Rom. 9 : 6—8.  
The gentleman, finding his threats were of no avail,  
accordingly came last Monday evening, and interrupted 
the meeting, after the conclusion of the discourse, be- 
fore the meeting was dismissed, by ordering Bro-
ther Deverel, who preached that evening, to appeal-
before him, as magistrate of this (Gore) district, at  the  
court-house, the next day, at 11 o'clock, the charge 
being for preaching TERROR and alarm to  Her Majes- 
ty's subjects. The magistrate finding his orders diso- 
beyed, forthwith renewed them, by a summons. Ac-
cordingly, at one o'clock the next day, the court-house  
was pretty well crowded with spectators, to hear the  
trial. Bro. Deverel proposed opening by prayer, but  
the idea was rejected by a reply from the gentleman in  
authority, "No place here for prayer." And  yet he  
professed to follow the precepts of the Bible !, Two  
" Millerites," as they were called, were examined with  
regard to the effect the preaching of this doctrine had 
on their minds when they first heard it; and to the 
disappointment of the court, they found it had just the 
effect God designed it should have: that is, it caused 
them to awake and put on the wedding garment; to 
get oil in their vessels ; to have their lamps trimmed  
and burning; and to do all they could to get their  
neighbors to be ready to meet the Bridegroom. Bro,  
Deverel was then permitted to answer for himself. He  
demanded proof of the charge made against him, that  
be might have ground to work upon. He being order- 
ed to speak on, read the above letter, and asked the 
magistrate if it was his production. He answered in  
the affirmative, and stood up and demanded silence of  
the court, at the same time doubled up his papers, and 
made an apology for not coming prepared to prove his  
points. (Here he was hissed.) He demanded silence,  
and apologized for this hasty operation, and dismissed  
the court, then began " with shame to take the lowest  
room." This affair has been a benefit to the Adven- 
tists here, for since that time we have had no opposi-
tion, and the interest is increasing. WTe are now hold- 
ing meetings in our own place of worship. God has  
blessed us much. The building is 60 feet by 28 and a  
half, and is very convenient. We have already held 
five meetings there, and it has been crowded with at- 
tentive hearprs.  
The Lord owns and blesses the efforts of his children  
in giving the cry, " Behold, He cometh /" There are, 
however, many u walking after their own lusts, and  
saying, where's the promise of his coming," " every  
vision faileth." But we know the vision has not, nor  
will not fail. " For the vision is yet for an appointed  
time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie : though  
it tarry, wait for it; because it will surelv come, it  
will not tarry. Behold, his soul which is lifted up is  
not upright in him : but the just shall live by faith.  
D. W. RICE.  
P. S. The harvest is great and the laborers are few.  
Brethren, " come over and.help us." Besides putting  
up the building, the friends here have given S45 to de- 
fray the expense of publishing about 4000 copies of a  
small paper.  
LETTER FROM BRO. CHAS. GREENE.  
PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 25, 1844.  
Dear Bro. Tullock,—*Several weeks since, I for- 
warded extracts from letters received from Bro. S. S.  
Brewer, and should have sent others from communica- 
tions, subsequently received from him ere now.  
From Lexington, Va.,he writes ! " I closed my  
labors in the town of Stanton, on Thursday. During  
our stay, the courthouse was crowded every night ; I 
was invited to preach in the Methodist meeting house, 
a large building, and it was filled above and below ;  
many stood out of doors, and listened with great at- 
tention. There was much opposition when we first  
came, but it soon gave way befoie the truth I find  

the Southerners to be the most open hearted men I ever 
met with, just show them the truth, and they will  
not oppose it. The place is shaken from centre to 
circumference, and for four miles around, I am in- 
formed hundreds have received the truths presented.  
I found the kindest of friends among all denominations, 
who were, as they say, sick of sectarianism. A gen-
tleman, formerly a senator, sent his carriage, and took 
us to his plantation, and some ofthe magistrates called 
to see us, and were as kind as brothers , and O, what  
kindness the Lord has shown us, it makes me feel 
very humble, when I think of the manger and the 
cross."  
At Fincastle he " enquired for a place to preach, and  
succeeded in procuring the Court House, and sent a 
man through the place with a quantity of bills. Many  
came to the tavern to enquire whether I was one of  
Miller's prophets, as his predictions had all failed, and  
now the time being past, and just as they thought to 
enjoy a time of peace of great composure ; the whole  
place must be thrown into excitement by one of these  
false prophets coming among them ! Many came to 
hear me prophecy, (as I understood afterwards,) when  
they were quite nonplussed in hearing a simple expo- 
sition of the 36, 37. 38 and 39 verses, of Matt. 24. In 
the afternoon the house was filled, and prejudice had 
given way. At night I was invited to preach in the 
Baptist Church, which I did to a large and attentive  
congregation. I would here say, that since entering  
this state, [Va.] my labors have been incessant day  
and night. When we arrived at Boutetout Springs,  
the people came, desiring me to preach to them ; I 
did so, and to night I commence a course of lectures 
at the Baptist Institute, near here, under the superin-
tendance of Rev. Joshua Bradley, and do so by  his  
kind invitation. The poor slave rejoices to hear that 
deliverance is so nigh, and you would,my dear brother,  
rejoice to see the tears of joy fall in streams down the  
furrowed cheeks of the poor captive, when told that  
master Jesus is coming so soon to proclaim liberty. 
I find the king has many princes in exile in this Egypt.  
At this moment  a slave is sitting  at my elbow, rejoic- 
ing in the love of God. He says the doctrine pleases 
him, but " the other preachers tangle the gospel 
so, he can't understand it !" But this must suffice for 
the present."  
Yours in the. blessed hope,  
C. GREENE.  
ICP BRO. WM. SHEHARD, an unstationed preacher in  
the N. J, IY1. P. Conference, writes from Lower Free- 
hold, N. J., that he is preaching regularly, every Sab-
bath, and occasionally week evenings, on the coming of  
Christ, and proposes (the Lord willing) to go on a mis-
sion of a few weeks, down through West Jersey,"  
should time continue, and would be pleased to have Bro.  
D. Salter accompany him.'5' He says :—" I have, for  
the last seven years believed in the views generally held 
by the advent brethren, and although I have not sepera- 
ted myself to the special promulgation of the doctrine : 
yet during the above-mentioned time, I have, from Ber- 
gen's Point to Hackensack, in New Brunswick, and in  
the vicinity of Cranberry, Haigthstown, and elsewhere,  
more or less proclaimed the midnight Cry, and it now re- 
joices me to see it so strongly advocated and sustained.  
My faith shall not be diminished at the end of your data.  
No, it has not. been in that specific data (though that may 
be right) but in the bridegroom being nigh, even at the  
door."  
* Bro. Salter cannot possibly be with you as early as  
you request.  
BRO. GEORGE  JAMES writing from Chittenango, Madi- 
son Co, N. Y March 18, says : " Br. J. W. Brittan and 
myself have been laboring in the town of New Wood- 
stock, six miles south of Cazenovia, and we have reason  
to believe much good has been accomplished in that vi- 
cinity. We have had several pressing calls to continue 
our lecturers in that region. We found the people willing 
to open their Meeting Houses, and also to hear on the 
subject. Had some little opposition from the Universal- 
ists and some discussion ; but God's truth cut its way,  
and infidelity hid its face.  
"There are several small towns in this section which  
have not been visited. Each of the three ministers.in  
Woodstock are now searching deep into the doctrine,  
and one declared himself a Second Advent believer.—  
Praise God."  
Sister Melissa PI. Botsford, Berlin Ct., has writ- 
ten an interesting letter, giving an account of her con-
version to the faith of the advent nigh. During the  
year past, the Lord has abundantly blessed her soul.  
May the Lord help us to live, that we may be found  
without spot and blameless at his coming.  303


THE GOD  OF ABRAHAM.  J. C. STODDARD.  
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He by Himself hath sworn,  
I on his oath depend,  
I shall on eagles' wings upborne  
To Heaven ascend:  
I shall behold his face,  
I shall his power adore,  
And sing the wonders ofhis grace  
I Forevermore.  
SECOND PART.  
Though nature's strength decay,  
And earth and hell withstand,  
To Canaan's bounds I urge my way,  
At his command :  
The watery deep I pass,  
With Jesus in my view 5  
And thro' the howling wilderness,  
My way pursue.  

The goodly land I see,  
With peace and plenty bless'd !  
A land of sacred liberty,  
And endless rest;  
There milk and honey flow,  
And oil and wine abound ;  
And trees of life forever grow,  
With mercy crowned.  
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There dwells the Lord our King,  
The Lord our righteousness,  
Triumphant o'er the world and sin,  
The Prince of Peace,  
On Sion's sacred height  
His kingdom still maintains ;  
And glorious, with his saints in light  
Forever reigna  

He keeps his own secure,  
He guards them by his side,  
Arrays in garments white and pure,  
His spotless bride;  
With streams of sacred bliss,  
With groves of living joys,  
With all the fruits of paradise,  
He still supplies.  
9  
Before the Holy One,  
They all exulting stand,  
And tell the wonders he hath done,  
Through all their land.  
The listening spheres attend,  
And swell the growing fame,  
And sing in songs which never end  
The wondrous Name.  
ZIOJV ANJ> TIIE NEW JERUSALEM.  
While the children of God are represented as consti- 
tuting a spiritual temple, built up of lively stones, on the  
foundation of the prophets and apostles, Jesus Christ  
himself being the chief corner stone; I am constrained  
from the harmony of scripture to regard " Zion" and the  
" New Jerusalem," brought to view in the Bible, in their  
literal sense.  
The saints have the promise of a literal and endless  
kingdom, when all earthly kingdoms are destroyed ; and 
the establishment of a kingdom implies, among other  
thingst a metropolis, the residence of royalty. The Son  
of God, who is the "effulgence ofhis (Father's) glory,  
and the exact image of his substance," in his own ap- 
propriate person, as the Son of Man, immortalized and 
glorified, will come in the clouds of heaven, and receive 
an everlasting kingdom, and the saints will be associated  
with him in the possession of the kingdom, and domin- 
on, and greatness of the ' kingdom under the whole hea- 
ven, or over the whole new earth. Dan. 7 : 13, 18, 27 ; 
Rev. 11 : 14, 18 ; Ps. 3 : S, 9 ; Matt. 13 : 41—43 ; Rev.  
5 : 9, 10.  
This giving the kingdom to the saints of the Most High,  
must be identical with the restoration of the kingdom to  
Israel. This point has been so often proved arid is so  
well established, that space need not here be occupied in 
giving the proof. In the promised restoration of the  
kingdom with the throne of David, its capital—Jerusalem,  
must also be restored ; and thus, instead of a spiritual 
polity, the new Jerusalem will be a literality. This will  
be apparent by reference to some scripture promises. Isa  
24 : 23'—" Then the moon shall be confounded and the 
sun ashamed, [by the overpowering brightness of the  
glory of God, which will enlighten the city,] when the  
Lord of Hosts shall REIGN IN MOUNT ZION, and in JERU- 
SALEM, and before his ancients, gloriously." Those" an- 
cients" must be the saints of all ages, raised up in the  
resurrection ; and the glorious reign of the Son of David  
succeeds the utter overthrow of his enemies ; the " re- 
generation," or " renovation," (Matt. 19 : 28,) of the 
present earth, which " will fall and not rise again," old 
and under the curse as before,but a "new earth, wherein 
dwelleth righteousness ;" ' all things being made new,'  
| (Rev. 21 : 5,) and the New Jerusalem having come down  
from God, out of heaven, (Rev. 21 : 2,) " the ransomed  
j of the Lord shall return and come to ZION with songs  
j and everlasting joy upon their heads." Isa. 35, 10,  
" When the Lord shall build up Z'\ox\, he shall appear in 
his glory." Ps. 102: 16. The entrance of the " King 
in his beauty," "the Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord,  
mighty in battle," having destroyed his enemies, is des-
cribed in Ps. 24 : 7—" Lift up your heads, 0 ye gates ;  
and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors ; and the king of  
glory sjiall come in." Then "the Lord shall reign over  

them in MOUNT ZION, from henceforth, even for ever." 
Mic. 4 : 7, S. See also Ps. 132 ; 11—18 : Isa. 33 : 20—  
22.  
Zion and the New Jerusalem are sometimes personi- 
fied, and represented as the "bride" of Christ, " the Lamb's  
wife," and the mother ofthe redeemed saints. A failure  
to mark this personification, or representation of an in- 
sensible object as a living, sentient being, has led  some  
to suppose they were not to be understood literally, but  
as signifying the " church glorified."  
Christ addressed the city of Jerusalem, in old Canaan,  
built by human hands, as the mother of the Jews. Matt. 
23 : 37—" O, Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! Thou that killest  
the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee ;  
how often would I have gathered thy children together," 
&c. This " is 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. For it is written. Re- 
joice thou barren," &.c. Gal. 4: 25—27. The Lord says,  
" thy maker is thy husband," and though yet desolate 
and in a state of widowhood, " as a woman forsaken and 
grieved in spirit," yet " with great mercies will I gather 
thee ;" " I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy 
foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy win-
dows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy 
borders of pleasant stones.—And all thy children shall be 
taught of the Lord ; and great shall be the peace of thy 
children." Is. 54. Also Is. 65 : 18. " Behold, I create 
Jerusalem a rejoicing and her people a joy ;" and, John in 
fulfillment of the promise of one of the seven angels, to 
show him "the bride the Lamb's wife," " saw thai great 
city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from  
God." This is the city having " foundations," (Rev 21:  
18—21,) to which Abraham looked by faith, "whose  
builder and maker is God;" the "mansions" of the 
saints, (John 14: 2:) "the inheritance, incorruptible, 
undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven  
* * * ready to he revealed in the last time," (1 Pet. 1.  
4, 5,) by " coming down," when a voice from heaven 
will say, " Behold the tabernacle of God is with men,"  
&c. Rev. 21 : 3.  
This is " the beloved city," which " gog and magog,"  
the rest of the dead [who] lived not again until the thou-
sand years were finished"—the whole host of the wicked 
—of all " nations"—raised up " in the four quarters of  
the [new earth], " upon the breadth of the earth," at " the  
resurrection of damnation," encompass with malicious  
designs ; are adjudged worthy of the second death, and  
quickly meet their doom. Rev. 20. See also Is. 54 ;  
already quoted, wrhere ther " Redeemer, the Holy One of  
Israel," says, 5: 15, " Behold they [gog and magog] 
shall surely gather together, but not by me; [viz. the 
agency of satan loosed out of his prison,] whosoever  
shall gather together against thee, shall fall for thy sake."  
A faithful comparison of all that is said in regard to  

Jerusalem and Zion in Isaiah, Revelations, and elsewhere, 
clearly shows their literality And while the church of  
Christ, as a body, glorified and immortal, is doubtless to 
be regarded as the true bride of Christ, (2 Cor. 11:2  
and the nuptials to be celebrated when the " marriage  
feast of the Lamb" takes place, (Rev. 19 : 7—9.) still  
" that great city" is so spoken of by personification, and  
the resurrection saints as the children. This fact explains  
many statements, such as Zion travailing and bringing  
forth her children in the resurrection, when a nation will  
be born at once from the dead, (Is. 66: 7, 8,) as illus- 
trated in an article already published.  
The children of Zion or the New Jerusalem, will enter  
the gates of pearl " which shall not be shut at all by day,  
for there shall be no night there."—" But there shall in  
no w-ise enter into it any thing thatdefileth, neither what- 
soever worketh abomination or maketh a lie." "Blessed 
are they that do his commandments, that they may have  
right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates  
into the city." Rev. 21 : 25, 27,' and 22 : 14.  
Clyde, N. Y., March 6th, 1844. E. CANFIELD.  
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