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CLEVELAND, SATURDAY. NOV. 18, 18,13. 
No. 9. 
C. Frrcit, EniToR. �
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T. I I. SNI E I), l'u Bit s tam. 
111,,, ilmr 16ey would diS111/S1, of anything fur 
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The nil soil 
 Wioe denote the graces 
or the spirit. faith mid love, end there was • 
gnat danger of hurting these, under the in- 
fluence ()I' so inuch worldly spirit. �
And it is• 
well attested, by ell historians, that the roe-
verity of the church in this age produced the 
corruption, which finally teriniunted in the 
falling away, and setting up the anti-Christian 
aleammatione. 
7th and eith verses, "And when he hail 
opened the fourth seal, I heard the fourth 
beast say. Cures and we. And I looked, end• 
behold, a pale horse, mid his naine that sat 
on him was Death, and hell followed with 
hint; and power wits given unto them over - 
the feurth part or the earth, to kill with sword, 
and with hunger, and with deatti,• mid With • 
beasts of the earth." The fourth seal open-
ed in the year A. 1). 534, when unti-Christ 
first arose, for tee fourth beast was like a fly-
ing eagle. "And to the woman was given 
two wings- atm eagle, that she might fly into 
the wilderness, into her place, where she is 
nourislied.for a tune, times, and a half, front 
the Nee of the serpent."' The pale horse is 
named, in-this passage, death. And hell fol-
lowed, showing ue plainly that it is the anti-
Christian power which would have the ascen-
dency over one fourth part of the earth during. 
the opening of this seal. 'Power was given 
unto them," shows conclusively that it is the 
same rawer mentioned' in 11ev. 13. 2-5. 
"And the dragon gave him his power, and his 
seat, and great authority." "And there was 
given him a mouth speaking great things and 
blasphemies; and power was given unto him 
to coutinue forty and two mouths." Again, 
1th verse, "And it was given unto him to 
make war with the saints and to overcome 
there; and pourer was given him over all kin-
dreds, and tongues.. and nations." In our - 
text he says, "rower was given them to kill. 
with the sword," that is, to make war, which 
was fulfilled in Europe, when the papal pow-
er sent out tarp armies to exterminate the 
heretics, as they were called, who would not 
worship the beast or his image. "And with 
hunger;" this was fulfilled by the same pow-
er imprisoning and starving to death many 
thousands of persons who were suspected of 
opposition to her ungodly pretensions. "And - 
with death:" inventing the most cruel and 
bloody means of torture that were ever im-
posed upon our world; to inflict death, in 
every possible shape that men or devils could 
invent. thousands end tens of thousands suf-
fered death under the most excruciating tor-
ments that the inquisition could devise. "And 
with the beasts on the earth," after they had 
glutted-their thirst for blood in every possible • 
shape that man could inflict, thousands were 
throw% to ferocious beasts, to be destroyed by 
them. The Lute and place of the opening of 
this seal we cennot be mistaken in. It must 
have been during the bloody and persecuting 
reign of the papal churoh. 
901-11mli verses, "And when he had open-
ed the fian seal, I saw under the' altar the 
souls of them that were slain for the word of 
GM, and for the testimony which they held; 
and they cried with a laud voice, nulling. How 
long, U Lord, betty and true, dont thou not 
judge and avenge our blood on them that 
dwell un thu earth/ And white robes were 
given unto every ono of them; and it was 
amid unto them that they should rest yet for a 
little 011,11S1/11, U111.11 their fellow-servants also, 
end their brethren. that should be killed lie 
they were, should be fulfilled." Oil the open-
ing of the fifth seal, there is no beast to say. 
"Douro mid see," fur this very good reation—
tha church has not changed her poeitiuti, and 
is yet iu the wilderness like the dying eagle. 
Therefore, under the fourth tweet, the church - 
is Imke wise under the control or the same an • 
ti Cbrisdan power 114 under the fourth sent. 
but thin ililreilineo appears to in: only in one 
thing--fluchurelt 'appears to enjoy in little 
respite Irene her perseenting enemy; and it 
would 14,1:111 by We language of the souls of 
the martyrs that they are new hankie/ 1.0f R 
they of vengeance, which Goil.hatli promised 
talent them who worshipped the beast or his 
image; nail the inquiry it, Hew lung butoro 
clear knowledee of tiny part. I shall then 
pureee the following method:— 
EN11111111 the hook which was in the right 
hand of him who slit 011 010 1111,11,. 
Give the history of the seven seals, and 
their opening. 
I. I ton to explain what is meant by the saying, Come and see.. And I saw, and 
book. �
behold, a white horse, and lie that sat on hint 
The buok is often spoken of in the word of had a ()owe, end u crown was given unto him; 
God. Sometimes we hear it spoken of as a and he went forth conquering and to con-
little book, town in the hands of the angel; quer." Thu "beast," in this passage. is time 
and sometimes it is commanded to be sealed first, which was like n lion, representing the 
up; and sometimes to be unloosed, as in our church in its list state. in the days of the 
text. The question arises, What can this apotales, when the church went everywhere, 
book menu? It cannot mean the book of preaching the word, bold us a lion �
 The 
Revelation, for John was commanded not to white horse, and him that sat ui �
 hint, 
semi the sayings of tine beak, Rev. ehl. 10 -- represent Jesus Christ going forth iii the 
Neither could it be the prophecies, for they power of the gospel. Thin is proved by the 
were commanded to be read every Sabbath passage, Rev. 19. 11-13, "And I saw 
day by the Jews, and were so read. Yet heaven opened, and behold, a white horse; 
John tells us, iti our context, "That no inen, and he that sat upon him was called Faithful 
neither in heaven, nor in earth. nor under the and '1'rue, tied in righteousness he dual judge 
earth, was able to open the book, neither to and make war. His eyes were as a flame 
look thereon; arid I wept much, because no of fire, and on his head were many crowns; 
inure was rotted worthy to open and to read and lie ha I a•name written that no man keew 
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the book, �
alter to look thereon." We see, but he himself, and he was clothed hi a yes- 
plainly, t ... t could not apply to the law, nor lure dipped in blood; and his name- is called 
the pimple �
be the Old or New Testaments, l'he Vi �
of God." This is the same ;ter- 
ror theseteri'ee committed to the Jews, and nonage as the other, and both places repre-
also unto us Gentiles, and were to be read sent the seine thing, only the first description 
by all men;bnIthis book they cool not open, is representing the spread of the gospel in 
the head may be but a fountain, and there reed, nor lemerthereon.. 'There i.ire more the beginning of the gospel day, the .other at 
gives us a description of the source. Ile book which - answers ti, John's die •ription, the end of the gospel period, under which 
then glides gently along through the vale be- which no mail, neitherlin heaven, nor on we are now living. Therefore, the first seal 
low, winding between hills and mounta
ius. earth, nor under the earth, has yet been able opens with the promulgation of the gospel. 
visiting in his course the hamlets ot the peas- too look thereon, or open and read, as we as the last will be closed by the same. 3d 
ant, the villages of men, the populous towns have any account of; and which, according and _ verse, "And when he had opened 
and cities of commerce, until he lands u, or to the whole Wee; of the Scripture, will the second seal, I heard the second beast say, 
leaves us in the ocean of eternity. At first, never be opened, read, or looked upon, until Come and see. And there went out another 
he appears to be describing some bubbling the last seal is broken, and the judgment sets. horse,lhat was red; and power was• given to 
fountain or gentle spring, and swelling in nu- "And I saw the dead, small and great, stand him that sat thereon to take peace from the 
portance as he proceeds, brings in and adds beforeIMI—
; and the books were opened; and earth, and that they should kill ono another; 
every important stream of event, deepens and another book was opened, which. is the book and there was given unto him a great sword." 
The red horse denotes blood and carnage, 
and has reference to the times of persecution 
in,,the days of Nero and other Roman em-
perors, and answers to the same tient as the 
Smyrna church. "Given unto hint it great 
sword," shows that the power would have 
great authority. The second beast spoken 
of in this passage is the representation of the 
church, which wits like n calf, showing that 
the church would be given to the elaughter, 
like a calf fared for the market. during the 
period of the opening of thins seal, whicii pea 
riod Listed email about A. D. 318, when Con-
stantine put a period to the peisecutions of 
the Christie.. 
5,1, and Oth verses. "And when he had 
opened the third seal. 1 heard time third beast 
say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo, 
a black horse; and he that sat upon him had a 
pair of balatiees in his hand. And I heard 
a voice in the ...Kw or the four beasts say, 
A measure of wheat fur a penny, and three 
measures of barley for in peony. and see 
thou loft not the oil and the Wt.." The 
third beast, which represents the chureth 
under this seal, bad a face as a man, and 
sleeves that the church would be like a natural 
mail. proud. haughty, independent. selfish, 
ambitieue, covetous, and worldly. This send 
wee opeoed in the tl lye of t 'thistatitine, when 
relight.' became popular. ..I was a stepping-
stone to power; and this seal agrees well the 
['meanie,. church. us to time and piece. The 
black horst, denotes error and darkness; and 
whett the church became connected watt 
worldly 'privet arid wisdom, she lest her purity 
of doctrine and pructii ma, and adopted. in her 
creed. liwitins4 and principles Congenial with 
the (lateral heart, nod Ionia( and ceremonies 
fur show end tetritile. rather titan the beetle 
meet with the dear Saviour in that world of bug fled erase-huteereig hie of the fullowers 
glory, when the book will be upward in the Or .11.1,11.1. The haluitim denoted that religien 
preemeei of du" universe, and he will own- awl civil !BMW would 110 Wilted in. the ',rem,. 
yeti 11/4 hie, and crown you with joy unepeak• who newel admiami.ter the executive rower 111 
1161.1 111111 foil of gtory. �
the governillellt, 114.11 1.11111 11.1 would 1.;141111 the 
'2. I skill now rive the history of rim seven.l jedwiel nommt ity both in chinch mid slate. 
viels, with the time of their opening. �
Alter 1 nos was lino lllll ming the Ilmiiiiiin eloperms, 
thin P".1.1"."Y of tie) seven
, churches, in the from thin (hip( of Conelannime Until ton reign 
Venal 3.1i:towers of Iteeelmitaw. Jelin line tof Jmoaminti, whim he gee., the rein': judwiel 
it view of the heavenly leach, Hinging the 
greed same, nut! givim Ira tt ili.seription of the 
li,oveitly slim,, mid n part 14' 1111: 14.111g, �
110 
lik.•ty1.1.1 114tr,”1,1,1,,4 the honk, Not1,1,11 with 
5e1,11 Realm, turd shows who eau upon the 
bmwk, in the lateral and fifth elinpters, �
twee 
wu Wive attended to in a former lecture. 
‘Ve shall now begin with the 'sixth chapter, 
1st serer, "And I sew when the Lamb impell-
ed ono of the settle; and I heard, 11,1 it were, 
the noise of 01111110', 01113 Of the four beasts. 
owe severt SEALS, AS REPRESENTINO EVENTS 
1,0 TIIE END ON Time. 
Analione oldie �unto me, Weep not: behold, 
the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the mot of Devi.' 
heiliiirsvOlsa to (pen the hook sad to loose the 
seven seals ihere‘1.--Itsv. 5: 5. 
The.book of lim/claque has been called by 
thousands u sealed book; and many a dear 
saint,'while in :his imperfect state of vision 
and knowledge, has wept much. because they 
cotrIel not read and understand the book. For 
it is very evident that the book of Revelation 
is not only interesting in its symbolic and 
mystieal descriptions. natural ,scenery, and 
figurative language, but it is itch in truth, 
and the communication of events then Ind 
under the veil of futurity, and would only be 
unfolded to the natural visions of uteri, many 
ages to coine. Julio has written this book at-
ter the laws of nature; that is, ha has seem-
ed to copy after souse of the richest and must 
picturesque scenes in nature's laws. Ile has,in 
revealing truths to our minds, followed the 
same steady course that fountains of water 
do in their course to the sea.. Ile begins, 
us it were, back upon the tnountains, where 
MILLER'S LECTURES. 
as �
LEcrett 
widens in his course, until lie makes his of life; and the dead were judged out of 
prophetic history like a deep flowing river, those things which were written in the books.' 
bearing upon its bosom the gallant ships and In this book, which is called the book of life, 
galley with oars. At first, he describes a the names of all the redeemed in heaven, in 
pebbly•brook murmuring along the hills, now earth, or under the earth, are written, which 
and then bursting into view with some gentle are not known to any man, reither will be 
fall, then gliding softly away, until it meets known, until the last seal is broken open; 
some rugged head land, shifts its course, and for the judgment will declare who is on the 
almost seems toeretrace its path; then, sud- Lord's side. For the apostle tells-us, plainly, 
denly bursting from the hills in cataracts of "Our lives are hid with Christ in God; that, 
foam, bound.ng free' rock to rock. leaping in- when he appears, them' we shall•appear with 
to the vale below, lie again seems to follow him in glory." And John tells us, Rev. 21. 
the alluvial flats, and receives his tributary 20, .7, "And they shall bring the glory and 
streams, winds um his way, until it fall* at honor of the nations into it, and there shall 
its mouth by a tremendous leap into a gulf of in no wise enter into it anything that delileth, 
waters, and is swallowed up iu the waves of neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or 
the sea. �
maketh ri lie; but they which are. written in 
Four timee fleveletion seems to bring us the Lamb's book of lift." 
"And-whosoever 
down in this manner, its though he had begun W.,ri nut found written in the book of life, 
on one mountuin, and traced four ditnrent was cast into the lake of fire." Again: 
streams of history down to the great ocean "Ail they whose names were not written in 
of eternitye like the rivers of Eden wit chi the book of life, from the foundation of the 
watered the garden, becoming four head', an world, shall wonder." &c. This book, al- 
four great rivers, which watered itin1citcotte though we are abundantly informed there is 
passed the whoW land, inking dill...arum points �
 -, in the right hand of him that sated) 
of the compose, but Inning at liter two the.upon the throne, DO man, us we are any-
ocean; Gen. 2. 10-14; nod these hawing where informed, has been able to look upon 
seventribute. y stream, in their course. ''. he it, or to 'Neel it, contents- This, then, is the 
seven churches of Asia Is a history, of the honk, on nevount of which John wept to 
church of Christ iii her seven forms,. iii all know ite contents. Anil so it has been with 
her prosperity anti adversity. from the days all Christian,. They are anxious to know 
of the Dieted -s dew"' to the end. of the world. whether weir mimes are written in the 
The seven scale are a history of the trausac; 
 lemili'm Leek of life. liar you must first 
tams of the pewees and kluge or the eaattia learn, my dear brother in Christ, to live by 
over the church. and (Imre protection of lee frith; and faith, too, founded on the book in 
people during the Raffle time. The seven Willett you mein look—of which yeti may rend 
trumpets are u history of seven peculiar i.t.rid the promises, Om prophecies, and cummande. 
heavy judginewe sent upon the earth, er ii./. DOI into ilte book or life you can never Wok. 
men kingddn'' 
And tine s''''en vials ere the moil the Limb of lied shall open the seventh 
smven In •t. plogini3 sent upon Pupil Rome.— era/. mid the righteous dead 111 rnised, to 
Illistill with Weer, are teeny other evente, 
woe,. in, ;the tributary etreame, and tilling 
tip the geoid river el prephitey, until the 
whole ends in the mweito ril eternity. 
This, to me. is the plan of John's reply, 
ev in ton tusk of Reveletien. �
And Ihi1 1111111 
W11,1 W1.111,1 to understand this Inmk, 'nest 
have. a ihoemeigh knowledge of Other pit rim of 
the word of Cool. 
The figur•s null nn-, 'Ono, 
used in this propluiev are not all expliiiiiimd in 
Elie mow. hot most lie himl id in other prophets. 
And explained in ether pieemigee of Set spier, 
Thenilme it is 11,411.11.1 111111 (loll leis demiEli-
eil this gully of the whole, even- to obwin.. 
power to the bishop of IGmuc. Thu ministireis 
of wheat and burley for a palmy, dell,la that 
the lie..., to of the church Would but Oil wily 
engaged Itfler win hay goods, rod the love of 
nemey wuvld Ins the prevail:pg• spirit of the 
rims day el' veep -note will twine? 'Fite an, 
r �
giv.gt mu tliese.pruyiee.seuls to rest. D. 
isiworiwwwwwwwwis 
THE SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST. 
ci.EvELAND, Nov. Is. 1/413. 
little eeason, and they tire eifirmed there 
must be inine mom day or little t.1.11‘1111 of per-
alternation, when their brethren mils! Ini killed 
in like manner with thenimi•lv,,; MI when 
That is ineemiplished, they would then experi-
ence the Fast in ffffff 1817 Or (ilia, the resurrection. 
This seal w. 'petted lileott the beginning of 
the �
cmittity, A. D. 1700 when the Moody 
persecutions against Proteatenta ceased, end 
the notions of tho world begun h, enjoy run-
iutis freedom. 
1•201--17th verees,"And I beheld when he 
lead opened the sixth seal, anti lo, Otero was a 
great earthquake." On the opening of this 
moil there is n great earthquake. Tin-earth-
en. kir is epeken of in other pieces in thin 
book. and alludes to the French revidution; 
and of course this seal opened about A. D. 
1790. "And the sun became black as sack• 
cloth of hair, and the moon became ne Wood." 
son sometimes denotes rulers or kings, as in 
the case of Joseph's dream, when the -sun, 
moon, and stare made obeisance to him, 
!wetting his father, head over all Israel, his 
mother, and his brethren; for where the king 
is called the sun, the queen is coiled the moon, 
tied inferior rulers me called stars, as Christ 
is called sun of righteousness, because he is 
'king of Zion. Tine .church is called the moon. 
because site is the bride of Christ. Ministers 
are called Wars, because they are inferior 
rulers in Christ's kingdom. Therefore I un- 
derstnnd this-to mean in that revolution when 
the king host his authority. and tried to dis-
guise himself, and fled from his own subjects, 
afterwards was beheaded. The queen too, 
became blood, and all the nobility of France 
fell to the earth. One decree levelled all ti-
tles and distinctions with the commonality. 
like a fig-tree casting her untimely figs. "And 
the stars of heaven fell untothe earth, evert 
as a fig-tree casteth -her untimely figs when 
she is shaken of a mighty wind. And the 
heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled 
together." The heavens must mean that cir-
cle in which the planets move; and if that is 
be understood figurative -so tnust this.—
Heavens most then mean the laws and gov-
ernment of France. These were all swept 
away, or rolled up and laid away like an old 
parchment out of date or use. "And every 
mouutain and island were moved out.of their 
places." Mountains and islands are -figures 
of large and small governments, and in the 
French revolution every government was re-
moved from their legitimate sovereigns, ex-
cept England, in the old Roman empire, and 
given to kings of Bonaparte's creation. And 
certainly all the kingdoms in Europe were 
changed from what they were before; so that 
when legitimacy was restored the ancient 
kings could not and have not found their king-
doms in the same situation they were in be-
fore the revolution. "And the kings of the 
earth, and the great men, and the rich men, 
and the chief captains, and the mighty men. 
and every bondman, and every freeman, hid 
themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of 
the mountains, and said unto the rocks and 
mountains. Fall on us, and hide us from the 
face of him that sitteth on the throne, and 
from the wrath of the Limb." 
It is a well known fact to all who are con-
versant with the history of the French revs. 
lution, that almost every king in Europe had 
to flee from his kingdom during tine space of 
nbout five and twenty years: the king of Por-
tugal to Brazil.; the king of Spain to France; 
the king of France fled to England; the Pope 
died in exile; the king of Sardinia left his 
kingdom and fled to the island or Sardinia; 
the king of Naples to the island of the same 
name; the king of Austria left his capital; 
and the king of l'russin took shelter under 
Itusssia; the emperor of all the Russia. left 
Moscow to its fate; and Itimapartm himself 
fled to the Wand of Elba, nod died 11 prisons 
er on St. Helena. Tito grunt men :Ind chief 
captains.and all orders and degrees of men. 
had to flee from the Innd of tin. it natty., and 
seek an asylum among straingere. So true 
was this passage of Scripture fulfilled that 
North. �
"Thet,cire urn they before tine 
throw of God, and eery() him day find night 
in his temple: and be that Mimi' on the 
throne shall dwell islieriag thelli;" thin prime as 
in Rev. xx. 6, "And they lived and reigned 
evil, him," in the New Jerusalem state; fur 
he goes on to describe the mate of happtiouse, 
duals or small seinen. Or men, (celled tree.; which Jelin does in 'Rev. �
corn. 
inn this ham been remarkably fulfilled for pared with tine two fidlowing, �
there eon 
twenty yearn paid. Not n particle of Nieto be no doubt on tine mind that John is demerit.. 
ninon leim been experienced against the trans- ing the soma in one piece as in the other. 
Innen and spread of the Bible, or the min. "They shall hanger no more, neither thirst 
Mowry cause. Kings have been nursing any more, neither shall the sun light on 
Gathers, and queens retrain withers, to help 
forward the cause of God. The wind of Pe- 
istie been kept down by the env!, so, and shell lend them unto living fountains of 
that all the oppmntion tkey could raise (aslwntere; and God shall wipe away all tears �NEW In' 1IN ROOK. • 
been weak and inefficient. The Mulionnemulfrom their eyes." There can be no doubt • wa have saw in v.... new coIIeriirra of i yen., 
wind has not blown n blast fur twenty years; left on -the mind of any man, that John leo in adapted to religious meetings in all evangelical dentin- 
the idolatrous and pagan nations of the E.ist these passages, given us a view of the New �
l M �. �
. 
ations. It le eepecially di.,agned fur conference and 
have; by some invisible power, bran kept in Jerusalem in the immortal stale. We have 
Melilla the opitoning element.. war and eine 
teens'''. �
These ,principal elements of war 
and contention Ceti yenta restrain for a little 
...ease's, no they ,should not fart tip the spirit 
el war and strife, neither in thin Rumen go• 
vernment,-(endlind earth,) nor on the great 
trillions, 'milted great moo) nor on indivi. 
For Lie Second Advent. 
SECOND ADVENT CAUSE GOING DOWN. 
It is often stated by our opponents that the second 
advent cause is 'going down, and I find it even sot 
but it is like the beautiful Ohio river, the farther 
down it goes, the wider it is and weeper. Since the 
camp.rneeling at Springfield, 1 have visited and lec-
tured at the following placee Orange, Euclid, Dover, 
Elyria, Wakeman, Clarksfield. and Strongsville; and 
I find a greater desire to hear on this subject than any 
time previous. But it may be asked, why are people 
so anxious to hear now? I thought it was an old 
story. Ah, I tell you, the people have been reading 
their Bibles, and they find that what their ministers 
have told them about a millennium, before the coming 
ridiculed �
tine servants 'of Christ, who �
of Christ and the resurrection of the righteous, is a 
fable. , And while people read their Bibles and history, 
Gave cried to them, in their iiirdinglit they see from the fulfilment of prophecy, and the 
revels, "Behold, the bridegroom cement, 
will be silent. 
Then will those servants who 
have "said in their hearts, lily Lord delayeth 
his coming," and "begin to beat and bruise 
their fellow servants," who :have proclaimed 
his coming. "and to eat and drink with the 
drunken," be silent. Then, too, will all the 
false prophets, who have cried Pence, peace. 
when there was no peace, be silent, when 
they see-the frowns of an angry Judge whore 
they have disregarded. Then shall those 
who have promised the wicked life, though 
he should not turn from his wickedness, be 
silent. 
Then, every ono found in that great 
assembly, when the Son of Alan shall come 
in the clouds, mid all the holy angels with him, 
and all the saints who have slept, and all na• 
(ions shall then be gathered before him, and 
every eye shall see him; then, b say, will 
-every ono found in this vast multitude, not 
having on the wedding garment. be silent; fur 
-tine Scripture says, �
mess speech/es,,, 
And now, my dear friends, what say you? 
Have you wept much to know whether your 
names are written in the Lamb's book of lite? 
Weep not." for "behold, the Lion of the 
tribe of Judah hnth prevailed to open the 
book." Med he says, "Ile that overeoineth, 
the stow shall be clothed in white liniment 
and I will not blot his nnine out or 'hit book 
or tiro, but I will confess his name to•nire my 
Fattier, and before his angel, 'Therefore, 
"rejoine, because your natites tire written inn 
heaven," says the dear Sitsior. 
But you, my impenitent friends, wine have 
never wept. nor confessed your sins to 
wit° have been more tomb.. to here your 
1111111E.* Written in the book tif fame, of wnrlmhls 
 
honor, of the riches of this world. than in the 
book nif lib, remember, you tier will 11.vep 
when all heaven is silent—when the last seal; 
is broken-- thee you will on, �
1141..h. 1111111 
your Milne 1.1,11ted out. �
'Cheri you will weep 
anti ray. "(Mei., my name was Merv; I laid 
it clay of priihation; �
hunt I 
hated instruction. I despised revisor, nod my 
part iv !liken from the book of lire. Farewell, 
linpuittees; farewell hope!" Amen. 
A New Orlenna prier deplores the itteren,e 
Of sire 111 that cult, inhliely, 4.orgery, trawl, 
11.11 t\u2022e., �
e. The seine impor ailvertine. ii 
military parade, a reek tight. El home rave, 
a ltd II performance tit thin Unseats, on the sub-
bath. 
been permitted to Incur a purr of the new song. 
and have received, in the passage just read, 
the blessed promises contained in tlint beloved 
city. And now, we only wait for the last 
seal to-open. "And when be had opened the 
seventh seal, there was silence in heaven 
about the space of half an hour." Zechariah 
says, on. 13, "Be silent, 0 all flesh, before 
the Lord; for he is raised up oat of his holy 
habitation!" �
Ilabakkuk ear, ii. '20, "But 
the Lord is in his holy temple; let all the 
earth keep silence before him!" From these 
passages I should infer. that when God arises 
up -to the prey, when his great white throne 
is set in the heaven, and when the Son of 
Man shell come in the clouds of heaven, with 
power and great glory, then will ffttlesh be 
silent before hint. And it is re minable to 
suppose that the whole universe of rational 
beings, who may be permitted to witness that 
grand scene, will be so filled with wonder and 
awe at the sight of the glorxof God, that 
they will be silent. �
Then, to will tine re- 
deemed souls, while toe great judge is sepa-
rating them frost the kicked, while tinny are 
rising in meet the Lord in the air, be silent. 
They will, like the children of Israel, stand 
still, -(6e silent,) and see the salvation of Grid. 
And the wicked, wino lutve'scoffed at the idea 
of Christ's second coming, who have said. 
"Where is the promise of his coming?" and 
them, nor any held, For the Lamb which is 
in-the millet of the throne. shell feed them, 
Elyria, Oct. 21, 1943. 
DEAR BRO. Fano: 
Boring seen in a recent number of the Advent, 
come calculations upon the supposed increase of our 
race on the earth, and knowing that your desire is to 
obtain and rublish truth, and all that class or evidence, 
which can be drawn, either front the word of God, or 
from the bock at nature, which give light upon the 
great and imperiant subject now before the world, I 
have ilsouelit that some further demonstrations touch. 
ing the state and condition oldie human family ae it 
now is, and must be hereafter, would perhaps be pro. 
finable to place before your readers. 
The earth, already groaning under her ponder°us 
weight, bi yet claimed by many for at least one thou. 
sand years, while many others, by their thoughtless. 
nese upon the subject, seem to suppore that the pre, 
aims Plate 01' things roam' xist indefinitely. gut while 
time truth seems AO clearly opposed to either or ihose 
theories, it would imp,ne to he the imperative duty of 
of 'home who hold the torch which has been lit rip by 
the word of truth, and by the volume of nature, and 
by thing, as they are, 'WWI throw it forth upon the 
the breeze of the morning, that those who sit in dark-
ness may inhale its healing beams, and thereby be 
walled into the city of the N's Jilusulem. 
And IIs the cumin llll ieati llll abaci alluded to appears 
to be rather Dia suppo-iti llll ot what tote be, we have 
11 �
eta to present line eubj-et in a ddreeent light, 
hoping that with the 1,,es.ing of God, it may arouse 
01.1111` of Ilse sh•epn.g virgins to • .} nit ofic,,,,,ry atter 
troth; that while One bride,reinti tarries, they may be 
up and triounieg their lenge, that when he shall ape 
pear, they may Le resit). to enter into the mintage 
slipper �
the I.niom 
It is I rte h, ne seck, it is l i al's truth teethed.. to pub. 
lisp: and ni nn.w �
ibn �
dint what nat../ has 
proliao•il, moil will maim.° again, (all ether thing. 
heir;; 
1-11,1t. ) 
We, therefore, to it lio,lrate vha t we wish to ;does 
before' the w lot ht. here lake a Ism mathematical de- 
e �
tratuw in view on' the tom that at tha Mao of %b. 
signs of the times, that we are tiring in the last days. 
While I hove been preaching this glorious doctrine, 
the Lord has blessed my soul abundantly. And 
thongli I am under tie necessity of laboring a part 
of the time for the !DI port of my family, yet 1 feel 
that I am fine Lord's, and if he has any thing more 
for me to do, he will open the way. Yours, in expec-
tation of soon meeting to part no more, 
E. MATTHEWS. 
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makes a pamphlet or !.11 paw, 
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We trust we shall he sweated in thus doing. 
check; 'the infidel and deistical principles of 
the Vest have heel held in complete subjec-
tion by the Name invisible mend, until the 
servants of God should be sealed.' There-
fore, since the French revolution, none of 
these four winds of opposition to Christ have 
been permitted to use any physical force, as 
formerly, to suppress the spread of the gospel 
through the earth, "And I saw another an-
gel ascending from the east, having the sent 
of the living God; and he cried with a loud 
voice to the four argels to whom it was given 
to hurt the earth and the sea." �
The angel 
here spoken of as ascending from the east, is 
the angel standing on the land and on the 
sea, with a little book open, and the same 
that is represented in another place as flying 
through the midst of heaven having the ever-
lasting gospel to preach to them who dwell 
en the earth. Coming from the east, the 
place of light, and having the seal of the 
living God, shows plainly that it is the angel 
of the gospel. The four angels are the four 
messengers of God, who suppress those four 
opposition principles, until the sealing time 
shall be over, "saying, Hurt not the earth, 
neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have 
sealed the servants of God in their forebear:Is." 
The four angels are here commanded not to 
let these four winds of opposition hurt the 
earth, sea or trees, until the sealing time is 
pact, which is the cams time spoken of, Dan. 
xii. I, "Then shall Michael stand up. the 
great Prince which atandeth for the children 
ofthy people." "And I heard the number of 
them which were sealed; and there were 
sealed a hundred forty and four thousand of 
all the tribes of the children of Israel." John 
first gives an account of the number that 
were scaled in his day, Out of all the tribes of 
Israel. �
They were sealed, as he tells us 
when he wrote; it being finished in the close 
of the Jewish dispensation. It being a com-
plete timber, 144,000, and therefore could 
be numbered; nod as these were sealed at 
the close of that dispensation, so John saw in 
vision a great number, scaled at the close of 
the Gentile dispensation, of which he has been 
prophesying; for after he bas gone through 
with numbering twelve thousand in every 
tribe, lie thee sap'. Rev. vii. 9, "After this 
I beheld," that is, after this eealing, by which 
I.41,000 had been sealed among the Jews, he 
beheld, "and lo, n great multitude which no 
man could number, of all nations, nod kin-
dreds, and people, and tongues, stood before 
the throne and before the Lamb, clothed with 
white robes, and palms in their hands." 
This evidently refers to the last seal-
ing time among all nations; for he again 
hears them singing the grand chorus song, 
as at the close of the history of the seven 
churches. "And cried with a loud voice, say 
bag. Shivation to our God, which sitletli upon 
th., throne, mid unto the Lamb. And all tine 
tingele stood round about the throne, anti 
'Meet the elders and the four bona., and fell 
bairn, the Mt rate trim their Drees, and worship. 
lied God. saying, Amen: blessing and glory 
end wisdom, and thsitiksgiving, niel biome 
and power, and might he unto our God for 
many wrtters and divines 'mittens supposed ever and -ever, Amen." 
 
that it was the last great battle nod *Upper of �
This shows us that we nro again brought 
the great God. "For tine great day of h s down the stream of time, to hear at part at 
wrnth is conne,nrul who shall he able to stand?" heist, of the song which no man pan sing, 
The sixth teed is not yet wholly ripened; l'or but thin, whose bodies nn' naleioneslfriso the 
it is evident that we are carried down to the 
boa day. the great duty et* wrath whirl' 
will immediately follow the smiling time which 
lie gives us in the next chapter. 
Rev. vii. 1, "And after these thing,. I saw 
four nrigele etanding un the four careers of 
tine earth, hnldiug the hair winds of the earth, 
that it should not blow sin the earth, tier iel 
the sea, nor on any tree." Osiiiel His us, 
vii. 2, �
.w in my vision by night. and In, 
'gll, flirt finer winds of the heaven strove 
upon the great sea," The finer reirerleo then, 
earth. "Anil one 4/1 the elders anew ered. say-
Mg 11140 111.•• ‘VII:tt are thi•se whirl' are ar- 
rayed in white relies? �
Awl whenee came 
they? Aunt I send unto him. Sir, theta now-
eel. And he said unto me, 'Plies, are they 
which earth, out or great Irihuh.tiou, and 
1111vil winshiel their �
111.1 lint., 
 
11.411 White 111 the [Omni �
the Load, 
pasvaly• Otiose whit those we'll !hot .1.4111 
saw, mid hew icy elf mood tine honor sad 
glary, %Otte!' John .w them posaesainie, 
through go at Irrheinliunt, and the blood of the 
�
•swIliwomseiromesnsliamosuremo 
0004 there were but 14 promns lett nit the glide', and I ilieuiselve“ to dwell on the es-th, by murdering nod 
thitae N persona having, riot. that time, (a motile] of idestroying (lei g1,11 moss 11f their billow creatures. 
only Flit years.) inerenaisl to 9011 m u iii., now i•sti• I 'Now, an we have ehown the moniker to tt loch tt 
mated to be on the earth, we therenore hate it correct 
and racy preldeni to oder, as 
If el persona in 4111 yearn bore increased to 900,-
0110,000, to what number would 9001a/0,000 increase 
.in Inikt yearn. 
9:31011000 
1000000.10 
4344 8100000000,s1060000 
8 
ground. Now Wert portion of them tin find sttlosis. 
34752)810000000000000001.00(23,309,011,049,723,754tence I We see trout the nature and results of agri• 
60:t04 �
• „%uniher of verso,a at the 
end of 1060 year., 
114960 
We 104456 now readily .re that if the earth, with 
its 900 — milli°ns of inhabitants, are to exist 
but for 1071110 one thousand years longer, with but 
the same 104:256 rate of increase which they have had 
more the — Hood;-that they must, at the end of 
one thou- 27540 sand years number twenty-three 
thousand, �
0 three hundred and eight billions, 
eleven thou — sand, forty-nice millions, seven 
hundred and 078400 twenty three thouaand,seven buns 
Bred and fitly 270016 six persons. Now eritimating the 
earth at two -- hundred millions equate nodes, 
two thirds of 3,40 which is suppoced to be water, 
leaving a little �
0 more than sixty-six millions of 
dry land; and 3,400 a large portion of that being 
On the frozen re• 34752 glens and in the deserts, it is 
entirely incapac• �
itated to sustain human life. 
1 then, for the 36480 eve of reckoning, shall call 
it sixty-oix millious. 34752 Even now, by casting your 
eye upon the reek. — oning, you will see that 
anaount reduced to .17280 superficial feet, and that, 
compared with the �
0 number of. persons at the 
end of 1,000 yearn, — give. about twelve and 
two third; of a per- 17'2800 non to each foot of 
dry land, orabout lour 139008 and one fifth persona to 
each foot of the entire — surface of the globe; 
& all this toe, without 337920 any reference to the 
better habits and pro- 31'2768 longation of life which 
must exist supposing — thia thousand years to 
be filled op with a spir- 251520 itual reign of our Sa-
vior. In this estimate, 243264 we not only allow wars 
to prevail, as they have — done, sweeping their 
millions before them, and 82560 the pestilence to lay 
siege to whole cities and 69504 countries, and the 
ruthless hand of persecu• �
Lion to trample its 
'fifties of millions into the 136566 earth, dc the dread 
monster alcohol to sway its 104236 deadly sceptre over 
its hundreds of thousands ---- annually, as well 
as the ordinary and natura1263140 causes of death. 
together with all the private 243464 animosities which 
have heretofore made waste — their multitudes; 
bat we also allow all these to 197760 increase In their 
ferocity, at equal etrides with 173760 the increase of 
numbers, and yet you see to — what we must 
arrive in the abort space of one 200000 thousand years. 
And yet men Pay they are wise 20r312 when they tle• 
dare the continuation of even a — better state of 
things than that which has 31688 brought us 
:thus far. 
But suppose we allow the theory of a temporal or 
spiritual reign of Christ for one thousand years, then 
in that cane all the causes of death roust cease sieve 
the ordinary .and natural canoes. Well what portion 
.haft we call that; say one Italia the whole; then in 
that case the best you can make of a temporal milieu-
ium wi l rive about twenty-five persons to each foot of 
land, which would cover the earth about 125 fret deep 
with a mass of living human beings. 
But if any are di-posed to miens upon this subject, 
• 
5575600000000000)23308011049723756)4 
223017400000(10000 
1.8:41,974.400,000,000 feet of dry land. 
187474400000000)23308011049723756(1 2 
1839974400000000 
167270400000000 
16747140n 
4968067049723756 
3679948800000000 
'son that when lie shall come to destroy the earth and 
take poseension �
hula promised lithe: itance that men 
shall be marrying aird giving in marriage, �
you will 
-readily perceive (liar it is inipaesibleder men to con-
tinue marrying and giving in marriage, unless there is 
a corresponding number of loathe to 'natant Ili.e 
marriage', nail it in certainly imposiiitile ler God to 
:woke a temporal millenium and tallier all the cause* of 
death to exist of which we have ...en; sod no we 
have shown that men will continue to increase In the 
end of time, and rie we loose also shown, that under 
the eirenineteneee of n temporal �
they ran- 
not iirvl rein. Indwell on the ea nil, We thereinto hope 
that our ',IA.,. Sill he prepared 10 list Inrewell to that 
Inoti driunivo scheme. 
We hare now but cue plan left for the continuation 
of this earth in eaiateni.e, and that in, by wafering the 
Cesace of troth ahnrr menlionrel 111 inereano to, smolt 
'You will think I bonst of disinterested-
ness, when 1 say dint. for the present. we 
tense In dosire you to lilt 10,111. II/1; fer what-
ever inecovereenees may be visited on your 
eierimunity by the 111,11141.111 of party, they 
are appnrently, trilling to that evils we are 
Arendt iito.; in this distroeted iolnol. �
Me. (I'. 
Quitted'. nenetion ii.eienoes— virtually the 
emnitry is on n state elf ,i,..11.0; anti WI. 
an 1.11,111, es In keep the llirtfese W141111 the huttlo �
reit( it run only end �
lilieid of 111110,0,14. 
the earth. Or, in other ward., a small position of The fortnilll to pny the rent is beceining more 
those Liall 111.1111,g the 10011 yearn can flint roe. tee end inure general; and the Itepealern nro 
of the mirth inteit awl will itiereaw, of siitli•reil 
to reinuin 1,900 years lonevr on the earth, we will 
now hike II �or the toe by which they :mist 
he diminished so as not to overrun the earth: as no 
good 1,444011.11 be shown why the increase o JI taut 
come up to our estimate, there will then-tine 110 a Ile 
cesaity for their .iestrue �
, no we have shown. Now 
we' pare allown that at the end of 1.000 years there 
will be more than twelve persons to each fora of 
culture, that not le. than 07,1.20 feet of cultivated 
land is capable of ...fling one individual, •that is 
allowing two awes of land to a person. 
Time entire surface et the globe is estimated at 200,-
000,000 .fisere wiles, two third., of which is supposed 
to be meter, leaving only about 66,000,000 cf dry land, 
now the number of feet in a mile is 
2787$ awl 
66000000 
995291019723756 
Or about 4 1.5 persons to each rooter the entire stir-
face of the globe. 
We now see that at the end of one thousand years, 
the earth will only be capable of sustaining, one out of 
every one million forty•five thousand five hundred and 
forty personv, which will at that time claim their por-
tion. 
Reader, ere these things sot If they are, then the 
result to which you must come is this, that if the 
earth and it, inhabitants are to continue for 1000 yearn 
longer, that while one man lives to a good old age, 
1,045,440 must come to an untimely end. 
Now reader, in candor and honesty, before God, an• 
ewer yourselves this question; do these things teach 
you that this world is of long continuance; or do they 
not rather teach you that the time is at hand when 
God will yet shaken. the earth oily, but also heav-
en, that those things whi-'h cannot be shaken may re-
main. Sinner: is your soul prepored to remain un-
moved and uncon:ounded when God shall shake all 
:hints which can be moved. �
Christian: are you 
building upon:the chief corner stone, of gold, silver, 
precious stone; that your works may abide, or are 
you not rattier building of hay, wood and stubble, 
Witt is with false theories of religion) that in the day 
of God's wrath you will soiree a great lose, though 
your soul may lie saved yet as by tire. 
But, there is one more important inquiry concern-
ing this suhjeet: that in, bow long can this state of 
things continue. How lone( Reader make this en-
quiry; east your thoughts upon the result of one 
thousand years which we have shown you: and then 
ask how long? Sinner: beware lest lie come and find 
they will doubtless take (Le ground that all Mingo are your blood in your own garments. Christian: stand 
possible with God, and if he choose. to hold up the up, for the Bridegroom is at the door. 
earth another thousand years, he can easily curtail the 
Watchmen, have you lectured the whole counsel of 
increase of the human tamily no that they 0.11 C0111- God. nod freed your skirts of the blood of soot, 
have 
pare with the limianflime earth: this certainly is pas- any of you been trying peace sod safety, and asking 
amble with God, but let tin inquire how it e in be newel. I where is the prom', of !ii• coming? Brethren, one and 
Oohed; you will remember that God has wont by lois I 101, apply your heartn to wisdom. Forsake your (lope- 
1228318249723756 
Hem we see the number of parsons that, compared 
with the number of feet of dry land, gives about 121 
persicans to•cach foot of dry land. 
27878400 
200000000 
proceeding to divide among themselves the 
property of others. (ler churches are dined. 
erne] with destruetion, 
With p,...r000,oi.o. Th., prospect wears tlit 
aspect of very found niece, if net the maths 
of flat approaching consummation of till 
things." 
The political state of Europe seems to 
more critical and :dunning than it has been 
Our years. 
An under current or disniii,ofin 
long 1),...t up by the ferce of circumstances. 
seems to have burst its fetters, and in 110W 
careering its course onward totiong the an 
thine—now stealthily crimping along like the 
silent net: insinuating rivulet, and anon dash-
ing over the rocks like the impetuous colonial 
In Ireland, the repeal question shakes the 
country to its Centre—Wales, from south to 
north, is in amen rebellion tigainst the laws 
—Spain hatches a new revolution Mimi 
once a month--Maly is troubled with interline, 
broils, and is fast verging upon autarchy—
France is hatching conspiracies against tho 
regal power--and Poland is giving unequivo-
cal symptoms that the yoke of the oppressor 
still sits uneasily upon the nceke of her peo-
ple. 
Great activity prevailed in nil the English 
navy yards, orders had been received to fit 
out for iinincdiate service nearly all the ves-
sels in ordinary. The cause of these move-
ments was a matter of much speculation and 
inquiry. 
PREDICTIONS FULFILLED. 
Have the Predictions which were to Precede 
Christ's Conning been Puy/led? • 
It is oftentimes necessary to consider seve-
ral topics which ore ,presented as objections 
to the corning of Christ at band, before we 
can discuss prophetic times and periods. As 
we cannot now fully enter upon the subject, 
we will merely allude to then). 
The gospel has been preached "as a wit-
ness to all nations"—"many false christs 
have arisen and passed away"—"wars and 
rumors of wars" hove always affected the 
peace of nations--the world is one vast battle-
field—nation has risen against notion and 
kingdom against kingdom, and there have 
been famines and pestilences, and earth-
quakes in divers places—the children of God 
have been afflicted nod bunted of all nations 
for Christ's sake. These predictions have 
been literally and strictly fulfilled. 
Knowledge has increased—the scattering 
of the holy people has been effected—divi-
sions, civil and religious. distinguish us—the 
church, ns predicted by Daniel, and the peli-
deal world, by the Revelator, are divided as 
by them represented. The church has in- 
creased in riches. �
The rich mien of the 
world have heaped up treasures together for 
the last days; scoffers hove appeared; and 
we have those in our midst, who cry peace 
and safety. There has been distress of na-
tions with perplexity. 
in Paul's first epistle to Timothy, 4th ch., 
are predictions of the papal power, speaking 
lies in hypocrisy, forbidding to niarry, &c. 
Also in the 3d clinpter are recorded many 
things which were to occur in the last days 
which have received an exact and impressive 
fulfilment before the eyes of those cow living. 
There have been signs in the sue, and in the 
moon, arid in the stars; and many other 
sights and signs and appearanees which were 
to indicate the near approach of our Savior 
to judgment could lie presented. 
Suffice it to 
say. that n11 the events which were to admo-
nish us of the corning of Christ on near at 
hand have alreudy occurred. �
All relating 
to that momentous period has received an 
exact fulfilment, excepting the gruel event 
itself. �
For its entire consummation let us 
strive to be ready, awl watch, lest it come 
11110111 us unawares. 
Ni, pitsenge can �
pre• 
simnel which can iiivalidate the harmonious 
tooth..., or the srtr nad wit...es; Ito obstruc-
tion to the immediate expiratiiin of prophetic 
time; periods are definitely assigned: and we 
are constrained to believe 11111 drama of this 
world'. history Ca tile.; over. l'hose who ere 
conversant with prophecy, mast allow the 
;jam, is especially pleb nt hand. Miot of the 
prophetic periods of 1).1111,1 nail John have 
expired, and fee, iced 1111,41111111t.li, fulfilment. 
One g mot event yet stela nor in en. rider, 
When die 23101 and 1 :lit:, ihys .or Daniel 
aspire, the end or on things pooh!, is 
inieritehly accemplishiel, the Inst pod or indig.. 
'woo. is overpie.i -the Iwo if...elating provers 
which were to dist Met 111, I.I11111. to uungele 
under foot she: sont•tnisy nod tlin Lew., nre 
Christ hey �Dowel and those 
who hove fallen oeleep to .1e-its will haat, n 
?knows re•iirrention- Alm living mainta ore 
eitilhol With immortality- -Hut Wicked 01'0 tole• g 
strayed--(he sancluery is eleuusrd, is 
Mid. Cry. 
Icss towers, and h, --"ed for the cleaneing of the 
eanctuuty,and for the coming of your great Ritigorben 
all you that are heirs according to the rondae may 
enter into your everlasting rent. 
J. W. JACOBS. 
STATE.: OF EUROPE. 
Extract from the letter of a highly intelligent 
lady in Dublin.: 
CH 11151' 1.1111 PURIFIER.. 
8.1111n !When in Ihmbltu, who met :ogether 
from time to time, at each others houses, hem 
read the Scripted:4, and to sunk. them the 
subject of prolitalde conversatien, when they 
acme to the third chapter of MaInchi, had 
some discussion over the second and third 
verses, respecting the method of purifying 
the precious metals. As none of the company 
knew torything:nbout the process, one under-
tied; to inquire of ti silver-smith, with whom 
she was Belo:tinted, how it wits effected; and 
what was the business of Ilin refiner himself, 
during the operntion. Without explaining 
her inotive,slie accordingly went to her friend. 
and naked how the silver was cleared from 
any dross with which it might have been mix- 
ed. �
Ile promptly explained to her tile man- 
ner of doing this. "But," said the inquirer, 
..do you sit, sir, at the work?" "0 yes" he 
replied, 'for I must keep my cyo steadily 
fixed on the furnace, since, if the silver re-
main too long under the intense heat, it is 
sure to be damaged." She at once saw the 
propriety and beauty of the image employed 
shall sit no a refiner of silver:" and 
the moral of the illustration is equally ob-
vious. As the lady was returning with the 
information to her expecting companions, the 
silversmith called her back, and said that he 
had forgotten to mention one thing of impor-
tance, which was, "that he only knew the 
exact instant when the purifying process was 
complete, bythen seeing his own countenance 
reflected in it." Again the spirit and mean-
ing shone forth through the beautiful veil of 
the letter. When God sees his own image in 
his people, the work of sanctification is com-
plete. It may be added, that the metal con-
tinues in a state of agitation until all the im-
purities are thrown off, and then it becomes 
quite still, a circumstance which heightens the 
exquisite analogy in this case; for 0 how 
“Sweet to he passive in Mu hand, 
And know no will but his!" 
The subject was embodied in the following 
stanzas; 
“Ire that nom dross would win the precious ore, 
Bends o'er the eructate an earnest rye, 
The subtle, searching process to explore, 
Lest the one brilliant moment should pass by, 
When in the molten silver's mass 
Ile meets his pictured face, as Ina glass, 
Thus In God's furnace are his people tried; 
Thrice happy they who to the end endure! 
rut W140 the fiery ordeal may abide? 
Who from the er wail,' come forth en plume. 
That he whose eyes of flame look through the whole, 
May see his image perfect In the /mull 
Not with an evanescent glimpse alone, 
As In the mirror the relner's fate; 
Cut stumped with Ilea :en's broad signet there be 'Iowa 
f,oioreo run ortruth and mac, 
And ',mod that seal of love this motto be, 
Not fora moment, but-eternity!'" 
THE CAUSE--ITS PROGRESS. 
As time advances, the faith of true Advent-, 
fists becomes more deep and unwavering. 
The Second Advent cause is acquiring 
strength each) successive day; accessions ale 
constantly being made to our numbers, and 
the brethren nre indefatigable in spreading 
the glad tidings'of the Savior's coming. �
Our 
general operations were never better sus-
mined, and we feel assured dint more is ac-
complished in disnbusing the minds of Chris-
tians, stretigthenitig the faith of believers. 
and disseminating tar and wide the glorious 
truth then ever before. 
It would probably bn deemed incredible, 
even by our friende, should we attempt to es-
timate the windier of lecturers who are sound-
ing the midnight cry, and also the number of 
these who have embraced like precious faith. 
The interest is not confined to that United 
States and the Catindas, but the subject of 
Christ's immediate coining has been faith-
fully presented to our transatlantic brethren. 
and Many there rejoice that their redemption 
(hawed) nigh. 
Arguments new nod irresistnble are tinily-
being elicited, whirl' tend the more to confirm 
and esIn isli u.. N otw it hide tiding the denun-
ciations which have eninnated feint the pulpit 
and limn prem., our theory stands unanswered. 
!vet upon i iiiiiiii edit., truth, and not nil nrgu- 
mewt hums he �
',rewrotd by the learned or the 
illiterate, but whet hits been promptly tnet 
fuel rsfitted. 
'Elm' sure wool of prophecy points out thin 
in be the year of 11..1'. redeemed. It is a bra-
e.. tight, hriglit•sli:ng nod conopicuotni, di-
recting our uutuse llIftingil "OM /wenn of 
time" to the 'invest of eterimi rent. ht. C'ry,.. 
orontwil has been smoked; aad ernes, hailed. 
EDEN Or 11,01/1•:. 
how street to rellmt sit these joys that await lit'', 
In you blissfal region, the haven of rest, 
Where Woritieit spirits with weir �
r shall greet me, 
And lead MO to mansions 111.1v.,,I h.r (i,• b rat; 
Encircled in light, and with gory 
my ',spinners perfect, my soul's sky 
I'll bathe in the ocean of pleasure unto lllll dit, 
And range with delight tiro' the Eden of Love. 
While angelic legions, with harps tuned celestial, 
IIIITIlloniously join in the convert iit 
The Paiute, as they thick Irmo the regiuna terrestrial, 
In load hallelnj ehs their voices will raise: 
Then longs to the Lamb shall rfi-eell9 tiro' heaven, 
!sty soul wit reqital, to 1111111iMIlel le Oven 
All glory, all honor, MI might and 
brought its thee' grace to the Eden of Love. 
'Bien hail blessed elate! hail, ye rimesters of glory! 
Ye harpers of bliss, soon I'll meet you above! 
And join your full choir in rehearsing the 'dory, 
eSaltacion from sorrow In Jer or's love;“ 
Though 'prirotied in earth, yet, by anticipation, 
Already toy rind feels a rweet prrlibution 
UI joya that await use, when freed from probatioar' 
My heart's now in heaven, the Eden ot Love. 
MORNING LIGHT IS IlliKAKING• 
The mottling light is breaking, 
The g orlon+ day draws near, 
When Christ, the Judge of nations, 
In glory will appear, 
The midnight cry is rounding, 
The dawning star is rising: 
Awake, ye steeping virgins, 
Your God and Saviour's near. 
The morning light is breaking, 
The King of Glory's near, 
The taints now dead and living, 
Will coon with him appear; 
The midnight cry is sounding, 
The fig-tree now is blooming:, 
Awake. ye ries ping virgins, 
Behold the Bridegroom's near: 
The Bible in its coursing, 
Has gone from East to Weil; 
The nations who were willing. 
Have with his rays been bleat; 
The midnight cry is 'mending, 
The judgment day approaching:-
Awake, ye sleeping virgins, 
And take your promised reek • 
BUFFA LO, OCT. 23d, 1843:- 
Very Dear Bro. Fitch-4 will give you 
some account of the progress of truth in this 
city and region. The brethren • here have 
procured a hall, and enjoy the stated labors 
of Bro. Skinner from the east. The number 
in attendance last Sabbath was larger than 
usual. 'file great mass of the people are yet 
unacquainted with the ground °reser faith, 
land multitudes suppose that the declaration 
of the Saviour, "Of thra day and hour 
knoweth no man," dec., puts a perfect quietus 
upon Millerism. The monied worldlings in 
the church talk about our glorious hope as 
moonshine, and the great mass of professors 
stand aloof. But there are individuals from 
nearly all the adjoining towns, who attend our 
meetings, and search the ucriptures daily 
whether these things are so. Some of our 
Baptist brethren have been excommunicated, 
after being labored with, for embracing here-
sy. One of our brethren said he wns pre-
pared to examine the 'Bible with them, but 
they acknowledged they were unprepared to 
do so. Think of a professed church dealing 
with its members for heresy, .whe admit that 
they cannot go into a Bible investigation of 
the matter! This surely is nut far removed 
from the course of Antichrist.• 
But the climax. When they referred to 
the Bible, they were told by Elder �
, for- 
merly of your city, that they were not ac 
• eased of violating the Bible, but the stand-
ards of the Baptist church, and that they 
must sit down. One brother, however. (not 
an adventist, being dissatisfied; rend, without 
comment, the case of the discifvles when they 
tell the Saviour that they saw oertain 
unlit doing miracles in his name. whom they 
lbrbade because they followed nut with them. 
and Christ rebuked his disciples fur se doing. 
It needed no comment. 
Upon one of the brethren's remark•ing. he 
thought ho had n right to examine and under• 
stand for himself, n deacon menthe /1. with 
apparent amezement: "Bee �
thinks he 
hits a right to miderstnnd the Bible far him-
sell, independent of the Baptist denominc.. 
lion !" 
I wonder whet the little horn woubi do 
with such heretics? 1 net more end more 
persuaded that thi so organized ellrs Orr ttli An-
tichrist. Prom their very nature. they must 
take their creeds, insteml of the Pottle, its rfe, 
standard by which to judge or lieiesy. I lie-
lieVe I am rot censorious. They condense 
unsparingly the church of Rome. I condemn 
them when they imitate her. 
Look at this proeinture in conneetieu wi:li 
that recorded in the toyed of the It �
'sit 
church, adopted et Trent itt 1561: "1 nlitt 
admit the sacred Scriptures according to thet 
sense which the lily blether Church hue 
held and 111,4 IOW( to whom' it belongs to 
judge of the true seems Mid interpretation of 
the telly Seriptureo." 
While lecturing in Pendleton, 'lit 'Mks 
from beet, an infidel, who formerly very sel-
dom attended woiship, Kind he horn:Veil he 
should be compelled to be a !dinette,. 
I Was n•jeiced to limo of you cretin at 
Oberlin, and hoped tor beloved brethren there 
would not ogniii reject these precious doc-
trines; but leery, by the Evangelist, that the 
Inculty and the people at large were not con-
vinced. [We bless the Lord that some have 
embraced this blessed truth there. ED 
My deer brother, bow can this be ! I ac• 
knowledge I inn greatly astonished, but not 
as much tee its if German literature had not 
occupied so•conspicuoue a place in the book-
case of Bro. C., a man where I love in the 
Lord; and if Pre. M. had riot previously up-
propriuted so many passages, belonging to 
the state subsequent to the restitution of all 
things, to Christian experience here, and 
had he not become so wrapt up in fond anti-
cipations of the mighty influence of that insti-
tution in converting :be world, and if an ex-
nrnination of some of Bro. Finney's writings 
did not show me conclusively, that he hue 
left ground upon which he used to stand, and- 
which gave to him his mighty power. �
He 
used to think n man might be taught of the 
Holy Ghost the meaning of the Bible, but 
now says the reason why Chistians under-
stand the word of God more readily than 
others, is because they are in the same state 
of mind in which lied is, and hence naturally 
understand each other. lie used to think the 
Spirit of God taught men when there was 
about to be a revival, and that certain indi-
viduals were going to be converted, and that 
the sick nigh to death should recover; (see 
his Revival Lectures;) and yet he says it is 
fanaticism to say that one may hate the wit-
ness of the Spirit that the Lord's advent is 
near. �
Says it is absurd to suppose such a 
thing, for the Spirit of God does not teach 
history. He might as well say that a weak, 
humble child of God had no right to induldge 
a hope in Jesus; unless he understood the 
whole range of arguments in moral philoso-
phy in favor of Christianity. and could put to 
silence every objection of the infidel against 
the Bible, and clear up every obscurityin it, as 
to say no one can know by faith and the wit-
of the blessed Spirit that Jesus is near, and 
thus obey Him, by looking up because their• 
redemption draweth nigh. Oh! 1 wish Bro. 
F. could say as he once did. "Bless God, 1 
was never in a Theological Seminary. My 
Lord rejoices that I am one of a few students 
of Oberlin Institute whom the Lord has led to 
feel that Jesus will shortly come. 
Yours, looking for Jesus, 
L. DELOS MANSFIELD: 
A2. CALL FROM LICKING COUNTY., 
. The following is a part of two letters. We hope 
lee:mere will be faithful—their most arduoneand faith-
Iht labors are needed, and will be abundantly rewarded, 
when he coined. 
HARTFORD. Nov. I.943. 
Dear Bro. Smead-1 do most earnestly 
renew my request that an efficient Lecturer 
may be sent into our vicinity, and if possible 
wake up the slumbering virgins, that they 
may ..n rise and trim their Isnips, and prepare 
m meet the Bridegroom." it is now about 
ten months since I have read the scriptures 
retentively in regard to this subject, and also 
have examined, so liar as I have been able to 
obtain them, the arguments on both sides, and 
diligently watched the signs of the times; 
and I niii at present most fully satisfied that 
all the prophetic numbers will be closed up 
in the course of the present Jewish yeetr; that 
Daniel will stand in his lot, and all the sleep-
ing saints be railed. and the living righteous 
with them Meet the Lord in the air. But that 
time may yet continue, and many of the 
events predicted by the ancient prophets, 
together with many of these nest awful revues 
presented to us in the visions or St. John 
will transpire after the Seviour'e advent, I 
have no doubt. That event I nun leaking for 
every day erelhour. Can you not send some 
one to Mowry to us n few times on this im-
portant subject? We need the living preacher. 
ONO W110 0110 W111111 11111101010 n etitigregatien 
and dettionrtrato the folly of expecting the 
"Ireton of the Jews." nn1ln temporal millers-
11111111. befere the iniigininilt and all the oilier 
mighty weeks which a blind clergy ere 
a re.. itet, worldly minded, fuel Spiriefer-
melteu eiiiireii. will be brought Melia through 
their lest renimiellity. Little, Very little, emu- 
v, hits Is ...me �
in our iminediato 
Vivito') ; t Moir It, however, to awaken cud. 
tinily in mine, nitil an ardent device in oil,. e 
to learn 1111/10 0111110 hIllij11111. 
W1101.0 is Itro. Needham? Could he not 
tied time to spend to week or NU, With tie, if 
nut more? Gomez is my house, in Ilttrilbel, 
Licking county, and I will, if ulivu and able, 
go with, and assist all I ern!. 
S11011111 /41.11110 01111 from your vicinity come 
hero to lecture, the y 'night dispose of Illally 
second edema publication... Yours. in the 
lull belief that the Lind Jesus will come this 
I year. �
JoNATIIAN WoonweaTII. 
33 per cent, 
15 
15 
10 
�
8 �
66 
France, �
5 �
66 �
• 
At these rates, the U. States double in 
twenty-four years; Great Britain in fifty; 
Russia in fifty; Prussia in eighty; Austria 
in ninety/. and France in one hundred and 
fifty. 
In Asia•it might be supposed to be other-
wise. But there is reason to believe that 
even there, the progress of human life con-
tinues unimpeded. The first statements of 
Chinese population were disbelieved; but the 
most recent and best accounts confirm them, 
and also give ground to suppose that a very 
large part of the immense population of 
China has been the increase of the last cen-
tury. 
The general analysis of all the facts now 
known on the physical condition of society 
will show that the population of the earth is 
now rapidly increasing, and tha:, as a con-
sequence, itsoproduction is also. 
On the supposition that peace is to be con-
tinued, these facts must produce overwhelming 
effects on the political econonomy, finauces, 
and social condition of nations. The im-
mense emigration which is annually going 
out of Europe to the United States,-Austria, 
Asia, and even India and -Africa, are conse-
quences of condensation of population in Eu-
rope. But we have reason to believe that 
emigration has long gone on to a considerable 
extent from I �
to the surrounding coon- 
tries and islands, although the Chinese are 
a very stationary people in respect to hab- 
its and localities. �
if peace continues this 
emigration Lem all the very populous parts 
of the world to those that are less no, will 
continue; and what was a little while since 
regarded as the work of many ages, wall 
speedily be nccomplished—the renovation of 
Africa and the Isles of the Sea. 
THE �SEAL., 
Rev. vi. 12-17, "And I beheld •when he 
had opened the teeth seal, and lo, there was 
a great t.arthiteake, and the sun became black 
ass sackcloth of hair, and-the moon became us 
blood: And the eters of•heatven • fell unto the 
earth, even en a fig tree custeth her untimely 
figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 
And the heaven departed its a seroll when it 
is rolled tegoiliert lent every mountain and 
island Iliel out of their places. �
And the k itigs 
or the earth, end the great men, mid the rich 
menoind the -AM.!' captains, end the mighty 
men, and every loud man, and every Itee-
inurt,. hid themselves in Ilie dens and in the 
rticks.iif the inisiiitainq and said to the iloitiii-
tains end ruche, eFall eit us, end hide ON 
from 0111 fact or tom that si.eth on the 
throne, and Iran) the wrath or the Lamb: for 
the gtent day of hi, wrath is come, tend ult,t 
shell he Mile to steed." 
0,1I-0111wy our Savior to precede 
his etnitinr. ens hnmirr. se Oh the I'VelliN1111‘11, 
1110 ,111111 $0111. �
(hi the opening tit this seal 
there wits it great �
tthipt Ike. �
The nreafe..1 
earthquake of Which we have an account 
pld,11•=11•11.01•••••••••••••• 
11.1,111 �
t•iry, oecerred oit the 1st of Nu- 
vember, 17.15, and vett:tele,' et every (venter 
of lila glebe. It MOH 1'011 ill Europe. Asia, 
Africa, nod Ante rica—from llreetilittel oil the 
north, to the extreme south. lit the single 
city of Lode., in sprtin, �
lidos wens 
lost, every church and C1/111/1111i in the city, 
and abutted all the public buildinge, with about 
ore retails of the Winee were destroyed; after 
which, fires broke out and raged for nearly 
three days, Nil that the city was completely 
desolated. This evetit would seem then to 
mark the opening of the sixth seal. 
After the earthquake, John MOW the (Jerk-
ening of the sun mid 1111 in, and falling of the 
eters: as recorded Orate., and then the wind-
ing up of all the affairs of this world: so that 
the sixth seal carries us to the end of time. 
On the opening of the seventh seal there 
wns silence in heaven ,shoot the apace 
half an hour. Here the subject closed, and 
the events under Mk seal are not recorded; 
so that what transpires under it must be in 
the eternal world.—Signs of the Times. 
TERMINATION or THE 70 1Veces:—In my 
remarks on the 8th of Daniel, in saying the - 
seventy weeks terminated exactly at the cross, 
see that I am not sufficiently guarded. 
The only definite time that we can fix up. 
on to commence reckoning the four hundred 
and ninety years or seventy weeks, is the 
"first (ley of the first month," 457 before 
Christ. See Ezra 7: 9. It is true the de 
treemust have gone forth before that, but how 
long before we have no means of knowing. 
Now, from the first day of 457, before „ 
Christ, to A. D. 23, the year,of the crucifix. 
ion, would be only 489 years, because it takes 
the whole of 457 and the whole of 33 to make 
490—thus to �457 
add �33 
490 
Our Lord was crucified in the very com-
mencement of the year 3:3, according to the • 
Jewish tnethod of reckoning Mee, which was . 
Hence, though, , 
to commence after the spring equinox, of - I 
about the 20th of our March. 
our Saviour was crucified in the year 33, it • 
takes the whole of that year to complete the 
70 weeks, or 390 year.:, except making an 
allowance for the time of the going tbrth of 
the decree to restore and build Jerusalem,. 
which must have been sometime in the year 
458 before Christ, though we have no date �
• 
by which to tell what time. The 1810 years 
from the crucifixion, then, should be reckon-
ed from the year, and not any particular 
point in the year 33. Hence the 1810 years 
from that point are now closing, and with' 
them close the 2300 years and the consumma- 
tion comes. �
GEO. STORRS. 
OPPRESSION.—At one of the reformatory 
meetings in Boston, it was established that 20 
cents was all that the serentresses received for 
16 or ltr hours work; and that their pay did' 
not average 15 cents a day, throughout the 
week, though they labor from morning till • 
bed-time. And then when complaint was•-
mode to the employers, they were answered, • 
"If you can't live on the prices we pay yob, 
you know there are houses where you can go• 
and live." (Meaning houses of ill-faine.)—• 
Such oppression and limits, merit, and will' 
receive the deepest execration. The united! 
and energetic efforts of these oppressed wo—
men will bring relief', if they are true to them-
selves and to virtue.—Oberlin Evangelist. 
Mn. Mtaesee.—The late visit of Mr. Mile 
ler to Boston and vicinity. has been character--
ized with the usual retell:It in favor of the 
Advent ?trill. Never has be been listened to-
with more intetest, and that interest of a 
deeply serious and practise? character. Al-
though the morn' on the Sabbath was very 
violent, the 'fiebernaele was filled with hear-
ere, who listened to the modern apostle tit thQ 
primitive faith nip/trendy with the utmost 
satisfaction. �
believe his !ahem have 
net er been productive 111. 11101,1 good at any e 
former lime meting lis than they would be at ; 
the present tone. not Mir feebleness of his 
health and his litany ether engeg,•mente den. 
der it impracticable for .•• �
to yield to the ! 
many pieesing calls to contount with 114a lite 
tie longer. Shenk! time continue end hie! 
health permit, he is expected to attend sent, I 
nil reiti'cit'llei's in the region of his residence. 
--Signs e/' the Times. 
Bro. flies, is in Itesien, and preached on; 
the Sebbeth kr let. '290 in tee Tnliertutelo to 
"rrowded audience." 
lie to "III gotta 
health." 
PROGUESS OE' POPULATION 
ON THE GLOBS. 
All persons are now familiar with the rapid 
growth or the United States. ?tinny, how-
ever, hippos,: that the increase of population 
is confined to thin country, and that the rest 
of the world is stationary. �
Comparatively, 
the growth of the United States is fur the 
most rapid. But it is a general fact of vast 
importance, that all the world is now growing 
most rapidly in population, commerce and 
the arts. �
This is the effect of a universal 
peace, and should it continue a century, will 
produce a state of things wonderfully dal rent 
from what the word- has ever before ',eel,. 
The tables below will 8110W that the whole 
population of the globe will be about double 
within a hundred years. 
Statistieal tables are now pretty accurately 
kept in Europe and the United States. 'rho 
decennial increase in•several countries may 
be stated as follows: 
United States, 
Great Britain, 
Russia, 
Prussia, 
Austria,