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" Thou bringest strange things to oxir ears."  
So people said, when Paul " preached Jesus and the  
resurrection." We are now preaching Jesus and the  
resurrection, and to many it is passing strange ; but we.  
are sorry so few imitate the heathen Greeks, by saying :  
"May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou  
speakest, i& 1 For thou bringest certain strange things  
to our ears : WE WOULD KNOW, therefore, WHAT THESE 
THINGS MEAN!" The doctrine was not new in itself, but  
it was nev,-10 them. So it is with our views. They  
have been helfl by learned and holy men in various ages  
and countries. Those who wish to read extracts on this  
point, will find them in "Cox's Letters" and "Fitch's  
Reasons," two excellent pamphlets, for sale at this office.  
Here is an extract from Bro. Fitch, giving the  
VIEWS OF COTTON MATHER.  
But it may still be asked, how comes it to  
pass that none but the comparatively ignorant  
have gained this wisdom, and that all these 
new things have b:er, at once communicated to  
them ?  
I will here just quote Isa. xxix. 10—12 :  
" For the Lord hath poured out upon you the  
spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes ;  
the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he  
covered. And the vision of all is become to  
you as the words of a book that is sealed, which  
men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read  
this, I pray thee : and he saith, I cannot, for it 
is sealed. And the book is delivered him  
that is not learned, saying, Read this, 1 pray 
thee : and he saith, I cannot, for I am not learn- 
ed." Thus, both the learned and the unlearned  
have found the Bible a sealed book, while those  
who have humbly sought wisdom of God, have  
gained  it. Even Christ's own immediate disci- 
ples understood not the things of his kingdom,  
until he opened their understanding, that they  
might understand the Scriptures, and it is only  
those now, who will confess their need of being  
thus enlightened, and will take their places, 
with the spirit of the little child, at Christ's feet,  
and there cry after knowledge, and lift up their 
voice l'or understanding, seeking her as silver,  
and searching for her as for hid treasure—who  
will gain the wisdom that cometh from above.  
Others may be wise in their own conceits, but  
their wisdom will be foolishness with God, and 
the things of God's Spirit will seem as foolish- 
ness unto them.  
But I wish just to show, that the truths in  
which I have expressed my belief in  this com- 
munication, are neither new, nor confined to ig- 
norant men.  
Cotton Mather, who died in Boston, February  
13, 1723, was a learned man, as all who are ac- 
quainted with his history will admit. The Re- 
ligious Encyclopedia says, that Dr. Chauncey  
remarked, that Thomas Prince, formerly pastor  

of the Old South Church, Boston, was the most 
learned man in New England, except Co.'ton  
Mather. I have now before me a book, the  
title-page of which reada as follows:  
" The life of the very reverend and learned  
Cotton Mather, D. D. and F. R. S., late pastor 
of the North Church, in Boston, who died Feb- 
ruary 13, 1727-8. By Samuel Mather, M, A.  
Printed for Samuel Gerrish, in Cornhill, 1729."  
On the 140th page of this work I read as fol- 
lows :  
"As it is well known that Dr. Mather  was well  
acquainted with the sacred prophecies, on which he 
formerly writ and printed his thoughts; so it may  
not be amiss to inform my reader, that, in several  
things, relating to the prophecies, he saw cause to 
alter his mind—particularly concerning the second  
coming of Christ, the conflagration, the new heavens  
and new earth, and the calling of she Jews. I  will  
here write those sentiments of the?;e things, of which  
the Doctor, just before he died, had a firm belief,  
from a strict inquiry, long study, and much prayer : 
and as near as I can, I will express his sentiments 
in his own words, in the following assertions.  
"1. The second coming of the Lord, will be at  
and for the destruction of the man of sin, and the  
extinction of the Roman monarchy, under the pa-
pal form of it. He thought that, although wise men  
have interpreted our Savior's coming in the clouds  
of heaven, and the brightness of his appearance, as  
if it meant anything besides His personal corning, 
herein they spoke foolishly and unaccountably.—  
For as their interpretations leave us destitute of  
any proof that our Lord will ever come at all, so  
they go very far towards a trespass on the third  
commandment.  
"2. The conflagration described by the oracles  
of God, in strong terms, and which we are warned  
of by the mouth of all the prophets : this confl igration  
will be at the second coming of the Lurd. To make  
the Petrine conflagration, signify no more than the  
laying of Jerusalem and her daughter in ashes; and  
to make the new heavens and the new earth tosig.  
nify no more than the church sta'.e of the gospel ;—  
these are shameful hallucinations- And as for the  
new earth, before the arrival of which, no man can  
reasonably expect happy times for the church of  
God upon earth, it is the greatest absurdity to say  
that it will take place before the Petrine conflagra-
tion ; and there is no prospect of arguing to any 
purpose with such as can talk so very ridiculously.  
"3. Upon the conflagration, the glorious God  
will create new heavens and a new earth.  
"5. The process of judgment on the sheep and  
goats, in the 25th chapter of Matihevv, has not one  
of the raised from the dead concerned in it; but is a  
quick division and decision, made by our Lord 
among the Christians who cry for mercy, when  
they see the fire of God ready to seize upon them,  
determining who shall be caught up to meet the Lord, 
and who shall be left to the perdition of ungodly  
men, in the flames before them ; and there shall  
not one ungodly man be left living in the world.  
"8. The new heavens, in conjunction with the  
new earth under the influence of it, is tint heavenly  
country which the patriarchs looked for. When  
the great God promised them that he would be their  
God and bless them, they understood it of his bring- 

ing them into his deathiea* and sinless world. They  
who expect the rest, promised to the church of God  
upon earth, to be found anywWjj but in the new  
earth, and they who expect any happy times for  
the church in a world that hath death and ain in it j 
these do err, not. knowing the Scriptures, nor the  
kingdom of God.  
"9. Such a conversion of the Israelitish nation,  
with a return to their ancient seats in Palestine, as 
many excellent persons in latter years (and among  
the rest himself) have been persuaded of, he now  
thought inconsistent with the coming of the Lord,  
and the burning of the world at the fall of Anti- 
christ, before which fall nobody imagines that con- 
version.  
'•And, indeed, how is it consistent with the deep  
sleep in which the Deluvium Ignis [deluge of fire]  
must, as ihat of water did, surprise the world t— 
The  holy people of the prophecies is found among  
the Gentiles, the  surrogate Israel. The New Tes- 
tament seems to have done with a carnal Israel ; the  
eleventh chapter to the Romans is greatly misun-
derstood, where we find a^l Israel saved by a fil.  
ling up of tho Gentiles ; which we mistranslate the 
fulness of the Gentiles. The prophecies of the  
Oid Testament, that seem to have an aspect upon  
such a nation, are either already accomplished unto  
that nation, in the return from the Chaldean capti- 
vity ; or they belong to that holy people, whom a  
succession to the piety of the patriarchs will render,  
what our Bible has taught us to call them, the Israel  
of God ; but the final fulfilment of them all will be in  
the world to come, or the new heavens and the new  
earth, where God will dwell with men, and be their  
G id. Of what advantage to the kingdom of God  
can the conversion of the Jewish nation be, any 
more than the conversion of any other nilion, except  
we should suppose to remain upon the Jewish nation,  
after their conversion, something to distinguish them 
Irom the rest of the Christian believers? Now, to  
suppose ibis, would it not be to rebuild a partition  
wail thatour Saviour has demolished and abolished ;  
which a Christian, one would think, would no soon- 
er go to do, than to rebuild the fallen walls of  
Jericho ?"  
I will now give the views of Mather respecting  
the near approach of the time when all these things  
should be fulfilled,—just remariung, that, if he had  
lived to see the actual overthrow of papal power in  
1798, it wou/d unquestionably have given much  
greater clearness and  correctness to his views on  
this point; while, at the same time, it will be seen  
what a learned and good man, who had made the  
prophecies his prayerful study, thought, more than  
a century ago. respecting the near approach of God's  
everlasting kingdom.  
"10. By all just and fair computations, the twelve  
hundred and sixty years allowed for the Papal Em- 
pire, must be near, if not quite expired. By con- 
sequence, the one thousand, three hundred and 
thirty-five years, which bring the time of the end,  
when Daniel, with every othorgood man, is to rise  
and stand in his lot, are not likely to extend beyond 
the present century."  
Such were the opinions of Cotton Mather, re- 
specting the approach of that great and notable day  
of the Lord. He died in 1728. What would h?  
have said, had he lived till 1828, and witnessed all


the proofs of the approach of that time which have  
since been developed ?  
I will here insert a few extracts from Cotton  
Mather's preface to his work, entitled, "Directions  
for a candidate of the ministry," published in 1725,  
"The second advent of the Lord Christ which  
must be expected for the destruction of Anti-Christ,  
and perdition of that fourth empire, which he will 
abolish at his own illustrious coming, is next and  
immediately to be expected.  
"But it is not to be wondered at, if there be very  
few who would believe such a preacher,  
"For when the Lord shall come, he will find the  
world almost destitute of true and J.'r-efy rauh, and 
especially of faith in his ooaitng ; and when he shall  
descend, with his heavenly banners and angels,  
what else will he find, almost, but the whole church,  
as it were a dead carcass, miserably putrefied with  
the spirit end manners and endearments of the  
world." "When I should wish to stir up my breth- 
ren, who are in a deep sleep, with these messages  
and admonitions, to shake off this soft, and indeed  
lethargic and guilty slumber, I know that I shall  
appear to them a vain dreamer, a sort of Lot, and 
that they vviil treat me as one in jest or sport, and 
as a man in the falling sickness, seized with I know  
not what enthusiasm ; and, that sleep may hold them  
in still more pleasing fetters, they will make use of  
as it were sleepy medicines, a diversity of commen- 
taries on certain prophecies as not yet fulfilled."  
"But this word of God is in my mind like burning  
fire shut up in my bones : nor can I any longer  
forbear, but must again and again denounce this  
doom to the earth, sufficiently prepared for the fire,  
and a sorceress condemned to the flames.  
"Yea, though some Nero should command me  
to be burned in the flames, I will not cease to preach  
andforetel with an earnest voice, the dissolution, re- 
newal and purification ofthe world by fire.  
"Speedily, with flaming fire, but who knows how  
soon? The Son of God, about to descend, will  
inflict vengeance on them that know not God, and  
that obey not hi» gospel; but he will manifest his 
kingdom in the earth, which is lo be possessed  by  
our second and heavenly Adam; and this we con- 
fess is ascertained to us bv promise, but in another  
state, being after the resurrection.  
"They indulge themselves in a vain dream, not  
to say insane, who think, pray, and hope, contrary 
to the whole sacred Scriptures, and sound reason,  
that the promised happiness ofthe church on earth,  
will be before the Lord Jesus shall appear in his  
kingdom.  
"The rest ofthe saints, and the promised Sabbath,  
and the kingdom of God, in which his will shall be  
done on earth as it is in heaven, and those great  
things of which God hath spoken by the mouths of  
bis prophets, all prophesying as with one voice, all 
shall be confirmed by their fulfilment in the new  
earth, not in our defiled and accursed earth.  
"This was the opinion of the primitive church,  
this her piety and the ancient faith.  
"0 Justin, I appeal to thee as a witness ; in this  
faith all the orthodox unanimously consented in the  
primitive church.  
"Very many, indeed, own, that when the Roman  
beast, which now deceives and enslaves the nations,  
shall be slain, the body of that beast is to be delivered  
to the burning fire, and therewith to be destroyed.  
But they augur that this fire will be altogether me- 
taphorical, and rave o{ painted fires only—a won- 
der if not feigned also. A most vairi surmise this !  
What ] And even the second coming ofthe Lord  
will become, by and by, metaphorical also, and  
must be resolved and  vanish away into I know not  
what mystical dispensations! ' Away with such  
dotings ol drivellers.  
"Scoffers they are, who think that all things are  
to continue as they were from the beginning of the  
creation, and fancy that they can lurk under their  
metaphors, and hide themselves, in the obscurities  
of figures, from the sight  of Him who sitteth on the  

throne." "There are many good men, to be num- 
bered, not indeed with scoffers, but yet with sleep-
ers, and such as lull others to sleep, who by im- 
proper and excessive allegorizing,  darken and in- 
jure the truth. Would that some Nepos might  
arise to confute these allegorists, before the ev<mt  
does it for them."  
That Thomas Prince, pastor of the OW South  
Church, Boston, agreed with Cotton Mather, in his  
views of the prophetic writings, I have the following  
evidence :  
The preface to the life of Mather, which I'have  
before me, was written by Prince, who, according  
to Chauncy, was second in learning to none but  
Mather, in New England. The closing paragraph  
of the preface is as fo'lews :  
"And to say no more—I cannot think to wish a  
greater blessing in present state ofthe prophet- 
ic system, than that the God of the spirits of all  
fh;sh, would, in my own dear country and every  
other, raise up numbers of such ministers as this, 
and prosper this superior example for the forming 
and animating of them ; that they may burn and  
shine as he, and prepare the world for the most  
illustrious appearance of the great God our Saviour  
Jesus Christ, that sun of righteousness—the bound- 
less and flowing source of all the infinitely lower  
excellence, and fainter brightness, we in every piece 
and age admire in others.  
"THOMAS PRINCE.  
"Boston, February 27th, 1728-9."  

UNSATISFIED DOUBTERS.  
Several young men, who heard Dr. Brownlee, declared  
themselves willing to hang on his skirts, and take his  
word for the fact, that the world could not end next year.  
Wishing to be still farther satisfied, they went to hear Mr.  
Hatfield, on Sabbath evening. There they heard the very  
application of the seventh of  Daniel, which Dr. Brownlee  
showed to be so ridiculous. Tkey returned home per-
plexed and dissatisfied with comments, which so success- 
fully dash each other in pieces. May the Lord lead them 
to search for themselves, and find the truth, which these 
opposing theologians leave untouched, while demolishing  
each other's theories.  
UTICA, N. Y.  
Brethren Miller and Himes will commence a course of  
lectures in Utica, N. Y. on the evening of January 10th,  
1843. Brethren in that vicinity will make arrangements  
accordingly. J. V. HIMES.  
LETTERS TO E. F. HATFIELD.  
This influential clergyman gave a lecture, on Thanks- 
giving evening, in opposition to the doctrine of Christ's 
coming at hand. W immediately commenced a reply, 
in which we showed,  
1. That the Apostles taught the early Christians to  
LOOK for Christ's coming to set up his everlasting  
| kingdom.  
2. The early Christian Church expected Christ's per- 
sonal return before the millennium.  
3. The visions of Daniel unite in showing that devour- 
ing and persecuting powers will RULE till Christ comes 
to judgment.  
We then took up the vision which Brother Hatfield  
applies to Antiochus, and, as this is a very popular doc-
trine of the age, we have reprinted the article showing 
its absurdity, and added another letter on the same sub- 
ject, that the argument may be seen together.  
Ilifiliyisb^Si^  
" And I beheld and heard an angel flying- turough the midst of hea- 
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the earth, by reason ofthe other voices of the trumpet of the three angels  
which are yet to sound And the seventh angel sounded, and  
there were gieat voices in heaven, saying. The kingdoms of this world 
are become THE KINGDOM of our Lord, and of 1> is Christ; and he  
shall reign forever and ever And the nations were angry,  
and thy wrath is come, and the time of  the dead, that they should be  
judged, and that thou shouldst give reward unto thy servants the pro- 
phets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, small and 
great; and shouldst DESTROY THEM THAT DESTROY THE 
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FORSAKING ALL, TO PREACH THE KING- 
DOM AT HAND.  
Br. Flavel and Br. Shotwell of Newark, N. J., lay mem- 
bers of the church, as we learn, have now consecrated 
themselves and their all to the Lord, and have gone out 
together to proclaim his coming to judgment. Their  
first effort was at Rahway, on Friday of last week.—  
Having obtained the use of the Baptist meeting house in  
that large village for the evening, they spent the day in  
notifying their meeting by going through the place, and 
calling at every house and building, where persons could  
be found, leaving invitations, explanations, and small  
tracts upon the subject. By these means alone, they  
rallied a large audience, even the house full, who sat ap-
parently attentive and interested, while Br. Flavel ad-
dressed them an hour and three quarters on the doctrine  
of the advent in 1843. We understand it was the first  
lecture ever given in that place on the subject, and the  
first those brethren ever gave. The friend who brings the 
information, brought us also, an order from Br. Flavel for  
5,000 copies more of the little tract called the " Voice of  
Warning," which he intends to scatter gratuitously, as  
they pass from town to town in New Jersey.  
If it be a fact that the professed watchmen of Israel are  
generally the last to engage in sounding this, the Lord's  
alarm; will not multitudes more of our laymen who look 
" for that blessed hope," and who have this world's  
goods, forsake all to do as these brethren have\>egun to 
do 1 Yea, will they not do as Christ bids them, and as 
the first apostles did ; when, being unlearned fishermen,  
they forsook their nets and all, and went out, two by two,  
to preach and to say, " JRepent, for the kingdom of heaven  
is at hand ?"  
From information on which we rely, we are pained to  
believe that many  of our brethren, who look for their  
Lord in a few months, who have tongues with which  
they might sound the alarm, and also possess more ofthe  
Lord's goods than they need, are not only staying quietly 
at home, at such a time as this, but seem willing to have  
such goods burnt up in their hands rather than season-


ably and faithfully use them up, in their efforts with oth- 
ers to pluck sinners from the everlasting burnings to  
which they are doomed, except they repent speedily.—  
Rather tremble, ye professed brethren and sisters of the  
second advent cause, who are thus holding on this  
world's goods, for so did not. the first Christians. They  
at once gave up all for this purpose, though they had not  
our positive proofs of the coming kingdom quickly.  
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.  
Low HAMPTON, Dec. 14, 1842.  
BRO. SOUTHARD.—Since we parted, I have visited Bos- 
ton, Concord, and Claremont, N. H. on my way to this  
place.  
In my last note, I stated that Bro. Silas Plawley of  
New Bedford, Mass., had given a course of lectures on 
the second coming of Christ in the Marlboro Chapel.— 
The audiences were very large and attentive;, and from  
all I could learn, his lectures made a deep impression.—  
Bro. H. is fully decided as to the manner and time of  
Christ's coming, personally, in 1843. He will devote his  
time mostly, hereafter, to lecturing on this subject.  
At Concord, N. H., the brethren stand fast, and are  
doing what they can to spread the doctrine. I found the  
brethren in Claremont wide awake. There is a precious 
band of brethren in this place, who mean to be ready for  
the coming of the Lord.  
I came to this place last evening on my way to Ver- 
gennes, Vt. I found Bro. Miller and his family all well :  
but sought in vain for the " Aurora's," " brick fences," 
&c. All things remain as they have been for years, in  
and about the house. I now sit in the room where Mr.  
Miller wrote his lectures, that have produced such an ef- 
fect throughout the land. Let not our friends be humbug- 
ged with the foolish stories of " extravagance," " new  
buildings," etc., for I find nothing of the kind here. If our  
opponents have nolhing else to bring against the great 
cause we are engaged in but THEIR OWN foolish lies, let  
us go on with our work without interruption, with in- 
creased confidence of the truth of this doctrine. For it  
is very certain if they had any good Bible reasons to offer 
against the doctrine, they would net "take so much pains  
to gather up trash, which, in any other case, would be 
quite beneath them. But any thing to put down Mr.  
Miller!  
I lecture here this evening in the Baptist church. We  
leave in the morning for Vergennes, from which place 
you may hear from me again. J. V. IIXMES.  

Christ's words to Daniel fail of being fulfilled ; but when  
Christ was on earth, the time of the end had not come,  
and therefore the vision was still " shut up." But he  
described various signs, which were to be looked for, and 
enjoined it on those who should witness their fulfilment,  
to KNOW that his coming in the clouds of heaven " is  
NEAR, even AT THE DOORS." Then, in the same 
connection, he adds, " But of that day and hour, knovveth 
no man," &c.  
The Disciples and the early Christians seem to have  
understood him just as we do, viz. : that Christ's second  
coming was always to be looked for as an event not far 
off, until He should actually come. The signs must show  
when " the time of the end" has come, and the end is at  
the doors, and then Daniel's prophecies are no longer  
" shut up," but knowledge is increased to them that  
search all through them, as Daniel 12 : 4, may be properly  
understood.  
That the words " day and hour" are to be understood  
in their natural sense, is evident from Christ's language  
in a similar discourse, Luke 17 : 34, where it is said,  
I tell you, in THAT NIGHT, there shall be two in one  
bed, the one shall be taken, and the other left."  
If I am travelling towards the house of my friend in a  
dense fog, being utterly unacquainted with the distance,  
it will be a comfort to me to hope' that his hospitable  
mansion will soon burst on my view. I shall look  
earnestly for the markf, which will assure me that my 
hopes are on the very point of being realized. If I have 
been told that the distance is not more than one mile  
from a certain peculiar bridge—when I have passed that  
bridge, I know that I am approaching the house, and shall  
look earnestly for the gates leading to my looked-for  
resting-place, where I expect a smiling welcome.  
Can I be indifferent to my friend's directions respecting  
the marks by the way side ? Shall I pass over the bridge 
with my eyes shut 1 If so, I may pass my friend's house  
without knowing it, and may stumble on the dark moun- 
tains beyond,because I'did not "discern" the marks of  
the way. Let us " discern the signs," and " consider the  
vision," and we shall " understand," if we have "the fear  
of the Lord," "the beginning of wisdom."  

tors and Lawyers ; and they were among the bitterest oppo- 
sers of the Saviour.  
Now, what a perfect analogy there is, between the state  
and expectations of the Jews in the days of Messiah's 
flesh, and that of the Church at the present time, which i3  
looking for a Temporal Millennium,  when Christ shall sub-^  
jugate all the world to its sway. As the Jewish Doctors,  
&c. opposed the claims of the Messiah with bitterness, be- 
cause: his mission was not of a character to suit their ambi- 
tious views, so, the Teachers in Israel at the present 
time, oppose the second speedy personal coming of Christ 
for a similar cause, ana with a similar spirit.  
Again—In the days of Messiah's flesh, the teachers in  
Israel were the greatest impediments ia the way of the  
common people's receiving him. How common it was  
for the people to enquire, " Have any of the Rulers be- 
lieved on him ?" Precisely analogous is the feeling of  
the present time, in reference to the Second Advent of  
the Son of God. The enquiry is, have the great men in 
the Church—the Doctors of Divinity,  the ministers, &c.  
believed 1 Their opinion is, with many, of greater  
weight than the clear teachings of God's Word ; and  
they seem to have forgotten that the Jewish teachers, in  
the aggregate, were opposed to Christ at his first coming.  
We are wont to  think it strange that the Jews, with the  
Scriptures in their hands, could not see that Jesus of  
Nazareth was the true Messiah. But so it was; and we 
have every reason to fear that a similar blindness will be  
upon the professed church, at the second coming of the 
Saviour. For, " When the Son of man cometh, shall he  
find faith on the earth ?" 0 may the church seriously 
think of these things, lest they stumble and fall. We 
would warn them in the name of the Saviour, to beware  
of the syren song, that is promising peace and safety 
when the great day of God Almighty, is evidently at the  
door—when sudden destruction is at hand.  
OF THE DAY AND HOUR,  
" You make too much of doubtful texts," say our op- 
ponents. They then proceed to quote our Lord's words, 
" But of that DAY and HOUR knovveth no man ; no, not  
the Angels of Heaven, but my Father only." From this  
passage l hey attempt to prove, that no one shall ever  
have any Scripture evidence respecting the year, or even  
the century, until Christ's coming surprises all, whether  
his friends or his enemies, like a thief in the night.  
On this point, a Clergyman in the country, writes to a  
friend in this city as follows :—" But. can the time of the  
Second Advent be definitely known? If it could be, or  
can be, I am surprised that the Great Teacher, who came  
from God—who came to bear witness to the truth, and  
who is said to have begun at Moses, and ALL the pro- 
phets, and to have  expounded ufito his disciples, in ALL  
the Scriptures, the things concerning himself, should  
have omitted to mention it. Surely, my friend, if it were  
a thing to be known, or if it had been of practical impor- 
tance that it should be known, the Blessed Saviour would  
have said so." He then quotes the text about the " day  
and hour," and adds—" In Mark, the Son is included, as  
not knowing the time."  
Does this theologian suppose that the Son and the  
angels will be brought blind/old to the earth, without  
knowing where they are, till they find themselves here ?  
If not, then he MUST believe with us, that "AT THE  
TIME OF THE END" " knowledge will be INCREASED." That  
we live in the time of the end, all the signs given by  
Christ and the Apostles of the LAST DAYS, most clearly 
indicate. If so, then the wise must understand, or  

ANALOGY—THINK OF IT.  
One of the peculiarities of the Divine dispensations, is,  
that they reflect great light by analogy upon subsequent 
events. The fir^t dispensations, with much of the concomit- 
ant history, are designed to be typical of those that should  
follow. For instance—Moses—Joshua—David, &c, were 
types of Christ, the literal Canaan, and Jerusalem, were types  
of the heavenly Canaan, and the New Jerusalem. The  
Jewish Church—its spirit—its expectations, its history, &c.  
were peculiarly typical of the Christian Church. And we  
have only to acquaint "ourselves with its history, down to  
the FIRST ADVENT, to be acquainted with the history of  
the Christian Church down to the Second Advent of our  
Lord.  
If we pay due regard to this point, it will serve most tru- 
ly and lucidly lo illustrate the exact position in which 
the church will be found at the Coming of Christ " the  
Second time, without sin, unto salvation."  
What, we ask, were the expectations, and spirit of the  
Jewish Church in the days of the Messiah ? They were 
ambitious, and erroneous. True, the Jews were anxiously  
looking, praying and hoping for the coming of the Messiah;  
but, were" they looking for him in the character in which  
he came ? Did his mission and ministry suit their ambi- 
tious prejudices! We need not tell our readers NO. He 
laid the axe of truth, at the very root of their fondly  
cherished expectations. The very first sentence of his  
sermon on the mountain (Mat. v.) was withering to their 
worldly hopes. He says, "Blessed are the poor in spirit  
for theirs is the KIMGDOM OF HEAVEN." Again he says,  
"My kingdom is not of this world ; if it were, my servants  
would fight." " Pay tribute to whom tribute is due." " I  
am meek and lowly in heart," &c.  
How contrary all this was to what the Jews expected !—  
They were looking for a temporal Prince who should sub- 
jugate to them the Romans, «nd indeed all the Gentile  
world ! Such had b«en the teaching of the PrieBts, Doc- 

«MILLER USED UP FOR A SHILLING."  
Does this heading befit the work of a minister or a  
scoffer ? It stares us at the head of a large show bill just  
put forth at 130 Nassau street, New-York'. It proceeds to  
describe "A thorough review of Mr. Miller's theory of the 
®nd of the world in 1843 ; showing his errors in calculation  
of time, &c. &c. &c. By J. Dowling, A. M., Pastor of the  
Pine street Baptist Church, Providence, R.I. Published by  
J. R. Bigelow, 130 Nassau Street —Price one shilling."  
This work was first published about two years ago,  
and it called forth an able reply, by Brother Litch.  
The publisher of the Baptist Memorial has now, for  
a little relaxation, brought the work again before the  
public, in a very cheap form. Any one who is aroused to  
a sense of the importance of immediate preparation for a  
judgment to come—if he is willing to let others think for  
him—can now have his fears calmed very easily. Special 
efforts will now be made to circulate it, and we hope the  
friends of truth will call attention to the " Refutation,"  
by Bro. Litch, as far as possible. It is for sale at this  
office, price 12 1-2 cents. Here is the Preface to it:  
" In the fever of excitement it is exceedingly difficult  
to make an impression on the minds of the partisans 
of any cause, unfavorable to their favorite views and 
partialiti es; but under other circumstances and influences, 
in the absence of party  feeling, with the mind calm and  
free, truths which before had been entirely over' joked 
and made no impression, will produce the .esigned  
effect, coHvince the judgment of their force ± validity ;  
while opinions which had before appearo i to be incon- 
testable, will appear as they really are -,eak and unsup-
portable. Such, it is believed, is tKj fact in the case of  
many of the friends and adherent: of Mr Dowling. Con-
fiding in the learning and influence ofthe man, they most  
readily adopted whatever he said for truth incontroverti- 
ble, and conclude Miller's system to bo what Mr. D. re- 
presents it,—weak, puerile, and contemptible. Time has 
passed on, and the excitement of Mr. D.'s attack has  
passed by; so that most of those who had become excit- 
ed by it are calm, and they are prepared to investigate 
and yield their assent to the truth.  
I do not hesitate to say, with the post of observation I  
have occupied, and after closely watching whatever per-
tains to the great question for two years, that  Mr. D.'s  
REVIEW OF MILLER has done more harm to the spiritual 
interest of the world, and closed more minds against the  
light, by putting an end to inquiry, on their part, than all  
that has ever appeared besides, whether by Christians,  
Universalists,  or Infidels.


The effect of the book is not confined to those who  
have read it, but multitudes who have never seen the  
work, but have heard of it, and seen the puffs which it  
has received from those who are in fact as ignorant on  
the subject as themselves, have concluded the whole dis- 
cussion is at an end, and that there is no need of their  
investigating it at all for themselves.  
With a view to  counteract this influence, the following  
pages have been written ; and it is not saying too much  
to say that they have met, in the most lull and candid 
manner, the objections and arguments Mr. Dowling  has  
urged against Mr. Miller's views of the second coming of 
Christ in 1843.  
The argument instituted by Mr. I). on the seventy  
weeks, that, taking the date of that periori 'tie start- 
ing point, the 2300 days would have ended in 1839, has  
been fully met and its fallacy exposed. The seventy  
weeks are clearly demonstrated to have been fulfilled 
when the Saviour ascended into heaven. His attempt,  
also, to make the impression that the seventy weeks did 
not end until some three or four years after the death of  
Christ, has met a full answer  
The fallacy of making it appear that the 2300 days are  
only so many Jewish sacrifices taken  away by Antiochus  
Epiphanes, who, he says, was '• the little horn" of Dan- 
iel, 8th chapter, has received a full exposure.  
The connection between the 2300 days of the 8th, ar.d  
the seventy weeks of the uth chapter, which Mr Dowling  
denies, is fully sustained by an argument  which has never  
before been presented to the public in any publication. It  
is an argument which every candid mind will at once  
acknowledge to he clear and conclusive, that the  seventy  
weeks is the key to the vision of the 8th chapter.  
The items of history in chapter b, relative to the giving  
the saints into the hand of the pope, and the argument 
showing the 1260 years of papal authority to have begun  
in 538 and ended in 1798, are points of prime importance, 
and settle that in such a manner that, no one will under-
take to overthrow the conclusion at which the author has  
arrived. With such an argument, establishing the fulfil- 
ment of that period, it does not need any long and labor- 
ed effort to prove that it did not begin in 606 or 755, or  
any other period named by Mr. D. For if it began 538 it  
did not begin afterward or before.  
The date of he 1290 and 1335 days, or years as Mr. !  
D allows them to be, is a point on which he has ex- 
pended much labor to make Mr. M. appear ridiculous.— 
This also has received attention, and is clearly shown,  
from a distinct historical fact from an eminent author, to  
have been A. D 508 ; and hence, the conclusion is irre- 
sistible that in 1843 Daniel will stand in his Jot.  
This will be a very valuable work for reference, and  
will no doubt be regarded as a standard work. It meets  
fairly ali the weighty objections that have been, or may  
be brought against us.  
It is now commended to the -lovers of truth, and the  
students of prophecy. JOSHOA V. MIMES.  
Boston, March. 12, 1842.  
"THE FIELD IS THE WORLD."  
" Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel  
them to come in." Some of our brethren and sisters are  
- striving to obey this' command. One brother has visited  
the several departments of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. 
He first went to the Marine department, where the offi-
cers and men received the books and papers with evident  
willingness to read them. He next went to the ship  
; Hudson. Here he was kindly received by a rough, weath- 
er-beaten sailor, who had charge of the ship. As soon  
i as the honest tar found what the papers were, he said,  
14 I was passing up Catharine street a few evenings ago,  
and I heard that the Millerites were holding forth. I  
thought I would hear what they had to say. Mr. Miller  
was not present ; but I was much surprised when I heard  
the man speak, [doubtless brother Storrs] for I thought  
the Millerites pretended to be prophets. He turned to  
chapter and verse to prove every thing he said ; and told  
the people not to believe it because he said so, but because  
the Bible said so. Then I thought it might be a scheme  
to get money, but when the contribution box came round,  
the speaker told us it was only to pay the expenses of the  
house, and we need not give a cent for him. While the  
collection was being taken, an opposer handed in some  
questions. I remember one of them was, ' Will any one  
be permitted to reply at the day of judgment V lie re- 
; lerred right to the chapter and veise, which tells about 
I the man without a wedding garment. 'He was speech-
i less.' I then thought the man understood all about the  
Bible, or else he was a witch. When I came home to  
the ship, I told the men I had half a mind to turn Miller- j  
ile myself." I  

The sailor was then asked if a lecturer might come on  
board the ship. To this he replied, " If you send one, do  
not send a man that wears a gown and large silk sleeves,  
for such preachers do sailers no good, we can read all  
their sermons and prayers in the prayer book." He re-
ceived the books and papers, and distributed them to 
those that he thought would make the best use of them.  
On board the North Carolina, the visitor found 850  
persons, who have very little to do, except to read and  
talk. He went first into the captain's main cabin, and 
left a small library, a variety of papers, and a large chart,  
which the captain hung up himself, and made the cabin  
look like a Second Advent lecture room. He then went  
between decks, expecting to give away a few, and re- 
serve the  rest for the naval hospital, but the sailors crowd- 
ed around him, and beggp.il for  papers until they had got  
them ail. When he left them, they were almost all si- 
lently seated, reading their papers, with deep interest.  
On another occasion, he visited Brooklyn city prison,  
where he found some who were both sick, and in prison, 
and who seemed very grateful for any token of pity and 
Christian sympathy.  
Reader, will you not visit the sailors, the poor, the pris- 
oners, and the sick, and warn them of Christ's speedy  
coming to judgment, and give force to your words, by re- 
lieving their necessities, if they are suffering ?  
A WORD TO THE WATCHMEN IN ZION.  
By the liberality of a few who love the Lord's appear- 
ing, we are enabled to address great multitudes of you 
for the first time, and doubtless many of you for the last. 
You perceive our position, fortified by Scripture and  
sound argument, which has carried conviction to some 
of the greatest minds that ever lived. We cannot be- 
lieve you will turn away with scorn from a considera- 
tion of our reasons for our belief, and we trust you will  
seek illumination from the Spirit, which dictated the  
word, while you study it, in reference to this subject.—  
A clergyman properly remarked, " If this doctrine is  
true, it is TREMENDOUSLY TRUE." You doubtless  
accustom yourselves to feel that you are commissioned 
by a power above that of Bishops, Presbyteries, Confer- 
ences, and Associations. The LORD JEHOVAH has  
said:  
" So thou, O son of man,  
I have set, thee a watchman unto the house of Israel,  
Therefore thou shalt hear the word at MY mouth, and warn them  
from ME.''  
You know how unsafe it is to trust in men, however  
exalted their station or character. The truth is often  
held by a despised few. Jeremiah testifies to the Lord,  
saying:  
Behold the prophets say unto them, •  
Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine, 
But 1 will give you assured peace IN THIS PLACE.  
But the Lord declared, concerning the men who gave  
such a pleasing testimony :  
The prophets prophecy lies in my flame, 
Yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land  
By sword and famine shall these prophets be  consumed.  
To Ezekiel, the Lord said :  
" Woe unto the foolish prophets,  
That follow their own spirit, and have seen things which are not,  
And ihey have made others to hope that their word would be con- 
fiimed ;  
Therefore, thussaith the Lord God,  
Because ye have spoken vanity and seen lies,  
Therefore, behold I am against you, 
Saith the Lord God ;  
Because, even because they have seduced my people.  
Saying peace ! and there was no peace.  
And o: e built up a slight wall,  
And,  lo ! others daubed it with untempered mortar.  
Say to them which daub it with untempered mortar that it shall fall.  
There shall be an overflowing shower ;  
And ye, O great hailstones ! shall fall;  
^nd a stormy wind shall rend it. 
Lo ! when the wall is fallen, shall it not be said unto yon,  
Where is the daubing wherewith ye have daubed it? 
Therefore thus saith the Lord God,  
I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury,  
And there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, 
And great hailstones m my fury to consume it.  
So will I break down the wall  
That ye have danbed with untempered mortar, 
Arid bring it down to the ground, 
So that the foundation thereof shall be discovered,  
And it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof:  
And ye shall know that I am the Lord.  
Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall,  
And upon them that have dauhed it with untempered mortar, 
And will say unto you.  The wall is no more,  
Neither they that daubed it ;  
To wit, the prophets of Israel which prophesy concerning Jerusalem,  
And which see visions of peace for her,  
And there is no peace, saith the Lord God.  

Having a firm conviction that God will soon call us to  
judgment, we cannot refrain from entreating you to listen  
to the word of the Lord, which has taught so many of  
us, contrary to our early prejudices, that the Lord is  
speedily coming to set up his everlasting kingdom, and  
that he will not use the Church which now is, to bring  
forward a temporal millennium. Can ye not discer?. the  
signs of the times 1 Do thej«not correspond exactly with 
the signs of the " last days," in % Tim. 3 : 1-6, and in  
James 5 : and 2 Peter, 3 : 1-7 1 Has not every foretold  
sign of Christ's coming, been fulfilled 1 If so, we have  
his injunction to KNOW that his coming is NIGH, EVEN 
AT THE DOORS. O, sound the Midnight Cry. Warn  
your people to be ready, and thus save your own souls  
and theirs.  
LETTERS TO EDWIN F. HATFIELD.  
NO. V.  
HONORED SIR,—Is Antiochus Epiphanes the hero of  
Daniel's prophecy ? This now seems to be the main  
question. If he was, our conclusions fail. If he was  
not, I think they are irresistibly confirmed.  
Let us enter on the inquiry with the closing words of  
the vision (which you apply to him) fully in our view.  
" Shut thou up the vision, for it shall be for MANY  
days." It was so grand and extensive that it overwhelm-
ed the holy prophet. " He fainted, and was sick certain 
days," after seeing it. The fact that the vision was 
" shut up," explains a little seeming obscurity in it,— 
which ceases to be obscure when we compare it with 
other parts of the Book, and the rest of Scripture, and with  
a more enlarged view of the facts. This is exactly as  
might have been expected from the language of Christ,  
(Dan. xii. 9,) " Go thy way, Daniel, for the words are  
closed up and sealed, till the time oj the end,"—and the 
words of Gabriel, (Dan. xii. 4,) " Shut up the words and 
seal the book, even to the time of the end." What fol- 
lows in Gabriel's language, might be better rendered as  
it is in the French,—(anquel plusieurs le parcourrout et  
auquel la connoisance sera augmentee,—"when many 
shall run all over it, (or all through it,) [i. e. the prophe- 
cy,] and to them knowledge shall be increased."  
This teaches us to study Daniel, instead of Jewish his- 
torians, who wrote before the time of the end, while the 
vision was shut up. Josephus might declare that the  
vision related to Antiochus, but he could not know it, for  
he did not live in the time of the end.  
In explaining the  vision in whi,ch you see so much of  
Antiochus, the angel says :  
" The ram which thou sawest, having two horns, are  
the kings of Media and Persia, and the rough goat is the  
king of Grecia." That " king" is here put for kingdom, 
is evident from the sense, but beside that, we have posi-
tive proof that the angel uses the word to mean the  
SOVEREIGNTY of an empire, extending through along  
succession of consuls, emperors, and kings. In Dan. vii.  
17, it is said: "These four beasts are four KINGS  
which shall arise,"—and in the 23d verse, the same an- 
gel says, " the fourth beast shall be the fourth KING- 
DOM." As the third power is declared to be Greece,  
we have only to remember that Rome' conquered Greece, 
and became the mistress of the world, see Luke ii. 1, to  
know that the empire of Rome, extending through hun-
dreds of years, is spoken of as one of the four kings.— 
Now we understand what the angel means by king, let  
I us hear him further.  
Angel—"A king of fierce countenance, and under- 
standing dark sentences, shall stand up."  
Bible Student.—I remember Moses prophesied very  
much like that when he described the nation which  
should subdue the Israelites, and my reference Bible di- 
rects me to his language to illustrate yours. [Deut. 28 :  
49, 50.] " The Lord shall bring against thee, a ration 
from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle  
flieth—a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand,  
a nation of fierce countenance" We all know that means  
the Roman power. *  
Angel.—" And his power shall be mighty, but not by  
his own power."  
Bible Student.— I remember that the mighty Roman  
generals, confessedly, derived their power from the peo-
ple. In the three former dominions, the people were  
i treated as if created only for the glory of the monarch.  
Angel.—" And he shall destroy wonderfully and shall  
prosper and practice,"  
Bible Student.—No power ever so wonderfully " de- 
voured the whole earth,"—to use an angel's language—  
j as the Roman power. It was founded by two deserted j  
j children, who became, leaders of banditti, and, by a long j  
! series of astonishing successes, " broke to pieces and :  
j bruised" all other nations.  
Angel.—"And shall destroy the mighty and the holy  
people."  
Bible Student.—Moses said that same nation of fierce  
countenance should " besiege," and " distress" the Jews,


till they should be " destroyed." The Roman power  
fulfilled this prediction ; and they have destroyed Chris- 
tians more wonderfully than any other power,—both as  
Rome pagan and Home papal.  
Angel.—"And through his policy also, he shall cause  
craft to prosper in his hand, and he shall magnify himself  
in his heart,  and by peace [or prosperity,] shall destroy  
many."  
Bible Student.—Paul, in his epistle to the Thessalo- 
nians,  speaks of a power which he calls the Man of Sin,  
" who opposeth and exalted himself above all that is  
called God or that is worshipped." Popery has " made  
craft prosper" by Jesuitism, and by its prosperity has de-
stroyed many.  
Angel.—" He shall also  stand up against the PRINCE  
of princes."  
Bible Student.—In the French Bible, published by the  
American Bible Society, I read your words, " Siegneur  
de3 seigneurs," that is, Lord of lords. No dominion  
could stand up against Christ, the Lord of lords, except  
the Roman. But how does this power end 1 .  
Angel.—" He shall be broken without hand."  
Bible Student.—Daniel could easily understand that,—  
for you told him before, that the fourth power was " bro- 
ken in pieces" by the stone "cut out of the mountain  
without hands." We have an additional clue, however,  
for Paul describes the end of the Man of Sin which shall  
be consumed " by the brightness of Christ's coming "  
In all this there is no difficulty. Rome strikingly fulfills  
the whole. But you apply all this language to Antiochus.  
Let us consider a few of the many absurdities and difficul- 
ties you thus run into, in order to avoid the natural con- 
nection of the visions which lead us directly to the second 
coming of the " Prince of princes."  
First Absurdity.—The four dynasties, dominions, or  
sovereignties, which succeeded Alexander's dominion.—  
or Grecia—are represented, each by its appropriate horn, 
one for Egypt, one for Syria, one for Macedonia, and 
one for Thrace and Bythinia. Now Antiochus Epiphanes 
was but one of twenty-six individuals, who constituted  
the Syrian horn. Could he, at the same time, be another  
remarkable horn !  
Second Absurdity.—The angel told Daniel, "At the  
time of THE END shall be the vision. ... I will make  
thee know what shall be in the LAST END of the indig- 
nation, for at the time appointed, THE END shall be." Dr.  
Scott properly inquires, "in what sense could the persecu- 
tions of Antiochus be called the last end of the indignation,  
seeing the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans was  
to follow, and all the calamities of the Jews to this day V  
We shall not come to the last end of the indignation till  
the fourth power is "broken without hand," and Christ's  
everlasting kingdom set up. Does not -the angel identify  
this vision with the end of the world ]  
Third Absurdity.—The Medo-Persian power is simply  
called " GREAT," (verse 4.) This power, the Bible tells  
us, 41 reigned from India to Ethiopia, over a hundred and  
seven and twenty provinces." This was succeeded by the  
Grecian power; which is called " VERY GREAT,"  
(verse 8.) Of course, it was stronger, or more extensive,  
than even the Persian. Then comes the power in question  
which is "EXCEEMSG GREAT," Here we  
might close the discussion on this point, for you will no! 
pretend that the power of Antiochus, was exceedingly  
great ! above that of Alexander, the Conqueror of the  
world ! Rollin gives us the following item in his history :  
"He was OBLIGED to furnish the Romans, by the articles of  
the peace concluded between them, 1000 talents annually,  
and the twelve years  of this tribute end exactly with his  
life. He reigned but  eleven years." Surely there need be  
no question which power was EXCEEDING GREAT,—  
that which was OBLIGED to PAY TRIBUTE, or that which  
exacted it.  
Let us give the degrees of comparison, according to the  
angel's rules, and  thus compare truth with error. How  
easy and natural is the following gradation :  
Great. Very  Great. Exceeding  Great,  
PERSIA, GREECE, HOME.  
How absu.d and ludicrous is the following !  
Great. Very Great.  Exceeding  Great.  
PERSIA, GREECE,  
Fourth Absurdity.—The power in question was " lit- 
tle" at first, but it waxed or grew "exceeding great,  
toward tho SOUTH and toward the EAST, and toward the  
pleasant land." What can this describe but the conquer-
ing marches of a mighty power 1 Rome was almost  
directly north-west from Jerusalem, and its conquests in  
Asia and Africa were of course towards the east and  
south ; but where were Antiochus' conquests ] Did he  
ri3e up from a small beginning and conquer vast coun- 
tries to the east and south of him 1 Let two items from  
Rollin answer. One relates to Antiochus the great, (the  
father of Antiochus Epiphanes,) a few years before his  
death. He enlarged his CONQUESTS daily, and was un-
doubtedly preparing to cross over into Europe,"—towards 
the north-west, NOT south and east. Of the king 
whose greatness we are now considering, Rollin  

says : " He assumed the title of Epiphanes, that  
is, illustrious, which title was never WORSE ap- 
plied. The whole series of his life will show that he  
deserved much more that of Epimanes, (wad, or furi-
ous,) which some people gave him." Rollin then re-
cords a catalogue of his foolish actions, to show "how  
just'iy the epi'het vile is bestowed upon him then gives  
a detailed account of his life, and records the success he 
met with in attempting to take the city of Elymais, and  
plunder the temple of Diana. It seems that Antiochus 
had grown so weak, (instead of waxing exceeding great)  
that the peop!e who had formerly paid tribute, were not  
afraid to withhold it. When he came against them, they  
"look up arms to defend their temple, and gave him a  
shameful REPULSE. Antiochus, enraged at this dis- 
grace, withdrew to Ecbatana," w here Josephus finishes  
his history thus;—"When he was grieving for this dis- 
appointment, some person told him of the defeat of his 
commanders, whom he had left to fight against Judea,  
and what strength the Jews had already gotten. When  
this ' concern about these affairs was added to the 
former, he was confounded—and, by the anxiety he  
was in, fell into a distemper, yyhich, as it lasted a  
great while, and, as  his pains increased upon him,  
so lie at length perceived he should die in a little time;  
so he called his friends to him, and confessed withal, that  
his calamity was sent upon him for the miseries he had 
brought upon the Jewish nation", while he plundered their  
temple and contemned their Cod ; and, when he had said  
this, he gave up the ghost." Where were Antiochus'  
"exceeding great conquests '!"  
Echo answers where !  
Fifth Absurdity.—The crowning absurdity of all is, to  
suppose that Koine is'left out of a vision Which extends 
to "the LAST end of the indignation." Daniel had a  
view through the dark clouds which conceal the wonder-
ful landscape  of futurity from uninspired eyes. His vision  
is expressly directed to the things which shall befall his  
people in the LATTER DAYS. His eye pierces even to the  
resurrection of the dead, and the glorious kingdom be- 
yond it. Now what are some of the objects in this won- 
drous prospect] The great object is his Savior on the  
cross, dying under a Roman governor, and pierced by a  
Roman spear. Will he not see this object, on which all  
heaven gazes'!  
There the " latter  days" commence. Daniel's people,  
after that, are still Abraham's seed, Christ's true Israel,  
and will he see nothing relating to them ! Will he not 
see that "exceeding great" power, under which the Jews  
"fell by the edge of the sword, and were led away cap- 
tive into all nations,"—under which Jerusalem was deso- 
lated, and the temple burned,—under which 3 000,000 of  
Christians were killed, crucified, burnt, tortured, torn,  
or devoured, while it denied Christ,—and under which  
FIFTY MILLIONS have fallen "by flame, sword, cap- 
tivity, and spoil," during "many days" since] O why,  
beloved brother in the Lord, why do you run into this  
absurdity] Is it not because Josephus, an unbelieving  
Jew, wishing to magnify the affairs of his ow n nation, 
dared to give an oracular decision respecting a vision  
which w^as "shut up" till the time of the end ? Oh, it  
amazes me to see Christian teachers, under 'the com-
mand of that same Jew, rank after rank, straining them- 
selves to the utmost to puff" up Antiochus, and make him  
fill this prophecy. A portion of the world, looking  
hrough your magnifying glasses, and  forgetting a large  
part of the prophecy, have cried out, "How completely  
it fits!" But such men as Sir Isaac Newton have told  
you how fallacious your reasoning is. That great philo- 
sopher, after tracing God's la ws in the heavens, turned  
to the  still brighter revelation in his Word. There, as  
he had done before, he exposed the absurdity of long  
cherished notions. Hear him :  
" A horn of a beast is never taken for a single person :  
it always signifies a new kingdom ; and the kingdom of 
Antiochus was an old one. Antiochus reigned over one  
of the four horns ; and the little horn was a fifth, under  
its proper kings. This horn was at first a little one, and  
waxed exceeding great ; but so did N O T Antiochus.  
His kingdom, on the contrary, was weak, and tributary  
to the Romans ; and he did NOT enlarge it. The horn  
was ' a king of fierce countenance, and destroyed won- 
derfully, and prospered and practised :' hut Antiochus  
was frightened out of Egypt by a mere message of the 
Romans, and afterwards routed and baffled by the Jews. 
The horn was mighty  by another's power; Antiochus  
acted by his own. The horn cast down the sanctuary to  
the ground : and so did NOT Antiochus—he left it stand-
ing. The sanctuary and host were trampled under foot,  
2300 days, (14) and in Daniel's prophecies, days are put  
for years ; but the profanation of the temple, in the reign  
of Antiochus, did not last so many natural days. These  
were to last to ' the end of the indignation' against the  
Jews, and this indignation is NOT YET at an end. 'Ihey  
were to last till the sanctuary which had been cast down  
should be cleansed—and the sanctuary is NOT YET  
cleansed."  
After writing thus far, I noticed, for the first time, that  
Dr. Jenks, whom I w i 1 venture to call one of the most  

learned theologians in America, quotes Dr. Scott, as ap-
plying this prophecy to the Roman power. Here is a  
part of his note :  
" Antiochus's kingdom was nothing more than a con- 
tinuation of one of the four kingdoms ; and cannot pos- 
sibly be re koned as a fifth kingdom springing up among 
the Your. When he stood up, " the transgressors in the  
Jewish nation were not come to the fi ll." The holy 
city was inhabited  ' with all peaceand the laws were  
kept very well ; because of the godliness of Onias the  
high priest, and his hatred of wickedness. 2 Mac. iii. 1."  
Bp. Newton. These, and other [modern expositors, in  
contradiction to the ancient,1 therefore, suppose this little  
horn to mean the empire of the Romans, from the time 
when tnev had got footing in Greece and Macedonia ,  
which formed one Worn of the goat. They then entered  
on that^ stage, on which these events were to take place.  
At i'irst they seemed to have little power in the regions 
which Alexander had governe.1 ; yet that increased ex- 
ceedingly, by the forces brought from Rome and Italy,  
and as these formed no part of this ffoat, ' the horn  
grew strong not by its own power.' The Roman em- 
perors also became terrible persecutors of the Christian  
church, patting  to death many of the brightest ornaments  
of the Gospel, especially several of the apostles of Christ. 
Yea, they " magnified themselves against this prince of  
the host," the King of kings : both as Pilate the Roman  
governor ordered bis crucifixion, and as they persecuted  
his followers for three centuries. And after the empe- 
rors became Christians, then the church and bishop of  
Rome arose to great dominion, by power given from  
others ; and they have proved " rulers of fierce counte- 
nance, and understanding dark sentences ;" being ever  
notorious for savage cruelty, and dark machinations  
against their opposers.  
, Now, let us suppose that a natural landscape had been  
spread before Daniel, partly covered with clouds. In 
that landscape, there is a huge volcano, piercing the  
:loqds, and sending forth vivid flames, and  pouring rod  
lot streams of lava on the thickly peopled cities in the  
| plains below, where Daniel's people dwell. This volcano  
is so terrific, that Moses saw it eight hundred years far- 
ther back ; yet Daniel, though guided by an angel to see  
the LA>T end of the indignation, does not once discern  
it. Why! Because his eye is filled with the fire and  
smoke which Antiochus raises in Jerusalem!!! Iam 
not ridiculing the position you unfortunately occupy. It  
ridicules itself.  
la our next we shall consider the question, " How  
long the vision]" But that inquiry need not be long.— 
Our premises being God's eternal^ truth, instead of Jew-
ish fancies, the conclusions follow irresistibly that the  
END of Daniel's visions must be next year. May the  
Lord enable us to be ready for the GREAT DAY.  
I remain, &c.  N. SOUTHARD.  
NO. vi.  
FAREWELL TO ANTIOCHUS.  
HONORED SIR : Before entering upon the remarkable  
measure of time in Daniel's vision, permit me to say that  
the hint you gave me respecting the interpretation of  
symbols, has opened a very interesting train of thought.  
You ask me to picture to myself the animals which  
Daniel saw in his dream ;—or, in other words, to dream  
the sume dream myself. This, you say, is essential to a  
right understanding of the subject. You say, "there  
must be a symmetry in the symbols ;—a horn cannot be 
larger than the whole head and body of the goat. There- 
fore, the HORN eannot represent ROME, while the GOAT re- 
presents GREECE or Macedonia."  
This seems very plausible ; but it is a very unsafe rule  
in " exegesis." Nothing is more unnatural than to see' 
one ear of corn eat up another, or one cow devour ano- 
ther,—or to see a cake roll itself into a camp, and over- 
turn a tent. You have read of such dreams, and  
found them instructive, if not symmetrical. There  
is nothing in the vision under consideration, to make it 
an exception to the general rule, that THE THINGS SEEN M  
DBEAMS ARE EXCEEDINGLY UNNATURAL. The following is 
Daniel's description of the wonderful feats of the horn,  
which has been so absurdly applied by the followers of  
Jewish and Popish commentators. (Dan. 8: 2.) "And  
out of one of them came forth a little HORN." [Did it 
remain little, and fixed in the head of the goat, as you 
seem to have fancied, in dreaming Daniel's dream over  
again ] No.] " It waxed EXCEEDING GREAT to.  
wards the SOUTH and toward the EAST, and toward  
the pleasant land. And it waxed great EVEN TO [or 
against] THE HOST OF HEAVEN, and CAST DOWN


some of the host and of THE STARS to the ground'  
and STAMPED UPON THEM."  
Now, I cannot possibly picture to myself a horn, ex- 
ceeding great, driving furiously among the stars, casting  
them to the ground, and stamping on them, and fancy it a  
little horn quietly resting in the goat's head at the same 
time. .How could it stamp on the stars without feet—  
and great ones, too—like those of the beast which stamp- 
ed the residue with the feet of it ? The truth is, Daniel  
does not tell us that he saw the goat at all, after he saw  
this exceeding great horn.  
The world has talked much about the doings of the  
little horn. Daniel does not say the little horn did ««y  
thing except to grow, till i^ became excew'j"g great. He  
then describes the acts of that GKEAT HORN. To t^k  
about the acts of the little horn, is about as consistent 
with Daniel's own account of kte dream, as it would be  
to talk about the birds of the air lodging under the  
branches of a grain of mustard seed, because Christ says, 
<« Wkon it is sown, it GROWETH UP, and becometh greater  
than all herbs, and shooteth out GREAT BRANCHES, SO  
that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow 
of it."  
As you still seem determined to see nothing in the  
seventh or eighth chapters of Daniel too large for Antio- 
chus to fill, let me suggest a few more of the absurdities  
you thus cherish, rather than embrace the view which  
conflicts with your ideas of the symmetry  of  dreams, but  
which agrees most accurately with Daniel's own account  
of his vision. In addition to the five absurdities, not one  
of which you have explained, please notice the  
Sixth Absurdity. You narrow down to a very small  
affair, that of which the Spirit of Inspiration has taken 
SPECIAI. pains to give us very LARGE views. It is called  
the ' little horn' merely to express the smallness of its be-
ginning. Every succeeding word of the six long verses  
which describe this "wonderfully destructive" power, 
seems designed to impress us with a sense of its great-
ness. Dr. Apthorp, in his Illustrations of Prophecy, (p.  
72,) lays down the following just rule. " IN DIVINE WRI- 
TINGS, IT IS INDISPENSABLE THAT A PROFUSION OF THE 
HIGHER FIGURES BE NOT EMPLOYED ON A DISPROPORTIONATE  
SUBJECT." You cannot apply, such exalted language to  
Antiochus without breaking this plain rule.  
Seventh Absurdity. The vision, according to your ac- 
count of it, extends through 293 years, from the time  
when Persia was pushing all before it, and according to  
the angel's account, it reaches down to the LAST END of  
the indignation. After Daniel had seen it, he heard the  
question, " How long THE VISION?" or, as the learned  
Bishop Lowth translates it, " For how long a time shall  
the vision last 1" Now, you resort to the absurdity of 
applying the answer to a very small PART of the vision.  
Eighth Absurdity. You explain away one of the most  
direct references to Christ in the Old Testament. The  
power represented by this " exceeding great" horn shall  
" stand up against the PRINCE  of Princes." In Daniel  
II: 22, " the Prince of the covenant" evidently refers to  
the same glorious PERSON, who is there included  
among those that " shall be broken." Is it not strange 
work for Christian teachers to apply this to any one but  
Christ? He is "the PRINCE of Peace," "the 
PRINCE and Saviour," «the  PRINCE of the kings of  
he earth, "Messiah the PRINCE," "your (Daniel's)  
PRINCE," " the GREAT PRINCE who standeth up  
for the children of thy people." Christ and the Apostles  
seem to have found predictions concerning his life, suf- 
ferings, and death, in "ALL the Scriptures," and all  
hings written concerning Him in the law of Moses, the  
rophets, and the Psalms, must be fulfilled.  
The Roman power did literally fulfil a great many pro- 
hecies respecting Christ, in which we should not at first  
uspect the least reference to Him. Take for example,  
s. 22 : 18, " They part my garments among them, they  
ast lots on my vesture." Now, is it not absurd to ap- 
ly the predictions concerning the power which shall  
tand up against the Prince of princes, to a'king who died  
.64 years before Christ was born, and thus leave Christ  
ut of the prophecy ! But, leaving out many other diffi-
ulties in your scheme, let us consider,  

Finally, the contrast between, the sufferings of the  
JEWS under Antiochus, and their sufferings under the  
Romans. The Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, re- 
ferring to the times of Antiochus, says : " Eighty thous-
and were killed, made captives, or sold on  this occasion."  
Now read again, some of the glowing language with  
which the book of Daniel ends, and see if it can apply to  
the release of the Jews from Antiochus 1 " And at that  
time shall thy people be delivered, every one that is found 
written in the book And they that be wise, shall  
shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that 
turn many to righteousness, as the stars, forever and  
ever Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to  
the thousand, three hundred and five and thirty days. . .  
Thou shalt rest, and STAND IN, THY LOT at the end  
of the days." Can this « BLESSEDNESS," and " SHINING  
FOREVER," relate to the wretched condition of the corrupt  
Jews, after the death of Antiochus, "being released from' 
one petty tyrant, to fall under another," and sinking rapid- 
ly in infidelity,  till, when Christ came, " the light°shined  
in DARKNESS, and the darkness comprehended it not," and  
He who knew the hearts, said to those whom the people  
considered their wisest and hest men, " ye are of your  
father, the devil," and the people crowned their career of 
wickedness by crying out, at his crucifixion,  " His blood  
be on us and on our children ?"  
Now, let us look at what came AFTER the events to  
which you apply the angel's prediction of the LAST  
END of the indignation. During three reigns only, were  
they even nominally independent. We here quote from 
the Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge :  
" After the death of the widow of Janneus, who gov- 
erned but nine years, the nation was almost ruined with  
civil broils. Sixty-six years before Christ, Aristobulus 
invited the Romans to assist him against Hircanus lus 
elder brother. The country was quickly reduced' and 
Jerusalem taken by force, and Pompev. and a number of  
Ins officers pushed their way into the" sanctuarv, if "not  
into the Holy of Holies. Nine years after, Crassus, the 
Roman General, PILLAGED THE TEMPLE of its val- 
uables. After Judea had, for more than thirty years been 
a scene of RAVAGE and of BLOOD, and twenty-four of 
which, it had been oppressed by Herod the Great, Herod  
got himseifinstalled in the kingdom The scep-
tre was now wholly departed from Judah. ... At the  
destruction, of Jerusalem, about ELEVEN HUNDRED  
THOUSAND Jews perished, and since that disastrous 
event, they have been scattered, contemned, persecuted  
and ENSLAVED amongst all nations."  
"All history cannot furnish us with a parallel to the  
calamities and miseries of the Jews—rapine and murder,  
famine and pestilence, within ; fire and sword, and all 
the terrors of war, without. Our Sav or wept at the  
foresight of these calamities ; and it is almost impossible 
for persons of any humanity to read the account without  
being affected. ... At Cesarea, twenty thousand 
of the Jews were killed by the Syrians in their mutual  
broils. At Damascus, ten thousand unarmed Jews were  
killed ; and at Bethshan, the heathen inhabitants caused 
their Jewish neighbors to assist them against their bre- 
thren, and then murdered thirteen thousand of these in-
habitants. At Alexandria, the Jews murdered multitudes  
of the heathens, and were murdered in their turn to about 
fifty thousand. The Romans, under Vespasian, invaded  
the country, and took the cities of Galilee, Chorazin  
Bethsaida, Capernaum, &c., where Christ had been espe- 
cially rejected, and murdered numbers of the inhabitants  
At Jerusalem, the scene was most wretched of all At  
the passover, when there might be two or three millions 
of people in the city, the Romans surrounded it with  
troops, trenches, and walls, that none might escape Ti e  
three different factions within, murdered one another 
Titus, one of the most merciful generals that ever 
breathed, did all in his power to persuade them to an ad- 
vantageous surrender, but they scorned every proposal 
Thp. mn1titnrlp« nf nnhnriorl flii-monnf. i , i  

| that were cut off, besides VAST NUMIERS sent into  
Egypt to labor as slaves. About fiftyyears after, the  
Jews murdered about five hundred thousand of the Ro- 
man subjects, for which they were severely punished by 
Trajan. About 130, one Barchocab pretended that he  
was the Messiah, and raised a Jewish arir.y of  two hun- 
dred thousand, who murdered all the heathens and Chris- 
tians who came in their way; but he was defeated by  
Adrian's forces. In this war, it is said, about sixty thou-
sand Jews were slain, and perished. Adrian built a city  
on mount Calvary, and erected a marble statue of swine  
over the gate that led to Bethlehem. No Jew was allowed  
to enter the city, or to look to it at a distance, under pain  
of death In Spain, in 700, they were ordered to  
be enslaved. In the eighth and ninth centuries they 
were greatly derided and abused: in some places they 
were made to wear leathern girdles, and ride without  
stirrups on asses and mules. In France and Spain they  
were much insulted. In the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth  
centuries, their miseries rather increased : they were  
greatly persecuted in Egypt. Besides what they suffered  
in the East by t'he Turkish war and crusades, it is shock-
ing to think what multitudes of them the eight crusades  
murdered in Germany, Hungary, Lesser Asia, and else- 
where. In France, multitudes were burnt. In England,  
in 1020, they were banished; and at the coronation of  
Richard I., the mob fell upon them and murdered a great 
many- of them. About one thousand five hundred of  
them were burnt in the palace in the city of York, which 
they set fire to themselves, after killing their wives and  
children. [n the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries  
their condition was no better. In Egypt, Canaan, and  
Syria, the crusaders still harassed them. Provoked  
with their mad running after pretended Messiahs, Khalif  
Nasser scarcely left any of them alive in his dominions  
of Mesopotamia. In Persia, the Tartars murdered them 
in'multitudes. In Spain, Ferdinand persecuted them fu- 
riously. About 1249, the terrible massacre of them at 
Toledo forced many to murder themselves, or change  
their religion. About 1253, many were murdered, and  
others banished from France ; but in 1275 recalled'. In  
1320 and 1330, the crusades ofthe fanatic shepherds,who  
wasted the south of France, massacred them ; besides 
fifteen hundred that were murdered on another occasion.  
In 1358, they were totally banished from France, since  
which few of them have entered that country. In 1291,  
King Edward expelled them from England, to the num- 
ber of one hundred and sixty thousand. In the fifteenth,  
sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries, their misery con- 
tinued. In Persia, they have been terribly used : from  
Hi63 to 1666, the murder of them was so universal, that  
but a few  of them escaped to Turkey. In Portugal and  
Spain, they have been miserably handled. Ab >ut 1392,  
six or eight hundred thousand were banished from Spain- 
some were drowned in their passage to Africa ; some 
died by hard usage ; and many of their carcasses lay in  
tbe fields till the wild beasts devoured them.  
" The judgments which God has exercised upon this  
people are terrible, extending to the men, the religion, 
and the very land in which they dwell. The ceremonies  
essential to their religion can no more be observed : the  
ritual law, which cast a splendor on the national worship, 
and struck the pagans so much, that they sent their pre-
sents and their victims to Jerusalem, is absolutely fallen,  
for they have no temple, no altar, no sacrifices. Their  
land itself seems to lie under a never-ceasing curse."  
Who can now believe that the persecution ofthe Jews  
by Antiochus, was the last end of the ^indignation ; and 
that the Jew was " BLESSED," who " waited" till An- 
tiochus' death, when all this series of horrors was yet to 
come ?  
I tremble in view of such absurd applications of the  
Scripture, and turn, with renewed relish to the consistent  
view, which teaches us that the end of the indignation 
will be when "the times ofthe Gentiles are fulfilled," and  
that Christ's glorious kingdom is just ready to be set up.  
I remain, &O., N. SOUTHARD,  
- - —j * v^j j ^lujjuaai,  
lhe multitudes of unburied carcasses corrupted the air  
and produced a pestilence. The people fed on one ano-
ther ; and even ladies, it is said, broiled their suckino- in- 
fants, and ate them. After a siege of six months" the 
city was taken. They murdered almost every Jew they 
met with. Titus was bent to save the temple, but could  
not: there were six thousand Jews, who had taken shel-
ter in it, all burnt or murdered. The outcries of the 
Jews, when they saw it, were most, dreadful: the whole 
city, except three towers and a small part ofthe wall was  
razed to the ground, and the foundations of the temple'  
and other places were ploughed up. Soon after the forts 
of Herodian and Macheron were taken, the garrison of 
Massada murdered themselves rather than surrender  
At Jerusalem alone, it is said, one million one hundred  
thousand perished by sword, famine, and pestilence In  
other places, we hear of two hundred and fifty thousand  

OUR CAUSE.  
Believing, as we do, that time is short,—very short, and  
that the Son of Man will soon appear in the Clouds of  
heaven in power and gieat glory, to the joy of all them  
that love his appearing and kingdom, and to the dismay  
of all his enemies, who shall be consumed before him, we  
feel that we have no time to lose—therefore, although  
our means are limited, we commence this week a pa- 
per, to be issued weekly, double the size of the daily. We 
propose to publish a volume in three months, for FIFTY  
CENTS—in which we shall continue to lay the claims of this  
great subject before the people—warning them to be also  
ready, for " The coming of the Lord draweth nigh." It  
shall not be said that we have not lifted up the Warning  
Voice,—that we have not tried to raise the alarm—" Behold  
the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him."


BETTER TO DR. BROWJftEE.  
The writer of the following does not hold views pre- 
cisely like ours, hut his reply to Dr. Erownlee is so able,  
that we take great pleasure in giving it to our readers.  
Does not the character of the opposition brought against  
us, afford strong presumption that we are advocating 
God's truth, concealed from the wise and prudent, but  
revealed unto babes 1  

I glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and lan I You said—" He shows an amnr ,  
gauges, should serve him;" that it shall be an " everlast- I subject He takes Daniel's visfons ogf °f  
in g dominion," and that » his kingdom shall never be tie- J although there are several dies at anv of /Tvf'  
stroyed." The 4th beast is to be destroyed at Christ's vision may have LmmenCed he L3« n the  
coming; if he does not come until after'the  Millennium,  s.gninge^ one wnho.it as- 
then the beast lives dunn, the Millennium,  and surely bitfary^wiJI Jn\Zl^S t^  
that Would be very strange. ! world was destroyed in 1754 and a/afa in In  
Doctor, you should not be so positive. You speak with that it will be destroyed in 1843 and fo 1847 L in  
e comnlacent assnranc.p. n nw whn holio«os himcolf mcsi w,.. ' dnu in iy47, and in  
DEAR DOCTOR : We read that when the Apostles com- 
menced preaching the truth as it is in Jesus, " there  
stood up in the Council, at Jerusalem, a Pharisee named  
Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, had in reputation amonu- 
all the people," who, while he rejected the doctrine  
taught, earnestly enjoined his hearers to refrain from  opposition to it, " lest haply they might be found to fight  
against God."  
Regarding you, sir, as eminently the antitype of this  
ancient D. D., I hoped that in your Sermon on Sabbath  
evening you would abate somewhat your characteristic 
pugnacity, and approach the discussion of the solemn  
and interesting subject announced with the  gravity of a  
theologian, the courtesy of a gentleman, the candor of a  
Christian, and with reverential caution, at the least, not  
less than was manifested by the unbelieving Jew ; but I 
was mistaken. Your discourse reminded me, rather, of  
ono Diotrephes, who, as we read in John's third epistle,  
impelled by the " love of pre-eminence, was continually  
•prating against his brethren with malicious words ; and,  
not content with this, not only would not himself receive  
the brethren, but forbade them that would."  
Bear with me now, my dear sir, while I briefly exam- 
ine some of your positions, and the arguments bv which  
you sustain them.  
" The reign of Christ during the Millennium  will not  
be a bodily reign, but a spiritual reign."  
In support of this you ventured the remarkable asser- 
tion that " the doctrine of the bodily reign never was a  
doctrine of the Church, and never was embodied in any  
creed ; the Church in general believed as I do." Now,  
Doctor, supposing that your bold assertion is correct, it  
proves nothing. Neither is the doctrine of a spiritual 
reign embodied in any creed ; pray tell me, how do you 
account for this singular fact, if the Church "in general"  
believed as you do 1 If they did so believe, would they  
not have expressed this belief in their creeds 1 The fact  
is, the Church of late years has been about equally divid- 
ed on this point; and thus, as a majority is requisite to  
establish a creed, Ecclesiastical Courts have been com- 
pelled to be neutral. This we know was the case with  
the Westminster Assembly, which framed the Confession  
of * aith of the Presbyterian Church.  
Again, sir, your remark is not exactly correct, in point  
ot fact. In tho first and second centuries, before creeds  
were invented, when every man based his faith upon the  
Word of God without the aid of Councils, this doctrine  
was almost universally believed. This we know from  
the writings of the Fathers, who, though thev are not 
authority as to what should be believed, are credible wit-
nesses as to what was believed. We know also that the  
Nicene Council, (A. D. 325) which consisted of over 308  
Bishops, in their Ecclesiastical Forms or Constitutions  
thus spoke:  
" The world was made meaner, or less perfect, provi- 
dentially ; for God foresaw that man would sin. Where- 
fore we expect new heavens and a new earth, according  
to the Holy Scriptures, at the appearance and kingdom of 
the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. And then 
as Daniel says, the Saints of the Most High shall take  
the Kingdom, and the Earth shall be pure, holy, the land  
of the living, not of the dead ; which David, foreseeing  
by the eye of faith, cries out (Ps. xxvii. 13) ' I believe to  
see the good things of the Lord in the land of the living '  
Our Saviour says, ' Happy are the meek,  for they shail  
inherit the earth '"  
Your next argument was—"The extravagance of  
some who hold this doctrine. Irving made the awful  
assertion that Jesus Christ was born into the world as  
. corrupt as any other man." Well, does that prove that  
Christ will not reign upon the earth 1 Doctor, you are a  
Minister of the Gospel of Peace ; you are also very belli- 
gerent ; now, would it be legitimate for me to conclude  
from the latter fact, that the Bible inculcates strife ?  
About as much so as is your conclusion from your pre- 
mises. e  
" There is not a text in all the  Bible on which this doc- 
trine can be based, when it is justly, naturally, and ac- 
cording to the rules of exegesis, explained."  
This is a very bold assertion, sir, and I regret that you  
d>dnot see fit to cite some of the abundant texts upon  
which Millennanans rely, and give us your explanation of  
them. For instance, Dan. vii. 13, 14, and 21 22 and 2  
Thes. ii. 3-12 and 2 Tim. iv. l. By these texts'it ap- 
pears that the Roman Empire, (to which all commenta- 
tors admit the 4th beast refers,) in its last state, the Pa- 
pacy, shall be destroyed at the coming of Christ, and that 
there snail be given to the Son of Man, " dominion and  

the complacent assurance of one who believes himself  
the sole proprietor of wisdom—as if there was no possi-
bility of your being mistaken, evidently forgetting that an  
Apostle has said, "If any man think that he knoweth  
any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know  
it." You should be a little more modest, and not an- 
nounce your opinions with so much of the dogmatism of 
an oracle. If, sir, you will read the " Literalist," or 
" Spaulding on the Second Coming of Christ," or " Cox's  
Letters," or if you will read your Bible CANDIDLY in refer- 
ence to this question, you will find that there are many  
texts which can mean nothing at all if they do not teach  
this doctrine.  
"Christ comes to each one of us at death. ' Be ye  
also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of 
Man cometh.' "  
You were peculiarly unfortunate in the selection  
of a prool text  The passage referred to by you occurs  
in what is universally admitted to be a description of the  
judgment scene. The injunction is, to be continually  
watching for the coming of the Son of Man to judge the  
world. I particularly request the reader to look at the  
text in its connection. Now, will you tell me, Dr  
Brownlee. how there can be any sort of propriety in the  
command to " be ready" and watch for the 'coming of  
Christ to judgment, if the author of the command at the  
same time assures us that at least 1000 years must  
elapse before his coming !  
"Suppose he should come down during the Millen- 
nium, he could only be in one place at once, and the con- 
sequence would be that hundreds of thousands would  
start up in all parts of the world, and pursue their journey 
by land and water to see him ; and suppose they should  
see him, there is nothing he could or would say to them, 
but what is already written in the Bible. If there is any  
thing, let it be proved. Think, too, what would be the  
state of the world! Family, civil, and political duties  
would be neglected, and all would be crowding to Jeru- 
salem to see his glories—thus Jesus Christ would be 1  
chargeable with throwing his own world into confusion '  
Besides, we could never get within reach—there would  
ba a dense population wedged in immovably—no person 
who once got there could get away again ; there would  
be disease, famine, and pestilence !" • !  
Why, Doctor!  
Honestly, I pity you, sir !  Your ignorance of the sub- 
ject which you attempted to elucidate for your unsophis- 
ticated hearers, affords a deplorable illustration of theo- 
logical quackery. It seems to me that you know not ex- 

1866! Won t it be effectually demolished ! [Laughter 1  
he blunders upon his dates without any reasons ; he  
makes the ' little horn' refer to Antiochus, and he says  
that the Roman Empire is not destroyed yet! [Laughter 1  
VVhy, such ignorance would disgrace a school-boy."  
[Renewed laughter.] J  
Oh, Dr. Brownlee, you lack amazingly those fruits of  
the Spirit—."love, gentleness, meekness," &c.  
Behold a Christian !—and without the fires  
The founder of that name alone inspires—  
Though all accomplishment, all knowledge/meet  
To make the shining prodigy complete  
Whoever boasts that name, behold a cheat!  
You amused your hearers, sir, but let me ask you—Do  
you consider the coming of Christ to  judge the world and  
to execute .vengeance upon his enemies, a proper subject 
lor jesting 1 Excuse me if I speak plainly. I am the  
son of a Minister, and have never forgotten the parental  
injunction never to trifle about serious things. I confess 
sir, I am grieved at the impiety, I am disgusted at the  
inconsistency, I suspect the sincerity, and I am amazed 
at the hardihood of thosfe Ministers of the Gospel who  
™e,tlie momentous and solemn sentiments and scenes 
ol Religion and Eternity themes for wit or sources of  
merriment.  
" Is this the path of sanctity 1 is this  
To stand a waymark in the road to bliss ?"  
j EVERY STATEMENT WHICH YOU MADE IN REFERENCE TO 
! MR. MILLER IS UNTRUE.  
You said that he assigns for the selection of his data  
j no reason but his own arbitrary will. You know, or you  
| should have known that, on the contrary, many passages 
! of his work are occupied with various arguments drawn  
from the Bible and history, designed to prove that there is  
propriety in the selection which he has made. If you  
have read what he has written, you must have known  
this, and if you did know it, the inference is very 
plain. If you have not read what he has written, you  
should have remembered that one wiser than Dr. Brown- 
lee has said, " he that answereth a matter before he 
heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him."  
You said he makes the "little horn" refer to Antiochus  
Says Mr. Miller, p. 45, "Tins description agrees with  
the history of Rome, and CANNOT be applied to Antiochus  
as some have supposed." If you did not'know this, your  
ignorance is inexcusable—if you did, Prov. xxv. 18, " A  
man that heareth false witness against his neighbor is a  
maul, ' &c. Equally incorrect was the remark that he  
actly what to say, and so, to eke out a discourse, mtro- I suPPoses the Roman Empire is not yet destroyed To 
duced this burlesque. However, this is popular preaching j rfe the very couneous language in which you addressed  
frequently the suppressed, titter could be heard, and f^-Smth, " the thing was never dreamed of until you  
occasionally, in the galleries, the laugh of approving I fabncated it and palmed it upon him." See Miller's Lec- 
sc,offers. ° i tures.  
You vauntingly exclaim, "Show me a text which says" L la conclusion, sir, let me suggest for your considera*  
that Christ shall reign with his saints on the earth—if i tl0n the following from the writings of St. Paul:  
" I therefore beseech you that you walk worthy the  
vocation wherewith you are called with all lowliness and  
meeKness, putting away lying, speak every man truth  
with his neighbor, for we are members one of another  
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth 
but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may  
I TYL I NICTOV RRVONN 4-n 4- U ^ I i i - > . _ J  

you can, that will settle the question. Observe the  
guarded language of Scripture—it says that they shall 
reign with him, not he with them." '  
That is a nice criticism ! Doctor, St. John was not a  
hair-splitting pettifogger, nor a carping theologian. He 
wrote with a decision and intention to be understood - 
and when he says the saints " shall reign with Christ a mimster grace to the hearers. A bishop must be blame'  
thousand years," he means jus<- what he says. Tell me •! less~]he must have  a g°od report of them which are  
if there is to be only one resurrection, righteous and ! , 10Ut' lest he fal1 into reproach and the snare of-the  
wicked together, what did Paul mean when lie said « If deviL In a11 thmgs show thyself a pattern of good works-
by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the ' m doctnne showing uncorruptnass, gravity, sincerity'  
dead." Wras he afraid that he would not be raised ' sounri speech that cannot be condemned. Speak evil of 
W hat! when he knew that all would be raised, and at the 110 man ' be not a brawler, but gentle, showing all meek- 
same time, too 1 I might quote a score of texts, sir but 1 "  " o 1 .. .Jv^iv, ItiM, ou , UUl  
probably this one will keep you busy until we again hear 
from you. &  
"Departed saints on leaving this earth go to be with  the Lord. Now, if Christ comes down and reigns on the  

ness unto all men.'  
1 am, sir, very respectfully, &c.  J. A. G.  
MARTIN JLUTHER  
Died in 1546, a little less than 300 years ago. He did  
earth, then the saints in departingYo go to the Lord eo ' look for a Millennium before the judgment, and the  
from where the Lord is, to where he is not Or else they I foIlomnS extract shows that he did not expect it would  
must be constrained to come back again to earth, and | off" 
feed grossly with men." j MARTIN LUTHER'S OPINION.—" I am persuaded  
What a droll idea ! Why do they depart? Answer— that verily the day of judgment is not far off; yea  
18 here',  Bat *hen he returns, I will not be absent above 300 years longer- for'  
will decrease and "be damned,' Z  
ther shall there be any more pain ; for the former things ^ wa oJ TRUE shepherds, and servants of God.  
are passed away." ° j The voice will soon be heard, ' Behold, the Bride- 
• ?uneBh,!ng I?ore' Doctor- Where do you find any thing groom cometh !' God neither will, nor can suffer  
S tgt^! J^RHKED • R,D RC5 BU; ™IKI  
the idea of the saints leaving heaven, had you forgotten ! ? ^ JuclSments of ^e day of wrath, and  
that it is written, "Them also which sleep in Jesus will i PUNISH rejection of his word."  
God bring with him V j The three hundred years here sp<  A word or two in reference to Mr. Miller.  extend beyond 184S.  
s spoken of, cann ot


For the Midnight Cry.  
JONES' SHORT LECTURES.  
NO. I.  
" For as in Adam, all die, even so in Christ shall all be  
made alive.—1. Cor." 15 : 22.  
By the preceding verse, it will be seen that the |  
text is a prophecy of " the resurrection of the  
dead;" and it speaks of them and of their doom,  
in two classes, in the following order :  
I. The dead" IN ADAM."—They must "all dip,"  
when they come forth to " the resurrection of dam- 
nation." They are not'"in Christ," neither are they  
new creatures," but are still out of Christ, natu- 
ral men, and in old Adam, or in the fall of Adam  
still ; and as such, they must be punished with  
"death," the " second death," instead of being re- 
warded with " life everlasting;" in " the resurrec- 
tion of the dead, "Thesoul thatsinneth" it shall die ;  
"the wages of sin is death."—That the text thus  
teaches the final death of " all in Adam," or out of  
Christ, is further proved by the words immediate-
ly following the text. 4i Then cometh the end, 
when he [Christ] shall have delivered up the king-
dom [not his own kingdom, but that of his enemies]  
to God, even the Father, then he shall have put  
down all rule, and all authority and power, for he must  
reign till he hath put all enemies under bis feet."  
1. Cor. 15 : 24. 25. Surely Christ's thus de- 
livering "up the kingdom" putting down " all the  
rule, authority, and power of his enemies, and even 
putting them all under his feet, at the resurrection  
of the dead," is but an expanded explanation of whaf  
is meant in the text, by the "death, the second death  
of them all," who shall be found " in Adam," or out. 
of Christ, when he shall come to judge and reward 
itvery man according to his works at the resurrec- 
eon ofthe dead.  
II. The dead "IN CHRTST."—They " shall all be  
made alive." They are not still in Adam, natural  
men, out of Christ- But they are converted to new  
creatures " in Christ." • "If any man be in Christ,  
he is a new creature." " Blessed are the dead  
which die in the Lord,"or " in Christ," for in the  
resurrection they shall not die, but live, when they 
shall come forth to the resurrection of life, " ever- 
lasting life,jmd shall never die." This is the first  
resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that haih part  in  
the first resurrection; on such the second death  
hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of  
Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.  
"And they shall reign forever and ever in the New  
Jerusalem, which shall come down from God out'  
of heaven upon the new earth," which is then to be  
erected when the first heaven and first earth shall be  
passed away, and there shall be no more sea, and  
when " the Lord my God shall come, and all the  
saints with thee."  
APPLICATION.—Reader, art thou now "in Christ,"  
a new creature by faith ? And canst thou in heart  
rejoice in view of all these solemn realities at hand ]  
And canst thou sincerely say unto the Lord, "Amen,  
even so, come  Lord Jesus, come quickly." .Ifso,  
then rejoice, rejoice, for thy redemption drawet'n  
nigh. Comfort the saints with those words, sound  
the alarm, and faithfully watch till he cornea. But  
thou, ungodly reader, be entreated, turn to the  
Lord, repent now, escape for thy life, tarry not in 
all the plain. Escape to the Mount Zion, the hea- 
venly Jerusalem. " For verily I say unto you,thfe  
time is short." AMEN.  

MR. HATFIELD'S LECTURE ON DANIEL.  
Last Sabbath evening he lectured on the seventh of  
Daniel, having studied himself into the belief that the  
fourth beast " dreadful and terrible, and STRONG EH- 
CEEDINGLY," which "DEVOURED the WHOLE 
EARTH," was one of the fragments of the Maoedonian  
power, represented by the third bsast! ! ! But let him 
speak.  
After explaining the three beasts, respecting which we  
agree, he said:  
Thus far all is plain ; thus far, we have had a beaten  
path. We come now to a spot, where many ways meet.  
What is represented by the fourth beast 1 Most com-
mentators say this refers to the Roman empire, but the  
great mass of Roman Catholic commentators, (!) among  
whom are men of great learning, deny this. These, and  
all the early JEWISH commentators refer it to the Syrian 
empires. Here dogmatism is most out of place Least 
of ail, does it become- unlettered and unlearned men (I  
would speak respectfully) to  settle the question as if there  
could be no doubt. ... I will not say, as my reviewer  
has said, [applying; the 4th beast to Rome —Midnight 
Cry, Dec. 14 ] " ft is so plain, that any child who has 
taken a few lessons in history must perceive it." Truly,  
"A little learning is a dangerous thing," &c.  
This reference to our unfortunate want of learning  
does not trouble us so much as it might, possibly, if we  
had not  just read the preface to the Polyglott Bible, by  
the study of which we have gained almost all the little 
knowledge we possess on this subject.  
EXTRACT FROM PAGE 5 OF THE PREFACE OF THE ENG- 
LISH VKRSION OF THE POLYGLOTT BILLE.—" It were to 
be wished,'-'says Bishop Horsley, •' that no Bibles were 
printed without references. Particular diligence should  
be used in comparing the parallel texts of the Old and  
New Testaments " . . . " It is incrediblo," he adds,  
"to any one who has not made the experiment, what a  
proficiency may be made in that knowledge which ma- 
keth wise unto salvation, by studying the Scriptures in  
this manner, WITHOUT ANY OTHER COMMENTARY OR EXPO- 
SITION THAN WHAT TIIE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE SACRED 
VOLUME MUTUALLY FURNISH FOR EACH OTHER. Let the  
most illiterate Christian study them in this manner, and  
let him never cease to pray for the illumination of that  
Spirit by which these books were dictated, and the whole  
1 compass of abstruse philosophy, and recondite history,  
shall furnish no argument with which the perverse will of  
; man shall be able to shake this learned Christian's faith."  
| Horsley's Nine Sermons, p. 224—238  
Of this same Bishop Horsley, the Biographical Diction- 
ary says, " His mind, it may be said, grasped ALL THE  
LEARNING ofthe ancient and modern world."  
When I see learned men following Roman Catholicand  
Jewish commentators, in explaining away a most striking  
reference to the Papal power, and the judgment to come,  
in which Christ shall destroy that power by the brightness 
of his coming, I am happily contented with my ignorance  
of such commentators, and the learned languages in  
which they wrote.  

correct, as we are forced to believe, it is imperative that  
his readers should be told of it. If they are not correct, 
it will do them no injury to read what we have to of- 
fer touching them. Will he give us  a hearing 1 Please  
say.  
BROTHER GEORGE STORRS has been unexpectedly de- 
tained at Albany. He hopes to reach this  city, in season  
to commence a course of lectures at Brooklyn, THIS  
[Saturday] evening.  
BROTHER SILAS HAWLEY has been earnestly requested  
to visit this city, and we hope he will arive early next 
week.  

A NEIGHBORLY NOTICE.  
" The Mill^rites have started a daily paper in New York  
city, called the " Midnight Cry" which we observe is edi- 
ted by Lorenzo Dow Fleming, one of our acquaintances  
of othe]-days. We are sorry he will endeavor to hum- 
bug the public with so rich a joke as the destruction of  
the world, but we hope he will send us his paper in ex-
change."  
The above, we find in the (Ohio) " Green County  
Torch-Light." Who the editor is, our memory does not  
serve us. Will he tell us 1 If he is certain the views 
we advocate are a " HUMBUG" in fact, why does he wish  
to be humbugged by U3. He cannot have spoken as he  
has with propriety, unless he has examined the claims of  
j this subject, and is thus convinced that it is all a "hum- 
bug." If this is the case, why does he ask an exchange 1  
If he has not examined the subject, why does he pro- 
nounce upon it- as he has 1 We shall send him some-
thing on this great question, and will he not do us, and  
the public the favor of laying our reasons for such an ex-
pectation before his readers, who, we doubt not, are capa- 
ble of judging in such matters for themselves 1 We  
suggest to the "Torch-Light" that probably he cannot in-
terest his readers more, or to a better purpose, for a few  
weeks to come, than by devoting two or three columns  
of his sheet, weekly to this subject. If our views are  

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" Behold, I come quickly ; blessed is he that keepeth  
the sayings ofthe prophecy of this book."—Rev. xxii. 7.  
" 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. xxii. 14.  
" For our conversation is in heaven ; from whence al- 
so we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ."—Phil,  
iii. 20.  
" Who will change our vile body, that it may be fash- 
ioned like unto his glorious body."—Phil. iii. 21.  
'• That he might present it to himself a glorious church,  
not having spot or wrinkle, or any sucn tiling , but that 
it should be holy and without blemish."—Eph v. 27.  
" So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many ;  
and unto them that look for him shall he appear the sec- 
ond time without sin unto salvation "—Heb. ix. 28.  
" But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by  
the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire 
against the day of judgment."—2 Peter iii. 7.  
"Seeing then that all thes ; things shall be dissolved,  
what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy con-
versation and godliness."—2 Peter iii. 11.  
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For the Midnight Cry.  
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" There is a fonntain opened in the house of David, for sin and  
for alt uncleanness."  
There is a fountain deep and wide,  
It gushes from Immanuel's side ;  
So pure, so holy, and so clean,  
That all who wash are saved  from sin.  
This fount so sacred, is not small,  
Confined to none, 'tis free for all,  
The guilty, sinsick, wounded soul,  
.May just step in, and be made whole.  
So efficacious are its streams,  
That all the fallen it redeems ;  
None need despair, the worst may come,  
And in this fountain find there's room. 
O, have ye all these waters tried,  
And washed you in their crimson tide !  
If not, come in this fountain lave, 
And live for him who died to save.  
" His banner soon will be unfurled,  
. Then he will come to judge the world ;"  
And if we from our sins are freed,  
O then we shall be saved indeed.  
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