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CONFERENCE IN PHILADELPHIA. 
Bro. Litch 
is still lecturing in Philadelphia. 
The 
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ence, to commence Tuesday, Jan. 31st. 
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CONTENTS OF THIS SHEET. 
A postmaster lately requested us to prepare a large 
sheet, embodying some of the most convincing argu-
ments, showing the second coming of Christ in 1843. 
In compliance with many such suggestions, we have 
made this sheet double, and have inserted some articles 
which have been printed in the daily Midnight Cry. 
The 
lectures by Bro. Storrs give a clear view of the great out-
lines of the objects presented to Daniel in his visions, or 
rather in the different presentations of the same vision. 
The letter to Mr. Hatfield gives one brief argument res-
pecting the time. 
Other arguments are touched upon in 
the " Reasons," by Bro. Miller. 
The lecture upon the 
woe trumpets exhibits the striking fulfillment, in years, 
of a prophecy expressed by days, and shows us that we 
are living in the days of the voice of the seventh angel. 
We have also given a selection of the facts respecting 
the signs in the stars, which, with many other signs, 
greatly confirm the belief that Christ's coming is nigh, 
even at the doors. 
If this sheet meets the wants of the community, and 
the funds are furnished, we shall issue another two 
weeks from to day, containing the Clue to the Time, and 
the Endless Kingdom, by L. Hersey, a Diagram of Dan-
iel's Visions, the Chronology of the World, the Two Re-
surrections, and other appropriate articles. 
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TABERNACLE IN BOSTON. 
The believers in Christ's coming, at hand, have begun 
to erect a large temporary building, which will hold 
several thousand persons, in which meetings are to be 
held, till all Christ's friends meet him in the air. 
It will 
be dedicated early in February. 
We shall give a more 
extended notice next week. 
LECTURE IN THE BAPTIST TABERNACLE; 
BROTHER 
WHITING of Williamsburg, will lecture at 
the Tabernacle in Mulberry street, next Wednesday and 
Thursday evenings, on the visions of Daniel. 
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ther is well known as an eminent Hebrew scholar, and 
the public may be assured that he will present the con-
clusions of a sound mind, after a candid examination. 
Lectures to commence at seven o'clock. 
TUE.-EXMFOT.MON 
OF THE 
SECOND 
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IN 
1843, 
is becoming general in all parts of the world. 
We are 
informed by a gentleman from New Bedford, that the 
sailors who 
go out to sea from that port, are writing 
home from all parts of the world respecting it. 
These 
sailors have carried out from that port Second Advent 
publications, and are scattering them in all lar.ds, and 
are telling of these things wherever they go, from port 
to port, and from coast to coast. 
The great day alone 
can reveal the great light which has thus been cast in 
distant lands, by this noble hearted class, who " go down 
to the sea in ships and do business upon the great wa-
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As we are 
prevented from circulating truth in this manner, we 
must resort to other and more effectual measures. 
EXrOSlTION 
or 
NEBUCHADNEZZAR'S 
DREAM. 
Daniel II —BY 
GEORGE 
STORRS. 
Verses 31—36.—"Thou O king, sawest, and 
behold, a great image. 
This great, image, 
whose brightness was excellent, stood before 
thee, and the form thereof was terrible. 
This 
image's head was of fine gold—his breast and 
arms of silver—his belly and sides of brass—his 
legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of 
clay. 
Thou sawest till that a stone was cut 
out without hands, which smote the image upon 
his feet, that were of iron and clay, and brake 
them in pieces: 
then was the iron, the clay, the 
brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces 
together, and became like the chaff of the 
summer threshing-floors, and the wind carried 
them away, that, no place was found for them : 
and the stone that smote the image became a 
great mountain, and filled the whole earth.— 
This is the dream ; and we will tell the inter-
pretation thereof before the king." 
I wish to call the attention of my readers to 
an inquiry. 
Where did the stone strike the 
image ? 
" UPON HIS FEET." 
Let that be 
remembered, for I shall have occasion to speak 
of that fact again. 
Verses 37, 33.—" Thou, O king, art a king of 
kings : for the God of heaven hath given thee a 
kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. 
And 
wheresoever the children of men dwell, the 
beasts of the field, and the fowls of the heaven, 
hath he given into thine hand, and hath made 
thee ruler over them all" 
[i. e. has given thee 
universal dominion on earth.] 
" Thou art, [i. e, 
thy kingdom is] tins head of gold." 
Babylon was the first kingdom of 
universal 
empire. 
It was founded by Nimrod, the great 
grand-son of Noah. 
See Genesis x. 8—10. 
It 
lasted near seventeen hundred years, though 
under different names; sometimes called Baby-
lon, sometimes Assyria, and sometimes Chal-
dea. 
It extended from Nimrod to Belshazzar 
who was its last king. 
Verse 39, first part.—"And 
after thee shall 
arise another kingdom, inferior to thee." 
What 
kingdom succeeded Babylon ? 
See chapter 5 : 
'28, " Thy kingdom [Babylon] is divided and 
given to the Meiles and Persians." 
The Medo-Persian kingdom, then, was the 
second universal kingdom, and was represented 
by the " breast and arms of silver." 
Verse 
39, last part.—" 
And another 
third 
kingdom of brass ''shall arise," which shall 
bear rule over all the earth." 
What kingdom 
was this ? See chapter 8, verse 5—7, 21. 
Here 
we Jearn that Grecia conquered the Medo-Per-
sian kingdom and became a kingdom of univer-
sal empire. 
This took place under Alexander. 
Here, then, we have the third kingdom which 
was represented by the brass of the image. 
Verse 40.—" And the fourth kingdom shall 
be strong as iron : forasmuch as iron breaketh 
in pieces and subdueth all things ; and as iron 
that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces 
and bruise." 
What kingdom is this? 
It is generally ad-
milted to be the Roman kingdom. 
It is a uni-
versal kingdom, that is to break in pieces all 
that went before it. 
Rome alone answers the 
description. 
That did have universal empire-
See Luke ii. 1. 
"And it came to pass in those 
days, that there went out a, decree from Cesar 
Augustus, that all the world should be taxed."— 
Who was Cesar Augustus ? 
A Roman empe-
ror. 
Here, then, we have'the fourth kingdom, 
represented by the "legs of iron." 
Verse 41.—" And whereas thou sawest the 
feet and toes part of potter's clay and part of 
iron, the kingdom shall be divided." 
What king-
dom shall be divided ? 
" The fourth kingdom." 
Was it divided ? 
It was. 
The western em-
pire of Rome, between the years A. D- 356 
and 483, was divided into ten divisions, or king-
doms, viz: 
1. The Huns in Hungary, A. D. 
356. 
2. The 
Ostrogoths, in Mysia, 377. 
3. 
The Visigoths, in Pannonia, 378. 
4. 
The 
Franks, in France, 407. 
5. The Vandals, in 
Africa, 407. 
6. The Sueves and Alans, in Gas-
coigne and Spain, 407. 
7. The Burgundians, in 
Burgundy, 407. 
8. The Heruli and Rugii, in 
Italy, 476. 
9. The Saxons and Angles, in 
Britain, 476. 
10. The Lombards, in Germany, 
483.* 
Thus the "kingdom was divided" as 
designated by the ten 44 toes." 
"But," after its 
'division, "there shall be in it the strength of 
iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed 
with the miry clay." 
The Roman, or " iron" power, through the in-
fluence and authority of Papacy, or Papal Rome, 
stretched itself among the " clay" so as to be 
" mixed with" it, and thereby kept up " the 
strength of iron." 
Verses 42. 43.—" And as the toes of the feet 
were part of iron and part of clay; so the king-
dom" [Roman kingdom] " shall be partly strong 
and partly broken. 
And whereas thou sawest 
iron m:xed. with miry clay, they" 
[Romanism] 
''shall mingle themselves" [i. e. Rome Papal] 
" with the seed of men ; but they shall not 
cleave one lo another, even as iron is not mixed 
with clay." 
How exactly has all this been fulfilled. 
Ro* 
manism, or the Romish Church, while it has 
mingled with all nations, it has not mixed with 
thein, but has kept up its authority over its sub-
jects, under whatever government, they may 
have been 
located ; so that the authority of 
Rome has been felt by all the nations where 
her subjects have been "mingled with the seed 
of men." 
The fourth, or Roman kingdom is 
thus perpetuated, though " divided." 
That pow-
er will continue, not civilly, but by its ecclesias-
tical authority, till "broken without hands." 
Verse. 44.—" And in the days of these kings 
[ What kings, or kingdoms ? 
Clearly, the kings 
of the divided fourth kingdom : for that is now 
the subject of discourse] shall the God of heav-
en setup a kingdom, [the fifth universal kingdom] 
that, shall never be destroyed : [and, therefore, 
must be in the immortal state, or "new earth''] 
and the kingdom [when set up] shall not be leit 
to other people, [i. e. the subjects shall not pass 
from one set of rulers to another as ihe four 
previous kingdoms have done] but it shall break 
in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, [See 
Rev. xi. 15, 44 And the seventh angel sounded; 
and there were great voices in heaven, saying: 
The kingdoms of this world are become the 
kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ; and he 
shall reign forever and ever." 
"And 
(10th 
* This list is not made up for the occasion, nor is it 
given on doubtful authority. 
It is copied by Faber, 
from the Italian Historian, Machiavel, and quoted by the 
learned Dr. Scott, who introduces Faber's note applying 
the fourth beast, in the seventh of Daniel, to Rome, 
with the following endorsement: " His conclusion seems 
well grounded."—ED. 
verse) 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 prophets, and to 
the saints, and them that fear thy name, small 
and great; 
and shouldst. destroy 
('break 
in 
pieces') them that destroy (' break in pieces.' 
See 
Dan. vii. 23) the earth,] and it [the fijth king-
dom] shall stand forever." 
The question now arises, What are we to 
understand by this last kingdom ? and when is 
it 
44 set up ?" 
Some tell us it must be the 
" kingdom of grace," because the stone that 
smote the image was a " little stone" at first.— 
But where, I ask, do they learn that the stone 
was a little one ? 
Not in the Bible, surely. 
It is not there. 
They must find it, then, among 
the inventions of men. 
41 But," say they, 
44 it 
grows, mark that." 
Well, my dear sir, will you 
be good enough to show me where the stone is 
said to grow? 
You do not find it in the Bible ; 
it must be in your imagination, if any where. 
The " stone smote the image, and" it 44 became 
like the chaff of the summer threshing-floors, 
and the wind carried" it 
44 away, that no place 
was found for" either of the four kingdoms: 
then, and not till then, 
44 the stone became a 
great mountain, and filled the whole earth." 
Still, the objector insists upon it, that, 44 it 
must be the kingdom of grace, set up by our Lord 
Jesus Christ 1800 years ago, in the days ofthe 
Cesars." 
You speak ofthe "kingdom of grace ;" 
but, I ask, then, if God had no 
44 kingdom of 
grace" in the world till " the days of the Ce-
sars ?" 
If he had not, then Abel, 
Enoch, 
Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, Joshua, 
Samuel, David, Job, and all the prophets must 
have gone to perdition, for surely no man can 
be saved without grace; 
and that grace must 
reign to bring salvation. 
Thus if Jesus Christ 
set up 44 the kingdom of grace" only 1800 years 
ago, all that lived the 4000 years previous have 
44perished." 
But let us look at this subject a little further. 
Where did the stone strike the image when it 
smote it ? 
Not on the "head"—Babylon : nor on 
the 
44 breast and arms"—Media and Persia • 
nor on the 44 belly and thighs"—Grecia : nor 
yet on the 
legs"—Rome 
pagan, as it should 
have done, if the kingdom was 44 set up in the 
days of the Cesars." 
Where, then, did it smite 
the image? 
Verse 34 tells us, it 41 smote the 
image upon the FEET." 
Now it could not 
smite the feet before they were in being ; and 
they were not in being till several hundred 
years after Christ's crucifixion, i. e- till the 
fourth, or Roman kingdom was divided; 
which, 
we have seen, did not. take place till between 
the years A. D. 356 and 483. 
Since that time 
the "Man of Sin" has reigned on earth, instead 
of the Lord of Glory, and has trodden 44 under 
foot the holy city"-—the church. 
But the king-
dom of God is to be s t up. 
That it was not 
set up at certain periods spoken of in the New 
Testament will appear from the examination of 
a few passages. 
It was not set up when our 
Lord taught his followers to pray, 44 Thy king-
dom come:" it must have been future then.— 
Again. 
The mother of Zebedee's children un-
derstood it to be future when she desired our 
Lord to grant that her two sons might sit,44 the 
one on the right hand, and the other on the left, 
in thy kingdom." 
It was still future when our 
Lord ate the last passover. 
See Luke xxii. 18, 
44 I.say unto you, I will not drink ofthe fruit of 
the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come." 
So, it had not then come. 
Let us see if it had 
come when Christ hung on the cross. 
See 
Luke xxiii. 42, 44 Lord, remember me when thou 
comest into thy kingdom." 
Thus, to his death, 
it seems, his kingdom had not been set up.— 
But did he not set it up before his ascension to 
heaven? 
See Acts i. 6, 41 Lord, wilt thou at 
this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?" 
Not done yet. 
Now see 1 Cor. xv. 50, " Now 
this I say; brethren, that fiesh and blood cannot 
inherit, the kingdom of God." 
This settles the 
question that the kingdom of God is not set up 
till the saints put on immortality, or not till they 
enter the immortal state, which Paul tells us, 
verse 52, is 14 at the last trump," and answers 
to Rev. xi. 15, which, see ; and the apostle 
Paul tells us, 2 Timothy iv. 1, that 44 The Lord 
Jesus Christ shall judge the quick and the dead 
at his appearing and kingdom." 
And again he 
tells us, Acts xiv. 22, that 44 We must through 
much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God :" 
and this address was made to those who were 
already Christians, and shows that the kingdom 
of God was still future, in the apostle's estima-
tion. 
James, ii. 5, tells us that the kingdom is 
a matter of promise to them that love God ; of 
course, if 
promised," it was future. 
Our Sa-
viour saith, Luke xii. 32, 
44 Fear not, little 
flock ; for it is your Father's good pleasure to 
give you the kingdom 
not yet given. 
It is 
something still to come. 
To represent it as 
already set up is to take away one of the 
strongest motives the Bible furnishes to endure 
trials, and to suffer patiently while in an ene-
my's country. 
What a soul-cheering thought, 
the kingdom of God is to come. 
Christ's sub-
jects will be gathered out of all their tribula-
tions—his territory, the earth, will be cleansed, 
and the wicked rooted out of it; and Christ 
himself personally reign over his people forever; 
not in a dying state, but in a state of immortali-
ty, peace, and glory, in the new earth. 
Such a 
thought gives new life to the soul, now strug-
gling in this 44 tabernacle,"groaning, "being bur-
dened." 
The kingdom will come ; yea, it is 
now at the door. 
41 Ye feeble saints fresh cour-
age take." 
44 Behold, your God will come with 
vengeance [to your enemies,] even God with a 
recompense ; he will come and save you." 
Isa. 
xxxv. 4. 
But when will the kingdom of God be set up? 
See Matthew xxv. 31—34, -4 When the Son of 
man shall come in his glory, and alf the holy 
angels with him, then shall he sit upon the 
throne of his glory. 
Then shall the king say 
unto them on his right hand, Come, ye 
bles-
sed of my Father, inherit the kingdom pre-
pared 
for vou 
from the foundation of 
the 
world." 
Then, and not till then, will the kingdom of 
God be set up on earth ; for, 44 flesh and blood 
cannot inherit the kingdom of God," as we have 
already seen ; and that kingdom is not set up till 
the 
44 seventh angel" sounds his 
44 trumpet." 
Rev. xi. 15—18. 
Some men will not enter the kingdom of God. 
See 1 Cor. vi. 9, 10, 44 Know you not that the 
unrighteous 
shall not inherit the kingdom of 
God ? 
Be not deceived ; neither fornicators, 
nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, 
nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor 
thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revi-
lers, nor extortioners shall inherit the kingdom 
of God." 
See, also, Rev. xxi. 27, 44 And there 
shall in no wise enter into it [the new Jerusa-
lem] any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever 
worketh abomination, or maketh a lie." 
Who will be subjects of 
this kingdom ? 
See Rev. xx. 6, 44 Blessed and holy is he that 
hath part in the first resurrection ; on such the 
second death hath no power, but they shall be 
priests of God and Christ, and shall reign with 
him," &c. 
Here it is seen that holiness is the 
indispensable qualification for an inheritance 
in the kingdom of God. 
See 2 Peter iii. 14, 
<4 Wherefore, seeing that ye look for 
such 
things, be diligent that ye be found of him in 
peace without spot and blameless." 
There must 
be no spot of known sin upon us if we would 
enter the kingdom of God. 
Again, John iii. 3, 
" Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a man 
be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of 
God." 
The new birth, then, is indispensable 
to a part in the kingdom of God. 
See also 1 
John iii. 2, 3, " We know that when he shall 
appear we shall be like him ; for we shall see 
: him as he is. 
And every man that hath this 
hope in him, purifietli himself.\ even as he is pure." 
Are we thus purifying ourselves ? 
Are we 
striving to be Christ-like ? 
Have we the same 
love to God ? The same love to men 1 
The 
same hatred to sin ? The same deadness to the 
applause of men 1 
In short, do we set Christ 
before our eyes as our pattern and example ? 
And are we, from beholding, changed into the 
same image from glory to glory, as by the 
Spirit of God? 
"He that saith, he abideth 
in him, ought himself also to walk even as he-
walked." 
See 1 John ii. 6. <6ee also Matt, 
xxv. 34—36. 
Here we learn who will enter 
into the kingdom of God. 
Now comes the inquiry, " Watchman, what 
of the night?" 
In what period of prophecy are 
we now ? 
What are our u soundings," in rela-
tion to the setting up of this kingdom ? 
Are we 
in the kingdom of Babylon, under the " head of 
gold?" 
Mo. 
That has passed long ago.— 
Are we in the Medo-Persian Empire ? 
No. 
Long 
since 
that 
kingdom 
was 
numbered 
with things past. 
Are we inGrecia? 
Cer-
tainly 
not. 
That 
too 
was 
numbered 
and 
finished more than two thousand years since. 
Are we in Rome in its undivided state, or in 
the " legs of iron ?" 
No. 
Long since that em-
pire fell. 
Where are we, then ? 
Down among 
the feet and toes. 
How long since those divi-
sions came up which constitute the feet and 
toes ? 
Nearly fourteen hundred .years ! 
Al-
most fourteen hundred years we have traveled 
down in the divided state of the Roman empire. 
Where does the stone strike the image? 
Is it 
on the head ? 
No. 
Is it on the breast and arms ? 
No. 
Is it on the belly and thighs ? 
No. 
Is it 
on the legs ? 
No. 
Where then? 
On the feet. 
Where are we now ? 
In th & feet. 
What takes 
place when the stone smites the image ? 
It is 
all broken to pieces, and becomes like ihe chaff 
of the summer threshing-floors, and the wind 
carries it away that wo place shall be found for it. 
Then will this world be cleansed and the ever-
lasting kingdom of God set up which shall never 
be destroyed. 
How far off, reader, do you think 
that event can be ? 
What is to come next as the 
subject of prophecy ? 
The stone. 
Are you 
ready ? 
The Lord help thee to be 
awake.— 
Suffer not thyself to be lulled to sleep by the 
cry of, " My Lord delayeth his coming." 
For the Midnight Cry. 
THE 
MILLENNIUM. 
The modern notion of a Millennium is so deeply rooted 
in most minds, that they will be surprised to learn its 
origin and history. 
It is here briefly stated by one who 
has made it a subject of careful study. 
Read and ponder. 
From the days of Adam the human race have contin-
ually looked for a recovery of Paradise on the earth : and, 
as in every case where all eyes are turned steadily in one 
direction, so in this, there is good ground of expectation. 
From the beginning, man has had the promise of his 
Maker, that the seed of the woman should bruise the ser-
pent's head, should destroy the works of the devil, should 
remove the curse, slay death, triumph over the grave, 
and make "restitution of all things which God has spo-
ken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world 
began." 
(Acts iii. 21.) 
Among other prominent features 
of divine revelation, the heathen have distorted, and still 
preserved this; their poets never ceasing te sing of a 
golden age once on the earth, and in the revolution 
of 
ages to return again. 
The Jews, to whom " were com-
mitted the oracles of God," have, with unshaken faith, 
looked for their own supremacy of the nations in a hea-
venly kingdom under the sceptre of David's son, by 
whom they are to be restored forever to their own land, 
and to be filled with the increase of the favor, knowledge, 
and glory of God. 
To this day, in all their dispersions, 
they are witnesses of this proud hope : and Christians of 
every age and sect profess and inculcate, cherish and 
s maintain the same hope, only with such modifications as 
the New Testament makes. 
It is, then, a right holy faith to look for such a restitu-
tion of Paradise ; but it is a faith exposed to much dis-
tortion, and to many corruptions 
Among the 
first 
Christians it was cherished in the form of tht kingdom 
of 
God preached by Christ and by his apostles,and UNIVERSALLY 
EXPECTED in the third century TO BE SET UP on the ruins 
ofthe Roman kingdoms IN THE END OF THE WORLD. 
When, at length, the Roman kingdoms became Chris 
tian, in the fifth and sixth centuries, and the Church be 
came 
Roman, darkness brooded over the face of the 
deep, the nations slept; they dreamed of a paradise, and 
of a kingdom, and of a millennium; but the fanciful pic-
ture was shadowy and ill-formed according to the nature 
of dreams. 
In the second century of our era, this hope 
had taken in some minds the distinct form of a thousand 
years of delight to come in the earth, under the personal 
administration of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.— 
Hitherto believers had expounded their hope of bliss by 
the name of the kingdom of heaven shortly to appear ; 
but in the latter half of the second century, Justin and 
Ireneus appear to mix this evangelic exposition with the 
apocalyptic Millennium. 
Early im the fourth century 
Lactantius, " the Christian Cicero," the imperial tutor of 
Constantine's sons, poured into this mixture an untold 
quantity of the sibyline oracles, making harmony between 
the conflicting opinions of royal Christians and Senatori-
al pagans, by intruding a large infusion of Roman cere-
mony, idolatry, and expectation, into the pure gospel 
and hope of the kingdom of heaven, the way for which 
had been 
already made broad by Origen 
of 
Egypt. 
Christian courtiers and politicians carried this infusion 
during the fourth century into the whole body of the 
Church, which was now modelled outwardly after the 
fashion of the empire, and also fell inv\ ardly into many 
imperial and carnal hopes. 
But the Church rallied—she 
tried and condemned the carnal hopes of a millennium, 
and threw overboard the whole doctrine, A. D. 373; 
and it disappeared shortly after, from the history of the 
church, until the Reformation, A. D. 1517, save only the 
alarms ofthe end ofthe world about A. D. 1000, and the 
same again in the fourteenth century, reckoning from the 
conversion, and 
reign of 
Constantine one 
thousand 
years, or a millennium. 
At the dawn of the Reformation, Luther and his asso-
ciates were greatly confirmed in their hostility, and 
strengthened in their controversy with popery, by the con-
viction that the Roman hierarchy is the sinful kingdom 
which should spring out of, subdue, and rule over the di-
vided realms of Rome, after the emperors were no more; 
and which " the Lord shall consume with the spirit of 
his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his 
coming." (2Thess. ii. 8.) The lives of Luther and of Me-
lancthon, and the history of their time, abundantly prove 
their expectation of the end ofthe world in the coming 
of Christ, to overthrow the papacy with all the world, in 
that age. 
A mixed multitude revived the old millennary 
doctrine, that the Lord was coming indeed to remodel 
the governments of the world, by cutting off all unholy 
people, and giving the administration of the earth for a 
thousand years into the hands of the true Church, the 
living saints 
The crowd was sometimes fearfully great 
who despised governments, and shook off the reins of 
authority, because the saints should not be governed by 
sinners, and because the Lord was on the point of giving 
the wicked, with all the governments of the world, into 
the hands of his people. 
The great Reformers were 
compelled to disown, and in their own defence to con-
demn this doctrine of a millennium " prior to the resur-
rection," which those of Germany did in the seventeenth 
article of the Augsburg confession A. D. 1530 ; and those 
of England did by the forty-first article of the Church in 
the reign of Edward VI. A. D. 1552. 
That article says : 
" They who seek to revive the millennary fable, oppose 
the Holy Scriptures, and plunge into Jewish fanaticism." 
The article of Augsburg says: 
We 
"condemn those 
who circulate the judaizing notion, that prior to the resur-
rection of the dead., the pious will engross the govern-
ment of the world, and the wicked every where be op-
pressed." 
These official rebukes of the unwholesome 
doctrine 
from the two leading Churches of th« Reformation pla-
ced this blunder among Protestants, where it was placed 
by the Church of the fourth century, nearly out of the 
pale of orthodoxy. 
Hitherto it had never separated 
from itself the personal coming and presence of Christ. 
Whether in the second, fourth, or sixteenth century, the 
doctrine of a millennium prior to the resurrection flour-
ished, it was still at the coming of Christ, and under his 
personal administration that every teacher and convert 
received it. But in the latter half ofthe seventeenth cer-
tury started a new idea, which seemed to avoid the ex-
travagance of Lactantius, and harmon Z3 some conflicting 
notions of the millennium, while it takes from the doc-
trine its only royal feature, and robs the promised king-
dom of its king. 
This idea was that the millennium is 
a spiritual state in this world, in which neither does the 
Lord cume nor reign personally and visibly, but only by 
his spirit. 
Daniel Whitby, D. D., about the year 17(J0, in 
a treatise published in the end of his commentaries on 
the Epistles, first broaches this novel idea to the Church, 
and he distinctly claims it for himself. 
He says he dif-
fers from the ancient millennaries in three 
things, of 
which the first is, "I deny Christ's personal reign upon 
the earth during the 1000 years." 
This bold step, which seems to convert the original 
blunder into downright heresy, has been 
subsequently 
followed by the multitude of Protestant commentators, 
until the churches have very extensively adopted it; and 
thousands of preachers herald the approach of a period 
of a thousand years' bliss in this world, under the reign 
ofthe saints, " prior to the resurrection," and free from 
the restraints and the delights of Christ's personal pre-
sence. 
At the same time a very large and respectable 
body of Christians of the Anglo-Saxon race have revived 
the ancient doctrine of the millennaries, both in this 
country and In Great Britain. 
These agree with the fol-
lowers of Whitby in expecting the bliss in this life; but they 
temper their expectations with the hope of Christ's com-
ing and reigning at the same time with the resurrection 
ofthe just. 
Either of these views seems to violate the 
analogy of faith, and to annul the gospel; for under the 
gospel it is written, 
" The just shall live by faith," 
(Rom. i. 17;) but in the millennium, with Christ present, 
the just will live by sight, not by faith; and of a millen-
nium where Christ is not personally present, Dr. Whitby 
dreamed contrary to the Scriptures, which never separ-
ate Christ, the head, from his body, the Church, in the 
day of victory ; and contrary to the universal faith ofthe 
fathers, and the churches of every age and denomination, 
as deliberately expressed in their writings and in their 
creeds. 
Many creeds we have seen, but never one of 
any sect that failed to recognise the death, resurrection, 
an d ascension of Christ to the right hand of the Father, 
as in that of the council of Nice, " whence he is coming 
again in glory to judge the quick and the dead, of whose 
kingdom there shall be no end." 
Not a creed OF ANY AGE 
OR SECT recognizes the doctrine of a glory to be revealed 
before the revelation of Jesus Christ, or of a kingdom 
to come before the coming of Christ; or of a state of 
universal or of general peace and bliss in this sinful 
world. 
" Suppose ye that I am come to give peace on 
earth 1 
I tell you Nay; 
but rather division." 
(Luke 
xii. 51.) 
This world is a place of discipline ; the world to 
come is, for the well disciplined, a state of bliss. 
There 
is a world to come. 
This present is an evil world, and 
will be evil while sin and death reign in it, and over it. 
Their dominion ceases only in the end of this world, 
when Christ our Lord is hailed by " great voices in heav-
en, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the 
kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign 
forever and ever " 
(Rev. xi. 15.) 
Then will be peace 
and safety without apprehension, at the manifestation of 
our holy Lord, whom we may safely expect. 
" For the 
grace of God that bringeth*salvation hath appeared to all 
men, teaching us, that denying ungodliness and worldly 
lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in 
this present world, LOOKING for that blessed hope, and 
the GLORIOUS APPEARING ofthe great God and our Saviour 
Jesus Christ. 
These things speak and exhort and re-
buke with all authority." 
(Tit. ii. 11.) 
Ever since Adam's fall' man has looked forward to the 
recovery of Paradise on the earth ; and he must look for-
ward to* it, until the second coming of the second Adam, 
the Lord from heaven. 
The disciples at his first advent 
supposed the kingdom of God should immediately appear. 
To correct which error he told them the parable of the 
ten pounds, as recorded by St. Luke, plainly teaching 
that he is gone to receive a kingdom, and, having received it, 
to RHTURN and KFCKON 
WITH 
HIS. SERVANTS. 
At, his 
sec-
ond advent, this world and its illusions will vanish ; the 
hopes of man and the promises of God will be accomplished. 
Christ will make all things new, and lead his people into 
their promised inheritance, "the kingdom prepared for 
you from the foundation of the world," in new heavens 
and a new earth ; which is Paradise on the earth. 
" Thy 
kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in 
heaven." 
REVIVAL 
IN 
HARTFORD.—We 
understand there is a 
revival going on among the people connected with the 
Congregational Church in this city, under the pastoral 
charge of Rev. Mr. Sprague. 
Many of the converts, we 
learn, have stated at recent meetings, that their serious 
impressions were imbibed under the preaching of Mr. 
Miller, and other lecturers of his peculiar faith.—[Hart-
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In the next Psalm the writer says : 
0 God, the heathen are eorne into thine inheritance, 
Thy holy temple have they defiled, 
They have laid Jerusalem on heaps, 
Help us, O God of our salvation ! 
For the glory of thy name, 
And deliver us, and purge away our sins, 
For thy name's sake. 
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So we, thy people, and sheep of tliy pasture, 
Will give thee thanks FOREVER. 
Does not this refer to an eternal state following the judg-
ment 1 
Compare this language with that used by Isaiah : 
Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, 
The earth moumethand fadeth away, 
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, 
Because they hnve transgressed the Jaws,—changed the ordi-
nance, 
Broken the everlasting covenant. 
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.
. 
The earth is utterly broken down, 
The earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly, 
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard. 
And shall be removed like a cottage : 
. 
THEN shall the moon be confounded, and the sun ashamed. 
When the Lord of hosts shall reign in Mount Zion, 
And in Jerusalem, and there shall be glory before his Ancients. 
—Isaiah 25 :1, 4, 5, 19,20, 23, 
This will be fulfilled, at the same tirne with the follow-
ing, which is applied to the city of the Lord, the Zion of 
the Holy One of Israel. 
I will make thee an eternal excellency,—a joy of many 
genera-
tions. 
Thy sun shall no more go down ; 
Neither shull thy moon withdraw itself. 
For the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, 
And the Jays of thy mourning shall be ended. 
Thy people also shall be all righteous. 
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They shall inherit the land FOREVER.-Isaiah 60: 14,19.20,21 I .W3S ln«?rrupted 
by the angel Gabriel, 
The same glorious sight is presented in Isaiah 35 : 10. 
And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, 
And come to Zion witli songs, 
And EVERLASTING joy upon their heads. 
They phall obtain joy and gladness, 
And sorrow and sighing shall flee away. 
Compare this language with the 21st chapter of Revela-
tions, and you will find it will be fulfilled, in the new Jeru-
salem, 
the tabernacle of God with men, in the NEW 
EARTH. 
Then wi1 1 the sanctuary be cleansed, and not 
before. 
You remember the words of Sir Isaac Newton : 
"The sanctuary is not yet cleansed." 
It cannot be, while 
terrible beasts tread down the earth—while the overspread-
ing of abominations make it desolate even to the CONSUM-
MATION. 
But the Lord says : 
Behold 1 create new heavens and a new earth ; 
And the former sh mil not be remembered, 
Nor come into mind. 
But be ye glad and rejoice FOREVER in that which I create ) 
For, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, 
And her people a joy. 
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, 
And joy in my people. 
And the voice of weepiug shall no more be heard in her, 
Nor the voice of crying."—Isaiah 65 : 17, 18.19. 
Now, we see why the Psalmist calls on the earth to re-
joice, in view of the coming of Jehovah to judge the earth. 
It is going to be cleansed or made new. 
O worship the Lord in the glorious sanctuary. 
Fear before him all the earth, 
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The world also shall be established that it shall not be moved. 
He shall judge the people righteously. 
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad. 
Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof. 
Let the fields be joyful, and all that is therein. 
Then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord. 
For he cometh—fur he cometh to judge the earih. 
He shall judge the world with righteousness, 
And the people with his truth.—Ps, 96 : 9—12. 
See also Ps 93 
Now, my dear brother, shall we disregard the perfect 
harmony between all these revelations of the Almighty, 
and apply one of these visions to a Syrian king who died 
164 years before Christ, when they so manifestly relate 
to great powers which rule in the earth till Christ dashes 
them in pieces, and sets up his 
everlasting kingdom, 
when, " to them that look for him, he shall appear the 
SECOND time, without sin, unto salvation?" 
Dare you 
deny that Christ applied this same prophecy to something 
which was still future, when he spoke 1 
" When ye 
SHALL SEE the abomination of desolation, SPOKEN 
OF BY DANIEL THE PROPHET, 
stand in the holy 
place." 
This language Christ applies to Rome, long af-
ter Antiochus was dead and buried. 
Why will you try 
to raise his putrid corpse 1 
But I need not argue this point. 
The identity of the 
visions in their progress identifies them in their end. 
"At the time appointed," said the angel, "the end shall 
be." 
That time appointed was the 2300 days. 
Gabriel 
was told by his divine Master, " Make this man to under-
stand the vision." 
He did it, in part, immediately, but 
gave him no hint, when to commence the 2300 days, or 
how to understand them. 
He closed by saying, " Shut 
thou up the vision, for it shall be for many days." 
It was 
indeed shut up then, for Daniel himself says, "T was aston-
ished at the vision, but none understood it." Had Gabriel 
then disobeyed the command to make Daniel understand 
it] 
It is certain he had not finished his work, and equally 
certain that he did finish it afterward. 
How do you know this ] an objector may inquire. 
Be-
cause he was stilt an angel of light, employed in errands 
from heaven, when he appeared to Zacharias and the vir-
gin Mary, 500 years afterwards. 
This proves that he had 
never disobeyed the Lord. 
Daniel waited fifteen years, however, in uncertainty. 
He had caught at the words, " The sanctuary shall be 
cleansed." 
He had naturally applied them to that which 
was first in his own heart, towards which his windows 
were open when he prayed. 
He waited till 2300 days 
had passed, once and again, and still the sanctuary was 
not cleansed. 
He was in doubt what this could mean.— 
In his perplexity, he did as we now do ; he applied himself 
to the study of the prophecies. 
There he learned that 
the seventy years of captivity were almost ended. 
Now, 
thought he, the sanctuary will indeed be cleansed. 
He 
therefore confessed his sins, and prayed, saying, " Cause 
thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary, that is desolate." 
Scarcely had he uttered this word when his 
prayer 
flying swift-
ly," as if on an urgent errand. 
What was it ] 
"I am 
now come forth to give thee skill and understanding :" 
as if he had said, I am come lo correct your mistake 
respecting the cleansing 
of the sanctuary, 
and 
the 
2300 days. 
The angel proceeds to say: 
" Understand 
the matter and consider the vision. 
Seventy weeks are i 
determined [CUT OFF, as all modern* Hebrew scholars j 
agree] upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish 
the transgression and make an end of sins, and to make 
reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting 
righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, 
and to anoint the Most Holy." 
That these seventy 
weeks, or seventy sevens were fulfilled at the death of 
Christ, after 490, or 70 times 7 years, most Christians are 
agreed. 
It only remains to inquire from what they are 
cut off. 
The only rational answer which offers itself is, 
the 2300 days, left unexplained before, and to which 
these seventy weeks are a key. 'What vision was be-
fore Daniel, which he could CONSIDER ] 
These words 
must relate to something he had seen before, or to what 
he was then looking at. 
WTiat vision was before him ] 
Nothing 
bat the person of the angel. 
Does the angel 
mean to be understood, as if he had sa;d, " 
Consider 
ME, look at my form, my face and my wings ; seventy 
weeks are cut off]" &c. 
He meant this, or referred him 
to THE VISION recorded in the eighth chapter, in which 
Gabriel had before been seen. 
But manifest as this con-
nection is, in our common translation, it is rendered still 
more clear and striking, in Tindale's translation of the 
Bible, printed in 1549. 
It was published before the chap-
ters were divided into verses. 
I give his orthography. 
"As I was yet speakinge at my prayers, knoweledginge 
myne owne synnes, and the synnes of my people, making 
so mine intercession before the Lorde my God, for the 
holye hil's sake of my God : 
Yea, while I was yet 
speaking in my prayer, beholde the man Gabriel (whome 
I had seen afore in the vision) came flying to me, and 
touched me about the offeringe time in the eveninge.— 
He informed me, and spake unto me : 
O Daniel, sayde 
he, I am now come to make the understand it. 
For as 
soone as thou beganest to make thy prayer, it was so di-
vised, and therefore am I come to shewe the. 
And 
why ] 
For thou art a man greatly beloved. 
Therefore, 
ponder the matter well, that thou mayest learne to un-
derstande the vision." 
Need we ask to have the connection made more man-
ifest] 
While pondering the matter well that he may 
" learne to understande the vision," he perceives that 
seventy sevens 
are cut off, which must be fulfilled in 
years. 
We know they have been so fufilled. 
This part 
cut offbeing thus fulfilled in years, the remainder must 
be so likewise. 
Subtract 490 from 2300 and 1810 re-
Here let us briefly sum up the argument: 
I. The Lord revealed future events to Daniel at five 
different times, including the revelation in the ninth 
chapter, which is evidently a key to that in the eighth. 
II. These revelations are different views in the same 
field, and they must OF COURSE 
harmonize. 
III. Daniel is permitted, at three separate times, to 
see the kingdom of Christ and his saints, which is to be 
universal, " under the whole heaven," and IT shall stand 
FOREVER, and the saints shall possess it forever, even 
forever and ever. 
There Daniel would expect his inher-
itance, and there he shall stand in his lot, at the end 
of the days. 
IV. Before this everlasting kingdom is set up, he sees 
the kingdoms of this world broken in pieces—consumed 
—destroyed—given to the burning 
flame. 
V. The view, in the eighth chapter, has a particular 
period during which it must begin. 
VI. The only precise point given in the whole 
Book 
for the commencement of the vision is, the going forth 
of the commandment 
to restore and build Jerusalem. 
This decree went forth within the above-named period 
457 years before the common Christian era 
of Christ's 
birth—from which point 490 years were fulfilled at his 
Crucifixion,—that great event which seals the vision. 
VII. From the same point, 2300 years terminate in 
1843,—the period before Christ being spanned by the 
arch of 490 years, and the 1810 years since, being 
fixed 
with astronomical precision. 
Thus all objections founded on the uncertainty 
of 
chronology are wholly obviated. 
O may we be ready to meet our Saviour, when the time 
is fulfilled, and he shall come to cut off the wicked from 
the earth, and to receive those who love his appearing. 
I remain &c. 
N. 
SOUTHARD. 
For the Midnight Cry, 
A 
CONVERT'S 
REASONS. 
Messrs. 
Editors,—I 
was once found among those who 
considered it contemptible to listen with any degree of 
patience to the Second Advent doctrine, as advocated by 
Mr. Miller, and others of similar belief. 
But my views 
on this important subject have greatly changed ; and it 
may, perhaps, subserve the cause of truth and righteous-
ness, to state how this change has been effected 
I have 
for some time, and in different ways, endeavored to find 
out the truth in reference to this very serious matter; and 
as a first resort. I very naturally seated myself at the feet of 
those who professed to know all about it. 
I listened with 
attention to the lectures of those whose professed object it 
was,to "use up Miller for a shilling," or (or nothing,if twel/e 
and a half cents were deemed too much to expend upon 
what was considered a "worthless humbug." 
I hoped 
to hear some well digested argument in opposition to 
Christ's personal reign upon the earth. 
But my hopes 
were, in every instance, destined to disappointment; the 
main scope of the lecturer seeming to be to set " second 
advent" doctrines before the mind in a distorted and ludi-
crous light. As my object was to understand the truth, and 
as that was not obtained while seeking it from the lips 
of those who are placed as " watchmen" on the walls of 
Zion, (who surely ought to know the " signs of the 
times,") I consulted the publications of the despised be-
lievers in the " personal reign" of Zion's King. 
In them 
I found no senseless ridicule applied to scenes of Judg-
ment and of Millennial glory ; but a serious, well man-
aged vindication of their sentiments, not in words of 
"mans 
icisdom," but in those which the Holy Uhost em-
ploys. 
Light began to dawn upon my mind, and when I 
found that a multitude of passages in the Bible were ut-
terly inexplicable, except when viewed in connection 
with two distinct resurrections 
of two very different class-
es, I could not but wonder that I should so long have 
opposed a doctrine which shines forth so luminously in 
the truth of God 
But I not only consulted " second 
advent" publications, I attended the lectures of Brother 
Storrs on several occasions. 
In his manner there was 
the utmost solemnity, and in his argument I could disco-
ver no vulnerable point. 
To unbelievers in the doctrine 
of the " personal reign" of Jesus, I would say, "search 
the Scriptures" and see if these things are not so. 
In 
conclusion, I would express how much I am indebted to 
the letters of Brother Southard to Brother Hatfield, for a 
mains to complete the vision. 
We have already lived j perfect refutation of the " Antiochus" delusion, 
1809 years and nine months since Christ was crucified.' 
Yours in the bonds of the Gospel, 
TIMOTHY. 
c, 'efV 3 
" SIGNS 
IN 
THE 
STARS." 
When all the signs mentioned by Christ, have been 
fulfilled, He says: " then shall THEY SEE the Son of 
Man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory." 
And he immediately adds : " When these things begin to 
come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads, for 
YOUR REDEMPTION draweth nigh." 
And after the parable 
ofthe "fig-tree, and all the trees," he proceeds : "When 
you see these things come to pass, know ye that THE 
KINGDOM OF GOD is NIGH at hand."—Luke 21 : 
25-31. 
Paul tells Timothy, [2 Tim. 4 : 1.] 
" Christ shall 
judge the quick and the dead at hi3 appearing and his 
kingdom." 
After a few solemn charges to Timothy, he 
says : " There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness 
which the Lord, the righteous judge shall give me AT 
THAT DAY, and not to me only, but to all ihem also that love 
his appearing." 
It is becoming very fashionable to refer all the Scrip-
tures respecting 
Christ's coming and the end of the 
world, to the destruction of Jerusalem. 
But unless it 
can be shown that Christ then came in the clouds, and that 
Paul, and those who loved the Lord's appearing, then re-
ceived their crowns, we must believe the time is yet to 
come, in which " the Lord Je'sus shall be revealed, with 
his mighty angels, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on 
them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel 
of our Lord Jesus Christ, when he shall come to be glori-
fied in his saints." 
Among the signs of this " great day for which all other 
days were made," it is said, " the stars shall fall from 
heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken." 
The fixed stars being much larger than the canh CAN-
NOT fall to it in showers, and therefore cannot be in-
tended. 
In former times, a few shooting stars, or me-
teors were noticed, but no very striking exhibition of 
them in multitudes was ever recorded previous to the 
memory of those now living. 
The People's Magazine 
for Jan. 1834, contains an extended article on this'subject, 
with an engraving, from which we extract the following 
interesting particulars : 
METEORIC 
PHENOMENA. 
" On the morning of the 13th Nov. 1833, those who 
are in the excellent habit of early rising, had an opportu-
nity of witnessing one ofthe most beautiful displays, that 
the imagination can conceive. 
We happened to be 
among the fortunate on this occasion, and therefore can 
describe the scene from our own observation. 
"We were about five miles southwest of Boston, and a 
little before five in the morning, on looking out of the 
window^, saw several stars shooting downward, leaving 
behind a long shining train. 
This excited our attention, 
and calling up "a learned friend who was sleeping in an 
adjacent room, we sallied forth. 
"The scene was indeed beautiful, and almost fjarful. 
On all sides of us, nearly without cessation, the meteors 
were streaming through the heavens ; sometimes one 
alone, sometimes two or three or more together. 
Some 
of them were small, and soon disappeared , others were 
more brilliant, and had a longer and more glorious ca-
reer. 
We were standing among some trees, the strong 
shadows of which were often thrown upon the ground as 
the meteors hurried by. 
" There was a boy with us, whose exclamations were 
amusing and descriptive. 
'Seejhere, see, see !' said he, 
' there goes a whole handful ! there's one cracked all to 
pieces ! 
Look up there ; that one's made a mark on the 
sky like a piece of chalk !' 
" It may well be believed that our feelings became 
deeply interested, and that an exhibition so wonderful, 
produced emotions amounting to awe. 
It seemed as if 
the very stars were leaping from their places, and after a 
rapid flight, vanishing into air. 
If philosophy taught U3 
better, still the imagination couldnot be restrained, and the 
mind pressed forward to that predicted hour, when 'all 
the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens 
shall be rolled together as a scroll ; and all their host 
shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and 
as a falling fig from the fig-tree.'—Isa. 34 : 4. 
" It is perhaps one of the purposes of such natural 
wonders, to rouse the mind, that might otherwise sleep 
over the works of God, to a consideration of the great 
things which he has done and has yet to do. 
This may 
be a part of their design, and therefore, it may not be 
amiss to indulge and cherish the deep and awiul impres-
sions which they make. But we should not permit these 
phenomena to excite superstitious ideas, for they are no 
doubt, as truly natural, and as much in the course of 
events as the clouds that every day are sweeping unheed-
ed through the sky." 
We shall not deny that these showers were produced 
by natural causes, but when Christ calls our attention to 
such SIGNS it must be wrong to consider them unworthy 
of special notice.—En. 
" A correspondent of the Philadelphia National Gazette 
gives the following description of the appearance ofthe 
phenomenon in that city :— 
" ' About a quarter past five o'clock this morning, be-
ing awake, a blaze of light filled the window, which in all 
respects resembled the effects produced by a flash of 
lightning. 
I was soon informed that there was an un-
common appearance of shooting stars. 
In order to ob-
tain a full view of this brilliant scene, I took a position 
in the open air, and, in conjunction with a person near 
me, counted the number that appeared in five minutes. 
They amounted to eighty at least ; but as sometimes sev-
eral would fall at one time, and frequently in opposite 
portions of the heavens, it is most probable that many es-
caped our observation. 
During the whole time, allowing 
eighty to have appeared in five minutes throughout, the 
number of descending meteors must have amounted to 
upwards of two thousand ; while many, in their sudden 
transit, would exhibit only a train of pale light, but well 
defined, others, bursting suddenly upon the sight, would 
blaze splendidly through the whole extent of their course, 
impressing the eye for a few moments with the appear-
ance of a brilliant line of light. 
It was impossible to wit-
ness these appearances without being strongly impressed 
with the sublimity and splendor ofthe scene.' 
" A correspondent of the New York Commercial Ad-
vertiser gives the following description of these meteors : 
" ' At half past four o'clock A. M., I first observed it, 
and continued to notice it until its termination at six 
o'clock A.M. 
From a point in the heavens, about fif-
teen degrees southeasterly from our zenith, the meteors 
darted to the horizon in every point of the compass. 
Their paths were described in curved lines similar to 
those of the parallels of longitude on an artificial globe. 
" ' Millions of these meteors must have been darted in 
this shower. I was not able to remark a single one whose 
proximity to me was greater or less than any other—by 
being intercepted between my vision and any distant ob-
ject—such as trees, houses, or'the high shore of New 
Jersey west of me. 
The singularity of this meteoric 
shower consisted in the countless numbers of the celes-
tial rockets, and more especially in their constantly un-
form divergence from the point fifteen degrees southeast-
erly from our zenith.' 
" A writer in the Rockingham (Va ) Register, states 
that these phenomena began about one o'clock, and con-
tinued without intermission till daylight. 
. 
" ' It might be literally called a rain of fire. It consist-
ed, to adopt the vulgar denomination, of very numerous 
shooting stars,—so numerous as to fill the whole atmos-
phere, and to be resembled by those whose sphere of ob-
servation was pretty large, to those flakes of snow which 
we are accustomed to see as the precursors of a coming 
snow storm. 
Thousands of those bright scintillations 
were to he seen at one glance ofthe eye. 
Some of these 
meteors were large, and emitted a vivid light ; others 
were mere sparks or scintillations ; but all so rapid in 
their motions as to seem a fiery line stretched from the 
point of detonation to the point of extinction.' 
" A gentleman who came passenger in the Hilah, from 
Liverpool, informed the editors of the New York Journal 
of Commerce ' that on the night of the 12th—13th in«t. 
she was on St. George"s Bank, about 300 miles dis-
tant from the coast. 
The meteoric phenomenon was as 
splendid there as it is described to have been here : and 
occurred at the same time of the night.' " 
" A gentleman who was riding in-the stage at St Law-
rence County, during the same night, stated ' that instead 
of a shower of meteors, he encountered a fall of snow. 
He however noticed frequent flashes of bright light, and 
the stage driver remarked that it was strange there 
should be lightning during a snowstorm.' ". 
" The Salem Register of Nov. 18th mentions a some-
what singular coincidence connected with thess phenom-
ena. ' It appears that Captain Hammond of the ship 
Restitution, and his crew, who arrived at this port last 
week from Palermo, have had the extraordinary good 
fortune of witnessing this wonderful phenomenon twice 
within ayear—the 
ship being in our bay on Wednesday 
morning, bound in. 
They saw the meteors as early as 
twelve o'clock, and viewed them till daylight. 
The ap-
pearance of the heavens was very similar to that of an 
occurrence which happened exactly on the same day of 
the month and year, at Mocha, in the Red Sea, where 
they went for pepper. 
Captan Hammond thus describes 
the sight at Mocha, in an extract from his Journal, writ-
ten at the time. 
" ' Nov. 13th, 1832. 
From'l A. M. until after daylight 
there was a very unusual phenomenon in the heavens. It 
appeared like meteors bursting in every direction. 
The 
sky at the time clear, the stars and moon bright, with 
streaks of light, and thin white clouds interspersed in the 
sky. 
On goin? on shore in the morning, I inquired ofthe 
Arabs if they had noticed the above : they said they had 
been observing it most ofthe night. 
I asked them if the 
like had ever appeared before. 
The oldest of ihem re-
plied it had not. 
I asked them to what they;attributed 
it 1 The answer was, they supposed the Devil was at 
work, and they considered it was an [.ill-omen, which of 
course was natural, as they were daily expecting an ar- ; 
my to besiege the city. 
For the last six days in has been 
blowing a strong gale from the south—hazy weather, and 
satid in the air.' 
"The Register also states as remarkable coincidences, 
that the only three great meteoric showers on record all 
took place on the morning of November 13, viz :—In 
South America, November 13, 1779—at Mocha, Novem-
ber 13, 1832—and in the United States, November 13, 
1833." 
" Below is an account of an appearance seen in 1779, 
by Andrew Ellicott, Esq. 
It is taken from the Transac-
tions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. Vl. 
pp. 28, 29. 
" 'November 12, 1779, about3 o'clock A. M., I was 
called up to see the shooting stars (as it is commonly 
called.) 
The phenomena was grand and awful; the 
whole heavens appeared as if illuminated with sky rock-
ets, which disappeared only by the light of the sun after 
daybreak. 
The meteors, which at any one instant of 
time appeared as numerous as the stars, flew in all pos-
sible directions, except from the earth, toward which all 
inclined more or less ; and some of them descended per-
pendicularly over the vessel we were in, so that I was 
in constant expectation of their falling among us. 
We 
were in lat. 26 deg. N. and S; E. from the Key Largo, 
near the edge ofthe Gulf Stream. 
" ' I have since been informed that the above phenom-
enon extended over a large portion of the West India 
Islands, and as far north as St. Mary's in lat. 30, 42, 
where it appeared as brilliant as with us off Cape Flori-
da.' " 
" The following account of a meteoric phenomenon, 
very similar to that of the 13th inst. is taken from the 
Richmond Va. Gazette, of April 23, .1803. 
This electri-
cal phenomenon was observed on Wednesday morning 
last at Richmond and vicinity, in a manner that astonish-
ed every person who beheld it. From one until three in the 
morning, those starry meteors seemed to fall from every 
point in the heavens, in such numbers as to resemble a 
shower of sky-rockets. 
Several meteors were accom-
panied with a train of fire, that illuminated the sky for a 
considerable distance. 
One, in particular, appeared to 
fall from the zenith, of the apparent size of a ball eigh-
teen inches in diameter; that lighted for several seconds 
the whole hemisphere. 
During the continuance of this 
remarkable phenomenon, a hissing noise in the air was 
plainly lizard, and several reports resembling the dis-
charge of a pistol." 
" In June 1799, Humboldt observed a prodigious num-
ber of falling stars between the island of Madeira and the 
coast of Africa. 
Thousands of falling stars succeeded 
each other during four hours. 
Bonpland relates that 
there was not a place in the heavens from the beginning 
of the phenomenon, equal to the extent of three diame-
ters of the rnoon which was not filled with them. 
" Accounts have been received 
from New Orleans 
which state that the late phenomena (in Nov. 1833) were 
also witnessed in that city ; and the western papers con-
tain full descriptions of the celestial display, as it was 
seen in that section of the country." 
A 
STRANGE 
THING. 
A few days since, some of our Second Advent brethren 
went to a Presbyterian clergyman in Newark, N. J. to 
obtain the use of his meeting house, for the purpose of 
giving a lecture, when he remarked, it was an utter 
absurdity to talk of Christ's reigning upon this.earth-
that people who believed such a doctrine, had not minds 
as big as a grain of sand. 
" Why," said he, " if Christ 
does reign here, He may reign alone, for all me—I would 
not stay with him ! 1 !" 
Very well; the gentleman can 
probably have his choice either to " stay with" Christ, or 
be among those who " shall go away." 
But that choice 
must be made before the Master comes. 
What must be 
the state of that teacher in Israel, who can treat this 
great subject in such a manner 1 The doctrine of Christ's 
speedy coming is drawing a straight line. 
There is no 
neutral ground. 
We must either be for or against 
Christ. 
It is a strange thing, to our mind, how a 
Chris-
tian can have such a strong aversion to the coming of 
Christ. 
O* Lectures 
on subjects connected 
with Christ's 
coming at hand, are delivered almost every evening, at 
the M. P. Church in Attorney Street. 
Bro. Jacobs en-
ters heartily into the work.. 
THE 
TURKISH 
EMPIRE. 
More than twelve years ago, brother Miller published 
his views on the 9th chapter of Revelations, expressing 
his belief that the close uf the sixth trumpet would be 
marked by the departure of Turkish supremacy, in 1839, 
or 1840. 
Nearly five years ago, [ in 1838] brother Litch, 
understanding the duration of the sixth trumpet to be 
represented by a day for a year, published this lecture. 
That the sixth trumpet relates to the Turkish power, 
most of our learned commentators agree. 
That its in-
dependence has departed is most clearly proved by the 
Eastern correspondence of the " New York Observer," 
published in August, 1841. 
Their correspondent uses 
the following expressive language, probably having no 
more suspicion that he was sustaining our views of the 
near coming of Christ, than that he was building up Ma-
homedanism : " The Turkish Empire is becoming de-
composed, and is but A MERE CORPSE !" 
Now, let us suppose a case, and ask a question. 
Imagine an ambitious politician in the south-west part 
of this Union. 
He draws around him the heterogeneous 
French, Spanish, and English population of Louisiana, 
and Florida, and becomes their leader in rebellion against 
the General Government; our navy is manned arid sent 
against him, but he captures it, and sets our armies at 
defiance. 
Our President is reduced to such extremity, 
that he is compelled to accept ihe intervention of friendly 
powers. 
They, by their ambassadors at Washington, 
agree upon terms to be offered to the bold rebel. 
They 
tell him, if he will give up the fleet he has captured, and 
withdraw his troops from the rest of the Union, they 
will give him Louisiana, to be held by him and his family 
forever, and Florida to be his during life. 
The President 
agrees to these terms, with the further humiliating pro-
viso that, if they are not accepted by the rebel, the friend-
ly powers may take the matter into their own hands — 
After the messenger has left Washington, the President 
sends to the,ambassadors ofthe friendly powers to know 
what is to be done, if the successful rebel refuses even 
this offer. 
The ambassadors answer,—"WE 
WILL 
TAKE CARE OF THAT 
Would not every one feel 
that the independence of this country had 
departed1 
What if we were afterwards permitted to keep up the 
forms of government 1 So are other provinces permitted. 
We believe the sixth trumpet has ceased its sounding ; 
and to those who are not prepared for the last blast of 
the LAST TRUMPET, it is a fearful thought. 
O, hear 
his voice. 
PREPARE TO MEET THY 
GOD. 
THE THREE ¥0 TRUMPETS, 
W
O
! 
WO!! 
WO!!! 
Fall of the Ottoman Empire, or Otto 
man Supremacy departed, August 11, 
1840/* 
BY 
JOSIAH 
LITCH. 
And 1 beheld, and heard an angel flying through the 
midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Wo, wo, wo, 
to the inhabiters of the earth, by reason of the other 
voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet 
to sound 
Rev. viii. 13. 
The second wo is past; and behold, the third wo com-
eth quickly 
Rev. xi. 14. 
And the seventh angel sounded ; and there were great 
voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world 
are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; 
and he shall reign for ever and ever. 
. 
Rev. xi. 15. 
And the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, 
and the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and 
that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the 
prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear thy name, 
small and great j and shouldest destroy them which de-
stroy the earth 
Rev. xi. 18. 
REVELATION, NINTH CHAPTER. 
THE book of Revelation has long been looked 
upon as a book of inexplicable mysteries, alto-
gether beyond the reach of the comprehension of 
mortals. 
And this opinion has received too 
much encouragement from professed teachers 
and expounders of the word of God, many of 
them of eminent talents and various learning. 
It is greatly to be feared much evil has been 
done by their unguarded remarks respecting the 
obscurity of unfulfilled prophecy in general, and 
the book of Revelation in particular. 
Can it be 
otherwise than that the Holy Spirit is grieved, 
and the God of Revelation slighted and insulted, 
by such insinuations and remarks as are fre-
quently made in reference to the sure word of 
prophecy ? How differently has the author of the 
book expressed himself in reference to it! 
He 
calls it, " THE 
BOOK 
OF 
THE 
REVELATION 
OF 
JESUS 
CHRIST, xohich God gave unto him, to 
SHOW UNTO HIS SERVANTS things which must 
shortly come to pass : and he sent and signified 
it by his angel unto his servant John, who bare 
record," &c. 
If it is a revelation, then it is not an inexplica-
ble mystery, but the mind, of God made known 
to man. 
" Blessed," then, " is he that readeth, 
and they which hear the words of the prophecy of 
this book." If God, then, has pronounced a bless-
ing on the reader of this book, who shall disan-
nul it ? 
"We may say, " Let them curse, but bless 
thou*" 
It is admitted that the book is highly figura 
tive, and cannot be readily understood without 
labor and pains-taking. 
But at the same time 
this admission is made, it is maintained that 
there is a key for interpreting all the figures of 
the Holy Scriptures, if we will but take the pains 
to search for it, comparing spiritual things with 
spiritual. 
• This discourse is taken from the Second Advent Re-
ports, No. 2. 
But to our subject. 
The text is a part of a 
prediction of a long series of events, presented 
under the sounding by seven angels of seven 
trumpets. 
"What events were shadowed forth 
by the sounding of the first four angels, we shall 
not now stop to inquire, but shall come at once 
to the fifth trumpet, and the events which accom-
panied its sounding. 
When the fourth angei ceased to sound, it was 
said, " Wo, wo, wo to the inhabiters of the earth, 
by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of 
the three angels which are yet to sound." 
Rev. ix. 1: " And the fifth angel sounded, and 
I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth; and 
to him was given the key of the bottomless pit." 
A star, in the figurative language of Revela-
tion, is a minister of religion. 
See Rev. i. 20 : 
" The seven stars are the angels (or ministers) 
of the seven churches." 
A fallen star, then, 
would signify a fallen or heretical minister of 
religion. 
This was undoubtedly the Arabian 
impostor, Mahomet. 
There is so general an 
agreement among Christians, especially protes-
tant commentators, that the subject of this predic-
tion is Mahommedism, I shall not enter into the 
argument at large to prove it; but in passing, shall 
merely give a brief exposition of the emblems 
used, and their application in the text. 
Verse 2 : " And he opened the bottomless pit; 
and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the 
smoke of a great furnace ; and the'sun and the 
air were darkened by reason of the smoke of 
the pit." 
If Mahomet was the fallen star who opened 
the bottomless pit, then the smoke was the cloud 
of errors which arose through his instrumen-
tality, darkening the sun, (gospel light,) and the 
air, (the influence of Christianity on the minds 
of men.) 
In this enterprise, he and his follow-
ers were so successful that the light of Chris-
tianity almost disappeared wherever he gained 
an influence; and the smoke of the pit produced 
nearly total darknesjs throughout the eastern 
church. 
Verse 3 : " And there came out of the smoke 
locusts upon the earth; and unto them was given 
power as the scorpions of the earth have power." 
Locusts upon the earth. 
That these locusts 
were emblems of an army, is clear from verses 7 
and 8 : " And the shapes of the locusts were like 
unto horses prepared unto battle ; and on their 
heads were crowns like gold, and their faces 
were as the faces of men. 
And they had hair 
like the hair of women, and their teeth were as 
the teeth of lions," &c. ' 
This description corresponds strikingly with 
the description history gives us of the Mahom 
medan horsemen. 
1. The shape of the loc7ists, 
like horses prepared for battle. 
2. Their head-
dress. 
" Faces of men, hair as the hair of 
women, and crowns LIKE gold on their heads.' 
Such is the description of a Mahommedan horse 
man prepared for battle. 
A horse, a rider with 
a man's face, long flowing beard, woman's hair 
flowing or plaited, and the head encircled with a 
yellow turban, LIKE gold. 
I " Was given power, as the scorpions of the earth 
viave power." 
" The scorpion is generally two inches in 
length, and resembles so much the lobster in 
form, that the latter is called by the Arabs the 
sea-scorpion. 
The poison of this animal is in its 
tail, at the end of which is a small, curved, sharp-
pointed sting, similar to the prickle of a buck-
thorn tree ; the curve being downward, it turns 
its tail upward when it strikes a blow. 
-Some 
are yellow, others brown, and some black. 
The 
yellow possesses the strongest poison, but the 
venom of each affects the wounded part with fri-
gidity, which takes place soon after the sting has 
been inflicted."^ 
Discarides gives an account of the effect pro-
duced by the sting of a scorpion. 
" Where the 
scorpion has stung, the place becomes inflamed 
and hardened. 
It reddens by tension, and is 
painful by intervals, being now chilly, and now 
burning. 
The pain soon rises high and rages, 
sometimes more, sometimes less. 
A sweating 
succeeds, attended by a shivering and trembling; 
the extremities of the body become cold ; the 
groin swells; the hair stands on end; the visage 
becomes pale; and the skin feels throughout 
it the sensation of perpetual prickling, as if by 
needles." 
Martinicus says of the attack, " Scorpions have 
nippers, or pincers, with which they keep hold 
of what they seize, after they have wounded it 
with their sting." 
The Mahommedan armies were principally 
horsemen ; and these armies were the principal 
instruments by means of which the Mahomme-
dan religion was propagated. 
Like the scorpion, 
Mahomet stung the subjects of his proselytism, 
and infused the poison of his doctrines, and con-
tinued to hold them by the force of arms, until 
it had affected the whole man, and the subject 
settled down in the belief of his delusive errors. 
For ten years Mahomet labored in Mecca to 
propagate his religion by moral means; but it 
made but slow progress. 
He then was obliged, 
by flight to Medina, to save his own life. 
In 
Medina he was cordially received, and soon as-
sumed both the regal and sacerdotal characters, 
enlisted an army, and commenced the extension 
of his religion by the power of the sword. 
Wherever his arms triumphed, there his religion 
was imposed on men, whether they believed it 
or not. 
It was not a gentle infusion of truth by 
moral suasion, but a violent, forcible imposition 
of falsehood, or poisonous error, and a retention 
by force of the victim, until the poison took 
effect. 
" The successors of the prophet propagated his 
faith and imitated his example; and such was 
the rapidity of their progress, that in the space 
of a century, Persia, Syria, Egypt, Africa, and 
Spam, had submitted to the victorious arms of 
the Arabian and_ Saracen conquerors."! 
Verse 4: " And it was commanded them that 
they should not hurt the grass of the earth, 
neither any green thing, neither any tree; but 
only those men which have not the seal of God 
in their foreheads." 
Grass, green thing, and tree, are here put in 
opposition to those men who have not the seal of 
* R. Watson. 
f Ruter. 
God, &c. 
If so, they must mean those who 
have the seal of God—his worshippers. 
"Among the torments inflicted by the Mahom-
medan powers upon the conquered, were the fol-
lowing :—Infidels, who rejected the Christian 
religion, and also all idolaters, they forced to 
receive the Mahomrnedan religion, upon pain of 
death. 
But Jews and Christians, who had their 
Bibles and their religion, they left to the enjoy-
ment of them, upon their paying large sums, 
which they exacted. 
But where the payment 
of such sums was refused, they must either em-
brace the new religion or die."* 
Thus it was 
commanded them not to hurt grass, green thing, 
tree—Christians ; but those Avho had not the seal 
of God—infidels and heathen. 
Verse 5 : " And to them it was given that they 
should not kill them, but that they should be tor-
mented five months." 
As the language thus far has been figurative, 
so it must be here also. 
To kill, signifies a po-
litical death, or subjection. The nation of Chris-
tians who were the subjects of this plague were 
to be tormented five months, but not politically 
slain. 
Five months is one hundred and fifty 
days; each day a full solar year; the whole time 
one hundred and fifty years. 
Verse 6: " And in those days men shall seek 
death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to 
die, and death shall flee from them. 
This, of course, is the same death as that in 
ver^e 5, viz., political. 
Such was the misery of 
the Greeks, occasioned by the wars in which 
they were almost continually embroiled with the 
Mahomrnedan powers, that very many would 
have preferred an entire subjection of the empire 
to them, to the protracted miseries the war occa-
sioned. 
But this was not permitted; political 
death fled from them. 
THE TORMENT OF THE GREEKS ONE HUNDRED AND 
FIFTY YEARS. 
Verse 10 : " Their power was to hurt men five 
months." 
1. The question arises, What men were they 
to hurt five months ? 
Undoubtedly, the same 
they were afterwards to slay; (see verse 15.) 
" The third part of men," or "third of the Roman 
empire—the Greek division of it. 
2. When were they to begin their work of tor-
ment ? 
The 11th verse answers the question:— 
" They had a king over them, which is the angel 
of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew 
tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek hath his 
name Apollyon." 
1. "They had a king over them.'''' From the 
death of Mahomet until near the close of the 
13th century, the Mahommedans were divided 
into various factions, under several leaders, with 
no general civil government extending over them 
all. 
Near the close of the 13th century, Oth-
man founded a government, which has since 
been known as the Ottoman government, or 
empire, extending over all the principal Mahom-
rnedan tribes, consolidating them into one grand 
monarchy. 
2. The character of the king. 
" Which is the 
angel of the bottomless pit." 
An angel signifies 
a messenger, or minister, either good or bad; 
not always a spiritual being. 
" The angel of the 
bottomless pit," or chief minister of the religion 
which came from thence when it was opened. 
That religion is Mahommedism, and the Sultan 
is its chief minister. 
" The Sultan, or Grand 
Signior, as he is indifferently called, is also 
Supreme Caliph, or high priest, uniting in his 
person the highest spiritual dignity with the 
supreme secular authority."t 
* Smith's Key to Revelation, 
f See Perkin's " "World as it is," p. 361. 
When the address'of "The World's Anti-
Slavery Convention" was presented to Mehemet 
Ali, he expressed his willingness to act in the 
matter, but said he could do nothing; they "must 
go to the heads of religion at Constantinople," 
that is, the Sultan. 
3. His name. 
In Hebrew, "Abaddon," the 
destroyer; in Greek, 11 Apollyon," one that exter-
minates or destroys. Having two different names 
in the two languages, it is evident that the char-
acter rather than the name of the power is in-
tended to be represented. 
If so, in both langua-
ges he is a destroyer. 
Such has always been 
the character of the Ottoman government. 
Says Perkins, " He," the Sultan, " has unlim-
ited power over the lives and property of his sub-
jects, especially of the high officers of state, whom 
he can remove, plunder or put to death at pleas-
ure. 
Th,ey are required submissively to kiss the 
bow-string which he sends them, wherewith they 
are to be strangled." 
All the above marks apply to the Ottoman 
government in a striking manner. 
But when did Othman make his first assault 
on the Greek empire? 
According to Gibbon, 
["Decl. and Fall," &c.) "Othman first entered 
the territory of Nicomedia on the 27th day of 
July, 1299." 
The calculations of some writers have gone 
upon the supposition that the period should begin 
with the foundation of the Ottoman empire; but 
this is evidently an error : for they not only were 
to have a king over them, but were to torment 
men five months. 
But the period of torment 
could not begin before the first attack of the tor-
mentors, which was as above, July 27th, 1299. 
The calculation which follows, founded on 
this starting-point, was made and published in 
" CHRIST'S SECOND COMING," &C., by the author, 
in 1838. 
" And their poioer ivas to torment men five 
mo7iths." Thus far their commission extended, 
to torment, by constant depredations, but not 
politically to kill them. 
" Five months;" that is, 
one hundred and fifty years. 
Commencing July 
th, 1299, the one hundred and fifty years reach 
to 1449. 
During that whole period the Turks 
were engaged in an almost perpetual war writh 
the Greek empire, but yet without conquering it 
They seized upon and held several of the Greek 
provinces, but still Greek independence was 
maintained in Constantinople. But in 1449, the 
termination of the one hundred and fifty years, 
a change came. 
Before presenting the history 
of that change, however, we will look at verses 
12—15. 
THE 
OTTOMAN 
SUPREMACY 
IN 
CONSTANTINOPLE 
THREE 
HUNDRED AND NINETY-ONE 
YEARS 
AND 
FIFTEEN 
DAYS. 
Verse 12: " One wo is past; and behold, there 
come two woes more hereafter." 
Verse 13 : "And the sixth angel sounded, and 
I heard a voice, from the four horns of the golden 
altar which is before God." 
Verse 14: " Saying to the sixth angel which 
had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which 
are bound in the great river Euphrates." 
Verse 15: " And the four angels were loosed, 
which were prepared for an hour, a day, a month, 
and a year, for to slay the third part of men." 
The first wo was to continue from the rise of 
Mahommedism until the end of the five months 
Then the first wo was to end, and the second 
begin. 
And when the sixth angel sounded, it 
was commanded to take off the restraints which 
had been imposed on the nation, by which they 
were restricted to the work of tormenting men, 
and their commission extended to slay the third 
Ipart of men. 
This command came from the four 
ihorns of the golden altar which is before God. 
" The four angels," are the four principal sul-
tanies of which the Ottoman empire is composed, 
located in the country of the Euphrates. ' They 
had been restrained; Goti commanded, and they 
were loosed. 
In the year 1449, John Paleologus, the Greek 
emperor, died, but left no children to inherit his 
throne, and Constantine Deacozes succeeded to> 
it. 
But he would not venture to ascend the 
throne without the consent of Amurath, the 
Turkish Sultan. He therefore sent ambassadors 
to ask his consent, and obtained it, before he 
presumed to call himself sovereign. 
F 
" This shameful proceeding seemed to presage 
the approaching downfall of the empire. 
Ducas, 
the historian, counts John Paleologus for the last 
Greek emperor, without doubt, because he did 
not consider as such a prince who had not dared 
to reign without the permission of his enemy."* 
Let this historical fact be carefully examined 
in connection with the prediction above. 
This 
was not a violent assault made on the Greeks, 
by which their empire was overthrown and their 
independence taken away, but simply a volun-
tary surrender of that independence into the 
hands of the Turks, by saying, " I cannot reign 
unless you permit." 
The four angels were loosed for an hour, a 
day, a month, and a year, to slay the third part 
of men. 
This period amounts to three hundred 
and ninety-one years and fifteen days; during 
which Ottoman supremacy was to exist in Con-
stantinople. 
f 
Commencing when the one hundred and fifty 
years ended, in 1449, the period would end Au-
gust 11th, 1840. 
Judging from the manner of 
the commencement of the Ottoman supremacy, 
that it was by a voluntary acknowledgment on the 
part of the Greek emperor that he only reigned 
by permission of the Turkish Sultan, we should 
naturally conclude that the fall or departure of 
Ottoman independence would be brought about 
in the same way ; that at the end of the specified 
period, the Sultan would voluntarily surrender 
his independence into the hands of the Christian 
poivers, from whom he received it. 
When the foregoing calculation was made, it 
was purely a matter of calculation on the pro-
phetic periods of Scripture. 
Now, however, the 
time has passed by, and it is proper to inquire 
what the result has been—whether it has corre-
sponded with the previous calculation. 
1. Has the OTTOMAN independence in Constan-
tinople departed, and is it in CHRISTIAN HANDS ? 
Let the following testimony answer the ques-
tion. 
«» 
First Testimony. 
The London Morning Her-
ald, after the capture of St. Jean d'Acre, speak-
ing of the state of things in the Ottoman empire, 
says:—"We (the allies) have conquered St. Jean 
d'Acre. 
We have dissipated into thin air the 
prestige that lately invested as with a halo the 
name of Mehemet Ali. 
We have in all proba-
bility destroyed forever the power of that hith-
erto successful ruler. 
But have we done aught 
to restore strength to the Ottoman empire ? WE 
FEAR NOT. 
WE 
FEAR 
THAT 
THE 
SULTAN 
HAS 
BEEN REDUCED TO THE 
RANK OF A PUPPET J 
AND 
THAT 
THE 
SOURCES 
OF THE 
TURKISH 
EMPIRE'S 
STRENGTH ARE ENTIRELY 
DESTROYED. 
" If the supremacy of the Sultan is hereafter 
to be maintained in Egypt, it must be maintain-
ed, we fear, by the unceasing intervention of 
England and Russia." 
What the London Morning Herald last No-
vember feared, has since been realized. 
The 
Sultan has been entirely, in all the great ques-
tions which have come up, under the dictation 
of the Christian kingdoms of Europe; and on 
* Hawkins' Ottoman Empire, p. 113. 
them he has been dependent for support against 
Mehemet. 
Second Testimony. 
The following is from 
Rev. Mr. Goodell, missionary of the American 
Board at Constantinople, addressed to the Board, 
and by them published in the Missionary Herald 
for April, 1841, p. 160. 
" The power of Islamism, is broken forever ; 
and there is no concealing the fact even from 
themselves. 
They exist now by mere suffer-
ance. 
And though there is a mighty effort 
made by the Christian governments to sustain 
them, yet at every step they sink lower and 
lower with fearful velocity. 
And though there 
is a great endeavor made to graft the institutions 
of civilized and Christian countries, upon the de 
cayed trunk, yet the very root itself is fast wast-
ing away by the venon of its own poison. 
How 
wonderful it is, that, when all Christendom com 
bined together to check the progress of Mahom-
medan power, it waxed exceedingly great in spite 
of every opposition; and now, when all the 
mighty potentates of Christian Europe, who feel 
fully competent to settle all the quarrels, and 
arrange all the affairs of the whole world, are 
leagued together 
for its protection 
and de-
fence, down it comes, in spite of all their foster-
ing care." 
This, let it be remembered, is the clear, posi-
tive testimony of an eye-witness, a man who is 
on the spot, and who knows whereof he affirms. 
For truth and veracity, he has the confidence of 
the American Board of Commissioners for For-
eign Missions, and they, in their official organ, 
have given publicity to the testimony. 
Reader, 
please review this witness's testimony, and mark 
its point and strength. 
Third Testimony. 
The following is an ex-
tract from a London paper. 
The article is head-
ed, " The Waning of the Ottoman Empire." 
It 
has been copied into most of the leading jour-
nals of this country, without one word of dissent 
on the part of any. 
Thus the whole editorial 
corps in this country have given it their official 
sanction. 
The object of the writer is to show the relative 
condition of the Turkish and Christian powers 
of Europe. 
In former times the Turkish empire 
exceeded in power every kingdom in Europe 
But the scene is changed; the Turks are weak-
ened, and the Christian nations strengthened. 
The article concludes thus : " The day they (the 
nations of Europe) counted their numbers was to 
be thelast of Constantinople; 
AND THAT DAY HAS 
EVERYWHERE 
COME." 
So, according to all our leading periodicals 
the last of Constantinople has come. 
Fourth 
Testimony. 
Dr. Bond, editor of the 
Christian Advocate and Journal, New York, in 
one of the May numbers of that paper, concludes 
his account of Eastern affairs thus : " The Ma 
hommedan nations are effectually in the hands, 
and at the mercy of the Christia?i governments.' 
Fifth Testimony. 
Rev. Mr. Balch, of Provi-
dence, R. I., in an attack on Mr. Miller for say-
ing that the Ottoman empire fell last year, says: 
" How can an honest man have the hardihood 
to stand up before an intelligent audience, and 
make such an assertion, when the most authen-
tic version of the change of the Ottoman empire is 
that it has not been on a better foundation in fifty 
years, for it is now re-organized 
by the Euro-
pean kingdoms, and is honorably treated as 
such." 
But how does it happen that Christian Eu-
rope re-organized 
the government ? 
What need 
of it, if it was not disorganized ? 
If Christian 
Europe has done this, then it is now, to all in 
tents and purposes, a Christian government, and 
is only ruled nominally by the Sultan, as their 
vassal. 
The foregoing testimonies on the question in 
hand are explicit, and show conclusively that 
Turkish independence is gone, and that the 
Christian powers of Europe have it in thejr 
hands.* 
2. When did Mahommedan independence 
in 
Constantinople depart ? 
In order to answer this question understand-
ingly, it will be necessary to review briefly the 
history of that power for a few years past. 
For several years the Sultan has been em-
broiled in war with Mehemet Ali, Pacha of 
Egypt. 
In 1838 there was a threatening of war 
between the Sultan and his Egyptian vassal. 
Mehemet Ali Pacha, in a note addressed to the 
foreign consuls, declared that in future he would 
pay no tribute to the Porte, and that he con-
sidered himself independent sovereign of Egypt 
Arabia, and Syria. 
The Sultan, naturally in-
censed at this declaration, would have immedi-
ately commenced hostilities, had he not been 
restrained by the influence of the foreign am-
bassadors, and persuaded to delay. 
This war, 
however, was finally averted by the announce-
ment of Mehemet, that he was ready to pay a 
million of dollars, arrearages of tribute which 
he owed the Porte, and an actual payment of 
$750,000, in August of that year. 
In 1839 hostilities again commenced, and 
were prosecuted, until, in a general battle be-
tween the armies of the Sultan and Mehemet, 
the Sultan's army was entirely cut up and de 
stroyed, and his fleet taken by Mehemet and 
carried into Egypt. 
So completely had the 
Sultan's fleet been reduced, that, when hostilities 
commenced last August, he had only two first-
rates and three frigates, as the sad remains of 
the once powerful Turkish 
fleet. 
This fleet] 
Mehemet positively refused to give up and return 
to the Sultan, and declared if the powers at-
tempted to take it from him, he would burn it. 
In this posture affairs stood, when, in 1840, 
England, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, inter-
posed, and determined on a settlement of the 
difficulty; for it was evident, if let alone, Me-
hemet would soon become master of the Sultan's 
throne. 
The following extracts from an official docu 
ment, which appeared in the Moniteur 
Ottoman, 
Aug. 22, 1840, will give an idea of the course 
of affairs at this juncture. 
The conference spo-
ken of was composed of the four powers above 
named, and was held in London, July 15th, 
1840. 
" Subsequent to the occurrence of the disputes 
alluded to, and after the reverses experienced, 
as known to all the world, the ambassadors of 
the great powers at Constantinople, in a collec-
tive official note, declared, that their governments 
were unanimously agreed upon taking measures 
to arrange the said differences. 
The Sublime 
Porte, with a view of putting a stop to the effu-
sion of Mussulman blood, and to the various 
evils which would arise from a renewal of hos-
tilities, ACCEPTED the intervention 
of the great 
powers." 
Here was certainly a voluntary surrender of 
the question into the hands of the great powers. 
But it proceeds: 
" His Excellency, Sheikh Effendi, the Bey 
Likgis, was therefore despatched as plenipoten 
tiary to represent the Sublime Porte at the con-
ference which took place in London, for the 
purpose in question. 
It having been felt that 
all the zealous labors of the conferences of Lon-
don in the settlement of the Pacha's pretensions 
were useless, and that the only public way was 
* To this we add a sixth. 
Rev. Joel Howes, of Hart-
ford, Ct., recently said in a public meeting, that the Otto-
man power was down—dead—gone. 
to have recourse to coercive measures to reduce 
him to obedience, in case he persisted in not 
listening to pacific overtures, the powers have, 
together with the 
OTTOMAN 
PLENIPOTENTIARY, 
drawn up and signed a treaty, Avhereby the Sul-
tan offers the Pacha the hereditary government 
of Egypt, and all that part of Syria extending 
from the gulf of Suez to the lake of Tiberias, 
together with the province of Acre, for life ; the 
Pacha, on his part, evacuating all other parts of 
the Sultan's dominions now occupied by him, 
and returning the Ottoman 
fleet. 
A certain 
space of time has been granted him to accede to 
these terms ; and, as the proposals of the Sultan 
and his allies, the four powers, do not admit of 
any change or qualification, if the Pacha refuse 
to accede to them, it is evident that the evil con-
sequences to fall upon him will be attributable 
solely to his own fault. 
"His Excellency, Rifat Bey, Musleshar for 
foreign affairs, has been despatched in a govern-
ment steamer to Alexandria, to communicate the 
ultimatum to the Pacha." 
From these extracts it appears,— 
1. That the Sultan, conscious of his own 
weakness, did voluntarily accept the intervention 
of the great Christian powers of Europe to settle 
his difficulties, which he could not settle him-
self. 
2. That they (the great powers) were agreed 
on taking measures to settle the difficulties. 
3. That the ultimatum of the London con-
ference left it with the Sultan to arrange the 
affair with Mehemet, if he could. 
The Sultan 
was to offer to him the terms of settlement. 
So 
that if Mehemet accepted the terms, there would 
still be no actual intervention of the powers be-
tween the Sultan and Pacha. 
4. That if Mehemet rejected the Sultan's 
offer, the ultimatum admitted of no change or 
qualification; the great powers stood pledged to 
coerce him into submission. 
So long, therefore', 
as the Sultan held the ultimatum in his own 
hands, he still maintained the independence of 
his throne. 
But that document once submitted 
to Mehemet, and it would be forever beyond his 
reach to control the question. 
It wrould be for 
Mehemet to say whether the powers should in-
terpose or not. 
5. The Sultan did despatch Rifat Bey, in a 
government steamer, (which left Constantinople 
Aug. 5,) to Alexandria, to communicate to Me-
hemet the ultimatum. 
This was a voluntary governmental act of the 
Sultan. 
The question noiv comes up, WHEN WAS THAT 
DOCUMENT 
PUT OFFICIALLY 
UNDER THE 
CONTROL 
OF MEHEMET ALI ? 
The following extract of a letter from a cor-
respondent of the London Morning 
Chronicle, 
of Sept. 18, 1840, dated " Constantinople, Aug. 
27th, 1840," will answer the question. 
" By the French steamer of the 24th, we have 
advices from Egypt to the 16th. 
They show no 
alteration in the resolution of the Pacha. 
Con-
fiding in the valor of his Arab army, and in the 
strength of the fortifications which defend his 
capital, he seems determined to abide by the last 
alternative ; and as recourse to this, therefore, is 
now inevitable, all hope may be considered as at 
an end of a termination of the affair without 
bloodshed. 
Immediately on the arrival of the 
Cyclops steamer with the news of the conven-
tion of the four powers, Mehemet Ali, it is stated, 
had quitted Alexandria, to make a short tour 
through Lower Egypt. 
The object of his ab-
senting himself at such a moment being partly 
to avoid conferences with the European consuls, 
but principally to endeavor by his own presence 
to arouse the fanaticism of the Bedouin tribes, 
and facilitate the raising of his new levies. 
During the interval of this absence, the Turkish 
government steamer; WHICH HAD REACHED ALEX-
ANDRIA ON THE 
11TH, 
WITH THE ENVOY 
RIFAT 
BEY ON BOARD, had been by his orders placed in 
quarantine, and she was not released from it till 
the 16th. 
Previous, however, to the Porte's 
leaving, and on the very day on which he had 
been admitted to pratique, the above named 
functionary had had an audience of the Pacha, 
and had communicated to him the command of 
the Sultan, with respect to the evacuation of the 
Syrian provinces, appointing another audience 
for the next day, when, in the presence of the] 
consuls of the European powers, he would re-
ceive from him his definite answer, and inform 
him of the alternative of his refusing to obey; 
giving him the ten days which have been allot-
ted him by the convention to decide on the 
course he should think fit to adopt." 
According to the foregoing statement, the 
ultimatum was officially put into the power 
of 
Mehemet Ali, and was disposed of by his order, 
viz., sent to quarantine, 
ON the ELEVENTH 
DAY 
OF AUGUST, 
1840. 
But have we any evidence, beside the fact of 
the arrival of Rifat Bey at Alexandria with the 
ultimatum on the 11th ®f August, that Ottoman 
supremacy died, or was dead, that day ? 
Read the following, from the same writer quo-
ted above, dated " Constantinople, August 12, 
1840."* 
" I can add but little to my last letter on the 
subject of the plans of the four powers; 
and I 
believe the details I then gave you comprise 
everything that is yet decided on. 
The portion 
of the Pacha, as I then stated, is not to extend 
beyond the line of Acre, and does not include 
either Arabia or Candia. 
Egypt alone is to be 
hereditary^ in his family, and the province of 
Acre to be considered as a pachalic, to be gov-
erned by his son during his lifetime, but after 
ward to depend on the will of the Porte; and 
even this latter is only to be granted him on the 
condition of his accepting these terms, and de-
livering up the Ottoman fleet within ten days 
In the event of his not doing so, this pachalic is 
to be cut off. 
Egypt is then to be offered him 
with another ten days to deliberate on it, before 
actual force is employed against him. 
" The manner-, however, of applying the force 
should he refuse to comply with these terms,— 
whether a simple blockade is, to be established on 
the coast, or whether his capital is to be bom-
barded, and his armies attacked in the Syrian 
provinces,—is the point which still remains to be 
learned; nor does a note delivered yesterday by 
the four ambassadors, in answer to a question 
put to them by the Porte, as to the plan to be 
adopted in such an event, throw the least light 
on this subject. 
It simply states that provision 
has been made, and there is no necessity for the 
Divan alarming itself about any contingency 
that might afterwards arise." 
Let us now analyze this testimony. 
1. The letter is dated " Constantinople, Aug. 
2. "Yesterday," the 11th of August, the Sul-
tan applied, in his own capital, to the ambassadors 
of four Christian nations, to know the measures 
which were to be taken in reference to a cir-
cumstance vitally affecting his empire; and was 
only told that " provision had been made," but 
he could not know what it was; and that he 
need give himself no alarm " about any contin-
gency which might AFTERWARDS ARISE !!" 
From 
that time, then, they, and not he, would manage 
that. 
"Where was the Sultan's independence that 
day? GONE. 
Who had the supremacy of the 
* Sec « Signs of the Times," vol. I., p. 102. 
Ottoman empire in their hands? 
The 
great 
powers. 
According 
to previous calculation, 
therefore, 
OTTOMAN SUPREMACY did depart on the ELEV-
ENTH 
OF 
AUGUST 
into the hands of the 
great Christian powers of Europe. 
Then the second wo is past, and the sixth 
trumpet has ceased its sounding; and the con-
clusion is now inevitable, because the word of 
God affirms the fact in so many words, "Behold 
the third wo cometh quickly." 
And "in the 
days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he 
shall begin to sound, the mystery of God shall 
be finished." But what will take place when 
the seventh angel sounds? 
I answer, Great 
voices will be heard in heaven, saying, " The 
kingdoms of this world have become the king-
doms of our Lord and his Christ, and he shall 
reign forever and ever."* 
Nor is this event 
mere spiritual reign over the kingdoms of this 
world; but the Revelator goes on to say, " and 
thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead; that 
they should be judged; and that thou shouldest 
give reward unto thy servants the prophets, the 
saints, and them that fear thy name, small and 
great, and shouldest destroy them that destroy 
the earth." 
This, then, is the consummation, 
when every one shall receive his retribution, 
according to what he has done. 
" The third wo cometh quickly." 
It cannot 
be afar off; it is nigh, even at the door. 
Men 
may scornfully inquire, " Where is the promise 
of his coming ? for since the fathers fell asleep, 
all things continue as they were from the begin-
ning." 
" But the day of the Lord will come as 
thief in the night." 
There are abundant 
promises of his coming, and that speedily. 
But 
I do not expect another sign equal in strength 
and conclusiveness to the one now spread out 
before us in the present discourse. 
The present 
calculation was before the world two years and 
more before the time of fulfilment; and the at-
tention of the whole community was turned 
toward it. 
There are few persons, in New 
England at least, whose minds were not arrested 
and turned to the 11th of August; and vast 
multitudes were ready to say, ay, did say, If this 
event takes place according to the calculation, 
at the time specified, we will believe the doctrine 
of the advent near. 
But how is it with them 
now? 
Why, just as it was with the old Jews 
in the days of Christ; when he was every day 
performing the most stupendous miracles in their 
sight, they said to him, " Master, we would see 
a sign of thee." 
So now: men desire a sign 
from heaven. 
But let them be assured, they 
can never have a more convincing one than this; 
the last great prophecy with which a prophetic 
period is connected, except the concluding period, 
when Christ will come, has been filled up in the 
exact time, and has brought us to the very verge 
of eternity. 
There is no time to be whiled 
away in idleness or indifference by those who 
love the Lord Jesus Christ. 
They have a great 
vork to do, both for themselves and others. 
Nor should the sinner delay to awake from his 
slumbers, and lay hold on eternal life. 
Grace 
be with all who love the Lord Jesus Christ. 
The conclusion to which the foregoing article 
brings us, is, that the time for the sounding of 
the 7th and last trump is nigh, even at the door. 
That trump is a Wo ! on the inhabiters of the 
earth; NOT a greater manifestation of God's 
grace than ever the world saw, even the conver-
sion of the whole world. 
Reader, think again; 
can the third WO be the conversion of the 
• Rev. xi. 14—18. 
world ? 
Must it not rather be the destruction 
of those that destroy the earth ? 
But when Avill 
that time come ? 
Do the Scriptures reveal the 
time? 
They do. 
Let it be understood, the 
question is not now whether we or any one else 
understand the time, but is the time revealed ? 
Let us hear Daniel (xii. 1—3) on this point. 
1. He predicts the reign of Michael, the great 
prince of Israel; a great time of trouble; the 
deliverance of all God's people ; the resurrection 
of many of them that sleep in the dust of the 
earth; the glorification 
of the wise, and they 
that turn many to righteousness, forever and 
ever. 
2. He heard (verse 6) the question asked, 
" How long shall it be to the end of all these 
wonders ?" 
3. He heard the answer given, (verse 7,) un-
der the most solemn oath. 
" It shall be for a 
time, times, and a half, and when he shall have 
accomplished to scatter the power of the holy 
pedple, all these things shall be finished. 
The time is here most distinctly given by the 
Divine messenger. 
" How, then," it is asked, 
did Christ say, ' Of that day and that hour 
knoweth no man, no, not the angels in heaven, 
but my Father only ? ' " 
I reply, on the same 
ground that he said to Daniel, on his saying " I 
heard, but I understood not," " Go thy way, Dan-
iel, the words are closed up and sealed to the 
time of the end." 
Can we now understand the time ? 
Until the time of the end should come, Daniel 
could not understand, nor could any one else do 
so; but at " the time of the end," the word was, 
THE 
WISE 
SHALL 
UNDERSTAND." 
ALMIGHTY GOD has promised, and he will 
perform; and before Christ comes these things 
must and will be understood, or God's promise 
fail. 
But when Christ was on earth the time of 
the end had not come. 
It has now come, and 
the word is unsealed. 
Many are now running 
to and fro, and knowledge is increased on this 
subject. 
Measuring rods were then put into 
Daniel's hand, by which the time was to be un-
derstood at "the time of the end." 
They are 
these: Dan. xii. 11, 12. 
And from the time 
the daily (paganism in Rome, which persecuted 
the church) shall be taken away, and the abom-
ination which maketh desolate (Popery, which 
afterward persecuted the church) be set up, a 
thousand two hundred and ninety days. 
The first papal war ever waged against the 
saints, was, according to Gibbon, 508 of our Lord. 
From that, 1290 days or years would bring us to 
1798, when, according to Dr. A. Clarke, " the 
French Republican army, under general Berthier, 
entered Rome and entirely superseded the whole 
papal power." 
" Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the 
1335 days" or years from the same point, viz. 
the first papal war. 
508 added to 1335 years, 
brings us to A. D. 1843. 
" Go thou thy way 
till the end be; thou shalt rest and stand in thy 
lot at the end of the days." 
Then in 1843 the 
7th or last and resurrection trump will come, and 
the wicked be destroyed. 
SIGNS OF THE 
TIMES, 
AND 
EXPOSITOR 
OF 
PROPHECY. 
This paper is published weekly at 14 Devon-
shire street, Boston, Mass. 
The design of the 
paper is, to illustrate the prophecies which relate 
to the second coming of Christ in the year 1843. 
The sentiments of those who reject the time and 
the manner of the advent in 1843, are also freely 
given in this paper, so that both sides of the ques-
tion are given. 
Published at 14 Devonshire Street, Boston. 
sssss 
EXPOSITION OF DANIEL, 7th CHAPTER) 
OR, VISION OF THE FOOR BEASTS.—By G. Storrs. 
In communicating instruction to the children of men, 
God is pleased to give " line upon line, precept upon pre-
cept—here a little and there a little." The Saviour saith, 
John xvi. 12, " I have yet many things to say unto you, 
but ye cannot bear them now." 
Revelation has been 
not only progressive, 
but the same truths have been re-
peated again and again under different figures, emblems, 
and forms of speech. 
As a kind parent enforces import-
ant truths upon the minds of his offspring, illustrating 
and repeating to make the deeper impression, so our 
Heavenly Father labors to impress our minds with truths 
connected with, and having a bearing on our eternal des-
tiny, and necessary to establish the faith of his people, 
and inspire in them confidence in his word. 
He has 
given them waymarks to determine the truth of his word, 
and to mark the period of the world in which they are 
living and to show them that their Heavenly Father was 
perfectly acquainted with all the road his church would 
have to travel to the end of the world, and the termina-
tion of all their labors and sufferings. 
To illustrate. 
Suppose you were travelling a road 
with which you were unacquainted. 
You inquire of a 
stranger—he tells you, that road leads to a glorious city, 
filled with every good thing, governed by the most love-
ly, mild, and benevolent Prince that the world ever saw ; 
that in that city there was neither sickness, sorrow, pain, 
nor death. 
He then proceeds to tell you what you may 
expect to pass on the road, by which you may know he 
has told you the truth, and which will mark the progress 
you have made. 
First, then, he tells you, after leaving 
him, and travelling awhile, you will come to a monument 
that can be seen at a great distance ; on the top of it you 
will see "a lion" having " eagle's wings ;"—at a dis-
tance beyond that, you will come to another 
monument, 
having on it "a bear" with " three ribs in his mouth :" 
Vlllg UU IV 
CI 
...... 
—passing on still, you will at length arrive jit a third 
monument, on the top of which you will behold a " leo-
pard" having " four wings of a fowl," and " four heads: 
after that, you will comtfto a fourth, on which is a beast 
<• dreadful and terrible," with " great iron teeth" and 
" ten horns :"—and 
lastly, you will come to another 
place, where you will see the same beast, with this differ-
ence—'" three" of its "first horns" have been "plucked 
up," and in the place of them has come up a peculiar 
horn, having " eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth." 
The next thing you will look for, after passing the last-
mentioned sign, is the city of which I have told you. 
With these directions you commence your journey. 
What do you look for first i 
The lion. 
At length you 
see it. 
That inspires in you some faith in the person's 
knowledge and truth who had directed you. 
Having 
passed that sign, the next thing you expect to see, as 
marked in the directions, is the bear. 
At length you 
come in sight of that. " There," say you, " is the second 
sjo-n he gave me. He must have been perfectly acquaint-
ed0 with this road, and has told me truth." 
Your faith 
increases as you travel on. 
What next do you look for ! 
Not the city, certain!v. 
" No," say you, " I look lor the 
leopard." 
Well, by and by you behold that, in the dis-
tance. 
" There it is," you cry; " now I know he has 
told me the truth, and it will come out just as he said." 
Is the next thing you look for now, the city? 
No—you 
look for that "terrible beast" with "ten horns." 
lou 
pass that, and say as you Dass, " How exactly the man 
who directed me described every thing." 
Now 
your 
faith is so confirmed that you almost see the city ; " but," 
say you, " I have got one more sign to pass, viz. the 
'horn' with 'eyes'—then the city comes next." 
Now 
hope is high, and your anxious eyes gaze with intense in-
terest for the last sign. 
That comes in view, and you 
exclaim in raptures, "There it is!" 
All doubt is 
now 
removed—you look for no more signs—your longing eyes 
are fixed to gaze on the " glorious city" next—and proba-
bly no man now, however wise he might profess himself, 
could make you discredit what your director had told you. 
" The city—the city." 
is now fixed in your eye, and on-
ward you go, hasting to your rest. 
Now, if we find, on examination, that all the events or 
signs that God has given us, which were to precede the 
Judgment day, and the setting up of his everlasting king-
dom, have actually transpired, or come to view, what are 
we to look for next ? 
Most clearly, the Judgment of the 
great day ! 
Let us then examine the chapter before us. 
Verse 
1. 
" In the first year of Belshazzar, king of 
Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions of his head 
upon his bed : then he wrote the dream, [thus it became 
a part of the Scriptures] and told the sum of the mat-
V. 2 and 3. 
"Daniel spake and said. I saw in my vis-
ion by night, and behold the four winds [denoting com-
motions] of the heaven strove upon the great sea, {wa-
ters, 
denoting " people." 
See Rev. xvii. 15,J and four 
great beasts came up from the sea. diverse one from an-
other." The angel explains these four beasts to be "four 
kings, verse 17, or four kingdoms, 
as yon will see verse 
23. 
" The fourth beast is the fourth ^kingdom," &c. ; 
which shows that the term king, in -these visions, signi-
fies kingdom. 
See Isa. v. 26, 23, and Jer. iv. 7; 
also 
Ezek. xvii. 3, 4. 
V. 4. 
" The first was like a lion, and had eagle's 
wings :" Babylon, as 
described 
in this 
vision. 
We 
have already seen, chapter ii. 38, that Babylon was the 
first universal " kingdom upon earth." 
Aptly represent-
ed here by a lion—" the king of beasts,"—denoting the 
glory of that kingdom, and corresponding with the " head 
of gold" in the second chapter—the " eagle's wings" de-
noting the rapidity of its conquests, and the soaring pride 
of its monafchs. 
It is described by Habakkuk, chapter i. 
6—8, " For, lo ! I raise up the Chaldeans 
[Babylon]— 
they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat." 
Daniel 
goes on to say—" I beheld till the wings thereof were 
plucked, wherewith* it was lifted from the earth, [its glo-
ry departed,] and it was made to stand upon its feet as a 
man, and a man's heart was given to it." 
This may re-
fer to the humiliation of the proud monarch of Babylon, 
chapter iv. 31—37, or to the cowardice of Belshazzar, 
who, instead of driving away his foes like a lion, shut 
himself up in the city, feasting and drinking with his 
lords, till he was killed, and the kingdom was given to 
the Medes and Persians. 
V. 5. " And behold, another beast, a second, like to a 
bear, and it raised up itself on one side, [representing two 
lines of kings, one much longer than the other,] and it 
had three ribs in the mouth of it, between the teeth of it; 
and they said unto it, Arise, devour much 
flesh." 
We have already seen that the Medo-Persian kingdom 
succeeded Babylon, and is clearly the kingdom here de-
scribed. 
It was noted for cruelty and thirst of blood, and 
the nation is emphatically called " the spoilers." See Jer. 
Ii. 43—56. 
The "three ribs" in its mouth may denote 
the union of Media, Persia, and Chaldea. 
It subdued 
many and populous kingdoms. Ahasuerus, or Artaxerxes 
reigned over 127 provinces. See Esther i. 1. 
V. 6. " After this I beheld, and lo, another, like a leo-
pard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; 
the beast had also four heads, and dominion was given to 
it." 
There can be no dispute with respect to this being 
Grecia; "four wings" denoting the rapidity of its con-
quest under Alexander; the "four heads" its division 
into four parts after Alexander died, and his posterity 
were murdered. 
V. 7 and 8. " After this I saw in the night visions, and 
behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong 
exceedingly; and it had great iron teetli: it devoured 
and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with 
the 
feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that 
were before it; and it had ten horns. 
I considered the 
horns, and behold, there came up among them another 
little horn, bofore whom there were three of the first 
horns plucked up by the roots : and behold, in this horn 
were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking 
great things." 
On these verses I shall remark when I 
come to the angel's explanation. 
V. 9 and 10. " I beheld till the thrones were cast down, 
and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white 
as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his 
throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning 
fire. 
A fiery stream issued and came forth from before 
him : thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten 
thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judg-
ment was set, and the books were opened." 
If we have 
not here a description ofthe final judgment, we may des-
pair of finding any such description in the Book of God. 
There is nothing clearer. 
. 
V. 11. "I beheld then [when ? Ans. When "the judg-
ment set"] because of the voice of the great words which 
the horn spake, I beheld, till the beast was slam [what 
beast 1 Ans. The fourth beast, on which the horn had 
stood,] and his body destroyed, and given to the burning 
flame." 
That is the punishment of the beast for having 
sustained and carried the little horn. 
Nothing is said ot 
the "domttrton" of this beast being "taken away," as is 
said ofthe others. 
The others lost their dominion after 
a time, but their subjects survived and were transferred 
to the succeeding governments, but the very body [sub-
jects] of this fourth kingdom is destroyed, and given to 
the burning flame ; as Isaiah saith (xxxiii. 
12,) " The 
people shall be as the burnings of lime ; as thorns cut up 
shall they be burned in the 
fire." 
No transferring of its 
subjects to another kingdom. 
Then—" The wicked shall 
be cut off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be 
rooted out of it." Prov. ii. 22. 
Then—God 
will "destroy 
them which destroy [corrupt] the earth." 
Rev. xi. 18. 
But— 
. 
V 12 
As concerning the rest of the beasts, they 
had their dominion taken away ; yet their lives were pro-
longed for a season and a time." 
[Babylon ruled about 
1708 years—Media and Persia about 200—Grecia about 
175. 
These kingdoms successively lost the dominion, 
but the lives of the respective nations were prolonged, 
being merged in the succeeding governments. 
V 
13 and 14. " I saw in the night visions, and behold, 
one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, 
and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him 
near before him. 
And there was given him dominion, 
and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and 
languages, should serve him ; his dominion is an ever-
lasfingadominion, which shall not pass away, and his 
kingdom, that which shall not be destroyed." 
Thus we 
see the kingdom of God, or of Christ, is not set up till 
the "judgment sits"—hence no room for a temporal mil-
lennium lefore the judgment, and before the kingdoms of 
this world are destroyed. 
" All people, nations, and Ian-
guacres" that shall "serve him" are described by the Rev-
elator, chapter v. 9, 10, as " redeemed OUT OF every 
kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation," &c. 
V 15—18. " I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the 
midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled 
me 
I came near unto one of them that stood by, and 
asked him the truth of all this. 
So he told me, and made 
me know the interpretation ofthe things. 
These 
great 
beas-s, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise 
out of the earth. 
But the saints ofthe Must High shall 
take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even 
for ever and ever." Not a "thousand years," hut for 
ever, 
even FOR EVER and EVER." 
If any language can ex-
press unending duration* this must do so. 
Some think 
the lamma^e too strong to be applied to a,thousand years, 
and so make it mean " three hundred and sixty thousand 
years." But that is infinitely short of •• for ever, even for 
ever and ever." 
V 19—25. 
" Then I would know the truth of the 
fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, ex-
ceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails 
of brass • which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped 
the residue with his feet: and ofthe ten horns that were 
in his head, and ofthe other which came up, and before 
whom three fell; even of that horn 'hat had eyes, and a 
mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more 
stout than his fellows. I beheld, and the same horn made 
war with the saints, and prevailed against them ; until 
the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the 
saints of the Moat High ; and the time came that the 
saints possessed the kingdom. 
I hus he said, 1 he fourth 
beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall 
be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole 
earth and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. 
And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that 
shall arise ; and another shall rise after them ; and he 
shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three 
kim's 
And he shall speak great words against the Most 
Hh'h, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, 
and think to change times and laws ; and they shall be 
given into his hand until a time and times and the divid-
ing of time." 
. • 
. 
There is but little dispute about what is here meant by 
the " fourth kingdom." 
No kingdom that ever has ex-
isted OP. earth, will answer to it except the Roman king-
dom 
That has been, truly, " diverse from all kingdoms,' 
especially in its forms of government, which were not 
less' than, seven—being at different times, Republican, 
Consular, Tribune, Decemvirate, 
Dictatorial, Imperial, 
and Kindly 
It was at length divided into the Eastern 
and Western Empires; Rome proper being in the West-
ern Empire. 
Between the years A. D. 3d6 and 483, it 
was divided into ten kingdoms, as I have noticed in my 
remarks on chapter 2; thus the 
"ten 
horns are ten 
kin*s" rkin<nloms] that arose out of this empire, and are 
the"same that John saw, Rev. xii. 3, " a great red dra-
gon havinf seven heads and ten horns; 
and. chapter 
xvii 12 he is told—" The ten horns which thou sawest, 
are ten'kings, which have received no kingdom as yet : 
—it was something still future, in John's tune 
We are now prepared for the inquiry—who 1 or what 
is t he little horn here spoken of % We will inquire 
1st 
What is the character 
of this horn 1 
1. It makes 
" war with the saints." 
2. It speaks great words against 
thLet°us Se'if we can find a description of the same 
character elsewhere in the Bible. 
See Rev. 13 : 6, 7, 
" 
d he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, 
to'blaspheme his name and his tabernacle, and them that 
dwell in heaven. 
And it was given unto him to make 
wir With the saints and to overcome them '-Darnel says, 
he " prevailed against them." 
Now see 2 Thes. 2 . 3 4, 
» That man of sin be revealed, who opposeth and exalt-
eth himself above all that is called God," &c. 
Can there 
be any doubt ofthe identity of the character 
Daniel's 
•' little horn"—Paul's " man of sin"—and John s " blas-
phemous beast" are clearly identified. 
2nd. Let us inquire, Has a power of this description 
. JLJCL Ud lii^unvy, 
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J • I «-
arisen1! 
It must be admitted that there has; and that 
that' power is papacy. 
The titles the Popes have assum-
ed of " MOST HOLY LORD," and their pretentions to 
par-
don sm even before 
its commission, if we had nothing 
else sufficiently establishes the blasphemous 
character 
of that power. Pope Innocent III. writes-" He [Christ] 
hath set owe wiaw over ^ 
world, him whom he hath ap-
Sited his vicar on earth; 
and aa to Christ 
is bent every 
knee in heaven, in earth and under the 
earth.o^/^ 
dience and service 
be paid to his vicar 
by ^Uhat 
there 
may be one fold and one shepherd." Again, Pope Grego-
ryVII says, " The Roman Pontiff alone is by right uni-
versal 
In him alone is the right of making laws. 
Let 
all kings kiss the feet ofthe Pope. 
His name alone shall 
he 
heard 
in the churches. 
It is the ONLY NAME IN THE 
WORLD. 
It is his right to depose kings. 
His word is not 
to be repealed 
by any one. 
It is to be repealed by him-
self alone. 
He is to be judged by none. 
The church of 
Korne has never erred ; and the Scriptures testify it never 
shall err." 
Surely here is a power "diverse 
from" all 
others, and proud and blasphemous enough to answer the 
character of the "little horn." 
3rd. Let us now inquire, When this little horn arose ? 
Or, which is the same thing, 
When 
dd papacy 
arise ] 
There has been a difference of opinion oh that question. 
But it appears to me the question is not one so difficult 
to settle now as in former years. 
First, then—it did 
not arise before the ten horns. Hence it did not arise be-
fore A. D. 483, when the tenth horn came up. 
It did 
not arise until " three of the first horns" fell, 
or were 
" plucked up." 
It did not come up after that, because it 
" came up among" the " ten horns," and three of those 
horns fell " before" it. 
It must then have come up, or 
been established at the identical point where 
thethiid 
horn fell. 
If that point can be settled, it seems to me 
there can be no reasonable doubt as to the time papacy 
arose 
In the ydhr of our Lord 493, the Heruli in Rome 
and Italy were conquered by the Ostrogoths. 
In 534, 
the Vandals, who were under Arian influence, were con-
quered by the Greeks, for the purpose of-establishing the 
supremacy of the Catholics. 
The Ostrogoths who held 
possession of Rome were under an Arian monarch, who 
was an enemy to the supremacy ofthe Bishop of Rome ; 
hence before the decree of Justinian, (a Greek Emperor 
at Constantinople,) could be carried into effect, by which 
he had constituted the Bishop of Rome "head 
of all the 
churches," 
the Ostrogoths must be plucked 
up. 
This 
conquest was effected by Justinian's army in the month 
of March 53s ; at which time, the Ostrogoths, who 
had 
retired without the city, and besieged it in their turn, 
raised the siege and retired, leaving the Greeks in pos-
session of the city ; thus the third horn was plucked be-
fore Papacy, and for the express purpose too of establish-
ing that power. 
[See Gibbon's Decline and Fall of Ro-
man Empire.] 
How exactly do the facts answer to the 'prophecy ? 
I 
will here introduce the letter of Justinian to the Bishop 
of Rome, of A. 1). 533 : 
"Justinian, pious, fortunate, renowned, triumphant, 
emperor, consul, &c., to John, the most holv Arch-
bishop of our city of Rome, and patriarch : ' 
" Rendering honor to the apostoiic see, and to your 
holiness, (as always was and is our desire,) and, as it be-
comes us, honoring your 
Blessedness as a father, we 
have laid without delay before the notice of your holiness, 
all things pertaining to the state ofthe church. 
Since it 
has always been our earnest 
study 
to preserve the unity of 
your holy see, and the state of the holy churches of God, 
which 
has hitherto obtained, and will remain, without 
any interfering opposition. 
Therefore we hasten to SUB-
JECT and to unite to your holiness, all the priests 
ofthe 
whole East. 
As to the matters which are presentlv agi-
tated, although clear and undoubted, and, according to 
the doctrine of your apostolio see, held assuredly resolved 
and decided by all priests, we have yet deemed it neces-
sary to lay them before your holiness. 
Nor do we suffer 
anything which belongs to the state of the church, how-
ever manifest and undoubted, that is agitated, to pass 
without the knowledge of your holiness, who arc the head 
of all the holy church.cs. 
For in all things (as had been 
said or resolved) we are prompt to increase the honor 
and authority of your see." 
" The authenticity of the title," says Mr. Croley, " re-
ceives unanswerable proof from the edicts of the 4 No-
velise' of the Justinian code. 
The preamble of the 9th 
states, 'that as the elder Rome was the founder of the 
laws ; so was it not to be questioned, that, in her was 
the supremacy of the pontificate.' 
The 
131st, on the 
Ecclesiastical Titles and Privileges, chapter ii., states : 
' We therefore decree that the most holy pope of the 
elder Rome is the first of all the priesthood, and that the 
most 
blessed archbishop of 
Constantinople, the new 
Rome, shall hold the second rank, after the holy apos-
tolic chair ofthe elder Rome.' "—Croley, pp. 114,115. 
Some suppose that Phocas, A. D. 606, by applying the 
title " universal Bishop" to the Pope, first gave him his 
supremacy : but this cannot be, for it does not a^ree 
with the prophecy that three of the first horns were to 
be plucked up before it, as it came up, and this happened 
more than half a century before. 
Again. Mr. Croley, a 
writer of the Church of England, says—" The 
highest 
authorities among the civilians and annalists of Rome 
spurn the idea that Phocas was the founder of the su-
premacy of Rome ; they ascend to Justinian, as the only 
legitimate source, and rightly date the title from the 
memorable year 533." 
Imperial 
Rome fell about A. D. 475, and was in the 
hands of the barbarians. 
Thus it continued till the con-
quest of Rome by Belisarius, Justinian's general, 536 to 
538, when the Ostrogoths left it in possession ofthe Greek 
Emperor, March, 538. 
Thus the way was open for the 
" dragon" to give the " beast his power, and his seat, and 
great 
authority:' 
Rev. 13 : 2. 
This fact, from Revela-
tion, also, settles the point that the Pope did hot receive 
his power from Clovis king of France. 
It was the "Dra-
gon" that gave him " his seat '—Rome, 
" his 
power," 
as head of the churches. 
The Roman Emperors had 
stood at the head of the churches with " power'11 to make 
important decisions for the church—it is now transfer-
red to the Pope: and he has given him, also, "great 
authorityUhdfer 
the Justinian code of laws to judge and 
punish heretics. 
4th. The hext point We Want to settle is, the length of, 
time this power was to continue. 
Daniel says, " a tune, 
times, and the dividing of time." 
The Revelator savs, 
chap. 13: 5, " Power was given unto him to continue 
42 months." 
He was to make war upon the saints—the 
church, and in Rev. 12: 6, we are told, " the woman," 
the church, " fled into the wilderness" 1260 days ; and 
at the 14th verse, that it was for " a time, and times 
and an half time. 
Here then we have the period ofthe 
continuance of this power given us in three forms of ex-
pression, 
which settles the point that the time, times 
and dividing of time is 42 months, or 1260 prophetic 
days, or years. 
5th. Did the continuance of Papal dominion, as a horn 
ofthe beast, cease at the end of that period I 1260 years 
from 538 would extend to 1798. 
Did anything transpire 
that year to justify the belief that the dominion of Papacy 
was taken away that year 1 
It is a historical fact that, 
on Feb. 10th, 1798, Berthier, a French general, entered 
the city of Rome and took it. 
On the 15th of the same 
month the Pope was taken prisoner and shut up in the 
Vatican. 
The papal government, which had continued 
from the time of Justinian, was abolished, and a Repub-
lican form of government given to Rome. 
The 
Pope 
was carried ca»tive to France, where he died in 1799. 
Thus, " he that" led others " into captivity," went " into 
captivity ;" and he who killed " with the sword," those 
he was pleased to call heretics, was himself " killed 
[subdued] with, the sword ;" i. e. his " dominion was 
taken away" by tvar. 
See Rev. 
13: 10. 
Verse 26, 
" But the judgment shall sit, and they [the kings that 
'hate the whore,' Rev. 
17: 
16] shall take away his 
dominion, [he is cut off from being a horn on the beast, or 
deprived of his civil power. so that he can no longer wield 
the sword against dissenters 1 to consume and destroy it 
unto the end." 
See 2 Thes. 2: 8, "Whom the Lord 
shall consume with the spirit of his mouth [the " Refor-
mation"] and shall destroy with the brightness of his 
coming" to judge the world in the great burning 
day, 
when the " beast and false prophet" will be " cast alive 
into the lake of fire, burning with brimstone ;" then the 
" little horn" will be destroyed. 
Some tell us the civil power of papacy is not taken 
away. That the Pope was restored, or a new one chosen, 
is admitted ; and that lie may have some civil power in 
Italy is not denied. 
But that he has power to depose 
kings and put to death the saints now, is denied. 
When 
he was a horn 011 the beast he deposed kings at pleasure, 
for centuries, and silenced " heretics" by the flame, the 
rack, prison, and the sword. 
Can he do it now? ' No.' 
Nor has he been able to do it since 1798—since that time 
the church is out ofthe 
"wilderness;" 
and Papacy is 
compelled to tolerate Protestantism. 
Hear the Pope him-
self on that subject. Here is his letter, dated Sept., 1840, 
at Rome. 
Read it and see if you think Papacy is now a 
horn on the beast, or is possessed of power to war against 
the saints unto death, as formerly: 
" ENCYLLICAL LETTER of Our MOST HOLY LORD 
GREG-
ORY XVI. by Divine Providence Pope, to all Patriarchs 
Primates, Archbishops and Bishops. 
GREGORY XVI. 
POPE. 
"Venerable Brethren,—Health and the apostolic Bene-
diction. 
" You will know, Venerable Brothers, how great are 
the calamities 
with which the Catholic Church is beset on 
all sides in this most sorrowful age, and how pitifully 
she 
is afflicted. 
You know by what a deluge of errors of 
every kind, and with what unbridled audacity of the er-
roneous, our Holy Religion is attacked, and how cunning-
ly and by what frauds heretics and infidels are endeavor-
ing to pervert the hearts and minds ofthe faithful. 
In a 
word, you know there is almost no kind of effort or mach-
ination which is not employed, to overthrow, from its 
deepest foundations, if it were possible, the immoveable 
edifice of the Holy City. 
Indeed, are we not, (Oh, how shameful!) compelled 
to see the most crafty enemies of the truth ranging far 
and wide with impunity; not only attacking religion with 
ridicule, the church with contumely, and Catholics with 
insults and slander, but even 
entering into cities and 
towns, establishing schools of error and impiety, publish-
ing in print the poison of their doctrines, skilfully con-
cealed under the deceitful veil of the natural sciences and 
new discoveries, and even penetrating into the cottages 
ofthe poor, travelling through rural districts, and 
insin-
uating themselves into familiar acquaintance with the 
lowest of the people and with the farmers! 
Thus they 
leave no means unattempted. whether by corrupt Bibles 
in the language ofthe people, or pestiferous 
newspapers 
and other little publicatiohs, or caviling conversation 
or 
pretended charity, or, finally, by the gilt of money, to al-
lure ignorant people, and especially youth, into their nets 
and induce them to desert the Catholic faith. 
' 
" We refer to facts, Venerable Brethren, which not 
only are known to you, but of which you are witnesses • 
even you, who, though you mourn, and, as your pastoral 
duty requires, are by no means silent, are yet compelled 
o tolerate m your diocess these aforesaid propagators of 
heresy 
and infidelity ; these shameless preachers 
who 
while they walk in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ra-
vening wolves, cease not to lay in wait for the flock and 
tear it in pieces. 
Why should we say more > There is 
nZ,STle'y 
a !f1rban,us region 
111 the universal world, 
to which the well known Central Boards of the heretics 
and unbehevers have not, regardless of expense, sent out 
.heir explorers and emissaries, who either insidiously or 
openly and in concert, making war upon the Catholic're-
ligion 
its pastors and its ministers, tear the faithful out 
to the infidels 
^
^ 
^ 
" Hence it is easy to conceive the state of anguish into 
winch our soul is plunged day and night, as we beTg char-
ged with the superintendence ofthe whole fold of JeSuS 
Christ, and the care of all the churches, most give ac-
count tor his sheep to the Di vine Prince of Pastors 
An(l 
we have thought fit, Venerable Brethren, to recalTto Your 
minds by our present letter, the causes of those troubles 
wh ch are common to us and you, that you may more at. 
tentively consider how important it is to the chureh tha 
al holy priests should endeavor, with redoubled zeal and 
with united labors, and with every kind of efforts to Cel 
he attacks of the raging foes of religion, to turn back 
their weapons, and to forewarn and Ltity the 
subtle 
blandishments which they often use. This, as you know 
we have been careful to do at every ODportunZ 
nor 
shall we cease to do it; as we also are noSrant that 
that vouwildf^ 
dT 
^ hitherto, and confidently trust 
that you will do hereafter with still more earnest zeal. 
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Now let us see where abouts we are in the prophetic 
chain. 
Have we passed the " Lion"-Babylon™P 
]£ 
Have we gone by the " Bear with three ribs in his mouth? 
Yes 
Has the.s.gn ofthe " Leopard with four wines of a 
fowl and four heads" been passed ? 
It has. The ^dread 
fuland temble beast, with ten horns »_hashebeenSrf 
Yes 
Have we got past the " little horn" having " eyes 
he /^es of a man 1" 
That 
is among the 
tl£s 
numbered with 
the past. 
How far beyond it are we * 
I'orty-five years, nearly. 
What comes next ? 
ThsJudr-
bV,het everlasting kingdom of God. 
Hotv 
far off is that T That question I shall answer hereafter 
Z
Z 
1*1V" 
JUn°ne uhing is certain' 
cannot he at a 
great distance. 
It is the NEXT prophetic event. 
Awake 
ye slumbering virgms ! 
" Behold'the Bridegroom 
com-
eth go ye out to meet him." 
No time to slee™ now 
The seventh angel is preparing to sound. 
"AWAKE YE 
DEAD 
will soon thunder through the skies ! 
Havw 
day to those that are waiting. 
Awful 
day to those who 
IwaKE'M! 
" L°rd ddayCth 
}U° 
C°mng-" 
ANTTOCHUS A TRIBUTARY.-Sir Isaac Newton 
says 
His kingdom was weak and tributary to the Romans, and 
he did not enlarge it." 
In a letter to Bro. Hatfield, we 
quoted a statement from Rollin respect.na Seleucus the 
predecessor cf Antiochus ; " He was obliged to famish the 
Romans 1000 talents annually, and the 12 years of th! trib! 
ute end exactly with his life." 
As Antiochus Epiphanes is 
mentioned both before and after this paragraph, we s^! 
posed, in the hasty reading we had time lo give, that it re-
lated to him. 
We readily correct this errors we wish to 
print nothing but truth. 
The fact that he was a tributary 
however ,s not affected by it. 
The Encyclopedia of Re-' 
hgious Knowledge says : « F.nding his resources exhaust-
ed, he resolved to go into Persia, to levy tributes and to 
TO T^E ROMANS!" 
whlch he had AGREED 
T0 
PITIABLE MISREPRESENTATIONS."—This is the epithet 
used by a writer in the Woonsocket Patriot, respecting a 
quotation we recently made from the Comprehensive Com-
mentary, in which there is a very clear argument to prove 
that the little horn of the eighth of Daniel relates to Rome 
and not Antiochus. 
This is credited to SCOTT at the foot 
of the note in the Commentary, and we referred to it as his 
note, although it was, like a great portion of his notes, his 
only by adoption ; and he afterwards gives his preference to 
still another application of the horn, but as this fact weiehs 
nothing in the argument between Rome and Antiochus we 
did not use any of our scanty space bv mentioning it 
aa—BPMlEHBBi 
WILLIAM 
MILLER. 
The believers in Christ's Second Coming at hand, call 
no man father or master. 
Bro. Miller was not the first 
who preached this doctrine, but we believe he did not 
borrow his sentiments from commentators. 
The follow-
ing extract will show how he was led to his present be-
lief. 
May all who read, adopt the same course. 
After 
giving an account ofhis conversion, he says : 
" The Bible now became my chief study, and I can tru-
ly say I searched it with great delight. 
I found the half 
was never told me. 
I wondered why I had not seen its 
beauty and glory before, and marvelled that I could ever 
have rejected it. 
I found everything revealed that my 
heart could desire, and a remedy for every disease of the 
soul. 
I lost all taste for other reading, and applied my 
heart to get wisdom from God. 
" I laid by all commentates, former views and prepos-
sessions, and determined to read and try to understand 
for myself. 
I then began the reading of the Bible in a 
methodical manner, and by comparing scripture with 
its accomplishment,) I found that prophecy had been 
literally 
fulfilled, after understanding the figures and 
metaphors by which God had more clearly illustrated the 
subjects conveyed in said prophecies. I found on a close 
and careful examination of the Scriptures, that God had 
explained all the figures and metaphors in the Bible, or 
had given us rules for their explanation. 
And in so 
doing, I found to my joy, and as 1 trust with everlasting 
gratitude to God, that the Bible contained a system of 
revealed truths, so clearly and simply given, that the 
' wayfaring man, though a fool, need not err therein.'— 
And I discovered that God bad in his word revealed 
1 times and seasonsand 
in every case where time had 
been revealed, every event was accomplished as pre-
dicted, (except the case of Nineveh, in Jonah,) in the 
time and manner—therefore I believed all would be ac-
complished. 
" I found, in going through with the Bible, the end 
of all things was clearly and emphatically predicted, both 
as to time and manner. 
I believed ; and immediately 
the duty to publish this doctrine, that the world might 
believe and get ready to meet the Judge and Bridegroom 
scripture, and taking noticeof the manner of prophecy-J at his coming, was impressed upon my mind. 
I need 
ing, and how it was fulfilled, (so much as had received|not here go into a detailed accountofmy long and sore 
trials. 
Suffice it to say, that after a number of years, I 
was compelled by the Spirit of God, the power of truth, 
and the love of souls, to take up my cross and proclaim 
these things to a dying and perishing world. 
"The first time I ever spoke in public on this subject 
was in the year 1824. 
The Lord poured his grace on the 
congregation, and many believed to the salvation of their 
souls. 
From that day to this, doors have been opened 
to me, to proclaim this doctrine of the second coming of 
Christ, among almost all denominations, so that I have 
not been able to comply with but a small portion of the 
calls. 
"I have lectured in the states of New Yqrk, Vermont, 
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Michigan, Ohio, and 
Pennsylvania, and Canada. 
In every place, I think, two 
good effects have been produced. 
The church has been 
awakened, and the Bible has been read with more inter-
est. 
In many, and I might, say almost in every place, a 
revival of religion has followed, which has lasted for 
months. 
Infidelity in many cases has been made to 
yield her iron grasp on the mind of many an individual. 
Deism has yielded to the truth of God's word, and many 
men of strong minds have acknowledged that the Scrip-
tures must be of divine origin." 
[From the Second Advent Reports, No. I.] 
Reasons for believing the Second Com-
ing of Christ in Eighteen Hundred 
Forty-three, from the Chronology of 
Prophecy, 
BY 
WILLIAM 
MILLER. 
The following article is given in this cheap form for gene-
ral distribution, 
fj- Read and circulate. 
WHEN we read in divine inspiration a class 
of texts like the following, Acts iii. 21, "And 
he shall send Jesus Christ which before was 
preached unto you ; whom the heaven must re-
ceive until the times of restitution of all things, 
which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his 
holy prophets since the world began;" 24th 
verse, " Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel, 
and those that follow after, as many as have 
spoken, have likewise foretold of these days;" 
again, Acts xvii. 26, " And hath made of one 
blood all nations of men, for to dwell on all the 
face of the earth: and hath determined the 
times before appointed, and the bounds of their 
habitation ;" and 31st verse, " Because he hath 
appointed a day in the which he will judge the 
world in righteousness, by that man whom he 
hath ordained; whereof he hath given assur-
ance unto all men, in that he hath raised him 
from the dead;". Amos iii. 7, " Surely the Lord 
God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret 
unto his servants the prophets;"—I say no man 
can read these texts, and the like, of which the 
Scriptures abound, without being convinced that 
God has set bounds, determined times, and re-
vealed unto his prophets the events long before; 
they were accomplished; and having thus re-' 
vealed himself, has never failed in time and 
manner to fulfil all things which, by his proph-
ets, have been spoken or written. 
He has in 
his word revealed the times in different ways; 
sometimes in plain language, by telling the ex-
act number of years; at other times, by types,! 
as the year of release, the jubilee, and the sab-
baths ; in other places by figurative language, 
by calling a year a day, or a thousand years a 
day; again, by analogy, as in Hebrews iv. 10, 
showing, that, as God created the heavens and 
earth, and all that are in them, in six days, and 
rested on the seventh, so Christ would be six 
thousand years creating the new heavens and 
earth, and would rest on the seventh millennium. 
I will now present a few cases where time has 
been revealed in the above manner, and fulfilled 
so far as present time will allow. 
I. 
IN ELAIN LANGUAGE, BY YEARS, MONTHS, OR 
DAYS, AS THE CASE MAY 
BE. 
1. Seven days before the flood began, and the 
forty days the rain continued, were prophesied 
of, and literally fulfilled. See Gen. vii. 4. " For 
yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain 
upon the earth forty days and forty nights." 
These days were literal days, and so fulfilled. 
10th and 12th verses: " And it came to pass 
after the seventh day that the waters of the 
flood were upon the earth." 
"And the rain 
was upon the earth forty days 
and 
forty 
nights." 
2. Abraham was informed by God that his 
se.ed should be afflicted in a strange land four 
hundred years, which, including his sojourn 
would make 430 years. Gen. xv. 13. This was 
literally accomplished. 
See Exodus xii. 40, 41. 
3. The butler's and baker's dreams were in-
terpreted to mean three days, by Joseph, and 
were exactly fulfilled. 
See Gen. xl. 12—20. 
4. The dream of Pharaoh, as explained by 
Joseph, meaning seven years' plenty and seven 
years' famine, was literally completed. See Gen. 
xii. 28—54. > 
5. The forty years in the wilderness were 
prophesied and fulfilled literally. 
See Numbers 
xiv. 34. Joshua v. 6. 
6. Three years and a half Elijah prophesied 
that there would be no rain, and there was none 
until the time was finished. 1 Kings xvii. 1 
James v. 17. 
7. Isaiah prophesied that within sixty-five 
years Ephraim should be broken, so that they 
hould not be a people ; Is. vii. 8; and in the 
sixty-five years they were broken and carried 
away by Esarhaddon, king of Babylon, B. C. 
742—677. 
8. The seventy years' captivity, prophesied 
of by Jeremiah, Jer. xxv. 11, were fulfilled be-
tween B. C. 596 and 526. 
9. Nebuchadnezzar's seven times were fore-
told by Daniel, and fulfilled in seven years. See 
Dan. iv. 25, and Josephus. 
10. The seventy weeks which Gabriel in-
formed Daniel -would " finish transgression, to 
make an end of sin, to make reconciliation for 
iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to 
seal up the vision and prophecy," which Daniel 
had before of the four kingdoms of the earth, that 
should finally be destroyed by the kingdom of 
the " stone cut out without hands," and " to 
anoint the Most Holy." 
Who can read thi 
prophecy of the seventy weeks, and the history 
of Ezra, Nehemiah, the Jews, Romans, John 
and Jesus Christ, and not be convinced of its ex-
act fulfilment in 490 years ? 
And I would ask 
How can it be possible that men who believe the 
Bible, and who have seen the exact fulfilment 
of all prophetic chronology thus far, can say, 
with any degree of propriety, these seventy 
weeks are indefinite ? 
Where are their proofs ? 
Not on the records of divine inspiration? 
For, 
here we find no sample. Here is no time given, 
that has not been literally fulfilled according to 
the true intent and meaning of the prophecy. 
Why not, then, settle this one point forever, 
among believers in the divine authority of the 
Scriptures: that the chronology of prophecy is 
to be received with an equal faith with the 
chronology' of history ? 
Why not believe the 
declarations of God concerning the future, as 
we do concerning the past ? 
Who denies that 
God created the heavens and the earth, and all 
that are in them, in six days ? 
None but the 
Infidel, say you. 
What better then is he who 
denies that God will accomplish what he has 
said he would perform in a given period ? Well 
may the Infidel charge home upon us hypocrisy, 
when we refuse to believe the latter as well as 
the former. 
All these cases which I have brought for-
ward as proof of prophetic chronology, were 
once prophecies; and would it have been right 
in. Noah, the patriarchs, and prophets, to have 
rejected the time given, any more than the man-
ner ? 
I answer, it could not have been faith to 
have rejected either. 
Then let us have faith to 
believe the chronology of the future, as well as 
of the past. 
The seventy weeks were evidently fulfilled 
in the year A. D. 33, beginning 457 years B. C., 
at the going forth of the commandment to Ezra 
to restore the law and the people to Jerusalem. 
See Ezra vii. 10—13. 
I need not stop to argue 
this point, as very few can be found who have 
the hardihood to deny the -seventy weeks as 
being a definite time. 
One reason, out of the 
many, may be here presented. Why should the 
man Gabriel be so particular in defining the be-
ginning and the end of the seventy weeks, if 
indefinite time only is meant ? And why did he 
name the events so particularly as to divide the 
eventy into three very unequal parts, and yet 
in all three parts include the whole ? 
Surely, 
no mortal can account for this agreement of 
numbers, and yet call it indefinite. 
There was 
much more ambiguity in „ie prophecy to Abra-
ham, concerning his seed sojourning 
in 
a 
strange land four hundred years, (see Gen. 
xv. 13, 14,) than in this of the seventy weeks. 
Yet that was exactly accomplished on the self-
same day predicted. Exod. xii. 41. 
And, in 
me, it would be the very height of folly, to be-
lieve otherwise concerning these seventy weeks 
of years, than as an exact fulfilment, on the self-
same day. 
Goa 
not changed, that he will 
not be as particular now as in the days of Abra-
ham. 
He surelv will, and when men, through 
cowardice or unDeiioi,c«arge God with thus tam-
pering with his word, they must, sooner or later, 
find it to their cost to make such a solemn charge. 
II. 
I WILL NOW BRING FORWARD SOME 
PRO-
PHECIES 
WHICH 
REMAIN 
TO 
BE 
FULFILLED, OR 
WHICH HAVE 
RECENTLY BEEN 
ACCOMPLISHED. 
THE 
SEVEN 
TIMES. 
1st. Moses' prophecy of the scattering of the 
people of God among all nations " seven times. 
See Levit. xxvi. 14—46. 
It is evident, that 
these " seven times " were a succession of years, 
for their land was to lie desolate as long as they 
were in their enemies' land. 
And the people of 
God have been, scattered, and are now a scattered 
and a peeled people. 
These " seven times " are 
not yet accomplished, for Daniel says, " When 
he shall have accomplished to scatter the power 
of the holy people all these things shall be fin-
ished." 
The resurrection and judgment will 
take place. 
Dan. xii. 6, 7: " And one said to 
the man clothed in linen, which was upon the 
waters of the river, How long shall it be to the 
end of these wonders ? 
And I heard the man 
clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of 
the river, when he held up his right hand and 
his left hand unto heaven, and swore by him 
that liveth forever that it shall be for a time, 
times, and a half: and when he shall have ac-
complished to scatter the power of the holy peo-
ple, all these things shall be finished." 
What did the angel mean by time, times, and 
a half? 
I answer, he meant three years and a 
half prophetic, or forty-two months, as in Rev. 
\i. 2, and xiii. 5: or 1260 prophetic days, as in 
Rev. xi. 3, and xu. 6 and 14. 
He meant the one 
half of " seven times." 
Daniel saw the same 
thing as Moses; only to Daniel the time was 
divided. 
He was informed that the little horn 
would "speak great words against the Most 
High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most 
High, and think to change times and laws; and 
they shall be given into his hand until a time, 
times, and the dividing of time." 
This makes 
Moses' seven times, for twice three and a half 
are seven, and twice 1260 are 2520 common 
years. 
But you may inquire, are not these two 
things the same in Daniel ? 
I answer, no. 
For 
their work is different, and their time of exist-
ence is at different periods. 
The one scatters 
the holy people ; the other wears out the saints. 
The one means the kingdoms which Daniel and 
John saw; the other means Papacy, which is 
called the little horn, which had not come up 
when the people of God were scattered by Baby-
lon and the Romans. 
The first means literal 
Babylon, or the kings of the earth; the other 
means mystical Babylon, or Papacy. 
And both 
together would scatter the holy people and wear 
out the saints " seven times," or 2520 years 
Moses tells us the cause of their being scat-
tered. Levit. xxvi. 21. 
"And if ye walk con 
trary unto me, and will not hearken unto me.' 
Jeremiah tells us when this time commenced, 
Jer. xv. 4—7. 
"And I will cause them to be 
removed (scattered) into all kingdoms of the 
earth, because of Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, 
king of Judah, for that which he did in Jerusa-
lem. 
For thou hast forsaken me, saith the Lord, 
thou art gone backward ; therefore will I stretch 
out my hand against thee and destroy thee. 
I 
am weary with repenting. 
And I will fan them 
with a fan in the gates of the land: I will be-
reave them of children; I will destroy my peo 
pie, since they return not from their ways." We 
have the same cause assigned by Jeremiah as 
was given by Moses, and the same judgments 
denounced against his people, and the time is 
here clearly specified when these judgments 
began, " in the days of Manasseh." 
And 
find in 2 Chron. xxxiii. 9—11, that for the very 
same crime they were scattered: " Wherefore 
the Lord spake to Manasseh and to his people, 
but they would not hearken. 
Wherefore the 
Lord brought upon them the captains of the host 
of the kings of Assyria, which took Manasseh 
among the thorns, and bound him with fetters 
and carried him to Babylon." 
Here then began 
the " power (their king) of the holy people" to 
be scattered." 
This year, also, the ten tribes 
were carried away by Esarhaddon, king of Baby-
lon, and Isaiah's sixty-five years were fulfilled 
when Ephraim Was broken. 
This was in the 
year B. C. 677. 
The seven times are 2520; 
take 677 from which, and it leaves 1843 after 
Christ, when " all these things will be finished. 
You may wish to know how the "time, times, 
and a half," are divided. 
I answer, the Baby-
lonians bear rule over Israel and Judah 140 
years, Medes and Persians 205 years, the Gre-
cians 174 years, and the Romans before the rise 
of Papacy 606 years; making in all of the four 
kingdoms 1215 years that the people of God 
were in bondage to the kings or rulers of these 
kingdoms. 
Then Papacy began her time, times, 
and a half, which lasted until 1798, being a 
period of 1260 years; which added to the 1215 
years of the kings before mentioned, make 2475 
years, wanting forty-five years to complete the 
" seven times." And then the kings of the earth' 
must consume the papal power and reign forty 
five years to complete the " seven times ;" which 
added to 1798, when the last of the ten kings 
broke loose from the power of Papacy, and again 
exercised their kingly power, (see the holy alli-
ance, Rev. xvii. 15—18. 
Dan. vii. 12,) ends 
1843. Dan. xii. 7—13. 
Thus this forty-five 
years accomplishes the " time, times, and a half," 
which the kingdoms of the earth were to exer-
cise their authority in, " scattering the power of 
the holy people," being 1260 years. 
And Pa-
pacy, or mystical Babylon, accomplished her 
" time, times, and the dividing of time," being 
1260 years, between A. D. 538 and 1798, in 
" wearing out the saints of the Most High and 
thinking to change times and laws." 
And both 
together make 2520 years, beginning B. C. 677 
which taken out of 2520, leaves 1843 after 
Christ, When captive Zion will go free from all 
bondage, even from death, and the last enemy 
conquered, the remnant out of all nations saved, 
the New Jerusalem completed, the saints glo-
rified. 
2nd. The next prophetic number to which we 
shall attend, will be Daniel viii. 14. " Unto 2300 
days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed, or 
justified." 
After Daniel had seen three visions, 
two of them including the whole " seven times, 
he sees under his last vision but the three last 
kingdoms, Persia, Grecia, and Rome. 
He then 
hears a saint speaking, and another saint inquir-
ing, for how long time this last vision should be. 
Daniel was then informed that it should be unto 
2300 days. 
He afterwrards heard a voice com-
manding Gabriel to make him (Daniel) under-
stand the vision. 
He came and told him, that 
the vision would carry him to the end of all in-
dignation, and at the time appointed (2300 days) 
the end would be. 
Gabriel then named two of 
the three kingdoms, i. e. Persia and Grecia, and 
described the Roman by its acts. 
Then he left 
Daniel to consider of the vision. 
Fifteen year, 
afterwards, while Daniel was praying, Gabriel 
came to him again, and told Daniel he had come 
to make him understand the vision. 
Then he 
gives him the seventy weeks, and tells him plain-
ly, that the seventy weeks would seal (or make 
sure) the vision and prophecy. 
Here he gave 
him a clue to know when his vision of the ram 
and he-goat began. 
He tells Daniel plainly, and 
shows how those who should live after the 
seventy weeks Avere fulfilled might know his 
prophecy to be true, and what they might 
understand by days in this vision. 
If, then, the 
seventy weeks were a part of the vision of the 
ram and he-goat, and given, as it is evident, for 
the express purpose of showing the beginning of 
the vision, it remains a simple problem. 
If 490 
days were fulfilled in the year A. D. 33, by be-
ing so many years, when will 1810 days be ful-
filled in the same manner ? 
Answer, 1843. 
TWELVE 
HUNDRED AND SIXTY 
DAYS. 
Then in the 12th chapter of Daniel, at the 7th 
verse, we have the three and a half times, which 
have been already explained in part, meaning 
1260 days. 
See Rev. xii. 6 and 14. 
The wo-
man in the wilderness, 1260 days, which is the 
same thing as three and a half times. 
Daniel, 
in the 7th chapter, 25th verse, mentions the little 
Ihorn wearing out the saints three and a half 
times; but in the 12th chapter, 7th verse, it is 
" scattering the power of the holy people " three 
and a half times. 
This was to be accomplished 
by the kings of the earth. Jer. 1. 17. 
"Israel 
is a scattered sheep, the lions have driven him 
away; first the king of Assyria hath devoured 
him, and last this Nebuchadnezzar, king of 
Babylon, hath broken his bones." 
Also Zech. 
i. 18—21. 
TWELVE 
HUNDRED 
AND NINETY, 
AND 
THIRTEEN 
HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE 
DAYS. 
Then in the 12th chapter of Daniel, 11th ver. 
" And from the time that the daily sacrifice 
(meaning abomination) shall be taken away, and 
the abomination that maketh desolate set up, 
there shall be 1290 days." 
There is some diffi-
culty in knowing what is here intended by " dai-
ly sacrifice" in this text. 
It cannot mean the 
Jewish sacrifices, for two good reasons: 1. It 
has some immediate connexion with " the abom-
ination that maketh desolate," i. e., Papacy, or 
papal power of Rome, that is " taken away to 
set up," &c. 
Now all must admit that Jewish 
sacrifices were taken away about 500 years be-
fore Papacy was set up, or exalted. 
2. If Jew-
ish sacrifices are here meant, then in A. D. 1360 
this papal power would have ended her setting 
up, or exaltation. 
But Papacy was then at the 
height of its power. 
I have come to this con-
clusion : that this power, called " daily sacrifice," 
is Rome pagan abomination ; the same as Christ 
has reference to in Matt. xxiv. 15; Luke xxi. 21. 
Certainly Christ could not have reference to 
papal abominations that maketh desolate until 
Christ's second coming, for that was not set up 
until nearly 500 years afterwards. 
Of course, 
it must have been the pagan abomination which 
would be taken away. 
This agrees with Paul, 
2 Thess. ii. 3— 10. 
" Let no man deceive you 
by any means; for that day shall not come, ex-
cept there come a falling away first, and that 
man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 
who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that 
is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he, 
as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing 
himself that he is God. 
Remember ye not, that 
when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 
And now ye know what withholdeth that he 
might be revealed in his time. 
For the mystery 
of iniquity doth already work: only he who 
now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the 
way. 
And then shall that Wicked be revealed 
whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of 
his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness 
of his coming : even him, whose coming is after 
the working of Satan, with all power, and signs, 
and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness 
of unrighteousness in them that perish ; because 
they received not the love of the truth, that they 
might be saved." 
Here Paul shows plainly, 
that there was one abomination then at work 
which would hinder the rise of the last abomi 
nation, until the first was " taken out of the 
way;" then the second would be revealed, whom 
the Lord would destroy with the brightness of 
his coming. 
The question then would be, When 
was Paganism taken out of the way ? 
I answer, 
it must have been after the ten horns arose, out 
of what is called the Western empire of Rome 
which were to arise up and rule one hour* (a 
little time) with the beast, pagan: for this little 
horn was to arise or be " set up " among the ten 
horns. 
It could not be until after the year 476 
after Christ, when the Western empire fell and 
was divided into ten kingdoms. 
It could not 
come until " they," the ten kings, had " polluted 
the sanctuary of strength," (meaning Rome. 
Dan. xi. 31. 
" And they shall pollute the sanc-
tuary of strength, and shall ' take away' the daily 
sacrifice, and they shall place the abomination 
that maketh desolate." 
Who shall do this ? 
I 
answer, the ten horns, or kings. Rev. xvii. 12, 
13. 
" And the ten horns which thou sawest are 
ten kings, which have received no kingdom as 
yet, (when John saw his vision,) but receive 
power as kings one hour (a short time) with the 
beast." 
The beast here must mean Rome pagan, 
for we have been told that beast means a king-
dom. Dan. vii. 23. 
" Thus he said, the fourth 
beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth." 
And as papal Rome had not yet been " set up," 
we must of necessity call this beast Rome pagan 
Then he tells us, Rev. xvii. 13, "These (ten 
kings) have one mind," that is, one faith, all 
being converted to the orthodox religion of the 
Catholic Roman Church, " and shall give their 
power and strength to the beast," meaning Rome 
papal; for now this beast is "set up," and the 
ten kings have given their power and strength 
to the pope of Rome, and the woman or Papacy 
sits upon the scarlet-colored beast having seven 
heads and ten horns. 
Then the abomination that maketh desolate 
began his rule in the fourth kingdom, when " the 
dragon (emperor of the Eastern empire) gave 
him his power, his seat (Rome) and great au-
thority," Rev. xiii. 2; and when the ten kings 
give their power and strength to him, and he 
(the pope) uses his authority over the kings of 
the earth. 
See Rev. xvii. 18. 
" And the wo-
man thou sawest is that great city, which reign-
eth ovir the kings of the earth." 
These several 
marks, and combinations of events, and circum-
stances, in my opinion, can nowhere be fulfilled 
in any manner agreeing with the prophecy, ex-
cept in the conversion of the pagan kings to 
Christianity, which happened as soon as A. D. 
508; then they " must continue a short space," 
Rev. xvii. 10; which is shown in Daniel to be 
thirty years, the difference between Dan. vii. 25 
and xii. 11; the last number, 1290 years, begin-
ning at the "taking away" of Paganism, A. D. 
•508 ; the first number, 1260 years, beginning at 
the setting up of Papacy, A. D. 538, when the 
dragon gave his power, his seat and great au-
thority, and when the ten kings gave their power 
and strength to Rome papal, and he exerciseth 
the power of the pagan beast before him. 
Pa 
* Rev. xvii. 10. 
pacy now killed heretics, as Paganism 
had 
Christians before. 
Then these numbers would 
end in the year A. D. 1798, allowing a day for 
a year. 
The events which took place in 1798, are 
strong evidence that my calculations of these 
numbers are correct. 
Papacy then lost the pow-
er to punish heretics with death, and to reign 
over the kings of the earth. 
All must agree 
that Papacy has no temporal power over any 
kingdom, except the little kingdom of Italy, one 
of the horns of which the ten are composed. 
It 
is very evident, too, that the church is not now 
in the wilderness, and the time, times and a half 
of the church in the wilderness were fulfilled 
when free toleration was given to all religions 
in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, &c.; where 
Bonaparte obtained power and granted free toler-
ation. 
Also the two witnesses are not clothed 
in sackcloth, and the 1260 years are fulfilled. 
No one can doubt for a moment that the Bible 
was forbidden to the common people, and for-
bidden to be translated in any common language, 
after the orthodox put down the Arian heresy in 
Italy and the West, by Belisarius, the general 
of Justinian's troops, sent into Africa and Italy 
for the express purpose of suppressing the Arian 
power, and giving the church of Rome the pre-
eminence over all schismatics. 
Then was the 
Bible taken from the common people, and re-
mained in a sackcloth state from A. D. 538 until 
A. D. 1798, during 1260 years. 
Here we find 
the prophetic time of days fulfilled in years, by 
two ways more. 
And now it remains to show 
the end, by Dan. xii. 11,12. 
"And fram the 
time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, 
and the abomination that maketh desolate set 
up, there shall be 1290 days." 
Paganism taken 
away A. D. 508; add 1290, make 1798. 
" Bless-
ed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the 1335 
days : but go thou thy way until the end be, for 
thou shalt rest and stand in thy lot at the end of 
the days." 
When will the end of these days be ? you 
may inquire. 
I answer, 1335 years from taking 
away the first abomination of the Roman king-
dom, A. D. 508, to which add 1335, and it makes 
A. D. 1S43, when Daniel will stand in his lot, 
and all who have waited for the Lord will be 
blessed. 
III. I will now show some proof that days in 
prophetic chronology are used for years. 
Alii 
must agree, that God has in many places, and at 
divers times, revealed future things in figures 
emblems, types and allegories ; and, as I believe, 
for wise and benevolent purposes. 
The most 
prominent is, that, in order to get anything clear, 
the Bible student must study the whole. 
And 
as it respects the matter under consideration, 
days being put for years: if God had revealed 
himself plainly, by using plain language instead 
of figures; if he had said, " Unto 2300 years 
from the time that Ezra would be sent up from 
Babylon, to restore the law and captives, &c., to 
the time when the end of the world should come," 
many men of the world would reject the whole 
Bible because of these words. 
Again, others, 
during past ages, if they had known that the 
judgment day was yet many years to come, 
would have abused the mercies of God, because 
vengeance was not executed speedily. 
Yet God 
had determined times, and set bounds, and must 
reveal it to his prophets, or he would deny him 
self, (Amos iii. 7. 
" Surely the Lord God will 
do nothing," &c.,) that that day may not over-
take the true believer as a thief, 1 Thes. v. 4. 
It is in the manner of Christ's parables. Matt. 
xiii. 14—16. 
" By hearing ye shall hear, and 
shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, 
and shall not perceive." 
" But blessed are your 
eyes, for they see; and your ears, for they hear." 
That God has used days as a figure of years, 
none will or can deny. 
With Moses, Num. xiv 
34: 
" After the number of days in which ye 
searched the land, even forty days (each day for 
a year) shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty 
years; and ye shall know my breach of prom-
With Ezek. iv. 4—6. 
"Lie thou also 
upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the 
house of Israel upon it: according to the num-
ber of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou 
shalt bear their iniquity. 
For I have laid upon 
thee the years of their iniquity, according to the 
number of the days, three hundred and ninety 
days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the 
house of Israel. 
And when thou hast accom-
plished them, lie again on thy right side, and 
thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Ju-
dah forty days: I have appointed thee each day 
for a year." 
Also the seventy weeks in Dan. 
ix. 24—27. 
These are samples. 
But you will 
inquire, How shall we know when days are used 
for years ? 
I answer, you will know by the 
subject matter to be performed in the given time. 
For instance, the seven of the seventy weeks, 
" the streets and walls of the city should be built 
again', in troublous times;" every man must 
know this could not be performed in 49 days, or 
even in 70 weeks, 490 common days. 
So we 
are to look for another meaning to days; and 
we find it, as above, to mean years. 
Again, the 2300 days. 
This is an answer 
given to the question, " For how long a time the 
vision" of the ram, the he-goat and the little 
horn " shall be ?" 
Answer, unto 2300 days. 
Who cannot see at a glance, that these three 
kingdoms could not conquer each other, rule 
over the whole world each one separately for a 
time, and do this in six years and four months ? 
Thus the Infidel rejects his Bible, and the world-
ly scribe and priest try to explain away, by their 
own wisdom, what God has made plain by his 
word. 
" By hearing ye shall hear, and not un-
derstand ; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not 
perceive." 
But apply our rule, " years for days," and all 
is simple, plain, and intelligible. 
I might here show how God has revealed time 
by types in his word, by Jewish Sabbaths, by 
the jubilee, and by the day of rest;* but I am 
warned that I have already trespassed on your 
patience. 
May we all apply our hearts unto that 
wisdom which compares scripture with scripture, 
and understand " times and seasons," which God 
has put within our power, by his revelation unto 
us. 
For the time is at hand " when the wise shall 
understand; but the wicked shall not under-
stand." 
Amen. 
* See Sermon on the Great Sabbath, " in 
Miller's 
Views." 
SIGNS OF THE 
TIMES, 
AND 
EXPOSITOR. 
OF 
PROPHECY. 
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The design of the 
paper is, to illustrate the prophecies which relate 
to the second coming of Christ in the year 1843. 
The sentiments of those who reject the time and 
the manner of the advent in 1843, are also freely 
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LETTER TO A 
BROTHER, 
j Who had Written to one of the Editors, 
Opposing his Be-
lief in Christ's Near Coming. 
NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 23, 1842. 
DEAR BROTHER JOHN : 
Yours of the 19th inst. is just received, and you may 
imagine my surprise when, on reading it, I found it con-
tained a sermon against the Advent Nigh—and you not a 
professor of religion ! 
You will now allow me to re-
join. 
And first, those who have taught you your theology, 
have evidently been great bunglers. 
You say, a great many have predicted the end of the 
world before. Yes,—and among them are Christ, Daniel, 
Paul, John, Peter, &c. 
And do you think they were 
mistaken 1 But you say you do not allude to them. 
I 
know it. 
You mean that many like Mr. Miller have pre-
dicted it, and have been mistaken. 
This is a wrong po-
sition. 
Mr. Miller has not PREDICTED,—he has only ap-
plied the predictions of the above named prophets. 
He 
has not pretended to have any knowledge on this great 
subject but what is clearly taught in the Bible ; and his 
application of prophecy has never been 
satisfactorily 
shown to be wrong. 
The chief corner-stone of your sermon is, " of that day 
and hour knoweth no one " 
Now this passage does not 
teach what you imply ! 
It does not. say. of that day and 
hour no one shall ever know ; but simply says they did 
not then know it. 
In the 12th chapter of Daniel it is 
said, the wise, or righteous, shall understand it. 
And 
Paul says, I Thess. v. 4, "But ye, brethren, are not in 
darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief." 
It is clearly taught in the Scriptures, that God's people 
may know about the time of that great event. 
Did not: 
Noah know the time of the flood 1 
This you will not 
deny. 
Well, " As it was in the days of Noah so shall it 
be at the coming of the Son of Man." 
Now, dear brother, think of this fact. 
A calculation 
was made in 1838, by brother Josiah Litch, a Methodist 
minister, from the prophecies, that, on the 11th of Au-
gust. 1840, the Ottoman Supremacy would depart. 
Re-
member it was not a prediction, 
but an exposition of pro-
phecy—the very same prophecies that teach the coming 
of Christ in 1843. 
What was the result? 
Why, on the 
11th August, 1840, the Ottoman Supremacy DID depart, 
and it is now a matter of history. 
That calculation did 
not deceive us. and it was much less clearly taught in 
prophecy than the coming of Christ in 1843. 
Think you, 
that the same God, and Spirit, that spake and justified 
that, will fail to justify this ? 
By no means. 
God will 
soon come out of his hiding-place. 
Yea, He that is to 
come shall come, and WILL NOT TARRY. 
Be not 
deceived, my dear brother ; God is not mocked. 
Again, you recommend that we preach the gospel to 
every creature, by telling them that they know not that 
even to-morrow will be theirs. 
Now, my brother, will 
you find one Apostolic example, or yet those who taught 
you the above lesson, to find one example where they 
urged the uncertainty of life as a motive to repentance 1 
For every one, I will find ten where the coming of Christ 
and the Judgment are urged by them as motives. 
And 
then, how weak is its influence ! 
They have evidently 
been teaching it to you ; but has it led you to repent-
ance 1 
Did you believe, as firmly as I do, that 1843 will 
reveal the Lord from heaven, to take his children home, 
and to destroy his enemies, you would no doubt, " First 
seek the kingdom of heaven." 
It is too evident that you 
try to satisfy yourself that this doctrine is noUrue, as an 
excuse for putting off the work of submitting yourself to 
God. 
Again, you anticipate the injury that will accrue from 
believing the doctrine, in spending our property to propa-
gate it, which you think will be a bad result should it not 
prove true. 
Which, my brother, would be the greatest 
calamity ; to believe the doctrine, and, through its influ-
ence. live a holy life, and appropriate all our goods, as 
faithful stewards of God, and yet the event not come so 
soon as we expect 1 or, to believe it will not come—that 
it is all a fable, &c., and then be overtaken by it as a 
thief in the night] 
Which, I ask would be the greatest 
error 1 
O, if 1 err, let it be in expecting it too soon. May 
God, my brother, 0 
MAY GOD SAVE BOTH YOU AND HE FROM 
THE ERROR OF 
PUTTING 
FAR 
AWAY THE 
EVU, DAY, 
U ! I 
fear for you. 
You have been the burthen of my prayers 
and anxieties for months past. 
This will probably be one 
of my last epistiles to you—one of my last calls. 
Shall 
eternity separate you and me, brother John 1 
Heaven 
forbid it. 
I do fear that you love this evil world too 
much. 
You say your religion is to pay your honest debts. And 
is that all of your religion 1 God requires that we should 
not only do justly—but 
that we should love mercy, and 
that we should WALK HUMBLY with our God. 
Do you 
do 
this 1 
You seem to think that the faith I advocate is confined 
to a despised few, and that the subject is only agitating a 
small territory. 
But in this you are mistaken. Hundreds 
of ministers from various denominations ; men both of 
learning and talent, both in Europe and America, have 
embraced the doctrine of Christ's Speedy Coming. Eng-
land. Scotland, Ireland, Asia, and Africa, as well as 
America and the Isles of the Sea, are becoming deeply 
agitated with this great subject. 
Rest assured, it is not 
to be treated as a matter of table, and I do hope you will 
not hazard your eternal interests by neglecting to prepare 
immediately ior the judgment of the great day. 
O! my 
brother, for a WORLD of earthly treasure, don't neglect 
an interest in the kingdom of God, now nigh at hand. 
Your brother, with DEEP, DEEP affection, 
L. 
D. FLEMING. 
DIES IRxE. 
(Day of Wrath.) 
BY ANDREW DICKINSON. 
Some readers may be familiar with the Latin poem of 
Thomas De Celano, 
entitled, " DIES IRJE," as well as 
with the fact, that various versions have been attempted 
by different individuals. 
The author was a monk of the 
twelfth century. 
His poem was in rhyming Latin, a style 
of composition peculiar to his times'. 
A clergyman put into the hands of the writer a prose 
translation ; but, in its versification, it will hardly be ex-
pected that the majesty and strength of the original could 
be easily transfused into the English. 
TUNE—" 
Ravenscroft." 
That day of wrath—tremendous day I 
(So David and the Sybil* say,) 
With whirlwind fires the world shall burn ! 
O then ! what trembling will there be, 
When Christ descends in majesty, 
Upon the resurrection morn ! 
With wondrous pow'r the trump shall sound ! 
Death and the dead it shall astound, 
And rend the tombs of every land ! 
The whole creation shall arise 
To meet th' ALMIGHTY in the skies, 
And at his dread tribunal stand ! 
The mountains cleave ! volcanoes wreath 
Strange fires, disgorg'd from earth beneath, 
That in conflicting flames are flung ; 
Affrighted Ocean heaves amain ! 
Creation travaileth in pain ! 
Heaven is with ruin overhung ! 
Lo ! in mid-heavens that great white throne ! 
Nature convulsive heaves a groan ! 
The Nations look in dread amaze ! 
Guilt shall behold, with anguish dire, 
His eyes like fiercely flaming fire, 
And shrink from the oppressive blaze ! 
'Tis Heaven's great King! tremendous Pow'r ! 
Where wilt thou fly at this dread hour ] 
Where seek relief from thy distress 1 
For lo ! THE CRUCIFIED is come 
To fix thy everlasting doom, 
And judge the world in righteousness ! 
Earthquakes and thunderings prevail, 
While trembling sinners weep and wail, 
To see the Book of Doom display'd : 
0 Dread Remembrancer of Thought, 
Whence every sin to light is brought, 
To make the guilty soul afraid. 
0 kind Redeemer! hear my prayer; 
Save me that day from black despair, 
Thou, who liadst pity on the thief: 
Thou, who didst. Mary's sins forgive, 
Be merciful, and let me live, 
Though I of sinners am the chief. 
Thou, who satt'st wearied on the well; 
Who toli'd to save lost souls from hell; 
Let not such travail be in vain : 
Thou, who for me hast borne the cross, 
And hung thereon, (a bleeding curse,) 
0 save me from eternal pain ! 
A suppliant at the holy throne, 
My guilt and worthlessness I own, 
And only plead that Jesus bled : 
Receive me, 0 thou Crucified, 
Because for sinners thou hast died, 
Eternal Judge of Quick and Dead ! 
Me absolution thou hast given ; 
Faith to my soul hath open'd heaven, 
And Mercy whispereth of grace : 
Eternal King ! at that great day, 
When earth and heaven shall pass away, 
Among thy sheep give me a place ! 
When wrapp'd in flame this rolling world 
Is in one fiery ruin hurl'd, 
And there is no more earth and sea; 
When to thy Kingdom Thou shalt come, 
And guilty souls receive their doom, 
0, then my God ! remember me ! 
* The fabulous tradition of antiquity concerning Sybil, the prophet-
ess, was received as equal authority with Scripture prophecy, in tha 
dark ages. 
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