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THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES, 
AND EXPOSITOR 
OF 
PROPHECY. 
J. 
V. 
HIMES & JOSIAH LITCH, 
EDITORS. 
OFFICE 
No. 
14' DEVONSHIRE 
STREET, 
BOSTON. 
Vol. III.—No. 3. 
Boston, Wednesday, April 20,1842. 
Essays on the Judgment. 
, 
Cunclmlrd Irurn p. 12. 
III. ITS EXTENT. 
The day having been appointed, and 
that 
day proved to be a definite time, and yet future, 
after death, (Heb. ix. 27,) we might with safe-
ty infer —were nothing more said in regard to 
the general interest of mankind in its momen-
tous transactions—that the whole human fam-
ily are then and there to be assembled for full 
and final trial. But the subject is not left here. 
God is called " the judge of all the earth." 
Gen. 
xviii. 25. 
It cannot be denied, that the whole 
human race,—to whose relation with the sub-
ject I shall confine my remarks—are included 
in the appellations of " the righterous and the 
wicked," " the just and the unjust," " him that 
serveth God, and him that serveth him not," 
and various other expressions describing 
the 
same classes of characters. 
It is said in rela-
tion to the righteous 
: " The Lord shall 
judge 
his people." 
Deut. xxxii. 36. Ps. cxxxv. 
14. 
Heb. x. 30. 
Again : It is said in relation 
the wicked : " The ungodly shall not stand in 
the judgment:" 
Ps. i. 5. God 
will bring them 
into judgment: 
Eccl. xi. 9. Rom. ii. 5—16. 
It 
is nowhere even intimated in the Bible, that 
only a part of the human family are to be judg-
ed;—which must have been the fact, if the 
judgment of the great day took place at 
the 
destruction of Jerusalem, and that part exceed-
ingly small in-proportion to the whole—but on 
the other hand, that we shall all 
stand before 
the judgment seat of Christ, 
Rom. xiv. 10. 
2 
Cor. v. 10. 
Observe, Paul does not say 
this 
merely to the Jews, but to the Romans and Cor-
inthians. 
Further: 
"For 
God shall 
bring 
every 
work 
into judgment, with 
every 
secret 
thing, 
whether it be good, or whether it 
be 
evil." Eccl. xii. 14. 
I remark here, in the first place, that 
all 
men must be included in the above quotations, 
and others of the same import in the Bible— 
unless a third class can be shown to exist, who 
are neither righteous nor wicked. 
But Christ 
denies the possibility of this, when he says : 
" He that is not with me, is against me." Matt, 
xii. 30. 
Secondly; every human soul must be 
here included, from the fact that every 
work, 
with every secret thing, 
whether good or 
evil, 
will be brought into judgment : unless it can 
be shown that the deeds of men will be held ac-
countable—punishable or rewardable—for their 
own existence 
abstractly, without any refer-
ence to the agent. 
And this, in ordinary affairs, 
we should all consider worse than nonsense : 
for who blames the.act of thejt rather than the 
thief 1 
Why, even 
allowing 
that the judg-
ment was all fulfilled on ancient Jerusalem and 
Judea, it was not fulfilled on this principle : 
and the same difficulty presents itself if we 
take the other alternative, that it passes daily 
and hourly on individual conscience. 
Lastly, under this head: 
The 
quick 
and 
dead will be judged : Christ is ordained to be 
the judge 
of quick 
and dead." Acts x. 42. 
" He shall judge the quick and dead." 1 Tim. 
iv. 1; 1 Pet. iv. 5. 
This certainly must 
in-
clude every human being, unless it can 
be 
shown that some are, or will be, neither 
alive 
nor dead. Was all this performed at the down- I 
fall of Jerusalem ? 
Was you there, 
reader?; 
Was all the race of man there ? 
Did " the 
dead small and great" then and there 
stand 1 
before God?" 
Did " the sea give up the dead 
which were in it?" 
Did "death and hell deliv-
er up the dead which were in them?" 
Were 
" the books opened;" and were they "judged 
every man 
according to their works?" 
Did 
"the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abomi-
nable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and 
sorcerers, and idolaters, and all 
liars,"*then 
" have their part in the lake which 
burneth 
with fire and brimstone, which is the second 
death ?" 
Did " the first heaven and the first 
earth" then " pass away," new ones appear, 
the holy city, New 
Jerusalem, 
come 
down 
from God out of heaven, prepared as a 
bride 
adorned for her husband?" Did " the taberna-
cle of God appear with men, He dwell among 
them, and wipeWay all tears from their eyes;" 
banish forever "death, sorrow, 
crying 
and 
pain," from among his people, throughout the 
holy realms of the new heavens and earth ?— 
" O ! the folly of sinners !" 
IV. ITS 
IMMUTABILITY. 
1. It will be 
a righteous 
judgment: 
(Ps. 
xcvi. 13; Rev. xix. 11.) consequently, 
there 
then will be no necessity for, nor propriety in, 
its repeal. 
Nay, to abrogate a just 
decision, 
would be to " turn judgment 
away backward, 
and justice afar off,"—the very things for which | 
God reproved Israel. 
Is. lix. 14. 
Moreover, 
to reverse any decision, would be either to ac-
knowledge injustice in rendering the 
former 
award, or argue,—rather positively prove, cor-
ruption in the judge. 
2. The 
reward 
of the righteous, and 
the 
punishment of the wicked, will be eternal. 
" And 
these shall go away into everlasting (or 
eter-
nal) punishment : but the righteous into life 
eternal." 
Matt. xxv. 46. See also Dan. 
xii. 
2. Jno. v. 29. 
3. The Apostle Paul 
speaks (Heb. vi. 2.) 
of the doctriile of " eternal judgment 
:"—and 
the language of inspiration is never without 
meaning,—and, with all the inspired writers, 
leaves us no—not the least—intimation of any 
repeal, or even mitigation of the consequen-
ces of the righteous decree; no fear that the 
glory of the righteous, or hope that the misery 
of the wicked, will ever come to an end. 
If 
the destruction or punishment of the wicked ig 
not endless, neither is the reward of the righte-
ous; for the same terms are used in reference 
to the duration of both. 
If "the 
wickedness 
of the wicked," is not of so aggravated a char-
acter as to deserve endless misery; neither is 
"the righteousness of the righteous," of so 
meritorious a character as to deserve endless 
happiness. 
But on the opposite plan, what 
a 
contracted, degrading estimate, is placed upon 
the efficacy of " THE BLOOD OF THE EVERLAsf-
ING COVENANT," and the glorious character of 
" THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS !" 
Now, every Bible student 
knows,—without 
stopping here to show how, why, or wherefore, 
let me observe it—that heaven is promised to 
the godly, and hell to the ungodly, as the re-
Whole No. 51. 
\wards 
of their doings. 
"Verily, there is a 
jreward 
for the righteous." Ps. lviii. 11. " Re-
joice and be exceeding glad; for great is your 
!reward in heaven." 
Matt. v. '12; Luke vi. 23. 
"Woe unto the wicked ! it shall be ill with 
him; for the reward 
of his hands shall be given 
him." 
Is. iii. 11; 2 Pet. ii. 13. 
"And, 
be-
hold, I come quickly : and my reward 
is with 
me, to give to every man 
according as 
his 
work shall be." Rev. 
xxii. 12. 
The last pas-
sage includes both characters—" every man." 
And the rewards—blessings and 
woes—must 
be awarded after death, and at the judgment, 
unless we all enjoy our heaven, and suffer our 
hell, according to character, in this life, 
and, 
atheist-like, blot from the entire roll of being 
every idea of futurity—eithey of life or death— 
beyond the grave ! 
But to return: If the time shall ever arrive, 
as some suppose—when the inhabitants of per-
dition shall have fully satisfied the demands of 
Divine justice, and they consequently be re-
leased from their dark prison—what will next 
be their portion ? and, on the same principle, 
will not the reward of the glorified saints, 
in 
the same time, have been 
fully enjoyed ? and 
what is then to become of them ? 
Will 
they 
not be as likely to exchange 
situations, as to 
dwell together ? 
And if they are to dwell to-
gether, 
what good reason can be 
assigned, 
why they will not be as likely to be 
thrust 
down to hell, as exalted to heaven ? for they 
would stand on equal ground as to character, 
neither blame, nor 
praise-worthy; neither re-
wardable, nor punishable; neither holy, nor 
unholy ; but in a medium state betwixt both— 
merely innocent. 
I can see, for my life, no way, 
in which they can be disposed of, on this prin-
ciple, but to suppose arf intermediate state be-
tween heaven 
and 
hell, for their reception. 
They cannot go lo heaven, 
or dwell in the pres-
ence of God; for "without holiness 
no 
man 
shall see the Lord." 
Heb. xii. 14. They can-
not with propriety 
be sent to hell; 
for only 
" the wicked shall be turned into hell, and all 
nations that forget 
God." 
Ps. ix. 37. 
But we 
read of no such place, no such characters, no 
such transactions. 
But to avoid prolixity, 
I 
close with a few remarks by way of 
IMPROVEMENT. 
If we have taken a correct view of the sub-
ject, we see, 1, The propriety of that estimate 
which God attaches to the doctrine of the judg-
ment, in giving it so prominent a place in ajjl 
the instructions of his word. When Christ" be-
gan to upbraid the cities wherein most of his 
mighty works were done, because they repent-
ed not," he enforced his fearful denunciations, 
by reference to the tremendous scenes of " the 
day of judgment." Matt. xi. 20—24. See also, 
Acts xvii. 30, 31. 
Again: It is urged as a 
motive to faith 
: 
" And if any man hear' my 
words, and believe not, I judge him not: for 
.... 
the word that I have spoken, the same 
shall judge him in the last day." Jno. 
xii. 47, 
48. 
It is further adverted to, as a motive,— 
To the fear of God, and obedience to his com-
mandments 
in general; Eccl. xii. 13, 14; Rom. 
ii. 13—16: 
To patience: 
Jas. v. 7—9 : 
To 
various duties; 2 Pet. iii. 3—14. 
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SIGNS 
OF 
THE 
TIMES 
Let these examples suffice on this head. 
And 
if the Almighty 5> Omniscient God, 
thus regards 
this subject, with 
what intense, soul-stirring 
interest, ought human beings to look upon it, 
whose most momentous prospects of final weal 
or wo, hang upon its decisions ?—For as the 
heavens are higher than the earth, so are 
his 
ways higher than our ways, 
and his. thoughts 
than our thoughts!" 
8. What 
scenes of glory and of joy 
will 
the transactions of that day unfold to the 
Chris-
tian ! 
Now he lives in an ungodly world, rife 
with trial and temptation—mourning over 
his 
own sins, his unlikeness and 
unfaithfulness to 
his Divine Lord and Master—" his righteous 
soul vexed from day 
to day, 
with the 
filthy 
conversation, and 
the unlawful deeds of the 
wicked :" but then—how 
changed ! it 
shall 
be 
announced : 
" Come ye 
blessed of 
my 
Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for 
you 
from the foundation of the world : for I 
was 
an hungered and 
ye gave 
me 
meat : I 
was 
thirsty and ye gave me drink : I was a strang-
er, and ye took me 
in : naked and ye clothed 
me : 1 was sick, and ye visited me : I was in 
prison and ye came unto me." 
And as he ut-
ters his own sense of his un worthiness, " When, 
O when, have I done so much for Thee ? I am 
verily but an unprofitable servant : and 
often 
have almost doubled even the power 
and wil-
lingness of a God to save so vile a 
sinner;" 
and the King shall answer and say unto 
him, 
" Verily, I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have 
done it unto one of the least of these my breth-
ren, ye have done it unto me;"—he can only 
turn with a grateful sense of the melting 
com-
passion and grace 
of his glorious Lord 
and 
Savior, and join in that song of the redeemed, 
which shall thrill through all heaven. " 
Saying 
with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that 
was slain to receive power, and riches, 
and 
wisdom, and strength, and honor, and 
glory, 
and blessing :" " for thou wast slain, and hast 
redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every 
kindred, and tongue, and 
people, and nation; 
and hast made us unto our God 
kings^and 
priests: and we shall teign on the earth !" 
3. What a scene of solemn and awful reali 
ties will that day 
discover 
to the enemies 
oj 
God ! 
« Great day of consternation and of dread ?" 
O ye careless, 
ye presumptuous ! suffer a 
word of exhortation. Prepare to meet your God. 
Of what avail then, will be all your vain boast-
ings of no fear of death, or hell,—shall I add, 
or even of the Almighty ?—no regard 
for the 
entreaties, warnings, rebukes and threatenings, 
of God in his word—echoed and reiterated in 
tones of thunder in your ears, by his ministers 
and people; the significant admonitions of con-
science, the strivings of the Holy 
Spirit, and 
tke 
ominous 
dispensation 
of Divine 
Provi-
dence ? 
What will it avail, that you have la-
bored all your lives, and spent all your strength, 
and time, and talents, to cover 
up hell, 
and 
pile the whole tremendous mass of curses, and 
threatenings, and denunciations 
of " terror" 
and " wrath to come," from the " KING 
OF 
KINGS, AND LORD 
OF 
LORDS," 
upon 
the contracted limits of old Jerusalem and its 
inhabitants ? 
O 
the fearful responsibility 
of 
preaching " peace, peace," when God has not 
spoken 
peace; 
but positively 
declared 
that 
" there is no peace to the wicked !" 
"Then shall he say also unto them on 
the 
left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into ev-
erlasting fire, prepared for the devil and 
his 
angels : for I was an hungered, and ye 
gave 
me no meat : I was thirsjy, and ye gave me 
no drink : I was a stranger, and ye took 
me 
not in: naked, and ye 
clothed 
me not: 
sick 
and in prison, and ye visited me not. 
Then 
shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when 
saw we thee an 
hungered, 
or a thirst, or 
a 
stranger, 
or 
naked, 
or 
sick, or 
in 
prison, 
and did not minister unto thee ? 
Then shall 
he 
answer them, saying, Verily I say 
unto 
you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the 
least of these, ye did it not to me. 
And these 
shall go away into everlasting 
punishment." 
It seems that they will either think they 
had 
been doing very well,—all that was 
required 
of them; or, that they had never 
had an op-
portunity of doing those things, for the 
neg-
lect of which they will be condemned. 
Will 
they then plead, in extenuation of their 
guilt, 
the fact, that they had opposed revivals of reli-
gion* the doctrines of faith and repentance, as 
necessary to salvation; that they supposed they 
were 
ministering 
to 
His wants when 
they 
saw 
their fellow-beings in trouble 
and 
dis-
tress on account of their sins, " a certain fear-
ful looking for of judgment and 
fiery 
indigna-
tion, which shall devour the adversaries;" and 
used every effort in their power to soothe and 
" from the presence of the Lord, and from the 
glory of his power," will eventually be 
made 
to subserve. 
" Now consider this, ye that for-
get God;" and lest " that day overtake you as 
a thief,"—O, whilst the door of hope remains 
open, and mercy pleads—"turn 
ye, turn 
ye, 
for why will ye die ?"—repent, and believe the 
gospel; and 
thus obey the injunction of 
the 
apostle : " Therefore glorify God in your body, 
and in your spirit, which are God's :" and be 
; prepared, with every holy being in heaven and 
earth, to pray like the Psalmist : "And let the 
whole earth be 
filled 
with his glory ! 
Amen, 
and Amen." 
A. D. 
LOW. 
Low Hampton, • JV. F. Oct. 6th, 1340. 
Lectures on Prophecy,—No. II. 
Continued Iroin p, 11. 
BY JAMES A. BEGG, GLASGOW. 
The value of Scripture Prophecy, as a light to 
the Church. 
Allow me, then, earnestly and affectionately 
to remind you, that as we are still 
encompas-
sed by the same difficulties, and exposed to the 
as the church which Peter im-
same dangers, 
mediately addressed, we are, in this 
respect, 
lull their disturbed consciences to sleep, 
and 
no 
less privileged than they were. 
Though 
quiet their gloomy forebodings of future retri- living in a day long posterior to that of the 
bution, by crying 
" peace, peace," "ye shall apostles'decease, we still enjoy the benefits of 
not 
surely 
die; '* 
while 
they 
charged 
all 
these apprehensions to an improper and fool-
ish 
excitement, produced by the 
"fanatics" 
of the day,—" the preachers of the doctrine of 
endless misery?" 
" O that they were 
wise, 
that they understood this, that they would con-
sider their latter end !" 
May the Lord 
save 
us from such a course, and such a fate ! 
4. It will be a 
day of the eminent 
display 
of 
God's 
glory. 
"When 
the Son 
of man 
shall 
come in his glory, 
and all the l)oly angels 
with 
him, then shall he sit upon 
the 
throne 
of 
his 
glory." 
Matt. xxv. 31. 
He will then " come to 
be glorified in his saints, and admired in all 
them that believe." 
2 Thess. i. 10; Eph. i. 6, 
12, 14, 18. 
I think it is also evident, that God 
will be glorified by displaying his justice in the 
final condemnation of the wicked. 
For, if he 
was honored or glorified in the destruction 
of 
rebellious Pharaoh and his host: (Ex. xiv. 17, 
18,) and if he is glorified in the preaching ox 
the gospel, whether it is believed or rejected: 
whether its hearers are 
finally 
saved or lost; 
—as appears very obvious from Paul's remarks 
in 2 Cor. ii. 15, 16, it seems to follow as a ra-
tional 
consequence, 
that 
that glory will be 
more fully revealed, when " all flesh shall see 
it together,", and they are rewarded according 
to their works. 
Indeed, 
we are informed by 
the same apostle, (Rom. xiv. 10—12,) in allu-
sion to this very subject, that 
" it is 
written, 
As I 
live, saith the Lord, 
every knee 
shall 
bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to 
God." And again : (Phil. ii. 9-11.) Wherefore 
God also hath highly exalted him, and given 
him a name which is above every name : that 
at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, 
of things in heaven, and things in earth, 
and 
things under the earth; and that every tongue 
should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the 
glory 
of God the Father." 
The glory 
of God, 
then, is the grand point, 
to which all things are tending : the one great 
object, 
to which the 
eternal 
salvation, life, 
death, resurrection, 
and glorification of the 
saints, 
are designed and adopted to contribute 
: 
and which the final exhibition of Divine justice, 
in the "everlasting destruction" of the 
sinner, 
Wis deep solicitude, in the epistles he has left, 
written under the inspiration of God. 
0 let us 
not then forget, nor be indifferent to the fact, 
that we 
have also a " sure word of prophecy, 
whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as un-
to a light that shineth in a dark place, until the 
day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts." 
All Scripture is, indeed, " profitable," when 
rightly used; for the design intended 
by it all 
is, " that the man of God may be 
thoroughly 
furnished'Xmto all good works." 2 Tim. iii. 17. 
Nor do we in the least impair the responsibility 
under which you lie, faithfully and prayerfully 
to seek to understand whatever is contained in 
j" the oracles of God," when we thus seek 
at 
this time more especially to enforce upon 
you 
the duty of giving 
heed to those parts which are 
more strictly prophetic, as they are thus press-
ed upon our consideration in the words of the 
text. 
Some, indeed, assume that it is the 
Scrip-
tures, as a whole, of which the apostle 
here 
speaks as " the sure word of prophecy." 
Were 
it even so, and were there here no especial ref-
erence to those parts of Scripture which 
are 
exclusively 
occupied with predictions of God's 
future purposes, and the lessons which 
these 
teach, still these portions would of necessity be 
included in the apostolic charge, by the 
very 
comprehensiveness of such an 
interpretation. 
Viewing " the sure word of prophecy" as thus 
spoken of the word of Inspiration, generally, 
where would be our obedience to the 
apostolic 
admonition, if, instead of giving heed, we were 
contented to remain without knowing or under-
standing what such men as Isaiah, 
Jeremiah, 
Ezekiel, Daniel, and other holy men of God 
had of old time felt and uttered, as part of that 
which we are here assured 
they 
" spake 
as 
they were moved by the Holy Ghost?" 
I therefore ask, and ask with concern 
for 
the answer, What you individually feel of re-
sponsibility, 
to take 
heed 
unto their 
writings 
among the others in this respect? I ask not, 
whether in the ordinary course of Scriptural 
reading in your families or alone, you 
peruse 
the whole, but whether or not you do 
deeply 
and solemnly inquire into the true meaning 
of 
SIGJYS OF THE 
TIMES. 
19 
the Spirit, while you read all including the 
prophetic portions of his word ? Do you take 
heed unto them for "light," from which real 
personal prolit may, and ought to be derived ? 
Even according to the interpretation 
which 
supposes " the prophecy of Scripture" to be 
the entire written word, this is incumbent. 
It 
were to charge folly upon Jehovah, to imagine 
that he has inspired, and preserved until our 
time, and transmitted to us so large a portion 
of these Scriptures without designing it lor our 
real advantage. 
But my dear friends, it is evidently those por-
tions of the Divine Word having special refer-
ence to events which were then, at least, still 
future, which the apostle here specially com-
mends as the " sure word of prophecy," as 
distinguished from the other parts of the in-
spired record. 
It is not, you will perceive, the 
Scriptures as a whole, but only a part of them 
of which he on 
this occasion 
speaks,—the 
" Prophecy 
of the Scripture," 
as he expressly 
calls it, verse 20. 
Here is much of Scripture 
that is historical, much that is doctrinal, much 
that is perceptive; but here the apostle speaks 
only ofthe " Prophecy 
of the Scripture." And 
it is not what he hiTnself or other apostles of 
the Lord had previously spoken or written, but 
what was contained in the Old Testament— 
that which " in OLD time," holy men of God 
had spoken—what those of previous ages were 
inspired to utter. Verses 20, 21. 
It is further evident that it was prophecy, in 
the true and proper sense of that word, 
nay 
prophecy unfulfilled, 
to which the apostle thus 
refers, by what he declares of the object of his 
writing on the present occasion, in a 
subse-
quent chapter, from which we have 
already 
quoted: "The second epistle, beloved, I now 
write unto you; in both which I stir up your 
pure minds, by way of remembrance; that ye 
may be mindf ul of the words which were spoken 
before by the holy prophets, and oj the command-
ment of us, the apostles ofthe Lord and Savior; 
knowing this first that there SHALL COME, in the 
last 
days, 
scoffers, walking after their own 
lusts, and saying, Where is the promise of His 
coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all 
things continue as they were since the 
begin-
ning of the creation." 
Chapter 3d, 
1—4 
Here he enjoins remembrance of and attention 
to, the words both of the prophets and apostles, 
but he clearly distinguishes between the two, 
characterizing the former as " the words which 
were spoken before by the holy prophets;" and 
the still perceptive character of these 
prophe-
cies is indicated by the warning, not to be 
tempted to disregard them by the insinuations 
of the scoffers of " the last days," who he in-
timates should arise,—speaking of them in the 
future tense, " there shall come." 
Having thus 
ascertained 
the real subject 
which the apostle sets before us, we are now 
called to consider the practical use which 
he 
assigns to the study of prophecy. 
Very differ-
ent indeed from that which alone some would be 
willing to accept, or to allow others to receive 
is that which we are here taught to regard as the 
great and chief advantage of sacred prophecy. 
It is not the confirmation ofthe word of divine 
truth, resulting from the event being fulfilled ac-
cordingly as it was foretold—however important 
that may be—which is here spoken of. It is the 
value of prophecy for teaming 
and 
guidance, 
that the apostle sets before us; it is contemplated 
by him a light 
in the darkness of the fuiure. 
In this important aspect it is a " sure word of 
prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take 
heed." 
Not in vain, does God thus forewarn 
his church of what they have to expect of in-
creasing darkness; but it is a* manifestation of 
his gracious care, that prophecy has been giv-
en by our God, that during our present pil-
grimage, we might be comforted, our feet di-
rected in the way of life, and that our hearts 
I may be fully assured as to the issue of the con-
jflict with "the prince of darkness." 
The words " whereunto ye do well that ye 
take heed," are, by some, read as an injunc-
tion or exhortation to the performance of this 
duty; by others, they are understood as a com-
mendation for fidelity in the discharge of that 
duty. 
This latter view, I regard as that which 
jconveysthe apostle'strue meaning; but under-
stood in either sense, the words equally set be-
fore us, a Christian privilege, of which we are 
icalled to avail ourselves, and imply a respon-
sibility of which we cannot be divested. 
As-
sured, that in doing so, ye shall " do well," 
and experiencing in a measure, what i 
desire 
for all of you, it is ray object, to urge you to 
"take heed" to this "sure 
word of prophe-
cy," being always " mindful ofthe words which 
were spoken before by the holy prophets," as 
well as ofthe commandments ofthe apostles of 
our Lord and Savior. ^ To this duty of exhor-
tation, I feel especially called, by the consider-
ation of the fact, that now,in these "last days," 
there are, within and without the professing 
church, many scoffers, "walking after their 
own lusts, and saying, where is the promise of 
his coming?" 
This sure word of prophecy 
having been given as a light unto our feet and 
a lamp unto our path, it is designed to be used 
continually, that thereby we may be saved 
from snares and falls. 
If the apostle either enjoins upon those to 
whom he wrote that they do take heed to proph-
ecy, or commends them for doing so, we may 
in either case surely take it as the message of 
God to ourselves, that it will be neither dutiful: 
nor safe to neglect the prophetic intimations of; 
His will. 
Those who do so, must forget the 
truth, that " we are saved by hope," and over-
look the fact, that the church has never been 
without prophecy for her consolation, since re-
ceiving the first promise in the garden of Eden. 
Great as is the encouragement, and impor-
tant as prophecy is, it is nevertheless often 
treated as if it were intended to serve no useful 
purpose to the church, and as if we should do 
well by giving no heed to its intimations—as if 
the danger lay not in neglecting, but in giving 
hegd to it. 
How little do those who so act, 
know the blessed intimations " which God hath 
spoken by the mouth of all His holy prophets, 
since ever the world begun,"—even 
uncon-
cerned, it may be that the last book of inspira-
tion—the last written book of prophecy, has in 
its first chapter the intimation "Behold 
He 
cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see 
Him;" and in the last chapter " He which tes-
tifieth these things saith, surely I come quickly, 
Amen." Rev. i. 7; xxii. 20. 
It is indeed a 
solemn consideration that the judge of quick 
and dead cometh quickly; and if we were to 
allow that consideration to operate within us, 
how would it tend to quell many ofthe stirrings 
of our fleshly minds, which, even on the part 
of believers, are too often allowed to find a 
place. 
In prophetic annunciation, uttered in suc-
cessive ages, God has given the whole history 
of our world's rebellion, and that of its ulti-
mate blessed emancipation from the thraldom oi 
man's adversary at the 
"restitution 
of 
all 
things." 
They set before us in the history of 
nation^ as well as of individuals, the 
forms 
which sin assumes, the dangers to which, in 
consequence, men are exposed, the manner in 
which deliverance is obtained, and the nature 
of that deliverance. 
In the prophetic page, 
we read the divine denunciations against the 
varied forms of wickedness, as in the historic 
page we already read the 
fulfilment of part 
ol these denunciations. 
In the page of proph-
ecy, we also read the desire of God, 
(to 
be 
eventually fulfilled,) of His will done upon the 
earth, —as in many other forms, the longings 
of his heart for this, have also been expressed. 
Prospectively, in the word of prophecy, we see 
Jesus our Redeemer, receiving glory from God 
the Father, and seeing, even to his satisfac-
tion, of the travail of His soul, for which all 
his work of sorrows has been 
accomplished, 
all his sufferings been endured. 
Let those who would confine our attention 
to prophecy that has been fulfilled, learn, then, 
from the injunction of the apostle, the impor-
tant purpose it is intended to serve, while yet 
the evils it foretells, and the glories of which it 
sings, are still in the womb of futurity. 
We 
depreciate not what is fitted to be helpful of 
the past, in order to exalt what is foretold of 
the future. 
Elsewhere, we know God appeals 
distinctly to the past, as testifying to His pres-
cience; and if our brethren, who are disposed 
so to limit our inquiries, were vigorously to 
engage even in the department 
they 
would 
prescribe 
for 
our 
exclusive 
consideration, 
their investigations might serve the double pur-
pose of affording us assistance by proving more 
distinctly to themselves and to others, 
how 
much narrower than is generally supposed is 
that field from which alone they would have us 
gather prophetic fruit; while they ought at the 
same time form for themselves a taste which 
could not be so easily gratified, but 
which 
would crave for the farther development of the 
mind of God concerning future times and fu-
ture scenes. 
To be Continued. 
Plenary Inspiration ofthe Holy Scrip-
tures. 
• 
MR. TAYLOR has 
recently, published 
the 
volume entitled 
" THEOPNEUSTY," 
by 
Mr. 
Gaussen, 
of Geneva, which has been transla-
ted from the French by Mr. Kirk. 
It is only 
Requisite 
to say that the Essay is of the high-
est value, and especially to Theological 
Stu-
dents. 
In connection with D'Aubigne's His-
I tory ofthe Reformation, it is adapted to produce 
more salutary effects than any two Christian 
works which have appeared in France during 
the last fifty years. 
We have selected one 
passage from Mr. Gaussen's essay, and anoth-
er from Mr. Kirk's introduction, as specimens 
ofthe work, and as unfolding the cardinal doc-
trine which the author maintains. 
THEOPNEUSTY.—"We aim to establish by 
the Word of God, that the Scriptures are from 
God; that all the Scriptures are from God; 
and that every part of the Scripture^ is from 
God. 
" In maintaining that all the Bible is from 
God, we are far from thinking that this excludes 
man. 
Every word of the Bible is as really 
from man as it is from God. 
In a certain 
sense, the Epistle to the Romans is entirely a 
letter of Paul; and in a still higher sense, the 
Epistle to the Romans is entirely a letter from 
God. 
The great Newton, 
when he desired 
to 
transmit his wonderful discoveries to the world, 
20 
SIGJVS OF 
THE TIMES. 
might have procured some child in Cambridge 
to write the fortieth, and some servant of his 
College to write the forty-first proposition of 
the immortal "Principiae." 
Should we thence 
have possessed in any less degree the mathe-
matical reasonings which rank in our view all 
the movements of the universe under the same 
law ? 
Would the entire work have been any 
less Newton's? Surely not. 
Its preface, its ti-
tle, its first line, it3 last line, and all its-theo-
rems, easy or difficult, understood or not un-
derstood, are from the same author; 
and that 
is sufficient for me. 
Whoever the writers may 
have been, and at whatever different elevations 
their thoughts have ranged, their faithful and 
superintended hand traced alike the thoughts 
of their master; andj can there always study 
with equal confidence, in the very words of his 
genius, the mathematical principles of New-
ton's Philosophy. 
Thus God, who would make known in an 
eternal book, the spiritual principles ofthe di 
vine philosophy, 
dictated its pages, 
during 
sixteen centuries, to priests, kings, warriors, 
shepherds, tax-gatherers,boatmen,scribes, and 
tent-makers. 
Its first line, its last line, all its 
instructions, understood or not understood, are 
from the same author; and that is sufficient for 
us. 
Whoever the writers may have been, and 
whatever their understanding of the book, they 
all have written with a faithful superintending 
hand, under the dictation of the same Master; 
to whom a thousahd years are as one day. 
" Such is the origin ofthe Bible. 
Such is 
the fact of Theopneusty. 
I shall not waste 
my time in vain questions. 
I will study the 
book. 
It is the word of Moses—the word of 
Amos—the word of John—and the word of' 
Paul: but it is the mind of God, and the word 
of God. 
" We should then deem it a very erroneous 
statement to say certain passages in the Bible 
are from men, and certain others from God. 
Every verse without exception is from men; 
and every 
verse 
without exception is from 
God: whether he speaks directly in his own 
name, or whether he employs the sacred wri-
ter. 
As Bernard says of the living works of 
the regenerated man: 
"Our 
will performs 
more of them without grace; but grace per-
forms more of them without our will;" so must 
we say, that in the Scriptures, God has done 
nothing but by man, 
and man has done noth-
ing but by God. 
" There is a perfect parallel between Theop-
neusty and efficacious grace. 
In the opera-
tions ofthe Holy Spirit in inditing the sacred 
books, and in those of the same Spirit convert-
ing a soul, and causing it to walk in the paths 
of holiness, man in some respects is entirely 
passive, in others entirely active. 
God there 
does every thing; man there does all; and we 
may say of all those works, as Paul said to the 
Philippians, 
" It is God who worketh in you 
both to will and to do." 
In the Scriptures, the 
same work is attributed 
alternately to 
God 
and to man. 
God converts, and it is man who 
converts himself. 
God circumcises the heart; 
God gives a new heart; and it is man who must 
circumcise his own heart, and make to himself 
a new heart. 
"Not only because we must 
employ the means of obtaining such an effect," 
says Edwards, " but because this effect itself 
is our act, as well as our duty; God producing 
all, and we acting all. 
" Such, then, is the Word 
of God. 
It is 
God speaking in man; God speaking by man; 
God speaking as man ; and God speaking for 
man."—Page 34-37, 
In the Introduction, 
Mr. Kirk thus luminous-
ly annotates, on the volume which he 
has 
translated. 
" A great excellence of this work is the 
clearness of its distinction between the inspira-
tion ofthe men, and that ofthe book. 
The 
writers were inspired: 
holy men of God were 
moved by the Holy Ghost," when they spake. 
But the fact of their inspiration is one thing; 
that of the book is another. 
"The perusal of this work has increased 
our conviction, that a semi-infidelity on a vital 
point has crept into the Church; that the sense 
ofthe imperfection ofthe writers has impercep-
tibly diminished the reverence for the Scrip-
tures. 
"There is a formidable objection to the theo-
ry of inspiration; 
and we fear this 
subtle 
objection, like the unobserved "worm in the 
bud," is 
sometimes 
hindering' 
a 
vigorous 
growth, 
sometimes corroding 
vital 
organs 
The objection 
may thus 
be 
stated—God's 
works all are perfect in one sense, and all his 
teachings are 
infallible. 
But the instant he 
employs man to teach his teachings to other 
men, there is introduced^ new element, which 
at once destroys perfection and infallibility. 
This arises from the imperfection of man, and 
that of his language. 
If the conceptions 
or 
feelings of a man are employed, they 
must 
necessarily limit and mar the divine thought 
communicated to him. 
If man speaks to his 
fellows in human language, he must use an 
imperfect medium, always more or less imper-
fectly comprehended. 
" This is the most subtle and imposing of all 
the objections which have attacked our faith in 
plenary 
inspiration. 
Our defence is 
here— 
God calls his work perfect. 
A particle of it 
shall never fail. 
No future changes; no pro-
gress of science; no unfolding of the complica-
ted drama of human life shall ever change or 
modify one shade of its statements. 
This may 
not satisfy the unbeliever; yet even he may 
find a relief from his own dark and 
chilling 
speculations, 
in the fact, that God's instru-
ments are perfect for his purposes. 
Nature is 
an infallible teacher. 
All God's works are 
perfect instructnrs—and this remains true, al-
though men are constantly prone to misinter-
pret their meaning—although men's 
senses 
are imperfect instruments for the reception of 
truth, and material substances are imperfect 
media for conveying the knowledge of spiritual 
truth. 
" The 
invisible things 
of Him 
are 
clearly seen, being understood by the things 
that are made." 
" The precise impression which we desire 
to see the Bible produce in all our hearts is 
this: when our eye resls on its page, 
when its 
words fall on our ear, let us receive it as the very 
voice of God." 
The foregoing paragraphs unfold the char-
acter of Mr. Gaussen's "Theopneusty," and 
testify that he has provided a rich and nutritious 
feast for every hungry Christian. 
Ch. 
Intel. 
THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
BOSTON, APRIL 20, 
1842. 
Second Advent Witness.—We have re-
ceived the first No. of Vol. II. of this work. 
This 
periodical has now assumed" a new character and 
form, and is hereafter to be under the editorial 
charge of Eld. L. D.. Fleming. 
It is to be publish-
ed in the octavo form, 8 pages per No. semi-month-
ly, at 50 cents per year. 
It is to be devoted, as 
heretofore, to the discussion of the doctrine of the 
Second Advent at hand; but to be more of a mis-
cellaneous work than formerly; and is open for a 
temperate and Christian discussion of the doctrine 
of the Second AdventJ the Millennium, &c. 
All 
communications relative to the Witness to be ad-
dressed to L. D. Fleming, 126 Fulton St. N. York, y 
We bespeak for it an extensive patronage. 
Lectures at Scituate Harbor.—The re-
sult of the course of lectures in this place, is a glo-
rious revival of the work of God, both among Chris-
tians and the unconverted; during the series of 
lectures rising fifty professed to find peace in believ-
ing, and the last evening of the series left a large 
number more seeking the pardon of sin through 
the blood of Christ. 
The doctrine of the Second 
Advent has taken a strong hold on many minds, 
and we trust will be the means of the salvation of 
many souls. 
Br. Puffer, pastor of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, is much interested in the subject, 
and will be disposed to encourage and help on the 
cause. 
PREACHING 
ON ETERNITY.—" It was a ques-
tion asked by the brethren both in the classical 
and provincial meetings of ministers, twice in 
the year, if they preached the duties of the 
times? And when it was found that Mr. Leigh-
ton did not, he was censured for the omission, 
but said, If all the brethren have preached to 
the times, may not one poor brother be suffer-
ed to preach on eternity?"'—Buck's 
Anecdotes. 
Apostolic Preaching.—With the apostles 
it was customary to present to their hearers, as a 
motive to repentance, faith, and holiness, the great 
subjects of the Second Coming of Christ, the resur-
rection ofthe dead, and a Judgment to come. 
The 
idea that death was at the door, that all were con-
stantly exposed to it, that they were liable to die at 
any moment, &c. did not seem to be taken into the 
account. 
How is it, then, that in these modern 
days we hear so little of the Judgment, and so much 
of death ? It is not because we so closely follow 
apostolic example and authority, but the reverse. 
Death, to be sure, is the end of probatory existence, 
but the Judgment that is to follow it is the great 
consideration, because then we must receive in body 
the things Ave have done. 
Death is near to us, and 
there is a strong probability that some in every 
company will die soon, but there is also a prospect 
and hope, with most, that they will live many years. 
But let the truth of the speedy coming of Christ be 
brought to bear on the conscience and judgment, 
backed up as it is by demonstration that it is even 
at the door, and that prophetic times expire in 1843, 
and the sinner must tremble. 
This bears alike on 
all. 
Old and young alike see their doom before 
them, and that it cannot be long averted. 
Yes, the 
youngest sinner, as well as the old 
gr«y-headed 
rebel against God, see*themselves alike just on the 
verge of the Judgment. 
What an overwhelming 
thought! Reader, do you realize it? that in less 
than two years and time will be no longer! and 
your doom be eternally fixed! 
Again, then, we beseech you to think what that 
doom is to be. 
Will you meet a curse or blessing? 
Shall you reign with Christ in glory, or be cast out 
into outer darkness, where " there shall be weeping 
» 
SIGJYS OF 
THE 
TIMES. 
21 
and gnashing of leeth;" and " where the smoke of 
their torment ascendeth up forever and ever." 
0 
what a momentous change ! 
And in the twinklin? 
of an eye, at the last trump, it will be all over.— 
What is not done then, never will be accomplished. 
It's too late ! too late!! 0, then, keep in view that 
« crown of righteousness," and that " far more ex-
ceeding and eternal weight of glory," on the one 
hand—and the " everlasting destruction from the 
presence of God and the glory of his pov^er," on the 
other—and act in view of them. 
Preconceived Opinions.—There is so 
much point and force in' the following item, that 
we cannot forbear to give it our readers. 
We hope 
all will ponder it well, and profit by it. 
It is related that Galileo, who invented the tele-
scope with which he observed the satellites of Ju-
piter, invited a man who was opposed to him to 
look through it, that he might observe 
Jupiter's 
moons. 
The man positively refused, saying, " If I 
should see them, how could I maintain my opinions 
which I have advanced against your philosophy?" 
This is the case with many. 
They will not look at 
the truth. 
They will not hear it, for fear that the 
arguments which they have framed, will be destroy-
ed, and they may be obliged to give up their vicious 
indulgences. 
Chr. 
Intel. 
Hartford Conference.—We 
learn 
that 
much good has resulted from the Lectures and Con-
ference 
in that city. 
The following resolutions 
were passed by the Conference. 
1. Resolved, That the opinion of many in the 
modern church, that the kingdom of God was set 
up in the days of the Caesars, has no support in 
Scripture or fact. 
2. Resolved, That the world's conversion, and a 
millennium before Christ's second advent, is a dan-
gerous and deceptive doctrine, and has no founda-
tion in the word of God. 
3. Resolved, That the idea of the Jews return to 
their own land, building their city" of Jerusalem 
again, and the restoration of Jewish laws and cer-
emonies, is unscriptural, inconsistent, and false. 
Ajudaizer's 
dream. 
4. Resolved, That the coming of Christ in the 
clouds of heaven, to raise and glorify hissaints, 
destroy the wicked, and set up his eternal kingdom 
on earth, is yet future, and is the next important 
link in the chain of historical prophecy for which 
we look. 
5. Resolved, That the duty of all who believe in 
the second advent near, is plain: to use all the means 
of grace, and gifts of God, to spread the light,—to 
give the cry, to rouse the slumbering church, and 
sleepy world to a sense of danger, and to prepare 
ourselves, and assist others to go out and meet the 
bridegroom. 
v J 
6. Resolved, That we recommend to the believ-
ers in the second advent of our Lord nigh at hand, 
to establish conference and prayer meetings in their 
respective neighborhoods for the mutual interchange 
of views and feelings, relative to this all impor-
tant subject. 
That such meetings will tend greatly 
to the advancement of the cause, in the increase and 
spread of light, and be a means of quickening our 
own souls, and preparing us for the glorious event, 
and also of leading perishing sinners to Christ. 
7, Resolved, That we recommed to the friends of 
the advent nigh, to establish in their respective 
towns,vicinities and neighborhoods, Second Ad.vent 
libraries, for the dissemination oflightjToTthebene 
fit of all who may wish to read. 
The Conference also appointed the following persons 
as a committee of agency, to make direct efforts for 
the spread of light on the second advent, in differ 
ent parts ofthe State : 
L. C. Collins, 
Thos. Huntington, 
P. T. Kenney, 
i- 
Committee. 
Williams Thayer, 
0. Burgess-
How is this,—That the scoffers, and sceptics 
of the age, with all the professed ministers ofChrist 
and members of churches, who are saying "my Lord 
delayeth his coming;" continually quote Malt, xxiv 
34, " Of that day and that hour knoweth no man," and 
never once quote Mat xxiv. 32, 33: "Now learn 
a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet 
tender and putteth forth Wves, ye know that sum-
mer is nigh. 
So likewise ye, when ye shall see all 
these things, know that it is near, even at the doors." 
Nor, Thess. v. 4: 
" But ye, brethren, are not in 
darkness, that that day should overtake you as a 
thief." Why do they not quote these passages? Ah ! 
why? 
Triumph ofthe Jesuits in New York. 
The demand of the Catholics in New York for a di-
vision of the school fund has beer, granted. 
This is 
a most extraordinary case. 
No 
Protestant sect 
could have obtained it. 
Yet they have an equal 
right to such a sectarian claim. 
But it is the "Lit-
tle Horn," 
that is to prevail 
and make war with the 
saints. 
The conflict is at hand. 
The N. Y. Ex-
press says:— 
" The Catholic triumph may be considered the 
first victory they have achieved in the Anglo Saxon 
part of the New World. 
In Mexico and 
South 
America, the learned and powerful Jesuits long ago 
led in triumph the banner of the Pope of Rome, but 
here is a triumph over the Puritan and the Church 
of England too, over the old Hollander also, and 
indeed over all Protestants in mass 
Bishop Hughes, we have been careful to say, has 
carried a point. 
He has not carried the point, but 
he has carried a great poiut nevertheless. 
He has 
established his power in the State. 
Both parties have 
been compelled to bow to the Hierarchy of Rome. 
He has got a wedge in ; and if he drives it with his 
usual skill, the point is his very soon. 
As we understand-the bill that has become a law, 
it opens our Public Schools to the strife of parties, 
political and religious. 
There is to be an annual 
election of certain school officers, in June, we think.", 
If, in the inattention of a business city, to its pub 
lie Schools, upon a special election, the Church of 
Rome with its great power of conccntrated and di-
rect action, cannot carry its points, its Priests can 
threaten their 80,000 Catholic population for anoth-
er move on the political board. 
Or it can at least 
alarm political men in the schools by threats of ac-
tion in the Apiil or the November election." 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
An Encouraging Letter. 
State of Georgia, 4th April, 1842. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES,—Through the 
mercies 
of our Heavenly Father, I have been 
permit-
ted to read the "Signs ofthe Times " for near 
two years. 
Although I cannot say that I 
am 
satisfied with the various calculations and de-
clarations of any one, or all ofthe writers, yet 
I feel assured, upon the whole, that your hands 
should be held up, and that a paper should be 
sustained which 
is open 
to a reasonable and 
free investigation of all the signs 
of the 
times, 
and the fulfilment of the prophecies. 
From the last No. of Vol. 2, I learn the fi-
nancial state of your publications. 
I take it 
for granted that you have stated the truth; and 
moreover that, on your part, it is not, and will 
not be, a money speculation. 
I therefore for-
ward you fifty dollars for gratuitous 
distribu-
tion, 
throughout 
the world, 
of such 
cheap 
prints as in your conscientious judgment 
are 
the best calculated to awaken and engage the 
sleeping virgins. 
Permit me to lay this as a 
" corner-stone " 
towards the 
formation of 
a 
fund for gratuitous distribution 
to 
all lands. 
You can 
send from Boston, 
(providing you 
have the means,) to every station of professed 
Christians throughout the earth. 
Let your se-
lection of books, pamphlets, Sic. be 
judicious. 
And now let all the zealous,, whose " gold and 
silver are cankering," unite in this laudable 
effort which 
you 
and 
others 
are making to 
"stir up 
their 
pure minds," to look for 
the 
coming of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus 
Christ. 
There is no 
time 
to lose. 
Let us 
make a united effort. 
Let us 
" cry ALOUD," 
and " declare the ivhole council ofGod." 
Let 
us "run to and fro " to increase 
knowledge. 
The night is far spent. 
The day 
is at 
hand. 
Let us keep our 
eyes upon the latter part 
of 
the 16th chapter of Revelations. 
Behold he 
cometh as a thief. 
The 
voice may soon de-
clare, " IT IS DONE !" 
I do not own an inch of terra Jirma. 
Have 
neither servants or rich relations to assist me. 
My own efforts, with the Lord's blessing, has 
placed this in my hands. 
And, 
thanks be to 
God, I try to send it 
cheerfully. 
Should the nations 
be 
soon stirred 
up 
to 
war, you will 
doubtless again hear from me. 
There are now many rumors, and men's hearts 
are failing them. 
Let not the faithful be dis-
couraged—but let them " lift up their heads, 
for behold their redemption draweth nigh! 
Go on, brother ! Let not your hands slack-
en. 
Labor to preserve the unity of the spirit 
in the bond of peace. 
Should you 
notice this 
offering in your paper, my name will be of no 
value, therefore please to leave it out. 
I am 
a way-faring man, having no certain dwelling-
place. 
I have been for years striving to stir 
up the people of the south to truth 
and 
right-
eousness. 
I 
have 
scattered 
many good and 
religious 
books 
among the people; and this 
has enabled me to assist in your 
efforts in the 
present work. 
May many others be prompted 
to lend a helping hand. 
I now return to my 
native West. 
May the good Lord help us all 
in his work. 
*** 
Extract from the Manuscript Sermon 
of a Friend. 
Seeingr, then, all these things shall be dissolved.— 
2d Pet. iii. 11, 12. 
" II. Why they shall be dissolved, and the aw-
ful scene. 
1. Sin is the cause. It has marred the work 
of God. 
O Sin, what hast thou done ? 
It has 
changed man into a demon, and the world into 
a Golgotha; and both must be renewed to be 
a fit deposite of any thing truly good. The soul 
also, to enjoy God, must be creatfed 
anew.— 
The body, to be a suitable habitation for its 
better part, must be new made; and the Vorld, 
in order to be a suitable home for the new 
man, must be restored by a renovation. 
For all the above, provision has been made 
in Christ. By going to God by faith in Christ, 
the soul is renewed by the power of the Holy 
Ghost :—This being done, we have the prom-
ise of a resurrection of tbe 
body, 
new-made, 
and 
spiritual. 
Immediately after which 
the 
new heavens and earth appear. 
"Behold 
I 
make all things new," is the promise. 
Hence 
" we look for a new heavens and a new earth, 
wherein dwelleth righteousness." 
When the earth was formed at first, order, 
beauty, harmony, and happiness, were written 
upon every object 
of creation. 
But Sin, we 
have said, marred this work,and God cursed it 
for man's sake, with sterility and 
barrenness, 
with noxious weeds and poisonous plants, with 
thorns and briers. 
We therefore now behold man, 
not going 
22 
SIGJVS OF THE 
TIMES. 
forth on the wide extended 
field, yielding hn 
abundant harvest almost spontaneously, to the 
satisfying of every living thing, under the rays 
of a genial sun; O no—but we see him climb-
ing the rugged mountain by a single winding 
foot-path, 
while the cragged 
rocks 
on 
one 
hand hang carelessly over his head, and on 
the other a deep chasm yawns, of a thousand 
feet, while one misstep dashes him in pieces in 
the awful abyss beneath; or a rock from above 
crushes him to death in a moment. 
Then turn 
your eye to the shivering Greenlander, pursu-
ing his game half starved, over 
mountains of 
ice, and deserts of snow. 
Then turn the eye 
to the laborer, sweating and 
fainting beneath 
a vertical sun. 
Now the earth 
withholds her 
increase, and man dies of famine. 
And now 
the 
elements pour forth a mighty 
flood, 
and 
man is swept 
away in a " mighty 
deluge." 
Now 
the wind 
whirls itself in 
eddies, 
and 
spreads 
desolation and 
death 
wherever 
it 
comes. 
Lightning 
and hail, 
also, add their 
part in spreading terror and death in the land. 
Our mother earth, also, as though weary of 
her children, heaves herself in mighty throes 
until, bursting asunder, she buries whole cities 
in her bowels, or covers them with melted lava, 
and they die in 
a moment. 
Instance 
Pompii 
and Herculanium, in Italy, where, at a great 
depth individuals 
are found with 
implements 
of husbandry in their hands, which show 
they 
had not a moment's 
warning. 
Indeed, earth, 
with 
all 
the 
elements,, breathe 
death, 
and 
• therefore must be renewed before they become 
the home of pure and good 
beings. 
2. The destruction will be an awful 
scene. 
Imagine yourself on an eminence, 
beholding 
the late Lexington wrapt in 
flames, 
hearing 
the shrieks of mothers, children, friends; hear 
their prayers, 
their groans and 
cries. 
See 
them dropping, one by one, some into the wa-
ter, others 
into the fire. 
There goes a hus-
band, with a wife fast in his arms; and now a 
mother is followed by a little daughter clinging 
fast to her clothes. 
O what a picture to the 
imagination; but to have been there and actu-
ally 
seen and heard all this ! to have' been 
there with wives and children ! O, how dread-
ful ! But what is all this to being in a 
large 
city when sinking by an 
earthquake ? 
The 
ground reeling like old ocean's billows, 
and 
broken in chops, the deafening noise of the 
crash of falling buildings, the shrieks of the 
dying, half buried alive; you would run from 
the 
awful scene—but how ! you attempt, and 
again and again you find yourself thrown down 
and rolling on the ground,4 while it is opening 
and shutting on every side. 
Again; think of Sodom and the cities of the 
plain, when in a moment God turned the foggy 
cloud to liquid fire and melted brimstone, and 
hurled on the devoted cities. 
What 
tongue 
can tell, or pen describe the awful scene ! But 
what is the burning of one boat, and the loss 
of 150 lives !—the destruction of a city by 
an 
earthquake, 
and the loss of 100,000 lives !— 
the destruction of the few cities of the 
plain 
by fire, and the loss of 500,000 lives ! when 
compared with the burning up 
of the 
world, 
the 
awful trumpet sounds, when all 
at 
once 
the subterranean fires bursting asunder in eve-
ry direction, shall in a moment rend her from 
centre to circumference, setting all the atmos-
phere on fire, and all nature heaves her com 
mingled gro^an with 900,000,000 
dying men 
and expires !!! 
O, impenitent sinner, prepare 
for that dreadful scene. 
Exposition of Scripture. 
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the 
night ; in which the heavens shall pass away with a 
gieut 
noise, and 
the eleineifis shall melt 
with 
fervent heal, the eaith also and the works that aie 
therein shall be burned up.—2 Pet. iii. 10—See also 
Matt. xiv. 42—44. 
There is not only the most terrible sublimi-
ty and solemn grandeur, 
but also much philo-
sophical propriety, in this description of 
the 
awi'ul dissolution of the heavens and the earth; 
when " The heavens shall 
pass away with 
a 
great noise, and the elements 
shall melt with 
tervent heat, the earth also, and the works that 
are therein shall be burned up.—Wherein the 
heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, 
and 
the elements shall melt with 
fervent 
heat." 
A3 the heavens mean 
here the whole 
atmos-
phere, 
in which all the terrestrial vapors 
are 
lodged; and as xvater 
itself is composed of two 
gases, oxygen and hydrogen; and as the elec-
tric, or 
ethereal 
jire, 
is probably 
that 
which 
God will employ in the general conflagration; 
the noise occasioned by the application of this 
fire to such an 
immense congeries 
of 
aqueous 
particles as float in the atmosphere, must be 
terrible in the extreme. 
A piece of iron 
red 
hot placed over a drop of water on an anvil 
and struck with a hammer above the drop, will 
cause a report as loud as a musket; when,then, 
the whole strength of these opposite agents is 
brought 
into 
a state of conflict, the 
noise, 
the thunderings, 
and innumerable 
explosions, 
(till every particle of water on 
the earth and 
atmosphere, 
is by 
the 
action 
of 
the 
fire, 
reduced to its component gaseous parts,) will 
be frequent, 
loud, confounding 
and terrific, be-
yond 
every comprehension 
but that of 
God 
himself. 
When the Jire 
has thus 
conquered 
and decomposed 
the water, 
the elements, 
the 
hydrogen 
and oxygen 
airs, or gases, will occu-
py distinct regions of the atmosphere; the hy-
drogen by its great levity ascending to the top, 
while the oxygen from its superior gravity will 
keep upon, or near, the surface of the earth; 
and thus, if different substances be once ignit-
ed, the fire, which 
is supported in this 
case 
not only by oxygen, which is one of the constit-
uents of atmospheric 
air, but also by a great 
additional quantity 
of oxygen obtained 
from 
the decomposition of all the atpieous 
vapors, 
will rapidly seize on all other substances, on all 
terrestrial particles, and the whole frame 
of 
nature will necessarily be torn in pieces; 
and 
thus " the earth and 
its works be burnt up." 
It 
is probable, however, they will merely be 
all separated 
and decomposed, 
but none of them 
destroyed. 
And, as they are the original mat-
ter out of which God formed the terraqueous 
globe, they may enter again 
into the 
composi-
tion of a new system; 
and therefore the Apos-
tle says, "We look for a new heaven 
and a 
new 
earth;" the 
other being decomposed, 
a 
new system will be formed from their materials. 
" Seeing then 
that all these things shall 
be 
dissolved, what, manner of persons ought we 
to be in all holy 
conversation and 
godliness, 
looking for and hasting unto the coming of the 
day ©fGod."—Burder. 
I think the two following passages of scrip-
ture, render it as certain as the "lip of truth" 
itself can make it, that there can be no earth-
ly millennium—none upon the " old unchang-
ed earth." 
They follow :-
" But the saints 
of the Most High shall take 
the kingdom, and possess 
the kingdom 
for ever, 
even for EVER and EVER." 
Dan. vii. 13. 
" And the seventh angel sounded; and there 
were 
great 
voices 
in heaven, 
saying, 
The 
kingdoms af this 
world 
are become 
the 
king-
dom of our Lord, and of his Christ and 
he 
shall reign for EVER and EVER." Rev. xi. 15. 
The argument rests upon the two 
facts, that 
these passages point out the hope of the church 
usually termed the millennium; and the fact, 
that the terms employed can be applied to noth-
ing but eternity—immortality—in 
the most ab-
solute sense. 
They can never be applied 
to a 
world that is doomed to be dissolved. 
This 
world of necessity is limited in its duration, be-
cause sooner or later, it must be burnt up, 
with 
all that is therein. 
Christ therefore cannot 
reign 
in it for ever and ever, no more than a king can 
reign in a kingdom which was to last but 
an 
hour, a million 
of years. 
Nor could the saints 
possess 
this 
world for ever, even for ever 
and 
ever, 
any more than they could possess a tem-
ple eternally, which 
to-morrow 
was to be con-
sumed in the 
flames. 
The eternity of the 
reign, 
therefore, *of Christ, and the possession of the 
saints, 
of 
necessity 
excludes 
mutation—or 
change, and both are stamped 
with immortal-
ity, or there is an end to all biblical interpreta-
tion. 
The words can only be applied to 
the 
" new heavens and new earth," which are to 
remain." 
As certainly, therefore, as the pres-
ent world is doomed to 
decay, 
and God 
has 
spoken the passage quoted, so 
certainly they 
must be applied to an ETERNAL 
STATE—"the 
world to come." 
Where, 
then, 
it may 
be 
asked, is the" thousand years" of Saint John ? 
I 
snswer, 
JYot 
in time: 
but 
in his thousand 
years is the 
commencement of eternity. 
It is 
thd 
porch,—without 
an 
inside 
door—so 
to 
speak, to that 
ineffable place—but firmly at-
tached to the House 
eternal in the 
heavens. 
The thousand years merely marks the distance 
between two resurrections. 
The saints reign, 
in a peculiar sense—perhaps judge, with Christ 
a thousand years. 
" Know ye not that ye shall 
judge angels ?" 
Yet a thousand years 
have 
in them the essential elements of 
immortality. 
Beyond this, I know nothing; nor need I know 
till the day end and the day-star arise. 
G. F. 
Cox. 
Portland, March 28lh, 1842. 
From the Herald and Journal. 
Millennium—the Unanswerable Ar-
gument. 
As in my general objections to an 
earthly 
millennium, one of my arguments was 
stated 
less clearly than it might have been, you will 
allow me to repeat it, 
slighdy varied in 
its 
form. 
From the Christian Intelligencer. 
History of the Society of the Jesuits. 
I. Character 
of the Jesuits.—The 
attention of 
the Jesuits to education has given them 
great 
influence. 
Though in 1840 this Society 
con-
sisted of only ten, yet, Dr. Robinson 
informs 
us, "that before the end of the century 
they 
had obtained the chief direction ofyouth in ev-
ery Catholic country 
in Europe. 
They 
pos-
sessed," he adds, " at different times, the 
di-
rection of the principal Courts of Europe." 
Their superior education gave them access to 
the most respectable institutions, 
and to the 
society of nobles and princes. 
The friends of 
literature made them Professors, because 
dis-
tinguished for their learning. 
By their knowl-
edge of all parts of the world they can 
make 
themselves interesting to Statesmen. 
They ac-
commodate themselves to the society with which 
SI GNS OF THE 
TI MES. 
23 
'hey desire to be connected. 
They 
always 
agree with those whohi they wish to influence. 
They first endeavor to ascertain the partialities 
and prejudices of men, the objects they wish 
to accomplish; then they know how to converse 
and how to act. 
Their education includes a 
thorough knowledge 
of human nature. 
The 
legal knowledge ol Taney made him Chief Jus-
tice ofthe Supreme Court ofthe United States. 
The Society ofthe Jesuits is more than any 
other on earth opposed to the government of 
Jehovah; they pay more respect to the laws of 
the Roman Pontiffs and courts, than to that 
law which is holy, just and«-good. 
As there is 
but one God in heaven, so the Papists claim 
there is but one on earth; and that the Ro-
man Pontiff is God, or is in the place of God. i 
He can add to the laws of Jehovah, or take I 
from them. 
It is important that every one should know i 
what the secret oath is, by which the Jesuits 
bind themselves to support the Roman Pontiff. 
It is the following:— 
" In the presence of Almighty God, and of 
all the saints, to you my ghostly father, I do 
declare that his holiness, the Pope, is Christ's 
Vicar General, and the only head of the Uni- \ 
versal Church throughout the earth, and that 
by virtue of the keys given him by my Savior, j 
Jesus Christ, he hath power to depose hereti- ; 
cal kings, princes, states, commonwealths, and j 
governments—all being illegal without his sa- j 
cred confirmation—and that they may safely 
be destroyed. 
Therefore, and to the utmost of 
my power, shall and will defend this doctrine, 
and his holiness' rights and customs against all 
usurpers. 
I do renounce and disown any alle-
giance as due to any heretical (i. e. Protestant) 
king, prince, state, named Protestant, or obe-
dience to their inferior magistrates, or officers. 
I do further promise and declare, that though 
I am dispensed with, to assume any religion 
heretical, 
for the promotion of the 
Mother 
Church'^ interest, to keep secret and private 
all her agent's counsels, kc. 
All which I, A. 
B., do swear by the blessed Trinity, and the 
blessed sacrament, which I am now to receive. 
And I call all the heavenly and glorious hosts 
" BLESSINGS 
OF THE NEW 
COVENANT. 
1. Ye who know your sins for - giv - en, 
And are 
hap-py 
in the 
Lord, 
Have you read that gracious promise, Which is left up-on re - cord: 
atciiTCn 
=to= 
I will sprinkle you with wa - ter, 
I will cleanse you from all sin, 
(* 
——ft—i^——M— — 
+ 
Sancti-fy and make you ho 
I will dwell and reign within. 
3±JE£E 
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—I 
1—sqj I 
1 
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tzz 
2 Though you have much peace and comfort, 
Greater things you yet may find, 
Freedom from unholy tempers, 
Jf reedom from the carnal mind. 
To procure your perfect freedom,-
Jesus suffered, groaned, and died, 
On the cross the healing fountain 
Gushed from his wounded side. 
3 0 ye tender babes in Jesus, 
Hear your heavenly Father's will, 
Claim your portion, plead his promise, 
And he quickly will fulfil. 
Pray, and the refining fire 
Will come streaming from above ; 
Now believe and gain the blessing, 
Nothing less than perfect love. 
4 If you have obtained this treasure, 
Search and you shall surely find 
All the Christian marks and graces, 
Planted, growing, in your mind. 
Perfect faith, and perfect patience, 
Perfect lowliness, and then 
Perfect hope, and perfect meekness, 
Perfect love for God and man. 
5 But be sure to gain the witness, 
Which abides both day and night; 
This your God has plainly promised, 
This is like a stream of light. 
While you keep the blessed witness, 
All is clear and calm within; 
God himself assures you by it 
That your heart is cleansed from sin. 
6 Be as holy and as happy, 
And as useful here below, 
As it is your Father's pleasure, 
Jesus, only Jesus know. 
Spread, 0 spread the holy fire, 
Tell, 0 tell what God has done, 
Till the nations are conformed 
To the image of his Son. 
7 Witnesses might be produced 
Of this glorious work of love, 
Paul and James, and John and Peter, 
Long before they went above. 
Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, 
Have, and do, and will appear; 
Let me ask the solemn question, 
Has the Lord a witness here ? 
8 Wake up brother, wake up .sister, 
Seek, 0 seek this holy state; 
None but holy ones can enter 
Through the pure celestial gate. 
Can you bear the thought of losing 
All the joys that are above ? 
No, my brother, no, my sister, 
God will perfect you in love. 
9 May a mighty sound from heaven 
Suddenly come rushing down, 
Cloven tongues like as of fire, 
May they sit on all around. 
0 may every soul be filled 
With the Holy Ghost to-day, 
It is coming, it is coming, 
0 prepare, prepare the way. 
24 
SIGJVS OF THE 
TIMES. 
above to witness these my real intentions to 
keep this oath, in testimony hereof, I take this 
most blessed sacrament of the eucharist, and 
set to my hand and seal." 
This is the Jesuit's oath to the Roman Pon-
tiff. The Jesuit obligates himself by the most 
solemn oath to do all in his power to subvert 
every Protestant Government, and he confes-
ses that he is allowed by the Roman Pontiff to 
profess any religion, the better to promote the 
interests of Papal despotism; and that he will 
keep secret and private all the coun&els of the 
Papal Church. 
The Jesuit is, therefore, the 
determined enemy of all Protestant Govern-
ments and establishments. 
He is bound to do 
all in his power to change the form of this Gov-
ernment from Republican to despotic. 
With respect to 'the moral character and 
principles ofthe Jesuits, there is not a precept 
of the moral law, the violation of which they 
do not excuse or justify. Any crime may be 
committed by paying a sum of money. 
The 
Roman Pontiff takes the place of God. 
He re-
ceives the money, thus despising the blood of 
Christ; without the shedding of which there is 
no remission of sin. 
„ ' 
Duelling is justified by Jesuit writers. 
San-
chez allows that " a man may give and accept 
a challenge, if he direct his intentions aright." 
Escobar agrees with him in regard to this sub-
ject. 
Navarrus says a person may kill an ene-
my secretly; and when this can be done, so as 
to get clear out of the affair, it is far better 
than fighting a duel. 
Several of the Jesuit 
moral writers thus unite in expressing their 
opinions. 
"It is allowable to kill a person who 
gives you a box on the ear, though he runs 
away, if you can divest yourself of hatred and 
revenge. 
Nay further, you may kill the per-
son who only intends to give you a blow, if 
there be no other means of avoiding it." 
This 
is one of the most common maxims of our fath-
ers," observes a Jesuit writer. 
" It is lawful," 
says another Jesuit writer, "to kill any one 
who says you lie, if he can be stopped by no 
other means." 
"Honor is dearer than^life; 
if a man slander me, give me a box on the ear, 
or intend to do it, I may kill him in defence of 
my honor. 
Children may desire the death of 
their parents, and effect it, if they only desire 
it not trom hatred, but to obtain their property." 
Bribery is excused or justified. 
"Judges 
may receive presents from parties, when they 
are given, either from friendship or gratitude, 
when we wish them to favor us, or when they 
have favored us." 
Usury is justified. "Our fathers," says a 
distinguished writer, " dispense comfort suited 
to every one's condition; for if persons do not 
possess enough to live genteelly, and discharge 
their debts, they are allowed to become bank-
rupts, and to conceal a part of their property 
from their creditors. 
He may do this though 
he had gained by injustice and notorious crime." 
" Our most celebrated casuists," says a distin-
guished Jesuit. " formerly decided, that what 
a judge takes from parties whom he has favor-
ed by an unjust sentence, is what a soldier has 
received for killing another; - and what any one 
obtains for the most infamous crimes may be 
lawfully retained." 
Prostitution, adultery in the most aggrava-
ted circumstances, and every violation of the 
seventh commandment of the moral law, are 
excused or justified. Indeed no transgression 
ofthe moral law can be named which Jesuiti-
cal writers do not approve, or in some way ex-
cuse. 
It seems then clearly to follow that they 
are atheistical in principle and practice. 
They 
appear to be more hardened and less conscien-
tious than the most of Pagans. 
To be Continued. 
DURATION OF ETERNITY.—"When 
I 
en-
deavor to represent eternity to myself," says 
Saurin, " I avail myself of whatever I can 
conceive most long and durable. 
I heap im-
agination 
on 
imagination, 
conjecture on 
conjecture. First, 1 consider those long lives 
which all men wish, and some attain. 
I ob-
serve those old men who live four or five gen-
erations, and who alone make the history of an 
age. 
I do more. I turn to ancient chronicles, 
I go back to the patriarchal age, and consider 
life extending through one thousand years; and 
I say to myself, all this is not eternity, all this 
is only a point in comparison with eternity. 
Having represented to myself real objects, I 
form ideas of imaginary ones. I go from our 
age, to the time of publishing the gospel, from 
thence to the publication of the law, from the 
law, to the flood, and from the flood to the cre-
ation; I join this epoch to the present time, 
and imagine Adam yet living. Had Adam lived 
till now, and had he lived in misery, had 
he passed his time in a fire or on a rack, 
what idea must we form of his condition? At 
what price would we agree to expose ourselves 
to misery so great? What imperial glory would 
appear glorious, if it were followed by so much 
woe ? Yet this is not eternity; all this is noth-
ing in comparison with eternity! I go farther 
still. 
I proceed from imagination to imagina-
tion, from one supposition to another. 
I take 
the greatest number of years that can be imag-
ined. I add ages to ages, millions of ages to 
millions of ages. 
I form of all these one fixed 
number, and I stay my imagination. After this, 
I suppose God to create a world like this which 
we inhabit. 
I suppose him creating it, by 
forming one atom after another, and employing 
in the production of each atom the time fixed in 
my calculation just now mentioned! What num-
berless ages would the creation of such a world 
in such a manner require! 
Then I suppose the Creator to arrange these 
atoms, and to pursue the same plan of arrang-
ing them as of creating them. What number-
less ages would such an arrangement require! 
Finally, I suppose him to dissolve and annihi-
late the whole; and observing the same meth-
od in this dissolution, as. he observed in the 
creation and dispostion of the whole. 
What 
an immense duration would be consumed! Yet 
this is not eternity; all this is only a point in 
comparison with eternity!"—Buck's Anecdotes. 
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has crossed the ocean one hundred and six 
times, declares that he never knew the sea so 
rough and dangerous as he has found it the 
past winter. 
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