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VOLUME III,  NEW-YORK, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1843.  Nos. 5 & 6.  
Write the vision and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for art appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie  
• ' ' though it tarry, wait for it ; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."  
BY JOSHUA V. HIMES.  
EXAMINATION OF  
liie Inconsistencies of Colver's Literal Fill  
filiiient of Daniel's Prophecy,  
THE Lectures of Rev. N. Colver, the substance  
of which were first preached in his own pulpit  
and again in the Marlboro' Chapel, are now  
published in a small 24mo. tract, entitled, " The 
Prophecy of Daniel literally fulfilled ; considered  
in three lectures." We listened to their delivery  
on both of those occasions, and' intended to have 
reviewed them ; but we are now satisfied that  the  
tract carries within itself its own antidote. Our  
object at this time will be only to point out some  
of its many inconsistencies.  
It is prefaced by a request for its publication  
from T.Gilbert, P. Gill, and N. Hill, that others  
may share in their " increased pleasure in read  
ing the Scriptures." Doubtless it would add to  
the pleasure of many to have it proved that the  
Scriptures contain no intimation of Christ's  
coming.  
The first lecture consists mostly in an attempt  
to show that if the days of Daniel are to be un- 
derstood as years,  that there are many instances  
in the Bible where days are used, which to under-
stand as years, would lead to an absurdity. As  
no one claims that in any of those instances,  
days are to be so understood, we shall have no 
occasion to dwell on that argument. Because'  
days are to be understood as days, where all  
admit they are to be so understood, and because  
there it would be absurd to understand them dif-
ferently it does not follow, that where prophetic  
time can only be understood a day for a year,  
that it would be also absurd.  
With regard to " prophetic time," we fully  
adopt the rule laid down by Prof. Stuart, in his  
" Hints," p. 68, that " every passage of Scripture,  
or of any  other book, is to be interpreted as  
bearing its plain, primary, and literal sense, unless  
good reasons can be given why it should be 
tropically understood." By this rule, a day, in  
Scripture, always denotes a day, and a year a  
year, unless such good reason can be given. If 
therefore we find that a series of events were not  
and could not have been fulfilled in the literal  
days specified, we have good reason to prove that  
they are  to be tropically understood. The question  
then arises, What is a day ever used in the Bible  
as a type of? On turning to Num. xiv. 34, and  
Ezek. iv. 5, 6, we find that a day is used as a  
type of a year. Therefore, when we are, from  
the necessity of the case, obliged to understand 
the days tropically, we know that if they are a  
type, they are a type of years.  
When any prophecy is given in plain and obvi- 
ous language, we generally find that the time is  
literal time. But when all the events of the  
vision are foretold, under types and symbols, like 
the visions of Daniel, and it can be shown that 
they cannot have been fulfilled in literal days, we 
know that the time, as well as the events, must 
also have been given by a type; and we accordingly  
interpret it by the Bible rule for all such cases.  

EEKLY—NO.  READ AND CIRCULATE.  
Also, when it can be demonstrated, that a part of  
any prophetic period has been fulfilled in years,  
the rational inference is, that the remainder of  
the same period will be fulfilled in like manner.  
Mr. Colver says, of the prophetic days, in  
Daniel, that "If Daniel means years in these  
numbers, there may be some plausibility in the  
' 1843 interpretation,' but only some plausibility;  
for the fixing of their date from the origin of the  
Seventy weeks, in the night vision, is both  gratu- 
itous" and arbitrary. But if, on the other hand 
Daniel means what he says, ' daysthen is the  
whole scheme as baseless as an uninspired vision 
of the night.'" When he delivered the same  
lecture on the Sabbath, to  his own people, he  
stated that if they were years., the world would  
end in 1843; and that any school-boy could see  
it, for if 490 terminated at the death of Christ, the  
2300 days would terminate in 1843; and that then  
the world must end, unless it can be shown that  
some other event is then to take place, and he did  
not see how that can be done. He also admitted,  
at the same time, that the great body of our 
standard Protestant commentators had understood  
them as years; and gave as the reason, that some  
one had first so called them, and the " others had 
followed in the same track, until they had got the  
cart rut so deep that they could, not get out."  
He also admits in his book, "From the time of  
Mede, it seems to have been pretty generally  
taken for granted, by the great  body of commen- 
tators and expositors, 'that, in the prophetic 
writings, a day stands for a year.' " p. 12.  
There is probably no point on which Protestant  
ommentators have been so well agreed, as that  
the days in Daniel and John are so many years.  
Faber, Prideaux, the learned Joseph Mede, Scott.  
Bishop Newton, Sir Isaac Newton, and many  
oilier writers of note, have considered this  
settled question. And the only way in which our  
modern theologians can defend themselves against  
the doctrine of Christ's coming, is by going back  
upon the old abandoned Popish ground, and find-
ing in Antiochus Epiphanes the hero of Daniel's  
prophecy. Indeed, so universal has been this in-
terpretation of these periods, that Prof. Stuart  
says in his "Hints on Prophecy," page 77, " It  
is a singular fact, that THE GREAT MASS OF IN- 
TERPRETERS in the English and American world  
have, for many years, been wont to understand  
the days designated in Daniel and in the Apoc- 
alypse, as the representatives or symbols of years.  
I have found it difficult to trace the origin of this  
general, I MIGHT SAY, ALMOST UNIVERSAL CUSTOM.'  
To overturn, or set aside such an " UNIVERSAL  
CUSTOM," will require more than mere assertion.  
Even Mr. Colver admitted, in his second lecture,  
in the Marlboro' Chapel, that to prove his case, it 
would be as necessary for him to show their ful- 
filment in literal days, as it would for him to  
produce a tally with the same figures as those on  
the tag of his trunk, in order for him to get such  
trunk from the railroad depot; that if the tag of 
his trunk had the figures 1290, 133-5 and 2300, 
he must produce tallies with PRECISELY THE  
SAME FIGURES, or he could not get his trunk, and 
that he must show those periods fulfilled in days,  

or he could not get his case. This, however 
with many other things which he uttered in his 
own desk, and at the chapel, he has wisely 
omitted to give in the printed copy (?) of those  
lectures. We shall endeavor to show that as he 
has produced no tally with those numbers, that  
he cannot have his " trunk," and has not proved 
his case. That the " seventy weeks" are weeks 
of years, he dare not deny, but says of them, " It 
is somewhat amusing to notice the peculiar pro-
cess to which these "seventy weeks" are sub- 
jected. It is admitted by all that they cover a  
period of four hundred and ninety years. But  
[still, it is insisted that the angel meant weeks of  
days, and that, to understand him, we must first 
reduce them to days; and, then, that we must 
consider e?.ch day the symbol of a  year, giving  
four hundred and ninety years. That is, he did  
not mean weeks, but da^—that is, he did not  
mean days, but years." p. 15.  
We admit that there is nothing said about day/,  
at this time by the angel, neither is there any- 
thing said about years. The Hebrew is seventy  
heptades, or seventy sevens. Now a "  seven"  
among the Jews, when applied to time, signified 
a week ; and they had their weeks of years, and 
also weeks of days. It is, therefore, correctly 
rendered " seventy weeks." The question, then, 
is, are they weeks of years, or weeks of days ? 
The angel told Daniel that he had come to make  
him understand the vision; and he could give  
him no understanding of the vision, unless the 70  
weeks were weeks of just such periods of time as  
ire denoted in the vision. If, therefore, the  
2300 days were simply days, the seventy weeks  
were weeks of days ; but if they are 2300 years, 
then the seventy weeks are weeks of years.  
When we reflect that the vision, (not a part of  
it,) was to be 2300 days long, and that Daniel is  
told that the sanctuary will then be cleansed; that  
when Daniel had seen, from the 25th of Jeremiah,  
that the seventy years that they were to serve  
the k;ing of Babylon were accomplished, and that  
he then prayed, (Daniel ix. 16, 17,) " Q Lord,  
according to all thy righteousness, I beseech  
thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away 
from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain;  
because for our sins and for the iniquities of our  
fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a  
reproach to all that are about us. Now, therefore,  
O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his  
supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon  
'thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's  
sake:"—who does not see that he supposed that  
the 2300 days ended with the 70 years, and that 
the sanctuary would then be cleansed ? for we 
find that he prayed fo.r the very thing which God  
had promised to do at the end of the 2300 days. 
And when it is seen that, at the beginning of his 
supplications, the same angel GABRIEL that had  
explained all of the vision of the 2300 days, but  
the time, to Daniel, is commissioned to fly swiftly,  
and informs Daniel that he " has now come forth  
to give him skill and understanding," and exhorts  
him to " understand the matter, and consider the  
vision," and then begins where he left off before,  
shows him that " semnty sevens are cut off " (for  
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the best scholars admit that such is the original, to 
"anoint the Most Holy;" that after that the people 
of the prince that shall come, shall destroy the 
city and SANCTUARY, (not cleansed yet,) and that  
" for the overspreading of abominations he shall 
make it desolate till the CONSUMMATION, and that  
determined shall be poured upon the desolate,"—  
who cannot see that the sanctuary cannot be  
cleansed till it shall cease to be overspread by  
abominations at the consummation; that that de- 
termined must have reference to the 25th of Jere- 
miah, which Daniel was considering, which ex-
tends down to the end of the world; that the 2300  
days must therefore extend to that time; and that!  
therefore the " seventy sevens are cut off" from  
the 2300 days, are periods of the same length cf  
time, and mark this commencement? When, 
therefore, it is proved that the seventy sevens are,  
years, will it not consequently follow that the 
2300 days are years ?  
6 The title of Mr. Colver's book is, " The Pro  
phecy of Daniel, literally fulfilled." The ques- 
tion then is, has he shown a literal fulfilment of  
these prophecies, and that those days were ful- 
filled in literal days ?  
To prove its fulfilment in days, he makes  
Antiochus the HERO of Daniel's prophecy, and  
quotes largely from Rollin—a Roman Catholic—  
to prove that instead of the vision being fulfilled 
in 2300 days, a single act of Antiochus coverec 
that length of time. Porphyry, a heathen, is also  
referred to, in support of the same views.  
Mr. Colver admits that thellth and 12th chap  
ters cover the same ground that is covered by the  
8th; and as those two bring us down to the re 
surrection, the " little horn" that waxed exceed  
ing great, must exist to the same time, and the  
sanctuary will then be cleansed.  
On page 33, Mr. Colver says, " Daniel viii. 13  
' Then I heard one saint speaking, and another  
saint said unto that certain saint which spake 
How long shall be the vision concerning the 
daily sacrifice, and the transgression of desolation  
to give both the sanctuary and the host to be  
trodden under foot ? ' Mark well this inquiry.  
It is not, How long shall be the time for every-
thing that Daniel saw in the vision ; but, ' How  
long shall be the vision concerning the daily  
sacrifice,' &c." Now if he were honest, he  
would have informed his readers, that the 
words sacrifice and concerning are riot in the  
original, and are so noted in the translation,  
and that the question is literally, " How long tbe 
VISION, the daily and the transgression of desola-
tion, to give both the sanctuary and the host to  
be trodden under foot?" Neither is the word  
sacrifice^ in the original of Dan. xii. 11—13;  
so that it reads " from the time the daily shall be  
taken away, and the abomination that maketh  
desolate set up, there shall be 1290 days.  
Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the  
thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.  
But go thou thy way till the end be; for thou  
shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the 
days."  
These are the periods of which he says, "Let  
us now look for the events, and for the applica- 
bility to them of these numbers." He then pro- 
ceeds as follows: "Maccabees i. 54: 'Now the  
fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred  
and forty and fifth year, they set up the abomi- 
nation of desolation upon the altar, and builded  
idol-altars throughout the cities of Juda, on every  
side;' and chap. iv. 52, 53: ' Now on the five 
and twentieth day of the ninth month Casleu,  
in the hundred forty and eighth year, they rose  
up betimes in the morning, and offered sacrifice  
according to the law, upon the new altar of burnt- 

offerings, which they had  made.' These two  
dates, with the accompanying history, will give  
us a clew to the application of these numbers.  
It will be seen, that the two dates, in them, make  
their events just three years and ten days apart.  
The month Casleu answers to our December.  
The first of these dates is the time when the  
image of Jupiter Olympus was set up over the  
altar of God in the temple ; and  the latter is the  
time when the ' sanctuary was cleansed.' Here, 
then, we have three years and ten days." p. 34. 
Three years at 365 days, = 1095 days  -f- 10 =  
1105 days. This is all the time that Mr. Colver  
attempts to show, transpired after the abomination  
of desolation was set up, when the angel express- 
ly informs Daniel, that " from the time the daily  
shall be taken away, and the abomination that  
maketh desolate set up, there shall be 1290 days."  
Mr. Colver, or the " angel," has therefore made  
a mistake of ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY- 
FIVE days. To get over this insurmount- 
able obstacle, he assumes, that there were " at  
least six months, 183 days, BEFORE the setting 
up of the abomination of desolation;" when the  
angel said the 1290 days  should be from, that  
time. He says: "But from Macc. i. 45, 48, 47,  
it appears, that ' the daily sacrifice was taken  
away,' the sanctuary polluted, altars set up, and 
groves and chapels of idols, and the sacrifice of 
swine's flesh and other unclean beasts performed, 
at least six months  before the setting up of ' the  
abomination of desolation' upon the altar in the 
temple, mentioned in the 54th verse. This, there- 
fore, prefixed or added, gives us the 1290 days."  
p. 34. Unfortunately for him, there is nothing  
in Macc. i. 45, 46, 47, that has any allusion to six 
months, as the text itself will show. " And forbid  
burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and drink-offer- 
ings, in the temple ; and that they should profane  
the sabbaths and festival days. And pollute the  
sanctuary and holy people. Set up altars, and  
groves, and chapels of idols, and sacrifice swine's  
flesh, and unclean beasts." The 185 days that I  
he is minus, is a mere assumption, and according!  
to his own admission were BEFORE the "abomi- 
nation" was set up,—AFTER which the angel dated  
it. He therefore has no " tally" that corresponds  
with this " tag" in his prophecy " literally ful-
filled.''''  
Let us see how " precisely" his " tally" and  
tag correspond.  
Daniel's «Tag." Mr. Colver's " Tally."  
1290. 1105.  
Will the angel give him his "trunk?" or  
will an intelligent community give him his case?  
He has come short ONE HUNDRED AND 
EIGHTY-FIVE days on this period. Hav- 
ing shown so "LITERAL a fulfilment" of  
this period, he says : " Now let us see if we can  
find in this catastrophe occasion for the largest  
number, 2300 days. It will be remembered, that 
this is given, in answer to a question involving  
the whole process of Israel's subversion, ' to give  
both the host and the sanctuary to be trodden 
under foot.' The inquiry then is, When did this  
work commence ? We know when it terminated  
—at the cleansing of the sanctuary. It appears,  
Macc. i. 20, 21, that 'two full years' previous to  
the invasion of Israel, of which we have been 
speaking, 'Antiochus returned again, in the  
hundred and forty-third year, and went up against  
Israel and Jerusalem with a great multitude. 
And he entered proudly into the sanctuary, and  
took away the golden altar, and the candlestick of  
light, and all ihe vessels thereof.'" p. 35. Thus,  
the only definite time he has given us for the 2300  
days, is "three years, ten days," and "twofull  

years," making five years and ten days = 1836  
days, or FOUR HUNDRED AND SIXTY-
FOUR days short. To make out the balance, Mr. 
Colver assumes that, " The commencement of the  
apostacy, and of the utter subversion which fol-
lowed, is narrated in the 11th verse: 'In those  
days Went there out of Israel wicked men, who 
persuaded many, saying, Let us go and make a  
covenaiit with the heathen that are round about 
us,' See. Verses 13, 14, and 15: 'Then certain  
of the people were so forward herein, that they  
went to the king, who gave them license to do  
after the ordinances of the heathen. Whereupon,  
they built a place of exercise at Jerusalem, accord- 
ing to the customs of the heathen ; and made  
themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy  
covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen,  
and were sold to do mischief.' This took place  
some time previous to the first invasion of Egypt  
by Antiochus, on his return from which he enter- 
ed Jerusalem; which gives >t a date something 
more than six years preceding the cleansing of 
the sanctuary. THIS, THEN, C'IVES US THE '2300 
DAYS,' COVERING THE WHOLE APOSTACY AND SUB- 
VERSION." p. 35. How long Antiochus was in  
Egypt, Mr. Colver has not shown ; and six years 
would be but 2191 days, which is still 109 days  
short, so that  he  makes his " SOMETHING MORE"  
his "literalfulfilment."  
Let us now see how this "tally" corresponds.  
Angel's " Tag." Mr. Colver's " Tally."  
2300. 1836.  
His " trunk" cannot be recovered with such a  
"tally." Of this period he has utterly failed to 
show a " literal fulfilment.''''  
With such success, he says : " We have now  
only to inquire after and settle the event reached  
by the 1335 days. Dan. xii. 12: ' Blessed is he  
that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three 
hundred and five and thirty days.' This number  
ends forty-five days subsequent to the cleansing 
of the sanctuary. Did any event then occur, re^  
lative to the people of Daniel and to the scenes  
transpiring at Jerusalem, of sufficient interest to  
elicit this additional remark of the angel? His-
tory answers, There did,—the death of Antiochus 
Epiphanes, the author of their terrible calamities.  
Notwithstanding ' Michael stood up,'—'the great  
prince which standetb for the children of thy  
people,'—yet it was to them a time of trouble, 
' such as there never was since there was a  
nation, even to that same time.' Dan. xii. 1.  
The cleansing of the sanctuary, by the victorious  
arms of the Michael-sustained host of Judas 
Maccabeus, was not the end of their calamities.  
Subsequent to this were fought by them two of  
the most remarkable battles, and victories gained, 
that are found recorded upon ihe pages "of his- 
tory. And the angry allies of Antiochus con-
tinued to rage upon them, until the news of his  
death abated their courage, arrested their career, 
and left the Jews to hail the bliss of returning 
peace and safety.  
' The precise date of the death of Antiochus,  
or the precise time when the news of it took effect  
upon the affairs of the Jews, we have not the  
means of knowing; but  enough is found in history  
to assure us, that this was the event to which al- 
lusion was had ; and that it is MORE THAN PROBA- 
BLE that it occurred at the end of the 1335 days."  
p. 35. Here again, he fails to show an exact  
time, and acknowledges that he " HAS NO MEANS  
OP KNOWING," but thinks it " more than probable," 
that, "the distance the news had to travel to 
reach him at Ecbatana, and the subsequent ac- 
count of his death, leave us little reason to doubt 
the accuracy of the angel, in fixing the time at  
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forty-five days." He has, therefore, not shown  
the time that preceded or followed the 3 years  
and 10 days—-or 1105 days; and the 1335 days  
must also, be dated from the setting up of the  
abomination that maketh desolate; so that here 
he comes short TWO HUNDRED AND THIR- 
TY days. We have therefore for the  
Angel's " Tag," for Colver's " Tally,"  
1335. 1105,  
This makes quite a variation in the three  
periods, as the amount of Colver's " tallies," de- 
ducted from the angel's periods, will show. 
Angel's Periods. Colver's "Tallies." Difference.  
1290 1105 —4925  
2300 1836 +4046  
1335 1105  
-—879 days  
4925 4046  
He has, therefore, only come within EIGHT  
HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-NINE days of 
showing a 11 literal fulfilment." Well did he 
exclaim : " By all the veneration which we feel for 
the Bible, as ' a sure word of prophecy,' as the  
light ofthe world, we protest against such TERRIBLE  
TRIFLING with the word of God. If we are ignorant  
of the fulfilment of any prophecy, let us be igno- 
rant ; but let us take heed how we wrest the Scrip- 
tures, lest we do it to our own destruction." p. 24.  
He is even so conscious himself that he has  
made a most signal faiMre, that he says : " We 
say not that the various numbers under considera- 
tion are all or ANY of them  mentioned in the  
history of the fulfilments of the predictions ; but 
we DO SAY that their applicability and appro  
priateness to the events to which Ave have applied  
them, to us seem most manifest." p. 37. His ques- 
tions, therefore, " Has this prophecy been literally 
fulfilled?—and can the use of these several num- 
bers, in relation to such fulfilment, be satisfactorily  
accounted for ?" are conclusively answered in the  
NEGATIVE.  
Notwithstanding such failures and admissions,  
yet he claims that the prophecy of Daniel " has  
been shown to be most FAITHFULLY and most 
literally ACCOMPLISHED." "Indeed," he  
says, "it may be well QUESTIONED whether ANY  
other prophecy, in the whole volume of God'sword  
the account of the fulfilment of which depends  
upon history, can be shown with greater, if it can  
with EQUAL CLEARNESS, or with so much  
minutia of accomplishment. If any word of pro- 
phecy is sure, this is SURELY IT." p. 37. Again  
he says: " We have come to the very numbers 
themselves, and have examined the last objection,  
namely, ' that they do not admit of a literal in-
terpretation or fulfilment;' and the result of our  
inquiry is, that they admit of none but a literal  
interpretation,—that any other than a literal ful-
filment is impossible in the very  nature of things.  
We have gone further, and have shown the literal  
fulfilment of that prediction, and the appropriate-
ness and applicability of all those numbers to the  
events by which that prediction is fulfilled—yes, 
so strikingly, circumstantially, and obviously ful-
filled, as to draw from the infidel the charge of its  
having been written subsequent to the events. 
Here, it would seem that  we might rest the  
matter, with the conviction that our WORK JW 
dow. and that these numbers were FOREVER 
RESCUED from the strange use to which they have  
been recently subjected." p. 38.  
He might not only as well " rest the matter,"  
but might have " as well never have attempted,"  
for all that he has done to prove his position ; for  
such " monstrous absurdities," and " terrible  
trifling," will only open the eyes of the sincere  
inquirer after truth.  

The third lecture he occupies in showing " the  
distinctness of the morning vision from the night  
vision."  
Mr. Colver attempts to show this " distinctness"  
by drawing'a parallel between the "little horn"  
of the 7th, and the EXCEEDING GREAT 
HORN of the 8th chap., which he says, " to  
avoid circumlocution and repetition, we shall call  
them Antiochus and Nero." He forgot, however, 
that to call them so, would not make them so. He  
then proceeds to show that the origin, character,  
&c. &c. of Antiochus and Nero, are not  the same ;  
and no one claims they are, or that even ROME  
was the same in every respect as Papacy. We  
shall not dwell on those points, as they do not 
touch the question, and we are not disposed to  
review, where he labors in vain.  
It was predicted in Daniel vii. 25, that the  
little horn" " shall 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 and times and the dividing of time.''  
Mr. Colver says,p.44," How strikingly is the xoork  
of this fulfilled in the persecution ofthe 'saints'  
under Nero! Mark the prediction: 'He shall  
wear out the saints of the Most High.' Here is  
a new application of the term saints in the lan-
guage of prophecy. The Jews, as a people, are  
nowhere so called. They are called the ' holy  
people,' the ' chosen people,' &c. &c.—terms 
which comport with their typical ox select char a: 
ter; but not saints. It is quite obvious that a  
new people i»re in the eye of the prophet." 
Again, he says, p. 48, " The term ' saints' is never 
applied to the Jews, as a nation ; and it will be re- 
membered, that no such work, as vvearing out the  
saints, is assigned to the little horn of the morn- 
ing vision ; all the terms used in it, such as,  
people of the covenant,' ' holy people,' the ' host,'  
&c., show, conclusively, that it had to do with  
the people under the Jewish polity. But, in this  
vision, the title of ' saints' is given to the people of  
the neio kingdom of the Messiah ; with whom the 
little horn in it comes in contact. And it is asser- 
ted, that ' they shall be given into his hand, until a  
time, times and the dividing of time.' This was 
literally fulfilled. History informs us, that the 
persecution of the saints under Nero continued  
BETWEEN three and four years; and terminated 
with his tragic end."  
Here again, he utterly fails to show any time  
from any history, and for a definite period of  
three and a haif years, he only gets BETWEEN  
three and four years!! either of which is 180  
days aside of the mark, and which, added to  
the difference of his previous {/ tallies" and  
Daniel's periods-r--879 days—makes ONLY  
ONE THOUSAND AND SIXTY-TWO days  
that he varies in all those prophetic numbers from  
a " literal fulfilment." His assertion that the  
Jews as a nation, are nowhere called saints, is a  
mere quibble; for if they were not, it does not  
follow that the pious Jews were not so called;  
and that they were, he will probably not deny, 
after consulting 1 Samuel ii. 9. 2 Chronicles  
vi. 41. Job v. 1 ; xv. 15. Psalm xvi. 3; xxx.  
4; xxxiv. 9 ; xxxvii. 28; 1. 5; lxxxix. 5, 7; xcvii.  
10; cxvi. 15; &c. &c.  
In his lecture at the Marlboro' Chapel, he  
stated that the term " holy people" was applied 
exclusively to the Jews, and that it did not imply 
moral character. Thus, he said, if a priest had  
a straight back and straight nose—by which we 
suppose he meant, {j&e from any bodily defect—  
if he was the vilest man that ever lived, he was  
a holy priest. After showing CONCLUSIVELY 
that Antiochus and Nero were not twins, he says,  

!p. 52, "With what clearness all this has been  
shown, every one of course will determine for  
himself. If we have succeeded, then the synop- 
sis, which we gave in our first Lecture, is correct. 
And then, too, are the numbers 4 2300,' 4 1290,'  
and ' 1335 days,' connected with the morning  
vision; and had their accomplishment in its 
fulfilment. Yes, farther; then is the attempt to  
graft their date upon that of the seventy weeks,  
(or sevens,) in the night vision, fanciful, arbi- 
trary, and erroneous; and the whole fabric built 
upon the perversion of these numbers falls."  
It may not be here amiss to show the opinions  
of Dowling and Stuart on the literal fulfilment of  
these periods, and their admissions, that they  
cannot be shown to have been fulfilled in the  
literal days.  
Dowling attempts to show that the 2300 days  
are only 1150 days, and that the temple was de- 
filed that length of time, but he admits that " we  
are not informed by any historian EXACTLY how  
many days elapsed between the time when  
Athenasus stopped the daily sacrifice, and the  
setting up of  Jupiter in the temple." He has no  
doubt, however, that if we could find such histo- 
rian, it would be the exact time; the nearest he  
can come to it, according to his own admission,  
is 55 days.  
The 1260,1290 and 1335 days, Mr. D. admits  
to be years, and, while he rejects Mr. Miller's in- 
terpretation, says, he does not feel bound to  
furnish any other.  
Prof. Stuart admits that the three and a half  
times of Dan. vii. (which he claims was also fulfil- 
led by this event,) cannot be shown to have been  
fulfilled with any more exactness. Josephus,how- 
ever, says that the time of this defilement was just  
three years. But Prof. Stuart  only claims to  
show an almost exact fulfilment, and excuses it  
by saying, " No one can reasonably expect a 
more exact fulfilment of the time specified."  
(Hints, p. 90.) And on page 93 he says, "A  
little more, or a little less, than three and a half  
years, would, as every reasonable interpreter must  
acknowledge, accord perfectly well with the  
eneral designation here, where plainly the aim  
is not statistical exactness." Thus, according to  
Prof. S., God in prophetic time does not always  
aim to tell the truth.  
In the 1290 days of Dan. xii., Prof. S. (see p.  
95) thinks is an " exact specification" of the time, 
and this is the only place where he admits that 
God did speak the exact truth, when he has 
specified time. And the only evidence that there  
was anything here fulfilled, in literal days, is 
that " we may naturally conclude" that Antio- 
chus "arrived opposite Jerusalem in the latter  
part of May."  
Of the 1335 days of Dan. xii., he only proves  
their exactness by " supposing now that Appolo-
nius captured Jerusalem in the latter part of May,  
B. C. 168, the 1335 days would expire about ihe  
middle of February, in the year B. C. 164." The  
only way that he finds the commencement, is by  
" assuming that the terminus a quo of the 1335 
days, is the same as that of the 1290 days;" and 
then he says, "no more probable time can be  
fixed upon for" the death of Antiochus, than  
" some time in February, B. C. 164." p. 97.  
The 2300 days, Prof* S. applies to the defile- 
ment of the temple by Antiochus, and he only 
shows their commencement by " counting back"  
from December 25th, 195 B. C., which he assumes  
as their " terminus ad quem, and we come to  
Aug. 5, B. C. 171." p. 101. Here he does not  
attempt to prove an exact fulfilment from any  
history. «s»  
The "70 weeks," which all admit to be so  
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plain, the Professor calls a " locus vexatissimus,"  
gives them a hard name, and leaves them. p. 105.  
3 The prophetic periods in the Apocalypse are  
despatched by the Professor in the same sum-
mary manner. Of the "Jive months," (Rev. ix.  
10,) he says, " Of course, a period strictly definite  
does not appear to be here designated." p. 144. 
The 42 months of Rev. xi. 2, he commences  
with, " If we suppose now that the former part of 
Feb. was the month when war -\yas declared,"  
&c. p. 117. The 42 months of Rev. xiii. 5, he  
attempts to show fulfilled exactly, with " only a  
few days of excess beyond that measure of time."  
He says, " By this small excess of only a few  
days, no one of coarse can be stumbled ; for how  
is it reasonable to suppose, that in respect to a  
celebrated period, so often repeated, and already  
become so famous, a statistical exactness would  
or could be aimed at? Enough that only a few 
days at most can be considered as supernume- 
rary." p. 128.  
Again he says, " A statistical exactness cannot  
be reasonably supposed to  be aimed at in cases  
of this nature. Any near approximation to the  
measure of time in question, would of course be  
regarded as a sufficient reason for setting it down  
under the general rubric." p. 130.  
Thus we see that the best authorities against  
us admit that these periods cannot be proved to  
have been fulfilled in literal days. Those who  
claim that they were thus exactly fulfilled, are  
challenged to show the historical evidence of it.  
Having thus cleared the way, he says, " Let UP  
now attend to some other considerations, which  
go to confirm these views.  
" As an introduction to the explanation of the  
morning vision, the angel says to Daniel, (chap,  
x. 14,) ' Now I am come to make thee under-
stand what shall befall thy people in the latter 
days; for yet the vision is for many days.'  
Proof positive this, that the matters of the vision 
pertained to Daniel's people, the Jews! After  
this intimation, for the angel to talk to Daniel  
of the little horn of Popery; and what it should 
do, a thousand years after his people and the  
place of their sanctuary should be destroyed;  
would be, to say the least, to preach a sermon  
very foreign to his text. If the matters of the  
vision did not befall the Jews, Daniel was im- 
posed upon; for his people are no more con- 
cerned with the doings of Popery, than any others  
of the Gentile world." p. 52.  
That the " latter days " denote the gospel days,  
is the uniform opinion of all commentators.  
" Kimki," says Owen, " gives it for a rule, that  
the expression, in the latter days, always denotes  
the times of the Messiah, which I suppose is not 
liable to any exception." [Owen on Hebrews, 
Vol. I, page 157.]  
Professor Stuart says, " bnt last days, in par- 
ticular, is used to denote the future period in  
which the Messiah was to appear. Isaiah ii. 2;  
Hosea iii. 5; Micah iv. 1. This phrase, (as it  
would seem from its usage in these places,) early 
passed into a kind of technical designation of the  
time of the Messiah, or rather, of the new dis- 
pensation under him. Thus Rabbi Nachman-
ides, on Gen. xlix. 1, says, ' all our doctors agree  
that last days mean the times of the Messiah.'"  
[Staar* on Hebrews, Vol. 2,- page 44.] p. 13.  
It therefore follows that the angel had refer- 
ence to the people of Daniel, under the gospel  
dispensation, notwithstanding Mr. Colver thinks  
11 Daniel was imposed upon."  
jHe says, "It might have been expeeted by  
some, that we should have noticed more particu-
larly the opposing views of others to our inter- 
pretations, But for several reasons we have not  

done it Among them are, First, They are so  
numerous and various, that the task would have  
been endless. Second, Those views are enter- 
tained by many whom we love in the Lord; and  
we desire to shun eyen the appearance of a per-
sonal conflict with them. But, Third, our main  
reason is, that a blow at the root is better than  
many among the branches. The error which  
we have been combatting, is a radical one. If  
we have done anything to correct it, we shall  
rejoice; and in so far as we may have failed, we  
have no doubt that the year 1843 will prove effec- 
tual in its removal, even should our Lord come  
before its close. For, come when he may, we  
have no idea that he will sanction such a rule  
of interpretation, as that which we have op- 
posed." p. 53.  
We would inquire of Mr. Colver if he has any  
idea that such a rule of interpretation will be 
sanctioned as he has advocated ? And although 
some may " regard the Bible with increased 
pleasure," does it follow that he has done anything  
to prove it an inspired book ? We greatly fear 
that such interpretations will do much to bring  
discredit upon God's holy word and advance the  
cause of infidelity.  
He says, " Two objections to our interpreta- 
tion and application of these prophecies are urged, 
on each of which it may be well, in this place, to 
offer a few remarks.  
" Obj. 1. That the ' throne' and the ' judg- 
ment,' seen in the night vision, warrant the con- 
clusion that this vision extends to the end of the  
world." p. 56.  
This he gets over by a quibble, and proceeds  
to the " Obj. 2. A resurrection is mentioned.  
(See Dan. xii. 2.) ' And many of them' that  
sleep in the dust,' &c.-" p. 57.  
Here he thinks is " pretty strong evidence that  
a literal resurrection is not intended;" p. 58; 
and says, " We fully believe that the language  
in the text is to be understood as FIGURA- 
TIVE." Thus much for " the prophecy of Dan- 
iel literally fulfilled: considered in three' lectures, 
by N. Colver."  
There is however one other idea which he  
has advanced, viz., that the midnight cry will not  
be given by man, (see p. 60,) but that it will be  
given by the descending Judge. We would like  
to enquire, if it was usual for the Bridegroom to 
give notice of his own approach, and if so, if he 
would say " go ye out to meet him ? "  
We will now offer some objections, which are  
fatal to Mr. Colver's " literal exposition."  
1. THE " LITTLE HORN" IN DANIEL VII. 8,  
CANNOT BE NERO.  
1st. The ten horns of the fourth beast denote  
the ten kingdoms that were to arise out of the 
Roman empire, the last of which, the Lombards,  
did not arise till A. D. 483. The little horn was  
to arise AFTER them, (v. 24;) whereas Nero died  
in A. D. 68, which was 288 years before Hun- 
gary, the first of those horns, arose, A. D. 356.  
2. Taking Colver's own ground, that the ten  
horns were ten individual kings, then the little  
horn must be the ELEVENTH Cssar. But  
according to Prof. Stuart, Nero was the SIXTH.  
("Hints," p. 121.)  
3. Three of the first ten horns were to be plucked  
up before the little horn. The Ostrogoth, the  
third subverted division of the Roman kingdom,  
was not conquered by Justinian till A. D. 508,  
after Nero" had been dead 440 years.  
4. Upon Colver's own ground, there w$re no  
three individual kings plucked up to make uiay for 
him. He says, " three were plucked up by the  
roots to make way for Nero to the throne. Tibe- 
rius was strangled, Caligula was assassinated, and  

Claudius, husband to the mother of Nero, Agrippi- 
na, was poisoned." p. 42. Those three, however,  
could not be said to be plucked up by the roots  
to make -way for NERO ; because Nero was not 
born till A. D. 37, whereas Tiberius was stran- 
gled A. D. 36, one year before Nero was born;  
and Caligula was assassinated A. D. 40, when  
Nero was only three years old; so that in those  
acts no reference whatever could have been had  
to Nero. If they were to be included because  
they were assassinated, then it would be neces- 
sary to include Julius Caesar, and which would  
make FOUR horns plucked up; and Prof. Stuart  
says, in his Hints, there were "five fallen ;" (p.  
121;) but a variation of two is probably of little  
consequence with Mr. Colver's " literal interpre- 
tation," if we may judge from  the exactness of  
his "tallies."  
5. The little horn was to come up AMONG the  
ten horns, (v. 8;) showing that the ten horns were 
to be in existence as horns when it should first  
arise. But of the twelve Caesars only one was  
in existence as a horn or king at the same time;  
and Nero, instead of reigning among them,  
reigned alone.  
6. The little horn was to be DIVERSE from the  
other horns, (v. 24.) But Nero was not diverse 
from the other Caesars.  
7. " He shall SUBDUE three kings," (v. 24;) but  
Nero did not subdue any of his predecessors, or  
any king whatever.  
8. The little horn was to make " war with the  
saints, and prevail against them, until the Ancient  
of days came, and judgment was given to the 
saints of the Most High ; and the time came that  
the saints possessed the kingdom." (verses 21,22.)  
But Mr. Colver has not attempted to show that  
Nero reigned till those events. Upon his own 
hypothesis, Nero must be still alive, and waging  
war, for the time has not yet come that the saints  
POSSESS the kingdom.  
9. The saints of the Most High were to be  
given into the hand of the little horn. But there  
was no power on earth who could give them into 
Nero's hands; and will he claim that GOD gave 
his saints into Nero's hands ?  
10. " But the judgment shall sit, and they  
shall take away his dominion, to consume and  
destroy it unto the end." But the dominion of  
Nero was not taken away before his death.  
11. The saints of the Most High were to be  
given into the hands of the " little horn "  " until  
a time, times,  and the dividing of time," or 1260  
days; but according to Prof. Stuart, Nero per- 
secuted the Christians from the middle of Nov.  
A. D. 64, till the 9th of June, A. D. 68, which  
was 1302 days, or an excess of FORTY-TWO  
days. Hints, p. 127. Probably, however, Mr.  
Colver will unite with Prof. Stuart in saying,  
that, " By this SMALL EXCESS of only a few days, 
no one of course can be stumbled; for how is it 
reasonable to suppose, that in respect to a cele-
brated period, so often repeated, and already be- 
come so famous,  a statistical exactness would or  
could he aimed at ? " Hints, p. 12S.  
12. The little horn had "eyes like the eyes  
of a man, and a mouth speaking great things,"  
(v. 8.) " And he shall speak great words against  
the Most High." v. 25. Nero was in no respect  
distinguished for these characteristics above his 
predecessors ; but, on the contrary, while some of 
them were truly great, he was one of the loioest  
and vilest men that sat upon the throne of the  
Ccesars, and was only noted for acts of meanness  
and cruelty.  
13. The little horn was to be the last horn of  
the beast, and was to continue till the death of  
the beast; and the beast itself could have but  
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ELEVEN horns in all Consequently, if Nero  
was the little horn* he was the last king of Rome, 
which could have had but eleven kings, instead of  
the FORTY-ONE Which reigned previous to its  
division in 364. And when Nero died, Rome  
must have come to an end with him.  
14. The look of the little horn " was more  
stout than his FELLOWS ; consequently, if Nero  
yvas the little horn the other horns must have co 
existed with him, or they could not have been his  
fellows.  
15. The saints were to " possess the kingdom  
forever, even forever and ever." Mr. Colver claims  
it was given to the saints on the death of Nero,  
A. D. 68, when his persecution ceased. But  
the next persecution, under Domitian, commenced  
A. D. 93; so that the saints possessed the king- 
dom only 25 years, which must therefore be the  
length of Mr. Colver's " forever, even forever and 
ever."  
The above characteristics, which were to mark  
the little horn, are none of them found in Nero;  
and prove conclusively, not only that he is NOT 
brought to view by this little horn, but that a  
cause must be desperate, and a man hard pushed 
indeed, who is obliged to resort to such a "faux  
•pas," in support of his"'visionary vagary."  
II. THE LITTLE HORN OF THE  8TH OF DANIEL,  
WHICH CAME FROM TOWARDS ONE OF THE FOUR  
WINDS OF HEAVEN, AND WAXED EXCEEDING  
GREAT, COULD NOT HAVE BEEN ANTIOCHUS  
EPIPHANES.  
1. The little horn was to come forth out of,  
or from towards one of the four winds of heaven,  
(v. 9.) Thus Moses predicted of ROME in Deut.  
xxviii. 49: " The Lord shall bring a nation  
against thee from far, from the END of the earth?  
or from one of the four winds of heaven. Antio- 
chus, on the contrary, did not come from a distance  
to Judea; neither did he come out of one of the 
four horns, for he did not cease to be a part of  
Syria, which was  one of the four horns.  
2. Sir Isaac Newton says that " A horn of a  
beast is never taken for a single person : it always  
signifies a new kingdom; and the kingdom of An- 
tiochus was an old one."  
3. Antiochus reigned over one of the four  
horns. But the little horn was a fifth, under its 
proper kings. This horn was at first a little  
horn, but it waxed exceeding great toward the  
south, and toward the east, and toward the pleas 
ant land. This was true oi ROME.  But so did  
NOT Antiochus. His kingdom, on the contrary,  
was weak, and tributary to the Romans ; and he  
did NOT enlarge it.  
4. The little horn was to arise in the latter  
time of the kingdom of the four horns. But An- 
tiochus was the eighth in the Syrian line of kings,  
which numbered twenty-five, and he therefore  
could not be in the latter time of that kingdom.  
5. The little horn was to arise when the trans- 
gressors had come to the FULL. But the trans-
gressions of the Jews had not come to the full in 
the time of Antiochus; nor did it, till they had  
crucified the " PRINCE of princes," 197 years  
after the death of Antiochus.  
6. The little horn was to be " a king of fierce  
countenance and understanding dark sentences."  
This was what Moses predicted of the Romans,  
(Deut. xxviii. 49, 50,) " a nation whose tongue  
thou shalt not understand, a nation of fierce coun- 
tenance." But this was not characteristic of  
Antiochus. On the contrary, Rollin says of  
him, that " He used frequently to go out of his 
palace, accompanied only by two or three domes- 
tics, and ramble up and down the streets of An-
tioch. He would spend his time in talking with  
goldsmiths and engravers, in their shops, and in  

disputing With them on the most minute particu- 
lars relating to the arts they professed, and which  
he ridiculously boasted he understood as well as 
they. He would very often stoop so low as to  
converse with the dregs of the populace, and mix  
indiscriminately with them in the places where  
they were assembled. On these occasions, he  
would sit and drink with foreigners of the mean- 
est condition in life. Whenever he heard of any 
party of pleasure between young people, he used  
to go (without saying a word to any person) and  
join in all their wanton fooleries; would carouse  
and sing with them, without observing the least  
moderation or decorum. He sometimes would  
take it into his head to divest himself of his royal 
habit, and put on a Roman robe ; and in that!  
arb would go from street to street, as he had  
een the candidates at Rome do at an election  
for magistrates. He asked the citizens t6 favor  
him with their votes, by giving his hand to one  
and by embracing another; and sometimes would 
canvass for the office of oedile, and at other times  
for that of tribune. After having got himself  
elected, he wotild call for the curule chair, and  
seating himself in it, would judge the petty suits  
relating to contracts of buying or selling, and  
pronounce sentence with as much seriousness  
and gravity as if he directed affairs of the utmost  
importance. We are likewise told that he was  
very much given to drinking; that he squandered  
away a great part of his revenues in excess and  
debauch ; and that, when intoxicated with liquor,  
he would frequently scour up and down the city, 
throwing away handfuls of money among the  
populace, and crying " Catch as catch can." A  
other times, he would leave his palace (dressed  
in a Roman robe, with a crown of roses on his 
head) and walk without attendants about the  
street; on which occasions, if any persons offered  
to follow him, he used to pelt them with stones,  
always carrying a great quantity under his robe,  
for that purpose. He often used to go and bathe  
himself in the public baths with the common  
people, where he committed such extravagances  
as made everybody despise him. After what 
has been said, (and I omit a great many other  
particulars,) I submit to the reader's judgment^  
whether Antiochus did not merit the title of mad  
man rather than that of illustrious." [Roll. An  
His. B. 19. Chap. 2. Sect. 2.]  
Thus speaks Rollin of Antiochus Epiphanes,  
one of Nathaniel Colver's HEROES of Daniel's  
prophecy.  
7. The power of this " HORN " was to be  
MIGHTY, but not by his own power. This was  
true of ROME, whose generals derived all their 
power from the people. But Antiochus  
only mighty in iniquity and folly, and acted in- 
dependently of  any restraint or external aid.  
It is said of this HORN, " and he shall de  
stroy wonderfully." It is said that Antiochus  
destroyed about 80,000 Jews. But ROME, in a 
single siesre, destroyed ONE MILLION ONE  
HUNDRED THOUSAND of that nation, and  
scattered the remnant into all countries.  
9. It is said of this HORN, " He shall PROS- 
PER and practise." Thus did ROME. But 
Antiochus was frightened out of Egypt by i  
mere message of the Romans, and afterward  
routed and baffled by the Jews.  
10. This HORN was to DESTROY the mighty and  
holy people, which Mr. Colver says are the Jews ;  
and yet, according to his own assumption, p. 49  
that nation was destroyed by the ROMANS, A.D.  
70, after Antiochus had been dead 234 years.  
11. This HORN magnified himself even to  
the PRINCE of the host, and stood up against  
the PRINCE of princes ; but Antiochus died 164  

years before the PRINCE of princes was born - 
while the Romans did fulfil this prediction, in  
crucifying the LORD OF, GLORY.  
12. This HORN was to cast down the place  
of the sanctuary, which Antiochus did NOT, as he  
left it standing." But in Dan. ix. 26, Gabriel in-
forms Daniel that after the seventy weeks the 
people of the prince that shall come shall destroy 
the city and the sanctuary, and which Mr. Col- 
ver, on p. 50, acknowledges was done by the RO- 
MANS.  
13. To give both the sanctuary and the host  
to be trodden under foot, by this HORN, the vis- 
ion was to continue 2300 days. According to Fa- 
ber, Prideaux, Mede, Scott, Bishop Newton, Sir  
Isaac Newton, and the universal opinion of our  
standard Protestant commentators, Daniel's pro- 
phetic days are years. But the profanation of  
the temple by Antiochus did not continue so  
many natural days. Even Colver's famous tally  
of 1836 days varies from it 464 days.  
14. If the vision was to continue only 2300  
natural days, they would have terminated 300 
years before the reign of Antiochus commenced ;  
and consequently he could not stand up against  
the Prince of princes, for to Messiah the prince  
there was to be but 69 weeks.  
15. These days were io extend to the last end  
of the indignation, and the indignation is not yet  
at an end.  
16. They were to continue till the sanctuary  
should be cleansed; and Gabriel informs Daniel  
(ix. 27,) that for the overspreading of abomina- 
tions, he shall make it desolate even until the con-
summation, and that determined shall be poured  
upon the desolate. The sanctuary is not yet  
cleansed ; nor can it be till the  consummation.  
17. Of the ram, he-goat, and this horn, there  
is a regular gradation. Persia, which extended  
from India to Ethiopia, over ONE HUNDRED  
AND TWENTY-SEVEN PROVINCES, is  
simply called great. Grecia, of which it is said,  
the third kingdom shall bear rule OVER  
ALL THE EARTH," is called VERY GREAT.  
But the HORN, which represents the succeeding  
power, is said to have waxed EXCEEDING  
GREAT—even greater than the preceding pow- 
ers. The natural gradation would therefore be,  
Great. Very  Great. Exceeding Great.  
TERSIA. GRECIA. ROME.  
How absurd and ludicrous would be,  
Great. Very Great. Exceeding Great.  
PERSIA. GRECIA. ANTIOCHUS.  
The above considerations render it morally  
ertain that not Antiochus, who was once an host- 
age in Rome and paid tribute to the Romans all  
his days; but ROME, that EXACTED tribute of 
him, is the POWER symbolized by the HORN  
of Dan. 8th, that waxed EXCEEDING GREAT.  
III. ANTIOCHUS is NOT THE HERO OF THE  
10TH, 11TH AND 12TH CHAPTERS OF DANIEL.  
1. Gabriel informed Daniel that he had come  
to make him understand what should befall his 
people in the latter days ; (x. 14 ;) which the most  
distinguished commentators admit are the gospel  
days. But Antiochus died 164 years before the 
gospel days commenced.  
2. If the king of the north, in xi. 15, is Syria,  
all commentators agree, then the one that  
cometh against him cannot be Antiochus, who  
was also king of Syria, unless Antiochus eould 
come against himself.  
3. The Prince of the covenant was to be  
broken before him, (xi. 22.) And St Paul says,  
Gal. iii. 15, 16: " Brethren, I speak after the  
(manner of men ; though it be but a man's covc- 

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riant, yet if it be confirmed, no man disannulled j 
or addeth thereto. Now to Abraham and his  
seed were the promises made. He saith  not,  
And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to 
thy seed, which is Christ." The Prince of the 
covenant must therefore be Christ, who was not  
broken before Antiochus; but was crucified by 
the Romans during the reign of Tiberius, one of 
the yilest men that ever lived, and who succeeded 
Augustus Csssar, the " raiser of taxes," of whom  
it is said, 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."  
4. The rhips of Chittim were to come against  
him, v. 30, as they did against Rome; but did not 
against Antiochus.  
5. They were to take away the daily, and  
place the abomination that maketh desolate. But  
this had not been done in St. Paul's day, 200  
years after Antiochus' death; for he says, 2 Thess. 
ii. 6—8, "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 re-
vealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the  
spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the  
brightness of his coming."  
6. They that did understand among the people  
were to fall by the sword and by flame and by  
captivity and by spoil many days, v. 83, as they  
did by Roman fury; but Antiochus persecuted 
the Jews but about three years.  
7. The king was to do according to his will, v.  
36. But Antiochus was subject to the Romans, 
and when advancing to Egypt the Roman embas- 
sador met him, commanded him to withdraw  
hx3 troops, drew a circle around him in the sand,  
and obliged, him to give an answer before he  
left that circle. And Antiochus obeyed.  
8. He was to prosper till the indignation be  
accomplished. But the indignation is not yet  
accomplished, and Antiochus has been dead above  
2000 years!!  
9. At the time of the end, the king of the  
north was to come against him like a whirlwind.  
But Antiochus was king of the north, and could  
not come against himself.  
10. He was to have power over all the pre- 
cious things of Egypt, v. 43; as did NOT Antio- 
chus.  
11. When he was to come to his end, Michael  
was to " stand up, the GREAT PRINCE that  
stpndeth for the children of thy people ;" and the  
resurrection of the dead was to take place; but 
no such events occurred on the death of Antio- 
chus ; neither have those events yet occurred.  
12. The wise—those who are to shine as the  
brightness of the firmaments-were to understand  
at the time of the end; but none of the wicked  
were to understand. And yet nothing transpired  
on the death of Antiochus but what the wicked  
also could understand.  
13. They that waited and came to the end of  
the 1335 days were pronounced blessed ; but the  
death of Antiochus was no more of a blessing to  
the pious than it was to the wicked.  
14. Daniel was to stand ip his lot at the end  
of those days. He has not yet stood in his lot; 
consequently those days are not yet ended.  
15. It has never yet been shown that  the 1290  
and 1335 days have  been fulfilled in literal days,  
in any event. And even Mr. Coiver, with all his 
" LITERAL EXACTNESS," only gets within  
ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE days in the  
one case,and TWO HUNDRED THIRTY days  
in the other!!!  

Verses 5—3. And the goat  
had a notabte horn between his  
eyes. And he came to the ram 
that had two horns, which I had 
seen standing before the river, and 
ran unto him in the fury of his  
power. And I saw him come  
cirae unto the ram, and he was  
moved with choler against him, 
and smote the ram, and brake his  
two horns; and there was 110  
power in the ram to stand before 
him, but he cast him down to the  
ground, and stamped upon him; 
and there was none that could de- 
j liver the ram out of his hand. 
I Therefore the he-goat waxed VERY  
! <3R5AT. 
j | Verse 8. And when he was  
strong, the great horn was broken,  
j and for it .came up four notable  
ones, towards the FOUR WINDS OF  
T3 ^ .1 1 _ ii Verses 9—12. And oijt of one of  cut tne onfy pre-; them came forth a little horn,  
•which WAXED EXCEEDING  
| GREAT, toward the south, and  
I toward the east, and toward the  
I pleasant land. And it waxed  
great, even to the host of heaven; 
and it cast down some of the host  
i and ofthe stars to the ground, and  
stamped upon them. Yea, he  
magnified himself even to the  
PRINCE of the host, and by him  
the daily was taken away, and 
the place of his sanctuary was cast 
down. And a host was given him 
against the daily by reason of  
transgression, and it cast down the  
truth to the ground ; and it prac- 
tised and prospered.  

IV. THE NINTH CHAPTER OF DANIEL CANNOT BE  
A SUPPLEMENT TO THE SEVENTH. See p. 10.  
1. Daniel does not need a supplement of that  
chapter, for he says, " one of them that stood  
by " " told me, and made me know the interpreta- 
tion of the thing," vii. 16, and Daniel " wrote  
the dream, and told the sum of the matters," v. 1.  
2. Daniel did need a further explanation of  
the time in the 8th chapter, and that Was the  
only unexplained portion of the vision, for he  
says he " was astonished at the vision, but none  
understood it," viii. 27.  
3. Daniel says, in the 9th chapter, that the  
man Gabriel, whom he had seen in the vision at  
the beginning, informed him, and talked with  
him, and said that he had now come forth to give HEt^EN:  
him skill and understanding, 
vious vision in which Daniel mentions the name  
of Gabriel, is in the 8th chapter.  
4. When Gabriel thus came to Daniel, that  
prophet was praying for the cleansing of the  
sanctuary, which in the 8th chapter was prom- 
ised to be done at the end of 2300 days, and to  
which no allusion is made in the seventh. Daniel  
prayed, ix, 17, "Now therefore, O our God, 
hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplica-
tions, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanc-
tuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake."  
5. The angel had finished the explanation of  
the 7th chapter, and here he commences pre- 
cisely where he closed the explanation of the 8th 
chapter, and explains what was then left unex- 
plained.  
6. He informs Daniel that " seventy sevens  
are determined" (cut off) to the anointing of 
the Most Holy. This period could not be " cut  
off" from the three and a half times in the  
seventh chapter; for none claim the 1260 days!  
to have commenced before the end of the 701 
weeks. But the Medo-Persian empire was!  
in just the condition as symbolized by the horns<  
being high and the ram pushing at the commence-j 
ment of the vision of the 2300 days.  
7. The angel also informed Daniel that the  
sanctuary could not then be cleansed, as Daniel 
prayed, because, after the 70 weeks were ended,  
the people ofthe prince that should come would  
destroy the city and the sanctuary, and for the waste., to destroy j and when em  
overspreading of abominations it was to be deso- 
lated till the consummation, and that determined  
shall be poured upon the desolate. It therefore 
cannot be cleansed till that event.  
There is no information given in this inter- 
view of the angel on any subject that is alluded  
to in the vision of the 7th chapter. But allusion  
is made to the " Prince," and the sati.^uary, both  
of which are mentioned in the 8th.  
The above considerations show that if the 9th  
chapter is an explanation of any previous vision,  
it must be the one in the 8th chapter.  
V. THE VISION OF THE 2300 DAYS EXTENDS TO  
THE END OF THE WORLD. This will be seen by an  
attentive examination of the vision and explana- 
tion.  

Verses 13, 14. Then I heard one  
saint speaking, and another saint  
said unto that certain saint which 
spake, How long the vision—the  
:daily anu the transgression of des-
! olation—to give both the sanctuary  
and the host to be trodden under 
foot 1  
And he said unto me, "Unto  
:?wo thousand and three hundred  
days ; then shall the sanctuary be  
cleansed."  
NOTE. The word consumma- 
tion is from the Hebrew word  
j ka'ah, and signifies completion,  
consumption, destruction. It  
ployed with the Hebrewvenehera- 
tash, they tosether  
denote destruction and decree or  
destruction decreed. [See Gese-
nius' Hebrew and English Lexi-
con.]  

strength when he first appeared, as 
was the ram.  
Verse 21. And the great horn  
that is between his eyes is the first 
king.  
NOTE. After the death of Alex- 
ander the Great, his kingdom was  
divided among his four generals,  
towards the four winds af heaven ;  
viz., Egypt, Syria, Thrace and  
Macedonia.  
Verse 22. Now that being brok- 
en, whereas four stood for it, four 
kingdoms shall stand UJJ out of his  
nation, but not in his power.  
Verses 23—26. And in the latter  
time of their kingdom, when the  
transgressors are come to the full, 
a king of fierce countenance, and 
understanding dark sentences,  
shall stand up. And his power  
shall be mighty, but not by his  
own power ; and he shall destroy  
wonderfully, and shall prosper,  
and practise, and shall destroy the  
mighty and the holy people. And  
through his policy also he shall  
cause craft to prosper in his hand; 
and he shall magnify himself in 
his heart, and by peace shall de-
stroy many; he shall also stand up 
against the Prince of princes,  but  
he shall be broken without hand.  
And the vision of the evening and 
the morning which Was told is 
true; wherefore shut thou up the 
vision; for it shall be for many  
days.  
Dan. ix. 2*4—27. Seventy weeks  
are determined upon thy people, 
and upon thy holy city, to finish the  
transgression, and to make an end 
of sins, and to make reconciliation  
for iniquity, and to bring ever- 
lasting righteousness, and to seal  
up the vision and prophecy, arid  
to anoint the Most Holy, (or,  
more literally, Holiest of Holies.  
Know therefore and understand, 
that from the going forth of the  
commandment to restore and build  
Jerusalem, unto the Messiah the  
Prince, shall be seven weeks and 
threescore and two weeks; the  
street shall be built again, and th®  
wall, even in troublous times. And  
after threescore and two weeks  
shall Messiah be cut Off, but not for  
himself; and the people of the  
prince that shall comeshall destroy  
the city an I the sanctuary : and t'.m  
end thereof shall be with a flood, 
and unto the end of the war deso- 
lations are determined. And he 
shall confirm the covenant with  
many fir one week; and in the 
mic'st of the week he shall cause  
the sacrifice arid the oblation to  
cease, and for the overspreading  
of abominations he shall make it 
desolate, even until the consum- 
mation, and tha,. determined shall 
be poured upon the desolate.  
VISION OF THE  8TH  
CHAPTER.  
Verses 3,4. Then I lifted up my  
eyes, and saw, and behold, there 
stood before the river a ram which  
had two horns; and the two horns 
were high; but one was higher than  
the other, and the highest came up  
last. I'saw the ram pushing west- 
ward, and northward, and south- 
ward ; so that no beasts might  
stand before him, neither was 
there any that could deliver out  
of his hand; but  he did according  
to his will,  and became great.  
Verse 5. And as I was consid- 
ering, behold, a he-goat came  
from the west, on the face of the  
whole earth, and touched not the 
ground.  

THE ANGEL'S EXPLANATION, IN  
THK 8TH AND 9TH CHAPTERS, OF  
DANIBI'S VISION OF THE 8TH.  
Versa 20. The ram which thou  
sawest having two horns, are the  
kings of Media and Persia.  
NOTE. The Medo-Persian king- 
dom reached ts greatest glory  
—as symbolized by the two horns  
being high, and the ram pushing 
in every direction—in the reign of  
Artaxerxes Longimanus.  
Verse 21. And the rough goat is  
the king of Grecia.  
NOTE. The he-goat is literally  
a kid of the goats—not of full  

The connection between the 8th and 9th chap- 
ters is rendered more evident when taken in con- 
nection with the 25th chapter of Jeremiah.  
The vision of the 8th chapter was seen in the  
third year of the reign of the king Belshazzar.  
And when it was all explained but the time, 
Daniel fainted and was sick certain days, and  
Was astonished at the vision, but none understood  
it. The want of an explanation of the time,  
! could be the only reason why it was not under- 
stood.  
j Fifteen years after this, in the last year of  
Belshazzar, that king made a great feast to a  
thousand of  his lords, and drank wine before the  
thousand out of the golden vessels that were 
taken out of the temple of the house of God in  
Jerusalem—the king and his princes, his wives 
and his concubines, drank in them. " They 
drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of 
silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.  
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's  
hand, and wrote over against the candlestick 
upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace : 
and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.  
jThen the king's countenance was changed, and  
3§


his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of  
his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one 
against another." " Then was the part of the  
j hand sent from him; and this writing was writ- 
j ten. And this is the writing that was written, 
j MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. This 
j is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God  
ii hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it. 
II TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, 
[j and art found wanting. PERES; Thy king- 
I dom is divided, and given to the Medes and Per- 
! sians." " In that night was Belshazzar, the king  
j of the Chaldeans, slain. And Darius the Median 
j took the kingdom."  
Thus was fulfilled the prophecy in Jer. xxv.  
11, 12. " And this whole land shall be a deso- 
lation, and an astonishment; and these nations 
shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.  
And it shall come to pass, when seventy years  
are accomplished, that I will punish the king of  
Babylon, and that nation, saith the Lord, for  
|! their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, 
11 and will make it perpetual desolations." This  
| j prophecy Daniel had been considering, and saw 
11 that, the 70 years terminated that night in which 
|l the king of Babylon was slain ; for he says, (ix.  
11 1—3,} " In the first year of Darius, the son of  
I 

I | Ahasuerus, of  the seed of the Medes, which was  
| made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; in  
| the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by 
| books, the number of the years, whereof the word  
of the Lord came to Jeremiah the prophet, that 
he would accomplish seventy years in the deso- 
lations of Jerusalem. And I set my face unto  
the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplica- 
tions, with fasting, and sackloth, and ashes."  
I He then prayed for the cleansing of the sanctuary  
11 —the very thing that was predicted should be ac-
! j complished at the end of the 2300 days,—showing  
| that Daniel expected that those days were literal  
| days, and that they terminated with the 70 years ; 
| and that the sanctuary would then he cleansed. He 
j prayed, " 0 Lord, according to all thy righteous-
I ness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury  
be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy 
holy mountain: because for our sins and for the  
iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy peo- 
ple are become a reproach to all that are about 
us. Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer  
of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause  
thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is des- 
olate, for the Lord's sake. O my God, incline 
thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold  
our desolations, and the city which is called by  
thy name: for we do not present our supplica- 
tions before thee for our righteousnesses, but for  
thy great mercies. O Lord, hear; O Lord, for- 
give ; 0 Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for 
thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and  
thy people are called by thy name." Dan. ix.  
16—19.  
While Daniel was  thus praying, the angel  
Gabriel, that had explained all of the vision in  
j the previous chapter, but the time, came to him,  
and corrected his error with regard to the cleans- 
i ing of the sanctuary, and length of the 2300 days,  
j which were to extend to that cleansing. Daniel  
! says, (ix. 20—23,) " And while I was speaking, 
| and praying, and confessing my sin, and the sin  
II of my people Israel, and presenting my supplica- 
1! tion before the Lord my God for the holy moun-
] I tain of my God; yea, while I was speaking in  
j prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen  
I in the vision at the beginning, being caused to  
fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the  
evening oblation. And he informed me, and 
talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now  
come forth to give thee skill and understanding.  

At the beginning of thy supplications the com-
mandment came forth, and I am come to show 
thee; for thou art greatly beloved; therefore un- 
derstand the matter, and consider the vision.*'  
What vision was he to understand ? Daniel  
says he made him know the interpretation of the, 
7th, and there is no vision in the 9th; it must  
therefore be the vision in the 8th chapter. That  
vision Gabriel was commanded to make Daniel  
understand; and he told Daniel he would  
make him know what should be in the last end  
of the indignation; but Daniel says, after he  
fainted, that none understood it. The angel  
therefore must fulfil his promise and the com-
mand at some future time; and he says he is  
now come to make him understand the vision.  
He must therefore give the information on those  
points, at this time, which would remove the ob-
scurity from Daniel's mind, and fulfil the angel's  
commission; and the time being the only unex- 
plained point, the information must respect the  
commencement and duration of the 2300 days, 
and the time of the cleansing of the sanctuary,  
respecting which Daniel prayed.  
The angel then informs him that " seventy  
sevens are cut off," &c., " to the anointing of the  
Most Holy ; that those seventy sevens commence  
with the command to restore and build Jerusa- 
lem, which, according to the chronology in the  
margin of the 7th of Ezra, was B. C. 457; that  
after the seventy sevens the people of the prince 
that should come should destroy the city and the  
sanctuary, instead of its being then or previously  
cleansed,—and that it should not be cleansed till  
the consummation; for till then the overspreading  
of abominations should make it desolate, and that 
that was determined should be poured upon the 
desolate.  
Until \vhat consummation ? and what was de- 
termined that should be poured upon the deso-
late ? Daniel says, before he prayed, he " under- 
stood by books the number of the years, whereof 
the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah the 
prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years  
in the desolations of Jerusalem." That predic- 
tion is found in the 25th of Jeremiah ; and in the  
same chapter that Daniel says he was consider- 
ing, it is also predicted that a desolation should  
go forth upon all nations, beginning with Jerusa-
lem, and ending upon all the nations of the world.  
Jeremiah says, (xxv. 15—37,) " For thus saith  
the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine- 
cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the 
nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it. And 
they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, be- 
cause of the sword that I will send among them.  
Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and  
made all the nations to drink, unto whom the  
LORD had sent me: to wit, Jerusalem, and the  
cities of Judah, and the kings thereof, and the 
princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an 
astonishment, a hissing, and a curse; as it is  
this day; Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his ser-
vants, and his princes, and all his people; and  
all the mingled people, and all the kings of the  
land of IJz, and all the kings of the land of the  
Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Azzah, and Ekron,  
and the remnant of Ashdod, Edom, and Moab,  
and the children of  Ammon, and all the kings of  
Tyrus, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings 
of the isles which are beyond the sea, Dedan, and  
Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the litmost  
corners, and all the kings of Arabia, and all the 
kings of the mingled people that dwell in the  
desert, and all the kings of Zimri, and all the  
kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes,  
and all the kings of the north, far and near, one 
with another, and all the kingdoms of the world,  

which are upon the. face of the earth: and the  
king of Sheshach shall drink after them. There-
fore t'hou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the  
Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and  
be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more,  
because of the swrord which I will send among you.  
And it shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at thy  
hand to drink, then shalt thou say unto them, Thus  
saith the Lord of hosts, Ye shall certainly drink. 
For lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is  
called by my name, and should ye be utterly un- 
punished ? Ye shall not be unpunished; for I  
will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of  
the earth, saith the Lord of hosts. Therefore pro- 
phesy thou against them ali these words, and say  
unto them, The Lord shall roar from on high, and 
utter his voice from his holy habitation ; he shall 
mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give  
a shout, as they that tread  the grapes, against all  
the inhabitants of the earth. A noise shall come 
even to  the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath  
a controversy with the nations, he will plead with  
all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to  
the sword, saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord  
of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to  
nation, and a great whirlwind  shall be raised up  
from the coasts of the earth. And the slain of the  
Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth  
e^en unto the other end of the earth : they shall  
not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; 
they shall be dung upon the ground. Howl, ye 
shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in  
the ashes, ye principal of the flock : for the days  
of your slaughter and of your dispersions are ac- 
complished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant  
vessel. And the shepherds shall have no way to  
flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.  
A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and a howl- 
ing of the principal of the flock, shall be heard;  
for the Lord hath spoiled their pasture. And the 
peaceable habitations are cut down, because of the  
fierce anger of the Lord."  
As this was what Daniel was considering, he  
would understand by " the consummation, and  
that determined shall be poured upon the deso- 
late," as hf.vincr reference to the predictions in  
this chapter. The "consummation," therefore,  
must be the end of the world, when the slain of the  
Lord will be from one end of the earth even to  
the other; and that which is " determined to be  
poured upon the desolate," must be the " wine- 
cup of God's fury," which is to be poured upon 
"all the kingdoms of the world which axe upon 
the face of the earth," and they shall " fall to  
rise no more." As the sanctuary is to be deso- 
lated by the overspreading of abominations till  
that time, it cannot be previously cleansed, and 
the 2300 days must then terminate. And as the  
" seventy sevens" which were cut off to the  
Messiah, were fulfilled in so many years, and are 
admitted to be years, therefore, the 2300 days  
from which they were cut off, must also be years, 
and must commence at the same time  wrhen the  
decree Went forth, B. C. 457, which leave A. D.  
1843 years.  
It is farther shown that the 2300 days com- 
mence at that time; for the vision commenced  
with the ram; and when the  ram was first seen,  
its horns were both high, and it was pushing m  
every direction; so that the vision must have  
commenced with the meridian glory of the Medo- 
Persian kingdom, which was at the very time the  
decree was given by Artaxerxes Longimanus, 
and it began to decline in the reign of that  
monarch.  
These days are also proved to be years, from  
the fact that all the events predicted in them,  
could not be fulfilled in literal days.


The above considerations seem to demonstrate  
that the 2300 days are symbols of years, begin 
B. C. 457, and extend to A. D. 1843, when the  
sanctuary will be cleansed, and this world be 
consummated.  
VI. THE 1260 DAYS OF DAN. VII. 25, THAT  
THE SAINTS WERE TO BE GIVEN INTO THE HANDS  
OF THE LITTLE HORN, ARE ALSO PROVED TO BE  
YEARS; for the little horn was to continue till the 
final judgment, and it has been repeatedly shown,  
that from A. D. 538, when the Pope first had  
dominion over the  lives of others, to the time  
when that dominion was  taken away, A. D.  
1798, was just as many years as the predicted  
days. The Pope is also still making War with 
the saints, and prevailing against them, as it was 
predicted he should till the Ancient of Days  
came.  
VII. THE 1290 AND 1335 DAYS IN DAN.  12TH,  
ARE ALSO PROVED TO BE YEARS : for the 1290  
days were to reach to the time of the end, and in  
A. D. 1798, just 1290 years from the taking  
away of the daily, A. D. 508, were fulfilled the  
very events that were predicted in Dan. xi. 40—  
45, to occur at the time of the end. The 1335 
days would therefore extend 45 years beyond,  
and terminate in 1843; and that they reach to the 
end of the world is evident, from the fact, that 
Daniel will then stand in his lot. " Blessed is 
he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand 
three hundred and five and thirty days: But go 
thou thy way till the end be; for thou shalt rest, 
and stand in thy lot at the end of the days."  
VIII. THE PERIOD HAS NOW ARRIVED  WHEN  
THESE PREDICTIONS  CAN BE UNDERSTOOD.  
Till the time of the end they were to be closed  
up and sealed. Daniel asked, "O my Lord, what 
shall be the end of these things?" But he is  
told, "Go thy way. Daniel; for the words are  
closed up and sealed till the time of the end. 
Many shall be purified, and made white, and  
tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly:  slnd  
none of the wicked shall understand; but the 
wise shall understand." The words that were  
closed up and sealed, wrere the end of these  
things, and which reached to the resurrection of  
the dead; and although they that are to shine 
as the brightness of the firmament "shall under- 
stand," yet " the wicked will do wickedly, and  
none of the wicked shall understand."  
• As Mr. Colver has made an utter failure of  
showing a  single point of resemblance between  
his literal exposition and Daniel's prophecy, and  
as there is a direct disagreement between the 
two, in FIFTY-FOUR particulars, in each of which  
they should correspond, to sav nothing of the  
variation of the ONE THOUSAND AND  
SIXTY-TWO days :n his four prophetic pe- 
riods, all candid enquirers after truth—what-
ever they may think of the theory which he in-
directlv attempts to overthrow,—will  never be  
satisfied with his "PROPHECY OF DANIEL  
LITERALLY FULFILLED."  
NOTE.  
ANOTHER SAMPLE OF COLVHR'S LITERAL FULFILMENT.  
SINCE writing the above, our attention has been  
called more fully to his literal fulfilment of the 1335 
days. These days he BEGINS six months before the 
fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred and  
forty and fifth year; see p. 34: and to prove their  
END, he says that on the news of the death of Antio- 
chus, " as appears from 3 Macc. 1, they sent a letter  
of congratulation on account of it to their brethren ir.  
Egypt." See p. 37. But according to 2 Macc. i. 10,  
it will be seen that this letter was written from the  
Jews of Jerusalem to those of Egypt, "in the hun- 
dred fourscore and eighth year " of the kingdom of the  
Grecians, or FOKTY-THREE years after the hundred  
40  

and forty-fifth of 1 Macc. i. 54, when he claims the  
abomination was set up. In this letter was written,  
" Insomuch as God hath delivered us from great perils,  
we thank him highly, as having been in battle against  
a Icing ; for he cast them out that fought within the 
holy city;" verses 11, 12. There is also allusion 
made to the time " Demetrious reigned, in ihe hun-
dred threescore and ninth year," when they wrote to 
Egypt: but that was "in the extremity of trouble.''''  
"See 7th verse."  
If therefore Mr. Colver is correct, and 'he 1335 days  
end With the writing of this letter, on their deliverance 
from peril, it must have been 43 years "from the setting- 
up of the abomination, and which, added to the six  
months before the " setting up," when lie claims those  
days began, amount to 15,888 days, or an excess of  
14,553 days. So here we have for the  
Angel's Tag, Culver's Tally,  
1335 15,888  
We would here inquire of Mr. Colver, whether this  
was an honest mistake  J  
The above review is respectfully dedicated to Timo- 
thy Gilbert, Perez Gill, and Nathaniel Hill, who say,  
in their letter to Mr. Colver :  
" Regarding your argument as conclusive,  that the  
numbers in Daniel, which others have interpreted to 
prove ' the second coming of Christ in 1843,' have had 
their literal accomplishment, and, therefore, have now 
no reference to this event,—and having the mystery, 
which has hung over this subject, entirely removed 
from our minds', by your plain, simple, and common  
sense expositions in these Lectures,—we desire their 
publication, that others, who had not the privilege of 
hearing, may, by reading them, be enabled to share in  
our increased pleasure ia reading the Scriptures."  
We should have appended to tHe aboVe the'entire  
work of Mr. Colver, were it not that they have secured  
the copy-right. But such quotations liave been made  
from the work as fairly present the points under review.  
It will be seen that occasionally allusions have been  
made to some of the expressions made use of by Mr.  
Colver in the delivery of his lectures, which do not 
appear in the printed copy, they having, previous to  
their publication, passed through a thorough and very  
" grave" review.  
THE MIDNIGHT CRY.  
FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1843.  
FUNDS,  
We have made no direct appeal for money, because  
we wished to give no ground, even for the malice of 
scoffers, lo say that we were such hardened imposters 
as to preach Christ's speedy corning for filthy lucre.  
We feel it a duty, however, to speak the truth, that  
the Lord's stewards may be able to act understandingly.  
1. We are receiving letters daily, from various parts  
of the country, calling for light.  
2. To meet these calls, we print about 10,000 copies  
weekly, of a large sheet like this, a large portion of 
which we scatter gratuitously, to ministers, lawyers,  
doctors, merchants, editors, postmasters, hotel-keepers,  
&c., whose names we have, in various quarters.  
3. We have calls in person, at the office, for books and  
papers, almost all of which we srpply freely. To meet 
these calls, we are constantly printing books and tracts.  
4. We have sent abroad 100,000 tracts, to be distrib- 
uted in houses, shops, stores, ships, prisons, hospitals,  
alms-houses, &c.  
5. We have presented libraries to Sabbath Schools,  
shipmasters, clergymen, &c.  
6. We have offered to supply every vessel which leaves  
the port, with from $2 to $5 worth of publications, if  
any friend of seamen will call for them and deliver them. 
In behalf of sailors, we cordially unite in the plea made 
by the Sailor's Magazine. Speaking of the disasters at  
sea during the year 1842, the editor gives a list of three  
hundred and eighty vessels, which he says, were nearly  
all wrecked on the United States coast. "The vessels and  
lives known to be lost are alone included. A large num- 
bar of wrecks have been seen at sea, the fate of whose  

crews, or the names of the vessels, are unknown, and  
are therefore not enumerated." He then proceeds tosay :  
" In connexion with the above, six hundred and two  
lives have been lost, and in addition, twelve vessels re-
ported as missing, whose fate and those on board, it is  
feared will never be known.  
" In view of this melancholy catalogue, is it not appa- 
rent that what is done for those who go down to the sea in 
ships, must be done quickly 1 Many that are now with-
in our influence, find may be reached by our efforts, itfay  
at the end ofthe coming year be included in the list Of 
those that have gone to their final account."  
You who have this world's goods, knowing as you do  
that your brother has need, will you not bestow the 
means of scattering the warning voice, that no one ftiay  
perish, because you hoarded the Lord's money 1  
Those who have any special object, in which they are  
interested, can designate it, and their wishes will be  
faithfully observed.  
A GOOD EXAMPLE.—A Post-Master in Ohio writes :—  
" The friends of the cause in this place observe every  
Friday evening as a season of conference and prayer, 
on w'hich occasion they will try to raise some funds to 
forward to you for general purposes."  
THE CONVERSION OF THE WORLD- 
The world is to be converted, if at all, by the instru- 
mentality ofthe church, as it now is. But what is the 
church now doing 1 A great portion of it is drifting  
down the current with the world. The two nations in  
which the gospel may be supposed to have the most influ-
ence are England and the United States. The influence 
which England exerts abroad may be judged from the  
following paragraph of foreign news :  
" The Indian mail reached London on the 7th tilt. Gen.  
Pollock left Cabul on the 12th October, with the British  
troops in three divisions ; two consisting ol hisbwn force,  
and the third of Gen. Nott s. Before their departure, 
however, the mark of vengeance was-set upon the place. 
This kind of retribution was begun at Istalif, which was 
sacked, the town set on fire, arid the fortifications blown  
up. With the exception of 500 wemen, who were set at  
liberty, 'not a living soul,' says one of the accounts,  
' was spared—whether armed or unarmed—the men were  
hunted down like wild beasts—not a prisoner was taken 
—mercy never dreamt of! All the bitterness of hatred  
was shown by the soldiery, both European and Native.'  
The scene was repeated at Cabul, on taking leave. The  
British soldiers becoming excited from witnessing the  
skeletons of their comrades on the march to Cabul, were 
exasperated, and attacked the helpless populace, which,  
it seems, were not Affghans but Hindoos. On these un-
happy wretches the vengeance of the soldiers were  
wreaked. All this passed, it is alleged, without the  
knowledge of General Pollock, and. indeed, contrary to 
his orders. 80,000 souls were rendered houseless at Ca-
bul and Istalif."  
The little influence which the gospel exerts in England  
itself, is stated with sad and startling emphasis, by the  
Bishop of Oxford, who says the population is " RAP-
IDLY HEATHENIZING." The following paragraph  
indicates the immorality now prevalent in London, in the 
midst of its splendid churches and wealthy priests :  
" It is calculated, that out of the whole population of  
London and the suburbs, about forty thousand subsist by 
thieving."  
See the last Midnight Cry for further illustrations of  
the moral darkness which is creeping over the land.  
The character of the church, in this country, may be  
judged from the following :  
" Is THIS A CHRISTIAN LAND 1—The following inven- 
tory ofthe slave property of American Churches should 
be pondered till every Christian's arm is nerved to hold 
and zealous action to clear the sanctuary of this abomi- 
nation. The late Methodist A. S. Convention in Boston,  
asserted that the members ofthe  
Methodist E. Church own over  
Baptists, (estimated,)  
Presbyterian, (both schools,)  
Episcopalians,  
Carnpbellites,  
Other smaller denominations,  

204,000  
125,000  
70,000  
80,000  
100,000  
25,000  
Total—slaves thus held, 604,000  
A large proportion of the members of those churches  
who do not  traffic in ' slaves and the souls of men,'  
' have pleasure them that do it.'' "  
While such facts exist, what are the churches doing 1  
One half of the Presbyterian church are contending that


the other half are  not good Presbyterians. But the Epis- 
copalians reject them all as not belonging to the true  
church, and say it is " a profanation" for Presbyterians,  
or other " dissenting'''1! ! ministers to administer the sac- 
rament. The Evangelist retorts, that such principles  
are " heathenish. " ThUs we might go through the list  
of the sects, and get their opinions of each other. But  
they have no time to express their opinions of the popular 
sins of their own churches. In the meantime, our mis-
sionary secretaries are putting forth touching appeals for  
money, and sayirig that they must withdraw scores of  
preachers from fields which are suffering for their labor,  
unless more money is furnished. Many individuals re- 
ply that they can give no more, but one church member  
spends money enough to support 100 missionaries a year  
in building a house to live in, and a single church spends  
$500,()()0 for a place to meet in.  
How long will it take these divided and belligerent,  
churches to convert the world to unity in the apostolic  
faith, when a great portion of them scorn the apostolic 
faith, on the subject of Christ's second coming; and des- 
pise those who hold it!  
IGNORANCE OF MR* MILLER AND  
DR. WEEKS.  
Only once are we told our blessed Saviour " rejoiced"  
while on earth. It must have been peculiarly delightful  
to Him to reflect on the fact that the great truths of God's  
word were made known even to the despised ones of this  
world. He even said : [See Beza] " I thank thee, O  
Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid 
these things from the wise and learned, and hast reveal- 
ed them to babeS. Even so, Father, because  it pleased  
thee." But what pleased God was very offensive to the 
Scribes and Pharisees. We fancy we can see them,  
when their proud hearts revolted at the idea of being  
taught by him, curling their lips in most dignified scorn, 
and sayirig, " Is not this the carpenter s son V or, as Mark  
records the words, ' Is not this the carpenter V There is  
no doubt that they realiy thought they were speaking  
thus scornfully of an " ignorant pretender," or a teacher  
of "pestilent heresy," if we may adopt the modern lan- 
guage of the Evangelist and Observer. But their hearts  
were too proud to receive him.  
Christ was pleased to select apostles who were known- 
to be " unlearned and ignorant men," and anyone who 
was too proud to receive the truth from such lips had at 
least that, excuse for slighting it. Of Peter and John it 
might be said : They have spent their days hauling fish  
in the sea of Galilee, and " do they teach US ?" But  
Peter furnished the best excuse which could be given for  
their rejecting the gospel, when he said : •' I know that  
from ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers." Thus  
it seems those who despised others were themselves ig-
norant.  
When the Jews said of Christ, " He hath a devil and  
is mad, why hear ye him?" they did it to prejudice the  
people, and close their ears against him. When modern  
scribes call Mr. Miller an ignorant fanatic it is for a  
similar reason. Dr. Weeks quotes Mr. Miller as refer  
ring to what "Maccabees tells us in his first book."—  
This was written by Mr. Miller many years before he 
undertook to make out a Chronology, but it is No. 41, of 
the 60 mistakes, and the only one which Rev S. I.  
Prime, the editor of the Observer, refers to, as if thc.t  
settled the whole question. Suppose, in the hurry of  
writing I once quoted what Timothy tells us in his first  
epistle, it would be a great blunder, and prove me to be  
ignorant or careless, in that expression, for we have no  
EpisXle of Timothy on record. But it would not weaken  
the truth of the Scripture I might, thus quote, nor would 1 
it be impossible for me, ever afterwards, to quote Scrip- 
ture correctly. But such is the tenor of the argument.  
There are certain historical books bound up in the Bible,  
called Maccabees, because they record the exploits of the  
family surnamed Maccabeus, [the hammerers] but no such  
explanation is given in any part of the Bible, and Mr. Mil- 
ler made the above mistake in his language in referring  
to them. Some years afterwards, he enquires what the  
Bible teaches about time, mentioning chapter and verse  
for almost every item, and referring to the best histories  
which record the facts not settled by the Bible, and among  
these authorities the books called the Maccabees are not  
mentioned. But the proofs are all nullified by the fact  
that Mr. Miller once made a mistake! We have often 
observed school-boys sneering at a companion's mistakes,  
and have seldom failed to find the conceited boy soon  
making some gross blunder, but we did not expect to find  
such a" glaring proof of ignorance as we perceive in Dr. 
Wreeks' first article, in what he calls mistake No. 1. He 
there says:  

tsK  
" We know that Christ died on Friday of Passover  
week, at 3 o'clock ih the afternoon, at Jerusalem. And 
this they say was oh Friday the 3d day of April, O. S.,  
(See Miller's Views, p. 247,) which is the 15th day New  
Style."  
Now mark the Doctor's ignorance. The difference be- 
tween Old and New Style was occasioned bv the fact  
that the year, as reckoned by Julius Ceesar, was eleven  
minutes too Jong, and the variation from the true time 
gradually increased, by the .addition of these ll minutes 
yearly, till in 1752, it had amounted to 11 days, which  
were substracted from that year, .and the new reckoning  
was called New Style. What school child cannot see  
that it, shows -areat ignorance TO ADD ELEVEN  
DAYS TO A DATE 1700 YEARS BEFORE THAT  
CHANGE WAS MADE, AND WHEN THE OCCA-
SION FOR IT HAD NOT BEGUN TO EXIST?  
What if we .should retort upon Dr. Weeks, in his own  
style? After telling a long story about Maccabees, he says:  
" This is a small matter to take notice of; find if Mr.  
Miller's uncommon knowledge was not trumpeted forth, 
and made the means of imposing upon the multitude, it  
might he passed over in silence As the matter is, it  
seems important to show how utterly disqualified he is  
by his ignorance, to j»e an expounder of prophecy."  
Which is the worst mistakfe, gentle reader, one which  
has no connection with the tirhe, or one which belongs 
to time exclusively ? Have we not had a deafening blast 
of trumpets about Dr. Weeks' learned articles, " demol-
ishing Millerism," to use the modest language of the 
Evangelist ?  
The Observer blows the trutnpet thus : 
" MILLER'S MISTAKES.—We do not ask any one to read  
Dr. Weeks' second article on the blunders of Miller. But  
if the reader of this paper would see the illustration of  
almost incredible ignorance laying claim to superior wis-
dom, even to the understanding of the hidden things of  
God, iet him turn to our last page and find the evidence. 
Mr Miller thinks Maccabees was a man. He might as  
well say Psalms Or Chronicles is a man. And such a  
biblical student sets up to reform the chronology of the  
world !"  
We pity the writers of such inflated sneers, and regret  
that duty requires us to notice them, because they are 
designed to stop all inquiry respecting what we consider 
the truth of the Bible Mr. Prime calls Mr. Miller a Lit-
eralist, and says he intends to ridicule his sentiments.  
We should be. glad to have these editors cease misrepre- 
senting us, that we might shake hands, forget the past, 
and, without interruption, prepare ourselves and others  
to meet the Judge, who standeth at the door. We hope 
all editors who have copied the Doctor's articles,  
will have the honesty to tell their readers that he  
made a great blunder, which entirely spoils the story 
called mistake No 1, in which he attempts to show that  
"Mr Miller's principles do tell the day and the hour."  
If Or. Weeks had been contented with the date which  
Ferguson gave him, who says nothing about Old or New  
Style, he would not. have made his pretensions to won- 
derful accuracy appear so ridiculous.  
CHRONOLOGY FIXED BY ASTRONOMY- 
The quotation which Dr. Weeks refers to on page 247  
of Miller's Lectures, is from Ferguson, the celebrated as- 
tronomer, who, by an astronomical calculation, has shown 
that Christ was crucified in the year 33 of the common 
era. We have recently heard of two astronomers, one  
in Connecticut, and one in New Jersey, who have revis- 
ed the calculation, and declare it to be accurate.  
Thus, we have an astronomical measuring-rod, reach- 
ing back 1810 years to the death of Christ, where his  
cross stands as a fixed monument, from which springs 
the prophetical arch of 70 weeks, covering all the uncer-
tain space between Malachi and Christ, and extending 
back precisely to the commencement of the prophetical  
periods. Having these fixed points concerning all the 
important periods, why should we trouble ourselves in  
looking after Dr. Weeks, who has lost himself in a laby-
rinth, and sunk in a quagmire among the Kings and Judg- 
es beyond ?  
"THE POOR HAVE THE GOSPEL."—This was the glory  
of the Christian dispensation, but the poor are shut out 
from some of the modern lectures against Christ's near  
coming. Thomas Y. How, D. D., has recently adver- 
tised a lecture, at Utica, in which, he says, " it will be 
shown that the assertions of Mr. Miller,  as to the time,  
are expressly contradicted by facts." But this pleasing 
information must he well paid for,—25 cents being the  
price, to each person.  
UNCURRENT MONEY".  
Correspondents almost daily enquire what sort of  
funds they shall send us. Reply to all. Send us New  
York  or New England money if you can get it, but if not,  
send us the money of the Atlantic cities south of us, or  
the best western money you can get.  

THE LAST TRUMPET.  
A VOICE FROM THE DEPARTED.  
An old well-worn pamphlet has just been plafced in  
our hands, of which this is the title-page: " THE  
LAST TRUMPET ; a Discourse preached at Mendham,  
October 17, 1824. By AMZI ARMSTRONG formerly  
Pastor of the Presbyterian Church in that place. New 
York: Printed by G. J. Hopkins, No. 48 Pine street,  
1824." It is inscribed "To the members of the Pres- 
byterian Church and Congregation of Mendham, in  
Morris county, N. J."  
From  this introductory note we learn that eight years  
before, the increasing infirmities of age had constrained  
the venerable author to relinquish the pastoral charge 
which he had sustained 20 years.  
' During his ministry, which commenced about  1796,  
he had given a series of lectures on the Visions of the  
revelation, that his people might hate these things al-
ways in remembrance. This sermon is a sort of ab- 
stract of these lectures, and it is wonderful, as well as  
delightful, to observe how precisely this aged and learn- 
ed divine coincides with the views which modern  
Presbyterians make the object of their scornful ridicule.  
We insert every word of the sermon, without the va- 
riation of a comma, and there is scarcely a syllable we 
would wish to alter. With surprising power and brevity, 
he applies the Scriptures almost e'xactly as Bro. Miller  
or Storrs, would apply them, maintaining the same great  
truths respecting the coming of Christ to judge the 
world—the first resurrection, and the restoration of the 
true Israel, to precede the millennium,  
THE LAST TRUMPET.  
1 Corinthians, 15 : 52d, middle clause.  
"FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND.''  
The trumpet seems to have been early in- 
vented, and used to extend the power of the 
human voice; to swell the note of warning  
againstdangers—and to give notice of occasions  
requiring the attention and concert of many.— 
The first occasion on which we have an ac- 
count ofthe use of the trumpet, is the giving of  
the law on Sinai. The voice of that trumpet  
was exceeding loud, "scr that all the people that 
was in the camp trembled." This instrument  
is usually made of brass;, as being more sonor- 
ous than other materials. But, for the camp of  
Israel, Moses was directed to make two trum-
pets of silver, by a smoother and sweeter 
sound, to regulate the concerns, and preserve 
the order of the camp,'and of the journeyings 
ofthe people. The trumpet was also sounded 
on their feasts and fast days. But especially 
on the day of atonement,- in the year of jubilee,  
when every bond should be loosed, and ser- 
vants  go out free from their masters. And  
there is yet another sound of the trumpet to be  
heard, wheiVthe bands of death shall be loosed, 
and the prisoner shall go free, and the slavery 
of sin shall be ended. This is it, spoken of in 
the text: "In a moment, in the twinkling of  
an eye at the last trump, (for the trumpet sh T1 
sound,) and the dead shall be raised incorrupti- 
ble. and we shall be changed."  
This is emphaiically  styled the last trumpet,  
because at its sounding, the generations of men 
are to be invoked to the coming and presence  
of the Great Judge, "who shall descend from  
Heaven with a shout, with the voice of the  
Archangel, and with the trump of GOD." The  
ancient receptacles of the dead will be broken  
up, and the scattered dust that has at any time, 
from the days of Abel, whom Cain slew, to that 
day when the trump of GOD shall announce the 
coming of the Judge, formed a constituent part  
of human being, shall be collected and anima- 
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ted into conscious personal appearing before  
the Lord, the Judge. Consider the awful glo- 
ries. and the burning splendors of that appear- 
ing, " when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed  
from Heaven in all the glory of his Father with  
his mighty angels in flaming fire, taking ven- 
geance oil them that know not GOD, and that 
obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ;  
who shall be punished with everlasting des- 
truction from the presence of the Lord, and 
from the glory of his power, when he shall come  
to be gloriiied in his saints, and to be admired  
in all them that believe in that day." To man,  
it is a most important inquiry, When shall this 
be 1  
To the feeble and fainting vision of mortals,  
it is painful to fix the eye steadily on the bright 
and burning glories ofthe mid-day sun. They  
delight to behold his rising splendor, or to catch  
the few unintercepted rays of his western glo- 
ry, and to contemplate his reflected brightness  
in the milder and paler light from the moon.—  
But his collected meridian power is too re- 
splendent for the eye of mortals. So the Church  
triumphing, "with the moon under her  feet, and  
a crown of twelve stars upon her head," may  
be a pleasant and delightful object of contem-
plation ; while the added vestment of the sun 
would clothe her with glories too refulgent and  
too dazzling for the same eye to behold with a  
calm and equable observation. Perhaps it has  
been from causes of this kind, that, men have  
been inclined, in their prospective consideration 
of the future glories of Christ in his Church, to  
interpose the milder glories of a spiritual  
millennium between their own times and that  
great, day when the Son of Man shall appear in  
the brightness of his glory, to bless his people  
and to build up Zion.  
It has, however, been the opinion of eminent- 
ly pious and learned men in former ages, who  
have searched the Scriptures on this subject,  
that the millennial glory ofthe Church is to be  
introduced by the commencing scene of the last 
and general judgment.  
This is the subject 1 propose now to discuss.  
No one, I suppose, imagines that the whole  
process of the general judgment will be limited  
to the compass of a natural day. as we count  
time. All who read the Scriptures are special- 
ly instructed, that "one day is with ihe Lord as 
a thousand years, and a thousand years as one  
day," arid, although the Judge will certainly be  
competent to arrange, and examine, and bring  
to issue the vast, and complicated, and extend*  
ed concerns of a world, within any given time,  
however short, yet we cannot suppose that  
created minds can be capable of witnessing  
and apprehending the manifestation of the jus- 
tice, and the wisdom, and the goodness of GOD,  
which the Scriptures and reason teach us to  
expect in that day, unless there shall be a suc- 
cession of events occupying time somewhat  
proportioned to the condition.of created and  
finite minds.  
It would, therefore, to reason, seem probablo  
that a commencing scene of judgment, .arid an  
array of  the attending circumstances and sol- 
emnities of the great and last judgment, should  
reveal the Judge in power and glory, and instate  
his saints, who are to be assessors with him in  
the judgment, in their thrones of judgment and  
dominion, that they may live and reign with  
Him during the whole time, when the nations  
and generations of men shall pass in review  
before his awful and holy tribunal.  
Human reason, however, is incompetent to  
decide how it is proper the solemnities of this  
great day should be conducted. To revelation  
alone can we look with confidence to learn what  

In the eternal counsels, all the forms and cir- 
cumstances, and progress of the work of judg- 
ment, are arranged and fixed, "for GOD hath ap- 
pointed a day in the which he will judge the  
world in righteousness, by that man whom he 
hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance  
unto ali men, in that he hath raised hi til from  
the dead." "Secret things belong unio the Lord  
our GOD : but those which are revealed, unto us 
and to our children for ever."  
Let us then search the Scriptures for GOD'S  
revealed purpose on this interesting and awful  
subject.  
1st. We there find the coming of this day will  
be sudden and unexpectedly men dwelling ori  
the earth. "As a snare shall it come on all  
them that dwell 011 the face of the whole earth."  
"For yourselves know perfectly, that the day  
of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night; 
for when they shall say peace and safety, then  
sudden destruction cometh upon them, and they 
shall not escape." And Christ himself has  
warned us, "as the days of Noah were, so shall  
also the coming of the Son of Man be." Now,  
it is impossible for us to conceive how this can  
be the case at the close of the millennium,  es- 
pecially if we take into consideration what  
Christ said on anotheroccasion : "Nevertheless,  
when the Son of Man cometh, shall he find faith  
on the earth."  
In all the Scripture representations of the  
coming of this great and terrible day of the  
Lord, we are warned that it will be at an hour  
when men generally will be least expecting it.  
Busied in the concern? andpleasures ofthe world,  
that day will burst upon them in a most unex- 
pected time and manner, when men  are at ease,  
and dwell carelessly on the earth. As at  
Christ's first advent, there may be some  
general indefinite expectation of some great 
event. Here a Simeon and there an Anna,  
waiting for the consolation of Israel, may be 
found prepared to hail his second advent, and  
say, " blessed is he that cometh in the name  
of the Lord."  
2dly. The sounding of the trumpet, and the  
opening scene of the last judgment, are in the 
revelation of the Scriptures, closely and inti-
mateiy connected with other great events there  
revealed, which must precede the millennial  
state of the Church on earth.  
1. The destruction of the man of s'n.—  
"That wicked one whom the Lord shall con-
sume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall  
destroy with'the brightness of his coming."—  
Daniel "beheld that he made war with the  
saints, and prevailed against them until the  
Ancient of Days came, and judgment was given  
to1 the saints, and the time came that the saints  
possessed the kingdom,", The apostle John "saw  
the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their  
armies gathered together to make war against  
him that sat, on the horse, who is King of Kings, 
arid Lord of Lords. And the beast was taken, 
and with him the false prophet that wrought  
miracles before him. These both Were cast  
into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone.—  
And the remnant were slain with the sword of  
him that sat oh the horse, which sword pro-
ceeded'out of his mouth, arid all the fowls were  
filled with their flesh."  
2dly. Nothing is more evident in the Scrip- 
tures than that an exemplary vengeance will be  
taken of the  thrones and dominions that have  
exalted themselves against Christ and his king-
dom on the earth, when he shall appear in his  
glory to build up Zion. And all the represen-
tations of this execution of vengeance seem, in 
every respect, to coincide with the representa- 

the last day, and must necessarily precedi 
millennium.  
tht  
is there disclosed ofthe purposes ofthe Judge, tiori of the commencement of the judgment of  
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3dly. It is, I believe, an opinion generally  
received, and fully supported by the Scriptures,  
that the seed of Abraham shall be recovered 
from their dispersion among the nations, to in- 
herit the promises made to their fathers, and 
to honor the name of Christ the Lord during  
the millennial state of the Church. Yet "Je-
rusalem shall be  trodden under foot of the  
Gentiles, until the time of the Gentiles be fuL 
filled. " And immediately after the tribulation  
of those days shall the sun be darkened, and  
the moon shall not give her light, and the stars  
shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the  
heavens shall be shaken. And then shall ap- 
pear the sign ofthe Son of man coming in the  
clouds of heaven, with power and great glory ;  
and he shall send his angels with a great sound  
of the trumpet, and they shall gather his elect  
from the four winds, from one end of heaven to 
the other."  
Surely this looks very like a representation  
of the commencement of the judgment of the  
great day. So, likewise, in all the ancient 
prophecies and concerning the restoration of  
Israel, the representations seem to be evidently  
representations of the execution of God's judg-
ment, in signal and final vengeance on the ad- 
versaries of his people. Such is the represen- 
tation in the 66th chapter of Isaiah, " Rejoice  
ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her all ye 
that mourn for her. For thus saith the Lord, 
Behold 1 will extend peace to her like a river,  
and the  glory of the Gentiles like a flowing  
stream. As one whom his mother comforteth  
so will I comfort Jerusalem: and when ye see  
this your hear' shall rejoice, and your bones  
shall flourish like an herb : and the hand ofthe  
Lord shall be known towards his servants, and  
his indignation towards his enemies. For be- 
hold the Lord shall come with fire, and with j 
his chariots like a whirlwind,  to render his ;  
anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of i  
fire. For by fire and by his sword will the |  
Lord plead with all flesh, and the slain of the j  
Lord shall be many."  
4thly. All the representations in the Scrip- j  
lures of the latter day glory, promised to the  
Church, evidently imply the previous judgment  
and destruction of her enemies, and in many  
instances it is expressly so declared. There 
is but one place in the Scriptures which has  
commonly been understood to designate a pre-
cise and limited time for the millennial blessed-
ness of the church on earth. It is from the  
thousand years mentioned by the apostle John,  
in the 20ih chapter of Revelation, that the  
terms millennium, millennial,  are derived.—  
And this representation of that, happy period,  
by the apostle, opens with the formality of  
thrones, and judgment, and the resurrection of  
the dead: to these succeeds the thousand  
years of the reigri of the saints, who shall judge 
the world with Christ: and then, at the end of  
the thousand years the closing scene of the 
judgment follows, when the dead, small and  
great,, shall stand before God.  
But you have been told, by grave commenta- 
tors, that the first resurrection is to be only a  
spiritual, and not a literal resurrection. What  
then shall be the second death 1 Can they 
allegorize that, also into a mere vision ? And  
where then do they read of a true and literal  
resurrection 1 Is it in what Daniel says, "And  
many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth  
shall awake?" But this also shall take place 
when Michael shall stand up, the great  Pri,nee,  
who standeth for the children of the prophet's  
people, when the seed of Abraham shall be  
delivered, every one that shall be fonnd written


in the book. Is it in what Christ says, John  
5 : 28, 29, " The hour is coming, in the which  
all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 
and shall come forth ; they that have done good  
unto the resurrection of life , and they that  
have done evil unto the resurrection of damna- 
tion ?" But this evidently agrees with the 
account given in the context, of the resurrec- 
tion. "In Christ shall all be made alive." But 
every man in his own order, (or in the band or  
rank to which he belongs,) Christ, the first  
fruits, afterward they that are Christ's AT HIS 
COMING : THEN cometh THE END. Christ  
rose from the dead nearly 1800 years ago—the  
first fruits of the resurrection. The next order  
will be the resurrection of the saints at the se- 
cond coming of Christ. " For as it is appoint- 
ed unto men once to die, and after that the  
judgment; so Christ was once offered to bear  
the sins of many : And unto them that look for  
j him shall he APPEAL the SECOND TIME without sin  
| unto salvation." The second coming of Christ is  
every where in the Scripture connected with the 
resurrection of the saints, and the judgment to  
be executed on their enemies, and often with  
the commencement of millennial grace and glo- 
ry. In the vision of Daniel, he " beheld till the  
thrones were placed arid the Ancient of Days  
I did sit. And behold one like the Son of Man 
| came with the clouds of heaven, and came to  
the Ancient of Days—And there was given him  
dominion, and glory,*and a kingdom, that all  
people, nations, and languages should serve  
him: His dominion is an everlasting dominion,  
which shall not pass away, and his kingdom  
that which shall not be destroyed." Now I can  
conceive of no legitimate principle on which 
this and numerous other representations by the 
prophets in the Scriptures can be reconciled  
with what the apostle John saw concerning the  
millennium, without admitting that the reign of  
Christ and his saints on the earth, in which the  
saints shall judge the world as assessors with  
Christ in the judgment he will execute, shall  
intervene between the opening  and the closing  
scene of the last and general judgment. On  
this principle, the expected millennial glory  
will be introduced by the opening scene of the  
great and last judgment, in which, "the Lord 
himself shall descend from heaven with a shout  
—and the dead in Christ shall rise first." Then  
the saints shall take the kingdom, and possess  
the kingdom for ever; even for ever and ever:  
for although, according to what John saw, "Af- 
ter the thousand years shall be fulfilled, Satan 
shall again be loosed," it shall be only for a 
a little season. And though Gog and Magog 
shall compass the camp of the saints about, and  
the beloved city, they shall never prevail to  
wrest, the kingdom from the saints for a single  
hour ; but fire shall come down from God, out  
of heaven, and devour them. And then the 
grand arid closing scene of the last and great  
judgment, shall wind up the concerns of a re- 
bellious world, and settle finally arid forever  
the controversy of Christ and his saints against 
the adversaries of his throne and kingdom.  
"The dead, small and great, shall stand before  
God. arid be judged out of the things written in  
the books, according to their works ; and who-
soever shall not be found written in the book of  
life, shall be cast into the lake of fire."* On 
this principle, that the millennium shall com-
mence with theoiiening scene of the judgment, 
the order of events stated in the revelation ap- 
pears clear, and plain, and easily reconcilable  
with the order represented in the other prophe- 
cies of the Scripture. In the prophecy of Eze- 
kiel, especially, there seems inextricable  
*Here brother Storrs differs from the author. See the  
next article in this paper.—ED.  

perplexity and confusion of order, if you would  
suppose the millennial state of the Church to 
precede the judgment.  
5thly. In all the dispensations of grace to  
his church, God has executed signal judgments  
upon their adversaries. Grace and judgment  
have always attended each other, and marked 
God's visitations of his Church and of the  
the world, eyer since the day that Noah entered  
into the ark ; and in no instance more remark-
ably than when the Lord from heaven person-
ally visited the earth. Full of grace and tnsth. 
he yet declared. "For judgment am I come  
into the world," and " These be the days of  
vengeance, that all things which are written 
may be fulfilled." Much more might we expect,  
that when he shall appear again the second  
time without sin unto salvation, he will vindi- 
cate his revealed purposes of grace to his 
Church and people, by executing a righteous  
judgment upon their adversaries. And, indeed,  
what else will be the battle of the great day,"  
which it is admitted is to precede the revelation  
of millennial grace and glcry, but the com- 
mencement of that series of judgments in which  
the whole concerns of a rebellious world are 
to pass in review before Christ, and to be adju-
dicated by him 1 " And the angel lifted up his  
hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth  
for ever and ever, that there should be time no  
longer: But in the days of the voice of the  
seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound,  
the mystery of God should be finished, as he  
hath declared to his servants the prophets.  
And the seventh angel sounded : and there 
were great voices in heaven saying, The king- 
doms of this world are become the kingdoms of  
our Lord and of his Christ; and he shall reign  
forever and ever."  
What is this but a most solemn asseveration  
that when the seventh or last trumpet shall 
sound, the process of the  final judgment shall  
commence, and the proclamation be issued,  
which shall instate the saints in thrones of  
judgment, according to the vision of Daniel, and  
to the many declarations in the word of God, 
that the saints shall judge the world 1 is not  
this the same trumpet. Isaiah "mentions, 27 ;  
13, " Ye shall be gathered Together one by one,  
O ye children of Israel ? And it shall come to  
pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be  
blown, and they shall come which were ready  
to perish, and shall worship the Lord in the  
holy mountain at Jerusalem."  
In the present, day, more, perhaps, than ever  
before, there seems to be a very general looking  
out and expectation, as though we were on the  
eve of some great change, some very interesting 
and awful event in God's providence, that shall  
materially alter the condition of man on the  
earth. The expectations of mind, often disap.  
pointed within the last thirty years, and wear ed  
with looking for the changes that all seem to  
expect, seem now held in a stale of awful and  
almost mute suspense.  
What if the trump of God, and the voice of  
the Archangel, should determine this suspense,  
and the cry should be made at midnight, be-
hold, the Bridegroom cometh ; go ye out to 
meet him ?" Are you prepared for this event ?  
Whatever may be ihe case of others, " ye, bre- 
thren are pot in darkness, lliat that day .should 
overtake you as a thief." By the space of twen-
ty years, while I ministered among you in the  
Gospel qf the grace of God, I failed not to in- 
struct, and to admonish you from the Scriptures  
on this most interesting subject. And I now 
stand before you to remind you of former warn- 
ings, and to claim of you the obligation of those  
vows by which, through my ministry, you are  
bound to love and obey the Lord Jesus Christ,  

"looking for, and hasting unto the coming of  
the day of God." Especially of you, whose  
vows I took, ministering in the name of the  
Lord Jesus, and of his Church, when you were  
received to the communion of the saints, and of  
those of you who in your infant days were sepa-
rated from the world, and externally sanctified  
to be the Lord's, by the vows of the holy sacra-
ment of baptism, which are equally binding on  
you, as if you had been active  and assenting in  
the solemn and irrevocable transaction in which  
you were thus consecrated, by God's distinguish- 
ing goodness to you, to be forever the Lord's.  
I now, ministering in the name of the Lord Jesus,  
the great and eternal Judge of the quick and the  
dead, claim of you the obligation of these vows to  
consider what I say, and search the Scriptures daily  
whether these things are so. The Scripture doc- 
trine of the general judgment, and of the " glorious  
appearing of the great God, and our Saviour Jesus  
Christ," has not commonlv been taught in this form, 
or under this view of it, since men aspired to be  
lords over God's heritage, and have gloried in the  
idea of a visible head of the church on earth, in  
ihe place and stead of Christ; for it suited their  
purposes much better to allegorize and spiritualize  
ihe Scriptures on this subject, in such a way as to 
leave room for them to arrogate to themselves the 
honor, and the authority, and the power in the  
church, which belong to Christ alone. And so en- 
tirely has this scheme prevailed, arid chained down 
the minds of men in darkness on this subject, that 
in these days of increasing light and knowledge,  
although pious feeling delights to recognize, in the 
efforts made, and the success obtained, in sending  
abroad among men the gospel of Christ, what the  
aposile John forelold, Rev. 14 : 6, yet no one  
seems at ail to consider, or even to notice ihe sub- 
ject matter of the angel's proclamation, as stated in  
the verse following :" Saying with a loud voice,  
fear God, and give hornr to him ; FOR  THE HOUR  
OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME ; and worship him that  
made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the 
fountains of waters."  
In such circumstances, no one can be expected  
to understand the subject, or to feel the immense  
and immediate importance of it, without a careful  
arid resolute search, and prayerful study of the  
Scriptures.  
" Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear  
the words of this prophecy, and keep those things  
which are written therein; for the time is at hand."  
" Behold, he cometh with clouds, and every eve  
shall see him, and they also which pierced him :  
and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of  
him. Even so, AMEN.  
Harmony of Revelation lDili, 20th, 21st.  
BY GEORGE STORKS.  
There are many who suppose it is impossible to un- 
derstand the Book of Revelation. The reason of this  
mainly is, I apprehend, because they  suppose that it  
must be interpreted in such a manner as to make the 
events transpire in the same order, or succession, as  
they find them written. In this way it is utterly im-
pessible to give that Book an interpretation. To un- 
derstand the words of the prophets, we must in our im-
agination, carry our minds back to the time when they li- 
ved. They look down through the prophetic glass and 
see future events passing before their eyes often with-
out regard to the precise period or order in which they  
are to take place ; and when they have seen these events  
they frequently record each topic, or subject of dis- 
course, to its termination, before they take up another 
which transpired in the same period, or during some  
part of the same period, and was a parallel event, though,  
in the record made of it, it follows after. By not ob-
serving this fact, we are constantly getting into con- 
fusion, in our attempts to explain the prophecies; and  
becoming bewildered, we give up in despair, and con-
clude none can understand them. The principle to which  
I have called attention, is overlooked, though it is a  
principle which we find acted upon by historians. For


yww— •» ....—~ —e  
example, see Mosheim's Church History, He first di- 
vides the history into periods of a hundred years each.  
Then he takes up a topic—perhaps " The prosperous  
events of a Churcli'''—he traces that topic to the close of  
that century ; theh in the following chapter he takes up 
another topic—perhaps " The doctrine of the Church,"  
which he traces to the termination of the same period :  
thus each succeeding chapter—takes up a new topic,  
and yet travels through the same century. Now, if  
in reading Mosheim, you were to suppose, when you  
came to the end of the first chapter, that the following  
one must begin a new century, or period, because it  
follows the first, which closed at the end of the period  
it treated Of, you would commit just such an error as is 
committed in the usual attempts at explaining the pro- 
phecies, especially the book of Revelation. The fact  
is, in that Book we are carried down to the end seven  
or eight times at least: and in the 20th, 21st, and 22d 
chapters several topics are. introduced, viz: the vesur- 
rection—-the judgment—the new earth—the new Jerusa- 
lem, &c ; and yet all these topics belong to the same  
period, or thousand yeai's, and are events presented to  
John's mind at one and the same time, though recorded 
as if they followed each other in succession. That the  
"beloved city" was on earth when -Satan was loosed out  
of his prison is clear from the 9th verse of the 20th  
chapter, and yet the descent of that city upon the earth  
is not recorded till the commencement of the following  
chapter.  
I will now try to give what I conceive to be a harmo- 
ny of the last part ofthe 19th chapter, with the 20th and  
the first part of the 21st. That the reader tiiay see the  
beauty and force of this part of the word of the Lord, I  
shall put down every word from the 11th verse of the  
19th chapter to the eighth verse of the :21st chapter;  
paying no attention to the present division ipto chapters  
and verses, giving you the whole in paragraphs.  
"And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse ;  
and he that sat  upon him was called Faithful and True,  
and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His  
eyes were as aflame of fire, and on his head were many  
crowns ; and he had a name written, that no man knew  
but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture  
dipped in blood : and his name is called The Word of  
God. And the armies which were in heaven followed  
him upon white horses, clothed in linen, white and clean;  
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it 
he should smite the nations : and he shall rule them with  
a rod of iron : arid he treadeth the wine-press of the. 
fierceness and wrath of Almighty Gbd. And he hath  
on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING  
OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. And I saw  
an angel standing in the sun : and he cried with a loud  
voice, saying to all the fowls that, fly in .the midst of  I

heaven, Come, and gather yourselves together unto the  
supper of the great God ; that ye may eat the llesh of  
i kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty  
I men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that, sit on them,  
J and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small  
£ and great. And I saw the beast, arid the kings of the  
earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war  
against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. 
And the beast was taken, and with him the false pro- 
phet that wrought miracles before him, with which he  
deceived them that had received the liiiirk of the beast,  
and them that worshipped his image; These both'were 
cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.—  
And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that  
8  sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of liis  
mouth : and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.  
"And I saw  an angel come dow-n from heaven, having  
the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his 
hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent,  
which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thou- 
sand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut 
him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive  
the nations . no more, till the thousand years should be  
fulfilled; and after that he must be loosed a little season.  
"And I saw thrones and they sat upon them, and  
judgment was given unto them. And I saw a great white  
throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth  
and heaven fled away; and there was rio place found 
for them. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth :  
for the first heaven and first earth were passed away, 
and there was no more sea. And I  John saw the holy  
city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of  
heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.—  
And I heard a great voice out of heaven, saying, Behold  
the tabernacle of  God is with men, and he will dwell  
with them, and they shall be his people, and God him- 
self shall be with them, and be their God. And God  
shall wipe away all tears from their eyes : and there  
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shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying,  
neither shall there be any more pain ; for the former  
things are  passed away.  
"And I saw the souls of them that we're beheaded for  
the witness of Jesus, and for the, ivord of God, and 
which had not worshipped the beast; neither had recei-
ved his mark upon their forehead, or in their hands ; and 
they lived and reigned with Christ a- thousand years.—  
This is the first resurrection: blessed and holy is he  
which hath part in the first resurrection ; on such the  
second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of  
God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand  
years. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand be-
fore God ; and the books were opened ; and another book 
WAS opened which is the BOOK OF LIFE ; and the. dead  
were judged out of those things which were written in  
the books, according to their works.  
"But the rest of the dead lived not AGAIN until the  
thousand years werefhiished ; and [then] the sea gave  
up the dead which were in it; and death and hell de- 
livered up the dead which were in them. And when 
the' thousand years are expired Satan shall be loosed  
out of his prison, and shall go out to deceive the nations  
which are in the four quarters of  the earth, Gog and  
Magog, to gather them together to battle ; the number 
of whom is as the sand of the sea : and they went up on 
the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of  
the saints about, and the beloved city; and they were  
judged, every man according to their works. And  
death and hell were cast into the lake of fire : this is the 
second death : and whosoever was not found written in  
the book of life was cast into the lake of fire ; and fire 
came down from God out of heaven and devoured them : 
and the Devil that deceived them was cast into the lake 
of fire and brimstone, where the beast and false prophet 
are, and shall be tormented day and night forever and  
ever.  
"And he that sat upon the throne said, behold I make  
all things new. And he said unto me, write for these  
Words are true and faithful. And he said Unto me, it is  
done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the 
end. I will give unto him that is athirst ofthe fountain  
of the water of life freely. He that overcometh shall  
inherit all [these] things ; and I will be his God, and he  
shall be my son. But the fearful, and unbelieving,  and  
the abominable, murderers, and whoremongers, and  
sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part 
in the lake which burnetii with fire and brimstone ; which 
[part] is the second death.''''  
This is what I conceive to be a harmony of this part  
of Revelation. In this view all is plain.  
HARMONY OF ZECFLARIAII XIV.  
We will now attempt a harmony of Zechariah 14th.  
Let us remember that tbe prophets see different events  
at the same glance, in the prophetic glass, and often re- 
cord the events witliout noting the chronological order.  
Apply this idea to the chapter under consideration and 
read it as follows :—  
Verses 1, 3. "Behold, the day of the Lord com- 
eth, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee, 
For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle;  
and the city shall be taken, andthehouses rifled, and the  
women ravished ; and half ofthe city shall go forth into 
captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut 
off from the city.  
Fa-. 12—15. " And this shall be the plague where- 
with the Lord will smite all tbe people that have 
fought against Jerusalem ; their flesh shall consutne  
away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes 
shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall 
consume away in their mouth. And it shall come to 
pass in that day, that a great, tumult from the Lord shall  
be among them ; and they shall lay hold every one on  
the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up 
against the hand of his neighbor. And Judah also' shall 
fight at Jerusalem ; and the wealth of all the heathen 
roundabout shall be gathered together, gold, and silver,'  
and apparel in great abundance. And so shall be the 
plague ofthe horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the 
ass, and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents, as 
this plague.  
Vs. 17—19. " And it shall be, that Whoso will hot  
come tip of all the families of the earth unto' Jerusalem,  
to worship the King, the Lord of hosts, even upon them  
shall be no rain. And if the family of Egypt go not up,  
and come not, that hstve no rain; there shall be the  
plague, wherewith the Lord will smite the heathen that  
come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. This  
shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment  
of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of ta- 
bernacles."  

Vs. 3—11. " Then shall the Lord go forth and figh4  
against those nations, as when he fought in the day of 
battle. And his feet shall stand in that day upon the  
Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, 
and the Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst  
thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there  
shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain 
shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the  
south. And ye shall flee to the valley of the mountains,  
for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal: 
yea, ye shall flee, like as ye fled from before the earth- 
quake in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah; and the  
Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with thee.  
1 And it shall come to pass in that day,. that the light  
shall not be clear nor dark : but it shall be' one day  
which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night; 
but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall  
be light. And it shall be in that day that living waters  
shall go out from .Jerusalem ; half of them toward the  
former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in  
summer and in winter shall it be. And the Lord shall  
be King over all the earth; in that day shall there be  
one Lord, and his name one. All the land shall be turn- 
ed as a plain from Geba to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem: 
and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from  
Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first, gate, unto  
the corner gate* and from the tower of Hananeel unto 
the king's wine-presses. And men, shall dwell in it,  
and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jeru-
salem s%ll be safely inhabited.  
Fs. 16. " And it shall come to  pass that EVERY  
ONE that is left of all the nations which came against 
Jerusalem, shall even go up from year to year to wor-
ship the king, the Lord of hosts, and to keep the feast  
of tabernacles.  
Vs. 20,21. "In that day shall there be upon the bells  
of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; 
and the pots in the Lord's house shall be like the bowls  
before the altar. Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in  
Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord of hosts ; and all  
they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and  
seethe, therein ; and in that day there shall be no more  
the Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts."  
ALL THINGS CONTINUE AS THEY WERE.  
So scoffers will be saying when Christ comes, and  
their scoflings will turn to wailings.  What Peter fore  
told is most strikingly verified at this moment. But j  
there is another remarkable fact of which Peter gave us |  
no notice—or else scoffers are very numerous. Grave [ 
philosophers, editors, professors and teachers, are  among j  
those who speak thus.  
We were present, when our well known acquaintance, i  
E. F. H., Pastor, &c., opened the last Midnight Cry.— j  
" We have earthquakes, storms and distress, I see, just  
as we have always had," he remarked.  
" Tbe sea and the waves roaring—on the earth dis- |  
tress of nations, with perplexity" we added. " Yes, |  
just as it always was," he proceeded.  
Thus, the sound is reiterated from the lips of the I  
preacher, as well as the scoffer, " All things continue as ] 
they were."  
We would respectfully ask our theological neighbors, I  
if the Lord is ever going to give us the signs he pro- j  
mised 1  
Have not the very things he promised actually come 1 ! 
Will the signs ever be of such a nature that scoffers j  
cannot still say, "All things continue as they werel"— j  
Peter has answered that beforehand.  
May not the signs come without your knowing it, if ,  
you do not watch for them 1  
When Christ said, " Can ye not discern the signs of j  
the times!" and had the words recorded, was it not as a j  
hint to us to look sharp that we might discern them 1 j  
If professed watchmen fail of discerning thern, and so  
sound not the alarm, are they not unfaithful watchmen! \  
There is a dreadful doom for unfaithful watchmen. Is j  
there any denounced against him who shall watch too |  
eagerly 1 \!  
A REFLECTOR CONCEALING LIGHT.  
A late Christian Reflector (Boston) contains the follow- j  
ing specimen of the fashionable mode of concealing light, ; 
and putting people to sleep on the subject of the signs of  
Christ's coming. It will be noticed that the very facts j 
referred to took place within the present generation : j


STRANGE SIGHTS IN THE AIR.  
The believers in the theory of Mr. Miller, that the con- 
flagration of this woWd is speedily to take place, have 
endeavored to strengthen their faith, and to convince 
others, by considering certain fiery appearances in the  
clouds, as premonitions of that great event. The vener-
able American lexicographer, Noah Webster, has been 
induced to make statements, in the New Haven Herald, 
in reference to such unusual atmospheric phenomenon  
during the last half century, to show that though strange 
and •perhaps unaccountable, they are neither pew nor 
alarming. He says:— ; V  
" In the dark day. May 19, 1780, the heavens were  
covered with a dense cloud for three or four hours ; the  
Legislature were in session at Hartford, and such was  
the darkness that business could not be transacted with- 
out candles. During this time the clouds, were tinged  
with a yellow or faint red for hours, for which mo cause  
has been assigned,, I s^tood and viewed this phenomenon  
* with ••astonishment, but I had not any fear that the world  
.v^as'Cgmin'g tq-a.n,.erid:  
.'eveningof.March30th, 1782, an extraordinary  
light sprea'd over tlTe whqle hemisphere, from horizon to  
horizon, north, and south, east atid west. The light was  
of a yellowish cast,',and'Wavy. The waving ofthe earth  
was visile, and some persons heard, or imagined they  
heafcl, a sii^iVrusfclirig sound. I then resided in Goshen, 
OratfgV eotUfr|y,..Nftwi* Xorlf, and stood hall' an hour on a  
bridge o/er the,Wall Kill, to witness the-extraordinary  
phtnoinenon." .. n't".'  
SIN ,0I.AR PHENOMENON.—A singular phenomenon was  
observed in the heaveiiiiL'over..  J&j&dlflbhia. about two  
o'clock on Friday morning. Th^Sppearance was like 
that of a syin'm011 d of vapor, brilliant-
ly itfatoiifeled^^^^CTpM^ifers interspersed along the 
border. Jt was.alynit"fifteen minutes in forming, and  
about th^.|fejfce"tittie-m diminishing. When fully formed,  
the refieM&Vi cast upon the surrounding clouds, resem- 
bled that Of a large fire a few miles distant. The effect- 
ed this singular phenomenon, while it lasted, was grand  
j and imposing. We were informed by a person who wit- 
]' nessed it, that at about midnight a luminous body, resem- 
bling a large star, passed gradually across the heavens,  
from east to west, emitting brilliant rays of light.—Sun.  
From the Portsmouth Journal, March 4.  
CELESTIAL PHENOMENON*;—On Tuesday last, at noon,  
a luminous body, iii all respects resembling a comet, was 
discovered south-east of the sun, apparently about six  
times the diameter ofthe sun distant. The nucleus was  
as bright as a star of the third magnitude at midnight,  
and a brush extended in a south east direction apparently  
about as long as the width ofthe sun's disc We saw  
it distinctly with the naked eye, and it occasioned gener- 
al attention for two hours, when it became obscured by  
the haze. It appeared again about 5 o'clock.  
It was observed at Portland, at Concord, and at Brain- 
tree, Mass. at the same time. Some have pronounced it  
the Moon, and others Venus,—while others regard it as a  
Comet. Not being sufficiently skilled in such matters, 
we cannot decide. According to the almanac, however,  
neither the Moon nor Venus were in that position at that  
time.  
Since the above was in type, we learn from the New-'  
Bedford Mercury, that the Comet was observed at that 
place. A writer in that paper says :  
" Its brilliancy was almost equal to that of Venus. Its  
situation is very near the limb of the sun, its tail appears  
about 3 degress in length. It may be the comet announ-
ced some three months since in Europe ; it was traver- 
sing the constellation Draco ; be it that or another, it is  
of rare brilliancy. There are but three on record, of suf- 
ficient. brilliancy to be seen in the dav season. The first 
was 43 years before Christ, and is called ' a hairy star ;'  
it was seen with the naked eye in the day Mme. The 
second in the year 1402, and was so brilliant that the  
light ofthe sun, at the end of March, did not binder peo-
ple from seeing it at mid day ; both its nucleus and its  
tail, was, to use the language of the day, ' two fathoms  
long.' The third appeared Feb. 18, 1744, and nearly- 
equalled Venus in splendor, and many persons saw it at  
mid day without glasses. It may yet prove that the  
comet of to-day is the same as that of 1402."  
For the Midnight Cry.  
STRANGE APPEARANCE.  
AUBURN, Feb 27th, 1843.  
I have seen no published notice of a singular phenome- 
non which was seen by the citizens of this place, and  
also, I understand, in the neighboring town's, on the  
evening of the Kith Feb Coming out of church about 
half-past 9 o'clock, with some friends, (we had been  
attending a lecture from brother Beach, on the second  
advent,) the moon then being near its full, and in its 
ascension, about one half above the eastern horizon, in a  
clear sky, there was seen in the same distance from the 
horizon, and parallel with the moon, and on each side of  
it, at equal distance, two bright representations of the  

moon, a little obscured, having the colors of the rainbow.  
These mock moons, as they might be called, continued 
visible until about 10 o'clock, the northern one fading  
away first. I understood they had been visible some 
time previous to the time noticed by us, But the most 
extraordinary part of the whole was, that before they  
faded away there was distinctly seen a light or lumi-
nous line running perpendicular through the centre of  
the true moon; commencing a little above and running  
down near to the horizon ; then another or similar streak 
of light crossing the other horizontally through the centre 
ofthe moon, giving the appearance of a cross f. A brother  
was asked the next day how he accounted for it. He  
said it was the reflection of the false moon upon the true  
moon. When asked why these reflections Were not 
both horizontal, <ir both perpendicular,  he could not give  
the answer. •''  
The above you may depend upon as correct, as it was  
seen by many witnesses. VERITAS.  
P. S. The evening before, it was said there was a  
bright rainbow "round the moon.  
Scoffers and Liars.  
THE NEW YORK OBSERVER.  
Rev. Samuel Irenaeus Prime, the editor, says he did  
not intend to call Mr. Miller a beast, in the remarks we  
quoted from him two weeks ago. We have been looking  
at the article again, and the more we look, the worse it  
appears. It should be retttembered that  Mr. Kent is a  
Litemlist, but Mr. Miller is not. So far is he from it, that  
the L.teralist paper in this city appeals for support in a 
little printed Prospectus, as follows :  
" The design of it is, to afford an antidote to the errors  
of Mr. MILLER and his followers, and exhibit the view  
of the Millennium which was taught in the Primitive  
Church by the Apostles, and the Fathers who succeeded  
them for the first three centuries."  
After commenting at length on the writings of  Mr.  
Kent, the editor of the Observer says :  
" Mr. Kent refers it [the No. 666] to apostates; we  
think, without his usual good taste and judgment. At  
any rate we have a later and BETTER application, which  
we here propose for the first time ;—premising only that  
the number must of course be made out from the nume- 
ral value of Greek letters; and that our diphthong ai 
is written by the Greeks with iota subscript and not used  
as a numeral. Our suggestion is as follows.  
Engl. Captain Miller.  
Value: 20 1 80 300 0 50 40 It) 30 30 5 100=:666 ! !  
Greek KUJT t a v M i \ \ t 6.  
" Here then is proof literal and positive, that Capt. Mil- 
ler at the present day is the ' beast that deceiveth them  
ilu' i J well upon the earth !' And when we take into  
.u'Jfat Prof. Stuart's suggestion, that there is probably  
an eiror in the calculation, and that Mr. Miller's end of  
the ;v>rld should be put down for the fust of April in- 
stead ofthe 23d, we ttfWk'there 'is' enough in these con- 
siderations to qu'ipt every leelibg of alarm. At least, the 
proof is QUITE AS LOGICAL and CONCI.USI CE, as ANY that  
.Miller and most OTHER literalists have to offer."  
In a brief remark, we spoke of "  the natural effect of  
the blackguardism and abuse of religious editors, who  
talk about the ' beast'  and ' that rascal Miller.' " We  
frankly say that it was another Reverend editor, who  
talked about 'that rascal Miller.' It was in conversation,  
and we did not give his name. Mr. Prime complains 
that we called him a blackguard. If so, he had previously  
called us " April fools," and had said he had proved Mr.  
Miller a beast, bv evidence quite as logical as ANY that 
Mr Miller has to offer. If this is not blackguardism, 
we wait for a definition.  
We cut the following from the Observer of last week,  
where it stood without comment :  
" The Millerites at Providence had decided that the  
great end of things was to come about last Wednesday,  
and preparations were made to meet it. '  'tJver one hun- 
dred passed the night in the burying grpunciVph the west  
side, some of whom, if report speaks j;rue, were dressed  
iq their ascension rqbes. They went there to witness  
the resurrection of their friends, with whom they ex- 
pected to rise into the clouds !"  
This story about the ascension robes is a pure inven- 
tion, and was manufactured somewhere in Massachu- 
setts, where the scene was first laid. David Hale of  
the Journal of Commerce next suffered the story to  
travel the rounds, credited to him, with the scene on Long  

Island. Here, Mr. Prime, or some handler of the scis- 
sors, employed by Sidney E. Movse & Co., passes it  
along, as occurring at Rhode Island. Next, to cap the  
climax of lying, and obtain the first premium from the 
infernal court, we have a version, of which N. P.  
Willis is said to be the author. We cut it from the  
Springfield, Mass., Gazette :  
" The New York Correspondent of the National In- 
telligencer states that ' several believers in Miller's theo- 
ry were nearly frozen to death last Wednesday, on the 
heights of Hoboken, sitting in the snow in their ascen- 
sion robes,' in momentary expectation of the second ad- 
vent. These ascension robes have created a great de-
mand for drab Mackintosh cloth, and other draperies 
suitable for the liveries of the saints; and should the  
finale fail to come in 1844, the Chatham street brokers  
will make a great ' operation' in the cast off heavenly  
apparel."  
A VERY FOOLISH HOAX.—-In a late number of the  
Cleveland Second Advent paper, Bro. Fitch writes,  
with the utmost gravity, as follows :—" A highly res-
pected citizen of Oberlin, recently passing here from  
the east, has stated it for what he knows to be a fact, 
that the Second Advent believers at the east, have posted 
hand-bills in the city of Boston, foretelling an earth-
quake on a specified day. We should set this down 
with a thousand other reports, not to be credited, but  
for the established character of the individual who has  
said that he knows it to be a fact. Will our Second  
Advent friends at the east tell us what is  true respect- 
ing the matter 1"  
All we can say, is, that we saw the following in the  
New York Herald a few weeks ago, but we considered 
it too clumsy a  hoax to require notice, and we would  
not help its inventor by giving it notoriety :  
Frightful Proclamation of the End of the World.—  
One of the Millerites has issued the following proclama- 
tion ;  
GREAT EARTHQUAKE.  
To all the people far and near,  
To dreadful warning now give ear.  
Jan. 11, 1843, there will be a great earthquake.—  
Three shocks in succession in all the whole world. 
Let all the people believe and tremble before God for  
the time will soon come when the saints will possess 
the kingdom.  
Jan. 31, 1843, the door of mercy will be shut against  
the whole world.  
Now my dear friends I would invite you to flee for  
mercy, while the door of mercy is open. The spirit of  
God testifies these things which are coming.  
N, B. Please forward this in all your papers as much  
as possible. LEVI HOUGHTON.  
Acton, Jan. 1. 1843.  
We have seen it nowhere else, and heard nothing  
about it, till we recently found it in aij Illinois paper,  
vvhich seems to glory in its scoffings. The thing is so  
utterly without foundation that no paper in Boston,  
within our knowledge, has ever alluded to it.  
HORRID FRUITS OF REVIVALS.  
The daily papers inform us of a fact which illustrates  
the dreadful effects of  revivals, quite as direct;1 as the  
various stories about Millerism prove its pernicious ten- 
dency.  
A HORRIBLE ATTEMPT.—The family of Mr. Chester  
White, consisting pf himself, wife, three sons and five  
daughters, residing about a mile east of Batavia, N. Y.,  
were all poisoned on Sunday last by one of the sons,  
who put an ounce of arsenic into a bag of flour which he  
brought from the mill the day previous. They all nar- 
rowly escaped death, and the lad has been arrested. He  
says he did it to escape their importunities for him to  
join the church—an extensive revival having taken place  
in the neighborhood, in which the whole family but him- 
self had been converted.  
The Sun lately said :—" The effects of Millerism are  
alarmingly apparent in the number of his followers, who  
are becoming insane."  
Till the Sun retracts its statements of which we  
have given them proof that they are false, common-sense  
readers will decide whether its conductors are not self- 
convicted liars.  
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a—WMiiiiinmiinwmai  
j "DISTRESS OF NATIONS"—EARTHQUAKES.  
The pen grows weary in recording—and the press in  
publishing the daily records of desolating earthquakes,  
sweeping fires, raging floods, distressing poverty, nation- 
al perplexity, political profligacy, private bankruptcy, and  
wide-spread immorality, which abound in these last days.  
Poor Haiti suffers a mournful pre-eminence in misery.  
First an earthquake summons six thousand persons to  
meet their Judge, without a moment's warning, leaving  
three or four thousand survivors, who lived to mourn 
over a desolation, beneath which their friends and broth-
ers, or children, were buried,  and which they felt it was  
scarcely a privilege to escape. Then came a fire, which  
desolated one of their largest cities, consuming hundreds  
of houses, and reducing thousands from wealth to want.  
Next came a rebellion, threatening to overturn the gov-
ernment. It was quelled, indeed, but must have spread  
consternation through the island.  
Since the earthquake in Haiti, there have been numer- 
ous others, though mercifully overruled, so that few 
lives have been lost, and but little damage done till re- 
cently.  
" The first of the series was on the 4th of Jan. last. It  
was felt throughout the Western, bouthern, and most of  
the Middle States.  
" On the 16th of the same month, in lat. 35 40, Ion. 34  
05, a shock was felt at sea, by the Emma from Bremen.  
" On the 8th of February, a shock was felt in all the  
Atlantic States south of Maryland inclusive. It occur- 
red about ten o'clock A. M. The same shock was felt at  
sea in lat. 22 30, Ion. 62 24, by the bark Severn.  
"Shocks are reported to have been felt at New Orleans  
on the nights of Feb. 14th and 15th.  
" On the night of the 16th, between 11 and 12 o'clock,  
1 a shock was felt at St. Louis, Nashville, Louisville, &c."  
From the Express.  
"EARTHQUAKE—AN ISLAND PARTLY SUNK.—Captain  
Matthews, of the schooner Erie, from Port an Piatt, in-
forms us that the brig Clara, Captain Dunham, arrived 
at that port from St. Thomas the day previous to his  
sailing, and reported that an earthquake had taken place  
at the Windward Islands on the 4th of February, and se-
rious fears were entertained for the safety of the Island  
of Montserrat, which it was reported had partly sunk."  
It will be seen from the following extract of a let- 
ter, dated, St. Johns, Porto Rico, Feb. 10th, 1843, that 
the earthquake felt in the United States, was felt more  
severely in the West Indies.  
" We had a severe earthquake here on the 8th inst., at  
20 minutes past 10, A. M., and learn from the Steam  
I

Packet that arrived to day from Windward Islands, that  
| it was very severe in St Vincents, St. Barts, Antigua,  
Nevis, Montserrat, St Kitts, St. Martin's'and St. Thom- 
as's. It has done no damage here, but alarmed the peo- 
ple very much."— -Phil. Gaz.  
; The subjoined letter from D. Attvvell, gives particulars,  
1  so far as were known at St. Marten.  
"ST. MARTEN, Feb. 8th, (9 R M.) 1843.  
" Aboiut 10 o'clock, A M. to day, this island experien- 
ced an alarming Earthquake, ft lasted from three to  
four minutes ; during which period, and,  indeed, some  
time after, this town, Phillipstnirg, Netherland Division, 
exhibited a distressing scene. The heads of families, out 
on busiuess, were seen hastening home, scarcely able to  
keep their balaiiCe, owing to the agitated movements of 
the earth; some of them finding their wives, children,  
relatives and servants in the yards, others in the streets ; 
those that remained in their houses, in many eases 
clasped together, imploring the Omnipotent hand, ruling 
all events, for pardon and mercy, expecting every moment 
to be their last. The noise and jar of furniture moving  
about, the breaking of glass, &c., added to the creaking of 
the houses, and the awful roar of an earthquake, filled the  
boldest hearts with fear and consternation. Many wall  
houses are much injured. Most of the old walls lay at 
this time in heaps in different sections of the town. The  
sand or earth, forming the shores of our town, is opened  
and raised in an extraordinary manner,—plainly showing  
the escape of confined air.  
" At 4 P. M., the island was again alarmed, but the  
shock was of short duration : and now, as I write* half 
past 9 P. M., we have just experienced a third shock,  
although the two latter were not of a very alarming cast.  
I have just heard verbally from Maragal, French Divi- 
sion. Some of the houses are much injured, but no lives 
lost.  
"Thursday, 9th.—Arrived this morning, the schooner  
Sisters, Cant. Marshall, who was off St. Kitts, at the  
time ofthe first earthquake yesterday. His recital of the  
circumstances is pathetic in the extreme. Both St. Kitts  
46  

r and St. Eustatia have suffered, but the particulars are  
not yet known."  
We had not time even to read the above, before we  
opened a morning paper, and the following stared us in 
the lace.  
"TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE IN THE WEST INDIES—TEN  
THOUSAND LIVES LOST.—The brig Frances lane arrived  
at Baltimore, March 2d. from St. Johns, Porto Rico, and 
brings accounts of a dreadful destruction of lives and  
property in the Windward Islands, by the earthquake,  
the shock of which was felt in this city and south of us,  
on the 8th ult."—Tribune.  
A letter from St. Johns, says :  
" Sr. JOHNS, Porto Rico, Feb. 14, 1843.  
" We  had a severe shock of an earthquake on the 8th  
inst., but it was not so severe as the one last year, though  
it lasted a longer time. In St. Thomas it was very se-
vere, and is said to have lasted over two minutes. All 
persons lied from their houses, but most fortunately no  
one was hurt, and no material damage was done there.  
A vessel arrived at St. Thomas from Antigua, reports  
that all the houses were thrown down in that Island, and  
the windmills are either down, or so much injured that  
they cannot be worked. In Nevis, also, every thing (ex- 
cept the Bath House) is down, and the steamer passing 
Martinique, Guadaloupe and Montserrat, saw those Is-
lands covered with a dense cloud of dust.  
" No accounts have yet been received from any other  
Island, but we fear that we shall hear of great destruc- 
tion of property and loss of life in all the Windward Is- 
lands."  
" ST. JOHNS, P. R., Feb. 15, 1S43.  
" We yesterday received advices from the Windward.  
The effects of the earthquake of the 8th inst., have*been  
awful indeed. The Town of Point Petre, Guadaloupe, is 
entirely destroyed, and TEN THOUSAND PERSONS ARE SUP- 
POSED TO HAVK BEEN KILLEP. The loss of property is im- 
mense."  
HARDNESS OF THE TIMES.—The strongest evidences  
of distress which we have yet observed, lie in the fact  
that our hotels are fairly broken in now-a-days, from  
morning till night, with a hungry crowd, whose eyes  
gloat eagerly over, and whose hands fight convulsively 
for, the bits of bread and cold victuals ejected from the 
kitchen table. Even the slop barrels, into which are 
thrown the scraps and offals, have become the scene of  
a dismal siege, while the little ragged boys and girls,  
with their thin, wan faces, their long bony fingers, and 
the elder specimens of shivering humanity that cluster  
with them around the  spot, grasping at food from which  
the rich man's dog would turn contemptuously, all form 
a picture of want and Avretchedness which makes the 
heart sick, and speaks volumes in confirmation of the 
hardness ofthe times.—Phil. Times.  
PROPHECIES.  
The inconsistency of our opponents is amazing.—  
They call us modern prophets, because we believeftbe  
Lord has unfolded his sealed prophecies by the pro- 
gress of events. In reply, they tell us, " No man know- 
eth the day and the hour," and then proceed to prophecy, 
that the eiiU is not yet.  
Mr. Garrison, editor of the Liberator, says :  
, " The theory of .Mr. Miller is soon to be ignominiously  
exploded ; but will Christendom, be made wiser by the  
event, or cease to be agitated and misled by other wild  
predictions respecting ' the end of the world '!' No."  
The Philadelphia Chronicle says :  
" The period for fulfilling the fallacy  of Miller's Dredic- 
tiohs—of the end of the world—approaches. Families  
will go unprovided for, individuals be ruined, in a world- 
ly point of view, and many a thoughtless person induced  
to sacrifice the products of a life of industry, upoti the  
altar ol Miller's folly."  
FRUITS OF MILUERJSM.  
" By their fruits ye shall know them."  
A man in this State, who expected soon to meet  
Christ, gave notice that he would restore fourfold to  
any one who may have been wronged by him.  
" Milierism is likely to do some good as, well as evil.  
An old lady at the west part of the city, we believe-, is 
dispensing liberally, from a large property, to all the  
poor she can find; Her deeds are doubly charitable this  
severe cold weather ."---Boston Democrat:  
"A man in New Hampshire, who had embraced Mr.  
Miller's views-, lately went on foot 37 miles to restore  
$13 which he had stolen 13 years ago,"  
We gather the above from the newspapers. We  
could add others, from our own personal knowledge.  

Will our exchange papers please copy a reasonable  
share of such facts l Will they also consider the ques- 
tion, Doth a fountain send forth from the same place,  
sweet waters and bitter 1  
CHRIST'S SECOND COMING.  
BY AN UNKNOWN AUTHOR. WRITTEN MANY YEARS AGO,  
" And when these things begin to come to pass, then lift up your  
hearts, for your redemption draweth nigh," 
Who would not be a .Christian 1 Who but now  
Would share the Christian's triumph and his hope]  
His triumph is begun, 'tis his to hail  
Amid the chaos of a vvolrd convulsed,  
A new creation rising ; 'mid the gloom 
Of general conflict, vice, and wetchedness,  
lie marks the morning star—he sees the east  
Empurpled with glories—hears a trump  
Louder than all the clarions, and the clang  
Of horrid war, swelling and swelling still, 
In lengthening notes its ail-awakening call ;  
The trump of Jubilee ! Are there not signs, 
Thunders, and voices in the troubled air ; 
Do ye not see upon the mountain top,  
Beacon to beacoii answering1! Who ean tell,  
But all the harsh and disonant sounds, which long  
Have been, are now disquieting the earth, 
Are but the  tuning of the various parts  
For the grand harmony—prelusive all  
Of that vast chorus, which shall usher in 
The hastening trump of the Prince of Peace !  
Yes ! His shall be the kingdom ! He shall come !  
Ye scoffers of His tarrying, hear ye not,  
E'en now, the thunders of his wheels ] Awake 
Thou si umbering world ; even now the symphonies  
Of that blest song are floating through the air— 
Peace be on earth and glory be to God.  
THE TWO WITNESSES.  
While the Observer and Evangelist are so much taken  
up with the learned dissertations of the Rev. Dr, Weeks, 
who they think evinces so much erudition and skill in 
the interpretation of prophecy, or rather Chronology, 
we would  suggest that they publish his lecture on " THE !  
Two WITNESSES," in which he has made himself ONE |  
ofthe Witnesses, and supposes his fellow will be found |  
somewhere in the person of some one who is as sound |  
and orthodox as himself!! Consequently, all have de- j 
parted from the true faith, and are tainted with the her- j  
esy of Arminianism, or some other ism, except, (so far I 
as he knows,) his solitary self; though he thinks he has 
a fellow somewhere, but where he cannot tell. That is, 
he knows of no true orthodox but himself, but thinks  
there must be ONE MORE !! Wonder how the Evangel- 
ist and Observer will like this " learned exposition" on  
" The Two Witnesses." Of course they cannot be  
among the orthodox. Now, according to the Doctor's  
own logic, they must take the whole or none ; for the 
Dr. does not allow of taking a person's testimony on one [  
point  and rejecting it on another. (See his lectures on  
Miller's Chronology.) Therefore, if they admit that  
his lectures on Chronology are  correct, they must do  
the same for the one on " The Two Witnesses." Ergo,  
the Ddctor being one of " The Two Witnesses," he,  
of course, settles the Advent question. We suggest to 
our neighbors to adopt the Doctor's " learned exposi- 
tion," and thus settle this great question without  toil;  
for IF the Dr. be one of "  The Two Witnesses," from  
his testimony and decisions, there can be no appeal, j  
This course will make a long and tedious matter short j 
and easy. What do you say, brethren 1  
A QUESTION.  
The New York Sun, after detailing the pretended facts I  
respecting an industrious mechanic, who had been made j  
a maniac by the Milier excitement, asks :  
" Cannot a check be given to this business 1 The I  
mischief which it is doing is almost incalculable."  
We hope our friends will not .court persecution, but  
let them not count it strange, if they suffer all manner of 
misrepresentation. Such questions are designed to try 
the public mind, to see if they are ready to persecute. |  
But let us trust in God.


BROTHER TEALL'S LATE TOUR.  
NEW YORK, March 1st, 1843.  
Brother Southard,—Being  now seated at home with  
my family, I will give you and the readers of the Mid- 
night Cry some account of the power of God which  
attended the preaching of the second advent and " glo- 
rious appearing of the Great God and our Lord Jesus  
Christ" this year, in my western tour, as you request  
In every place where a candid hearing was obtained,  
I witnessed more or less of the power of God attending  
the word. In the village of Hope, N. Y. near 30 were  
converted to Christ, and were rejoicing in his love before 
I left. One case I will name, being peculiar. It is that of  
a woman whose husband; a professor,of religion, attended 
the lectures and urged her to go and hear. Her preju- 
dice was so great that he had to get a particular friend  
of hers to persuade her to go and hear once. She came,  
and that once proved fatal to her prejudice. She was 
convicted, came forward and made a very humble con- 
fession. The work continued after I left.  
In the village of Honesdale, Penn. I lectured in the  
Methodist chapel to crowded houses. Notwithstanding  
the preacher in charge was somewhat opposed to the  
views, it was estimated that two-thirds of his members  
became believers in Christ's coming this year, and 30 or  
40 were happily converted to God before I left, and the  
work was still continued. Some were converted from  
infidelity.  Brother Reed had given them one lecture on  
the subject some two months before. Elder Moses 
Cummings,  of this place, has become a strong believer,  
and has ielt his jewelry-shop to give the midnight  cry.  
In the viliage of Deposit, N. Y. with some difficulty  
I procured the Presbyterian house and had full meetings. 
They had no pastor. I tarried there nearly two weeks, 
and had the unspeakable delight of seeing about 150 anx-
ious souls seated together as seekers after a preparation  
of heart to meet the blessed Lord at his coming. This  
was the most powerful time i ever witnessed, yet no vain  
fanaticism  was discovered. Christ says, By their  
fruits ye shall know them." One man who had cheated  
another out of $25 in a law suit, made full satisfaction.  
Old standing difficulties  were settled. Blessed fruits.—  
The Baptists started a protracted meeting on Monday of  
the second week, and had 30 or 40 on the anxious seat  
Sunday evening, which was the last I was in the village.  
Giory to God in the highest.  May the Lord reward the  
friends in this place for their benevolence.  
Seven miles further up the Delaware river, I stopped  
at Cannonsville  and tarried four stormy days. God  
owned his truth : 30 or 40 came forward for prayer.  
In Delhi, N. Y. I gave them two lectures in the base- 
ment of the Methodist chapel, which was then closed.—  
The Court-house  
was then procured. Our meetings  were  
full; but the nobility and rulers in Zion being alarmed,  
shut us out of that also. So the people that wanted to  
hear must be deprived the privilege. O when will the  
spirit of popery cease ? This year, I hope. O glorious  
prospect. Then the glory of God will fill ihe earth—his  
saints take the kingdom, and the wicked nations of the  
earth be broken to pieces and driven away like the chaff 
before the wind. Glory to Jesus.  
Yours, in the blessed hope, 
H. V. TEALL.  
The following letter from one who had been coverted  
from infidelity,  has been received by Brother Teall, and  
we take the liberty to publish it, omitting  names.  
HONESDALE, Penn., Jan. '26th, 1843.  
Dear Brother Teall,— My heart swells with emotions  
of gratitude to you and to my God, while I attempt to  
address you. When I first saw you I was a hard-hearted, 
stiff-necked,  unbelieving  wretch, in the broad road to  
eternal ruin. J cannot conceive how it was possible for  
an individual to entertain real friendship,  fidelity and  
affection, and yet be so regardless of that Being by 
whose infinite  wisdom these worlds were made and  
man created, Why, the Bible was the most loathsome  
book I could peruse ; and if professors went to heaven  
(if there was a heaven,) I thought, I should. This was  
my alarming situation when the midnight cry —the sol- 
emn voice and the christian deportment of the proclaimer, 
convinced me of the awful reality, and showed me the  
slender thread upon which my eternal destiny was sus- 
pended. I thought my case was desperate. But, glory to  
God, he lias created within me a new heart and given  
me to "Him whom to know aright is eternal life."  

worth of books of him, which go off like the dew before  
the sun. Mr. Fitch's efforts have already done us much 
good. He came amongst us at exactly the right time,—  
Our Presbyterian Minister had just closed a series of  
sermons against the doctrine (of the Second Advent) and  
succeeded remarkably well in making DARKNESS VISIBLE, 
and much anxiety was manifested by the public to hear  
the opposite side of the question. The doors of our  
Church were closed agains| him. Our Baptist brethren  
promptly opened their house, and their minister took hold  
of the work like an honest and devoted Christian, and  
manifested a willingness  to examine the scriptures can- 
didly, and prayerfully, to see if these things are so. The  
result has been that full seven-eighths  of his Church have  
fully adopted the doctrine, and he himself  is leaning that  
way very strongly, and will, J have no doubt, soon come  
out openly and adopt the doctrine.  
"The house was crowded to overflowing during Mr.  
Fitch's labors, and an impression  has been made upon  
the hearts and co nsciences of the people that never can 
be obliterated. I think I never heard a man speak with  
such effect. The Church is now in a very interesting 
State, and sinners are pressing into the kingdom with  
great earnestness.  
"N. B.—I find professors of religion are about the only ones  
that oppose the work."  
LETTERS RECEIVED- 
DANBURY, CT.  
It will be remembered that Bro. Chittenden wrote, in  
a letter published Feb. 3,  " I have been in Bridgeport and  
Danbury since I left New York. Danbury was a very  
hard place, but some souls have been hopefully  convert- 
ed, and I expect to hear great things from that town  
soon."  
His hopes have been realized. From a private letter  
received from there, we are permitted to copy the fol- 
lowing :  
" Our revival still continues, and the general impres- 
sion is, that no sinners will be  left in Danbury. I think I  
never saw converts appear so well. Fully two thiids  
among us are young men from eighteen to twenty-five.  
The Baptists are also holding meetings day and night ; 
they have fifty or sixty  converts ; and the Presbyterians  (  
have also commenced with some indications  of good.  
From almost every quarter, 1 bear glad tidings. In a  
little village  called Bethel, about two miles from here,  
over one hundred have been converted, and there is  
scarcely a sinner left."  
BRO. FITCH !N OHIO.  
We make the following extract from a letter written  
by P. Ailing, a Presbyterian brother, residing at Norwalk, 
Ohio. It was written to a relation of his, S. I. Farrand,  
residing near Newark, N. J., by whose favor we have  
the liberty to make the extract. His letter is dated Jan.  
11th, 18-13. He says :  
"Last week, Rev. Charles Fitch, of Cleveland, former- 
ly of Newark, made us a visit, and lectured for us from  
Wednesday till Sunday morning. I procured about $16  

FROM A POST-MASTER TNT INDIANA.  
Dear Brother Himes,—The Midnight  Cry has been re- 
ceived, (the 1 atest to the lOtli insi.,) and I can assure  
you, to myself and some few others here, they are wel-
come visiters I have read them prayerfully  and atten- 
tively, comparing them with Scripture prophecy, and I can- 
not with the little, light with w hich I am blessed, discover  
how it is possible for any man, having a common under- 
standing of the Holy Scriptures, being divested of preju- 
dice and prepossessed opinions, in reference to-a temporal  
Millennium  and the restoration of the Jews, literally, as  
a nation, avoid the rational, Scriptural, and incoritestible  
conclusions  to which brother Miller and others have ar- 
rived ; and yet, strange as it may appear, there are  
| many professing Christians  here and elsewhere, that are  
still sayiiig,  Where is the promise of His coining ? And  
while they refuse to examine either the written word, or  
Miller's Views on the second advent at hand, they  
rashly and presumptuously  attempt a refutation  ; some go  
so far and one high by profession declared, (and I almost 
tremble to repeat it,) that if the angel Gabriel should now 
come down from heaven, and tell him that the present  
state ofthe world would terminate within six years, he 
should tell him (Gabriel) that he did not believe him.—  
O, my soul, what presumption ! How strangely infatu-
ated is poor feeWe man!  
I send the enclosed as a compensation, in part, for the  
numbers already received, together with rny sincere 
thanks. Wherever I have been able to induce candid 
persons to read the numbers I have already received,  
they have made a quick and most favorable impression, 
and many who were, but a short, time since, scoffers at  
the doctrine, are now anxiously seeking for information,  
and searching the Scriptures like the noble Bereans, to 
see if these things are so. Some few are rejoicing in  
the time at hand.  
The numbers I have received are eagerly sought for,  
and are most of the timeout of my hands, so that I have 
not had the pleasure of perusing them all. You will  
please send me  the back numbers from the 10th inst.,  
and continue them weekly, and I will try and make you  
another remittance soon  
I am, my dear brother. Yours in Christian love,  
DANIEL BARTHOLOMEW, P. M.  
Aurora, la., Feb. 25th, 1843.  

TO THE PUBLIC. FROM A P. M. IN ILLINOIS.  
Having lately examined some of Miller's views of the  
prophecies, and finding every difficulty  and objection re- 
moved, I am compelled to believe the day of Judgment  
just at hand. From a sense of duty and interest I feel  
in the welfare hereafter of all my fellow immortals, I am  
constrained to entreat you to get ready without delay to 
meet your Judge in peace. I hnve carefully studied the  
Bible, and compared the facts stated by Miller, and find I  
them correct, and believe the time is revealed, and that  
1S43 seems written in blazing  letters of fire on the word  
and tokens God has given us, is ringing  in our ears con- 
tinually.  
It is some twomonths or more that I have been study- 
ing this subject. The periods of certain events given  
in the Bible which have occurred, and are to take place,  
form the foundation lor making the calculations,  and I  
see not how it can be a mistake. The finger of God is  
now pointing in the heavens to what is coming—by the  
distress and embarrassment  of the times, the earth- 
quakes, &c. Is not the Lord here pleading with us?—  
Cannot the Christian  see God in all these things ?—  
These are fit and vivid emblems of the day of wrath, as 
well as the deliverance anil year of release of his saints  
here on eanh. The voice of the Friend of the bridegroom  
began at midnight, and already the dawn of eternal day  
is breaking. O how faithless and hard of heart not to 
believe all that the prophets have written 1 O believe  
and escape for your life to the mountain  (not of Judea)  
but the mountain ofthe Lord's house, where you will find  
a safe hiding-place till the indignation  be past. To you,  
then, w ho look to him, that day will be a scene of un- 
mingledjoy,—your  inheritance will be among the just,  
and when your earthly house fails, you will have an ever-
lasting habitation which is prepared for all that love the  
appearing of Christ.  
Yours in hope of eternal life,  
Feb. 19th, 1843. S. B.MEED.  
REVIVAL IN LITCHFIELD.  
My Dear Sir.-—I have read with great pleasure and  
profit, your valuable paper—The Midnight Cry—which 
has tended to establish me in the faith ofthe doctrine of  
the Second Advent of our Lord Jesus Christ near at 
hand. Two months ago, I was not only an unbeliever 
in the doctrine, but was prejudiced against it. I held  
fast to the creed of a  temporal millennium,  the return of  
the Jews, &c. But when brother Stoddard came here  
to lecture on this great subject, about two months since,  
such was the force and power of truth, that all my un-
belief and prejudice gave way, and with it all my long  
cherished views of a millennium,  and return of the Jews,  
and I hope I am prepared for, and can rejoice, that the  
coming of the Lord draweth nigh. When brother Stod- 
dard came here, there was much opposition, and all  
was dark and gloomy as respects religion, and no divine  
influence was manifest. But by the preaching of this  
doctrine, the Holy Spirit came down in mighty power,  
and sinners cried out, " What shall I do to be "saved 1"  
I never saw so great displays of the power and glory of 
God as I have seen during these lectures ; numbers  
have been converted, among which are Infidels, Univer- 
salists, skeptics, &c. This doctrine is everywhere 
spoken against by the wicked world, and by the cold,  
carnal professor, and minister of the gospel ; it is so  
here. But it is a truth clearly proved by the Bible, and S  
the signs of the Saviour's coming this generation have 
seen, and we know that it is nigh, even at the door. 
May the Lord bless you, by means of yotir valuable pa- 
per, to disseminate truth, and to awraken and arouse a  
wicked, slumbering world, to prepare for the coming of  
the Son of Man in the clouds of heaven.  
ANDREW BENEDICT.  
February 28.  
LETTER FROM NORTH CAROLINA.  
Dear Brother,—I have been studying  commentaries  
for more than thirty years, truly desirous to undeistand 
the prophecies relating to the glorious millennial  days ;  
but—never able to reconcile their theories with express  
declarations of the Word of God. Some time in the year  
past, joined with a few faithful  brethren to seek, by fast- 
ing weekly, and social prayer, for the great salvation so  
largely insisted upon in the Scriptures as indispensable  
for n preparation for the good world. A. number of the 
" Midnight Cry." providentially  sent by some one to this  
place, has satisfied my mind. I now rejoice in glorious  
hope, that our blessed Lord will soon appear, and take  
away the reproach of His people. I have sounded the 
alarm from the pulpit, which is now denied me, in the  
absence of the stationed preacher, by the trustees. He 
is expected every hour. I have lectured once in the 
Town Hall, to a large and solemn assembly, and daily to  
different groups in the streets, &c. I am pronounced  
crazy, or in my dotage, by many. The alarm is general.  
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The women and blacks are said to be going mad. Some  
scoff, some threaten, some weep, some encourage, saying,  
cry aloud and spare not—some are converted—my own 
family partake in the blessing. The principal opposers 
are, as usual, among the Scribes and Pharisees. An aw- 
ful state of affairs, indeed, when almost every family are  
stirred to pray and read the.Scriptures 1 Can Satan ever  
be reconciled to this ? 1 am in my 69th year, but a child  
in knowledge, and should be much gratified could I obtain  
some of your pamphlets,  &c., advertised in " The Mid- 
night Cry," but am myself unable lo enclose money.  
Yours truly,  in the best of bonds, JOHN H. PBARCE.  
Fayctteville, N. C., March 2, 1843.  
ANXIETY TO LEARN IN OHIO.  
Dear Brother,—I have received, with others, the Mid- 
night Cry, from the first number ofthe daily, to the tenth  
number  of the weekly, I suppose to the amount of our  
subscription of one dollar—the papers being directed to  
our postmaster, which has  been all of your publications  
I know of being in this section of the country; and as 
soon as the community learned that we had them, we  
were compelled to take apart the daily for distribution,  
and I have been unable to get but a small part of them for 
perusal—rhave read all ofthe weekly, and carefully com- 
pared them with the Bible—am fully convinced the calcu- 
lations are correct, the opinion of our principal ministers 
to the contrary notwithstanding. There seems to be a 
great anxiety to read your publications, and many (in the 
short space of two weeks,) of the most devout Christians 
are embracing the doctrine. I have been trying for two 
weeks to raise money to send for $10 or $15 worth more  
of your publications, but ha've not been able ; but the en- 
quiry is so great and time so short, I dard not wait long- 
er. If you have any for gratuitous distribution, or with- 
out cash in advance, please send them to me, and I will  
send you the cash as soon as I can get it. Send such 
works as will be most suited to our wants. Yours in 
hope of soon meeting the Lord in the air,  
SHELDEN PALMER.  
BROTHER 11AWLEY.  
We deeply sympathize with brother Hawley, whose  
family are sick. We hope he will visit us speedily.—Ed.  
Deetr Brother Southard.—The necessity I am under of  
disappointing yqu arid the" friends of the cause of the  
seoond advent near, again, causes me unfeigned regret.  
I did intend to be in your city before this time, as I en- 
couraged you to expect me in the letter from Salem ; but  
sickness among my friends and in my own family, has  
protracted my stay here much longer than I originally in- 
tended. [The particulars we omit ] Under these cir- 
cumstances I cannot feel it my duty, to leave at present.  
But I am not quiet or idle ; I am lecturing almost con- 
stantly. I have just finished a course of lectures in  
Cazenovia, the results of which were* very cheering;  
multitudes came out to hear and were deeply impressed!  
Two or three brethren in the ministry there are quite  
strong in the faith- The whole place is investigating.  
I am now giving a course in Smyrna, four miles from  
this place. The prospect is flattering. This whole re- 
gion is now deeply excited on this subject. There are 
many very warm and intelligent believers to be found.  
As soon as prudent, I will, if desirable, visit your city.  
I regret-that I have, by force of circumstances, so many 
times disappointed you, but I have done as well as I  
could.  
Yoqrs in the faith of the speedy appearing  
of the Lord and Saviour,  
Sherburne, March 4th, 1842. SILAS HAWLKY.  
THE CHRONOLOGY.  
LETTER FROM BROTHER GOFF.  
It is a striking fact, that the Chronology of the World  
has recently been scrutinized  at Lafayette College, and  
the result is almost precisely the same as that to "which  
Mr. Miller has arrived.  
Dear Brother Southard,—Agreeably to your request, I  
hereby send you a brief account of my outgoings, within  
the two or three last weeks. I have spent in all about 
twenty days in Pea Pack—presented, in a full course of 
lectures, the evidences which convince me that proba- 
tionary time is short, and that the " coming of the Lord  
draweth nigh." Many have given heed to the things 
spoken, and have been converted. Sixteen in that place  
have professed their confidence in their Saviour in bap- 
tism. On the 22d ult., in company with faithful brethren,  
I proceeded to Easton, Penn. : here we had expected the 
use of the court-house, but this having been previously  
engaged for another purpose, no convenient room 
could be had for lectures on the coming ofthe " Bride- 
groom."  
[We have received a letter from Easton, saying that  
the door was open, and there was great anxiety to hear.  
Bro. Teall expects to go there soon.—ED. CRY.]  
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One circumstance which I understand has contributed  
to an interest in the Lafayette College at Easton, it may  
not be amiss to mention. Some months since, the Chro- 
1 nology ofthe World by Mr, Miller was put into the hands 
' of a student in that institution by his father. As the 
; chronology is understood to be collateral evidence in the 
| conclusions to which Mr. Miller and others arrive, in  
reference to the events of the present year—it was deci-
ded that it should pass through a rigid examination. 
Some days subsequently, I saw a letter from a gentleman  
connecied with that institution, stating that the chronol-
ogy " did not suit them at all." Amongst other things, 
it. was objected that Mr. Miller had made no account of  
I fractions of time—which might make a difference of 30 
I or 40 years—or even more : he had no doubt a correct  
| chronology could be made out—that is, within seven or 
j eight months. This task was undertaken, and resulted 
i in a difference from the calculations of Mr. Miller of 3  
years and 7 months. Appended is a note, admitting that  
Samuel might have ruled some years longer than they 
gave him, but not to exceed four. As their calculations  
fall short of Mr. Miller's, their admission covers the whole  
ground.  
From Easton we proceeded to Milford, N. J. Here we  
met, as  we anticipated, with a liberal people and intelli- 
gent pastor, a hearty reception. Although they had heard 
but little on the subject of the Second Advent, and their  
minister seemed to differ somewhat from our views, yet  
minister and people received us politely, treated us kind-
ly, and heard us patiently. Of the result of our labors 
here we cannot speak, as our time was limited, and our  
intercourse with the friends much restricted.  
In this village, the evidences of our Lord's speedy  
coming were faithfully and fully presented by Bro. Storrs,  
some weeks since. They affect different minds different-
ly—the church to whom I minister are, I believe, united  
in the determination to be ready.  
Your brother,  
Camptown, March 4, 1843. I. C. GOFF.  
LIGHT WANTED TRUTH BLESSED.  
"We want a little light on your all-important doctrine ;  
as yet, we have had but a ray or two, which has had a 
great effect on much of the community, and we only  
want more light to direct hundreds and thousands  to the  
standard  of Christ.  
There have been revivals in all the churches in this  
section, and more souls horn to Christ within a few 
months, than had been for many years before.  
Franklin, Pa., Feb. 28. S. F. D.  
We find many appropriate hymns in our common Iiymn  
Books. The following from Toplady's collection, is ex- 
cellent. It is entitled, in the book  
THE MIDNIGHT CRY.  
Ye virgin souls, arise!  
With all the dead awake ;  
Unto salvation wise,  
Oil in your vessels take :  
Upstarting at the midnight cry,  
Behold your heavenly bridegroom nigh.  
He comes, he comes, to call  
The nations to his bar,  
And take to'-glory all '  
Who meet for glory are ;  
Make ready for your free reward ;  
Go forth with joy to meet the Lord—  
Go meet  him in the sky,  
': Your everlasting friend,  
Yoiir Head to glorify  
With all his saints ascend ;  
Ye pure in heart, obtain the grace  
To see, without a veil, his face.  
Ye—that have here received  
The unction from above,  
And in his spirit lived,  
And thirsted for his love ;  
Jesus shall claim you for his bride ;  
Rejoice with all the sanctified.  
The everlasting doors  
Shall soOn the saints receive ;  
Above those angel powers  
In glorjpus joy to live ;  
far from a world of grief and sin,  
With God eternally shut in.  
Then let us wait to hear  
The trumpet's welcome sound :—  
To see our Lord appear,  
May we be watching found,  
Enrobed in righteousness divine,  
In which the bride shall ever shine.  

LECTURERS.  
Brother Storrs is in Boston ; brother Litch is at Wash- 
ington, or vicinity, where he is assisted by Brethren Por- 
ter and Hale. There was-a disturbance at Georgetown,  
on the evening of March 1st. The Methodist Protestant 
Church there is open, and the people hear with great in- 
terest. Brother French is in Rhode Island. Brother  
Miller is at Troy. At his lectures in Middletown, near 
Waterford, the work has been truly wonderful. A letter  
dated March 3, says : " The whole town is-moved, and  
the most stout-hearted Universalists, Deists, &c., are 
submitting to king Jesus. The pastor ofthe church says 
he Has never heard or seen any thing like it. He is con- 
vinced the work is of God, and shall himself preach it."  
Brother Himes is in Boston, Brother Whiting will  
not be able to go there in less than three weeks.  
LETTERS.  
A brother writing from Cabottville, Mass., says:—  
" There' is an astonishing cry for light and information  
on this great subject, to the north and west of us,, and  
we are sending every thing we cah in that direction.  
Enclosed'is $5. I sincerely hope you will publish  week- 
ly in double numbers WTe are all in great haste to in- 
crease knowledge, both among ourselves and among 
others."  
We do not acknowledge our letters because it would  
take so much room.  
We have received many letters of inquiry lo many of  
which we have replied by publishing articles which an- 
swer the questions proposed, and we shall attend to oth- 
ers as soon as duties will permit.  
A TESTIMONIAL TO OUR SANITY.  
Since so much is said on the subject of insanity, we  
will venture to print the following, which we had laid  
aside without the slightest intention of publishing. It is  
the commencement of an editorial against us°in the  
Hamilton (O.) Intelligencer.  
" MILLERISM.—The Midnight Cry, the organ of the  
fanatical followers'of Miller, comes to us regularly, and  
appears to be conducted with much ability—a proof that  
talent and learning are not 'always united with correct  
judgment in matters of faith."  
We hope our readers will pray  that the falsehoods and  
scoffings we encounter, may not take away our reason. 
Let us each trust wholly in the Lord, and he will keep 
us in perfect peace.  
A CHALLENGE — Br. A. C. Thomas challenges Mr.  
Miller and all his hosts, to debate the question ofthe end 
ofthe world in 1813. Will not one ofthe strong men 
of the Miller party accept this challenge ?  
The above is from tbe Universalis^ Watchman, Mont- 
pelier, Vt. At the close of Mr Thomas' lecture in this 
city, we spoke to him, and'asked him to  call and see us  
at this office. He promised to do so, and said he would  
like to write for the paper against bur views. We as- 
sured him his articles should be inserted to the extent of  
a page a week. He never has let us near from him since, 
till we find the above published two or three hundred  
miles off. We should like to have him keep his appoint-
ments, before he makes a new challenge. We are ready  
to discuss any fair question connected' with our views, 
either in our own paper or a Universalis! paper, or in  
public.  
A SHREWD COMMENTATOR.  
The Affghans, to whom the British have recently caus- 
ed such' " distress," are nominally Mahommedans, and  
yet extremely lax in their religious observances, paying  
scarcely any attention to the festivals or fasts prescrib- 
ed by the Koran. An English officer who was made a  
prisoner during the recent war, relates that an Afghan 
Chief observed'to him, "You English must have de- 
scended from the feame ancestors with the Afghans."—  
" Why," said the officer, " what foundation have yon  
for this opinion ?" " I am sure it must be so," replied the  
chief—wyour religion is exactly like ours—we never pray, 
and it is so with you—you believe in Allah, because you  
swear by Allah as we do—you do not regard any day as  
holy, nor do wq—our religion is all in a book, but no one  
reads it, unless he is (a mollah) a priest. Now, your reli-
gion is all shut up in a book, which I suppose you never 
read, because you are not a learned mollah !"  
Such is the influence which fighting Christian nations  
are exerting on the heathens.  r— ,..  
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