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LECTURES.  
Will be continued at the spacious Hall, lately known  
as Franklin Theatre. Chatham Square, three times on  
the Sabbath, and on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes-
day Evenings. Prayer and Conference meetings on  
Thursday and Friday Evenings.  
Also at CONSTITUTION HALL, No. 650 Broadway,  
(between Bleeeker and Bond-streets,)  on the Sabbath,  
morning, afternoon and evening.  
And at the Hall, 161 West Eighteenth street, (be- 
tween Seventh and Eighth Avenues,) on Monday,  
Wednesday, and Friday evenings.  
Conference and prayer meetings are held in the  
Welch Church, in the rear of No. 63 Christie-street,  
on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday Evenings.  
MEEETINGS AT BROOKLYN,  
In the "HOUSE OF PRAYER," in Adams street, (late  
Universalists Meeting Plo'use,) three times on the  
Sabbath, and Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday  
THE LETTERS G O D.—We have received a letter  
from Bro. Jonas D. Johnson, dated Pembroke, Genesee  
Co., N. Y., which says : "There is a brother in this  
place who saw what, I am satisfied from a critical  
examination of the time and circumstances, was seen  
by Mr. Francis, steersman of the steamboat Penn, on 
its way to Cincinnati, last March. The letters G-O-D  
were formed, one after another, from a long, narrow,  
crooked, (or serpentine,) silvery colored belt; being  
preceded by  an extra light, which first drew his atten- 
tion. His neighbors, without exception, give him the  
character of an honest man. He was travelling on  
foot and alone, and it was]very late at night, so he could  
call no one to witness it."  
We think it hardly possible that this could be the  
same which was seen near Cincinnati, but we publish  
it as another, added to the hundreds of testimonies  
already received, that there are "signs" in "the heav-
ens" over every part of the land. Br. Johnson concludes  
by saying: " Thank the Lord, the serpent's reign  is  
almost over, and our GOD is about to take to himself  
his great power and reign."  
"COMING OF CHRIST."  
Should time continue, I purpose to issue No. 3 of this  
paper the latter part of the present week. Although I  
have received only about one-third as much as will be 
required to issue an edition of 5000 copies, yet I have  
concluded to proceed and publish this number. It will  
contain another article on the " Millennium."  
E. JACOBS.  

A SUGGESTION- 
Bro. Southard,—As it is desirable to bring every  
possible facility into requisition to-advance the cause,  
for which we have so- short a time to contribute our  
mite, I would suggest that every lecturer in the field 
act as agent for the " Midnight Cry," " Signs of the  
Times," &c. By adopting this course, they will  
greatly aid the cause they advocate. Let them in  
every place where they lecture, be sure and procure  
several subscribers, and they wrill accomplish much  
more than they otherwise can. It will be like leaving  
a stream behind them to irrigate, and a wall to environ  
the garden they have cultivated.  
No one in the field is probably accomplishing so  
much in this way, at present, as our faithful brother, I.  
R. Gates. He finds, by adopting this course, his la-
bors are not so likely to be lost after he leaves. Let  
it be done, and be begun NOW.  
As ever, L.D.FLEMING.  
Newark, Oct. 10, 1843.  
OLD PAPERS.—We have frequent calls for papers for  
distribution, in places where little has been read or  
heard on the subject. Those who have them to spare  
can do good by sending them free of expense to this  
office. We hope, however, that each individual will  
become the distributor of his own papers where his  
circumstances will permit, and there is a prospect of  
doing good.  
BRO. I. R. GATES.—This brother, who seems to be  
literally ALWAYS ABOUNDING in the work of the Lord, 
has just sent us a letter, with this postscript; " P. S. 
I send you a few more signers for the Cry." Then  
follow eight names. He says : " I will say but a  
word about my last week's lectures. I delivered them 
in the Disciples' Meeting-House, near Eagleville, near 
Beach Creek, and in no place have I met with a more 
general success, in giving a last day warning, than 
there. I am now going up to Bradford Co., where I 
don't expect to have much success ; but I must go ;  
Jesus went to his own first. My relatives all live  
there. My faith is strong and unwavering in the  
Lord's coming this year."  
OLIVE MARIA RICE.—This devoted sister is still  
laboring in this State. She lectured recently at Ba-
tavia, and Pine Hill, Genesee Co. ; and Attica, Wyol  
ming Co , near which place she was lecturing Oct. 
3d. The effect is good, wherever she goes.  
AN EDITORIAL NOTICE.—Tbe following paragraph  
is from the Olive Branch, at Halifax, Nova Scotia :  
" 'The Coming of Christ,' a Millerite paper published  
at New York. We now exchange with three. Al-
though we do not apprehend the immediate destruction  
of the World, yet we read these papes carefully and  
without prejudice ; and are convinced from the signs  
of the times that a great crisis is rapidly approaching.  
Whether the destruction of the world is at hand or not, 
the frequency of sudden deaths of late, and the cer- 
tainty of that event occurring to us all, admonishes us  
to ' be also ready.' "  

THE 1VSILLENN1U1VI.  
BY N. IIEITVEY.  
This a continuation of the article on the Kingdom  
promised to Israel, in our last.  
We are now prepared to notice the rise of the  
anti-millenarian views, or doctrine of a temporal  
millennium. Daniel Whitby, D. D., who died  
A. D. 1726, is said to be the first who reduced 
those views to order. He wrote a commentary  
on the* Apocalypse, in which he has a treatise on 
what he considers the nature of the millennium.  
In this treatise he opposes the ancient faith on  
this subject, spiritualizes the restoration of the  
Jews, the second advent of Christ, and the first 
resurrection-. He acknowledges his views of the  
millennium to-fee a " NEW hypothesis." It is in- 
deed a new doctrine, both unscriptural and ab-
surd, to suppose- this sin-cursed earth is eventu- 
ally to be the scene of Christ's triumph and  
glory.  
Let us examine this subject. If the Scrip- 
tures support the " new hypothesis" of a spiritual 
millennium, we will receive it; if not, for the 
same reason, we are bound to reject it.  
1. The apostles did not preach a temporal mil- 
lennium. They proclaimed the coming and  
kingdom of Christ at hand. With an angel's  
earnestness they brought the Judgment day— 
the resurrection of the- dead1—the reward of the  
righteous and the punishment of the wicked, to 
bear on the salvation of men. No one can find  
a single passage in the writings of the apostles,  
to favor the modern views of a millennium.—  
Their preaching conflicts with such a notion.  
See 1 Peter 1 : 4, 5 ; 2 Thess. 1 : 7, 10; Jude  
14 ; Acts  3 : 20. It is of infinite moment there- 
fore, to the church and the world, that right  
scriptural views on this subject be cherished and  
maintained, instead of the devices of human  
wisdom. The syren song of peace and safety 
for a thousand years, has been the means of 
bringing a midnight slumber over the church, as 
to the subject of Christ's speedy approach; and 
the world would have it so. They think it will  
be easier to repent, and to love, and to serve  
God, when all men are flocking to Christ. This 
modern fable has been the means of muffling the 
gospel trumpet. The world has been kept ad- 
vised of a time of universal peace and happiness •  
on the earth, instead of a revelation of Jesus 
Christ " from heaven with his mighty angels in  
flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know  
not God, and that obey not the gospel." If we  
take the example of the apostles, we must see 
that the advent of the Son of God should be  
heralded continually to dying men. Mr. Grabe, 
who has examined carefully the fathers general- 
ly, to ascertain the sentiments of early Chris-
tians, says, " All primitive orthodox Christians ex- 
pected, according to the words of the apostles, and  
the promises of the prophets, a new heaven and a  
new earth at the second coming of the Messiah, to 
restore the happiness which flourished before the  
fall of Adam."  
2. The direct testimony of the Saviour is against  
the views which are cherished of a  spiritual millen- 
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nium. The Saviour was asked by his disciples  
respecting the sign of his coming, and of the end  
of the world. He gave them to understand that 
the period of his advent would be characterized 
by a different state of things altogether from what  
is implied in a temporal millennium. "  As in the  
days of Noah, so shall it be at the coming of the  
Son of man." Those days are noticed by the  
Saviour, in which the inhabitants of the old world  
were distinguished for sensuality, worldly mind- 
edness, and unbelief. The faithful warnings of  
Noah were to them as an idle tale. Again, in-
stead of a time  of peace, and great religious  
prosperity—or the conversion of the world pre-
vious to his advent, the Saviour expressly declares  
an opposite state of things. " Distress of na- 
tions, perplexity, and the hearts of men failing  
them for fear of those things which are coming  
on the earth." He says : (Luke 12 ; 51,) " Sup- 
pose ye that I am  come to give peace on earth 1  
I tell you nay, but rather division." The para- 
ble of the tares arid wheat in which it is said,  
" Let both grow together until the harvest"—  
and " the harvest is the end of the world,"  
together with that of the " ten virgins" are suf- 
ficient proof of what the state of the world will  
be when the " bridegroom cometh."  
3. The church is represented in the Scriptures, in  
a state of trial until Christ comes to free his people  
from their bondage. Matt. 5 : 10 ;* Acts 14 : 22;  
Rom. 8:17; 2 Thess 1 % 4—7 ; 1 Peter 1 : 6,  
7. Such is the testimony of the apostle, (Acts  
14: 22,) " confirming the souls of the disciples,  
and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and  
that we must, " through much tribulation, enter  
into the kingdom of God," Rom. 8 : 17, " And  
if children, then heirs, heirs of God, and joint-
heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him 
that we may be also glorified together." -2 Tim. 
2: 10, 11, 12. "  Therefore, I endure all things  
for the elect's sake, that they may also obtain the  
salvation which is in Christ Jesus, with eternal  
glory. It is a faithful saying: For if we be dead  
with him we shall also live with him. If we  
suffer we shall also reign with him." A temporal  
millennium implies a period of time when there 
shall be no tribulation—no suffering and no op- 
posing influence to religion. But the Scriptures  
teach us that the offence of the cross will not  
cease until Christ comes to gather his scattered, 
and afflicted flock and to give them the promised  
kingdom.  
4. The world is represented in the Scriptures,  
abounding in wickedness in the last days.  
See Peter's description of the different forms  
of infidelity, characteristic of the last days. Also  
its features as noticed by Paul in his epistle to  
Timothy. " Men lovers of themselves, covete- 
ous, boasters,  proud, blasphemers, truce-break- 
ers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of  
them that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, 
lovers of pleasure, more than lovers of God,  
having the forms of godliness, but denying the  
power." 2 Tim. 3 : 1—5.  
The present age  is certainly distinguished for  
the above forms of iniquity. Antichrist has sure- 
ly come. Paul says, that " he is antichrist that 
denieth that Jesus is the Christ." Is not this fea-
ture of the latter days apparent 1 We need not  
go back to 1792,—when France made a general  
bonfire of the Scriptures—denied the Son of God  
—pronounced death to be an eternal sleep, to  
prove the abounding of blasphemy, or to show 
that antichrist has come. The advance of human  
science has in many instances led to a practical  
rejection of the Word of God. Human reason  
is now exalted above revelation. The panthe- 
istic Neology of Germany is already revived in  
the rationalism and transcendentalism of Ameri- 
ca. With such views of  the revelation of God,  
the Saviour is viewed only as the " Carpenter's  
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Son," and not as a precious Saviour of the guilty, j  
It is unnecessary here to speak of the want of ; 
confidence—the violation of public pledges and '  
the laws of neutrality—false accusations—inconti- 
nence—love of parade—costly equipage—indul-
gence in foolish conversation—the unbridled 
tongue—the law of honor, which thirsts for re-
venge on the duel ground. These are too obvi- 
ous to need comment. Does Christianity  advance  
as fast as the various forms of infidelity 1 And  
is not the  little horn every where prevalent %  
" In London, the metropolis of Christendom,"  
says the London correspondent of the New York 
Evangelist, " there are 30,000 persons living by  
theft and fraud, 10,000 children training for crime,  
30,00 houses continually open for the reception 
of stolen goods, 4,000 persons annually committed  
for criminal offences,  10,000 addicted to gamb- 
ling, 23,000 annually taken up by the police 
helplessly drunk in the streets, 180,000 habitual  
gin drinkers, the same number living in habits of 
debauchery and profligacy, and 663,000,000 an- 
nually spent for gin." London, with its million  
and three-quarters of inhabitants, with all her  
privileges,  her Sabbaths, her ministers of reli- 
gion, is  given up to " all manner of evil." When  
will the world be redeemed at this rate ? " When  
the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit  
of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him."  
"And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto  
them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith 
the Lord," Isa. 59 : 19, 20. Read the whole  
chapter. See what has called down the judgments 
of Heaven on past nations of the earth. Thus 
saith the Lord concerning Jerusalem : " The  
people of the land have used oppression and ex- 
ercised robbery, and have vexed the poor and  
needy; yea, they have oppressed the stranger  
wrongfully. And I sought for a man among  
them that should make up the hedge, and stand 
in the gap before me for the land, that I should 
not destroy it, but I found none. Therefore  
have I poured out mine indignation upon them,  
I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: 
their own way have I recompensed upon their 
heads, saith the Lord God." See Ezek. 22 : 29,  
30,31.  
5. If icc reason from the past concerning the  
future, we see no reasonable hope of the triumph of  
Christianity in this perverted ivorld. It must be  
admitted that with all the commendable zeal  
manifested by the church in her missionary ef-
forts, her expectations have not yet been realized.  
We wish to be understood, in our remarks on 
this point, not as militating against efforts for the 
conversion of souls abroad as welPas at home.  
Our prayer is that God will, in his providence, 
send the gospel to every man's door. Our duty 
is to teach all nations the way of life ; and as 
the judgment approaches, to double our dili-
gence in the enterprise. God speed the gospel 
ofthe kingdom to the benighted sous of men.  
It is a general opinion that the gospel must be  
first preached to all nations, prior to the end  
of the world. Whether this prophecy of Christ's  
be understood as referring to the end of pagan-
ism (as some suppose) or to the end of time, one  
thing is certain, it does not mean that all persons  
will be converted. It is to be preached as a  
witness to all nations. It has witnessed God's  
love to the sinner, his forbearance towards the  
guilty nations of the earth,  and his willingness  
to save all who will believe and obey the truth. 
He offered the kingdom once to the Jews, mani- 
fested his love to them by the merciful visitation  
of his Son, who brought the kingdom nigh unto 
them, and stood in their midst as their Lord and  
Saviour. But they rejected him—crucified him.  
The kingdom was taken from them. They were  
left to utter desolation. " O Jerusalem, Jerusa-
lem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest  

| them that are sent unto thee, how often would I  
\ have gathered you even as a hen gathereth her  
brood under her wing, but ye would not. Be-
hold your house is left unto you desolate."  
The kingdom was not taken from them and  
given to a people " bringing forth the fruits  
thereof," until the question was fully decided 
that they had determined to have no king but  
Cassar. When this was settled, God began to  
visit the Gentiles and offer to them the blessings  
of the kingdom. From that period to this, God  
has been blessing the word to the salvation of in- 
dividuals of every kindred, tribe and nation under 
the whole heaven. No nation is left with a sin-
gle apology for not embracing the gospel. The  
word of the Lord has had free course among the  
Gentile nations for over 1800 years. It has giv- 
en its testimony to the world. "It has found its 
way among the rude tribes of Laplanders and 
Esquimaux, and penetrated through the north- 
ern snows almost to the very pole. It has trav-
elled through the valleys and over the mountains, 
and on the table land and the wide plains of 
central and eastern Asia. Through the whole 
extent of our continent, also stretching almost  
from the northern and southern pole, it has  
sounded its gladdening notes. It has  visited the  
numerous isles of the sea, the continent of Africa,  
and established its missions from the Cape of Good 
Hope along both its eastern and western coasts.  
Long since did it find its way into Egypt and 
Nubia and Abyssirinia. It has  restored to their  
native land, some Mendi captives thrown on  
our shores, who will carry the glad tidings to the  
unexplored regions of central Africa."  
But with all this light shed abroad in the world,  
not a single nation- has submitted to Christ. The 
rulers of the earth set  at nought the religion of  
Jesus, and govern after the "wisdom of this  
world."  
But what  of the past? .Has Christianity held  
her ground'? Many places which were once  
highly favored with the religion of God are now  
deserted, and resemble a desolated and forsaken  
city. A church once flourished in Jerusalem,  
under the faithful ministrations of its beloved pas-
tor, " James the servant of God." But the light is  
gone out-—the city is "trodden down," and the 
crescent of the false prophet of Arabia waves 
over its dilapidated walls. The churches of Ephe-
sus, Smyrna, Pergamos, Sardis, Thyatira, Phil- 
adelphia, and Laodicia, were formerly favored  
with the visitation of the Holy Spirit; the 
churches in Carthage and Hippo Regius were  
fostered by the prayers and counsels of Cyprian  
and Augustin. A nd those of Wittemburgh and  
Geneva shone amidst the darkness of Europe,  
through the instrumentality of Luther and Calvin.  
But where are these candlesticks now? "How  
has the gold become dim and the most fine gold 
changed !" Does not the history of those places 
which were once favored with the presence of  
Heaven now  
Write a Tekel on the church ofGcd,  
A moral, desolating Ichabod ?''  
The man of sin still reigns, and tries to thwart  
the labors of Christ's servants, wherever they go.  
His destruction is nowhere, in the Scriptures,  
said to be, by the influences of the Spirit, or 
through the means of the preaching of the gos- 
pel, but rather by the brightness ofthe Saviour's  
coming. The conflict between truth and error  
will continue to go on until Christ comes and 
terminates the warfare by giving the victory to 
the " saints of the Most High." " And he will  
destroy in this mountain [kingdom] the face of  
the covering cast over all people, and the veil 
that is spread over all nations. He will swallow  
up death in victory, and the Lord God will wipe 
away tears from off all faces, and the rebuke  
of his people shall be taken away from off all the


earth; for the Lord hath spoken it. And it shall  
be said in that day, Lo this is our God, we have 
waited for him, and he  will save us : this is the  
Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad  
and rejoice in his salvation." Isa. 25 : 7, 8, 9.  
That which the most powerful revivals of  reli- 
gion, together with the combined energies of the  
church, has failed yet to accomplish, Christ has  
pledged himself to perform. If we judge from  
the recent movements of papacy, the great ex- 
penditure of money and effort to spread its influ- 
ence in our own country, we see no reasonable  
hope of gradually dispelling its delusions. The  
Roman church is making a vigorous onset, with 
the expectation of getting the victory over all 
the efforts of Protestants. We believe in the  
efficacy of the truth. Yea, we prize it as the  
precious jewel. We by no means discourage its  
use for the salvation  of souls, the general diffu- 
sion of life, light, and peace among the inhabi- 
tants of the earth. The church needs to be  
sanctified and more fully consecrated to the Lord  
and prepared for his coming.  
But the corrupt cities of Sodom and Gomor- 
rah, Nineveh, Thebes, Petra, Babylon and Je-
rusalem were not saved by the power of truth,  
but reserved for the  vengeance of Heaven. Such  
is the prophetical doom of the " abomination of  
desolotion." Already the voice of the angel is  
heard, saying, " Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that  
great city because she made all nations drink of  
the wine of the wrath of her fornication." Her  
destiny is sealed by the revelation of God. See  
Rev. 14 : 14—20.  
In concluding this article, we must declare our  
conviction of the speedy coming of our Lord.  
Already we discern signs of his approach. The  
object of his coming is to "gather out of his  
kingdom all  things that offend," and to give the  
kingdom to the  saints of the Most High. Impen- 
itent sinner, the day of your probation is fast  
expiring. What you do to inherit everlasting  
life must be done without delay. The gospel of  
the kingdom is now preached to you. The  
Saviour is ready to forgive your sins. O come to  
him with a penitent heart and receive the pre- 
cious gift of eternal life. Soon the last trump will  
sound, and the nations of the earth "broken with  
a rod of iron and dashed in  pieces as a potter's  
vessel." It will be the signal of tbe first resur- 
rection, when God's people shall be delivered  
from their bondage, and enter upon their reward.  
If you would share with them in the privileges,  
honors and inconceivable joys of that inheritence  
which is undefiled and that fadeth not away, re- 
pent now before tbe door of mercy shall be for- 
ver closed.  
«£ THIS WORLD"—"THIS AGE."  
No argument is more shallow, than that of the Univer- 
salists, by which they attempt to prove that the world,  
[age.] ended at the destruction of Jerusalem, and that the  
Bible no where foretells any other end of the world, yet  
many seize upon it with eagerness, and some popular  
theologians are helping the propagators of error by their  
comments on the 24th of Matthew. The  excellent pam- 
phlet of L. C. Gunu was drawn forth by a desire to 
correct the views of the Quaker, on this subject, which  
are nearly the same as those of the Universalists. We 
give the first five pages, that our readers may see how  
thoroughly the work is done. The pamphlet contains  
forty pages, and we need not say, it deserves a wide  
circulation.  
WORLD—MEANING OF THE TERM.  
MY DEAR FRIEND,—The conversation we had recently  
upon the all-absorbing subject ofthe present day, has led 
to the preparation of the following. I only ask, read 
carefully what I have written, on account of the subject,  
and the personal interest you may have in the truth re- 
specting it.  
In the Greek there are four expressions which have  
been translated world, namely, ge, he oikoumene, kosmos,  

and aion. The appropriate meanings of these several  
words, are earth, inhabited earth, mankind, and age. Now, 
the world is to have an end in all of these senses.  
I. The name ge, or earth, is applied, not only to the  
original matter itself, which composes the earth*, but to  
the organization of that matter; as we learn from Gen. 
2: 1, where it says, "thus [as described in the first 
chapter] the heavens and the earth were finished:' Now  
we read of two such organizations. " I saw a new hea- 
ven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first  
earth were passed away."t The word heaven here means, 
as I suppose, the firmament, or atmosphere, which sur-
rounds the earth, and which, of course, will pass away 
with it.J  
II. We also read of two worlds of mankind (kosmoi.)  
Of these, one is born of corruptible seed—the family of  
the first Adam, with blood for the life thereof—the perish- 
ing world, into which sin and death entered by the of- 
fence of one. man, and which " God so loved as to give  
his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him  
should not perish, but have everlasting life"—in a word, 
ihe whole human race, from the time of Adam, nntil there  
shall be no more marrying or giving in marriage,—whose  
place of abode is this present earth §  
It is true that Peter, in his second epistle, speaks of  
"the old world," and " the world that then was," which,  
"being overflowed with water, perished." (ch. 2 : 5,3, 
6.) He  evidently meant, however, not the whole world,  
but so much of it as then was—all the people living at that  
time—excepting Noah's family, which both inherited and 
propagated the corruption of Adam, connecting the inhab- 
itants of earth after the flood with those before it, as be- 
ing all parts of the world, into which sin and death were 
introduced by Adam, and which God so loved as  to give  
his only begotten Son, that Abel, Enoch, Noah, and all  
other believers,,should not perish.  
Christ said, My kingdom is not of this wotld." Of  
course, there is to be another world, of which he can say,  
'* My kingdom is of this." It will be a perfect contrast  
to the one of which we have been speaking—the family 
of the second Adam—the nation that shall be born at once  
on the day of the resurrection, consisting of" a hundred  
and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the chil- 
dren of Israel, and a great multitude which no man could  
number, of ali nations, and  kindreds, and people, and  
tongues,"—all having bodies like unto Christ's glorious  
body, quickened by the same Spirit, and free from pain 
and death. These shall dwell upon the new earth, and 
shall neither marry nor be given in marriage, but be as  
the angels of God in heaven."||  
That, this world, in the sense of kosmos, is to have an  
end, and not be coexistent with the other kosmos, is  
evident from the consideration, that its place of abode— 
the earth—is to be destroyed ; and man, with his present  
nature, could not survive that which will destroy the  
earth. See, also, 1 Cor. 7: 31; 15, 22, 26, 52; 2 Pet.  
3:7; Rev. 20 : 11 — 15.  
III. We also read of two ages (aiones)—the present,  
which Christ tells us will end,IT and the age to come 
If asked to describe these fully, 1 should say they were  
the age for sowing, and the age for reaping;—the age of 
probation, and the age of reward ;—the age during which 
God manifests his long suffering, and the age to follow  
the declaration, " there shall be no longer delay"—when  
" the wine of the wrath of God shall be poured out with- 
out mixture into the cup of his indignation ;"—the age 
during which the earth is corrupted, and the age when  
the meek alone shall inherit it;—the age during which 
tares are permitted to grow with the wheat, and the age 
that shall commence after all tilings that offend have been 
gathered out of the kingdom ;—the age during which the 
earth under the curse groans to be delivered, and the age  
when Christ shall make all things new ;"—the age for  
sealing subjects for the kingdom of glory, and the age  
for that kingdom itself. All tnese different forms of ex-
pression are descriptive, as I think, of the same two ages  
I grant that we also read of ages past and ages to  
come (plural.) But whoever will examine those passa- 
ges,! will find ages past to be the Greek expression for  
from eternity, and ages to come for to eternity,—the con-
text requiring them to be so rendered. In the age to  
come (singular) Christians have eternal Wfe. Therefore,  
ihat age must he synonymous with the ages to come.  
I also grant that we read of times, and seasons, and  
generations, and dispensations. But the Greek scholar  
will find the terms employed to be kairos, chumos, genea,  
oikonomia.** These are but subdivisions of the present 
aion, or age, which is the only aion from the loss of Para- 
dise to its restitution—from tne first offer of a Savior till  
eternal life is given to the saints. The proof of this will  
presently appear.  
*Gen. 1 ; 2. t Is. 45 ; 17. 2 Pet. 3; 13. Rev. 20 ; 11,21, 1. 
t Gen. 1 ; 8. Matt. 24 : 35 Mark 13 ; 31. Eph. 4 ; 10. 
I) Gen. 9 ; 4, 5. John 1 ; 29 : 3 ; 10. Rom. 5 ; 12. Hebr. 11 ; 4—7.  
1 Pet. 1 ; 20, 23. 1 John 4 ; 14.  
Ills. 46 ; 8. Matt. 22; 30. Rom. 8 ; 11. 1 Oor. 15 22, 45-57.  
Eph. 3 ; 15- Philip. 3 ; 21. 2 Pet. 3 ; 13. Rev. 7 ; 5—9 : 21 ; 4.  
Watt 13 : 39, 40, 49 : 28 ; 20. t Col. 1 ; 26. Eph. 2: 7,3. 9.  
**See in Greek, Matt. 16 ; 3. Luke 21 ; 24. Acts 1 ; 7 : 17 ; 26.  
1 Cor. 9 ; 17. Rom. 16 ; 25. Eph. 1: 10 ; 3 ; 2, 21. Col, 1 : 25. 1  
Thess. 5 ; 1, 2 Tim. 1 ; 9. Titus 1 : 2.  

The Earth, and the World end at the same time.  
That the world will not be destroyed before the earth,  
is evident from Gen. 8 : 21,22; 9: 11—16. That it  
will be destroyed then, is evident from the organization  
of our present bodies, which could not endure the flames  
that shall melt the earth. See, also, 2 Pet. 3 : 7.  
They end with this Age.  
I premise a few things, as  
1. Christ's second advent will be as King, and at the  
end of this age. Matt. 13 : 38, 43, 24 : 3 ;J30 ; Acts 3 :  
21 ; Titus 2 : 12, 13.  
2. All the righteous, dead and living, shall then " be  
changed," and receive their " reward"—" have eternal  
life"—" shine forth as the sun." Matt. 13 : 43 ; Mark  
10 : 30; Luke 18 : 30 ; 1 Uor. 15 ; 50—53 ; 1 Thess.  
4: 14—17; Hebr. 6:5; Rev. 11: 18.  
3. As respects the wicked, their age of probation ends  
with this age.  
First proof. 1 Cor. 8 : 13 ; "If meat make my brother  
to offend, I will eat no flesh while the age standeth [or 
lasts, 1 lest I make my brother to offend." From this, it  
is evident that the age, of which Paul's lifetime constitu- 
ted a part, is the period of time during which a brother  
can be made to offend,—is on probation.  
Second proof. This age is the time for preaching the  
gospel,—for teaching and baptizing all nations,—imply- 
ing that mercy will not. be offered in the age to come.  
Matt. 24 : 14 ; 28 : 19, 20. The righteous, be it remem- 
bered, are all to be changed at Christ's coming. There-
fore, if the gospel is preached afterward, the preachers  
will have spiritual bodies. But this idea is contradicted  
by Matt. 25 : 11 ; Luke 16: 31 ; 1 Cor. 1 : 27 ; 2 Cor. 
4: 7. Moreover, it is inconsistent with the idea of  
Christ's reigning himself, or ofthe righteous reigning with  
him, to suppose them travelling about as the "servants" 
ofthe wicked, trying to persuade them to repent, expos-
ed to their scoffs and contempt. Now we are told it is 
by preaching that men are saved. 1 Cor. 1 : 21. More-
over, if the salt is all withdrawn from the earth into a  
kingdom by itself, how can we expect the earth to be 
salted 1 Matt. 5 : 13, 16 ; Luke 15 : 2, 4 ; 14 : 21, 23.  
That. Christ's kingdom will not be coercive, in the sense  
of forcing men into it, see  Matt. IF: 12 ; John 5: 40;  
Luke 13 : 3 ; Acts 3 : 23. K? Compare Rev. 11 • 14',  
15, with 10, 7.  
Third proof. In 2 Pet. 3 : 4. 9, 13 ; we are informed  
that the reason why the promise of his coming has not  
been fulfilled already, is, that God is long suffering, " not  
willing that any should perish, but that all should come  
to repentance." Does not this clearly imply that at, and  
after his coming, mercy will not be offered, none will  
come to repentance—probation will be over.  
Fourth proof. At the end of this age the harvest takes  
place. Matt. 13: 39. When harvest comes, the time 
for sowing either good or bad seed—by the Son of Man  
01 by the devil—is past. Of course, there can be no more 
conversions—probation is in reality over.  
Fifth proof. The age to come will be the time for re- 
view and punishment of actions done by the wicked 
in this age, implying that probation will be over, and the  
judgment set. Matt. 12 : 32.  
4. At the second coming of Christ' this heaven and  
earth shall be destroyed, and the new be created.  
First proof. Acts 3 : 21 ; " Jesus Christ—whom the  
heaven must receive [retain] until the times of restitution  
of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of 
all his holy prophets since the age began."  What age  1  
Evidently the one from the loss to the restitution,—an  
age that began before the first prophecy respecting a res- 
titution, uttered immediately after the fall. Gen. 3 : 15;  
Luke 1 : 70 ; John 9 : 32 ; Titus 2: 12, 13 ; Rev 21 •  
1, 4, 5.  
Second proof. In 2 Pet. 3 : 10, 12 ; we are told Christ- 
ians should " haste unto," or earnestly desire, the day of  
the Lord. And, in another place, the believer exclaims,  
I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness."  
But he will awake in Christ's likeness on the day of 
Christ's second advent Of course, he cannot earnestly  
desire another day. See, also, Titus 2 : 13. From this 
it is evident that the day spoken of here is the day of  
the second advent, and then " the heavens shall pass  
away with a great noise, and the elements melt with fer- 
vent heat—the earth also ; and the works that are there- 
in shall be burned up."  
Now we are prepared to prove that this world (kosmos)  
will end with this age (aion )  
I. The god of this kosmos is the same as the god of  
this aion. " In whom the god of this age (aion) hath 
blinded the minds of them which believe not, &c." " For  
the prince of this world (kosmos) cometh, and hath noth- 
ing in me."*  
Again, the prevailing disposition of each  is the same  
" That he might deliver us from this present EVIL age  
(aion.)" " Know ye not that the friendship of the world  
•For references containing aion, see 2 Cor. 4 : 4. Matt. 33 : 39.  
Eph. 2 ; 2: and for kosmos see John 14 ; 30. 12 ; 31. 16 ; 11. Matt. 
4 : 8, 9.  
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(kosmos) is ENMITY with God ?"+ Also we are told that  
in this world (kosmos) Christians " shall have tribulation." 
This  clearly implies that, so long as the present world  
continues, there is to be no dispensation of righteousness 
—Christ will not reign here personally or spiritually—the  
prevailing spirit will be that which causes tribulation to  
the children of God. But they must be of good cheer ;  
for Christ assures them the world is overcome in prospect 
that shall certainly he realized. It shall be destroyed  
at his glorious appearing, and his disciples then will be  
left without a foe for ever. See, also, Eph. 2:2; where  
walking " according to the age of this world," is spoken 
of as synonymuos with walking " according to the prince  
of the power of the air," &c.  
II. The two words are used one for the other. Thus,  
(2 Cor. S : 19 ;) " God was in Christ reconciling the  
a^e{aion) to himself, not imputing their trespasses unto 
them." " For I came not to judge the world, but to save  
the worldt (kosmos.)"  
Again (1 Cor. 1 : 26 ;) " Where is the wise? where  
is the scribe? where is the  disputer of this age (aion ?)  
Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world  
(kosmos i)" In eh. 2:6;" wisdom of this age (aion.)"  
In ch. 3 : 18, 19 ; " If any man among you seemeth to 
be wise in this age (aion,) let him become a fool, that  
he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world (kosmos)  
is foolishness with God."  
Again, Tit. 2 : 12 ; " Denying ungodliness and world- 
ly (kosmikos) lusts, we should live soberly, righteously,  
and godly in this present age (aion.)" If there is to be  
another age of this world, does the apostle mean to im- 
ply that then we need not live soberly, righteously, and  
godly, and deny worldly lusts? Or does he not rather 
mean that this age  is the only one in which men shall  
have lusts of the world to deny—in other words, that 
probation ends with this age ?  
III. At the end of this age Christ will come as King.  
But his " kingdom is not of this world (kosmos.)"  He  
will not reign in it personally or spiritually. If the whole,  
world does not end with this age, then there will either  
be some living on the earth over whom Christ will not 
exercise jurisdiction, or else his kingdom will be in part  
of this world. Moreover, as this world is subject to death,  
instead of his being King of'kings, and his kingdom inde- 
pendent, he would see it continually and successfully in-
vaded by the King of Terrors. John IS: 38, 37.  
IV. Eph. 2:2; " Wherein in time past ye walked ac- 
cording to the age (aion) o ft his world (kosmos)—accord-
ing to the prince of the power of the air, &c." It does  
not say, " according to this age ofthe world." There- 
fore, the age which is "according to the prince ofthe  
power of the air,"—in other words, "this present evil  
age,"—is the age of this world, and there vvill'be no other 
until the world ends.  
V. In Luke 20: 34, 35.; the children of this age are  
contrasted with those xlf the age-to come, and in that we 
are told they " neither marry'nor are given in marriage." 
But all admit that, so long as this world continues, mar- 
riage will be honorable. Therefore, with the next 
there will be a new world.  
VI. At the end of this age ALL the widked shall be de- 
stroyed ; because, in addition to what has already been  
said,  
First, Probation will be over ; and we.can hardly be- 
lieve God will permit the continuance of tke human fami-
ly, much less an increase, after the age of probation is  
past.  
Secondly. The harvest then takes place. When liar- 
vest comes, sowing time is over. Not only are the tares  
already sown to be gathered, but the devil is to sow no 
mors. Thus, we see, there can he no further addition to  
the depraved family of Adarn ; in a word, no more births 
—no more marrying or giving in marriage—Jthat is, the 
end ofthe world will have come. Matt. 13 : 39.  
Thirdly. We are explicitly told that "the field [to be  
harvested] is THE WORLD (kosmos.)"  Matt. 13 : 3S.  
Fourthly. It also says explicitly, " all things that of- 
fend, and they which do iniquity"—all the- tares which  
the wicked one hath sown—all that destroy, or corrupt 
the earth—shall be gathered out of the kingdom; not by  
conversion, but to be cast into the fire. Matt.. 13 : 41 • 
24: 30, 31 ; Rev. 11 : 18.  
Fifthly. Then, also, the earth itself is to be destroyed,  
as we have already proved ; and, as the righteous alone 
shall be caught up to meet the Lord, all the "wicked must  
perish.  
[CP All the righteous changed and caught up, and all  
the wicked destroyed, the world, of course, would be at  
an end ; and all this is to be at the end of this uion, or 
age.  
t For aion see Gal. 1 : 4. 1 Cor. 2:6; and for kosmos seo .lame?  
4 : 4. 1 ; 27. John 8 : 23. 15 ; 13. 16 : 33. 2 Cor. 7 • 10. U-d. 6 •  
14. 1 John ? : 15—17.  
t For kosmos see John 12: 47. 1 : 29. B : 16, 17. 6 • 33, 51- 
Rom. 11 ; 15. 1 Tim. 1 : 15.  

THE MIDNIGHT CRY.  
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1843.  
From the Western Midnight Cry.  
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.  
DEAR BRO. STORRS:—I arrived in this city on Satur- 
day last, and commenced a course of lectures at the 
Christian Chapel. The house was filled mostly with  
men, as the evening was rather unpleasant. They gave 
me a candid hearing On Sabbath, I lectured morning 
and evening in the middle Market. There was a large 
crowd to hear ; among them were many ofthe most re-
spectable citizens. For the honor of Louisville, I wish  
to say, that I never had a more quiet and candid auditory  
in any city in the Union Many are favorably impressed  
with the truth, and large numbers crowd nightly to hear 
more on the subject of jthe coming of our King. I have  
just returned from lecture. We had a crowded house,  
who listened for two and a half hours to a discourse on  
the prevalence of the little horn, Dan. 7; 21, 22: in 
which it was proved that we should have the 'REIGN of 
Christ or Antichrist soon, but at the same time it was  
shown that Christ would receive the kingdom, and that  
that was the next eoent in historical prophecy. The idea  
of this WORLD'S CONVERSION, by the Protestants, was 
shown to be a " cunningly devised fable." That it was 
UNSCRIPTURAL, and, from the conduct of the protestant. 
christians, utterly impracticable. The only hope we have  
is the comingofthe Lord.  
The prospect of getting a good hearing in this city is  
very encouraging. Many of the slumbering virgins will  
be aroused and made ready to meet the Bridegroom.  
I shall give several more lectures, but will not be able to  
take up all the subjects. I shall return in season to 
spend the Sabbath with you, in Cincinnati.  
We have opened a DEPOT for books and papers. Our  
office is in the basement of the Jefferson House, on  
Fourth street. Dr. Field, our faithful coadjutor, has  
taken the charge of it. The work is now well begun.  
But you are earnestly desired to visit Louisville, to assist  
in carrying it forward. I hope you will, if time permit 
visit them in the latter part of 'this month.  
Yours in the blessed hope,  
J- Y. HIMES.  
Louisville, Ky., Oct. 2, 1843.  
ROMANISM.—The Pilot says that nearly sixty  
persons were admitted to the Catholic church in 
Hartford, Ct., on the 24th ult.  
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LOUISVILLE, KY.  
Bro. Storrs,—My visit tojhis place has been deeply  
interesting. I have given ten lectures in the city, one  
in Jeffersonville, and one in New Albany, in the last 
eight days. The people of the city and vicinity are  
waked up to an examination of the Bible, and espe-
cially to the prophetic portions. The market-place 
and the church alike have been thronged with solemn 
and very attentive hearers. The laity, the common  
people, received the word gladly; and, I learn, are  
searching the Scriptures daily to see whether these  
things are so. I have had a fair and candid hearing.  
I speak it to the honor of the good citizens of Louis- 
ville.  
The subject in this vicinity has been laid aside by  
most, from the fact that the papers reported that the  
TIME had GONE Ey !' All the Eastern stories designed  
to bring the whole subject into disrepute, have had a 
free circulation here, and have had a tendency to in-
crease the spirit of scoffing and infidelity. A large  
portion of the people have regarded the contemptible  
gossip and abominable slanders of the Eastern papers 
as truth. Even the clergy in some cases give the  
current reports of the supposed varying fortunes of the  
Tabernacle in  Boston, and its friends, from the pulpit.  
Last Lord's day the Rev. Mr. Crosby " overthrew Mil- 
lerism 1 1" in one of the Baptist churches in this city.  
One of his arguments was, that the cause had gone  
down or died away in the East,—the Tabernacle was 
to let, &c., and therefore we had come out West to  

introduce  the subject and get up an excitement. B  
the whole theory was false. It would soon die away.  
He no doubt hopes so. Such false statements may  
effect those who are ignorant of us, and the real state 
of the cause. They may destroy souls—put professors  
to sleep on the great question ; but  those who are in- 
formed on the subject will only be the more confirmed. 
If these are the strong reasons of our opponents, the  
question is forever settled. A cause requiring such a  
defence cannot be very sound.  
Notwithstanding these obstacles to a full and fair dis- 
cussion of the subject, a large number of the most re-
spectable citizens have heard the matter fully discussed.  
The result is, that many believe. And many that do  
not embrace it, say, that in their judgment it cannot 
be overthrown. We have many defenders, and advo- 
cates in Louisville of our entire sanity. But the best  
of all is, that many professors  in the different denomi- 
nations are waked up to duty and preparation for the  
event. And some are deeply impressed, among the  
wicked, of the truth, and of the necessity of repen- 
tance to salvation.  
Advent publications will be kept at our office in  
Louisville ; as also the " Western Midnight Cry."— 
They will have a Bible Class once a week, and meet-
ing of prayer for all who look for the " blessed hope."  
Yours, J. V. HIMES.  
Steamboat Little Pike, Ohio River, Oct. 9, 1843.  
FRESENT STATE OF THE WORLD.  
SCOTLAND.—This nation is next in order. For a  
long series of years, it has been quiet and apparent- 
ly prosperous ; but within a few months this sober  
people have felt their share of " distress and perplex- 
ity."  
Their national Presbyterian church is scompeiled  
to recognize the same head with the national Episco- 
pal church of England. That head is a young woman,  
who lives several hundred miles from them, and, one 
would think, has cares enough, without meddling with  
them. A friend has just lent us the " Aberdeen Alma- 
nac," a large statistical work for 1843. It contains a  
list of about 1300 parishes, with the names of their 
pastors and patrons. These patrons have absolute 
power to send preachers to the parishes. In look- 
ing over this Almanac, we find a very few parishes,  
where the pastor is chosen by the male communi- 
cants, and fewer still, where the choice is by all  
the members of the church. But all the parishes 
where the choice is thus made, are among those called  
''quoad, sacra only," .and are different from the civil  
parishes, which embrace the whole land. In 61 par-
ishes, the appointment is by the town-council ; in 175  
it is by the people, in some form, such as seat-holders,  
heads  of families, kirk-session,  trustees, &c. ; but in  
more than 1000 parishes the appointment is from some  
one person who does not reside in the parish. Four  
hundred parishes are dependent on some Lord or Lady  
for such a preacher as they may send, and 300 on the 
Queen. This absurd and oppiessive system opens  
the way for corruptions to come in like a flood. Blind  
guides have been sent to some parishes in place ofthe 
faithful watchmen the people had chosen. Profligate  
and vicious lords have sent their sons, nephews, or  
dependents, who were as vicious as themselves.— 
These, the people must receive, to baptize their chil- 
dren, join them in marriage, attend them in sickness,  
and bury their dead.  
Mr. Weed, the able editor of the Albany Evening  
Journal, in one of his late letters from Europe, refers 
to the state of things thus :  
"You are aware that the Church of Scotland is just  
now painfully distracted. The convulsion is universal, 
and the evils, I fear, will prove as lasting as they are  
pervading. Congregations are broken up. Brethren 
are divided. Children are arrayed against parents.


The waters of strife and bitterness are poisoning the  
religious communion and intercourse by which Scot- 
land has been so long distinguished. These difficul- 
ties originate with the relations existing between  
Church and State. The clergy were desirous of se- 
curing to the people more power in the selection of  
pastors than was allowed by government. Having  
matured and adopted what they deemed proper forms  
of proceeding, a delegation proceeded to London to  
confer with the Ministry, by whom their proposition  
was discourteously rejected. The clergy having gone  
too far to recede, hundreds of them have relinquished  
their Churches. The followers of the dissenting min- 
isters are erecting new Churches."  
This movement is separating the precious from the  
vile. The people of God are tried, and, we trust, pu- 
rified and made white. The whole land is abundantly  
supplied with places of worship and houses for the  
preachers, but they belong to the government, and can  
be retained only by submission, unworthy of men and  
Christians. Several hundred ministers have nobly re- 
nounced their salaries and their homes. Six hundred  
places of worship are needed for their congregations,  
which now meet in barns, private houses, or halls,  
where they can get them ; but are frequently compelled  
to meet in the open air. Most of the wealthy owners  
of land adhere to the establishment, and refuse to fur- 
nish land for a free church on any terms ;—in some  
instances forbidding their tenants to harbor a free  
church minister. This must, of course, cause great  
bitterness of feeling towards the Queen and her gov- 
ernment. In one instance, one of the noble seceders  
having left his comfortable home, and given up his 
salary, lives in a small vessel on the water, upon what  
his poor hearers can give him, besides paying taxes  
for a minister they will not hear. In another parish,  
a father and son are both preachers. The father ad- 
heres to the establishment, and preaches in the church,  
to his wife alone, while the son preaches to all the  
parish in the open air.  
Thus the people are distressed, and the government  
is perplexed.  
Leaving Great Britain, we come to FRANCE. Here  
Popery is the prevailing form, but infidelity pervades  
the mass, from the king to the peasant. Within the  
present generation, marriage was abolished, and licen- 
tiousness still abounds-, The people are lovers of plea- 
sures, more than lovers of God. The Sabbath is a  
day of extra amusement, A few Sabbaths ago, more  
than 38,000 persons were carried from. Paris to Rouen,  
on one rail-road, to attend some public merry-making.  
The great mass of the laborers are oppressed here as 
in other nations of Europe, the landowners and manu- 
facturers have been greatly embarrassed, while the 
fact that an infant is the heir to the aged king, opens 
the door for convulsions, whenever he shall be called  
away.  
SPAIN, having just closed one bloody revolution, is  
already commencing another.  
In tha Papal States, the people have been roused up  
to rebellion, and though it was once proclaimed that  
they were subdued, we learn by the last arrival, that 
the public authorities were still set at defiance.  
In most of the other nations of the earth, the people  
are suffering in the midst ofplenty, from cruel exactions  
and scanty wages, while many of the governments  
are hopelessly bankrupt. A paragraph in one of our  
exchange papers, states the following to be the aver- 
age wages of labor, in the countries named.  
Great Britain, 8s Od or 176 cts. per week.  
France, 7s Od or 154 " "  
Switzerland, 5s 7d or 123 " "  
Belgium, 6s Od or 132 " "  
Austria, 3s Od or 66 " "  
Saxony, 2s Od or 44 " "  
Let us imagine the privations and sufferings which  
liese millions of laborers must endure, and when we  
add the sufferings of serfs and slaves, we shall rejoice  
to read : " For the oppression ofthe poor and the sigh- 

ing ofthe needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord:"  
"I will break in pieces the oppressor."  
BISHOP JEWELL.  
This  learned English writer and Episcopal Bishop was  
one of the bright lights of the Reformation. He was  
born in 1522,—five years from the time Luther published  
his Theses against the blasphemous pretensions of Po- 
pery in the sale of Indulgences. Of course the light of  
the Reformation was just penetrating England, when he 
was receiving his education at Oxford, where he was  
afterwards made tutor, and inculcated the  principles of  
the gospel upon his pupils, even in the reign of the ty-
rant, Henry VIII. After Henry's death, he came out  
more bold, but when "Bloody Mary" ascended the throne  
in 1553, he was obliged to flee from England. After her  
death he returned, and was active in promoting true re- 
ligion. The following character is given him in James' 
Christian Biography : " He was a prelate of great learn-
ing, piety, and moderation ; irreproachable in his private  
life, extremely generous and charitable to the poor, to  
whom, it is said, his door stood always open. He was  
modest, meek and temperate, and a great master of his  
passions." Among his writings, was an " Exposition of  
the two Epistles to the Thessalonians.'' If any of our 
readers have that work, we should be glad to see it. We 
find the following extract in an exchange paper. He  
believed in a pre-millennial advent of Christ,—like  
Leighton, Chillingworth, Baxter, Knox, Fletcher, Gill,  
Chalmers, and a host of others whom the present church  
delights to honor, while they despise or persecute us  
who hold the "like precious frith."  
"ANTI-CHRIST TO BE DESTROYED.—Here mark the  
apostle's speech. He saith not, God shall convert Anti- 
christ, or change his heart that he may be saved : but he 
saith, 'Whom the Lord shall consume.' God's word is 
almighty. By his word he can do whatsoever pleaseth  
him. He can make the deaf to hear, and the blind to  
see. He was able to call the thief upon the cross ro  
repentance. He was able to raise up Lazarus  out of his  
grave. He is able of stones to raise up children to Abra-
ham He can throw down every high thing, that is ex-
alted above the glory of God ; and will bring kings and  
princes, and the rulers of the earth, to the obedience of  
Christ. Put of Antichrist it is said : ' The Lord shall  
consume him with the spirit of' his mouth, and shall de-
stroy him with the brightness of his coming.' Such is 
the hardness and blindness of his heart he will not re- 
ceive the love of the truth of God, that he might be 
saved. Therefore destruction shall come upon him.  
" Hereby we are taught what to think or hope, of re- 
formation of the abuses and errors of the Church of  
Rome."  
" MEN'S HEARTS FAILING THEM."—The bitter hos- 
tility of sects to each other has just been illustrated 
in the case of Mr. Seyes, missionary to Liberia. Mr.  
Pinney, in the Colonization Herald, published an arti-
cle which was supposed to reflect severely on this fel- 
low-laborer in the same cause. The editor of the 
Christian Advocate and Journal defends Mr. Seys, and 
says, of the opposing editor .  
"We consider him as actuated by sectarian jealousy.  
We are indignant at this outrage on Christian fueling  
and interests. Oun HOPES ARE BLASTED—our fondest,  
dearest hopes. WE SKE NOTHING BUT CLOUDS AND 
DARKNESS on the pathway of Colonization and Afri-
can missions. The sectarian envy, and bigotry, which 
have brought all this about, shall be exposed, that no  
man may venture upon the same Jesuitical  policy here- 
after.  
" He must take back, without reserve, what he has  
said of the Rev. John Seys, or prepare to defend it.  
W7e will not abate one  iota of this demand. Mr. Seys  
is a minister of OUR CHURCH, a brother beloved. lie  
is highly esteemed among us. His character is iden-
tified with the reputation of the Church of which he is  
a minister, while the Church commends him to the  
confidence of the community as sustaining that sacred  
function. His assailant must retract his allegations,  
sustain them, or take the consequences."  
No wonder men's hearts are failing in view of the  
divisions among professed Christians which are ren- 
dering the spread of Christianity hopeless.  

BRO. FITCH—DISCUSSION AT OBERLIN.  
We learn from the " Second Advent," at  Cleve- 
land, that Bro. Fitch has held another discussion with 
the Professors at Oberlin Seminary. Prof. Cowles  
has written a series of twenty or thirty articles in  
favor of a millennium, but it seems he was not able to 
overthrow the arguments of brother Fitch. Professor  
Mahan is in the condition of thousands, who have a .  
favorite theory, and then try their utmost to bend the  
Scriptures so as to fit it. The temporal millennium  
preachers are just learning with surprise and mortifi- 
cation, that the Bible won't bend. The following is the 
account of the discussion, as given by bro. Smead.  
" I was present some eight or nine days. Most of  
the time the kindest spirit prevailed. I believe good  
will result.  
The Abrahamic Covenant was the main subject of  
discussion. Bro. Fitch presented his views the first  
evening. Pres. Mahan followed him, taking the posi- 
tion that there was but ONE Covenant made with Abra-
ham, relating to the LAND of Canaan; and this he 
showed was fulfilled in his literal seed.  
Brother Fitch then quoted several passages from the  
Old and New Testaments, which proved satisfactorily  
to my mind, that there  were two distinct Covenants  
made with Abraham—one to him and his seed ; the 
other to his seed alone—the last of which was fulfilled 
to the letter in the literal possession by the literal seed 
of Abraham, of the literal land of Canaan. The  
covenant made with Abraham and his seed is yet to be 
fulfilled in the possession of the new earth. The cov-
enant made with Abraham,  in reference to his SEED  
alone, is found in Gen. 15 : 18, " Unto THY SEED have  
I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto  the  
great river, the river Euphrates :" the boundaries spe- 
cifically pointed out. The other covenant yet to be 
fulfilled, to Abraham and Siisseed, is found in Gen. 13 :  
14, " Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place  
where thou art, northward, and  southward, and east- 
ward, and westward ; for all the land which thou seest,  
to thee will 1 give it, and to thy seed forever.''''  Here  
no boundaries are given.  
Pres. Mahan labored assiduously to maintain his  
position, that there was but one covenant made to  
Abraham relating to the land, but to my mind, he did  
not effect his purpose. He undertook to prove, by !  
reference to one or two passages, that the promise to \  
Abraham was fulfilled TO him IN his seed; but this is ' 
at war with Paul's testimony in Heb. 11: 13, " These  
all died in faith, not having received the promises."  
Now, Abraham, as we learn from Heb. 11:8, "When  
he was called to go out into a place which  he should  
AFTER receive for an inheritance, obeyed ;" and in- 
asmuch as he " died not having received the promises,"  
but confessed himself to be " a stranger and pilgrim,"  
we are constrained to differ from Bro. Mahan. Abra- 
ham " looked for a city which hath foundations, whose  
builder and maker is God," and therefore "he sojourn-
ed in the land of promise, as in a strange country,  
dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs  
with him of the same promise."  
I have been much benefitted by the discussion of  
this question, and am more fully and intelligently con- 
firmed in the opinion I before entertained, that " the  
meek shall inherit the earth" literally, in accordance  
with the promise made to Abraham and his seed, and  
in fulfillment of the prediction in Rev. 11  : 15, " And  
the seventh angel sounded ; and there were great  
voices in heaven saying, The kingdoms of this world  
are become the kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ, 
and he shall reign forever and ever."  
Bro. Mahan did not attempt to remove the objections  
to his views, contained in the 11th chapter of Hebrews.  
Here is the grand bulwark, as I understand it, of our  
faith  respecting the covenant. Now, until he can  
show that Paul is mistaken, when he says, " these all  
died in faith, not having received the promises," and  
until he can disprove the testimony of Stephen, in 
Acts 7: 5, and he gave him none inheritance in it, no,  
not so much as to set his foot on : yet he promised that  
he would give it to him for a possession, and to his  
seed after him," I must, as an honest inquirer after  
truth, conclude that the views he entertains, on this  
point, are radically defective.  
The reader is particularly requested to read Heb.  
II : 8—19, and Gal. 4 : 22—31.  
There is a blessed prospect for those who, " as  
Isaac was, are the children of promise," for we are  
not children of the bondwoman, but of the free." 'But  
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as then, he that was born after the flesh persecuted  
him that was born after the spirit, even so it is now.'  
The next question discussed by the brethren was,  
" Will Christ take possession of this earth by the des-
truction, or by the conversion of the wicked]" Bro.  
Fitch presented his reasons for believing that it would 
be accomplished by the destruction of the wicked. He 
quoted a number of passages ; but I will mention but 
one. This you will find in 2 Thess. 2 : 1—10. From  
this we learn that the man of sin or the " wicked," (i.  
e.) Papacy) shall be consumed with the spirit of his  
mouth, and destroyed with the brightness of his com- 
ing. He argued from this, that if there was to be a  
temporal millennium,  it must necessarily be a Roman  
Catholic one, because this power is to prevail, accord- 
ing to Dan. 7: 23, until the ancient of Days shall sit,  
and judgment be given to the saints ofthe Most High, 
and the time comes that the saints are to possess the  
kingdom. We also learn that this is to take place 
when the time comes for judging the dead, Rev. 11 ;  
8, and when those who destroy the earth are to be  
destroyed.  
Prof. Cowles spent some time in endeavoring to show  
that the world was to be converted ; but as the ques- 
tion came up in a little different form from what he ex-
pected, he said he was not fully prepared, and the re- 
marks which he made, for this or some other reason,  
failed to effect my mind seriously ; and some others 
expressed themselves in a similar manner in my hear-
ing. The discussion was then suspended for two or  
three days.  
The evening before I left Oberlin, bro. Fitch pre- 
sented his views on the text ; " Wilt thou at this time  
restore the kingdom to Israel." This subject was pre- 
sented to the readers of the ' Second Advent' in the  
first number. T. II. S.  
Will brother Smead please send the first number to  
which he alludes, to this office, with bro. Fitch's enr- 
ractions'?  
From the same paper, we learn that a Second Advent  
Protracted Meeting was to commence at Cleveland,  
Oct. 16. We also copy the following paragraph, which  
will give our readers an idea of the movements of our  
brethren in Ohio.  
LECTURES.—Bro. Fitch closed his labors at Oberlin.  
last Thursday, Oct. 5th, and has returned to Cleveland.  
Brother Pickands lectured in this city last evening, and  
expects to spend the Sabbath with us. Bro. Needham  
is on his way to Akron. Bro. Desper has returned to  
the East. Bro. St. John has returned from Canada, 
and reports that brethren Reed and Campbell are still  
successfully presenting the evidence of Christ's speedy  
coming, and says some five or six other lecturers are  
laboring in that field. Several brethren have recently  
gone out from Cleveland and Akron to proclaim the 
midnight cry. Brethren Boggs and Mathews are  
working with their hands to supply their necessities—  
cannot some brethren who have the means give them a 
lift 1 Bro. Craddock writes us that he meets with good  
encouragement in his labors. He says, " I have full  
houses, but there is a great deal of ignorance of, and 
prejudice against the Second Advent doctrine." Bro. 
Pope is lecturing in Portage  and Summit counties.  
Bro. Rausch is lecturing in the German language ; he  
proposes to visit and lecture in some parts of Pennsyl- 
vania.  
LETTER FROM MARYLAND.  
At the Camp-meeting in Gettysburg, we became  
acquainted with the writer of the following, who came  
from Maryland to attend it. The meetings of which  
he speaks, are held by the brethren of the " Church  
of God," called Winebrennerians:  
UNIONTOWN, Oct. 10, 1843.  
Dear Brother Southard,—I send you a few lines,  
according to promise, to inform you of the state of  
things in Maryland. The week following the meeting  
you held at brother Young's, near Gettysburgh, I  
went to the Hagertown camp-meeting, held by the  
" Church of God." The brethren were all alive to  
the second coming of the dear Saviour. Brethren  
William Miller [of  Pa.,] Keller, McKay and others  
were there, who proclaim the midnight cry with  
much assurance. Bro. Miller said he would not  
long walk on this old earth, nor on pavements  of  
brick, but on the gold paved streets ofthe new Jeru-
salem ; he said it was the most glorious doctrine he 
ever heard, and declared it to be unanswerable. Oh !  
to think, said he, that in a few more days I shall be  
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forever free from  all the troubles, crosses, and priva- 
tions of this world, and that, without tasting death ;— 
that, with my companion and little ones, and all the  
dear children of God, we shall be changed from mor-
tal to immortality,perhaps with a prayer half uttered,  
or a song of praise half sung, fills my soul with joy  
inexpressable.  
On Sunday night, Bro. Keller preached a powerful  
sermon from Rev. 6 : 12 to the end, in which he 
clearly showed that we were living in the very end of  
time. The children of God shouted for joy and sin- 
ners  were brought to fear and tremble. Between  
thirty and forty embraced religion; thirty were bap- 
tized.  
Our own camp-meeting commenced the week fol- 
lowing, in which we had a joyful time. Many re- 
joiced to think their Saviour was so nigh at hand.  
Bro. Ross, of Middletown, Pa. rejoiced exceedingly.  
Twenty-five were baptized on a profession of their  
faith in Christ. Our beloved brother McFadden is  
sounding the near approach of the Saviour with 
trumpet-tongue, and preaches as if every sermon was  
to be his last.  
Scoffers still abound, and some use language, un- 
heard of in the dark ages of popish tyranny, against  
the " Millerites," as they call them. I believe the  
time is at hand. I would not give the " Midnight 
Cry," theglorious news therein contained,and the light  
it has reflected upon the Bible, for all this world calls  
good or great. The vast amount of good it has done 
and is still doing, eternity alone can reveal. Go on,  
my dear brother, in the good work. Soon your troub- 
les will be ended.  
Yours in the hope of meeting in the new earth,  
GEORGE  GARNER.  
INTERESTING LETTER FROM THE WEST.  
The following, though from an unknown brother, and  
describing the affairs of a single village, is such a 
fair specimen of the worse than Babylonish jargon of 
the opponents of the advent nigh, that we publish it 
entire.  
CANTON,  FULTON Co., III., )  
Sept. 28, 1843. (  
Dear Bro. Himes :—Permit a stranger to ad- 
dress you by the title of a brother in Christ, and  
let this suffice for a token of friendship between 
those who profess to receive not honor one of  
another. As we intend to raise loud the Mace- 
donian cry ; " come over and help us," it will 
be proper to give you some idea of our situation.  
Here we are, in a village of something less than  
a thousand inhabitants, containing five houses of  
public worship, and a Universal meeting-house  
in progress. Thus you see that party lines are  
strictly drawn. Three proud steeples lift their  
domes towards heaven, but how much do we  
hear of the coming one % I will tell you. From  
the pulpits of the three steeple-houses we heard  
nothing until last spring, when a young Metho- 
dist brother, who had studied the subject a few 
weeks, delivered some two or three lectures.  
This was sufficient to arouse the attention of the  
learned clergy. For fear those lectures would  
do us much harm, each, in his turn, came out 
opposed, and although their views were very 
different, yet all agreed the day of Christ's re- 
coming was far in the shades of the future. Thus 
" Herod and Pilate (for a time, at least,) were  
made friends."  
One took the ground that Christ would appear,  
and the righteous dead would be raised, at the  
commencement of the millennium, but that pre- 
vious to this, the Jews would return to Palestine,  
and rebuild Jerusalem, and that they have a claim  
to that country by virtue of  a title from Jehovah ;  
they having kept or fulfilled their part of the  
contract or covenant, to wit, circumcision. ^JPJ  
He said the 2300 days of Dan. 8 : 14, were a  
prediction of their return. He thought they  
would begin to return this year, and by the year  
1850 all would have gone home ; but the coming  
of Christ would be about the year 1873. He 
said much of the prophecies have not been ful-
filled. 1. There should be wars and rumors of  

wars. 2. There should be pestilences and 
earthquakes in divers places, all at the same  
time. This had never been. 3. There should  
be false Christs and false prophets :—there had  
not been more than two or three false Christs, at  
most, and therefore, they must come yet. He  
finally wound up by an exhortation to be ready ;  
for we know not when he will come.  
Another minister preached two sermons, that  
might be called lectures against the prophecies. 
On the subject of the God of heaven setting up  
a kingdom, he said it was already set up, and  
quoted, I believe, every place in the New Testa-
ment where the words, " Kingdom of heaven"  
are found, and gave us to understand that they all  
meant the Christian era ; and quoting Dan. 2: 34 
said, the stone cut out of the mountain without  
hands, smote the image when our Saviour was 
here, and all was fulfilled by his destroying the  
Roman power! seeming to forget that the Roman  
power smote him even unto his death, and then  
continued near five hundred years afterwards:—  
thus making the smiting and breaking of the  
clay, the iron, the brass, the silver, and the gold,  
all to take place before the Roman empire was  
divided, or any of the lower limbs of the image  
formed! We would naturally inquire what  
kind of a kingdom that must be where the  King  
tells his subjects their names shall be cast out as  
evil,—they shall be counted the offscouring of all  
things, and that they should be  spit upon, and  
whipt from city to city, and whosoever killeth 
them thinketh he doeth God service.  
Another minister took for his text, Matt. 8 :  
12, with the reference to Luke 13 : 28, 29, and  
attempted to prove that  the Jews (the children of  
the kingdom) were thrust out of the church (the  
kingdom) leaving us to infer, that they, the Jews, 
have long been knocking at the door of the  
church, and the Master answering, I know not  
whence ye are,—and that the Jews are now in out-
er darkness weeping, and wailing, and gnashing  
their teeth, when they see many coming from  
the east, and the west, and the north, and the  
south, and sitting down with Abraham, and Isaac,  
and Jacob, and they themselves thrust out of the  
church ! The many coming from the east,  and  
the west, &c., he said, was prophecy, concerning 
bringing the Gentiles into the church, and quoted,  
as fulfillment, Acts 2 : 5, to the end of the chap- 
ter, " And there were dwelling at Jerusalem  
SP Jews, devout men, out of every nation  
under heaven, &c.  
Thus you see what kind of food (?) the people  
are fed with. Yet these men will tell us of a  
glorious day just dawning upon the world, talk of  
advances that are made upon Satan's empire, and  
tell how fast the world is growing better, and call 
upon us to sustain the institutions for the spread  
of the gospel, and help to send such preaching 
as the above all over the earth.  
But enough of this! There are a few names  
here who love His appearing, and anxiously look  
for Him to come, whose might it is to reign. We  
meet together on Tuesday nights, and study  
the Scriptures, to see if these things are so. We 
sing and pray, and sit together in heavenly places  
Christ Jesus, and find that wheretwo or three  
in are gathered together in his name, there he  
is in the midst of them, and that to bless. Now  
what can be  done towards sending a lecturer  
here? What will be done 1 If a lecturer can come,  
we can promise to furnish a comfortable room to  
lecture in, and think that the people would come  
out to hear, for although many are saying,  
Where is the promise of his coming 1 and cry  
Peace and safety, yet evidently very little of  
peace or safety is felt; but  money as remunera- 
tion for his time and labor, we could not promise, 
for those who have this world's goods, do not  
like to hear of parting with them so soon, and


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they will keep their hearts and their treasures  
together as long as possible. Time wanes, and  
I must close. In behalf of those who look for  
His coming, and earnestly pray, " Even so, come  
Lord Jesus, Oh come quickly, Amen,"—I sub- 
scribe. Yours,  
LORING AMES.  
This letter may reach the eye of some friend who  
is already at the west, and the call may be answered,  
but we can send no one from here.  
LETTER FROM BRO. MATTHIAS.  
Dear Bro. Southard,—I have just returned from  
Albany, where I have labored upwards of two weeks,  
and I trust much good has been effected. We held  
three meetings a day, generally prayer meetings at 6  
o'clock in the morning, lecture or conferrence at- 3 
P. M., and preaching in the evening. The attendance 
was good—-souls were quickened, and sinners con-
verted (some five or six hopeful converts.)  
The Adventists have established a school for chil- 
dren, which will no doubt be well supported. It is "a 
day school." The only book in use is the Bible, except-
ing for those who cannot read. The exercises  
to be reading, or recitation, writing, &c., &c.  
The brethren are doing much good in visiting the  
prisons, and going out trito the highways and hedges.  
I visited the gaol with several brethren, and found  
about 40 priosners; some well dressed and some mis-
erably clad, some good looking and intelligent, others 
bruised, mangled and wretched. They all listened  
with interest to our remarks on the glorious appearing 
of the King of Zion. They liked the idea of a better 
kingdom than the kingdoms of this world, and wept 
when we told them that he that is to be king sympa- 
thises with the poor and the distressed. They gener- 
ally promised that they would strive to meet us in the  
kingdom of God, and all knell when we prayed, and  
many seemed broken hearted. Say to our brethren 
through the Cry visit prisons, poor-houses, asylums,  
&c. God has diamonds in these rough qurrries. He  
can get fine gold out of this dross.  
Yours, in the hope of seeing the Lord this year,  
BARNET  MATTHIAS.  
LETTER FROM MICHIGAN.  
AUBURN, Michigan, Oct. 9, 1843.  
Dear Bro. Southard,—The Midnight Cry still con- 
tinues to be spiritual food to my hungry soul. Atkins,  
of England, on the apostacy of the Church, and Filch,  
on " Come out of her my People," are good, and have  
done  mo soul more good than all the preaching I have  
heard for six months. I hope God will support you in  
all your trials, and help you to persevere to the end,  
for at the end ofthe race lies the crown.  
I am still as strong as ever in the faith of seeing  
my Lord corninp in the clouds this year. There are  
a few in these parts who are partial believers in the  
second advent of Christ,"but they stumble at the time.  
They think there may be some mistake about the year.  
To me, the time seems as clear as any other 'part of  
Scripture. It has all been  set forth in the Midnight  
Cry; but I will give a few out of the many reasons I  
have for believing that this is ihe year that we shall 
see the Son of man coming in the clouds.  
In the first place tbe 70 weeks, or 490 days (which  
terminated at the crucifixion) taken from the 2300, 
leaving 1810, which, added to the year 33, reach to  
this year ; also the prediction of the downfall of Popery,  
which took place in 1798. The 45 days—the differ- 
ence between 1790 and 1335—bring us to this year.  
The church in the wilderness, the two witnesses, &c..  
in sackcloth, both bring us to 1798, and the same 42  
added, point to thts year. Now, why should any be- 
lievers doubt. Is it not because of unbelief? God  
requires faith, and those who rejept this after seeing  
the light, or who re'use to examine it, can, on the same  
ground reject the whole Bible, i am afraid that many  
who reject the advent doctrine (because they are not 
irresistibly convinced ofthe time) will be among the un- 
believers.  
Oh, that God would send us some Second Advent  
lecturers, that might be instrumental in the hands of  
God in opening the eyes ofthe blind on the all-important  
subject of a coming Saviour. Is there no brother at  
the east who will come to Michigan, and sound the mid-
night cry to 200,000 slumbering virgins or sinners 1—  
Come right to Auburn, Oakland county, and you shall  
find open places in abundance, and God, only, knows  

how many may be brought to a knowledge of the truth.  
I can hear every day, almost, sayings that the Apostles 
foretold would be said in the last days. Every thing  
said and done seems to be a fulfilment of some Scrip-
ture prediction of the end of time. Oh, that I could  
only see some of the full believers from the east  and  
hear them speak on the coming of my dear Saviour 
But I expect to see you all soon, on the blessed banks 
of deliverance, where we shall meet, for the first  
time, to part no more.  
Yours, in the blessed hope,  
GEO. HOSSLER.  
WILL PAPACY HAVE DOMINION AGAIN ?  
In the Western Midnight Cry, Bro. Storrs gives us  
the following interesting thoughts on this question.  
They are called forth by an article which first appear-
ed in the Xenia (O.) Reformer, ancl was copied into 
the Millennial  Harbinger for Sept. Bro. Storrs' notes  
are referred to by the figures.  
" CATHOLICS.  
" There are now six hundred and fifty-six  
Catholic churches in the United States, and one  
million five hundred thousand communicants.  
They report an increase of two hundred thou- 
sand in the year 1842. It  is said there are 1200  
members in the town of Dayton, Ohio.  
" The object of the Catholic effort is, to unite  
all Christians in one body ; the tendency of Pro- 
testant partizan movements is to divide them  
asunder. The Protestants should imitate tbe  
Catholics in their efforts to union ; the Catholics  
should imitate the Protestants in their efforts for  
reformation. The Catholics and Protestants are  
each right in some things ; neither is right in all  
things.  
" There is now a virtual union between the  
Prussian Empire and Rome, and Great Britian, 
the last Great Protestant power, is rapidly verg-
ing into the same relation. This clone, and the  
stairway is completed for the Pope's second  
ascent to the throne of the Old World. [1] Should  
this happen to transpire before the close of 1843,  
tbe event will be of sufficient importance to  
meet the universal expectations and forebodings  
ofthe times. [2]  
"Who can tell but that the sanctuary of the  
church is to be cleansed by the fire of the Papal  
scourge 1 Might not the Divine Being usc lbe 
Papacy as a rod of correction to his saints, and  
by this means purge his people from all their  
corruption, hypocrasy, worldly-mindedness, and 
sectarianism ; and then commit this, his last rod,  
to everlasting destruction 1 [4]  
" That the Papacy is to have a second rise to  
power, see Rev. chapter 17." [5]  
1. If he has "the throne of the Old World,"  
there is no prophecy that again puts the 4 saints  
into his hands,' that be should have ' dominion'  
over them. That dominion is taken away, and  
be is to be consumed, and destroyed ' unto tbe end.'  
—If then he ascends the fchrone of the Old  
World, it is not to hold that power, but to let him  
have that exaltation which corresponds with the  
prophecy, Rev. 18 : 7, " She saith in her heart,  
I sit a queen, and am no widow,' but, at the time  
she thus talks, ' shall her plagues come in one  
day, death, and mourning, and famine ; and she  
shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong is the  
Lord God that judgeth her.'  
2. How so % Are the ' forebodings of the  
times' marked with nothing but infidelity 1  For,  
I repeat it, Papacy is not a,gain to exercise do- 
minion over tbe saints—its time for that has ex-
pired. If, therefore, it is again to be exalted to  
dominion, at that identical point will tbe Lord  
Jesus Christ destroy her ' by the brightness of 
his coming.' To believe otherwise it appears to 
us is infidelity.  
3. 'Who can tell' but that Satan will turn  
' Reformer'' in tbe 19th century % Doth Satan 
cast out Satan % Never was he such a fool as  

that yet; and we do not believe that he will try  
that experiment after an experience of 6000  
years. No, Jesus Christ cleanseth his sanctuary 
if ever it is cleansed, but he does not cast out  
devils by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. But  
the sanctuary to be cleansed is not the church. It  
is the sanctuary trodden under foot with the host.  
If the host is the church; as we think, all must  
admit, then the sanctuary must be something  
else, as it is trodden under foot  with the host,  
which shows it is not the host, or church. What-
ever the sanctuary is, then, it is not the church.  
In another place we may show what it is.  
4. ' The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from  
all sin ;' and the saints 'wash their robes' and  
make them ' white in tbe blood of the Lamb,'  
and not by such a filthy pool as papacy; and we  
venture the opinion, that if Papacy comes to the  
dominion to which this article refers, and time  
lasts, the great body ofthe  Protestants, so called,  
will go over to her, instead of being cleansed by  
her ' as a rod.' We do not believe in a Papal 
purgatory. God has another way to make his 
people holy. As to ' corruption, hypocrisy,  
worldly-mindedness, and sectarianism,' they be- 
long to sectarian churches, and not to the church  
of God ; such churches are to be destroyed—not  
cleansed; are a part of the '•man of sin,'' and it is  
a vain hope to think they are ever to be cleansed.  
5. If Papacy has a ' second rise,'' it is not ' to  
power,' but to ' go into perdition.' The text re-
ferred to in Rev. 17tli, expressly says, that ' the 
beast shall ascend out of tbe bottomless pit and  
go,' not mto poicer a second time, but ' INTO PER- 
DITION :' but this does not take place till the  
' brightness' of our Lord's ' Coming/ See 2 Thess. 
2:8. So that the only event, which can be of 
' sufficient importance to meet tbe universal ex- 
pectation and forebodings of tbe times,' is not the  
triumph ofthe Man of Sin, but bis destruction by 
the Son of Man coming in tbe clouds of heaven.  
And this is further confirmed by our Saviour in  
Luke 21: 26, 27. ' Men's hearts failing them  
for fear, and for looking after those things which  
are coming on the earth ; for tbe powers of hea- 
ven shall be shaken. And THEN SHALL THEY SEE  
THE SON  OF MAN COMING IN A CLOUD WITH POWER  
AND GREAT GLORY.'  
Here is the event, most clearly, that is to be of  
' sufficient importance to meet the universal ex  
pectations and forebodings of the times ;' and it 
is expressly foretold that just such forebodings 
would immediately precede that glorious appear-
ing of our Lord; and the saints are commanded,  
when these 'times' arrive, to 'look up, and lift 
up your heads, for your redemption draweth 
nigh,' instead of which, if these 'forebodings'  
were to be evidence of the 'second rise to pow-
er,' of tbe Man of Sin, one would think they  
would have been told to flee again into the wil- 
derness.  
Second Advent believers—Beware of any cry  
at this time, of ' lo here, or lo there.' Let not  
your minds for a moment be turned off from the  
great event of your Lord's appearing in tbe  
clouds of heaven. If by any means the adversary 
can divert your minds to some other object than  
tbe advent itself, just in that proportion your  
faith will be weakened, and you may thus be  
entangled in the affairs ' of this life, and so that 
day come upon you unawares.'  
We consider the article under consideration,  
well calculated to mislead and deceive unwary 
souls, who are halting between two opinions. It 
is a perfect ' non-committal,' and is calculated, if  
not intended, to be a stepping stone,  to allow a  
man to turn any way and hold on to his reputation,  
the love of which is as great a sin as 'hypocrisy,  
sectarianism,' &c. ' How can ye believe that 
receive honor one of another V  
•


THE DARK DAY.  
Hon. Wheeler Martin has favored the editor  
of the Providence Subaltern with the following  
recollections of the dark day in 1780.  
j The dark day was on the 19th of May, 1780.  
! Where I resided at that time, the darkness at 11  
| o'clock was so great, that a candle was lighted  
[ and placed upon the table ;—the fowls went to  
| roost;—the sheep all huddled around in a circle  
with their heads inward. The grass to look at it  
through the window, seemed of a yellow green ;  
the same as to look through smoked glass upon 
green grass.  
I well remember that the gentleman of the  
house, read the following Scripture by candle 
light, to his numerous family :  
" The sun shall be turned into darkness, and  
the moon into blood, before that great and nota- 
ble day of the Lord's coming."  
The darkness was so great in the night time,  
that it was said by one Dr. Blackington, who re- 
sided in the north-east part of Rehoboth, who  
had occasion to be out among his sick patients 
that night, that he could not see his white pocket- 
handkerchief placed before bis  eyes. The dark- 
ness was so thick that it could be felt.  
The year 1780 was celebrated for its many  
northern lights ; they covered the whole horizon 
over;—they would flash like lightning and fill 
the air with the smell of sulphur. The lights  
were so red, that the flashes would bring warmth  
against the face.  
THE EXETER CAMP MEETING closed on Tues- 
day morning, Oct. 3rd. The meeting through-
out was characterized by good order, and  
freedom from fanaticism. The great propor- 
tion of the friends in this vicinity are so#firmly 
grounded on the word of God, that when any 
endeavor to go counter to the letter and spirit of 
that word, they have to go alone. The Bible,  
the Bible, and that alone is the standard of our  
faith.  
Mr. Miller was on the ground Monday and  
Tuesday, and addressed the congregation. His  
health is much improved, and his faith firm.—  
The meeting was conducted with great harmony,  
souls were converted, backsliders reclaimed, and  
many were brought to see and acknowledge the 
truth of the advent near, among whom were  
several ministers. We have great cause to  
praise God for this feast of tabernacles, and trust  
that the seed there sown may be blessed to  
many souls.—Signs of the Times.  
THE LITTLE HORN PREVAILING.—We" learn  
that the Romanists in St. Pie in Canada East, 
are wreaking their vengeance upon the Protes- 
tants of that  place. The Franklin, Vt., Messen- 
ger says :—  
" A friend who has visited that place the past  
week, informs us that one night, the Catholics  
encouraged undoubtedly by. the priests, made an  
attack upon the mission-house, (Mr. Du Clos,'we  
suppose,) and demolished the doors, windows,  
&c. Upon such demonstrations, the Protestants  
called^on the magistrates of the village for pro- 
tection, but received none. The mob, believing 
that the magistrates feared personal violence, or  
winked at their doings, were still more encour- 
aged, and on Friday night last, set fire to the  
house, which was burnt, with all its contents.  
At this junction, the Protestants sent for a  
magistrate at Granby, Mr. Lyman, [who, by the  
way, is a good, substantial, six feet Yankee,] who  
immediately proceeded to the scence of action,  
called out a company of militia, and organized a  
body of special constables, and soon put an end  
to the disturbance, by arresting and sending 
twenty-six of the rioters to Montreal prison. No 
person was killed : one constable had his arm  
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broken in attempting to arrest the ringleader,  
who with the assistance of his family, made his 
escape, though he was seriously wounded. He 
was, however, made prisoner at Little Yamaska, 
on Saturday forenoon.  
" THE FORM OF GODLINESS  WITHOUT  THE  POWER."  
— When we say that this is a sign of these days, we  
are accused of slander, and referred to the great en- 
terprises of the church, but the organs ofthe church 
confirm every word we utter. At the recent mission- 
ary meeting, Dr. Hawes said :  
" There is ability enough ; but there is a great dif- 
ference between ability and available ability. There  
are many members of the church worth $100,000, 
which might just as well be in Long Island Sound, as  
to be in their hands, so far as the ability of the church 
is concerned. The Prudential Committee are obliged  
to graduate the contribution, by the available ability  
of the churches. It had been his impression for a 
long time that this cause had gone about as far as it  
could till there was more available ability in the  
churches: which is the same as to say more piety. 
Plow then can the available ability of the churches  
be increased I It must be done by laboring to bring 
up the standard of piety, and this will create capital 
for benevolent objects."  
From tile Christian Palladium.  
THE INQUISITION IN AMERICA.  
BY ELDER D. MILLARD.  
The head of this article is no farce, but a re- 
ality. By late intelligence, it appears that a na- 
tional convention was recently convoked in the 
Republic of the Equator, to supply certain sup- 
posed deficiencies in the constitution and laws.—  
Among others, the following is one of the provi-
sions of the new constitution.  
" ARTICLE 6th. The religion ofthe Republic is  
Roman Catholic Apostolic, with the exclusion of  
every other public worship. The political authori-
ties are obliged to protect it and make it respect-
ed in the use  of patronage."  
Now, if this is not the old scarlet colored beast,  
pray what is it 1 If this does not prove that Ro- 
manism, where it has sufficient ascendency, will  
exclude all other kinds of public worship, what  
does it prove 1 Will the Pope and his college of 
cardinals condemn this tyranical edict, and rebuke  
its framers Not they. Hear what the bishop of  
Quito says in his pastoral address, in regard to this  
6th article,—' My beloved children,' [says he] 
'our heart was full of joy at the zeal which you  
have shown to preserve intact the Ploly Catholic 
religion which we profess, and has warmly parti- 
cipated in the tribulation at the apprehension that 
the 6th article of the new constitution would 
open a way for the introduction of worship, and 
the corruption of Christian morals. In conse-
quence, the convention adopted a prudent and  
wise resolution to tranquilize our consciences.  
Yea, beloved diocesans, they are pleased to ex- 
plain the aforesaicl article, by giving us to know, 
that far from protecting toleration, which we just- 
ly feared, it confirms and strengthens the law  
which authorizes the prelates to have cognizance  
of causes of faith, as did the extinguished tribu- 
nal ofthe Inquisition, with this restriction only,  
that they shall not iu this present molest foreigners  
in their private belief, while they do not propagate 
their errors.'  
Here it will be perceived that by existing law  
in Central America, Roman Catholic bishops 
have direct cognizance of causes of faith, equal to  
that of the Inquisition, as it formerly existed. So 
the bishop of Quito understands it. True, for- 
eigners are not to be molested on account of their  
private faith, provided they are careful to keep it 
private. But should a Protestant argue his faith 
in Protestantism, while within the bounds of the  
Republic of the Equator, he becomes liable to  
Inquisitorial punishment. Protestants, if they  
reside, there can hold no meetings of worship, and  

of course no Protestant must be allowed to j:>reach  
within the Republic of Panama. How much the  
Jesuits in the United States prate about liberty  
1 and the rights of conscience, but here is the liber- 
ty of Romanism carried out to perfection. Only 
give it the means, and wherein has this beast 
changed from what it was in the dark ages 1  
I freely confess there appears to me to be some- 
thing very ominous in the present movements of  
Papacy. The established church of England is  
now heaving in commotion with it, under the  
name of Puseyism. Of the 12000 Episcopal cler-
gymen in England and Wales, 9000 are said to be 
Puseyites. The Romanists are already swelling  
in prospect of soon regaining England. The pre  
sent agitation in Ireland has Romanism at the bot-
tom of it. In the United States the Episcopal  
clergymen are to a great extent tinctured with  
Puseyism, which is only papacy in disguise. The  
Roman Catholics already number their millions  
in the United States, and nearly 100,000 are add- 
ed to the number yearly by imigrations. They  
already vaunt loudly, ask strong favors of state  
governments, and are getting them allowed. Pa- 
pacy is almost wholly allied with one of the cor-
rupt political parties in our land, which bids fair  
to control the nation. But I will not now express  
all that I feel on the subject. Time must reveal  
what will be the result of all these movements.  
West Bloomfield, Sept. 12, 1843.  
We think the great words of Papacy, the bloody deeds  
of Mahometanism, the daring out-breaks of the spirit of  
violence and licentiousness, are indeed ominous, that  
soon Christ's kingdom shall be established on the ruins of 
Antichrist's, and  we trust our brother unites in saying)  
even so, come quickly.  
CINCINNATI, OHIO.  
Bro. Himes writes, Oct. 12 :  
" The 1 College Hall,' which the Adventists have  
occupied in this city at a rent of about $2000 per an- 
num, has been let to others.  
" The place would not accommodate one-half who  
wished to hear every night in the week.  
" No church or public building can be obtained  
which will answer any purpose, for the multitudes  
who desire to attend. So great is the interest, the 
brethren talk of erecting a ' Tabernacle.'  
" I lecture in the MARKET PLACE next Sabbath, and  
start for home on Monday next, by the  way of Phila- 
delphia and New York.  
"Bro. Storrs has just gone to the camp-meeting in  
Brownsville, Ind. Brn. Stevens and Boyer accom-
panied him. The cause is onward in the west.  
Yours in the blesses hope, J. V. PIIMES."  
'The books ordered by Bro. Savvin, have been for- 
warded to his address, Port Stanley, Canada West.  
WESTERN MIDNIGHT CRV.—Bro. Storrs is requested  
to send us twenty-five copies of each number, from the 
first, and continue them weekly. Those who have  
ordered them will please call soon, and obtain them.  
LETTERS RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK  
ENDING OCTOBER 18.  
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Norwalk, O. ; Yates, N. Y.; Auburn, Mich.; East Plain-
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North Goshen, Conn.; North Wardsboro, Yt, each $2.  
Warrensville, Pa.; Richwood, Ala. ; Naples, N. Y,;  
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O. ; Philadelphia, Pa.  
INDIVIDUALS.—Geo. Garner ; Wm. D. Fuller; John H.  
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Bazel Simms, Washington City, $4.  
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rjixasm/mmoemsmak^.  
The waters of strife and bitterness are poisoning the 
religious communion and intercourse by which Scot- 
land has been so long distinguished. These difficul- 
ties originate with the relations existing between  
Church and State. The clergy were desirous of se-
curing to the people more power in the selection of  
pastors than was allowed by government. Having  
matured and adopted what they deemed proper forms  
of proceeding, a delegation proceeded to London to  
confer with the Ministry, by whom their proposition  
was discourteously rejected. The clergy having gone  
too far to recede, hundreds of them have relinquished  
their Churches. The followers of the dissenting min- 
isters are erecting new Churches."  
This movement is separating the precious from the  
vile. The people of God are tried, and, we trust, pu- 
rified and made white. The whole land is abundantly  
supplied with places of worship and houses for the  
preachers, but they belong to the government, and can  
be retained only by submission, unworthy of men and  
Christians. Several hundred ministers have nobly re- 
nounced their salaries and their homes. Six hundred  
places of worship are needed for their congregations,  
which now meet in barns, private houses, or halls,  
where they can get them; but are frequently compelled  
to meet in the open air. Most of the wealthy owners  
of land adhere to the establishment, and refuse to fur-
nish land for a free church on any terms ;—in some  
instances forbidding their tenants to harbor a free  
church minister. This must, of course, cause great  
bitterness of feeling towards the Queen and her gov- 
ernment. In one instance, one of the noble seceders 
having left his comfortable home, and given up his 
salary, lives in a small vessel on the water, upon what  
his poor hearers can  give him, besides paying taxes  
for a minister they will not hear. In another parish, 
a father and son are both preachers. The father ad- 
heres to the establishment, and preaches in the church, 
to his wife alone, while the son preaches to all the 
parish in the open air.  
Thus the people are distressed, and the government  
is perplexed.  
Leaving Great Britain, we come to FRANCE. Here  
Popery is the prevailing form, but infidelity pervades  
the mass, from the king to the peasant. Within the  
present generation, marriage was abolished, and licen- 
tiousness still abounds; The people are lovers of plea- 
sures, more than lovers of God. The Sabbath is a 
day of extra amusement, A few Sabbaths ago, more  
than 38,000 persons were carried from Paris to Rouen,  
on one rail-road, to attend some public merry-making.  
The great mass of the laborers are oppressed here as 
in other nations of Europe, the landowners and manu- 
facturers have been greatly embarrassed, while the 
fact that  an infant is the heir to the aged king, opens  
the door for convulsions, whenever he shall be called  
away.  
SPAIN, having just closed one bloody revolution, is  
already commencing another.  
In tho Papal States, the people have been roused up  
to rebellion, and though it was once proclaimed that 
they were subdued, we learn by the last arrival, that 
the public authorities were still set at defiance.  
In most of the other nations of the earth, the people  
are suffering in the midst of plenty, from cruel exactions  
and scanty wrages, while many of the governments  
are hopelessly bankrupt. A paragraph in one of our 
exchange papers, states the following to be the aver-
age wages of labor, in the countries named.  
Great Britain, 8s Od or 176 cts. per week.  
France, 7s Od or 151 "  
Switzerland, 5s 7d or 123 " "  
Belgium, 6s Od or 132 " "  
Austria, 3s od or 66 " "  
Saxony, 2s Od or 44 " "  
Let us imagine the privations and sufferings which  
hese millions of laborers must endure, and when we  
I add the sufferings of serfs and slaves, we shall rejoice  
j to read : " For the oppression ofthe poor and theeigh- 

ing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord;"  
" I will break in pieces the oppressor."  
BISHOP JEWELL.  
This learned English writer and Episcopal Bishop was  
one of the bright lights of the Reformation. He was  
born in 1522,—five years from the time Luther published  
his Theses against the blasphemous pretensions of Po- 
pery in the sale of Indulgences. Of course the  light of  
the Reformation was just penetrating England, when he  
was receiving his education at Oxford, where he was 
afterwards made tutor, and inculcated the principles of  
the gospel upon his pupils, even in the reign of the ty-
rant, Henry VIII. After Henry's death, he came out.  
more bold, but when "Bloody Mary" ascended the throne  
in 1553, he was obliged to flee from England. After her 
death he returned, and was active in promoting true re- 
ligion. The following character is given him in James'  
Christian Biography : " He was a prelate of great learn-
ing, piety, and moderation ; irreproachable in his private  
life, extremely generous and charitable to the poor, to  
whom, it is said, his door stood always open. He was  
modest, meek and temperate, and a great master of his  
passions." Among his writings, was an " Exposition of  
the two Epistles to the Thessalonians.'' If any of our 
readers have that work, we should be glad to see it. We 
find the following extract in an exchange paper. He  
believed in  a pre-millennial advent of Christ,—like  
Leighton, Chillingworth, Baxter, Knox, Fletcher, Gil],  
Chalmers, and a host of others whom the present church  
delights to honor, while they despise or persecute us  
who hold the " like  precious frith." *  
"ANTI-CHRIST TO BE DESTROYRD.—Here maik the  
apostle's speech. He saith not, God shall convert Anti-
christ, or change his heart that he may be saved: but he 
saith,'Whom the Lord shall consume.' God's word is 
almighty. By his word he can do whatsoever pleaseth  
him. He can make the deaf to hear, and the blind to 
see. He was able to call the thief upon the cross ro  
repentance. He was able to raise up Lazarus out of his  
grave. He is able of stones to raise up children to Abra- 
ham He can throw down every high thing, that is ex- 
alted above the glory of God and will bring kings and  
princes, and the rulers of the earth, to the ohedience of 
Christ. Put of Antichrist it is said : ' The Lord shall  
consume him with the spirit of his mouth, and shall de- 
stroy him With the brightness of his coming' Such is 
the hardness and blindness of his heart he will not re-
ceive the love of the truth of God. that he might be  
saved. Therefore destruction shall come upon him.  
" Hereby we are taught what to think or hope, of re- 
formation of the abuses and errors of the Church of  
Rome."  
" MEN'S HEARTS FAILING THEM."—The bitter hos- 
tility of sects to each other has just been illustrated 
in the case of Mr. Seyes, missionary to Liberia. Mr. 
Pinney, in the Colonization Herald, published an arti- 
cle which was supposed to reflect severely on this fel-
low-laborer in the same cause. The editor of the  
Christian Advocate and Journal defends Mr. Seys, and  
says, ofthe opposing editor .  
" We consider him as actuated by sectarian jealousy.  
We are indignant at this outrage on Christian fueling  
and interests. OUR HOPES ARE BLASTED—our fondest, 
dearest hopes. WE SHE NOTHING BUT CLOUDS AND  
DARKNESS on the pathway of Colonization and Afri-
can missions. The sectarian envy, and bigotry, which 
have brought all this about, shall be exposed, that no  
man may venture upon the same Jesuitical policy here- 
after.  
" He must take back, without reserve, what he has  
said of the Rev. John Seys, or prepare to defend it.  
We will not abate one iota of this demand. Mr. Seys  
is a minister of OUR CRURCII, a brother beloved. He 
is highly esteemed among us. His character is iden-
tified with the reputation ofthe Church of which he is 
a minister, while the Church commends him to the  
confidence of the community as sustaining that sacred 
function. His assailant must retract his allegations,  
sustain them, or take the consequences."  
No wonder men's hearts are failing in view of the  
divisions among professed Christians which are ren-
dering the spread of Christianity hopeless.  

BRO. FITCH—DISCUSSION AT OBERLIN. j  
We learn from the " Second Advent," at Cleve- j  
land, that Bro. Fitch has held another discussion with I  
the Professors at Oberlin Seminary. Prof. Covvles 
has written a series of twenty or thirty articles in j 
favor of a millennium, but it seems he was not able to j  
overthrow the arguments of brother Fitch. Professor  
Mahan is in the condition of thousands, who have a  
favorite theory, and then try their utmost to bend the  
Scriptures so as to fit it. The temporal millennium 
preachers are just learning with surprise and mortifi- 
cation, that the Bible won't bend. The following is the  
account of the discussion, as given by bro. Smead.  
" I was present some eight or nine days. Most of  
the time the kindest spirit prevailed. I believe good  
will result.  
The Abrahamic Covenant was the main subject of  
discussion. Bro. Fitch presented his views the first  
evening. Pres. Mahan followed him, taking the posi- 
tion that there was but ONE Covenant made with Abra- 
ham, relating to the LAND of Canaan; and this he 
showed was fulfilled in his literal seed.  
Brother Fitch then quoted several passages from the  
Old and New Testaments, which proved satisfactorily  
to my mind, that there were two distinct Covenants  
made with Abraham—one to him and his seed ; the 
other to his seed alone—the last of which was fulfilled  
to the letter in the literal possession by the literal seed  
of Abraham, of the literal land of Canaan. The  
covenant made with Abraham and his seed is yet to be 
fulfilled in the possession of the new earth. The cov- 
enant made with Abraham, in reference to his SEED 
alone, is found in Gen. 15 : 18, " Unto THY SEED have  
I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the  
great river, the river Euphrates ;" the boundaries spe-
cifically pointed out. The other covenant yet to be 
fulfilled, to Abraham and his seed, is found in Gen. 13 :  
14, " Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place  
where thou art, northward, and southward, and east- 
ward, and westward; for all the land which thou seest, 
to thee will I give it, and to thy seed forever."  Here  
no boundaries are given.  
Pres. Mahan labored assiduously to maintain  his  
position, that there was hut one covenant made to  
Abraham relating to the land, but to my mind, he did  
not effect his purpose. He undertook to prove, by  
reference to one or two passages, that the promise to  
Abraham was fulfilled TO him IN his seed; but this is  
at war with Paul's testimony in Heb. 11: 13, "These  
all died in faith, not having received the promises."  
Now, Abraham, as we learn from Heb. 11:8, "When 
he was called to go out into a place which he should 
AFTER receive for an inheritance, obeyed ;"' and in-
asmuch as he "died not having received the promises,"  
but confessed himself to be " a stranger and pilgrim,"  
we are constrained to differ from Bro. Mahan. Abra- 
ham " looked for a city which lialh foundations, whose  
builder and maker is God," and therefore " he sojourn- 
ed in the land of promise, as in a strange country, 
dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the  heirs  
with him of the same promise."  
I have been much benefitted by the discussion of  
this question, and am more fully and intelligently con- 
firmed in the opinion I before entertained, that " the  
meek shall inherit the earth" literally, in accordance  
with the promise madt to Abraham and his seed, and  
in fulfillment of the prediction in Rev. 11 : 15, " And 
the seventh angel sounded ; and there were great  
voices in heaven saying, The kingdoms of this world  
are become the kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ, 
and he shall reign forever and ever."  
Bro. Mahan did not attempt to remove the objections  
to his views, contained in the 11th chapter of Hebrews.  
Here is the grand bulwark, as I understand it, of our  
faith respecting the covenant. Now, until he can  
show that Paul is mistaken, when he  says, " these all  
died in faith, not having received the promises," and 
until he can disprove the testimony of Stephen, in  
Acts 7: 5, and he gave him none inheritance in it, no,  
not so much as to set his foot on : yet he promised that  
he would i^ive it to him for a possession, and to his  
seed after him," I must, as an honest inquirer after  
truth, conclude that the views he entertains, on this  
point, are radically defective.  
The reader is particularly requested to read Heb.  
11 : 8—19, and Gal. 4 : 22—31,  
There is a blessed prospect for those who, " as  
Isaac was, are the children of promise," for we are  
not children of the bondwoman, but of the free." 'But  
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as then, he that was born after the flesh persecuted  
him that was born after the spirit,even so it is now.'  
The next question discussed by the brethren was,  
" Will Christ take possession of this earth by the des- 
truction, or by the conversion of the wicked 1" Bro.  
Fitch presented his reasons for believing that it would  
be accomplished by the destruction of the wicked. He 
quoted a number of passages ; but I will mention but 
one. This you will find in 2 Thess. 2 : 1—10. From 
this we learn that the man of sin or the " wicked," (i.  
e.) Papacy) Bhall be consumed with the spirit of his  
mouth, and destroyed with the brightness of his com- 
ing. He argued from this, that if there was to be a  
temporal millennium, it must necessarily be  a Roman  
Catholic one, because this power is to prevail, accord-
ing to Dan. 7; 23, until the ancient of Days shall sit, 
and judgment be given to the saints ofthe Most High, 
and the time comes that the saints are to possess the  
kingdom. We also learn that this is to take place  
when the time comes for judging the dead, Rev. 11 ;  
8, and when those who destroy the earth are to be 
destroyed.  
Prof. Cowles spent some time in endeavoring to show  
that the world was to be converted ; but as the ques- 
tion came up in a little different form from what he ex- 
pected, he said he was not fully prepared, and the re- 
marks which he made, for this or some other reason,  
failed to effect my mind seriously; and some others  
expressed themselves in a similar manner in my hear- 
ing. The discussion was then suspended for two or 
three days.  
The evening before I left Oberlin, bro. Fitch pre- 
sented his views on the text : " Wilt thou at this time  
restore the kingdom to Israel." This subject was pre- 
sented to the readers of the ' Second Advent' in the 
first number. T. H. S.  
Will brother Smead please send the first number to  
which he alludes, to this office, with bro. Fitch's cor- 
r3ctions'?  
From the same paper, we learn that a Second Advent  
Protracted Meeting was to commence at Cleveland,  
Oct. 16. We also copy the following paragraph, which  
will give our readers an idea of the movements of our  
brethren in Ohio. ,  
LECTURES.—Bro. Fitch closed his labors at Oberlin.  
last Thursday, Oct. 5th, and has returned to Cleveland.  
Brother Pickands lectured in this city last evening, and  
expects to spend the Sabbath with us- Bro. Needham  
is on his way to Akron- Bro. Desper has returned to  
the East. Bro. St. John has returned from Canada,  
and reports that brethren Reed and Campbell are still  
successfully presenting the evidence of Christ's speedy 
coming, and savs some five or six other lecturers are 
laboring in that field. Several brethren have recently  
gone out from Cleveland and Akron to proclaim the 
midnight cry. Brethren Boggs and Mathews are  
working with their hands to supply their necessities—  
cannot some brethren who have the means give them a 
lift 1 Bro. Craddock writes us that he meets with good  
encouragement in his labors. He says, " I have full 
houses, but there is a great deal of ignorance of, nnd 
prejudice against the Second Advent doctrine." Bro.  
Pope is lecturing in Portage and Summit counties.  
Bro. Rausch is lecturing in the German language ; he  
proposes to visit and lecture in some parts of Pennsyl- 
vania.  
LETTER FROM MARYLAND.  
At the Camp-meeting in Gettysburg, we became  
acquainted with the writer of the following, who came  
from Maryland to attend it. The meetings of which  
he speaks, are held by the brethren of the " Church  
of God," called Winebrennerians- 
UNIONTOWN,  Oct. 10, 1843.  
Dear Brother Southard,—I send you a few lines,  
according to promise, to inform you of the state of  
things in Maryland. The week following the meeting 
you held at brother Young's, near Gettysburgh, I  
went to the Hagertown camp-meeting, held by the  
"Church of God." The brethren were all alive to  
the second coming of the dear Saviour. Brethren  
William Miller [of "Pa.,] Keller, McKay and others 
were there, who proclaim the midnight cry with  
much assurance. Bro. Miller said he would not 
long walk on this old  earth, nor on pavements of  
brick, but on the gold paved streets ofthe new Jeru- 
salem ; he  said it was the most glorious doctrine he  
ever heard, and declared it to be unanswerable. Oh!  
I to think, said he, that in a few more days I shall be < "hed  
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forever free from all the troubles, crosses, and priva- 
tions of this world, and that, without tasting death ;—  
that, with my companion and little ones, and all the 
dear children of God, we shall be changed from mor-
tal to immortality,perhaps with a prayer half uttered,  
or a song of praise half sung, fills my soul with joy  
inexpressable.  
On Sunday night, Bro. Keller preached a powerful  
sermon from Rev. 6: 12 to the end, in which he  
clearly showed that we were living in the very end of 
time. The children of God shouted for joy and sin- 
ners were brought to fear and tremble. Between  
thirty and forty embraced religion; thirty were bap- 
tized.  
Our own camp-meeting commenced the week fol- 
lowing, in which we had a joyful time. Many re- 
joiced to think their Saviour was so nigh at hand.  
Bro. Ross, of Middletown, Pa. rejoiced exceedingly. 
Twenty-five were baptized on a profession of their 
faith in Christ. Our beloved brother McFaddcn is 
sounding the near approach of the Saviour with 
trumpet-tongue, and preaches as if every sermon was  
to be his last.  
Scoffers still abound, and some use language, un- 
heard of in the dark ages of popish tyranny, against  
the " Millerites," as they call them. I believe the 
time is at hand. I would not give the "Midnight  
Cry," the glorious news therein contained,and the light  
it has reflected upon the Bible, for all this world calls 
good or great- The vast amount of good it has done 
and is still doing, eternity alone can reveal. Go on,  
my dear brother, in the good work. Soon your troub-
les will be ended.  
Yours in the hope ol meeting in the new earth,  
GEORGE  GARNER.  
INTERESTING LETTER FROM THE WEST.  
The following, though from an unknown brother, and  
describing the affairs of a single village, is such a  
fair specimen of the worse than Babylonish jargon of  
the opponents of the advent nigh, that we publish it 
entire.  
CANTON,  FULTON Co., III.,  )  
Sept. 28, 1843. J  
Dear Bro. Himes :—Permit a stranger to ad- 
dress you by the title of a brother in Christ, and  
let this suffice for a token of friendship between 
those who profess to receive not honor one of  
another. As we intend to raise loud the Mace-
donian cry ; " come over and help us," it will  
be proper to give you some idea of our situation. 
Here we are, in a village of something less than  
a thousand inhabitants, containing five houses of  
public worship, and a Universal meeting-house 
in progress. Thus you see that party lines are  
strictly drawn. Three proud steeples lift their  
domes towards heaven, but how much do we  
hear of the coming one 1 I will tell you. From  
the pulpits of the three steeple-houses we heard  
nothing until last spring, when a young Metho- 
dist brother, who had studied the subject a few 
weeks, delivered some two or three lectures.  
This was sufficient to arouse the attention of  the  
learned clergy. For fear those lectures would  
do us much harm, each, in his turn, came out  
opposed, aiid although their views were very 
different, yet all agreed the day of Christ's re- 
coming was far in the shades of the future. Thus  
" Herod and Pilate (for a time, at  least,) were  
made friends."  
One took the ground that Christ would appear,  
and the righteous dead would be raised, at the  
commencement of the millennium, but that pre- 
vious to this, the Jews would return to Palestine,  
and rebuild Jerusalem, and that they have a claim  
to that country by virtue of a title from Jehovah ; 
they having kept or fulfilled their part of the  
contract or covenant, to wit, circumcision. ^FJ 
He said the 2300 days of Dan. 8 : 14, were a  
prediction of their return. He thought they  
would begin to return this year, and by the year  
1850 all would have gone home ; but the coming  
of Christ would be about the year 1873. He  

wars. 2. There should be pestilences and 
earthquakes in divers places, all at the same 
time. This had never been. 3. There should 
be false Christs and false prophets :—there had 
not been more than two or three false Christs, at  
most, and therefore, they must come yet. He 
finally wound up by an exhortation to be ready ;  
for we know not when he will come.  
Another minister preached two sermons, that  
might be called lectures against the prophecies. 
On the subject of the God of heaven setting up  
a kingdom, he said it was already set up, and 
quoted, I believe, every place in the New Testa- 
ment where the words, " Kingdom of heaven"  
are found, and gave us to understand that they all  
meant the Christian era ; and quoting Dan. 2: 34  
said, the stone cut out of- the mountain without  
hands, smote the image when our Saviour was  
here, and all was fulfilled by Ms destroying the  
Roman power! seeming to forget that the Roman 
power smote him even unto his death, and then  
continued near five hundred years afterwards:—  
thus making the smiting and breaking of the  
clay, the iron, the brass, the silver, and the gold,  
all to take place before the Roman empire was 
divided, or any of the lower limbs of the image  
formed! We would naturally inquire what  
kind of a kingdom that must be where the King  
tells his subjects their names shall be cast out as  
evil,—they shall be counted the offscouring of all 
things, and that they should be spit upon, and 
whipt from city to city, and whosoever killeth 
them thinketh he doeth God service.  
Another minister took for his text, Matt. 8 :  
12, with the reference to Luke 13: 28, 29, and  
attempted to prove that the Jews (the children of  
the kingdom) were thrust out of the church (the 
kingdom) leaving us to infer, that they, the Jews,  
have long been knocking at the door of the  
church, and the Master answering, I know not  
whence ye are,—and that the Jews are now in out-
er darkness weeping, and wailing, and gnashing 
their teeth, when they see many coming from 
the east, and the west, and the north, and the 
south, and sitting down with Abraham, and Isaac,  
and Jacob, and they themselves thrust out of the  
church ! The many coming from the east, and  
the west, &c., he said, was prophecy, concerning 
bringing the Gentiles into the church, and quoted,  
as fulfillment, Acts 2 : 5, to the end of the chap- 
ter, " And there were dwelling at Jerusalem  
J3F3 Jews, c^§2s devout men, out of every nation  
under heaven, &c.  
Thus you see what kind of food (?) the people  
are fed with. Yet these men will tell us of a 
glorious day just dawning upon the world, talk of 
advances that are made upon Satan's empire, afid  
tell how fast the world is growing better, and call 
upon us to sustain the institutions for the spread  
of the gospel, and help to send such preaching  
as the above all over the earth.  
But enough of this! There are a few names  
here who love His appearing, and anxiously look 
for Him to come, whose might it is to reign. We  
meet together on Tuesday nights, and study 
the Scriptures, to see if these things are so. We  
sing and pray, and sit together in heavenly places  
Christ Jesus, and find that wheretwo or three 
in are gathered together in his name, there he  
is in the midst of them, and that to bless. Now  
what can be done towards sending a lecturer  
here 1 What will be done 1 If a lecturer can come,  
we can  promise to furnish a comfortable room to  
lecture in, and think that the people would come  
out to hear, for although many are saying,  
Where is the promise of his coming 1 and cry 
Peace and safety, yet evidently very little of  
peace or safety is felt; but money as remunera-
tion for his time and labor, we could not promise,  
for those who have this world's goods, do not  said much of the prophecies have not been ful ,  
"" ~ 1. There should be wars and rumors of hke to hear of parting with them so soon, and


they will keep their hearts ancl their treasures 
together as long as possible. Time wanes, and  
I must close. In behalf of those who look for  
His coming, and earnestly pray, " Even so,  come  
Lord Jesus, Oh come quickly, Amen,"—I sub-
scribe. Yours,  
LORING AMES.  
This letter may reach the eye of some friend who  
is already at the west, and the call may be answered, 
but we can send no one from here.  
LETTER FROM BRO. MATTHIAS.  
Dear Bro. Southard,—I have just returned from  
Albany, where I have labored upwards of two weeks, 
and I trust much good has been effected. We held  
three meetings a day, generally prayer meetings at 6  
o'clock in the morning, lecture or conferrence at 3  
P. M-, and preaching in the evening. The attendance 
was good—souls were quickened, and sinners con-
verted (some five or six hopeful converts.)  
The Adventists have established a school for chil- 
dren, which will no doubt be well supported. It is "a 
day school." The only book in use is the Bible, except- 
ing for those who cannot read. The exercises  
to be reading, or recitation, writing, &c., &c.  
The brethren are doing much good in visiting the  
prisons, and going out tnto the highways and hedges.  
I visited the gaol with several brethren, and found 
about 40 priosners; some well dressed and some mis- 
erably clad, some good looking and intelligent, others  
bruised, mangled and wretched. They all listened  
with interest to our remarks on the glorious appearing 
ofthe King of Zion. They liked the idea of a better  
kingdom than the kingdoms of this world, and wept 
when we told them that  he that is to be king sympa- 
thises with the poor and the distressed. They gener- 
ally promised that they would strive to meet us in the 
kingdom of God, and all knell when we prayed, and 
many seemed broken hearted. Say to our brethren 
through the Cry visit  prisons, poor-houses, asylums,  
&c. God has diamonds in these rough qurrries. He  
can get fine gold out of this dross.  
Yours, in the hope of seeing the Lord this year,  
BARNET MATTHIAS.  
LETTER FROM MICHIGAN.  
AUBURN, Michigan, Oct. 9, 1843,  
Dear Bro. Southard— The Midnight Cry still con- 
tinues to be spiritual food to my hungry soul. Atkins, 
of England, on the apostacy of the Church, and Fitch, 
on "Come out of her my People," are good, and have  
done mo soul more good than all the preaching I have  
heard for six months. I hope God will suppoit you in  
all your trials, and help you to persevere to the end, 
for at the end ofthe race lies the crown.  
I am still as strong as ever in the faith of seeing  
my Lord cominp in the clouds this year. There are  
a few in these parts who are partial believers in the  
second advent of Christ'but they stumble at the time.  
They think there may be some mistake about the year.  
To me, the time seems as clear as any other fpart of  
Scripture. It has all been set forth in the Midnight  
Cry ; but I will give a few out of the many reasons I  
have for believing that this is the year that we shall  
see the Son of man coming in the clouds.  
In the first place the 70 weeks, or 490 days (which  
terminated at the crucifixion) taken from the 2300,  
leaving 1810, which, added to the year 33. reach to  
this year; also the prediction of the downfall of Popery, 
which took place in 1798. The 45 days—the differ- 
ence between 1790 and 1335—bring us to this year. 
The church in the wilderness, the two witness, &c..  
in sackcloth, both bring us to 1798, and the same 42  
added, point to thts year. Now, why should any be- 
lievers doubt. Is it not because of unbelief ? God 
requires faith, and those who reject this after seeing  
the light, or who re'use to examine it, can, on the same  
ground reject the whole Bible. I am afraid that many 
who reject the advent doctrine (because they are not 
irresistibly convinced of the time) will be among the un- 
believe1 s.  
Oh, that God would send us some Second Advent  
lecturers, that might be instrumental in the hands of  
God in openingthe eyes ofthe blind on the all-important  
subject of a coming Saviour. Is there no brother at 
the east who will come to Michigan, and sound the mid-
night cry to 200,000 slumbering virgins or sinners ?—  
Come right to Auburn, Oakland county, and you shall 
find open places in abundance, and God, only, knows  

how many may be brought to a knowledge of the truth.  
I can hear every day, almost, sayings that the Apostles  
foretold would be said in the last days. Every thing 
said and done seems to be a fulfilment of some Scrip-
ture prediction of the end of time. Oh, that I could  
only see some of the full believers from  the east and  
hear them speak on the coming of my dear Saviour  
But I expect to see von all soon, on the blessed banks 
of deliverance, where we shall meet, for the first  
time, to part no more.  
Yours, in the blessed hope,  
GEO. HOSSLER.  
WILL PAPACY HAVE DOMINION AGAIN ?  
In the Western Midnight Cry, Bro. Storrs gives us  
the following interesting thoughts on this question.  
They are called forth by an article'which  first appear- 
ed in the Xenia (O.) Reformer, and was copied into  
the Millennial  Harbinger for Sept. Bro. Storrs' notes  
are referred to by the figures.  
" CATHOLICS.  
" There are now six hundred and fifty-six  
Catholic churches in the United States, and one  
million five hundred thousand communicants.  
They report an increase of two hundred thou- 
sand in the year 1842. It is said there are 1200 
members in the town of Dayton, Ohio.  
" The object of the Catholic effort is, to unite  
all Christians in one body; the tendency of Pro-
testant partizan movements is to divide them  
asunder. The Protestants should imitate  the  
Catholics in their efforts to union ; the Catholics  
j should imitate the Protestants in their efforts for  
reformation. The Catholics and Protestants are  
each right in some things ; neither is right in all 
things.  
" There is now a virtual union between the  
Prussian Empire and Rome, and Great Britian, 
the last Great Protestant power, is rapidly verg- 
ing into the same relation. This done, and the  
stairway is completed for the Pope's second  
ascent to the throne of the Old World. [1] Should 
this happen to transpire before the close of 1843,  
the event will be of sufficient importance to 
meet the universal expectations and forebodings  
ofthe times. [2]  
"Who can tell but that the sanctuary of the  
church is to be cleansed by the fire of the Papal 
scourge 1 Might not the Divine Being use^tjie  
Papacy as a rod of correction to his saints, and  
by this means purge his people from all their  
corruption, hypocrasy, worldly-mindedness,  and  
sectarianism ; and then commit this, his last rod, 
to everlasting destruction 1 [4]  
"That the Papacy is to have a second rise to  
power, see Rev. chapter 17." [5]  
1. If he has " the throne of the Old World,"  
there is no prophecy that again puts the ' saints  
into his hands,' that he should have ' dominion'  
over them. That dominion is taken away, and  
he is to be consumed, and destroyed' unto the end.'  
—If then he ascends the throne of the Old  
World, it is not to hold that power, but to let him  
have that exaltation which 'corresponds with the  
prophecy, Rev. 18: 7, " She saith in her heart,  
I sit a queen, and am no widow,' but, at the time  
she thus talks, ' shall her plagues come in one 
day, death, and mourning, and famine ; and she  
shall be utterly burned with fire; for strong is the  
Lord God thatjudgeth her.'  
2. How so 1 Are the * forebodings of the  
times' marked with nothing but infidelity 1 For,  
I repeat it, Papacy is not again to exercise do-
minion over the saints—its time for that has ex- 
pired. If, therefore, it is again to be exalted to  
dominion, at that identical point will the Lord 
Jesus Christ destroy her ' by the brightness of  
his coming.' To believe otherwise it appeal's to  
us is infidelity.  
3. 1 Who can tell' but that Satan will turn  
'Reformer' in the 19th century 1 Dotli Satan 
cast out Satan 1 Never was he such a fool as  

that yet; and we do not believe that he will try 
that experiment after an experience of 6000  
years. No, Jesus Christ cleanseth his sanctuary 
if ever it is cleansed, but he does not cast out  
devils by Beelzebub the prince of the devils. But 
the sanctuary to be cleansed is not the church. It 
is the sanctuary trodden under foot with the host.  
If the host is the church; as we think all must  
admit, then the sanctuary must be something 
else, as it is trodden under foot with the host,  
which shows it is not the host, or church. What- 
ever the sanctuary is, then, it is not the church. 
In another place we may show what it is.  
4. ' The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses from  
all sin;' and the saints ' wash their robes' and  
make them ' white in the blood of the Lamb,'  
and not by such a filthy pool as papacy; and we  
venture the opinion, that if Papacy comes to the  
dominion to which this article refers, and time  
lasts, the great body ofthe Protestants, so called,  
will go over to her, instead of being cleansed by 
her ' as a rod.' We do not believe in a Papal  
purgatory. God has another way to make his 
people holy. As to 'corruption, hypocrisy,  
worldly-mindedness, and sectarianism,' tliey be-
long to sectarian churches, and not to the church  
of God ; such churches are to be destroyed—not 
cleansed; are a part ofthe 'man of sin,' and it is  
a vain hope to think they are ever to be cleansed.  
5. If Papacy has a ' second rise,' it is not ' to  
power,' but to ' go into perdition.' The text re- 
ferred to in Rev. 17th, expressly says, that ' the  
beast shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and  
go,' not into power a second time, but ' INTO PER-
DITION :' but this does not take place till the  
' brightness' of our Lord's 'coming' See 2 Thess. 
2 : 8. So that the only event which can be of  
' sufficient importance to meet the universal ex- 
pectation and forebodings of the times,' is not the  
triumph of the Man of Sin, but bis destruction by 
the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven.  
And this is further confirmed by our Saviour in  
Luke 21: 26, 27. ' Men's hearts failing them  
forfear, and for looking after those things which  
are coming on the earth ; for the powers of hea- 
ven shall be shaken. And THEN SHALL THEY SEE  
THE SON OF MAN COMING IN A CLOUD WITH POWEK 
AND GREAT GLORY.'  
Here is the event, most clearly, that is to be of  
' sufficient importance to meet the universal ex  
pectations and forebodings ofthe times ;' and it  
is expressly foretold that just such forebodings  
would immediately precede that glorious appear-
ing of our Lord; and the saints are commanded,  
when these 'times' arrive, to 'look up, and lift  
up your heads, for your redemption draweth 
nigh,' instead of which, if these 'forebodings'  
were to be evidence of the ' second rise to pow-
er,' of the Man of Sin, one would think they  
would have been told to fee again into the wil-
derness.  
Second Advent believers—Beware of any cry  
at this time, of ' lo here, or lo there.' Let not  
your minds for a moment be turned off from the  
great event of your Lord's appearing in the 
clouds of heaven. If by any means the adversary  
can divert your minds to some  other object than  
the advent itself, just in that proportion your 
faith will be weakened, and you may thus be  
entangled in the affairs ' of this life, and so that 
day come upon you unawares.'  
We consider the article under consideration,  
well calculated to mislead and deceive unwary  
souls, who are halting between two opinions. It 
is a perfect ' non-committal,' and is calculated, if  
not intended, to be a stepping stone, to allow a  
man to turn any way and hold on to his reputation,  
the love of which is as great a sin as ' hypocrisy, 
sectarianism,' &c. ' How can ye believe that  
receive honor one of another V


THE DARK DAY. (broken in attempting to arrest the ringleader, I of course no Protestant must be allowed to preach  
Hon. Wheeler Martin has favored the editor ' who with the assistance of his family, made his within the Republic of Panama. How much the  
of the Providence Subaltern with the following ' escape, though he was seriously wounded. He I Jesuits in the United States prate about liberty  
was, however, made prisoner at Little Yamaska, !  
on Saturday fofenoon.  
recollections of the dark clay in 1780.  
The dark day was on the 19th of May, 1780.  
Where I resided at that time, the darkness at 11  
o'clock was so great, that a candle was lighted  
and placed upon the table ;—the fowls went to  
roost;—the sheep all huddled around in a circle  
with their heads inward. The grass to look at it  
through the window, seemed of a yellow green;  
the same as to look through smoked glass upon 
green grass.  
I well remember that the gentleman of the  
house, read the following Scripture by candle 
light, to his numerous family :  
" The sun shall be turned into darkness, and  
the moon into blood, before that great and  nota- 
ble day of the Lord's coming."  
The darkness was so great in the night time,  
that it was said by one Dr. Blackington, who re-
sided in the north-east part of Rehoboth, who  
had occasion to be out among his sick patients  
that night, that  he could not see his white pocket- 
handkerchief placed before his eyes. The dark- 
ness was so thick that it could be felt.  
The year 1780 was celebrated for its many  
northern lights ; they covered the whole horizon  
over;—they would flash like lightning and fill 
the air with the smell of sulphur. The lights  
were so red, that the flashes would bring warmth  
against the face.  
THE EXETER CAMP MEETING closed on Tues- 
day morning, Oct. 3rd. The meeting through-
out was characterized by good order, and  
freedom from fanaticism. The great propor- 
tion of the friends in this vicinity are so firmly 
grounded on the word of God, that when any  
endeavor to go counter to the letter and spirit of 
that word, they have to go alone. The Bible, 
the Bible, and that alone is the standard of our 
faith.  
Mr. Miller was on the ground Monday and  
Tuesday, and addressed the congregation. His  
health is much improved, and his faith firm.—  
The meeting was conducted with great harmony,  
souls were converted, backsliders reclaimed, and  
many were brought to see and acknowdedge the 
truth of the advent near, among whom were  
several ministers. We have, great cause to  
praise God for this feast of tabernacles, and trust  
that the seed there sown may be blessed to  
many souls.—Signs of the Times.  

" THE FOKM OF GODLINESS  WITHOUT  THE POWER."  
—When we say that this is a sign of these days, we  
are accused of slander, and referred to the great en-
terprises of the church, but the organs ofthe church 
confirm every word we utter. At the recent mission-
ary meeting, Dr. Hawes said :  
" There is ability enough ; but there is a great dif- i p  
ference between ability and available ability. There . use3a es-
are many members of the church worth $100,000, 
which might just as well be in Long Island Sound, as  
to be in their hands, so far as the ability of the church 
is concerned. The Prudential Committee are obliged  
to graduate the contiibution, by the available ability 
of the churches. It had been his impression for a 
long time that this cause had gone about as far as it  
could till there was more available ability in the 
churches: which is the same as to say more piety.  
How then can the available ability of the churches 
be increased 1 It must be done by laboring to bring 
up the standard of piety, and this will create capital 
for benevolent objects."  
THE LITTLE HORN PREVAILING.—We learn  
that the Romanists in St. Pie in Canada East,  
are wreaking their vengeance upon the Protes- 
tants of that place. The Franklin, Vt., Messen- 
ger says:—  
" A friend who has visited that place the past  
week, informs us that one night, the Catholics  
encouraged undoubtedly by the priests, made an  
attack upon the mission-house, (Mr. Du Clos,'we 
suppose,) and demolished the doors, windows,  
&c. Upon such demonstrations, the Protestants 
called^on the magistrates  of the village for pro- 
tection, but received none. The mob, believing  
that the magistrates feared personal violence, or 
winked at their doings, were still more encour- 
aged, and on Friday night last, set fire to the  
house, which was burnt, with all its contents.  
At this junction, the Protestants sent for a  
magistrate at Granby, Mr. Lyman, [who, by the  
way, is a good, substantial, six feet Yankee,] who 
immediately proceeded to the scence of action,  
called out a company of militia, and organized a  
body of special constables, and soon put an end  
to the disturbance, by arresting and sending 
twenty-six of the rioters to Montreal prison. No 
person was killed : one constable had his arm  
so : :  

From the Christian Palladium.  
THE INQUISITION IN AMERICA.  
BY ELDER D. MILLARD.  
The head of this article is no farce, but a re- 
ality. By late intelligence, it appears that a na- 
tional convention was recently convoked in the 
Republic of the Equator, to  supply certain sup- 
posed deficiencies in the constitution and laws.—  
Among others, the following is one of the provi-
sions of the new constitution.  
" ARTICLE 6th. The religion of the Republic is  
Roman Catholic Apostolic, with the exclusion of 
every other public worship. The political authori-
ties are obliged to protect it and make it respect- 
ed in the use of patronage."  
Now, if this is not the old scarlet colored beast,  
pray what is it 1 If this does not prove that Ro- 
manism, where it has sufficient ascendency, will  
exclude all other kinds of public worship, what 
does it prove 1 Will the Pope and his college of  
cardinals condemn this tyranical edict, and rebuke  
its framers 1 -Not they. Hear what the bishop of  
Quito says in his pastoral address, in regard to this 
6th article,—'My beloved children,' [says he]  
'our heart was full of joy at the zeal which you  
have shown to preserve intact the Holy Catholic  
religion which we profess, and has warmly parti- 
cipated in the tribulation at the apprehension that 
the 6th article of the new constitution would  
open a way for the introduction of worship, and  
the corruption of Christian morals. In conse- 
quence, the convention adopted a prudent and 
wise resolution to tranquilize our consciences.  
Yea, beloved diocesans, they are pleased to ex- 
plain the aforesaid article, by giving us to know, 
that far from protecting toleration, which w7e just- 
ly feared, it confirms and strengthens the law  
which authorizes the prelates to have cognizance  
of causes of faith, as did the extinguished tribu-
nal of the Inquisition, with this restriction only,  
that they shall not in this present molest foreigners  
in their private belief, while they do not propagate  
their errors.'  
Here it will be perceived that by existing law  
in Central America, Roman Catholic bishops  
have direct cognizance of causes of faith, equal to  
that of the Inquisition, as it formerly existed. So 
the bishop of Quito understands it. True, for- 
eigners are not to be molested on account of their  
private faith, provided they are careful to keep it 
private. But should a Protestant argue his faith  
in Protestantism, while within the bounds of the  
Republic of  the Equator, he becomes liable to  
Inquisitorial punishment. Protestants, if they  
reside, there can hold no meetings of worship, and  

and the rights of conscience, but here is the liber- 
ty of Romanism carried out to perfection. Only 
give it the means, and wherein has this beast  
changed from what it was in the dark ages 1  
I freely confess there appears to me to he some- 
thing very ominous in the present movements of 
Papacy. The established church of England is  
now heaving in commotion- with it, under the 
name of Puseyism. Of the 12000 Episcopal cler-
gymen in England and Wales, 9000 are said to be  
The Romanists are already swelling  
in prospect of soon regaining England. The pre 
sent agitation in Ireland has Romanism at the bot-
tom of it. In the United States the Episcopal  
clergymen are to a great extent tinctured with 
Puseyism, which is only papacy in disguise. The  
Roman Catholics already number their millions  
in the United States, and nearly 100,000 are add- 
ed to the number yearly by imigrations. They  
already vaunt loudly, ask strong favors of state 
governments, and are getting them allowed. Pa- 
pacy is almost wholly allied with one of the cor-
rupt political parties in our land, which bids fair  
to control the nation. But I will not now express  
all that I feel on the subject. Time must reveal  
what will he the result of all these movements.  
West Bloomfield, Sept. 12,. 1843.  
We think the great words of Papacy, the bloody  deeds  
of Mahometanism, the daring out-breaks of the spirit of  
violence and licentiousness, are indeed ominous, that 
soon Christ's kingdom shall he established on the ruins of 
Antichrist's, and we trust our brother unites in sayingi  
even so, come quickly.  
CINCINNATI, OHIO.  
Bro.  Himes writes, Oct. 12 :  
" The • College Hall,' which the Adventists have  
occupied in this city at a rent of about $2000 per an- 
num, has been let to others.  
" The place would not accommodate one-half who  
wished to hear every night in the week.  
" No church or public building can be obtained  
which will answer any purpose, for the multitudes  
who desire to attend. So great is the interest, the 
brethren talk of erecting a ' Tabernacle.'  
" I lecture in the MARKET PLACE next Sabbath and  
start for home on Monday next, by the way of Phila-
delphia and New York.  
"Bro. Storrs has just gone to the camp-meeting in  
Brownsville, Ind. Brn. Stevens and Boyer accom- 
panied him. The cause is onward in the west.  
Yours in the blesses hope, J. V. HIMES."  
The books ordered by Bro. Sawin, have been for- 
warded to his address, Port Stanley, Canada West.  
WESTERN MIDNIGHT CRV.—Bro. Storrs is requested  
to send us twenty-five copies of each number, from the 
first, and continue them weekly. Those who have 
ordered them will please call soon, and obtain them.  
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