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M. 0OWBN| AT THB '* BBFLBOTOR '' OBBAP PBINTINO BITABLUHMBNT, BXBTBB, ONTARIO^ ^ ' . f tS" ^^ J * "K i - i luS^O PREFACE TO THE FOLLOWING WORK. it is the duty of every writer to introduce to tne gaze of the reader, by way of a preface, the subjects under con- sideration. Tne following pages will be found very inter- iesting, as well as clear and comprehensive to the intelli- I gent reader. The first Chapter of the book is a dialogue between two I supposed persons which we shall call John and James. — John asks James questions of every day occurrence j [James is supposed to answer those questions of John in [the light of scripture veracity. The second chapter of the book is treating of Astrology tor the science of the stars. The third chapter treats on the prediction of God's pro- jphets and time of the second advent of Christ as the [Fifth LTniversal Monarch, to rule over the House of Jacob Iforever. And upon His kingdom there shall be no end. The fourth chapter proves the harmonious fulfilment ot [the prophetical annunciation of the holy prophets of the [blessed Bible. It is very little, indeed, that my labor for the enlight- ienraent of my fellow-men, will result for the benefit of [all, but only the few. those only that obey God from the [heart. But those that are benefitted by the perusal of (the following pages should give God the glory. I am only mortal dying creature, like all the rest of mankind,an(i liable to err if I lean to my own understanding. This work is the untiring labor of forty years, and, IthDugh apparently new, yet m reality is as old as God's [word. I am now seventy years of age, ri^rht on the verge jofthehonse appointed for all, and wish to work my own salvation with fear and trembling, for in the keeping of [God's law there is a great reward. My desire is to oflend none, yet, rather than offend Je- jhovah let all mankind be ofiended if they will. I am fear- less of such result; I shun not to declare the whole coun- jsel of God. My salary from sectarianism is nix, hence my mouth is not stifled, no, nor never will be. As I look for Ithe second Advent of Christ m 1884, this may be the last 'time Ifchall write to my fellow-mortals. Amen. Fare. well ! Prepare to meet Christ in peace. J \MES CALEB McINTOSH. Centralia, County of Huron, > Ontario. Canada. S t CONTENTS CHAPTER I. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN JOHN & JAlfES. OHAPrElt TI. THE COMING ORISI S AND END OF TIME CHAPTER III. FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY k END OF THE AGE CHAPTER IV. page 5 72 83 PREDICTIONS OP EVENTS FULFILLED 140 CHAPTER V. ^ , - ^ .-. ■ . THE FOUR ANGLES OP REV. VII 173 CHAPTER I. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN JOHN AND JAMES. This chapter will prove interesting to every lover of truth, inasmuch as the questions that John, asks James lis of the uttermost importance to every reader and lover |of Bible truths. John — When was this world created in its present form 1 The sun, moon and stars, with jits complicated inhabitants] And by whom? Ijames — Our Bible history gives us nearly 6,000 years since the creation of this mundane sphere. The sun, moon [and stars was the work of the first day of creation. — [The seas and earth was the work of the second day. lOrass and herbs, also fruit trees, was the work of the third day. The division of light from darkness, and [and work of the sun, moon and stars was the work of [the fourth dav. The creHtion of all manner of fish that [is in the waters , together with every winged fowl of Ithe air was the work of the fifth day. And every man- Iner of beasts and creeping things upon the earth, also [Adam and Eve, was created on sixth d-tv. See Gen 1 [chap. And we read that all this wisdom and power irid majesty were perfornued by God. Gen I, 1. John — Where, how and when did God and His an- gels come in being ? James — This question is one of mystery — a secret, — and we read that secret things belong nnfothe Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong unto us, and to our children forever. Deu. 29, 29. The more we try to fathom and find out the beginning of that blessed being and His angels the more our minds get confused. We have sufficient evidence in the sun, moon, stars, changing of the seasons, flowing and ebbing of the tide, tojj^ther with thousands of other unaccount- able phenomenon to prove the exisfcance God. And chat He is omnipotent, having all power ; omnipresence by His spirit that is everywhere, and to the full extent om- niscient, or without limit to His wisdom, knowledge and understanding. John — What did God do on the seventh day And in what !ikeness did God create Adam and Eve 1 And what death did they die the day they ate the forbidden fruit 1 Did God gave Adam and Eve any law but that they s)!t>nid not eat the forbidden fruit when he placed them in the garden 1 James- And on the seventh dav God ended His work which he had madf) ; and he rested on the seventh day, and sanctified it :" or set it apart for future holy use. The harmless man and woman, Adam and Eve, must have had a share of its rest with God the first Sabbath. Gen. 2. 2, 3. The man and woman Adam and Eve, was made in the image of God's person, but not in the like- ness of God*a power, glory, wisdom or holiness — as it proved itself by their fall. From the hands of their Creator — as they stood before him — there was nothing to their oharge. They were in a similar position to the man whose sins is freely pardoned ; they can sin again or, go in peace and sin no more. In fact, the pardoned sinner, is, exactly on trial like Adam and Eve, when placed in the garden. The prophet Esdrus in is expos- tulation with God, saith in 2nd book chapter fourth, verse thirtieth : '* For the grain of evil seed hath been sown in the heart of Adam from the beginning, and how much ungodliness hath it brought up unto this time ? and how much shall it yet bring forth until the time of threshing come ?" Therefore the only way in which we can understand God — when he saith, that he made Adam and £v6 after his own image ; that they were made exactly in the corporal form, imago or likeness, of their Creator, With regard to the death Adam and Eve died, the day they ate the forbidden fruit, they did not die a na- tural death, which is a cessation of life. At this junc- ture the happy pair — were all that their heart could wish, as soon, therefore as they violated God's law — they discovered their nakedness and many wants. And shurely the joy and peace — with th« presence of Jeho vah with them in the garden of Eden, being taken from them; was a lamentable death, through and by the tran- sgression. Gen. 3. 9. Paul says — " For I was alive without the law once : but when the commandment 8 came, sm revivei yon will see t\h\t the oa 1, ixud I di(Ml." Koni. VI 1, 9. Hcmh use of A'lani's Hin — made it nec- essary for Hilvatioi), for Paul— to die to sin, and live to (;iod — ah! Adam introduced sin into the world. These two deaths, is, while we are alive in the body, dying to sin — :in(l dyiui,' to righfeousuess : yer, there is dying to the whole man — t) ev^iy creature on the earth, sa'nt and sinner, yea, all vitals shall hecomci dormant. p]cc. IX, 2-12. Also, there is to l>e a '* second death," at the end of the 1000 years : this is to be iuHictod on the wicked only, and is a death of destruction. llev. XX. 14, Although it does not appear on re- cord, that God gave Adam lAud Eve anv law, but forbid- ding them to eat of the *• tree of knowledge of good and evil," yet, we must bel^'ive that He gave them his moral Law :' or how could they know right from wrong 1 We find that God had respect unto Abel's offering whereas Ciin's otiering was not respected. Gen. IV. 4. What God said to Cain — is a positive proof, that the sons of Adam, had fall knowletlge of God's divine and heavenly Law, from their biilh light along. Hear how God addresses himself to Ciin, Why art thou wroth ? and why is thy countenance fallen 1 If thou doest well shalt thou not be accepted ? and if thou doest not well sin lieth at the door." Rememlier therefore, that sin is " ihe transgression of the law. VVha») sin, did Ciin do I he killt-d his \)rother Abel ; and hence broke the sixth commandment of the decalogue. The knowledge of the la^vof Gol from creation right dovvn — is evident, or how ( ( coald tho the an tcdel avians bo guilty of sin if tbey had no law to hreak ] Tho thing is clear, yea, as clear as light. Enoch walked with God for God took him. Al)iraelel)h, Noah, Abel, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob with a host of other good men — goodness and bad- ness consists entirely in the keeping and breaking God's Holy Law. John. — Where was Cain banished to ? And who did ho take for a wife ? Jaraes. — Giin with a murk of a aiurderer on, went to the frtnd of Nod east of Eieu, '* And Cain knew his wife —in that part of the earth. Gen, IV,15-18. Cain could have none other for a wife, hut one of his sisters. There wjis none other to produce at that time — but Adam l nd Vjve. '* And God created man in his own image ; male and female, in the singular number ; not in the plural — hence Cain could have none other than his own sister. Nor was it sinful for him at this early age — to have his own sister to wife. Abraham the friend of God had his own sister to wife, ioy at this early age of the world, there wAa no law against it. Gen. XII, 13. John. — When did the flood came upon the world Did the inhabitants have warning given them before tho Hood took them all away ? James. — The flood came upon tho earth, in 1656 from creation. On account of the wickedness of the inhabitants, all but Noah. •* And HS the days that were before the flood, they wer^i eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not i 10 until the flood oame. and took them all away ; so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be ." Matt. XXIY 88-?9. We will draw a lession of comparison from this sublime language of the Saviour — in comparing the days of Noe to the day of his coming to the Judgment. If the antideluvians bad no waruing given them of the flood, neither will the inhabitiints of thd earth have any warning given them; of the coming of Christ to judg- ment. But if the people were warned m the days of Noah, it is just and reasonable to concludo without an- tilogy, that warning will be given to earth's inhabitafits before the second Advent of Christ. Noah was a just and perfect man, yea, righteous before God in that generation. God commanded Noah to build an ark— r for to save himself and family from the coming flood ; Noah obeyed God and was saved from the flood. Gen, VL9; VII. 1. The Apostle Peter in his second letter, chap. 2, 5., *' And spared not the old world, but saved Norh the eighth person, a preacher of righ^ousness," or right doing ; " bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly." The antideluvians, therefore, could not be void of the knowledge of the then coming flood. Noah preaching and building the ark for 120 years ; leads me to conclude, that all had warning of the coming calam- ity— but not one believed it, but the preacher of right- eousness — Noah. Another sign they had of the coming flood, ^as Enoch. — who had fore-knowledge of Ihe com- ing flood, at least 969 years, before it came, in naming '* 11 bis son Methuselah, which meant at his death it shall break forth. As Methuselah was approaching the end ni his days, they all could know if they desired know- ledge, that the flood would be soon upon theui. In like manner has it been ever since the spring of 1844 — the coming of Christ to judgment has been, is, and will be preached until he comes — but a very few will believe about the event, lik« the prototype they mupt be, 80 says Christ. God has not changed, but is the same yesterday, to-day and lorever. Hear Him. Eze. XXXIII. 11, ** Say unto them, As I live saith the Lord God, I have no pleasuie in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live ; turn ye, turn ye, from your evil ways, for why will ye die, house of Israel." God could not be justified in the destruction of his enemies, without warning them ; this is his righteous dealing with mankind before he brings their destruction. This is the manner he dealt with the antf^deluvians, Sodomites, Ninevites, Egyptians and all others — first, gives warning — and when that is not heeded He is justified in their destruction. John — How many Gods is there ? And why is he not here personally to talk to and govern the world of mankind 1 James — There be Lords many andGods many as Paul says, but there is but one living and true God, the God that created the world. We read of Him as being fronj everlasting to everlasting, no end to His days. Hear the hundred and second Psalm, 24th v., *' I said, my 12 God, take me not away in the midst of my days, thy years are throughout all ^generations. Of old hast' thou laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of tljy hands. They shall perish, hut thou shalt endure, yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment as, a vesture shult thou change them, and they shall he changed; hut thou art the same and thy years shall have no end. And about any other god of almighty power we shall advance you his holy word what that says, ''Un- to thee it was showed that thou mightest know that tht.* Lord he is God, there is none else beside Him." ''Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upcn the earth beneath ; there is none else." Deu IV, 35-39. " See now thrit I, even I, am He, and there is no God with me. I kill and I make alive, I wound and I heal, nei- ther is there any that can deliver out of my hand." Deu. XXXII, 39. "I am the Lord, and there is none else, there is no God beside me, that thou mav know from the rising of the sun, and from the west that tht^re is none beside me. I am the Lord and there is none else.' Isa., 45-5,6. *'I, even I, am the Lord, and beside me there is no saviour. Yea, before the day was I am he, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand ; 1 will work and who shall hinder." Isa. 43- IL Look unto me and be ye saved all the emls of the earth, for 1 am God, and there is none else." Isa. 45-22 "Fear ye not, neither be afraid ; have m.t I told thee frou) that time, and havt decLired it, ye are even my witnesses ; is i < .:>r.- •"''•% 13 ihere a God beside me ? Yea, there is no God; I know lot any/' laa. 44,8. We shall take it therefore as set-, tied, as God cannot lie, that there is none other God but [ehovuu, and Him alone, the creator of the heavens and )f the earth, and of every visible and invisible things ind without limitto His power or days. Sin, and sin [only, was and is the cause that God left the earth. He conversed with Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Enoch land Noah, Isaac and Jacob, Moses and Aaron ; to tho^e Ihe spake face to face as we speak to our fellow-men. — rAnd Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, for I Ihave seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." — I Gen. 32,30. **And the Lord spake unto Moses hce to Iface, as a man speaketh unto his friend." Exo. 33, 11. "The Lord talked with you face to face in the mount out jof the midst of the fire." "And it came to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and J will cover thee with my hand while I pass by, and I will take away my hand, and thou shalt see my back parts, but my face shall not be seen." Ex. 38, 22-23. Moses had to use a vail on the mountain with the Lord, and when he came down to the peoplehe covered his face,for the children of Israel could not look at him for the glory of his countenance,after being with Crod forty days and forty nights. If the sun which O^od has made is so glorious that we in our corrupted and polluted condition cannot look at him when he shines bright, how can they or can we look at the face of his creator.? But when sin is destroyed, 14 the curse takeu otf the earth, the new creation spring up, (rod shall come down from heaven and dwell with His people on the New Earth, and live in the city of the Great King, the New Jerasalf m, the metropolis of the Kin^'lotn of Go 1,12,000 furlongs ; eight furlongs to the mile, leaving this blessed citv 15,000 miles, every way. Sue Rev. 21, 16, Eze.48,35. '^ And the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord is There. Ezykiel 48, 35. John — Is Christ then not a God. What in he called by Jehovah, Angels, by the Apostles and Himself? Was he not with Gjd at the creation of the world ? James — This much-abused subject of who Christ is must be *:hori)ughly ventilated. We must not allow neither pr«!judice or any formed o[)inion of our own to enter th(^ controversy, but let the word of .(^od deter- mine. The angels are ^od's messengers. When He sends them it is to make known the mind ol (^od unto the pciity they are sent to. "And in the sixth month he angel G I'jrirjl vVis sent from GjJ unto a city of Gali- lee n.imed Naziireth, to a virgin espoused to a man whose Urune wan Joseph, of the house of David, and the virgin's name was Marv. And the angel came in unto her, and saiJ, Hiil, thou that art highly favored, the Loid is with Ihee ; blessed art thou among women. And when she saw him she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this Bhoufd be. And the angel said unto her. Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God. And, behold, thou ca th le I th i 15 sbalt coDceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and call his name Jesus. He shall be e;reat, and shall be called the Son of the Highest, and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David, and he shall reign over the house of Jacol> forever, and of his kingdom there shall i>e no end. Th<^u said Mary unto the angel, how shall this be, seeini( 1 know not a mun ? And theano;el answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall ooni<^ upon thee, and the power of the High- est shall overshadow thee, therefore, also, that holy thing th*t shall be born of thee shall be called the Son o^ God." St Luke, 1, 28. Here is a pure and perfecc narrative of the beginning of Christ, from the njouth of the angel sent by God to Maiy. Let this, therefore, remain a settled fact, that Christ is not God, or yet his own father, but the son of the living God. Christ is owned by God and men to be only the Son of God. '^And they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying. Of a truth thou Hrt the Son of God." Matt. 14, 33. ''He trusted in God ; let him deliver him now iP he will have him, for he said, I am the Son of God. Now when the centurion Mnd they that were with hiu) watching Jesus, saw tbe earthouake, and those thino:s that wpre done they Fe.tr- <^d greatly, saying. Truly this was the Son of God."- — Matt. 27,43,54. ''And unclean spirits when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, "Thou art the Son of God." Mn-k 3, 11. "Nathaniel answer- ed and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God." 11 16 St. John, I, 49. " Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we ehold, a voice out of the cloud, which 8aid,This is my beloved Son in whom I am well phas- ed." Matt. 17, 5. God through Isaiah and David is speaking of things that were not as though they really then existed, while it only existed in will and purpose of God. Isaiah says, '*For unto us a child is born (speaking of Christ)and un- to us a son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called wonderful councellor, the Prince of Peace." Isa. IX, 6. Header, I have omitted in the quotation above, the mighty God and everlasting Father, as it brings its own contradiction in the face of it, as Christ is neither God, but God's Son, and has never been said, nor said it him- self, that he was the father of any. It undoubtedly is the work of priest-craft, by the gentlemen of the long robes, to give colour to the mixture they have made out of their god-head theory. Shun it ; call Christ by no other name but Jesus the Son of the living God. Hear God speaking through David by the Spirit. ^'Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thy inheritance,and thou shalt break them with.arod of iron; the Lord hath said unto me, thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee." Paul says beautifully here, him in Rom. 4, 17, That God calleth those things which be not as though 18 they were, I am fearless wh<=»n I say i<:,tbatany person who shall call Christ by any other name than that of Jesus Christ the Son of God is neither more nor less than antiChrist. — And MS for Christ existing in the personal likeness or form of God. prior to him being born of the Virgin Mary, but only in the will, purpose,and decree of Jeho- vah, would form the following absurd conclusion, that if Christ did exist previous to his birth by the Virgin, He roust have gone through a process of dissolution so as to become suflSciently small to enter tiie womb of the Virgin Mary, his mother. And as for Christ being God himself, worse than ever would be such absurd conclu- sion did we believe it. Look at, in the light of reason and truth. If Christ was God the throe days and three nights be was in the tomb, the nine months he was car- ried in the xvomb of the mother, would leave the world without a God ! Horrible ! John — How many of the children of Jacob or Israel went down to Egypt, How long did they sojourn there^ bow many left Egypt when they departed from there, How many of them over tv^enty year?} of age was good and entered the land of promise besides their leaders ? Janaes — God changed Jacob's name to that of Israel, as be done to Jacob's grandfather, Abrarn to that of Abraham. Israel served his uncle Laban seven years for his daughter RacheL The night of the marriage, when he should have the one he served for, his uncle de. ceived him,, and put him to bed ^ith Leah, his eldest 19 aiiglitor, Jacob was not to be beat this way from Lis- lioice, Rachel, but served his uncle seven years more, nd fiually got Rachel also. Those two wives of Jabob (ot oao handmaid each from their father Laban; whose ainea were Zilpah and Bilhah. With Leah, whom Ja- |ob did not love so much as Rachel, he had six sons, Leu ben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulum. ith Leah's handmaid he had two sons, Gad and .sher. Jacob's favorite wife, Rachel, had two sons — Joseph and Benjamin. And Rachfl's handmaid, Bil- lull, had two sons with Jacob, Dan and Naphtali. — 'lieiefore, with these four womcD Jacob had twelve ;oas, from which sprung the twelve tribes of the chil- Ireti of Israel. See Gen. XXX chapter. The sons of Israel increased at the time of their de- larture into Egypt to seventy souls. Exo. I, 5. The lime the children of Israel sojourned in Egypt was four lundieil and thirty years. JSee Exo. XII, 4L Gal. 3^ 6-17. And when God delivered the children of Israel IfroQi Egypt through the hand of Moses, when they left |tbeie,they numlertd 600,000. Of this vast multitude leie was but two whose hearts was right in the sight of tO'J, and entered the land of promise — Caleb and Josh- |«a. Deu. I, 36,37,38. John — How many was saved from creation to the end )f the 70 weeks of Daniel IX, 24, and how can people now when they are acceptable in the sight of God, and :now arethey right? Does this knowledge arise be- cause people attend church and believe they are con- 20 verted 1 James — The number that was sealed for God from the iuhabitADts of the earth from creation to the end of DanJel's 70 weeks was 144,000 souls. See Rev. VIIy8, 4. XIV, 1. This appears to be quite a number of people sealed for God and Glory, yet,when we think of the vast num- ber of people who lived over this period of four thou- sand and forty years, it will sink into insignificance when we fathom the many millions that was born and died. The only ground of our aoceptanco before God is, that wo do, without deviation one way or other, what He commands us. If ye love me keep my commandments. This is love that we keep his commandments. *'To fear God and keep His comoiandments is the whole duty of man.' Ecc. XII, 13. This is the way that God appoints, keep and be sav- ed, break and be destroyed, and this momentum is the dividing line betweeii saints and sinners. *'And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and *Johi8 offering." Gen. IV, 4. "And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.*' Gen. IV, 24. *'These are the generations of Noah : Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations and Moah walked with God." Gen. VI, 9. *^For I know him that he will command his children and his household aftei him, and they shall keep the way of the Lord to do justice and judgment that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that 21 wbichhe hath spoken of him." Gen. XVIII, 19. »*Be- oause that Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." Gen. XXVI, 5. In searching from Genesis to the last chapter in Key- elation, fourteenth verse, where it says, ** Blessed are they that do His commandments for they only shall have A right to the tree of life, and mayenterin through the ir]. ''John B^yeth, believe not (iVcTy spirit, but trv the spirits whether they are of Gorl." Kight Hpirit, gool spirit, a quickening spirit, spjrit of holin^»H?j, Hpirit of life, Hpirit of po^er, spirit of liber- ty, Hpirit of unity, Rpirit of adoption, spirit of Christ, Hi'iritof counsel, faithful spirit, spirit of God, spirit of grace, spirit of judgment, spirit of knowledge, Idvg, meekness, mercy, goodness, wisdom -dul truth. The uhf)vo app'^lation givfin to God's Holy Spirit, is the dif- fenuit workings and operation of this heavenly, holy MU'l ever blesspd spirit of God and Christ. In contrast to the spirit of G ) 1 wo. shall show the 8])irit of man, inherited from Adafn by every soul that overlived. It ia easy to discern between God's spirit and th(^ spirit that came in Uneage to us from Adam. — Tiiougli with differ »nt appelations. This Mgirir, of man is cilled the spirit of anti-Christ, spirit of divination, dumb spirit, spirit of error, foul spirit, spirit of jealousy, lying spirit, perverse spirit, un- clean spirit, spirit ol whoredoms, spirit of witchcraft and divination. This spiiit of man h that which*' work- eth in tlie children of disobedience." Eph. 2,2. John — How then was man ere ired and left by God ai the l)ei];inniug ? Did he have spirit, soul and body, and was any part of man immortal, and ntor8 in at tlio mouth tloea not doiile a man. To Bay the least of it, it aurely justifies the drunkard, for he puts in at the mouth what will debar him from the kingdom of God, and the durable felicity of the world to come. John — Is it a fact that there is a personal devil beside the children of men 1 Is it so thi*t we all caD know who the devil is — can we know his beginning, existence and ending 1 James — The beginning, existenje, and end of the de- vil is entirely within the vision of our comprehension. — The devil hath a great many appelations givea him in holy writ, such as Satan, Serpent, Lucifer, Dragon, De- vil, etc. The ap))elation Devil is given in scripture foi- ty-eight times. Devils twenty-six times, Devilish once, Serpent thirty-two times, Serpents thirteen times, Sat- an thirty-nine times. Dragon twenty times. And the word Dragon in Hebrew, Thanim or Thannin, signifies a larii;e fish, a sea-dragon, etc. The word Satan, Sathan or Sathanus in Hebrew, signifies an adversary, an ene- my, an accuser, etc. And the \^ord Serpent in Greek, Ophis; in Hebrew, Nachash, craft, wisdom, suiitility, etc. The word Devil Abaddon in Hebrew, and Apolly- ou in Grreek, signifies destroyer, adversary, deceiver, sinner, murderer, tormentor, and the god of this world, etc. The word devil carries its own disgust in the mind of all. I shall be forced to give this heinous something H name, to have a foundation for my superstructure. — And I conclude that this horrible — feared by all — could 36 * uot bo named better than wicked; contrary thoughts put into wicked actions, contrary to tho will of God and Christ. For there is no other personality but that which mrtu possesses^ witli a heart full of wicked thoughts, ready to be put in action. "And the serpent said unto the woman ye ahail not surclv die." — Gen. 3rd, 4. This is the first lie we have account of, that told by the sorpont. We are forc- ed to the conclusion that thu serpent in it^j first coi^struc- tion stood erect and did converse with the woman, Eve, from tho punishment that God inflicted upon him, that ever after he should go on his belly, and duat should be his food. — I fear not tosay that the lie the serpent told was the beginning of the devil. The lies, swearing, drunkenness^ murder, extortion, fraud and decepcionare the continuance of the devil, and his destruction in the lake of fire and brimstone at the end of the 1000, his end. Amen. John — Who was it that spoiled, plundered and tor- mented Job 1 Jaraes — You can see that Job was a true f^ervant of God in all his ways, and hen ;e despised and hated by the wicked around him. God being satisfied with Job's in- tegrity allowed the servants of the serpent to deal with Job. only save his life, which He would not trust in their hands. **And the Lord said unto Sittan (an ad- vers\ry) behold all that h^ hath is in thy power, only ^ipon himself put not forth thine hanc\" etc. We shall presently see what th'- devil of devils will do Ft> 37 to Job, as they have ' im in their hands, and who bo or they are. "And there oauie a messenger unto Job, and auid, the oxeu were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them." Now ooines the devil, ''And the Sabeaus fell upon them and took thorn away, yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword, and 1 only am escaped to tell thee." Who were the devils in this instance but simply the Sabeans 1 People actuated with evil mo- tives, thieves and muideiers. The world are full of Kuch men at the present time. "While he was yet speaking there came also another, and said, the Chaldeans made out three bands and fell upon the camels, and have car- ried them away, yea, and have slain tho servants with the edge of the sword, and I only am escaped to tell thtie." Can any person fail to discover who the deviU were in this instance ? Fail they cnnnot, without a chronic, yuperstitious blindness. There is nothing l»ut the just laws of our country at the present time that prevents multitudes out of every nation to steal and murder sim- ilar to both Chaldeans and Sabeans. Therefore let us hear Job's own o^.^inion of the devil ; he had a hard trial of his character, and I shall abide by his decision. See JobXVI, 6, 13. "He teareth me in his wrath who hateth me, he guashethupon me with his teeth, mine enemy sharpen- eth his eyes upon me. They have gaped upon me with thir'w mouth, they have smitten me upon the ch( ek re- 38 Dl'O ic ;l]t'al!y, they have gathered themselves against ni Whj has done •ill tfii.s wickedness to the godly man Jo!» ? He II' the next v^r-^t!, '•(jrj I hath (hilivered Ml.:! to the ungodly, and turned me ovei' into the hands of the wicked" This is the de- vil, the only devil — and similar ones there is in the w'jrld, or we need to fear. B id, bad, very bad, and worse as we near the fU<\. John — VViij is this rod diagou spoken of in Rev. XII, 3-15 ? James — It is couce h.'d .uiiOiig all critics and Bible expositors that the Ked Dragoa of iiev. XIL r^preseats Pagan Uo(ue, As the P.igan system of profession has been a s.stem of error, the devil could not have abetter representative to show Inm in its true character. The P^igans adopted the wor.^hip of iilols in all their temples ill which they had rj.tred jii pedestals seven images, coi res\oiiding with tlie seven days of the week. Tliey wor>lii[>pt'd [\\ ■ ima^e oi the Sun on the tirst day of the week, .vhich they named the Sanue-dey, hence is derived th" ^void Saiithiy. They W()r8hi[)ped the moon on the secDnd vlay of the week, called by them Moon's day, and li n.-e by us Moiuhiy. The next idol they worshipped they nun -d Tuisco. Tijis w.-us on the third day of tue week, ail 1 hen^i^ the uam(^ Tu sday. On the fourth day of the H'eek they vvordhipped the idol Woden or Odin, and tVoin this idol sprung the woid Wednesday. On t!)t' lifth day of tie' week they worshipped the idol Thoi au I fioni him caiMc the word Thuisday. Tiiey worship 39 ped the idcl Frigee on tbu sixth day of the week, which they named Friga's day, and since by us Friday. The last of their idols for ths week was rAie idol Satur. this they worshipped on the seventh day of the week, and from this idol came the word Saturday. From God cauie the name of the days of the week in this manner — first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh From the Pagan heathen came the name Sun- day, Monday, Tuesday^ Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. John — What woman fiedinto the wilderness. What does time, times, and half a time mean? James — Time is given us in v^^rious ways. A moment is time, a minute is time, an hour is time, a revolution of ihe sun in twenty-tour houis is time, a week is time, a month is time, and one year is time, but tl^t broUj/ht to our notice by John is, without doubt, one year of 360 day.^, times twice as much as the other, or 720 davs, or two times; half a time or half a year, 180 dnys ; in all 1260 days. "The woman " or Church of Christ, thut tlf^d into the wilderness, obscure or hiding places the people of God, that fled from the great pers'-cution of Popeiy. during the reign of tenor by that church, from the time that Justinian the G-ieek Etnperor of Constrin- tinople, when he gave the civil power into the hantls of the Pope, over the kingdoms of Ostrogoth, Vandals and Heruli, in 538. W^e th^M•efore trace this persecutiun of Po[)ery from 538 until we tind that noble, liberal Pa})ist Bouapart ', del •^•oning the Pope, in 1798, just 1260 40 vfvirs from tho time the Charcli ot' Christ came under ilio iinineicifiil whip of Pop^n'y. Oil, the Idnlrioss of Jehovab in giving His people the «1»( (M'ful hope of their final deliverance from the dreadful hofiHt of Ditniel and John. The samo porio(J is given by Daniel and St, John, in tilt! following places and mannei: "And they (Ciiurch of Christ), shall be given into his liuid (Popery), until a time and times, and the div- iaiMtj of time." Daniel VII, 25. t« For a time, timei?, :iii'l half." Daniel XII, 7. "Where she (the church)is noil rished fcra time, and times, and half a time, fro m the! hute of the serpent," Popery. Rev. XII, 14. "That ihov should feed her there a thousand two hundred ami tlncesfoie days." Rev. XII, 6. *'And I will give pow- er unto my two witnesses (the old and new testamer-^^ and they shall prophtcy a thousand two hundred and tlire.-jscore days, clothed in sackcloth." Rev. XI, 3. u Aiui there wrtS given unto him (Popery) a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months." In all the different ways in which this 1260 years is spok- en of, It is all the same, all commenced in 538 A.D., and ended in 1708. Weare ever since 1708 m that peiijdof time called the time of the end. John — As vou have attempted to show that Paganism and P..pacy are a '.ranch of the devil, but who tempted oui Saviour ] 41 James — To follow and ascertain Chrisc's temptation, wp must remember that he was born with a heart that could be tempted, and hence was tempted in every form and manner that we are tempted, yet without sin. This is, by inheritance, our fortune, or rather, misfortune, from our first parents. Christ's lineage from Mary is traced back to Adam. In 2nd Esdras, IV, 30, we r*^ad,*'For the grain of evil bfcoJ i-i 11 oeen sown in the heart of Adam from the be- ginning, and how much ungodliness hath it brought np until this time, and how much shall it yet bring forth, until the time of threshing (or harvest) come. Eve was tempted by the lie of the serpent, Adam was tempted by the craftiness and cunning of Eve, yet^ were thev both Hteadfast like Christ — they could shout and sing, yet without sin. Adam and Eve, innocently, from their Creator's hands, could not be less able to resist any amount of serpents, lying intrigue, craftiness of the wicked, endeavoring to make the convert newly-converfc- ed, devils like themselves. This is the issue — yea, this is the battle between Christians and devils. John — Was Christ tempted like as we are 1 And how are we tempted to transgress God's law 1 James — The scripture of truth informs us how Christ 'AS tempted. He.^r it : '*For we have not an High Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infiraiities, but was in all points tempted like as we are y^t without sill." Heb. IV, 15. And now we shall show how we are tempted, whether 42 by an unknown mystery, or tiimply a heart unyielding fco God. Christ endured his temp cations, and did not sin, in yielding to tho wicked promptings of the heart,80 can we. ^'Bhjssed is the man thatendure.h temptation for when he is tried he shall f^ceive the crown of life, wliich the Lord hath promised to them that love Him. Lot no man say when He is tempted, I am tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempt- eth He any man (now hear Him), but every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed." Therefore all this temptation the woild over, proceed- eth neither from God or a cloven-tooted devil, but from an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. Hence, we can clciirly see how the blessed Sav- iour was tempted : he was possessed of a heart of flesh like ourselves ; he had every inducement that this wick- ed world could present— tried, harassed, perplexed and tempted as we are, yet without sin. He did not yield, but said ''get thet5 l>t;hind me, Satan I" And so with us, we may he tempted to swefiT, lie, steal rob, commit ac itery, [asp •y violence, and abuse oui- fellow-meu,either with the baud or tongue ; but in all this we can say, as Christ said, 'Mitt the(5 behind me, Satan." Rasi&t the devil (or evil thoaght) and he shall flee from you. "There was a cer- tain woman named Mary 3Jagdaleiie,out of whom Christ ex pel led seven c levib 11 theory of the devil, andsiv there were seven wild aui Suppose we take the present B^ heig] to S: Jesus Th fiioas And heart; heart The t from ii>8, Ij tutes 43 mais or cloven-footeu of the liv- ing God." 'f Jesus answered them, have T not chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil." This drives the nail right home ; do not seek to alter it. Once more, and I shall bring this part of the dialogue about the de- vil to a close. "The heait of fools is in their mouth, but the mouth of the wise ?s in their heart. When the ungodly curseth Satan he curseth bis own soul." Ecc. XXI, 26,27. Therefore, the whole matter is left in a nutshell, and >. 47 that is, that every man, woman and child unconverted, unsubdued to the will of God and Christ, are the only devil or devils in the universe, and too many at that. John — How can we discover and find out the false prophets spoken of in the bible, what is the difference between false and true prophets? James — A false prophet is a preacher that preacheth doctrines in opposition to or contrary to that which is taught in God's word, the bible, or foretells events, not prompted by, or authorized through or by the spirit of God. Every number of the beast, or sectarianism, 6G6, are all false prophets. All the churches throughout the length and breadth of the earth, the 666 of Babylon's origin, differ only in their creeds, very little in doctrine. They all preach that Christ is God and God is Christ- also, the Holy Ghost is God, all three alike in pow6r,and glory. And this is uo rhetoric, but rhodomontade an J scio. lists — audi aiteiam, partem, hear the other side. And all preach the boul goes to hell or heaven at death, as false as the place they speak of, for the soul that sinneth it shall surely die. Ezek. XVIII, 4-20. Again, this horde that feeds at the sectarian crib say, that God will keep his enemies in endless woe or tor- ments, writhincr^ howling, cursing, swearing and gnash- ing their teeth, without an end to their suffering and misery ! If any person would wish to slander and degrade, the character of the Deity, and bring Him to contempt in the eyes of his creatures, man, they could -18 not t;ikM H n^Mrr-r way to do it. To say that God which in frtithfiilly i '•presented by Ilia own blessed word and thf; 0|»erHlion of bin will, his rafrcy and jirovidence — h\() ■' (,<) wrath but plenteous in goodness and hiercy — for few short yi-MiH in win, that poor mortal rnan would be kffpt hy i\i'v^ God of love and mercy in endless misery and torrnentH, Thf? thing is })iepo8terouH, impossible, fulse, and wiihout foundation in the Scripture. John— Whut laniiuaf^e is used, then, to show the final end of th(; imprnitent ] Shall they be restored, or end- leHHly Hulb-ring, or destroyed ] jMrM<;H — 1'li(?re are hui tliree words of ambijijuous nn anin^' used by tlie false pioj^hets to give the least Hemhiiuice to endloHH punishment. Following are one of the, faUe prophet's quotations : Rev. XI V, 11, "And the smoke of their torments ascendeth up for ever and ever." The class tliatare here represented in suffering uie the worshippers of tli(^ beast, or Popery, and the ImmihI's iuu»ge, Protestantism. But everyone must know thnt there are millions of peojde on the earth who wor- < hip neither popery or [)rv)te8tfintism, and hence cannot l)e included — Socialists, Infidels, Deists, Mahomitants, wiih millions of others that are daily disgusted with both tlui Riuuan beast and the two-horned beast — Luth- er.'uiiHm and Calvinism, and of course is not in this for- ever nmokini; calamity. Amen. Great is the truth. Their next (juotation is Jude v. 7, '*Even Sodom and CiOnu)rrjih, and the cities about them in like manner, fc^iviny then)selvcs over to fornication and going after 49 strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suflering the vengeance of eternal fire." Those false prophets consider this eternal fire impene- trable, and hence means endless. We shall test the val- idity or ground of this exegesis. The ensemple, exeiu- ple or pattern, or, if you please, the true likeness of the suffering of the impenitent in the day of judgment is given in this most graphic language of inspiration. Peter tells us in his second epistle, 2 and 6, "And turning the cities of Sodom and Gommorah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an example un- to those that after should live ungodly." This, then is a perfect pattern of the impenitent in the great and terrific day of judgment, and is sure to overtake all transgress- ors of God's blessed law. Jude says "the Sodomites are going after strange flesh." Wonder if it is their souls or spirits ! The Apostle Paul says in Gal V,19, "Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, for- nication uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry,witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditiors, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings,and such like;" the Sodomites of Old. The picture is per- fect, pencilled by the Almighty hand of jGod, and who can disannul I The Sodomites in their uncontrolled wickedness were, l)efore their destruction, going after strange flesh, at that time — then, in the present tense, but now in the tense— as thete is nothing l^ft of the four large 50 cities, but ashes — and that must be well bleached out by fhe Dead Sea. Oh how sublime ! God-like — merciful, whose anger burneth not endless, but sleeps ; when de- struction is final and complete. The next imagery vis- ion, of the false prophets of the unending punishment of the impenitent are recorded in the 60 chapter of Isaiah, and last verse. " And they shall go forth and look up- on the carcasyes of the men that have transgressed against me ; for their worm shall not die, neither sball their fire be quenched ; and th-^y shall be an abhorring unto all fiesh."It is evident clear and logical that worms cinnot feast upon flesh where the fire is raging. There- fore the worms must be feasting on the wicked — when dead, and not near the fit' .for ii is c^rt n'n an I very trans- parent that fire and wuilus will not last long together. Fires, are calculated In all their actions to consume, 'de- stroy and finish all that is consumable,or can be bu Before we shall part with this subject of the punish- ment of the wicked, we shall show as clear as noon-day that they are finally reduced unto ashes, like their pro- totype — Sodom and Gomorrah of old. John — Is this all that is bearing on the punishment of the wicked 1 James — This is all thai every false prophet ever I heard claim for an endless duration of punishment for the impenitent, and their only refuge. Their hypothes- is throw or would throw, the greatest slander upon the all wise God, to say that a young pf^rson just got into the knowledge of sin, niu] would commit their first il ' inost high foiGver more. For lo ! thine enemies will periKJijall the 'woi keis of iniqnit} shall be dettroy- ed." pHMJraHO'J, 5-10. IViiisfi is a verb active, and means destruction — death. "TIk; Lord reigneth, let the earth be glad (this is at his oorning), lot the multitudo of the islei be glad thereof. Clouds and darkness are round about him, ri|^ht(M)UMness and judgment are the habitation of his thr*>iie. A lire goeth before him, and burneth up his ene- niies round al)OUt." PsalnivS 97, 1-4. . ' - "He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within mv liouHe, h(^ that telleth lies ^hall not tarry m my sight. I will eaily destroy all the wicked of the land, that I muy «'ut olT all the wioki)uijished vvith everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power.' There is nothing that can he in existence, yet from the presence of the Lord. David says. — Whither shall I go from thy spirit ? oh whither j.hall I flee from thv presence % There is no hiding place from God's sight — if alive Heb. X, 27. *' There remaineth no more sacrifice for sins \)\\\ a fearful looking for judgment and fiery indigna tion which shall devour the adversaries," (or wicked). 2nd Peter 3, 7. "" But the hewvens and the earth which are now by the san>e word, are kent in store, re- served unto tire against the drty of judgment and per- dition of ungodly njen." Perdition means destruction- ruin and death. Job XX. 6-10. *' That the triumph, inir of the wicked is short, and the joy of hypocrites is iuit for a moment, though his excellency moun*. to the heavens, and his head r^ach to the clouds, yet he shall perish forever, like his own dung, they which have seen hiui, shall see him no more, and say where is he] he shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found, yea he shall be chased away as a vision of the night." What plainer language could be given to man— than 57 that which is expressed above — to show their final ex- tinction 1 Psalms XXXYII. 9, 10, 28, 34, 38, 20.— ''For evil doers shall he cut off, but those that wait upon the Lord shull inherit the earth. For yet a little while and the wicked shall not be, thou shalt diligently con- sider his place, and it shall not be, for the Lord loveth judgment and forsaketh not his saints, they are pre- served forever, but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. Wait on the Lord, and keep bis ways, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land, when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it, hut the transgressors shall be destroyed together, the end of the wicked shall be cut off'. But the wicked shall perish and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs, they shall con- sumo into smoke, they ehaW consume away," Can any language be, or could bo, more clearer than this,to show the end of the wicked 1 Rev. XX, 9. **And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints aV)out, and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them." Hence the reader can* fancy how much of the wickv. I the fire shall preserve. Verse H, "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire, this is the second death." If death means what it purports, then, this is the silent oblivion of all God's enemies. Zech. XIV, 12, "And this shall be the plague where with the Lord will smite all the people that have fought as;ainSo Jerusalem ; their flesh shall consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes shall con- 58 sume away in their holes, and their tongue shall con- sume away in their mouths." Here is the eye that cov eted, lusted after an unlawful thing, the tongue that cursed and blasphemed the sacred name of God and Christ, now, at last, suffering the extreme agony and torture, writhing and gnashing of teeth in the last throes of death, second death, from which there is neith- er, hope, light or life. Oh ! disobedient creature, man and woman, gone for- ever. Mai. IV, 1-4. "For, behold, the day cometh ; (the great day of judgment),that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud; yea, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble, and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But the righteous shall tread down the wicked, for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this saith the Lord God of Hosts." Tf the roots and branches with the ashes, here spoken of, is not sufficient, yea, transparent, to point out the final consummation of all the unconverted, impenitent of the earth, in the day of judgment, then I must say, I know not what is. Once more. Obadiah, v, 16, **For as ye have drunk on my holy mountain, so shall the heathen (the ungod- ly) drink continually ; yea, they shall drink and they shall swallow down, and they shall be as though they had not been." Here is language very conclusive that the wicked in the end, or, after they got their dessert, will bo in a sim- 69 lai manntr or form as if the^ never existed. AmeD. — 1 have given the truthful testimony of holy prophets tiiid apostles, which all say, that the wicked shall per- ish, die, consume, melt away, be destroyed, perish like their own dung, and like the untimely birth of a wom- :in, like the fat of lambs, be made into ashes and be as if the/ had not been, etc. Who can doubt the testimony of those truthful in- spired men, such as Job, David, Solomon, Obadiah, Ze- chariab, Malachi, Paul, Peter, John the Divine, and our most blessed Saviour. No sane person can doubt ; no, not one. John — There is quite a number of preachers that we haar say that the world is to be converted as one man to Christianity before the gecond advent of Christ. Are they false or true ? James — There is no one but false prophets, and I am soiry to say they are numeious, can preach such doc- trine as the conversion of the world before the coming of Christ. For Christ hath said that as it was in the (lays of Noah and Lot, even thus shall it be when he comes. Wicked it is, and worse yet before the spring of 1884. Christ hath also said that the wheat and tares, or righteous and wicked shall grow together un- til harvest, and he Siith that that is the end of the world. And Paul says that evil men and seducers are to get worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. And tells Timothy that they shall turn their ears from the truth unto that of fables, having itching ears and 60 the people likes those false prophets, and take and pay them for teaching smooth and false, dreamy doctrine, such as the conversion of the world, where ihej can lav- ish in pleasures and religion too. Such, indeed, is the condition of our world at present, and suoh it was to be at Christ's sec ond coming, John — Can we mark any more false preaching among the different preachers ? James — A volume could be written, and a large one at that, that their talse teaching might be manifest before the people, but we forbear. A very false portion of their teaching is, they all teach that Sunday is the Sabbath of the Lord our God, and this is notorious oblogjy. Je- hovah proclaimed, amidst tbe thunderings on Mount Sinai, the Seventh day is the Sabbath. The Seventh day He rested, after the creation of the world in the be- ginning. And says in Exodus XXXI, 16, *» Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations for a perpet- ual covenant. The word perpetual is not like the word forever, limited in every manner, but is without limit or bounds. The Seventh day of every week is God's bles sed Sabbath; the heathen Sunday is the Papist and Protestant Sabbath, and this they all profess to keep.— Not one syllable, letter, word, or command from God, Christ's prophets or apostles?, ever to-keep the first day of the week as Sabbath. The Church of Rome changed the obligations of the Seventh day Sabbath to that ot 61 the heathen festival Siunlay, and the Protestants willing- ly acquiescent. But from the begiLning^God appointed the Seventh day as Sabbath, and the Seventh day will be the S ibbath Day in the Nevv Earth, world without end. Heai the jU'ominent writers of the Catholic church : '•Hud the church power to change the Sabbath 1 Cer- tainly, since the spirit of Go J is her guide the change is inspired by that holy spirit. The uniform, universal and perpetual tradition of all ages and nations attests the antiquity of, and, consequently, the divine assent to this change. Even the bitterest enemies of God's- church admit and adopt it." Milner's "End of Contro- vt^iay," a Catholic work, has the following : *'The first precept in the Bibh? is that of sanctifying the Seventh dav; God blessed the seventh davand s mcti- iied it. Gen. 2, 3. This precept was confirmed by God in the ten commandments, Remember the Sabbath day %o keep it holy, for the seventh day is the Sabbath of thn Lord thy God. Ex. XX. On the other hand, Christ declares that he has not come to destr-oy the law, but to fulfil it. Matt. V 17. He himself observed the Sabbath, and as his cu.'itom WIS, he went into the synagogue on the Sibbath day. — Lake IV, IG. His disciples likewise observed it, They restel the Sabbaih day, according to the commaudrntnt. Luke XXIII, 56. . Yet with all this weight of scripture authority for keepini; theSibbath or seventh dav holv, Protestants (',2 o H o ['.ill ilciiomiriiitioJis ui;ik.! t!uo ,i profane tlay,[uul ti-an- f(>r tli(i (>lJi;^iition of it tu the lii.st day of tlit3 week, ui- Suiidiiy. Now what autliority have they tbi doing this. NoiH: svluiteN or except the unwritten vvui'd or tradition (■ tli(; ( ■atholic church, which tlcclares that the apostlf^s mil 1(; t!i'' chanj,'(> in lionor of Christ's resurrection luid tlie (losceut ()[' tl)(! Ifoly (ih;iat U[)on th^t day of tlm WC'k. r The ffdlovviiinf is frnni tli*' " (J.itholio C^hristijin his- ^r^lct('(]," hy Dr. ChaUoiKT : \Vll;\t are the d.ter and Sr. Taul. ;"). Tn this kin-^d om W'' keep tiu feast of St. Patrick, our jndncipal patron M 1 ertnit US here to say that this is all the Miithoj-iti tl K'rt> i.-, for k(M'piii_;- onndiv It stands on the s n; e pl.itfonu with '' Ak!i Weducs.lay," "Holy Thursday ^Cood FiIdav,"or ''St. Parrick's D Tl lore IS a' • . 03 iiiucli {lutlioiity ill tin- Biblo for vl«'vutiiiu u (l.iv to tliMt old Ii'i ill O.ilholic Piiti.sl, by wli )ia the Ciiiutlis alii th it ihv3 t.OMilti uml diiakt'.s \v«h'0 •««'■• Wo concln.lcd that thn . , ^' ■slier, taker, hy King j'." '^^'y^ogy of Bishop Us - took it a« .e fo!.;r„'r;'t-n '^i "^^^^^- «° Ivmg James' t,ansJ„tio^ andl; <=h'-onology of l-'t on Bishop V,,hev's iZ , °7 ^"'' ^«« "°' ^-^^e, -fie guide wo had in I i "Ir- """"'• T'-^Pe- -cJbaifti^eofDanie ;r;;?rrr'^''"^'*-'^^ -"^",0, XIII, 5. '^^> A XII, 7. Rev. XI, 3. In those scverHl l^««.• "'^'-> tin>es. a::,'h:r:z:v:f - ^ou wi,, «„, montl.8," and "fonv and twT' . ''^""' '° ^°'-»^-t^vo ^'''y^;" We do it li^kethi, "°"""'"''- '"1»«1 to 12G0 Time, one year, or Times, or twice one are 2 'or V"!' f '^ ''»^«- "^ ■*. or J years 180 « The grand total of thos^ «,;™ " , T''i-v- the period hat r'r '''' '^y^' '"""'« of the Catholic church / '''°'''' ""^ '° "'« ^'^d by that church duri". th / T'" "'""'■'^ ''^'---• The period of ^.^^'"^"'e dark age. or This period commenced inf.! '260 years. "'need m the year... 538 A. D. . ^'''' 'j^Hco terminated in th. ' I'ope of Kou:e, in ^ ''''^'^ P^^^^ to the 538 A. D. 1260 Cii Wo find again, Bonaparte, took the (•ivil power from the Po|)e in the \ Cur 1798 A. J3. ] ust uoitlur nioi''^ nor less than tli 1200 years, J' How blessed and beaiuifal, God i;\) irds (jvi^'y stej' of tlie wav, to che(jr hi^ saints in those trying periods, aiitl })oint «)Ut cie'arly the end. The e iding of the 12GU ycMi's, in 1791^; coin;nences the p(.'riod cr time, c died 'lie time of the end, in Daniel XII, 9. At this time of the end niiiiy v\oii Id run to and fro; whether yon t; I; this exitrest-iion to indicate tlie searching; of the scrij -tares, oi- the 6 nlmii* u at tl r; nianv new inventions. 1 r,ake the former, '»nt it is pat<'nt that tlu^ latter has nni le vvonderful strides since 1798. 8tean)l oatin^, t( I- e^^ra" innjjf, rai I load iult ara lot her ne-v and nsf 'ful iLi voli- tions have; made vvqu lerful stride; as es'er one W(. 11 k news. We a'se take the ^ann^ rul(^ of interpretation in the xplanation of Dmiel Ylll, 18, 14. th ^ 23O0 dys or vrs ^p n le Chi onol ol'v o f Us hCl' 1 0/ And this, the same as tin? other peidods is 1843 A. I'. It takes all of 1813 and a!l of -157 to make 2300 dav- or years, which brought us to the sprinsjf of 18-1-1. '^riii- is soir.i! of tlio reasons that promjite I me, with othei's, to proclaim the eomin:^' of Christ in tin,' sprinof of 18 U. The periods were, as als > th ' «dir tMi)lo:r\- in o-jp ^»ihl"s. se phiin th.'it we we?"*-* iudn "d -to sonn 1 the blessed proelatnat'on — IV'hold lie Cometh ; ^o ve out t(^ mi" 67 him. We had no desire to dehide neither the public nor ourselves, and yet- the time set pa.ssed hy, and the scripture confirmed. John — If you and others that prevlicted the Lord's Coming in the spring of 1844: were right, how i« it that the event did not take place at that time? James — ^Simply this ; we made ninther the scriptuie or the chronolo«j;v, hut took them both as correct, and 'n ' > hence we o;ave tliem to the woi Id as thev are. for we be- lieved th^^m fully, without reservation We couhl not see a ])Ossit>ility foi' the time to fail, but since the .lune passed, numerous passages of the scripture go to show the foreknowled;^e of God, pointing out the failure, and also provided a remedy. Giving chance to thy foolish virgins to develop, the scoffer to scofi, the mocker to iiioel:, the scej)ti.; to scorn, the nominal profes.>iur to de- I'iiU^ ; yea, every one to their own j^ost. All that thjes not reli di or love the appearing of Clirist must be made maniffst, either in nlockinL^ scofHnir, t *ri 'p>' lerid nig, srai- liui/, or saying, my Lord delayeth His coming, and cn- Gry vision faileth, or-, all thint^s continue as they werc^ Before the iibove cntalo;.'Ue could be made to sound like tiuth -there must be a settiinti given by an Oppoaito pai'- tv, and that st't time uust fail, an.i riicy then seem to triumph. There in nothin<^ that can be said to tarry until the lime set for the c^vt-nt ]>assec:. 'l\ 'ii. o(-»mes in, n fitti God s the tarryinf;: of that event. Habbakuk, one vm" holy pro[»hets, tells us in chap. 2n<1, 1. 2 — "Write the 68 . vision, and make it plain ujKjn tables, that he may run that readeth it." This prophet, unquestionably, h kI his eye upon the 2300 years of Daniel, chap. VIII,13,U and his couniiand was, to make ''it plain upon tables that he niav run that readeth it." That which was to be made plain n[)on tables was to be a hurryiuLr inessagt", and similar to that of Rev. XIV, 6, 10: the angel in John is represented as flying, and giving thp solemij message of the hour of God's judgment, has come. Oh ! how sublime, how God-like, how j)lain, how specific ; no jar, but a united concord throughuut the entire scrip- ture of truth. I, with others of lik.: faith are a [)rovorl) in the mouth ot those mockers, that havo no desire or love for the Loid's coming to reward his j)eople and punish all his enemies. The prophet Ezekiel seen by the spirit of G > i how it would be at the tarryini,^ of the visioH, as he sairh ii; chap. 12, 21-28— That in the VHi-y days of th^ jx-opK- who says every vision faileth, the event shall sur* Iv come. Paul, in Heb. X, 35,37, saich, ** G ist not away, therefore, your confidence, wliich hath great r(Conj[)eij.se of rewai( )> Confidcmce in the (^(jminir of Christ, i)ecause in the Way of His judgments we have bt'en waiting for Hitii.— Now saitli Paul, "for ye have need of paticMice, that af- ter ye have done the will ..)t Gud (in preaching anr sin. The blind are ilios^ .vhose knowledge of the scriptures ar*e deficient and f < honco not capublo, lik<: thecliild in school, without in- Htruotion, to know their duty, and whatthf:y must do to beHavod. Jt is f'rofd this dfjHoriUMl class of individuals, with the i hfjdiie.s, that Christ's servants are ahle to i.i«( iw;ivH arif gjitlKT any lia» v^-st to ;h<' Lord at His coming. ('hrist in Matt. XXIY, 45 and onward saith, "who th';n in a faithful and wise Sf rvant, whom his Lord hath rnfidr) rnlorov^T his honsf-hold, to give them meat in due HJ'HSon T This meat spoken of is not butcher's meat, hut showing clearly about the tarrying of Christ's comiritr, and pointin:^ with accuracy to the people how long hefore h(j will come. John — (Jan any one know to a certainty when Christ will corrn' '? ■ dauK'S — ('hrist saith, that as we know that summer is at hand when we see the trees in the spring put forth their lijaves, so likewise ye, when ye shall sec all these things, know that it (or Christ) is near, even at the doors. Tin* things we wtreto see or know is his ans- wer to hi.s disciphis a})()nt the signs of His coming and end of this age. The prominent signs rliat ht* yave of His coming wmS thedarkeningof tiic sun and fiiO()n,an<] falling of the stars. The sun w;n siip'MnaMjraJlv darkened] Mav 19,1780.Thp foHowiiig iiitjlit i' !■ moon co'uld not 1>p, or show grosser dtti knrsH -waH it ♦'xti'^'i^iiished out of existence. The sturw, lik(Mi fig-tr«-*»Ml»ak«'n hy a raiiihty wind, fell on IHtlj N(.v»'mher, \K\\\, And Christ said that the geu- enuion that would witness .hose Jescrihed • '' uot pass away until he vrnnM "'^■^""''ed signs woul,] V- With greL power aJlrr '" ^'^ ^^^n,. of hea- I" Gen. VI, 3, God has reduced thp y^ars, and that would f,rin. ,, . .f "S'' of man to 120 yea.-sf.ou, now. But C -L L d" T' '''' ^^ ^^'^^ not pass until he comes M S*"'^'«tion would chapter third of this boob ' " v°VT '"" ^" '^^"^ '" darkness, so that day come on '"''"'"^n' "■•« Dot in ^vise shall understand " T/, ''"" ""'''''»''e«- "Tho tbem that fear Hin, "' ^E 1 ''''''' °^ *'"' ^^'■>' " ^^'"' ment K ti„,e of ..he'jud.tnemri" ^'.f""''"'' "°*J"'^8- Lord understand ail hin"C' ^ "" '*"*' "^^'^ '^e -^wood's hlessin. follow tlT', Amen. ° '°"^ ""^ 'I'^'ogi'e of ours - CHAPTER II. ASTHOLOOY OR SCIKNCE OF THE STARS. SINGULAR PRE- DICTIONS. — TROUBLE COMING SUCH AS THE WuRLD NEVER SAW — APPEARANCE OF THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM. It is well iiiiderHtooJ tl» «t tlie ppiihflia for the four great planets — -Jupiter, Uranus, Neptune and Saturn — will l)e coincident in 1880. Astioloi^y. to-day, is ridic- uled l»y many Ko-called scienti.sts. After 1880 Astrology will be faui^lit l»y many who i eject., it now. Bacon Hiys "the world oj)p()8»'s what it fines not understand. In the case ofAstiolo^^y this is pie-rnjii ently so. I havp no desire t:o discuss the veiity m- falsity of Astrology. — I simply stite tli(; cflfrctvS which the a|)pi Oat-hinif penhe lia will produce according to Astrological deduction. The elTects which this conjunction will produce are momentous. From '80 to '87 will he oiu' ui iveisal c w nival of death. No place on this earth will he entirely free from this pi a«.i:iie. The Pacific coast will not suffer anything; in comparison to oth^'r portions. The coinci- dence of these plan«*ts in perihelion will always produce (pi(h'mics and drstructive diseases. Three of these 78 planets are malifics, and Jupiter, although a benific,pro- duces evil through association ; or, technically, by con- junction with the others. Diseases will appear, the nature of which will baffle the skill of th 3 most enainent physicians. Every drop of water in the earth or above the earth ,01 on the earth, > will be more or lews poisonouH. The atmosphere will be foul with noisome oilors, and there will be but fnw con- stitutions able to resist the cominy; scourge; therefore, prep ire ye that are constitu^'oa illv w -a'c aud intemper- ate, and gluttonous, for man's last home, the grave. — From the tar east the pestilential storm will sweep and its last Rtrugs^lo end in the far west. lu 542 and 1665 three of the pl-inets, two of which were malitics (Mars and Saturn) were in perihelion, and Jupiter, Ihoui;!) a V>enific, brought evil l»y association. Now 542 and 1665 were the worst plague years of which the world h*a any record. From 642 to 54G it hns been estimated that from 75,000,000 to 120,000,000 f*»ll vic- tims to the plagu^. (Gibbon's History HI vol., chap. l4, also Cousin's History Rome, vol. 2, p. 178). In 1720 Mars and Saturn were in perih- lion, und in the sign Virgo, and 52,000 inhabitants died in Marseilles, in Ihss than five w-oks. In 544, 10,000 died each day in Constantinople. Alexandiia, Egypt, lost 50, 000, and in 513, 80,000 of her inhabitants died by the plaffue. But as \),n\ Hs it was those tin>es they will only appioxiraate the 1)0 -rors of the next few vears, which many of us are dootneil to witness. All the weak, consumptive, intern 74 porate, gluttonous and destroyed constitutions are snn to die. Tiiere shall be no escape, do ranDin(; away frcm the scourge. Fortunate, indeed, are tbost wJiose blood is [)Uie and free from any taint or weak- ness, for thov alone will survive the wreck of the Luuiui, family. The intemperate and weak join hands and g( down to their graves in tens of thousands. Ancient races will be blotted from t bo face of the ejTth. Asia will be nearly depopulated, and tlje islands that boidei Asia will suffor frightfully from the scour^ijo. The conn tries thai join the north-eastern portions of Asia will me. Russia will he avrtgi V {)]'■ the first Fiaro[)eau nation that will suffei. Unless c rect sanitary uieasures arc taken before 1881 it will bt devastating large cities on the Atlantic coast of Amei ICit. America will lose more than 15 or 20,000,t)00 of hei inhabitants if the seweis of her cities aie as im|iftrfect as they are in 1880. The perihelia will bring other nf tlictions on the inhabitants of this earth, over whicli matikind can exert no restraining influence. Therf* shaii be fiequent terrific storms, tida! waves and whirlwindv which will swamp whole cities ; earthquakes that wiii swallow mountains and towns : and tornadoes that Wll sweep hundreds uf vilbiges from the face of the earth: mountains will treml>le, totter and fall into Rulphuroii- chasms ; the geography of theeaith will be so changed by volcanic action ; mountains will toss their heads uf throuuh the choicest valleys ; valleys will ap))ear wliereBivlio '""'■mains formerly stoo.l • skill ," • ^^ on the ocean owin. to thl' """''"''" «"' ^« 'ost ""^ -"F..S.S ; nav^ „ ;;;' '•"°'-"'"r-^ -"'«'-- of t'- capricious defjJtur J r^r'" ""^ "'-" - h-e b,.o. dormant for a,e, w,,"" .' ' "'""°^^ '^«' "-ir]avH«ithn,orevioCt ", " '" '^'^'' ^-"' ^"--iSor; rainfalls .i,;;,; '';":'-»' 'J^-r pris- r'"--'"en,M,etLei S\:^r """ — t-i" ^-s -JI start spontan,.ous)v SLl'T'" ""'""'^ ' «t-^ : great fires will oconr f ''«^«»t"t« *boIe for- '-« totally deBtroyeci • there I!" nT"' ""'"^'^^'J «owe w,ll :r «'-trieitv frig,tf,;i ^:i;:^'':^T''!'^ .!"-«r"">'« (J th ^";^' "^fc'n-al ha ants and ^«s;wild beasts will I fc'raicJ and harmless. Sm/Toc ««capefromtheearth, tothc c^owd into pof eave 'iMprecederited ^^ing fumes of f^reat 'dread of >iiloii8 cities, sulphur will h ml: II] en J'lnds that will ts b}' niimberof ships will ''"^^ningon mighty rock ai'enotdownon th P---anc] disappear withou --vuors charts will prove al '■'^^ aid^owin^. to the sudd navigator's eh many ; '>« shattered 8 and small an in is- ^^rt; island s f apparent cause • th of most a det e ^empei-at "''e surround en ch '•nnent instead T'^i^ birdeastsof the 6 f the sea, will he diseased ^^h and even '^' '-^'^'J ''e cast on th ^''" iish f'^nions offish will "o'-aniniHl food should f « sea-shore, to pntrify in th e sun, ^'^Q^'f^r thefle^h aur] fi of MM W'li y tribes will be d nearly nil th 'e Paten from 1882 to e animal kintrd '^''^^^'^'•^^^ of the flesh shall 's^'^sed, and therefore th om poison their blood ose and be 76 taken away shortly after. Tho poison that enters the ayatom bv eating diaeased meats ipjuat as deadly as to be inoculated with the plague. Farmerg ^ will be so stricken with fear they will ceaae to till their farni8,and gaunt famine will att'p in to make liuman misery more wretched ; fanaticiam will spring up in some placf>!, and bloodshed will result therefrom. Murd(;rera an'l rol)beis will ply their hellish work with impunity ; there will be rioltw nor order ; everv one will be absorbed with the weighty and nus^hty task of keeping alive. Peonle will be buried in deep trench- es uncotfined. Thejudi^es will be stricken from tho bench, and the plea'ler troiu the l>^ir, and merchant and Customer wdl be seized by th« fatal diseas;) while tvud- i"«« • Death will oome slow and lin .jHrin^' mi some cases, but in most it will be swift and terril'le. In seaport towns thoiisamls will be buried in the bays and harbors, th( law to the contrary notwithstaudiui^. In many coun- tries vast districts will be all deHerN-d, and even in Ku- rope some portions will appear so near that condition as to appal the traveller. One may walk for days ovcm- liundreds of farms without secinj^a livini^ soul. On all the tracts of land that once w. IS stirrina; and animated with animal life, not a vestis^e will bo seen. The hous> ^ once the happy homes of tens of thousands, the deserted farms will show sijjns of disar ranufeinent or netrliornncf\ that plainly tell of the death, or departure of the o^v^le^s to the populous citi(^s. 77 L»'ttli(' tiHV»'ll»M' |nii'sut» liJH Way 'ill lif'coii rs lo the ,-nirtIl villnLC's, iiiuiiy i>l" vvlii(;|i uili not cuiitfiiji m single living .soul. l.*>?t, Inin l()«»k into tlu) lnuiscs ; let Jiim j);iss throuiih tl»t5 'loor Ihiitst-uitU ajtn", and wi;, whs tljo ^ickeiiini,' spcotaclf of wlioli:; I'amilit'.s dejul. Ld Ijim still WMiiJcr, if lit-' yi>t, liivc; C')iir ./^e.Uirou-^li th*; CDiUitry stiickei) with ihe black deatii, uikI ii» tlif3 duik oaijoiisuf the nioUiit iins, and h<' will sue evtu'y ( ultDiUritirikJ \yoiui of death — the end of all attiicked with the incut able dis- aSH The country p«M)|»!o will flee to the crowded city foi aid, b it unles.s they are rich the physicians will ;^ive inein little if any attcMilion. Tiie poor will die uncared fui by tens of thouHfinds, without a niinis^»'riri'' lutnd to sootije their dyinij; agonies. The doctors will be in uni vtii':^,al deniiUid, aud th('y sh ill be exfc )i'tionat'! iu their cliarLTHS fer tlieir seM'vices. r»tal : itcannoi: b'-» cnrt-d, i);it unless tin* system is to > wt^ak or ini|;ia\' copiijn^ (iriuujhts of warm water and a ve^retai'lan diet will pic- von^ t'.ie disei^op ' miu'j: thi blood iu tli* projes* of di- i;e.stio(i. .\ni'nai i )od will poison those who cooM uu< iiH n o fit. no cotton or spon;j;o dij>[)(-*d ni'o spirits I i I t c onjih(n-, aii'l k"pt. m t.ie nos tril- ■Ai\< 1 f: 'qin-atly c!^aMt!f''d, v^•ill prevciit the l>lood bein^^ poisone I through ill,' orijans of respiiatioii Mmiiv people will think t.'iat tliH totitl dc^tfuction of aniniMl life will occur riming this era of pl'iiiue. After the l^lac^k plague tlieie will be 78 two yeaiH of firo, which will rag*' with unabateil fury in all parts of the world from IH85 to 1887. These fires will he the means of Hiiiiihilatiug every germ of disease. In fact every city or portion of a city in which the plamio appears should he hurned to the ground. This is the only way to destroy the scourge. Nothing but firo will exterminate the fatal disease. Those who pass through these terrible years of woo will have greater caj)acity for the enjoyment of thi! pleasures of earth. The ewrth will yield twice as much )is fornieily. All the animal kingdom will be moro prolific and life more prolonged. The average duration of life is said to be {)3 yeais now, after 1886 it will be just twice as long or (50 yeans. The reason of this rc- luarkable pro^onk;ation of life is owing to the healthy el- ectricity or magnetism that will surround this globe. — From 1880 to LS8G the electricity of this earth will bn deadly, owini^f to the inalitio influence of Saturn and Ur- anus upon the atmonphere. During the black death tne most wonderful celesti 1 phenomena will be seen. For weeks and weeks the sun will appear as red as l)lood,aud terrible convulsions will a[)})ear in that gieat body. The sun will discharge* oceans of llaniing hydrogen gsses, that will roll in tnm- uituous billows hundreds of thousands of miles from the centre. The moon's action on tides will be spasmodic ;«nd ii regular. Treraendons showers of metrors will fall on the eartlj and remain in an incandescent state for many hours. Dense black clouds will veil the sun for 79 dayn, nnd the nioon not bIicmJ uk bil^ht or sti'udy light as before lliGso drcHtlful dayH. The whole luiaveiis and earth will tremMo at the awful continuous reports of thunder, lastinj^' often for liourH ; hlindinf; flashen of lightning will illuniiuato tlie black Hky ; people? will Hcr'iam with liorrorat the fauta^tic 8ha[)eH tjje lightning will assume ; thoufiands will go insane with fea>' of the celestnil phenomena ; all modes of egress from the cities will be stopped ; trains will be stopped ou the prairies, in the n)0untain8 aud the valleys, and their occupants will die in them of disease and starvation ; steamships and sailing crafts will rot on the ocean with their dead human trei^^ht, drifting where the wind and waves may drive them. Stout will be the hearts that will not despair in these dreadful times. Fanatics will arise and cry out that the hand of God is against mankind, and religious frenzy will be rampant in all large ^aten immediately or as soon after being cooked as possible : ^^vt'ry kind of animal food should be eliminated from the table ; fu-en fish and game should not bo used ; 80 miik, i'uUor, eg^yS, fats and oils (ejicepting vegotahk- iAls) hhoukl bo proliibitcd ; vc<,'eta!)les, grain and fruits aa produced in vacli country should bo iibeii. The dec- tiis condition of rvcrythiug on earth will he changed, thercloro t\\^' prodiK (s of the tioil in our imniediato vic- itnly uie Uie Liest to keep tiic human ays'eui in a pox; tivH stiitH. When tlie ];,innan organi.-in is in a stiictjy j)Osirive condilioii it is piactically luipossibn) to oonlriict lly .bh) t( di stuise All •( rMonrt in a lui'Mtivo ^.tate to n' l\ ion hur roundiuf^s will l)c {jiofirht to fall victiuis to tluj joouil^' Tlio Hush tM'er and ihe alcoholic irnbib-'r will ^o h nui ill h iiid t ) the g!ave, iov their blood will beoonio iuipiiti an-l iullaiu.'d, and therct'ort* \)(t in a n(^^ativ^^ stat^', aii»l necessarily be una^ Ic U) combat disease. ( Bear ir. in mind no part ot th(i world will hn ex r >iu t!i«) I a\ ai;es of the plii;j;ue. The frigid I «'iiii»i lOtlUM I In* Iv([uin]au.\ will bf iri\aded,and t'.itMleuion of dfitfli and desol vtioii will be as jippaKUt th(M'« in th;tr, fco/i.-n hind as \v 11 as in 1 le- sun-s'-orched sands of Afii<'a. I w nl penetrate ,•. u t > ec jm :,]( s of Indi i and tlie Iminc of A uiei iCfi. Til'' .M )!i.r'^>li:*n race \' ill snirei- nio^t. f o: It Js -vi rhoni dou'it tl)c most Mnci(*nt, 1 vaces AVi 1K»' en wi ){>ires, tbey have their rise, dc( line aid l.i'l. Cid]) 11 I te \\( ■populated (u n''a;;'y so, and whcfi the |)Ia .m! ] »reak'.i (cit ni 18S1 in tiKUr eoiintrv noivh^s (»t h .siatic^ will crowd their ships and fh'.,- from tl.cir country, r. s|)re}'Ji^' next, and A J^^i^'intudetoCiiiuH. Af ^^i country wiJJ } >o North A fneri(^;i ne^r ^0 suffer fropj t\ •'i IS evor |i„^ ^^^^'•i''a, and Oalifb A I'lj i^ will be the 1 ri<^'<* next, £ "^^rica rnorP th vvn, »" 'nost .nalicjnunt pi u- an awt and least plague era th « vvorhj P' V^ii > 's w)', "It it iinu I, »ii.'y vh It t ^I'^VO ilp.itji ,| I ^'"lous and i / ^V'l-, dl.S'3 )rd J^ perihiWi '^nJ^^s u I'id nul '^'^« '^^traordiii '» «'^ven-t('nths oft ll'V •'■*-'- "piisiiif/.s P»'ovisi(>ri ^^•'^'^' ^trifn, Hoods, <^>^'M, di'ou^W M' W fc ^"^^'^^i to 1887. Ini^ iU ircliy wi'h all i(.s 1 fl! <^nep luow^ f,e <^87 th(. ^' fcitar ;ioe.;iMni soen in " Q; ^^ uiade to ''^iTors will lit. quell Tf !! '^"^^'^'^ '>y a total .cl l''^SlOpi;t's CI eni ia'r It "* >' 'nak-vs its i|>«e of (1]( anri It 'M'P^'iTH and ill ''iUllCMvf, •'l>i>'*arancH e '"^'Ju and '"inn.ates the 1 ^'Ofv ;31o «i)oon even J"i >it(^r, wl »'*'lVHn.S, ;,n,l y^ii'-s. It '"'trv.'llou <"•«' nearest to tli '^ "n'ditm "''' ''' ^^Pl'osirion to fl ^^artb and \me thhd Tl IP '<-"» iu 188 7 82 will sni[)iss iiny (^f its pr'vions visi?iitions. It will (;». Hfion ovon !it noonday shiniu;^' with :i (]nic!lv flashing,' li-dr ihi' cntiro yt':ir, ifter whioli it will i;r.i«hMlly decroaHii in briijhtncM'^ and li:i:illy 'Hsii(»|)<';ii', not to letnrn to our 1 lo;iV(UiH till tl 10 VHdr ^ _i •) Vf'.'llS fi OIU 1887. This star (irdt attiMCti'd the jUt»;ntioii of ustrononiers in 1 )i'^. It WHS tiii'ii c iIIlmI a now a tar. r was^ nob a now Htai* howcu'cr, for tliii was^ tho star that ahouo four years 1). (J., and was at r.ho nativit/ of (.hrist. Ft lias appoanMJ every (SI 5 years s'nc(!, and ovcry odavit^d astroloi^i^r i> cei'tiin that it svill /upoir in AuH^n-tt, 18S7. Tlu! a[)pi'ara!ic(' of this stir, aou )iMi),viiie I as it \v\\> lid by solar and I'lnar rlijiS', to^'cthcr wirli tho halcfu' iiiflicncf 'hai follows tho positODS tin t IVlajs and Sadnii will (»C(j|)y, will cans ' an universal war and portcntu 1 o'ls llools >ind foarful .shipwreck i. North Aaicrica nil! hiiinvolvod in civil sU'ife, and a roig i of t.nrror wil! pic vail in tho Atla itic S^lte^^, unless a Napoh**)!! will aiis. in (pit ill it. Tl I'le wi 11 I ) ricli array thetnsoU'os a;jfainsc tli* poor, the p;) ir ;i,'ai1isf. the rieh, every wher Ali i Ills, ptMiii'Mitirirics asylun.-i, andovny place kept t' the insane \\\ 1 criiuinal will bo<.NU.VCIATIO_V. Scon can.iid and intell ^'fi^, announced -"^^^ ^«> at I.asf, worthy 0/ /"f*'"^i(ent reader. Tho P • "mmerthe V'nts said l.v him t '' ^^^r, is at least V^'^'^'(nvo thnt in all I o con.o to pass fro.ij • — ui^,,uiea8tron. candid consideration. The ^xtraoidii th i^i lif' callj 10 s ^y and terrific. Yo k «« proof to ] '*ie an infidej with vve ^^vo to admit that Be th ^JIJ'I that wh ast ''""^omy is a pe.tect IS as ifc regard may vve pf^ (H'ourre?ioe told verified befo ^'^ «" '^cli,,.s. i, p,,ji,tod science. W ■secjt ) It i> i I KaitI •nco(,/ tl 8 th '^re our eyps. e assiirano.' of tl ^^0 all bolit^ve b the very hom of ecaiise we 11 blr f "^^^s not st ^*n. ;i ^^UH iiopod for. tl P^f-ase Ood. An'd "i<^ without f '^v lorth tl unl iith it rof( cs ^" nicorrcctness of tli OiJR \V(; ..,}f' in le ovid- is injpossi- *» position to ft*-^t.s ''•^''. ^et ns CMlml "P^^'i ns all, Hnd y c;)usid<'r t' prqmre fur t] le pJ^'-'Jictiou of tl '«r..s|)on.sil)ility th;,t mighty events io.se 84 t,l»;i^ is sure tr, conip iijioii flio iiihaldtauts of onv world hf'tvvc'ii now aii'l llie sjiriui,' of 1883-4. PK^fosHor ( Irimmei' is not Ml(jno with rpaiit>l to the fen lul scones just !m lore us, l»ii!. otliors are Boniulin*; tlic aJMrni also. I'ut \ mmi saiisficl tjirro shall ho but a sriiall rennuiiit of lh<' inhMbifauts of tho earth will in any way b»'lioV(', or |»ri'pa.ro tor tlu? (extraordinary and tcrrifif events, luit they will (^onie. I would call the tt'-ntion to one thin*', which innst be admitted. ' n » reader's al that this year 18S0 has been very unusual with thuiidei and ii'^htniiiL!;, floods, Hr(^s, hui rii'iinos, whirlwinds and toi-n;>does. Add to this the increa.se of hii^di crimes i?] Jill parts of the world, and what can you look for ?— Suridv not ti!>e oonver.sion of the world. So say I. "We ai'e appioachinir one of the iiiost postih'ui ial periods of theeu'tVi's history. Since the cou)Tnencerueut of the Christian era- the ])erihelia of the four }j;i'eatesr pbniets diiitit er of the solar system tiiin -have not. b(^en coiiicid-'ut, iturii IT laiius an 1 y .'P l>ut this is aluMi occur, and in the lanunia^e of Dr. Kna})]), who has i r.ic- ed the hi>;t()iy of the g;!eatest« pideieicH t at evei' aflli't (m| the huniau laoe to tlie jii'rihelia of tlie^e planets.t hi k The tl leerv will soon \n'parHfio?) for them. So was it with the antedf'lnv'aus- S(idoujitrf', Kiryj tiaus, and Jews at tin- destruction of Jerusalem. Matt. 24, 87, 40, -''Bur as the days of Noah were so sliall also thv coming of the Sou of man be. Por as in the <1 lys thit were before the tioo«), they were eating and drinking:, marrying and giving in marriage until the day that Noali i^nt-rc.| into tlr- m '< uid kn-^w not until tlif 87 lluod came, ami look Lheiii uli Jiway ; ho sluill also the coining of the 8on of man be." Nuah ijreuohed to them tor 120 years, they could not be ignorant about the flood — but they did not believe ihe [)ious auuoancement so shall the great and dreadful plagues — famine and de- struction of the coming yeurbjfall upon this world and its inhabitants. This perihelia pt-riod which commences immediattdy, or no^v ; ( Jupiter makes his nearest ap- proach to the sun on the 7th oi October 1880, and the cH'ects of it are already visible") *• A prudent man fore- sretji the evil, and hidetli himself ; hut the simple (fool- ish) ()ass on and are punished." Prov. XXII. 3.) i make no profession of astronomy, though I firmly be- lieve in the science-.— yet, 1 know nothing of it. But J ilo hiilit've — and that tirnily — in th(i [)redictious of God's holy prophets. And 1 shall endeavor to give the read- er the beiiefit of my research. Little do I expect how ever that muny will belitve what I shall give tur their iiistruction and learning, hut lather to be slandered and iiaduced by the mass of the [)tople. i shall set before Uie reader few of the nuny signs tliat were to proceed (liw Saviour's Recond advent — which is very near. Matt. XXIV. 11, 1-. And many false projjhets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity siiaM abound, the love or many shall wax cold." Look 'il ihe jargon in all the ljal)ylc/nian churches in the land, ratliolics as well as Protestants. ^' Teaching for doc- tiiuu t]u'. commandments of meU--thev have turned i^wiy their lais fiuhi the i» uth— to lii. t ul fables." 88 (Micah 3. 11, 12.) Jfoar the true statK-mtiii of the piophet. *' The hoHrJ« thereof judge for rnward, and the , priests thereof leaoh for hire, and the prophotb thereof divine for money yet will they lean upon the Lord, and H«y, is not the Lord among us ? None evil can come upon us. There- fore shall Zion for your sake be j)lowed as a field, aud Jerusaleuj shall become heaps and the mountain of tie house as the high places of the forest," During th(3 years 1881, 1882, and 1883, there shall be fearful sights and scenes, throughout the whole world. Terrifin plagues, mighty famine, terrific floods in several, places while scorching heat is in other parts of the earth, burning the crops and pastures, and drying up tlio fountains of water. Th(i thundei- aiuI lightning will I c unusual, and commit great destruction. Tornados mm'I hailstones will do fearful work. Hurricanes Hud whirl- winds, will do their awful and destiuctive work, l-y sm and hy land. Hear what the prophet Jeremiah siivs, chaj>. XXIIJ, 10; 20. " neliold. a v hii Iwind of tli Lord is gone forth in fury even a grievious whirluind ; it shall fall greviously upnn the head of the wicked. Tlie anger of the Loid shall not return until lie have execut- ed, Mild till he have porfonned the thoughts of his hc;nt; iu the latter days ye shall consider it peifeotly." Kead also 1st chap, of Joel, Uh chap, of Amos, mul iLig^'ai chap. '2il(\. In those portions of tcriptures, the n»atter i^ made plain, yet, *' none of the wicked i*!i;j!l iinderHr»ind, but the wise shall under.stand." When tl;e 89 H»)ove described scenpq «n J i 6J ^ e -..oo„ and in th,. s J _/'«'" '!> "«■-„„..,„,,;„ of nations will, perplo UU(i "Poii tlie ,.«,.(), ,1 ■'''Iv, tbo sea and th ititr CSS '"S : .nen'H hearts faili.gVheo, f„ "«'• 'hose things wbich e waves ,om th '• ^^^ii-. and for Jook l;--^^^^'S of the heaven shaJI bo '*^t) coiuingon th iriL' tlie sun and of th The ^»*^% 1 9th, 1780 «^firns in the st « lAJuori is thei ««nd th, shak en ft « earth, foi ''n Th I' K t^'skrnsof "lernatural dark 1^3:?, which tl ai ^^ IS past J 00 ;s ifi their falling in N L'O- years a"o r>"« Witnessing. The otl ^^^^'•'^e'' liadthesnbl just in the iiif' few w ''"mediate f '^^ portion of ch ovemberLSth '"•e «^ti8factiun of Ufnre Paul in beJieve. ^^>'«»" and unto th( biu tl nsts prefii, iCvior) IS i^^re IK only a scatt er- ''VV^'^v the second unto salvation." J] time without '^1 that Jook for h j'n shall for h ^Qi, an/1 love h f<> come and that save us. i ;^^ only on c<,nclition tl VV^'^^riugr that he 1 «^n (or sin offering) IS a ''i« pronn'sed ^'^y person Can \h cannot see no.- can J leli I c\ - '^nst. Ikuowther in.siian, ami eve J'ot love the now-ani "y« hut wh ^^ ll^ht. tl) fn w '' i-^ a great pi-ofession CVhrist' ^m that he was f'onbled '-'-^^'^ in the balance, th ''i^ciples when j fill kind and iind afr- «'^inu to leave tl i" 'Jjind for 1 f-'y HhalJ ^<>' inforttied lorn, wrio ^^"^'^•^ *>e troubled. t'tionate S OSlMo a •>''' ^^^*^»eve in God, be] »-<)irow- bh.'ssed not your , oelieve also in 90 iijf lu mv full i»»r 8 1j')U s(3 aru riianv muubions. if u were not so I would liavo tolil you. F go to prepuri! a [)laCo for you. And if I ^o and jueparii a place for you 1 will come again and n^cfive; you unto uiystdf, ihuc wh(M(; 1 am there ve may lio also. Christ did go uwav and left th( m. *' Wliih' they beheld he was taken up ; and a oloud received liiui out of siglit." When Chri.st vant away, he \V(;iit away from the mount of Olivet, and ut his letrin, his fiait will stand again on the same spul. ,S.e Actsl, 1»-1'J. Z(^cu. XrV. 4. Reader — theie ar«' two texts as they sLand in oil. lUblea which scoileis and professors u.^e freely and glih Iv. One is to be found in Aets the first and 7th ver.e : it is not for you to know the times or the sea Lie' the Tithej' hath put in J lis own povver." t( ;v' SOri.- II e utt'TUjost part of the earth Tiuly, there is nothing in th(r sooihu-'s (piotation m this place. For, at thi' time, our Saviour told thern ii was not foi- thoui to know, foi- the Ilevehitor, the ihjly Spirit, WHS not given, bat after the Holy Spirit came the thiuL^ is made plain to i'V(;ry tru(* child of Clod, but urito none else. The next text that is in the mouth of evt-ry person is, (( J^>ui of that day and that hoiii knowcth no man, uo, u on hii 111 L'tu It llolv 91 not Mif 'lu^'els which are in hoavou, neither ihe Sou, but ray Fj^her." Thi^ ticklos grerttly tho imregonoratcd. The re-ailer can tiii\fc Christ spt'aks in tho present Umnv. Uo »loen SC U'. at say tlut no peison ever hIioiiM kno VV Hal If ♦> lone so 1 would tjivoitnp. What benefit wonl 1 it b(* !() the hrist vvell kn"\^' ;li;it His corning would nut take pUct? in ar»v of th«'m / The |^en(M'ati(>n that is intcnv'sttNl, and must he wuii •), 1^ thwotio that is on the earth at the time of His comin;^ mil l,'dom. Noah wasnot sent to prc^ach the fl )od to ilie !,'»»nei'ation that pn^ctMl'l hiai, n^>r yet IVlosfM one hundred y(M\rH betero the time of delivorance, t) tho chii'h-t'u of Israel. S) with the angels to Ahrdhani and Lot, the warning vas not fuvt'u iri fMtlu^r '^ ast) to a ^eneiatiou that was not lutere.sted, l)uL to tho vi'ry i^eneration that witnt-sseil the (iHSiM'ibi'd scenes, and waseaUiiht and destrovr^l tor their siiis ui 1 uu^xdief. [s God to d \il witii us diversely than Ht h.'.s done in former times ? No, verily. i^'ov since lyinther*! is men in uH parls of the world, and all are agref^l as to time — -that (Jhrist's coming is at the very lilo(ir. And suppose we admit that the day and hour cutne ■\vinni)t i^e ktiown, that is only twenty-livt^ h,)urs. 1 for n, bui Hone do not prof'ss to know neither th:* IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) // 1.0 I.I 1.25 tills |25 ■" IIIIM I4S 20 1.4 III 1.6 6" m^/ v] w^, in the is tliti ren us ; need to be- ; scri[i- rulliful M, 10. M them Ihteous) 'ard is Ith the uuder- [ut they 28, 5. [od (or Ich are Ionic to 93 pass aud nevv' things (the comiug of Christ) do I declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them." Isaiah 42,9. This is the proclamaiion that has been made since 1843, or **meat in due season." "The days of visitation (or the day of judgment) are come, the days of -ecom- pj^ise are come (and that is at the resurrection) ; Israel (or true child of God) shall know i^." Hosea 9, 7. ''Not foroaking the assembling of ourselves together, and so much the more as ye see the day approaching."- Heb. X, 25. '-But ye, brethren, are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief," Isi Thes. V, 4. 'Knowing this, first, that no prophecy of the scrip- ture is of any private interpretation." 2nd Peter I, 20. "All scriptuje is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for in- struction in righteousness. That the man of God mav be perfect, thoroughly airnished unto all good works:" I could multiply witnesses from the scripture of truth to show even the skeptic and scoffer that God's people of all countries will know the time of Christ's coming, the day and hour to the contrary notwithstanding. Reader, the fact is, Christ's coming has been preach- ed, published and declared among all nations, and can- vassed thoroughly, and will not cease until the woik of Salvation is dune. Three months and twenty days be- fore the cominji of Christ, when He leaves the media- torial seat at thd right hand of God, and puts on the garment for vengeance. The time of Jacob's trouble, fl4 the three nnelean spirits like frogs coming ont of the mouth of the dragon (Paganism), and out of the mouth of the beast (Papacy), and out of the mouth of the f^ahe prophet (Protestantism) ; thf sevon last plagues doing their great work, the harvest past, the saved, saved, and the lost , lost forever. The follo'^ing scripture had to be fulfilled, and if Gotl could not find men in this world to give the message the timbers in your houses would spsak out and give the loud cry, **Behold He Cometh, go ye out to meet Him." Following are the messages: **Blow ye the trum- pet in Zion, and sound an aiarm in my ho!}^ mountain ; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of tha Lord coraeth, for it is nigh at hand." Joel 2, 1. "And he sent his servant at supper-time to say to them that were bidden, Come for all things are now ready. — And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground and I must needs go and see it ; I pi^ay thee have me? excused. And another said T have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them ; T pray thee have me ex- cused. And another said I have mirried a wife, and therefor^ I cannot cofDe. So that servant came and showed his Lord these things. Then the master of tho house being angry sai«l to his servant, go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the citv.and bring in hithf^r the y)oor and the maimed, and the halt and the blind. — And the servant said. Lord it is done as thou hast com- manded, and vot there is room. A.nd the Lord said un- ilse 95 to the aervaiit, go out into the highways aud lie(]ges,'aiid compel them to come iu that my house may be filled. — For I say uuto you that uoqo of these men that were bidden shall taste of my supper." Luke 14. 17-25. '*And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gosj)el to ineach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation and kindred and tongue and people, saying with a loud voice. Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hoar of His judgment is come, and worship Him that made heiven and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of water. Aud there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, if any man worship the beast and his ini ii^e, jind receive his mark in his fore- ih ad or in his hand, the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup ot his indignation, and he shall be torment- ed with file aud biimstone in the prosenc.} of the holy aui^els, and in the presence of the Iamb." Rev. XIV, Gil. iieader, here aie ihiee special messages in Revela- tion, Luke, Joel. Joel gives his withoul any detail, whereas Luke and John give specialty to the same mes- i^age. When the great proclamation was made in 1843- 4 iu every city, to promiscuous crowds, they flocked fiom the churches to hcjar the message of the coming of Christ — preachers and their congregations, and invited 96 those engage, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath lon^ pitienco \'ov it, -until he re- ceive the early and latter rain. Bl- ye ahso patient esta- blish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord drawetli nigh.'' Here is a perfect })icture dra vn by the Apostle, and shows the beautiful comparisons between those that were and is enua^ed in irivin^^ the messai^e of the Lord's '»"5 coming and the farmer that puts his seed in the gvound and waits for the return of his lahor. Tiie Prophet Isa- iah discovered the tarrying of the vision prominent, and says in chap. 26, 8-18, " Yea, in the way of tiiy judg- ments, O Lord, have we wait* d for thee ; the desire of our soul is to Thy name, and to the remembrance of Thee. We have been with chilJ, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth vvind, we have not wrought anv deliverance in the earth, neither hava the inhabitants of the world fallen.'' )>' til. ion I flat onJ the] be ■Hon .sail And again in chap. 8. lG-17-18-20, says, ''Bind up the | I 09 nil wu i-a's its iftb, ^ pa- fruit le re- • sln- iweth tostimoTiy, seal the laws among my disoiples. And T will wait upon tbft Lord that hideth his face from the honseof Jacob, and I will look for him. Behold I and the childron whom tha L')rd hath gjiven me are for signs and for wonder« in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which (Iwelleth in Mount Zion." ThivS is just the position that I with others occnpv that hwve, hvp and will pirach the Rfcond comiuoj of Christ, The thing is plain, and clear like the noonday. There is one o'her prominent passage bearing on the disappointn)ent in the Lord's coming in 1843-4, which we shall refer to. It isfonnd in Ezek. 12, 27-28, "And the word of the Lord came nnto me, saying, Son of mtn, what is that )>roverb that ye have in the land of Israel (alias, am:>ng the sects), saying the days are pro- longed, and every vision faileth." This is the scoffer's song, with the nominal professor setting him on. "Tell them,, therefore, thnssaith the L«rd God, T will make this prov»-rh to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel (or among the sects), hut say nnto them, the days are at hand, and the effect of every vis- ion. For there shall be no moie any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel (or am- ong the sects). For I am the Lord : I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass ; it shall he no rnore ])rolonged, for in your days, O rebellions house (or sects) will I say the word, and Yv^ill perform it, Haiti) the Lord God." If this prophet were here, and >vould listen to the je r-i, scoffs, mock"'iy and derision thit I vvirh others 100 WHS, is and likely to be to the end of time, he could not better describe it. We set the time, it passed, and the bowl of professors, skeptics, scoffers, and unbelieveis was raised, is raised, and will be raised to the end of time against 118/ Nevertheless, God says that in the very gen- eration that uses this proverb the event will take place, yea the Lord will come — theiighteons Baved and wickci lost. I would crave the reader's attention to Daniel, Christ and John, and from their words glean all the infornia lion needed on the subject. The prophecy of Daniel, Lis exposition of chapter 2, 31fst to the 44th verse, or Neb- uchadnezzar's dreano. We most solemnly believe tlitt God designed that his word should be understood, and this only by searching the scriptures, comparing one portion with another, and prnying for that spirit to guide into fcruth, which actuated the holy prophets to write, and leave for us their holy production. We do not agree with those who say the prophecies cannot be un- derstood. Revelation is something made known, and hence to be understood. A man may say in truth tbat be does not understand the prophecies, but to assert that they cannot be understood is quite anothei thing, and he who says it must be infidel in his principles.— Not that he rejects the whole of Revelation, but he vir- tually denies that a part of the Bible is a Revelation. Some men who denounce infidelity with an unsparing hand tell us that we cannot understand the prophecies. "And I pronounce this the height of infidelity. In calling not the eveis ' time place, rickcii Cbribt fornia- iel, liis Neb- e th;tt d, and ng one irit to ets to do not Ibe un- n, and th tbat assert thing, pies.— he viv- n. paring hecies, calling 101 atteDtion to the prophecies we are Bonutiiuee accused of prying into the secrets of the Almighty. From this charge we want no better vindication than the langUHge of Moses, in DeiU. 29, 29, ^•The secret thingi< belong unto the Lord our God (or those things which is not written), but those thingsjwhich are revealed belong unto ua and to our children forever." Prophecy belongs to that portion of the Bible which may pro[)erly be denominated a revelation. It is designed to leveal to us things of which we could not in any other way gain information. We should humbly and in faith seek for the aid of the Holy Spirit of God to guide us to a right understanding of the Holy Scriptures, to know what was the mind of the spirit that inspired the pro- phets to write, and we shall not search in vain. '* Vcm- ily I say unto you there be some standing here whiou shall not taste of death until they see the Sou of Man coming in His kingdom." "Till they seethe kingdom of God." Luke 9, 27. This promise was shortly fulfilled oa the mount. "And after six days, Jcvsus taketh Fet- ter, James and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart, and was transfigured be- fore them, and his face did shine as che sun, and his rai- ment was white as the light. And behold there appear- ed unto them Moseci and Elias talking with him. Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord ii is good for us to be here ; if thou wilt let us make here three tabernacle8,one for Thee, one for Moses,and one for Klias. While he yet spake, behold a bright cloud over- 102 hhadowed them, and behold a voice out of the clcud, which Haid, this is my beloved Sod in whom I am vfeW jileHsed. HfarjeHini." First, jeBus Christ appeared there in his own personal glory. **Hi8 countenance Rhone like the sun and his raiment was white as the light." Second, the glory of the Father was there. It was a "bright cloud," out of the divine glory, out of which came the Father's voice. Third, Moses and Elias app'^ared, the one as the representative of those saints who shall be raised from the dead at Christ's coming and clothed \?ith immortality ; the other, EMas, the re- presentative of those saints that will be changed at the Hppearing of. Christ. Fourth, the use the apostles made of the scene. The Apostle Peter was one of the witnes- ses, and in view of the importance of the kingdom of ChiiHt, he, in his second epistle, has given the church of all coming ages instruction how they can insure unto themselves an abundant entrance into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. For we have not f(yllowed cunningly devised fables when we made known to »'0u the power and coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of His Mnjesty. This he RHys was when we were with him in the holy mount. — 2Paer,I. 16-18. This scene was a demonstration of Christ's second coming and personal glory, and shows that the kingdom will be in the immortal stite when set up, and that ii will be set up at the period of the second advent, *nd re- surrection of the j 1st. But it is urged »s an oV»jection ud, ^ell Ted tbe It , of lints ming le re- , the made itnes- ru of ch of unto sting re not nown Jesus is he nt.— 103 to the view here presented, thtt^ our Lord said, the kingdom of God is within you. Bui notice the party addressed. **And when he was demanded of the Phari- sees when the kingdom of God should come, He answer- ed them and said, the kingdom of God oometh not with observation (outwnrd show). Neither shall tbey say, lo here ! or lo there ! for the kingdom of God is within you (rtnaonfij you). Luke 17, 20-21. Did our Lord mean to say that the kingdom of God was within the Pharisees] Certainly not. He says of them, Matt. 23, 13, "Ye shut up the kingdom of Leaven against men, for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer them that are entering to go in." But did our Lord intend to teach that the kingdom whs then among ihem 1 If so, why did he speak a parable in chap. 19, 12, and onward, to disabuse tbe minds of the people, "hecause tbey thought thyt the kingdom of God sboi.ld immediately appear." He clearly teaches in that parahle that they were not to expect the kingdom of God till He should return from heaven, at which time He v/ould leward His faithtul servants, but will say at th*' same time, "Those mine enemies which would not that J should reign over them, bring bither,and slay them before me." We under st^nd our Sivii)'i(r to toich, Like 17, tint to the uuhn- lieving world, and that while those who hold the spiritu- al views of this subject shall be saying, see hero ur see there,ihe first thing th»»y know about it it is upon them. The whole heavens blaze with his glory, and the earth 104 trembles at his presence. "And they shall say to you, see here or see there ; go not after them aor follow them." For as the lightning that lighteneth up the one part under heaven shineth unto the other part un- der heaven, so shall also the Son of Man be in his day." Verses 23 24. Christ preached the kingdom of heaven at hand. — Matt. 4, 17, Mark I, 15. But at hand in these passages is from the Greek word Eggike, which signifies " has approached, drawn near. — Robinson. It was then at hand in the sense of being next to come. What kingdom was at hand when Babylon was in power 1 Ans, — The Medo-Persian. Whyl Because it was next to come. What kingdom was at hand when the Medo-Persian was in power ] Ans. — Grecian. Because it was next to succeed it. What kingdom was at hand when Grecia was iu power ? ^ Rome. Because next to come as a kingdo:u of uni- versal empire. What kingdom is at hand v^hen Rome is in power ? God's everlasting kingdom. Why] Because it is the next kingdom of universal empire. Now comes the querj : " Watchman, what of the night V* In what period of prophecy are we in now ? — His coming and kingdom will not be with outward show. Are we m ihekinijdom of Bi^vlon. under th(3 ow the un- 1- ages ' has m at s in t waa irsian it. las in uni- er 1 is the f the iW •]- tWcU'd er the 105 "head of gold ?" No ; that has passed long ago. — Are we in the Medo-Persian emijirel Long since that kingdom was numbered with things of the past. — Are we in Grecia] That too was numbered and finished more than two thouaand years since. Are we in Rome in its undivided state, or in "the legs of iron." No ; long since that empire fell. "Where are we then 1 Answer. ..Down in the feet and toes. How \ou<^ since these divisiuns came up which constitute the feet and toes ? Nearly fourteen hundred years. Almost fourteen hundred years we have travelled down in the divided state of the Roman empire. " And as the toes of the feet are part of iron and part of clay, so the kingdom shall he partly strong and partly broken." This is the Roman kingdom. *'And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death (this was by Bonapaite in 1798) and his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondered after the beast." Where dees the stone strike the image ? " Upon his feet. Where are we now ? In the feet. What takes place when the stone smites the image 1 "It is broken to pieces, and becomes like the chaflf of the summer threshing-floors, and the windcariies it away that no place shall Ke found for it." Then will God's everlasting kingdom be set up. "And it shall stand forever." — '•And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall l^e givi-n to the people of the sainti- of the Most High, whose king- dom is nn evPTlasthig kingdom, unci all dominions shnll 106 serve and obey him/* '' . The end is sure to come ; the judgment will set ; mer- cy will cease ; probation will close ; Christ will return and destroy them that destroy the earth, and this we have the best assurance will be in the spring o! 1884. Reader, do you believe it, and if not, why not 1 People will live to see it. Then why not we ? Do you eay that you s e no signs of His coming ] The peo- ple in the days of Noah saw no signs of the flood, and yet it was right upon them. Matt. 24, 38, 39. So it will be in the last days. "There shall come iu the last rdays scoffers and mockers, walking after their own lusts : and saying, where is the promise of his coming, for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. For this they wil- lingly are ignorant of." 2rid Peter 3, 8-5. Reader, be careful that you do not fulfil this identical prophecy yourself. Have you, do you watch for the signs of Christ's coming 1 Do you ever think upon this subject, and do you know what the signs are to be 1 If they should come to pass before you would you notice and recognize th^-m4 Have you or do you study the Bible upon this point or are you so intent upon other matters that you have given this subject no thought, of if you have thought of it has it been with anxiety and love to ascertain his truth ? God does not force men to see and believe His truth. His promise is only to those that love him, obe him, look for him, pray for him watch for him, and love his appearing, that he is coming ner- turn we 4. Do I peo- and ^o it 3 last I lusts : since were y wil- nfcical the pn this lei n notice 5y the other Ight, of Ity and Imen to ]o those )r him Icoffiing r 107 to save. The popalar churobes are spiritually dead, they can give you no light upon this subject, for tbey are all ir. the dark themselves. The blessed coming ot Chiist is ignored and scoffed at by many of them. It was so at Christ's first appearance The Scribes and Pharisees, who was the most learned, was stone-blind to the event. It will be just so at Christ's second coming. The great L.D.D's., M.As., and all that take unto them- selves such titles will be as blind as a bat to the blessed event. All classes are CKpecting some great revelation %oon to occur, though they knoiV not what it is to be. A wonderful increase of knowledge and activity among men is to mark the last days. Dan 12, 4. How remarkably and strikingly is this fulfilled. >^ 11 stand amazed at the unparalled wonders and knowledge that is nowadays being developed. All talk of it, but only a few that believe and realize that it is a sure sign of the end of time.- Amen. In answer to the question, "What shall be the sign of thy coming, and the end of the world," Matt. 24, 3, Jesus says, "and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations and then shall the end come." Matt. 24, 14. Christ does not say that all nations shall believe the gospel, be coaverted by it, and have a thousand yeais millenium before the end. No, it is dimply to be preached to all nations for a witness against them. Then; not a thous- and years after, shall the end come. Can this proph- ecy he reliable or do you believe the words of Jesus ? — 108 You iiray know that the whole woiM has the gospol preached to them ah'ead}'. There is not a nation that has it not. Listen to the following testimony upon this theme : The editor of thn Christian Union says, **The whole world hanbeen ransacked and exploited ; there is not a corner of the glob'i wh re Christianity is unknown." The Bible has been translated into about three hnn- drr'd langUHge^. All n-itions has now heard the glad tidings. And hence the prophecy of Jesus is fultilled. — Wdl his promise now fail 1 No, no, never. Then the great day of the Lord is near, is near, and hasteth great- ly. And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of t'le earth (Jie four allied powers i)\' E'lrope— England, France, Germany and Rust^ia) holding the foui- winds of the earth, that the '^ind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea nor on anv tiee. Preventing general war for the present. *'x\nd T siw anothfM- angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God (hi«^ comra indrnentvs), and h.^ cried with a loud voice lo the four angels, to whom v was gi ven to hurt the earth and the se;, saying, hurt not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees, till wa 1 ave sealed the servants of God in their forehead. Rev. YII, 1, 2, 3. This sealing time will soon close. A similar announcement is made l)y Ezi^ki^jl, TX, 1-G. Hear him. ^'He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, cause them that haxe charge over theoity 109 to draw near, even every nan with his destroying wea- pon in his hand. And \ ehold six men came from the way of the higher gate, which licth toward the north, and every man with a slaughter weapon in his hand, and one man among them was clothed with linen with a writer's inkhorn by his side, and they went in and stood- beside the brazen altar. And the Lord said unto him go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and seta mark upon the foreheads of the m(;u that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that he done in the midst thereof. And to the others he said in mine hearing, go ye after him through the city, and smite ; let not your eye spare, neither have pity ; shiy utteily old and young, both maids and little childien, and women." 11,6,111,18-21, "And thou, Son of Man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns be with thee, and thou dosi dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their woids nor he dismayed at their looks, though they be a rcbelious house. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die, and thou givest him not war^ang, nor S[)eak9^t to warn the wicked from his wicked ways, to save his life, the san)e wicked man shall die in h.is iniquity, hut his bloud will I requiie at thint? hand. Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickednets, nor fiom his wic- ked way, he shall die in his iniquity, hut thou hast de- livered thy soul. A'^ain, when a righteous man doth turn from his ri^rh- 110 teousness aiul commit iniquity, and 1 lay a stuiiibliiii^ block bcforo bim, be sball die : because tbou bast not given him warning be sball die in bis sin and bis right- eousness wliicb be bath done sball not be lemembered ; but bis blood will I require at thine band. Neverthe- less if thou warn the righteous man, that the iigl)teous Bin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, be- cause be is warned : also tbou bast delivered thy soul." *' Tliu^. siiitb the Lord God ; Smite with thine ban.l and stamp witii thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evi! al)ominrttions of the bouse of Israel ! for they sball fal! hy :.bo sword, by the famine and by the pestilence, Hf' that is far off shall die of pestilence, and be that is near shall fall by the sword ; and he that reinaineth and is beseiged sball die by tb*? famine : thus will I ac- coniplisb my fury upon them." Ezek. VI, 11, 12. "All hands sball he feeble and all knees s?ball be weak as water. Thev shall also grird themselves with sacdvcloth ai]d horror shall cover them, and shame sball be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their* heads. They shall east their silver in the streets, and their gold sliall be removed ; their silver and their gold sball not be able to deliver them iri the day of the wrath of the Lord ; they 8b;»ll not satisfy their souls, neither till tbeii' bow- els ; because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity."' Ezek. VII, 17-20. " Son of man, when the land hin neth against me by trespassing grevit)U8ly, then will 1 stretch out minti hand upon it, an^l will bi-euk the staii of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it,aii(i V st not nght- ered ; 7ertbe- iiteous ve, be- soul, e han«l he evil lall fdli ;e. Hf' that is ;iaiiieth 11 I ac- . "All e,ak as 111 will cut oft' man and beast from it : though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it, they should de- liver but their own souls by their righteou.sncs^;, saith ihe Lord God. If I cause uoisesonio beasts to pdss through the land, and they ypoil it, so that it be desol- ate th it no man may pass thi-ou«/h becaus:o of the beasts though these three men were in- it, as 1 live saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons or daughters ; they only shall be delivered, but the land shall \w desol- ate. Or if I bring a sword uj>on that land an>l say, svvoi'd, go through the land, so that T cut ofi' man and beast from it ; though these three men were in ir, as 1 live saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither sons or daughteis, but they only shall be delivered themstl-. selves. Or if I send a pestilence into that land and j)oui' out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast ; though Noah, Daniel, and Job, wv.ve in it, as I live saiMi theLoid God, they shall deliver n(4thcr son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by tbeii righteousness. For thus saith the Loid God ; llow much more when I send my four sore judgm* nts upon Jerusalem," (or all the iuiialutanrs of tlic earth,) ' t!u- sword and the famine and the noiseso ih^ le.uU," ithey will literally come, whether bears, v/olves, lions, ur some other kind — I know not), ** and the pestilence, to cut off from it n)an and beast T' My intellegi^nt reader — 1 have given you some of the •ireat scenes just before us : and soou to come to pass ; wbither \ou believe it or not. Remember, I now warn 1' 112 you — I beseech and entreat you — I implore and pray you, to become reconciled to God through the blood of tlie everlasting covenant, *' that your sins may be blot- ed out, when the times o^ reiteshing shall come from the presence of the Lord ; And he will send Jesus Chrisi; which was before preached unto you ; whom the hea- ven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoke n by the mouth of all his holy i^rophets since the world began." So you can see tjjat everything that God created in the beginning, is to berestoied, beasl as well as m.in. '^ For I reckon that the sutferings of this i)resent time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Foi the earnest ex[)ectation of the nreature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God. For the creature was made subject to vanity not willingly, but by reason of ium wh) hath subjecteJ the same in hope, because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we luiow that the whole creation groanetb and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they but ourselve's also, which have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves waiting for the adop- tion, to wit, the redemption of oui- body. ' Rom. 8,18-21:. This is the promises of Jehovah, and will he fultilled to the letter. Remember that God says, that he bath no pleasure ia your death ; but saith, turn ye, turn ye, for why will ye die. pray )od of e blot- ) from Christ 3 bea- L of all all his 3an see , is to it time which tion of le sons vanity bjedteJ 3 shall tito the ^ lillOW in pain u'selvc's }ven we if^ a(io[)- $,18-24. fultilled be bath turn ye, 113 '' And the spirit and the bride say come. And let him that heareth say come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely." Every provision has been made, reader, for your sal- vation, from God. Mercy is, as yet, pleading with mankind, but will soon be withdrawn from the earth. " When once the master of the house hath ris^n up, and shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without a.,d to knock at the door raying, Lord, Lord, open unto as, and he shall answer and say unto you, 1 know you not whence ye are ; Then shall ye begin to say^ we have eaten and drunk in thy presence (here are the professors of Babylon— the sacra- ment takers), and thou hast taught in our streets." This will i>e the sad and lost condition of professors and non- professors, when probation will close. And I am satis- fied that probation will end some lime in December,1883. That is on 24th day of Chislen, the ninth month ; see Haggai II, 18. 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I feel to mourn seeing a host of my acquaintjince, who Hie civil, kind, benevolent, and strictly moral, to allow themselves to be seduced iu the bosom of Babylon. Let every one that Ujves his own soul come out of eveiysect that give themselves a name. Chrisc calls you out. — True, Babylon has a form of Godlines?, but they deny the power ; from such turn aside. Some will say Baby- lon is the Church of Home. No ; the Church of Rouie is "Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots." And if she is the mother, who are the daughters? None hut the Protestant sects. Think it hard or not this is tlio truth. There are those in America [jrofessing to bo looking for the cofuing of Clirist, v»'ho are greatly ad- vanced in the truth from others, yet they are behind the times, and is teaching for doctrines the commauduient^ of men. They grant license to women to pre'ich, con- trary to the command of Christ. Flear Paul, Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not preHcli that the end of all things is at hand. There is a prophett ss — a woman called Jezebel — in Rev. 2, 20, hath a sti'ikiug resemblance in doctrine to Mrs. White. I know not of any since Ann Lee, of one hundred years ago, that pretends to visions but Mrs. White. God's people are seduced by this womm Jez - bel, or deceived. Ann Lee was not in the Thyatiiii church, but we are. *'And I gave her space to repent of her fornication, and she repented not. Behold I will r\st her into a bsd (neither str-iw nor feathers but c )r- ruption in doctrine), and th( ni that commit adultery with her (or them that believe wlr^t she teaches), into a great tiibulation, except they repent of their deeds."-- Rev. 2nd, 21-22. The line will soon be drawn. The time of trouble is • 117 near and liJistetl. p^i'outly. WIhmi tl.e powcis of heaven isaliuken, tliore ia no more mercy for tin; humnn fam- ily. But (jrotVs people are ovorvvli(*lmtHl with (lod's Ho- ly Spirit, to fittliem for the time of trouble such as ne- ver was. The ^reat strugi^'le soon will be between Christ jind the power of darkness ; God's Saljbath will Ik- vin- dicated by His Saints ; the Pope's Sunday will he en- forced upon the innoc^int, by the two-horned beast of Rev. 13, 15-lG, which is Luthf^riinisn) and Calvinism. — The first beast wis eccdesiastic.il, the two horriKi] beast is ecclesiastical also. At this very time of trouble the four angels of Rev. 7, 1, shall let go their hold, and all na- tions of the world will war with each othej*. Those four . angelsl think is England, France, Prussia and Russia. Their actions in front of Turkey just now prove this. I also understand them to be the poweis of the heavens, or the controlling spring of all nations. "Speak to Zerub- babel (or stranger in Babylon), governor of Judea, say iug, I will shake the heavens nid the earth, and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and 1 will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen, and I will ovcrthi^ow the chariots and those that ride in tljem, and the hoises and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of bis brother." Haggai 2, 21-22. This will take place as I said before, on the 24th of the ninth month Chislen, or December, 1883. Then will the sev- en last plagues commence to be poured upon the impeni- tent of tlie earth. Just three mouths und twenty days lefore the Saints are delivered, when the Saviour comes, 118 SeeEeT. XYI, 1-12. Christ's coming will take place on the fourteenth day of the month Abib, answering to some time in April 1884. See Ex. 12, 2. When the time of trouble be^ gins is, when the niiclnight cry is sounding the clank of war tbiongli the wbole earth, everyone agains this neigh- bor. ''And at that time shall Michael (Christ) stani up, the great prince whicli standeth for tha children of thy people ; and theie shall be a time of trouble such us never was since there was a nation, even to that same time ; and ac that time thy peoj)le (or God's children) shall be delivered, everyone that shall he found written in the book." This is the period that fulfils the follow- ing : *'I have smitten you with blasting and mildew, when your gardens, and your vineyards, and your fig- trees, and your olive-trees increased, the palmerwotm devoured them, vet liave ve not returned unto me, saith the Lord. I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt, your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses, and I have made the stink of your camp to come up in your nos trils, yet have ye not returnevl unto me, sai'h the Lord, And also I have withholden the rain (grace) from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest," aiiii this is the end of the age. Amos 4, 7-8-6-10 ; 8, il, 12 13-14. 'And shall not God avenge his own fU^oi which cry day and nio^ht unto him though he bear lonii with them ? 1 tell you that he will avenge them spewl- ily. Nevertheless when the Son of Man coraeth shull iir» he find faith on the earth ]'' Luke 18, 74. ''Come my p'^ople ; enter thou into thy chambers, and shnt thy doors about thee : hide thyself as it were for a littlo moment (three months and twenty days), until the in- flignation be over, past, For behold the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity ; the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain." Isaiah 2G, 20-2L "Gather the people, sanctify the cougrsgation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and tlioso that suck the breasts ; let the bridegroom (Christ) go forth of his chamber (in glory), and the bride (the saints out of her closet or hiding-place, where she is to be in the time of trouble. Joel 2nd, 16. "Be in pain and labor to bring forth, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail, for now shall thou go forth out of thn city (con- fusion), and thou shalt dwell in the fiold (hiding-place), ;ind thou shalt go even to Babylon (confusion) ; there shalt thou be delivered ; there the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine enemies, Xow also manv nitions are gathered agiinst the,3 that say, L'^t her be defiled, and let our eye look upon Zion. But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel, for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor." Micah 4, 1011-12. *'By the rivers of Babylon (people's confusion) there we sat down (in the time of trouble), when we remem- bered Zion. We hi^nged our harps upon the willows in ,the midst thereof. For there they that cariied us away 120 captive required of us a song ; and they tliat wasted us required of us mirth, saying, sing us one of th'^ songs of Zion. How shall we aing the Lord's song in a strange land ?" At the time of t»'Ouble : "The harvest is post, the summer is ended, the wicked will saVjand vve are not saved." — Jer. 8, 20. "And the foolish said unto the wise, give us ot your oil (faith), for our lamps are gon^. out." — Matt. .25, 8. In this time of trouble, three months and twenw days, it is said, "He that is unjust let liim be unjust still; and he which is filthy let him be lihhy still; and he that is righteous let him be righteous still ; and he that is holy let him be holy still." — Eev. 22, 11. This is conclusive evidence that there is no mercv for the sinner during the time the seven last plagues aie pouiing out, or three months and twenty days before the coming of Christ. It is evident that I he Egypti^rn ))lagues was a ty[)e, and the seven last plagues th^ auti type. The forty years w^andering of the children of Is- rael is a sure type of the wandering of those that caine out of Babylon in 1844, to be fulfilled inApril,1884. I ap- peal to yoUj people of (lod, live as stiangersfind ; i^grims upon the earth, looking for that blessed hope — the glcii- cus appearing of Christ. He has promised to change your vile bodies, and fashioned them like unto his owu glorioas body. Every one that hath this hope puritieth hiniself, even as Christ is pure. The troul)le is at hand, and is sure to come, and God's people will be in it, but nhall be delivered out of i^. J us gsof past, e not o the tbiefc lim be iteous — Kev. L'cv for 3S ate pre the 3'ptifMi I anti of Is- came -. I ap- 'grifiis glcvi- Icbange Is owu Titieth baiid, 121 **And 1 will bring tbe tliird part through the tire, an.l will refine them as silver is refined, and will try the^n as gold is tried ; they bball call on my natne and I will hear tbeni ; I will say, it is my people, and they .shall cay, the Lord is my God." Zeclu 13, 9. '•'Pebold the word of tbe Lord : receive it ; believe not the Gods of of wbom the Lord spake (or tbe false prophets). Be hold tht; plagues draw nigh and are not slack. As whpn a woman svitli chiki in the ninth month bringeth forth her son, within two or three hours of her birth great pains com[)ass her womb, which })ain3 when the child Cometh forth, they slack not a moment; even so shall not the pUigues be slack to come upon the earth, and i\u) woild shall n>onin, and sorrows shall come upon it on. every side. O my people hear my word : make you ready to the battle, and in those evils be even as pil- grims upon the earth. For straiigers shall reap their fruits and spoil their goods, overthrow their houses, and take their children captives, for in captivity and famine shall they get children. And they that occupy their merchantlise with n.bbeiv. the moie they deck their ci- ties, their houses, their })Osses8ions, and their own per- sons ; the moie will I beans[rv with them iov their sin. i^aitb the Lord. Like as a whore envieth a right honesr. and virtuous woman, so shall righteousness hate iniquity when she decketh herself, and shall accuse her to her face, when he cometli that shall defend him that diligent- ly F.earclu th out eveiy" sin upon ehrth. And therefore be ve not like thereunto, nor to the works thereof. For 1 1') yet a little, and iniquity shall be taken liway, out of the earth, and righteousness shall reign among you. He spreadeth out the heavens like a vault; upon the waters hath he founded it. He made man and put his heart in the midst of the body, and gave breath, life and under- standing. Yea, and the Spirit of Almighty God, which made all things and searchoth out all hidden thinge in the secrets of the earth. What will ye do ? or how will ye hide your sins before God and his angeh ? Behold, God himself is the judge. Fear him ; leave off from your sins and forget your iniquities to meddle no more with them for ever ; so shall God lead you forth, and deliver you from all trouble. For behold the burning wrath of a great multitude is kiiidledover you, and they shall take away certain of you and feed you, l)eing idle, being unable to resist, with things oflored unto idols. — And they that consent unto them shall be had in derision and in reproach, and trodden under foot. For there shall be in every place, and in the next cities, a great insnr rection upon those that fear the Lord. They shall be like mad men, sparing none, but still spoiling and do- stroyipg those that fear the Lord. For they shall wast»^ and take away their goods, and cast them out of thei'; houses. Then shall the be known who are my chosen, 8nd they shall be tried as the gold in the fire. Hear, ye my beloved, saith the L^rd ; behold, the days o^' trouble are at hand, but I will deliver you from the pame. Be ye not afraid, neither doubt, for God is your Guide, and the guide of them who keep mv comman ! 123 meiits and precepts, saith the Lord God. Let not your sins weigh you down, and let not your ini(pv'ities lift up themselves." 2'.id Book of Lsdras, chap. IG. This IS all before Christ shall come. At his cominir eveiy nation on earth shall be convulsed in war. And when he appears in his glory with his ton thousand saints to execute the judgments written, the armies of the wicked will turn to titrhthin). ''And 1 saw the beist, and the kinj:58of the earth, and their armies gath- ered together to make war against him (Christ) that sat on the horse, and against his army." Rev. 19, 19. But Christ's ten thousand saints is immortalized, for wiien they shall fall upon the sword they shall not bo wounded." Joel, 2nd, 8. Eeader, hear the annunciation of Christ's coming with Ills ten thousand saints. '^Blow ye the trumpet in Ziou and sound an alarm in my hcly mountain ; let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of the Lord Cometh, for it is nigh at hand ; a day of darkness and of gloominess; a day of clouds and of thick darkneaS; as the morning spread upon the mountains ; a great peop- le and a strong ; there hath not b^en ever the like, nei- ther shall be any more after it, even to the years of ma- ny generations. Or to the end of the thousand years. — A tire devoureth before them (the saints), and behind thena a flame burneth : the land is as the garden of Ed- en before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness ; yea, and nothing shall escape them. Before their face the p»^opV shall be much pained ; all faces shall gather 124 blackness. The earth shall quake before them ; the heaven shall tremble. And the Lord shall utter His voice before his army, for his cani|) is very great." Joe! 2nd, 1-12. The sum stands thus : God threatened the people lie led through the wilderness, unless they reform and do his will, keep his commandments and obey him in all things, that he would give them over into the hands of their enemies and punish them seven times for their sins. They did not reform, but kept on sinning and provoking God daily by their transgressions, and he gave them over into the hands of the Captains of the hosts of the King of Assyria, through Manasseh — wicked sins. 2ncl Chron. 33rd chap. This was in the year 677 B. C. as you can see in your marginal bibles. The seven times are equal to 7 times 12, are 84 months, and 30 days to the month, are 2520 years th^y were to continue in cap tivity for their sins. In subsiracting the 677 from the 2520 years it leaves 1843; but it takes all of 677 and all ot 1843 to make 2520 years, so that it brings us to th- spring of 1844. Tn adopting this rule of reckoning prophetic times we had our minds drawn to Daniel's and St-. John's time times, and half a time, in which we clearly discovered that time, times, and half a time was equal to forty-tw* months, or 1260 years. We also found that this period was the length of time God's people were to be iti the cruel hands of popery. The time, times, and half a time proving to be equal to, or the same as 42 month«,or i2r) 12(?') daya, or just 30 many years. I luii^ht be asketl how do I know that those days lepresent years 1 Sim- ply this way : if W3 leavre them as day.s, literal days, that would only cover a period of three years am] ^ix inoaths. Bat in applyiriir each day for one year we have 1260 years to represeut the time, tinus, aDd half a time, which actually was tlio period or Unigtii of lime the people of God was in the cruel hands of the Cathol- ic church. Tlui Oitholio ohurch got civil p )-vi^r c:)aMn'r.-l upon her by Justinian, the Greek Emperor of Coustantinoj)]e, in A. D.538. See Gibbon's llise,Deoliue and Fall of the Rom- an Empire. And precisely 1260 ye irs thoreai'tor — in 1798 — the inviticible and astonishing ruler of France - Bonaparte — took the civil power away from the Critliolie church. Oh, the sublimity by which all those blessed periof^s. are guarded, and made clear to al' who wish to know and be benefitted thereby, and is actually the key to unlock every prophetic |)eriod in the Bible. The rale to ap])ly each day for a year is given in J^Lim. 14,34, Eze 4, 5 6, l)Ut we never adopt the year- day rule unless we find the rvents in th'i case cuQn.t 1)6 crowded into literal time. Therefore, Moses' sevt-n times, or 2520 years, commencing them whJose8' seven times.— Again, Diniol's n siiireotiou [)enO(l, the 1335 yeais, from 508 A. D., would land in the spring of 1844. xili the prophetic porio»].s is a united harriiony. God'tj blessed s[)irit done his work perfect. Amen. The mat/ter stria Is Ike ^'jis, hid Bishop Ush^^'i's chronology been i*oiiecc, Ciiiisi undoubtedly would ther. come. But no ; every pat t of the scriptures must be ful tilled. |Ti]en there would bf no t: irying of the vision. Hence, the chronology havinij pvoved its iirjorroctuess, the tar- rying time commences, giving time and opportunity to the-s<^ofier to scoff, the skeptic to practise his skepticism, and ridicule Lhoso tl la iet tiiu(- for Christ's comiDi'. Oh, how plain ; ho v [)uiiitoJ ! liow clear and specihc— all proving to a deiii*. iifttr.ition that Jehovah held the helm. God knows th^- condition of all his creatuies so as to make the f'nd answer- tlie means. He well kDew that not a soul of tho ramy millions that looked f^r him in 1844 was fit for translation. They .vere cut of B ibylon, w^as fed, clothed Jind instructed there, iind hence being pjlluted with tlj o'lly two that entered the land of pro luise. In forty days from leaving Egypt they could en- ter the land of Caiajui \vere tliey all like Caleb and Jos- hua — -sood ; but thev were not, Ileuce thev wandered from mount to glen forty years, until the rebels were all dead Solikewis-', will thos':; that eo;ne out of iiabylon ia 1844: wander from ^reod to creed, from church to church, until they fairly look like the foolish virgins of Matt. 25, and b'^ aroused ordy svhe;i thr doors of salvai'ou is clos od, salvation since the saved, savt;l, the foolish lost, lost. There ia a strikiu'^ resembiauoe between the Israeli s 128 that left Kgj'pt »vith rvlosesand those that h;ft sectarian i.on lage in 1844. T.j(! fewd wanted back to Egypt to their flesh potn ; tiiosH that o-ime oiu of Babylon in 1844 wniite'I, and a i^reut numb 'I* did <,'0 back to their o^ti destruction, to Babylon. It is ms pLtiti to me as thit two and two make four, that the forty years are full of signiMcance to them thar, wish knowledge. In fact, th»^ 40 years' wander- iiiiT of the children of Israel is the only beacOn of lii;ht,the si?r*^ restiujti; place, an anchor in the tempeat, a haven in the storm, and is sure to be fulfilled in the deliverance ofG)d's ptiopl^ in thu spring of 1884. Jonah preached to the Ninivites the destruction of Nineveh : they le p-nteii ro* the ti-ne beings aud Nineveh w-ks not destroy- e ) ufitil the end of forty years, hut then was. There was great humility in all the churches in the land in 1844, but when the time passed they commenced to })r 'ach peace and safety, and saying, my Lord delay f th his coming. They shall get the s-ime as the Nine- vit'^'S 40 years, but no more than to the spring oi' 1884. The Kanjf^ tai'ryin^ p'-riod, the foity yeirs, is plainly ta- ken notice of by Ezek, »he prophet, in chap. 4, v. 6, where he says, **And when thou hast accoraplished thein lie again on thy ri.:lit si le, ^n 1 thou shalt bear the in- iquity of the house of Julah 40 days : T have appointed ili^'C each day for a year." It is as plain as the light of day that this p'Ophet was inspired to pen the langua;^" heiein expressed, namely the forty years .in mercy, that \v}js to be allowed those that left Babylon in 1844, (o 129 get jMirirted ofthoir ini iiiiti»^s brought out with them from the ditfHrent churches''. For jnsfc as I su'vl before h »'l Christ come in 1844 not one soul was leady for truiisIrttioM into the kingdom of Grod, hut waa in a sin- ful, polluted, cornipte I, uQSrtuctified state. They all had to he tau^jht and instructed to obev the command- ui'mts of G "> I and Ch»'ist ei-e they could be fit for that glorious inheritance of tho saints in light. The forty years oftanyini^is the alloted period of time for the hiido — the I uiih's wife — to <'et ready for the bridegroom at his comiiis^ in i;l')»'y with all his holy angels, TIim anxiety displ »ved by Jehovah towards his people, in ivin'^ '-precept up)n pre.^ejit, line upon line, here a lit- tle, there a little," and when all i>roughb together make ;i i^Horiou'-! whole. Thouijjh whafj inform ition God h iS imparted to us (f ongiit to he all sutlioient, yet the same forty years is again mentioned in Micah VTT, 15. "According to the .] lys of thy comini< o'lt of die Umd of Egypt (40 years) will r f.how anto him marvrllous things." It has been H most astonishing marvel to me to see people that bad eve.vy- facility to know that the groat proclamation cf 1844 was inspired by Jehovah. And yet, their unregen- erat^', stubborn natures led many to return lo the differ- ent branches of the confused Bibylon, where they could rem«in nnmolestel in their sins, and be Christians too ! Ai,'!un we have the sajne tarrying period of the v.sion — th'^ same forty years is taken notice of by the Prophet A'lios, chap. 2, 10.'* Als) I brought you up from the land 130 of Kgypt, and let! you forty years through tlio wilder ness, to possess the lantl of the Aniorite." The hiiid of the Amorite is 0:iiuiaii, the laud of Can- aan represents the new earth, which is to l>ecoaie th(? final inheritancf^ of every chiMof God,fro;D the beginniu^^ of the. world to the eud of time. There is a striking re- semblance between the forty year's wandering of the Israelites hefore they entered tli<; land of pronuso and those that has to lill the sune niiinber of y.-ais — 40 — waiting for Christ. Every subsequent setting of time by me aud others has been unfruitrul sincf3 184r4,thou;/li we followed other enunent clironologt'i's, such as Hines, Shimeal, Clinton and Elliott, but all j)roduced no geuer- al stir or convKotion in the land since 1844. No, nor can any suc!i wakening be brought about ajjaiu until the four aii;(els of lioveilation Vll 1 — En^^- land, Prussia, Russia in 1 Austria- -let go their* hold of controlling the winds or suppresHin;^ general war. Then the "harvest is past, tjje suinn)er is ended," and too late for the impenitent to oV)tain salvation through the blood of Chri&t. Yi's, thoso four allied powers, when they let go their hold, univfMHul wm" shall be the result — then shall the ''powers of the heaver, •> be shaken." Then shall they see Christ a ojining in the clouds with powev and great glory, with all his holy an^'els with him. Tfi<* gloom of judgment shall be in every countenance ; th. grand reality has come at last ; the mighty, the true, the uncontrolled, tlie tirud assize, is now cJ>out to sit, vvlitu all shall, according to tiuui" d(i4?ds done in heii- t)odioe^. it til 'M»t tlieir nis^. (I'K^s I I'M from A just judge ; no j^ettin^ clear 0.- I' )c;i;»i' without trh^l oi' final iudij;Mj(Mit. We havo ihfUMjtore traccul this most t.ublirno sul>j<'cr, Mostjs' Sevou Tunes, or 2520 ytiurs ; Dan-el'a 2300 years and 1835 years, .vhicli, according to Bisliop Usher's chronology, all ended in the spring of 18 li.und thero corntnonces the tarrying timo of th(5 vision. It is then we are drove to ascertain ho vV long sh ill tlio visMH tarry. And our tnind is drawn to the time r,!»<' jh'I Iren of Isra^d spent in their mdering in the wilderness to thoir finiil deliverance in w; to the land of Canaan, and \v(^ tlnd that to ho 40 years, and liC/Uce lo he fully completed in forty years hy those that eaine out, looking fn* Ohris": in 1844. The type is perfect.; the tarryin^' will end in t'](^ sprang of 1884. And asifthis would not he all snllicif'nt to confirm tlie faith of his people in tiie length of (he tarrying of the vi- rion ; he has givi^n NiiK^veh's 4^) years from the j>reach- ing of Jo^ah unto its destructi u. And au'am ho h IS 'v.'Li Kzeki 'rs 4t) years, Micah' 40 yeai-s, and A(Q()s' 40 years, ^dl united, and pointing to the tarrying of Daniel's-visions, an 1 ending in j>erfect '•onc^rd in the .sprin ' of 1884. 1 sliall have to crave the reader's attention and mdnl'^ejic*^ r.o the r(*cord that the Urei Xew t P roo.i: i" '^Jh(•i^t iives Ui <^' tli » .ad of time in the Test linen' In passing fiOm Moses an 1 t'u: propliets to tlie Great Prophet, Christ, to fia I tlie iriite.J haruvjny between ;h3m all, abjut t'le ^reat lay of judgment we s hall not «t^arch in vain. The disciph s of Chiist, in Matt. 24. 132 said^Tell us when shall these things be, and what shall be the sign of thy coming and the end of the world." — Christ went on to inform them of many events that was sure to come to pass before his coming to judgment, and points in verse 15 to Daniel with regard to ascertain abomination, the reason is obvious, for Daniel gives the precise time this certain abomination was to continue, that it was for 1260 days or so many years. And says, immediately after the great trial of those 1260 yccirs of Papal rule, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of thf heaven shall be shaken," etc. And tell us verse 32 to ''learn a parable of the fijz tree, when his branch is yet tender and putteth forth leaves ye know that summer is nigh. So likewise ye, when ye sh.dl see all these things, know that it, or hf% Ohrist, is nigh, even at the doors," When Chiist com- mands to know, that is knowledge, about his jier.^oial coming and kingdom — Jio guess work. And to put the keystone in the arch, says, "this generation shall notpuss till all these things be fulfilled." Now the age of a gen- eration, according as God left it, is 120 years. See Gei), 6, 3. And the fiist sign, that of the darkening of the sul, was given May 19th, 1780; the darkening of the moon the following night, which was like Egyptian darkness, ac cording to all historical account, and cannot be gainsaid or contradicted. Then again, on the 13th Nov. 1833, the stars fell like a (ig-tree shaken by a mighty wind, which finished the 133 liall »» was and tain , the lue , '3 of noon from he fi2 t'ortli se yv, r be, CODQ- \t tiio tprtSS e siu;, on tbe S3, ac insaiii '11 lik^' lea llie three great sii>ns of Clirist's second coining,and the pro- rainent 8i«;ns of Ghriafc'B coming are all past, never to bo repeated. The next sign iti thia great drama, but Christ's pers- ona I appearance, shall be a universal war, vers pot on earth, hut every one againsthis neig not a hboi quie Th ils fthall be Jacob's troaf:le, and the end of all sublmiaiy. — Amen. Remen^bec, therefore, that God gives 120 years for the ago of a generation ; remember also that (_!iin;st Hiid tlie treaeratioii would not pass away until h(^ would come. The i^jeneration that sa w th. suns < lark I) ess, Miy I9th, 1780, w>)ald run all out, May lOoh, 1900, j'jst 19 yt^'arH from my penning this article, but keep in view (Christ's own words, that the geueratiori would not piiss, that is, notcoiiie to it8 final close or full end liefv^re he would be here amongst na and f\iltil his word. You luiiiht think, .'S many i^;in"; -die ireu'-r- lon ii ? was add ressinij: when oti e irth, but m u him to thiit iiftn<-r;itiot\ : Luke 1 1, 29 n 1 wl KM) litNir the 1 '^ople were gathered thick toc;eth^r he begari ^o say, this i*. Hi evil generation, they seek a sinjn, arid there shall 1.0 sign be i^iveu it, but the siyjQ of Jon us the |rophe^" Tins is conclusive th it Christ did not speak those great .s^gti-:. to thtt geiieralioQ, but t) those who should wit- ness the darkening of th'^ sun, moou, and falling; of the sta^s, l>ecause they and they only, vvoiihi h ive all the in- terest in those blessed signs, and not them that was dead, and heuc^ co'ild not s ^e nothing, neither light nor (inrkn'SS, but was sleeping sound under the ^ow^tr of If' 134 deatii. I am clailv re'Dinded of Christ's words, "But of thit L^y and that hour kooweth no man, na not the uu- j;iih wLicls «re in he.iveri, neither the sub, but the Fatli' ei." This should stop the clamorous pfrsons that say that Christ is eqi}fii to God, whereas be nays himself that none but. the Fither hdd any knowledge of the day or hour 1850 year^: ago. Ho^^over, it surely la rea- eonanle to think and bBlieve, too, that God, ere this liiiie, has infornird Hi? i wn Son, nhd bim to be judge, too, of I bo day of his coming, aod also his holy army — the angels. A^ for any other person on earth to know the Jay and hour th?,t Christ will comi«, I am satisfied there is not one as yet, or will not uui^il th? 24bh d<.y of the iiinth month Ohi%len, three months and twenty day« bt'fjre the corniL.^* of Cjrist, on the 14ih da- v^i Ni;it).u or Abi!', the tj.st uionth of Jewish tiuie in the epriofj of 1884. What (\i\y the 24 of (^bi.ieo in the fail of 1883 wi 1 ho I know not, liit this I firmly do believt^ ihat in the fall of 1883 the povi'er^^ of heaven will l)e* ahakea, which is geneia: w^r tbroiifrhout the whole earth. Then, and r.ot until then, sha.-! "A-e know the very day of the coining of Christ. Noah krae^' sever, days before :he flood ortm'> and God's peop'ie on earth iu the fall of 1833 shall know iv i\ certaintv thre^ inootbs and twenty dtys peft>r(» th-^ coming of Chrif*t. The seTen tiuv s of Moses from 677 B. C, erdir^( in 1844, Daniel'b 2300 veh^rs from 467 B. C. eiuhd in 1844. Dani:-rs 1335 y^ar. from 508 A. D. cndod in 1844.-- kt of it s-ay ims&lf f tbe I this judge, rmy— know vl.J of IV days vnng^ of wi 1 bo hicli is nd i.ot luttiiiS' ^>^ fori' ih-^ 135 Christ brings us to about this time. Add then che 40 jeara' tarrying of the vision, and vsr3 hj^vo a uniteJ har- 010113% and I cannot see how the event will pass the spring of 1884. There is room to doubt. Faith mast do its work. It is the evidence of things noc seen, and without it we cannot pUase God. St. Luke, in chap. 21, 25 says, as one ofihe tokens of Christ's ooming is distress of nations, with perplexity, and I think in April, 1881, there is no suiali perplexity aoiongst all the nations of Europe, ac least, so ic looks to me at the very time I am writing thi^i book. Look at England with her h.inds full in Afghtnistari, Soutii Atrioa; with Nihilists, Fenians, and Luid Le.i^Uv;r3 svaitiui^ to overthrow tlic) i^ov^riiiUHnt of meir coautry, fir-jaie rebellion, anarchy aad bloods'ied, and ti ive aoith- Bf law nor order, bat innoaent killel in. cold 'olo.>d. Look At France and G-enn iri;;, thoir co intfy tlo jJed with Nihilists, all waiting for ii ohiaori to .uakvi a strike aad overthrow the goveraments, do i-viy wall a. 4 Livv aiid 0L"..ier, and leave nothing Imu di-iOi'der, ;i,nir.jhy aad bloodsh^^d. Russia again, Nihilism, jiiuuiph iu: ihere, af'iH^r takiuir the life of the ruii-r witiioui any r-g.rd for h-iHiianity, mnrcy, l)Vt?, kuiiuesi; oui tteacli-^i'y, \^il- liiiv-v Violence, and heiaou^ lourJers. Fearful ! Tdk > the whole world nil through, h: it looks like :k hiv« o(: bees ready to Hwarin, whit oa i yon mtke ;f it? Everywhere is alike, the strik^^s oait :ire .aade m aU nranchea of industry for less hoars, 'liv^ht^r «ag.^. 3 : iry- ing to have it all their ow-i way w-i-i Hii'.it-eiy utikLDwa 136 a few ye^irs an'o. Look at Grangers, look at Bibbonisni, look at Orangeism, look a Oild-Fellows, look at Sons i-i' Temperance, Sisters of Temperance, Band of Hope, Fne Masons, Nihilism, Ftniinism, and. every othf r isms. — You cannot Sty a vvor-l but you will be apt to offeod one or other of tho-ie parties. S) the tide carri«^s U3 along extraordinary. Another sure siajn of Clirist being at bin i is tbe mighty work of lailroalinj. Almost the whole woill girdle! with railroads, jii8t what the proph- et Nahum said it would !)e immediately before the com- ing of Christ. Hear the pr.)p!i.:>\ in chap. s<^cind, first to fourth verse : *'The shield of his mighty men is made red, tho valiani men (or Christ's saints) are in scarlet ; the char- iots (or cars) shall be with flaming torches in the day of his pr^p jration (Christ preparing to come), an»roadw.iy.s, they (the cars) shall seem like torches, they sliali uin like light- nings." This prophet. 2600 years ago, seen exactly iiov this wondnrfnl invention would be in full blast at Chrisi's appearing to judgment. Oh! stonishing exact. Th<^ signs of Christ's coming are numerous, and wil iucre».s:e every day as 'A'e are nearing th" great consuu)- m ition. Between hailstorms, anparallelled fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, whirlwinds, floods with great de- Rtruction of shipping, life and property, unaccountahlj by any scif^ntific laws, but only V>y the divine laws -J 137 Je.iov.ili. The pro{)het Vteaiitifull y says, "Yea, in the way of thy jutl^^ments, O Lord, have we waited for thee, the lesire of our soul is to thy Darao, and to the remeuj- braiice of thee." Isa. 26, 8, take notice, look tor it, watch for it, for if I am right in my calculation — no more peace for this world — before Chiist will come, and then, only to his people The impenitent than shall begin to feel the pangs of a violated conscience, that has often ix^en hushed to sleep, when the flesh wished to be regaled in excess of ity de- sire and hurtful lusts. Christ hath left us a commandment, th *t when we pray we are to say **Thy kingdom come, thy will he done on earth as it is in heaven," till whicli glorious ad- vent, the earth must continue to be "the habitation of cruelty." No man of sound mind can [iretend that it can be so done by a sinfnl race, whose very essence is "emnity against God," in a sinful world, which is under tht^ powei" and influence of satan, the ungodly. Hence, the ungodly and all their works must first he destroyed before that time can arrive, yet, our fond dreamers imagine that they can tame the devil and his angels, priests, preachers, and them that are dup^d «>y the.'n, and lelease the world from its present bond- ttire under coi motion, and reduce th<> human race to the obedience of the gospel ly their missionary exertions and historical evidences. The diversified and atrocious wickedness that is-', in the H'orld, the vices and ciimes, secret and undisguised, the 188 fraud, hyprocracy, deceit and violence, the strife, con tention, hatred and cruelty, the tyranny, oppression, lawlesanesa and rebellion, the impiety, superstition, athiesm and blasphemy, the intemperance, extravagence, drunkenness and debauchery, the covetousneas, avarice, extortion and overreaching, the vanity, pride and ar- rogance, unfaithfulness and treachery, the hardships and sufferings of poverty, the ignorance and brutality, so much resulting froai excessive labors and vicious in- dulgences, the niideriea of man from the numberless dis- eases entailed on him by sin, the hard conditions under which he obtains his daily food, the tedicua and pain- ful steps by which it ii produced and prepared — all these and many more, ough5 surely, to convince the oiOMt sceptical. How blessed and desirable an object the kingdom of God must be, under which the:o ^'former things shall not be reaiembered nor come into mind." for the pure word s^ith, 'Eye hath not seen, noi* ear heard, neither hath entered into the heart of man ihe things which God hath oro" ireJ for them tbatlo^e Him.' And to sum fip the whole ia f e a^ words, the 'vhoi i dniy of man is to fear God and keep his blessed cjmmimd- ments. This is tho whole duty of man. Do this and you will 3oon enter into the full enjoyment of all the lies- sings tha'i God hath in store for all that love, ohey, and do what He commands. Refuse the invitation given to all to f jrsake their si. is, turn to ligLteousness, follow the teaching of God's holy spirit, '•■ crucify tb*^ flesh with its affections v.ud Ihhu, and yoii are nmninq your mud cinfr \ ■ baucliery, yciir rnd is uealh." "> " c!os«, and g,ve u tc you ju.f a. I t.nhes.fat X e.e a„,.v i T ' '^""^^ J *i- ^^ -"isaop Uhhern chronology r. 1344 m.n. e and ba„_, the co,„u,« .f O^Hst in 1884 R.. ;'-«'•-■ nol.lyo,.,,bat I know „ei:heMbe day o. U.. lutlut 01 ttjat vvithfjut loiif iriHt wiH cocne, hur J fi,,^), |,^j 13 ve. (A «pri')gof 1884, A. D. W ouht to my iiiinj, th.^t i nd ie will CO Jr ^»''ii Ohiist i, "i<^ in the f)3^ ii>- 8)nht, Mu.j uruii he does coine, f aiui js txcrcise, Mi)(i this 00 me, f.iith tiip exercise of faith riiiist (>e i n 'xeroisor with ^lorv, h i^ Vv'rj;i ihal nal life in t on our, irrujaort;i!itv. ije king^lom of God. "Au>l 1 crown aruii eier- ominiou, anfii ar.(i wi uiidei the Bainfcs , "v iio.se kinle disi«{ter. The N. Y. Central depot at Baf- f;ilo c^ves in. Feb. 8th, two traius -ind theii' passe'iror?, hiiried in th^ ruins. The mangled c'^rpses of four of tlir victims taken out, the excite^ient is intense. Terrible daofjM^e and loss of life in California. San Frauciscn Feh. 8. — D'-'f patches ^rom the central and NorMieni par^s of the St -te say that the y;\{n that began l^st n\<:'.' i=5 extending, but th-' fall so far is not heavy, and ' danLjer offurth*^*' ovfM'tlow i^ anticipate 1 in *hp Saci . rnanto YHlley iinles=i a \varn3 rain falls on the high Sierras, wherp there is an immen'^e d'^po^it of snow. B'l* manv steamers are p^ivinc' over the subm 'I'ljffd nlair^ takiner off people and stock. The letter are congregate I (^n leveei:, knolk and in barns, in some instances; stand- in? in sh'tllow w uer. Accounts a''e co-oincr in from overflowed sections of people drowned. The a^gJ'f^g''^ loR'^ of life will be considerable. There has been no commnnioation with the northern r^e\ coast counties fo' two wfeks. L'l Ofo=?s^, Wis., Feb. 5, '81. — Probably i'l no time of the past, that the people of Southern Mi )• ?5,OO0 e vast phemy, knowM he con at Biif- ir of ^ln Terrible raucisco. iJOT'llfVll irtst nig II' 145 "esotii and this vicinity oxpeiieucod sjo severe a wintci ac5 this. A terrific blizzard extending throughout Boutlierti Minnesota is ragiu^' to-day. In some places snosv is twenty feet deep. The riiilroads are oHtireiy blocked and all coinaiuuication out otf except sixty miles west of this city. People are using ^>arns, fences, dt- serted houses, and everytliing that would burn for fuel. Tiio railroads tear the fanners will burn thoir trestle bridges before fuel can be ^ot to th^^rn, as they are now doing on the Winona and 8t Peter railway. All ef- forts to kef^p the road clear prove unsuccessful. The terror-stricken inhabitants know not what to do. Knin and flood. Houses, raih'oa«i tracks, and other property washed away. A list ot disasters by sea, flood and wind. Cincinnati, 0., Feb. 9. Reports from all quarters for two hundred mil^s radius, represent that the streams are overflowed, Tnd washing away the bridges, an*l lher^> is great daniifer imp'^ading, mostly in Ohio and Indiana. New Orleans, Feb. 9. — Tlie water it; the rear of the city is still I'ising. Heavy south-east winds prevailed last night. The rt^iinf co-nrnittee has been organized to supply food to people in overflowed districts. The Morgan line steamer Josephine, whicli foundered yester- aay off Ship Island, wag valued at $200,000. The storm along the coast was the severest in remem- lirance of the inhabitants. There is not an entire wharf or bath house between Mississippi city and Biloxi. Pass Marchac, La., Feb. 9. — A terrific storrn of 146 wind and rain this morning, swept away every buildiug iuthfi plaoo, iaoluding the iepot and telegraph office. The citizens lost all their household effects. WheeliriLr, W. Va., Feb. 9. — Wheeling Creek has swollen high this afternoon, the ice gorge gave away and bridges wa^ swept away. The water undermined the Baltimore and Ohio passenger depot. The depot has already sunk three feet, and it is expected it will break down soon. Feb. 8. — In some districts in France thunder and lightning accompanied heavy falls of snow, which the local prophets declare means a splendid fruit season in the summer to come. Fei>. 8. — The steamer, City of Bristol^ from New York, had a long and stormy passage, during which she lost 143 head of cattle. Feb. 9. — Vast damage is threat ened by the rivso in the Missouri river at Kansas City, Twenty persons were hurt more or less by a railroad accident at Hampstead, Texas. The steamer Bohemian was wrecked in Dunlough Bay, and thirty-two persons perished.. Feb. 9 — Reports from along the Hudson between Poughkeepsie and Newbury seem to show that a shock of earthquake was distinctly felt in parts of CJlster and Orange counties, N Y., on Thursday morning, the report being also felt at the sume time in a portion of Pennsylvania. The shock is described as quick and sharp. The report was followed by a low, rumbling sound, dur- ing which, in some places, houses .vei'e made to tremble, and pictures weie hurled from the walls. It lasted about thirty seconds, A $35,000 firf- occurred at Scooha, Idiug jfiice. eling, h this wa- re and sunk soon. r and ch the son in \ New ch she threat >a Gity. ailroad hemian persons iidson that a triater ling, the tion of |d sharp, id, dnr- :remble, 'd about Scooba. 147 Miss., February, 1881. Oaiiha. Feb. 5. — A Foro Benton dibpatch of the 4tb, bdy.s the river broke at this place at 1 o'clock this morning. The water rose over the bunks. Women and children were conveyed to places of safety on the hills. St Louis, Feb. 5. — Advices from the far West nay the sadden melting of tue snow in the mountaini! is doing great damage in Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico. A serious wash-out is rt^ported on the Athison. Topeka and S mta Fe Road, near Ammas City, Col., and several miles of track are under water at difteient places. The rains in Calitorni.i have been very de- structive. La Salle, 111., Feb. 11. — Last, night a por- tion of the Rock Island Railroad bridge was swept awav bv the ice. The Illinois River h^s raisen twelve r'eet, and is gorged at the mouth. Oil City, Pa., Feb. 11. — Oil Creek has overflowed. Nearly the whole of tliB second ^vard is under water. Workmen were cast- iHii in Read's Foundrv when the water c^me in. The molten iron was dropped in the water, which made so : iuch steam that it caused the demolition of the building, .'derricks, en^^jine house, and some small buildings were irried a^vay Hurrisburg, Pa., Feb. 11. — The Susqaeaanna ijroke :hi.^ afternoon live miles oelo^ the city. It gorged and :!ie water lose two feet per houi'. The Pennsylvania I'.iilrodd tr.icts tor miles are ouv«red with water and ice '0 the depth of over three feet. The trains are delayed w E*# T^ 148 and the water is slowly rising. At 11 p. m. advices from the upper Juniata report a brake which gorged the bridge at Perryville, Newton, Hamilton, Mifflin, Millersburg and Newport. The Western Union wires in that neighborhood are ^[l down. Through Danphim the damage by small streams overflowing is very great, and luany country bridges have been washed away. Rondout, N". Y., Feb. 11. — Owing to the freshet ren- dering unsafe several bridges, travel on the Hudaoii Eiver Railroad is suspended. Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 12. — It rained hard all tliis morning, but later it turned cold. A blinding snow storm is raging furiousiy, seriously impeding ef- forts to save goods in the submerged streets. The Blade newspaper press room is flooded, the Times newspaper is completely flooJtd out, four feet of water in the countiog, news and editorial rooms. Etiorts will be made this afternoon to break the i/orge in the lower part of the river by means of cannon and shell. Chicago, Fel>. 12. — Ths snow storm is genei-al in the north we^t, and the last tweiity-four and forty eigat hours has been very heavy. 'AH places heard from re- port delayed trains and telegraph wires down, greatly interfering with business. The streams and rivers arc swollen to an extent never known before. Great daiu- :tjT;e has already resulted, with the prospect of still greater losbes. Milwaukee, Wis., Feb. 13. — The storm continue-., All the trains are delayed or sto|»ped. This is the Jeav,est snow fall remembered here r. Feb 13.-Ja„,es mer inhere ten f /.'"°"*^' ^"«- .•""t. At Columbu, fifty sven mi f"^"^"^'' water •t had risen seventeen fee^aH ' ^^"'^ R'oWond Washington, Feb. 13 -I te/mT 'f ^" "^'^ '--^ -gton harbour broke u,> nl U L T' '^' '" "' ^-^■ - now flooded. Pe„„s;,;;„t a. '' ''''' '' "^« "Uy Seventh and from EighU. t" Ten7"'' '''"'' ^"^' '" -ter. The lower portio f Z'T'"''' '' " ^^-' "^ •^encedflooding, but the fire deLn"f ^®°^ '-''^'"- dowu until the documents ver« '"' ^'^' '^' -«'«'' '- -^een done along the wj LTnT'- """''' ''"'^'^^ port from Long Bridge sav.s ehe „1 "■^''°'^"- ^ '- 'I'e entire length of the luZl'V" ''"^'""^ -er I'ad to be abandoned on tfc s" L.s' th!'", '""' ^"- offon their horses, and in otfert; s r ?"''' "'^'"-" Passengers had to kneel on th! "'" "'-^ ^''e ">e river front are rait „'"*«• '''^ ^^■''--^ «" Minn., Feb. ,.3.-The ::;,L! !"^'''^'- S'-Paul. snow blockade that has .ffl '>iizzard h two vveeTcs. On the Sioux C oted Southern M as aggravated th( ^^^t deep ty Hoad th «^ the levej, and the drift ^'^'^^her than the teJeg2-Ipb innesota for e snow is four s HI some places are ^ade to break the bJockad ^ake Las been Mockad f^ voles, Gi-eat efforts h ^, but the tr aye b een e-arly as bad. ''^iiow storm h as 't^ Morten d;.^. Council Bluffs, Feb ain at Mount) im outside world, and completely isolated th 'js, and other roads •—The teriibl( are no trains k i\ ^ city frotn the ^^nive^ since Friday 150 Dighl. Bordertown, N. J., Feb. IS. — The freshet is tremendous here. The railroad between Trenton and Burlington is under water, and the canal boats are ly- ing across the track. On the Trenton road a number of establishments are inundated as far as the eye can see. Twenty-seven cars, containing eight tons each, have been placed to hold those on the main line in position. Washington, Feb. 13. — The flood in the Potomac River, which submerged the lower portion of the city is abating, but an immense ice gorge, extending from abDve the city 10 a point several miles below, and reaching nearly over to the Virginia shore, has accumulated and is immov- able. When it moves the wharves and steamboats must nil be carried away. The damage already done amounts to $180,000 Port Deposit, Mich., Feb. 13. — The ice gorge in the river here yesterday inundated the town. Many build- ings were destroyed and the inhabitants narrowly es- caped. The gorge afterwards broke and the water fell. But another gorge has formed, and the water last night was again rising. Four road bridges have been carried away. Huntington Pa., Feb. 13. — The flood during the past few days has been the most disastrous that ever visited the Juniata Yalley, the loss in bridges to Hantington county alone is over $50,000. An eaithquake. Wellington startled by a loud re- port yesterday morning. Wellington, Feb. 15, 2 p. m. — A loud report as of a cannon, was heard by many in this vicinity about one o'clock this morning. No per- t IS and ly- er of see. have itioD . liver, ating, e city ^ over nmov- a iDiiBt QOuntB m the bui^.d- y ^^' feli. ni^ht arried during s that Iges to lud re- p. n). |auy ill per iV 161 ceptible shock was experienced at the time, yet many believe that this place was visited by a slight shock of an earthquake. Poplar Creek Agency, Montana, Feb. 15. — The agent of the Yanktonnais Indians is charged with neglecting to remove the Indians from the river flat when the news was received that the Missouri was breaking up above on the night of February 10th. The water rose so rapidly that a panic was caused. The thermometer stood at 22 degrees below zero. The troops tried to as- sist the Indians, but the flood carae very suddenly. The 500 ponies that were swept away struggled to escape four hours, but in the morning were found dead, some standing only knee deep in the ^ater, and many more frozen into the ice. The nunber of Indians who actu- ally perished cannot be stated with certainty. Whole tribes are in raournins[. The fruit of the winter's hunt and the buffalo robes have all been swept awaf in one nighl. High up the trees, where evidently they had fled to escape the pursuing floo<, were to be seen the bodies of eight Indian men, frozen stiff and stark. Struck by lightning. A terril)Ie experience, almost unique in military annals, is recorded by a corrospond- ent at the Cape of Good Hope, in connection with the march of the Diamond Field Horse to the scene of oper- ation in Basntoland. The men had outspanned tor breakfast, when a heavy tbur'der storm aurldenly burst ovpr them, so severe in its effects that they were forced to abandon their attempt to pjocure t* me\\, and re- 152 mounted in the hope of riding out of the storm. To- wards three in tlie afternoon, however, it broke upon them with increased violence, the rain falling apparent- jy in sheets, and the flashes of lightning appearing con- tinuous. At last a flash struck the troop, flinging seven- teen horses with their riders to the ground, and killing ten noeu and five horses on the spot. Those who wer^i not killed were all seriously injured, and it was L.}g before animation could be restored in the case of seven of the men. The bits and stirrup-irons of the whole number were blackened, and many of the men, though personally uniniured, had <-lie^'r clothing rent by the force of the electric discharge. The greatest difiiculty was naturally experienced in pieventing a general stam- pede among the fiightened horses. Feb. 14, 1881.— Frost and flooJ. Thousands of cattle and horses frozen and starved to death on the Western Plains. Omaha, Feb. 17. — Thousands of cattle and horses have been killed by cold and starvation on tb*^ Western Plains. Five hundred and ninety dea-l cattle are in sight of the railroad, from Ogallala to Big S[)ring<, a distance of only fifteen miles. Bufl'^lo's great fite. The loss estimated at $500,000. Buffalo, Feb. 17, 1881. —The Palace Hotel was one of the few structures in Buffalo, next to the City Hall and the German Insurance building, that was supposed to he safe from destruction bv fire, and is now a mass of ruins. Dr. Pierce's Insurance policies wei-e all saved. The list of his policies are as follows : — Hoffman Insurance, • To- ll pon ->arent- 2 con- seven- killing D were IS f seven ', whole though bv the lifficulty al stara- of cattle ^Vestern tie and on the (1 cattle jSprlng^ »00,000. one ot led to '')e lof ruuis. The jiiranc^, 153 of New Yoik, 13,000 ; Star Insurance Com|)any, of New York, 15,000; British American Company, Toronto, 12,000; Underwriters Association, of New York, $5,000; The Mercantile Marine, of Boston, $4,000; The N^tion- a), §3,500; New Hampshire, $4,000; North Germany, $2,000; Guardian, $2,500; Western Company, $G,Oo'o; ditto, $2,500; Eoyal, $6,000; Westchester, $2,500; Commercial, $2,500; Fireman's Trust, $2,500; Liver- pool and London, $7,500; Queen's, $10,500; Security f 2,000; Providence, $2,800; Hartford, $3,000; Aetna, $9,000; La Contiance, $3,000; Jefferson, $2,500; Far- ragut, $2,600. Witli the above list of policies with others Dr. Pierce gets $256,400, and he lost besides the insurance $150,000, and the guests of this hotel looses $50,000 more. This is a grent loss to the doctor and his guests. London, Feb. 14. — The Mark L-ine Express, in a re- view of the British grain trade the past week says : — The damage by floods is becoming alarming in the ex- treme. The news from Exeter, England, the latter part of January 1881, is appaling. A terrific gale and sno\v fitorm. A gale that has strewed the coasts with scores of wrecks. A snow storm that has sadly impaled traffic and business and buried hundreds of ehe ng Crisis, rtily traus- am Couvt coQipany 167 goed at Dunkirk, and 6,000 kilogrammes of dynamite at Marseilles. Six thousand three hundred and forty- eight persons have died in New York in January and FeV»ruary 1881, And the fearful mortality is attributed to :he bBTerity of the winter. Prominent physicians declare that winter cholera is prevailing in Chicago to an alarming 3Xtont. It is traceable to the extensive use of butterine, or batter made from hogs lard. Blockade of all lines centering in Chicago. Milwaukee, Feb. 28, 1881. — The rain yesterday changed into a fearful blow and heavy snow. Trains on all the lines centering in Milwaukee have been sus- pended. This is the heaviest blockade of the season. The storm of wind and snow still continues. ^ As far as can be learned it has been the severest of the season in Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota and Western Iowa. Trains on all railroads centering at Chicago are delayed, and freight trains are at a stand- still. The storm on the lake yesterday was the severest for years. At 'he crib the wind blew 63j miles per hour. There was great danger that the port holes would become obstructed with ice and cut off the city's water supply. Men working with the water up to their waists managp»d to keep th^m clear. A gentleman from Clinton, Iowa, said the train passed some sections of the prairies where little farm houses were almost sub- merged by water, and that miles of railway track were covered. Advics from Lima report that Hie remnant of the 158 PeruviKD army lias disappearecl, and buainees generally naH been resumed in Callas and Lima. The storeB are crowded with custumers. The losses by fiie and rob- bery of horfces and goods through the riot on Jan. 15, 1881, arn t-Btimaied at $6,000,000. On Tuesday ni^ht lit ofMjiioa, 1881, while both houses of the St. Paul Legislature wt^re iu session, an alarm o( dre was sound- ed and the members rushing from the chambers were confronted with fallin^^ firebrands from the dome of thu Capitol, which was already ablaze. The hook and lad- der company hurried to the scene, and by the aid of ladders tbe mt.mbers ull escaped, some being slightly singed. The building was burned to the ground. Loas un building, $100,000. March 3, 1881. — Wisconsin, Illinois and Iowa's un- l»aralled storm is raging to u feait'ul extent at this date. The snow will interrupt travel for a week or more. Tlie most hopeless blockade exists in this city-— Chicago. Two trains of the Illinois Central are snowed in betwei^ii here and Kensington, 111. Th^ Milwaukee and St. PaulKailway is obliged to abandon all trains betwbeii Chicago and Milwaukee until the storm ceased, of w.aeh there is not the slightest indication at present. Traius on the C. B. & Q., in addition to snow are delayed by a burning station at Galesburg, 111., this morning; the loss is $6,000. Milwaukee reports that railways are blockaded throughout Wisconsin more completely tliuu any time during oiie winter. Madison, Wis., March 3. — Nothing like the present jiieially res are nd rob- .an. 15, iv ni^bt ;t. Paul 8 sound- ers were e of thu Aiid lid- e aid of slightly id. LobS owa's un- luH dale. ore. Tli« -Chicago. I bcLWet^U and St. belwbeii of w.aeh Trains yed by a :uing; tlie jways ai'e le present 159 fltorm has ever been known in this section. Three feet of snow have fallen and the rlrifts are IG to 18 feet hi^b. Milwaukee, March 3. — Reports from all tole(?raphic points in Winconsin say th;it not a single train is run ning in the entire State. Nothing ever appn)fichin<; the present storm was ever known in Milwaukef\ A goner- a1 coal famine prevails. Chicago, Match 3. — At 10 o'clock to night the storm not abated. No north went- mails arrived to-day. Nearly rill the traiuH on eastern roids are liadly delayed. Those on the Michiiran d'n- tral are abandoned. The loss to the city by the stop- pige of buHiness is estimated Mt $250,000. Chicago, March 4, 1881. — Drifts up to the second story windows, and is snowing again. Theri> are in dicntions thai the great storm is not over. Two lum dred tons of mail matter have accumulatyl hoic to uight. A milk and egg famine is threa toned. Wan- kegan, TU., March 4. — The schools are closed, and the drifts m the streets aie up to the v«Jeconl story. Free Port. 111. March 4. 1881. — Forty cirloads of st( ck ^re shut up in the snow banks nrai* Elory. Thrpf engines ;md sixty shovellers wont to the reli^^f, but were blocked in and unable to return. Nine trainr, aio stuck between Hyde P irk nnd Kensington, fourteen miles south of Chicas:<\ This storm is ra^iri'' furiously all over the States and Dominion of Canada. Maich 4, 1881. — A phrck of earthquake was fflt throughout Switzerland. Half of the town of Cassa- macciola, on the island of Ischia, Itrilv, has been de- 160 stroyed by earthqiKike, and many of the inhabitants killed or iojured. Evanston, Wyoming, March 4, 1881. — The gas in the Rocky Mountain coal and iron com- pany's mine, at Alm^, exploded last evening, throwing flames many hundred feet in height out of the main slope, carrying away the building around the mouth of the shaft, and setting the machinery on fire. Thirty white men and fifty Chinamen went down to work for the night. Seventeen injured Chinamen have been brought to the surface, many with broken limbs and badly scalded. Twenty chinamen ivere brought up dead. No ^hite men yet found. A $60,000 fire occurred in Denver, Col., Feb. 27. 1881. Small pox is sail ra ging in Cuba, III. March 4, 1881. Thousands of cattle are dying along the Arkansas River. Much damage has been done in the Azores Islands by earthquakes. A $10,000 fire each, in Cobourg and Battle Creek. The severest snow storm ex[ierienced for years has been raging over Great liritain since Thursday 3rd of March 1881. Galea are reported along the coast, ft has been snowing bteadily in Scotland for 70 boars. Traffic is blocked and many shipwrecks are reported on the coast. March 3rd 1881. — The earthquake at Cassamac- ciola has opened a fissure in the street fifty centimetres wide. The people have field from the town and nre camped in the tieids. The loss of life by eai ihquake on the Island of Irichia i* Lppilliiig. A hundred ..nd two bodies have been found at C .ssama'jciola, and many others bitants ,1881. { com- lowing 'i main mth of Thirty oi'k for ^e been lbs and ght up 17. 1881. 4, 1881. 1*8 River, ands by urg and rears has Ly 3rd of >aai. It hours. led on the lassauiac- itinietres and Hie iiiake oil ..nd t^vo |i»y 01 hers 161 are under the Miiiis of the buildings. In the village din- trict of Lcices alone tbirteea houdea were destroyed and live persons killed. Tlie heaviest frost lememb&red in Antigua prevailed on Feb. 10th 1881. The cane fields and coffee plantations appeared as though a fire had pab- sed through them. The leaves on the coffee tree.s were discolored and sbrivellt^d and tiroke to pieces at the slightest touch. The sugar cane was killed as it stood. The damage is calculated at between one and two mil- lion dollars. Soiall-pox is raging and making terrible ravages in li.iha Bay — over 130 p^uple have already l)een struck with the disgusting malady. Scarlet fever is raging .vibh great fatality at Fort Erie. March 6tb 1881. The baow is four and a half feet deep on thfi level in Otsego Couhty, Mich., and nearly all travel is suspended. The estimated loss of cattle in the Denver, Col., section this winter 1&81, is put down at $22,000 or two and half per cent of the cattle in the whole state. Milwaukee, March 5. — The storm continued at ititervals yesterday, but the backhoiie of the blizzard is bruktn. No trains from the north or vvM^st have arrived yet, and no attempt to open the line will iie uiavle until to-day. The Milwau kee Steam Supply C/omprtuy, furnishing heat to hundreds of residents, and steam to the nnt^ine.s of factories, etc., could get no fuel on credit, and .su»perided, and put the jnanagement into the hands of 4 committee of stockhold- ers. Coal is $12 a ton, anti wood $'J h cord, both being almost i.upos ible t/O g t. Bu-^iness c tnina^s suspend- 162 ed, the streets being cleared as rapidly as tliG snow plows and shovellers caD do so. All the country roads are impas:saUle. Milk is 25c., a quart and eggs 90c , a doz- en. In the interior points ^reat suffering is ];redicted. The railway block ido north anu west will continue for two or three days. There were last year 1880 in Paris 26,888 fires of all d'^scriptious, to 2,176 of which the fiir- men were 8uinmon<'d. Ofth.-seonly eight were of in- cendiary origon. Til ^. t^tl bss was $1,771,7)4. Dan- ville, Pa., March 1881.— The L uiiitic Asylum at Dan- ville, in flames — great lossof life and proj) *rty. Running and screaiiiing across fehe connti-y through the snow, ihti txciteiutmt is fearful. Tini buildin; i-? 1,100 feet lo?ig .oit $1,000,000. Thirty-five persons died of plague in Kerber'a, Nedjefif, and DjaiL'a, Proviu - -- « - »**' Another shock of earthquake occured at Cassaniuiaccolo on Monday 7th March 1881. — 126 persons killed and 179 injured by the earthquake. The exiateuce of a [)la gue in Mesopotamia is Cunfirmed. Thei c has Ix ll 18 deaUis at Nefer and 30 at Cuaro. March 1881. A hh^w ill Oregon. .March 1881. — ^The late great stot /n struck the east side of G^rrais, sweeping every tiling heforo if. It catne in a southeasterly direction and was about 200 var( Is in width. It was fiist seen about a mile fro ni town, where it struck one farm, demoH'^hing on (bourses in a fearful n>anner. Pioking up the dwelling-hous'" setting it twenty feet from \tH foundation and ]>i(-chiri, th?' inmates out into the storm. Some of them wex^ badl)' ' 1 uised — the i-lonu swej't tlr« U£h the ficMg at jn 163 tcinfic rate, picking up obeep and fences like birds and hurliu^^ Liieni into ihe air twenty or thirty itjet. A. iJUliJb^1^ ot sheep were killed. As it near'd town it nar- nairo\\ed vio*n to about tifiy yards iu width, and then uking every wbiiig beioro it, sinking the scboulhouse on oae corner. The children all ran out lo save their iiveg and the o^ene Lbat tollowed was terrific. The The child 1 en were lifted into the uir fiom 20 to 80 feet, ikUion^ lyujx timbers, sidewalk planks, and debris froaj bfirns and fences, and ail fell to the ground senseless. Sj.iie bad their arms broken, some their beads fraoturtd all more or ieds biaibed, gieat panic in all the town. Murcb 5th, 1881. — A temlic snow and wind storiu .tLorm raging througbout the north of Scotland, great iiiuiibers of vesoelg with all on board gone to the bot- tom, and the beacb strtvved for miles vviih the wrecU- a^e- Eleven thousand horses were buined and oO,000 people lelt homeless m Tokio, Japan, on Jaiiuai v 26, 18^1. March 9, 1881 — Great snow and wind storm raged lu and aiuinid tiie city of Edinburgh, Scotland, with great lo8tt lo the oil/ ti\d shipping at Leitb. Loss i'300,000 or $l,500,U0O.Mareh, 1881— An tHrthquak.- atihe IsUna of Isona was atteudbU ^vith gieat loss of iife O.tawi, Marcli 8tb, 1881. — S 11^11 pjx is making ft-ai- ful lavages in Hthribaj; village. Ov-^i l.')0 people have oeeD stiicke.i down vvi^h the rn . ; , -^^ of whom .suc- •umb;.'d y IJ '^C, M4. jli SlIi, 1881. — Sjai 1- t (vy^i- aiid 164 diphtheria are raging to an alarming extent at St. Henric, De Lewis. Several families have lost all their children. Pcugkeepsie, N. Y., March 3rd 1881.— A fire this mornin;,' caused .\ loss of $200,000. The first three months of 1881, has b^en very unusual in the num- ber of deaths by a numl>er of causes — in the city of New York, which is said to be 10,000. The Czar of Enssia wai^ killed 18th of March 1881. An outbreak of spott- ed typhus is reported at Maragha in Persia — March 15th 1881. One-hundred and ninety-six: persons have been stricken down with small-pox at Ha Ha Bay, Sagueniy sihce March 1881 — And twenty-eight have died. Wake- field, Mass., March 12. — A great conflagration Lo3« $500 000. Nearly 1000 employees are thrown out of work. St. Louis, Mo., March 15. — A great flood has swept away houses and live stock resulting in a great lu3s. A terrific tornado swept over Kansas on 16th of March, 1881, doing irnfueiise damage to buildings and other property. The ^reale.t snow storwj of this year throuj^liout the Western ^States, took place on the 20th March, 1881, rpsulting ii blocking up- railroads in all directions in Illinois, WLscotisin, lo^a, St. Paul and Dakota and other places. Rome, Grt., Mar h 20, 1881, The river at Rome, Ga.. rose three fr^ higher than ever known before in the remeOibiance of ai.y living. The Wooly Bridge had to yield to the pressure — this was fifteen milea above. Every bridge in its track had to yield, and al! carrif-d away before it. Loss. $400,000. All oiiiiness il St. tbeir 1.— ^ B first B num- )f Now Russia • spott- 5h 15th e been iguen ly , Wake- )3K $500 )f worli. 8 swept 03S. A March, (1 other is year be 20th in all aul and Rome, (fore iu Bridge 'n railea and all Ljiiness 165 is suspended. Two shocks of earthquake in St. Thom- as, West Indias^ on 11th and one on tb3 12th of March, 1881. In March, 1881, the plague has appeared at Buba, ninety miles south of Bagdad. The mortality in Nedjib is increasing greatly. Omaha, Neb., March 27, 1881. — For several days an ice gorge has been forming in the Platte River, near north Bend. On Friday the water suddenly rose above the banks and swept away the Union Pacific Railroad for a mile and a half. The water rose several feet iu North Bend and the people took refuge in the railroad depot, rrmaining all night. The water is s'owly catting off the people of the place from all cotnmuoioation, and the whole valley of the Loop is flooded io the distance of sixty -five miles of their very best land. Over 100 people lost, the loss foots up millions of money. March, 1881. — Californ'a's great flood. The valley of Sacramento to the distance of one bandred and thirty-five equate miles is flooded all over. The loss and damage at present cannot be estimated, but ia sure to reach beyond millions. Portsmouth, N. U., Feb. 1881. A shock of earthquake was reported at Gri^enland and Stratham yesterday. Destruction of the crops. Grass- hoppiers are devastating the crops in the State of Chiapas, March 20th, 1881. The frost destroyed the coffee crop in the lower p irt of Sao Luis, Potoso. Santa Fe, N. M., March 1881. — An unaccountable Qiortality among the cattle on the vast grazing plains of New Mexico causes much excitement. If it continues 166 many capitalists will be ruined. Topeka, Kan., March 10, 1881.— J. G. McCoy, of the CJnited States Census Department, is in the city, having just returned from New Mexico, and reports that a new and n^alignant dis- ease has broken out among large herds of cattle on the plains. Hundreds of them are dying daily. The name of the disease is unknown, and as yet no remedy has ^J^ en discovered, A heavy flood. St. Paul, March 31, 1881.— A telr graph report from Yanktown and Bismarck, gives the fearful report of a great flood, the like never before known. The liver rose from ten to twelve feet in a few hours. The people flooded out of their houses, and had to be carried in boats to a jdace of safety. The country flooded to a great distance. All the cordwood that wag brought for the use of the people, and steamboats swept clean away. It is fean^d that a number of people lost their lives. A list of great fires. Piano, 111., March 24. — Piano was visited this morning with a terrific fire. There was a groat number of fine buildings burnt to the ground; loss heavy. Cincinnati, Ohio, March 27. 1881. — A grent conflagration took ])lace to-day in this place, a number of business houses was burnt to the ground. Loss, $50,000. Columbus, 0., March 27, 1881.— The Saxony woolen mills, owned and operated by Hahnberr, Sargeant & Co., wtre destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss, $75,000. April 6, 1881.— Old world. The river at Seville has again risen and the inundation is worse than farch eD8U9 from t dis- a the name y has i telr- ?es the before a a few ind had Bountry hat was k swept )le lost —Piano er« was [ground; J81.— A. )lace, a igrouncl. 11.— The ihnbert, Loss, 'iver at Irse than 167 before. The water in the suburbs is five metres deep. There h a disastrous flood at Malage several houses have perished, and fallen by the flood. The flood at SeTille has caused great destruction, a number of houses is no more, and several people lost thoir livea. There is only 50 houses standing in Ohio. On all sides ciies of distress are heard from the ruins, but nobody dure approach. At Lima eighty Chinese weie killed, and upwards of $1,000,000 worth of property destroyed. A. grevious and unknown disease has broken out a|;uo!)g the cattle in Efist Watertown, N. Y. The cattle are seized and taken first by intense cou«;hiiig, then follows ■d loss of appetite. If you let them loose or out they bite themselves and tear their flesh to pieces and they soon die. April 8th, 1881. — The plague in Messopotamia is fearfully on the increase. Shocks of earthquake con- tinue in frequency and violence at Ohio, and is fast completing the ruin and destruction of the town. Szegedin, Austria, is again in danger of being over- whelmed and destroyed by floods. Out of four thous- and inhabitants of a village near Kastro Cliio, only a hundred and fifty are known to be alive. Diphtiieria and small pox are reported to be ravaging the parish of St. Alexis, in the Saugenay. The account from Ohio is Jeploiable and heart-rending. A great number of houses are entirely destroyed Ky the earthquake. Tho houses that are not thrown down have got to be pulled down, and rebuilt before they can again be inhabited- 168 _ . Many neighboring viilages were destroyed. During th« l>anic which ensued the EaHtern Telegraph Company's offices were pillaged. Shocks were also felt in the Island of Syria and at Smyrna. Three more fresh shock b of earthquake at Ohio to-day. The inhabitants are tak- ing refuge on board the steamers in the harbor. An Athens dispatch says, a Government dispatch has been received concerning the earthquake at Ohio, which states that the efiect-t were also felt at Tseome, and that th« liUnjber of persons killed and itijured is estimated at not less than 3,000. The shock was also felt at Carosto, Gubola, and Tinasc. Ohio or Scio is an island belong- ing to Turkey, off the west coast of Asia Minor, and has an area of 508 square miles. It is naturally one of the richest and most beautifnl islands of the Levant. Previ- ous to 1822 this Island was the best governed and most piosperous in the Grecian Archipelago, and had thriv- ing silk manafactories, and a brisk tradd with Constan- tinople, Syria, and Egypt. This is the birthplace of the blind poet, Homer. Its huildin^^s for the most part consisted of hewn stone or brick and its population Ih 15,000. Later. — The dispatches from Constantinople report the effect of the earthquake at Scio as more ap- palling than was imagined at first advices. It is no^ boated on trustworthy authority that the loss of lift^ in oJie places visited by the earthquake, is lamentable, and tioly appalling. The shock was so violent that mnlti tudes were unable to shun the falling walls of buildings, and were buried beneath the debris. The water in the !'Vf ring tb« impany's 16 Island jbocks of are tak- or. A.D laB been ioh states that ths noated at b Caroato, i belong- r, and has me of tbe t. Previ- and most ad thriv- Constan- ,ce of the ost part jation Ih antinople ore ap- is now f life in ble, and ,t m'llti uildinga, ir in the '\t Hv^ii' •'•':'' 'M ^i'*.' a.' •"''?•: ^vhs^^m^'in -^dT » Cl» 169 biii'bor for a little time sank so as to almost show the bottom, and then returned with great i^iolence over- whelming the town in the vicinity of the shore. The entire Island felt the earthquake more or less, and sev- eral villages are entirely destroyed. It is said that 45 villages are destroyed and nothing left. Fearful acoounts of loss and damage by floods from Sioux City, March 31, 1881. The gorge at Yankton broke last evening, and great excitement prevailed, and there were many narrow escapes from drowning. It is impossible to get anything neai a correct estimate of the damage to property, bat is sore to be in excess of 100,000. Bail road and steamboat property suffered severely. Tbe steamers Batte and Black Hills, of the Bdnton line, were on the way at the time of the flood, with their bottoms off", and were seriously damaged by ice. Tbe Helena, of that line, and two boats of the Northwest Transportation linn, were left by the flood on the high banks greatly damaged. 'Of twelve boats there is bat one that can possibly commence Benton trips wlien the river is clear. The town of Green IbI- aud, opposite Yankton, was entirely swept away by the flood last night. Churches, stores, dwellings, and in t'tct e^ery building floated off or was broken up in the iue. One building was seen floating in the middle of the river, with a man clinging to the roof and could not be rescued. The effect of the breaking of tbe gorge at Yankton was felt at Verraillion, The Vermillion steam ferry boat is in the middle of the gorge, and a total 170 loss. The mountaiDs of ice on the Mandon shore of tiio Missouri, bar communication, but through a glabs people can ber seen on the blafis north of the town. There are but eight houses out of the water, and It h / prob'ible the woiuen and children last night founii •shelter in thei^evbut there must have been suffering ' among themall as the thermometer was down to 8 / degrees below, and a strong north wind all night. Sev- . oral small houses can be seen floating, and pieces of ice ' three feet thick, extending along the main street for six blocks. Near the round-house the water is up to the top of the flat cars. Between Furt Lincoln and Mandon on account of the high state of Hart Rivei , an effort will be made to reach the people in disiress, bj going up the river. The Missouri below Bismarck is four miles wide. Several of the v. jod choppers vrnie caught on the bottoms by the flood, and three at lenst are known to be lost. L. Merry and wife, in Bunt Creek bottom, have also perished. A great number ot cattle and horses .are lost in this vicinity, aggt^gabin^ several hundred. A number of farm houses and a great quantity of wood, have been carried away. Old river men say such a flood has never been known be- fore on the Upper Missouri. VYanktcn, D. C, March 31, 1881.— The water ha. risen six feet in the past two hours. Green Island, opposite, has been swept away. The rivei lose to forty feet. One hundred houses are submerged; loss at least $100,000 This morning the gorge above han- i^'^t 171 \vt\y, and :he water c^me down in a perfect flood, and rose t"> a point eighteen feet over low water mark with a solid wall of ice crushing everything before it and in it>, path. The Government and Northern Pacitio Rail- road warehouses were carried out and away. The loss in this place exceeds $100,000. Mandon, opposite 'Bis- Miarck, with a population of 500 souls, is all under wBier, but no particulars can be received as all com- uiiinication is cut off. The bluffs back of Mandon have been covered with men, women and children, and as the night is cold and there are but halt a dozen of houses in the whole section, there must be a great suffering at. I starvation. Mr. Smith thinks that all the stock on the large bottom between Vermillion and Yankton is Irovvued, and doubtless some farmers as well. The sitne state of affairs exists on the bottom land between Vf'rmillion and Elk Point. A party of travelling men in from Elk Point, report cases of sickness and suffer- ing among the people rescued by the boats sent from Klk Point. One woman with nine small children was brought in by a l)oat in her night cl othes. The current was so strong it lie" lOuse that it s^vept the clothes out through the door v, Len opened. Early in the morning iteam was found tie! to a corn-crib with ice frozen around theiii as th-^y stoo'l upright dead. The town is now an Island in a lake tvyenty miles acro.ss, and from two to fifteen feet de 'p The Mission Church at Yank- ton Indian Agency floated down the river past Green Islind, '.vi'h tli= bell iu the belfrey tolling along the 172 stream, by the motion of the water and ice. ^ Reader, Thnve but a meagre account rendered to you of the events of the last thre^ and a half months, as ful- fillment, of what I predicted last year in the Coming CridiR, but the next eight months and a half will render a wailing account and thrilling events. The whirlwinds, chehurricanes, the tornadoes, the haiUtones, the thun- der and lightning, tha great fires, the mighty floo^, the earthquakes, pestilential season on man and beast, failing of the growing orops, with that famine will stare in the face, and many of the honest poor shall die by want. Crime of every sort will be daily on th« in- crease, and is sure to come. 1882 will be still worse, and 1883 will leave a sad record. Prepare for it, for it is sure to come. v. Jt, ''U • /% I •\ . ': <&r ' i \ ■ )d to you s, AB ful- Coming ill render irlwiads, be tbun* y floo^, Q(l beast, wxW stare 1 die by th« in- ill worse, it, for it CHAPTER V. THE FOUR ANGELS. '^ After these thinga I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on a jy tree." Rev. 7. 1. This text is prophetical, being part of an explanation of evan^s future from the time that th9 revelation was given. It issym- bolio, because Christ '^signified it by his angel unto his aervant John." To signify, is to sign — ify, or represent by signs. The language of the text therefore presents the signs of the events, and not the events predicted, Hence we are not to look for four literal angels holdiug the four literal winds, as the fulfillment of the text, but we are to ioik for bh? events those symbols illustiate The text is conseoutive prophecy^, therefore the events fulfilling it must take place at a certain period of time, ia connection with other events described. The leading sycaboU of the series are naiubered from one to seven, 174 proving conclusively that the eviints must happen cor.. Hecativ**ly one nfte;* another hh numbered. The text, is connected with the opening of the seven Ht lis, au«l is )ocated huth of which terrainnte with the iudgment scene«. Tho first s^'rles are the sviiaf signs »»s jriven oy ('hri^tj to .show wh^'n he would cofii^ the second rime, and the kingdon^ of (lod he estublisheti ('hrist said that at that time rill the tril»os of the eatth shall mourn. The Revelation said they would say to tbe mountains and rocks "Kail on us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from i\w. wrath of the l.imb, foi* thv;j;reat dav of his wrath is co i:H' and wlio shnl! be ahl^ to stand '^ I > 'i^ File second seiie^ JK repiesent^d in the text; and termir;ate also with tht! Kceiie.«of The "'udpni* lit. *]ii tlie tirfct instance ^h'^ 175 \ cor.- ! seven events ng the e sixdi ;h occu- yU. The the first jere tlix3 it,'e, th** )eriod ! the ju'ig to tran- iite with \\(* SA'.LH' \\(\ coin^ ihe eut't^i kl say to us fr)ffi I rem lii*^ li is coitn' lid setie"^ with tht? mnce 'Ji*^ events of the sixth seal oa-i with tije ti«s:i ncu.^ii of tiie iuip'jnitent, aud iri the sec >iid nerie.s, with th*^ ghM-ioua triumph of the righteous, ijhrist also ici giving the si^ns which shouUi occupy the ia.st period of the gosp^il A^re and tenniiirtte at his comiii^, Mfdicted the exj»erience of the same two el tsses, the wicked wt^epuig ;iiMl j^Qash- ing tlieir teeth, whih' the lightfous "went iu with him to tlie ,nurria.ge and the door w^s shut." A.S twoseries of events ojoiipy thus pi'ri.)ii ot tiin<", if we C;m find either the time jf their occiuence we .shdl find tliH time (Juring AJiich the otlier serie-* must take place. As ihe 8avio\ir prewented tlie tirstchiss ;>>» ^igng of »he eud of th» world and proHc^nted th»- vSame rv^utH iu liter- al prophecy, we shoidd take these as explanatory, i^pply- ing the literal rnle; consequently w^' must look tor the* signs in the earth, ^nn, moon, mui st.»rs as prtdicted, The >dvi()uv located thf se signs by sayiug iix-inediattjiy after rhe tribulation oi thoa^ days, ilje 1260, the sun ahaii i>»^ liaikened, and tiie mom sh^dl not give her light, anrl 'he stars shall fall from heaven, and powers of heaven ior !iatious of earth) shall be shi'ken -universal war. Hh rijen shows, as recor^ieiJ by Matthew, that followitig tijose signs, all tribes of the earth will mourn, and the i-lnct he gathered from the forewinn oi' not giving the events of the text, liuJ wlieif. we look ati Sf. !iUkt?'s record of the same pi^ dictions, he giv^^s >'l:At Matthew" gav.^, and in addition ihe iatue evHnti 176 bymbolized is the secoiKl cfries in Revelation. Thrifit, in giviug the celestial signs in the sun, moon and stars, baid, **And upon the earth distress of nations, (look abroad and see this fulfilling,) the sea and waves roar ing, mens hearts failing them for feai." He makes it very cleai that when the celestial signs are being de reloped in the heaven? that there will be national sign*? rranifested upon the earth. This was exactly the sam^ order as the two seiies of the sixth seal. The gren*^ tribulation upon the elect referred to by Christ, enderl with 1798, and immediately after which, the sun, moon and stars, the cclesl'al tokens of heaven, were to be developed. From this it is ovideiQt that the period of the sixth seal commenced in 1780. At the darkening of the sun, moon, etc. Therefore the prophecy requirei, according to our argument, that the events presented in the text transpiff: between a point of time near 1780, aud the coming of Christ. As we are occupying the period of time in which the text demands a fulfillment, let us earnestly inquire after a scriptural interpretation of it and its true application. The agents presented are evi- dently symbolic, for the work they are represented as doing is never literally nccoaiplished by any agents, and would bo entirely inappropriate for heavenly mes- sengers 10 perform, as angels are God's messengers, or agents who are employed to do bis work according to this purposes, they b»3comf appropriate symbols of men who are sent by God to do work of divine appointiLent. 177 Ohrist, stars, , (look 'B ro'Ar- ako8 it ing ^^- 1 sigTiR \e sam^ e grea*- , endefl in, moon e to be he sixUi : ibe 8un, tic'jordipg tbe text awd the leriod of let 118 ion of it are evi- lented as agents, •nly niee- jngers, or >rding to of tn«'ii [ointiLent. We cau always «ietermine the o]as«! of '.oen am^n^ whom pvmbol'zed agents riirtv be found, by the kind of work tbo symbol requires to \>o accomplished. If a nnlitary work is to be done, look among military men to find the predicted agent; if an eeclesiasticiil work, look am- ong men in the church for ihe agency. It was said of the Mahomraedans, "they had a king over th«m which is the angel of the bottomless pit." In this passage the term king or angel uiust be used symbollically, for if literally applied, it cannot relate to the same being. As the term king is evidently used literally, the term angel has to be used symbolicftlly, and represent the sAtne office as tbe title king. In chap. XIV. 6, the prophet saw in vision "an ingel fly in the midst of h*»iven (or amcng the prof«^88od Christian nations of earth) having the everlasting gospel ro preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation." As tbe gospel is nev^rd preache to men on this earth by literal angels, but bv men, the angels in the text must symbolize those men who preached the gospel. If the four angels represent men, what men or ▼hat class do thev represent? It nuist be the men who net in the department of controlling the winds. To find the class and ^he men who are employed in thf^ work of holding the winds, ir will first be necessary to find the Bible interpretation of winds as symbols, for they are thus frequently used in the scriptures. In one of Danid's visions he saw the four winds of heaven ^•trire u|)on the great sea, which brought four great 178 beasts. Those beasts were explained by an angel to represent four kiugdoms, therefore whatever produced the four governments must have been represented hv the >vind8. The goveriinient and dominion of those kini^s ever the tribes and nations that they ruled, wmh established and perpetuated by war. The Lord by Jeremiah in foretelling the destruction of FAum said, 1 will bring the four winds from the four quarters ot heaven, and T .vill scatter'them towards all those winds, and explains this by saying, "and I Will send Iha swoi\} after them till 1 have consumed them." This passa"<^ and the history of the subjugation and destruction of Ebuu as a nation by war, proves conclusively that C/od uses winds us symbols of war in the scriptures. \Vc» therefore conclude that the four wiuda under consider rttiou represecjt war. But what idea does the qualitie: four give, connected with the winds or wur ? It evi- dently shows that the war would be general. TIk^ ancients «rere in the habit of giving four names to !|v^ winds, corresj'Onding to the four cardinal point*. The Latins called the winds blowing from any point noit}. Boreas; east, Eurtis; south, Notus; west Zephyrus. Therefore the four winds of the text embrace the vvhoiy circle of the heavens. The li/w of symbols would re- quire iherefoie that the four winds ia prophecy, woulJ reprt-sent general war, in which the four quarters of ih nation or nations presented are involved. As the kin^ doui of Babylon was established by wai , anj\ wer»^ »el to 'd bv those I, Was »rd by said , teia ot winds, » sword [ion of lat (jrod otisidet- ^ualitie: It evi- TIh- lo a^^ Th^ noitl , 'phy ru s »u whoii Id rp- woul\i of ih- all ih .r»j\ wcj 179 M.ibjngated to its controlby tho sword, its 6U[)reinacy and governmeni of the world was produced by the four winds as Daniel saw in his vision. It was also true that the tribes and nations heid under its universal sceptreB could not beco le the subjects of the next UDiversal government, wiihoat a war which should extend through the four quarters of tiie kingdom, breaking the authority of that government and establishing the next. Therefore, it nquired the four winds to raise up and establish BaV>yloD^ and the same to carry it down, also Medo- Persia, Grecia and Rome. As Korae is to V>e ifiucceeded by the kingdom ot God, and as the Koman raletc will not voluutarily give their sceptres to God's appointed king; the four winds unist Ijreak down the Homan governments, to give place to the rule of God*8 jtuointed king, "under tho]ding of the winds in this instanct^ must be the stop- l>ing aiul preventing of universal war upon the terri :ory of thn Romtn Empire during the period of the opening of the sixth seal. Winds could not be held >*hich diuhl liot he held before tliey commenced to blow, either could th«'y be restrained while there were no •:!C.in:Hta»iceb tending to CrtUse them to blow, there- 180 fore the prophecy under cousideration requires that we witness during the time of the occurrence of the physi- cal sign located under this seal, and forelold by the Saviour, a war affecting the governments in tb four quarters of the Roman Empire, producing ''distress of nations with perplexity," It also demands that we find the kings, or rulers of four of the distressed nations, un- iting their power together for the purpose pf stopping that distressing war, and giving peace to nations in the four quarters of the old divided iron kingdom of Borne. It requires also that those four powers, not only unite to stop the war, but thut they continue the alliance, and use their united efforts to prevent the recurr'::nco of another general war. The work of the angels is as explicitly defined, and definitely located as can be fourul in symbolic prophecy. It must be accomplished during the sixth seal, the last period of probationary time in the gospel age. It must have for its object the settling of war-making questions, and the reconciliation of con- tending rulers so as to prevent o'()en bostMities and bloodshed. As the period for the opening of the sixth seal has evidently come, and its signs iu the earth, bun, moon t»nd stars have been fulfilled, and as those sign a weie to be contemporary with the "distress of nations,' they being thus associated and located by the Saviour, and as the distress of nations synch ronizeu with the foni winds, we may expert to find that a general war on the Boman territory will exist for a time, after which cir curastaiiccs will transpire tending to reproduce the war, it we phy al- ly the e four bress of we find ms, un- lopping in the Rome. ^ unite Alliance, 181 requiring a continued effoi ton the part of the four angels to control the disturbing elements. Such circumstances and events are evidently de- scribed and illustrated by the language and symbols of tlie text, and corresponding passages. We now in- quire, has such a war existed within the predicted period] Did it end as foretold ] Has the confodorMted powers which held the war in check contiuued their as- Hociations for the specific purpose of settling war mak- ing (questions, and tluis preventing general war among the nations of divided Rome? If such events havo taken plac^», then we may confidently believe the prophecy is fulfilled. If not, we may trustingly expect them in the future. History and the daily news give us the following facts. The equilibrium of the political elements in Eur- ope began to be disturbed by the combinations of luen, who groaned under the oppression of tyrants, and who sought to take their places, which raised a fearful tem- pest of revolutionizing war, carrying away thrones, und hurling from the stage of power and glory, kings and councillors, producing fearfulness a[»d confusion through the four quarters of the ancient Roman Empire. Am- idst the confusion and strife aro.se Napoleon, who be- came the agitator of the world — '*the man of destiny ' —the stormy king. When the sun had cast its sp- jiointed shadow on the earth at the point wheie the clearest gospel light was shining, and Immanuel's biide was watching to see the signs of coming deliverance. 182 the great war-maker arose, defiantly unsheathing his sword, unbolting the four winds, designing to blow away like chafT the fragmentary kingdoms of Caesar's great empire. The winds swept around the ancient pyramids of Egypt, and howled over the desolated palaces of Syria, uprooted the trees of State in Italy, prostrated all t Hj thrones in (rermany, Spain, and Portugal, terribly shakini,; the ''fast anchored Is'e," carrying devastation and ruin around the North Sea, rolling its waves fear fully against the coast of the Norwegian and Swede, dis regarding the boundary lines o^ Russian dominions, bending low its strongly rooted foitsts, shaking the imperial residence so that the ''chief p iiioo of Mesht-ck and Tubal" burned his own house, that it might not be- come a shelter lent for the invading foe. Surpl}^ the four winds fearfully blow, sluking, threatening the whole llonian world diiiijig the stornjy reign of the first Napoleon. That war during its progression seemt d to answer every demand i)f th'^ prophecy chronoloi^n- cally, geographically and Kpecifically. It csme at thi; right time, in the right location, and extended to tlie four fjuarters of the old Koman Empire. If tliat wiir was the one symbolize I hy the four winds, then, tho prophecy demands that it siiould end by the combineil efforts of four kings, or governments which should filly themselves together for that purpot^e, and it also d"- in>ir]ds that that alliance be continued for r he purpose of 1)1 eventing tho recurrence of another general war, until the servants of God aresoah'tl in their foreheads ig his ' away great rMnids icea of ited all terribly ^station es fear- 3de, dis miniuns, :ing the MesiuH'k t not be- rely, th^' ing the of the \ Beem( d onoloi^i- le at tnu to the liat war Ihfu, the ombineil r >u Id ally h'- hIso « lirpose lar, an 18:3 How did tht) war end I It ended with the buUle of Waterloo, between the French under Bonaparte and the allied army. Who were all allied against Bonapart ? Russia, Austria, Prussia and England. Just the num- ber represented by the angels, but no more, how su- blime ? For what purpose was this alliance formed? It wds formed to produce an arbitrating controlling power over the nations, ^.o as to compd them to submit to their dictation in the settlement of war uaking questions, or as the historian said, *'to preserve the peace of the world." The four allied powers has and do accomplish the Hrst object of their association, in stopping the terrible wars of Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo. It is perfectly ap[)arent that Napoleon purposed to make hiinsclf mas- ter of the Roman Kingdoms, so as to take Caesar's place as arbiter of the political world, thus establishing a fifth universal govern rnent, befui(^ the coaing of tlh- king- dom of God, wUi'jh would havii been coiUrary to the prophecies, and this could not be. Bat the four angels were commissioned of God to take h(»!d of the four winds, which were with resistless powci sweeping away t'lrones breaking dynasties, oveituining kingdoms and empires, uprooting the trees of sovereignty and indepen- dence, and driving upon thf rocks of a leo shore ships of state, and hold the storm with iron power, until in the stillness of hushed tempests, the God commissioned messenger should come with seal impossible to countei- feit and fix the signet of deliverance on tlie foreheads of til 184 all his servants — those that are keeping the command- ments of Ooil, and faith ot Je8U8. There is certainly a remarkable coincidence between tliese circumstances and the foreshadowings of the pro- pher^y, which will be very hard for the scofler and skep- tic to explain or explode. To demonstrate still further the truthfulness of tluvso |)rophecie8, and correctness of our interpretation and application of them, it will he importan' to maintain their concord by following the same rule of interpretation for the remaining portions of the predictions, and finding their fulfillment in events happening during the sumo period of time, connected with those already found, as a part of a series controlled by the same circumstances, viz.: If Kussia, Austria, Pr-ssia and England were represented by the tour angels, and their alliance in 1814-li3 was represented by their union in holding the four winds, then it fol- lows that those four governments must continue that al- liance until the predicted "battle of that great day of God Almighty" shall come, when the four winds shall be loosed, and the power of the Pope and the Sultau shall be swept away with all the kingdoms of the whole world, at the opening of the seventh seal and the sound- ing of the seventh tiumpet. The four nations have continu**d that alliance in defiancn of all that has seem- ed to threaten its existence it every step, since 1815 to 1881 down to this very time; and will yet, to the fall of 1S83 — when the the four winds shall whirl with fary v\iound everv corner of the earth. The alliance has been mand- etween e pro- d skep- further uesa of will be ing the portions n events annected >n trolled Austria, bbo tour jresented 1 it fol- ? that al- it day of ids shall 185 maintarned by the will and purpose ol God, and for the express purpose that those who should b<^ persunded to forsake their sins, keep God's divine commands, might be sealed from the ^rath of God soon to come. The saaliug of God's servants must take place during the time of the aDgels holding the winis or during the continuance of the Holy Allinnop. Has that part of the work been progressing for the last 66 years in perfect harmony with the other parts of the propheoy ah we have applied them. The four angels met to settle the difficulty hotween Franco, Turkey, Russia and England, in the Crimean war. Tbey also met to settle the warqueatio i between Austria, France, and S irdinia in their war, and also be- tween Austria, Prussia and It ily. And look at the four angels with mighty fleets in the fall of 1880, in front of Dulcigno, to hush the rising storm between Greece and Turkey Tliauk God for such unmistakable fulfillment of his blessed and Holy WorJ. And as the four angels were symbols, the fifth must be also. As the four re[)re8ente(l political agents because they had political work to perform the fifth must represent ecclesiastical agents, because their work is in the church. Angels are soni'^times used as symbols of Gods ser- vants in their proclamation of the gospel, " And I saw another angel fly through the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell on the earth." (Rev. XIV. 6.) This angel is evidently the same as the one in the text, representing the same agon- IMAGE EVALUATION TEST TARGET (MT-3) // s^ :/ ^^, Ua 1.0 I.I 1.25 145 1^ 1£ 2.5 U4 2.0 iiiiir^ 1.4 mil 1.6 m III ■lOf y] -^» > ^^i^^ > ^;. '^ > '/ .% # Photographic Sdences Corporation 23 WEST MAIN STREET WEBSTER, N.Y. 14580 (716) 872-4503 \ .V .^ o ^"-^ %. 6^ '^ 1 186 cy doing the same work. ^ Having found the inile by which the fifth angel is in- terpreted viz., a class of interested servants of Christ, we enquire when must that class be found upon the stage ? And what must they be found doing ? They have to perform their work during the period of the opening of the sixtb seal, for they must do it while the angels aro holding the winds. As those angels hold the winds dur- the period of the sixth, seal and they cease to hold them at the commencement of the judgment, it follows that the work of the fifth angel is, to preach the gospel of the kingdom of God, proclaiming and unfolding to the peo- ple, proving to a demonstration that the great signs is past and Christ will soon be here. A work which does not relate to the state will not re- quire any state action. Barnes in speaking of the holding of the winds says *' The essential ideas, therefore, in this portion of the symbol cannot be mistaken. They are two. — 1. That at the period of time here referred tof"*"^'^'** there would be a state of things which would be well repiesented by rising tempests and storms which, if un- restrained would spread desolation afai ; and (2) that this impending ruin was held back, as if by angels hav- ing control of those winds : that is, those tempests were not suffered to go forth to spead desolation over the world. A suspended tempest : calamity held in check ; armies hovering on the borders of a kingdom but not al- lowed to proceed for a time, hordes of invaders detained 13 111- 'isi, we stage 1 bave to ning of gels am ids dur- themat hat the A of the the peo- signs is I not re- L' ds sajwS of the be well , if un- (2) that els hav- sts were over the check ; t not al- detaiiieci 1 .187 by soui© restraining power not their own, and from causes not within themselves, any of those thin;^s would be an obvious fulfilling of the symbols." In speaking of the sealing he says, " what this would be whether a pro- fession or form of religion, or the holding of some doc- trine or manifestation of a particular spirit is not here designated ; the design of sealing the persons re- ferred to seems to have been to secure their safety in the impending calamities. Thus the winds were held back until those who were to be sealed oonld be designated and then, the winds would be allowed to howl round the coasts of the earth." Mr. Barnes, has evidently given the true interpreta- tion of the symbols. The four angels would hold in check just what they are doing in 1881. — '^calamities," ''arm- ies," " not allowed to proceed for a time ;" that is war postponed, and while this work would be progressing, (jrod's servants would raa^.ifest some specific characteris- tics of " profession," " doctrine" or " spirit ;" which is neither more nor less, than elisting and persuading a few to repent and keep God's di\'ao commands, and the faith of Jesus. Christ in showing his disciples when the world would end, ^ave them its prophetic consecu- tive history, from his first to his second advent. In de- scribing the last period preceeding the end, he said "but he that shall endure unto the end shall be saved." Ani this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then not a 1,000 years after shall the end come. This gospel of the 188 kingdom must therefore be preached at the same time that the four angels are holding the winds, both termi- nating at the commencing of the seventh seal, or judg- ment period. This message has its national features and application, as indicated by the symbols. It must be a specific message of gospel truth, for it is given to acconi- plish a specific work. The object to be accomplished by it is, to "witness unto all nations." To witness, is to give facts and proof relating to a certain case in quest- ion. The case presented to Christ upon which he said the gospel of the kingdom would witness unto the na- tions, was the '*signs of his coming and the end of this world." Therefore, the specific characteristic of that message must be to give proof that the signs of Christ's coming and the ending of this age hath appeared. This would necessarily locate the preaching of that message in the period when the signs would have appeared. Christ gave those signs, and located them at the same time as the preaching the gospel of ihe kingdo/n, both terminating with the end of t)iis age. The Revektor also gives the same signs, and locates them in the period of the sixth seal, and also presents the angel sealing God*s servants at the same time. As the sealing is located at the time the gospel of the kingdom witnesses t3 the nations, and both relate to, and are associated with the nations, the conclusion is obvious: that they relate to the same thing, John sees the same angel again in Chap. XIV, 6, "flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that le time terini- )r judg- res and st be a acconi - shed by , is to I quest - he said the na- of this of that Christ's ed. This message ppeared. e same m, both evelator he period sealing ealing is itnesses ssooiated hat they e angel heaven, iiem that 181) dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue and people, saying with a loud voice, fear God and give glory to him; for the hour of hisjudghient is corae."Tlu8 angel's message is connected with the na- tions the same as in the other instances, and hence, connected with the judgment also, as the oihers, which is invincible proof that tbcy are identical. In this case the angel testifies or witnesses to all nations that the hour of God's judgment is come. This testimony must rest upon the authority of the signs, for Jesus said, having presented the signs wliicli should precede his coming and the end of this age **VVhen ye see chese things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand." Luke xxi: 31. A witness can testify to :>uly what he knows, therefojo, the servants of Christ (symholized Hy the anj^el) could not testify to the nations thit the season of God's judg- ment had come, until they saw the predicted signs by which Christ said tjie}' should know. This is in perfect concord with his qualifications of the message. Ho cal- led it the gospel of the kingdom. Mark says that ''Jesus C'ime into G ililee preaching the gospel of the kingdom of Croi, ;'.nd saying the time is fulfilled, and the kingdoms of God is at hmd, repeat ve and htrlieve the gosf)el." Ch ip., 1:14, 15. Tlie time that was fulfilled, was, the 490 years of D miel'v^ ix: — The gospel of the kingdom is theiefoie, a specific proclumation that the kingdom of God is at hand. And th:\t proclamation cannot be made with go •pel uuthorify, until tlie signs show it to be at the door 190 Jesus said, "When ye see these things come to pasl know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand." Tbl message then, cannot be preactied only during the pfriij of the occurrence of the signs, for it is tue ye vvbo bc that are to know; consequently the only class who their knowledge can witness to the nations that [j great signs in the sun, moon and stars are all in the- pe and that Christ is at the very door. Everyone should knol if they do nut — that iu every part of the globe for ovj fifty years, thousands of men are proclainaing the comir of Christ — and day of judgment; and that this is t[ generation that must witness the thrilling and 8ubli;ii event. Thiq heaven message has been sent as a witnej that the kingdom of God is at hand, to all people wl can be called a nation, **in all the world." This suhjeJ adds another strain to the heavenly harmonies of Go(l| word and government. It inscribes upon the tablet eternal memory another chapter tilled with events )oii| ago seen by the omnicient eye, and now accomplished the almighty arm. The mighty thunderings of heaveil last judgment message has aroused a slumberiij world to the awful consciousness that some fearful even is approaching. An indefinable impression has seiz^ the hearts of all classes, that the present status of hut an society must be changed. The statesman views tl ship of state siiling in aro witliout doubt come to the sixth and last period of the gospol a^'o, in which the wondei fill signs foretold as the precussors of Christ's comitig at the g'^ueral jndgment have a[)peared. The sun ,moon and stars have answered the divine ut:erance^. Th3 nition^ have b oyne restless and per- plexed, arming as prophetically announced. The earth is spasm D li ally convulsed, quaking in divers places. Notable sights and great tokens have appeared from heaven. Hiunan society is disturbed and incoherent. \ rapid increase of dark and fearful crime is written upon the page now open to the eye of an excited and fin\rf .il generation. During these scenes of earthly and heavenly i)henocaei\a, a wides{)read and desolating war rolled its crimsoned wave over nations great and small, sweeping hundieds of thousands into military graves. It rent the air in the four quarters of the heavens with piercing cries of human woe, as the king upon the throne and the slave behind the mill found their level in one common ruin. Then four mighty kings, like coua- missioned angels, locked in the embrace of univeisal brotherhood with uplifted hands covenanted to use their armies and treasures, to give toleration to the church, and peace to the State. As these great scenes of un- paralleled interest were engaging all eyes and hsarts, far in the east could be seen one Joseph Wolfe, proclaim- ing with might and power the soon coming of Christ to reward all his faithful saints. Since that time, the glorious tidings like the electric sentence has gone 194 around the worlcH, sounding the all iraportant note of speedy and eternal deliverance to Christ's watching, waiting bvide.In that proclamation has been presented and experienced every feature and principle that were set forth in the prophecy and type. It has presented incontrovertible arguments, showing that the judgment of this world is at hand. Like Noah's and Lot's testi- mony it has witnessed to all that safety from coming wrath may now be secured in Jesus Christ. Jt has been accompanied by a divine unction; manifesting its power upon the hearts of hardened sinners, and devoted be- lievers. It has sounded its awakening njte upon the ear of the learned Englishman, and polite Frenchman the wondering Tartar, and the isolated Japanese. It has rallied the last day scoffers, who injpiously dispute the authority of the inspired record of the creation of the earth, and blasphemously declare thMt no signs of change appear, for, say they "all things continue as they were." But it has called out as its advocates a fisherman, like class, as in the type, when the lowly one came as predicted, and stood upon the glory clad mountain in heavenly majesty, foreshadowing the in- finitely glorious scenes of Messiah's coronation, now faithfully proclaimed as nigh at hand, even at the door. This proclamation answers the prophetic description in erery particular. It came at the right time, just when the angels took hold of the winds, and while the signs of the approach of the great day of wrath were appear- ing. Every feature of its typical picture in preaching 3te of obing, isented b were ^seDted 3gment I testi- coniing as been power ted be- lon the nchman se. It dispute tion of igns of inne as cates a e lowly ory-clad the in- ae door, ption in st when he signs appear- reaching 195 the gospel of the kingdom to the ]exs, and their ex- perience under it lias been fulfilled munutely thus far in this great movement. Tt has witnessed to all nations as that did to the typical nation, that Mie kingdom of (^od is nigh at hand. It has presented to this genera- tion the signs of Christ's second advent, as that did of the iirst. It has testified to all nations that the judg- ' ments of God are hanging over ±era, as that did to the Jewish nation. The typhical nation failed to embrace the warning message God sent them on account of the false rules by which they interpreted the scriptures, making the predictions of the signs of their "visitation** mystical and unreal, causing them bo reject every sign of Christ's coming, and their approaching judgment. They also rejected it on account of the unpopular in- strumentalities used to proclaim it. Thus it will be with the iintiiyphical message. It is a little less th&n two hundred years since the prediction of Christ in the 24tli chapter of M:itthew's gospel relating to the s gns of his coming, were interpreted mystically, as the Jews interpreted those relating to the first advent, and ap- plied to the destruction of Jerusalem. Since that time the heaven of the Pharisees, (false interpretation of the ecripturesi) has mystified and corrupted and per- verted every passage which relates to Christ's second coming, and the signs indicating its nearness. Hence, the last house of Israel will stumble over the same stumbling stone as did the first. As the Jews could not see a single sign of Christs first advent because they did 196 not beUove that the scriptures giving those signs were to he literally ftilfilled, so it is no»v with the masses of thi« generation : < hoy reject all the present signs upon the same principle. Many would gladly embrace thr sealing message as now proclaimed, were it not for the fact that but few of the higher classos receive it. It is proclaiuQed and believed by the lower classeo exactly a^ it was in the type. God has givtn a perfect picture, and the reality answers to it it in every pirtioiilar thus far ; therefore we may pxpect great realities will answer to the unfulfilled fntuie. While these wonderful fulfill inents have been j)rogressing in the sealing or eoclesias tical deprtrtment the foar angels or the great powers of Europe have labored and still do to suppress and con- trol the A AY element which has been ocntinuallv ii.crea.s ing so as to prevent a general outbreak. Tliey hav(f strained every nerve and used every available mtans to prevent another general European wur, but it is appar ent to every intelligent obser\er that their resources are nearly exhausted. The^y have been all conscious for years that there are questions to settle, and principles to control, which will eventually ri^^e above their power to subdue, and is sure to break forth with furious re- sults, and a terrible war among the tea Roman king- doms. They are showing their anticipations for a com- ing war. All enlightened statesmen feel that a great crisis in the political world has come or is immediate!} to appear. The world is convulsed with excitement, and humanity swings like the pendulum of a clock, to n3 were nasses of ^ns upon brnce thr ; for the t. It ia scactly a. picture, iilrir thus .11 lAQSwer fill fulfill eoclesias cowers of and con- ly it.creas They hav(f m^ans to ) is appar resources nscious for principles eir power urious re- el an king- 'or a con.1- t a great 1 mediate)} xcitement, cloolj, to 11)7 the right and then to the loft, i)ut can find uo center at which to stop or rest. All hearts boat intermittently with hope and fear, as they alternate with the rapidly changing circumstances of this feverish age. All feel a conscioiisnoss that some great event awaits this world. Many would bo glad to raise the olDSCuring veil and look upon the ^nture of their particular inter ssts. The Papists would be glad to know the future of Rome and the Pope. The Mahommedan anxiouflly inquires after the coming history of the Sultan and Constantinople.. The Russian declares that her new imperial master has a divine right to possess the Eastern Roman Capitol — Constantinople, which he in- herited from Sophia, the last heir of Cyesar's throne; and earnestly desires to know when God will give him the authority *.o wrest it from the hands of the usurper, and restore the head of the Greek church lo his ancient palace. The protestant world indulging the hope of a millenial day, are now watching for its dawn, when the reforming influences of the gospel shall subdue all hearts to Christ, and he shall (spiritually) reign from the river to the endg of the earth. While a few in joyful expec- tation, and with prayerful hearts, standing upon the summit of Watchman's mountain, read the prophetie records of all human history, looking out upon the con- fused scenes of mighty and fearful changes, in which they see the foretold signs of coming judgment and final reward, Reader, none but God can raise tlie veil and see the 198 i. ■ - ... \ events of one hour beyond the present. But to him all things are present, and He has presented upon the pro- phetic chart, many of, the events of the immediate future. Can we not believe this when we see how perfectly his word has been fulfilled in the past? The four angels have accomplished all their work exactly as represented. The sealing ^ngel,, or third angel of Rev. XIV: — has been executing his work at the same time, in perfect harmony with every expression and representation of the scriptures. It does now appear that the very l^st part of the work in each department is nearly accomplished. We are surely justified ill looking for the opening of the sev- enth seal, the squnding of the seventh trumpet, the coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, and the establishment of CodV everlasting kingdom. This is truly the grand historic and pix)phetic era of man's pro- bationary experience. It is the ripe age of depravity and the curse. Here ends the story of human changes of joys and sorrows, triumphs and defeats, living and dying. The wonderful time of destiny is approaching, when man will enter the period of imnfiutability, where no change from good to evil, from happiness to misery, from joy to sorrow, will be known through the countless cyoes of the eternal ages. There must end th3 ap- palling drama of human crime. Theie, oppressiDU must loose its power, and innocencaceas) to suff<^r — glorious change ! , And now, my intelligent ren^der, I am about tio bid 199 you farewell; I have given you part of the conclusive evidence of Christ's soon coming and kingdom, treat it as you please, it ia the settled conviction of my mind, that some time between the last part of Ndveinber and fore part of Decen^ber 1883, universal war will begin, and three months, and twenty days from then the com- ing of Christ with all his saints. I appeal to one, I ap- peal to all, especially those thai are on Ziod's wall, that unless you have more light on this blessed subject, than what I have advanced to you, proclaim to all your con- gregations the soon coming of Christ, the resurrection of the dead saints, and punishment of the impenitent of the earth. I appeal to the unconverted; flee from the wrath to corae^ lay hold upon eternal life so freely set before all, remember Lot's wife. Whenever we A^ant anything in this ^vorld.we have to pay for it, but; sal- vation through Christ is free, tree, free ! Oh, the am- azing love of God to man ! Sinner, ' it makes no dif- ference how mapy your sins be, only repent, stop sin- ning, do God's will, keep liis blessed and pure command- ments with that of his son, and all your transgressions will be blotted out, so as you do Go^fs will. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the evil man his thoughts, let them return to the lord and he will have mercy upon them, and to our God, for He will abuildantly pardon. Amen. James C. Mcintosh, Centralia, County Huron, Out., Canada. Agents wanted — large commission allowad. Remember the five books T speak of in the end of m V* 200 chapter second, they are at this time of incalculable benefit to the Bible student. They show the events of the immediate future, and work of the 1,000 years, together with the felicity of the asje to come in the kingdom of God. - .'J. iftlculabV le events 10 years, 3 in the '.v.: '^