The Day-Star, Vol. 5 (1845)

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THE DAY-STAR.

JACQUIA,

FRI. & FABLIMBER,

we have also a more sure word of prophecy which we will take thee as unto a light that nineth in a dark place, until the day and the day shall abide in your heart.

C. CLA K,

Frillerz

CINCINNATI, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1846.

Number 71

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Letter from Bro. Cook.

Indianapolis, Jan. 25, 1845.

D. R. JACHS: On account of the bad read I was a week longer in reaching this place than I intended, consequently a larger tiny has elapsed than would otherwise have done, without my writing.

The friends in Hamilton gave me a cordial welcome and a candid hearing. Found a like reception at Bro. John Creeks, was not a little interested with this aged brother. He in not one to how his neck to every yoke his fellow worm would forge or frame for him, in the name of religion, he has, to others, looking for Jesus, so much of the character, to which the Jesuits apply the odious name of "heretic." He "thinks for him self." This would brand any man, in any community where serviles and brutes assume the right to "lord it over God's heritage." Paul was a heretic in the opinion of the Pharisees—the religious teachers of his day. Bro. Jacobs, we should be glad in our souls: that we are also, in this degenerate age of the church. Surely the "w" pronounced by Jesus would rest upon us did the doctors "speak well of us." They have all the features of the Pharisees—are ignorant of both "the time" and manner of God's "visitation." Way, more, they persecute those who will not be as stupid and worldly as they. Recent facts in this State, suggest, this remark.

I came on to Connersville,—found Dr. Eastman and Bro. Perkins. They insisted on having a meeting, so I spent two evenings.—Had a pleasant time with them and Bro. Woodcock and others.

In this city, the few sheep were in great need of a shepherd. The Disciples, who are instructed by our amable Bro. Jamieson, opened their house for them. All our meetings were held there, with special ones with families at their dwellings. They did thus on the principle that Christians ought to meet on the Bible, and investigate every doctrine it contains. God bless them in carrying out this, every where approved, but yet practically despised, protestant principle. This principle would prostrate all the peas which lordly priests have put up to keep Christ's poor sheep separate.

We several dandies contending for the superior excellency of their several time pieces, it would be both easy and rational to appeal from their vanity to God's great time piece, the sun. With true Christians,—their spirit is one—they are for knowing God the same, but the daily spirit of the doctors refuses to regulate their faith and worship by the Bible. O Lord Jesus, the man of righteousness, do come thyself and scattered people together. The la. we would sooner tear down their meeting house than a ow the good people to obey the better impulses and higher sentiments of their quick irr, and none.

Vm. long, ow n and excellent host of ret re nt vena, K and others, whom the synagogue has cast out, gave me a home, under circumstances that greatly enhanced the value of us h a t y May t h b u n g of the God of and I s a m a T r u y did he part of " as o was regarded us

Do think of the state of the church when the

doctrine of her Lord's return is so characterized and treated by her ministers. Surely it is Ladi- cean.

My message has been received by believers. They rejoice for the consolation that they pay scriptural ground on which to wait and watch, and expect their King so near as the ensuing spring. Bro. H.——, a farmer, received the news with joy. When our duty to cry "Thrust in toy sickle and reap" was presented, he, suiting the action to the word, jumped right up—went through the motions, and said, "Thrust in thy sickle and reap."

Brd. S. H. Milner sent you five subscribers. Your paper is highly valued and very useful. So cheer up and press on. The Vision of the Engle excited no little interest. I am more interested in it than I supposed I should be. It is difficult to disregard it if we would, several readings are adapted to deepen the impression that it is from God.

My visit has been pleasant to myself, and I trust profitable to others. Lord bless the believers in Indianapolis. Seldom has the message or the messenger been treated with a more fraternal regard.

Give my love to all the band. Tell from my faith amounts almost to assurance, at times, that the coming year will be the great "Jubilee." Amen. My assurance ought, I think, to be continual.

Your q in the blessed hope J. B. COOK.

Letter from Bro. Williamson.

Ticonderoga, N. Y., Jan. 27, 1845.

DEAR BRO. JACOB: After an absence of three months, visiting the "little rock" in Vermont, N. Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and N. York, I find myself comfortably situated at my earthly home in the family of Bro. D. Smith, in Ticonderoga, N. York.

Nearly worn down with fatigue and other inconveniences, known only to those accustomed to traveling, a degree of ill health, if nothing more, would prompt me to rest a while before another tour is undertaken.

I know not as I ever visited the saints, those who are "Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ," with such entire satisfaction as this present tour. Notwithstanding the thousand plots laid to induce them to "come back," the manifested warm invitations to return to their "spiritual birthplace"—the proffered honors—and last though not least, the mighty effort to baffle the late movement in the advent cause by the reported revivals of religion in the conversion of so many sinners, it only drives them closer to God. They look upon it as the last and only effort employed by their father to "deceive (if it were possible) the very elect." They have yet to learn that those to whom God sent the Advent message first and who were then first to reject, and from whose society God has called out his children, to whom it has been proclaimed in thunder tones, "Your house is left unto you desolate!" I will now be instrumental in the hand of God of the sound conversion of sinners. Out of their own mouths we shall judge them. Look at their acknowledgements in the "Advent Herald" of Jan. 22, 1845, headed "preparation for the crisis."

The numerous reasons assigned for the present "spiritual dearth in the churches." John W. Maffitt, the great revivalist in the Methodist connexion and pulpit orator, said in my hearing, on the night of Jan. 16th, while preaching in the State street Methodist church Troy, New York, "The churches are dead!" TWICE DEAD! I and plucked up by the rogs." Here is an acknowledgment from one of the greatest preachers in America that they are plucked up by the roots—of

course the branches go with the roots. So here we find they are laid aside and useless.

God has somebody that love him and through whom he works: if they are not Adyay believers will you tell me who they are? It would do one's soul good to visit these and see with what tenacity they cling to the word of God—to see the brightened countenance, the moistened eye and throbbing soul, at the proclamation of the approaching kingdom. "God is not ashamed to be allied their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." "Our Father" has an army of as valiant soldiers in the East as ever buckled on "the whole armor of God," and are even "able to stand against the wiles of the devil." "Haying" their "loins girt about with truth" and their "feet shod with the PREPARATION of the gospel of peace." "Above all" they have taken to themselves "the shield of faith wherewith" they are "able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked." And the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all savior."

Though sundered far, by faith they meet Around one common mercy seat.

All efforts to draw them back will be useless—it is labor lost. I rejoice at the cheering intelligence from the West, in the columns of the "Cry." Yes, those too with whom we have knelt and consecrated ourselves to God in the Tabernacle in the "Queen city." Yes, those who listened to the message of Christ from the lips of a son of a foreign port—"a pilgrim and a stranger." But God was in it and him. Yes, my brother, God was in that message, and the mystery of our disappointment will be unraveled at the marriage supper of the Lamb. This "wicked and adulterous generation" in spite of their hardened infidelity will yet be forced to acknowledge that the hand of God has been in this preaching. It is useless for them now to make an effort to save themselves independent of God's way. These are not the first propagators of this mode of defying God—it may be traced farther back. Matt. 28:15. I have been trying to think who in Cincinnati have gone back that were engaged in the best of all causes, but I am unable to decide. I hope they are all still waiting patiently for their lovely Lord and Saviour, who will say, "Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." A visit with them I know would do my soul good, but I must not endulge the thought of ever having such a one on the shores of mortality. While I am writing this, it seems as if I were almost in the Tabernacle with you. I can but comfort myself with the thought, that in a little while we'll meet to part no more. O blessed prospect.

"My heart leaps forward at the thought, When in that happy, happy land, We'll no more take the parting hand."

What a blessed hope. The end of afflictions, pains, and disappointments—the object of our hope, the New Jerusalem, the Saviour of sinners, the innumerable multitude, the general assembly and church of the first born whose names are written in heaven, the covenant of all strife, the end of all scuffing, the reproach taken away, the glory that is to be brought unto us at the revelation of Jesus Christ. Now Jerusalem is created a rejoicing and her people a joy—the new heavens and the new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. Now the ransom of the Lord have returned and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy. Now the tide nacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them and be their God. All tears are wiped away from our eyes—we are drowned four times of water—God is now our God. And my three brothers have come from their dusty beds in Ireland, and are by my side, walking Jerusalem's golden pavements together.

O, glory! GLORY!! GLORY!!

"My longing heart, my longing heart is there."

I dare not close this epistle without expressing my highest approbation of and warmest sympathies with the cause you advocate. My brother, it is God's own cause. "Your labor is not in vain in the Lord." And soon it will be said to you. "I was hungry and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty and ye gave me drink." "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of those my brethren, ye have done it unto me," You have nothing to fear. "If God be for us who can be against us." Your labor will soon end—the Kingdom is at hand. Remember me to the members of my Father's family in C.; "And may the God of peace sanctify you wholly, and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it."

M. WILLIAMSON.

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By permission, the following extract is given from a private letter from a brother at Granville Ohio.

"Granville, Nov. 12, 1844.

DEAR BROTHERS:

I have no doubt but there has been, and still is a great many inconsistencies among the Adventists, and will be as long an time continues; but on the whole they stand on the word of God which will never fail. Man's time has failed, but God's time will not, for it will surely come. What has now taken place in the so called Church, and the world, only tends to strengthen my faith that we shall soon see the long wished for day when the kingdoms of this world shall become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ.

For my own part I believe the last cry was the true Midnight Cry, and I believe it has been a blessing to many, for it has been so to me and the little band in this place. We had strong faith to believe that we should see the Saviour in the 7th month, and it had the effect to humble us in the dust and bring us to a Throne of grace that we might be prepared for that glorious event. We had no fears for the result if he did not come, nor do we now: we believe the Lord was in it or permitted it for the good of his people and for his own glory; We did not quit our business, nor had but one meeting in the day time, and that in the afternoon—for we believed that it was our duty to Occupy till he come. So you see that we were disappointed in the time, but not discouraged, for we still have the word of God to go to, which assures us that he that holds out to the end shall be saved and if we suffer with him we shall also reign with him. But what do we suffer here when we compare it with what his people has suffered for the cause of Christ! It is nothing; it is true the brethren at the east are called to bear reproach and to have all manner of evil spoken against them for the cause of Christ; but I believe they will come out like gold tried in the fire even before their accusers. If Christ be for us we need not fear what man can do unto us, therefore let us contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints; that when he shall appear we may be found waiting, as those that are waiting for the return of their Lord, that we may enter into the marriage feast of the Lamb. Therefore don't be discouraged, nor suffer yourself to feel that you have no home; but above all things do not turn again to fables nor sustain those that are proclaiming them; but consider the honor that will be bestowed on such as are worthy to suffer persecution for his name's sake in vindicating the glorious truths of his holy word. O, Brother, if we love the blessed Saviour with all our hearts, night, mind, and strength, we shall be prepared for disappointment or any thing else that crosses our pathway home to glory. Bear in mind that we are strangers and pilgrims here, but soon our home will be with Jesus—glorious thought! And shall be like him, and heir to a glorious inheritance that shall never pass away.

Is there any thing strange in it, that those who are looking for the coming of their Lord and

Saviour should be disappointed three or four times! I think not; but it would be a strange thing for them not to be disappointed a great many times, when we have so much in the word of God to insure his coming near, even at the door together with the indications of Providence and signs of the times, and add to this almost all the combined wisdom of the great and learned of the world and church, that we are living in the days of the sounding of the 7th trumpet and 3d wo. O glorious thought! We are living in a consecrated time, the next hour may wait us into the presence of our glorious Saviour; and shall we be ashamed to say to the church or to the world that we have been disappointed in not seeing Jesus? I can not; but I can add that I expect to see him every day from their own testimony. Then let us take courage and press forward for the prize which is in Christ Jesus our Lord, and strengthen the things that remain, and let our home be with the devoted humble followers of the Lamb that are looking for his coming.

Our meetings continue as they were when you was here—none left nor added. Eight of our number have been buried by baptism, by Bro. Hall. We had a communion season in the evening, and had Bro. Tite with us to break bread—it was a solemn and interesting time. J. W."

Letter from Bro. Chaplin.

Oswego, Ind, Jan. 30, 1845.

DEAR BRO. JACOB:—I assume my pen to communicate some information respecting our situation in this section. God has raised up a few here who are looking for the "Coming One," and who sympatize with you and all the partakers of the "blessed hope," in your present trials; and we have also sympathized with you in the preceding movements relative to time. In common with our dear friends and brethren scattered abroad, we had taken our lamps and gone forth to meet the Bridogroom, at the expected termination of the prophetical periods;—with you we passed into the tarrying time and slumbered;—and with you we were suddenly aroused to trim our neglected lamps by the astounding cry "BEHOLD THE BRIDGROOM CONE TH!"—and with you we have passed into the "little white" to "watch and pray."—to "comfort one another," and to "be patient."

From the scriptures it appears, that it is no inconsiderable honor to be accounted a virgin. Our blessed Lord foresaw, and foretold, that the closing period of the gospel dispensation would be emphatically "night." (See Mark 13: 35; and Mat. 25: 5). Hence he gave repeated admonitions to his dear people, who should be living at this period "to watch," and to let their "loins be girded about, and their lights burning." He also foresaw the obloquy such would incur from a lukewarm church, and a wicked world, while, with blazing lamps, they should be going forth during the course of this last gloomy moral night, (to the no small annoyance of those who choose to sleep, and to put far away the day of Christ's return,) watching for the dawn of that "last lovely morning" which is to usher in the "year of the redeemed," the "millennial Sabbath," and the bright rising of the "Sun of righteousness." Hence also, he enforced patience, and comforting each other, while the hours of this last gloomy night should be passing away.

He has characterized those who should "go forth," "watch," "trim their lamps" at the solero "migdought cry,"—to "be patient" a "little whirl," "not easing away their confidence," &c., as "virgins."

It conclusively appears, from the enumeration of the signs, that are to accompany the opening of the sixth seal, that its history precisely synchronizes with that of the last generation--inasmuch as the designating phenomena are in both instances the same, and; likewise, in both cases they immediately precede the great day. Hence it is clearly apparent that the history of the virgins, who, in that last generation, go forth with their lamps, is embraced in the time of the sixth seal. We accordidgly find that a company, 144,000 in number, are sealed as a special people during the opening of this seal, through the instruc

mentality of the angel of the east, or in other words, of the ministry of the true gospel of grace and light. From Rev. 14: 1-5, we learn, that this same company are explicitly termed "Visous;" so, it appears at once, that the 144,000 Rev. 7th and the (0 wine 0) virgins of Mat 25th are the same company. An objection will arise from the consideration, that the 144,000 sealed from the twelve tribes of Israel. The apotheke James will solve this difficulty. His epistle addressed to the "surfee tribes" scattered abroad [com. Dan. 12 7;] whom he also addresses in brethren, [1: 1, 2.] These brethren [1: 19;] begotten with the word of truth that they shall be a kind of "first faurs." [com. Rev. 14: 4

From this we learn that James considers them as his brethren who are "born, not of blood, of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of but of God," and who, consequently, constitute the "Israel of God," or the "Tribes." He dresses his 5th chapter to those of this same people, who should be patiently awaiting the court of the Lord, [v. 7 and 8.] (while the mania earthly gain should be engrossing the minds of a many,) whom he calls by the same endearing pollation "brethren," and who consequently long to the "chosen tribes."

From these promises it appears that the virgin who await their Lord watchfully, pray fully, and patiently, amidst the scoffs and jerks a cold world and luke-warm church during the last gloomy nightly period of this world's history shall be exalted to a particular honor on Mon Zion at his coming, and sing a song that no others can learn.

"Thrice blessed bliss-inspiring hope, It lifts the fainting spirits up. It brings to life the dead.

Our conflicts here shall even be past. And you and I ascend at last, Triumphant with bur Head."

Who, with Mount Zion in view, would away their lamps and confidence although "Night" be long and dark? Let us dear "Broad Ben" patiently wait for that morning when Princely Bridegroom who is "fairer than children of men,"—"whose garments smel myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the palaces" shall wed his bride, "the King's day ter, all glorious within; her clothing of wrought gold; who shall be brought unto the King in ment of needle work." Then shall "the Virg her companions that follow her be brought," "with gladness and rejoicing shall they brought; they shall enter into the King's par Amen. "Yet a little while" and Salem's go spires shall greet our longing eyes; and the vided light of eternal day dissipate this glow darkness for ever. Farewell;—perhaps till meet at the Marriage feast.

S. A. CHAPL

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CINCINNATI, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY, 18.

THIS VOLUME.

It is but just that our readers should know circumstances under which this volume is menced.

The last volume, from the 6th No. was conted for the small sum of $101.54.

The total receipts from all sources in the time have been £101.52. I have mailed the weekly with my own hands, including fold writing wrappers, carrying to the Post-office To do this without interfering with my other ties, I have been compelled to sit up two night this week, till about 3 o'clock in the morning This severe application has brought on my illness during which my life was despaired On summing up my accounts as you see above, clear loss is two cents . Making no charge for own time.

That is a fair specimen of "Millerite speculation."

I say none of these things by way of complaint, I am satisfied with my reward; but to let you know how matters stand, and ask you who owe, to pay up, and then in my feeble state of health I shall be able to pay a hand to mail my papers.

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"We have also a more sure word of Prophecy ; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-slar arise in your hearts. 2d Pet. 1: 19.

To what subject does the "mard'sure word of prophecy" refer? Ver. 16; "For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eye-witnesses of his majesty."

It was "the power and coming" of the Lord Jesus Christ, to which the more curd word referred, and which Peter had been making "known" as demonstrated to his mind by a circumstance to which he refers in ver. 16-18, and of which he says he was an "eye-witness." The history of the circumstance that led Peter, with such boldness to make known a still future coming of Christ, is recorded in Mat. 17: 1-9; Mark 9: 1-8; Luke 29: 30. Christ had alluded to his second coming, and the brilliancy and glory of his Kingdom, (Matt. 6: 10, and chap. 13) and now gives to his disciples this further evidence in the mount of transfiguration of his power to accomplish the work. Still, Peter claims that the word of prophecy in their possession (which must have been in the Old Testament, as the New was not then written.) was more sure, or rendered the fact that Christ would come again, more positive, than any ocular exhibition he had seen, could do. He that shows a willingness to believe "Moses and the Prophets," in the one most likely to have his faith strengthened by the resurrection of "one from the dead" I need be. Moses and Elias, had been brought up from the dead to show Peter, James, and John, the glory of the resurrection at Christ's coming, but in the room of relying solely upon this circumstance, Peter places in the fore ground the "sure word of prophecy."

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From Psa. 96: 18; Isa. 13: 9; 26: 21; 80: 27; 62: 11; 63: 1; Joal 2: 7; Mal. 4: 1; and a mass of other prophecies, he knew that Christ must at no very distant day, come, in all the Father's glory, when the righteous dead would rise, be restored to the renovated earth, and all the wicked be destroyed.

He had also shown in his first epistle that it was the Spirit of Christ in the prophets that " Searched diligently" for the time of Christ's sufferings, and "the glory that should follow" at his second Advent; and that it was revealed unto them that u to us and not themselves they did minister, in such teachings. The time, in its symbolic form, for Christ's sufferings and second coming, as taught in Dan. 8r. 9., was as familiar to Peter as to us.

This word of prophecy is to be headed as a light, shining. "My word in a lamp unto my feet, and a ght unto my path." Psa. 119: 105; "The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day," Prov. 4: 18; "The path of the just" is God's commands—his ward; Psa. 119: 35; 25: 4; 10.

Take away the "sure word of prophecy" and

all in the future is eternal darkness and gloom; but this sheds a light that shows us from whence we came—what we are, and whither we are bound. It is a light that not only casts its rays behind us, and on either hand; but it shines before us and "shows us things to come." O who can plead for darkness upon time-events, or any thing else of which the word of God treats, while he has in his hand such a glorious light.

It is a light to guide us in a "dark place." Such is this dreary world, for "Darkness hath covered the earth, and gross darkness the people;" but the reign of darkness is not to last forever. When the "Prince of darkness" is hurled from his throne, then light will take the place of darkness. The word of God is not only a light shining in a dark world, but it is the only light. In vain has the Prince of darkness endeavored to palm upon us Reason, Philosophy, and Moral Science, as a sufficient corrective for the darkness of the human mind. After the utmost stretch of all the man-made schemes of earth, human miseries still increase, and moral darkness has become so dense that faith has almost gone from the earth.

It is indeed a "dark place" where every hope is cut off, and where every prospect fails. How thankful then should we be for one light to guide us through this "dark place"? How carefully should we follow the rays of such a light! How closely guard its hallowed flame! It is our protection and defence,—Our strong tower! Our immutable Rock.

It is a light to guide us "until the day dawn." What day! Not the Gospel day, as it is sometimes called; for that had already dawned. Had he alluded to any especial manifestation under the Gospel, in the expression, "day dawn" he would not have intimated as he has done, that the word of God is of no further use after that day has dawned. It is the day of the establishment of the "Everlasting Kingdom," (ver. 11;) the day of the "Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ," (ver. 16;) "the day of Judgment," (ch. 2: 9; 3: 7;) "the day of the Lord," (ch. 8: 10;) "the day of God;" (ch. 3: 12). The expression, "The day," or "that day," is familiar with all the inspired writers, Isa. 2: 11; 24: 21; 29: 18; Ezek. 29: 21; Hos. 2: 18; Joel 3: 18; Amos 8: 3; Zeph. 1: 15; Zech. 13: 1; Mal. 3: 17; Mat. 7: 22; Luke 21: 34; 1 Thess. 5: 4; &c. &c.

This day is not to burst upon those that are taking heed to the sure word, suddenly, in a moment: It is first to "dawn" after which the "sure word of prophecy" is to be of use; for we are to heed it not only "till the day dawn," but "until the day-star arise." Evidence of approaching day, is an increase of light; and the word of God being our only light in a "dark place," this is the only source that can betoken the approach of the "Sun of Righteousness." That word has poured its light upon the thousand circumstances peculiar to the days in which we live, and circumstances which form the boundary line between mortality, and immortality—Death and Life—Time and Eternity. Here we are, at the end of our Chart. The day has dawned! The Seventh Trump has begun to sound! and how much longer are we to heed the sure word of Prophecy?

"Until the Day-Star arise in your hearts." And when is that! When you are converted or sanctified, says one: Oh no, for then might you cease to heed the "sure word," whereas the apostle tells you to "be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the

commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and aviour."

But is it not said, "God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts," 1 &c. Yes; but not placed the day-star there yet, for it is the light of the Gospel, or "sure word" that thus shines in the heart before we are made immortal. See 2 Cor. 4: 3-7.

Christ is called "the Morning-star" in Rev. 2: 28, 22: 16; and do we not read, says one, of Christ being formed in the believer! (Col. 1 27;) Certainly, as a "hope," or "the hope of glory." Christ is, now our hope, we enjoy him by faith; 'the life we now live is by the faith of the Son of God.' But far different is it, to hope for, and enjoy by faith, a possession upon which we have never placed our foot, and a crown that has never touched our brow, to the glorious reality of walking firmly and erect upon the saint's inheritance, and actually wearing the "crown of glory that fadeth not away."

Thus when "the day-star arises in our hearts," the same principle of life that animates the Lord Jesus Christ will animate us, for "we shall be like him and see him as he is." The present is a time of suffering: (Rom. 8:18) when the Day-star arises it will be a time of "glory revealed in us." Now the Spirit dwelleth in us, (Rom. 8:11) when the Day-star arises, that Spirit will "quicken our mortal bodies"—animate our whole frame. O may we be found taking "heed to the sure word of prophecy" that happy moment when our change shall come! The day-star must arise before the Sun of Righteousness:—The Resurrection must take place before Christ can come with "all his saints." Even so. Amen!

LETTER TO BRO. STORRS. Cincinnati, Feb. 14, 1845.

A note of yours published in "the Morning Watch" of Jan. 30th, which was read to me while confined to my bed by sickness, has produced upon my mind a class of feelings which prompts me to make a brief reply. It is possible that a confinement of seventeen days may have enfeebled my mind as well as my body, and I may therefore be led to say things of which I may repent: But if I do, I am persuaded God will forgive me if my motives are as pure ad those which now prompt my aching heart, and guide my trembling hand,

You say, that "after the hurricane which has swept over us" you "wish a little time to breathe and examine the latitude and longitude we are in," &c. In the next paragraph, "fixing on a definite day, or even a year, for the advent to occur" you pronounce a "delusion." Here, it seems to me, you have rendered yourself just as incapable of examining the "latitude and longitude we are in" as the man who pronounces the lines of "latitude and longitude" on the chart to be no such lines at all—mere "false" marks.

Hunting for latitude and longitude, subject to the fixed principle, that there is no "definite day, or even year" in which the advent is to occur, is strange work indeed; and altogether useless. An examination of which planet we are on, is sufficient, if the above principle be correct.

Let me here ask you if God has not demonstrated our "latitude and longitude" by the very thing that you pronounce a delusion!

Examine the argument you gave us, for the THE DAY-STAR.

coming of the Lord on the tenth day of the seventh month, and then prove to us what part of that argument has failed. The idea was advanced by you that Christ would personally appear on that day—with all his saints—that the righteous dead would rise, &c., but the whole of your argument proves no such thing. The most that you proved, was, that Christ, our Great High Priest would come out of the holy place on that day; and on that day the Seventh Trumpet would sound: And I have proved to you that these events must take place before the personal appearing of Christ and the Resurrection. See W. M. Cry, Vol. 4, No. 5 and 6.

"We will now look at the Jubilee. Dec. 25: 8-10, 13—And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee advent times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hollow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof; it shall be a jubilee unto your and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. In the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. All Christians admit this is a type of the final deliverance of the saints.

To demonstrate to you that your own argument has not failed, let me place before you your own language.

Here you have given us the proof that the Jubilee Trump sounded in the forty-ninth year while it was not till the Jubilee, five or six months afterward that the captives were to return to their possessions. It could not be in the seventh month of the fiftieth year that the trumpet of the Jubilee sounded; for the Jubilee was a year of rest—no labor was to be performed, and more than half the year would be gone before liberty was proclaimed, in this case,

To have an antitype of the Jubilee trumpet, what must we have A PROCLAMATION OF LIBERTY throughout all the land "to all the inhabitants thereof"—Lev. 25; 10. The proclamation, and not the deliverance itself is the antitype.

Has that proclamation been made? Aye! And the voice of George Slorrs, strengthened by the power of the Holy Ghost, and no deluding spirit of the devil, was listed up in thunder tones till all the inhabitants heard it, and the devil's impulse gnashed upon him with their teeth. If this were a delusion, then for a time was Satan divided against Satan, and the words of Christ were broken.

I would most heartily join you in " confessing " our mistake in the event to transpire in the seventh month, but while we have been mistaken in this, God has used the event that did transpire, to demonstrate the truth of his word. That the path of the just is as a shining light that shineeth more and more until the perfect day, and that his word is a light to our feet and a lamp to our path.

The preaching of the seventh month, or which is the same thing to me. The sounding of the Seventh Trump, and the Midnight Cry, certainly cut thousands loose from the world, and the word of God has proved itself sufficient to keep some at least, of that number still loo e.

Your figure of the 'that reply' in the ocean to which we were directed to wait for the veil I so hear as away has been made a great blessing to my soul. I doubt not your h nesty condu ting

us there. With you I expected to have left it on the earth, but was disappointed. Having "cut all loose" I could not get back if I would. For a few days I thought I should marve; but the God that sent Elijah food by the ravens, and Daniel his dipper in the Lion's den, has not forgotten, richly to feed me upon pure manna every day since.

The clouds have gathered, and storms have beat around, which have only made me cry the louder. Come Lord Jesus, O come quickly. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

Still here I am on the "rock" determined to wait the Master's call, or eternally perish here, and if you have gotten away from it honestly, I honestly demand an explanation how it was done for many pleading your example, have left it not honestly.

You may say that pride of opinion prevents me confessing the whole affair of the 7th month a delusion; but I here affirm that when you prove to me that the Jubilee trump did not sound in the seventh month of the forty-ninth year, then I will go any length with you in "confessing."

Again, why is it that those who hate the appearing of our Lord, are so ready now to remove allodium from you, while they were so ready to mob you when preaching the seventh month?

Since you have become so set against a knowledge of the definite time, let me ask if you have fully weighed the following language of yours before you renounced it forever?

"See Dan. 12: 7—" And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand united heaved, and swore by him that liveth forever, that it shall be for time, times, and a half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished." This person thus swearing, was none other than the Lord Jesus Christ; and he abide to them. Yet, to time connected with the second advent, the resurrection, and the glorification of his people. The time, however, is symbolical. But will any man dare to take the blasphemous position that the Lord Jesus aware to time that meant nothing; or which is the same thing, sware, with the most solemn oath to time that was intended should never be understood! Such a position, one would suppose, is blasphemous enough to make a devil tremble; for it is virtually charging the Lord of glory with swearing to a lie? Beware, O vain man, how you thus charge the Son of God. Time is revealed. But it cannot be understood, without obeying Christ, and "inquiring and searching diligently, what, and what manner of time." Those who are too indolent to search, or who are afraid to follow truth when they find it, for fear of man, whose breath is in his nostrils, will of course remain in ignorance of time, and that day, most likely, will come upon them unawares."

This language you have used, with how much effect upon saint and sinner, past time has told.

A clause in your postscript, also leads me to tell for you: "I am preaching CONSTANTLY at the Chapel in Juliana street, in this city." What can more effectually prove the language of the heart to be, "My Lord delayeth his coming," than when a man who has made every sacrifice to "fly in the midst of heaven proclaiming the hour of his judgment is come," can turn so far aside from his previous course of labor and suffering, as "constantly" to preach in such narrow limits. If I have been unnecessarily severe, it is because your recent course has caused the sons and daughters of Zion to mourn, and the enemies of truth to triumph.

You're waiting for deliverance at the dawn of the Jubilee. E. JACOBS.

Those are near O'Lorde and all thy servant men are ruf.

OLD PATHS.

When the subject of the coming Kingdom o our Lord is presented, it is not unfrequently the case that this most holy and sublime theme is repulsed by appeals to "old patris"—the old way is good enough for me! &c. There are no older ways than those that have been taught us by the Lord in his word; and to these we have ever delighted to appeal so abundant and triumphant do they show the nearness of the Coming Oner. But for the accommodation of those that choose to appeal to the Fathers, we give below an extra from Robertson's advice to the first Pilgrim band that fled to this, then wilderness, from the despatic intolerance of a foreign land,

The language, above that the man of God believed what he was taught by the unerring word—that that word was indeed given as a "lamp to his feet, and a light unto his path."

Where are the descendants of the Pilgrim Fatherz 1-alas, where 1!

"In the next place, for the wholesome counsel Mr. Robinson gave that part of the church whereo he was pastor at their departure from him to begin the great work of plantation in New England among other wholesome instructions and exhortations he used these expressions, or to the same purpose.

"We are now ere long to part asunder, and the Lord knoweth whether ever we should live to see our faces again. But whether the Lord had appointed it or not, he charged us before God and his blessed angels, to follow him no further than he followed Christ; and if God should reveal any thing to us by any other instrument of this, to be as ready to receive it as ever we were to receive any truth by his ministry; for he was very good-dont the Lord had more truth and light yet break forth out of his holy word. He took possession also miserably to be wall the state and condition of the Reformed Churches, who were come to a period in religion, and would go no further than the instruments of their Reformation. As for example, the Lutherans, they could not be drawn to go beyond what Luther saw; for whatever part of God's will he had further imparted and revealed to Calvin, they would rather die the embrace it. And so also, saith he, you see the Calvinists, they stick where he left them; a misery much to be lamented; for though they were precious shining lights in their times, yet God had not revealed his whole will to them; and we they now living, saith he, they would be as read and willing to embrace further light, as that thou had received. Here also he put us in nuo our church covenant, at least that part of whereby we promise and covenant with God, and with one another, to receive whatsoever light on truth shall be made known to us from his written word; but withal exhibited us to take heed wher we received for truth, and well to examine our compare it and weigh it with other Scriptures, truth before we received it. For saith he, it not possible the Christian world should come sately but of such thick antichristian darkness, and that full perfection of knowledge should break forth at once."

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lence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth." Then we cannot expect deliverance until the last month of the year. And if the Seventh Trumpet did begin to sound, in the seventh Jewish month, according to the Caraite's manner of reckoning, then we can account for the extraordinary moveit cannot mean in eternity. Zech. xiii. 9;—"And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, the Lord is my God." In this verse we learn that they are tried in this state,

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From the Adrent Herald. Letter from Bro. Miller.

Dear Bro. Brias,—I have received a number of letters from almost every part of the country, almost all of them propounding the same questions, viz., What I thought of the experience we had in what was denominated the seventh month! And also, What was my opinion concerning the closing of the door of mercy, or probation for sinners! To save a multiplicity of letters, I thought best to answer these letters through the "Herald," if you should think proper.

1st. The experience of the seventh month. The sympathetic and simultaneous movement on the minds of almost all the Second Advent brethren, and on many others preceding the tenth, the rapidity with which that sentiment was received, the general credence that was given to it, by nearly all of those who were looking for immediate redemption, the humbling effect it produced on the hearts and conduct of those who believed, in the abandonment of worldly objects, the sacrifice of earthly goods, and in many cases the total

time in the history of typical Israel is to be fulfilled in the redemption of the people of God from their enemies and bondage from under the Gentiles, or Kings of the earth, then I cannot see why we have not some good reason to expect deliverance at the time when the Jews received their deliverance in the days of Esther. See the 8th and 9th chapters of that book. We here learn that the Jews were delivered from those who would have destroyed them, and this time was on the 13th and 14th of the month Adar, which is the twelfth, or end of the year, and these days were called purim; and we are expressly told that Daniel at the end of the days shall stand in his lot, or purim. To me, at least, there is much probability that we shall then, if not before, know more, where we are, than we now do. I have strong hope that this year will bring our glorious King, and that the scenes of the seventh month will be manifested to be the beginning of the sounding of the last trump. If I should prove to be correct in this calculation, then all our calculations, the 2300 days, the 7 times, the Jubilees, the 1335 days, woe trumpets, the vials, the tarrying time, the husbandman's time for patience, the signs, the trial of our faith and patience, the sanctifying in-

"Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not." When shall the test be given, which shall make us discern between the righteous and the wicked! The answer is plain, before the day cometh that shall burn as an oven. For in that day no doubt could rest on any mind, who is who, or what is the character each individual would appear in. Rev. 22:11;—"He that is unjust, let him be unjust still; and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still; and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still; and he that is holy, let him be holy still." This text is perfectly plain and needs no comment; the 12th verse, "And behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man as his own work shall be," shows that a little whil'e before Christ comes, every character will be determined. "He," that is, any one, or every one who is unjust or filthy, let him be so still, and so on the other hand, he that is righteous or holy, let them be so still. "And behold," connects the sentence before, and what follows after, and is a caution for us to take particular notice of the reason, why they are in this peculiar situation or fixed state, as though the idle servants could have no more time to mind

dodication of soul and body to God,—the deep and anxious feeling of heart which many of us felt, all marked its character. Then we expected every moment the heavens would open and reveal to us the dear Saviour, with all his shining hosts, and we should see the graves open and the loved forms of our relations rising from their dusty beds in immortal bloom, and eternal life; and we ourselves pass the sudden change from mortality to immortality, from time to eternity. Then, as we verily thought, we had bid adieu to this world of sin, of misery and wo, and expected to be ushered into the new heavens and new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. Oh blissful day! How solemn, yet how interesting. I hope to see another day like this, and realize what I then expected. It was a day long to be remembered, and I cannot account for it on any other principle, than to suppose God's benevolent hand and wisdom was in the movement. The suffilment of the blowing of trumpets in the year of release, was on the first day of the seventh month, Lev. xxiii. 24, also on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the year of Jubilee they were to proclaim liberty throughout the whole land, Lev. xxxv. 8-10; "And thou shalt number seven Sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the

fluence of the seventh month, the extraordinary movements of God's providence at that time, the acts of the wicked, their scoffing, the mocking of nominal professors, all the visions failing, as the scoffers would say, would be literally accomplished, as every discerning mind will readily see. But the wicked will not see or understand, and of course it will come upon them as a thief, and so every jot and tittle of God's word will be fulfilled. I believe, Lord help mine unbelief. Hold on, brethren, I would not let go as long as we have one cord to hold on by; or one promise to support us. If we saint not, we shall reap in due time.

But you ask, why I do not show whether the probation of sinners is ended! I answer. It is a close point, and if handled at all, it ought to be done very wisely, and with a great deal of humility. I would not grieve, if possible to avoid it, one of Christ's little ones. There is much sensitiveness on this point among our good brethren, therefore I would much rather keep my views in my own breast, if I could, and do right, than run the risk of hurting the oil and the wine. You will, therefore, permit me to give my views by the scripture; and first, Daniel xii. 10;—"Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked

their day's work, which God had given them in their day of probation to perform. The eleventh hour was passed, & no chance for them to enter the Master's vineyard now, in this last hour. While on the other hand, the good servant might know that the good Master was at the door, and he would quickly pay them their wages, and relieve them from their toils. See Matt. 20; 1-16.

Then this agress with St. Paul, Heb. x. 36, 37; "For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry." After we have done our work, we have need of patience to wait for the Master, "for yet a little while, and he that shall come will come and will not tarry." I did believe, and must honestly confess I do now, that I have done my work in warning sinners, and that in the seventh month. I know my feelings are no rule for others, therefore, let every one who feels he has a duty to do to sinners let him do it, I will have no hard feelings. But I must be honest; when I am enquired of, I must state my own conviction honestly. I have done it, and given my reasons from the word of God. And now let me say, brethren, we will have no contention on this point, for we are brethren. Let

space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause he trumpet of the jubilee to sound, on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fifueth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a Jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his own family." But did they go free on that day? No. It was a proclamation of freedom only. When did they go free? At the end of the year, ut. xv. 1; "At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release." Jer. xxxiv. 14-18. We see by these texts that supposing this to be a year of Jubilee, according to the captivity which the Lord hath proclaimed, as Jeremiah tells s. xxxiv. 17; "Therefore thus saith the Lord: Ye have not heartkened unto us, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the award, to the pestievery man be fully persuaded in his own mind, and so let them speak or proach, as God and their own consciences may dictate.

It will be readily seen by this text, that before the end, the people of God must be "purified, made white, and tried." Now if probation goes on until the last moment of time, how can those who are regenerated in this last moment, have their patience tried? Again, Rev. vii. 13, 14;—"And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, what are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they? And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said unto me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed hair robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." How can it be said, that those made white "came out of great tribulation," if in the next moment after they experience the new birth, they are beyond all tribulation and trial? Also in the first passage, the wicked are to do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand. Yet if one of these wicked is converted after the time specified, then the word none could not be true in fact. This must be in time,

I have a strong expectation that Christ will come before the Jewish year will expire; but let us all see to it that we are ready every day, so that when he comes we may not be as needed before him. This letter must suffice for these friends who have requested my views on this subject. My love to all who owe our Lord Jesus Christ, and pray or his kings up.

W LLIAM MULER.

Le er from Bro. J. Kimpton.

Ring Sun, Ind. Feb 19, 1845.

DEAR BRO. JACOBS - We are still firm in the belief that the coming of the Lord is nigh, even at the door; and we have not yet cast away our confidence or our Bibles, because we have been twice disappointed.

Or, as Isaiah says, We have not wrought any deliverance in the earth, neither have the inhabitants of the word fallen, (chapter 26).

All appears to be a perfect calm here, and the people are crying peace and safety.

We have read your paper with delight, and hope it will be sustained by the brethren as it is a very welcome visitor to us. We have faithfully distributed what has been sent to us, and I have only received 25 cents as a donation.

Bro. David Evans, of Greensburg, has moved to Rising Sun, and preached here on Sabbath last on the coming of the Lord. He spoke from 2d Pet. 3d chapter, and showed clearly to my mind that the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. He said he did not intend to present any new thing, but stir up our minds by way of Remembrance that we might be mindful of the words spoken before by the holy Prophets and the commandments of the apostles of the Lord and Saviour.

Ilo said the Lord had certainly given us evidence that we might know near the time of the Advent if we could not tell the day or hour; and as proof, he gave us Mat. 24th ch. 33d ver. "So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Dan. 12: 10; "But the wicked shall do wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand." Again, he pointed us to the 24th chap. of Matt. 37th ver. "But as the days of Noe were so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." He also cited us to 1 Thess. 6: 5; "Ye are all children of the light, and children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness;" and a number of other passages. I quote from memory.

Youra, as ever.

JOS. KIMPTON.

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CINCINNATL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY, 25, 1845.

I design, the Lord willing, to visit several of the Second Advent bands in the surrounding country as soon as I can. It is proper for me to say, however, that I have no longer the means of paying my own travelling expenses, as I have hitherto done, except to two or three places.

The friends in Madison, Ind., can announce an appointment for me on Wednesday and Thursday evenings of this week.

I expect to spend the second Sabbath in March, at Dayton, O.

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Bro. J. H. Hardy, will excuse us for failing to give his letter an earlier notice.

The substance of his article goes to show that Christ was crucified, or "cut off" in the "midst" or middle of the seventieth week; and taking it for granted that the crucifixion was in the year A. D. 33, he proceeds to make out the termination of the 2300 days in A. D. 1847.

Had not this matter taken so much time already, Bro. II.'s article would be published in full. He seems to have overlooked the mass of evidence which goes to prove that the 69 weeks, Dan. 9; 25, terminated A. D. 27; see Mark I: 14, 15, and the date in the margin.

Christ was no doubt crucified exactly in the middle of the 70th week as Bro. H. supposes;

not however in the year 33, but in the year 30 or 31. This is proved by applying Ferguson's Astronomical calculation to the Passover as observed by the Caraite Jews, in the room of the one observed by the Rabins.

I think we have at present no evidence that can carry the end of the 2300 days beyond the month of April next.

LETTERS.

A number of encouraging letters have been received of late, from which the following are selected.

PARKERSBURG, VA. FEB. 4, 1845.

Dear Brother.

Enclosed I send you fifty cents for the W. M. Cry. I also take the "Morning Watch:" They are both welcome visitors to me. I should be sorry if either of them should be stopped for the want of means. May the Lord bless you and all the brethren with more light on the great subject of the Advent.

JOHN GLIME.

Yours, sincerely,

MIDDLETOWN, CT. FEB. 10, 1845. Dear Bro. Jacobs.

I am so well pleased with your "humble" sheet, and the meat in due season it affords me and others, that I send you one dollar and hope to send you more soon. I do hope you will be able in sustain it, and continue the copies you send to this place. We love the Truth.

Yours, as Ever Looking. E. L. II. CHAMEERLAIN.

LOWELL, TRUMBULL CO., O., FEB. 12, 1845.

Enclosed I send you one dollar for your excellent paper, the "Western Midnight Cry."

I feel much encouraged to believe that the Lord is near at hand, to destroy sin and its consequences, and establish his own everlasting Kingdom. Go on, you have my good wishes and my prayers.

JOHN BISSELL.

LOWER SANDUSKY, O., FEB. 14, 1845. Dear Bro. Jacobs.

I herein enclose one dollar to apply on my subscription. I am glad that you are still trying to sustain the "Western Midnight Cry." We hail its return with joy as well as the Eastern papers. There is still a little band here that are waiting the return of Him who is to "restore again the Kingdom to Israel."

Yours, in the blessed hope of soon seeing the King in his beauty. ISRAEL SHARP.

MARYSVILLE, UNION CO. O., FEB. 15, 1845.

Dear Bro. Jacobs,

Enclosed is one dollar and fifty cents which you will place to the account of — .

I have only time to say a word this morning. We expect Ero. Cook here in a few days. We learn by lotter from him a few days since that he is near Fort Wayne, Ind. We had a letter from his wife by the last mail, which cheered us very much: She is at Akron.

I regret to see the spirit manifested in that article in the "Watch" written against the 2d book of Esdras. His position may be true, yet I think it is written in a bad spirit, and I think his arguments weak.*

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