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MILLENNIAL HARBINGER;

CONDUCTED BY

ALEXANDER CAMPBELL.

A. W. CAMPBELL, CO-EDITOR.

I SAW another messenger flying through the midst of heaven, having
everlasting good news to proclaim to the inhabitants of the earth, even to every
nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people; saying, with a loud voice, Fear God,
and give glory to Him, for the hour of his judgments is come; and worship Him
who made heaven, and earth, and sea, and the fountains of water.--John.

Great is the Truth, and mighty above all things, and will prevail !

SERIES IV.-VOLUME VI.

BETHANY, VA.:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY A. CAMPBELL.

1856

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THE title of a book is not the preface of a book. Nor is the preface of a book its first page. We sometimes distinguish between a preface and an introduction. This is too formal. We sometimes need an introduction to a living person, and also to a book, a volume, or a subject. It is not a bald chapter of contents. It is rather a preparation of the mind of the reader for the subjects upon which it treats a statement of its objects and designs. The Millennial Harbinger is now a series of 26 volumes on a variety of subjects, having one specific object-the preparation of the public mind for a better order of things in the visible church of Christ. Its name is a special appropriation of a term which not merely indicates a thousand years, but a period of triumphant Christianity; when "the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him."

It was originated in the conception that all Christendom was more or less apostate; in other words, that an apostacy had supplanted Primitive Christianity, and such an apostacy as would not endure sound or wholesome teaching. We believe, most sincerely believe, that we live in the latter period of this apostacy, and that Paul's description of it is truly delineated on the face of all Christendom-Greek, Roman, and Protestant. Let any man of discrimination read these State University of lowe

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