The 16th sign given by Mr. Miller is indeed a great wonder! He finds it in Rev. xvi. 12-16. "The three unclean spirits spoken of are three political parties, which exist in every country." This he knows because one comes from the mouth of the dragon, one from the beast, and one from the false prophet! But which are the three parties of America? And which party came from the mouth of the dragon? which from the beast? and which from the false prophet? We hope our author will enlighten his country on this subject; and while doing this, will he inform us, how he kes just three parties in every country? We thought America had only two parties; and had he said two we should not have stopped to dispute the matter with him; for we could readily subscribe to the idea, that two have at least the spirit of the dragon and the beast.

There is only one sign more which we wish to notice; and that is the last sign given. See 1 Thess. v. 2, 3. "For yourselves know perfectly, that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. This, we are told, means the Universalists. They cry peace and safety when sudden destruction cometh. Mr. Miller seems to hate, most inveterately, all who believe, that God is the Saviour of the world. While speaking of them he becomes as furious as the Papal beast, and he denounces with as much bitterness as was ever manifested by the Pope in his fulminations against the Reformers. But he would not thus abuse and denounce them, if he could refute what they

have said against his absurdities. We will not detain you by offering any remarks upon the text here quoted, having shown, in our first Lecture, that it referred to Christ's coming at the destruction of Jerusalem.

Such is the way Mr. Miller applies the predictions of the Bible, to prove, that we live on the eve of time! Nothing could be more unreasonable. He contradicts the express testimony of the prophets! What they said was occurring in their day, or should immediately occur, he says, is now occurring. Besides, there is no agreement between the predictions and the events now occring! Indeed, out of the twenty-six signs mentioned by Mr. Miller, there is only one which is any more suited to this age of the world, than any other, since the days of Christ; and that is the steam engine sign!

Such, then, are the arguments on which the theory is built, that, in 1843, the world will come to an end! How surprising, that one can be found, to believe a theory so utterly destitute of truth!!

LECTURE V.

PROPHECIES OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION.

"The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass." Rev. i. 1.

In the book of Revelation we have various predictions which designate the time of their fulfilment. Thus it is said, "The devil shall cast

some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and you shall have tribulation ten days." ii. 10. "And to them it was given, that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months." ix. 5. "And they had tails like unto scorpions; and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months." ix. 10. "And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. ix. 15. "And the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months." xi. 2. "And they of the people, and kindreds, and tongues, and nations, shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves." xi. 9. "And

after three days and a half, the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon them which saw

them." xi. 11. "And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things, and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months." xiii. 5. “And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy 1260 days, clothed in sackcloth." xi. 3. "And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there 1260 days." xii. 6. It is also said, she shall be nourished there for a time, times, and half a time. xii. 14.

Such are the predictions which define the time when their fulfilment shall take place. These thus explained in the Lectures we are reviewing.

1. The 1260 days which the two witnesses prophesy in sackcloth, are 1260 years, in which the Old and New Testaments are not allowed, by the Pope, to be read.

2. The 1260 days which the woman is in the wilderness, are 1260 years, or time, times, and a half, which the church is in the wilderness.

3. The 42 months which the beast had power to speak great things and blasphemies, was 1260 years which Papal Rome reigned.

4. The 42 months, which the holy city was to be trodden under foot, were 1260 years which Papal Rome trampled upon the Christian power.

By such calculations as these our author seeks to show, that the book of Revelation relates to the reign of the Papal beast, and that its predictions agree with Daniel's, which he has labored to prove, refer to the same thing. In carrying out his plan, he has divided the church into seven periods; and applied what is said to the seven churches of Asia to these periods, thus regarding

the seven churches as figurative, and not literal churches.

The seven seals which are opened by the Lion of the tribe of Judah, represent events to the end of time.

The seven last plagues denote seven judgments, all of which have been inflicted but one, which is to come A. D. 1843.

Here, then, you have a synopsis of what is said on the book of Revelation. In examining it we will inquire,

I. If our author gives any new proof for call

a day a year, and reckoning 42 months as 1260 years? In considering his calculations upon Daniel, we proved, that he entirely assumed the ground on which his whole argument rested. He assumed, that a day was to be reckoned as a year. It is true he referred to the seventy weeks of Daniel to justify his assumption; but this was no justification; for when Daniel used the term seventy weeks, he meant weeks of years; he spoke in language perfectly understood by the Jews, who were instructed to reckon a week as seven years. But because a day in weeks of years signifies a year, it is no proof, that a day means a year wherever it occurs in prophecy. There is no relation between the terms, and one is no criterion by which to fix the meaning of the other. Of this we have the most abundant proof. In Jonah we have an account of a prediction against the city of Nineveh. "Yet 40 days," says the prophet, "and Nineveh shall be overthrown." Jonah iii. 4. Now, no one pretends, that a day is here. to be reckoned as a year; and that the 40 days mean 40 years. The immediate proclamation for