Midnight Cry - Volume 01, Number 26

              THE ) NIGHT CRY!
I. NEW- YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1842. NUMBER 26.
1 * Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie
I >. though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry."
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1842
ICJ Brother George Storra will lecture to- rnorrow,
( Sunday,) at the church corner of Catharine and Madison
streets. Services to commence at the usual hours.
Second Advent Association
Will meet at this office, Monday evening next, nt seven
o'clock.
MIDNIGHT CRY- WEEKLY.
« ' The end of all things is at hand." Peter.
As the time is short, we shall sfart the weekly, for
only thirteen weeks, DOUBLE SIZE, at fifty cents.
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The first number will be issued, Providence permitting,
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K7 We had thought of bidding farewell to our readers,
in a fepi hints to those who may read the Midnight Cry
ao longer. But we trust you will all continue the weekly,
and that our intercourse will be continued till we meet
Christ in the clouds, to be forever with the Lord. * And
the very God of peace SANCTIPY you WHOLLY And I
jtwy'God your whole spirit and soul and booty inrpre-
' UNTO the COMING of our Lord Jesus
Christ."
" How Los THE Vision 1". A press of matter,
. which it was absolutely necessary to insert in this paper,
has left us no room for a continuation of this subject, in
the letters to Brother Hatfield.
This is the less to be regretted, because the weekly,
being a larger paper, will give us room to consider the
question fully, and show how irresistibly the Scriptures
conduct us to the belief that very soon there will be NO
LONGER DELAY, but that, in 1843, this defiled sanctu
ary will be purified, and God's everlasting kingdom set up.
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* s The harvest is the end of the World."
a Mf, Thomas, a Universalist minister, has been lectur-
% - Brooklyn, at a shilling a night, hoping to build up
by opposing our views of a judgment to
There are many points on which we could show
w orunfairness of his arguments, but we have
j^ j^'. iwfr one, where,. we admit, his statement
his, conclusion by no means follows,
is . said t " Tli field is the
world," * The harvest is the end of the world" He
says, truly, that the words rendered u world" are not alike
in the original Greek. The first, ( kosmos,) is rightly
rendered. The second, he says, should be rendered
" age ." Well, what follows 1 What age is intended 1
Let Christ answer. It is the age in which the tares and
the wheat both grow together. It will not end unti
14 The Son of Man shall send forth his angels, and they
shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and
them which do iniquity, and shall cast them into a fur
nace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of
teeth "
Now, Mr. Thomas, wishing to cry peace and safety,
tries to show that no such event is coming ; and how
does he prove it 1 His argument is this :
1. These things were to be " at the end of the age/'
2. That age ended, at the destruction of Jerusalem.
3 Therefore, all which Christ here describes HAS
TAKEN PLACE ! and there is NO JUDGMENT TO
COME. Wonderful comfort!
He divides time into ages, to suit his own fancy, tak
ing eare to have one end soon after Christ's day. Does
he fix that date as a rational man would, by enquiring
when the event actually took place 1 O no. He guesses
that Christ meant the age ending at the destruction of
Jerusalem. Therefore, Christ did mean so. Therefore,
the judgment is past. Then we can no longer pray
" Thy kingdom come," for it has come already. The
righteous do shine forth as the sun in the KINGDOM,
Here are no tares nor anything which offends, and no one
does iniquity ! Inasmuch as all this is true, Mr. Miller
is mistaken !
Wonderful reasoner ! indulge us in one request.
Please tell us the day when all this took place, that we
may celebrate the joyful event I Our Bibles and his
tories do not inform us.
Impenitent reader, can you be lulled to sleep by such
absurdities 1 0 flee from the wrath TO COME.
It will be seen by this letter, that Dr. Brownlee has
blundered into some astonishing misrepresentations. We
have the name of the writer, and have full confidence in
his statements. We much regret to see a D. D. contend
ing against he knows not what, which we regard as
ihe great truths of God's word.
LETTER TO REV. » R. BROWNLEE.
SIR, The writer was an attentive hearer of your ser
mon on the Millennium last Sabbath evening, and would
respectfuliy state some objections to your views of the
subject and to show that you entirely misrepresented
Mr Miller's theory.
On the first p* rt of your discourse, I have but little to
say, as I am unacquainted with the history of the per
sons and sects entertaining the erroneous views which
you so successfully attacked and demolished. In the next
place you attempted a review of Mr. Miller's dates and
expositions of prophecies. I cannot believe that Dr.
Brownlee would intentionally misrepresent the views of
an opponent yon must have taken the slanderous and
lying reports of the penny press for your authority, as Mr.
Miller does NOT entertain the views which you made the
subject of so much ridicule. You said that Mr. M. ap
plied the " little horn" of Daniel's fourth beast, 7th ch ,
to " Antioehus Epiphanes," and not'to Papacy, which I
understood you to say it does represent. Now, if you had
ever examined Mr. Miller's writings, you would not have
made such an assertion. Mr. M. is not so ignorant of
the common construction oflangnage, as to suppose that
a third beast can be the fourth. He has always applied
the fourth beast to the Roman Government, and the little
horn to Papacy. It is a notorious fact, that some of Mr.
M.' s learned opponents, to avoid his conclusions,
upon the above interpretation, ( admitted by yourself to
be correct,) have themselves been driven to the necessity
of resorting to the absurdity of applying the little horn
to Antioehus. At the head of those learned Doctors
stands Prof. M. Stuart, of Andover. See his " Hints on
Prophecies," recently published also the labored arti
cles in the religious, papers of the day, trying to make all
the prophecies of Daniel end with the death of Antiochos
who, according to Stuart, died with cholera 184 years
B. C. Surely Mr. Miller's learned opponents are driven
into close quarters, and I can see no chance for them to
retreat, except they come out at the little end of that
wonderful " little horn."
I think you will readily admit that you have done Mr.
Miller great injustice, and that he is at least entitled to as
public and frank an apology from you, as you made to
Dr. Smith, the Geologist. See your letter, N. Y. Obser
ver, Dec. 3d. If Mr. Miller is so ignorant and erroneous
as you represent him, why do not the learned clergy
agree upon dome consistent explanation of the prophe
cies, arid settle the public excitement on this all- import
ant subject 1 Most of the clergymen of every denomina
tion Romanists and Universaiists included are preach
ing against Millerism, as they suppose ; but the truth is,
they are onl) T opposing each other. You say the Millen
nium will begin about the year 2016. Prof. Bush says it
has already passed. Prof. Stuart says the little horn is
Antioehus. You say the days in Daniel mean years.
Rev. Mr. Hatfield, of Broome street, says they are literal"
days. Rev. A. C. Thomas, Universalist, agrees with
Rev. Mr. Hatfield. The Catholic clergyman in Barclay
street, says " No man knoweth the day nor the hour."
Now, « * who shall decide when Doctors disagree '?"
Again as to the character of the Millennium. You
say it will be ' the golden age" a time of great prosper
ity to the church that toward the close of that glorious
era, the church will become corrupt that the infidel
power, Gog and Magog, will prevail, and nearly extin
guish the true church. Now what proof can you bring
from the Bible to sustain such barefaced contradictions 1
Who can corrupt the church whilst the tempter is under
chains of darkness, and not permitted to deceive the na
tions until the thousand } rears are ended 1 He is then to
be loosed for a little season to deceive the rest of the
dead who at the same time are raised and he, together
with them, comes up and they surround the beloved
city and fire comes down from God out of heaven, and
devours them.
This is an age of inquiry. People are beginning to
examine the Bible for themselves, and they can find no
proof of a temporal Millennium it is a tradition of
men !
Your false exhibitions of Mr. Miller's dates, ( which
so amused your audience,) next deserves attention.
You say he has no authority for selecting the third of
the six dates which you referred to. You will fii| Mr.
Miller's authority in Daniel ix. 23 27. The seventy
weeks began with the decree of Anaxerxes 457 B. C.,
and ended at his death, A. D. 33 added to 457, makes
490 years " each day for a year."
Mr, Miller believes that the seventy weeks, or 490
years, is a part of the vision of 2390 days or years, which
will bring the end 1843, when Daniel is to stand in his
lot Dan. xii 13.* It is astonishing that there should bo
such a diversity of opinion among the learned divines up
on this plain subject. The last three verses of the 56th
chapter of Isaiah clearly describe the character of some
of the watchmen who now stand upon the highest parts
of the walls of Zion.
Now pause for one moment, and reflect upon this all-mportant
subject. What if iVIr Miller's calculations are
correct 1 What are you doing 1 I have heard not a few
impenitent persons say that they were willing to rest the
event on Dr. Browplee's positive assertions that the
world could not end in 1843. The excitement on this
subject is increasing and spreading all over the world
then why not meet and examine the testimony candidly
and fairly remembering that " if it is the work of man,
it will come to nought, hut if it be of God, ye cannot over?
throw: it." Acts v. 38, 39. D.
Two learned Hebrew Professor*, without the knoftr >
other, hard told us recently that the Jews understand the 7U weeks to
be part of the 2300 days, and that they utand far yeai*. fir *"> -~ m