evangelize all nations, and then the end shall not come until 365,000 years." This must be the fair and legitimate conclusion drawn from his sermon. Who but an infidel, or skeptic, can subscribe to this construction of the text? Again all the passages of Scripture which he brings as proof of his subject, are made to be as elastic as India rubber, to contract, or expand, as this day dreamer shall dictate. One moment Daniel's vision includes not papacy; the next it is the last part of Daniel's kingdom. One time the Roman kingdom is made to end when the gospel began; then again it is carried far into the future. Every step the writer takes, he involves himself in an impenetrable veil of darkness; and if any man can tell what he does believe concerning the 22 glorious appearing of the great God, and our Savior Jesus Christ," he is much more fortunate than I can be. One thing I am certain of by his own concessions; he is neither watching, nor looking for it, nor loving it; and if he prays, "Thy kingdom come,' it is parrot-like; having no definite idea of his own meaning. He is blind, leading the blind; and if Christ should come, he must be overtaken as a thief. "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief." A LECTURE ON THE TYPICAL SABBATHS AND GREAT JUBILEE. BY WILLIAM MILLER, BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY JOSHUA V. HIMES, 14 Devonshire Street. LECTURE. THE Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn.-ISAIAH lxi. 1, 2. THIS text is a prophecy of Isaiah, delivered by the prophet about seven hundred years before Christ was born, whom he personates in this remarkable manner; and was the first text used by our dear Savior when he began his public ministry in Nazareth, where he was brought up. He then read a part of our text, closed the book, and sat down. All the eyes of them which were in the synagogue were fastened on him; and he began to say unto them, "This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears:" Luke iv. 18-21. He did not say it was fulfilled in their sight, but in their hearing; neither did he quote the last part of our text, "and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all that mourn." Some have taken advantage of this circumstance, and argued, that, because Christ did not quote the last part of the text, therefore the day of vengeance is or was past, and no day of vengeance to come. We see, by this very argument, how wicked men will pervert the word of God, to shield themselves from the just and righteous vengeance of God. If they were not guilty, and did not fear this day of retribution, they would not make Isaiah a false prophet, in order to avoid the consequence which they otherwise must, and do, admit by the argument would of necessity follow. Al though Christ, at this time, did not see fit to speak of the day of vengeance, yet, in our text, Isaiah says he would proclaim it; and I think, I shall be able to show he did proclaim a day of vengeance in his public minis try. And the reader would do well to take notice, that by the same mode of reasoning, "to comfort all that mourn" was left out, and passed, and therefore Christ will not afterwards comfort them that mourn. Who will believe this? Yet one is as sound and valid an argument as the other. Therefore, when men are driven to such weak and silly |