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    --CHARLES PITCH LEWIS HERSEY JOSIAH LITCH

    AND OTHERS,

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    THE MIDNIGHT CRYA DAILY PAPER

    COMPRISING

    THE LECTURES OF WILLIAM MILLER;AND COPIOUS SELECTIONS

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    Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that lie may run that readeth it. or the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end i t shall speak, and nothough it tarry, wait for it ; because it will surely come, it will nut tarry."BY JOSHUA Y . HIKES. WO o tct L h,M11.,SIL) PRICE TWO CEN

    MEMOIR OFWILLIAM MILLERWILLIAM MILLER was born at Pittsfield, Mass.,Feb. 15, 1782. When he was four years of age,

    his father removed to the town of Hampton,Washington County, New.York, the presentresidence of M. Mller. The country wasthen new, and his means of education, till nineyears of age, were very small. His mother,however, taught him to read, so that when hewas sent to the common school, he could readin the Bible, Psalter, and an old Hymn Book,which at that time constituted the whole of hisfather's library. After his ninth year, be wassent to school three months in the year, till hewas fourteen. During this time he was notedby his companions as a prodigy for learning, asthey called it, particularly in the branches ofspelling, reading, and writing. At the age offourteen, he became anxious to obtain books toread. The first history he obtained was Ro-binson CrUSOC ; and the first novel he ever sawwas Robert Boyle. He read them with avidity,and being so much interested in them, he readthem many times over. He then became stillmore anxious to obtain books, especially histo-ries and journals of travellers. A number ofgentlemen in the vicinity of his father's resi-dence, on being made acquainted with his loveof reading, kindly offered him the privilege oftheir private libraries, which he accepted withmuch gratitude. From this time till he wastwenty-one years of age, he was a most devotedstudent of ancient and modern history. Thenames of his benefactors ought to be given inthis pace, as they deserve to be honored fortheir liberality and love of learning. One ofthem was the Hon. Matthew Lyon, Representa-tive to Congress from Vermont, from 1794 to179g. The others were Judge James Witherell,afterwards judge of Michigan Territory ; andAlexander Cruikshanks, Esq. of Whitehall, for-merly of Scotland. By the kindness of thesegentlemen, he was enabled to store his mindwith a vast collection of historical facts, whichhave since been of so much service to him inthe illustration of the prophecies. Possessing,a strong mind and a retentive memory, lie ap-propriated the contents of those gentlemen'slibraries to his own use ; and even now, after alapse of more than thirty years, it is astonishingto observe the correctness of his frequent refer-ences to these historical facts and dates in hisextemporaneous lectures.' At the age of twenty-two he was married, andsettled in Poultney, Vt. Here lie was stillfavored with the privilege of pursuing his favorite study ; having free access to a large publiclibrary. Here also he became acquainted withthe deistical writings of Voltaire, Hume, Paine,Ethan Allen, and others. He studied themclosely, and at length professedly became aDeist. The principal men in the village wereDeists ; but, as a class, they were good citizens,and as a general thing were moral, and ofserious deportment. With these he was asso-

    ciated about twelve years, in the defence ofdeistical sentiments.In the last war with Great Britain, he receiveda captain's commission in the United States'service, and served in the army until the 25thof June, 1815, after peace was declared. Hethen Moved to his present residence, LowHampton, where the year following, 1816, hewas converted from Deism to thechristianfaith, and united with the regular Baptistchurch in that place, of which he is now amember in good standing.We gather the following facts relating to hispast history and experience from his letters tous on this subject. The following connectedaccount is made out from them, mostly in hisown words." In my youth, between the years of sevenand ten, I was often concerned about the welfareof my soul, particularly in relation to its futuredestiny. I spent much time in trying to inventsome plan, whereby I might please God, whenbrought into his immediate presence. Twoways suggested themselves to me, which I tried.One was, to be very good, to do nothing wrong,tell no lies, and obey my parents. But I foundmy resolutions were weak, and soon broken.The other was to sacrifice, by giving up themost cherished objects I possessed. But thisalso failed me ; so that I was never settled andhappy in mind, until I came to Jesus Christ.While I was a Deist, I believed in a God, but Icould not, as I thought, believe the Bible wasthe word of God. The many contradictions andinconsistencies, which I thought could beshown, made me suppose it to be a work ofdesigning men, whose object was to enslavethe mind manoperate on their hopes andfears, with a view to aggrandize themselves.The history of religion as it had been presentedto the world, and particularly by the historiansof the eighteenth century, was but a history ofblood, tyranny, and oppression, in which thecommon people were the greatest sufferers. Iviewed it as a system of craft, rather thanof truth. Besides, the advocates of Christianityadmitted that the Bible was so dark and in tri.cate that no man could understand it. Thisalways was to me an inconsistent idea of God,and even made the Bible appear more like theoracles of the heathen gods, than like thewisdom of the just and righteous God. Togive us the Scriptures to teach us the way ofeternal life, and at the same time clothe themin a mantle of mysticism, so that no man couldunderstand them Reveal his will, which wecannot understand, and then punish us for dis-obedience How can such a being be calledeither wise or good ? These, and the like,were my arguments against the Bible. In themean time, I continued my studies, storing mymind with h istorical knowledge. The more Iread, the more dreadfully corrupt did the cha-racter of man appear. I could discern no brightspot in the history of the past. Those con-querors of the world, and heroes of history,were apparently but demons in human form.

    All the sorrow, suffering, and misery iworld, seemed to be increased in proportithe power they obtained over their fellobegan to feel very distrustful of all methis state of mind I entered the service ocountry, I fondly cherished the idea, tshould find one bright spot at least inhuman character, as a star of hope, a lcountryPATRIOTISM. But two years inservice was enough to convince me that in error in this thing also. When I lefservice I had become completely disgustedman's public character. I retired from thescenes of public life, in which I had engaged about ten years, and thought tofor that happiness, which had always elmy pursuit in my former occupations, idomestic circle. For a little space, a carburden was taken off from my mind ; buta while I felt the need of some more aemployment. My life became too monotoI had lost all those pleasing prospects, win youth I expected to enjoy in riper yeaappeared to me that there was nothing goearth. Those things in which I expectfind some solid good had deceivedme. Ito think man was no more than a brute, anidea of hereafter was a dreamannih ilwas a cold and chilling thought, arid accobility was sure destruction to all. The h ewere as brass over my head, and the eairon under my feet. ETERNITY What wAnd death, why was it ? The more I reasthe further I was from demonstration.more I Cilought, the more scattered werconclusions. I tried to stop thinking, buthoughts would not be controlled. I waswretched, but did not understand the camurmured and complained, but knew nwhom. I felt that there was a wrongknew not how, or where to find the rigmourned, but without hope. I continuthis state of mind for some months; at lewhen brought almost to despair, God bHoly Spirit opened my eyes. I saw Jesa friend, and my only help, and the woGod as the perfect rule of duty. Jesus Cbecame to me the chiefest among ten thouand the Scriptures, which before wereand contradictory, now became the lamp feet and light to my path. My mind besettled and satisfied. I found the Lord Gbe a Rock in the midst of the ocean oThe Bible now became my chief study, can truly say I searched it with great deI found the half was never told me. I dered why I nad not seen its beauty and before, and marvelled that I could everrejected it. I found everything revealedmy heart could desire, and a remedy for disease of the soul, I lost all taste for reading, and applied my heart to get wisfrom God." I laid by all commentaries, former vand prepossessions, and determined to reatry to understand for myself. I then bthe reading of the bible in a methodical m

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    and by comparing scripture with scripture, andtaking notice of the manner of prophesying,and how it was fulfilled, (so much as had re-ceived its accomplishment,) I found that pro-phecy had been literally fulfilled, after under-standing the figures and metaphors by whichGod had more clearly illustrated the subjectsconveyed in said prophecies. I found, on aclose and careful examination of the Scriptures,that God had explained all the figures andmetaphors in the Bible, or had given us rulesfor their explanation. Arid in so doing, I foundto my joy, and as I trust with everlasting grati-tude to God, that the Bible contained a systemof revealed truths, so clearly and simply giventhat the " wayfaring man, though a fool, neednot err therein.' And I discovered that Godhad in h is word revealed times and seasons :'and in every case where time had been re-vealed, every event was accomplished as pre-dicted, (except the case of Nineveh, in Jonah,)in the time and mannertherefore I believedall would be accomplished.

    I found, in going through with the Bible,the end of all things was clearly and emphati-cally predicted, both as to time arid manner. Ibelieved; and immediately the duty to publishthis doctrine, that the world might might believeand get ready to meet the Judge and Bride-groom at his coming, was impressed upon mymind. I need not here go into a detailed ac.count of my long and sore trials. Suffice it tosay, that after a number of years, I was com-pelled by the Spirit of God, the power of truth,and the love of souls, to take up my cross andproclaim these thin gs to a dying and perishingworld."The first time I ever spake in public on thissubject was in the year 1824. Th e Lord pour-ed his grace on the congregation, and manybelieved to the salvation of their souls. Fromthat day to this, doors have been opened to me,to proclaim this doctrine of the second comingof Christ, among almost all denominations, sothat I have not been able to comply with but asmall portion of the calls." I have lectured in the states of New York,Vermont, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, and Canada.In every place, I think, two good effects havebeen produced. The church has been awaken-ed, and the Bible has been read with more in-terest. In many, and I might say almost inevery place, a revival of religion has followed,which has lasted for months. Infidelity in manycases has been made to yield her iron grasp onthe mind of many an individual. Deism hasyielded to the truth of God's word, and manymen of strong minds have acknowledged thatthe Scriptures must be of divine origin. Thesandy foundation of Universalism, has beenshaken in every place where it could be reachedby an attendance on the whole course of lec-tures. And hundreds of men of sound mindsand strong powers, have had their spider's webbroken, and have got a more sure hope in anexperimental knowledge of the justice of God,and the forgiveness of sin, through the bloodand sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

    As proof of the truth of the above facts, Iwould refer you to the many false reports whichUnlversalists and infidels have industriouslycirculated in their periodicals and papers, con-cerning me and my views : the hundred years'mistake,' the refusal to sell my farm,' and thebrick fence,' &c. &c. Stories too foolish forchildren to credit are promulgated as facts,sufficient to destroy the truth which is fairlyproved by the word of God and history of agespast. Why use such false and weak arguments ?Because the goddess Diana is in danger. It is

    evidence strong as holy writ, that when menuse weak arguments and false productions, theircause is weak, and their foundation is trem-bling." Furthermore. I have been fully convincedthat the effects of the promulgation of this doc.trine on those who candidly hear, produce nolittle examination of the evidence of their hopes,founded upon the word of inspiration. Thetraditions of men too are brought before thepublic and tried by the unerring rule of God'sword such as a emporal millennium,' theJews' return.' In one word, in a moral point ofview, every effect is good ; and if ever there isa 'midnight cry' made, the effect must be t.imilarto the one now produced, or it cannot have ascriptural fulfilment. hen all those virginsarose and trimmed their lamps.' If this doctrinedoes not make men search the Scriptures,(lamp,) I cannot conceive what would. One

    more effect I will mention. In every placewhere I have been, the most pious, devoted, andliving members of the churches, do most readilyembrace the views thus proclaimed ; while theworldling professor, the pharisee, the bigot, theproud, haughty, and selfish, scoff at and ridiculethe doctrine of the Second Coming of Christ.And if ever God's word, in his secondEpistle of Peter, can be fulfilled, surely it is sonow Knowing this first, that there shall come

    in the last days scoffers, walking after theirown lusts, and saying, Where is the promise ofhis coin ing ? for since the fathers fell asleep,all things continue as they were from the crea-tion.' Every word of th is sign is literally ful-filled. In every place where I have been, theinfidel, the Universalist, and many who wouldbe called teachers in our several sects of limit-arians, before they are convicted, can all meeton the broad ground of scoffing, ridicule, andfalsehood, to put down the doctrine which theya e not prepared to meet ; and even meet theUniversalists on the ground that the judgmentday was past at Jerusalem, rather than believethis thrilling doctrine of immediate accounta-bility. McKnight thinks these scoffers will bein the church ; how true is it so fulfilled. Ihave often blushed to see the hardihood of ourpriests who take the ground of my Lord de.layeth his coming,' and publicly advocate thedoctrine that it is a long while yet to come.And shall begin to smite his fellow-servants.'Hear them, calling all mauner of names, falseprophet,' visionary fanatic,' crazy old man,'&c. nd to eat and drink with the drunken.'Join any other doctrine, however repugnant totheir creeds, rather than consent to this. ' Pi-late and Herod can make friends' against thisdoctrine of the coming of Christ.

    In conclusion, although I have receivescoffs from the worldly and profane, ridiculefrom the proud and haughty, contempt from thebigot and pharisee, and insult from the pulpitand press ; yet I have one great consolationGod has never forsaken me, and their weaponshave fallen harmless at my feet. Thousandshave been brought to read their Bibles withmore pleasure ; hundreds have found faith inthat word they once despised ; false theorieshave been made to pass through a fiery ordeal ;and undisputed errors have been searched outand exposed, and the 'word of God has mightilygrown and multiplied.'" . v. H. -

    221 Eibil l1122THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1842.

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    RULES OF INTERPRETATION BIBLE DICTIONARYEXPLANATION OF PROPHETIC FIGURADULTERY. Idolatry. Jer. iii. 9. Eze. xxiii. 37.AIR. Spirit of piety-false theories. Eph. ii. 2.ALTAR. . Christ. Ps. xliii. 4. Heb. xiii. 10.Aamox. A people, or son of my people.ANCIENT Or DAYS. God. Dan. vii. 9.ANGEL. Christ, or messenger of God. Ex. xxiiRev. i. 1. xx 1.A Ric. Christ. Ps. cxxxii. S. Num. x. 33.ASCENSION INTO HEAVEN Dignity and honor. Joh62. Isa. xiv. 13, 14. Rev. xi. 12ASLEEP. Death. Acts vii. 60. 2 Pet. iii. 4. 1 xv. 18.AWAKE. Resurrection. Job xiv. 12. Ps. xvii. 15

    xi. 11. Dan. xii 2.BABYLON. Confusion, mixture, worldly.BALAAM. Their destruction without the prophet.BALANCE. Justice. Daniel v. 27. Worldy mind. vi. 5.BANNER. Gospel ensign. love. Cant. ii. 4.BEASTS. Kingdoms, or powers. Dan. vii. 3, 17. iv. 6-8. v. 8, 9.

    THE MIDNIGHT CRY.MATT. XXV. 6.

    Ye virgin souls, ariseWith all the dead awake ;Unto salvation wise,Oil in your vessels take :Upstarting at the midnight cry,Behold your heavenly bridegroom nigh.ft He comes, he comes, to callThe nations to his bar,And take to glory all

    Who meet for glory are :Make ready for your free reward ;Go forth with joy to meet your Lord-Go, meet him in the sky,Your everlasting Friend ;Your head to glorify,With all his saints ascend :Ye pure in heart, obtain i he graceTo see, without a veil, his face.Ye that have here receivedThe unction from above,And in h is spirit lived,And thirsted for his love-Jesus shall claim you for his bride ;Rejoice with all the sanctified.Rejoice in glorious hopeOf that great day unknown,When you shall be caught upTo stand before his throne ;Called to partake the marriage feast,And lean on our Immanuel's breast.The everlasting doorsShall soon the saints receive,Above those angel powersIn glorious joy to live ;Far from a world of grief and sin,With God eternally shut in.Then let us wait to hearThe trumpet's welcome sound ;To see our Lord appear-May we be watching found,Enrobed in righteousness divine,In which the bride shall ever shine.

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    figure, and if it makes good sense you need lookno further, if not, look again.13. To know whether wo have the true his-torical event for the fulfilment of a prophecy.If you find every word of the prophecy, afterthe figures are understood, is literally fulfilled,then you may know that your history is the trueevent. But if one word lacks a fulfilment, thenyou must look for another event, or wait its fu-ture development. For God takes care thathistory and prophecy cloth agree, so that thetrue believing children of God may never beashamed. Ps. xxii. 5. Isa. xlv. 17, 18, 19. 1Pet. ii. 6. ev. xvii. 17. cts iii. 18.

    14. The most important rule of all is, thatyou must have faith. It must be a faith that re-quires a sacrifice, and, if tried, would give upthe dearest object on earth, the world and all itsdesires, character, living, occupation, friends,home, comforts, and worldly honors. If any ofthese should hinder our believing any part ofGod's word, it would show our faith to be vain.Nor can we ever believe so long as one of thesemotives lies lurking in our hearts. We mustbelieve that God will never forfeit his word.And we can have confidence that he that takesnotice of the sparrow, and numbers the hairs ofour head, will guard thd translation of his ownword, and throw a barrier around it, and pre-vent those who sincerely trust in God, and putimplicit confidence in his word, from erring farfrom the truth, though they may not understandHebrew or Greek.

    These are some of the most important ruleswhich I find the word of God warrants me toadopt and follow, in order for system and regu-larity. And if I am not greatly deceived, in sodoing, I have found the Bible, as a whole, oneof the most simple, plain, and intelligible booksever written, containing proof in itself of itsdivine origin, and full of all knowledge that ourhearts could wish to know or enjoy. I havefound it a treasure which the world cannot pur-chase. It gives a calm peace in believing, anda firm hope in the future. It sustains the mindin adversity, and teaches us to be humble inprosperity. It prepares us to love and do goodto others, and to realize the value of the soul.It makes us bold and valiant for the truth, andnerves the arm to oppose error. It gives us apowerful weapon to break down infidelity, andmakes known the only antidote for sin. It in-structs us how death will be conquered, andhow the bonds of the tomb must be broken. Ittells us of future events, and shows the prepara-tion necessary to meet them. It gives us anopportunity to hold conversation with the Kingof kings, and reveals the best code of lawsever enacted.

    This is but a faint view of its value ; yet howmany perishing souls treat it with neglect, orwhat is equally as bad, treat it as a hidden mys-tery, which cannot be known. Oh, my dearreader, make it your chief study. Try it well,and you will find it to be all I have said. Yes,like the Queen of Sheba, you will say the halfwas not told you.

    The divinity taught in our schools is alwaysfounded on some sectarian creed. It may do totake a blank mind and impress it with this kind,but it will always end in bigotry. A free mindwill never be satisfied with the views of others.Were I a teacher of youth in divin ity, I wouldfirst learn their capacity and mind. If thesewere good, I would make them study the Biblefor themselves, and send them out free to dothe world good. But if they had no mind, Iwould stamp them with another's mind, writebigot on their forehead, and send them out asslaves

    in studying the Bible, I have found the following rules to be of great service to myself,and now give them to the public by special re.quest. Every rule should be well studied, inonnection with the Scripture references, if theBible student would be at all benefited by them.1. Every word must have its proper bearingon the subject presented in the Bible. Matt,v. 18.2. All scripture is necessary, and may beunderstood by a diligent application and study.2 Tim. iii. 15,16, 17,3. Nothing revealed in the scripture can orwill he Ld from those who ask in faith, notwavering. Deut. xix. 29. Matt. x. 26, 27. 1 Cur.ii. x. Phil. iii. 15. Isa. xlv. 11. Matt. xii. 22.John xiv. 13, 14. xv. 7. James i. 5, 6. 1 Johnv. 13, 14, 15.4. To understand doctrine, bring all thescriptures together on the subject you wish toknow; then let every word have its proper in-fluence, and if you can form your theory with-out a contradiction, you cannot be in an error.Isa, xxviii.7-29. xxxv. 8. Prov. xix. 27. Lukexxiv. 27, 44, 45. Rom. xvi. 26. James v. 19. 2Pet. i. 19, 20.5. Scripture must be its own expositor, sinceit is a rule of itself. If I depend on a-teacherto expound it to me, and he should guess at itsmeaning, or desire to have it so on account ofhis sectarian creed, or to be thought wise, thenhis guessing, desire, creed, or wisdom, is my rule,not the Bible. Ps. xix. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. cxix. 97,98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103,104, 105. Matt. xxiii.8, 9, 10. 1 Con ii. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. Eze. xxiv.18, 19. Luke xi. 52. Mal. ii. 7, 8.6. God has revealed things to come, by vis-ions, in figures and parables, and in this waythe same thin gs are oftentime revealed againand again, by different visions, or in differentfigures and parables. If you wish to understandthem, you must combine them all in one. Ps.lxxxix. 19. Hos. xii. 10. Hab. ii. 2. Acts ii. 17.1 Cor. x. 6. Heb. ix. 9, 24. Ps. lxxviii. 2. Matt.xiii. 13, 34. Gen. xli. 1-32. Dan. ii. vii. andviii. Acts x. 9-16.7. Visions are always mentioned as such.2 Cor. xii. 1.8. Figures always have a figurative meaning,and are used much in prophecy to represent fuLure things, times, and events ; such as moun-tains, meaning governments ; beasts, meaningkingdoms. Dan. ii. 35, 44. vii. 8, 17.Waters, meaning people. Rev. xvii. 1, 15.Lamp, meaning Word of God. Ps. cxix. 105.Day, meaning year. Ezek. iv. 6.9. Parables are used as comparisons to illus-trate subjects, and must be explained in thesame way as figures by the subject and Bible.Mark iv. 13. See explanations of the ten vir.gins, Miller's Lectures, No. xvi.

    10. Figures sometimes have two or moredifferent significations, as day is used in afigurative sense to represent three differentperiods of time.I. Indefinite. Eceles.vii. 14.II. Definite, a day for a year. Ezek. iv. 6.III. Day for a thousand years. 2 Pet. iii. 8 .if you put on the right construction, it willharmonize with the Bible and make good sense,otherwise it will not.

    11. How to . know when a word is usedfiguratively. If It makes good sense as it stands,and does no violence to the simple laws of na-ture, then it must be understood literally, if not,figuratively. Rev. xii. 1, 2. xvii. 3-7.

    12. To learn the true meaning of figures,trace your figurative word through your Bible,and where you find it explained, put it on your

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