thee, and that light, and understanding, and excellent wisdom, is found in thee." And so will it be when mystical Babylon shall be destroyed by the brightness of Christ's coming. 1 Thess. v. 4. "But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief." 2 Thess. ii. 8: "And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming."

You need not be alarmed for your rules, Br. Stuart. I am only reasoning from analogy; and surely you will not deny me the same privilege you have so abundantly improved upon yourself. And now, my dear Br. Stuart, let me give you some two or three good pieces of advice, as part payment for those you have given me, and I will pay you the remainder anon.

1. Say not, God cannot symbolize time, when he reveals all other parts by symbols.

2. Never write a book against any man, until you have read him, and thoroughly understand him. 3. Say not in your heart Christ will not come in 1843, lest he come and find you sleeping.

4. Take 490 from 2300, and add the life of Christ, 33, and you will find the true sanctuary cleansed, of which the temple at Jerusalem was only a shadow.

5. Take away the veil of Judaism from before your face, and you will look for the better promise; as did Abraham.

W. M.

LETTER II.

DEAR BROTHER HIMES:-I am aware, if the professor was the only person I expected to benefit by my remarks, I should not trouble myself to write nor others to read what I have to present. If it was only to gain the mastery over Professor Stuart, I am not so visionary as to suppose, that, in the eyes of the world, I could have the most distant prospect of succeeding. It is a well known fact that the fashionable world do give to the men of letters what the ancients did to the priests of their idol godsan implicit confidence in all they utter. The world, therefore, will laugh at my foolish daring, and my friends, if I have any, will stand aghast at my temerity in attacking this bearded lion in his den.

I have nothing, therefore, to expect from the world; and, if I fall, to hope for from my friends. One thing I ask, and that I shall expect to have, the prayers of all, that truth may triumph in the earth, and error be exposed, however plausible it may appear. I will not have it said in the great day, that truth had no

advocates in this day of tribulation, for fear of men. Therefore, my whole strength and dependence being put in God, I will try, by his assistance, to undo the awful effects of the doctrine of peace and safety by this learned author.

And first, HIS VIEWS OF THE LITTLE HORN in Daniel vii. 25: "And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand, until a time and times and the dividing of time." Page 83: "The first passage in Daniel vii. 25, is so clear as to leave no room for a reasonable doubt. In verse 24 the rise of Antiochus Epiphanes is described; for the fourth beast in Daniel vii. 7, 8, 11, 19 to 26, as all must concede, is the divided Grecian dominion which succeeded the reign of Alexander the Great. From this dynasty springs Antiochus, verse 24, who is most graphically described, in verse 25, as one who shall speak great words against the Most High, and wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand, until a time and times and the dividing of time."

In this vision of Daniel's we have brought into view, by the representation of four great beasts, four great kingdoms. Daniel vii. 3: "And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse from one another." Now read Daniel vii. 17: "These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth :" and verse 23: "Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which

shall be diverse from all kingdoms and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces." Can it be possible that this learned man can call this fourth beast Antiochus ? How can the Syrian kingdom be called "diverse from all kingdoms?" It arose in the same manner as the other three, out of Alexander's kingdom. Antiochus never added either of the other three kingdoms to his; although he calculated to unite Egypt with his own; yet the Romans prevented it. [Rol., Book 18, chap. 2, sec. 2.] And shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and shall break it in pieces."

Thus far, it is very certain we cannot apply this prophecy to Antiochus; and the professor knows that not one jot or tittle of God's word will fail, and therefore he passed over this in perfect silence. Where was his 'Bible exegesis' then? It is very certain that Antiochus never came up among ten kings, neither did he have ten horns. If he, as the professor says, is the little horn of the fourth kingdom, then he must have come up among ten, and taken away three; this fact his exegesis treats in silence, and I say cannot be applied to Antiochus.

Again: Daniel says, verses 9, 10: "I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the

judgment was set, and the books were opened;" and this too in the lifetime of the little horn; for verse 11-"I beheld then, because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake; I beheld, even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame "declares his death. 66 'I beheld even till this beast was slain:" this was not true according to the professor's own statement; for he says this beast died with the cholera, as the professor supposes. His body destroyed." Herein, too, Daniel was mistaken, for Rollin says his body was carried to Antioch, his capital. " And given to the burning flame." It is all different from the history. How mistaken Daniel must have been!

But this is not all. What else did Daniel see take place? Verse 13: "I saw in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him." Can this be true? Did this all happen, and no history extant to give us an account-not even a tradition? Cannot our author contrive something to get us out of this difficulty? What do you say to a "Sybilline oracle," as in the case of Nero, and so have Antiochus rise up and defile the temple, when Matt. xxvi. 64-"Jesus saith unto him, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven"-shall come to pass? Again: Dan. vii. 14: "And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which