Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-01-31

needs no comment to show that not only
Peter, but his brethren generally were
looking" for this great event, and knew
not but it would be in their day. And why
should they not be "lookingp Our Savior
had given them to understand that he should
come as thief: see Luke xii, 80, &c. Does
the thief give information of the time OF
his approach? Perhaps you say, Paul has
explained himself in 2 Thess. ii, 3D.
Now we beseech you, brethren, by the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by
our gathering together unto him, that We
be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled,
neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter.
as from US, as that the day of Christ is at
hand. Let no man deceive you by any
means: for that day shall not come, except
there come falling away first, and that
man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition."
But does he here say that it shall not be in
his day? If so, what may we understand
by the first verse: our gathering together
unto him" He says, it shall not come,
ercept there come a falling aUay first
This he kne1o. But did he know there
would be no falling away while he lived ?
Nay verify, for it had already commenced.
"The mystery of iniquity doth already
work." verse 7. He only informs them in
these verses, that the signs did not indicate
an immediate approach of Christ.
We are informed by Christ himself that
no man knows the time "But of that day
and that hour kroweth no man, no not the
angels of heaven but my Father only: :"
Math. xiv, &c. That he here refers to his
second coming, or the "end of the world"
is evident, and as you have admitted this,
shall not spend time with proof The only
way in which you evade the conclusion
arising from this text, is, by saying that
Christ means a literal day and hour
Hence, say you, ~ do not pretend to tell
the day nor the hour, but only the year."
| must confess this has always looked to me
like rifing with divine things. But let me
examine the subject, and see what Christ
means by day and hour. Christ told his
disciples, verse 81, that it would be at his
coming as al the food: For as in the days
that were before the food, they were eating
and drinking, marrying and giving in mar
rage, until the day that Noe entered into
the ark, and knew not, until the food came
and took them all away; so shall also the
coming of the Son Of man be.-Math. xiv
year when the food would come? If not
{" so shall also the coming Of the Son Of
man be-" That our Savior here uses "dal
and hour" Gas the Bible generally does,
indefinitely, is evident from the fact tina
: he exhorts them TO be ready for this very
event: Therefore be we also ready: for il
such an hour as We think not, the Son O
man cometh. "-Verse "A. Were this para
phrased to suit your explanation, it woul
read thus. In 1913 years after my birth
in such day Of the gear and hour Of h
= day as we think not, shall come, therefor
be We also ready" But what particu1a
concern Of theirs was il, whether he cam
!, the first, second or third day of that year
- or at midnight. or cockcrowing, or in tn
- morning of the day? Certainly their pre-
stationary season, or time to get "ready,
II would cease more than 1900 years befor
e if they were ready for death, why not read
e for his coming at any year, day or hour
,r Again, Math. XIV, 10: "Watch therefor
Il for we know neither the day nor the HOT
,e wherein the Son of man cometh." Did /
t. address them as dead men, or living2 D
ID he mean to say, "when 1843 shall con
ID you must begin to watch, for cannot te
is what day of that gear, or hour Of the da
It, shall come ?" No brother Miller, yC
re cannot, on re-examination, think he meal
U. dav and hour only" But Mark, in cha
IL xiii, verses 80, 33, think settles the que
ton: "But of that day and that hour know
- eth no man, no, not the angels which are
heaven, neither the Son, but the Fathe
-. Take We heed, watch and pray for ye kno
u not when the time is" "When the tin
i'd is"-i e., whether in your day, or at son
as future time. Be ready, therefore ole
be coming suddenly he find you sleeping
it, verse Sc. "And what l say unto you,
he say unto all, watch" verse 81. VI
lie, brother Miller. this reaches to US, (becau
i'll he has notyet Gomez We should be read
CHI and my readers should see to it that tn
lat are all ready,-"tor zoe kmoa0 not aohen t
er- time isl
KS Unjust here stop moment and exhort
ng my readers, not to wait till 1s43, before y
7o' look" for the coming of Christ. '
in onoh, .l,u.u .oho ulooLinrn for hin,