Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-02-14

The article below was designed by the writer
to be a substitute for the Que which appeared
last week. and was accompanied with request
that The other might be withheld, and this take
il, place. But il came TOO late. The other was
already printed. The parts Of this, however,
which answer to the other, are so blended with
the other parts. that Il was difficult making the
separation--so the whole b given. 49, C. ta-. -
For the VeyniOut Telegraph.
SECOND COMING OF ciEntsT.
o.. Low HAMPTON, N. Y. Jan. 1888.
Dear Brother Angler: Your letter of Dec.
10, 1897, published in. the Vermont, Tele-s
graph, VOL x, No. IL, how take the liber-
ty TO answer, through the same medium. l
had hoped that you would not only present
your objections, but would have given me
. light and instruction on those passages,
which you think, and perhaps with good
reason, am Ignorant Of; bur as you de-
cline the task Of instructing one so ignor-
ant as myself, l hope tothis disappointment
may submit with g God grace, believing
that you have good and sufficient reason
for so doing.
Your first objections are against my ex-
PLANTATION Of the seventy weeks. Let US
then re-examine the subject. You admit
that seventy weeks is a given time in this
prophecy. ForY say, you have no doubt
that the seventy weeks began with Cyrus
decree and ended with the destruction Of
Jerusalem, If so, then. seventy weeks are
about COG years. Or one year, two months,
three weeks, two days, twelve hours, and
about forty 1.-two minutes, our time, to one
day.in proRhecy--or one week in prophecy,
would be eight years, seven months three
weeks, three days, nineteen. hours, and
twelve minutes, in common time. As We
have no scripture rule for reckoning time
thus, charity (not my theory for the word
of God would induce. me to believe that,
some how, you must have, made wrong
calculation. And although you are very
confident that you are right, yet it may be
possible we may find the error on your
side, and the Bible harmonic.
In my examination Of, Cyrus decree,
find two prominent objects, presented, re-
storing the captivity and building the
Temple. The first object which the Angel
has applied in beginninghis seventy weeks,
surely might apply here, viz: "torestore.'
But the other two, so build Jerusalem,
and "the street shall be built again, anG
the wall, (shall be buiID even in troublou'
times" can never be applied in truth, Il
Cyrus decree, nor to Darius decree, which
Iagree was but renewal Of the decree BY
Cyrus. For il is evident that the streets
nor the wall, nor the city mere built unde
either Of those DEGREES. Take notice, TIT
angel says, they shall be bull, p under tn,
decree which begins, our seventy weeks
Now CAN'T be possible my brother, that s.
prominent an object as building the TEN
pie, or the house Of God at Jerusalem, woul
have been left out Of the angels description
If be hpd designed the decree by Cyrus.
Think not. Again. il Gabriel had mean
that decree, why did he not tell Daniel whel
he came to him two years after that decree
in the third year Of Cyrus, 1.-THE decree be
ing in the FIRST year Of Cyrus that the de
cree was already past7 Why direct ,hir
10 the Gfth king Of Persia, or the fourt
from Cyrus, noted in the scripture I
truth, to begin his ram pushing agaiui
Grecia7 Surely, my dear brother, ! al
wretchedly deceived il il is not as plain ;
can be made, that Artaxerxes LOngimahu
the fifth king of Persia, was the king wi
would issue this decree. And now let
examine the decree 10 Ezra. You say, n
brother, that you "cannOt find one wo
about restoring, &c. am very sorry v
did not read Ezra, vii, l3: 81 make deer,
that all they Of he people Of Israel, and
his priests and Levites, in my realm, viii
are minded Of their own free viii to go
20 Jerusalem, go with thee" If this decr
does not command restoration Of
, Babylo6ish captivity, then in vain may
look for one under Cyrus; for almost
same words are used in one case, as
other. Under that decree the city |
walls were NOT boilf See Ezra iv,
*GiSe ys now commandment tocause III