The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-11-11
the miAerites at Newark-Dr. Brownlee's
sermon against their Doctrine-The MIL
lennlum 10 come In 1896

lennium 20 come In 1896
NEWARK, Thursday, Nov TO-
AS told you IN my last letter of last evening the
sermon preached by DIR. Brownlee in the Dutch
Church here created tremendous excitement. and
as there are thousands here who endeavored 10 OBJ
tain admittance, but could not think il advisable
to send you report of il, the more especially as
there is a great anxiety, know, in New York, TO
hear and see what can be said against MilIer's doc
trnes and views. told you, before, that do not
believe any of his calculations; at the same time
tell you seriously that they are implicitly believed
IN by large number in this neghborhood and that
If they are not conradicted and shown to be false
| upon good authority, they will alarm, and perhaps
fatally alarm: many tlmid and weak-mnded per
sons all over the country Therefore repeat INV Sc.
rieus convection that il is the duty of all heologians
and diyines, and good biblical chronologsts (such
as Dr' .Cox) 10 come out against this doctrine and
snow IL 10 be false, and set the thing rest Other
wise as the year lS43 approaches, there will be
some strange scenes OF fanaticism. | perceive that
tour persons In Massachusetts have already become
insane by this preaching, therefore the importance
OF hearing what such men as DIR. Brownlee and Dr..
Cox nave TO say against 1t. will readily be seen
Here is his sermon, then, without further preface
DR. BRowNLEE,s SERMON AGAINST MILLERIsM.
The Doctor took his text from the 20Ih CHAPTER of
Revelations, and read the first seven verses:- a
And saw an Angel come down from heaven having
me Key OF the bottomless pit and great chain his
hand - ~
.: And he laid hold on the dragon that old serpent,
which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him thousand
And cast him the bottomless pit and shut him
up and set seal upon him. that he should deceive the
nations no more till the thousand should be
and after that he must be loosed aliitle season w
And lsaw thrones, and they sat upon them and udg
that were beheaded for the witness Jesus and for the
word Of God and which had not worshipped the beast
neither his image, neither had received his mark upon
their foreheads or in their hands and they lived and
regned with Christ thousand years sga1 3 GobI
D. But the rest OF the dead lived again until the
thousand years finished This the first resurrec-
ton. q & f...-f
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first re-
surrecton on such second death hath power but
they shall be priests Of God and of Christ and Shall reign
with him thousand years w ~ n 'I'7 ~ 80
And when the thousand wears are expred Satan oh
be iooscd out Of his prison. .trh 80 N -fI7II
He went on This teaches us that Christ will
reign at least one thousand years earth. This is
is very extraordinary age and very important
events are now transpiring in all parts of the world
Most interesting prophecies in the course of
iulhlment. This fixes the attention of the whole
CHRISTIAN community upon the second coming of
Christ, which may be expected shortly. No be.
lever in the Bible can doubt the approach of the
Millennium, the Golden Age of the Earth We
have had our Iron Age with vengeance, and other
ages, but the Golden Age of the Millennium is vet
to come. As when Christ was about to come first.
all looked anxiously tor him; now all look anx-
Iousy tor his second appearance This Millennium
Is specially foretold by Isaiah, BY Daniel and par
tcularly by John in the words ofmy text shall
divide the subject into four great heads. 1st Is the
Millennium pastl One friend and brother has writ
ten book to show that it has: 3D. shall refute the
doctrines OF Father Miller. 3D.. Ishall give an expo.
slhon OF this passage and subject tito fair criticism
And 4th shall show that the reign ofChrst on earth
IS not bodily personal. but spiritual that is he
snail NIL the earth with his glory, while the heavens
retain his person. Here there was great noise
and rush from the cracking of beam, and DR..
Browniee supposlng 1t was some of the Millerites
kicking up row, cried out 6 hope some of our |
honored magistrates will keep order - but some of
lOlOreQ MAGISTRATES "A All of he
beam as anybody Those who say the Millennium |
is past hold to the Latter Day Glory described in |
there will first be the restraining and binding of the
Devil Then the bringing in the scattered REM
nant OF the Jews with the fullness of the Gentes
them the resurrection Of the souls of the early mar
tyrs who did not worship the beast and image, II
will be resurrection OF their souls, not their bodies
and then their spirits will fill the righteous who live
on earth defy any one to show where the re-
surrectop of the soul means the restoration of man
to life The bringing in, of the Jews will probably
commence about lS43, next year. and occupy from
that time till 1871 This will be the great event set
will BE- % al me sSa n thai time Sc IL
the Salnts-ihe fearful invasion of Cog and Magog,
lnfdelity shall flourish and the spirits of Old Pha-
raoh and Judas shall live IN the hearts of many I:
this is the apostacy following the Millennium and
when the Church is almost destroyed-durng this
little season. of the Sd verse then the end tciH
come, Christ will descend witha shout Of the arch
angels and the rumpets-a the dead shall stand be-
fore God-the Judgment shall be set and the books
be opened. This is the literal and last resurrection
This Is the statement OF the Bibles let US not break
throughit. # the Millennium has past when did it
ries. Was it in the daysof Constantine No for
though there was great spread of Christian
ity then, and nominal Christian on the throne.
paganism had not falen In $780, Julian the Apostate
did his utmost TO increase paganism, but God cut |
him off. In Cos the Eastern Anti-Chrst, "Maho-
mechanism, and the Western Anti Christ ssPope
ry' arose-these were the dark ages The Mil
dawning Of the day Of truth. We think hard OF
some OF these Miller brethren, who give us |
Ministers hard names which we don't deserve
from the followers of Father Miller. Nov, |
let look at his doctrines First, he says we are
the very verge of the end of the world This is |
not true. He has fixed the year, the month, and
the days The 2Ah Of AprI, 1913! This is not |
the FIRST second half dozen times that the end
of the world has been propheced. About thirty |
years ago, one man predicted the world would end
on the 4th Of July, and his arguments were Just
sumption He thinks Daniel is propheeying about
the end of the world He is not. He is speaking of
the restoration OF the Jews in lsi3-not saying
ANYTHING about the world Now in alIusion TO |
the time of the 1900 days or years TO the end. SO
much talked about by Father Miller several start |
ing points might be taken. We might take $50 |
B. G. the time Of the decree of Cyrus; or 5lS b c.
the decree of Darius Astaspes, OF 457 B. c. the de- |
cree of Artaxerxes Longimanus, or 434 B. G. ano-
Their decree OF Artaxexes, or AL B. c. or 404 B. c.
Father Miller takes the third date to start FROM
though without single reason whatever; that date
refers TO the cleansing OF the sanctuary-not the
end ofthe world. Read it and Judge for yourselves
[ saw from the reports in the New York Herald, |
which, am told are very correct, Father Miller's |
account of how Christ will come next year, with |
great light, and SO on. It's all delusion! II we
take the first of these dates it will bring us TO 1864,
time of great events. The second brings MS to
1882, the close of revolution and time of i'm
portant events. The third brings us, it Is true, to
l643, which will be time of great events--as from
lS43 to 1877 the Jews will be restored. The next
gives 1866, and the next 1866, which may be the
commencement of the preparation for the millen- |
MUM, when Anti Christ will receive his terrible blow
But the end OF the world will not be at either of
these periods (see Daniel 9th, chap. 9Th and 7th
verses), then read the last This refers to the