The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-10-31
From the .Noroieh fCL) Nsira
THE END OF THE WORLD.


a newspaper should make the subject Of his leading
article that which at the time does most occupy and
engross the attention Of the public Acting upon this
suggestion therefore, think have not gone very
wide of the mark IN placing The above SUBJECT IA
caption To our leader.
The wide spread of Mersm aud the docking OF
tens of thousands its standard not matters To
be wondered at in the present day We ATE neither
surprised nor astonished, when we meet men upon
the highway who stop and with paid countenanee
and quaveriDg voice, lie us OF the near destruction
of the Universe no-not at all. Doctrines as ut
terly fallacious as those of VIM. Millers have, IN
their day, acquired converts and supporters from
among the most intelligent classes IN the country
and why should wonder al the success OF Miller
ISM Let any one who will, promulgate the
most absurd doctrine that human deyiltry ever con-
ceived, and in The present feyersh and nervous state
of the public mind he would find believers and sup
porters by thousands. So it is. We people,
are characterized by more unpardonably silly and
foolish traits, than any other nation upon earth.
Well what is Millerism? Does il consist in the
belief Of the prophecies of craek-brained bigot and
raviDg fanatic, which are that the world will be de-
stroyed IN such year. upon such day, and such an
hour3 or in the belief that when the Almighty
fit, he ioiT cause such event to take place? II the
former, then not Millerite but if the latter,
then one, far as the term goes. That day
is TO when the saints alone will rule upon EARTH
hath so been foretod by him who spake never man
spoke but of that day Of that hour, when these
angels of Heaven, but the Father alone"
The following passages from scripture We commend
to the particular and attentive perusa of those who
convinced that Miller is correct in his predictions
about the destruction of the world We quote from
Daniel, 18th chapter, verses
H. And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall
be taken away and the abomination that maketh de
ISOLATE set up, there shall be thousand two hundred
and ninety days.
IL. Blessed is he that waiteh and cometh to the
thousand three hundred and five and thirty days.
This same phrase, &c the abominaton Of desola
tion," is spoken of by Christ (see Matthew "a
l5) and may be APP lied to the Roman emperor
Adrian's building temple to Jupiter Capitolinus in
the same place where the temple of God hal stood !;
and to the sery of the Jews which followed 1t
may with equal justice be applied 10 tie Mohamed-
invading and desolatng Chrstendom and con-
yerting the churches into mosques and this latter
event seemeth to have been particularly intended in
this passage. If this Interpretation be true, the relI
gion OF Mohammed Will prevail in the east twelve
hundred and sixty years and then great and glo-
rous revolution wi follow, perhaps the restoration
of the Jews perhaps the destruction If Antchrst.
But another still greater and more glorious will sue
ceed and hat this be probably the iull con-
version of the Gentes to the Church Of Christi or
the beginning of the millennium, or the reign of the
saints upon earth for blessed is he that waite
and cometh TO the thousand three hundred and thirty
five days" These twelve hundred and ninety days
must be calculated from the same time, @ a time,
times and half (see Dam IL, 81 or three years
and half, or iorty-two months, or twelve hundred
and sixty years and they reach to thirty years be-
yond them. The subversion Of the Kingdom OF the
papal Antichrist and the destruction of the seat of
the beast and CT the Mohammedan delusion, will
probably be at the end Of the twelve hundred and
sixty years thirty years more may be taken up in
wholly extirpating every Antchrstian power; and
the last number of thirteen hundred and thirty five
years, which reaches forty-fve years beyond that
time, may predict the complete introduction OF the
millennium, when the earth shall be filed with the
glory of the Lord as the waters cover the seas
We quote farther, from Mathew Oath chapter,
verses
5. For many shall come in my name, saying am
Christ, and shall deceive many.
6. And We shall hear of wars and rumors of wars
see that yc be not troubled for all these things must
come to pass, but the end is not yet.
s. All these are the beginning of sorrows.
III. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall
deceive many.
%. Then, if any man shall say unto you, Lo here
is Christ, or there, BELIEVE 1T NOT.
"a. For there shall arise false Christs and false
prophets and shall show great signs and wonders, in.
somuch that if it were possible, they shall deceive
the very elect.
90. Immediately after the tribuaton Of those
days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall
not give her light and the stars shall fall from hea
ven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken
80. And then shall appear the sign of the Son of
Man in heaven; and then shall all the tribes Of the
earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of Man ,m-
ing in the clouds of heaven with power and great
glory.
Let the disciples Of Miller carefully examine the
above, and then ask themselves
"Whence this secret dread and inward horror
OF falling into naught' Why shrnks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction;
Reader do not the passages we have quoted above
clearly and convincingy prove the utter fallacy of
Mierism? or are you so bigoed that you will not
believe them To support the doctrines of Miller
his disciples bring up the 'sgns of the times" and
the unsettled state Of the nations of the EARTH &C.
And what can the "signs" be- The language of the
two last verses which have quoted from Matthew
is well suited to lead the mind of the reader to the
consideration of the end Of the world and the coming
of Christ to judgment yet the clause, "immediatey
after the ribuaion of those days. restricts the pr-
mary sense of term, to the destruction of Jerusalem
and the events which were consequent to it, The
darkening of the and moon, and the falling of the
stars and the shaking of the powers of the heavens
denote the utter extinction Of the light of prosperity
to the Jewish nation--the Infringing of their whole
Constitution in Church and State-the violent subvef-
sion of the authority If their princes and priests
the abject miseries to which the people, in general
especially their chief persons, would be reduced and
the moral and religious darkness TO which they would
be consigned. This would be an evident '.signn and
demonstration of the Son of Mans exaltation to his
throne in heaven whence he would come in his Di-
vine Providence, riding upon "the clouds of hca-
ven, with power and great glory" to destroy "his
enemies, who would not have him to reign over them
at which event, call the tribes Of the land" would
mourn and lament, whilst they the tokens and
felt the weight of his terrible indignation But the
Mllerilcs apparently do not choose to consider the
signs of the tmesn thus, The darkening of the sun
and moon the annual eclipse of each, and the great
fall of stars, few winters since, they proclaim to be
the failing of stars" spoken of IN scripture Well
so much for the "signs." Next is the "unsettlcd
state of the nations of the earth and the great wick
edness that prevails sc. II these are TO be taken