Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1843-01-11
NII,LERISM.

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Quite numerous audience assembled
at the Lyceum in Brooklyn TO hear the
Rev. A. c.. Thomas deliver Lecture re.
futing the doctrine of Miller, that the world
is 10 be DESTROYED insl843. He commenc-
ed his address with few general remarks
! in which ne stated that without airy desire
to imprach The testimony of Mr.. Miller as
to the knowledge Of the time OF the end OF
the world, he would mention the passage
J in the New Testament in which our Saw
Jour had said that he himself knewnot the
time, "neiiherthe angels in heaven but Inc
Father This declaration alone. ne con.
tended, was sufficient, for all The practlcal
/ purposes Of Divine Providence in causing
/ the Scriptures to be written bntas great
curiosity and excitement had been created
4 by the broaching Of this subject, and the
date of its accomplishment fixed so near,
he would from the same sources from
which its data were obtained, completely
prove them 10 be misconslrued.
The foundation of Miller's theory was
upon the prophecies of Daniel and the Apo
calypso. The precise year OF l843 was
obtained in several ways, by the different
lengths of time he allowed for the accom-
| plishment of the prophecies, and by the
manner in which he computed the time
meant by the $500 days in Daniel and the
70 years That Miller's theory was erro-
ueous he proved by quoting some other
prophecies in which the term Of days and
years were used, and the length oftime taxi
en- proves completely that days and years
were used in prophecy as in common lam
guage with US now.
/ AS instances he quoted first the destruc-
Ilion OF Nine Yah predicted by Jonah, and
that it was destroyed at the time predicted,
no one could doubt. he said. So in the
case of Joshua in his promise tothe Israel
ties tha: he would take them across the Red
sea in three days. no one could doubt but
that it was completed in three days, instead
of years. He also qnoied the passage in
Genesis where God promised Noah that al
the end OF seven days it should rain forty
a davs and forty nights, which was fully
completed; and to show ia more striking
light the absurdity Of calling day year
as done by Miller, he would apply the rule
to some of the passages quoted by Miller
las for instance, Northumberland was tC
pass seven times seven wears among the
| beasts ofthe field. Miller's rule ola veal
> for day would leave ACKNOWLEDGMENT a
grass at the present time and $50 years II
r remain. And apply it to the 70 years cap
: iivity Of the Jews at Babylon, they have a
T present more time to fulfil than has We
J. elapsed. The other errors in Miller's cal
: cuIaion are of the same sort-N. Y. E1
: press.
! Woodaoortb, the Poet and the Printe,
. The New York correspondent of the Ma
= tional lnteIligencer, in abiding to tn
) decease of this popular poet, says:
; Woodwork was one of the numerou
: family of Franklin, for be was printer
and his genius expanded over the compos
i TORS case; and this is the early histor,
!, CT two. thirds of the eminent men in thi
. country; editors, politicians, authors an
y poets. 1t would be curious to inquire
. indeed, how far the deslinies of this grea
) republic are now influenced and wielde
> by master-spirits, who have been sprint
; er's devils" in their time. Woodwork
: followed his trade till he was considerable
!, advanced and though he suffered muc
;. from poverty, he has gone to his gray
q without blot on his name, an exemplar
o man ia all the relations of lite. Requiescd
), III pCee.'
1t Watches made by MGehineyy.-Th
J. London correspondent Of the n Y Joul
IS of Commerce says that some gentlema
e has been devoting twenty years of h
J. life, whereby. he is now enabled. by
variety of machines, to construct an il
5, credible number of watches, of every vi
= riety of sizes, IN a day.! By one ma
: chine 500 perfect plates can be produce
" in one day : and by five machines, ais
r centre, third and fourth wheels crossed
i polished and cul, with balances for tire
il hundred movements. BY another, SO
i pinions are cut and rounded - anotht
tie drills the holes, the tapping. screw-hole
ne &C., planning the depths and escapement
d. Four other machines will make piyots fl
so movements day. Twenty other IN;
= chimes for every description of work col
p- nected with matchmaking, make up Ii
D. set. Tie best chronomeler makers
London have declared that every part DIT
duced by them is far superior to anylhin
1g that has been, or can be, produced by an
~ other means at the present dsy.-Post
he : -----
he Curious.-A mouse and scorpion beir
put together (at Montpelier) in glass ia
lis the scorpion stung il. and till then i
he mouse endeavored TO retire !; bat afte
l.. wards began TO tfemble in horror, an
:. when apparently in the agonies of deaf
r. seized the scorpion and eat it up, BY ,whie
an means it was cured. This experime
er was many times repeated before the Roy
II. i Academy of Sciences.
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