The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1857-05-28
CAROLINA SPARTAN.
Fulfllment OF PhrOphecy.


celebrated minister of the Methodist Church,
recently visited Washington City, and was
called upon to officiate in the place of the
Chaplain Of the House, upon which occasion
he delivered discourse on the Fulilment
ofthe Prophecies. We copy from the Ma
tional Inteligencer the following synopsis
Of his sermon, which many ofourreaders will
peruse with interest
"His introduction to the investigation in
dicated with what reverence and discretion
any attempted elucidation of the meaning
of prophecy should be conducted; that The
prophecies touching the nations, down to
the fell of Jerusalem, We're but Il literal his |
tory Of Syria, Edom, Moab, Egypt and |
Judea; but from the destruction of the |
Jewish capital down TO a certain period,
called "the time of the end,"a IL veil was on |
the prophets, and no Interpretation Of the |
sublime visions during that interdicted age
could possibly be- correct; for God had re-
pea,ed the announcement 10 Daniel, the |
prophet, that "the words were closed up, |
and the vision was scaled TO the time of the |
end" That this was not the end Of the |
world was evident, for in the time Of the
end "many should run to and fro and
knowledge be increased" that then "the |
wise should understand, but the wicked |
should not understand" Not only was the
vision itself sealed, but the time or end of
these wonders, and especially the theatre
IT these wonders, or the land Of their real
zatioD, should be unknown ill God was
prepared for their accomplishment. That |
hat g al, & -.
tellectual energy, adventure and 10, 9molinn.
was tho ago IA whiei, great nationality |
would arise; that the United States arose
at the end Of 1890 symbolic days from the
destruction Of Jerusalem; tia; Daniels 20
weeks, being equal to 6o3 yeats and 2li
days OF solar time, according 10 the eclipse,
OF the sun, gave an infal lie rule % deter
mine symbolic time; so that if 20 symbolic
weeks equalied 6O3 years and 2l4 days,
1890 symbolic DAYS reached from the burn.
ing OF tue temple on the 18TH day of The |
year 6s, A. ID. TO the fourth of July, 1916
and that making the starting point at the
occasion of the daily sacrifice, which hap
pened, according 10 astronomy, at sunrise.
three minutes past five, o'clock, A. NJ, on
the day the temple was burnt, the 1890
days run out at a quarter 10 three o'clock,
p. NJ, on the 4tli day of July, l776; and
from the best sources OF information the
Declaration Of independence was proclaimed
at that hour on the glorious fourth. That
the United States was the fifth government.
represented by the stone cut out Of the
mountain without hands The image of
Nebuchadnezzer represented the successive
Kingdoms of Assyria, Medo Persia Macedo
MIA, and Rome; that the iron apl CLAY in
the feet and toes of the image symbolized
the union Of church and state under Con
stantine, June 81, 325, a. D.; that The an
tagonsm of the state TO the image, smiling
1t on The feet, symboized tue genius OF our
great nation in It's opposition to the union |
oil church and state; that while the stone |
Kingdom or government Das mol Christi !
anity, the mountain out Of which the same
was cut aOas Christianity. That the wing. |
ed woman Of the wilderness was AN emblem |
OF christianity, and her man child, to whom |
was given "a rod TO rule" was an emblem |
OF our Government, arising from pure re
liglon; that this man child, being caught |
up to heaven in the Clouds" showed the
proyidental protection Of our infant repub.
bc. Then our nationality, which was to
come, was Israel restored. That God wocId
constitute such a nationality out of people
who would acknowledge his Son, Jesus
Christ and not of the Jews, who from the
beginning have denounced Christ. That
perfect coincidence being perfect fuifillment,
our nation and no other on earth answered
81 the picture. That the nationality 10 arise
WAS 10 be gathered out of the nations That
:hey were to go TO tie westward That
the country they were 10 inhabt was a
land between the eastern and the great
western seas. That the land was cue that
had always been waste" That it was TO
be located in thirteen distinct States. That
these States should be bounded on the east
10y the eastern sea, and Oh the west by the
great western sea. That the people gath.
cred out OF the nations should "build and
dwell safely in unwalled villages and cities,
having neither gates nor bars" 81 land of
broad rivers and streams" republic where
the people should appoint for themselves
one head" and their rulers and governors
should be from among themselves" That
the United States was "the isles that should
wait" for God, and that the ships of Tar
shish or Old Spain should be heie to open
emigration. That our country was 'the
land shadowing with wings" which was be.
you'd the rivers Of Ethiopia, which from
Judea beyond the Nile was the United
States, and no other country. That our
great country was dvinely protected in its
aud answering the predictions
precisely Of the nationality that was to
come, is the nation known 10 God IN q