Litchfield enquirer., 1880-03-04
MILLERISM.
BY THOMAS L. SALToNSTALL.

for the last two thousand years given them a chart to lead through this vale of trial, to the
 Marriage Supper of the Lamb. We can all of us, Tn our daily avocations, tell about what time of day it is, but if we want to know the exact time, we depend on our our timepieces.
 The prophecy of Daniel and the Revelation Of John, taken together, are the timepiece of the Church. Daniel carries the hour pointer, John the other one.
 The writer has been Millerite from 1S42 to 1880. Millerism taught that the TIME of the return of the Redeemer to this world was re- vealed in the prophecy, and that it would be understood before the event should occur.
 which was true then, and is true now, our mis- takes to contrary notwithstanding.
 l In the seventh chapter of Daniel we have four kingdoms brought to view, to wit, Bab- ylon, Medo-Persian, Grecian, and Roman. and the Roman kingdom divided into ten kingdoms, and three of these kingdoms are consolidated into one, and in the eighth aud twenty fifth verses, this horn is to wear out the Saints of Most High, further acts of thls horn are left for John, in the, Revelation, to bring to view. F" e+ H- --.s#
 In the eighth chapter. we have three king doms that were to succeed Babylon, and in the nineteenth verse, we have little Millerism. In the twentieth verse, we are told that the ram with two horns is Medo-Persia, and the rough goat is the king of Grecia, and the great horn between his eyes is the first king. 1.' He says Alexanders kingdom shall be de- vided into four parts, and then gives us some of the acts of the Roman kingdom. One was that he should stand up against the Prince of Princes, that was fulfilled in the days of Pon- tius Pilate, when the Jewish Church said, we have no king but Cesar.
 Inthe XII chapter, the prophet starts with | Persia and carries us rapidly through Grecia to the division of the kingdom into four parts, as all historians and commentators agree took place; and, as far as the writer knows, they all say that the king of the north's possessions are what is now called Turkey, and the king of south had Egypt for his part of the division, and that the king of the north is no other than the ruler of the territory at the time of the division, the same as to the king of the south. If we had had prophecy a hundred years ago that such difficulty as they have had in Maine would take place in Massachusetts, it would be true prediction. .f ..sr In the XII chapter of Daniel, we start with | Persia and go on in consecutive order to the ] XII chapter, that brings the resurrection Of the dead, and there is not. word in the XI chapter that applies to church or eccliasti-. | cal body of any kind, it is all to body politic The prophecy to the church was left for John on the Isle of Patmos, as the first verse says | 1t was for the servants of the Lord Jesus Christ, and his servants are his real disciples, | and they will read, mark, learn and inwardly digest the third verse that they may receive that, that is promised in the first verse; There | is in the last clause of the third verse sup. ! piled word that destroys the meaning, for whoever reads this prophecy is to be blessed, | whether he lives in the first, tenth, or nine- teenth century, for the prophetic events are to reach to the Marriage Supper, and are to be understood all the way on our path to the l event, for Jesus Christ our Redeemer is the same yesterday, today and forever.
 The XII chapter of Daniel, 15 and 16 verses, carries us to the subjugation of the Jewish nation to the Roman yoke. When we come to the twentieth verse we have the taxing by Caesar Agustus when the Roman emplre was taxed at the birth of Christ the thirty-frst verse, we have the abomination of desolstion that Titus and his army brought upon the Jews that both Matthew and Mark say that Christ told them would come, and history says they gave heed to the warning. He next sees, in the thirty third verse, Rome as he saw it in it's divided form, in the VII chapter, "A and 25 verses, and the tune it should continue, to wit, time times and the dividing of time. In the XI chapter, &. verse, he says, that it shall continue many days. In Revelations VI chapter, and verse, we have this same power located under the fourth seal. In Revelations the XIII chapter, first ten verses, John brings it to view again, and the time it shall continue, to wit, forty. two months. Daniel says in thirty fifth verse, that it shall continue to the time of the end. and gives us this fact, that the time of the end is yet to be appointed. that we Millerites ex- pect to understand, if we are the wise describ- ed in the last chapter of Daniel, tenth verse. It appears to be admittedly Protestants and Roman Catholics that the power to punish people for heresy has ended, for, we have seen that the power was to come to an end, at the time Of the end, when many should run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased, and when we look back fifty years we must admit that Daniel, XII chapter, 4th verse, resembles the present time sH5 ls-lta +'i - 9hi We now come back to Daniel XI chapter, | 36-S9 verses, to consider some of this prophe. cy that relates.tos events that have occurred within hundred years, some within thirty years. rk-5 e.fs.sfsg .ess,1ss
 In kingly government the king is supposed to do everything that is done, we in our declaration of independence charge the King of Great Britain thus: .i#i Y 'He has abdEated government here, by de- claring us out of his protection, and waging l war against us. lf .- l .'He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people," ,,- 1T I We suppose that 36-39 verses of Daniel I chapter XI was fulfilled in France at the close 1 of the last century, and that Revelations, xI chapter. sT14 verses, are so, interwoven that they cannot heunderstood separated, but when they are brought together are very plain. It | is generally understood that Paul quotes from
 Daniel in the Thessalonians, Il chapter, 4
 verse, which is no doubt correct for they seem to be alike in every respect
 M. A. Thiers, late President of the French
 Republic, in his History of the French Revo- lution, pub blished in Philadelphia in 1850, says that in May 5, 1789. France had convened at
 Versailles the ''States General" body com