never again cease to be announced till the Lord comes. You believe in a millennium, or the triumph of Christianity for a thousand years by normal schoolmasters and college-bred ministers; pray, on what Holy Scriptures do you rely for proof of this? or do you gather your authority from the history of the church? and if so, does it appear that Christianity, the self denying Christianity of the apostles, flourishes most when civilization is highest, and literature wears her palmiest crown? Did the ages succeeding Origen and the Alexandrian school, excel in holiness the age of the apostles and primitive martyrs and professors? They are enthusiasts, literary and religious enthusiasts; Nathan, who do not see that the church partakes of the inadhesive qualities of the lower empire, and that the fierce democracy which is sapping and mining the kingdoms is at work in the church also, and breaking her to pieces. Why, sir, if her Lord and master did not speedily make his appearance, the Catholicism, and literature, and refinement, and infidelity, and atheism, which are abroad, would annihilate her, even as they have already left her "like a cottage in a garden of cucumbers." Your hope of a millennium is the hope of despair.

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Nathan.-Well, we will labour by the faith of the gospel to bring sinners to God, and to convert the world. is your plan?

Editor.-But, Nathan, you can labour with the church or with the world, only with one half our success who employ both the faith and hope of the gospel in the work of the Lord. You ask me my plan. In answer, I reply, I have no plan that can be called mine. God's plan is all I aim at. I have no fellowship, and will have none with any five or six feet of humanity in either originating or perfecting his day dreams. The substantial and abiding work to which I apply my humble abilities are, the proclamation of the gospel, the conversion of men, the settling of churches on the foundation of the everlasting gospel, the organization of disciples, not sects; the cultivation of saintly gifts in the body of Christ, and the perfecting of the saints. Your dream of a millennium, and a learned state, and a literary ministry, we see in Scotland and England,-among the Episcopalians, and Presbyterians, and Methodists of our own country, and elsewhere.

Nathan. I shall see you again.

Editor.-One word my dear Nathan, before you say good

by. Has it never occurred to you, that your very humble servant, may probably be as well acquainted with both the faith and hope of the gospel, as you yourself are, or any other who may be dreaming about a millennium, in which normal teachers, literary cliques, and scientific juntos shall predominate? The world has seen your game played over and over a thousand times, my dear Nathan. You postpone with Dr. Whitby, the coming of Christ a thousand years! Will you, after reflection, or when I shall next have the pleasure of your company and the profit of your counsel, inform me when your one thousand years begin and end. Your millennium without Christ is not the hope of the gospel. It is not even the millennium of the scripture. It is the millennium of the learned doctor's whom I have already named, and is wholly without foundation in the book of God. I preach the hope of the gospel, the true hope, "that the Lord Jesus will come from heaven a second time," and that we are almost two thousand years nearer to the event than were Paul and the primitive Christians. Thus, not only faith, repentance, baptism, remission of sins, and the Holy Spirit, but the resurrection or second advent is made to be fruitful in bringing men to God. For which indeed, we shall all under Christ, be indebted to Mr. Miller, even if the Lord should not come in 1843, as he teaches. Farewell!

SECOND ADVENT CAMP MEETING AT

CARTHAGE.

A PREACHER of the second advent, Mr. Luther Caldwell, who has heretofore been a Methodist, came on a few weeks ago, from the East at Cincinnati. He was soon followed by Messrs. Pratt, Bronson, Flavel, and Chittenden-all of them known to each other as fellow-labourers in the great cause of the speedy coming of the Son of man. The Sycamorestreet Meeting House, belonging to our brethren, was given to Mr. Caldwell under certain restrictions; and he held forth there in a succession of lectures on the kingdom and coming of Christ. Mr. Chittenden also spoke in the same Meeting House to a very large audience. Mr. Caldwell and he, are both persons of excellent abilities and of great zeal and piety. The other brethren held forth in other parts of the city.

We afterwards induced them to hold a camp meeting at

way,

Carthage, where they submitted in a series of lectures the views of Mr. Miller with great eloquence, zeal, and effect. Brethren Bronson and Flavel are both excellent in their and are distinguished for zeal and piety. The true hope of the gospel, was handled by these brethren in a most masterly manner, and the impression was indelible. Never was there a happier effect produced at Carthage. The population and brethren heard them patiently and gladly.

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Their conduct and speech were pure, holy and honourable: and after having discoursed to us of the hope, they very readily lent an ear to the faith, as announced on the day of Pentecost, and believing it, they were baptized with numerous converts, into the name of the Lord Jesus. Praised be his Holy name. Thus have these faithful ministers given to us many useful lessons on the hope; and thus have they received in turn a very profitable light on the faith of the gospel. The things both of Christ's first and second coming are now all before them; so that if any extraordinary excitement is at any time occasioned by their development of the one, they can now very promptly moderate it by applying to it the other. If any cry out like the Jews on Pentecost or the jailor of Philippi, "What shall we do to be saved," they have only to say what Peter said in answer to the same question, Repent and be baptized every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit," &c. Acts ii. One of the most striking features in the labours and reasonings of these brethren was the great use they made of the Holy Scriptures. They read, and they read with great effect too, more scriptures in one day than most popular preachers read in a year. They also had a Bible class in which one presided while all the others gave their judgment of the passage. This was the xii. chap. of Daniel. They also held a meeting in which each person was allowed to say, "what God had done for his soul." This was of the most touching nature; and took a very sensible effect on all who witnessed it. The hymns they sung were grave, and either Watts' or Wesley's; but they have in their book some of too light a nature for the gravity of their mission. They did not sing such in Carthage. They ought to expurgate their Hymn Book of everything trivial and light.

The reports circulated by political editors of those who are employed on this grand topic, are impious falsehoods. And to this these editors are encouraged by our religious.

editors, who feel it to be their interest to cater to the earthborn appetites of their readers, many of whom have no desire whatever to see the Son of God. But, reader, mark what follows, viz:—that

1st. Symbolic prophecy, as the image of Daniel, assures us infallibly that the time for setting up God's everlasting kingdom is at hand.

2nd. Prophetic chronology, or the prophetic periods of Daniel and St. John, concur with symbolic prophecy in this, and all seem to terminate about the present period.

3rd. The signs of the times-political, scientific, natural, moral, and religious, would also seem to concur with both the chronology and predictions of the prophets.

The true hope and the true faith, are now practically in operation among us, the people. And it is among the things for which God is especially to be praised, that the circumstances of their re-appearance are of such a nature as to enable us to predict that, until Christ comes, no puny effort of the arm of flesh will ever again be able to cast either one or both of them into oblivion. The faith as announced on Pentecost, has been in operation for fifteen years and more; and the Most High has not, I believe, been mistaken in the men by whom he has awakened public attention to the hope of the gospel. Joshua Himes, editor of the Signs of the Times, in Boston, and of the Midnight Cry, New York, is no ordinary personage in practical matters. In the press he is a Napoleon. We think that what we say is nothing more than is due to those brethren for their encouragement. We admire their zeal, we admire the great use they make of God's word; we respect the excellent effect of their teaching and preaching, and trust they will never let the hope sleep until Christ does come, for if he comes not as they expect in 1843, it is probable he will come soon after, and it is certain that he will come sometime. W. SCOTT.

PERFECTION.-No. XXV.

THE sun shining upon a dark wall makes it look bright; so Christ, the Sun of Righteousness, shining upon us, purifies our faults. The light of his brilliant character not only exalts our virtues but supplies our defects by real graces. The highest benevolence in any one, is for him to shine, by his superior virtues, upon the defectiveness of others, till they are wholly reformed. This is heaping coals of fire upon an

enemy's head, and melting him down into the very same image of the divine benevolence.

Low-browed night strikes into invisibility even the real beauties of the day; so coarse and vulgar treatment too frequently causes the real virtues of the very best men to disappear and become invisible. Nothing has so happy an influence in aiding us to form our own character as the study of Christ's character. It was meek and gentle indeed, but most firm and decided. The non-resistance of the lamb and the firmness of the lion meet there. The innumerable insults of his innumerable enemies only demonstrated how calmly Omnipotence could rest, when its dwelling was in the same bosom with immaculate innocence. Christ is the most beautiful of all characters, and is, doubtless, the beloved of the Father on this account equally as on account of his divine nature; for nature and character are different. Nature is character enveloped; character is nature developed. Nature is the acorn; character the oak. Christ is God manifest in the flesh; the divine nature in development. He rides prosperously through the earth, by his truth, and meekness, and righteousness. We ought to be true, and meek, and righteous; to hate nothing but what is dishonest, fear nothing but what is ignoble, and love nothing but what is just and honourable. W. SCOTT.

THE COMING OF THE LORD.-No. X.

As the times demand a more attentive consideration of the promises and prophecies concerning "the second advent," as it is now technically designated; and as we have, under the title of the Millennial Harbinger, been making our monthly visits for almost twice seven years, it seems to be incumbent on us at this crisis, when the public mind is being greatly excited by this subject, and especially as some of our scribes are labouring, not only to convince us that the day of the Lord's coming, in person, is just at hand, but that it is expedient to connect this view of the subject with the preaching of the gospel and the doctrine of reformation-I say, in the midst of such circumstances, it will be expected that we pay an increasing attention to this subject.

Although we did not expect that our title of Millennial Harbinger, was to be so literally and exactly coincident with the fact of an immediate millennium, as some of our brethren, and all the Millerite school, would have us to think; still I