The New York Herald
[Unsigned]
10 November 1842
The Great Miller Camp Meeting at Newark—Miller's Sermons on the
Histories of the Great Kingdoms of the Earth
NEWARK, Wednesday, Nov. 9th.
The great tent was raised this morning, but as the seats were rather
wet, Mr. Miller preached again in the church in town. He took up, this
morning, the first portion of the 11th chapter of Daniel; and as he has
already converted three ministers in this place, and secured a footing in
one of the churches, I think it highly advisable that the learned
theologians of New York should be made fully acquainted with his movements
and his statements, in order that they may prepare themselves as the
ministers of this place and Dr. Brownlee are doing, to controvert him.
Therefore I spread before them the following verses which formed Mr.
Miller's text to-day, and I sincerely hope that next Sunday they will all
preach upon it. Bear in mind, that I am no believer in or convert to his
doctrines, but he has produced a tremendous impression among the people of
this city and the country round about. Therefore it behooves ministers of
all denominations to be up and doing, that they may be able to answer the
query, "Watchman, what of the night?" Here is his text:—
"Also I in the first year of Darius the Mede, even I, stood to
confirm and to strengthen him. And now will I shew thee the truth. Behold,
there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be
far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall
stir up all against the realm of Grecia. And a mighty king shall stand up,
that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will. And
when he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided
toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according
to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even
for others beside those. And the king of the south shall be strong, and
one of his princes; and he shall be strong above him, and have dominion;
his dominion shall be a great dominion. And in the end of years they shall
join themselves together; for the king's daughter of the south shall come
to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain
the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall
be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that
strengthened her in these times. But out of a branch of her roots shall
one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter
into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them,
and shall prevail: And shall also carry captives into Egypt their gods,
with their princes, and with their precious vessels of silver and of gold;
and he shall continue more years than the king of the north. So the king
of the south shall come into his kingdom, and shall return into his own
land. But his sons shall be stirred up, and shall assemble a multitude of
great forces: and one shall certainly come, and overflow, and pass
through: then shall he return, and be stirred up, even to his fortress.
And the king of the south shall be moved with choler, and shall come forth
and fight with him, even with the king of the north: and he shall set
forth a great multitude; but the multitude shall be given into his hand.
And when he hath taken away the multitude, his heart shall be lifted up;
and he shall cast down many ten thousands: but he shall not be
strengthened by it. For the king of the north shall return, and shall set
forth a multitude greater than the former, and shall certainly come after
certain years with a great army and with much riches. And in those times
there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the robbers
of thy people shall exalt themselves to establish the vision; but they
shall fall. So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and
take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not
withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength
to withstand. But he that cometh against him shall do according to his own
will, and none shall stand before him: and he shall stand in the glorious
land, which by his hand shall be consumed. He shall also set his face to
enter with the strength of his whole kingdom, and upright ones with him;
thus shall he do: and he shall give him the daughter of women, corrupting
her: but she shall not stand on his side, neither be for him. After this
shall he turn his face unto the isles, and shall take many: but a prince
for his own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease;
without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him. Then he shall
turn his face toward the fort of his own land: but he shall stumble and
fall, and not be found. Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of
taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be
destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle. And in his estate shall stand
up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom:
but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries. And
with the arms of a flood shall they be overflown from before him, and
shall be broken; yea, also the prince of the covenant. And after the
league made with him he shall work deceitfully: for he shall come up, and
shall become strong with a small people."
He said that Daniel in speaking of Caesar, or the Pope, or Napoleon,
did not mention them by name, but described their acts so that no one
could mistake who he meant. When he alluded to the power of the Pope, he
meant all the popes, not merely one. When he says "he or him," he has
reference to the kingdom a particular prince ruled over.—When he says "he
or him" in some places, many think that he refers to princes living 2000
years back; there's where brother Stewart is mistaken; he throws all the
acts referable to the power of Rome on Antiochus Epiphanes. But brother
Stewart knows no more where he is in prophetic history than a child unborn
knows about Newark. Now the 11th chapter of Daniel is a complete history
of the world in detail down from Daniel's time. To the 23d verse it
includes the 70 weeks to the death of the Messiah in the reign of Tiberius
Caesar. From the 23d verse to the 30th verse inclusive, is the history of
pagan Rome; from the 31st to the 39th verses inclusive, is the history and
character of papal Rome. From the 40th verse to the 45th verse inclusive,
is the history of the days of Napoleon Bonaparte as clearly as you could
paint his history after reading his life. And in the 12th chapter from the
1st to the 3d verse, is a prophecy of the events that took place in the
time of the troubles of the French Revolution. Then by the signs thus
given we know the distance of time of all these parts of history, and
where we stand now, on the edge of the end of the world. And in the 11th
verse of the last chapter of Daniel, we have the time from the end of
pagan Rome to the end of the temporal power of papal Rome, 1290 years; or
1798; in the 12th verse the time from the end of pagan Rome to the end of
the world, 1335 years, or 45 years after Bonaparte captured the Pope in
1798, which brings us to 1843.
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