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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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