r shutters_" and "great _sticklers_ for the _seventh
day Sabbath_, in and out of _almost every door_ but the right one,
following _any thing_ but the _word_ of God and _sound reason_!" triumphed
at last. How amazing these things appear; not more so perhaps than to the
prophets when looking down into our history and beholding this first class
composed of the leading messengers and about all of the shepherds, after
leading the whole flock out into the most dangerous part of their journey,
desert, denounce, and betray them; and then go and form themselves into a
confederacy and positively disregard the message which God pressed upon
them, viz. "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God," &c. I
rejoice in my soul and praise the _living_ God, who is seated upon this
Great White Throne in the height of his Sanctuary in the heaven of
heavens, that I am still numbered in this third part. Call me what you
please, my feet are planted on the _Rock_. I had rather suffer affliction
with the Outcasts, than enjoy the pleasures of sin with all other people.
Praise the Lord! if faithful, we shall soon enter the everlasting kingdom.
Amen.

CHRIST'S SECOND COMING TO GATHER HIS PEOPLE.

According to the Scriptures, God will deliver his people out of the time
of trouble that is now flying from the coasts of the earth, and to all
appearances forming a junction in this retributive land of blood and
slavery; by his VOICE _from heaven_, when he has sealed them, and Christ
has made the atonement and fitted the mansions in the New Jerusalem, then
they will be his chosen ones to execute the "judgment written." After
this, in the order of events, the Lord Jesus "will descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God,"
&c. When God speaks from Jerusalem, then, I believe the "wise will
understand" how long it will be before Jesus comes. "The times and seasons
are with the Father." I believe that the Scriptures most clearly teach
Christ's second coming at the feast of Tabernacles, and no where else; and
that our history, in the fulfillment of prophecy, has been imperceptibly
tending us there. Here is the chain in the types: "THREE _times a year
shall_ ALL _thy males appear before the Lord thy God_." These three feasts
are typical of three of the most important events since the birth of our
Lord Jesus Christ, and every advent believer should have a clear
understanding of them. 1st, The feast o