Second advent library

Cllllfl sncoxn coimrs.IQworld ye shall have tribnlation "P The world hate you,and if ye live godly, ye shall sufcr persecution, andthese (meaning the whole famil of the redeemed) havecome out of much tribulation. flow could those millionswho are born or live in this happy period,come out ofgreat tribulation? But where do the advocates of theabove system prove their doctrine? Some pretend tobring the same passages in the Old Testament that theJews did, to prove their temporalover theGentiles, and do not see that much of kingdom e Old Testamentprophecy was, and has been fulfilled in its typicalsense. And it is very easy to show thatthe passagesThey pretend to bring in the Old Testament were allfullilled 1800 years ago.But, ifthley had believed in this theory, would notsome of the ew Testament writers have mentioned thisimportant period ? I remember, when I was but a child,of hearing an old minister of the gospel make a remarklike this:-" All the Old Testament prophecies," saidhe, " which were not iiilfilled when Christ came in theflesh, are carried into the New Testament, and furtherexplained." 1 then thou ht there was reason and pro-Pflety in the remark; I tiink so still, for the two witnessesmust and will agree. And where do the believersin this system bringus one word from Christ? Notone. But we can show much to the contrary. ThePtrable of the tares and the wheat carries us to the end'rf the world; and he expressly says, "Let them growQ-wether until the harvest." His prophecy and parablesIn Matt xxiv. and xxv.give us a prophecy until hisM694 coming, and not. a word about a happy periodPlyviously, but much about Io heres, and lo theres, andwicked servantsbeating and bruising their fellow-ser~EBM, and eating and dnnking with the drunken, sayingIQ-Ulelr hearts, My Lord delayeth his coming. Can thish¢lIDill£lIl1il|m? No. Too much devil in such conilpvtas this. Where does Paul, a very prominent writer,W9 UB at hint of these important things? He must haveulihlltood the Old Testament as well as some, if notlil. Of our modern divines. But he, too, has given theYeverse.In his epistle to the Thessalonians, he tells ua15