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`'/4M0nscrunm xxx."Cen ye not discern the signs of the times!" WillGod's word fnil of being soeomplished? Cangm showa, single instance? Why not listen, then, to e warningsand admonitions, to the calls and invitations, to theexamples and preceptseontsined therein !"Can ye not"discern the signs of the times! Wil]God cut off theunbelieving Pharisee for not discerning the signs ofthe times, and let you, with twofold morelight, go free!No: how can ye escape, if you ne lect this great salvatésnlWatch, then, " the signs 0? the times."etch.I say,-i_- ».N~0TE.Opponents have triumphsntly referred to Lecture VIII. ln this work,sud slso to Lecture Vll. (p. l09,) and Lecture BH. (p. 202,) which Mr.Miller supposed would be fultilled ln 1839, and mske s greet handle ofthese passages to destroy the influence end the correctness of the ollculationsof Mr. Miller, hy claiming s failure of one of his calculation;Mr. Miller first adopted Guthrie's date for the commencement of thinvasion of Greece by the Turks, sud which, scoording to him,1298. Gibbon, however, fixes lt upon the 27th of July, 1299. Thewss inmistake, therefore, was not in Mr. Miller, but in Guthrie.The clvil cornmotions alluded tn were based upon the coming of tllthird wo: when the sixth sngel had ceased sounding, it is ssld "theseeond wo ls past; snd behold the third wo cometh quickly," Rev. xl.l4. The time that would intervene between the close of the second woend the commencement of the third, would depend entirely upon thelatitude that ls to he given to the term " quickly," md which ws notso immediate es Mr: Miller supposed.lt would seem that the present turpltude of public monk, the dehl~cstlons, bankruptcies, frsuds, duels, murders, etc., etc., end the bresklngup of ell conddenee in the community, must convince iny lmpsrtlelmlnd, that If the author expressed himself strongly with regard to thisnarchy of these time, his snticlpstions have not been sltngether unnsllsed.