Second advent library

ISmsssuu-ton on 'rnscore daysclothed in sackcloth." I shallask and answer the following queries:1. Whose witnesses arethey?2. What is a witness?3. What are these witnesses?Whose witnesses are these? I answer,they are Christ's; because he is the speaker.See Revelation i. 1: "The Revelation ofJesus Christ, which God gave unto him, toshew unto his servants things which mustshortly come to pass." Again; he only haspower to orprophesy, give the power; for"the testimony ot' Jesus Christ is the spiritof prophecy ; "and he has all power.Then these witnesses are Christ's wit~nesses.What is a witness?I answer there areand written testi-two kinds, oral testimony,mony. Oral testimony is the testimony ofawho testilies to facts whichliving person,he knows bymeans of one or all of his tivesenses. No man can testify to a matter offaith; and all must see the impropriety ofsupposing these two witnesses can be personsor men, when we read the time,-twelvehundred and sixty days; for we havealready shown that these days have onlybeen fulfilled in somany years,-"each dayfor ayear;" and,as no man ever has livedso many years, and, as we have no evidencethat any individuals will ever prophesysolong in this state of the world,we musttherefore look for some other mode of testi-