Second advent library

'rwnnvs nummnn AND srrrv mrs. 53whatever sect or denomination, toworshipGod accordingto the dictates oftheir own conscience,or their own sense of religious duty;even in Italy, the very seat of the beast, andin France and other kingdoms, which had,for ages, held arigid and iron swayover theminds and consciences of men, and hadoutlawed andErsecuted and driven away,aten, every church not in fellowship withthe Roman bishops and priests.Iask, can we be mistaken in the fulfilmentof this prophecy? ls the church nowin the wilderness? And if you should respond,-sheis,-I ask you, when then wasshe out? Not in the apostolic age: for shewas not more free then, than now. Andthen, let meinquire, where is your twelvehundred and sixty years? It can have nomeaning. 0, Christian! Ibeg of you, believein the word of' God; do not, 1 pray you,discard time, anymore than manner. Is itnot selfishness in us to discard the set timeswhich God has fixed, and not man? Whereis our faith ? Whyare we so slowof heart tobelieve? Three times we have witnessed,-yes, in the lifetime of some of us,-the fulfilmentof the " time, times, and anhall," inthe accomplishment of the "forty-twomonths," in the completion of the "twelvehundred and threescore days," and yet,O God,we refuse to believe! Shame onthat professor who will not open his eyes!They tell us we cannot understand pro-5*