Second advent library

eganweek topreachthe wascm.is'i:'» ucosn comme. Qgospel,A.D.26; md the oneuliilled in A. D. 33, when Christ ofered himself'upon the cross, as an offering and sacrilice for sin;"by which oifering we are sanctified once for all." Forhe need not offer himself often, as the high priest did,rmder the law. "But now, once in the end ofthe world,hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himselfl"Heb. ix. 26, Therefore, " he shall cause the sacrificeand oblation to cease." That is the only and lastsacrifice and oblation that will he ever ofered in ourworld, which can take away sin; "for there remaineth,"says the apostle, " no more sacriiice for sin." Then letme inquire, What is the sum ofthe insuuction of the antoDaniel? I will sum it up in as few words asFelcan.After Daniel had a certain vision, commonl called"the vision of the ram, the he-goat, and the litti hom,"Daniel heard one saint inquire of another, howlon? thatvision should be. The answer was given Danic, thatit should be unto 2300digs, when the sanctuary should becleansed or justified. aniel then heard a. man's voicebetween the banks of Ulai, which called and said, Gabriel,make this man to understand the vision. Accordingly,Gabriel came to Daniel, and infbrmed him that atthe end of the world, or time appointed of God, the visionshould be fulfilled. He then tells him that the ramrepresented the Hede and Persian kingdom; and thatthe rough goatrepresented the Grecian kingdom ; givesa short history othat kingdom, and its four divisions;then shows, at the close of these kingdoms, that motherking would arise, (meaning the kingdom of the littlehorn, or Roman,) describing him exact! as Moses haddescribed the Romans many centuries beibre. See Deuteronomyxxviii. 49, 50. "The Lord shall bring a nu.-tion against thee from far, from the end of the earth, abswift as the eagle Bieth; a nation whose tongue thoushalt not understand; a nation of fierce countenance."'.['his, noperson will dispute, means the Romans. Thenwhy not a similar description in Daniel, viii. 23? " Whenthe transgressors (meaning the Jews) are come to thefall, a king of fierce countenance, and undentanding