The Jubilee Standard, vol. 1
May 22, 1845
Vol. I, NEW YORK CITY, THURSDAY, No. 11
“When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a Standard against him; and the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and to them that turn from transgression in Jacob.” JUBST May 22, 1845, page 81.1
Vol. I.] NEW YORK CITY, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1845. [No. 11 JUBST May 22, 1845, page 81.2
THE JUBILEE STANDARD
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“LOOKING FOR THAT BLESSED HOPE.”
O happy day! when grace subdued
Its foes in my rebellious heart,
And Christ my best affections woed,
And bade the powers of hell depart.
JUBST May 22, 1845, page 81.9
O happy day! when Jesus gained
Dominion o’er my guilty soul,
And sweetly all my powers constrain’d
To how to his benign control.
JUBST May 22, 1845, page 81.10
O happy day! when heaven proclaim’d,
‘Prepare to welcome Christ your king;
Ye who by grace have been reclaimed;
He comes, He comes! Hosanna sing.’
JUBST May 22, 1845, page 81.11
O! happy day! the trumpet sounds
All nature forms one general blaze—
My Jesus wears ten thousand crowns,
And blood bought millions shout his praise.
Newark, N. J. C.
JUBST May 22, 1845, page 81.12
THE DOOR IS SHUT, AND WE KNOW IT
Dear Bro. Snow:—The Lord has committed to me some of his goods, and he has taught us, that if we will receive more we must improve that given. Believing this I feel constrained to present, if you shall see proper, to the brethren, some of the light that shines to me from the heavenly camp. We have arrived at a period, when the whereabouts in our voyage to the kingdom, seems to me, to be no more a question of faith simply, but a subject of knowledge. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 81.13
This is a bold position to take, but I believe we shall prove it. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 81.14
In presenting the parable of the fig-tree our Lord says, ‘So likewise ye, when ye see these things, know that he is nigh at the doors’ By observation, by exercising our senses and looking without, we see the fig-tree putting forth leaves, and hence know that summer is nigh: ‘So, in like manner, [Mark’s Gospel] ye’—call into action your senses and look abroad, and in this way ascertain and know, that He is nigh at the doors. Mark the expression, doors, (plural.) There is not some other truth here taught. At a certain point of time the Savior would have us search into this subject. There must then be something deeply interesting to us, or of vital importance in this question of the doors. But have we understood what this shut door in the 25th chapter of Matt. is? I think not—some of us have said ‘the door of mercy;’ but I can see no such expression in the Bible. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 81.15
To ascertain what a shut door is, we will inquire what is meant by an open door? If we can decide upon that, we will, of consequence, have learned what its opposite is. In determining what the other several legs or parts of the parable of the ten virgins were, we have searched the Scriptures, and have taken up one after another—the virgins, the lamps, the oil, the tarrying, the night, the Bridegroom, the marriage, etc.; and to see what the Spirit would have us understand by them, we have compared Scripture with Scripture, and thus became wise. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 81.16
Let us follow the same rule in regard to this, and we shall see, that so far from being a small part, that we should treat it so lightly as we have been wont to do; that it is the most important leg of the parable—shedding light upon the whole, and confirming us in the great stand taken, that the Bridegroom has come and the marriage taken place. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 81.17
Now, then, what is an open door? Paul will tell us, 1 Corinthians 16:9, ‘For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.’ Again, 2 Corinthians 2:12, ‘Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord.’ We have no difficulty to understand what is meant here. Paul tells us by this figure, that to him special opportunities were presented for preaching the gospel, that the multitude gladly heard the Word; or, in other words, there was great access to the people. The same idea is given in Colossians 4:3, ‘Withal praying for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance,’ etc. These scriptures would be sufficient, had we no others, to settle the point; but the Spirit will not leave us to question in the least this matter. So hear more of its teachings. Acts 14:27, ‘And when they were [original illegible] me and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith [original illegible] Gentiles.’ Here the Apostles would have us under [original illegible] had disposed the Gentiles to hear and receive the truth. [original illegible] Acts 13:46 and 48, and see this clearly. Once more [original illegible] the Savior says, John 10:9, ‘I am the door;’ by this is evidently meant his words—his truth. For he also says, John 14:6, [original illegible] am the way, the truth, and the life;’ and, as before read, ‘I am the door;’ all which expressions mean one and the same thing. If this be not clear, read John 15:4, ‘If ye abide in me and I in you,’ etc.; then in the 7th verse, ‘If ye abide in me and my words abide in you,’ etc. Here we see, that to have Christ in us, is to hold fast his words. The words of Christ, then, or his truth constitute the door; access to the people in presenting this truth—the open door. And what are Christ’s words? Why, ‘the kingdom of heaven is at hand,’ ‘I will come again,’ ‘surely I come quickly,’ and, of this dispensation, time as well as judgment. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 81.18
Now if, by looking without we can see that the time has come in the history of the Church and world, when a cry has been made ‘Behold the Bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him!’ and after which men will no longer hear, but reject every thing uttered upon the subject of the time of the Lord’s appearing, must we not see and know that the door is shut? JUBST May 22, 1845, page 81.19
We have come to just such a time, to the time Paul tells us of as spoken by the prophet, Acts 13:41, ‘Behold ye despisers, and wonder and perish; for I work a work in your days, a work which ye will in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you;’ to the time spoken of by Isaiah 6:10, ‘Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed;’ we have come to the time when ‘the word of the Lord was unto them, percept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little and there a little; that they may go and fall backward and be broken, and snared and taken;’ Isaiah 28:13. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 81.20
We will trace this subject of the door a little farther; for if this is the truth, parallel Scriptures will agree with it; and any that have allusion to it will have light thrown upon them, and all will harmonize. We will find too, that there is uniformity of meaning attached to this word wherever used as a figure. It is found in Micah 6:5, “Keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom;’ i.e. keep them shut. There will certainly then be no hearing. Matthew 6:6, ‘But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut to thy door,’ etc. Here we learn directly what a shut door is. When we are certain there is no hearing, or that no one hears us, is what the Lord means to teach, then pray to our Father which is in secret, and our Father which seeth in secret will reward us openly. Again, Ecclesiastes 12:4, ‘And the doors be shut in the streets,’ etc; read the chapter to see if the instruction is not for us of these days. Isaiah 26:20, is now more than ever, intellible. Job 38:17, ‘God answered Job,’ etc. last clause of the verse, ‘hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?’ What a solemn moment we are in! These doors, when moved, are the shadow of death; not death itself, but its shadow. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 81.21
We can now have a clear understanding of those passages in Revelation 3:7, 8. The Philadelphia church is here brought to notice, and evidently represents the Advent brethren, while preaching time up to the 10th day of the 7th month. To them it is said ‘I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it.’ How true! In preaching time up to the 10th day of the 7th month, with what profound attention it was listened to; and all classes of the people throughout the land, eagerly sought to know, and searched the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so; and all the means used to spread the tidings were wonderfully blessed. Men and devils, with all their arts and devices could not prevent the work or stop the disposition to hear; for God had said ‘no man can shut the door.’ But how changed is every thing now! There is no hearing; and, what is astonishing, men who, while the door was open, fought mightily [original illegible] the Lord, turn about, give up their confidence, and labor as [original illegible] to open the door as their former enemies did to shut it. [original illegible] their efforts we see are all fruitless and unavailing [original illegible] they will be so; for he that hath the key of David [original illegible] no man openeth. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 82.1
Attention has been called to the fact, that there [original illegible] doors;’ and now let us inquire into the other one, for I can [original illegible] two. Revelation 3:20, ‘Behold I stand at the door and knock: if any man hear my voice and open the door, I will come in and sup with him and he with me.’ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 82.2
Here is a door at which the Lord is knocking, and of course must be another one; for we do not knock at a door over which we have command. It is, the, clearly not the door he himself has shut. The only other to be found is in Hosea 2:15, ‘And I will grant her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope,’ etc. In connection with this, read the latter part of the 7th chapter of Joshua. The other is the door of faith, this, the door of hope. Who has hope? Not the Gentiles or world. Those that are in Christ, that receive his truth and keep it. To knock is to speak to. See in proof, Cant. v. 2, ‘It is the voice of my beloved the knocketh, saying, Open to me,’ etc. ‘I opened to my beloved—my soul failed when he spake.’ But the succeeding words of the verse before us settles it. ‘If any man hear my voice.’ There is here a voice and hearing brought to view with the figure, knocking. Some one is speaking to his people at a certain time. How does Christ speak to us? By his messengers; for he says, ‘He that heareth you, heareth me.’ And has he not always been thus speaking to us? Yes. In this place we are informed it is at the door this knocking is done. The word spoken, then, must be of the inheritance of the kingdom promised to Israel, and of all that relates to a qualification for that kingdom. ‘Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments.’ The whole truth is now to be declared fearlessly by his messengers. Is he not saying, ‘Be ye holy; forsake all for Christ, and be pilgrims and strangers, for the kingdom of heaven is now at hand, the hour of his judgment is come?’ And Malachi 3:3 is in process of fulfillment—Christ sitting as a refiner’s fire, etc. How necessary to hear his voice, and not only to hear but to open the door, i.e. do what we hear. ‘Not every one that saith Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.’ ‘Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in they name’ etc., Matthew 7:22. We are in that day. This will be seen by comparing Matthew 7:22, and 25:11, with Luke 13:25. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 82.3
The question may now be asked, in consideration of the view here presented, ‘Many sinners yet be reconciled to God?’ We learn, I think, from the Scriptures quoted, they will not be, for they will not hear; and if they do, they begin to stand without. Luke 13:24, 25, ‘Strive to enter into straight gate (or narrow door;) for many will seek to enter in and shall not be able. When once the Master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us.’ But what is it to stand without and to knock at the door? A door leads into a house; it is said ‘the Master of the house.’ To understand this matter, let us enquire what this figure, the house, means. 1 Peter 2:5, ‘Ye also, as lively stones are built up a spiritual house.’ Also, 1 Timothy 3:15. Refer to, and read it. To get into this house, or be a component part of it, we must enter by the door, which is the truth; for, says the word, John 10:1. ‘Verily, verily I say unto you, He that entereth not in by the door into the sheepfold, (or house,) but climbeth up some other way, is a thief and a robber,’ i.e. he is there only to do mischief. We learn that some who were in the house, leave it. How do they get out? Answer: Hebrews 3:6, ‘But Christ as a son, over his own house, whose house are we if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.’ Then it is plain, if any give up the profession of their faith and the rejoicing of the hope, they are no longer in the house, and if notwithstanding, they still cry unto the Lord to save them, and seek to save others, do they not [original illegible] so standing without? An open door, we have seen, is the people disposed to hear; then for us to cry open the door, is to ask the Lord to dispose men to hear, or, in other words, to seek revivals. We witness such things now. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 82.4
But to the question: ‘If any man hear may voice and open the door, I will come into him and will sup with him and he with me.’ Do we not learn from these words, (for the chronology of this knocking is after the wedding, Luke 12:36,) that if we do not stand without, seeking to be saved and save to save others, but come by the door into house—i.e. embrace the whole truth of this dispensation, which is the kingdom and appearing of Christ, with the time of that appearing, and also hold fast that which we have, and manifest our faith by our works, that our Lord will come in and sup with such and thy with him? But it is evident there can be no laboring for the ungodly, unless we go without the house, for they will not hear; and we are taught to ‘let the filthy be filthy still,’ etc. Yet if any shall hear the words that are now spoken to the children, by the faithful and wise servants of the household; let them open the door, let them obey the word and live. Revelation 4:1, ‘After this I looked and behold a door opened in heaven.’ Has not this been fulfilling since the 10th day of the 7th month? And I would suggest that we examine the 4th, 5th and 6th chapters of Rev., and see if there are not some things here we have not yet understood. Brother, O let up praise the Lord for the increasing evidence from his word and the signs of the times, that we are right and that in a few more days we shall return to Zion with songs an everlasting joy upon our heads. Wm. B. Elliott. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 82.5
Philadelphia, May 8, 1845.
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“THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY HIS FAITH.” Habakkuk 2:4
If a ship always had a fair wind and tide, where would be the trial to know if she would stand a storm a storm or beat against a head wind? Or if a seaman never experienced a storm, where the proof that he is a good man and to be depended on in time of danger? JUBST May 22, 1845, page 82.6
So if the Christian suffers no persecution and meets with no trials, where the proof that he is what he professes to be? Any man may be a fair weather sailor and be useful in fair weather, but it requires experience and perseverance to do duty in a storm. So any man can be a Christian and have many of the Christian graces and virtues during a revival, and while the softening influence of the Holy Spirit is at work on the hearts of the people, but it requires patience and grace to be a Christian when the fierce storm of opposition and persecution is howling around, or the more treacherous under-currents of pride and popularity are striving to draw him away from his own stead-fastness. ‘Be patient, therefore, brethren unto the coming of the Lord, And remember ‘Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him;’ James 1. ‘God is faithful who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it; 1 Corinthians 10:13. ‘And may the trial of your faith be more precious than that of gold that perisheth, that it may be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.’ Amen. J. Lenfest. For the Jubilee Standard. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 82.7
REASONS WHY I AM LOOKING FOR OUR KING TO COME SPEEDILY TO REIGN ON THE EARTH
I believe the vision has been written and make plain upon tables: Habakkuk 2:2. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.1
I believe we have passed the time [in 1843] when, according to the Scriptures we were to expect the coming of the Lord: Matthew 25:1. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.2
I believe we have passed the tarrying time; Matthew 25:5. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.3
I believe the prophetic periods have all expired, except the 1335 days: Daniel 12:12, 13. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.4
I believe the Bridegroom came to the Ancient of Days, received his kingdom, and is crowned King; Daniel 7:13, 14. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.5
I believe the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ; Revelation 11:15. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.6
I believe the Atonement, or mystery of God, is finished; Leviticus 16:29, 30; Revelation 10:7; 22:11, 12. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.7
I believe the Jubilee trumpet has sounded; Leviticus 25:9; Revelation 11:15. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.8
I believe we are in the ‘little while;’ Isaiah 10:25; 29:17; Jeremiah 51:33; Haggai 2:6; John 7:33; 16:16; Hebrews 10:37. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.9
I believe our King has been sitting ‘as a refiner and purifier of silver;’ Malachi 3:1-3; Revelation 14:14. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.10
I believe we are in the time of ‘patience of the saints;’ Hebrews 10:36; James 5:7, 8; Revelation 14:12. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.11
I believe the ‘time of trouble’ has commenced; Jeremiah 30:7; Daniel 12:1; 1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 4:12, 13; Revelation 3. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.12
I believe the scattering of the power of the holy people is nearly accomplished; Daniel 11:7; Amos 9:9, 10. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.13
I believe the Lord our King is about to dash the nations in pieces; Psalm 2:9. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.14
I believe the King of kings is about to descend from heavens, raise the dead saints, change the righteous living, and we shall all be caught up to meet him in the air; 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.15
I believe my faith is increasing every day: Proverbs 4:18; and, finally, I believe that without holiness no man shall see the Lord; Hebrews 12:14. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.16
Are not these reasons sufficient? If they are not, a multitude more are at hand. Look at the signs that are given in the Bible. How completely are they fulfilled. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.17
Take a look into the moral world. See the entire want of spirituality in the churches: hear them mourn and lament; Amos 8:10: hear them wonder why this state of things exists. See them grope in the dark, Job 5:14; Isaiah 59:9-11, 20. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.18
But take a look also into the natural world. See the judgments written already beginning to be poured out. Who can account for the unparalleled amount of destruction by fires, unless the judgment has commenced, not in the sentence only, but in the execution? I believe it. And my prayer is, that the fires may continue to burn, until the earth shall be restored to its Eden state. Praise the Lord! we are not at a loss for a reason for our hope. Let us hold fast the profession of our faith. Our King will soon vindicate his own cause, and deliver his ‘little ones’ under the whole heaven. Remember the test—HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.19
Brooklyn, May 16. J. K. Bellows.
LETTER FROM BRO. T. W. HASKINS
Dear Bro. Snow:—We are still here on the sin-cursed earth. Well, I am, and trust you are, firm in the faith of Jesus personal and speedy coming, and find I have my faith and patience tried beyond what I expected; but I am determined not to let the devil have the victory over me, and allow myself to murmur or doubt, but cleave to the Lord and trust in him as my guide, and believe he will be my deliverer in the right time, and hold fast the confidence and rejoicing of my hope firm unto the end. And I do still believe with all my heart that we have followed the Word of our Lord thus far, yea, I still believe God called and sent Bro. Miller to preach the time, and that the cry, ‘Behold the Bridegroom cometh,’ etc. given by yourself and others, was of God, and no delusion, and I am still on the ‘rock,’ and am determined to stand there until I perish, or my master comes to deliver; and I have no doubt about that, for his word is true and faithful; and I did not go to the Rock in a whirlwind of delusion; no, but with cool, deliberate faith and the cost well counted, (and it cost all I had,) and did cut myself off from every means of escaping or returning; but I have been most earnestly invited and even warned by all that is good, and as I value my soul to come off and confess my delusion. But no; it is a reality to me. I believe my Lord’s voice was in the call to go on the Rock, and I have perfect confidence in him, and mean to wait till he comes, if it is longer than I expected or understood him to say, though all should leave me alone; but even this I do not fear; no, there will be a happy few, a ‘little flock;’ and we do know the time is near, and now the first month is past, and I am with my waiting brethren, disappointed again. I know that this is one more step onward, one disappointment less to meet; praise God, I am looking, and expect to see my Lord very soon indeed, [original illegible] new, time; and if I see any from the Bible I will believe it and be not ashamed, no ‘Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to the thirteen hundred and five and thirty days.’ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.20
O! what watchfulness is needed now! O! how important to ‘Remember Lot’s Wife.’ I hope you will hold out and go on, and God will enlighten your understandings, that you may give ‘meat in due season,’ to the scattered flock. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.21
I enclose on dollar, but a mile, true, from the Roxbury band—hope we shall send more soon, if time continues; please send three papers. Do hope and pray that your paper will be continued until the Lord comes. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.22
Your in the blessed hope of the coming Lord,
Roxbury, May 8. T. W. Haskins
LETTER FROM BRO. F. T. HOWLAND
Dear Brn. Snow & Matthias:—I have been much pleased with the stand you have taken in defence of the truth of our glorious King, and hope you will continue to give the dear little lambs of the flock the untarnished and unadulterated truth. By that and that alone can they be fed at this time. O! may God bless you with a double portion of his Holy Spirit at this perilous crisis, that you may continue faithful to the end, and that you and all the faithful and wise servants of our immortal King may be instruments of writing upon us his new name, that we may be pillars in the temple of our God. O glory to his holy name! I long to see our great King coming from the wedding with the Bride, the Holy city, the paradise of God, the garden of Eden, that holy place wherein Adam walked and talked with God. Oh! I long to walk those golden streets with our dear Savior and King, who is now the God of the whole earth. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 83.23
Yours, in expectation of seeing the King in his beauty, at the farthest when the pentecost has fully come. Hold on, dear brethren, and the crown is yours. F. T. Howland. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 84.1
New Bedford, May 13.
From the Hope of Israel.
TO PRAYER!
“Ripe is the vintage of the earth:
Its clustering grapes are round and full:—
Messiah comes to tread amain
The wine-press of the battle-plain!”
JUBST May 22, 1845, page 84.2
Isaiah 64:1, 2: ‘Oh that thou would rend the heavens, that thou wouldst come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence, as when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth water to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence.’ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 84.3
62:6, 7: ‘Thou art my King, O God: command deliverance for Jacob. Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.’ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 84.4
Psalm 102:13-20: ‘Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time is come. For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favor the dust thereof. So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory. When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory. He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer. This shall be written for the generation to come; and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord. For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth; to hear the groaning of the prisoner, to loose those that are appointed to death.’ For thus saith the Lord, ‘I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out of all countries, and will bring you into your own land. I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do this for them.’ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 84.5
‘O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from the city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us. Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayers of thy servant and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake. O my God incline thine ear, and hear: open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousness, but for thy great mercies. O Lord, hear: O Lord, forgive: O Lord, hearken and do: defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.’ Thus Daniel prayed when he had learned by books that the number of years were accomplished in which Jerusalem was to be desolate—and in view of this type or example we are to pray, for the Lord hath ‘set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, [or are the Lord’s remembrancers,] keep not silence, and give him no rest till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.’ ‘Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.’ Psalm 74:20-23, ‘Have respect unto the covenant, for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty. O let not the oppressed return ashamed: let the poor and needy praise thy name. Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.’ 144:5-8: ‘Bow they heavens, O Lord, and come down touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. Cast forth lighting, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.—Send thine hand from above; rid me and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.’ Psalm 104:35: ‘Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more.’ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 84.6
‘Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for her grapes are fully ripe.’ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 84.7
C.
FOREIGN NEWS
There has been an arrival from England, bringing papers to the 4th inst, but there is no intelligence of any interest. Affairs in Switzerland remain stationary. The excitement in England, Ireland, and Scotland, on the Maynooth question, is intense. In Algeria troubles are likely to commence again, as the unconquerable Abd-el-Kader has got together a considerable force, principally composed of Arabs of the desert tribes, and is again threatening the advanced posts of the French. In India, the Khalsha army, 40,000 strong, had assembled with a short distance of Goolab Singh’s position, and as its numbers were double those of his troops, might possibly muster courage to attack them. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 84.8
THE JUBILEE STANDARD.
‘Lift up a Standard for the People.’
NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1845.
PROPHETIC CHRONOLOGY.—Continued
In our last we proved conclusively, from ‘the midst of the week’ being the tenth day of the first month, that the 70 weeks must have ended on the tenth day of the seventh month. Consequently we must see that the 2300 days, of which the 70 weeks form the first part, began on the tenth day of the seventh month, whatever may have been the date of the year. From Ezra 8:35, 36, we also showed that on that day of atonement or expiation, when the children of Israel who had returned from captivity offered their bullocks, rams and goats, according to the law, the ‘king’s commissions’ were delivered to the properly constituted executive officers, who were commanded under penalty of death, banishment, confiscation of goods, or imprisonment, to furnish Ezra and the Jews whatever they required according to the law of God, and to do it speedily. See Ezra 7:21-26. Did they obey that command? Certainly. The laws of the Medes and Persians were not to be trifled with. See the last clause of chap 8:36, ‘And they furthered the people and the house of God.’ Here we find the ‘going forth of the commandment,’ on the 10th day of the 7th month. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 84.9
Again, it must not be forgotten that the first 7 weeks of the 70 were divided from the remainder, and allotted to the building of the street and wall; see Daniel 9:25. Now should we say that 7 years were allotted for the promulgation of the gospel of the kingdom, and then say the those 7 years began 3, 6, or 9 months before the work began for which they were allotted, we should be guilty of an absurdity or contradiction. So also when it is admitted that those 7 weeks were allotted for the work of building the street and wall, to say the time commenced before they began the work is absurd. But when did the work commence? Not until the Jews had arrived in Judea, the magistrates had been appointed, and, by the ‘king’s commissions,’ clothed with authority and power to carry the commandment or decree of the God of heaven into effect. This decree from God was begun by Cyrus, as his instrument or agent. See Isaiah 44:28, ‘That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundations shall be laid.’ Again, Isaiah 45:13, ‘I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will direct all his ways: he shall build my city,’ etc. For the fulfillment of this prophecy, see 2 Chronicles 36:22, 23; Ezra 1:1-4. Now read Ezra 6:1-14, and it will be seen that the decree made by Cyrus, was renewed by Darius, and completed by Artaxerxes. But the point of consummation was its ‘going forth,’ or going into effect, in the commencement of the building of the city. And this, we have shown, was at the great day of expiation, after Ezra and the Jews had returned from Babylon. There the first step was taken after the completion of the decrees or commandment, towards building the city, when ‘they delivered the king’s commissions unto the king’s lieutenants, and to the governors, which were on this side the river: and they furthered the people, and the house of God.’ We come then to this necessary and unavoidable conclusion:—that as the 2300 days began, so they must end, on the tenth day of the seventh month. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 85.1
Well, what then? Why, ‘THEN shall the sanctuary be justified,’—[see margin.] And what is the sanctuary? Let the Word of God answer the question; see Exodus 15:17, ‘Thou shalt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, in the place, O Lord, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in; in the sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.’ Here we see that the sanctuary is the Lord’s dwelling-place. But what is his dwelling-place? It is Zion. As proof see Psalm 9:11; 68:16; 132:13, 14; 135:21.; Isaiah 8:18; Joel 3:21. These and many other passages show us clearly that the chosen dwelling-place of our Lord is Zion or Jerusalem. This cannot be old Jerusalem which is in bondage with her children, but is the Jerusalem above, which is free, and is the mother of us all. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 85.2
But is nothing more than the ‘city of the great King’ intended by the term ‘sanctuary?’ Does Zion or Jerusalem embrace nothing more? We shall find, upon a full examination of the Scripture on this point, that the people of God and their inheritance are sometimes all included under the apellation of Zion. In this sense the name is used to designated the whole of the kingdom of God. But as the terms ‘kingdom of heaven,’ or ‘kingdom of God,’ are frequently applied, in the Scriptures, to the several parts of the kingdom, so ‘Zion’ and ‘Jerusalem’ are applied not only to the ‘holy city’ which is the great capital or metropolis of the kingdom, and, therefore, spoken of as representing the whole, but also to God’s people, ‘the host,’ and to the several parts of their inheritance, ‘the sanctuary.’ Zion, then, is the sanctuary, i.e. the inheritance of our Lord and his people. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 85.3
But how is the sanctuary justified? We answer, by the atonement or reconciliation. And here we will recur again to the Law—the shadow of things to come; Leviticus 16:33, ‘And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar: and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.’ Thus in the type the ‘holy sanctuary’ was cleansed or justified. And this was to be perpetuated as a ‘statute’ to be observed ‘once a year.’ That ‘once’ was always the tenth day of the seventh month: see verse 29-31. So also in the antitype, the ‘holy sanctuary,’ i.e. Zion or Jerusalem must receive the atonement or reconciling on the same day, and thus be pardoned or ‘justified.’ When that is done, and not before, these blessed words have their binding force upon God’s ministers:—‘Comfort ye, comfort ye, MY PEOPLE, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably [margin, appointed time] is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for ALL her sins.’ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 85.4
Every man, who is not awfully and fatally blinded, must see that this command could never apply till the appointed time is accomplished and the sanctuary justified. And as it is perfectly evident from this passage of God’s Word, that his ministers have an important work to do after that, in comforting his people with these gracious words, it follows necessarily, that the 2300 days end, and Zion receives her justification or pardon in the completion of the atonement on the 10th day of the 7th month, and that to before the King of kings comes, and the few faithful watchmen are discharged from Jerusalem’s walls. And as the sect of Adventists profess to be looking for the immediate coming of Jesus, where is consistency of their denying that the great point is passed, which must pass before his personal appearing? In other words, why should they deny that the 2300 days have ended, and the atonement, or mystery of God, is finished? S. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 85.5
(To be continued.) JUBST May 22, 1845, page 85.6
We trust those who love and hold fast the truth which we have received, will exert themselves to sustain the standard. We have every thing to struggle against, except the Lord and his people, and his truth:—these are on our side. But those who are to be fed are the ‘poor of the flock;’ and our paper cannot be sustained without great effort. Come, friends, one and all, rally for our help. S. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 85.7
For the Jubilee Standard.
THE “NEW COMMANDMENT.”
As we follow the cloudy pillar, and near the promised inheritance, were receive the earnest of its fruition. Like the grapes of Eschol, this foretaste is known by some as the seal, and token of the coming glory, while others, with a murmuring heart, turn away from the cross on which it hangs, and dread the onward conflict. In the dark night of his betrayal, our blessed Saviour, preparing his disciples for the ‘little while’ of their approaching grief, (which seems to be a shadow of the second ‘little while,’ in which we ‘shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice,’) says, ‘A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another, as I have loved you, that ye may also love one another.’ Immediately after, he prays the Father, for those also, who shall believe through their word, ‘that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that they also may be one, as thou, Father, art in me and I in thee; that they also may be one in us;’ also ‘that they may be one, even as we are one.’ The beloved disciple also speaks of this ‘new commandment,’ and the burden of his epistolary message is, ‘the anointing,’ the ‘unction from the Holy One,’ and ‘our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment, because, as he is, so are we in this world.’ We perceive then, that there is a trial, or process, by which our love shall be made perfect, to prepare us, to side boldly with Christ in the day of judgment, because as he is, so all those who possess his Spirit, and are one with him, will certainly be in this world. Although still separated from his person, yet this divine sympathy, a oneness with him, in spirit, will make us willing in the day of his power, to change with him, from his intercessory or priestly, to his executive or kingly office. In this separation from the world, and entire union, and interest, with Christ, we now realize an unearthly love, springing up in the soul of all who are one with him. We receive and understand the following blessed teachings: ‘Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God.’ ‘If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit,’ ‘and we have known and believed the love that God hath to us, God is love, and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him,’ ‘there is no fear in love, but perfect love, casteth out fear.’ ‘My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth.’ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 85.8
It has long been our prayer and thirst to be filled with God, and now that we know and believe that God is love, how is our love and joy made perfect. In this dark hour of the scattering of the holy people, how precious and peculiarly needful is this solace from the bosom of the Father. With us, it is now our Lord Jesus Christ and his ransomed host, those who are true to his glory and who persevere in following him and his words through the snares and perils of this last temptation. Those who are coming up through great tribulation, who endure, and are pressing on, to overcome the opposition of earth and hell. Those who show, by their fruits that they love Jesus and his appearing. With Christ and his despised, afflicted and scattered remnant, or seed, we are united in the obedience of the new commandment, which is the seal of the everlasting covenant. Jesus reigns, and we respond, alleluia, amen! His people are tried, and will soon overcome by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. And ‘salvation and strength, and the kingdom of God, and the power of his Christ,’ shall come. Amen and amen: even so come, Lord Jesus. C. S. M. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 85.9
Philadelphia, May 20. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 85.10
Dear Brn. Snow and Matthias:—The whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint and made to bleed, when we read the proceedings (of those that profess to be looking for our glorious King, but are in reality saying in their hearts my Lord delayeth his coming,) of those in conference at Albany three weeks since, and we are ready to exclaim with the prophet, (Jeremiah 9.) ‘Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for’ them. Again, (Jeremiah 2.) “My people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit. Be astonished, oh ye heavens at this, and be ye horribly afraid; be ye very desolate, saith the Lord. For my people have committed two evils, they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.’ Is not the blessed Jesus wounded in the house of his friends? ‘Let the potsherd of the earth strive with the potsherds of the earth, but wo unto him that striveth with his Maker.’ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 86.1
My spirit groans within me and troubled, when I see those settle down upon their less by appointing unfaithful shepherds, while the prophet (Jeremiah 25.) tells us plainly what is about to come on them—a howling and crying, and no way to flee; likewise the principal ones of the flock. For the Lord hath spoiled their pasture, and the peaceable habitations are cut down. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 86.2
It now behoves the little flock, scattered over the mountains, in this last hour of trial and conflict, to keep upon their watchtower. Portentous clouds are hanging over us, and will soon burst and reveal the King in his beauty, taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the Gospel of the kingdom, and say my Lord delayeth his coming. Yes, brethren, the drama of this world’s history will very soon be closed up. We must stand with our loins girded, our shoes on our feet, and the staff in hand. We are still on that flat rock that those shepherds left after the ‘midnight cry’ had died away, and although storm after storm arises, and the waves roll high, we are still clinging to it; our Pilot has been with us, and is still with us, and has promised to be with us to the end; we will trust him though he slay us. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 86.3
Dear brethren, keep the standard up, as the Lord directed Moses to make the brazen serpent and to raise it upon a pole, that those who would look upon it might live. O, how important, just as the scene is about to close up,—when the enemy is coming in like a flood, that the standard should be kept up. We are a poor, trodden down, oppressed people, as God’s people have been in every age of the world,—they have been hunted like the poor, inoffensive deer, on the mountains, in the valleys, and put to death by thousands, simply for reading his blessed Word on their faces by the light of a few smoking embers; and will he not be avenged of them. Yes, ‘he will avenge them speedily.’ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 86.4
Yours, waiting for the consumption of our hopes, C.
Newark, May 9.
LETTER FROM BRO. R. T. HASKINS
Dear Bro. Snow:—How glad I am that you are permitted, by the goodness of God, to send forth the word of life to the true Israel. I have watched for the packages you have sent of late, and have taken them to Advent houses, where there was the least ray of light like loving the appearing of Jesus, but sad to say, I find so many struck with Sodomite blindness, that I am not a very welcome visitor. Well, I will praise the good Lord for a few kindred spirits that cannot be fed with anything short of ‘meat in due season.’ Every day reveals new evidences that our blessed King is coming, and very speedily; for now it has come to pass that if a child of God shall read out of the Holy Book that the Bridegroom has come—the atonement is made, the famine is come, etc., then he is cast out as one who must have a mark placed, making divisions, etc. Well, for one I can I can thank God and take courage, that the sword of the Spirit does make division, and none of God’s little ones will be found trying to unite Christ with Belial. I believe all the wise can now see where they are, in the path that leads to glory; surely all that have their lights trimmed and burning are not beating their fellow-servants, nor saying in their hearts my Lord delayeth his coming—but are growing stronger in the cry, ‘Come, Lord Jesus, and come quickly.’ The band in this place is divided of course—and the largest part are about settling a minister—a few children came out from amongst them three weeks since, and are striving to hold fast the beginning of their confidence firm unto the end. May the Lord bless your labors by feeding the famishing flock; yes, dear brother, our conflict is just over: let us fight manfully, the crown is just a head: glory, hallelujah to the Lamb! My soul is happy as we shall see our King in glory. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 86.5
Worcester, May 16. R. T. Haskins. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 86.6
* * * * The little band in Cleveland are strong in the faith, and almost unanimous in the belief that we are in the position that Elijah and Elisha were after they had passed the Jordan. If we watch we shall see the Chariots and horses of fire; if not, we shall not see them. Oh, how big with interest is the present moment. He that endures to the end shall be saved, and blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me. There are many ardent prayers going up from warm hearted brethren and sisters for those servants that give meat in due season. May the Lord sustain you in arduous undertaking. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 86.7
Yours, in the bonds of Christian fellowship.
Newell Bond.
Cleveland, May 7, 1845.
LETTER FROM BRO. J. OVENS
Dear Bro. Snow:—Why is it that we never noticed the evidence that gathers round the pentecost, as being the time for the Advent. Our Lord says, the ‘harvest is the end of the world:’ our brethren generally supposed the 7th month to be the harvest, but I think without evidence. It is probable that in the third month was the harvest-feast; and in the 7th month the feast of in-gathering. The harvest offering was on the day the old covenant was made with the house of Israel, namely, the day of pentecost; Exodus 23. ‘The feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors which thou hast sown in the field;’ Leviticus 23:15-17, ‘And ye shall count unto you, from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering, 7 sabbaths shall be complete, [50 days,] ye shall bring out of your habitations two wave loaves: they shall be of fine flour, they are the first fruits unto the Lord,’ Deuteronomy 26:2, ‘Thou shalt take the first of all the fruits of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land, that the Lord thy God giveth thee, and shalt put it in a basket,’ etc.; (this answers to the summer fruit in Amos, chap 8:2, where the Lord says I will not pass by the children of Israel any more;) verse 10, ‘And now, behold, I have brought the first fruits of the land, which thou, O Lord, hast given me;’ verse 17, ‘Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statues and his commandments, and his judgments; 26:18, ‘And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people.’ Compare this language with Exodus 19:5-8, ‘If ye keep my covenant ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me, and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and an holy nation.’ I think this is clear, the offering of the first fruits of the harvest was on the same day that God made the old covenant with the house of Israel. Hebrews 10:9, ‘He taketh away the first that he may establish the second.’ Of what is the apostle speaking in this and the preceding chapters? Is it not of the covenants? Now mark, under the first covenant they were chosen to be a Kingdom of priests: the laws of the kingdom were written on tables of stone. In the second they are kings and priests unto God, with the laws written in their hearts. Compare Revelation 1:6, and 5:10, with Hebrews 8:10-13. In the first they were sprinkled with blood, that could never take away sin, and there was a remembrance of sins every year: in the second they are washed in the blood of Christ that perfects for ever them that are sanctified. Jesus is made a surety of this better covenant, Hebrews 7:22, it is the spiritual covenant: 2 Corinthians 1:22, ‘who hath also sealed us and given us the earnest, is it not a sample and pledge? This earnest was given to the saints in a peculiar manner on the day of pentecost. Here are some striking circumstances gathering round this time, namely, the making the old covenant, offering the harvest fruits, pouring out the holy Spirit or earnest of the Spirit, all shadows of good things to come. The covenant is to be made with the whole house of Israel, Romans 11:26, 27, ‘This is my covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins.’ Compare this with Isaiah 59:20, 21; Jeremiah 31:31-34; Ez. xxxvi 24-30; Hebrews 8:10-13; and 10:15-18, 25, ‘So much the more as ye see the day approaching.’ Is it not the day of the new covenant? Most clearly so. Now if the old covenant was a shadow of the new, the old kingdom of the new, the Holy Ghost the earnest of the Spirit, the first fruits of the harvest the first resurrection, do they not all point to the day of pentecost as the time in the year? I think it. You must see this covenant cannot be made with the whole house of Israel while the greater part lies captive in the dust. Hallelujah! blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Your brother, hasting the coming day. J. Ovens. Newark, May 12. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 86.8
LETTER FROM BRO. EVANS
Dear Bro. Snow:—I do not wish to set myself up as a teacher, by any means, for this great reason, viz., I believe God never intended I should, and if not, I should make a poor hand of it, as is plainly demonstrated around us. God has thought good to represent his true Church under the figure of a human body, where every joint and limb must occupy its proper place to make a perfect body. If God has intended I should occupy the place of a foot, though the lowest part, I say, Amen—any where, if in the body. I want to be as the clay in the hands of the great Potter. He will do all things to his own glory, and for the good of all that put their trust in him. O that each member would endeavor to find out his own sphere to move in, take the Bible, the whole Bible, as the only rule of faith, and Christ’s conduct as his only rule of action. Well, praise the Lord, we anticipate this state of things in their perfection, very, yes, very soon. Oh the blessed hope of the Christian! My God hasten the completion of it speedily. Though I am no teacher, yet God has been pleased to say to me, ‘If any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not.’ I believe God has given me some light on Revelation 14:13. I know I shall cross some expositions of my dear brethren, whose feelings I would not hurt, but I suppose they, with myself, want no error; so let us compare notes and see which comes nearest to the standard, the Bible. You will read the verse, ‘And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write blessed are the dead that die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them. Let us in the first place look at the chronological application of the passage, after the three angels (messengers or messages) have gone forth, and fully performed their work. These are the same angels that are spoken of in Matthew 13:30, when the wheat is gathered into the barn, (not into the garner,) after which the winnowing process commences, and it will continue till the work is completed, Matthew 3:12, when the wheat will be taken into the garner, and the chaff be burned up. After the three great Advent messages have done their work, what follows? Verse 12, ‘Here is the patience of the saints; here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.’ When does Paul say this time of patience comes? After we have done the will of God, Hebrews 10:36. Why at this time has the Christian particularly need of patience? Because here the right hands are to be cut off, and right eyes plucked out, and we are to be hated of all men for the truth’s sake. May we in our patience possess our souls. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 87.1
Now to the 13th verse. In the first place I would enquire what is meant by dying in the Lord. The apostle says it is appointed unto man once to die, and after that the judgment, Hebrews 9:27. Who has made this appointment? He who changeth not: consequently the appointment must be fulfilled in some way. The same apostle says we shall not all sleep, but that some shall remain alive to the coming of the Lord, and be changed, 1 Corinthians 15:51; 1 Thessalonians 4:17. And Jesus says, ‘He that liveth and believeth in me shall never die,’ John 11:26. Now the Scripture cannot be broken. Let us now endeavor to reconcile these apparent contradictions. In Romans 7:9, the apostle says, ‘For I was alive without the law once; but when the commandment came sin revived, and I died.’ Again Paul, is writing to the Colossians, tells them they are dead, and their life is hid with Christ in God, Colossians 3:3; dead in the Lord—dead to the rudiments and maxims of this world. Here let me ask you, my dear brother, do you not recollect when the commandment came last fall, that you experienced such a dying as Paul here speaks of? O yes, and may God keep us dead till he who is our life shall appear; then we shall appear with him in glory. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 87.2
But why are such said to be blessed from henceforth? I answer, because this peculiar situation is different from any that ever died in the Lord before. In this respect, viz., that they may rest from their labors. From what labors? Certainly not from laboring with our hands for daily bread; for Paul calls such ‘unruly,’ and commands and exhorts them to work with their own hands, and to eat their bread; 2 Thessalonians 3:11, 12. Further, he says, ‘if any provide not for his own house (or family) he hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel,’ 1 Timothy 5:8. The question is still, from what labors are they to rest? I answer in the fear of God, and I believe I am abundantly sustained by his Word, that they shall rest from laboring with a doomed world and a fallen church: that they had their last warning in the 7th month message—that the atonement was finished, that there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins—and that God says to all his true children, ‘let them alone,’ and I say Amen. Hence we are to rest from our labors—to ‘rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him,’ Psalm 37:7, ‘And their works shall follow them,’ or the good effect produced by their works shall be made manifest hereafter, as the ‘husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and the latter rain,’ James 5:7. Such appears to me to be the simple, plain meaning of the passage. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 87.3
In the ‘little while,’ so often spoken of in the Bible, and connected with the last inch of time, the households of faith are separate entirely from the world, during which time the examination takes place when the king comes in to see the guests, Matthew 22:14. May I not be found among the speechless ones, but may I and all his people hear the call to the marriage supper, O! may God hasten it, and give us patience in these perilous times to wait all the days of our appointed time, till our change come. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 87.4
Yours in the blessed hope of soon seeing Him that is seated upon the white cloud in all his glory.
New York, May 12. Wm. Evans.
MUTUAL CONFERENCE AT ALBANY
We should have copied the report of this Conference for the benefit of our readers if there had been room in our columns without leaving out better matter. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 87.5
After reading carefully the doings of this Conference, we should judge that a few of its members possessed the spirit of our divine Master, and others, an unchristian feeling against such as differed from them, and a disposition to forget the way we have been led, and a hankering after the flesh pots of Egypt. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 87.6
The Eastern brethren received a large share of attention and little sympathy. We should not be greatly surprised if some should have occasion to find more fault with us if they turn creed makers, and attempt to lay the foundation of another Babel. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 87.7
The remarks of the President at the close of the Conference were very good; he exhorted the brethren to be kind and conciliatory to, and concerning those who differ from them,—to use soft words and hard arguments. We say amen to that; and Mr. President let us softly ask the question, WHO are NOW denying the ‘hard arguments’ of the past in ‘SEARCHING WHAT OR WHAT MANNER OF TIME?’ answer ‘with soft word and hard arguments.’ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 87.8
We would not forget to notice the brotherly request of C. B. Turner, of East Randolph, Vt. We will copy from the report. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.1
‘Bro. C. B. Turner, of East Randolph, Vt. here stated, that he had labored under some embarrassment, from his name; and he begged that he might not be confounded with Joseph Turner, of the State of Maine.’ Read it over brethren and say, was that the ‘kind and conciliatory’ language ‘concerning those who differ from them?’ ‘he begged that he might not be confounded with Joseph Turner! ‘Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a Publican.’ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.2
But, who is this J. Turner? and what are his crimes that he should be thus branded in a public conference and ‘published in the two leading Advent papers, Morning Watch and Advent Herald?’ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.3
Ask the Methodist churches of this State. We doubt not they can tell the Albany Conference, for he was ones one of their favored sons, and might have now stood high in the esteem of its members instead of being hunted like a wild beast from place to place on account of his faith. Oh how that stigma cast upon his name, how that unchristian stab at his character will gladden not only the heart of this daughter of Babylon, but also many a vile scoffer who hates him with the same kind of malignity once heaped upon his Master. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.4
Ask L. S. Stockman, who now sleeps—one of the most devoted men that ever stood in the Advent ranks, and willingly would be testify in this case. Partners were they in many warm battles in this contest, and together were they arraigned before Casar’s bar for the truth’s sake. J. T.’s family could testify to the care of God over them in sending the ravens to feed them when none but himself knew of their wants. Perhaps the cold piercing wintry winds of the State of Maine can tell who this same J. Turner is, for long have they been intimately acquainted with him as he has travelled night and day on his errand of love, whilst others have fared sumptuously both in dress and living compared with this man. It is not the amount that an individual does that God looks at, as we learn in the case of the poor widow, Matthew 12:42, 44; ‘Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all which have cast into the treasury. For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all her living.’ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.5
Verily, J. Turner of the State of Maine, will have his reward, and so will those who have thus held him up to public scorn. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.6
What are the crimes of this ‘fellow servant’ that he should be thus ‘beaten?’ 1st. For holding on to ‘43—‘tarrying time,’ and the ‘cry’ with such a tenacious grasp, thus showing a disposition to ‘murmur against those who have been pioneers in the war.’ 2nd. For preaching that, agreeable to the ‘cry,’ the 7th angel began to sound and ‘the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdom of our Lord and his Christ.’ 3rd ‘HE WON’T GIVE IT UP NOW THE TIME HAS GONE BY.’ 4th. For yielding, in an unguarded moment, to a spirit not of God, according to his public confession. ‘Take heed to yourselves; if thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.’ J. Turner of the State of Maine may get a crown, for he loves the appearing of Jesus, and if he should, it will sparkle with more than one star we believe. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.7
We will quote a sentiment from the Address because its words are most excellent. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.8
‘We are painted to see a disposition to murmur against those who have been pioneers in the war,—who have sacrificed all earthly considerations, to support a truth so unpopular as the second advent and personal reign of Jesus Christ.’ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.9
‘Brethren, shun such as cause divisions among very friends. Remember the admonition of James, “Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned:” [as in Bro. J. Turner’s case,] “behold the Judge standeth at the door.” ‘ JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.10
Wonder who these ‘murmurers’ can be? In the day of Moses they were such as wished to go back to Egypt! Who can they be that are NOW grumbling at the ‘pioneers in the war?’ Let us look over the name of this Conference for the pioneers. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.11
Wm. Miller (1.) Say, brother, who is it that is murmuring at the pioneers of 1843? Surely not such as now love those principles you first taught, and are travelling in the same path towards [original illegible]! No, no, you have not the heart to condemn such, for they not only still love those truths, but remember with much affection these pioneers who went forth bearing much reproach for the truth, but alas! some of those good pilgrims and strangers, sickened and died with a bad disease,—unbelief and love of popularity, and a set of men have come up finding fault with and tying to pervert the teachings which those good Christians left upon record. Now don’t you think these are the ‘murmurers?’ We can not help thinking so. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.12
J. Litch. (2.) J. Litch of 1845, What think J. Litch of 1843 would say of a professed Advent believer who could fellowship, approbate and encourage an individual in giving out notice in the public prints to preach against definite time? would not he have thought such an one at least a murmurer? JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.13
J. V. Himes. (3.) Please look carefully over the columns of the ‘Signs of the Times’ from the time they were first published, and answer, who are now murmuring at the pioneers in the war? T-a-k-e c-a-r-e! JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.14
Well, brethren, we will still travel on in the same unfriendly, thorny path, in which our blessed Savior has no often blessed his faithful ones, enquiring and searching diligently, what, and what manner of TIME, whatever reproach may be heaped upon us, until our longing eyes shall see the chariots of our God. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.15
J. P. ‘Hope of Israel.’
EXTENSIVE FIRES
Another Pittsburg Fire. Allegania burnt.—The Pittsburg Morning Chronicle of the 16th inst, states that a fire broke out in Allegania, and before it was arrested destroyed over 30 valuable dwellings, and four very large canal warehouses full of valuable goods, together with a number of workshops. The fire is attributed to an incendiary. Loss estimated at $500,000. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.16
A village destroyed by fire.—Anderson, S. C. has been the scene of a destructive conflagration. The place has literally been laid in ashes. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.17
A Wilmington, N. C. paper says, that the large swamps in Beauford, Tyrrell, and Hyde counties were on fire. There were two whole families burned up in Tyrrell, one of them consisted of a man, his wife, and three negroes. The whole woods are on fire. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.18
A Fire in Evansville, Ind., destroyed eighteen or twenty houses. A paper from that place says it is the general belief that there is a set of scoundrels prowling around us whose determination is to destroy our town, and it will be a miracle if they do not succeed. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.19
A gang of incendiaries are said to be at work in Hartford. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.20
A destructive fire occurred at York, Livingston Country, which destroyed the most valuable part of the village. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.21
The mountains are on fire all around us, says the Vergennes Vermonter; to the East of us a fire has been noticed for more than a week, and from its appearance must be doing great damage. The Essex mountain across the lake has presented the appearance of a solid column of flame and smoke for some days, and the smoke and cinders impregnate the air for miles around. The loss of property is very considerable and likely to be much greater. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.22
RECEIPTS SINCE APRIL 17
From a friend, Philadelphia, $5. Richard Cutter, Newburyport, $1. Hiram Edson, Port Gibson, $2. B. Camp, Newark, 60cts, per week (right) S. Gregory, Peekskill, $1. Miss Miles, Albany, 50cts. C. M. Severance, Cleveland, $1. J. Pearson, Portland, for C. S. M. $5. Bro. James, $8. A. Ryker, $3. A Patchin, Galway, $1. John M. Smith, Southbridge, $3. Wallace Smith, Patchogue, $1,50. E. French, Oswego, $2. F. T. Howland, N. Bedford, $2. Thos. W. Haskins, Roxsbury, $1. Williams Thayer, Pomfret, $2. Chas. Clapp, Akron, $1. R. T. Haskins, Worcester, $1. Newell Bond, Cleveland, $1. P. M. Cleveland, $3. Bro. Bloomer, Palisades, $5. Bro. Green, $1. Friends at Newark, $2,50, Friends in New York, $2. JUBST May 22, 1845, page 88.23