Excerpt from The Appearing and Kingdom of Our Lord Jesus Chirst: In Four Letters to an Unbeliever

The great doctrine or the second advent the subject of the following letters) has been'upon the min of, the writer for about nine years. His attention was called-up to consider this very interesting question through the means of sermons received from the Old World, particularly some able discourses from the pen and pulpit' of English-preachers, clergyman of the Church of England. Mcnelle, Bickersteth, Melvrll, and some others, have written and preached with great force on this subject, while the Dissenters generally have been opposed to the doctrine, and have looked at it only, or chiefly, with a view to resist it, and put'it down. At the time of the Writer's embracin these views, he was not'aware that auyl in this New World ad paid the least attention't'o the fsub'jectl And what is most astounding, the Christian publici'have dis covered very little interest ih the'doctrine, however distinctly proclaimed, while the proclaimers have said little or nothing about T he..time. Really, the professors of Christ's holy religion seemed to be roof against all impression arising from the fmere assertion o the truth itself; but as soon as his coming spe'emly - Hrs being AT the very noon, was declared, men began to be uneasy; and when t843 was announced, the whole matter of the Advent began to be clear] apprehended. Then there were great searchings of heart 1 en men began to be in trouble. O the depravity and deceitfulness of the human heart! While the Judgment of the Great Da is yet considered' in the obscurity of distance, for many (la s to come - for times that are afar off, men can bear the prop ecy. A little more sleep, a little more slumber. But no sooner is the cry, Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him, than the world is n in arms - the church too! Alas, the blood-bought sons of Jion will not endure the tidings the church will do anything rather than prepare'for the im mediate coming of her Loan: she will best1r herself anew, and set about the' conversion of the world afresh, rather than admit the possibilit of her Loan's coming without delay? Though I may not be satisfied with the announced date of 1843 as the year of the Lor et if our learned chronologists can make it appear that our ime Table is 157 years behind heaven's dial, then I shall be persuaded to believe that A. D. 1843 will close the sixth millenary; and then, upon this' system, the following year, A. D. 1844, the seventh millenaryi W111 commence, and so the coming of the Lord may be ex pected, early ln' the first Sabbatic year; on what day hr 'at what hour who shall presume to say!

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