lion, an old lion, gone up from the prey, "whose mighty roar upon his habitation" shall awaken His people to receive their Hope, their Salvation, their Glory.

It is written in the Law, that on the day of atonement, the ancient church of God, shall cause the trumpet to sound, which proclaims the Jubilee. The command was addressed by the singular number-"Thou" &c.-see Lev. 25. 9. This agency of the church, I believe, is prayer-See Zech. 13. 9. Matt. 23. 39. "The preparation of the heart, and the /answer of the tongue is from the Lord;" and while horror and anguish seem to extort the cries for deliverance which shall be heard in Jerusalem when she has "drank the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out," those very cries are begotten by the sovereign power of that Saviour who died for them upon the cross-See Zech. 12. 10. Truly is JESUS the First and the Last, when He appears before His elect with the girdle of his Royalty, as the Shepherd (i. e. King) who gave His life for the sheep.

Concerning "the day of atonement" as the era of sounding the Jubilee trumpet, I believe it is "the times of restitution commencing with the repentance of the generation that rejected Messiah in His humiliation, even the Jews. In that day, the very words, "His blood be on us, and on our children," (Matt. 27. 25.) shall be realized by "the remnant that give glory to the God of Heaven, whose penitent cries are answered by Sovereign Mercy, "I will pardon them whom I reserve," and it is "the zeal of the Lord of hosts that shall perform this." In that day, when the Jews receive the atonement, their prayers for deliverance shall cause the Jubilee trumpet to sound; and it is written in the Law, that in the year of this Jubilee," ("Hear, O Israel"--0! poor Indians hear,) ye shall return every man (i. e.

every tribe) unto his possession"-Not to the United States, but to the land of King Emmanuel, which he promised by the oath of GOD, unto your fathers.

We, who profess christianity, should rejoice in hope of this glorious Jubilee, that it will soon be celebrated upon the very spot where our Blessed Saviour was reviled as a blasphemer, and condemned to die as a malefactor on the cross. If we love Him at all, we shall love his glorious appearing; and hail his return in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory, to "raise the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; to restore and build it, as in the days of old, that the residue of men, and all the Gentiles might seek after the Lord; for this event is certainly "the joy set before our suffering Master, even the joy of His salvation," and for this He endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down upon His Father's throne, to wait for the arrival of the set time to favour Zion, which is "the year of recompenses for God's controversy, and the Day of the Lord's vengeance." See the result of this Jubilee, or Year of Release, as described by holy prophets in olden times; and give glory to the God of Israel, which is Emmanuel.

"And it shall come to pass in the last days,
That the mountain of the Lord's house

Shall be established in the top of the mountains,

And shall be exalted above the hills,

And all nations shall flow unto it.

And many people shall go and say,

Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,

To the house of the God of Jacob,

And He will teach us of His ways,

And we will walk in His paths,

For out of Zion shall go forth the Law,

And the Word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

And He shall judge among the nations,

And He shall rebuke many people;

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares,

And their spears into pruning hooks;
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
Neither shall they learn war any more.
The wolf also shall dwell with the Lamb,
The leopard shall lie down with the kid-
The calf and the young lion,

And the fatling together,

And a little child shall lead them.

The cow and the bear shall feed,

Their young ones shall lie down together,

And the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

The suckling child shall play on the hole of the asp,
And the weaned child

Shall put his hand on the cockatrice den."—

My comment must be short-"He that hath ears to hear" the literal truth now, let him hear the still small voice of the Spirit, saying, "Seek first the kingdom of GoD, and all other things shall be added unto you." "If ye will not believe, surely you shall not be established."

I shall now observe, that "As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man," millenarians who receive the testimony of the flying angel* (see No. One M. T. p. 39) will understand me in the foregoing testimony concerning the Jewish Jubilee, which it is said takes place, or occurs in A. D. 1841. Perhaps I ought to be more explicit; and it may be better for me to say, that Paul's inspired anouncement of the revelation "of that man of sin," which is the personal anti-Christ, has not taken place to this time, and "the day of Christ shall not come first, (see 2 Thess. 2. 3.) so that the Jubilee which is holy unto the children of Israel (see Lev. 25. 11.) cannot be set to A. D. 1841; for three years and a half is the short time of Satan's great wrath, the forty-two months of anti-Christ's power from his rise out of the bottomless pit, to his fall by the Mighty One, and doom to a lake of un

* Joseph Wolff.

quenchable fire. Three years and a half from the present time, would end with September 1842; but we know the Beast has not ascended out of the bottomless pit; for Jerusalem is not free of her Turkish master, who yet holds the site of the sacred temple "in durance vile," while Egypt has power to open and close her gates. It does appear to me (a poor woman; and willing to be a--gospel kingdom fool -) that the shoulder of iniquity is suffered to set its usurpation over the Truth, and against it, even in the seventieth anniversary of the ancient feast that is called the jubilee, or year of release; and it is probable the dreadful trumpet of the second woe may be mistaken for the "great sound of a trumpet which is to rally all the tribes of the millennial earth, to the Shiloh of Israel." Horrible delusion! It seems to grow out of traditionary observance of "times and seasons, of days and years;" but this is not the efficient cause-rejection of Christ is at the bottom of the mischief, and that he is denied by a vast majority of the present generation, stands an incontrovertible fact. His first advent is still set at nought by Judah and his fellows, His second coming is disowned by Christendom as a body, and by the heathen who worship gods their own hands have formed. What remains in this awful decline of Truth's sacred and saving influence upon the minds of men, but the holding up of a carnal sceptre, by the hand of a devil invested individual, who shall pretend he is the Benefactor ultimatum of the Jews? And what time so likely for him to appear as the seventieth anniversary of their national feast, called the jubilee, which follows the one enrolled in the records of a revolution, which was a remarkble type of the reign of the Beast from the bottomless pit-both in measure of time, and acts of blasphemy-the Bible burnt by common hangmen-the sacramental ves

sels hung to the tail of an ass; and "crush the wretch" a motto set to the adorable Name of our Divine, Holy, and Blessed Saviour? These acts continued forty-two months-but only in one section of the Gentile earth.* The personal reign of anti Christ, is represented as extending through the whole of this inhabited globe.

I drop the subject-and present for your consideration, the chronological calculations of a pious and learned Englishman, upon the seventieth Jubilee year. I have fully expressed my own views, conscientiously desiring to excite the minds of readers of Millennial Tidings, to shun the great snare, by searching after the truth more diligently, and to watch unto prayer, which is the best mean of grace bestowed upon believers by the Author and finisher of our faith, which is JESUS Christ, who is the Blessed and only Potentate, King of kings, and Lord of lords-to Him be glory forever and ever, Amen.

Philadelphia, April, A. D. 1839.

H. L.

From the Morning Watch.

REMARKS ON THE JUBILEAN PERIOD, IN A LETTER TO A FRIEND; BY WILLIAM CUNINGHAME, ESQ.

IT has lately struck me, that if we could ascertain exactly when the next Year of Jubilee is, it would throw much light upon the probable course of events. I shall now tell you the result of my inquiries. Before consulting any writer on the subject, I arrived at the conclusion in my own mind that our Lord's personal ministry must have begun in a year * France.