complished in so many days. There is almost a universal agreement in the Christian world that in the 70 weeks a day stands for a year. vision, then the

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And if this is a part of the remainder must be interpreted on the same principle; that the seventy weeks compose a part of the vision is evident from the fact that the instructions of the angel Gabriel to Daniel did not terminate here; for he was afterwards informed that the city and sanctuary should be destroyed. "The end of the war should be with a flood," and unto the end of the wars, desolations were determined. And that for the overspreading of abominations he should make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolator. This must relate to the remainder of the vision, the 2300 days. The events in the vision, so descriptive of the Little Horn, evidently extend down to the cleansing of the sanctuary, (including the 1260 years) with which the indignation is to end. Jerusalem is still trodden down, and the Jewish nation remains a scattered people, looking for the return of their Messiah. The indignation has not yet come to an end, and cosequently the vision is not yet closed.

The several points in the vision may be arranged as follows:

I. The 70 weeks divided into three parts:

II. From the birth of Christ to the taking away of the daily (sacrifice) and the setting up the abomination which maketh desolate,

III. From 508 to the time when the saints of the Most High were given into the hands of Papacy by an act of Justinian, the Greek Emperor, gives us the time of

IV. From 538, when the Papal dominion was established by the edict referred to down to the period of its overthrow in 1798, is noted as the time, times and a half in Dan. xii. 7.

Time, one year,

360 days.
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-457

508

30

1260

Times two years,

Half a time,

If the above prophetic calculations can be demonstrated by the word of God, then "a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from

2300

457

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the throne," will soon be heard, saying," IT IS DONE!" Prophecy does reveal things that shall be HEREAFTER. Rev. i. 19, even to the consummation of Jehovah's government and providence in the kingdoms of the world. See Isa. xxviii. 21, 22.

Whatever degree of confidence may be placed in the above calculations, one thing is certain, viz:

There is evidence from the plain declarations of Scripture from the prophecies- that we are living in the time of the end. Several of the most distinguished students of prophecies, after a careful and critical examination, have come to the same conclusion.

The following is an extract from Professor Bush, testifying his own belief that the prophetical periods have nearly expired:

"If we take the ground of right reason, we must believe that the present age is one expressly foretold in prophecy — that it is just opening upon the crowning consummation of all prophetic declarations.

"The first inquiry is, what are we taught to expect? It is evidently something stupendous — something final—the last act in the great drama of the world. We cannot agree with those who believe that the physical de

struction of our earth is predicted and close at hand; though, if their premises once be granted, we cannot see how their chronology is to be disputed. We firmly believe that we are now upon the borders of the momentous changes predicted.

"We have clear intimation from prophecy that the last times shall be distinguished for a laxity of morals and manners, for the prevalence of a spirit of lawlessness and license, for party legislation, for general public profligacy and corruption, and for all the evils by which we are now surrounded. These are facts to which we cannot shut our eyes, and over which it is not easy to go to excess in lamentation."

Dr. Duffield, who has recently published a work on the prophecies, relative to the Second Coming of Christ, says, "Among other signs, that the time of the end,' that is, the season during which the great periods of chronological prophecy run out, and the great things so long predicted will transpire, is described by very strong and marked signs, and particularly by signs in the heavens. The sun shall be darkened the moon shall not give her light—the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. It is supposed, by some, and we think with some plausibility,

that while these physical events are to be regarded as symbolical of the revolutions and commotions of empires, they nevertheless will, to some extent, literally occur. Striking atmospheric and celestial phenomena shall be observed, which, being beyond the reach of man's philosophy, may be regarded as the visible symbols which God himself hangs out in the heavens to predict the consummation coming. It is remarkable, especially for the last fifty or sixty years, that atmospheric and celestial phenomena have been more marked, frequent, and varied, than in any previous age of the world. It is said that not less than fifteen hundred stars have faded from the vault of heaven; and some of them were observed in a state of conflagration.

"Ever since the French revolution, the peculiar signs, both moral and political, which are predicted to mark the time of the end, have been developing. The preparation is making for a great and fearful crisis; the kings and rulers of the earth are leaguing and conspiring together, and becoming more and more involved in their ambitious schemes, and the Lord is sealing his people, pouring out his Spirit, and gathering in his elect. Verily, we must be