to accommodate myself to any man's theory call it spiritual, when I believe in a literal one to come. This I am satisfied is Br. S.'s rule. Neither can I apply the words in Daniel vii. 10-13, to a mystical sense, and in other places make the same words and sentiments literal, without a "thus saith the Lord." Therefore,

when the angel tells Daniel that "those that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake," and Christ tells me "the hour is coming when all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and come forth," I cannot believe one a mystical and the other a literal sense, without any further cause being shown, than my, or another's anxiety to have Antiochus mean the little horn. Daniel vii. 8-25, and 11-12 chap. And if this view which Br. S. has given of these prophecies be true, then his principles of interpretation cannot be correct, without he allows himself, what he is not willing to grant to others, to depart from his own rules, where his own views require such a departure.

As it respects his exposition of times in Dan. 7 and 12, we shall reserve it for future remarks, and examine now into his views on Daniel 8th chapter, p. 93. He says, "One, and only one more period in the book of Daniel claims our present attention; this is in chapter viii. 14. In the vision seen by Daniel, as there related, one angel inquires of another, 'How long the sanctuary and the host were given to be trodden under foot.' The answer is, to two thousand three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed.""

Our teacher has made a very sad misstate

ment in stating his question, not by design, we cannot believe; for he is too good a man to mislead any one. True, my critical neighbor says, he discovers a trick or design in thus stating the question; but wherein? say I. Do you see he has enclosed the question in a single comma, showing that it is but partially stated, while he has enclosed the answer in double commas, showing it is all true? says my neighbor. No, no, said I, this is all jealousy. Mr. S. is too good a man to favor deception at all; it is an inadvertency; he will correct it in a moment when he sees it. The question is not ' How long the sanctuary and host are given to be trodden under foot?' but it is, as Br. Stuart will acknowledge, "How long shall be the vision?" or as some translate it, "For how long time shall be the vision," "concerning the daily (or continual) sacrifice (or wicked) and transgression of desolation, to give both the sanctuary and host to be trodden under foot?" The answer must be according to the question, or one of these heavenly messengers must be in an error-either the one asking, or the one answering the question; and surely I dare not say either is wrong. Then the question resolves itself into the following particulars: "How long shall the ram push against Grecia, or westward, northward and southward; and the he-goat coming from the west, breaking the two horns of the ram, smiting him and casting him down to the ground, and stamping upon him, and then becoming very great; and he must be broken, and then four more rise up in his room, and they continue to be very wicked, notably so; and when they have

accomplished their wickedness, then shall arise another horn, which waxed exceeding great, above all the horns before it, towards the south, east and north, it waxed great to the host of heaven, cast down the stars and stamped upon them, magnified himself in his heart, even to the prince of the host, and stood up against the Prince of princes, the Lord Jesus Christ, cast down the truth to the ground, and practised and prospered, until the Ancient of days came, and the Son of man comes in the clouds of heaven, and these will be broken without hand?"

This last horn is the one which takes away the daily sacrifice, and places in the room of it, the abomination that maketh desolate, and is himself the desolator, and will only be destroyed at the consummation. See Daniel vii. 11, 26: "I beheld then, because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion to consume and to destroy it unto the end." ix. 27: "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations, he shall make it desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate." In this verse the same abominations are spoken of, as in Daniel viii. 13, and this sweeps away at one blow, Br. Stuart's exposition of the little horn being Antiochus; for no one can pretend. that Antiochus lived after Christ; and yet we

find the same desolator overspreading abominations until the consummation, and that determined is poured upon the desolator.

This too harmonizes with Christ's word as given by Matthew (xxiv. 15): "When ye, therefore, shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand;") and if our Br. S. would divest himself entirely of his prepossessions for Antiochus, and not be continually harassed by that old spectre, he would at once see that the Scriptures harmonize, and would not have to resort to such ridiculous subterfuges as he has on pages 99 and 100, to do away the force of Christ's words.

He would also see the exact agreement between Daniel's little horn, (xi. 36,) "And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods, and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished: for that that is determined shall be done," and Paul's man of sin, (2 Thess. ii. 3, 4,) “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition: who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." But there is but little hope for such men. Pride of opinion goes a great ways with men of his standing, and they are slaves to popular applause; and all you

can say or write will do him no good, nor the class in which he moves,'-whispers Satan in my ear, while I am writing. Get behind me, Satan, say I. A man who writes with so good a spirit, and gives us such good rules, will see that it is all a fable about Antiochus being prophesied of anywhere in Daniel, except in chap. xi. 11, 12; and that from the 14th verse of the 11th chapter to the end of the 12th, all is a relation of the things which have been literally and will be fulfilled to the end of the gospel period, and the coming of Christ; and is all concerning the fourth and last earthly kingdom in our world.

My limits will not allow me now to show that every word of Daniel xi. 14-45, has been literally fulfilled under the history of Rome, the fourth kingdom in Daniel's vision; and that that vision carries us to the end of all indignation, and to the consummation, when the body of this beast (Roman kingdom) is given to the burning flame. If then it can be shown that the history of Rome better fulfils the prophecy, and leaves no difficulty but what may be easily surmounted, why not leave the Antiochus system of explanation to its fate, with all its insurmountable difficulties, and take that which harmonizes with all Daniel's visions, the history of the world, and New Testament writers?

I shall now examine Mr. Stuart's remarks on the "designation of time," by his own rule.

1st. Time, as specified in Daniel viii. 14: "And he said unto me, Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed." We have already examined the