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The Restitution.S. A. Chaplin, Editor.Plymouth, Indiana, Juno 14, 1882.Wkunksdav. June I t.—Just arrived Innne irom our Eastern tour thisPreached to the church inAs themorning.Philadelphia Sunday last, paper 3s nearly ready for the press wedefer particulars.EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.ly try to instruct them further, and thus win them entirely over to Christ in all his relations to our poor fallen humanity as Savior, Prophet, Priest and King. The kindness manifestedcto ourself while with them, will be Gratefully remembered while we live.* J m/It lias been to us a bright sunny spot in our pilgrimage.While we feel that all that we wereiaide to say, in our humble ministrations, seems a slight equivalent for the sacrifice made that we miirht have thisThursday morning. June 8. finds us at the kind and hospitable home of Brother R. Willard, lladdonfield, N. J.We bade farewell to theonce more, friends in Brooklyn yesterday, and took the cars at Jersey City for Philadelphia at 11 A. M., and arrived at thelatter city at 2:20 P. M. We calledon Brother Samuel Wilson and ar-ranged to preach for the brethren inPhiladelphia on Sunday, June 11.At our last two meetings on Sunday, June 4, in Brooklyn, we spoke on the proximity of the cleansing of the san-tuary as indicated by the progress of events in the world's history through the times of the Gentiles, and as symbolized in the sections of the Great Metalie Image, and then on the rcla-tcmporary release from our continued and perplexing labors, yet we hope and pray that all will be more than made up to our kind friends who have ;ivcn us this respite from pressing cares in the enjoyment of Christian intercourse with them in worship and in every way that they promote our gratification. To Bro. Briggs we are indebted for a day of pleasurable recreation on the shores of the Atlantic at Brighton Beach, toWby f;Chrifaitltionwonwithhis I mul worl thethought wouldseasantiindoOnlievhisgiviBro. G. W. Young forconducting uslions sustained bythose generationswho are living at the times wdien theperiods measuring the dispensations of God’s grace are about expiring. After the restoration of the Jews from theBabylonian captivity. 490 years weregiven as the measure of their restorednationality beiore the final destruction of their commonwealth by the Romans.to the Grand Central Telegraph Office, the Treasury Building, the Stock Exchange, the Tribune Buildings, the Wonderful Safety A bruits of the Park Bank, the Governor's Booms in New York, the Park and Park Museums and other places of interest; to Bro. J. B. Cook and his kind family for conducting us to libraries of rare andTha“tinournotYcisou*» •The generation living at the close ofthis period were warned by the Messiah and the apostles, and called upon to accept the Son of God as King and Heir to the throne ol David. They rejected him and his claims to sovereignty, and the accumulated vengeance f centuries fell upon the obdurateinteresting books, for procuring some on the Great Pyramid and the Egyptian Obelisk for our perusal and for attending us to the Obelisk itself; and to other brethren for many tokens of their esteem.]Perhaps in this connection we may mention that we were twice at thetheof i we] theeutin g:orace. The seventy weeks ran out A. D. 70-73, and the destroyer came. The holy and beautiful house was burned, the city destroyed, and the people carried away into a long and doleful captivity.Since then Jerusalem lias been trod-celebrated Old Trinity Church, and not only looked through this celebrated place of worship, but also through its cemetery where are to be found themgmemorial stones of the dead dating alllt;Jen under foot by the Gentiles, and abominations Pagan, Papal, and Mohammedan have held the supremacy till the present time.Now the point has just about been reached where the remaining part of the long period of 2300 days, or years, allotted to these desecrating powers for trampling God’s sanctuary places under foot, is to expire, and the Jewish fig tree is beginning to bud after the long winter of an ay, and the fioods of Ottoman desolation are, at the same time, rapidly evaporating.the way back for two hundred years. The oldest is placed at the head of the grave of Bichard Churchcr who died August 5, H5S1; while side by side lies Annie Chureher, who was buried May 15, 1(591, aged 17years and three-quarters. On these old crumbling stones the epitaphs are becoming almost illegible, while on others, they have become entirely past deciphering. In another place is deposited AVilliam Bradford, who diedMay 3, 1752, aged 1)2 years. He wasprinter tor the Government for upwards of fifty years. lie was born atLeistershire, England, 1(560, and came over to America in 1(502, before Philadelphia was laid out. In another partcereiKelnwatheJe*bJeffibe'werefsmtolefsptintoof this cemetery is the final restingThe generation now living at the closeof this period has been most solemnly admonished that- the coming of theOLord for his saints is an event of the near future, and that this dispensation of the grace of God to the Gentiles is soon to close. The masses have exhibited the same hardened unbelief as their Jewish proto-types, and the world is doomed to a destruction more s;gnal and overwhelming than marked Jerusalem's overthrow.As we now view the relations of the generations to the prophetical periods, and the relations of some of the longest periods to each other, the 2520 -the seven times of the dura-place of Alexander Hamilton, who was killed in a duel by Aaron Burr, July 11, 1801. He fell lamented by the entire nation, as lie was a man of eminent abilities both in a military and financial point of view. AYe were shown here, on a former visit a few years ago, the place where Charlotte Temple rests within a grave that has no stone nor name, and which can only be pointed out, as it was to i s, by aismeofB\tlulivISduthlit:mlfaimfusexton who knows the whole grounds.yearstion of the kingdoms symbolized by the Great Image—measuring from the■0„ otimes of Nebuchadnezzar and his con-It is with feelings of melancholy that one looks at these old crumbling stones that toll of crumbled comminuted dust below. Here repose those who saw New York when it wasprTlthsodctlia mere village, and when swamps andwilds covered the grounds now oeeu-qucst of Jerusalem B. C. GOG-597, to A. D. 1914-1923, while the 2300 yearsmeasure from the complete restoration from this conquest B. 0. 420-417 to A. D. 1880-1883, leaving a period of40 years for the work of consummation.pied by buildings that have cost millions. The city of mighty activities has replaced the hamlet, and millions of hearts have palpitated with all the emotions of joy and sorrow, hope and despair, love and hate, since death dried up the tears, and quenched the burning sorrows of the heads and the hearts that are now dust below. TheHlct1.thg*cceig1millions now living here are all on theThe three events now first due arethe wresting of Palestine from the power and control of the Ottoman, the partial restoration of Judah, and the rapture of the saints. In other words the next generation period—1883-1923seems to be the consummating generation that shall not pass till all of which Jesus spoke shall be accomplished.These themes formed the subjects of our remarks to the brethren of theway to “dusky death,” and the hearse is daily bearing away its dismal freight to the place of graves. How true:•Tis the twink of an eye, ’tis the draft of a breath.From the blossom of health to the paleness of death;From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud,0 why should the spirit of mortal be proud!In looking over New lrork Harbor, and up the Hudson River, we could but think of the lone ship of Henry Hudson as he sailed up this river in1 (08—his being the first ship that01hibiirb«clhirkYcilo“Church of the Blessed Hope” in Brooklyn on the third and last Sunday that it was our privilege to address them. AYe met (juite a number of the brotherhood who have a place of worship in another part of the city, found them strong in the gospel faith and hope, and enjoyed our intercourse with them very much.disturbed these waters where a forestof masts may be seen lining the shores, and where the waters are always in a continual commotion from the passing craft of every name—and then thinkwhat changes time has wrought in thecommerce of the world. In 1621 the first buildings were erected in the lower part of the city which has nowts0tcf1£1become one of the world's great tradeAll the brethren are intelligent inthe things concerning the kingdom, and the gospel hope and requirements. They manifest a kind Christian spirit toward all. They are not disposed to crush the uninstructed by a haughty supercilious scornful treatment, but rather to instruct in the way of the Lord more perfectly. If those with whom they have intercourse have learned some truth they them credit for it, and kind-centres. AYe will once more bid our readers an adieu till we resume our pencil for another familiar communication.]lad do u field, N. J., June 8, 1882.give
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