tural calculations, that the Turks will be conquered.

Having been, by Time, that great truth-teller, proved a false prophet in one thing, we cannot implicitly trust him any further.

BRIEF REVIEW

OF

WILLIAM MILLER'S

DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD.

BY REV. JOHN M. AUSTIN,

OF DANVERS, MASS.

BRIEF REVIEW.

THE human mind is so constituted as to be easily excited by the wonderful and marvellous.— Whether the attention is arrested by some important discovery in the works of nature, or in the wise and perfect operation of nature's laws,—or whether it is aroused by tricks of charlatanry, or the visionary dreamings of minds, swayed more by the imagination than by reason, the appeal

is to the same quality of the mind, a love of the marvellous. But there is this distinction among men: While the sound-minded and enlightened, demand that to gain their credence, the marvel presented to their consideration, must have, at least, some foundation in reason and known facts, the ignorant and superstitious, are willing to adopt almost any hypothesis, however absurd, if it is but highly spiced with the mysterious and strange,-especially if it has the additional ingredient of alarm! These remarks are made in reference to a publication entitled, "Evidences from Scripture and History of the Second Coming of Christ, about the Year A. D. 1843, and of his Personal Reign of 1000 Years. By William Miller." It first made its appearance in pamphlet form in 1833, and was published in 1836 in a revised an enlarged book.