THE ORIGINAL ADVENT FAITH.
By Editor
[The following items we gather from publications issued previous to 1843. The reader will see from a perusal of them who the original Adventists are. One date, 1843, we change to 1844, as all believers in the doctrine were unanimous in that date previous to the year's close. We love the true, original Advent doctrine. Its fundamental principles cannot be invalidated. May its spirit abide with us.—Ed.] The word of God teaches that this earth is to be regenerated, in the restitution of all things, and restored to its Eden state, as it came from the hand of its Maker before the fall, and is to be the eternal abode of the righteous in their resurrection state. The only restoration of Israel yet future, is the restoration of the saints to the new earth, when "the Lord my God shall come, and all his saints with him." The signs which were to precede the coming of our Saviour, have all been given; and the prophecies have all been fulfilled but those which relate to the coming of Christ, the end of this world, and the restitution of all things. There are none of the prophetic periods, as we understand them, extending beyond the year 1844. The above we shall ever maintain as the immutable truths of the word of God, and therefore, till our Lord come, we shall ever look for his return as the next event in historical prophecy. We hold that the prophetic days of Daniel and John are years; as did Wesley, Scott, Clark, Fletcher, the learned Joseph Mede, Faber, Prideaux, Dr. Hales, Bishop Newton, and Sir Isaac Newton, with all the standard protestant commentators. Our opponents claim that they are simply days, or half-days! We claim that the prophecies of Daniel and John are historical prophecies, extending to the end of time, as all Christians have held, according to the undoubted testimony of historians, till our day. And if the end is not brought to view by these prophecies, they are to us inexplicable. We claim that the ninth of Daniel is an appendix to the eighth, and that the seventy weeks and the 2300 days or years commence together. Our opponents deny this.