it be regulated. The shadow going
back ten degrees or forty minutes on the dial of Ahas, ("not ten hours,")
was another miracle, but it remains to be proved that the _sun_ went back.
If any thing could possibly affect the time before the christian era,
Jesus certainly had the correct _time_, _the Sabbath_ before he was
crucified. Astronomers can find no change since. If the christian era was
four years out of date, it does not follow that the day of the week has
changed since God instituted the Sabbath in Paradise. Gen. first chapter
teaches when the sun is up it is day or morning; when he is down it is
night, or evening. God reckoned the first six days from evening to
morning; but further on, in the history of the world, he says "from even
to even shall you celebrate your Sabbath," or rest. This proves that every
day in the week began at evening; so it must continue while we have day
and night. Surely God has done all things well, but man has sought out
many inventions. God help the little flock to follow the truth, and
"Remember the Sabbath day and keep it holy." Amen.

THE LAST EXPERIMENT ON DEFINITE TIME; THE PROLONGING OF THE DAYS _ALL_
FAILED.

In 1843, the Herald and Midnight Cry for many months stated that all the
signs preparatory to the second coming of Christ, were in the past. Soon
after the passing of the _time_ in 1844, they changed their minds and told
us that we had but "just entered upon the ground of disputed chronology
and that we should be justified in looking with more and more confidence
to the extreme boundary of 1847, the extreme point of time in
_dispute_."--See Advent Harbinger, Sept. 28th, 1847. On the strength of
this, A. Hale came out with his definite time--LAST EXPERIMENT.

Well, we have now come to Jan. 1848, and all has failed. What is the
matter? Answer--the disputed time was properly named; there is no truth in
it. It is all a perfect failure; hence all their boasting ends with it. We
say the cry at midnight, was right, and the appointed time did end in the
fall of 1844, as shown in the _Way Marks_. We will now try some further
proof, and still farther that their confessions and reorganization have
fairly led them into the Laodocean state of the Church. They say that
Christ may come any time; this is the teaching of all three of the
Editors, and some of them talk loudly about the ending of the 2300 days,
at that point of time. How vain to assert that the 2300 days will end