What would the Millerites think, if they should now see "an immense red cross in the heavens," "a remarkable red meteor, emitting flashes of light during the night," or "a blood-red appearance of the sun and moon," and "showers of falling stars in extraordinary numbers"? These things are as likely to happen at the present day as they were a hundred years ago, and still the world remains as it has remained. Just before the last return of Halley's comet, an article was published in a religious paper in this state, going to show that the world would probably be struck and set on fire by a comet, and that, most likely, Halley's would be the one to do it, as it was coming much nearer the earth than it had ever been before. The editor seemed to be ignorant that the quantity of matter that enters into the constitution of a comet is exceedingly small, and that the comet of 1770, which was quite large and bright, passed through the midst of Jupiter's satellites without deranging their motions in the least perceptible degree. Comets, it is believed, consist of exceedingly rare vapor; indeed, so much so, that some philosophers say that our thinnest clouds are dense in comparison. And yet this exceedingly thin vapor was to dash the world to atoms, or set it on fire, it was not fully determined which. Whether comets, or any unusual appearances in the sky, are to be considered as _signs_ prognosticating the final dissolution of all things, as being near at hand, is for each to determine for himself. And in forming a judgment upon the subject, we may surely be permitted to exercise the common sense which God has given us. To lay this aside, and judge only by _feeling_ or _fancy_, is to criminally reject a light which we are _sure_ is from God, and follow one which _may_ prove an _ignis fatuus_, and land us in the quagmire of infidelity. If the Scripture signs are to receive a _literal_ fulfilment, we may reasonably expect that they will conform to the four following tests:-- 1. They will appear _near_ the event of which they are intended as the harbinger; probably within the generation of those who will be living at the end of the world. 2. They will be witnessed in all parts of the earth, because all are alike interested. 3. They may _all_ be expected to appear, and not a single class of phenomena without the other. 4. They will be such as will impress intelligent minds with their strangeness and peculiarity.