In the Voice of the West, of Aug. 6, 1864, Elder Himes says, "Our work with others is that of a missionary—symbolized by an angel flying in the midst of heaven,—crying with a loud voice, 'The hour of his judgment is come.' Rev. xiv, 6." The angel here referred to is one of a series. Two others follow. It is familiarly known to the readers of the Review as the first angel's message. Another angel follows declaring that Babylon is fallen; and a third follows them warning against the worship of the beast, and proclaiming the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. Then follows one like the Son of man, upon a white cloud, representing beyond a doubt the second coming of Christ in the clouds of heaven. There can be no question but that these messages are fulfilled before the coming of the Son of man, and are the last proclamations of truth and warning that precede that event. Eld. H. places the coming of the Lord in 1867-8. And as he has taken his stand so positively on the first message, that he with others, is now fulfilling that message, the query at once arises, where he will locate the other two messages, or in what he will make their fulfillment to consist. There is but a short time, a little more than three years at most, according to his theory, remaining for the accomplishment of these messages. What then will fulfill the message, Babylon is fallen? and what the other message, if any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark, &c; here is the patience of the saints; here are they that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus? In connection with these messages other questions come up for consideration and settlement, as they are a component part of those proclamations, namely, What constitutes Babylon? What is its fall? What is the object of that message? What is the beast mentioned in the third message? What is his image? What is his mark? What is meant by the commandments of God? and what by the faith of Jesus? Many who will canvass Eld. H.'s title to the claim that he is now giving the first angel's message, will doubtless inquire, as they certainly have a right to, where and how these things are to be located and fulfilled, in the three years that intervene between this and 1867. S. D. Adventists have for some time fancied that they were able, on these points, to give a reason of the hope or belief that is in them. If there is a better, we are not the ones who wish to remain ignorant of it.