''THIS S~ME JESUS WHO IS TAKEN UP FROM YOU INTO HEAVEN, SHALL SO COME IN LIKE MANNER AS YE HAVE SEEN HIM GO INTO HEAVEN." 
No. 14. 
BOSTON AND NEW YORK, NOVEMBER 11. 1846. 
THE ADVENT HERALD 
unto the adoption of children by Jesus Church, in ~hom He will be glorified for benefit from it. Nay, the personal min· 
1s PustisaED EvERY wEDNEsDAY 
Christ to Himself, according to the good ever,-that Jerusalem which. is above, istry of our Lord Himself did not ensure 
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it. 
Prophet after prophet had been com· 
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glory of His grace." (Eph. 1:4-6.) 
ii. Yet, notwithstanding, we see other missioned to exhort and reprove the Jews; 
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Jesus is doming. 
Jelll8 is tomlng ! 
0, 1olemn honr! 
&brooded in majesty, 
Glory ant! power. 
Tr~peta are sounding 
From shore to shore, 
ilalJrta are arising ;-
Time ifl no more. 
J-illcominp;! 
O, wh.o can abide 
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Btslearching presence, 
Bat they're who 're tried r 
lara will welcome him-
On them he'll smile ; 
Bin~~en, confounded, 
Will weep and wail. 
Jesus is coming! 
The heaven~ how down1 
Myrinds of angels 
Wait h.im around: 
Seraph.s adoring him, 
Crowns on his brow, 
All bow before him ;-
Earth. is ltis now. 
Jesus is coming! 
And soon will appear ; 
Ye who are wuiting, 
Need not fear : 
In immortality 
You: shall sh.are,-
Lo ! h.e knocketh now, 
Prepare ! prepare ! 
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Our Lord's Ministry. 
ii. See, also, His free ~tnskackled grace and subordinate objects whick are ever but they rejected every message, and even 
in promising. 
He steps forward to the kept in view. 
Every link in the chain. is treated with reproach and violence those 
Jew, and of His own mercy, "Without any within the purpose of God, as well as who sought to save them from destruc· 
desert on their parts, makes over to them, the weight of glory suspended from the tion. 
At la:st, He who spake as never 
by the covenant of promise, the richest whole: and every link must have its man spake, went among them, meek and 
bles:iings. 
And what is the rich inheri-place, and keep it, and do its office. 
And lowly, and every word was gentle and en· 
tance of the spiritual Church but those hence, if the difference between Jew and couraging. 
He would have gathered 
precious promises, just as undeserved and Gentile be, so to speak, lost in the ulti-them, but they would not: and, from be-
just as freE', which are all yea and ,amen mate glory, it is never overlooked in the ing exalted to heaven, they were cast 
in Christ Jesus? See the blessed con-arrangements which lead to ~t, God ad-down to hell. How should we Gentiles 
trast of the law, righteous in its condem-bering steadily to the order He has laid take heed! 
vVho has ever had such 
nation, and the promise·, gracious in its down and the means He has chosen. 
light, such privileges, such opportunities 
life, Gal. 3 throughout. 
iii. We see, also, that God will choose as we have had 1 Where is there a land 
iii. Again, we have here the exhibition His own instrumentality, and, in the end, like ours, through which truth circulates, 
of His unchangeableness in his gifts and accomplish His purpose by it. It may and where knowledge unto life is attain-
calling, ,as resulting from His sovereign seem worthless: nay, it is always proved able 1 Oh, to seek for those showers of 
choice and gracious promises. "Hath to be in itself worthless and unprofitable; heavenly grace in the preaching of the 
God cast off His people? 
God forbid." but still He will do His will by it, and Word, without which the precious seed, 
And are any of His faithful ones doubt-thus manifest His undivided claim to all however thickly scattered, will still be 
ing and cast down, who follow after right-the glory. 
The Jew turned out app:u-unfruitful, and the wilderness for ever 
eousness, who seek the Lord 1 Then, if ently fit for nothing, and seemed only fail to ,yield the blessed harvest of right-
they are Jews, let them "look unto the c.alculated to cast an imputation on the ·eousness and salvation. 
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rock whence they were hewQ, and to the wisdom which selected him. 
But shall it 
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Nay: t e nation may be erence to our blessed Lord, in connexion 
(Concluded.) 
Look unt Abraham your father and unto cast out, butt he Lord shall have a rem-w,;th our su'Mect. 
Matt. 15: 24---" But He answered and eaid, I 
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am not eeut but unto the lost sheep of the house Sarah that bare you : for I called him nant. 
Abraham's seed shall be what the 
i. How entirely did He give Himself 
of Israel." 
alone, and blessed him, and increased Lord purposed; and through them·shall up to His Father's will, just to be and to 
Rom. 15: 8-" Now l say that Jesus Christ him. 
For the Lord shall comfort Zion." His way yet be known upon earlh, His do wlwt seemed good to Him in e·very· 
WU a minister of the circumcision fur the truth A d 'f h 
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iv. Again, we see that those who will the house of Israel; and though He was 
If, therefore, the question were again Abraham's seed and heirs according to not bend to the purposes of God, and WIL· despitefully and shamefully entreated, yet 
asked, "What advantage, then, hath the the promise." "They shall never per-
LINGLY fulfil them, shall fulfil them UN-still He went on, in all affectionate earnest· 
J~~ 1 or what profit is there of circum:. ish, neither shall any pluck them out of WILLINGLY. 
Not that the delicate andre-ness, to finish the work which was given 
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tbe apostle, "Much every way: chiefly 
iv. Once more, observe His invincible judgment of them that reject Him shall ing the Word of life, and calling in the 
because unto them were committed the perseverance in carrying out His pur-be blindness and. hardness of heart.-wanderers to the fold of His mercy. And 
oracles of God." In other words, to use poses. 
Do what the devil will,, the Lord '' B.ehold, ye desprsers, and. wonder and this was no compulsory service, but it 
the language of the same apostle, "They is never baffled. 
There is a delibemtion pensh: for I Wo,rk a work m your days, was His meat and drink. 
And when 
were Israelites;· to them pertained the indeed, in the fulfilment of His will· n~ a work which ye shall in no wise believe, tbeir guilt was consummated in lifting 
adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, unseemly haste; no hurry: but stiiJ no though a man declare it unto you." 
Him up on the cross, and He might just· 
a~d the giving of the law and the ser-uncertainty, no risk of failure: and for a 
(3.) We lwrn from this subject, also, ly have appealed to the Father who sent 
Vlce of God, and the promises; theirs plain reason,-He can command time. 
A a profitable lesson as to God's dealings Him, to avenge their undeserved and in· 
~ere the fathers, and of them as concern-week, a year, a hundred years, a thou-with us. 
jurious treatment, His dying breath went 
Ing the flesh Christ came." And when sand years, are all equally and alike with-
i. (Uod will deal fairly and justly with up in prayer for His very murderers, and, 
He did come, He reco()'nized and treated in the infallible certainty of His arrange-every man. He will give each what is amid His own sorrows and their mockery, 
them as possessing ;11 these privileges, ments. 
And He can be patient with the sufficient in the way of means and privi-He besought for them forgivenesss. 
which it was His object to confirm and sinner, and allow even the devil his time; leges, and a fair opportunity of making 
ii. And, on the other hand, in all His 
not to abroO"ate. 
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(2.) We learn muck from this subject He said, "If thou hadst known, even words of the prophet, Isaiah 49:4, 5,-
d e fueVIew we have taken of these won-in reference to God's working. 
thou, at least in thy day, the things which "Then I said, I have labored in vain, I 
e~ l arrang~~ents. 
i. We see Him having a grand fJbject belong unto thy peace!" How should have spent my ~trength for nought, and 
BI; Ho": stnkmg is tlte sovereignty ?f in view, quite in~epe~dent, in one sense, Christ's patience an~ earnestness ~ith in vain: yet surely my judgment is with 
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All the way down the Jews· lead the smner to seek Him! the Lord, and my work with my God. 
m: choice of. the Jewish people, has He to the first coming of the Lord a spirit-What an impression should we get from And now, saith the Lord that formed me 
C~d .Hts eternal election of the ual seed was being gathered, mainly, in-His whole ministry of the truth of His from the womb to be His servant, to bring 
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ch. whtch H~ has loved!-" Accord-deed, out of the Jews, but still some out love. 
Jacob again to Him, Though Israel be 
.. He ~th chosen us in Him before of the Gentiles, and tnese, along with us 
ii. And yet it should he solemnly re· not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in 
foundation of the world, that we and others who have believed since Christ membered, that the possession of the most the eyes of the Lord, and my God shall 
be holy and without blame before came, without distinction of race or clime, exalted privileges does not ensure the sav-be my strength." Still, therefore, He pur· 
m love : having predestinated us are to fonn the glorious resurrection-ing reception nf the Gospel, or any real sued His way ; still went after tbe lost 
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and wandering; still called, though they 
refused ; and stretched out His hand, 
though few regarded. 
And ours, as min· 
isters of the Gospel, must be His unbaf-
fled diligence and sustaining comfort.~ 
We must be instant in season, out of sea-
son; in disa~pointment still persevere, 
under discouragements still press for-
ward. · If some reject the truth, and many 
slight it;-if some are mere formalists, 
and others heartless professors,-still 
those whom the Father giveth to Christ 
shall come, and in gatherina them we 
shall not fail of our reward. 
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The Papacy and Protestantism. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
sect may contain, mingled with proposi-survived, we find it difficult to conceive in 
tions strictly theological, other proposi-what way she is to perish. 
tions purporting to rest on the same au-
The first of these insurrections broke 
thority which relate to physics. If new out in the region where the beautiful Ian-
discoveries should throw discredit on the guage of Oc was spoken. 
That country, 
physical propositions, the theological pro-singularly favored by nature, was, in the 
positions, unless they can be separated twelfth century, the most flourishing and 
from the physical propositions, will share civilized part of Western Euro_p,e. 
It 
in their discredit. 
In this way, undoubt-was in nowise a part of France. !t had 
edly, the progress of science may indi-a distinct political existence, a distinct na-
rectly serve the ~ause of religious truth. tional character, distinct usages, and a 
The Hindo? mythology, for example, is distinct speech. 
The soil was fruitful 
bound up with a most absurd geography. and well cultivated· and amidst the corn-
Every young Br~hmin, therefore, who fields and vineyards arose many rich 
learns geography I~ our colleges, learns cities, each of which was a little republic; 
to smil~ _at the Hmdoo mythology. If and many stately castles, each of which 
Catholicism has not suffered_ to_ an equal contained a miniature of an imperial 
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all intelligent Catholics now hold, with humane and graceful form first appeared 
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~ ?ur . es_tmdy wd Ifc we Pascal, that in deciding the point at all, as the inseparable associ
1ate of art and 
d ~Mve ro~ reve atwn, Ids 111 ee d~ffivery the Church exceeded her powers, and literature "'of courtesy and love. 
The 
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ut nelt e[ IS revea e !e-supernatural assistance which, in the ex-fifth century had sprung up in the ancient 
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truth of our propositions, that divinity, herds 
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science. 
A very common knowledge of ina of science for the recording of great 
~ . a r-ng eh ver~e to ~ny. 0 d ~ ~s~ 0h s. history, a very little observation of life, ev~nts or fo; the pain tina of life and 
t IS P a~n, t ere ore, t at m1 IVImty t here will suffice to prove that no learning, no mann~rs 
But the lan()'uage
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cin~~t. e a prog~ess :na o1ous . to ~ at sagacity, affords a security against the was alre~dy the langu~ae of the learned 
W llC 1S rnstant/ ta _mg. pace lnCph ~r-greatest ertors on subjects relating to the and polite and empl;yed by numerous 
~acy,fgeho ofigfyh, an naviga~Ihon. B'bl . ns-invisible world. 
Bayle and Chilling-writers 
st~dious of all the arts of com-
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printing, gunpowder steam gas vacci;a~ ~n h apparhltwnsk. 
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With civilization had .come free-
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separated from each other by this infected 
district. 
Under these circumstances, it 
seemed probable that a single generation 
would suffice to spread the reformed doc-
trine to Lisbon, to London, and to Na}>les. 
But this was not to be. 
Rome cried for 
help to the warriors of northern Fr nee. 
She appealed at once to their superstition 
and to th"eir cupidity. 
To the de ut ~­
lievers she promised pardons as ample as 
those with which she had rewarded the 
deliverers of the holy Sepulchre. 
To 
the rapacious and profligate, she offered 
the plunder of fertile plains and wealthy 
cities. 
Unhappily, the ingenious and pol-
ished inhabitants of the Languedocian 
provinces were far better qualified to en-
rich and embellish their country than to 
defend it. 
Eminent in the arts of peace, 
unrivalled in the "gay science," elevated 
above many vulgar superstitions, they, 
wanted that iron courage, and that skill 
in martial exercises, which distinguished 
the chivalry of the region beyond the 
Loire, and were ill-fitted to face enemies, 
who, in every country from Ireland to 
Palestine, had been victorious against 
ten-fold odds. 
A war, distinguished even 
among wars of religion by its merciless 
atrocity, destroyed the Albigensian heresy; 
and with that heresy the prosperity, the 
civilization, the literature, the national ex· 
istence, of what was once the most opu· 
lent and enlighted part of the great Euro· 
pean family. 
Rome, in the mean time, 
warned by that fearful danger from which 
the exterminating swords of her crusaders 
had narrowly saved her, proceeded tore· 
vise and to strengthen her whole system 
of polity. 
At this period were institued 
the order of Francis, the order of Domin· 
ic, the tribunal of the Inquisition. 
The 
new spiritual police was everywhere. 
No alley in a great city, no hamlet on a 
remote mountain, was unvisited by the 
begging friar. 
The simple Catholic, who 
was content to be no wiser than his 
fathers, found, wherever he turned, a 
friendly voice to encourage him. 
The 
path of the heretic was beset by innumer· 
able spies; and the Church, lately in 
danger of subversion, now appeared to be 
impregnably fortified by the love, the rev· 
erence, and .the terror of mankind.-( To 
be continued.) 
fifth century are familiar to the nineteenth. 
For these reasons we have ceased to dom of thou?'ht. 
l!se h~d t~ken away 
None of these discoveries and inventions wonder at any vagaries of superstition. the horror with which m1sbehevers were 
.have the smallest bearing on the q~estion We have seen men, not of mean intellect elsewhere regarded. 
No Norman or B_re-
whether man is justifierl by faith alone, or neglected education, but qualified by ton ever ~a\~ a Mussulman, excep_t to give 
or whether the invocation of saints is an their talents anJ acquirements to attain and receive blows on some Synan field 
orthodox practice. 
It seems to us, there-eminence either in active or speculative of bat~le. 
~ut the p~ople olthe rich 
fore, that we have no security for the fu-pursuits, well-read scholars, expert logi-
c_ount~les W~lch lay under the Pyrenees 
ture against the prevalence of any theo-cians,. keen observers of life and manners, ~lved m habits _of courteous_ and ~rofitable 
loaical error that has ever prevailed in prophesying, interp:eting~ talking un-mtercourse With the Moonsh kmgdoms 
ti~e past among Christian men. 
We kno~ntongues,,~orkmg nmaculouscures, of Spain, and gave a hospitable welcome 
are confident that the world will never go commg down wlth messages from God to skilful teachers and mathematicians, 
back to the solar system of Ptolemy; to the House of Co~mons. We have, who, in tlie schools of Cordova and Gra-
nor is our confidence in the least shaken seen an old w~man, with no talents be· nada, had become versed in all the learn-
by the circumstance that even so great a y~nd ~he cunnn~g of a fortun~-teller, and ing of ~he ~rabians.. The G~e~k, still 
The Chamber of Torture. 
~an as Bacon rejected the theory of Ga-yYith tne educatiOn of a sculhon, exalted pre&e~vmg, m the mJ?st of poh!Ical_d~g-
. In the midst of a spacious rotunda, in 
llleo with scorn; for Bacon had not all mto a prophetess, and surrotmded by tens radatwn, the ready Wit and the mqumng a deep cave, lighted by two dim torches, 
the means of arriving at a sound conclu-of thousands of _devot~d fol!owers, many spirit of his fathers, still able ~o. read t~e four men in masks surrounded another 
sion which are within our reach, and ?f whom were, m statiO~ and knowledg~, most perfect of human composltlons, still man, sad and feeble, who sustained him· 
which ~ecure people, who would not have ~mmeas';lrably her supenors i and al~ th_Is speaking the most powerful and flexible self with difficulty, and whose enfeebled 
been worthy to mend his pens, from fall· m the nmeteenth century, 'land allihts 111 of human languages, brought to the marts vision the gloomy light of this sepulchral 
ing into his mistakes. 
But we are very Lon?on. 
Yet whY:' not· 
For of the of Narbonne and Toulouse, together with place pained and wearied. 
differently affected when we reflect that dealmgs of God With _man no more has the drugs and silks ~f remote c.limates, 
A humid and thick atmosphere, ex· 
Sir Thomas More was ready to die for been -revealed to the mneteenth century bold ~nd ·subtle theones, long unknown tended like a pestilential fog throughout 
the doctrine of transubstantiation. 
He th~n to the ~rst, _or to Londo~ than to t~e to the 1gnorant and credulous West. 
The these subterraneous regions, from which 
was a man of eminent talents. 
He had wildest p~nsh m tl~e Hebn~es. It lS Paulician theology-a theology in which, a fetid, sepulchral odor was exhaled. In 
all the information on the subject that we tn~: t_hat, m th?se thmgs whiC? concern as it sh.ould seem, m.any of the dor:trines this sort of grotto, all around the uneven 
have, or that, while the world lasts, any thk hfe an~ tbts world! ~an ~;onstan_tly of_ the modern ~alvmts~s were ¥lmgled 'walls, which glistened with the water 
human beina will have. 
'l'he text" This becomes '' Iser. 
B~t Jt IS no less tl ue wtth some doctrmes denved from the an-oozing throuah the soft stone instruments 
is my body,~ was in his New Testament that, as respects_ a higher power and aft~-cient Manichees,-spread rapidly through of torture w;re seen suspen
1ded; the in· 
as it is in ours. 
tur~tate, man, m the language of Goethe s Provence and Languedoc. 
The clergy fernal invention of the ascetic and sav· 
'fhe absurdity of the literal interpreta· sco ng fiend, 
· 
of_ the Cat~olic Church were regar~ed age imagination of the monks, the very 
tion was as great and as obvious in the 
"bleibt stets von gleichem schlag, 
With loathmg and contempt. 
" V1ler signt of which caused a shudder. 
sixteenth century as it is now. 
No pro-Und ist 80 wunderlich ais wie am ersten tag." 
th~n a,priest,"-.:-" I woul~ as soon _b a 
There were racks, iron bolts, nails of 
gress that science has maue or will make . The history of Catholicism strikingly pnest, -became proverb1al e~pres_sJons. enormous size, ropes of every thickness, 
can add to what seems to us the over· Illustrates these ob::.ervations. 
During The Papacy lost all authonty Wl~h all and in a corner, by the side of a rack, a 
whelming force of the argument against the last seven centuries, the public mind classes, from t~e great feudal_ prmces pan of coals, 'which darted its red ~~;n~ 
the real presence. 
We are therefore una-of Europe has made constant progress in down to the cultivators of the soiL 
blue flames in the recess. 
It was tern· 
ble to understand why what Sir 'fhomas every department of secular knowledo·e. 
The dan.o-er to the hierarchy was in-ble to behold. 
~ore believed respecting transubstantia-But in religion we can trace no const~nt deed formid~ble. Only one transalpine 
The descent into this infernal place 
t~on may not be believed to the end of progress. 
The ecclesiastical history of nation had emerged from barbarism, and was by numerous winding stairs, whos~ 
t1me_ by men equal in abilities and honesty that long period is the history of move-that nation had thrown off all respect for humid steps were covered with mou~dt· 
to S1r_Thomas More. 
But Sir Thomas ment to and fro. 
Four times since the Rome. 
Only one of the vernacular Ian-ness, and upon which it was imposstble 
More IS o?e of the choice specimens of authority of the Church of Rome was es-guages of Europe had yet been extensive-to walk without slipping; but the servants 
human wisdom and virtue, and the doc-tablished in Western Christendom, has ly employed for literary purposes, and of the Inquisition had, as they say t~e 
trine of transubstantiation is a kind of the human intellect risen up against her that language was a machine in the hands sailor''S foot. 
They were acquainted wtth 
proof charge. 
A faith which stands that yoke. 
Twice she remained completely of heretics. 
The geographical position the least turn in this frightful labyrinth to 
test will stand any test. 
The prophecies victorious. 
Twic.e she came forth from of the sectaries made the danger pecu-which they had led Manuel Argoso, when 
of Brothers and the miracles of Prince the conflict bearing the marks of ctuel liarly formidable. 
They occupied a cen-they left the hall of tribunal, and where 
Hohenlohe sink to trifles in the compari· wounds, but with the principle of life tral region communicating directly with we now find them again with the un~ap· 
son. 
One reservation, 
inde~d_, must be still strong within her. 
When we reflect France, with Italy, and with Spain. 
The py accused, waiting the grand inq_uisitord 
made. 
The books and traditions of a on the tremendous assaults which she has provinces which were still untainted were 
The fonner governor of SeVIlle ha 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
107 
suffered himself to be led, or rather clos-who inspires. you whh this guilty persist-
ing his eyes in order not to see the road ence in wickedness. 
Pray with me, if 
ovet which they hurried him, but the exe-you possibly can, that God may have pity 
cutioners had stopped in the midst of the on you, and send,you the light of his Ho-
Chamber of Torture, thus this gloomy ly Spiril." 
, 
den was called. 
The accused opened his 
At the same time, Arbues lmeeling on 
eyes again, cast round him an anxious the ground by the side of the sufferer, 
look, and he observed nothing but the muttered, in a low voice, an unintelligible 
veiled figures of the sinister creatures prayer, with a sanctimonious and affected 
who, in this terrestrial hell, filled the of-air. 
Then he made one after another, 
fice of demons, and who were called tor-several rapid signs of the cross, humbly 
mentors. 
When he had counted one af-smote his breast,· and remaining for some 
ter another of. the horrible instruments of minutes with his face leaning upon his 
torture which surrounded him, his imagi-clasped hands. 
nation, enfeebled by fasting and impris-
At this moment, the savage inquisito],' 
onment, became the prey of a strange of Seville, who was only an humble Do· 
hallucination, In his faith, as a pious minican, praying and weepin(l' for the 
Christian, he believed that he had left sins of others, at length rose up: 
this world, and had arrived at the place of 
"Unhappy slave of the devil," said he, 
which the gospel speaks where there "is addressing the accused, "has God vouch-
weeping and gnashing of teeth." · 
safed to hear my prayers, and open f-6ur 
Need we be s-urprised after this, that in eY.es sealed against the brightness or our 
moments, and in the midst of such horrid faith 1" 
pageant, the Inquisition has. obtained the 
"My fai.th is still the sarr:e," replied 
most singular abjurations and confessions, 
~t\.rgoso; "1t has neve~· va~Ied a smgle 
the most contrary to the charaCter of mstant; as I have re?eived 1t . fr.om my 
those whom she made her victims? 
father, who was a pwus Chnstian, so I 
Pierre Arbues, came at lenoth, fol-will carry it with me to the tomb." 
lowed by a second inquisitor, and by the 
"~,od i~ my wi.tness that. i.t is n?t my 
apostolic notary. 
The accused wa_s stand-fault, 
said the JUdge, raismg his eyes 
ing in the midst of the Chamber of Tor-toward heaven; "go," he pursued~ look-
ture. 
' 
ing at the tormentors, :' apply the torture 
At the sight of his judge he was re-of the cord." 
~ 
. 
ea!l~d to. the sad feeling of reality; ort 
At these word~ the accuse~ s~ut his 
:nnsmg h1s eyes toward heaven, as if to eyes-a dull buzzmg sou~de? m his ears 
supplicate it, he perceived that above his -a cold s~eatran down his hmbs, and he 
head, in the vault, a strong pulley had shuddered m every fibre. 
The torme.nt-
been fixed, through which passed a solid ors drew towards them the cable whiCh 
!Ope of hemp, which hung down to his hung from the vault. 
~. The four masked men stood silent-
" You will continue to torture until we 
ly by his side. 
judge it expedient to suspend it," contin-
P'erre Arbues, and the inquisitor who ued the inquisitor, and if during this 
!<'.C?mpanied him, s!'lt down upon seats to time, the aceused suffers any injury, be it 
assist at the mournful scene, confonna-the fracture of a limb, or even death, I 
bly to the eighteenth article of the code protest befcre you all that the fault should 
of the Inquisition, which provided that be imputed to him alone. 
And now let 
one or two inquisitors should alw£rys be the will of God be done," added he, ex-
present at the torture, to record the dec-tending his hand towards the executioners. 
1arations of the accused. 
Instantly, the four masked men seized 
Manuel Argoso, though he had the the unhappy governor; and tied his 
tourage of strong minds, could not divest hands behind his back, with one of the 
himself of strong terror. 
He thought of ends of the cord, which hung above his 
his daughter, who would, perhaps, be head; then seizing the other end, by the 
obliged to undergo the same trials, and aid of the pulley, they raised the suffer-
all his courage forsook him. 
er to the height of the ceiling, and let 
If he could have saved her from them him fall rapidly till within a foot from the 
by confessing imaginary crimes, he would ground.. 
Th~ unhappy man almost faint· 
not have hesitated a sino-le moment· but ed at this ternble shodL 
he well knew that such a
0 confession ~ould 
The tormentors waited a few minutes 
ruin inst~ad of saving her. He therefore until he had recovere?, and immediately 
summoned all his enero-y and prepared when he re-opened his eyes, they re-com-
to suffer. 
0 
' 
me:nced this cru!'ll ascension, and suf-
At a signal from the grand inquisitor, f~red him t? fall ~s violently as the first 
~e tormentors stripped the accused of tune. 
This pumshment lasted for an 
his clothing, and left him with nothing hour. 
. 
but his shirt. Then Pierre Arbues mov-
The unfortunate govP.rnor .had not ut-
ing towards him: 
tered a complaint; only his panting and 
"My son," said he, with angelical sweet-suff?cated br~ast. emitte~ a hoarse andre-
ne~s, "my son confess your crimes, and stramed respuat~on, which resembled ~he 
grieve not our souls by persisting in error death rattle. 
His heavy eyes, glazed hke 
~nd heresy-spare us the sorrqw of obey-!hose of the dying, seemed ~o hav~ noth-
l~g the severe laws of the holy Inquisi-mg more to do but to cl?se m then la~t 
IJ.on, by treatina you with all the rigor sleep. 
The cord which enclosed h1s 
which they dem~nd." 
wrists, had cut so deeply into the flesh, 
Manuel Argoso made no reply, but he that the ~lood of th~ tort~red man trickled 
t~t ~pon the inquisitor a fixed, cold, ~ll over. his body; h1s shu~, the only cl?th-
piercmg look which defied torture. 
m~ which they had left h1m, was soiled 
"Avow and confess," resumed Pierre With bloody mue; for the floor was earthy 
A!bue~ with incredible perseverance, but and damp; .and when the torture ~as over, 
still With a voice full of unction and aen· the wretched man, released fromhts bonds, 
tleness. 
" We are your fathers in God, fell on the earth a shapeless mass-his dis-
and we are actuated solely by the desire located bones and ~angled mus~les could 
to save your soul. 
Come, my son, a sin-no longer support him. 
cere co!lfession can alone save you in the 
It was a harrowing and horrid specta· 
oth~r hfe, and in this, deliver you from cle to see this strong man, tall, robust, 
the JUSt vengeance of God. 
Confess your and still in the viaor of his age, annihi · 
sin." 
lated by a cruel to~ture, and punished be-
" I .cannot confess a crime which has fore he had be~n tried. 
What might not 
no existence," replied the governor. 
be expected from a jurispruden~e which 
." ~ son," said the judge,· "I am imposed such trial? But the inquisitors 
~Y at your impenitence, and I beseech had no bowels; they reigned by torture, 
uae Lord to touch your soul, which with· they delighted in agony. 
out. grace, will inevitably be lost, for the 
" Take this man back .to his prison," 
evil holds it in his power, and it is he said Pierre Arbues, with an air of pity~ 
"that will do for to-day," and turning his brother in any matter." 
(1 Thess· 
towards the inquisitorial counsellor, "my 4: 6.) 
son," said he, '.' do not forgot to pray for 
" Dishonest gain is not necessarily to 
this unhappy man in your prayers." 
be restored." (Sylvester sumrn. verb. 
Such was the mannN of the inquisi-emptio. n. 13.) 
tor's procedure when in the presence of 
"Putting away lying, speak every man 
their victims-they concealed the abomi-truth with his neighbor." (Eph. 4:25.) 
nable hardness of their hearts under ~e 
"Though a man with perjuries and 
hypocritical exterior of profound piety. lies deny the badness of his commodities, 
Two friars carried the wretched governor or make them better than they are, the 
in their arms. 
Manuel Argoso no longer lies, if they do not much injure the buyer, 
ga-ye any sign of Iife.-Mysteries of tke are but venial." 
(Sylvester sumril. verb. 
I~isitipn. 
emptio. n. 28.) 
1 
"To tell what is false, if it be not on 
Roman Interpretation and Ethics. purpose, though it be done without care 
whether it be true or false, is but a venial 
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" An official lie is that' which is told to 
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"An oath does not bind, if he that 
tween the popes ~~d kmgs as between swears has not a mind tor~ind himself." 
the sun and. moon. 
(Pope In?ocent ~~~., (St. Bonaventura.) 
to Constantme the Emperor, m Decretm 
"It is a question whether it be a mortal 
Gregor, 1., III., 33, c. b.) 
. 
sin for a preac.her to tell lies in the pulpit. 
. " Let every soul be subJect unto the I affirm it is not, in such things as do not 
h1~er powers.". 
·(~omans 13:1.) 
concern doctrine; for instance, if he say 
. '~ut ~~em m·mmd to be subJect to t?e things jocosely." (Sylvester.) 
plllnCI~~lltle~ and ~owers, to obey magis· 
"Wherefore laying aside all malice, 
tra,~eTs.h (TJtus 3·fl.) 
l 
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1 Peter 
P. person o every c ergy~an 1s 2 : 1.) 
sacred; so that ~; canr~ot be. subJec.t to 
1 
" To make a false show of sanctity, if 
an~secularpower. 
(CaJP-tanmAqm~.) it be for the honor of God,'1md th~ edifi-
Therefore alllay~en.' 0~ ~h~t emm-cation of our neighbor, is no sin." (Syl· 
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"Bare hypocrisy, when one feigns he is 
(Pope Urban VI.) 
o-ood and is not or better than he is is no 
. " Yea, and w~y. eve~ of yourselves ~ortal sin, th;ugh it has the fore~ of a 
JUdge ye not what Is ngh~. (Luke 12:57.) lie." (Cajetan.) 
'' If he (the pope) shall decree that any-
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JOimng vices, and prohibttmg vlftu~s; yet tion upon it." (Sylvester.) 
would the church be bound to beheve the 
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consctence. 
e arm. e on 1 
, . . scandal." (Cajetan.) 
" Therefore the Popes are to be. obeyed ; 
nor may the sheep examine the deerees 
~rotestants, ~re you prepared for such 
of the shepherd." (Bellarmine de verd. eth1cs as these. 
Popery denounces the 
Dei Ill., 5.) 
Bible Society for circulating the ~ible 
" S 
1 th s · t 
" (J h 5.39 ) without note or comment. Popery is of-
" lte~rc 1 t te b crtlhp urehst. th tothn H._ 1· fended because it is read in our schools. 
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faith and manners." 
(Bellarmine de 
ns 
omams s.-
rzs. 
wnce. 
verd. Dei. II., 16~.) 
A Mahomedan Discomfited. 
" Rise, Peter, kill and eat." 
(Acts 
10: 13.) 
Mr. Drose, who is s~stained by the Ber· 
"The office of Peter is twofold,-to lin ,Missionary Society at Ghazip?or, a 
feed and to ki!'l; according to that, ' feed few miles below Benares, declared m the 
my sheep,' and according to that, 'kill presence of several Mahommedans, who 
and eat;' for when the Pope has to do pledged themselves to prove from the Ho· 
with those that are refractory, then is Pe-ly Scriptures that Mahommed was indeed 
ter commanded to kill and eat." (Baro-a prophet sent by God, that in case they 
nius Epist. ad Pap. Contr. Venet.) 
succeeded he would himself become a fol-
" Swear not at all." 
(Matt. 5:34.) 
lower of the prophet of Mecca. Prep· 
"Above all things, my brethren, swear .arations were immediateiy made for a 
not." (James 5:1~.) 
learned contest. 
The missionary was 
'' When a man in a passion breaks out conducted to a 
~ahommedan sch~ol­
into blasphemous words, the meaning of house, and a chmr was brought to hun. 
which he does not consider, it is but ave· The Mahommedans who were present 
nial sin." (Sylvester sumrn. verb. Bias-sat down at the same time on their C3r· 
pheur, n. 5.) 
pets. 
They appeared, however, to be 
" All ill habits of swearing is not a waiting for some one else : for the eyes of 
mortal sin; because it is not an act." the assembly were directed from time to 
(Victorellus ad Solet. IV. 22, p. 681. 
time to the door. 
~t length a man of 
"To use adjurations to God, or man, very noble aspect arnved, richly dressed, 
or angels, or devils, or irrational creatures, an~ carried by four bearers, in a palan· 
lightly, without reference to the name . of ~um. He was the most learned moollah 
God, or any necessity, is but a vemal m the place. All rose up respectfully.-
fault." 
(Sylvester summ. verb. adperat. There had been already prepared for him 
n. 5.) 
a sort of platform, covered with carpets; 
" That no man go beyond and defraud this he mounted with uncovered feet.-
./ 
1 
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108 
THE ADVENT HERALU. 
-
He then beckoned four of the mo t dis-prove of, yet he is always to inquire respect-
tinguished Mahommedans to himself, laid iug each article, Will more good than evil be 
his hands upon them to bless them, and accomplished by it, and will God's cause be 
caused them to be seated, two upon his thereby promoted 1" If he is satisfied it will 
right, and two upon his left. 
Next he sat produce more evil than good, even if he should 
down himself, and looked around ear-
In this case, although their responsibility is 
the same, yet God, who looketh at the heart, 
will not judge as man judgeth, who looks 
alone to the outward actions, but will make 
allowance for every extenuating circumstance, 
which in his view shall take from the culpa-
bility of the act. 
We trust we have said 
enough on this point to make plain the differ-
ence between a publisher's responsibility for 
what he publishes, and his endorsing it. 
approve of the sentiment of the article, he 
nestly and deliberately, till the missionary 
spoke to him. 
cannot be an agent in its publication, without 
doing violence to his own conscience and in-
The contest now began. 
Several cop-
ies of the New Testament were produced, herent sense of justice, and assuming a res-
and the 14th chapter of John was found. ponsihility which he must one day meet before 
Upon every verse a dispute arose, where· high heaven. If he is satisfied that it will pro-
in the Mussulman endeavored to convince duce more good than evil, and promot the 
the missionary that Christians misunder-cause of God, he cannot conscientiously with-
stood their sacred writings. 
Finally he hold publication from it, however much he 
came to the 13th verse ; " Hereafter I may dissent from the nature and spirit of the 
will not talk much with you for the prince article. We are to consider that the truth is 
of thi~ world cometh." It p~ssed through often advanced by showing the weakness of 
t?e m~nd of the !flOollah, .like a fla~h of error ; and it may be necessary to publish for 
ltghtnmg: the pnnce of th1 
worl:lls no that purpose. alone.-That vice may be pre-
other than Mahommed ; who, as the seal 
t d . 
fi · htf 1 
· 
th t t b h t d 
of the prophets, was to become a teacher ~n e m so ng 
u a mten, 
a 
0 e a e , 
after the Nazarene, and win over and gov-1t nee~s but to ~e seen ; an~ ~e ~ay therefore 
ern the world by his doctrine." 
He read ?e obhged at ttmes to exh1b1t vtce. But h.e 
the passage again and expatiated in tri-ts also to remember, that a too frequent fanu-
umphant language on the glory of Ma-liarity with vice, has a tendency to make it 
hommed, who was here spoken of, and appear less odious, and that those who would 
These remarks are so much extended, that 
we shall have to defer, to another article, our 
intended remarks on the causes of so frequent 
a misunderstandingJ and the means of obvi-
ating those causes. We have frequently heard 
persons contending a long time on some point, 
when, to an intelligent observer, it was evi-
dent, that the only difference between them 
ori~inated in the want of conception on the 
part of each, of the import which the other 
attached to language he used. 
And for this 
cause, many complain that they are taken as 
they say, and not as they mean,-when they 
can only be taken according to the correct 
meaning of the words they use. 
closed by calling upon the missionary, in loathe it at first sight, have been known, by 
Questions. 
an earnest and imposing tone, to believe frequent contact, to endure that which they 
Dear B·rother :-In the "Herald" of Oct. 
in him .whom Christ hims~.lf had foretold hated, and finally to love. · It therefore be-14th you say, that it gives you pleasure to re-
as a pnnce and lord of th1s world. 
But comes necessary to know where the. dividing move the difficulties of any on these points;-
alas! for the n;oollah. . Mr. Drose show_ed line, in the exhibition of error, is, that we and as there are many who considertheae points, 
that by the pnnce of th1s world, the Scnp-
k 
h 
t 
h'b't 't t b h t d (which you doubtless allude to,) as essential doc-
tures meant simply the devil! 
He be-may 
now w en o ex 1 1 1 .o e a e , trinal points, it truly would be desirable that cer-
d 
h 
h ld 
b 
t 1 tain difficulties were removed. 
But there are 
came w~e with anger, and !,Dashed his an w en we s ou 
cease to e mstrumen a other points which are attended with difficulties, 
teeth through inward rage. 
In the net in its exhibition. But when vice is presented one of which I will mention, and the difficulties 
which he laid, was his own foot taken ; dressed up in the garb of virtue, it is never to attending.-! will present in the form of ques-
and he was snared in the work of his own be exhibited, unless it be for the purpose of tions, and wish you to answer theru through the 
"Herald," if so be those difficultiea can be re-
hands ! 
stripping off its mask, disrobing it of its moved. 
=~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
~~ sheep's clothing, and exposing its naked de-
lst. Is not the reason given wl•y John came 
formity. 
Nor is error when arrayed in the baptizing with water, in the first chapter of St. 
Q!l)t J:uent {9eralb. 
John's Gospel, 31st verse? 
garb of truth ever to be presented, only with 
2d. Was not John the Baptist sent to prepare 
a view of exposing its hollow heartedness and the way of the Lord, and did he not fulfil his 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM CO~lETH!l" 
w 
b 
h 
ml'ssion? 
deep hypocricy. 
e are to remem er t at 
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 11, 1846. 
Hard to Understand. 
We made some remarks in our last, respect-
ing the difficulty which some find, not only in 
comprehending the doctrine of Scripture, but 
even the language which daily passes between 
man and man ; and which we showed is main-
ly owing to a want of a knowledge of the 
shades of difference in the meaning of words. 
Since we thus wrote, another case of misun-
derstanding has come to our notice, which is 
attributable to the same cause. We remarked 
on the responsibility of publishers-showing 
that all publishers are responsible for the char-
acter of what they publish. 
By this a good 
brother is determined to understand us as as-
serting, that every publisher rmdorses, or 
adopts, the sentiments of what he publishes. 
Than this, a grosser misunderstanding could 
not be. 
All publishers, publish more or less, 
that they cannot subscribe to. 
They do this, 
to let others speak for themselves. But while 
they publish what they cannot endorse, they 
are none the less responsible for what they 
publish, and will be thus responsible when 
they shall stand at the tribunal of the Most 
High, to be judged for all the deeds done in 
the body. 
A publisher is a direct agent in 
giving publicity to whatever fills his columns; 
and if the publication of anything shall exert 
an injurious, or unhallowed influence, he is 
morally and legally accountable. 
No pub-
lisher has, therefore, any right to open his 
columns, as a flood-gate for whatever may be 
presented for transmission. Were he to do so, 
every article, whether of a Mormon or infidel 
tendency, of however impure a nature, must 
be permitted, not only to pass on to the cor-
ruption of the public mind, but he must sufter 
himself to be made the active instrument for 
such corruption. Every publilsher is therefore 
bound to scan closely the moral tendency or 
all he gives publicity to; and though he may 
publish much he may dissent from, and disap-
Sd. 	V ere not the eleven dis1~iples commanded 
vice and error are often presented in the garb to teach all nations, baptizing them in the name 
of virtue and truth; for men have stolen" the of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy 
livery of heaven to serve the devil in," and Ghost, teaching them to observe all things what-
soever he had commanded them, including, of 
consequently we are to guard the avenues of course, what be had said previously I in Matt.lOth, 
truth, with the utmost vigilance. 
Those who to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the 
are stationed as sentinels to give alarm at the dead, cast out devils, &c., together with a prom-
ise of signs following them that should believe? 
approachofanenemy,are not guiltlessifthey Mark 16:17, l8. 
slumber at their posts; but if they connive 
4th. Did not the apostles fulfil the above com-
with the euemy for his admission into the mand, and preach the Gospel iu all the world, 
until the Savior of mankind was truly introduced 
camp, they prove themselves traitors to the to a lost world? 
trust so generously confided to them, and un-
5th. Wall not St. Paul called to be an apostle, 
worthy of the confidence reposed in thefn.-a teacher of the Gentiles, in truth and verity? 
and does he not testify to the fulfilling of the 
'vVe Cjlnnot serve two masters: neither can command given to the eleven, i. e., that the Gos-
we assist Nehemiah in the building of the pel had been preached to every creature which is 
wall with our right hand, while we are aiding under heaven, in about twenty-nine years after? 
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6th. Does not Paul, being a teacher of the 
San ballet to estroy lt w1t our e t. 
n a 
Gentiles, declare that Christ sei'Jt him not to hap-
that we do, if we are faithful in any. cause, tize,-but to preach the Gospel? and in due 
we are to have our eye directed to a single time, does he not declare that there is one faith, 
Point,-all our energies are to be directed to one baptism, &c. ?-and in his instructions to Tim-
othy, does he not e:ay, "The things which thou 
the accomplishment of a single object. To hast heard of me before many witnesses, the 
effect this, we are to take advantage of every same declare thou unto faithful men, who should 
be able to teach others also ?" 
wind that blows, of every tide, and every cur-
7th. If Paul, being a teacher of us Gentiles, 
rent. 
And when we 'encounter head winds, and not being sent to baptize, and consequently 
bas left no directions concerning the ordinance, 
who has authorized men in these days to admin-
ister the ordinance of water baptism ? 
and counter currents, we are to shape our 
course, so as to take advantage even of them. 
We therefore repeat, that all publishers are 
responsible for the contents of th;ir columns ; 
and when they publish what they deem error, 
they are to do it with a view of promoting the 
cause of God by its contrast with the truth.-
If any suppose they can give publicity to what 
they shall deem injurio~ to the welfare of the 
commonwealth of Israel, and escape responsi-
bility, by the plea _that others speak through 
them, they will find that they have fearfully 
misjudged. 
They can no more do it, than the 
captain of a slaver can escape responsibility 
for permitting his vessel to be used in a traffic 
which the laws of nations have pronounced 
piracy. The fact that he is an agent, and a 
willing agent, makes him responsible for all 
the evils that result through the exercise or 
his agency. 
While men are actuated with right motives, 
they will often misjudge, and act in a manner 
that will prove injurious to the cause of truth. 
8th. Are we not under the administration of 
Him who was to come after, since John tl:e Bap-
tist is dead and gathered unto his fathers, and 
the things pertaining to him have long since de-
creased,-who, ac1:ording to the purposes of the 
Father (in the order of events), hath appointed 
him to he a priest forever, even after the order of 
Melchisedee, and who baptized with the Holy 
Ghost (all such as will receive it) and (those who 
receive it not) with fire? 
9th. Jf men administer the ordinance of bap-
tism by virtue of the command given to the Apos-
tles previous to the Pentecost, why do not the 
signs follow, according to the promise? for they 
were equally enjoined. 
lOth. If the day of miracles is past, why not 
the day of water baptism? for these were equally 
enjoined. 
llth. Has not the ordinance of water baptism 
long since become the mark of both the beast, 
and his image, with the addition of the saluta-
tion by the right hand ? 
12th. Was the ordinance of water baptism 
administered to those who were beheaded for the 
witnes~ of Jesus, and the word of God, in the 
days of Papal persecution? or did the saints 
practise the use of that ordinance in thote days? 
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13th. Does not the ordinance of water baptism 
lead to dissension, saying,! am of Paul ; and I am 
of Apollos; and I of Cephas ? or in other words, 1 
am of the Episcopalians, and I am of the Presby-
terians, and I of the Baptista, &c. &c. 
I ask the above questions, not for the sake of 
contention, hut for the sake of truth, and that we 
may know what the truth is concerning this point· 
the truth will not shrink from never so close ~ 
scrutiny ; but it will shine so much the brighter. 
And I know there are some important truths 
which are quite obscure, on account of the fo~ 
and mist which have, imperceptibly, perhaps, 
been cast about them. 
Yours, waiting for the redemption of the body, 
. 
E. s. BLAKESLEE. 
Prospect (Ct.), Uct. 22, 184.6. 
ANSWERS. 
To Q. 1.-It is. 
To Q. 2-He was, and he did. 
To Q, 3.-They were. 
To Q. 4.-They did. 
To Q. 5.-He was, and did. 
To Q, 6.-He does. 
To Q. 7.-Not Paul, but Christ. 
To Q. 8.-We do not doubt that we are under 
his administration. 
'fo Q. 9.-Because they have followed : and 
we are not told they were to continue to folliJW. 
They followed those that believed in the com-
mencement of the preaching of the Gospel, to 
prove its divine origin. That being proved, those 
signs were DO longer necessary.-Jobn 20:30, 31 j 
and 1 Cor. 14:21, 22. 
To Q. 10.-Miracles were not enjoined: they 
were a special gift. Baptism is an express com-
mand ; and we have no right to neglect its ob-
servance, until we are th~s commanded in lan-
guage as positive and as distinctly enunciated as 
the command that enjoins it. As the sacrament 
of the Lord's supper is given us to show forth the 
death. of Christ until he come, so the other sacra-
ment, baptism, is given us to show forth our faith 
in the resurrection, until that is realized . .-Col. 
2: 12. 
There is a difference between t~ose miracles 
which were to be signs of the divine origin and 
authority of Christianity, and special interposi-
tions of God in our behalf in answer to prayer. 
All deliverance from temptations,all!!pecial mani-
festations of the Spirit, and all preservation 
from danger, are in the true sense miracles ; be-
cause they would be impossible withovt such help 
from God. These are never to cease while we 
are in this state of being. 
But they should be 
sought and expected according to the will of God, 
instead of considering the enjoyment of them as 
we mav wish, indispensable to true Christian 
character. 
To Q. 11.-We don't know by what hypothe-
sis you arrive at such a conclusion. 
To Q. 12.-We have no historical record, or 
evidence, that they neglected that ordinance. 
To Q. 13.-Quarrelsome people may quarrel 
respecting any and every question, if they choose; 
but we know of no reason why the people of 
God need quarrel respecting this ordinance. 
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Correspondence of the English Mission. 
NUMBER XIX. 
Our Labors-Success-The late Rev. John Eagleton-; 
Papal Wrath and F!ununery--M11ry the Mother of God. 
-Social Life-Institutions-West Bromwich-Rev. 
Wm. D. Corken-Mmisters Coming into the Truth:-
Dedication and Ordination Services-Views of J?•~ 
senters Respecting them-The Baptists-A Pbys•c 
and Mental Repast-Speechtls-The Papacy. 
BIRMINGHAM, October 3d, 1846. 
We commenced our labors in Birmingham 
on the 16th ult., in the "People's Hall."-
Several lectures were delivered here last 
May, which were blest to the permanent 
waking up of a number to the advent of our 
Lord; these friends have not enjoyed the 
staled ministration of the word, but have m~t 
from time to time in private houses, and Ia· 
bored to sustain themselves. 
On hearing of 
our arrival in the country, they were continu· 
ally on the look-out for a visit from us. The 
door of usefulness was wide open on coming 
here ; a large hall was obtained without per-
plexity, our placards posted, and our work 
begun with thronged and attentive audiences 
for our encouragement. We have had !!er-
vices twice each Lord's day, and nearly every 
evening for over two weeks. We have bad 
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11at sweet satisfaction of feeding many of thb by the erection of a scaffolding in the form are setting Protestants some worthy exam-
bungry sheep and lambs of the flock, and of of a steeple, which has been slated! 
pies. The" Sisters of Charity," and" Sis-
awaking the attAntion of not a few, we hope, 
One of the mot~t powerful levers in the ters of Mercy," are commending their res-
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at o lCS at t Je present time, 
pose~ to be ~h~ _source of their tende~ sym-
More truly serio~s and respectable congrega-is this exalting the Virgin to divine homage, path1es, to multitudes of hearts. In Btrming-
'ions we have seldom addressed. 
We are and appealing to the sympathies of the com-ham, and we suppose elsewhere, they have 
DOt laboring merely to create, an excitement; moo people in behalf of "Mary, the Mother an institution for supplying families with 
We have no wish of this kind., but we are si·-
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' onnell, on enter the asylum, and remain until a situation 
)ently, steadily, and effectually at work, ac-the reverse of the decision of the Court of is found for them, or leaving with a good 
complishing more than appears upon the sur-Ireland by the House of Lords, by which he character the places of their employment, 
face of these letters. 
One or two of the was liberated from prison, publicly attributed they may return, as to their own home, until 
ministers in this place, it is thought, are· fa-th f: 
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another situation is procured for them. 
In 
e avora e turn ° t liS case to "t e pray-the meantime they are instructed in the prin-
~orable to the Advent views. Rev. John ers of the holy Virgin!'' The following, ciples of the Catholic ~aith, and made so ac-
Eagleton, who died a few years l!ince, was a taken from the Latin office of the Virgin, quainted with the grounds of Prottlslantism, 
very decided believer in the speedy coming will show in what estimation she is held: 
as to regard it as having its rise in the most 
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an persona reign o 
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omina mea sancta Maria, &c. 0 mv fallen nature. 
Our friend Mrs. H. has an 
make him yield his hope: his last words Lady, holy Mary, myself unto thy blessed excellent servant, which she obtained at one 
were, "He will come! He will come!" and trust. and alone safe keeping (I commend), of these establishments, who was formerly 
folding his hands, he fell asleep. But one and ~lito thed bosohm ohf thy mfercydto-day, evl-a Protestant. "\Vhy," said she, to her mis-
ery flY, an at L e our 0 my eparture, 
tress, "the foundation of Protestantism is 
of our meetings was disturbed, and that by commend my soul and body to thee, my b d h 
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a ' t e prmciple is epra.ved,-Henry the 
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VIII., because he could not get a dispensa-
thought the boots which the" three shoema-
es and miseries, my life and the end of my tion from the Pope to divorce his lawful 
kers from America" had manufactured for 
~ife, I co~mit to thee, that by thy most holy wife, for the purpose of taking another who 
mtercesswn, and by thy merits, all my works pleased him better, turned a!!ainst the Catho-
&heir master, must be particularly distressing may be directed and d1"sposed ACCORDING o 
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lie church, and established Protestantism·in 
about the toes! They were overheard to say, THINE AND THY SoN's WILL!" 
E ngland I r 
they should like to see the heretics burnt to 
Thus Mary is made superior to the Son of 
While prosecuting our work in Birming-
aea&h over a slow fire. 
God! 
ham, we have kindled the fires of truth in 
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There is not so much social life in Eng-West Bromwich, and other places, by our 
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land as there is in America., but there is a a ternate abors. 
est romwich has 30,000 
Birmingham, Bro. Himes attended the Ca-
inhabitants, only about 4000 of whom are 
tbedral services, the Hall being otherwise good deal of philant.hropy. There are a great supposed to be regular attendants on public 
e~ecupied for the forenoon. 
Dr. Wiseman is many public institutions founded by the mu-worship. 
Rev. Wm. D. Cosken offered us 
t the bead of Catholic affairs in this vicinity. nificence of private individuals and by the his pulpit, and has not only opened the door 
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government, for superannuated or disabled for us in \hat town, but has, through our 
uuld hardly believe that in enlightened 
humble agency, heartily embraced the doc-
·l!'•'•u'J' in the nineteenth century, such a soldiers and sailors, for the education of their trine, and commenced prea<;hing the coming 
could be played off for religion Lefore children, and for the relief of various classes of the Lord: be delivered one lecture to the 
and intelligent congregation of men of the unfortunate. Besides these, Provident friends in Birmingham this week, that gave 
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Socities or Clubs are multiplying, the obJ'ect great pleasure: he has elsewhere delivered 
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he choir which, in Episcopal 
several discourses on the same truths1 to the 
and churches, is the only part of of which is, by a weekly • monthly' or annual surprise of some, and joy of others. 
We 
in ~hich the worshippers are contribution, to make provision for sickness first made his acquaiutance in London, at the 
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or death, somewhat on the principle of our meetings ot the Alliance. The young minis-
was 
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Life Insurance Companies, of which also ter of whom we spo e some time ago as 
, priest vicars, singers, and boys with· 
having been led, after hearing us, to see a:nd 
eir burning candles. A sombre darkness there are many here. It is stated that a mil-procla.im the truth . in part, has since come 
.elect the place, aa though the My tery lion and a quarter of the laboring classes of out fully, and is now lecturing in company 
o1 Iniquity had chost:n the element most con-this country are thus combined. 
Odd Fel-with Bro. Winter. 
We have heard of still 
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Jowship Associations are ostensibly, and per-another who is on the point Of doing llke-
l& Wit his own spirit and devices. The 
wise. 
Could but the mass of Christians in 
41Dtire nave of the cathedral, which is else-haps really, for similar ends. [Quere-How this country have these things fairly laid l>e-
here vacant and desolate, was here .filled do the principles of such societies harmonize fore them, they would reject many opinions 
wi&b seats, while the sides were crowded with, "Take no thought for the morrow 1" which they at present entertain. 
The doc-
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And again, " Lay not up for yourselves trea-trine when received here, whether by the 
t men, women, and children, who, at the 
ministry, or laity, produces the same power-
Cipkle of the bells, prostrated, themselves on sures on earth ;" for it resolves itself into ful effects which we have before witnessed, 
the atone floor for prayer, but stood during this after all.] Now, were the Christianity -penetrating and pervading the whole mor-
tbe delivery of the discourse. 
But the ser-of these days what it ought to be, we trow at being, and incorporating itself into the 
mott, aye, the sermon, of priest Moore, from there would be fewer institutions like the last thoughts, the desires, and hopes of its sub-
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jects. Expressions of gratitude, and many 
Lam. 1:12-" Is it nothing to you all that ye ,mentione · 
xisting and multiplying as they benedictions, are poured upon the humble in-
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by a body calling themselves Particular, or 
P_redestinarian Baptists, the main ground of 
dtfference being in relation to the extent of 
the atonement. 
We have been told by the 
disinterest~d, that no body of dissenters 
stand so lngh in public estimation, for hon-
esty and noble bearing, as the Baptists. We 
hope they merit the encomium : we have 
found good friends among many of them, 
even with the frank avowal of all our" her-
esy." This sect, and perhaps all dissenters, 
attach but little importance to the acts of 
deqication and ordination ; they think it looks 
too much like the superstition and flumnery 
of the Papal church; that if it be necessary 
to lay hands on a man prior to his assuming 
the sacred office, in imitation of the apostles, 
then we. ought to look for the same results 
which followed this ceremony when per-
formed by the apostles,-the effusion of tqe 
Holy Ghost, and th,e power to work miracles. 
ln the instance before us, there was no formal 
dedication, or any ordination of the ~inister. 
We presume Lut few present would a~ree 
with the Rev. Dr. who preached the sermon, 
that a call to the miniRtry consisted in having 
the disposition, the means, and the opportu-
nity to preach! 
We must confess for our .. 
selves, we lean a good deal more th,an this 
to\ ards t~ome of the notions of Episcopacy. 
At the conclusion of the services, we were 
invited to dine with the ministers, and other 
friends, at a public house. 
After dinner, the 
company retued to an adjoining hall, for the 
purpose of spending two hours in makina 
and listening to appropriate remarks. Th: 
pastor took the chair, when Bro. Himes was 
called apon to give a relation of the state of 
religion in America : after which Bro. B. 
was invited to speak on the progress of the 
cause of anti-slavery. 
In these relations, 
we were frequemly interrupted with inqui-
ries, and were listened to with decisive 
marks of interest. The subject took a turn 
towards the Papacy. Rev. Mr. Joseph, (ln-
depeodent,) an intelligent, benevolent look-
ing, and somewhat venerable man, followed 
us. 
He said he had been greatly interested 
in the remarks which had been made by the 
gentlemen from America : he would not 
throw down the apple of discord ; but he 
begged kindly and solemnly to inquire, wheth-
er, from all we could hear and see, the Church 
had nut reached its LaodiceaQ state: are we 
rapidly coming to the day when we are to 
look for the giant risings up of the Man of 
Sin 1 I fear we are! 
We are not alive to 
his cunnlllg' and craft: I feel myself sol-
emnly bound to protest against the Papacy. 
He spoke of Pope Pius IX. as " the Deity 
of the Catholics ! " 
He said a priest uf 
Rome in his neighborhood, had walked three 
miles to see a poor woman of a dissenting 
church, in the hope of making a Catholic uc' 
her, when she was m; her nerves "weak, and 
her mind ·greatly excited, so that she could 
not contend with him. He thought we ought 
to sink all our minor. differences, important 
thl)ugh they were, and merge every other 
question in the grand one at issue, and as 
paas by 1" &c. It appeared that he had been do, do they not tacitly declare, that the struments whom God deigns to use in com-
delivering a series of discourses, of which Church of Christ has forgo
1tten the bene_vo-municating the light of his. word to those 
fbie was the last, in which he had been show-lent precepts and examples of her divine whose minds have been in darkness, and 
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whose eouls have been secretly inquiring af-
iag the claims of the blessed Virgin to the 
found~r ~ There are many hospitals and like ter something which they W'lre conscious of 
llomage of the church. In the exordium of establishments here, and in every Christian lacking, in order to satisfy their earnest pant-
the present discourse, he spoke not only of land, which owe th~ir origin and support to ings and struggles. 
Protestants, meet the Man of Sin! Bro. 
Himes again arose, and spoke for some min-
utes from the 7th of Daniel, and 2 Thess. 
the neglecting of the claims of Mary by the Protestant generosity; ~n~ here and ~lse. 
By the invitation of our beloved Bro. Cos-
majority of the people (Protestants) of Eng-where there arc some Pnsclllas and Aquillas, ken, we attended, in his neighborhood, the 
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dedication, or "opening services,'' as they 
land, but the absolute despising of such 
e es,. or.cases, an 
aughters of Phillip; are here called, of a'' chapel," as all places 
cl~ims; in consequence of which her holy but considenng the host of professing Chris-of worship are termed, excepting those of 
Son was daily grieved while she looked tians at the present day, and the countl~ss the .E,stablishment. It was a neat house of 
dowo upon the utter deg:neracy of those who objects of charity which are found every-brick, built by the Baptists, at the cost of 
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$20,000; but though in the midst of a popu-
"ere once loyal to her authority! Among w ere, an 
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the work to be 
lat.i~n of several thousands, we were sorry 
other claims which he stated the blet~sed Vir-performed, whether we are to have a tern-to find it was not filled, even on this interest-
gin bad upon the church were those which poral, or a spiritual reign of Christ, and then ing occasion. We were invited to take part 
e,pruog out of a consider~tion of her humility, say, is the_re one Christ.ian out of ten thou-in the services, but declined. A number of 
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ministers of different denominations were 
cbaatity, and benevolence. She had claims sand that It won 
e JUst to_ compare with present, and the sermon was preached, to 
~pon tbe church from sustaining a high rela-any one of t~e humane, workmg characters our surprise, by an Independent minister.-
tlQD to God-she was the daughter, the of the New Testament. We will commend, This, however, is nothing unusual; such 
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the Catholics for what of g~od we see in marks of Christian courtesy are very com-
llltl, an the mother of God! These points them, though we do not beheve it to be in mon among all denominations. By the way, 
ba maintained with better rhetoric than logic, all cases the nat~ral p~o?uct of the right-it was the first written discourse which we 
lddresaing his appeals especially to the fe-
eousnes~ of 
the~r rehgtous system, and had heard in England; and of course was 
lhale portion of the audience, until they stood though In many mstances the motives for tolerated, because the o::casion was an extra 
~sfixed like marble statues, while the bi.r the distribution of their beneficence would one. The Baptists here, with whom those 
e not always m~et with the approbation of of the same name in America are in fellow-
tear. stole down their tender cheeks, and Go~. 
It is a notorious fact, tha~ in the ship, are open-communionists, and a.re called 
~ke the magic potency of the orator's Umted States, t ey forget the physical and Particular Baptists, in contradistinction to 
•m. Who can believe the man did not mental ameliora ion of the squalid inmates the General Baptists, who are close-com-
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of hovels, garrets, and cellars, the maiority munionists, and who believe in what is called 
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The former is the 
ratition of hia hearersl The Established tiated into their own communion, while they larger body. We hardly know how it is, 
ret. only ba e a right, if we are correct, generally pass with their blessings to those that special fraternity with the Particular 
eldme bella 1n steeples and towers of stone \Vho are out of t~e pale of *eir church, and Baptists is claimed by our Baptist brethren 
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consequently beheved by them to be out of in the United States, since those who there 
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t e pa e o salvation. In this country they call themselves General Baptists, are opposed 
2d, showing therefrom the destiny of the 
Papacy. Rev. Mr. Williams, (Baptist,) late 
missionary to India, said, We are not only 
Protestants, but we are ·Dissenters. The 
most to be feared, is, the shield and protec-
tion which the government is about to afford 
to the Catholic church. Establish the Catho-
lic religion in Ireland, and why not in Eng-
land by and bye : he believed this 'was the 
ultimate aim of Lord John Russell. For 
himself, he was sick of the indifference, the 
lethargy, the milk and wate~ stuff of dissent. 
Robert Ha:Jl's point of dissent, respected 
merely the form, the ritual, the liturgy ; but 
this was not the real point of dissent : be 
would dissent from the Congregationalisttt-
and Baptists, if they retained a connexion 
with the governments of this earth. He 
closed by urging those present to carrt this 
question to the ballot box, and let Lord John 
'Russell know that he must change his course, 
or leave his seat. 
No little sensation was 
manifest as the result of all that was said at 
this social meeting. Those present were at 
a lo11s to account for·the general cessation of 
revivals in America, and for a like abse1ce 
of religious influences in their own laod.-
They seemed to think, too, that we ought to 
be able to inform them bow to amend mat-
ters, and to remove obstructions to the prog-
ress oftbe work of God. They thought the 
proepects dark as midnight! True, we said, 
in one view, but glorious in another; for with 
our hope, everything is to b,e gained ! 
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The Two Covenants. 
No. V. 
The First Covenant was intimated to the 
first pair, in Gen. 3:15-" And I will put en-
mity between thee and the woman, .and be-
tween thy seed and her seed : it shall bruise 
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel."-
It w~s more fully made known to Abraham ; 
and It was fully" confirmed" to his children, 
at the first Advent,-God having then com-
pleted the evidences of its ultimat-e fulfilment. 
In Gen. 17:8, God promises to Abraham, say-
ing," And I will give unto THEE, and to thy 
seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a 
stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an ever-
lasting posseGsion; and I will be their God." 
Observe: God as much promised to (live it tu 
h•:m, as to his seed ; and to both of ~hem for 
an EVERLASTING POSSESSION. 
Acts 7 : 5-
"And Hoe gave him (Abraham) NONE inher-
itance in it, no, not so much as to set his foot 
on ': yet he promised that he would give it to 
HIM fur a POSSESSION, and to his seed after 
him, when.as yet he had no child." He af-
"terwurds had a child, from whom there sprang 
so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, 
and as the sand which is by the sea shore 
innumerable; who, with Abraham and Sarah, 
all died in faith, not 1·eceiving the promises, 
but saw them afar off, and were persuaded 
of them, and embraced them, and confessed 
that they were pilgrims and strangers here 
on the earth. Heb. 17 : 12, 13. 
Abraham 
must therefore be raised from the dead, and 
the land must be regenerated, before he can 
receive it as an ''everlasting possession."-
Gen. 13: 14-17-" And the Lnrd said unto 
Abram, after1 that Lot was separated from 
him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from 
the place where thou art, northward, and 
southward, and eastward, and westward : for 
all the land which thou seest, to thee will I 
give it, and to thy seed forever. 
And I will 
make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so 
that if a man can number the dust of the 
earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered. 
Arise, walk through the land in the length of 
it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it 
unto thee.'' Rom. 4:13-" Fur thA prot'nise 
that he should be the heir of the world was 
not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the 
law, but through the righteousness of faith." 
The four cardinal points, or visible horizon, 
was the strongest expression with the an-
cients for the world. 
So Paul interprets it, 
a_nd also says, that it was not through the 
righteousness of the law, or first covenant, 
which came four hundred and thirty years 
subsequent, but through the righteousness of 
faith; a term which he uses in Gal. 3:24, 25, 
to express the second covenant. 
Wherefore 
the law was our schoolmaster to bring us 
unto Christ, that we might be justified Ly 
faith. 
But after that faith is come, we are 
no longer under a schoolmaster. This prom-
ise, too, like the repetition. of it in the 17th 
chapter, secures the land to Abraham FOR 
EVER. 
In Acts 26 : 6-8, Paul declares that 
his hope of the resurrection of the dead, 
was founded upon the "promise of God made 
unto the fathers :" "And now I stand, and 
am judged for the hope of the' promise made 
of God unto our fathers: unto which prom-
ise our twelve tribes, instantly serving God 
day and ~ight, hope to comt~, Fur which 
hope's sake, king Agrippa, I am accused of 
the Jews. Why should it be thought a thing 
incredible with you, that God should raise 
the dea~ 1" In chap. 28:20, the same apos-
tle calls their hope "the hope o[ Israel."-
" For this cause therefore have I called for 
:you, to see you, and to speak with you: be-
cause that for the hope of Israel I am bound 
with 'this chain." 
Reader! remember that as the Jews were 
dflslroyed for breaking the first covenant at 
the first Adven~, so shall all who break the 
everlasting covenant, be everlastingly des-
troyed at the second Advent. 
In the 24th 
?f I.saiah, where tbe most fearful description 
1s g1ven of the final destruction of the wicked 
at the end of the world, the charge preferred 
is, " they have broken the everlasting cov·e-
nant." v. 5. 
Heb. 10 : 28-31-"' He that 
deapised Moses' law, died without JDercy un-
der two or thrAe witnesaes : of how much 
sprer punishment, suppo15e ye, aball he be 
thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot 
the Sou of, God, -and hath counted tl\e blood 
of the ooveruwt, wherewith he was sanctified, 
an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto 
the Spirit. of grace 1 For we know him 'hat 
hath said, Vengeance beloogeth unto me, I 
/ 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
will recompense, sail~ the Lord. And again, 
The Lord shall judge his people. 
It is a 
tearful1hing to fall into the hands of the liv-
ing God." -
A LITERALIST. 
"What is Truth ~" 
No. III. 
fruition commence, certainly. What higher 
moving principle can be imagined, than tha:t 
the Lord has come, and the aay of grace is 
past 1 Manifestly none. 
Therefore, if any 
i10pulse is to be gained, it must be deri·•ed 
fro1il a retrograde movement, which will be 
continually resorted to, it is feared, until there 
shall be r.o well-grounded hope of a return 
It was said in a former number, that no one to the broad platform of truth. 
Others have 
could receive and retain erroneous sentiments, sought to satisfy their natural cravings1 t'or 
no matter how insignificant they might ap-excitement, by adopting a belief, which they 
pear, and escape harmless. 
One error inva-themselves formerly may have shown to be 
riably prepares the way for another; and false, such as that the Jews are the peculiar 
Hnless there is a speedy relinquishment uf favorites of God, and will be placed in a land 
that which is unsonnd, thdre can be no point that is declared to beloug to the children of 
in the future to which we may look with rea-promise. 
Others seek the requisite novelty, 
sonable assurance, that we shall then occupy in affecting to discover in a community of 
a safer position. The actions of men are but strange, and perhaps inoffensivA people, the 
the counterpart of their minds; therefore, if embodiment of the kingdom of God, and find, 
the precints of their minds or hearts be in-very suddenly, that the Lord had appe:Hed 
vaded by errors, of a more or less aggravated some eighty years since, in the person of a 
charactt:r, their actions will necessarily cor-female! The result in either case'proyes, 
respond. 
And as the amonnttc>f misch(ef re-that such men never possessed a true appre-
sulting froro this course depends materially ciation of this truth. 
Fol' if they had, they 
upon the length of time wrong views are suf-would have pursued the only course that was 
fered to exist, it is not a matter of indiffer-left them, namely, to retrace their steps.-
ence that they at once be exterminated, no If their whole Christian course be surveyed, 
matter how painful the operation may be in the same eccentric, comet-like movements 
accomplishing that end. 
As before statea, would be observable. 
errors ~ave been suffered ~o creep in among 
No censure is attempted to be cast upon 
~?ve_r.~Ists, through the 1nstrumentahty of
1 those who relinquish any views, from an hon-
lnJudwi_ous men, who ~ad adopte? a system est conviction of their falsity. 
But lhe sin-
ot f~nc1ful a~d unsound_ mterpretatwn, though cerity of a man d?es not comprise his entire 
having an air of spectou~ness to many, who qualifications as a teacher. When to-day one 
were to~ honest to su:nu_se danger, but too Is seen proclaiming a sentiment with a posi-
unreflectmg to oppose ns 1ns1d_w~s approach. tiveness that is truly startling to hear, and 
An? n~w, wh~n a long _fam!lmnty ?as bee.n denouncing, in no measured terms, those 
maintawe_d ~1th wrong views, star_npwg, a_s It who do not acquiesce in his deductions ; and 
were, their Impress upon the mind, It Is a to-morrow is heard advocating a view (and 
wor~ of no inconsiderable magnitutie, lest, in with the same emphasis) entirely opposite to 
rootmg out t~e _tares, the wheat a·] so be eradi-the forme-r, however honest he may have 
c~ted. But It IS neces.sary ~hat ·the attempt_ been, or deep his repentance, or full his con-
should be made; for _but a hmued ~mount. of fession, ne certainly exhibits none of those 
good ca_n be ~one wh_1le false theones are 10-qualities which are usually associated with a 
dulged In. 
For, be 1t remembered, error al-Christian teacher. 
Had he at the outset 
ways leads to diversity-truth to upity. 
clearly discerned the truth, he would still 
To men in certain frames of mind, the have been found employed in its defence; or, 
truth is always unpalatable. There is a pride if he had receded from a consistent course, 
of opinion-easily enough accounted for.:_ through any peculiar influences, he would 
tnat renders them tenacwns of their views ; have done, so by gradual and successive steps, 
and it is on.ly after a desperate struggle that and not by leaps of. extensive t~agnitude. 
they are Willing to submit. }i"'rom the propa-
In accordance with the teachmgs of those 
gation of ce1:tain doctrines, many Adventists above referred to, many have shown their 
have settled in their own tninds that this belief in erroneous notions, by allowing 
and that mode of interpretation is correct ; them to progress to their legitimate and una-
and every attempt to show Its inconsist-voidable re:mlts, though receiving and retain-
encies is looked on as an attack on theit ing hues and shapes as varied as are the 
righ~ of i!!dividual 'judgment. The position mental conformations of those that entertain 
of such people can never be ascertained ; them. From this class it will be learned, that 
they are continually veeriug about-never the Churches have rejected the truth of the 
lending any support to the c~use of truth; Lord's speedy coming ; and, therefore, the 
but, on the other hand, they materially ad-:Spirit of the Lord has left them. 
Now, it 
vance error by their uucertam course. 
'I'h.e may not be improper to ascertain what the 
position of this unhappy class to-day, is no Churches have rejected, and why they have 
guide to determine thelf whereabouts to-mor-done so. 
row. 
Experience seems to be lost upon 
The Churches undoubtedly disbelieved that 
them; the most palpable lessons of wisdom the Lord would come in '43, or i.1 the autumn 
offer no attractions to them. 
of '44; and it may be that they have little 
If demonstrable evidence were required faith that he will corue in '46, or.'47. Now, 
of the incapacity of some of those who were, while we rna y be able to determwe that the 
but a short time since, engaged in preach-Spirit has lett a body, by not wunesswg its 
ing the Scriptural doctnne ot the speedy com-effects, it may not h.e. so easy a m~tt~r to as-
ing of Christ, (though they had, at the same certain the cause of Its absence. fh1s, how-
time, accompanied 1t with the scintillations ever, is certain: if the truth is wilfully re-
of their own heated imaginations,) it might jected, no claim can be preferred to a pus-
be found in the fact, that they have aban-
~ession of the Spirit. The question then 
doned the ground altogether. lt is not meaut arises, " WHAT IS TRUTH 1" To settle this 
that, because they have g1ven up the hope of point, all appeal must be tnade to the written 
ascertaining the day and hour of the advent, word, which must be our sole guide. 
And 
they have apostatized; but the views they let. it be borne in mind, that while we may 
now avow, and their present mode of life, be justified in forming an opinion of certain 
absolutely forbid the supposition, that they portions of the Script~res, we are not at lib-
ever possessed a true avprehenslou of one erty to form an opwwn, when the act itself 
of the most strongly-marked truths in the implies a contradiction of the word. 
~ord of God. They merely adopted the be-
Thus, the proclamation, that the Lord 
hef. under a momentary Impulse,. without would come "abq_ut the year 1843," is not re-
having first settltld, by sober reflection, what garded as an error, because 'the Scriptures 
was true; hence, when the thousand and one plainly show, by chronological dates, and by 
notiOns that such men always possess-and certain characteristics ic the moral and in the 
which were from time to time attached to the physical world that that event may be re-
truth-ce~sed to atfo~d excitement, by reason garded as nea;. The form of that proclama-
of b~com1~g old, their posses~ors naturally tion evinced the sound, Scriptural apprehen-
dechned. fhe course of some 1s briefly this : sion Mr. Miller had of that great event. But 
The tr,uth, as regards the nearness of the had the preaching of that event declared that 
Lord, Is supposed to be r1ghtly apprehended. it would come in '43, it would have been in-
Ano_n, a refusal by others t~ adnut the con-consistent with the plain testimony of the 
clu~1ven~ss of the reasomng on a penod word. It was his opiuion, however, th~t the 
of Urn?, IS deemed a fatal wrong. 
Next, the Lord would come in that year, but he d1d not 
dar of _gra~e has passed, an~ Christ is come. say that his opinion was infallibly correct. 
Th1s v1ew Is t~e m_ost exmun~ to them, _and Why did he not say so 1 
B~aus~ the Bible 
they adhere t~ It ~1th a.tena.clty proportion-forbade that definiteness. B_ut 1~ does say 
ate to the exc1tab~hty ot th.eu temperament. that he will come ; and tv d1sbeheve that, 
But by-and-by _this loses Its newness, and would be to deny the truth of the Bible. It 
~hat 11ext 1 lt _Is. necesa~ry. tha& these minds, can thus be seen, that the opinion that lbe Ad-
In order to exh~b1t any ~1tahty, ahould be fed vent \Vould ta'ke place in '43, is not to be ea-
with aliment ot the same character. But, if teemed of equal weight with the belief, Lhal 
the Lord has come, hope should cease, and it would take place about '43. It would be 
,\ 
otherwise, if the two points were alike mat-
ters of revelation. 
Moreover, the opinion 
that the Lord might be looked for, amounts to 
knowledge, from the fact that it is Divinely 
authorized. 
But the opinion that he would 
come in 43 is not authorized, because we are 
told ihat we cannot ascertain the precise 
point ; the1'efore, a rejection of 43, does not 
involve a rejection of the truth-they are 
distinct questions. 
It has been admitted above, that the Bible 
teaches that_it may be known when the Ad-
vent if' near ; and it was also intimated 
that it might be looked for about this time : 
this also the Churches profess not to believe. 
Does ~t nece~sarily follow, that in doing eo, 
they jeopardize their salvation 1 There are 
truths which are demonstrated by dissimilar 
evidences ; some that require the same ac-
quiescence as to their value, and are binding 
on all. Others do not claim the same acknow-
ledgment, becau~e, in order to a clear under-
standing of them, there must exist that which 
all do not possess. 
In other words : The 
Spirit will reveal the truth, without which no 
man can be saved, and which is not solely 
dependant on Il)ental effort. 
But the Spirit 
is not to be required to create a miracle, as 
it would if it sh uld enlighten all on points 
that ate addressed excluaively to the intel-
lect, and to a right understanding of which 
some are utterly deficient in the requisite ca-
pacity. There may be a belief in thefact, 
but an inability to determine when . the fact 
will take place. 
It may be asked, " Is it a matter of indif-
ference if men reject the time of the Advent, 
because they will not search to see whether 
it be not so 1~' No; but there can be named 
reasons, which, though they do noqustify a 
refusal to examine the evidences, go very far 
in extenuation of the neglect. These reasons 
may be noticed in a subsequent number. 
As far as the above considerations are con-
cerned, the writer argues, that the rejection 
of the Advent doctrine does not necessarily 
involve a rejection of the truth, within the 
scope of the mElaning usually attached to 
the word. The most that C\Ln be said is, they 
deprive themselves of a potent source of 
Christian enjoyment, and fail to avail them-
selves of an influence, which was advanced 
for the express purpose of preventing their 
falling into a state that might be their ruin. 
No attempt is made above to apologize for 
any errors, in doctrine or practice, among 
those who do not admit the truth of our views. 
No attempt. is Ulade to lessen the weight of 
responsibility on all who reject the slightest 
trulh when rightly apprehended. The inten-
tion has been to show, that the denunciations 
on the points noticed above, are gratuitous; 
and which,moreover, engender a spirit wholly 
uncongenial with the ,sweet spirit of him who 
said, "Judge not, lest ye be judged." 
N. A. APOLONIO. 
LETTER FROM M. D. WELLCOME. 
While I view the thickening evidences of 
the immediate revelation of our blessed Lord, 
and am, in a measure at. least, aware of the 
unprepared state of many who are professed-
ly looking for his appearing, my heart often 
swells with emotion ; and l feel as though I 
could not refrain from speaking to them, and 
exhorting them to ·• bt: diligent, that they 
may be tound of him in peace, without spot, 
and· blameless." 
, 
Dear brethren and sisters, where, 0 where 
is that deadness to the world ; that whole 
hearted consecration to the service of God i 
that conformity to his will ; that ardent zeal, 
burning love, fervent charity, an.d living faith, 
that characterized the people of God in the 
years '43 and '44 ~ 
Alas! it is scarcely to 
be found. 
Why, 0 why is it thus 1 Wert! 
we more dead to earth, its fashions, customs, 
maxims, and practices, than it was necessary 
that we should be 1 Were we more devoted 
to God, than his word required us to be 1-
y ou answer, No. 
If we then were only 
what God required us to be, in order for us 
to en,er the kingdom, are we now, after 
taking back the sacrifice then made of all ~0 
his service, and becoming again entangle~ In 
the affairs of this life,-again becoming Im-
bued, in some measure at least, with the 
spirit of the world 1 Are we now, I ask, ready 
to meet our judge 1 Can we abide the day 
of his coming, and stand when he appeareth 1
f· 
Remember we must be just what the word. o 
the Lord requires 01 to be, if we would ab1~e 
in the tabernacle of God, and dwell in Ius 
holy hill. We cannot aet our affections on 
things on the earth, and on things above alsod; 
we cannot be conformed to this world, ao 
yet be transformed; we cannot lay up treas-
,..... 
ure on the earth, and in heav!ln also; we 
oannot love the worl~, and at the same time 
love the Father ; we cannot be the friend of 
the world, and still be the friend of God ; 
we cannot abide in Christ, and be in a state 
of coodemnation, and walk not as herhath set 
ua aa example. We cannot be his disciples, 
unless we are forsaking all that we have, and 
ire now yielding ourselves to his service. 
These are truths which bear the seal of 
Divine Inspiration ; are we· being sanctified 
through them 1 "Strait is the gate which 
leadeth to life." 
The " narrow. way" is 
clearlv marked out in the word of God. 
So 
clear(y is it there delineated, that they who 
take heed thereto, need not be in doubt res-
pecting it. Let us search well our hearts, 
and search the Scriptures, that we may un-
derstand whether we are walking th~rein or 
no. Never did I more sensibly feel the im-
portance and necessity of cleaving to the Bi-
ble, and following the teachings of tha~ alone, 
than I have of late, while witnessing the sad 
results of departure therefrom. 
Man-made 
tests have been instituted, and enforced in-
stead of Bible tests; and this has produced 
the bitter fruits of discord, anarchy, and con-
fusion. 
God does not require us to believe 
anything which his wo d does not teach, nor 
to make anything a test of Christian charac-
ter that he does not make a test. 
Had this 
principle been carried out, there would have 
been much less evil than there has been.-
But while one class has run ·into fanaticism, 
anoth~r class, in av~iding these things, have 
gone 1nto another extreme, viz., formality;-
The "narrow way" lies between those two 
extremes. If we are governed by the Wotd, 
we shall neither be fanatical, or formal; but 
a" peculiar people, zealous of good works," 
-"living epistles, written by the Spirit of 
the I~ord, known-a.nd read of all men." We 
aball be " faithful in every good work, in-
erasing in the knowledge of God, ready to 
cll*'ribute, willing to communicate." Permit 
• to urge upon you the duty of being gov-
erned wholly by the true, unerring guide, 
Which God has given to be a "lamp to our 
feet, and a light to our path," as we journey 
On &broogh the wilderness of this world. It 
pliats out the dangers which beset our path-
way, it teaches us how we "escape the cor-
ruption that is in the world," how 'to over-
come the temptations which sn powerfullv 
anail us, to withstand the fiery darts of sa. 
tan, and how to obtain an abundant entrance 
into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord 
and Savior Jesus Christ. With pious David, 
let us take the " tesLirnonies of the Lord as 
ao heritage for ever,"-with him hide His 
word in our hearts, and "obey his statutes 
alway, even unto the end." As did the no-
ble Bereans, let us " search the Scriptures 
daily," to see if the things taught us, are in 
aceo.rd.ance with. its teaching. 
They were 
nnwtlhng to rece1ve the teachings of the holy 
apostles, without first testing them by the 
Word. It is an example that we all do well 
to follow. 
Paul, in flnumerating the Chris-
tian's armor, says, "And take the sword of 
the Spirit, which is the word of God." Thus 
we see that it is a part of our armor, and a 
very essential part too, for •' the word of the 
Lord is quick, and powerful, and sharper 
than ~~y. two-edged sword, piercing even to 
the d1V1d1ng asunder of the soul and spirit, 
attd of the joints and marrow, and is a dis-
cerner of the thoughts and intents of the 
heart." The Savior has commanded us to 
search the Scriptures, and he prays, "Fa-
ther, s~nctify them through the truth, thy 
word u truth." 
Let us see to' it, that we 
are completely clad with the Gospel armor, 
that ~or lo~ns are girt about with the truth 
contamed 1n God's word, and that faith in 
that word is our shield ; then we can resist 
every "J>posing foe, " beinO' perfect. thor-
Qughly furnished unto all good works."-
Brother, sister, cast your all upon the word 
or. the Lord: upon this build your hopes-on 
thus take your stand : and while here you 
re.main, though the storms beat, and the 
Winds howl around you; you will be unmoved; 
though the heavens and the earth pass away, 
&ad the elements melt with fervent heat, you 
need not fear; for you stand upon that which 
j.annot pass away : " for the word of the Lord 
Wetb, and abideth for ever." 
B 
M. D. WELLCOME. 
Gllowell, (Me.), Oct. 12th, 1846. 
LrrTaa raoM Bao. J. Y. BuTT. 
.Deer Bro. Himes :-" Blessed be the God 
F~her of our·Lord Jesus Christ, which, 
:;:om1ng ~o his abundant mercy, hath begot-
~ 
ag&~n unto a lively hope by the resur-
._&ion of Jesus Christ froth the dead, to an 
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THE ADVENT' HERALD. 
111 
inheritance in.corruptible, and undefiled, and the pure. word of the Lord-th'e glor1'ous 
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ro. . WESTON writes from Poland (Me.), 
a ,a et I not away. 
truths wh1ch relate to" the restitution of all 
There is no privilege that we can esteem things which God has spoken by the mouth Oct. 12• 1846 :-
·~or~ highly, th~n that of be in~ ranked among of all his holy prophets since the world be· 
Our Con.ference closed yesterday at this 
Gods dear children,-of beJDO' an heir of ~an." We had a ~lessed time together, feast-place, ~nd lt was truly a refreshing season to 
that ineffable glory, about which the proph· 
10g on the precious promises of full and the samts. It was one of the best I have 
ets loved to sing-, and the apostles and mar-speedy redemption, at the coming of the same attended this season. 
Brethren Fassett, D. 
tyrs looked forward to with joy. Much has 
bles~ed Jesus, w.ho was seen by the men of Churchill, Howell, Files, Turner, and Wm. 
been said in trying to immortalize the names Gahlee to go up wto heaven, and who is to 
~· Ingham, were present. The particular 
of the heroes of antiquity and of modern come again in like manner. 
time for the coming of the Lord was not 
days·, hut how insignificant are the laurels 
dwelt upon except that 
h d 
worn by these, whe" compared wi'th that 
There are in this placfl two meetinll'-houses 
'· 
we a every reason 
•• 
d b 
h C I 
" 
' to expect him very soon. 
The topics more 
crown and palm of victory that we (if faith-on: o~ne 
~ t. e 
a vanistic Baptists, the particularly brought forward and urll'ed were 
ful) shall obtain ! Truly did the Apostle say, 01 ~r Y the 
piscopal Methodists, in both of the necessary preparation, and the g
0)o;1·es to 
I 
wh1ch our brethren here have some interest b 
1 d 
· 
t 1ey strove for a corruptible, but we for an The latter (in 
h. h 
b 
h 
· 
e revea e 
at the comtnO' of the Lord -
incorruptible cro n. Yet how few, cpmpared 
w tc 
our 
ret ren own two Though the brethren i th t 
· 
·I 
witH the mass of God's professed people, are pews) not being qccupied on the SaQbath, a !'believed .in the "shut do~r ,a n~~~oh: m~st ~ 
they whb are looking forward with J'oy to the note was address~d to one of the principal O'iven it up. 
I do not kno~ that I hay lav 
. 
members, request.tnO' the use of the house o 
~ 
. 
ve ever 
com.mg of that day: 
StrangP. that any pro-Sunday for Advent~ p 
h' 
A 
n .ound a more.devoted, consistent company of 
fess1.ng to love Chnst should objec\ to his was received statio()' r~~~t 
1~{ t 
nteans~e~ believers than in that region. 
Hoping that 
commg, when he brings with him that crown voted not to 'admit the housJ ~0 ~us es d fia 
the zeal, love, and liberality of those d~ar 
of glory whir.h fadeth not away. 
But our that purpose. 
Thus it was in Bre~e~s~vh or bret~ren may provoke many others of h~e 
wonder ceases when we compare their lives Bro. A. Hale was with 
d h ld ' C en precwus t~ the same .good works, I remam 
with L~e Apostle's rule (2 Pet. 1: 4-11)-
f< 
us! an 
e a on-yours hopmg for the kmgdom. 
"Having escaped the corruption that is in erence. 
One of the propnetors of the meet-
' 
J W 
' 
the world through lust. And besides this, ing-house occupied by the Methodists, applied 
, 
ESTON. 
giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue·, 
t~ the preacher in charge (Episcopal Metho-
'I 
d 
· 
dtst) for the use of the' house on the Sabbath 
Obituary, 
an to vntue, knowledge; and to knowledge, but was denied the privilege, notwithstandin~ 
abt~~~:r~~~~~~c~~~o~~in~es~~e:~~ct~ ;~~~~~!:s: ~~t~~~ec~t~~~:~:SnJ~::~~~~~s~s ~~it;~b~~~s:~ 
rotherly kindness; and to brotherly kino-Edd 
" 
h · 
, 
D 
h 
ington Bend, tendered the use of th~ir 
ness, c anty. 
o t ese graces shine forth 
in their lives 1 Alas! no; b'ut barren as the house on the occasion, as they had done once 
tree d!:!adened by the woodman's axe, they before, for which they have our thanks and 
stand in multitude amitlst the few tha.t are best wishes. 
, 
bearin{f fruit 'in the Lord's garde?· Their . I am happy. i.n saying, that, notwit.h~tan~­
consCience tells them thai all is not well : mg. the .opposition, ~he brethren are nswg 10 
they feel they are not prepared to stand be-theu mmds-truth IS appearing more lovely, 
fore the piercing eye of him that will sit and a more blessed ~n10n is prevailing than 
upon the throne; and hence their actions be-ll~as been swce the wtnter of '44. Not that 
speak the language of their hearts-" Stay 10. every "jot and tittle 
11
' the eaints all see 
away, Lord Jesus." ·u But," says the prophet, ahke, .b~t "IOIVe ~akes our unity,'' and they 
"unto you that fear my name, shall the Sun are w1lhng to thwk and let think. 0 glory 
of righteousness arise, with healing in his to o~r good Shepherd, who makes us one in 
wings." Yes, glory be to God, though now Christ Jesus-wh.ose presence is with us, 
strangers and pilgrims upon the earth like and heavenly love IS s.hed abroad in our hearts 
our fathers were, having no abiding city here, by the Holy G·host g1ven unto us. 
yet, like the mariner nearing his native shore, 
Our Conferences have all been of the most 
consults his chart by which he knows his heart-cheering and soul-revivin11 nature · and 
port is near, so we, by consulting our chart-while they have served to unit~ us in lo've to 
the blessed Bible-know that we are nearinD' one another, thev have also been instrumen-
our eternal home, 
., 
ta~ in buildiqg up the saints.in their most holy 
· ''Where we shall bathe our weary souls 
f~l~h:-helped. them to. pray f!10re in t~e Holy 
In seas of heavenly rest . 
~pmt, ~nrl will, I venly believe, assist them 
And not a wave of trouble 'roll 
m l~eepmg thems~lves In the love of God,· 
Across my peaceful breast." 
whtle they. look lor the ~ercy of uur Lord 
. 
Jesus Chnst and eternal hfe. 
We are much 
¥ es, blessed be our God. 
Soon the times indebted for the most. judicious and well-
of restitution will come; soon the heavens timed labors of our dear l>rethren Hale and 
will ce.ase to retain the Son of man; then Churchill, from your State, and fervently 
the vowe of the Archangel and the trump of pray, that "when the Ohief Shepherd shall 
God will be heard by the pale nations of the appear, they may receive a crown of glory 
dead thatsleepinJesus. Yes, righteous Abel that fadeth not away." 
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will hear that voice,-its solemn notes will 
reverberate to earth's centre, and Abraham, 
Isaac, and Jacob, wi~h the prophets, apos-
tl~s, martyrs, an.d people of God of all ages, 
w11l come forth Immortal from their graves, 
and rise to meet the Lord in the air. 
This 
prospect is truly glorious: and let us, my 
brethren, take courage by the way; we have 
nothing to fear, for He that is for us i11 more 
than th_ey that can be against us. 
Yes, the 
God of Elijah is our God ; and He that led 
on the armies of Israel to victory, will lead 
us safely on, until, with all the church mili-
tant, we become the church triumphant. 
"Fly swiftly round, ye wheels of time, 
And bring the welcome day." 
Amen and amen. 
THOMAS s~ll'l'H. 
Nobleboro' (Me.}. Oct. 26, 1840. 
Bro. D. T. TAYLOR writes ·from Rouse's 
Point (N. Y.), Oct. 25, 1846 :-
Dear Bro. Himes:-We are called again 
to mourn the loss of one lovely sister, who 
fell asleep Friday morning, Sept. 18th, after 
a 
?is~tessing sickness of seventeen days, 
whwh stle bore with perfect resignation.-
Sister MARY JANE ScRUTON was converted 
to God at;the age of 12 years ; and by a well-
ordered life and godly conversation, adorned 
her profession. She embraced the fait~ ot 
the speedy coming of the Lord, and, together 
with his dear children, labored fervently for 
a preparation for that solemn event. But ah ! 
the pestilence that walketh in darkness has 
seized her youthful frame, and she rests till 
th? trump of God shall awake the sleeping 
saints. At the age of 19 years and 7 months, 
was sister Mary called to part, for a little 
season, with her loved ones of earth. Hardly 
could we become reconciled to the separation, 
~s her example was much needed in this try-
wg moment. 
She loved the walk of a Chris-
tian-viewed his path as a strait one, and his 
home a heavenly one. 
She believed, and 
often dwelt on the theuae of the new earth as 
the saints resting-place, where death will 
have no more domwion. 
With a heavenly 
smile, she would ask, " Shall I be there'! 
Shall I ever be worthy to enter in through 
the gates into the city 1 0 that I was more 
like my Master, meek, and humble." Amen. 
There is need of all Christians being and 
living more like him who died our sacrifice, 
if we ever expect to meet him with joy. In 
the extreme agony of sister Mary, every ef-
fort was made by her friends to stay the fell 
tyrant's progress; and during moments of 
anxious watchfulness by her bed-side, the 
prayer would a8cend," Lord, spare ; yet, not 
my will, but thine be done." But the conso-
lation remains, that she will soon burst the 
bands of death, and stand triumphant on the 
new earth. In her last moments she could 
say with the poet-
"Earth's loveliest scenes have ceased to 
charm me, 
Bright fields and flowers and skies are gloom; 
Then farewell, friends, nought can harm me; 
Yonder, yonder is my holl)e." 
G. H. CHURCHILL. 
Brookfield {N.H.), Oct. 1846. 
The cause in this section Of country is 
making s~me head-way. 
The people, as a 
general thwg, manifest a willingness to hear, 
though, as elsewhere, we meet with much 
opposition. 
The truth is cutting its way.-
W~ have had fiv~ additions to our Society, 
whwh was orgamzed some time since by Bro. 
Weethee, making our present number fifteen. 
We feel encouraged to persevere in the good 
way, and with the assistance of God's grace, 
expect to look for the coming One until, with 
the redeemed of earth, we shall exclaim· 
" Lo, this is. our God ; we have waited fo; 
him, ~nd he will save us; this is the Lord ; 
we have waited for him, we will be glad and' 
rejoice in his salvation." Yours in the blessed 
hope, 
JOHN Y .. BuTT. 
Beverly (0.}, Oct. 13, 1846. 
' 
Please say to the readers of the ~'Herald,'' 
and for the encQuragement of the brethren 
scattered abroad, that although comll)unity in 
gene.ral is buried in willing ignorance con-
cermng our" blessP.d hope," and the period 
of its realization, yet, under the labors of 
faithful watchmen, the Advent cause is still 
rising in this sectipn of country. 
Some more 
thoughtful minds are losing their prejudice; 
Departed this life, in Mount Vernon, Me., 
and although conversions are not so nume-Oct. 23d, 1846, sister HANNAH INGHAM, wife 
:ous as formerly, yet a few l\_re being gathered of Daniel Ingham, aged 76 years. Se was 
m as guests for the marriage supper of the a native of New Hampshire, and embraced 
Lamb. 
At the Camp-meeting in Clinton religion more than forty year& since. The 
S~pt. 15th, which lasted five days, abou~ first society she unite.d herself with was the 
thuty souls were converted and reclaimed. Free-will Baptist; and about ten years ago 
Although there were only two tents on the connected herself with the Christian Society 
ground, yet the "little flock,11 some of whom in Mount. V ernou, of wh1ch she remained a 
came thirty and fifty miles on foot, convened member until about eighteen months since. 
in the Holy Ghost. The meeting commenced She had been a firm believer in the speedy 
in the Spirit, was continued in the Spirit and appearing of the Lord from heaven for about 
ended in the Spirit, and to the glory of God. four years-has loved and longed for the 
The saints were fed an'd refreshed by the revelation of Jesus in the glory of his Father, 
pur~ word;. and though we parted in sadness, . and frequently rejoiced in the glorious pros-
yet 1t was m the joyful hop~ of meeting in pect of a final and speedy deliverance from 
our Father's kingdom, where adieus and this world, "into the glorious liberty of the 
LETTER FROM BRo. T. SMITH. 
farewells are .sounds unknown. 
Our hope. 
childre~ of God." Having this hope in her, 
Dear Bro. :-1 have preached the word 1 	ime, &c., were duly presented by Bro. Wy~ she p~rtfied herself" even as he is pure."-
four ~imes in this place,-once on Saturday ~tt, Roney, Southerland, Dudley, Adrian, and She hved a Christian, and died a saint, in the 
evemng, and three times on the Sabbath,-to Sawyer. In Mort'town, N. Y. and Odie-triumphs of faith, without a groan or strug-
a very few tried and afflicted ones, who are town, Caldwell's Manor, and St~nbridge, C. gle, to sleep until the voice of the Archangel 
expecting the coming of the Lord soon.-E., about thirty have been added to the and the trump of God shall awake the dead 
Such has been the business of the brethreo, church, under the labors of Bto. Dudley, and in Christ, and change the living, that they 
that they have found it very inconvenient to others, making in all about sixty souls within may enter upon the glories of their eternal 
me~t for social meetings, and consequently the last three months. . To God be all the ·inheritance, when "there shall be no more 
!heu feelings of interest declined. Butnoth-glory. Amen. 
deadl."-[CoMMUNIC.&TED.] 
lllg, however, can feed these brethren, but 
D. T. T.&YLOR. 
Winthrop (Me.), Oct. 26, 1846 • 
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"Sea and Waves Roaring." 
Hurricane at Key West.-The New Orleans 
papers of the 23d give the particulars of the 
most terrible gale ever known in the Gulf of Mex-
ico. 
Commodore Sloat arrived in New Orleans 
on the evening of the 22d, in the Sarah Church-
man, from Key West. 
The gale commenced 
about 10 A. :!11. on the 11th, and at 2 P. M. it 
blew a porfect hurricane. 
Lieut. Pease, of the 
U. S. revenue cutter Morris, which was lost, pro-
ceeded with despatches to Washington. 
A letter 
(from this gentleman doubtless) gives the follow-
ing account of the gale :-
•• I arrived last evening (Oc 22) on my way 
to Washington, having landed at the South West 
Pass yesterday morning, in the schr. Sarah 
Churchman, from Key West. 
" I was on board the revenue cutter Morris, 
about one mile from Key West, at anchor with 
one hundred and fifty fathoms of chain, with 
yards down on deck, and every preparation made 
for the storm. Our riding bitts were working, 
and it became necessary to back them with deck 
taC'kles. 
The current was running by us at the 
rate of twelve miles an hour, 'the vessel laying 
broadside to it as well as the wind, made her la-
bor very heavy, and being in danger of parting 
our chains, we were compelled to cut away our 
mainmast for the safety of our lives, us well as 
the vessel. When the mast went over the side, 
it hung by the triatio stay, and was in danger of 
falling upon us every moment. A man could nut 
get aloft, and we were anxious to hold on to the 
foremast as the last resort, in case the schooner 
should founder at her anchors. 
After a few mo-
ments a man made out to get aloft and cut the 
stay, when the mast fortunately foll clear of us-
it was a narrow escape. 
Thirty men tossing to 
and fto on the deck or a small vessel, with a 
mast SU!opended over their heads, as it were by a 
thread, made our situation anything but enviable. 
We now battered down the hatches, and all hands 
passed through the ward room. 
"Tbe vessel continued to labor very heavy, 
and the sea made a complete breach over us. It 
was wi~h difficulty we could keep her free with 
both pumps going and bailing from ward room 
and berth der.ks. 
At 4 P •. M:., the air was full of 
water, and no man could look to windward for a 
second ; hou:'!e<~, lumber, and vessels came drift-
ing by us ; some large sticks of timber were 
· turned end over end by the force of the current, 
and the sea was running so high, that, as it broke 
over us, it brought lumber, casks, &c. &e., on 
board, and carried them across our decks. At 
4 1-4, the water was up to our lower half ports 
on board, and gaining upon us, when our star-
board chain parted, and we commenced draggina, 
we knew nut which way, as our compasses fie~ 
round in such a manner that they became useles:'l. 
Now our fear~ were that we should go out over 
the reef int() th.e gnlf, aud that before we got into 
the gulf the vessel must strike and bilge ; but 
fear would not save her. 
At this time, we cut 
away our foremast, when the sea strur,k us, knock-
ing the s-chooner on her beam-ends, carrying 
away bulw-arks, crane, larboard post, quarter 
houses, swing boom, and everything moveable off 
decks; and to right the vessel,we hove the lee guns 
overboard, and knocked out the ports, all hands 
expecting momentarily to go to the bottom. 
We 
were in this suspense one hour, when we. struck 
on some' reef unknown, our larboard chain parted, 
and we made preparations to seuttle the vessel. 
. The hurricane gradually subsided, although at 
twelve midnight we were striking heavy ,land 
blowing a gale from S. E. 
"On the morning of the 12th the scene was 
anything but agreeahle. 
We had drifted about 
three miles, and a half of that distance over a 
shoal, with only two feet of water on it at ordi-
nary times. This was the depth of water around 
the Morris when I left her. 
Ar011nd her lie 
wrecks of all descriptions-one ship on her beam 
ends ; three brigs dim1asted; also three schoon-
ers ; three vessels sunk in a small channel, and 
four vessels bottom up. 
How many persons at-
tached to these ves:'!els have been drowned I am 
unable to say. We have picked up only two, and 
one of them a young man I knew intimately.-
The light-ship at the North West Pass had gone 
from or sunk at her mooriiJgs. The light-houses 
at Key West and Sand Key were washed away, 
and Key West is in ruin~. 
" A white sand beach covers the spot where 
Key West light-ho11se stood, and the waves roll 
over the spot where Sand Key was. Fourteen 
persons were either killed or drowned at Key 
West light-house, and not a soul eseaped to tell 
the tale .. The o~ly vestige of the light-house to 
be seen, 1s a po~10n of the iron post.s of the lan-
tern, and some p1ect.s of soap-stone, which were 
washed one hundred yards from the spot where 
they fell. 
At Sand Key six persons were killed 
or .drowne~, ~ost likely the former, as tbe gener-
allmpress10n IS that they fiew to the storm light-
house for refuge, the Key being very low. 
Poor 
old Capt. Appleby ! (I knew him very well,) he 
has told me the first hurricane would sweep 
all to destruction ; and alas ! his prediction is 
verified. 
At Kay West the tide was five feet high, and 
rurming at the rate of six f!1iles an hour through 
the centre of the town. 
The citizens fled to· tlle 
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THE A.DVENT HERALD. 
back part of the town, which is rather higher 
than the rest, into the bushes, laid down and held 
on, expecting every moment the waves would 
reach them. Parents were separated from their 
children, husband;; from their wives, and all was 
confusion, terror, and dismay. The island trem-
bled to its very centre ; a few hours more and a 
white sand beach would have covered the now 
desolated remains of Key 'Vest. The occ•1pants 
of the marine hospital were expecting every mo-
ment to go into eternity. It is a large stone 
building, and being surrounded with five feet wa-
ter, running by six miles an hour, cutting the 
sand out from the foundation, the situation was 
awful. Thirty feet of stone washed away from one 
corner, fifteen from the other, and the roof blown 
off. 
All of the wharves are washed away or in-
jured ; not one warehouse escaped the fury of the 
storm ; wood and stone seemed all to be going 
one way-to destruction. There are not more 
than six out of six hundred houses that are not 
unroofed or blown down. Three hundred are es-
timated to have been blown down. 
The public buildings at the fort, as well as the 
wh!:
f, are all gone, and the fort is a mass of ruins. 
It is estimated that the government alone willlo:~e 
about $200,000. The custom-ho•Lse is much in-
jurud, but the U. S. barracks at the east end of 
the town sustained no injury, and are occupied 
by the crew of the brig Perry and revenue cutter 
Morris, and by the collector of the customs, and 
those whose buildings have been blown down.-
The streets and roads are impassable, being filled 
up with lumber and the ruins of fallen houses., 
Some large sticks of lumber from the fort are up 
in the middle of the town. 
Hurricane in Havana.-Our fears of the 
effects of the hurricane in Havana on the lOth 
and 11th ult. have been sadly realized. It will 
be. seen by the following extract, which we find 
in theN. Y. Commercial, copied from the Ber-
muda Royal Gazette of the 20th ult., that terri-
ble destruction was caused by the hurricane in that 
harbor. 
Nearly seventy vessels, including seve-
ral men-of-war, were driven ashore or sunk; of 
the above, nineteen v;e1·e .fl?nerican ! 
Only 
three vessels rode out the tempest. 
The Joss of 
life and property on shore has also been great:-
"By the arrival yesterday of the Royal Mail 
Steamer Thames, Capt. Hast, R. N., we have 
been attentively favored, with the particulars of 
an awfuf hurricane which visited Hav,ana on the 
lOth and 11th inst. 
The 'fhames was at the 
Havana at the time, but fortunately, with three 
other ves8els only, rode out the gale in safety. 
The Sheers at the Navy Yard are blown down. 
. "The wharves are torn up and muc~ injured, 
and are covered with wrecked property. The 
town has suffered comparatively little, but the 
suburbs, especially the Cerro, .Horcon, Colon, 
and the Lazaro very much. 
In Regia also the 
damage done is frightful-in one hou:~e alone, or 
rather out of its ruins, were dug eleven corpses. 
What is the total nutuber o( lives lost is not yet 
known. 
The theatre '1'acoo has suffered a good 
deal. 
The theatre principal is In ruins. At the 
height of the hurricane the barometer was at 27 
deg. 74. In 1844 it was 28 deg. 42. 
Vessels Ashore or Sunk.-Ten British mer-
chant vessel;; ; among them we notice the Agnes 
Jane, Richardson, (totallydismasted, fast ashore, 
stern stove in, larboard side do., has 250 boxes 
of sugar on board.) 
NINETEEN AMERICAN 
SHIPS, BARQUEs, BRIGS, AND SCHOONERS, 
thirty-three Spanish, two Russians, two Bremen, 
four Danish, two Belgian, one Dutch, four French, 
one Austrian, and one Brazilian. The Regia ferry 
steamers and Matanzas steamers are, some sunk, 
some ashore, and some useless. 
• Tlte Fearful Whirlpool.-The following inci-
dent is related by the journalist of the Exploring. 
Expedition, and shows with what.fearful sudden-
ness men sometime:~ pass unexpectedly from time 
to eternity. Mr. Ogden was descending the Co-
lumbia river in one of the company's boats, witQ 
ten Canadian voyageurs, all well experienced in 
their duties. 
On arriving at the Dalles, they 
deemed it practicable to run them in order to 
save the portage. lr. Ogden determined, bow-
ever, that he would pass the portage on foot, be-
lieving, neverthele10s, the river was in such a 
state that it was quite safe for the boat to pa~s 
down. He was accordingly landed, and ascend-
ed the rocks from which he had a full view of the 
water beneath, and of the boat in its passage. 
At first she t'leemed to skim over the waters like the 
flight of a bird ; but he soon perceived her stop, 
and the struggle of the oarsmen, together with the 
anxious shout of the bowman, soon told him that 
they had encountered the whirl. Strongly they 
plied their oars, and deep anxiety, if not fear, 
was expressed in their movements. 'They began 
to move, not forward, but onward with the whirl. 
Round they sweep with increasing velocity, still 
struggling to avoid the now evident fate that 
awaited them. 
A few more turns, each more 
rapid than the last, nntil they reached the centre, 
when in an instant, the boat, with all her crew1 
disappeared. 
So short had been the struggle, 
that it was with difficulty ~r. Ogden could realize 
that all had peri5hed. 
Only one body out of the 
ten was afterwards found at the bottom of the 
Dalles, torn and mangled by the strife it had 
gone through.-N. Y. Advertiser. 
Religious Toleration in France.-The hopes 
of the friends of civil and religious freedom, 
which rest' on the dynasty of Louis Philippe, 
have but a poor basis. 'There can be no doubt of 
his zealous devotion to Catholicism, nor of his 
purpose to aid the present revival of it in his do-
minions, by the might of the civil arm. Catholi-
cism loves such an auxiliary-it cannot brook a 
rival faith, when it has power to suppress it. 
A correspondent of the "Evangelist" writes 
thus :-" I have told you from the beginning that 
the French governtnent, contrary to all others, 
was going backwards towards the establishment 
of Catholicism as the religion of the State. I am 
myself at this moment a livingproofofit.. Would 
you believe that. since I left France, at least two 
months ago, they have begun and ended a suit 
against me for ha,·ing preached tlie gospel to the 
Roman Catholics? Would you believe that I 
am CClndemned, without even having been cited 
to appear before my judges? and this in 1846!.. 
this under the charter proclaiming religious liber-
ty ! Such is now the exact truth, and in a few 
hours I shall depart in ~reat haste for France, 
to 
oppose 
the judgment which condemns 
me to a fine, and to the closing of the church in 
1nsle."-N. Y. Recorder. 
A letter from Jerusalem says:-" A deplorable 
~cene occurred in the church of the Holy Sepul-
chre, at Jerusalem, on Good Friday. The Latin 
priests were engaged in the ceremonies of the 
day, and a procession was passing through the 
church of the Holy Sepulchre, when a carpet 
happening to be placed in that part of the church 
set aside for the use of the Greek schismatics, 
gave rise to an extraordinary tumult. 'The Greeks 
insisted that the carpet should be taken away, the 
Latins insisting upon its remaining. 
An ex-::hange 
of abusive words ensued, which were speedily 
followed by blows. 
A tremendous battle was the 
consequence, in which the wax candles were up-
set, the candelabra destroyed, the banners pulled 
down, and their poles turned into pikes for the 
use of the combatants. A great number of per-
sons were seriously hurt, and some were killed ; 
but at length the' pacha came with a party of 
troops, and cleared the church of both parties. 
[t was then found that not only had a great deal 
of damage been done to the church, but that 
some of the most valuable and portable objects, 
had been stolen by the pious and pugnacious pil-
grims. 
Ships of ~Var.-French frigate Andromede, 
60, Rear Admiral La Place, fast ashore. French 
c?rvette Blonde, 20, ashore, masts gone, cap-
Sized-lost. French steamer Tonnerre, masts 
an.d funnel gone, and ~erious d.amage. 
Spanish 
bng Habanero, 20, V10e Admiral Ribera, safe 
and sound. 
Spani.sh brig Constitucion, 10, total-
ly lost, gone t~ p1eces. 
Spanish brig Laborde, 
?sb~re. 
Spant$h schooner Criolla, 1, wrecked-
m pt~ces. Spanish schooner Habanera, ashore. 
Span~sh schooner Polka, 1, wrecked-in pieces. 
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S~ams~ s~hoo~er Infanta, ashore. 
Spanish 
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~ngantme ruamda, wrecked-in pieces. Span-
t 
"THE LORD 18 AT HAND." 
1sh stea.mer Montezuma, ashore, foremast gone, !-=:::;============================ 
bowsprtt and bows kn<'ck.ed away. 
Spanish 
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steamer Guadaloupe, ashore. 
Spanish brig True-
BOSl'ON, NOVEMBER 11,. 184.6. 
no, Quarantine hulk, ashore-totally lost." 
Letters from Matanzas have been received in 
this city, from which it appears that the hurricane 
was very d~structive in that harbor. 
All the ves-
sels at anchor, excepting two, were driven ashore, 
and much damage was ~one to other property. 
:rbe cane on the plan~twns has been greatly in-
JUred, and may materially affectthecrop in Cuba. 
We have no intelligence of the effects of the 
gale on the coast of Mexico. 
N. B.-The number of Yeuele flf all nations 
wrecked at Havana, .is aa folloWs: Ships and 
barques, sunk, 11; dismaated, 4; damaged 8; 
safe, 4. 
Total, 27. 
Brigs-sunk, 19; disma~ttt,d, 12; damaged, 
14; safe, 4. Total, 49. 
Schooners-sunk, 7 ; dismasted, 3; damaged, 
2 ; safe, 1. Total, 13. 
. OUR RECEIPTS.-We have not received enough 
the past week for the "Herald " to pay for the paper on 
wh.ich it is printed. We would like to hear from those 
from whom we have heard nothing since the commence-
ment of the present volume. 
REVIVAL IN NEW BEDFORD.-Our heart has 
been cheered by the intelligence of the revfvat of God's 
work in New Bedford. We bave similar· intelligence 
from various other places. As far HS we can learn, the 
brethren were never more firmly grounded in !be belief 
of tbe Dear comiug of tile Son of man, than at the pres-
ent time. 
Bro. HIMES and BROWN are now, doubtleu, on the 
broad billows of the mighty A tlnotic,-halC way ~r018 
tile Ocean. If they are prospered, we hope to ~e;e them 
about the time we issue our next paper. As Bro. Himes 
will resume his old position in the editorial department, 
all articles fOr the paper should be addressed to him, a.a 
well as letters on business. This ai~es a uniformity and 
unity to the paper. 
NEFF'S MAGNETIC 1\IACHINES.-We would in-
form our correspondents, that we are entirely out of this 
article. As soon as we receive another supply, due no-
tice will be given. . 
The ANALYSIS OF GEOGRAPHY, by S. BLtss, 
will be ready the last of the present week. 
The Steamship BRITANNIA, which 'was due at this 
port on Tue-sday, the 3d, arrived on Saturday mornng1 
just as our paper was going to press. 
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vols. lland 12. 
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H. Buckley, $112 1-2-lt i11 the papers we send to 
Canada which are on those terms. Those we send to 
border towns in the States, are the sai:ne as State subs. 
A. Parsons-It is paid to end of v. 6. You r.an send 
us what you feel able to, and we will credit you in full. 
R. V. Lyon-We sent the books. 
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Amount of expenditures over receipts, 
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DELINQUENTS. 
294 17 
[Under this head we may do some injustice. We 
hope not to. If any noticed here have paid, and through 
mistake have not been crt'dited, or are poor, we shall be 
hapny to do them justice.] 
The Postmas'trr of Anbum, N.Y., sends back the pa-
ofP. SQUIRES, as not taken from the Office, on which 
is due $2 90. 
CONFERENCES. 
The Lord wilJing, a Conference will be held at the 
Tabernscle in Holderness, to commence Friday, the 20th 
inst., Rnd continue over tile Sabbath. Brn. T. Sanborn 
and E. Burnham will attend. Other brethren are invited. 
JOHN SHAW. 
Ry Divine permission, there will be a Second Advent 
Conference in Haverllill, c9mmencing Friday morning, 
the 27th inst., and continue over the Snbbath. 
HENRY PLUMMER. 
If God permit, a Conference wiil be held in New Bos .. 
ton, N. II., commencing Friday before the first Sabbath 
in December. Brethren will call on Deacon Jacob Ben-
nett for information. 
EDWIN BURNHAM. 
Providence permitting, there will be a Secoud Advent 
Conference held at Worcester, to commence Nov. 26, 
(Thanks-giving day,) atlO o'clock A.M. By request of 
the brethren. 
A. HALE. 
NOTICES. 
BOOKS FOR SALE.-The New Testament (pocket edi 
tion), the Gospels translated by Campbell, the Epistles 
by .Macknight, with !he Acts and RevelRtions in the com-
mon version. This book should be in the hands of every 
At.lventi~t who does not tmdersttmti the original Greek. 
Price 37 1-2 ce.nts retail, 33 1-3 wholesale. 
MEETINGS LN NEW YORK are held Sunday mon1ing 
and afternoon at Croton Hall, at the head of Chatham 
Square, and on 8\mday, l'uesdlty, and Friday evenings 
in the vestry of lite German Reformed church in For· 
syth-strel)t. Meetings arc also held regula1·ly three times 
every Sunday, corner of Christopher and Hudson-streets. 
MEETINGS IN BROOKLYN, N.Y., are held in Washing· 
ton Hall, corner of Adamlf and Tillery-streets, three 
times every Sunday, and also on Monday and Thursday 
evening. A Sunday-school is held in the same place 
each Lord's day afternoon. 
"¥' The friends visiting Philadelphia, Will find the 
Second Advent meeting-oR the Sabb1tth AT oun oJ,D 
PLACE, the Saloon of the Chinese Museum, in 9th street, 
between Walnut und Chesnut-sts. 
J. LITCH· 
l\IEETINGs IN BosTON at the "Central Saloon," No. 
9 Milk-street, nearly opposite the lower end of the Ol_d 
South, three time~ on Sunday, and ou Tuesday and Fri-
day evenings in tile vestry, above the Saloon. 
AGENTS 
FOR THE "HERALD" AND 8. A. PUBLICATIONS. 
ALBANY, N. Y.-T. M. :Preble. 
BUFFALO, N. Y.-J. J. Porter. 
CINCINN.,TI, 0.-John 1{i]oh-. 
CLEA VELANU, 0.-D. I. Robinson. 
DERBY LINE, Vt.-Stephen, Foster, Jr. 
llARTFORD, Ct.-Aaron Clapp. 
LOWELL, Mass.-M. M. George. 
• Low HAMPTON, N. Y.-L. Kimball. 
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NEw BEDFORD, Mass.-Henry V. Davis. 
NEw Yoalt CITY-R. R. Hollister, 91 Delaney-street. 
ORRINGTON, Me.-ThomasSmith. 
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--J. Litch, 3 1-2 North Seventh-s I 
PoRTLAND, l
e.-Peter Johnson, 24 India-street. 
PROVIDENCE, R. I.-George H. Child. 
RoCHESTER, N. Y.-J. Marsh, 20 1-2 State-street. 
TORONTO, C. W.-Daniel Campbell. 
'VATERLoo, C. E.-R. Hutchinson. 
WoacE&TER, Mass.-D. F. Wetherbee. 
Re~eipts for Week ending Nov. 6. 
IJ:7 We have annexed -t~ch acknowledgmeol t~e 
number to which it pays. Where the volume only tB 
mentioned, the whole volume is paid for. 
· 
J. Wyeth, 286-$2 60-H. C. ~urtman, :!84-40cta. 
J. Thomas, v 12-50 cts.-_o\, Geer; v 12-75 cts.-
P. Embury, 287-371-2 cte.-At. H. Brick, v 13; B. 
Stow, v 12; I. Lecraw, 313; J. PulsHer, v 12j L. Moody, 
313; 8. Nye, 290; T. Tilton, 308; H. T. Gosline, 236; C. 
M, Davia, 200; E. H. Sherman, v 12; G. W. Kello"' 
306; Dea. Joshua Smith, 313; C. Macomber, 313; Jt. 
Wooster, 2f2-each $1-P. J.e!', v 14; S. Campbell, 
v 8; B. Dwelley, 331; W. Flanders, v 12-each $2-
J. Blaisdell, v 13-$5. 
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