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BY JOHN GUMMING, D.D. 
LECTURE IX.—THE SOLDIERS OF CHRIST. 
" He that 'lath an ear, let him hear what the Spir-
it saith unto the Churches ; To him that overcometh 
will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the 
midst of the paradise of God."—Rev. 2:7. 
(Concluded.) 
" EPHESUS.—This celebrated city, anciently 
the metropolis of Proconsular Asia or Ionia, 
now called Natolia, was situated about forty 
miles south-east of Smyrna, and five miles from 
the Egean Sea, on the sides and at the foot of 
a range of mountains overlooking a fine plain, 
watered and fertilized by the river Cayster. It 
was considered a maritime city, and is said to 
have been built by Androclus, the son of Co-
drus, king of Athens, as early as the time of 
David. It thenceforth occupied a distinguished 
place among the twelve confederated Ionian 
cities of Asia Minor. From the remotest peri-
od, Ephesus was celebrated for a temple of 
Diana, hence called the Ephesian goddess. 
" The inhabitants of Ephesus were distin-
guished more by their voluptuousness and their 
traffic, than by their taste for learning or philo-
sophy. They are also said to have been ad-
dicted to sorcery and such like arts. What 
were called the Ephesian letters' appear to 
have been magical symbols inscribed on the 
crown, girdle, and feet of the statue Diana, in 
the great temple ; and it was believed that 
whoever pronounced them had forthwith all 
that he desired. In the Apostolic times, Ephe-
sus was in its glory, and its streets resounded 
with the shouts, Great is Diana of the Ephe-
sians V— (Acts 19:28-34.) When St. Paul 
visited the city, and a tumult in consequence 
arose, the town-clerk, or principal magistrate, 
made the following speech Ye men of Ephe- 
sus, what man is there that knoweth not how 
that the city of the Ephesians is a worshiper 
of the great goddess Diana, and of the image 
which fell down from Jupiter ? Seeing, then, 
that these things cannot be spoken against, ye 
ought to be quiet, and do nothing rashly. For 
ye have brought hither these men, who are nei-
ther robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers 
oa, 
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COMFORT UNDER AFFLICTION. 
Apocalyptic Sketches, 
When gathering clouds around I view, 
And days are dark, and friends are few, 
On Him I lean, who not in vain 
Experienced every human pain 
He sees my griefs, allays my fears, 
And counts and treasures up my tears. 
If aught should tempt my soul to stray, 
From heavenly wisdom's narrow way,—
To fly the good I would pursue, 
Or do the thing I would not do, 
Still He who felt temptation's power, 
Shall guard me in that dangerous hour. 
If woundedllove my bosom swell, 
Deceived by those I prized too well, 
He shall his pitying aid bestow, 
Who felt on earth severer wo ; 
At once betrayed, denied, or fled, 
By those who shared his daily bread 
When vexing thoughts within me rise, 
And, sore dismayed, my spirit dies ; 
Yet He who did vouchsafe to hear 
The sickening anguish of despair, 
Shall sweetly soothe, shall gently dry, 
The throbbing heart, the streaming eye. 
When mourning o'er some stone I bend, 
Which covers all that was a friend, 
And from his voice, his hand, his smile, 
Divides me fifr a little while; 
Thou, Saviour, mark'st the tears I shed, 
For thou didst weep o'er Lazarus dead. 
And 0 ! when I have safely passed 
Through every ci inflict but the last.; 
Still, still michangii,g, watch beside 
My painful bed,—for thou hast died ; 
Then point to realms of cloudless day, 
And wipe the latest tear away. 
BY HANNAH MORE. 
of your goddess.' The tradition here referred 
to, that the image of Diana originally fell from 
heaven, has induced some to conjecture that it 
might have contained an aerolite or atmospheric 
stone ; but the pretence was by no means pecu-
liar to Ephesus. The Palladium of Troy, and 
the image of Minerva, were said to have been 
dropped from the clouds, and the sacred shield 
of the Romans was given in a similar manner 
in the reign of Numa Pompilius. This impos-
ture, zealously propagated by the mythological 
priests, that the statues at the shrines of which 
they ministered were the gifts of the celestial 
divinities, was early introduced into the Chris-
tian Church, when it became infected by the 
leaven of superstition, and the legends of the 
monkish writers of communications from the 
Virgin and the Aposmies are not behind those 
which they imitated in pretensions to the mi-
raculous. A similar origin to that of the Ephe-
sian Diana has been claimed for the shrine of 
our Lady of Loretto, in Italy ; and Pope John 
I. marched out of the city of Rome in solemn 
procession to receive a picture of the Virgin, 
which was devoutly believed to have been sus-
pended over the city for a considerable time. 
" St. Paul resided at Ephesus for three years, 
and founded a Church (Acts 20:31), which was 
sound in doctrine, and upright in discipline and 
practice during his life ; but after the martyr-
dom of the Apostle, the Ephesian Church de-
clined, and its bishop was solemly warned to 
repent and do the first . works.' Trophimus, 
the eminent disciple of St. Paul, who accompa-
nied him on many of his journeys, was a na-
tive of Ephesus ; and it is conjectured that 
Tychicus, the bearer of the Epistle to the 
Church, and of that to the Colossians, was so 
likewise. In A. D. 57, the Apostle, sailing from 
Assos to Tyre, appointed the elders and presby-
ters of the Ephesian Church to meet him at 
Miletus, at which port he intended to touch, 
not having time to visit their city. This inter-
view was of an affecting nature, and evinces the 
strong attachment which his residence among 
them had produced. He told them on that oc-
casion, that they would see his face no more—
that after his departure, grievous wolves would 
enter in among the flock ; and he anxiously 
exhorted those who had the oversight thereof, 
to feed the Church of God.—Acts 20:28. 
" Irenans and Eusebius relate a tradition, 
that St. John wrote his three Epistles at Ephe-
sus, between the commencement of the Jewish 
war and the final subjugation of Palestine, 
when he first arrived and took up his residence 
in the city. Some of the Fathers affirm, that 
the beloved disciple was accompanied into Asia 
Minor by the Virgin Mary, who resided at 
Ephesus, where she is said to have been buried. 
In A. D. 142, Justin Martyr visited Ephesus, 
and held on that occasion his celebrated conver-
sation on Christianity with Trypho, who is 
mentioned by Eusebius as the most eminent 
Jew of his time. At the close of the second 
century, Polycrates, the bishop of Ephesus, 
engaged in a controversy respecting the observ-
ance of Easter, which threatened the extinc-
tion of all kindly feeling between the parties. 
" The celebrated story of the Seven Sleepers, 
related by Gibbon, is connected with Ephesus. 
During the furious persecution of the Christians 
carried on by the Emperor Decius, seven noble 
Ephesian youths concealed themselves in a cave 
in the neighborhood of the city, where they 
were immured by the tyrant. They imme-
diately fell into a deep slumber,' says Gibbon, 
which was miraculously prolonged, without 
injuring the powers of life, during a period of 
one hundred and eighty-seven years. This 
popular tale, which Mohammed might have 
learned when he drove his camels to the fairs 
of Syria, is introduced as a Divine relation into 
the Koran. The story of the Seven Sleepers 
has been adopted and adorned by the nations 
from Bengal to Africa, who profess the Moham-
medan religion, and some vestiges of a similar 
tradition have been discovered in the remote 
extremities of Scandinavia.' 
" In A. D. 431, the heads of the Church, in 
obedience to the imperial mandate, repaired to 
Ephesus, and deposed Nestorius, the bishop of Messrs. Hartley and Arundell, green corn was 
Constantinople. The prelate was degraded from growing in all directions amidst the forsaken 
his ecclesiastical dignities, and confined in a ruins; and one solitary individual only was 
monastery. At the commencement of the sixth found who bore the name of Christ, instead of 
century, Ephesus, like other Asiatic Churches, its once flourishing Church. Where once as-
had lost almost every trace of its first love,' sembled thousands exclaimed, " Great is Diana 
and the streams of Divine truth circulated by of the EpheSians !" now the eagle yells, and the 
St. Paul, St. John, and Polycarp, became gradu- jackal moans. The soil of the plain on which 
ally corrupted by error and superstition. At the ruins of Ephesus lie appears rich : in the 
this era,' says Mr. Milner, the number of monks summer of 1835, when visited by Mr. Addison, 
multiplied prodigiously in the East, invited to it was covered with a rank burnt-up vegetation. 
inaction and repose by its warm climate and This place,' he states, is a dreary uncultivated 
sunny skies ; and the myrtle crowned valleys spot ; a few corn-fields were scattered along the 
of Asia Minor were crowded with fanatics, ea- site of the ancient city, which is marked by 
ger to arrive at spiritual perfection by the con- some large masses of the shapeless ruins and 
stant practice of bodily ease. The north, with stone walls.'" 
its snows and mountains, had indeed its monas- What does all this teach us ? That the Gos- 
teries, but the greatest hive was in the East, pel in the midst of a city is the strength, the 
where the balmy breezes and ever-ripening glory, and the stability of it. The moment 
fruits ministered to sensual gratification. The that her love left the city of Ephesus, her ships 
religious flocked to the plains of Syria to dream left her harbors, her soldiers deserted her stand-
away existence, and the beautiful valleys of ard, her ancient and illustrious buildings crum-
Greece and Anatolia swarmed with a race bled into ruins, and Ephesus alone, therefore, 
whose pretensions to piety were laziness and is a standing evidence that it is the Church of 
superstition.' 
God, in old England's heart, that is the secret 
" In 1764, when Ephesus was visited by Dr. of the splendor of the diadem that is around the 
Chandler, its population consisted of a few Queen of England's brow. It is Christianity 
Greek peasants, living in extreme wretchedness, among the people that is the grand secret of all 
dependence, and insensibility ; the representa- our prosperity and greatness. It is not protec-
tives of an illustrious people, and inhabiting the tionism, It is not free trade, that is the substance 
wreck of their greatness,—some, the substruct- of our commerce, the glory and the secret of 
ure of the glorious edifices which they raised, our agricultural prosperity ;—it is the Gospel 
some beneath the vaults of the stadium, once alone; and he who becomes a Christian him-
the crowded scene of their diversions. We self and seeks to spread what he feels among 
heard the partridge call in the area of the thea- those that are around him, does more to ad-
tre and of the stadium. The glorious pomp of vance our country in its loyalty, in its integrity, 
its heathen worship is no longer remembered ; in its strength, in its riches, in its commerce, 
and Christianity, which was there nursed by in its manufactures, in its agriculture, than all 
Apostles and fostered by general councils, until the eloquent speeches made the one way or the 
it increased to fulness of stature, barely lingers other within the walls of parliament. It is by 
on in an existence hardly visible. On approach- righteousness that a nation stands ; it is by sin 
ing it from the wretched village of Aiasaluch, that it descends to its tomb. I have confidence 
a few scattered fragments of antiquity occur ; in the Gospel, and confidence in that alone : 
and on the hill above, some traces of the former and I believe, that when the hurricane swept 
walls, and a solitary watch-tower, mark the ex- over Europe, and the kings were bowed before 
tent of the city. 
it as the grass before the breeze—when the 
" At some distance are the remains of the earthquake heaved, and convulsed great em-
theatre in which Demetrius raised the tumult pires, and shattered strong and ancient thrones, 
against St. Paul; but of the once famous tem- it was not the guns that were concealed behind 
pie of Diana not a stone is seen, except perhaps the walls of our great public buildings, nor those 
a few arches on the morass, which are conjec- bayonets that bristled in the sun, nor those no- 
tured to have supported it. A more thorough ble bands that crowded our streets and were 
change,' says Mr. Emerson, can scarcely be ready when specially summoned specially to 
conceived, than that which has actually occur- act, that saved us; but it was that our people 
red at Ephesus. Once the seat of active com- had within them, as a body, indirectly and di-
merce, the very sea has shrunk from its solitary rectly, that love to God which is the secret of 
shores; its streets, once populous with the true and lasting royalty. As Ephesus lost her 
devotees of Diana, are now ploughed over by commerce when she lost her Christianity, so 
the Ottoman serf, or browsed by the sheep of London will lose hers if ever she lose living re-
the peasant. It was early the stronghold of ligion in the midst of her. There is already 
Christianity, and stands at the head of the too little Christianity, and too much room for 
Apostolic Churches of Asia. It seems that more ; instead of Christian churches quarrelling 
there, as St. Paul says, the word of God grew with each other, and Christian ministers settling 
mightily and prevailed.' Not a single Chris- themselves in opposition to each other, all ought 
tian now dwells within it ; its mouldering arch- to labor as one. We want double the number 
es and dilapidated walls merely whisper the of churches and chapels of every description ; 
tale of its glory; and it requires the acumen of and I wish we could bring into them, not visit-
the geographer, and the active scrutiny of the ors from other communions and chapels, but 
exploring traveller, to form a probable conjecture men who are heathens and know not what 
as to the actual site of the first wonder in the Christ and his Gospel are. Let us feel that 
world.' 
churches will stand in the present day, not by 
" The same writer continues to observe :— the excellence of their ecclesiastical polity, nor 
The present state of Ephesus affords a striking by the patronage of the state, nor by the endow-
illustration of the accomplishment of prophecy. ment of the queen, nor by the votes of the peo-
Ephesus is the first of the Apocalyptic Churches pie ; but by their allegiance to Christ, by their 
addressed by the Evangelist in the name of adherence to duty, by their sufferings for truth. 
Jesus Christ; his charge against her is a de- Our churches are secured, not by the splendor 
clension of religious fervor (Rev. 2:4), and his of their liturgies, nor by the eloquence of their-
threat in consequence (Rev. 2:5), a total extinc- preachers, or the multitude, or the grandeur, or 
tion of her ecclesiastical brightness. After a the nobility of those that visit them ; but only 
protracted struggle with the sword of Rome and by their faithfulness to God, their sacrifices for 
the sophisms of the Gnostics, Ephesus at last his cause, their sympathies with his people.—
gave way. 
Men may talk about the succession, but I feel 
"The incipient indifference censured by the that this will be found the frailest reed in the 
warning voice of the Prophet increased to a to- universe when the ordeal comes ; for the time 
tal forgetfulness, till at length the threatenings draws near when men will see that that is the 
of the Apocalypse were fulfilled, and Ephesus best Church and the most apostolic Church that 
sunk with the general overthrow of the Greek has the most apostolic charity—that that is the 
empire in the fourteenth century. 
best minister who preaches divine sermons and 
" The plough has passed over the city; and lives a divine life—that is the best congregation 
when visited, in March 1826, by the Rev, which does most for the spread of the Gospel 
314 
Which it has first tasted in all its sweetness and 
realized in all its power. 
END OF LECTURE IX. 
From the London " Quarterly Journal of Prophecy." 
The history of Chiliasm. 
Our fifth statement is, that during the first 
century after the Reformation it rose again into 
notice, and was held by several learned and god-
ly men ; while it was strongly opposed, not 
only by the Papists but by the Socinians.—
Some fragments of it seem to have been held 
by the Anabaptists of that age, who thus brought 
discredit on it ; but still some sound and able 
men maintained it, while Socinus himself at-
tacked it in a letter " contra Chiliastas." So 
that still we see heresy taking the field against 
Chiliasm, not siding with it : still we see Chili-
asm in alliance with orthodoxy. 
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Our sixth statement is, that during the sec-
ond century after the Reformation it rose into 
still greater eminence, especially in England. 
Very many of the Nonconformists and the men 
of that age held it, and no time, save our own, 
abounds in such a numerous authorship upon 
the subject. A large number of the Westmin-
ster Assembly held it. Twisse, the President 
of that Assembly, was a millenarian, and many 
others of that age, of all denominations, Episco-
palians, Presbyterians, and Independents ; and 
so strong was their position felt to be, that R. 
Baxter honestly confesses that though he did 
not agree with them, he could not refute them. 
The Ffth Monarchy men, no doubt, took it up 
and brought discredit on it; but, though the 
actings of these men were fanatical, it must be 
remembered that they were men doctrinally 
most sound in the faith, strong Calvinists, and 
clear in Evangelical truth. But apart from them 
it was held by numbers in that age who had no 
participation in their fanaticism. 
Our seventh statement is, that during the last 
century Chiliasm almost died away. With spirit-
ual life it sunk and nearly disappeared. To 
the chill Arminanistn of the last century it 
showed no affinity. Its greatest opponent dur-
ing the last century, the great propounder and 
maintainer of the spiritual reign, was Whitby, 
noted for his Arminianism, and one may find 
in his works, side by side, his treatises for the 
spiritual reign and against the imputed right-
eousness of Ch'ist. 
In truth, Chiliasm has always showed the 
strongest affinity for Calvanism, and antago-
nism to the opposite. Its opponents in past ages 
were men noted for heresy; for among them 
we reckon Gnostics, Origenists, Papists, Socini-
ans, and others of like unsoundness in the faith. 
Christ the Light of the World. 
BY WM. H. VAN DOREN. 
shall take the kingdom, and there shall be a 
pure earth, holy, a land of the living, not of tha 
dead,' which David foreseeing, by the eye of 
faith, cries out (Psalm 2'7:13), I believe to see 
the goodness of the Lord in the land of the 
living,' a land of the meek and humble : for 
Christ saith (Matt. 5:5), 'Blessed are the meek, 
for they shall possess the earth.' And the Pro-
phet saith (Isa. 26:6), the feet of the meek and 
humble shall tread upon it.' On this passage 
Mr. Mede says, 'This you see was the opinion 
of the whole orthodox Christian Church, in the 
age immediately following the death of St. 
John, (when yet Polycarp, and many disciples 
of the Apostles were living,) as Justin Martyr 
expressly affirms : a testimony absolute without 
all comparison to persuade such as rely upon 
authority and antiquity. And therefore it is to 
be admired (saith Mr. Mede) that an opinion 
once so generally received in the Church, 
should ever have become cried down and buried. 
But those times which extinguished this, brought 
in also other alterations ; and perhaps some-
thing in lieu of that, and relating to it, (which 
perhaps few observe, that have knowledge 
enough of the rest,) namely, prayers for the dead, 
which were then conceived after this manner ; 
that they may have their part in the first resur-
rection.' " 
Thus we see that not only does this Council 
state what we believe to be the scriptural view, 
but cites those passages which we are accus-
tomed to cite, and which our opponents gener-
ally either explain away or deny as applicable. 
Now is it possible to suppose that this great 
Council of the Church, so well known in history 
for its condemnation of Arianism, should be 
unanimous upon a tenet which had died out of 
the Church ? It is obvious that nearly a century 
after the days of Origen and Dionysius, Chili-
astic doctrine was still truly the creed of the 
Church, or at least of the greater part of it. In 
this Council it stands before us, not only disso- 
ciated from heresy, but opposed to it ; nay, not 
only opposed to heresy, but united to what was 
sound and holy. It was the defenders of the 
Trinity,—the firm upholders of the orthodox 
belief,—the learned and the holy of the fourth 
century, that gave forth the declaration in 
favor of Chiliasm. So that we gather from 
this these two conclusions,—first, that Chiliasm 
was still the general, though not the universal 
creed of the Church ; and secondly, that it was 
entirely assimilated with all that is sound in 
doctrine and godly in life. 
(3.) Jerome, who flourished about one hun-
dred years later, in the beginning of the follow-
ing century, gives us a very explicit testimony 
as to the prevalence of Chiliasm, He was one 
of the most resolute enemies of the doctrine 
that ever wrote, never missing an opportunity of 
assailing it, yet the following is his confession. 
Speaking of the Millenarian, Apollinarius, he 
remarks,—" An author whom not only the men 
of his own sect, but most of our people likewise, 
follow on this point (Chiliasm), so that it is not 
difficult to prove what a multitude of persons 
will be offended with me." Thus, here and 
elsewhere, he speaks as if the Chiliasts were 
still a great multitude (plunima multitudo.) In-
deed, both he and Augustine, while condemn-
ing the doctrine most resolutely, evidently speak 
as men who felt that they were in a minority 
upon the subject in the Christian Church. 
But we must here close our sketch of the 
history of Chiliasm. Our latter statements 
have been brief enough, as in truth they are 
intended rather as a table of contents to a work 
which, if leisure were given, might yet be un-
dertaken ; a work which by minute historical 
investigation would undertake to prove the as-
sociation or alliance that has existed in all ages 
between Chiliasm and soundness in the faith. 
Not as if this alliance were invariable or uni-
versal; nor as if the converse were so either; 
but the singularly numerous testimonies to the 
above state of opinion, prove such an extent of 
alliance or sympathy, as to justify us entirely in 
classing Anti-Chiliasm with heresy, and in set-
ting down Chiliasm as the natural associate and 
friend of all that is sound in doctrine, and ele-
vated in spiritual life. 
Our fourth statement is, that, from the time 
that Popery rose into the ascendant in the sixth 
century, and during all the ages in which it had 
the ascendant, IVIillenarianism was silenced.—
Jerome, in whose works the seeds of almost 
every Popish error may be found, led the oppo-
sition. After his day the opposition became 
more general, till at last Chiliasm was not only 
attacked by the arguments but condemned by 
the Councils of the Apostate Church. Popery 
during its whole reign maintained an unmiti-
gated hostility to Chiliastic doctrine. Had it 
maintained silence upon the subject, one might 
have thought that the subject was merely for-
gotten ; but it has not kept silence. It has 
openly denounced the doctrine, though it finds 
great difficulty in excusing Papias, Tertullian, 
lrenmus, &c., for their belief of it. One cannot 
help concluding from the enmity which Popery 
manifested, that there must have been some 
among the noble army of martyrs who held it. 
It is difficult otherwise to account for the Popish 
hostility and condemnation. Would Popery 
have troubled itself with the doctrine had it not 
been maintained by some of those who held fast 
the grace of God ? 
(Concluded.) 
Our third statement is that, notwithstanding 
the blow given by Origen and his followers, Chili- 
asm still remained the belief of a very large por-
tion of the Church till the fifth or sixth century. 
It had now ceased to be universal. It was now 
no longer a test of perfect orthodoxy as in the 
days of Justin Martyr. But still it was not to 
be uprooted in a day, or an age, or even a cen-
tury. It was too vital, too sacred a part of the 
Church's ancestral creed to be suddenly for-
saken. It continued to be widely received in 
the Church until by the gradual uprise of Popery 
it was swept clean away. 
We found this statement on the following 
facts : 
(1.) The testimony of Lactantius, who flour-
ished about the year 310. In his "Institutions" 
he frequently refers to Chiliasm, showing us 
not only that he held it himself, but that the 
Church generally held it in his day. We take 
the following statement of his views from an old 
author :— 
" From this seventh book we shall give sev-
eral passages. In our forth book we have 
spoken of the first coming of the Lord : now let 
us relate his second, which the Jews also ac-
knowledge and expect; because it is of neces-
sity that he should return to comfort them, 
whom before he had come to call altogether."—
chap. 1. 
" It is ordained by the disposal of the highest 
God, that this unjust age, a certain space of 
time being run, shall have an end; when, all 
wickedness being extinct, and the sons of the 
godly being called hack to a blessed life, there 
shall flourish a quiet, tranquil, peaceable, and 
golden age, God himself then reigning."—
chap. '7. 
" Let philosophers know, who number thou-
sands of ages since the beginning of the world, 
that the sixth thousandth year is not yet con-
cluded or ended. But that number being ful-
filled, of necessity there must be an end, and 
the state of human things must be transformed 
into that which is better."—chap 14th. This 
he largely and learnedly proves from God's 
making the world in six days, and resting the 
seventh ; alleging the Prophet's expression, that 
a thousand years are but as one day, &c. 
" And after these things," says he again, 
" the places of the dead shall be opened, and 
the dead shall rise again, and the great judg-
ment shall be performed by God-Christ concern-
ing them, of which judgment and kingdom the 
Erythrasan Sibyl thus speaks : When the day 
shall receive its fatal end, and the judgment of 
the immortal God shall come to mortals, then 
shall come upon men the great judgment and 
the beginning, &c.' 
Nevertheless, all univer-
sally shall not be then judged of God ; but those 
only which are versed in the religion of God." 
—chap. 19th and 20th. 
" The poets by poetical licence corrupted that 
which they had received ; for in that they sang, 
—that men, having finished a thousand years 
among the dead, should be restored to life again, 
—their understanding deceived them. For the 
dead shall indeed rise again, not a thousand 
years after their death, but that, being restored 
to life again, they may reign a thousand years 
with God."—chapter 22d. " By God Lac-
tantius means Christ ; as he openly explained 
himself a little before."—Homes on the Resur-
rection. 
(2.) The Council of Nice; which met in the 
year 325, promulgated among its " forms of ec-
clesiastical doctrine, according to which all 
teachers in the Church were to frame their dis-
course," a declaration which brings out the de-
cided Chiliasm of that Assembly. It is to the 
following effect :— 
" I shall conclude this evidence by a quota-
tion from the Acts of the Council of Nice, called 
by Constantine the Great, so late as the year 
325. This council, besides their definition of 
faith and canons ecclesiastical, did set forth cer-
tain Am.Tv7rwa-E,5, or Forms of Ecclesiastical 
Doctrines ; according to which all teachers in 
the Church were to frame their discourse and 
direct their opinion. And if these forms were 
not then first composed, they were at least so 
' poderated, that both parties might accept them, 
being (as you may see) delivered in the lan-
guage of Scripture. Some of these f orms are re-
corded by Gelasius Cyzicenus ; among which 
is this, for the doctrine of the state of' the res- 
urrection, beginning MocporrEpo; o scoo-6,60;,' &c. 
The world was made more minute, or viler, be-
cause of foreknowledge. For God saw that 
man would sin : therefore we expect new heav-
ens and a new earth, according to the Holy 
Scriptures, when shall shine forth the appear-
ance and kingdom of the great God, and our 
Saviour Jesus Christ. And then as Daniel 
saith. (chap. '7:18,) the saints of the Most High 
not. We were travelling to perdition, and mis-
took it for the path to peace. Plotinus, a hea-
then, said, a good man differed from God only 
in not being quite as old. Conceive a goodly 
palace, with fair exterior, standing in a waste 
desert; but all its doors and windows are bar-
red ; no light can enter, no eye can see within. 
Thus is the soul of man without the light which 
Christ brings. He comes and unbars the door; 
and, lo ! all is one scence of blasted desolation 
and death. He is the Light of the world. He 
opened the heart of Lydia, and she saw by the 
light her ruin and her recovery. Our passions, 
like so many slumbering tigers, are unknown 
to us until revealed by this Light. Here are 
memorials of our sins, stored away as in a trea-
sure-house, and unseen by our own eye, until 
Christ enters, as erst he did into the temple pro-
faned. He might say : " My Father's house 
ye have made a den of thieves." The gathered 
wisdom of ages never has taught a heathen 
sage his desperate condition. Shut the Bible, 
and who can tell whether sin be a disease, a 
weakness, or a curse ? Without Christ, and 
the mind of earth's wisest philosophers is as 
dark and cold as the deepest cavern in Siberia! 
But the Saviour comes, and all the delusions 
and deceits of the soul are revealed ; as the 
moon, bursting from the clouds,. reveals to the 
swollen stream. 
traveller the bridge swept away by the 
No light of created material can penetrate 
the rock, or the gloomy grave; but no night of 
sin, no concealment of crime, no refuge of guilt, 
can exclude the light of Christ. Satan may 
build a thousand fortifications around the sin-
ner's heart; but the Light Divine pierces through 
them all like glass, and shows the secrets of the 
heart. Prejudice and Fanaticism bind their 
victims in chains of malice and thrust them in-
to the inner dungeon ; but this holy Light en-
ters the tower, passes the prison walls, pierces 
the iron gates, enters the hearts of the chained, 
the scourged, the afflicted, and converts the 
gloom of the dungeon into the bloom and beauty 
of Eden. 
Light is diffusive. A ray falling on the prism 
is divided into seven different rays of as many 
colors, and they diverge for ever. A ray of 
light would travel far ever, unless intercepted. 
Thus the light of Jesus infuses a radiant power 
into the Christian's graces, and renders them, 
like Ezekiel's wheels, instinct with life, and love 
and light. A Christian's light has been im-
mured in the cells of the Inquisition, bound to 
the wheel, chained to the stake, nailed to the 
cross, and flung to the lions ; but the gates of 
hell could not put it out. The wrath of man 
might as well essay to bind down the rising sun, 
as to extinguish the burning and shining light 
reflected by the disciple and martyr from his 
ascended Lord. A ray of light will continue 
to shine until it is annihilated. A saint will 
reveal the beauty and radiance of holiness until 
he is called to shine in another world. As Cow-
per expresses it :— 
" When one that holds communion with the skies 
Has filled his urn where those pure waters rise, 
And once more mingles with us meaner things, 
'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings: 
Immortal fragrance fills the circuit wide, 
That tells us whence those treasure were supplied." 
It matters not whether the world know us or 
not; their knowledge, their commendation, are 
nothing to us, if only we bear the image of 
Jesus. Break a mirror into a thousand pieces, 
and every glittering fragment reflects the full-
orbed image of the sun. Thus every disciple, 
however despised, however scorned, reflects the 
great Light of the world. Angels, who erst in 
Eden saw our sire unfallen bear this image, and 
held sweet communion with him, rejoice to see 
and love poor worms of the dust, adorned with 
that same image in this dark, dim spot, which 
men call earth. If Christ withdraw one mo-
ment his divine presence, the light of the soul 
goes out in darkness ; for our life is hid with 
Christ in God. To expect the sinner to show 
forth the light of holiness without Christ, is to 
expect Lazarus to leave his grave before Jesus 
cries, " Come forth !" Without Christ all " in-
ward lights " are folly's brood, God himself 
being Judge. " He that trusteth his own heart 
is a fool." He that would enter some mountain 
cave and commence digging for sunlight, would 
be abuot as wise as those who shut the Bible 
and dream of finding salvation. It is the voice 
of Christ : " They that hate me love death."—
To mistake our wretched self-righteousness, 
rags and rents, for the seemly robe of light and 
love of Jesus, is to mistake Cimmerian darkness 
for the splendor of noonday. 
Let us not envy the worldling his husks and 
beggarly elements here. His pleasures, his 
honors, his highest hopes, end in the dark, dark 
night that knows no morn. The proud, wicked 
Egyptians dwelt in the gloom that covered their 
land, while the Hebrews had "light in their 
dwellings." It was the affection of those noble 
old soldiers crying to their king : " Go not forth 
to battle, lest thou quench the light of Israel." 
Reader, grieve not the Spirit, lest thou quench 
the light of hope in the night of endless despair ! 
Christian Intelligencer. 
As our Saviour is compared with the sun, 
we may see in that orb some of the evidences of 
the value of the Redeemer to the moral world. 
As the source of light, or as the element of 
light, it is frequently alluded to in the sacred 
record. Hence, a son, joy, the gospel, Jehovah, 
&c., are used to express the light of the soul.—
The two aspects of the Messianic prophecies 
differ so widely that the Jews in some instances 
expected two Messiahs: the one, Messiah Ben 
David ; and the other, Messiah Ben Ephraim ; 
the former a conqueror, and the latter a suffer-
ing victim. But they were seen mysteriously 
blended in the same person. To a race fallen 
and benighted like ours, a Saviour is our only 
Hope, and to the renewed their only Light. 
The sun is the unceasing fountain of light 
to all the members of our system. For nearly 
six thousand years there has flowed hence an 
exhaustless ocean of splendor. The sun clothes 
our gardens in all the varied hues of beauty; it 
converts the trembling dew-drops into so many 
pearls of all the colors of paradise ; it paints 
those changeable hues over the plumage of 
birds, and flings the glories of light and loveli- 
ness over the landscape ; it builds upon the 
vanishing bosom of the dark, retiring thunder- 
cloud, the bright arch of many colors, and gilds 
the clouded scenery with its purple risings 
and golden settings. The sun flings a robe of 
loveliness around our world every morning, and 
gives to the gem and the diamond their match-
less value and beauty. After the reign of win-
ter is over, it melts the icy bands, and unlocks 
the frozen springs and streams, and, piercing 
the cold earth, quickens into life and verdure 
all the slumbering elements of nature. Need 
we wonder that the Persian bowed the knee in 
humble devotion to the sun as supreme deity ? 
And the mariner, long tossed by the tempests, 
as night rests upon the deep, sends up his fer-
vent prayer amid the howling storm for the 
sun to rise and cheer. And as he beholds, the 
dark clouds are tinged by the first faint dawn, 
—the waves appear not half so high, and the 
winds not half so fierce. An unsetting Sun 
Divine will be an element of heaven's bliss ; for 
there shall be no night there. 
Jesus is our sun, as he shows us our real con-
dition. The gloomiest feature in the ruin of 
our race is, that we were lost, yet we knew it 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
815 
" Crown me with flowers," said he, " intoxicate 
me with perfumes. Let me die to the sound of 
delicious music."—Not a word of God or his 
soul. Sensual philosopher, he desired only a 
supreme sensualism, a last voluptuousness to 
his agony. 
Contemplate Madame Roland, the strong-
hearted woman of the Revolution, on the cart 
that conveyed her to death. She looked con-
temptuously on the besotted people who killed 
their prophets and sibyls. Not a glance toward 
Heaven ! Only one word for the earth she was 
quitting—" 0, Liberty !" 
Approach the dungeon door of the Girondins. 
Their last night is a banquet. The only hymn, 
the Marseillaise ! 
Follow Camille Desmoulins to his execution. 
A cool and indecent pleasantry at the trial, and 
a long imprecation on the road to the guillotine, 
were the two last thoughts of this dying man 
on his way to the last tribunal. 
Hear Danton on the platform of the scaffold, 
at the distance of a line from God and eternity. 
I have had a good time of it ; let me go to 
sleep." Then to the executioner, " You will 
show my head to the people ; it is worth the 
trouble !" His faith, annihilation ; his last 
sigh, vanity ; behold the Frenchman of this 
later age ! 
What must one think of the religious senti-
ment of a free people whose great figures seem 
thus to march in procession to annihilation, and 
to whom that terrible minister, Death itself, re-
calls neither the threatenings nor the promises 
of God ! 
The Republic of thesp men without a God 
has quickly been stranded. The liberty won 
by SG much heroism and so much genius has 
not found in France a conscience to shelter it, a 
God to avenge it, a people to defend it against 
that atheism which has been called glory ! An 
atheistic republicanism cannot be heroic. —
When you terrify it, it bends ; when you would 
buy it, it sells itself. It would be very foolish 
to immolate itself. Who would take any heed ? 
the people ungrateful, and God non-existent ! 
So finish atheist revolutions ! Lainartine. 
A Nation without God. 
I know—I sigh when I think of it—that hith-
erto the French people have been the least re-
ligious of all nations of Europe. Is it because 
the idea of God—which arises from all the evi-
dences of Nature, and from the depths of reflec-
tion, being the profoundest and weightiest idea 
of which human intelligence is capable, and the 
French mind being the most rapid, but the most 
superficial, the lightest, the most unreflective of 
all the European races—has not the force and 
severity necessary to carry far and long the 
greatest conception of the human understandig ? 
Is it because we are and have been a military 
people, a soldier nation, led by kings, heroes, 
ambitious men, from battle-field to battle-field, 
making conquests and never keeping them, 
ravaging, dazzling, charming, and corrupting 
Europe ; and bringing home the manners, vices, 
bravery, lightness, and impiety of the camp to 
the fireside of the people ? I know not ; but 
certain it is that the nation has an immense 
progress to make in serious thought if she 
wishes to remain free. 
If we look at the characters, compared as re-
gards religious sentiment, of the great nations 
of Europe, America, and even Asia, the advan-
tage is not for us. The great men of other 
countries live and die on the scene of history, 
looking up to Heaven—our great men appear 
to live and die, forgetting completely the only 
idea for which it is worth living and dying—
they live and die looking at the spectator; or 
at most, at posterity. 
Open the history of America, the history of 
England, and the history of France; read and 
compare the great lives, the great deaths, the 
great martyrdoms, the great words at the hour 
when the ruling thought of life reveals itself in 
the last words of the dying. 
Washington and Franklin fought, spoke, suf-
fered, ascended and descended in their political 
life of popularity, in the ingratitude of glory, 
in the contempt of their fellow-citizens—always 
in the name of God, for whom they acted.—
The Liberator of America died confiding to 
God the liberty of the people, and his own soul' 
Strafford, who died for the constitution of his 
country, wrote to Charles I., to entreat him to 
consent to his execution, in order to prevent 
political troubles ; after this consent was ob-
tained, he wrote—" Put not your confidence in 
princes, nor your trust in the sons of men, for 
salvation cometh not from them, but from on 
high." 
In his way to the scaffold he stopped under 
the window of his friend the Bishop of London ; 
he raised his head towards him, and asked his 
prayers in the terrible moment that awaited 
him. The aged prelate burst into tears, and 
giving his trembling benediction, fell senseless 
in the arms of those who surrounded him. 
Strafford went on his way, strengthened by 
the Divine influence, invoked by the venerable 
man, and spoke with calmness to the people as-
sembled to see him die. " I only fear one 
thing," said he ; " it is, that this is an unhappy 
presage for my couutry—this effusion of inno-
cent blood. I am now at the end — one stroke 
will make a widow of my wife, and orphans of 
my children, will deprive my servants of an af-
fectionate master, will separate me from my 
dear brother, and my friends. May God replace 
all to them." 
He undressed, and laying his head on the 
block, said, " I thank my heavenly Master for 
enabling me to await this blow without fear 
and for not permitting me to be dismayed by 
an instant of terror. I lay down my head on 
this block with as much composure as I ever 
laid it down to sleep." 
Behold faith in union with patriotism. Look 
at Charles I. in his turn, that model of the 
death of kings. At the moment of receiving 
the stroke of the axe, whose edge he examined, 
he raised his head, and said to the minister 
who attended him, " Remein13,1 !" That is, re-
member to tell my sons never to avenge the 
death of their father. 
Sidney, the young martyr of a patriotism, 
guilty of nothing but impatience, and who died 
to expiate his country's dream of liberty, said 
to his jailor, " I rejoice that I die innocent to-
wards the king, but a victim, resigned to the 
King on high, to whom all life is due." 
The Republicans of Cromwell only sought 
the way of God, even in the blood of battles.—
Their politics were their faith—their reign a 
prayer—their death a psalm. One hears, sees, 
feels that God was in all the movements of 
these great people. 
But cross the sea, traverse La Mancha, come 
to our times, open our annals, and listen to the 
last words of the great political actors of the 
drama of our liberty. One would think that 
God was eclipsed from the soul ; that His name 
was unknown in the language. History will 
have the air of an atheist, when she recounts 
to posterity these annihilations, rather than 
deaths, of celebrated men in the greatest year 
of France ! The victims only have a God ; the 
tribunes and lictors have none. 
Look at Mirabeau on the bed of death : 
A Heavenly City. 
A VISION OF WHAT WILL BE.-(Rev. 21.) 
As once upon the time 
Of the lovely evening chime, 
When the shadows 'gan to go 
O'er the day's departing glow, 
And the twilight dimness came, 
Quenching every sunny flame, 
Save the blushes on the breast 
Of the faintly crimson'd west, 
And o'er every tree and bush, 
Hung the evening's quiet hush, 
Deep'ning till the sounds of life 
All had ceased their busy strife, 
And the holy calm of heaven 
Gathered o'er the gentle even', 
Breathing through the humble spirit 
That sweet peace the blest inherit. 
Yes, as once on such a time, 
I sat musing all alone, 
Visions of a fairer clime, 
With a beauty all her own, 
And a glory mortal eye 
Ne'er bath seen on earth below, 
Such came brightly floating by, 
With so marvelous a glow 
Of a blest reality, 
That my very soul was bow'd 
As I bent adoring knee, 
And in rapture wept aloud, 
Wept for very grief of gladness, 
That there should be given me, 
Amidst life's gloom and gladness, 
Aught so beautiful to see. 
I saw it like a city 
Of bright and burnished gold, 
With a flood of amber light 
O'er its golden glory roll'd ; 
From glist'ning tower and turret, 
Rain'd back the mellow rays, 
Till the very atmosphere 
Seein'd burdened with the blaze ; 
That blaze of light and glory, 
Would I could show it thee ! 
As all dazzlingly it shone, 
0 ! so glorious to see ! 
Through that atmosphere of light, 
With their slender shafts of snow, 
Rose a thousand minarets, 
Towering o'er the roofs below; 
Rose a thousand giant domes, 
High on clustering columns pil'd, 
Pil'd against the blue of heaven 
With a beauty passing wild, 
With a beauty none can tell ; 
Would I could tell it thee ! 
As it gleam'd before my soul, 
0 ! so marvelous to see ! 
Then that.mighty mountain wall, 
Girding with its bright outline, 
Temple, tower, and dome, and hall, 
How its battlements did shine ! 
Plain Practical Questions. 
Who is born of God ? " 'Whosoever be-
lieveth that Jesus is the Christ, is born of God ; 
and every one that loveth him that begat, loveth 
him also that is begotten of him."-2 John 5:1. 
When may we know that we love the chil-
dren of God ? " By this we know that we love 
the children of God, when we love God and 
keep his commandments."-2 John 5:2. 
When do we love God ? " For this is the 
love of God, that we keep his commandments ; 
and his commandments are not grievous."-2 
John 5:3. 
What do those overcome who are born of 
God ? " For whatsoever is born of God over-
cometh the world ; and this is the victory that 
overcometh the world, even our faith. Who 
is he that overconieth the world, but he that 
believeth that Jesus is the Son of God."-2 
John 5:4, 5. 
What do those have who believe on the Son 
of God ? " He that believeth on the Son of 
God hath the Witness in himself." 
What bath the man done who believeth not 
God ? " He that believeth not God hath " (in 
his own mind) " made him a liar, because he 
believeth not the record that God gave of his 
Son."-2 John 5:10. 
What is the record of God in his Son bath 
given to us ? " And this the record, that God 
hath given to us eternal life ; and this life is in 
his Son."-2 John 5:11. 
Dear reader, carefully consider these ques-
tions, and may they be the means of leading 
you to the blessed Saviour. 0, remember that 
if they are wisely considered you may be saved 
from death and made eternally alive. Neglect 
to consider them, and you must be lost forever. 
Jesus is now waiting to bless them to your soul's 
salvation ; he is near to make you happy in his 
love, and will you turn a deaf ear to all his en-
treaties ? Turn and just look upon him (by 
faith) for one moment and see how beautiful 
he is, and with what winning accents he is 
pleading for you to become his, and methinks 
one sight of that form will so ravish your soul 
that you will say, I will be forever thine, 0, 
Immanuel, Saviour. Corn. P. EIChurch. 
The Blind Man of the London Post- 
Office. 
A writer in the London Quarterly Review 
thus humorously describes the decipherer of il-
legible, incomprehensible, or inadequate letter 
addresses, which find their way into the London 
Post-office :— 
In the first opperation of dividing into four-
teen main classes the whole of the letters for 
the United Kingdom, as well as for all foreign 
countries, which pass daily through the Inland 
Department of the London Post-office, there 
exists among the pigeon holes one marked 
"blind." 
Into this little hospital for the destitute or 
houseless poor, are thrown by each sorter 
throughout the department, all letters bearing 
an illegible, an incomprehensible, or an inade-
quate address. It appears, from several experi-
ments which have been made in the Post-office, 
that of any given number of letters taken up at 
random as they are poured out of the bags, 
about one tenth of them have not, on their ad-
dresses, any post town ! On one day, 3559 let-
ters arrived at St. Martin's-le-Grand, addressed 
" London ;" most of them being only to petty 
shopkeepers, who, with a turkey-cock's desire 
to look grand, had struttingly supplied their 
country correspondents with this single word as 
their sufficient address ; and yet, such is the 
intelligence of the post-office—such its triumph 
of mind over matter—that every one of these 
letters was delivered to the person for whom it 
was meant ! 
We must here pause for a moment to observe, 
that it would relieve the servants of the post-
office from infinite vexation and trouble, and, to 
the advantage of all classes, would materially 
expedite the delivery of letters, if the public of 
their own accord would, or by the imposition of 
a heavy extra postage could be required to, re-
verse the existing foolish fashion by writing 
legibly, as the first word of the address of every 
letter—the only one out of the present. confused 
irrelevant mass which the sorter wishes to dis-
cover, and has now to search for— namely, the 
post town ; after which the name of the pretty 
little village, of the county, of " the hall," " the 
lodge," " the grove," or anythig else, might at 
any length be most harmlessly inserted—with, 
lastly, that which is of no earthly importance 
except to the postman who actually delivers the 
letter, the name of Hobs, Dobs, or Snobs; in 
short, of the person or personage to whom it is 
addressed. 
The duty of solving all the enigmas, and of 
deciphering the astonishing specimens of writ-
ing that are continuously afflicting the inland 
post office, is imposed upon a gentleman select-
ed from all the sorting clerks, and who, from 
being gifted with extraordinary memory, very 
sharp wits, and above all, with what Mr. Samuel 
Weller termed a " pair of patent double-mil-
lion magnifying gas microscopes-of-hextra-power 
eyes," is gravely distinguished throughout the 
department, as well as in its books, by the title 
of " The Blind Man." Accordingly, to his 
little desk, five feet long, two broad, modestly 
leaning against the wall of a small chamber 
close to the " Foreign " room, and adjoining 
the large double sorting hall, are brought all 
the letters which every sorter has, in despair, 
chucked into his " blind " pigeon-hole ; and 
as gazing for several minutes at nothing but 
the blind man's back, we beheld one basket 
full of botherations after another brought to 
him, we could not—when we considered that 
this badgering is mercilessly continued, through-
out every day, week, month, and year of his 
life--help wondering why the society for pre-
vention of cruelty to animals has not yet come 
to his rescue ! 
No one, however, who has watched the facility 
with which every compositor in a printing office 
can read bad writing, would be much surprised 
at the ease with which " the blind man " gets 
over that portion of his troubles. And again, 
as almost any person can readily learn to un-
derstand " broad" Yorkshire, broad Devonshire, 
And its gates of massive pearl, 
All with iris hues o'erhung, 
From their opening portals flash'd 
Light and beauty, as they swung; 
But the glory they reveal'd, 
How can I tell it thee ! 
As it bursts upon my sight, 
0 ! so wonderful to see ! 
There through the golden streets, 
And by the crystal river, 
Whose silver floods so purely flow, 
And sweetly flow forever, 
Myriads of holy beings walked, 
In shining garments dressed, 
And with pure and happy hearts, 
Throbbing peaceful in each breast, 
And lighting up that beauty 
Which I may not tell to thee : 
It hath not entered human heart, 
0! so beautiful to see! 
And once I caught the murmur 
Of an anthem's distant swell ; 
From a far-off band it came ; 
And its cadence rose and fell, 
0 ! so ravishingly sweet ! 
That it melted me to tears; 
I hear it ringing still, 
Through the lapse of silent years. 
And it ever, ever, singeth, 
In its melody to me, 
Of that city, 0 ! that, city ! 
So glorious to see ! 
And unnumber'd silver bells, 
While that shining army sang, 
Slowly swinging in the breeze, 
Most musically rang; 
Rang in matchless harmony 
That no human tongue can tell, 
It held me chained and breathless, 
Like the magic of a spell ; 
And it filled my inmost soul 
With a longing wish to be 
Forever in that city, 
0 ! so beautiful to see ! 
Thus I saw upon that time, 
Of the lovely evening chime ; 
And I know 'twas not a dream : 
For I caught its waking gleam, 
And I watched it brighter grow, 
Till its full meridian glow, 
With an overwhelming might, 
Burst upon my ravish'd sight; 
And though bowed with holy awe, 
I that matchless city saw, 
Full as palpably and plain, 
As if here on earth again, 
With its mingled gems and gold, 
And a beauty all untold, 
In its glory it should rise 
Bright before our wond'ring eyes. 
That city, 0 ! that city ! 
Its image oft returns ; 
And in Memory's holy light 
Most beautifully burns : 
So beautiful! it filleth 
My eyes with gushing tears ; 
For it cometh o'er my spirit 
Like the memory of past years— 
The memory of past years, 
As it poureth o'er the soul, 
With its perish'd loveliness, 
Till emotion bursts control ; 
Or as if that loveliness, 
In a new awakened prime, 
Outstripping all its beauty 
In its early elder-time, 
Should burst upon the gazer, 
As with dim and tearful eye 
He stands in sorrow weeping 
That such excellence could die, 
Until anew he weepeth 
For joy that it should be 
0 ! once again before him, 
And so beautiful to see. 
National Era. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
which oftentimes jealousy and contention and selfish 
rivalry produce, even among the saints. There is 
the scattering which bereavement makes, when strong 
ties are broken, and warm love spilt like water on 
the ground ; when fellowship is rent asunder, and 
living sympathies chilled by death, and tears of 
choking anguish are all the relief of loneliness and 
sorrow. 
As Israel was scattered among the nations, so have 
the saints been ; not indeed like Israel, because of 
the wrath of GOD against them, but still scattered 
every where. " The LORD shall scatter thee among 
all people, from the one end of the earth even unto 
the other," (Deut. 28:64,) were GoD's words to Is-
rael, and the Church feels how truly they snit her 
condition as a scattered flock. 
In primitive times, and often since that, in days of 
trouble and persecution, it was truly and literally a 
scattering, just as when the autumn wind shakes 
down and tosses the ripe leaves to and fro. But in 
our day it is not so much a scattering, as a simple 
dwelling asunder,-by the calling out of every nation 
the few that make up the little flock. It is a gather-
ing out, not a gathering together. It is one family, 
yet the members know not, see not each other in the 
flesh. They are drawn by the Father's hand, and 
according to the Father's purpose, out of kingdoms 
and families wide asunder. They have no local cen-
tre, either of interest, or of residence, or of govern-
ment ; no common home, no common meeting-place, 
save that which faith gives them now in their Head 
above, or that which hope assures them of in the 
world to come, where they shall come together, face 
to face, as one household, gathered under one roof, 
and seated around one table. 
This separation and apparent disunion is not natur-
al or congenial. For there is a hidden magnetic 
virtue which unconsciously and irresistibly draws 
them towards each other. Separation is the present 
law of the kingdom, but this only because election is 
the law of the dispensation. There is an infinity 
among the members which neither time nor distance 
can destroy. There is a love kindled they know not 
how, kept alive they know not how, but strong and 
unquenchable, the love of kin, the love of brother-
hood : 
broad Scotch, or any other patois, so it is not, 
on reflection, surprising that a gentleman of 
ready abilities should, in due time, learn to de-
cipher "broad writing," such as "sromfredevi," 
for Sir Humphrey Davy ; " Ner he Wises," for 
near Devises ; " Biley Rikey," for Billerica ; 
" Steghelhester Sussexese," for Chicester, Sus-
sex ; " Warding-street, Noher Louder Brutz 
Schibseed," for Watling-street, near London 
Bridge, Cheapside ; " Wharau Que, ner Ne 
Wcasal Pin Tin," for Wareham Quay, near 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, &c., &c. 
But where the direction is incorrect, or, as in 
the generality of cases, (especially in circular 
tracts addressed by religious societies to our 
clergy at their parish " rectories," " vicarages," 
&c.,) the post towns are omitted, the difficulty 
is not only clearly evident, but at first appears 
to be insuperable ; nevertheless, in attentively 
watching the blind man's back, it is astonishing 
to observe how easily and fluently he does his 
work. For a considerable time he is to be seen, 
evidently from memory, writing post haste the 
omitted post towns on each letter, as rapidly as 
he can handle them. Now and then, as if his 
gas lamp had, without any apparent reason, 
half fainted away, he holds a letter before him 
for a few moments, till turning it a little this 
side and then on that, he suddenly deciphers it. 
In extreme cases he is occasionally obliged con-
vulsively to scratch the side of his head just 
above his right ear, for half a second, with a 
sharp pointed black holder of his iron pen ; 
however, on he goes, placing occasionally be-
side him, at the left extremety of his desk, 
those letters for which reference to his little 
library, arranged before him, is necessary ; and 
thus, with the help of about half a dozen thick 
well-thumbed books, and of an intelligent as-
sistant who sits beside him, he usually manages 
by the evening mail, or at all events, by that 
of the following day, to dispatch the mass of 
mysteries which have been so mercilessly im-
posed upon him. 
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BOSTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1850. 
from January to September, followed by a plague, 
which almost destroyed the human race. 
In 679, a severe famine was experienced in Eng-
land, which lasted three years. 
A. D. 76.2, and the following summers, were re-
markable for a drought. 
In 820, there was a failure of crops in France, and 
a famine ensued. 
In 1005, a famine commenced, which continued 
three years, accompanied by a mortal plague, and 
desolated the whole earth. 
In 1031, raged famine and pestilence in France, 
England, and the East. 
In 1042, began a general famine in France, Eng-
land, and Germany. 
In 1077, famine and plague raged in Constantino-
ple, with such mortality that the living could not 
bury the dead. 
In 1124, there was a dreadful famine in Italy and 
England ; so many perished of hunger, that dead 
bodies lay in the highways unburied. It was com-
puted that one third of the people perished. 
From 1230 to 1239, a dreadful famine desolated 
France, Denmark, and Italy. 
In 1294, in England thousands perished with 
hunger. 
In 1352, authors relate that 900,000 people in China 
perished by famine. 
In 1450, in Italy famine and plague raged, so that 
in Milan 60,000 people perished. 
In 1600, there was a remarkable failure of crops 
commenced throughout Europe, continuing for sev-
eral years. There was a famine so severe that hu-
man flesh was exposed for sale in the markets. 500,-
000 persons were supposed to have perished in Mus-
covy alone. 
The Irish famine of our own days is too fresh in 
the recollection to need a remark. The foregoing 
are a few of the recorded famines of the Christian 
dispensation. They have generally been accom-
panied by 
" Pestilences and earthquakes." These messengers 
of wrath have indeed been more frequent than famine. 
In A. D. 68, a plague raged in Rome, which car-
ried off 30,000 people. 
On Nov. 1st., 79, happened the violent earthquake 
and volcanic eruption which buried the cities of Pom-
peii and Herculaneum, with all their inhabitants and 
houses. During the present century they have been 
discovered and excavated. 
In 107, four cities in Asia, three in Galatia, and 
two in Greece, were destroyed by an earthquake. 
In 121, Nicomedia and Nicea, and soon after 
Nicopolis and Cesarea, were overthrown by earth-
quakes. 
In 169, there was a mortal pestilence, which at one 
time carried off in Rome 10,000 persons a day. 
Between 96 and 180, GIBBON mentions thirteen 
cities destroyed by earthquakes, besides 100,000 in-
habitants of Antioch. 
In 290, Brusis, and Coptis, two cities in Egypt, 
were destroyed by an earthquake. 
In 358 happened a most tremendous earthquake, 
which levelled 150 cities. 
The whole reign of CONSTANTIUS was distinguished 
for destructive earthquakes. 
In 375, 43,000 people in Wales died of plague. 
In 407-8, violent earthquakes levelled cities; pesti-
lence raged in every quarter. NICEPHORUS says that 
almost all Europe perished, and no small part of Asia 
and Africa. 
Sept.. 17th, 446, and earthquake demolished the 
greatest part of the walls of Constantinople and 57 
towers. The shocks continued six months, and ex-
tended to a great part of the globe. Many cities 
were overthrown. 
In 525, an earthquake destroyed Antioch, and is said 
to have destroyed 300,000 people. 
In 543 the whole earth was shaken by earthquakes. 
The plague raged at Constantinople. 
In 590, a plague began in Pelusium, in Egypt, 
which spread to all parts of the world, and lasted 52 
years. In Constantinople, before its end, it swept off 
10,000 a day. 
In 588, 60,000 more persons were overwhelmed 
by an earthquake in Antioch. 
In 679-80, England and Ireland were ravaged by 
plague. 
In 717, the plague destroyed 300,000 inhabitants 
of Constantinople. 
In 820, a plague raged in France. 
In 954, pestilence invaded the North of Europe, and 
Scotland lost 40,000 inhabitants. 
In 1005, Italy was three months convulsed with 
earthquakes. It was followed by famine and plague, 
so that writers affirmed more than half the human 
race perished. 
In 1066, Egypt and Arabia, not subject to earth-
quakes, were violently convulsed. The plague and 
famine speedily followed. 
In 1094, the plague raged in England, Gaul, and 
Germany. 
1117, all Italy was shaken by earthquakes for forty 
days. 
In 1185, a most violent earthquake was felt all over 
Europe, thousands perished. On the Adriatic a 
whole city was swallowed up. 
In 1220, the plague was so fatal in Damietta, that 
authors say three persons only survived out of 70,000. 
About 1345, a plague began in China, and spread 
over the known world. It was most fatal in cities, 
but spared no place. In London 50,000 were buried 
in one graveyard. In Norwich the same. In Venice 
100,000 died. In Lubeck, 90,000. In Florence, the 
same. In the East, 20,000,000 perished in one year. 
It was called the black death. 
In 1383, Lubeck lost 90,000 people by plague. In 
1401, Florence was nearly depopulated by plague. 
In 1406, a plague carried off 30,000 people in Lon-
don. 
In 1426, an earthquake overturned twenty cities in 
Catalonia, in Spain. 
In 1456, Italy was violently shaken by an earth-
quake, and 40,000 persons perished. PISTORIUS says 
it demolished forty towns and destroyed 60,000 lives. 
In 1502, the plague in Brussels carried off 500 
daily, so that the town was soon abandoned. 
In 1556, in China a large district of country was 
sunk by an earthquake, and became a lake. 
In 1570, a dreadful earthquake in Chili, South 
America, destroyed many villages, and buried their 
inhabitants in their ruins. 
In 1580, in Egypt the plague is said to have des-
troyed 500,000 people from November to the next 
July. 
In 1599, 70,000 people died of the plague in Lis-
bon, Portugal. 
In 1611, 200,000 people in Constantinople were 
carried off by plague. 
In 1625, the plague swept away 35,000 citizens of 
London. 
In 1626, in Lyons, 60,000 people died of it. 
In 1647, May, 13th, an earthquake in Chili, S.A., 
sunk whole mountains into the earth, and nearly 
ruined the city of Santiago. 
In 1649, the plague carried off 200,000 people in 
the southern provinces of Spain. 
In 1665, London lost upward of 68,000 inhabitants 
by plague. 
In 1693, an earthquake occurred in Sicily, by which 
many towns were laid in ruins, and 60,000 persons 
perished. 
In 1709, Dantzic lost 25,000 people by plague. In 
1710, the disease appeared in Sweden, and 30,000 
died in Stockholm. In 1711, Copenhagen lost 25,-
000 by the same malady. 
In 1746, an earthquake laid Lima and Calao in 
ruins. In four months the shocks amounted to 450. 
In 1755, Nov. 1st, a tremendous convulsion laid 
Lisbon in ruins, with the destruction of 50,000 lives. 
This shock was felt on the whole Spanish coast, and 
10,000 people perished in one of the Azores. In 
Mitilene, an island in the Archipelago, 2000 houses 
were destroyed. In this year Constantinople lost 
150,000 inhabitants by plague. 
These are a few out of a vast number of GoD's 
great and terrible judgments with which he has visit-
ed the earth. Says the editor of the Herald, " Dr. 
WEBSTER has devoted 700 octavo pages to the sub-
ject. For those which occurred from 1788 to 1798, 
lie has devoted 57 pages." 
This is a sufficient illustration of the text, and 
shows that these were not to be regarded as signs of 
the end, in any other sense than as types. For 
these same elements of ruin will be universally let 
loose to exert their power, in the end of time, when 
the slain of the LORD shall be from one end of the 
earth to the other, and he will shake, not the earth 
only, but also heaven. It is in this sense I under-
stand the SAVIOUR to mean, " all these are the be-
ginnings of sorrows." But " the name of the LORD 
is a strong tower, and the righteous runneth into it and 
is safe." And that is the only place of safety.-
Rocks and mountains, dens and caverns, will alike 
melt and pass away before the Judge's face. For 
the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, the ele-
ments shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth also, 
and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 
Where then, shall the ungodly and the sinner appear I 
No distance breaks the tie of blood, 
Brothers are brothers evermore.- 
And they feel this. Knit by the ties of a strange 
and unearthly union, they have a conscious feeling 
of oneness which nothing can shake. Deep hidden 
in each other's " heart of hearts," they cannot con-
sent to be perpetually asunder, but eagerly anticipate 
the day of promised union. 
But there is another kind of separation which they 
have had to endure. Death has torn them from each 
other. From ABEL downward ther.e has been one 
long scene of bereavement. The griefs of parting 
make up the greatest amount of earthly suffering 
among the children of men. And from these griefs 
the saints have not been exempted. Bitter have been 
the farewells that have been spoken on earth,-around 
the death-bed, or in the prison, or on the sea-shore, 
or on the home-threshold, or in the city of strangers, 
-the farewells of men who knew that they should 
no more meet till the grave gave up its trust. Death 
has been the great scatterer, and the tomb has been 
the great receiver of the fragments. 
Our night of weeping has taken much of its gloom 
and sadness from these rendings asunder. The pain 
of parting, in the case of the saints, has much to alle-
viate it, but still the bitterness is there. We feel 
that we must separate, and though it be only for a 
while, still our hearts bleed with the wound. 
But there is REUNION. 
And one of the joys of the 
morning is this reunion among the saints. During 
the night they had been scattered, in the morning 
they are gathered together. In the wilderness they 
have been separated, but in the kingdom they shall 
meet. During this age they have been like the drop s 
of the fitful shower ; in the age to come they shall 
be like the dew of Hermon, the dew that descended 
upon the mountains of Zion, one radiant company, 
alighting upon the holy hills, and bringing with 
them refreshment to a weary earth. Then shall be 
fully answered the prayer of the LORD, " That they 
all may be one ; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in 
thee, that they also may be one in us : that the world 
may believe that thou bast sent me. And the glory 
which thou gayest me I have given them ; that they 
may be one, even as we are one : I in them, and 
thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one ; 
and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, 
and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me."-John 
17:21-23. 
" I will smite the Shepherd, and the sheep of the 
flock shall be scattered abroad." - Matt. 26:31.-
Such is our present position-a smitten Shepherd 
and a scattered flock ! But the day is at hand when 
" he that scattered shall gather," and there shall be 
a glorified Shepherd and a gathered flock ; not mere-
ly one flock, one fold, and one Shepherd, but one 
flock gathered into the one fold around the one Shep-
herd, the scattering ceased, the wandering at an end, 
LECTURES ON THE 24th OF MATTHEW. 
BY J. LITCH. 
LECTURE 1II.-FALSE CHRISTS, WARS, AND CONVUL- 
SIONS. 
"And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no 
man deceive you. For many shall route in my name, saying, I am 
Christ ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars, and 
rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things 
must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise 
auuinst nation, and kingdom against kingdom : and there shall be 
families, and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places. All 
these are the beginning of sorrows."-Matt. 24.4-8 
END OF LECTURE III. 
" And there shall be famines, and pestilences, and 
earthquakes in divers places ; all these are the begin-
nings of sorrows." 
The same remark is true in reference to these, as 
the preceding. These judgments are not designed 
as signs of the end of the world ; but are general in-
cidents which have filled up all time, or have been 
common to each generation from CHRIST to us. 
I am indebted to the Advent Herald of Sept. and 
Oct. 1847, for the historical facts which follow.-
They are from a work " On Pestilence," published 
in 1799 by NOAH WEBSTER the well known Ameri-
can Lexicographer. My limits will not permit me 
to give full details even of what I find in the Herald. 
There shall be famines, c IT. There was a dearth 
and consequent famine throughout all the world, as 
foretold by AGABUS, in the days Of CLAUDIUS C/ESAR. 
-Acts 11:28. 
A. D. 96 to 180, in the revolt of the Jews under 
ADRIAN, 580,000 men lost their lives by famine, dis-
ease, and the sword. 
In 187, Rome was visited with a severe pestilence, 
attended with famine, which continued three years. 
In 311, Italy and Cyprus were visited by famine, 
occasioned by drought. In Cyprus it continued thirty 
years. 
In 310, famine destroyed 40,000 lives in England 
and Wales. 
In 362, under JULIAN the Apostate, there was a 
dreadful famine. 
In 378, Wales was visited with a dreadful famine. 
In 448-9, the famine raged in Italy to the extent 
that parents devoured their own children. 
In 534, one of the greatest famines ever recorded 
took place and continued many years, and destroyed 
multitudes of the human race. In 539, it was par-
ticularly severe in Italy. In one district 50,000 
perished, and great numbers in others. 
In 590, a terrific famine happened, which lasted 
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THE REUNION. 
The family has been all along a scattered one.-
Not only has it been scattered along the ages, but it 
has been dispersed over every land. " Children of 
the dispersion " might well be the name of its mem-
bers. They have no continuing city, nay, no city at 
all that they can call their own ; sure of nothing here 
beyond their bread and raiment ; no where able to 
reckon upon a certain dwelling, yet having always 
the promise of it some where. 
Besides this scattering, arising from their being 
thus called out of every kindred and nation, there 
are others more bitter. There is the scattering 
which persecution makes, when it drives them from 
city to city. There is the scattering which adversity 
makes, when happy circles are broken up, and their 
fragments sent far asunder. There is the scattering 
THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
317 
I suppose that I am as well acquainted with what-
ever pertains to Mr. HIMES' affairs as any other per-
son, and yet, if Mr. H. is worth any such sum 
it is beyond my knowledge. He has no property in 
any incorporated company, and no land, or dwelling 
houses. All of his property consists in the Chapel, 
stereotype plates, the materials of his printing office, 
and his household furniture. His stereotype plates 
were estimated by a previous " sapient Solon," four 
years ago, at $10,000, yet, being useless, lie sold 
them at nine cents a pound, and realized from them 
less than $200. Those now on hand would only 
bring nine cents per pound, unless some one wished 
to publish from them, and at that rate they would 
bring less than $100. If he should be taken away, 
those, and everything in the printing office, would be 
well sold at $500 ; unless, as before said, the plates 
were wanted to publish from. This would be un-
likely, so that little reliance could be made on that. 
His household furniture would go to his family. 
But the brethren all know how plainly his household 
arrangements are, and that no income could come 
from that. The Chapel is his till 1856. That would 
riot sell for but little then, as it could not be moved. 
It is of no value only is it could remain on the 
ground. Since it came into the hands of Mr. HimEs, 
he has not received enough for it to pay the ground 
rent for the same time, so that it has been no source 
of income to him. Should he be taken away, it 
would, of course, he no source of income to his 
family ; and as the ground rent has to be paid, in-
stead of being a source of income, it would be an 
expense to them, as it is to him—unless they could 
give up the lease. There is a clause in the lease 
which will permit the holder of it to purchase it any 
time before its termination, at a given price ; so that 
if at any time it could be sold at a greater price, the 
holder might buy at that price and sell at the greater, 
and pocket the avails. But if taken away, his family 
could not avail themselves of that without the money 
to purchase with, which would not be at their com-
mand. But it is said in the pamphlet, that the land 
has risen two-sevenths since he had possession of it. 
If it has, no evidence has been presented of that fact. 
On the contrary, the land directly adjoining has sold 
within a year, for eighty-five cents per square foot less 
than the stipulated price for this. That was as 
valuable as this. On that a large stable has been 
built, which renders this of still less value. Besides 
this, the city are talking of widening the street, 
which would cut off from the Chapel 12 or 15 feet, 
and make it too small for its present use—there being 
no land in the rear to move back upon. Therefore, 
if he wished, he could make no reliance on any in-
come from that source for his family. This embraces 
all but the subscription list of the Advent Herald. 
This is of value only so long as it has conductors 
that can retain the subscribers to it. Separate these 
from, and put in their places those in whom there is 
no confidence, and they might drop off in a week. So 
that no reliance can be placed on that. There is now 
a publication fund, borrowed from different brethren, 
amounting to nearly $1000. It is by the aid of this 
that the books, &c., are published. For its payment 
Mr. H., and in case of his death, his property, is 
alone responsible. And this would have to be paid, 
as brethren hold his notes for the money advanced. 
Now, had he purchased a lot, and put on it a brick 
house, it might well be said that he had made pro-
vision for Iris family ; as it is, he has made none. 
All his arrangements having been made to secure for 
his brethren a place for worship, and the materials 
for the publication of a paper, and works on the 
Advent. Nothing but envy would have prompted 
any to make any such estimate as has been made. 
Whatever he has, is in such shape that his family, 
in case of his death, could be but little benefited by 
it. Therefore the charge, that he had said he had 
not made provision for them, was not noticed, because 
it was true. 
Instead of being so large, he has ever been embar-
rassed in his publication department by reason of 
the smallness of his means. Were they larger, he 
could publish more. The principle on which the 
office is conducted, is to issue new works, a little 
faster than there are the means to issue them ; so 
that he has frequently been in debt from $1500 to 
$2000, and embarrassed, as he now is. His limited 
means, and the course of W. and N., have prevented 
the publication of new works the present season, that 
otherwise would have been issued. 
There is due the office, perhaps, from all sources, 
between $2000 and $3000. Much of this will never 
be collected. But if all that is due on the Herald, 
and other claims, could be collected, it would only 
enable him to pay the debts of the office, and give 
him a publishing fund to carry on his business. 
2. The other point can be disposed of in less 
space. The charges brought by NEEDHAM against 
Elder H., were pronounced by WEETHEE, WOOD, 
the famine exchanged for the green pastures, the 
danger forgotten, and the devouring lion bound.—
Then shall fully come to pass the prophecy regard-
ing the issues of the Surety's death, " that he should 
gather together in one the children of Goo that were 
scattered abroad."—John 11:52. Then what is writ-
ten of Israel shall, in a higher sense, be fulfilled in 
the Church : " Behold, I, even I, will both search 
my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seek 
eth out his flock in the day, that he is among his 
sheep that are scattered ; so will I seek out my 
sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where 
they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. 
1 will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high 
mountains of Israel shall their fold be. And I will 
set up one shepherd over them, and lie shall feed 
them, even my servant DAVID ; and he shall feed 
them, and he shall be their shepherd." " I will 
make them and the places round about my hill a 
blessing ; and I will cause the shower to come down 
in his season ; there shall be showers of blessing." 
Ezek. 34:11-26. 
This reunion is when the LORD returns. When 
the Head appears, then the members come together. 
They have always been united,—for just as the God-
head was still united to the manhood of CHRIST, even 
when his body was in the tomb, so the oneness be-
tween the members, both with each other arid with 
their Head, has been always kept unbroken. But 
when he comes, this union is fully felt, realized, seen, 
manifested. " When CHRIST who is our life shall 
appear, then shall we also appear with him in glo-
ry."—Col. 3:4. 
This reunion is at " the resurrection of the just." 
Then every remaining particle of separation is re-
moved, — soul and body meet,—both perfect ; no 
trace of " this vile body," or this dust-cleaving soul. 
The corruptible has gone, and the incorruptible has 
come. Our reunion shall be in incorruption ; hands 
that shall never grow palsied clasping each other, 
and renewing broken companionships,— eyes that 
shall never dim gazing on each other with purer 
love. 
This reunion is in the cloud of glory, in which 
the LORD comes again. When he went up from 
Olivet, this cloud received him, and fain would his 
disciples have gone up along with him. But into 
that glorious pavilion,— his tabernacle,—shall they 
yet ascend ; there to meet with him, and to embrace 
each other, coining together into that mysterious 
dwelling-place, from the four winds of heaven, " out 
of every kindred, and nation, and tongue, and peo-
ple." 
This reunion is the marriage-day, and the cloud-
curtained pavilion the Bridegroom's chamber. —
There the bride is now seen as ONE. And there she 
realizes her own oneness in a way unimagined be-
fore. There too the marriage-feast is spread, and 
the bride takes her place of honor at the marriage-
table,—" glorious within," as well as without,—
not, like the harlot-bride, decked with purple, and 
scarlet, and gold, and gems (Rev. 17:4; 18:16) ; but 
" arrayed in fine linen, clean and white."—Rev. 19:8. 
It is to this reunion, and to the honors that shall 
then be given to the whole Church at once, that the 
apostle refers, when he says, that " they (the Old 
Testament saints, to whom the promise came) with-
out us should not be made perfect."—Heb. 11:39,40 
Thus he intimates that the actual possession of the 
thing promised has not yet been given. It is defer-
red until the Lord come, in order that no age, nor 
section, nor individuals of the Church should be per-
fectly blest and glorified before the rest ; for all must 
be raised up together, all caught up together, all 
crowned together, seeing they are one body,—one 
bride. He points to the day of the Lord as the day 
of our common introduction into the inheritance,—
the day of our common re-entrance into Eden,—the 
day when, as one vast multitude of all kindreds, we 
shall enter in through the gates into the city ;—the 
day of our common crowning, our common triumph. 
For it is to he one crowning, one enthroning, one 
festival, one triumph, one entrance for the whole 
Church from the beginning. The members are not 
crowned alone, nor in fragments, nor in sections ; 
but in one glorious hour they receive their everlast-
ing crowns, and take their seats, side by side, with 
their Lord, and with each other, in simultaneous 
gladness, upon the long-expected throne. 
The preparations for this union have long been 
making. They began with us individually when 
first the scattered fragments of our souls were brought 
together by the Holy Ghost at our conversion. Be-
fore that, our " hearts were divided ;" and this was 
our special sin.—Hos.10:2. But then they were 
" united-,"—at least in some measure, though still 
calling for the unceasing prayer, " unite my heart to 
fear thy name."—Psa. 86:11. It was first tire inner 
man that came under the power of sin and was brok-
en into parts ; then the outer man followed. Both 
were created whole in every sense of that word, and 
both have ceased to he whole in any sense of it.—
When restoration begins, it begins with the reunion 
of the inner man, and in the resurrection passes on to 
the outer, bringing together the two restored parts. 
It was the individual that first was subjected to sin, 
and their the mass. So it is the individual that is 
first restored. And this is the process that is now 
going on under the almighty, vivifying, uniting en-
ergy of the Holy Spirit. But the reunion is not 
complete till oneness is brought back to the mass, to 
the body,—till all those members that have been 
singly restored, be brought together, and so the body 
made whole. 
It is for this we wait until the Lord come. For 
INQUIRIES. 
BRO. BLISS :—Not finding Bro. Himes in your 
city, of whom I wished to make some inquiries, in 
order to publish the answers, I take this method to 
call out what I want. 
Bro. H. was charged in the " pamphlet," and 
again, I see, in the " Vindicator," with saying that if 
he was taken away by death, his family would be 
left destitute ; that he had made no provision for them. 
Wh ile, at the same time, they charge that he is 
worth, in his own right, some say $15,000, others 
$5000, or $6000, which would be, in case of his 
death, good to his family. 
An individual told me last week that this property 
was worth $15,000 ; $5000 or $6000 of it was said 
to be in stereotype-plates. It is also said, that in 
Bro. H.'s defence, he passed over this, leaving it as 
acknowledged. Now, if it is not trespassing on 
his rights too much, I wish to see in answer to this, 
in the " Herald," a statement of how this does 
stand. 
I want also to know relative to the Church trial, 
whether the first set of charges made against Bro. 
Himes when in the Church were or were not disposed 
of? And, whether or not those on which they pre- 
tend to have tried him, were originated after the 
split, and when he was preaching to another congre-
gation ? I find on this some difference of opinion 
& Co. to be twice dead, and plucked up by the roots. 
They entirely refused to permit the Church to act on 
them. After they had gone out from among us, and 
ceased to be of us, and had joined with the Chapman 
Hall folks, then they brought seven new charges, 
and went through the mockery of a " Mock Trial," 
which will all be shown in our forthcoming history 
of the case. There were but seven men and one 
boy that went off from the Chardon-street Church—
who belonged to it before the difficulties commenced, 
—yet they claim to be that Church. The Church 
that remain have had larger congregations ever since 
WEETHEE left, than were there while he officiated. 
Their leaving has been a blessing to the Church. 
S. B. 
OUR WORK BEGUN—BUT NOT ENDED 
Our chief work has been to bring before the Church 
and the world the doctrine of the Speedy Personal 
Advent of the LORD JESUS CHRIST, and his Reign on 
Earth. We have been hindered in this work some-
what, but not turned aside from it. All weapons, 
whether within or without, formed against the agi-
tation and spread of this doctrine, as we hold it, have 
failed. After all the attacks made upon us, person-
ally, or on the doctrine we teach, after ten years of 
indefatigable labor and conflict, we stand to day un-
scathed and unterrified, with a stronger faith, and a 
brighter hope than at the beginning. We have as 
noble a company of true-hearted fellow laborers in this 
and other countries, as were ever engaged in any good 
cause ; and we hereby pledge ourselves to them 
anew, to face the storm, and stand by the cause in 
glory or in gloom. 
As the Herald is the most efficient of our instru-
mentalities, we shall devote our special attention to it. 
We intend to keep out of it personal matters 
that have no general bearing on the cause ; so that 
our friend and agents will have no fear in handing 
it to any stranger, or friend, as truly an Advent Herald. 
We shall spare no expense or labor to make the 
Herald one of the best religious journals in the coun-
try. 
We shall make a new and unparalleled effort to 
increase and extend the circulation of the Herald into 
every part of the world. We now publish nearly 
five thousand weekly. This, with the co-operation 
of our friends, could be easily increased to ten thou-
sand, which we shall aim to accomplish. This 
number is now needed, and as soon as we can get 
its merits before that portion of the community who 
sympathize-with us in the " hope of the Church," 
it will be called for. 
We now invite the attention and co-operation of 
all faithful Advent ministers, as well as brethren and 
sisters, to take hold of this work in good earnest.—
We shall publish an extra quantity of No. 13, which 
will be prepared as a specimen number, to circulate 
for the purpose of procuring subscribers. 
Now, brethren and friends, one and all, let us be 
at the work. Difficulties will stare us in the face, 
but no good cause was ever begun or sustained with-
out difficulty. 
To our Friends and Correspondents. 
Much of the Herald has necessarily been occupied 
for the last few months with reference to an un-
pleasant occurrence. The matter has become now so 
well understood by all thinking minds, and a right 
verdict has been pronounced by honest hearts, that 
we may withhold farther expressions in reference to 
it. We therefore request our correspondents to 
cease farther reference to those matters, and com-
mence renewedly with us in directing the minds of 
readers to those thrilling truths of revelation, for the 
promulgation of which the Herald was originated. 
The adversary has succeeded in diverting our minds 
in a measure ; but now let us return to our accus-
tomed work. We thank the brethren heartily for 
their many kind expressions of confidence and con-
tinued regard towards all connected with the _Herald. 
Without a knowledge of such, our hands and hearts 
would indeed be paralyzed; but having had an abun-
dance of such assurance, we must request a forbear-
ance. After this number, we want to give a paper 
that will be free from anything to mar the pleasure 
of laying it before any intelligent Christian. 
The letters which are on hand, and those which 
may be received, if they do not appear, their writers 
will understand why they are withheld. But we do 
not wish them to withhold their pens. We need, 
weekly, two pages of letters, rich with pious feeling, 
filled with sentiments of love to Goo, and of depend-
ence on the merits of our Lord JESUS CHRIST.—
Such will exhibit the practical effect of the teachings 
we promulgate, and will teach sinners the way of 
the LORD. 
BRO. JOHN CRAIG.—We have received a letter 
from Bro. C., in which he states that five of his chil-
dren have been very sick with the typhus fever, and 
that he is reduced to poverty and distress. He has 
received some aid from the town, but is still in need. 
If any of his old friends, or others, have it in their 
power to aid him, we think him worthy. His resi-
dence is Natick, Mass. 
abroad ; if answered free from other matter, they can 
he understood by all. Yours truly. 
Boston, Oct. 22, 1850. H. TANNER. 
REPLY. 
as it was the first Adam that broke creation into 
fragments, so it is the second Adam that is to restore 
creation in all its parts and regions, and make it one 
again. The good and the evil then are parted for 
ever, but the good and the good are brought into per-
fect oneness,—a oneness so complete, so abiding, as 
more than to compensate for brokenness and separa-
tion here. 
The soul and the body come together and form one 
glorified man. The ten thousand members of the 
Church come together and form one glorified Church. 
The scattered stones come together and form one liv-
ing temple. The bride and the Bridegroom meet.—
Here it has been one Lord, one faith, one baptism ; 
there it shall be one body, one bride, one vine, one 
temple, one family, one city, one kingdom. 
The broken fruitfulness, the fitful inconstancy, of 
the cursed earth shall pass into the unbroken beauty 
of the new creation. The discord of the troubled 
elements shall be laid, and harmony return. The 
warring animals shall lie down in peace. 
Then shall heaven and earth come together into 
one. That which we call distance is annihilated, 
and the curtain drawn by sin is withdrawn from be-
tween the upper and the lower glory, and the fields 
of a paradise that was never lost are brought into 
happy neighborhood with the fields of paradise re-
gained ; God's purpose developing itself in the one-
ness of a two-fold glory,—the rulers and the ruled,—
the risen and the unrisen, the celestial and the ter-
restrial,—the glory that is in the heaven above, the 
glory that is in the earth beneath ; for " there are 
celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial, but the glory 
of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial 
is another." 
Such scenes we need to dwell upon, that as our 
tribulations abound, so also our consolations may 
abound. Our wounds here are long in healing.—
Bereavements keep the heart long bleeding. Me-
lancthon, with a tender simplicity so like himself, 
refers to Iris feelings when his child was taken from 
him by death. He wept as he recalled the past.—
It pierced his soul to remember the time, when once, 
as he sat weeping, his little one with its little napkin 
wiped the tears from his cheeks. 
Recollections like these haunt us through life, ever 
and anon newly brought up by passing scenes.—
Some summer morning's sun recals, with stinging 
freshness, the hour when that same sun streamed in 
through our window upon a dying infant's cradle, as 
if to bring out all the beauty of the parting smile, 
and engrave it upon our hearts for ever. Or it is a 
suneral scene that comes up to memory,—a funeral 
ocene that had but a few days before been a bridal 
one,—and never on earth can we forget the outburst 
of our grief, when we saw the bridal flowers laid up-
en the new-made tomb. Or some wintry noon re-
falls the time and the scene when we laid a parent's 
dust within its resting-place, and ]eft it to sleep in 
winter's grave of snows. These memories haunt us, 
pierce us, and make us feel what a desolate place 
this is, and what an infinitely desirable thing it would 
be to meet these lost ones again, where the meeting 
shall be eternal. 
Hence the tidings of this re-union in the many 
mansions are like home greetings. They relieve the 
smitten heart. They bid us be of good cheer, for 
the separation is but brief, and the meeting to which 
we look forward will be the happiest ever enjoyed. 
'l'he time of sorrowful recollections will soon pass, 
and no remembrance remain but that which will make 
our joy to overflow. 
Everything connected with this re-union is fitted 
to enhance its blessedness. To meet again any 
where, or any how, or at any time, would be blessed; 
how much more at such a time, in such circumstances, 
and in such a home ! The dark past lies behind us 
like a prison from which we have come forth, or like 
a wreck from which we have escaped in safety and 
landed in a quiet haven. We meet where separation 
is an impossibility, where distance no more tries fidel-
ity, or pains the spirit, or mars the joy of loving. 
We meet in a kingdom. We meet at a marriage-
table. We meet in the " prepared city," the New 
Jerusalem. We meet under the shadow of the tree 
of life, and on the banks of the river of life. We 
meet to keep festival and sing the songs of triumph. 
It was blessed to meet here for a day, how much more 
to meet in the kingdom forever? It was blessed to 
meet, even with parting full in view ; how much 
more so when no such cloud overhangs our future ! 
It was blessed to meet in the wilderness and the land 
of graves; how much more in paradise, and in the 
land where death enters not ! It was blessed to meet 
" in the night,"—though chill and dark ; how much 
more in the morning, when light has risen and the 
troubled sky is cleared, and joy is spreading itself 
around us like a new atmosphere, from which every 
element of sorrow had disappeared ! 
Rev. IL Bomar• 
 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
COMMTONIDMICM. 
J. M. 0. 
THE MAN CHRIST JESUS. 
" And a man shall be as an hiding-place from the 
wind, and a covert from the tempest ; as rivers of 
water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock 
in a weary land."—ISAIAH 32:2. 
Among the various similitudes employed in the 
Scriptures of truth, to teach the happiness of those 
who are united to Christ by faith ; there are, perhaps, 
none more appropriate than those contained in this 
text. And as the character of the Saviour is a sub-
ject on which his people love to meditate, let us, 
with a spirit of prayer, endeavor to draw consola-
tion from this " exceeding great and precious prom-
ise." 
The first figure used we may regard as being that 
of a traveller who is at a distance from his home. 
As he goes on in his journey, he sees the heavens 
gather blackness, and is aware that a storm is ap-
proaching. Soon the loud roar of the thunder falls 
upon his ear, he sees the vividlightning flash athwart 
the skies, and as he hears the wind howling through 
the forest, he is forcibly reminded of the fact that he 
needs a shelter. As the rain begins to fall in tor-
rents, he arrives at a house which he is kindly invited 
to enter ; he goes in, and finds that all is prepared to 
make him comfortable. There he can sit and watch 
the tempest as it rages without, knowing that he is 
in safety. Such a covert as this, the " man Christ 
Jesus" is to his followers. The sinner stands ex-
posed to the storm of Divine wrath while out of 
Christ; but when he sees his danger, and flees for 
refuge to the hope set before him in the gospel, he is 
secure. He then finds the Saviour to be " a very 
present help in trouble." Through the trials of this 
life he is sustained, and in reference to the future he 
can say, " Though the earth be removed, and though 
the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea ; 
though the waters thereof roar and he troubled, and 
the mountains shake with the swelling thereof, yet 
will I not fear, for the Lord of hosts is a refuge for 
me." 
" He views the tempest passing by, 
Sees evening shadows quickly fly, 
And all serene—in heaven." 
Another figure employed is that of " rivers of 
water in a dry place." This reminds me of the 
words of the Lord by the same prophet, (ch. 44:3, 4,) 
" I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and 
floods upon the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit 
upon thy seed, and my blessing upon their offspring. 
And they shall spring up as among the grass, as 
willows by the water-courses." What an appropriate 
figure of the Holy Spirit, are rivers of living water ! 
The Spirit, like water, purifies the heart, allays the 
thirst for earthly things, and invigorates the fainting 
mind. The weary traveller, fainting with thirst, 
longs for the cooling stream, where he can drink, 
wash, and be refreshed. So it is with the Christian ; 
he can say : " As the heart panteth after the water-
brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, 0 God." He 
knows the truth of the proverb, " As cold water to a 
thirsty soul : so is good news from a far country." 
When he hears about the " better land "—even the 
one to which Abraham looked, it is then he can re-
joice. 
The last figure in the text is, " the shadow of a 
great rock in a weary land." Think of a poor pil-
grim travelling beneath a burning sun; his gait be-
speaks him weary, and the drops of sweat. that stand 
on his brow, declare that he is oppressed by the heat ; 
would not such an one understand this expression ? 
Would he not long for the shadow of a great rock, 
where he could sit and rest his weary limbs? But 
far mote precious is Christ to his people. To them, 
especially, this world is a " weary land." And 
cannot even the worldling see it to be such if lie 
would but consider? Let him think of the battle-
fields strewed with millions of the slain ; let him 
listen to the groans of the dying—the sighs of the 
widow and the orphan; let him visit death-beds, and 
see parents weeping for their children, and children 
mourning the loss of parents ; go to the hospitals and 
prisons of our land ; hear the slaves groan beneath 
their chains, or the lash of their cruel masters. But 
need I multiply instances of misery Nay, " the 
whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain." 
While to the wicked it may seem to be such, yet it is 
more so to the saint, for beside those things which 
are without, there is conflict within his breast; he 
has the world, the flesh, and the devil to contend 
with ; yet he has rest in Christ, for being justified by 
faith, he has peace with God. He can compare 
Christ to a fruitful tree, and say : " I sat down under 
his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was 
sweet to my taste." 
This world seems to us a " weary land," but how 
must it appear to the eye of an omniscient Being—to 
One who can view it all in a moment of time? Surely 
it must appear one continued scene of misery and 
crime. 0 when shall the curse be removed, and 
Jehovah dwell in very deed with men on earth?" 
Then " they shall hunger no more, neither thirst any 
more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any 
heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the 
throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto liv-
ing fountains of water ; and God shall wipe away 
all tears from their eyes." May the " Lord hasten 
it in his time." In the meanwhile, let us go up to 
the goodly land, leaning on our Beloved. 
J. M. ORROCK. 
LETTER FROM WESLEY BURNHAM. 
Bno. RIMES :—Mr. Weethee, in the " Vindicator," 
has made a very unfair reference to my letter in the 
" Supplement to the Herald." He says: " As to the 
letter, I simply state, that W. Burnham found as 
much fault as I did, talked as freely, and wished me 
to see Edwin Burnham." 
In the first place, he admits the truthfulness of my 
letter in the above, for he does not deny a single 
statement, but says, " W. Burnham found as much 
fault as I did," thus admitting that he found fault. 
In the second place, it is not correct that " W. 
Burnham found as much fault as I (lie) did." Mr. 
Weethee introduced the matter, and led the conversa-
tion. Many of the statements advanced by him were 
new to me, and had the effect to excite both my anxi-
ety and fears. I entertained a very high regard, at 
that time, for Mr. Weethee, and therefore his state-
ments made a deep impresion on my mind,—which 
was certainly a very natural consequence, — and 
my inquires, answers, and suggestions, were such as 
any honest person would be liable to make under such 
circumstances. Thus he has made a most unwarranta-
ble capital out of it, by saying that I found as much 
fault as lie did. 
Now I wish it distinctly understood by the breth-
ren, that I emphatically deny the statement made by 
Mr. Weethee, that I " found as much fault as he did, 
and talked as freely," as it regards yourself, and the 
office affairs. 
He also says, that I wished him to see Edwin 
Burnham. I did, and why could not Mr. Weethee 
have stated the reason why I wished him to see my 
brother ? The reason was this : he thought the 
office affairs should be brought up at the next Con-
ference, and the question arose as to who would be a 
fit man to introduce it before the Conference, if it 
should be thought practicable to thus aet, and I re-
ferred him to my brother Edwin. I have no fault to 
find, neither have 1 ever found fault with Bro. Himes, 
in his general management of the " Herald," and 
office affairs, and now I say, that this unholy attempt 
to destroy his usefulness and character, has confirmed 
me still more in his unwavering integrity, and that 
the " herald " and office are in safe and judicious 
hands. 
Whatever may be written or said hereafter respect-
ing my conversation with Mr. Weethee, the brethren 
may rely upon the above statements as being strictly 
true. 
Permit me, Bro. Himes, to say in conclusion, that 
I love the glorious cause which you have espoused, 
and which you have so nobly and faithfully defended 
for the last few years, and that I am with you, heart 
and hand, in all that is approved of God, and accord-
ing to his blessed word. Be assured that I " esteem 
you very highly in love for your works' sake." 
I pray the Lord to deliver us from unreasonable 
and wicked men, and to direct our hearts into the 
love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. 
Yours for truth and justice. 
Exeter (N. H.), Oct. 23, 1850. 
LETTER FROM THOMAS P. HEDRICK. 
DEAR BRO. H1MES :—I expect, as I have expressed 
myself before, to remain a subscriber to the " Her-
ald " as long as it continues to be a faithful and 
fearless expounder of the word of eternal life, and I 
am convinced that its usefulness munch depends upon 
the spirit in which it is conducted, and its disconnec-
tion with all angry and unchristian communications. 
When brethren write for its columns, let it be done 
in the spirit of love and brotherly kindness. I must 
say that letters have appeared in it that have evinced 
in the writers rather a spirit of hatred than of love, 
and especially upon the subject of your late difficul-
ties. Do brethren forget the calling of Christians, in 
this particular, that they are to suffer wrong rather 
than do wrong? and that, as the apostle says, if we 
bite and devour one another, that we shall be con-
sumed one of another? And has not our divine Mas-
ter set us an example in this respect, that when he 
was reviled, he reviled not again, and why ? Because 
it would have seriously hindered, if not destroyed, 
the work which he came into the world to accom-
plish : viz., to recommend his doctrines, and those 
relative to the kingdom which he shall set up in the 
latter days. Oh, my dear brethren, let us not love 
in word only, but in deed and in truth. God has 
called us forth, and at the proper time, to proclaim, 
as far as in us lies, to the world the second coming 
of our blessed Jesus, and shall we suffer anything 
to divert our attention from this glorious work? Oh 
what has God wrought for us as the herald of the 
approaching Bridegroom, since we went forth all 
trembling and frail, as the jassimine that waves upon 
the hill top. Lift up your eyes, my brethren, and 
behold a flood of splendor pouring upon his faithful 
ones. It is the rising of the glorious Sun of Right-
eousness with healing in his wings. Oh, hallelujah 
to God and the Lamb, if faithful a little longer, our 
eyes shall see the King in his beauty, and behold 
the land that is not a very far off. 
" His chariot will not long delay, 
We hear its rumbling wheels, and pray 
Triumphant Lord appear ! 
Appear with clouds on Zion's hill, 
Thy word and mystery to fulfil, 
Thy confessors to approve." 
0 glory to God for what my poor soul feels while 
penning this letter, notwithstanding my unfaithfulness 
to God since he called me to the work of preaching 
the coming of Jesus, yet he sweetly whispers to my 
heart that he is mine and I am his. Oh for a trum-
pet's voice on all the world to call ! I know that we 
have not followed cunningly devised fables, in making 
known the power and coming of our divine Master, for 
we, together with a wicked world, shall shortly be 
eye witnesses of his majesty. Oh, dear brethren, 
pray for me that God may clear my way once more, 
that I may have that faith which I once had in the 
soon coming of Christ ; for it then wrought with 
love, and purified my poor heart. Sometimes I ex-
press myself with the poet : 
" Oh could I make those doubts remove, 
Those gloomy doubts that rise, 
And see the Canaan that I love, 
With unbeclouded eyes." 
And then faith lends its realizing power, the clouds 
disperse, and I sing : 
" Oh the transporting, rapturous scene 
That rises to my sight ! 
Sweet fields arrayed in living green, 
And rivers of delight." 
Dear Bro. Himes, will you not pay us a visit in 
the West this fall? Oh how pleasant it would be to 
mingle our songs of praise and prayer together to 
our common Father, to unite our hearts more closely 
together in the blessed hope of the glorious appearing 
of the great God, and our dear Saviour, Jesus Christ. 
My dear brother, let me call your attention to a 
work that I see announced in the Advocate of the 
M. E. Church South, the title of which is, " The 
Seventh Trumpet, or Last Crisis of Earth." It may 
be of the right stamp, if so, it will be very useful to 
you. 
Some one or two years back, Dr. Tyng, of the 
Episcopal church, delivered a course of lectures on 
the five appointed monarchies of earth, and they were 
published in the New Haven " Palladium ;" will you 
please procure them for me, if riot too much trouble. 
I have seen some few extracts from them, which have 
made me fall in love with the author, and I have 
been inclined more than once to write to him. 
Dear brother, farewell till we renew our acquaint-
ance in the kingdom of Jesus. In conclusion, I would 
say, store your useful paper with productions of those 
choice men, on the second coming of Christ, arid 
thereby proclaim to the world that it is what it pro-
fesses to be, the Herald of the Second Advent Of 
Jesus and the resurrection. Your brother. 
Lauree, (Ind.) Sept. 25th, 1850. 
Bro. H. will hardly be able to go West, so far 
West, this fall, as Indiana, but would like to. Should 
we get hold of those works, will remember you. 
The churches respecting which you inquire, give as 
much evidence of God's presence as others. There 
is no particular difference between Elder and Deacon, 
except that the former are elders in years as well 
as in office.—ED. 
LETTER FROM I. II. SHIPMAN. 
BRO. HIMES have often thought, many of the 
best articles in the " Herald " were not appreciated 
by some of its readers. The articles from our Eng-
lish writers, arid some extracts from writers in our 
own country, are looked upon as " dry," and not food 
for the spiritually minded. The truth is, there is in 
those articles a deep vein of piety and purity, min-
gled with nobleness of mind, that many persons never 
fathom, for want of closely training the mind to such 
subjects. Many a child of the living God has spent 
anxious, praying hours by the midnight lamp, while 
his pen has drawn a living line of truth almost suffi-
cient to awake the dead, and it has all been lost upon 
the fanatical dreamer, as though it was from the pen 
of some drone, writing for his dollars and cents. I 
do most earnestly hope that all our churches will 
awake to the true principle of devotion. That " New 
Commandment," " that we love one another," would 
not then be so often slighted, and that command of 
the Saviour found in Matt. 4:43-48, lying at the foun-
dation of all our efforts, would make us effectual in 
winning souls to Christ. There is no surer evidence 
to me that an individual is a child of God, than a 
continual desire for the salvation of sinners, and 
laboring to effect the same. This is being associated 
with Christ in the great work He is doing under this 
dispensation, and when we really feel on this subject 
it undoubtedly arises from the deep yearnings of a 
pure heart. May it be obtained by us all. To such 
individuals, those writings on practical godliness will 
be food. We shall soon feel the force of Scripture, 
" Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see 
God." 
I would take this occasion to say, that I have been 
requested by several brethren to give a note of expla-
nation in reference to what appeared in the " Vindi-
cator " in relation to myself. 
1st. I never spoke with Bro. Young as I am vir-
tually made to in his certificate, if I understand the 
object in its being inserted in connection with Mr. 
Hambliti's and Wood's testimony. 
What I said of Mr. Haniblin's and Wood's 
conversation in the " Supplement," I have no fears 
of being doubted by those who are acquainted with 
me, and are seeking for truth. 
That the case referred to in Conference was not 
last May, but over three years since ; and that your 
inquiry for my " purse" was when my languishing 
head and sickly frame were prostrated, and I was un-
able to arise and wait upon myself; and that the money 
conferred was for five Sabbaths I had spent with you, 
two of which I was unable to preach, and for other 
expenses incurred, of which $10 (as I am made to 
say) was but a small part ; and that I referred to it 
to show that it was not your practise to abuse and 
cheat ministers that labored with you. I think no 
man will ever venture to offer me $10 for the pur-
pose intimated in the " Vindicator." 
I wish not to refer to anything of the kind again, 
and would say in conclusion, that I shall endeavor to 
pray for the man who thus misrepresented me, and 
who has fallen upon his own sword. I suppose the 
enemy would be glad to alienate the affections of all 
in the Advent churches, but I hope it will not be 
done. Seek peace on Christian terms and ensure it. 
Worcester, Oct. 25, 1850. 
LETTER FROM J. CROFFUT. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES have spent a few weeks 
past in this place, Albany, Middletown, Waterford, 
and Lansing,burg—the brethren are few in the three 
last named places. In Lansingburg they are endea-
voring to put forth an energetic effort, and I pray God 
to grant them success. In Middleton there is a want 
of energy and brotherly love. God grant them hearts 
to act as well as talk. An united energetic effort 
would very much revive the cause in that place. In 
West Troy all goes on harmoniously—there are only 
two or three (so far as I know) professedly Adventists 
who absent themselves from assembling together, and 
they are not yet without hope. The Advent interest 
we trust will increase in this place. My labors in 
this vicinity will now cease for a while, but if God 
will, I expect to resume them again in a few weeks. 
Bro. Gross is suffering very much from disease. 
The white swelling on his knee is gaining slowly, 
and his other complaints drag slowly. If any of the 
brethren wish to administer to his temporal wants, 
they have an opportunity to do so ; he is needy and 
worthy. Remember, brethren, that " whomsoever 
bath this world's goods, anti seeth his brother have 
need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion to-
wards him, how dwelleth the love of God in him ?" 
1 have just received a letter from home, stating that 
my family are sick, therefore I must return home, 
but I purpose, if the Lord will, not to quit the field, 
but occupy till he comes. I shall, therefore, endeavor 
to fill the following appointments,—viz. : Bethel, 
Nov. 7-10; New Milford, 12-14 ; Roxbury, 15-19; 
Kent, 20-23 ; Sharon, 25-Dec 1 ; Winsted, Dec. 8; 
Plymouth, 15. Visiting between the 1st and 8th 
from New Canaan to Norfolk, and so on to Winsted. 
From 8th to 15th, visit Newfield, New Hartford, &c., 
or as Bro. Grant may advise. if I shall make other 
arrangements, they will be made known in the 
"Herald." 
God has mercifully restored me to health, and I 
am delighted to be enabled to use it in his service. 
The work is arduous, it is true, with a dependent 
family, but God has always been good to me, and I 
can trust in him still, praise his -name. 0 may all 
his saints be united in the joyful hope soon to be 
realized. Yours in Christian bonds. 
West Troy, (N. Y.) Oct. 21, 1850. 
LETTER FROM D. BOSWORTH. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES — As a common sympathy 
unites those of like precious faith, and causes them 
to rejoice with those that rejoice, and weep with 
those who weep ; and as you are acquainted with, 
and have been interested in the cause in this place, 
(at least till very recently,) a brief history of our 
situation may not be uninteresting. You are aware 
that several efforts have been made to come into gos-
pel order, and that we had as often failed. Well, 
we have at last succeeded, in part at least. After 
many trials we succeeded in August last in obtaining 
a unanimous vote, at a covenant meeting, to place 
our names to a short article, defining who we are, 
and agreeing to take the Scriptures for our rule of 
faith and practice. Twelve united. At a subsequent 
meeting, in September, six more were added, and 
the first Saturday in October, four more. 
For some time past a spirit of discouragement 
seemed to take possession of the minds of our breth-
ren; but for a little while more confidence in prayer 
has been manifested, and more fervency in exhorta-
tion, inure of that love to each other, that beareth 
all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things ; and 
the fruit begins to be manifest. The first Lord's-day 
in October, we had the delightful privilege of visiting 
our "Jordan," for the first time in more than five 
years, and burying one willing soul into the likeness 
of Christ's death. In the evening we had a truly 
blessed time. Bro. Geo. Miller was with us, and he 
describes it as one of those precious seasons we used 
to enjoy in 1842-3. The Lord be praised for his 
goodness, and grant it may be but a drop before a 
plentiful refreshing. Yours in hope. 
Low Hampton, Oct 17, 1850. 
LETTER FROAI E. CROWELL. 
BRO. HIMES :—I wish to say to my brethren and 
friends abroad, that I have just located myself at 
Lawrence (new city) for the time being. Our 
Church in this place is emphatically a " little flock," 
but they have " largeness of heart," and a persever-
ing spirit: saying, like Caleb and Joshua, " We be 
well able to go up and possess the land." We hope 
to have the sympathies and prayers of God's people, 
that we may be able to keep ourselves in the love of 
God, and in the patient waiting for Christ. We 
leave our brethren at Portsmouth with good pros- 
ROOTED IN CHRIST. 
I saw a stately tree 
Grow by a river's side ; 
The boughs appeared to be 
Spread out in youthful pride ; 
Watered by rain and dew, 
It flourished and it grew, 
In deep, rich soil. 
I saw another one, 
High on a sandy hank, 
But so parched by the sun 
'Twas of inferior rank : 
The rain soon passed away, 
And dew could only stay 
A little while. 
Thus he who trusts in man, 
Will find his succor fail, 
He's cursed, and therefore can 
Have nought but what is frail, 
He soon will fade and die, 
And then in sorrow lie— 
A dismal place. 
A Christian here below, 
Like the first tree we view ; 
We see him daily grow 
In grace, and wisdom too ; 
He's ROOTED in the Lord, 
Supported by his word ; 
Watered by grace. 
In such a soil as this, 
We expect him to thrive, 
He is enjoying bliss, 
But for more he will strive ; 
Here his roots ever spread, 
And never will he dead— 
One with the Lord. 
He bears the fruits of peace, 
E'en to a good old age ; 
And when this life shall cease, 
And storms no longer rage, 
Transplanted, he will stand 
In the fair promised land, 
So saith the word. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
319 
pects before them. They have rented the Hanover-
street Chapel, (so called,) a very pleasant and com-
modious place, and now have the services of Bro. D. 
I. Robinson. May God help them to keep humble 
and go on to perfection. I think I can say in truth, 
that the two years I have spent with the people in 
Portsmouth are numbered with the pleasant spots of 
my life. We have had no jars nor discordant notes 
among us. Each one seems to have been striving for 
his neighbor's good. May God bless them for their 
many acts of kindness to me and mine. I leave them 
that they may enjoy the labors of a better and stronger 
man, and that I may, so far as in me lies, be able to 
help other churches that are struggling for life amid 
the contending- elements around them. I believe that 
1 can do more good by taking the " oversight of the 
flock " in some one or two places, than I can to travel ; 
besides, I can support my family on less money, be-
cause I do not have to divide with the Railroad Com-
panies, by giving them two dollars, and have one for 
my family. But God has his evangelists, and I bid 
them God speed in their work of feeding the flock 
scattered abroad. 0 let us all strive to feed the 
household of God with meat that shall cause them to 
grow thereby. If we keep about our Master's busi-
ness, we shall have no time to turn aside to vain 
jangling. Let us strive to build each other up in our 
most holy faith. Let us not " bite and devour one 
another, lest we be consumed one of another." 
Yours in hope arid love, 
P. S.—My Post Office address hereafter will be 
Lawrence, Mass., instead of Portsmouth, N. H. 
Lawrence, (Mass.) Oct. 15, 1850. 
Extracts from Letters. 
Bro. T. SMITH writes from Eddington, (Me.) Oct. 
21st, 1850: 
DEAR BRO. HIMES wish while writing to ask 
a question in relation to Bro. Litch's writings. If I 
understand him, in the " Advent Library," No. 4, 
page 231, in giving an exposition of Matthew 24, 
he says : " When ye, therefore, shall see the abomi-
nation of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the proph-
et ;" or according to Luke 21 : " When ye shall see 
Jerusalem compassed by armies, then know that the 
desolation thereof is nigh." Intimating, if I under-
stand hiss, that the " abomination of desolation " 
standing in the holy place, (Matt.), " where it ought 
not," (Mark), and Jerusalem being surrounded by 
armies, refer to the same events, and were the signs 
by which the disciples were to know when to flee out 
of Jerusalem. This was in accordance with the judg-
ment I had formed upon those passages, and I was 
particularly led to this from the fact, that the three 
Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, say, " Then 
let them which be in Judea flee to the mountains." 
These directions, given by our Lord, follow Mat-
thew's " abomination of desolation, spoken of by 
Daaiel the prophet, stand in the holy place," Mark's 
" where it ought not," and Luke's " armies sur-
rounding Jerusalem," and why, I ask, must they not 
refer to the same event? I perceive in the " Advent 
Herald " of the 12th inst., that Bro. Litch says • 
" Although I admit the three questions to be asked 
and recorded, yet. I do riot understand that this evan-
gelist has recorded Christ's answer to the first—
' When shall these things be?'" Now I ask, Bro. 
Editor, If the directions of our divine Master, as re-
corded by Matthew and Mark—" Flee to the moun-
tains "—refer to one event, arid those directions of 
our Lord, as recorded by St. Luke, 21st chap.—
" Flee to the mountains "—refer to another event, 
how are we to understand anything about the subject? 
I think it is time to look over our reckoning, to see 
where we are. I hope Bro. Litch, or you, Bro. Edi-
tor, will make these things plain to us common folks, 
that we need not be changing our position very often. 
Yours for harmonious and consistent truth. 
REMARKS.—We cannot agree with Bro. Litch in 
his last view of the point you refer to, it being per-
fectly clear to us that the surrounding of Jerusalem 
with armies, which should prove its destruction, 
was the abomination of desolation spoken of by 
Daniel the prophet. His taking a different view of 
it, however, would not warrant us in shutting him 
from the columns of the Herald,—our common faith 
resting on no such unimportant grounds.—ED. 
Bro. J. CUMBIINGS writes from Sutton, (Vt.) Oct. 
28th, 1850 : 
DEAR Bao. HIMES :—I feel like speaking in refer- 
ence to the late difficulties, but perhaps I had better 
hold my peace. I think already there has been 
words multiplied without knowledge. I am much 
surprised to see the appointment of a day of fasting 
and prayer, and the remarks made upon it in the 
. What do our brethren mean? has there never 
been any praying before ? has this matter all been 
managed with worldly wisdom thus far? A people 
that would let a matter go as far as this has gone, 
without seeking divine guidance, and at this late 
hour begin to call upon the Lord, it appears to me 
are but poorly prepared to meet their Lord, or even 
to labor for him here. I am surprised. 1 consider 
it a disgrace to the Advent cause. I supposed that 
united prayers had been ascending to the Father from 
thousands of hearts, for months, for his assistance. 
Things growing worse and worse is no evidence that 
God's people have not been praying. It does appear 
to me, truly, that Bro. Himes has been praying, or 
that somebody has been praying for him ; for he has 
made as fair an offer as any Christian under heaven 
could ask Stand there, Bro. Himes, you have 
taken a right stand. If anybody knows you to be 
wicked, they have a fair chance to make it appear. 
A. refusal of any person or number of persons to 
meet you upon your proposition, will show perfectly 
where the wickedness is. 
In view of all the evils of this time, and our own 
imperfections, may we all humble ourselves still more 
and mrre, and pray every day. 
Yours waiting for the kingdom. 
Bro H. L. SMITH writes from Auburn, (N. Y.) 
Oct. 22d, 1850: 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—It will no doubt interest you, 
and all of like precious faith, to know that the Ad-
vent Church in Auburn is yet, in some measure, grow-
ing in grace, and ready to the good work of main-
taining the order and ordinances of the Gospel of 
Christ. Bro. L. D Mansfield is now our pastor, and 
we are preparing to commence a series of evening 
meetings. We are united, with one or two excep-
tions, in looking for new heavens and a new earth, 
as the inheritance of the meek, and the holy city 
" which cometh down out of heaven from my God," 
as the " mother" of all the children of the kingdom, 
which kingdom we expect at the end of Gentile 
dominion, when the seventh angel sounds. A king-
dom not of this present evil world, but " the world 
to come, whereof we speak," which was promised 
to Abraham, " in Christ, by the Gospel." We are 
glad to see Bro. Litch's articles on the dispensations. 
A brother who now takes the " Herald," said to use, 
that it was the best religious paper he ever saw, it 
gives so many expositions of Scripture. We desire 
to see you this way, and hope your health will allow 
you to make a journey this way, by the will of our 
heavenly Father. Yours in hope of eternal life. 
Sister E. S. BRYANT writes from Ithaca, (N. Y.) 
Sept. 10th, 1850 : 
DEAR BRO. HIRES :—I am requested to ask you to 
give notice in the " Herald," that we wish some 
faithful lecturing brother to visit us, or that you will 
send one without a public notice. There is an inter-
esting little company of colored brethren and sisters 
who have recently left the African Church in this 
place, and hold meetings in my school house ; they 
are Adventists all but in name, they love the doctrine, 
and are desirous for instruction. Their pastor (a 
meek, godly man, and one who preached the whole 
gospel as far as he understood it,) has left them to 
seek refuge in Canada. He has been obliged to flee 
from his native land, to find protection under the 
British government. The parting was a heart-rend-
ing scene. They are now anxious for an Advent 
preacher to come and preach to them, but they fear 
one would not like to preach to colored people ; but 
I am sure they could have no such feelings. [No, 
we should delight to preach to such. We shall visit 
them when we come West. —En.] 
Dear brother, we deeply sympathize with you in 
your trials, and pray that you may be sustained, and 
that they may work together for your good. In haste, 
I am Your sister in faith and hope. 
Bro. WM. BAKER writes from Rochester (Vt.), 
Oct. 24th, 1850 : 
DEAR BRO. HIMES do rejoice in the weekly 
message the " Herald " brings ; it is like the former 
and the latter rain to my soul ; it. breathes that of the 
angel flying through the midst of heaven, announcing 
God's everlasting kingdom nigh, even at the door. 
Glory to God, if we are Christ's, then are we Abra-
ham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.—
Brethren, is it not time to lift up our heads and look 
up, knowing our redemption draweth nigh? 
Obituary. 
" I am the RESURRECTION and the LIFE : he who helieveth in ME, 
though he should die, yet he will LIVE : and whoever liveth and be-
1 eveth in me, will NEVER die."—John 11 : 25, 26. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—A painful duty I have to perform, 
to apprise you of the death of my beloved husband, HENRY 
MOORE. He died Oct. 11th, of bilious fever, after an ill-
ness of twenty-three days. During his sickness he was happy 
in his mind, and entirely resigned to the will of God. On 
being asked concerning his hope, he said, " I love Jesus. If 
my heart does not deceive me, I shall be forever happy."—
On seeing the Bible brought into the room, he said, "That 
is the best thing you could give me,—the best thing in the 
world." When his last struggle with death took place, he 
ceased to groan, turned himself in bed, straightened himself, 
folded his hands across his breast, and gently and peacefully 
fell asleep in Jesus, at the setting of the sun. He was con-
verted to the faith of the Lord's soon coming in 1840, under 
the preaching of Father Miller, and adhered to it to the last. 
Pray for me, his companion, that I may be faithful to the 
end. Yours, with Christian affection, 
CHARLOTTE MOORE. 
Dumfries, Va., Oct. 17th, 1850. 
IT has become my painful duty to announce the death of 
another of our small number, ABIGAIL, wife of Bro. Jon 
MOODY, who died at Bangor, 
 Oct. 13th, of quick con- 
sumption, after severe sufferings of about two weeks, which 
she bore with Christian submission. We feel that in her we 
have lost a sister and mother in Israel, and the cause of God 
one of its warmest, most devoted and faithful advocates. Yet 
we mourn not as those without hope; for we have the blessed 
assurance, that " if a man die, he shall live again." For 
many years, to her religion has been no mystery,—it was a 
beaten way. With joy she hailed the glad tidings of the 
speedy return of her Master, and was joyfully reckoned with 
those who were willing to make the entire sacrifice, by going 
forth to meet the Bridegroom, in face of the beating storms 
of a frowning world. For years she maintained a steady, 
unwavering faith in the speedy redemption and deliverance of 
God's people. 0, how often have we heard her exhort her 
brethren to hold fast the beginning of their confidence firm to 
the end. But she exhorts us no more ; she weeps over Zion 
no longer ; her precious words of comfort we hear not now, 
but we remember them. Her house was ever a home for the 
way-worn pilgrim, and doubtless many will remember the 
warm reception they always met with when they called to 
see her. But, alas! death has done its cruel work, and she 
is borne to the land of an enemy, leaving an afflicted but sub-
missive companion, with three little children, to mourn her 
absence a little while. She died, as she lived, in Christ. 
Her last hours were peaceful and happy,—her faith trium-
phant. Said she to those in attendance : " Tell the breth-
ren, I love them to the end. Tell all, I die in full faith of 
the speedy coming of the Lord." It was remarked by those 
who were present, that her bedside was a heavenly place, 
while the smile of the dying saint broke through the gloom 
of approaching death. She enjoyed that faith that overcomes 
the world. She was strongly impressed at the commence-
ment of her sickness that her dissolution was at hand, and 
gave directions respecting the adjustment of family matters, 
with as much composure as if she were going on a journoy, 
with the expectation of soon returning. She retained un-
shaken confidence in God to the last. This was evident 
from her frequent exclamations, such as, " Though I walk 
through the dark valley I will fear no evil; thy rod and thy 
staff they comfort me." The deep interest for the welfare of 
others, which was manifest in her so many years, continued 
to the last; and with her dying breath she warned her neigh-
bors and all around, to seek an immediate preparation to 
meet God. Her funeral was attended on the 14th with deep 
interest. A heavenly blessing attended the word spoken on 
the occasion, from Job 14:14, " If a man die, shall he live 
again I" As eve gave our last look at the grave of our be-
loved sister, I could say from a full heart, 
" I yearn for that morn when the dead saints shall wear 
Their glorified bodies—and long to he there." 
May this bereavement to the afflicted church serve to 
strengthen them in the faith for which she so earnestly con- 
tended. 
L. DAMMAN. 
DR. HUTCHINSON AND THE WESLEYAN 
MISSIONARY COMMITTEE. 
Our readers are aware of the difficulty between 
Bro. H. and the Wesleyan Missionary Committee of 
Canada East, who still withhold from him a con-
siderable sum, wheih was due him at the time ha 
seceded from the Society. We copy the following 
letters from the Wesleyan Reformer : 
To the Editor of the Wesleyan Reformer. 
DEAR SIR,—As your columns have been chiefly 
occupied with matters in England, perhaps some-
thing which has taken place in Canada East may not 
be unacceptable. Though it relates to myself, yet I 
hope I need offer no apology, for giving a case of 
such palpable wrong. When 1 ceased to be a Wes-
leyan Missionary, which was early in the year 1843, 
there was a balance due to me of £00 Gs ld., for 
services on the St. Armand Circuit ; and though 
more than seven years have passed since my separa-
tion, yet the amount has never been paid, and no 
good reason has been assigned for its non-payment ; 
indeed, no reason has ever been given by the District 
Meeting or Missionary Committee, as they have 
treated all my communications, from first to last, 
with entire silence ; thus withholding from me an 
act of the commonest courtesy ! This, with other 
mal-treatment, induced me to bring the matter before 
the tribunal of public opinion, which I did a few 
months ago, in Pamphlet form. This led some of 
the Preachers to exhibit before the public at Mis-
sionary meetings and otherwise, a kind of an account, 
which they said the Committee had against me, as 
an offset to my claim. No account, however, has 
ever been presented tp me. In a second Pamphlet, I 
showed by their own published regulations that their 
offset amounted to nothing. It was a mere decep-
tion got up in the urgency of the moment. On this 
point they have not attempted to meet me. I also 
sent to the last District meeting the following letter : 
" Waterloo, Shefford, May 15th 1850. 
To the Chairman and Members of the Wesleyan Dis-
trict Meeting of E. Canada. 
REV. AND DEAR SIRS,—You are aware that at the 
time of my separation from you, that there was a bal-
ance due to me for services on the St. Armand Cir-
cuit. In consequence of the non -payment of the 
amount, and the manner in which I was otherwise 
treated in the matter, I deemed it my duty to publish 
the facts in the case. This induced some of the 
Preachers to parade before the puplic a sort of an ac-
count against me, as an offset to my claim. Such 
an account I have not received from the District meet-
ing, or Committee. My only object in writing now, 
is to request that if you hare any valid account against 
me, you will kindly forward it to 7ne, and if there is a 
balance in your favor I promise that you shall have it. 
My address is Waterloo, Shefford, C. E. 
I remain yours, &c., R. HUTCHINSON. 
To the above 1 have received no reply, which is 
evidence that they have no account against me, which 
even they deem " valid." Thus saying in effect that 
my claim stands out in bold relief. And this is the 
verdict of public opinion everywhere. And the fact 
that the District meeting and the Committee thus 
treat a matter which they are unable to meet, calls 
loudly for reform. 
I would only add, that those who desire to under-
stand the whole affair, should read my two Pamphlets, 
which may be had at the Book-stores of Bryson, 
Chalmers & M'Coy, Montreal. Perhaps more anon. 
I am yours in " that just One." 
R. HUTCHINSON. 
Waterloo, Shefford, (C. E.), July 18th, 1850. 
Power of Prayer. 
Prayer is a haven to the shipwrecked mariner, an 
anchor unto them that are sinking in the waves, a staff 
to the limbs that totter, a mine of jewels to the poor, 
a security to the rich, a healer of disease, and a guar-
dian of health. Prayer at once secures the continu-
ance of our blessings, and dissipates the cloud of our 
calamities. Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a trea-
sure undiminished, a mine which never is exhausted, 
a sky unobscured by clouds, a haven unruffled by the 
storm ; it is the root, the fountain, and the mother of 
a thousand blessings. I speak not of the prayer 
which is cold, and feeble, and devoid of energy ; I 
speak of that which is the child of a contrite spirit, 
the offspring of a soul converted, born in a blaze of 
unutterable inspiration, and winged, like lightning 
for the skies. The potency of prayer hath subdued 
the strength of fire ; it bath bridled the rage of lions, 
hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased 
the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of 
death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged dis-
ease, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction ; 
it hath stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the 
progress of the thunderbolt; in a word, it hath de-
stroyed whatever is an enemy to man. I again re-
peat, that I speak not of the prayer engendered by 
the lips, but of that which ascends from the recesses 
of the heart. Assuredly, there is nothing more po-
tent than prayer ; yea, there is nothing comparable 
to it. A monarch vested in gorgeous habiliments is 
far less illustrious than a kneeling suppliant, enno-
bled and adorned by communion with his God. How 
august a privilege it is, when angels are present, and 
archangels throng around—when cherubim and sera-
phim encircle with their blaze the throne—that a 
mortal may approach with unrestrained confidence, 
arid converse with heaven's dread Sovereign ! 
Chrysostom. 
WEIGH not so much what men say, as what they 
prove ; remembering that truth is simple and naked, 
and needs not invective to apparel her comeliness. 
Sidney. 
AGENTS FOR THE HERALD. 
Milwaukee, Wis.—Sand. Brown. 
New Bedjord, Mass.—II.V. Davis. 
Newburyport, " 
Dea. J. Pear-
son, sr., Water-street. 
New York City.—Wm. Tracy, 75 
Delancey-street. 
N. Springfield, Vt.—L. Kimball. 
Philadelphia, Pa.— J. Litch, 16 
Chester-street. 
Portland, Me.—Peter Johnson, 37 
Summer-street. 
Hallowell, Me.—I. C. Wellcome. Providence, R.I.-G. R. Cladding. 
Hartford, Ct.—Aaron Clapp. Rochester, N. Y.—Wm. Busby. 
Ilewelton, N. Y.—W. D. Ghoslin. Salem, Mass.—L. Ogler. 
Homer, N. Y.—J. L. Clapp. Toronto, C. W.—D. Campbell. 
Loch-port, N. Y.—II. Robbins. Waterloo, Shefford, C. E. — R. 
Lowell, Mass.—E. H. Adams. Hutchinson 
L. Hampton, N.Y.—D. Bosworth Worcester, Ms.-D. F.Wetherbee. 
Massena, N. Y.—J. Danforth. 
FOR GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.—R. Robertson, Fsq., No. 1 
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BY REV. D. H. MANSFIELD. 
T
HE popularity of this excellent Collection of Music is sufficiently 
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of the Cherry Pectoral in curing diseases of the Lungs, when they 
will feel secure from these dangers, whenever this remedy can lie 
obtained. 
Prepared by J. C. AYER, Chemist, I,owell, Mass., and sold by 
Druggists and Dealers in Medicine generally throughout the coun- 
try. 
[0. 12-3m.] 
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HAFFEE C CO.'S Patent Prying Machines, for drying Wool, 
Cotton, Silk, Fur, or fabrics from the same, without heat, and 
in a few moments of time. A model of this great invention, so im-
portant to manufacturers, may he seen at this office. [o. 12.] 
CLOTHING. 
WETHERBEE & LELAND, wholesale and retail Clothing 
V V warehouse, No. 47 Ann-street, Boston. New and fresh assort 
meat for 1850. 
We have opened our stock of spring and summer clothing, and 
have given great care and attention to selecting our styles of goods, 
ewEngland trade. We are prepared to offer them 
its ;" and by strict economy in our expenses, we are able to sell at 
 tlie old proverb, " Large sales and small prof-
teepdetboi 
public adopting 
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taidiathP 
prices as low as any other clothing house in the United States. 
Merchants and traders, who buy at wholesale, will find our assort-
ment worthy of their attention. By giving our personal attention to 
our business and customers, we hope to insure a second call from all 
who may favor us with their patronage. 
Gentlemen's furnishing goods of every description, and a general 
assortment of boys' clothing constantly on hand. Custom work done 
in the neatest manner, with care and promptness, alter the latest 
fashions Orders from the country will he attended to with prompt 
neon and attention. 
NAHUM WETHERBEE, 
EMERSON LELAND, 
[my. 4.] Corner of Ann and Blackstone-streets , Boston. 
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F. HORN, Dentist, Watertown, Mass., has an office near the 
. Baptist church, where he will attend to filling, extracting, and 
cleansing teeth. Also inserting artificial teeth on pivot, whole or 
parts of sets on guild plate, all of which will be done in a faithful 
manner, upon moderate terms. 
[my. 18.[ 
Y
OUNG & JAYNE, dealers in Carpeting and Oil Cloths, Win-
dow-shades, Druggets, Rugs, Matts and Matting, Table and 
Piano Covers, Stair-rods, &c. &c., No. 460 Pearl-street, second car- 
pet store from Chatham-street. New York. B. T. YOUNG, 
[my. 4.] 
A. A, JAYNE. 
LAKENEY'S Gold Pen Manufactory, 42 and 44 Nassau-street, 
(up stairs,) corner of Liberty, New York. Gold Pens, large, 
small, and medium size; also, Gold and Silver Cases. Gold Pens 
neatly repaired. 
[May 25•] 
Albany, N. Y.—F. Cladding. 111 
Jefferson-street. 
Auburn, N. Y.—II. L. Smith. 
Buffalo, " W. M. Palmer. 
Brattleboro',Vt.—B. Perham. 
Cincinnati, O.—Joseph Wilson. 
Derby Line, Vt.—S. Foster, jr. 
Detroit, Mich.—L. Armstrong. 
Eddington, Me.—Thos. Smith. 
Glanville Annan., N. S.—Elias 
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tablished lo raise funds in support of the war in Schles-
wig Holstein, has been held in Hanover ; but beyond 
the usual ceremonies of an address to the nation, and 
the passing of some strong resolutions, nothing was 
done, as the deputies did not commence the subscrip-
tion at once, but contented themselves by urging 
others to do as they should, but not as they did. 
GERMANY.—The two divisions of the Austrian 
army, upon their march for Hesse Cassel, have re-
ceived counter orders, and have stopped in their pro-
gress. This, it is said, has been the result of a joint 
remonstrance on the part of England and Russia.—
Prussia still protests against the course adopted at 
the Frankfort Conference. In other matters there 
appears to be nothing to report. 
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.—A telegraphic despatch 
from Trieste states that the cholera has again broken 
out in that city. 
In future all the important affairs connected with 
the army are to be transacted by a military council 
composed of five generals, who will meet under a 
president appointed by the Emperor. 
CRONGATH, formerly secretary to KOSSUTH, has 
been arrested, as well as Dr. ZUNICH, late domestic 
physician to PALASKY, on the ground that he was in 
secret communication with PALASKY during the time 
of the revolution in Croatia. 
Tokens of a returning sympathy for Hungary daily 
manifest themselves. 
ROME.—The only recent occurrence of interest has 
been the creation of a batch of finirteen new cardinals. 
In the secret consistory held on Monday, his Holiness 
made a brief harangue, in which the Piedmontese 
question was skimmed over in a manner that indicated 
a hope that some accommodation might be brought 
about, and a desire not to irritate the Sardinian Gov-
ernment by harsh or offensive expressions. 
followed by a rescript from Rome, denouncing the Colleges. 
But it was soon seen by those who made the outcry, that they 
must do something besides declaiming against what was al-
ready done, or all would be lost. Accordingly, a Catholic 
University has been projected, for the establishing of which 
the clergy labor with the diligence of beavers. A certain 
per centage of clerical incomes is to be devoted to the pur.:. 
pose. One prelate subscribed over 1:50,000, and others ex-
hibit a liberality not often equalled by Protestants. If we 
may estimate the intelligence of the directors of the contem-
plated University by that of the new Primate, Dr. CULLEN, 
whom we suppose will exercise a supervisory control of the 
institution, much cannot be said in their favor, as the follow- 
The London Globe of 4th March last, in speaking of Dr. 
Cu LLEN, alluded to his having edited a few years since a 
periodical published in Rome, entitled Annali delle Scienzc 
Religiose. In that work the editor thus demolishes COPER-
NICUS and PTOLEMY :— 
"There was no lack of historians, philosophers, and wri-
ters of every sect, in imputing fanaticism to the Inquisition 
for not closing its ears to the petulant imprudence of GALI-
L E0, when he obstinately sought to conciliate the phrase-
ology of the Bible with the Copernican system. But now a 
new plan of astronomy is given to the public, by means of 
which it is evidently proved, that the systems both of Ptolemy 
and Copernicus are equally false ; that the sun has but one 
metre [six feet in breadth ; that the earth is six times 
larger than all the heavenly bodies united ; that it has but 
one motion, the diurnal ; that it occupies the centre of the 
planetary eystem, and of all space, with other similar propo-
sitions, repugnant to the prevailing theory of the globe and 
stars." 
Foreign News. 
The American steamship Pacific arrived at New 
York on Sunday last, and the British steamship 
Canada at Boston on Tuesday. The news from Eu-
rope is very meagre ; the substance of it will be found 
below. 
The Government Education Bill continues to oc-
cupy a large share of public attention, and the Catho-
lic Bishops and clergy are urging a scheme for their 
own University with much energy. The tenant 
league continues to agitate the country, and their 
meetings are fully attended by gentlemen of respecta-
bility and influence. 
The English and Irish papers supply details of 
many outrages ending in robbery, murder, &c., in 
various places of the country. 
FRANCE. —The Moniteur publishes a decree of 
the President, by which he applies upon his own au-
thority 25,000 francs to the payment of the cost of 
the decorations of the Legion of Honor. 
The revenue returns for the past nine months have 
been published, and show an increase over the same 
period last year of 28,000 francs. 
The treatment of the President to the army is 
the subject of much comment in the journals. The 
cries of the army will be put down, and stringent 
measures taken to prevent insubordination in the 
army, or any feeling tending to threaten the Re-
public. 
It is said the whole President's tour through the 
country will form a subject of warm debate upon 
the meeting of the Assembly. 
The Republican and Orleans parties respectively 
have become consolidated, whilst those who threaten 
the Republic, Legitimist, or Bonapartist factions, 
are daily becoming weaker. It is believed the strin-
gent measures proposed by the Committee of Safety 
in reference to the army, will have a desirable effect 
in still farther weakening the pretensions of those 
parties to power. 
The eflbrts made to limit the duration of the Presi- 
dent's reign to the original appointment are being 
strenuously increased, and as this is a point upon 
which Legitimists and Republicans can agree, it is 
thought by many that success will attend their efforts. 
The Parliamentary Commission met on the 17th 
ult., and after a short and important meeting ad- 
journed. It is said that the heads of the party of 
order are agreed on the question of prolongation, 
which they assent to, provided that the late demon-
strations are not repeated. It is also reported that 
if towards the end of the President's renewed term 
it should be thought right to ask the country to de-
cide between a Monarchy and Republic, he has pro-
mised to throw no obstacle in the way of this pro-
ceeding. It is expected that the Assembly will meet 
in better temper than was expected a few days ago. 
DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.—Nothing new has 
occurred in the relative position of the armies since 
the assault on Frederickstadt, and it is now confident-
ly asserted that diplomacy will be called in to settle 
differences. England and France are named as the 
mediating powers. The numbers killed and wounded 
in the last affair are variously stated, but it appears 
certain that the people of Frederickstadt suffered 
severely from the effects of the shells thrown into the 
town by the Holsteiners. Many persons, under 
great privations, have been obliged to abandon the 
place. A public subscription has been started to 
meet the exigency. The King of Denmark sub-
scribed $1000 to the fund. 
HESSE CASSEL.—All the newly appointed Minis-
ters are strong adherents to the Constitution, and the 
popular voice is said to be greatly in their favor.—
The revolutionary feeling is said to be increasing. 
Upwards of two hundred officers have resigned their 
commissions in the army, which is now in a most dis-
organized state. It is said that HAYNAU, who by 
proclamation of the Elector, has been created com-
mander-in-chief of the army, proposes to promote the 
non-commissioned officers to the vacancies. liAvrtAu 
is commanded to remove those of all grades who re-
fuse to obey his orders, and to consign them to im-
mediate punishment. 
According to letters from Frankfort, it is said to 
be the intention of the Elector of Hesse to abdicate. 
The Prince of Chisel will succeed. In the last sit-
ting of the College of Princes at Berlin, M. de Rowitz 
formally announced that the Prussian Government 
would not sutler the Federal Assembly at Frankfort 
to interfere by force in Hesse Cassel, and that any 
attempts to do so would be resisted by Prussia.—
Consequently, upon divisions on the subject of Hesse 
Cassel, a ministerial crisis has taken place in Hano-
ver and St. Uhe, and the Prince has retired. A Con-
gress of deputies from all the different committees es- 
A Rich Affair. 
Two gentlemen from the South arrived here in 
Boston last week to arrest WILLIAM and ELLEN 
CRAFTS, fugitive slaves, to take them South under 
the new law. They had, however, to encounter 
difficulties which were not provided for in the " bond." 
The law allowed SHYLOCK his given pound of flesh, 
but if in cutting it, it varied the least fraction of a 
hair, be it more or less, or if a drop of blood were 
shed, then SHYLOCK'S goods were forfeited unto the 
State of Venice. So here; the law allows the slave 
unto his owner ; but it does not allow him to be 
slandered, or conspired against. These slave hunters 
accused WM. CRAFTS of having stolen himself and 
the clothes on his back. The laws of our State not 
permitting a man to be slandered, even by implica-
tion, unless through the clentency of those slandered, 
they were promptly arrested on Saturday for slander, 
and put under bonds to appear at Court when the 
Grand Jury shall have decided on their case. On 
Monday they were again arrested fur conspiracy 
against the person of said WM. CRAFTS, and put 
under bonds for $10,000 more. On Monday evening 
they were again arrested for conspiracy against ELLEN 
CRAFTS, wife of WILLIAM, and put under $20,000 
additional bonds. What will be the end, remains to 
be seen. If these charges are proved against them, 
their punishment will be fine or imprisonment, as the 
Court may decide. Such a result would be a warn-
ing to all slanderers and conspirators, as well as to 
slave catchers. 
Galileo Redivivus. 
Though a great portion of the Roman Catholic church 
worship is carried on in Latin, yet it is a tact, that that 
priesthood, as a body, is the most ignorant of all Christen-
dom ; in many cases the priests being entirely innocent of 
any further knowledge of Latin than a barbarous pronuncia-
tion of that language may give them ; and not unfrequently 
the same may almost be said of them in regard to their mo-
ther tongue. Particularly was this their condition during the 
middle ages down to the commencement of the present cen-
tury, when, roused by the declarations of Protestants, that 
Romanism could not exist where intelligence and knowledge 
prevailed, they saw that it was necessary to introduce a lit-
tle light into their ranks, even if it should be more dazzling 
and evanescent than real and permanent. Hence the world 
has been and is vocal with the asseverations, that the Catho-
lic Church is the mother of light and knowledge, and the 
steadfast friend of education, in face of the fact, that nine-
ty-nine hundredths of her communion are far below any other 
civilized people in general knowledge. 
There can be but little doubt, that the Catholic colleges 
now in existence, owe their origin more to the universality 
of Protestant education than to the desire of their founders to 
make their people more intelligent ; for it is not until the 
standard of Protestantism is seen to advance, that the gaudy 
and tinselled pageanty of Rome can be made to move. That 
the taunts of Protestants, that Romanism flourishes best 
where ignorance prevails, are not unwarranted, is evident 
from the fact, that all institutions where Roman Catholicism 
forms no part of their instruction, are proscribed,—Catholic 
children are not deemed safe in them, even though they 
maintain a strictly unsectarian character. This is readily 
seen in the present attitude of the Roman Church in Great 
Britain, as well as of the Pope, towards the Queen's Colleges 
in Ireland. No sooner was a liberal and truly benevolent plan 
formed for the intellectual advancement of Ireland, and as a 
consequence, for her happiness also ; a plan which many of 
the dignitaries of the Roman Church in Ireland at first 
warmly approved, than the tocsin of alarm was sounded by 
those who saw no safety for Romanism in institutions of learn-
ing, unless the instruction was preceded, followed, and flanked 
by theological dogmas. As might have been expected, this 
cry against the Colleges—a large portion of whose faculties 
are formed of liberal-minded Catholics, who, with a large 
portion of the people, appear inclined to adhere to them,—was 
Appointments. 
Bro. HIM ES will meet with the brethren in Holden Nov. 
8th, 9th, and 10th. Bro. Parker will make arrangements 
for the meeting. Brn. Shipman and Billings will accompany 
him. 
He will commence a series of meetings in Poland, Me., 
Nov 20th, which will continue over the Sabbath, Nov. 24th. 
Bro. H. has long desired to visit the brethren there, but has 
hitherto been unable. It is hoped that the Lord will smile 
upon this effort to do good to the brethren there. 
Bro. H. will be at the Essex Conference. 
The friends West, as far as Buffalo, may expect him in 
December. 
Brethren who have invited us to visit them, will be pa-
tient. We intend, if God permit, to visit every Advent 
Church in the land, and especially the poor of the flock. 
THE HISTORY of the Conspiracy, referred to in 
our last, is now ready for the printer. It has been, 
however, thought best to defer its publication, till 
some future act shall render it necessary. It com-
prises about 150 pages of manuscript, and will be 
needed should occasion require. As we may give in 
connection with it, whatever more may be necessary, 
its delay will enable us, by giving in such connection, 
to avoid reference in the paper. 
ESSEX CONFERENCE.—The second session of this Con-
ference will be held at Salem, in the Sewall-street Chapel, 
Nov. 13th, 14th, 13th. We hope for a full attendance on 
the part of ministers, lay brethren, and friends. The meet-
ing will commence at 10 A. M. Pdblic worship at 2 P. M., 
and 7 in the evening. L. OSLER, J. PEARSON, JR., 
J. V. HIMES. 
LETTERS, expressing sympathy and confidence, have been 
received from the following named brethren, who will accept 
our heart-felt thanks :—E. Leach, J. Parker, M. A. Parker, 
S. H. Knight, W. M. Connor, H. P. Buttrick, F. M. Cum-
mings, R. L. Benjamin, W. M. Jordan, S. Palmer, R. Mo-
ran, J. L. Clapp, P. blood, D. Bates, W. C. Hall, and 
others. 
To Correspondents. 
" AN ADVENTIST."—All the light we have in reference 
to your question, you will find in our exposition of the sym-
bols of that portion of the Apocalypse, which series of arti-
cles you will please refer to. 
To OUR PATRONS.—We are desirous to settle our ac-
counts up to the first of January next. We hope our friends 
will endeavor to comply with this reasonable desire. 
pression that they were horse thieves, but on learning otherwise, he 
refused to render further co-operation. 
— A telegraphic wire, encased in gotta percha, has been let down 
into the channel of the Mississippi, at St. Louis, to connect Missouri 
and Illinois. 
— A general Indian war is anticipated in Texas. The depreda-
tions by the Indians are very annoying. Two daughters of a Ger-
man were taken off by them. The Governor of Texas has made a 
demand on the President for a more thorough defence of the fron-
tiers of that State from Indian incursions. 
Governor Quitman dates his proclamation, convoking the Leg-
islature, " the 34th year of the independence of Mississippi." 
— A law has passed the Legislature of Maine, giving any man 
from one to two hundred acres of land, as he may desire, at 50 cents 
all acre, which he can have three rears to pay in, by work on the 
highways. He must, however, clear a certain number of acres, and 
erect a house, in that time. 
During the present year, 5190 foreigners have declared their in-
tention in the city of New York, to become citizens of the United 
States, and 1128 have taken out the final papers necessary to citizen-
ship. 
The Medical students of Columbia, S. C., to the number of fif-
teen, have resolved not to attend medical lectures in any Northern 
institution. What a pity ! 
— Judson Hutchinson, one of the celebrated Hutchinson family, is 
insane. Thousands who have listened to these interesting singers, 
will sympathize in this deep affliction. 
Jenny Lind recently visited a schoolmate, now living in Brook-
lyn, N. Y. Not being at home, she.left a note with his wife, en-
closing a check for 810,000. 
— An attempt was made on the evening of the 22d ult. to fire the 
barn of the widow Davenport, near Blue Hill, in Milton. It was 
discovered and frustrated by a neighbor. 
The mail stage running between Cleveland and Beaver was 
robbed on the evening of the 18th ult., about twenty miles from the 
latter place. The boot of the stage had been examined not fifteen 
minutes before the time the robbery is supposed to have been com-
mitted, and all found safe. The trunks of the passengers were rifled 
of the best clothing they contained, and sundry oilier valuable arti-
cles. The mail escaped the clutches of the robbers, by being on the 
box at the feet of the driver. 
Father Mathew enrolled in the temperance cause in St. Louis 
2500 in nine days, including persons from the inmost fashionable parts 
of the city. 
Mr. and Mrs. John Grieve were drowned near Zanesville, in 
the Muskingum river, upon which they were in the habit of baffling, 
reading, and taking their supper almost every afternoon. Their boat 
was found capsized, with the lady's shawl and basket, but the bod-
ies have not been recovered. 
In Norridgewock, a lad fell upon a ladder, a shaft of which 
passed through his body. There is a possibility of his recovering. 
— William Duffy, convicted at Ipswich of burning the Danvers 
Congregational church, has been sentenced to the state prison for 
life. 
A soil of Joshua Lawrence, of Concord, aged ten years, had 
Iris hand caught between the nuts of a cider mill, and his arm was 
drawn in up to the shoulder, mashing it in a horrible manner, and 
breaking his collar bone. The arts was amputated while the lad 
was under the influence of ether, and lie is now doing well. 
APPOINTMENTS, 6‘c. 
As our paper is made ready for the press on Wednesday, appoint-
ments ninust se received, at tine latest, by 'I uesday evehiag ; other-
wise, they cannot be inserted until the loilowing week. 
Bro. R. V. Lyon will preach in South Belchertovvii, Muss., Nov. 
hilt, at u P t,l ; ashheiu, sill, do, alio remain user the Sabbath ; South 
Hawley, 11th, u I. ; W est lmawley, Lill, uo ; 1\ortli Auan.s, 
to ; lJ won V silage, IN. Y., 14111 anal lath n10 ; llehroa, Joni, no, slat 
remain( us long it shall appear to be duty. 
Bro. J. Cummings will commence a meeting in Warner, N. H., 
hear vs. aterloo village, Tuesday, loon. 12th, to continue noun or live 
nays ; amid will preach in the chapel at toe Mill village inn brautortl, 
Suinuay, the 
Bro. S. N. Gears will preach at Bellingham, Mass., the third Sab-
bath in IN oveniner ; r tsa.vtlle, the fourth ; Providence, (ilitimet 
all,) the tirst iu vet,einuer. 
Bro. J. Couch will preach at Meredith Centre Friday evening, 
Noy. LJtll ; Tottoaboro', Sabbath, 1,t11. 
Bro. F. H. Berick will preach inn Exeter, Me., the third Sabbath 
lu Pioveinlita, Lucian. 
Bro. D. Churchill will meet with tine brethren in Portland, Me., 
Suinuay, Nov. luta. 
Bro. N. Billings will preach at Kingston, N. H., the first Sabbath 
in December. 
liro.1).1. Rubinson will preach in Lowell Sabbath, Nov. 3d. 
Bro. I. If. Shipman will preach in Mount Holly, Vt., tin the 
Metniounst chaptio evenang ut 1005. Latin, and reined, theme uaiml 
Tnursday the 141,1i. inc us nil be at the ueput by the P. M. lull.. 
Bro. G. W. Barlihnin will be with the Church in Hester street, 
New Yurk, Bre second &dawn in Nov. 
Elder Chase Taylor will labor with us at North Abington until 
Rawer ounce. In any un our aninasteniag lasei lawn %ALAI to e.,cliange 
with mum, they can write to South Vs eyinoutli, blahs. 
tin, uentia on Line Ulinueli.) L. FORD, Clerk. 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
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directed ? 'Tine Postmaster at V% sultan, VN intienago county, Vs laii 
writes that lie ears not live Were, Where it was ordered to he sent. 
1. the P. O. th ..u. was not " Oznabruels," G. 
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was to Rave beea sent you at the as eaLltaU ',amp-wetting 
Ov . Julnison—Sent you books to Diusuii, IN. It., the 46111 lilt., by 
Claw.ipieuY's 
pulley—pileasesk.age inn J. Ball's bundle to Wallingford. 
A. Tapp—One inmate to you, auu One to S. G. Attain., wsOn. 
IL K. muuslield—Sent you bootie the 4Uth by Bryant s expness. 
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— Brewster . 50 A Friend 1 00 Geo. Miller ... 1 00 
T. husbury ... 1 (id J. Barnes 2,/ ., . C. Spitler.. 4 tn/ 
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Receipts from Oct. 23d to the 30th. 
The No. appended to each name below, is the No. of the Herald to 
which the money credited pays. by comparing it with the 
present Na. of the Herald, the sender wilt see now far he is in 
advance, or how Jar ma arrears. 
A. Wells, 462,; J. Young, 462 ; C. Littlefield, 508 ; E. Mitchell, 
508 ; Jonathan Smith, 49j ; J. Antes, S21 ; M. Nation, 505 ; L. 1'. 
Wilson, 000 ; J. Webster, 5116 ; S. Payne, :nub ; W. vs, . Morgan, u21 ; 
J. H. Northup, 508; H. L. Smith, 462; U. Foster, hew sub 1./ 
523 ; E. 'I'. Walker, 521 ; S. Mulligan, alb ; H. U. Moses, 4sa ; U. B. 
Turner (of S., N. Y.), 500 ; George Miller, 508 ; A. Stacy, 500 ; A. 
Bayles, 402 ; J. Brown, 482 ; N. Sparhann 524 ; J. bearunnore, a24; 
C. Doolittle, 464 ; H. Healey, 508 ; S. Leavenworth, a23 ; D. Bates, 
547 ; D. Q. Kent, 508—each 
S. ii. Knight, 534 ; Say & Francis, 491 ; E. L. Curtis, 495 ; W. 
White, 534 ; J. Redmond, 452—$1 due at end of vol. ; R. W ()Dil-
worth, 550; '1'. Sheldon, 508 ; Rev. J . Bromley, 534 ; J . & A. Parker, 
508 ; J. Hall, 546 ; R. E. Ladd, 452 ; Jas. Smith, of E., pays to Job—
end of vol. ; R. Robinson, blai ; U. Babcock, anal—each 54. 
E. Leach, alti—we knew not that it was not sent ; Hiram Cook, 
404—each $3—S. Minor. 534—$2—E. G. Dudley, 508-55 cis. 
SUMMARY. 
— Two risen from the land of Erin, being perplexed in terminating 
tine existence of an offensive animal, on account of the pecu-
liar odor emitted, concluded that so disagreeable a consequence, 
resulting front such qualities, must produce a very deleterious effect 
if confined to the animal itself; and that the most certain way to 
destroy it, would be to let it alone. The same principle is true when 
applied to some other things. 
— James Curtiss, Mayor of Chicago, has been deposed by the 
City Council, and A. S. Sherman elected in his stead. Ile refused to 
sign certain bonds prepared by order of the Council, and this was 
the punishment for his contumacy. 
— In Cincinnati, Oct. 22d, a man named John Riley, while iii a 
state of drunkenness, murdered his sister-in-law. He pulled her on 
the floor by the hair of the head, and struck her with his boot. He 
was arrested. 
— On the evening of the 24th alt., a man named John Smith, was 
instantly killed in Waterboro', Me., by Iris son. It scents that the 
murdered man, while intoxicated, was beating his wife, when the 
son interfered and struck his father a blow across the neck with a 
white oak club, killing him instantly. The young man has been ar-
rested and lodged in Alfred jail to await his trial. 
— Ann eel nearly eight feet long was taken out of the New York 
hydrants last week. 
— William Harris, a colored man, who with his wife and child 
escaped from his master in South Carolina, was so annoyed by un- 
feeling white men on a canal, boat beyond Albany, on his way to 
Canada, that he cut his throat and jumped into the water. His 
wife followed him with the child in her arms. The man and wo-
man were rescued, but the child was drowned. Harris is recover-
ing from his wound. 
A German, John Obenor, at Yohe's distillery, on the Bushkill, 
Pa., fell into the boiling swill on the 25th ult., and was so scalded, 
that he died in seven hours. 
— The Methodist Episcopal Church South has brought suits inn 
New York and Philadelphia, to recover a certain portion of the 
Church property acquired before the secession. 
— John Foster, mate of schooner Temperance, was killed by 
lightning on Lake Erie on Sunday evening last. 
Ex-alderman Sanders, inspector of tine Customs at Philadel-
phia, tell into the hold of a vessel, and was mortally wounded. 
— A young married man, named Benjamin Sturtevant, committed 
suicide in Shirley, Me., by shooting himself with a gun. 
A girl about ten years old, in attempting to cross the track in 
front of the engine, as the train was approaching the Weir crossing 
at New Bedford, was run over and instantly killed. 
A party of thirteen fugitive slaves passed through Tamaqua, 
Schuylkill county, Pa., on the 18th ult., 011 their way to Canada. 
The next day they were followed by two individuals, wino, engaging 
the assistance of in Philadelphia constable, followed in their pursuit. 
The pursuers succeeded in overtaking the slaves at Wilkesbarre ; 
but owing to a strong expression of feeling manifested by the people 
in favor of the fugitives, their pursuers were forced to beat a hasty 
retreat. The constable was induced to follow them under the inn- 
THE ADVENT HERALD.