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the scorpion be little, yet will it sting a lion to 'beautiful eyes which neither I nor his mother 
death ; and so will the last sin, if not pardoned and loved ones at home were ever to see again ; 
and from those fast closing lips came precious 
words---to those who had loved him from infancy 
and childish years, more precious now than any 
thing that earth can give : He is my Christ ! 
He is my Christ; praise Him !" That," said the 
chaplain, "was all he seemed able to say ; but it 
was enough." 
About a year before the breaking out of' this 
wicked and unnatural rebellion, he had united 
with the church in his native place. He was 
among the first nobly to respond to the call of 
his 'country, and in the true spirit of patriotism 
left a happy home to join the ranks as a private 
soldier. He went as a Christian. Wherever he 
was, Christ was with him. Many are led astray 
by the influences of' camp life, and neglect pray-
er ; but it was not so with him. The testimony 
of those who knew him was, that "he lived up 
lo all he professed." And when he felt that 
death was approaching, he said to those around 
him, "I am going to a better world." 
From his wounded comrades, who had been 
with him in all his sufferings,I learned many lit-
tle particulars concerning his consistent life. In 
the Libby warehouse at Richmond he ofien talk-
ed of his home, and his great desire was to see 
his friends once more. I found that in every 
place where he had been, he had prayed openly 
and fearlessly. In the hospital, surrounded by 
hundreds of' older and irreligious companions, he 
was not afraid, but lifted up his voice in prayer 
to God as his reconciled Father in Christ, not 
merely night and morning, but often through the 
day. One who was with him the night before 
his death,told me that through its long and lone-
ly hours, when he was unable to speak, his lips 
coustantly moved in silent prayer. This was his 
comfort In a dying hour : God was with him ; 
"he felt in his heart that he blessed him, and 
that he was his Christ." Precious words, thrice 
precious possession !---Amerivan Messenger. 
the death of 
"He is my Christ." 
Christ. 
On a very hot day in July, I visited as usual, 
ono of the hospitals in Baltimore, where among 
fifty wounded soldiers recently exchanged and 
sent on from Richmond, I found one young man 
who interested me deeply. He was only nineteen, 
and had a father and a mother living on a farm 
in one of the valleys of Pennsylvania. He was 
free to converse—an expression of patient re-
signation lighting up his soft brown eyes, as he 
answered my inquiries, and listened to my ex-
pressions of sympathy. 
At the battle of Gaines'iMills he was wounded, 
and taken as a prisoner to.a rude building used 
as a hospital, where his right arm was amputa-
ted. While this was done he was perfectly cOn-
saious, the surgeon's supply of chlorof_rm hav-
ing failed. When I asked him how he war able 
to bear this, he said with a sweet smile, "When 
I saw others suffering so much more, I could not 
think of myself." His food at this hospital was 
simply flour and water boiled together. Soon af-
ter, they were removed to an old tobacco ware-
house in Richmond, where they suffered greatly 
until exchanged. 
I gave him a little book, and that beautiful 
tract, •'A True Story of Lucknow." A smile 
passed over his face as he said, "I have read 
that," but he lent it to his comrade on the next 
cot. When I bade him good-bye he said, "I shall 
see you soon, won't I ? You'll be in every day, 
almost ?" He hoped soon to walk round and see 
our city. He spoke of writing home,ancl I prom-
ised to write for him, and left him. 
The next day h3 said he hal not slept well, 
which he attributed to a fever he had had before 
he left Richmond. 
Two days after, I visited him the third time, 
and a kind friend having brought some ice-cream 
for the wounled, a fellow-soldier raised him in 
the bed, and I fed hinflery slowly, for he seem-
ed weaker, and I noticed how pale and sunken 
his cheeks were. Tile next few days were fear-
fully hot, and circa nitanc3s prevented any see-
ing him. I thought him in no danger ; but on my 
next visit to my surprise I foinl he was not liv- 
ing---his little cot was already tenanted by anoth-
er. 
"S is dead," said the next patient ; "he 
sank very fast, but he died happy Many a time 
I've seen his lips move in prayer when he was 
not able to speak ; and he was a good Christian 
too, you may be sure all is well with shim. His 
brother came to take him home, and !when in 
formed that he could not live, you never saw a 
more distressed man than his brother. They 
were all expecting him home, and he himself had 
expected to go ; but he said he was happy and 
resigned." 
He had asked the chaplain to pray with him--
which he did, asking him how ho felt. "Happy," 
he said, "Go I is ne a.r mo, an 1 when I pray I 
feel that he blesses me ; I feel it in 'my heart." 
"How thankful you ou;ht to be to have Christ 
near you, and with you." 
"A smile of heavenly radiance lighted up the 
wan face, len ling ua oarthly brightness to those 
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DAYBREAK. 
Waiting we stand, 
And watching till our Saviour shall appear, 
Joyful to cry, as eastern skies grow clear, 
“The Lord's at hand !" 
But now the night 
Presses around us, sullenly and chill ; 
Pain, doubt, and sorrow seem to to have their will, 
Lord, send the light ! 
One after one 
Thou hast called up our loved ones from our sight, 
Fur them we know that there is no more night, 
But we are lune. 
Weary we wait, 
Lifting our heavy eyes, bedimmed with tears, 
To skies where yet ❑o trace of dawn appears— 
Lord, it is late ! 
But yet thy word 
Saith, with sweet prophecy that cannot fail, 
That light o'er darkness shall at length prevail— 
We trust thee, Lord 
0 Morning Star 
Of heavenly promise!! light our darkened way, 
Till the first beams of the expected day 
Shine from afar. 
So will we take 
Fresh hope and courage to our fainting hearts, 
And patient wait, though every joy departs, 
Till the day break." 
—Anon. 
Anecdote of Alexander I. 
When Russia, was. in 1812, thrown into con-
sternation by the invasion of the French, no one 
in the imperial household or council maintained 
a calm and composed spirit, under the daily re-
ports of fresh disasters, except Prince Galitzin. 
The emperor remarked this with surprise, and 
one day, while they were alone, asked how it 
happened. The prince drew forth a small Bible 
from his pocket, and held it towards the empe-
ror, who stretched out his hand to it, when by 
accident the volume fell to the ground. Being 
instantly picked up by the prince,it was found to 
have opened at the ninety-first Psalm : "He that 
dwelleth in the secret place of the Host High 
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my 
fortress ; my God, in Him will I trust." 
"0, that your majesty would seek that re-
fago," replied the prince, after his royal master 
and he had read the passage together ; and then 
by 
ing was ordered by Alexander ; and the pope,as 
the priests of the Greek Church are called,whose 
turn it was to preach before the court, chose for 
his text the ninety-first Psalm, without having 
been induced thereto by any hint from either the 
emperor or his minister. 
On the afternoon of the fast day, Alexander 
sent to his private chaplain,desiring him to come 
on of the Bible to him in his 
'al came, and he commenced his 
duty with the ninety-first Psalm. 
"Hold !" cried the emperor rather offended 
by what he not unnaturally concluded must be 
the result of collusion ; "who desired you to read 
that particular psalm to me ?" 
"God !" replied the chaplain, with peat sol-
emnity. 
"How mean you ?" exclaimed the emperor. 
"Taken by surprise," resumed the chaplain, 
"by your majesty's command, and feeling the 
high responsibility would rest upon my choice, 
I knelt down and implored the Almighty to guide 
me in the selection of Scripture I should read in 
the event of your majesty leaving me without 
directions on the subject, and the ninety-first 
psalm was brought so powerfully to my mind' 
 
that I could not doubt that was the answer to 
my prayer." 
The impression made on the emperor by these 
remarkable coincidences is said to have been deep 
and lasting. 
The Blood of Christ. 
What avails the blood of' Christ ? It avails, 
what mountains of good works heaped up by 
us—what columns of the incense of prayer curl-
ing up from our lips toward heaven, and what 
streams of tears of penitence gushing from our 
eyelids, never could avail. "The blood of Jesus 
Christ, His Son, cleanseth us from all sin." 
"Helps us to cleanse ourselves, perhaps ?" No, 
cleanseth us. "Furnishes the motive and the 
obligation for us to cleanse ourselves ?" No, it 
cleanseth us. "Cleanseth us from the desire to 
sin ?" No,cleanseth us from sin itself. "Cleans-
eth us from the sin of inactivity in the work of 
personal improvement ?" No, from all sin. 
"But did you say the blood does this ?" Yes, 
the blood. "The doctrine of' Christ, you mean?" 
No, his blood. "His example, it is ?" No, his 
blood, his blood. 0 what hostility the world 
still betrays toward this essential element of 
Christianity ! Can anything be stated more 
plainly in language than the entire word of God 
declares that our redemption from sin is by the 
blood of Christ ? And yet what strenuous ef-
forts are constantly made to set aside this plain 
wonderful,and most glorious truth,that the blood 
of our Lord Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all 
sin ! 
Kruminacher. 
Little sins (suppose them so) are very dan-
gerous. A little leaven leaveneth the whole 
lump ; a little staff may kill one ; a little leak 
in a ship sinks it ; a little flaw in a good cause 
mars it ; so a little sin may at once bar the door 
of heaven, and open the gates of hell ; though 
r or the Herald. 
A Word of Warning. 
While walking along one day, I happened to 
pass a place where there were some small bushes, 
and observed something white attached to one of 
them. On going to the spot,I discovered a piece 
of paper on which were written these words, "Be-
ware, I give you warning this time." The sin-
gularity of the incident struck me forcibly at the 
time, and has since been impressed upon my 
mind. How important it is that a word of warn-
ing should be imparted to all, that sinners may 
take heed and flee from the wrath to come. Oh 
ye professed followers of the meek and lowly Je-
sus! can you see sinners deliberately walking 
the ways of danger and death and not warn them 
of the near approach of ruin ? now is the time to 
do it, and to do it faithfully. The end is at hand ; 
—0 Christian ! take care that day does not find 
thee asleep at thy post. Be faithful, be vigilant, 
watch unto prayer. Up ! up ! and be doing ;—
let no time be lost. 
HATTIE. 
Orrock's Grove, Minnesota. 
We should round every day of stirring action with 
an evening of thought. We learn nothing from ex-
perience unless we muse upon it. 
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From the London Quarterly Journal of Prophecy. in all,—and the holy tendencies of this cl,octrine which live should not henceforth live unto them.' "6. Painless operations in Surgery. What a 
The Almighty Motive. of union to this sinless, suffering, conquering,glo- selves, but unto him that died for them and rose discovery ! The patient with mangled limb is put 
rifled, infinite Saviour are all dealt upon. again.I, 
quietly asleep. The knife cuts keenly through 
What God has done for His people and what "Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe 
(To be continued.) 
muscles, tendons and nerves ; the saw grinds its 
 
Ile would 1bave them do for him, are the two that we shall also live with him ; knowing that 
way through the bone, and still the patient, all 
 
points to which Continual reference is made in Christ being raised from the dead,dieth no more;
Progress. 
unconscious of suffering, sleeps like a babe. he 
 
the Holy Word. They are very intimately con- death hath no dominion over him. For in that he 
awakes to find himself comfortably in bed, the 
 
nected ; the one grows out of the other. Service died,he died unto sin once ; but in that he liveth he Living as we do in "the time of the end" when dreaded operation performed, and the wound 
will be rendered with zeal, perseverance, and liveth unto God. Likewise reckon ye also your- many were to "run to and fro and knowledge be dressed. Hardly a third of a century has pass. 
humility, in proportion as salvation is realized selves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto increased" (Dan. 12 : 4), the following article ed since this great marvel burst upon the world.* 
in its freeness, completeness, and certainty. We God through Jesus Christ our Lord," (Rom. vi. from the pen of John S. C. Abbott, may be of "There are vast changes now going on, and 
 
require a mighty, yes, an almighty motive-pow- 8-11). The question is,in what sense did Christ interest. I cut it from the Montreal Witness : with ever increasing rapidity in all those great 
 
er, to prompt us to be and to do what God re- "die unto sin ?" Surely not in a moral sense, for "It is a trite remark that we live in a remark- moral agencies which have moulded the world. 
quires ; which is "to shew forth to the praises of there was no sin in him ; therefore, it must be in able period, yet every day develops marvels. God is employing two great armies, the materi- 
Him who hath called us out of darkness into his a judicial sense, because sin was once charged The world has made more progress in the last al and the intellectual, for the accomplishment of 
marvellous light." Such a motive-power is pro- to his account ; but he has perfectly and for ever fifty years than in the previous two centuries. this work. Steam and religion cooperate. Gun-
vided in the gospel, or rather the gospel itself, done with sin in the way of having to answer Should we blot out the progress which the world powder and Bibles. Cavalry and missionaries. 
understood and believed, is that motive power. for it. Sin can no more be imputes unto Him ; has made within the memory of most of our "Heathenism is fast vanishing. The steam. 
Let us examine some of those scriptures which he is far beyond its reach. Now mark the argu- readers, it would seem that some demon power boats and railroads, and martial armies of Eng. 
speak of the believer's death and resurrection went as it bears on believers :—"Likewise reek- had swept us back to the dark ages. land, France and Russia are crowding in upon 
 
with Christ; endeavor to ascertain what they on ye aiso yourselves to be dead indeed unto "1. Indian Rubber, in all its forms of utility India and China, and God is directing their 
teach concerning present privileges ; and show sin ;" that is, learn to count yourselves to be in for shoes, clothing, engine hose,carriage springs, right deeds, and overruling their bad ones, to be 
 
how influential these facts should be on the heart the same justified condition as Christ is in with and the innumerable other ways in which it has cooperative powers with the preachers of thef 
 
and life. To trace the believer's death and resur- reference to sin. Seek grace, to say with a holy now become one of the necessities of civilization, cross of Christ. Heathenism has not a tithe o 
rection with Christ in their judicial and moral as- departed saint, "I have done, but Christ has was unknown, for any other purpose than to 
pests, and to show that the latter is the effect of undone ; and herein I do rejoice, yea, and will erase pencil marks in the days Of our childhood. 
the former, will clearly prove that sanctification rejoice." 
"2. The Daguerreotype. Many of us can re- 
certainly grows out of justification, and can come In Rom. vii. 4, Paul thus congratulates all member the day when Daguerre compelled the 
in no other way. 
believers in Christ,—"Wherefore, my brethren, sun to turn portrait painter. We remember the 
Those who have read the New Testament, and ye also are become dead to the law by the body wonder which spread over Christendom when it 
especially the writings of the apostle Paul, with of Christ ; that ye should be married to another, was announced that the French philosopher, in 
attention, must have noticed the frequent occur- even to him who is raised from the dead, that ye his laboratory, had constrained the sun to his 
rence of such expressions as "dying with Christ," should bring forth fruit unto God." 'When the nimble servitor,transferring with ' htning's flash 
"being crucified with Christ," "being seated with Holy Spirit brings God's law home to the con- the features to the canvas. Arrow this art 
Christ in heavenly places," &c. These passages science, and shows the sinner hig life's history, is ever increasing and expanding. Daguerreo-
must not be lightly passed over, nor treated as and his heart's recesses in God's light,he becomes type, Ambrotype, Photograph ! What would 
figures of speech,or considered as having in them dead to all hope from the law; but when the same the world do without them ? They embellish' 
 
a tinge of mysticism, or as referring to points Divine Teacher glories the Lord Jesus,and shews every home in Europe and America. Love, 
not necessary to present peace and future glory ; how the law has been honored by his life, and friendship, science, art, are alike dependent upon 
but they should be treated as the most weighty its penalty borne by him, the Surety, in death ; their beautiful and accurate delineations. What 
and important truths of God, as recording stu- and that God is glorified by his thus viewing and a dark day wonld envelop our homes, were this 
pendous facts, which relate to the history of receiving Christ, then be become dead to all one art to become extinct. 
Christ; and also as describing what should be fears from the law. "Dead to the law by the "3. Steam ; as a motive of power for boats, 
facts in every Christian's history. Such texts body of Christ ;" that. is, by what was once done cars, machinery, the most potent agent of civili-
should be searched out dilligently,compared with in that body by God the righteous Judge, (Isa. zation on this globe—this majestic power has all 
each other, and their contexts well examined. iii. 4, 5 ; 1 Pet. ii. 25.) Then comes the most risen up within fifty years. What an incompre- 
An inquiry of this kiud, prayerfully conduct- intimate union and communion, and the sweetest hensible amount of the labor of the world is now 
ed, may perhaps lead to the conclusion that there peace, and the most precious fruits is brought accomplished by this, but recently discovered 
has been an undervaluing, if not in some cases forth to God. 
agent. Many animals have become extinct &Ir- 
an overlooking, of such Divine instruction, and We have the same teaching in Rom. viii. 3, ing past ages. Sappose the wonderful iron horse, 
that to this may,in a great measure, be attribut- 4: "For what the law could not do, in that it "whose sinews are steel and whose provender is 
ed the disconsolation and weakness of many saints. was weak through the flesh, God sending his fire," should suddenly cease his neighings in our 
We do not heartily believe what an overflowing own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for valleys ; and the rumbling of his cars of pleasure 
spring of comfort we have, nor ascertain wherein sin, condemned sin in the flesh : that the righte- and of traffic no ionger be heard along our iron 
our great strength lieth. 
ousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who roads—how could we bear the loss? What should 
In examining many useful expositors of the walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit." we do were suddenly every steamer to disappear, 
New Testament,we find that they sometimes ap- it was God who, as the Judge, thus condemned every steam engine to stop its movements, and 
ply certain texts, and the connexions in which sin, even the sin of all who believe in Jesus,and all knowledge of this motive power to be anni. 
they are found, to sanctification, and very much He condemned it or judged it in the flesh of Jesus. hilated ? And yet only a short fifty years ago, 
overlook what such passages teach about justifi- When, therefore,a sour representative,he poured such was the state of the world. 
cation. In their anxiety to produce moral results, out his soul unto death in our place, we who be- "4. Labor-saving Machines, for all the arts, 
these writers do not fully discern that the point lieve judicially died. "I now see," said A. An- for all industry, plowing, planting, reaping, for 
of such expressions, and the great idea of the derson, "how the sins of my flesh, and the sins everything which engrosses human hands, have 
Holy Spirit is, oneness with Christ judicially of all whose eyes he hath opened, have been cru- been multiplied to a degree of which few have a 
considered. Thus (unwittingly, no doubt) the cified to their very core,anddeprived of all their conception. Consider for a moment the mam-
glory of free grace is obscured, and the force of power to condemn, and at to death in the pure moth printing-press, large as an ordinary sized 
these truths as motives to holiness is weakened. and holy flesh of Jesus.'w 
two-story house ; throwing off three hundred 
We must "hold fast grace [see margin] if we The following passage should be especially no- printed sheets in a minute. Without this mar- 
would serve God acceptably with reverence and ticed : 2 Cor. v. 14, 15, "For the love of Christ velous power of the press, modern civilization 
godly fear." 
constraineth us,because we thus judge,that if one could not maintain its hold. But for this newly 
The substance of' Paul's religion and preach- died for all, then were all dead : and that he developed instrument for diffusing knowledge, 
ing is found in nine words : Christ for me, I in died for all, that they which live should not Christianity could not move as now,on the wings 
Christ, and I for Christ. The life, death, and henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him of Bibles, tracts, and the varied productions of 
resurrection, and intercession of Christ, and his which died for them, and rose again." Those Christian genius. And yet all these marvels 
union with him in all his services, sufferings,vic- words have been thus translated and paraphras- have been accomplished in one short half centu-
tories, and glories, was his glorious foundation, ed :—"If one died on behalf of all, then did the 
and on this he, through the Spirit, built a super- whole die." That is, if Christ died substitution-
structure of loving devotedness, We shall never ally on behalf of all his believing people, then 
be for Christ devotedly, unless we first believe did the whole of that people die. The moment, 
what he has done for us ; and we shall be for therefore, any have Christ for their substitute,—
him just in proportion as we hold fast our confi- that is, by trusting in his accepted sacrfiice,—
dence in him. A holy devoted life for Christ is they are regarded in the court of heaven as hav-
a dial-plate,with the hands of duty moving round ing received the award due to their sins, and 
it ; but this movement is the result of a motive also as separated judicially from their natural 
power out of sight. Paul ever taught that emi- selves." Another thus paraphrases these words, 
nence in religion could never be attained with- ---"The love of Christ that is,Christ's love to us, 
out effort, and that effort would certainly relax as known and believed, constraineth us. For 
unless there was a continuous'connexion with the we thus judge, that 'if one,' i. e. a representa. 
motive power. 
tive, 'died for all,' i. e., the represented, 'then 
We will now examine some of those passages all,' i. e. the represented, died, i. e. expiated 
in which the life, death, and resurrection and their sins. This was all one as if the represented 
glory of Jesus,—the believer's oneness with him had died ; and that he died for all, that they 
1 
the relative power it had, when the present cen-
tury commenced. 
"Mohammedanism, fifty years ago, was a bul-
ly, a prize fighter, with muscles like steel, and 
nerves like whipcord, and a spirit as defiant as 
Lucifer. Now Mohammedanisni is a poor old 
man, blind, deaf, paralyzed, dying. Christiani-
ty sits pityingly by its couch,administering stim-
ulants to the moribund ; but the death struggle 
will soon be over. 
"The Papacy ; the papacy of the dark ages, 
which erected and demolished thrones ; which 
held emperors as vassals, which was the great 
despotism of earth, grasping prince and peasant 
alike in its iron clutch, and darkening all Chris-
tendom with its abominations, that papacy has 
perished forever. The sceptre of the pontiff is 
broken. Italy, like one of' the genii of the Ara-
bian tales, has suddenly arisen, a spirit of beauty 
and liberty bearing upon her fair brow,the talis-
manic words, a free pulpit, a free press, and free 
men. 
"Slavery ! its doom is sealed. It is strug-
gling in its last convulsions, and uttering its last 
hideous cries. A bright day is evidently to suc-
ceed the long, long night of gloom." 
In connection with the above, let the follow-
ing facts be borne in mind : 
As the gospel of the kingdom was to ''be 
preached in all the world as a witness unto all 
nations," before the end should come, it is not 
surprising that "heathenism is fast declining," 
but the idols will only be utterly abolished when 
the worshippers thereof "go into the clefts of the 
rocks and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for 
fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majes-
ty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth." 
Compare Isa. 2 : 17, 21 ; Heb. 12 : 25, 28 ; 
Rev. 6 : 14, 17. 
If the "death struggle" of Mohammedan-
ism "will soon be over," we must be near the 
personal revelation of the King of kings and Lord 
of lords as symbolized by his descent on the 
white horse followed by all the armies of heaven 
for it is, at that epoch, that the beast and false 
prophet are to be taken alive and cast into the 
lake of fire. Rev. 19 : 11-21. 
It is an admitted truth that the Papal 
Hierarchy has gone into the consumption having 
lost the support of European nations which it 
once enjoyed :—as symbolized by the drying up 
ry. 
of the waters of the mystic Euphrates (Rev. 16: 
"5. The Telegraph. This is the miracle of 12, 16) ; yet the destruction of this anti-chris-
the present age. The lightning is seized by the tian power is to be effected by the brightness of 
genius of man and compelled to be his errand Christ's coming. 2 Iless. 2 : 1, 8. The ',bright 
boy. Messages are transmitted for thousands of day ;" therefore, which "succeeds the long, long 
miles, with rapidity exceeding the flight of time. night of gloom" is "the day of Christ"—"the 
See the slender wire running along in the air day of redemption." 
J. M. 0. 
over the road side. That wire is freighted with Waterloo, C. E. 
messages of love and death, with the secrets of 
cabinets, the orders to armies, the commissions of 
trade, and conveys them with velocity utterly 
inconceivable, like the lightning's flash or the 
sunbeam's !glance. The telegraph has become 
almost as essential to modern civilization as the 
air we breathe. And yet most of our readers 
can remember when the first telegram flashed 
across the wires. 
*. It was first developed in A. D. 1844 by 
Henry Wells, M. D., a Dentist then living in 
Hartford oon. Conn. ED. Ad. Her. 
Disappointments in life oftentimes prove to be 
of the greatest benefit to us. Could we but peep 
behind the dark veil which shrouds the impenetra-
ble future, we should he apt to call them "blessings 
in disguise." 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
spot where many would choose to build their nests! "Then courage, our souls ! for the warfare i 
Such is by nature the disposition of all of us. 
short, 
'The heart is desperately wicked." "The carnal Our armor is strong, and secure is our Fort ; 
mind" has an aversion to spiritual duties, and an And when we have triumphed, and each has his 
utter distate for spiritual enjoyments. Nor is At the feet of, the Lord we will cast them all 
that all the truth. However it may lie concealed, il 
down. 
like a worm in the bud, "the carnal mind is en-' Joy, Joy, Joy, 
oy, Joy ! Safe home at last—
mity against God." Illustrating the familiar ad- II The battle is over—the peril is past." 
age,"out of' sight, out of mind," this feeling may 
lie dormant so long as our enemy is unseen. 
The Sabbath. 
BY DR. GUTIIRIE. 
I knew a man who had amassed great wealth, 
but had no children to inherit it. He lost the op-
portunity, which one would think good men 
would more frequently embrace,of leaving Christ 
his heir, and bequathing to the cause of religion 
what he could not earry away. Smitten,how ever, 
with the vain and strange propensity to found a 
house, or make a family, as it is called, he left 
his riches to a distant relative. His successor 
found himself suddenly raised from poverty to 
affluence, and thrown into a position which he 
had not been trained to fill. He was cast into 
the society of those to whose tastes, and habits, 
and accomplishments he was an utter and an 
awkward strangsr. Did many envy this child of 
fortune ? They might have spared their envy. 
Left in his original obscurity he had been a hap-
py peasant, whistling his way home from the 
plough to a thatch-roofed cottage, or on winter 
nights, and around the blazing faggots, laughing 
loud and merry among unpolished boors. Child 
of misfortune ! he buried his happiness in the 
grave of his benefactor. Neither qualified by na-
ture, nor fitted by education, for his position, he 
was separated from his old, only to be despised 
by his new, associates. And how bitterly was he 
disappointed to find, that, in oxchanging poverty 
for opulence, daily toil for luxurious indolence, 
humble friends for more distinguished compan-
ions, a hard bed for one of down, this turn in his 
fortunes had flung him on a couch not of roses, 
but thorns ? In his case, the hopes of the living 
and the intentions of the dead were alike frustra-
ted. 
The prize had proved a blank ; a necessary re-
sult of this fatal oversight, that the heir had not 
been made meet for the inheritance. 
Is such training needful for an earthly estate ? 
Flow much more fur the ',inheritance of the saints 
in light !" "Except a man .be born again, he 
cannot see the kingdom of God." No change to 
a condition however lofty—no elevation from the 
lowest obscurity to the highest honor, from ab-
ject poverty to the greatest affluence, adequately 
represents the difference between the state of sin 
in which grace finds, and the state of glory to 
which it raises us. The most ignorant and de-
based of our city outcasts,the most wretched and 
loathsome wanderer of these streets,is not so un-
fit to be received into the holy bosom of a Chris-
tian family, as you are, by nature to be received 
Into the kingdom of heaven. A sinner there were 
more out of place than a ragged beggar in a roy-
al palace. where, all gazing at his appearance 
with astonishment, and shrinking back from his 
defiling touch, he rudely thrusts himself within 
the brilliant circle. Compared with the difference 
between a man, as grace finds him, and heaven 
gets him, how feeble are all earthly distinctions ! 
They sink into nothing. So unheavenly, in truth, 
is our nature, that unless we were made meet for 
the inheritance, we were no honor to it, nor were 
it any happiness to us. 
What, for instance, were the most tempting 
banquet, to one without appetite, sick, loathing 
the very sight and smell of food ? To a man stone-
deaf, what the boldest blast of trumpet, the roll 
of drums, stirring the soldiers's soul to deeds of 
daring valor, or the finest music that ever fell on 
charmed car, and seemed to bear the spirit on 
its waves of sound up to the gates of heaven ? 
Or what, to one stone-blind, a scene to which 
beauty has lent its charms,and sublimity its gran 
deur—the valley clad in a many-colored robe of 
flowers, the gleaming lake, the flashing cascade, 
the foaming torrent, the dark-climbing forest,the 
brave trees that cling to the frowing crags, the 
rocky pinnacles, and high over all, hoary winter 
looking down on summer from her throne on the 
Alps' untrodden snows ? Just what heaven would 
be to 'van with his ruined nature, his low pas-
sions, and his dark guilty conscience. Incapable 
of appreciating its holy beauties, of enjoying its 
holy happiness, he would find nothing there to 
delight his sense. flow he would wonder in what 
its pleasure lay ; and, supposing him once there 
were there a place of' safety out of it, how he 
would long to be away, and keep his eye on the 
gate to watch its opening, and excape as from a 
doleful prison ! Such an inheritance were to such 
a man like the gift of a noble library to a plum-
ed, painted if vaue. As, ignorant of letters, he 
stalked from hall to hall amid the wisdom of by• 
gone ages, and rolled his restless eyes over the 
nappreciated treasures, how he would sigh to 
be back to his native forests, where he might sit 
among his tribe at the the council-fire, or raise 
his war-whoop, or hunt down the deer ! People 
talk strangely of going to heaven when they die ; 
but what gratification could it possibly afford a 
man whose enjoyments are of a sensuous or sen-
sual nature—whose only pleasure lies in the ac-
qusition of worldly objects, or the gratification 
of brutal appetites ? You hope to go to heaven! 
I hope yon will. But, unless your heart is sanc-
tified and renewed, what were heaven to you ? 
an abhorrent vacuum. The day that took you 
there would end all enjoyments, and throw you,a 
castaway, upon a solitnde more:lonely than a 
desert island. Neither angels nor saints would 
seek your company, nor would you seek theirs. 
Unable to join in their hallowed employments,to 
sympathise, with, or even understand their holy 
joys, you would feel more desolate in heaven 
than we have done in the heart of a great city, 
without one friend, jostled by crowds,but crowds 
who spoke a language we did not understand. 
and were aliens alike in dress and manners, in 
langnage, blood and faith. 
It is the curse of vice, that, where its desires 
outlive the power of gratification, or are denied 
the opportunity of indulgence,they become a pun-
ishment and a torment. Denied all opportunity of 
indulgence, what would a drunkard do in heav-
en? Or a glutton ? Or a voluptuary? Or an am-
bitious man ? Or a worldling ? one whose soul 
lies buried in a heap of gold ? Or she, who, ne-
glecting quite as much the noble purposes of her 
being, flits, life through, a painted butterfiy,from 
flower to flower of pleasure,andwastes the day of 
grace in the idolatry and adornment of a form 
which death shall change into utter loathsome- 
ness, and the grave into a:heap of dust ? These 
would hear no sonnds of ecstasy, would see no 
brightness,would smell no perfumes, in paradise. 
But, weeping, and wringing their hands, they 
would wander up and down the golden streets to 
bewail their death, crying—"The days have 
come in which we have no pleasure in them." 
On that eternal Sabbath—from which no fields, 
nor news, nor business would afford escape— 
what would they do,who hear no music in church 
bells, and say of holy services, "When will they 
be over ?" Oh, the slow, weary march of the 
never-setting sun ! Than go down to hell, than 
perish in the coming storm,they would turn their 
prow to heaven ; but only as the last refuge of a 
sinking bark—a safe, it may be,but yet a friend-
less shore. Unlike the happy swallows which Da-
vid envied, thy altar, 0 God, is the very last 
But, let him appear, and his presence opens eve-
ry old wound afresh, and fans the smoldering en-
mity into flameiTherefore,the heaven that purifies 
the saints would but exasperate the hatred of the 
sinner ; and the more God's holiness and glory 
were revealed, the more would this enmity be 
developed—just as the thicker the dews fall on 
decaying timber, the faster the timber rots; and 
the more full the sunshine on a noxious plant, 
the more pestilent its juices grow. It is not in 
polar regions, where the day is night, and the 
showers are snow, and the rivers are moving ice, 
and slanting sunbeams fall faint and feeble, but 
in the climes where flowers are fairest, and fruits 
are sweetest, and fullest sunshine warms the air 
and lights a cloudless sky, that nature prepares 
the deadly poisons. There the snake sounds its 
ominons rattle, and the venomous cobra lifts her 
hood. Even so sin,could it strike root in heaven, 
would grow more rankly, more hating and more 
hateful than on earth, and man would cast on 
God an eye of deeper and intenser enmity. 
Hence the need of being made, by a change of 
heart, new creatures in Jesus Christ. Hence the 
need, also, which by reason of indwelling and re-
maining corruption,even God's people daily feel, 
of getting,with a title to the heavenly inheritance 
a greater 'fleetness for it. In other words, you 
must be sanctified as well as saved. This work,so 
necessary, as we have seen, in the very nature 
of things, has been assigned to the Holy Spirit. 
It was the office of the Son to purchase heaven 
for the heirs. And it is the office of the Spirit to 
prepare the heirs for heaven. Thus renewed, pu-
rified, and at length wholly sanctified, we shall 
carry a holy nature to a holy place, and be pre-
sented, "faultless, before the presence of his glo-
ry, with exceeding joy." 
 
IMMIONIVP 
Home. 
The following is said to be a "popular hymn, 
sung often in Germany by the whole congrega-
tion, as they leave the church at the close of Di-
vine service. The melody is our own 'Home 
Sweet Home,' with some modifications." Can-
not our brethren and sisters use it in their social 
meetings, and thus join with those in the Land 
of Luther who wait for the appearing of the Com- 
ing One ? 
J. M. 0. 
"0, where shall the soul find rest and her home ? 
Whose wings will protect her ? How long must 
she roam ? 
Does not the world offer one city of peace, 
One spot free from sin, where the labors may 
cease ? 
No, No, No, No ! Far out of sight, 
Beyond is our home, in the kingdom of' light. 
"We'll leave, then, the world in its darkness be-
hind, 
And walk in the light, if our home we may find ; 
Thu great New Jerusalem, God has prepared, 
His word has been given—His counsel declared. 
Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes ! Yonder must be 
Those mansions made ready for you and for me. 
"And Jesus our Saviour, our Brother is there, 
No Sin shall oppress us, no Death, Pain, nor 
Care, 
But melodies sweeping from angel harps, roll 
And welcome of triumph to each ransomed soul. 
Rest, Rest, Rest, Rest ! There may rest 
Forever with Christ in the home of the blest ! 
"For we who have loved his appearing below 
By faith—then by sight our Redeemer shall 
know. 
In garments of holiness, free from each taint, 
Shall worship before him, the lowliest saint. 
Free, Free, Free, Free ! Freed from our sin—
From fightings without and temptations within. 
"Dear Saviour, our hearts burn within, and we 
long. 
To join in the angels' victorious song. 
Hallelujah to Him who hath bought us ! they 
The lambwho
h hath loved us, who reigneth on 
high ! 
Wait, Wait, Wait, Wait ! Soon shall we hear 
The voice of the Master who bids us appear. 
B W. II- EASTMAN. 
Read before the Conference in Waterbury Vt. 
Oct. 1862. 
Among the commands which the law of' God 
gives us to keep, and which the church is held 
responsible to enforce upon the minds of perish-
ing men, 'that of the fourth command in the 
decalogue ; which sets apart a seventh part of 
our time for rest and religious worship, is not 
to be overlooked, or the force of its important 
claims suffered in the least degree to be dimin-
ished. 
The united experience of the past and pres-
ent, conspire to teach that the nonobservance of 
this command, or even a loose observance of it, 
on the part of a nation, community, or individu-
al,results in Spiritual weakness, degeneracy and 
death. 
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The Sabbath is to Christianity what a strong 
fortress is to a beleagured city ; destroy the for-
tress and the city is easily taken ; demolish the 
building of Christianity, the Sabbath, and the 
church falls an easy prey to her foes. 
A precept that bears so directly upon our mor-
al and religious welfare, we should naturally ex-
pect to find in that code of laws, which God as-
signed should in all time, shape our conduct, and 
give weight and influence to our character. Hence 
we are no way surprised to find it occupying a 
prominent place among the ten precepts of the 
D eca 1 ogue. 
"Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 
Six days shalt thou labor and do all thy work, 
but the seventh day is the Sabbath ,.of the Lord 
thy God ; in it thou shalt not do any work, then 
nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man servant, 
nor thy maid servant, nor thy cattle, nor the 
stranger that is within thy gates. For in six 
days the Lord made heaven and earth ; the sea 
and all that in them is, and rested the seventh 
day : Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath 
day, and hallowed it." We remark, that the 
demand of the law is the setting apart, one sev-
enth part of the time as a Sabbath. 
The precept of itself makes no one particular 
day,from which to reckon the cycle of seven days 
the seventh of which was to be the Sabbath ; 
for all that here appears, it might begin on any 
day of' the week. 
The reason here assigned for the sanctification 
of the seventh day, viz. that God made the world 
in six days and rested the seventh ; is not de-
signed to point out the day from which to begin 
our reckoning of weekly diversions of time, but 
to set forth the example for man's imitation. 
I worked six days and rested on the seventh, 
you are required to imitate my example. We 
contend that more revelation is needed on this 
point of fixing the day, or w e are entirely in 
the dark on the subject. We are not however to 
depend upon the authority of men to decide this 
point ; to give dignity to the day, and stay the 
caviling of men, we are to look for its ap-
pointment from Jehovah himself. 
Has God clearly marked the day from which 
to commence the reckoning of this Septenary 
cycle ? Most assuredly he has. 
It will be borne in mind that the seventh day 
was sanctified and set apart for holy use, being 
anterior to the giving of lawits, -- antiquity be-
ing coeval with the creation of the world, with 
the enjoyment of the paradisaical state. But 
from this time onward to the Exode, no mention 
is made of it. It is no way unreasonable to 
suppose that during this time, it was not legal-
ly obscured. There might have been, and prob-
ably was a traditional remembrance of this week-
ly cycle ; intimations of which appear in the his-
tory of Noah at the time of the flood Gen, 8: 10, 
and in the conversation of Laban with Jacob 
Gen. 39, 27. At the time of the exode the Sab-
bath, and the day on which it was to be kept, 
For the Herald. 
The Celestial band of Music. 
Morning Stars together singing, 
Heaven with hallelujahs ringing, 
Joyful music all were bringing, 
In creation's morning fair : 
While the band of music 
Was loud sounding through the air. 
Early in the new beginning, 
Befoce there was any sinning, 
Man his Maker's favors winning 
In the bliss of Paradise : 
While the hand of music 
Was resounding through the skies. 
All was peace without contention, 
No harsh words nor vain dissention ; 
But there's one sad thing to mention 
Man his Maker disobeyed : 
While the band of music 
There no more could be displayed. 
But there comes a Restitution, 
In the world's great revolution, 
When by fire and dissolution, 
All things have another birth. 
While the band of music 
Shall resound through the new earth. 
Then shall end the earth's commotion, 
While love, boundless as the ocean, 
Shall fill each with pure devotion. 
ln the Resurrection morn, 
While the band of music 
Shall resound o'er all new born. 
E. P. B. 
Meekness of the Saint's Inheritance. 
356 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
are clearly and unequivocally established. Six 
days were counted, commencing with the firstap- 
pearance of manna from heaven ; the seventh 
agreeable to this starting point was appointed a 
Sabbath, "And it came to pass that on the 
sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, 
two omers for one man ; and all the rulers came 
and told Moses. And he said unto them, this is 
that which the Lord path said : tomorrow is the 
rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord ; bake 
that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that 
which ye will seethe, and that which remaineth 
over lay up for you to be kept until the morn-
ing. Six days ye shall gather it ; but on the 
seventh day which is the Sabbath there shall be 
none. So the people rested on the seventh day 
Ex. 16, 22, 30. 
This was the day God made for a Sabbath. 
The fourth command in the Dacalogue which ap-
pears soon after, demanded the consecration of a 
seventh part of the time to rest ; but the day 
which should be denominated the seventh, re-
ceived its appointment in connection with the 
fall of manna from heaven as already noted. 
The enforcement of the law in accordance 
with the appointment of this seventh day, was 
strenuously insisted upon by the prophets of God 
and all the righteous Kings of Judah, during 
the entire existence of their national purity. That 
the fourth command—deeming the continuance 
of the Mosaic dispensation was equally binding 
with the other ten precepts of the Decalcgue, 
there is no reason to doubt, the penalty annexed 
to the breaking of this command is the same in 
severity with the others of the same code. And 
among the sins complained of,and for which they 
were visited with sore judgments, that of Sab-
bath breaking is not unfrequently mentioned. 
Bet with the change of dispensations, there 
has come about by some means, a change in the 
day to be observed as a Sabbath. 
We now see among all Christian nations and 
churches with but few exceptions, that the first 
day (according to the Jewish custom of reckon-
ing time) is observed as a Sabbath instead of the 
seventh, as kept by the Jews, that is, the first 
day of the old dispensation has become the sev-
enth of the new. 
How has this change come about ? We an-
swer ; it is easy to be seen that the day of our 
Lord's resurrection from the dead would be to 
his followers in all after time, a day to be had 
in lively remembrance, since then and there life 
and immortality were clearly brought to light. 
We being the first fruits of those that slept, 
we read that on the day of his resurrection he 
appeared first to Mary Magdalene and the other 
Mary who had come to see the Sepulchre, these 
women were by him told,to go and tell his breth-
ren "that they go before me into Galilee, and 
there shall they see me." Matt. 28:10," when 
the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into 
a mountain where Jesus had apppinted them 
verse 16." 
Here is recorded the first meeting of our Lord 
with his disciples, after his resurrection. The 
meeting was by his own appointment, it was on 
the first day of the week. At this meeting Thom-
as was absent, and could not be made to believe 
that his Lord had risen from the dead. When 
this same day came round again the disciples 
were again assembled See John 20, 26. 
The Lord appears as afortitne in their midst, 
gracing their meeting with his presence, and con-
vincing Thomas, that his master was no longer 
numbered with the dead. Here are two meet-
ings on the first day, the first day appointed,and 
both approved by Christ. The first day of the 
eighth week after his death was the day of pen-
tecost—a glorious day to the Christian church. 
We find in Acts and Car. 16 : 1-2 7, that the 
custom of assembling on the first day of the 
week had become general, the disciples at the 
Lord's coming together on the first day of the 
week to break bread,and to listen to the preach-
ed word from the mouth of Paul. This same 
apostle also commanded that collections should 
be taken up on this day by the Christian church 
for charitable purposes, declaring that he had 
, given the same order to the churches in Galatia. 
Dr. Dellrieh paraphrases this Scripture in the 
following manner. Where you held your Chris- 
L 
tian assemblies on the first day of the week, in 
commemoration of the resurrection of our Lord 
which has made that day sacred amongst us. 
Let every one of you lay something by in pro-
portion to the degree in which by the divine bless-
ing he bath been prospered in his affairs, and let 
him bring it with him to the place where you 
meet for public worship ; there treasure up in the 
common stock, that so it may be ready in one 
sum, and there may be no necessity of making 
any particular collection when I come. 
(To be continued.) 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 11, 1862. 
BYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
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Letter to Eld. T. M. Preble. 
DEAR BROTHER. Your expectation, as expressed 
in your pamphlet, that various observations would 
he elicited and various motives imputed to you,was 
doubtless fully realized ; and your experience in that 
respect was probably nut very peculiar, nor much 
unlike that of others attempting a similar service. 
Also your desire, that any error in your conclusions 
might be shown, and your determination to make 
prompt and full correction, were what every one 
must desire and practice whose ohject is truth, who 
has no sinister, partizan or other unworthy end to 
accomplish. We have just met with a case in point 
in respect to a London volume by E. II. MACKIN-
TOSH. Having made an error in his first edition, he 
subsequently thus relers to it : 
"This mistake, together with the serious infer-
ence deducible from it, was pointed out to me by a 
dear and venerable servant of Christ, who requested 
me to reconsider the passage, and correct it in the 
second edition. I did correct the mistake, and ad-
ded a note, not to guard error, but to guard the 
truth. But this, 1 feel, was not enough. I ought 
to have confessed the mistake, and should have done 
so, in the preface to the second edition, had I been 
sufficiently self-emptied and careless of my reputa-
tion as a writer." Lon. Q. J. of Prophecy vol. 14. 
p. 397. 
This was manly, and Christian ; it is what we 
hope to do in respect to every error into which we 
may fall, on being shown its inaccuracy ; and we 
are unable to perceive how any one can expect to 
stand in the confidence and respect of his own com-
munity, however large or circumscribed that may 
be, or of his own conscience,as a candid and reliable 
writer, who is actuated by any other spirit. And 
therefore, as we have before repeatedly written, in 
our own specification of errors in the wort~ of Mr. 
Shimeall, if we have been in any respect inaccurate 
in our deductions, or uncourteous in our exhibit of 
them, it will not only he our duty to retract or apol-
ogize, but it should be cheerfully performed. 
That we were probably accurate in those specifi-
cations of error, is virtually admitted by your cor-
respondent, who says : 
"Well, I do endorse. True, I never considered 
the 'errors' of sufficient importance to look into the 
process to see whether it was fairly and conclusive-
ly done or not. But taking it for granted that the 
editor may be relied on in this particular, I endorse 
the corrections," Voice No. 11, 2 Col. p. 21. 
Yurr correspondent's estimate of their unimport-
ance, in a demonstration of the world's age, should 
also be given, in the same connection, He says : 
"It is decided 'mathematically,' and to a 'demon-
stration' that Mr. Shimeall differs from the editor 
thirteen (13) years in six thousand (6,000) ; [Her. 
June 23, 60]. Does not that strike one as some-
thing terrible ? But it is capable of being reduced 
to a still more impressive form. My mathematical 
bump is a slow affair. I don't rely upon it in pro-
found cases. I wish it was otherwise. But this 
case, although a very profound one, has been before 
us so long, and has been treated with such ability, 
that I venture for once to be positive—mathemati-
cally positive—in stating that the 'error' amounts 
to two years and one sixrh of a year for every thou-
sand ; one year and one twelfth of a year for every 
five hundred ; and thirteen sixtieths,or seventy-nine 
days and two hours, for every hundred years of the 
world's age : a difference less in amount than the 
editor differs from himself in the several chronolo-
gies he has compiled ; less than some of the c,jironol-
°gists differ from him,who have been brought to his 
aid in correcting Mr. S." Ib. cols. 1, 2. 
In respect to the above we would observe : 
1. That an error is none the less an error, because 
of its relative unimporta nee. In the words of 
Pope : 
some to be your teachers ; and that Dr. C. and Mr. 
S. had been held up in a light which made it some 
what doubtful whether they knew the meaning of 
their own language, which lie was under the neces-
sity of misconstruing to make out his case (Her., 
Ap. 28, and May 19, 1860) ; and that Mr S.'s work 
was referred to in the most inviduous manner as 'a 
pretentious volume ?' It was this treatment which 
initiated the case as between him and them ; and 
this was accompanied by the injustice of placing 
them in a false position by giving a sense to their 
language which was assumed against all the facts 
in the case, and all the facts of all analagous cases," 
Voice No. 1, p. 21 2st Col. 
It is more easy to affirm, than it is to substanti-
ate by quotations, what is merely imaginary ; and 
therefore there is no attempt to show language of 
our own, as there cannot be, wherein there has been 
any misconstruction of the language of those wri- 
ters—unless simply quoting what they have writ-
ten and showing its inaccuracy, may be thus con-
strued. 
Any volume is more or less "pretentious" in pro-
portion as it fails in thoroughness of research, accu- 
racy of computation, conclusiveness in reasoning,or 
other quality to which it may lay claim. In our 
first notice of Mr. S.'s work before commencing its 
review, we accredited to it "considerable ability and 
research." We added : "Were this book all that 
it claims to he, it would be one of the most invalu- 
able and timely works that ever emanated from the 
American press. If it be much less than it claims, 
it does not therefore follow that it may not be a 
valuable addition to any library. We mast, how- 
ever, confess to a feeling of disappointment, on ex-
amining this pretentious volume, to find that it is 
much less logical and profound in its chronological 
deductions, than we had hoped,and had expected to 
find from laudations we had seen of it. Either he 
greatly misapprehends what is essential to conclu- 
sive reasoning, and to mathematical demonstration, 
or we do. It is very easy, however,to depreciate, as 
it is to laud in general terms ; and whilst the lauda- 
tion and endorsement of no one is of any value, ex-
cept as there is possessed a logical discrimation and 
mathematical accuracy, by those who approve, and 
as they show a competency to weigh well and dis-
cern clearly all points of agreement or difference,so 
is no depreciation to be regarded, except as it is ac-
companied with an actual development and specifi-
cation of the errors, or deficiencies of reasoning and 
demonstration, which derogate from its claims to 
critical accuracy. We shall therefore soon notice 
his chronology in detail, show its variations from 
our own and other chronologies, the process by 
which its result is arrived at, and the reasons for 
our judgment of its insufficiency. As, however, the 
only way to adjust questionable or disputed points, 
to solve difficulties,or to harmonize disagreements of 
opinion, is by a comparison of each other's views 
and arguments ; and as every contribution to this 
department of literature, resulting from well-meant 
and conscientious effort to elucidate truth, is to be 
welcomed as aiding in' this great field of research ; 
so we welcome this work without classing it among 
the infallible," herald, May, 19, 1860. 
When we have occasion to notice any work, we 
take it for granted that our readers wish us to give 
our matured convictions of its merits, that they wish 
to have us speak intelligently and intelligibly, and 
from actual investigation. It is only by thus speak- 
ing that an editor can hope to retain the confidence 
of his readers in his judgment of what he describes. 
We choose not to put ourself in the category of edi-
tors who "go it blind" in their notices of authors—
or, as expressed by one, who write their notices 
without reading, lest they shall be biased in their 
opinions. It is this fact which has made such no-
tices little more than a matter of form in the gener- 
ality of papers, and made them of little value to 
readers ; whose opinion of any work that is noticed 
will always be proportioned to their estimate of the 
accuracy of investigaiiion and competency to inves- 
tigate of the one who notices. And were we to re-
notice the work in question, we do not see wherein 
we should vary it,except to expunge the word "pre- 
tentious"—not because we think that unjustly used, 
but because it is capable of being construed offen- 
sively ; and we should avoid giving needless offense 
to the most sensitive, so far as it can be done with-
out a sacrifice of truth, which should be always 
maintained irrespective of frowns or favor. 
The other exceptionable term, "assume," occurs 
in an article, written subsequent to the completion 
of the review, which was called out by some com-
plaint that we had ventured to specify errors in a 
work Iike that of Mr. S. We referred to those er-
rors and said : 
"Now seeing those discrepances, what was our 
duty respecting them ? Should we say we have read 
Mr. S.'s book and find its calculations and state-
ments all reliable, when we believe them to be not ? 
done so, what confidence could the readers 
Which ever link you strike, 
Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike." 
That an error of thirteen years would not be 
an unimportant item in the definite calculation of an 
eclipse, in any other astronomical estimate, or in a 
chronological computation—especiall4in an argu-
ment aiming at the determination a the precise 
year of the world's age. 
That your correspondent is well aware that it 
is not the difference in result from our own calcula-
tion that we have laid any stress upon, but on the 
inaccuracies of calculation, in arriving at the re-
sult—our confidence in which must necessarily be 
proportioned to the accuracy of the successive steps 
by which it is reached. 
That every variation from the same result on 
the part of other chronologists has been noted with 
the same care as in the case of Mr. S. ; but that 
none of the others,like him, have made errors inthe 
combinations of their own numbers. 
That after taking up chronology as a study, 
the only result to which we ever arrived, is that 
embodied in our "Analysis of Sacred Chronology," 
first given in the Herald in 1847—the only chronol-
ogy we had previously compiled being a single edito-
rial, comprised in one number of this paper in 1843 
in which we simply gave in full the texts to which 
Mr. Miller referred in his Chronological Table, and 
which was first put in a pamphlet form of 30 pages 
at the New Yorlaoffice previous to our knowledge of 
such intention. 
That the "errors," whatever they may be,may 
not be distributed among the 6000 years of the 
world's age—they having respect to a period of less 
than 1500 years, intervening between the Jordan 
and seventy weeks ; nor would they be dissipated or 
otherwise affected, by such distribution. 
That the error is not merely one of thirteen 
years-a-there being nineteen years twice counted af-
ter the 4th of Jehoiakiin, eleven years omitted after 
Ainaziah, and twenty four years twice included in 
the attempt to show 483 years between the division 
of land and death of Samuel, to say nothing of mi-
nor errors. And, 
That your correspondent is not as accurate in 
his mathematics as he supposed—"thirteen sixti-
eths" of a year being 1 hour, 15 minutes, and 
31.6916 plus seconds, on the estimate of the year's 
length by LALANDE, more than is given in the above 
with such mathematical positiveness ; in which the 
year must have been erroneously estimated as com-
prising 365 given days ! 
The errors we specified being thus "endorsed," 
and the attempt to show the unimportance of vital 
error in a chronological computation being obvious-
ly unsound, the most important inquiry remaining 
is whether we were uncourteous 'in our manner of 
showing them ? If we were thus, it will give us 
pleasure, on this being shown,to apologize, but thus 
far there has not been quoted by your correspondent 
from our entire review of Mr. S., a single sentence 
or word that is claimed as departing from the strict-
est courtesy. There are, however,two words copied 
from our articles preceding and following that re 
view,which are thus claimed—the words "assume," 
and "pretentions." Your correspondent says : 
"Who does not know that when the plea of duty 
was resorted to as a screen from certain indications 
of disapprobation, the editor violated all the propri-
ities of his position by referring to these gifted and 
esteemed fellow-laborers as among those who 'as- Iliad we 
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of the Herald, thenceforth have had in our- ability 
to detect and promptness to correct such inaccura-
cies? Harry good brother thinks we ought not to 
have pointed these out, we would request him ex-
plicitly to say so. Or, if any good brother thinks 
we are in error in regarding these as erroneous, we 
will thank him to point out and show it. Will not 
our readers look at this candidly, and impartially, 
and then each and all say, shall we henceforth 
omit to point out to you the errors in fact and logic 
of those who assume to be your teachers ?" Herald, 
Aug. 4. 1860. 
This shows the connection in which that word was 
used. We see it is capable of being misconstrued 
offensively, and therefore it should not he used—
though at the time of writing we had no supposi-
tion that it would be construed differently than it 
is when we say of the chief magistrate of a state or 
nation, that he assumes the executive office ; of a 
pastor, that he assumes the charge of the church ; 
or of an editor, that he assumes the chair editorial. 
Every writer,or speaker,assumes the office of teach-
er. And the simple question is whether those who 
occupy such position, and come before the public 
with assumed facts or inaccurate conclusions,shall be 
exempt from the correction of their errors ? 
In the article from which the above extract was 
taken there was no mention of Dr. Cumming, nor 
reference to him near or remote ; and the mention 
of his name in this connection by your correspon- 
dent is entirely gratuitous. The reason for it, 
doubtless, was that, some three months previous,we 
had occasion t point out two or three inaccuracies 
of Dr C. which act it appears has also been remem- 
bered and treasured up against us. Thus Dr. C-
had stated that, 
"Elliott and Mede have shown that the 2300 
years which Daniel gives as one of the great chron-
ological epochs, terminated about the year 1821, or 
1822." Great Trib. v. 2. 
• 
"Mr. Elliott, and Newton, and Mede, think 
that the 1260 years, descriptive of the great Wes-
tern Apostasy, began at the year 532." lb. And, 
According to Mr. Clinton's Chronology in his 
Fasti Hellenci, the most able adjustment of the 
chronology of the world that has issued from the 
pen of any, he demonstrates, not guesses, that the 
six thousand years of the world terminate about 
1863," Benedictions, p. 181. 
In the correction of these we showed that Mr. 
Clinton, himself, claims to have filled two import-
ant breaks in the chain of chronology "by conject-
ure, and not by evidence ;" that Mr. Elliott dates 
the 1260 days from A. D. 530 ; that Newton gives 
their date as "most probably in 727 ;" and that 
Mr. Mede begins them about the year 456." And 
Bro. Orrock afterwards showed that Mr. Mede re-
garded the 2300 as only literal days. Our treat-
ment of this question will be found in the Herald of 
Apr. 28, 1860 ; and we should much like to see any 
one attempt to copy from our language there any-
thing exceptionable. 
The language of your correspondent, however, we 
suppose is regarded by him as strictly courteous, so 
that it is perfectly in order, according to his stan-
dard,4 ring changes on the terins"personal," "per-
sonal," and "porcinal ;" to accuse of having "vio-
lated all the proprieties of his position ;" of being 
"Under the necessity of misconstruing to make out 
his case ;" of writing "in the most invidious man-
ner ;" of "placing them in a false position ;" of 
"giving a sense to their language which was assum-
ed against all the facts in the case ;" of "straining 
at the gnat and swallowing the camel ;" "riding on 
the whirlwind and the storm ;" "reversing and oth-
erwise deranging things," &c. &c. to say nothing of 
his directly accusing of "falsifying." We shall not 
co-nrnent on expressions like the foregoing—having 
no occasion to make use of such terms ourself, and 
leaving those who indulge their use to all the glo-
ry there is in such indulgence. 
Having acknowledged that he has never looked 
"into the process to see whether it was fairly and 
conclusively done or not,"—our specification of Mr. 
S'slerrors—"but taking it for granted that the editor 
may be relied on in this.particular," your corres- 
pondent informs you what lie supposes is the issue. 
Ile says : 
"I supposed there was an alleged 'mathematical 
demonstration' which these corrections were said to 
damage, and to damage fatally. I suppose there was 
a 'pretentious volume,' from which large quotations 
have been made in the process of showing that the 
said demonstartion was damaged. 'I suppose that 
the 'author' of this volume was publicly advertised 
as one so dangerous as a teacher,' that he must be 
disposed of fur his 'inability ' I supposed there 
were certain 'endorsers' who were held responsible 
fur this damaged demonstration," &c. Voice No. 11, 
p 22 col. 1. 
Had your correspondent looked "into the process 
to see whether it was fairly and conclusively done," 
he might have shown the issue we made by actual 
quotations, and then he would not have been oblig-
e l to draw upon his powers of supposition. The cai 
is simply this. An argument, claimed as a demoo-
titration, is given to show the completion of 601 
years of this world's age in 1868. It is claimed I 
its author also as evidence of the completion of 
1335 days, and of Nebuchadnezzar's seven time 
at the same epoch. It has been copied and endoi 
ed as furnishing "evidence, on the basis of the cone.' - 
ted Hebrew version of the Holy Scriptures, that tI 
year 1859 is the year A. M. 5991;" and your co -
respondent has given his voice in favor of that eo-
dursernent. On the other hand, we have shown 
tual errors of 1, 11, 4, 19, 24, &c. years; which ai 
admitted to be probably "fairly and conclusive' 
shown," and yet this aid to the argument, is sti.. 
adhered to, such errors in an argument claiming 
demonstrate the world's age, not being regarded] . 
your correspondent as of sufficient importance 
look into." Yet he lays out his work as follows : 
"I shall show, or attempt to show,—f. That, ad-
mitting the inaccuracies, the editor has only pro( 
that Mr. Shirneall has failed to do what he did nor, 
attempt to do; and I shall show:that he has not fail-
ed to do what he did attempt. 
"Ik. I shall show, or attempt to show,that it 
with a distinct understanding of the work in th 
light that it was endorsed ; at least by the publish, 
of the Voice of the Prophets. 
"HI. I shall show., or attempt to show, that i 
was not so much the editor's interest in the questhe. 
of chronology which placed him in the position of 
reviewer of Mr. S., and that of 'censor' of Dr. C. 
and the publisher, as 'endorsers;' but that the gree , 
chronological demonstration got up by the editor , 
as I view it, was a mere blind by which he intend( 
to accomplish a totally different purpose from th, 
which app rs in the case, but which he kno 
would be billpolicy to attempt directly. 
"1V. I shall show that he was under the necessit 
of falsifying all these parties, or of doing nothin,. 
with the material he had to use," lb. 2d col. 
We have italicised this last paragraph, that i 
may be contrasted with the admission of not havir, 
looked "Into the process to see whether it was fah 
ly and conclusively done or not." And putting thee 
two together, not only yourself but all candi 
and intelligent readers will know just how to ee 
timate the spirit which actuates.and the value ( 
anything thus emanating. 
The War. 
There has nothing very decisive transpired in re-
spect to the prosecution. of the present war, during 
the last few weeks. The government is rapidly gath-
ering the regiments organized in the several statei 
under the two late calls of 300,000 men each, fe 
three years and nine months respectively, 
In one of these nine month's regiments, the I 451', 
Mass. Voluntiers,which sailed from this port on th 
5th inst. for Newborn, in the steam transport Mis-
sissippi, we hays a son of nineteen years. And who 
is there who has not a son, a brother, a husband, oe 
near friend serving in the army of his country ? I ; 
is in this way that this war is coming near to all our 
hearts and hearth-stones. May God speed the right, 
and bring this rebellion to a speedy end. 
We have gathered up a few items, in respect to 
the war, but none of very great signitcance. 
FROM THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC. 
Headquarters Army of the Potomac, 
Rectortown, Va., Nov. 5, 10 P. M., 
Via Washington, 6th, 11, 50 A. M. 
Gen. Pleasanton remained over night at Mark 
Hall, and this morning moved towards Brisbuf 
five miles distant and near the mouth of Chester Gap. 
Before reaching the town he came up with Gen.S tu-
art with 3000 men and one battery. The enemy ha‘ 
their guns posted on a hill on the left of the road bu• 
were driven off. 
Cul. Gregg of the 8th Pennsylvania charged on 
them with a lull regiment, completely routing them 
and taking prisoners. As the rebels fled, Captain 
Saunders with a squadron of the 6th Pennsylvania 
regiment charged on their flank, while Captain Pen-
nington with another force assaulted them with 
shells. The rebels left ten of their dead on the field. 
Our loss was one killed and five wounded. 
Among the enemy's killed was a captain. The 
Adjutant of a Virginia regiment had his leg broken 
and is a prisoner. • 
The conduct of our cavalry in this action was 
splendid, and it is only necessary for Gen. Stuart to 
meet them in an open field to show their.superiority. 
Salem was occupied to-day by Gen.Baynard's cav-
alry after driving the 1st Virginia cavalry from the 
town, and capturing seven prisoners. 
New York, Nov. 6. A letter from Piedmont,dated 
evening of the 4th, 5 miles east of Manassas Gap, 
says, according to the inhabitants, all the rebel ar-
my in this vicinity has retreated through Manassas 
Gap. Gen. Pleasanton will occupy the Gap this eve-
ning and learn definitely 'with regard to it. 
. Couch's division of Sumner's corps has just occu- 
pied Ashby's Gap, and our pickets extend to within 
a mile of the Shenandoah. 
D. H. Hill's corps retreated through the Gap be-
fore him. Jackson is also in!the same vicinity. Thus 
the entire rebel army seems to be again west of the 
Blue Ridge. 
A special dispatch statss that Gen. Sigel's sutler, 
cook and two others had been arrested. Goods of 
all kinds and descriptions were sent from New York 
consigned to the cook, who helped them through 
our lines to the rebels. Four trunks were seized 
which wsre filled with shoulder straps for rebel offi-
cers, gold lace &c. Teventy-four swords were found 
on the premises. The negro confessed the whole 
transaction, and gave the names of the sellers of the 
contraband goods in New York, who will be arrest- 
ed. The guilty parties had twelve stolen hortes in 
their posession. 
Letters from the army state that Major Thomas 
O'Niel of Gen. Meagher's staff, captured by the re-
bels, returned in about three hours with three rebel 
prisoners. 
The late skirmish at SnickeT's Gap was success-
fully led by Cu!. Sargent of the let Mass. cavalry. 
Ilarper's Ferry dispatches of the 4th say the re-
bel cavalry captured three of his men within two miles 
of Bolivar Rights. 
The woods on London nights are on fire. 
It is reported that our pickets were driven in on 
the night of the 3d. 
Harper's Ferry dispatches of the 5th state that a 
messenger just in from the front says that on Mon-
day, this side of Snicker's Gap, Gen. Porter's am-
munition and signal train was twice attacked by re-
bel cavalry, nine of whom were taken prisoners. 
Gen. Gorman reconnoitered up to Manasses Gap 
on Tuesday, and to-day ( Wednesday) heavy cannon-
ading was heard in that direction. 
A Gainsville letter of the 3d states that Major 
Knox passed through Thoroughfare Gap this morn-
ing, with a cavalry force, driving before him a body 
of the enemy's cavalry. He found the enemy's pick-
ets near White Plains, but no indications of any 
considerable rebel force in that quarter. 
Gen. Carl Schurz now holds the Gap, the 61st 
Ohio, Col. McGrearty, being on the other side. 
Heavy firing has been heard to-day on the right, 
commencing about twelve o'clock. 
Two contrabands who came to Aldie, Va., yester-
day give information that Jackson and Lee are now 
t Culpepper with strong forces. Extensive works 
are being erected on the Rappahannock to prevent 
a crossing by the Union troops. 
A special dispatch from Gainesville 5th states that 
athe town of Haymarket was burned yesterday. It is 
supposed that this was caused by some of its citizens 
firing upon our soldiers. Gen. Sigel has ordered an 
investigation of the affair. 
A skirmish occurred at New Baltimore to-day, in 
which the enemy was driven from this place. 
Our troops proceeded within a short distance of 
Warrenton yesterday. They met the rebels and a 
short but sharp fight took place. Our batteries open-
ed upon them, and they were forced to retreat into 
Warrenton in great disorder. 
IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTHWEST. 
St. Louis, Nov. 6. A dispatch from Bolivar Tenn. 
5th, to the Democrat, says : 
"Gen. Grant with several divisions of the army 
from this place and Corinth marched into Lagrange 
last night. The rebels still occupy Holly Springs, 
but the opinion is entertained that they will soon, 
evacuate the place. 
The railroads will be repaired to-morrow evening 
so as to admit the passage of trains from this place 
to Lagrange. 
A regiment from Columbus passed down to La-
grange last night, and another goes to-day. 
The rebels are about 50,000 strong at Holly 
Springs, and are under command of,Earl Van Dorn. 
If there is not a battle iought before many days, 
it will be because the rebels prefer running to fight-
ing. 
FROM NEWBERN. 
New York, Nov. 6. The Oriole, from Newbern 
31st ult. and Hatteras Inlet 2d inst., arrived this 
morning. An expedition is said to have left New-
bern. Destination unknown. 
From Conrsvril. A Corinth letter of Nov. 2 says 
that women have flocked to Inks, from Atb
arnit, 
Louisiana, Missouri, and all points of Mississippi, 
to nurse the rebel wounded, and that the place has 
become absolutely disgusting from the general dis, 
regard of cleanliness, the dressings of the wounded 
being thrown into the street in front of houses. The 
impudence of these women is immeasurable, for al-
though their wounded relatives have been paroled 
and still receive supplies of every kind from us,fethey 
insult our messengers and spit treason with the most 
vixenish vehemence. Kindness is thrown away on 
such people. 
The Cairo correspondent of the Chicago Tribune 
intimates that an important movement has been or 
is to be made from Corinth. He says, under date of 
3d instant : 
"Important movements are being made in Gen. 
Grant's army, and you may expect to hear of a bat-
tle momentarily. Gen. Grant, with blank division 
of the army of Tennessee, has probably entire pos-
session of Grand Junction to-night, or he is fighting 
from there to Holly Springs, wnich is but thirty or 
forty miles distant. I confidently predict that his 
head-quarters will be in the latter place in a week." 
Another Carlo dispatch, of same date, says : 
"News from Corinth and Bolivar is interesting 
but contraband. An attack is no longer anticipated 
at either of these points, on the contrary the Mem-
phis Bulletin reports that the rebels at Holly Springs 
and Bolivar are in a great state of perturbation over 
an anticipated Federal advance. Negroes and loose 
property are being taken to the interior." 
New recruits come in from Alabama and Tennes-
see and join the Union army daily. They make ex-
cellent soldiers. Sixty-five are in Corinth, who have 
joined the army within a few days. 
h all it fail t 
At a session of the A. M. A. the following kind 
and generous proposition was made by Bro. Wm. S. 
Elowden viz., that he would be one of ten to raise 
one hundred dollars to be used in:supplying:ministers 
of other denominations, and persons among us who 
are poor, with the "Advent Herald, "at the cost 
price, fur one year. 
"In accordance with the above we the undersigned, 
agree to pay to the Treasurer of the "Advent Her-
ald," the sum affixed to our several names." 
W. S. Ilowden, Waterbury Vt., Pd. $10.00 
D. Bosworth, 
" Pd. 10.00 
D. I. Mc'Allister, Stow " Pd. 10.00 
0. Doud, New Haven " Pd. 10.00 
Geo. J. Colby, Waterbury " Pd. 10.00 
Wm. H. Swartz, Shiremanstown Pa. 10.00 
R. D. W. of New York City. 110.00 
As the above payments and pledges are made con-
ditioually, it will be necessary that the conditious 
be fully complied with before any portion of the sums 
paid in can be appropriated fur the uses named. 
What other donors will generously respond to Bro. 
Howden's generous and manly proposition ? 
TIIE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. The Washington cor-
respondent of the New York Post relates the follow-
ing incident respecting the President's Message : 
"The President is hurrying day by day in writing 
his message. No one sees him after noon. Of one fact 
the public may be assured—the President in his 
forthcoming message stands firmly by his proclama-
tion of emancipation. A distinguished politician 
endeavored in vain to see him two consecutive days, 
and finally employed a friend to secure an interview. 
The President replied to that friend : am too busy 
for the interview till after Congress meets. Besides 
I know just what he wants of me.' (He here refer-
red to the specific object,which was really to get Mr. 
Lincoln to recede from the proclamation). The Presi- 
dent continued : shall not do anything of the 
kind, and why should he or I waste time or words 
over the subject ?' This little incident, which occur-
red within a week, illustrates the feelings of the 
President upon this question, and it is pleasant to 
hear that there are many prominent Southern gen-
tlemen who stand firmly by him in it. 
Cprrespondents, on matters pertaining solely to 
the office, should write " Office," on the envelope, 
to have their letters promptly attended to, if the 
editor be temporarily absent. 
Correspondents who give only their town and not 
their State, or who fail to put on the actual P. 0. 
address to which their paper is directed, sometimes 
put us to a great inconvenience,and a search of 
hours to find the name. 
Iutelligence from:Washington announces the re-
moval of Gen. McClellan from the command of the 
army of the Potomac, who is succeeded by Gen. 
Burnside of Rhode Island. 
THE CAUSE OF THIS WAR. 
The Richmond Examiner says it is proposed in 
parts of the South to make a forced conscription of 
slaves for purposes of labor, and it adds :—"As the 
war originated and is carried on in great part for 
the defense of the slaveholder in his property,rights, 
and the perpetuation of the institution, he ought to 
be first and foremost in aiding, by every means in 
his power,the triumph and success of our arms. The 
slaveholder ought to remember that for every negro 
he thus furnishes he puts a soldier in the ranks." 
Truth is the great battle-ax of Jehovah ; wherein 
His will is surely executed. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
In this department, articles are solicited, on the general 
suojeet of ceo Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should be 
regarded as disentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteous controversy. 
From Bro. 8. Chapman. 
Bun Buss : On the 20th of August five days af-
ter the date of my last, I left Hartford and enter-
ed upon an eastern tour. Spent the first week wis-
ing isolated adventists in Manchester and Tolland. 
I improved the Sabhath in reading and explaining 
the sacred word to Mother Lathrop, and a few of 
the neighbors who convened at her house in the lat-
ter place for instructions, and it was admitted that 
all the day was profitably spent ; Mother Lanthrop 
manifesily comforted, and that richly compensated 
me for my labor there. 
Spent the second week in Ashford, making it my 
home at Bro. L. Bolles, at whose house we held a 
few interesting evening meetings, and on the Sab-
bath preached to the advent church at the Ax fac-
tory. In the latter place we came in contact with 
the modern "age to come," though advocated I am 
happy to say only by one family. We gave them a 
variety of Scripture showing the absurdity of the 
theory. The last three verses of Isa. 26, and the 
last ten of Rev. 19, when fulfilled bring us into the 
real age to come, i. e. the binding of Satan for one 
thousand years and show conclusively that there 
are none left to enjoy a probationary period subse-
quently. See the explicitness of the apostle, Rev. 
19 : 18, and 21, as he in vision is about to enter in 
to the age to come. This seemed to settle the Ques-
tion. The word was generally well received, and 
some were signally blest. The third week in Chap-
lin ; there I found a company of disciples, "poor as 
to this world's goods,but rich in faith," and mani-
festly "knew of the soon coming kingdom." I 
preached to crowded congregations, (in a private 
house) on the sabbath and four evenings during the 
week, and it was cheering to my own heart to see 
how those precious souls feasted on the word. Bro. 
and sister Northrop and a brother Allen and family 
were especially revived, and comforted with the as-
surance of being "delivered" very soon Daniel 12 : 
1, and solemnity rested on the entire congregation. 
We confidently hope that lasting good will be the 
result of that week's labor. Spent the fourth week 
in Abington. In that place 1 conducted a meet-
ing in 43, of several weeks (about the commence-
ment of my ministerial course) and witnessed many 
happy conversions to Christianity and to the advent 
faith. Some 30 to 40 of whom entered into solemn 
covenant with each other to maintain meetings of 
social worship and to "comfort one another with 
words relating to the coming of the Lord," and I 
was now happy to find them abiding in the faith. 
Besides much family chat on the present signs of 
the times, and several evening meetings, we had 
preaching at the chapel on Sunday A. M. and P.M. 
and again at 5 P. M. in the grove, two mile,p off.' 
Bro. Jones of D. Ville occupied theldesk in the morn-
ing, and gave us meat in due season." Had good 
and very attentive congreg atiotis through the day 
especially so in the grove, and the Bren. were man-
ifestly comforted. The fable of the nonresurrection 
of the wicked is held by some in that section, but 
the Abington church as a body I am happy to know 
are too well informed on the Scripture to give place 
to it as a Bible doctrine. Spent the fifth week in 
visiting the brethren in Hampton, Brooklyn and 
Denison Ville. Preached to an interesting congre-
gation in the former place one evening, and to the 
advent church in "D.Ville twice on the sabbath,and 
had an extraordinary prayer and exhortation meet-
ing with them in the evening, in which many took 
a cheerful and active part, confessing that they had 
feasted on the word through the day, especially on 
an exposition of Matt. 24th. That is a young 
church numbering about 90 members, with which I 
had never met before. They have a neat and very 
commodious chapel and seem to be prospering under 
the faithful labor of Bro. Jones : he is a young man 
but well adapted to the station he fills, and his wife 
is truly a "help mate" to him in the gospel of 
Christ. My stay with that people was very brief, 
and yet we became exceedingly attached to each oth-
er, and found it rather hard parting. From there I 
went to South Killingly, on the extreme cast line of 
Ct. and spent a few days, and had much conversa-
tion with Bro. Spalding, and other isolated adven-
tists in that section, who embraced the gospel laith 
under my humble labor in '43. This, although we 
had no public service was manifestly ordere4 of th, 
as the Lord, and was productive of good to those 
dear friends. 
On Friday the 26th of Sept. (there being no pub-
lic conveyance) I started on foot for North Scituate 
R. I. 13 long miles. Having a pretty heavy satchel 
I found it rather tiresome, but being so joyfully re-
ceived by the few remaining friends there, I soon 
forgot it all and entered directly upon my work. In 
that place, some 18 years since, there was quite a 
band of brethren "looking for that blessed hope." 
Titus 2: 13. They joined together and 
erected them a small tabernacle. where 
they resorted for public worship on the Sab-
bath, and had preaching occasionally as our minis-
ing brethren passed that way. But by death and re-
movals I found on my arrival there that nearly all 
were gone, and the tabernacle aliandoned. The few 
remaining adventists either remained at home, or 
mingled in worship with other denominations on the 
sabbath. The people were readily notified and we 
had respectable congregations and a good hearing at 
the forsaken tabernacle through the day and even-
ing : from which the friends took encouragement, 
and decided to hold prayer, and conference meetings 
with a little preaching, at private houses through 
the week. It was a fortunate move, for by this 
means every brother and sister were heartily reviv-
ed, and became more thoroughly confirmed in the 
advent faith than ever before. Others who attend-
ed the meetings admitted the truthfulness of the doc-
trine we hold, and confessed that they had been in-
terested. In the course of the week it was propos-
ed that they organize,andbe established as a new ad-
vent church, to which some half dozen readily con-
sented : a brief constitution was accordingly drawn 
up, and on Sunday Oct. 12th at the close of P. M. 
service in the sanctuary, the friends were requested 
to tarry and listen to the reading of it. Solemn 
prayer was then offered after which the constitution 
was then read and fully explained : when thirteen 
happy souls readily responded thereto, and heartily 
adopted it as their article of faith and church cove-
nant, then they united in erecting a class leader, 
(or presiding officer), and clerk. The Lord's sup-
per was celebrated, in which others beside the ad-
vent church readily participated, it was truly a re-
freshing season to all. The tabernacle was well fill-
ed this second sabbath,and the best of attention was 
paid to the word. On Tuesday evening Oct. 14, we 
had our farewell season of worship,in which all took 
an active part : it was indeed a heavenly season,and 
before separating theydecided hereafter to maintain 
meetings of worship on Sunday and Thursday even-
ings till the Lord come, or till they be released by 
death. Hope our brn. in the ministry (who labor 
to build up,) will take pains to visit them occasional-
ly. The next day, took the stage for Provi-
dence (10 miles east) where I spent 24 hours very 
pleasantly in visiting the advent families from house 
to house. Bro. 0. and others very courteously re-
quested me to tarry longer with them, but it seem-
ed like duty for me to leave, and preach to the more 
destitute portion of the flock. So on Thursday Oct. 
16 I came to South Kingston (30 miles south) where 
I spent a week very profitably with one colored 
brother,(a portion of the Narraganset tribe)knowing 
their desire to see and converse with their "Bro. 
C," I took pains to visit most of the families, and 
found it mutually pleasant, and very profita-
ble. Being thus thoroughly notified, they turned 
out in mass to heir preaching on the Sabbath Their 
chapel was well filled A. M. and P. M. and espec-
ially in the evening. The Bren. and sisters feasted 
on the word, and after preaching men spoke with 
tender hearts, rejoicing exceedingly in the prospect 
of soon seeing their "blessed Lord," andlothers were 
manifestly interested. Caine from there to this 
place on Wednesday 22nd. ult. (10 miles further 
south) to mingle with another portion of the same 
tribe. Found them as I expected more than glad to 
see "Bro. Chapman." I visited this people for the 
first time in 1843,and was the very first to proclaim 
the advent message in this section. Having obtain-
ed the consent of several of the leaders of this tribe, 
to occupy their "meeting house," we entered direct-
ly upon a protracted effort. The Sanctuary was 
soon filled with attentive listeners to the word, but 
a more cautious people about receiving it, and re-
sponditg thereto I never saw. We held our meet-
ings both day and evening, and three days had past 
before I heard a word of response to what had been 
said, that brought us on to the Lord's day, when I 
gave them a minute exposition of Matt. 24, and be-
fore I was through Dea. .Nokake and many others 
were in a flood of tears. As I sat down the Deacon rose 
with a broken heart,and said this is'aGods truth. I be-
lieve it with all my heart, Dont reject it brethren, 
for it will do you good," &c. Others followed in 
358 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
quick succession, each confessing, "this doctrine 
Bren. is true, 0 let us be ready," then turning to 
the congregation said. "Oh sinners come to Jesus 
without delay for he is yet on the mercy seat" &c. 
A glorious work was soon in progress. The very 
next evening a host were forward for prayer : when 
several of the Bren. and Sisters had offered earnest 
prayer. I called on the anxious (as my custom is,) 
to speak audibly in prayer for themselves. Th .y 
consented, and nine of them (I well remember) were 
happily converted on the spot, rose and testified to 
that effect before leaving the house, that cold mid 
night hour, and thus the good work went on trium-
phantly,both here,and in S. Kingston till many pre-
cious souls had heartily submitted to God. Since 
that time (for 19 years) I have made it a rule al-
ways to visiqthis people on my return from western 
tours, and have never failed to find it profitable. As 
a proof of their friendship, and affection for "Bro. 
Chapman, I am quite amused, and gratified to find 
here, and in S. Kingston several of their sons called 
by my name, ("Samuel C. Thomas," "Samuel C. 
Helm," &c.) The eldest of whom is now about 18 
years.
t 
A the close of morning meeting,one of those boys 
took me by the hand as he was in the act of leaving 
the house, and said, "I want you to pray for me 
Eld Chapman, that I may be good, and go where 
you do." Since I called here this time I have been 
through the entire settlement and visited the differ-
ent families. Have held several evening meetings at 
private houses for the accommodation of the sick and 
infirm mothers in Israel. These seasons have been 
refreshing, and richly blest to them,and others. Last 
Sunday, and again on Thursday evening of this 
week they convened at their new stone chapel, and 
listened with thrilling interest to the preached word, 
by which they:were truly comforted, 
 the "blessed 
hope" in them is thoroughly revival, Our white 
brethren at ICIarkeville (3 miles north) have attend-
ed our evenings. Are manifestly revived, and say 
they have gained much light and instruction from 
the word. By particular request am to preach at 
the Advent hall in that place to-morrow (Sunday) 
where we expect a large congregation (for the color-
ed brethren say they shall certainly be fhere with 
us). We hope for, and indeed expect a good time. 
Shall probable leave for Westerly on Tuesday of next 
week (12 miles south). Spend a week or so there, 
then cross the state line and go into the village of 
my native town, "North Stonington, Ct," six miles 
west of the line, where I may spend several weeks, 
and if not hindered by other calls return to Hartford. 
My post office address for the month of November, 
will be N. Stonington Ct. care of Horace C. Whee-
ler, Eiq. ,But after that till I write again, Hartford 
Ct. care of Sand. E.C1rapenten. Hope the friends will 
continue to write,and I will endeavor to answer. 
Yours Bro. Bliss,confidently expecting deliverance 
very soon. 
SAML. CHAPMAN. 
P. S. In the Herald of Oct. 14th I notice another 
communication from Bro. M. Winslow of Perry 
Pike Co. Ill. In which he now admits (as I am hap-
py ;to see) that he was the presiding officer of the 
Advent church we established there some eight years 
since (now broken up,) which in a former letter he 
indirectly denied,placing me in an unfavorable light, 
and which called forth the explanation or statement 
of facts, as givenin the P. S. to my last letter (in 
Herald of Aug. 30.) When I was in Perry in'48, 
and had the pleasure of organizing that promising 
churoh, Bro. Winslow was with me in faith and 
zeal on every point of doctrine which rendered him 
very near and dear to me ; he was also with me in 
sentiment with reference ,to organizing Advent 
churches, wherever there was a sufficient number of 
believers to justify it. h But in Bro. Ws'. last letter 
he says, "Had Bro. Chapman gone from place to 
place as he did and never stopped to organize church-
es which have been left like sheep withont a shop-
herd,bu t let the church join other Christian churches 
more good might have been done" &c. When Bro. 
W.was penning his late article it must have escaped 
his recollection thafithe church in Perry was not left 
in that destitute condition by any means ; for it had 
not only a class leader in whom all were united, but 
a pastor also, and both these were baptists in senti-
ment, (certainly of the right stamp in Bro. W. es-
timation,) so that no good reason is given in the ar-
gument why that church (saying nothing of others) 
should stumble and fall. 
In the Province of C. W. and :fifteen of our once 
United States through which I have traveled and la-
bored,[ have had the pleasure of witnessing the con-
version of thousands of precious souls to Christian-
ity, and to the advent faith, and think I must have 
established in all, well on to one hundred churches ; 
and the church in Perry is among the very few that 
I haye known to fall, and become extinct except 
where the distracting theories of modern times have 
been forced upon them aiter I had left the field. The 
Lord have mercy on may wandering children in Per-
ry, and elsewhere is my humble prayer. Amen. Ex- 
cuse so lengthy a PS. Bro. B. for I hope it is my 
last on this subject. 
S. c. 
The Sword, or, a Sign from Heaven. 
After such a discourse, which 1 conceived more 
than human,my readers may well think me a stran- 
ger to sleep the remainder of the night, for neither 
tongue, nor pen can describe the agitation of mind 
or the trembling situation of my frame—I can truly 
say with Beltshazer when he saw the finger writing 
on the wall, my knees smote one against the other ; 
though I found myself more composed on mature 
deliberation, when I could not but consider myself 
as highly favored in being a bearer of the divine mes-
sage- 
As the clock struck three, I arose srom my bed 
and prepared my team and entici my fare and set out 
on my journey, without making known to the fam- 
ily the singular occurrence of the preceding night, 
though my mind was so truly fixed on what had 
past, that it was with much irregularity that I pro- 
ceeded on my journey. I had not got on my way 
more than one mile and a half before my team ,which 
consisted of four oxen and a horse in full speed were 
instantly stopped as though hushed by a sniglity 
hand; I unthinkingly bid them go on but without ef- 
fect ; for at the same instant a bright light appear- 
ed to overspread the horizon, and an angel or some 
supernatural being, as I conceived, descended and 
stood erect in the air but a little distance before me, 
drest in a long unsoiled robe, with a flaming sword 
in his hand ;.and I can say with Daniel, I was alone 
and without strength ; and he said unto me, "stand 
on thy feet and give ear to the words which I shall 
speak." And as I stood trembling and recollecting 
the vision I was under the influence of a few hours 
before ; I lifted up my eyes and beheld his face which 
had the appearance of lightning, and his eyes were 
as lamps of fire ; the sword which he held in his 
to appearance was about thirty feet long, the 
hilt of which was variously ornamented, it appeared 
of pure gold set with stones of various hues, the 
blade of which resembled fire ; and I cast up my 
eyes and beheld a bow in the cloud beautifully vari-
egated, much resembling a rainbow, incircling a 
constellation of sixteen stars, differently diversified, 
there being nine to the southerly part of the bow,of 
a most beautiful azure, in the centre of which ap-
peared an olive branch richly decorated with gold 
en buds, the seven to the north of a deep crimson, 
and all transparently brilliant, which afterwards 
separated, the nine of he azure fell to the south,and 
the seven of a crimson to the north, attended with 
a heavy rumbling in the air, like the rushing of 
many armies to battle ; at which I fell with my 
face to the ground, where I hey in a profound re-
verie for some time, at length I thought I heard an 
laudable voice articulate and say, all these are signs 
by which you shall know what is to befall the na-
tions now in these latter days. 
Woe unto the inhabitants of the land for their 
sins and ingratitude in wars and rumors of wars 
shall they abound, their fields shall be crimsoned 
with the blood of their own citizens, and nothing 
but lamentation and mourning shall be heard to 
echo through the lonely valley until all' the tares 
and brambles of the earth shall be plucked up, and 
demolished from the face thereof ; by the pestilence 
which walketh in darkness and by the sword which 
lays waste at noon-day, for there shall be such a 
destruction as shall greatly thin the inhabitants of 
earth, both by wars pestilence and famine, until 
there shall arise a Branch from the root of Jesse, 
which shall perform such remarkable wonders 
through the power of the almighty God as shall ef-
fectually convince the world of his divine authority, 
and shall cause eventually the remnant of all nations 
to be of one heart, one mind and one religion, when 
there shall be no more wars among mankind, who 
will ever after be in strictest bonds of mutual friend-
ehip,professing unfeigned love to God and one anoth-
er ; and the Jews and Gentiles shall coincide in sen-
timent and become one and indivisible, declaring 
Jesus Christ to be their only king and sovereign and 
as he ended proclaiming Father thy will be done on 
earth as in heaven, and may all the people say, 
Amen. . 
And as he spake these words I looked and beheld 
the sword which he held in his hand was transform-
ed into an olive branch, which grew and overspread 
the horizon under which a reflection of light presen-
ted to my view a long and spacious landscape cover-
er with an innumerable host of beings like unto the 
stars of heaven, worshipping and praising him who 
is king over all there ; the Lion lay down with the 
Lamb and the beast of the earth ; and the fowls o 
the air were mingled together in concert, and noth-
ing but love unalterable appeared among them, and 
as it ascended a voice proclaimed glory to God in 
the highest, peace on earth and good will to men, 
&c. 
At the echo of which I feel on my face in amaze-
nd terror. How long I continued so I cannot 
 
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Olden Time. 
I gaze upon the leafless branch, 
And sigh fur memories mine 
And think of days forever gone, 
To dwell with olden time. 
I gaze upon the stately oak 
W hose movements are sublime : 
With lofty head and waving top 
Think of the olden time. 
I gaze upon the little flower, 
NV ith wonder and surprise 
And ask to dwell there, for an hour 
With that beneath the skies. 
I gaze upon the rippling stream 
As it passeth by-and by-
And think, alas ! it is a dream 
Of lost, lost, olden time. 
I gaze upon the mighty deep 
Whose restless bosom flows-
Where gales, and crested waves, ne'er sleep, 
And wild winds ever blow. 
I gaze upon the pallid brow 
With heart-felt taith and shrine-
And ask the moments as they pass, 
It thou art olden time ; 
I gaze upon the moonlight sky 
With reverence, and awe-
W hose features cheer the passer by 
Neath concaves lighted dawn. 
I look upon earth's rustic form' 
With forest trees-and vine-
She rides along from night till morn 
Illumed by olden tiwe. 
I weep, beside the soldier's grave, 
While conflicts daily come 
And look around to see the brave 
Gone toiling from their homes. 
I look amid the battles' smoke, 
Yet fail to see the line 
But hark ! bath peace to us been spoke ? 
Is this like olden time ? 
J. S. Bless. 
Door Creek, Wis. 1862. 
From Bro. J. E. Hurd. 
Bito. Bless :-My weekly visitor the Herald, is 
ever a welcome guest. While some of its patrons 
have turned aside, the Herald,like an ocean steamer, 
is plowing its way through the rough billows of time 
to the post of rest. We want the truth in these last 
days of peril ; and when an error appears,we expect, 
and every honest man will want your opinion. Thus 
far we have had it, and we shall expect it in the fu-
ture. 
Bro. Thurber is laboring through this section,and 
his labors are blessed as usual. A good work is in 
progress under him at Foster's Mills,in Stanstead. A 
number have been reclaimed and some twenty rose 
fur prayers in one meeting. God speed the work, is 
my prayer. If there was more confessing, and less 
contention about death, sleep, &e., it would be bet-
ter for the cause of God. Brethren, let us seek for 
more humility, and the spirit of God, and not strive 
to see who shall be the greatest and know the most. 
Let us lay aside every weight and run the whole 
race to the end. 
Yours, looking for it. 
J. E. HURD. 
Barnston, C. E. Oct. 1862. 
GREAT AND SMALL RICHES.-Riches though well 
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Lying begets dishonor, disgrace, and in the end 
the gallows. 
OBITUARY. 
DEAR ; t 1. B ,LS3 :-Pleas3 publish, and you wil 
oblige friends. 
In MeNnougb, after a short but very severe sick-
ness, Alas. JANE M. BROWN departed this life Oct. 
24, aged 46 years,6,,months and 8 days. Her disease 
Was Typhoid, and of the most virulent character. 
Daring the few,days it took for death to do its work 
reason was dethroned ; a few lucid intervals were 
however permitted wherein she gave testimony of 
her faith and hope, saying, "God is my friend, and 
heaven is my home." In her paroxysm she would 
call on Bro. Chapman (she always being very ten-
derly attached to him as a wan of God). But she 
sleeps in Jesus, and friends are comforted with the 
assurance given,that "those who sleep in Jesus will 
God brin,g with him." 
Yours in Christ. 
REV. E. HoLROYD. 
3:59 k\ 
n Lowell, was relieved of pile which had afflicted him 
for many years, and remarked to a friend thatit was worth 
a hundred dollars a box for piles. 
Miss Harriet Morrill, of East Kingston, N. H., says : "I 
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last seven years I have been a great sufferer. And though 
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other kinds of salve. Yours is the best I ever saw. I 
have also used it for sprains and scratches on my horses. 
It cures them in a short time. I recommend it to all who 
keep cows or horses." 
From Dr. Geo. Pierce, Lowell : " Your Golden Salve is 
good. It will have a great sale." 
From Dr. W. S. Campbell, New Britain, Conn. : "Your 
Golden Salve is a great thing ior chilblains. I have also 
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friends who have been cured of scrofulous humors by the 
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and two and a half boxes of it wrought a perfect cure."-
Mrs. Lucinda A. Swain, Merideth Centre, N. H. 
Mr. H. L. W. Roberts, Editor of Marion Intelligencer, 
 
Marion, Ill., says, " Every person that uses the Golden 
Salve testifies favorably." He has also published a list of 
names in his paper, of persons cured of wounds, sores, hu-
mors, rheumatism, &c., and gives the public reference to 
them ; who, he says, are among the first citizens of the 
place. 
THE GOLDEN SALVE-A GREAT HEALING REMEDY.-It 
is with much pleasure we announce the advent of this new 
article in our city, which has met with such signal success 
in Lowell, where it is made, that the papers have teemed 
with cases of truly marvelous cures. They chronicle one 
where the life of a lady was recently saved-a case of bro-
ken breast ; another where the life of a child was saved-
a case of chafing ; another of a lady whose face was much 
disfigured by scrofulous humor, which was brought to a 
healthy action in a few days ; also another of an old man, 
who had a sore on his foot for twenty years-cured in a 
few weeks. Our citizens will not be slow in getting at it 
merits, and will herald it over the land.-Boston Herald. 
Boston, July 12, 1859. Bro. Whitten : I have usedyour 
Golden Salve in my family, and I am acquainted with a 
large number of families also who have used it ; and I 
have reason to believe that it is really what you recoils 
mend it to be. 
J. V. Huass. 
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I want good, reliable, persevering agents to canvass, in 
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For sale at this office. 
DANIEL CAMPBELL, 
GENERAL AGENT. 
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360 
THE ADVEN T HERALD. 
BJSTON, NOVEMBER 11, 1862. 
Bedtime. 
Before I close my eyes in sleep, 
Lord, hear my evening prayer; 
And deign a helpless child to keep 
With thy protecting care. 
Though young in years, I have been 
taught 
Thy name to love and fear, 
Of thee to think with solemn thought, 
Thy goodness to revere. 
That goodness gives each simple flower 
Its scent and beauty. too; 
And feeds it in night's darkest hour 
With heaven's refreshing dew. 
Nor will thy mercy less delight 
The infant's God to be; 
-Who, through the darkness of the 
night, 
For safety trusts to thee. 
The little birds that sing all day 
In many a leafy wood, 
By Thee are clothed in plumage gay, 
By Thee supplied with food. 
And when at night they come to sing, 
By thee protected still, 
Their young ones sleep beneath their 
wing, 
Secure from every ill. 
Thus mayest thou guard with gracious 
arm 
The conch whereon I lie, 
And keep a child from every harm 
By thy all-watchful care. 
For night and day to Thee are one; 
The helpless are thy care; 
And, for the sake of thy dear Son, 
Thou hearest an infant's prayer. 
The Spider—A Fable. 
Ernest had accompanied his father into 
the vineyards, which were rich with the 
promises of an abundant harvest. There 
he found a honey-bee struggling in the 
web of a spider, which had already open-
ed its fangs to seize upon its prey; but Er-
nest set the bee at liberty, and destroyed 
the spider. 
The lather, observing what had pass-
ed. inquired of his son how he could so 
lightly esteem the skill and ingenuity of 
the little artist, as to annihilate its work 
in a moment. 
"Didst thou not see," said the father, 
"with what beauty and order those slen-
der threads were interwoven ? How 
couldst thou, then, be at the very same 
moment so pitiful, and yet so hard-
hearted ?" 
The boy immediately excused himself, 
saying : 
"Is there not evil in the spider's art 
for it only tends to destruction, whereas the 
bee gathers honey and wax within its 
cell; so I freed the bee, and destroyed the 
spider." 
The father was pleased at this decis. 
ion of a simple child, who saw no beau-
ty in ingenuity, when its aim was destruc-
tion. 
"But," continued the father, ''perhaps 
you have been unjust towards the spider. 
See how it protects our ripening grapes 
from the flies and wasps, by means of the 
nets, which it weaves skillfully round the 
branches !" 
"Does it do so," asked the boy, "with 
the intention of protecting our grapes, or 
merely that it may satisfy its own thirst 
for blood P 
"Truly," replied his father, "it trou-
bles itself very little about protecting our 
grapes." 
"Oh !" said Ernest, "then the good it 
does cannot be worth much ; for I have 
heard you say that it is good will alone 
which can impart beauty or goodness even 
to useful actions." 
"Very true, my boy ; we may be thank 
ful, however, that in the course of nature, 
that which is evil often fosters what is 
good and useful, without intending to do 
so." 
"Wherefore," inquired Ernest, "does 
the spider sit so solitary in his web, 
whilst the bees live sociably together, and 
work in unison'? Why might not the spi-
ders, also, make one huge web, and use it 
in common?" 
"Dear child," answered the father, "a 
good object alone can secure friendly co-
operation. The bond of wickedness or 
selfishness contains within itself the sure 
and inevitab!e seeds of dissolution. Hence, 
therefore, wise nature never attempts 
that which men too often learn by their 
own experience to be vain and imprac-
ticable. 
On their way home, the father observed, 
"Nast thou not learned somewhat from the 
spider to-day, my boy? Remember that 
in this world good and evil go together; 
and that we may avoid error by seeking 
to do right. 
Prisons and Birds. 
It is very pleasant to have singing birds 
in our houses, and few people think that 
the little songsters might prefer the' open 
air and the woods to the confinement of 
the cage. But one who has been shut up 
in prison himself understands it, like the 
sailor in the following anecdote: 
Soon after the close of the long French 
war in Europe, a boy stood on one of the 
bridges. that cross the Thames at London 
with a number of small birds in a cage for 
sale. A sailor, who was passing, observ-
ed the little prisoners fluttering about the 
cage, peeping anxiously through the wires, 
and.manifesting their eager desire to regain 
their liberty. He stood for some time look-
ing at the birds apparently lost in thought. 
At length, addressing the boy, the sailor 
asked, 
"How much will you take for 
birds P 
"Sixpence apiece," was the reply. 
"I don't ask how much a piece," said 
the sailor; "how much for the lot ? I want 
to buy all hands." 
The boy made his calculations, and 
found they came to six shillings and six-
pence. 
"There is your money," said the sailor. 
handing out the cash, which the boy re-
ceived with evident satisfaction. No sooner 
was the bargain settled, than the sailor 
opened the cage door, and let all the birds 
fly away. 
The boy, veay much astonished, ex-
claimed, 
"What did you do that for, sic? You 
have lost all your birds." 
"I'll tell you," said the sailor, "why I 
• 
did it. 1 was shut up three years in a 
French prison as a prisoner of war. and I 
am resolved never to see anything in pris-
on that I can make free." 
READING THE SKY. 
"Come here, Patty," said Uncle Philip, 
"and come here, Peter. You have read 
your books, and now I will teach you how 
to read the sky." 
"When the sky is clear, it says, Love 
God;' when it is stormy it says, Fear 
God;' when it is lit up with the sun it says, 
`Praise God ;' and when one part is clear 
and shining, and another part cloudy, then 
it says, Love God, fear God, and praise 
God,' all at the same time." 
Little Patty said she would read the sky 
every day ; but Peter said if she did she 
would read it wrong. 
"Never mind that," said uncle Philip; 
"You cannot be much wrong while ;you 
love, or fear, or praise God." 
A CHILD S PRAYER. 
Lord, teach a little child to pray, 
Thy grace betimes impart, 
And grant thy Holy Spirit may 
Renew my infant heart; 
A sinful creature I was born, 
And from my birth have strayed ; 
I must be wretched and forlorn 
Without thy mercy's aid. 
But Christ can all my sins forgive, 
And wash away their stain, 
And -fit my soul with him to live, 
And in his kingdom reign. 
To Him let little children come, 
For He hash said they may ; 
His bosom then shall be their home, 
Their tears He'll wipe away. 
HOME MISSION. 
BROTHER BLISS:—I would acknowledge with 
gratitude the receipt of thirteenldollars from the 
church in Newburyport, towards the balance due 
me on Mission since my last report. About six dol-
lars now due. 
G. W. BL'RNHAM. 
Nov. 7, 1862. 
Wanted, 
By a small congregation of Adventists, a gospel 
preacher, who, alive to his calling, offers to the peo-
ple a present full and free salvation through repent-
ance and faith in Christ, who expects thus to 
acomplish much for the cause of God in the salva-
tion of men, who believes (and acts upon the prin-
cipal) that we have a cause worth sustaining with-
out definite time, who has no distracting questions 
he conceives to he of more importance than the 
great salvation and the speedy coming of its Author 
to judgment. A single man is rather preferable. 
Will any one at liberty address Herald office &c. 
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on Eighth St., between Third and Fourth Avenues. 
Preaching on the Sabbath, at 10 1-2 A. M. and 3 
P. M. The prayerful support and co-operation of 
all Christians is solicited. 
The P. C. Address of Eld. Geo. W Burnham is 
Newburypurt, Mass. 
The P. O. Address of Eld. 5, W. Thurber is 
Batley, Canada East. 
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2 00 
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 ..2.00 
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Edward Matthews, Middlebury, 0.... 
00 
Jos. F. Beckwith, Cleveland, Ohio. 
1 00 
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Miss 0. W. Allen, Johnson, Vt ....................1.25 
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Philadelphia, no name 
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0/1•MINE00111=1, 
BUSINESS NOTES. 
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"FEED MY LAMBS."—John 21:15. 
NOTICE. 
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