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VOLUME XIII. NO. 14 
Franchise of the Mew Jerusalem. 
KY THE REV. JOHN OUHWITG, IS D., ENG. 
" AND there shall in no wise enter into it [that 
is, the New Jerusalem], anything that defileth, 
neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or mak-
eth a lie : but they whicfh are written in the Lamb's 
book of life." 
(Rev. 21:27.) 
We have seen a few of the grand characteris-
tics of the apocalyptic New Jerusalem. 
We 
have traced such of its features as are contained 
in the twenty-first chapter, and are still to trace 
its more glorious features as they are embodied 
in the twenty-second. 
It is encouraging to see 
that, amidst the most glowing pictures, full of 
poetry and beauty, there are interspersed those 
great spiritual, moral, practical truths, which 
come home constantly to our hearts. The New 
Jerusalem must be tenanted by a new people : 
the new song must be sung by those in whom all 
things have been made new by the Holy Spirit of 
God. 
We have here in this passage the coun-
terpart of what was stated in the eighth verse: 
"But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abomi-
nable, and murderers, shall have their part in 
the lake which burneth with fire." " Anything 
that worketh abomination " might be rendered, 
" they who are guilty of idolatry," for the word 
" abomination " in Scripture, very often means 
" idolatry." 
On the other hand, those who 
shall enter the New Jerusalem, and be its in-
habitants, happy and holy for ever, are those 
whose names are written in the Lamb's book of 
life ; or, (as is further depicted in the thirteenth 
chapter,) " in the book of life of the Lamb plain 
from the foundation of the world." 
Now, without entering upon the special sins 
that are enumerated in this passage—sins, the 
nature and evil of which we can easily compre-
hend if we have only learnt to repudiate their 
contamination—I proceed to observe, first of all, 
there is here stated a disqualification for the 
New Jerusalem; and, secondly, a qualification 
for it. 
First, then, there are those who are dis-
franchised, and never can be citizens of that 
glorious city. 
These are, "The fearful, the 
unbelieving, the abominable, murderers, whore-
mongers, sorcerers, liars, and idolators." 
And 
secondly, there are those who are enfranchised 
and qualified citizens of the New Jerusalem ; 
and these are, " Those whose names are written 
in the Lamb's book of life." In noticing, first 
of all, the disqualification, let me call your at-
tention to this by no means unimportant fact, 
that this disqualification is in no respect or de-
gree circumstantial. 
It is not stated that the 
rich will be admitted and the poor excluded— 
that nobles shall be there and plebeians shall 
not. 
These are but circumstantial distinctions; 
and though when seen from the standing point of 
this world, they seem to be important, and look 
magnificent and real, yet when viewed at the 
right angle, and seen in the light of the New 
Jerusalem, they become so dim and insignificant 
that they are lost amid its splendors : they then 
and there disappear like straw-built huts, before 
the influx of that mighty tide which bears upon 
its bosom only the pure and holy, and repudiates 
all contact with " the fearful and unbelieving. 
In the second place, this disqualification is 
not denomimtional. 
It is not said that Church-
men mily will be there, and Dissenters excluded; 
nor is it said that Dissenters only will be there, 
and Churchmen excluded. 
Nor is it said that 
Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Baptists, Inde-
pendents, _orxWesleyans, are there, "or not there. 
These distinctions are also to a great degree cir-
cumstantial : they lie only on the surface : they 
look big only in the light of this world, and are 
magnified by the uncharitableness of our hearts. 
But in that better and brighter state, the name 
of Churchman or Dissenter will be utterly un-
known. 
Ecclesiastical distinctions, that have 
rent and torn society with their havoc, the great 
shibboleths that resounded on earth till they re-
verberated from sea to sea, will there be totally 
unknown or joyfully forgotten. The men who 
shall be excluded there are not Dissenters : the 
men who shall be admitted there are not Church-
men. 
These ecclesiastical distinctions shall be 
lost in the great first and last Name ; the name 
that was pronounced in scorn at Antioch, shall 
be that name which shall be sounded in the Ju-
bilee of the New Jerusalem ; and " Christ " and 
" Christians " shall be then all and in all. 
This disqualification is purely and entirely of 
a moral character. 
God looks within when he 
estimates a man, and not without. God does 
not look at what a man wears, or what he pre-
tends, or what he professes ; but his omniscient 
eye sends its penetrating glance into the very 
nooks and secret recesses of his heart; and as 
a man is and is seen to be in his hidden heart, 
so is he in the sight of God. 
Earthly distinc-
tions will not survive the death of the body. 
Moral and spiritual distinctions shall eternally 
outlive its decay, and all others shall be lost in 
the brightness and reality of these. 
Riches 
cause responsibility, and so does rank ; but nei-
ther of them constitute the qualification or dis-
qaulification under consideration. 
They who 
are excluded are they that are morally corrupt ; 
and they who are included (as we shall soon per-
ceive) are they that are morally pure. God judges 
of the tree by its fruits : the good tree is fitted 
to be transplanted to a more congenial soil: the 
bad tree however abundant its leaves, or the 
tree which bears the upas fruit of poison, can 
have no place in the second paradise, the garden 
of the Lord. 
The first remark which naturally 
occurs to us is—Why should moral deficiencies 
disqualify some for the New Jerusalem, and 
moral excellence qualify others ? Let me show 
how the immoral, such as idolators, liars, and 
all other classes of sinners recapitulated here, 
whose various sins are simply the fruits of in-
ward depravity, must necessarily be disqualified 
for admittance to the New Jerusalem. 
In the 
first place, sin is the seed of all the wretched-
ness that exists in hell. 
Hell is but that mono-
syllable — " sin," repeated, re-echoed, rever-
berated for ever. 
Sin is the seed that produces 
all the misery—is the germ of all the agony and 
woe of those whose doom is among the regions 
of the lost. 
And to retain that germ which 
necessarily extinguished happiness in the bosom, 
is thereby necessarily to be disqualified for that 
better, holier, and happier state, where happy-
hearts only will beat, and holy hearts only live. 
Sinners must be disqualified, in the next place, 
because they are unfit for the joys, the songs and 
sympathies of those who dwell in the New Jeru-
salem. The man whose partialities are all de-
praved—whose feelings and affections are of the 
earth, earthy — cannot sympathize with pure 
thought?, or take part in a holy choir, or unite 
in the anthem peal that rises from the company 
of the saints of God and the Lamb who sits upon 
the throne. 
How shall the idolater, the abomi-
uable, the sorcerer, and depraved, join in the 
beautiful hymn—" Thou art worthy to take the 
book and open the seals thereof; for thou wast 
slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, 
out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, 
and nation ?" 
How shall they whose hearts are 
all discord, and incapable of any perception or 
appreciation of holy harmony say, " Worthy is 
the Lamb that was slain, to receive power, and 
riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honor, 
and glory, and blessing?" 
The man who is un-
holy cannot join in this song. 
Such songs must 
be grating to his ear, they must only awaken 
agony in his heart. 
The moral character of 
such persons must be a moral disqualification, 
and thus unfit its subjects for singing the new 
song, or holding communion with, the inhabit-
ants of the New Jerusalem. 
Can a civilized 
European feel any delight in the conversation 
of a barbarian? 
Can the wild New Zealander 
and the cultivated Englishman have any inter-
change of sentiment that is satisfactory to the 
latter? 
We know it is impossible. 
There is 
in all the kingdoms of God a fitness between the 
place and the inhabitants: the New Jerusalem 
is suited for new men, and new men are adapted 
for the New Jerusalem. 
It is a prepared place 
for a prepared people; and unless we are so pre-
pared, we cannot constitute a portion of its ten-
antry. 
Again, it is a law obvious in earthly things— 
if earthly analogies may be admitted—that there 
must be an adaptation between the sphere for 
living and those who live in it. 
For instance, 
in this world, the eye of man is plainly fitted for 
the light. 
If light came with greater velocity 
than it does, man's eye could not bear it: if it 
were less than it is, it would not be sufficient. 
There is an obvious harmony between the natural 
eye and the light which streams from the sun, 
so exact, that it is evident the one must have 
been adjusted to the other. 
It is precisely so 
with the ear of man. 
It is made for our voice; 
and the voices of others are of that pitch and 
tone which exactly fits them for the ordinary ear 
that listens. 
If our voices were much more 
powerful than they are, they would pain the ear: 
were they less so, they would not be distinctly 
audible. 
There is thus an adaptation between 
our ear, and all the sounds and melodies and 
harmonies of the world around us. 
So much is 
this the fact, that if a man were lifted to another 
orb, where, as astronomers tell us, the air and 
composition of the planet are of a different den-
sity from that of this earth, he would require a 
different constitution and organization atogether 
to enable him to exist. 
This is not a mere con-
jecture, but a demonstrable truth,—that were 
we lifted to another world with our present 
senses of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and 
touch, just as they have been adapted to this 
planet, and with our present circulation, we 
could not live in it; the atmosphere would be 
too heavy, its density to great; our destruction 
would be inevitable : our whole apparatus of 
physical sense and organization must be altered, 
ere we could be inhabitants of Jupiter, Saturn, 
the Moon, or any other planet. 
What holds true in physical nature does so 
also in spiritual things. 
There must be a fitness 
for the scene of the millennial joys—a change 
of heart, state, and character. 
We are to enter 
a new world, to breathe a new'atmosphere, to 
hear new sounds, to come in contact with new 
objects, to behold intenser splendors, and brighter 
visions of joy and glory ; and we must be fitted 
for it by the Spirit of God, before we can en-
ter or enjoy its happiness, or sing its songs, or 
breathe its air, or gaze upon its glories. 
There-
fore the analogies we have before us show, that 
our spiritual nature must be changed, or we 
shall be disqualified for inhabiting the New Je-
rusalem. 
But some, perhaps, will say, " Does not death 
effect this change ? If we be not fit now, will 
not death make us fit?" My dear brethren, 
there can be no greater misconception than this. 
Death will not operate any change in the spir-
itual and moral character of him who is its sub-
ject. 
Death transfers—it does not transform 
the soul. 
It presents a man before God just as 
he dies: it does not present him before God dif-
ferent from what it finds him. 
In other words, 
death does not form a new character, it merely 
fixes that which we have acquired upon earth. 
Do not, therefore, deceive yourselves with the 
delusion—for it is a gross delusion—that death 
will transform you, as by a magical touch, into 
the likeness of God. 
As you are when death 
visits you in time, so will you be when you ap-
pear before God in eternity. 
If.death finds you 
unsanctified—with hearts the scenes of corrupt 
and conflicting passions, full of avarice, lust, 
evil, wickedness, then all that death does is to 
usher you, so furnished, into the presence of 
your final Judge; and the sentence of that Judge 
will be, " He that is unjust let him be unjust 
still, and he that is unholy let him be unholy 
still." 
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Our character becomes here what it will for 
ever be. 
"It is a solemn thing to die," it has 
been well said: it is a more solemn thing to 
live. Temporal hues stamp on us an eternal 
cast: things that perish as they pass leave an 
eternal impress upon us behind them. 
It is 
said that not a cloud passes over this green earth 
which does not operate some change on its face. 
Not an event we have heard of—not a company 
we mix with—not a book we read—not a ser-
mon we hear, fails to leave on you an influence 
that shall become only more clear, vivid, and 
legible. 
This world is but the preparation for 
that which is to come—the spring-time of eter-
nity—the seed-time of the future harvest. 
As 
you sow now, so shall you reap for ever. 
Child-
hood is the discipline for boyhood—boyhood, 
the preparation for manhood—man's life does 
not close here: it is only a preparation for the 
world to come. 
Mind is then and there stereo-
typed—character is then made a fixture: and as 
a man is found at his decease, so will he either 
be found disqualified for that citizenship, or, 
what is unspeakably blessed, qualified and fitted 
for it by God's Holy Spirit. 
We have in the 
Levitical economy this disqualification symbol-
ized. 
The priest pronounced the leper to be un-
clean, and then he was excluded from the camp 
for ever. 
This was a typical exclusion for a 
typical disease, teaching a moral exclusion from 
that moral and spiritual economy shadowed forth 
by the New Jerusalem. 
Again, the same dis-
qualification is pointed to by the ancient proph-
ets. 
Isaiah says, " It shall be called the way 
of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it;" 
and inferring again to this epoch, it is said— 
" Awake, awake ; put on thy strength, 0 Zion; 
put on thy beautiful garments, 0 Jerusalem, the 
holy city: for henceforth there shall no more 
come into thee the uncircumcised and the un-
clean." 
Our Lord himself points to the same 
disqualification when he says, " The Son of man 
shall send forth his angels, and they shall gath-
er out of his kingdom all things that offend, and 
them which do iniquity." 
And in the Epistle 
to the Galatians the apostle tells us what are 
the grounds of disqualification from the kingdom 
of God. 
He says : " Adultery, fornication, un-
cleanness, laciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, ha-
tred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, sedi-
tions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, 
revellings, and such like : of the which I tell 
you before, as I have also told you in times 
past, that they which do such things shall not in-
herit the kingdom of God." 
We thus see, then, 
that depraved or unsanctified character is the 
only disqualification : nothing else can unfit for 
a residence in the New Jerusalem; this alone is 
ruin—this alone is indestructible — character, 
good or bad, is immortal. 
If you are disquali-
fied, it is not God who has taken your title or 
your fitness from you : you have done it your-
selves. God invites you to accept the glorious 
franchise; he offers you the price of entrance to 
the New Jerusalem—he offers you the Saviour's 
sacrifice and righteousness, and tells you that if 
you do perish, it is simply because you will not 
accept that which alone is the ground of your 
acceptance. 
Having looked at the disqualifications, and 
seen how scriptural and natural—how coinci-
dent with all analogy'they are, let us now turn 
to the more gratifying side of the picture—the 
obverse of the medal—and examine the franchise 
for the New Jerusalem. 
It is said, they are qualified whose names 
are recorded "in the Lamb's book of life." 
Who are they? 
Has any one pierced the sky, 
and perused the pages of that mysterious vol-
ume ? Has any one obtained a transcript, or 
published an earthly edition of that book ? Has 
any one been shown how we may read, or the 
process by which we can decipher, its heretofore 
hidden hieroglyphics ? Did Paul, when he was 
caught up into the third heavens, peruse it ? 
Can any one expound its contents, or publish 
one chapter of the mysterious record ? 
No; 
none are able to do this. 
We know not whose 
names are registered upon its pages ; and it is 
well we do not. 
We know not who are predes-
tined to everlasting life, nor can we pronounce 
who are chosen in Christ before the founda-
tion of the world. 
We cannot decipher its chap-
ters. 
It is folly to attempt it. 
It is mere pre-
tense to say that we have heard even the echo of 
the utterance of our names read from it; and 
that man deceives himself, or may deceive him-
self, who says, " I am one of the elect, and 
therefore shall never fall;" for he has not had 
the privilege accorded him, which is denied to 
all others, of reading the names enrolled in the 
Lamb's book of life. Then how shall we ascer-
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
tain who they are who are thus qualified ? 
I 
answer, In this way. 
The book of revelation 
below is all but a re-print of the Lamb's book 
of life above. 
God's written book is the nearest 
the transcript of his unseen book. 
The differ-
ence only lies here 1 The Lamb's book of life 
contains the names of the saved; the book of 
revelation contains the character of the saved. 
And if you find your character corresponds with 
the character of the redeemed, as stereotyped in 
the Bible, you may rise from a knowledge of 
God's book without, to a knowledge of thatw&A-
in ; and conclude that your name too is entered 
in the Lamb's book of life, because your char-
acter is legible as that of the saved in the book 
of revelation. 
If you can trace your character 
here, you need not doubt that your name is there: 
if you can catch the echo, no doubt you will 
hear the original. 
If you are amongst those 
who are described as the heirs of the kingdom 
of God, you need not scruple, resting on these 
clear, incontrovertible premises, to believe that 
your name will be pronouuced before the assem-
bled universe, and by Him whose pronunciation 
of it is to communicate to it a music which 
tongue cannot tell, nor hath it ever entered into 
the heart of man to conceive. 
Thus, therefore, 
we may come to a right conclusion as to those 
who are in the Lamb's book of life, and who are 
not there. 
(To be continued.) 
The Tyrant's Doom. 
PROM Engedi they divided, Saul to the court, 
David to the desert. 
Now Samuel is no more, and Israel mourns 
the pilot of a hundred storms through more 
than half a century—the storms of Israel's 
equinox, between the republic and the monar-
chy. 
For Israel, he has lived and labored fourscore 
years, with absorbing devotion. 
But ah! the 
blood of the house of Ithamar is scarce done 
smoking upon the gory mountains by Jebusi; 
the ark lies sequestered at Kirjath-Jearim ; the 
anointed heir of the kingdom is a refugee in the 
desert, and the tyrant king driving madly on to 
the battle-field of gloomy Gilboa. 
At such a lowering moment, the pilot is sud 
denly stricken from the deck, and the ship aban 
doned, apparently, to the tempest. 
Yet Samuel may meet his hour without a 
tremor. 
Out of the present chaos, he knows full well, 
a new and majestic development shall spring. 
Its foundations are laid, the grand outlines ad-
justed, and his mature directions, in writing, 
have been deposited with David. 
His work is done; and, seeing the promise 
afar off, confessing himself a foreigner and pil-
grim, seeking his fatherland, he falls asleep. 
His dying eye is lit with the splendors of a 
city which hath foundations : no earthly city— 
no Jerusalem below. 
Moriah is yet the thresh-
ing-floor of the idolater ; and Zion the fortress 
of the worshippers of fire. But to a heavenly 
fatherland, to Jerusalem above, mother of us 
all, is his dying gaze directed, in the sublime 
faith of a glorious resurrection. 
And well may 
we imagine we hear his dying lips murmur 
faintly the accents of a lay of David's lyre : 
" As for me, I will behold thy face in righteous-
ness ; 
I shall be satisfied, when I awake, in thy likeness.' 
Meanwhile, David, enriched by marriage with 
Abigail, after a second meeting with Saul, like 
that in Engedi, visits, with increased retinue 
the court of Gath; and receives from Achish 
the city of Ziklag. 
A year and a half he turned his arms against 
the southern part of Philistia and Amalek. 
In 
this, he did not, as some represent, return evil 
for good ; for these districts were separate from 
the principality of Achish. 
Still, in allowing Achish to believe that he 
was fighting against Israel, David was guilty of 
a dereliction of truth, which the custom of his 
times, and the morality of war. may account 
for, but not excuse. 
The conscience of the 
world had not, in his day, been quickened as it 
has since been by the Bible, to perceive that it 
is wrong to lie, even for a good end. 
David 
then sinned, but did not probably suppose him 
self to be sinning. 
And now the storm of war, long gathering be-
tween Israel and Philistia, bursts. 
The Philis-
tine host moves northward into the heart of Pal 
estine, and pitches in Shunem, on the great Es* 
draelon plain. 
David, happily rejected by the 
jealousy of the five lords, returns to avenge the 
sack of Ziklag, while Saul encamps on Mount 
Gilboa. 
No longer Saul the dauntless, of earlier, better 
days; but Saul the foreboding, despairing, rush 
ing on his fate. In the first stages of his transgres 
sion, it had been said to him by Samuel: 
" Disobedience is as the sin of witchcraft 
Little as he dreamed it, there was in that diso 
bedient frame of mind, the germ of what would 
be capable of witchcraft, or any other catpial 
crime under the divine law. 
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In the earlier periods of his reign, he had 
shown zeal for that law, by exterminating those 
that dealt wifti familiar spirits, 
But now, the true 
ORACLE is silent. 
God 
answers him no more; neither by dreams, nor 
by Urim, nor by prophets. 
Hence, the final 
development of apostasy. 
Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, 
that I may go to her, and inquire of her." 
Behold," answer the ready courtiers, " there 
is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at EN-
DOR." 
Thither, by night, in the gloomy glens of the 
mountains of Issachar, the muffled monarch has-
tens stealthily. 
I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar 
spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name 
unto thee!" 
Behold," answers the Pythoness, " thou 
knowest what Saul hath done," (the monarch 
starts,) " wherefore, then, layest thou a snare 
for my life ?" 
As the Lord liveth, there shall no punish-
ment happen unto thee for this thing," he re-
plies. 
" Whom shall I bring up unto thee?" 
" Bring me up Samuel!" 
And there is silence through that dusky cav-
ern. 
That silence is broken by a shriek. . With 
the shadowy spectre has come the clear vision of 
her guest's true dignity. 
Why hast thou deceived me?" she cries, 
gazing in terror upon the dreaded exterminator 
of her class ; " for thou art SAUL !" 
" Be not afraid !" exclaims the king, trem-
bling with uncontrollable eagerness. 
" What 
sawest thou 
I saw the Elohim, ascending out of the 
earth!" 
What form is he of?" 
An old man cometh up, and he is clothed 
with a mantle." 
And Saul perceived that it was Samuel. Him-
self partially a seer, and thrown, in repeated in-
stances, into the abnormal state, he now becomes 
capable of the higher vision. 
" Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me 
up ?" demands Samuel. 
I am sore distressed; for the Philistines 
make war upon me, and God is departed from 
me, and answereth me no more, neither by proph-
ets, nor by dreams; therefore, I have called thee, 
that thou mayest make known unto me what I 
shall do!" 
And wherefore," answers the shade, " dost 
thou ask of me, seeing the Lord is departed from 
thee, and is become thine enemy ?" 
And the 
dread messenger goes on to announce his impend-
ing doom, closing with the fatal words : 
" To-morrow shalt thou, and thy sons, be with 
me!" 
And, as if smitten by lightning, the king falls 
dead, in appearance, on the earth. 
Nor was it bjit by the combined exertions of 
the priestess and the royal escort, that the un-
happy sovereign was forced to rise, and eat food 
—which he had not tasted for twenty-four hours. 
From Gilboa's height he leads that army, 
which has been his pride: but it is to see it 
broken and routed. 
And, as the rush and shock 
of battle comes on—as he sees his bravest falling 
or flying—as before his eyes child after child falls 
dead, and at length Jonathan, the heir, lies bleed-
ing and gasping—as he finds himself sore wound-
ed of the archers, and hears the shouts of the 
pursuers on his track, the darkness of despair 
closes over his soul. 
"Draw thy sword, and 
thrust me through !" he cries to his armor-bearer, 
But the faithful page refuses, shuddering. 
As a last resort, placing the hilt of his sword 
on the earth, he casts himself upon its glittering 
point; and the tragedy is ended. 
The course of development is complete. Diso-
bedience and suicide are but the extremes of one 
single act of apostasy from God. 
And Saul and Samuel were together. Samuel 
the prophet; Saul the suicide. 
Samuel's body lay embalmed where Israel had 
deposited it: Saul's corse lay stark and stiff on 
Gilboa's gory height, or hung, a ghastly trophy 
nailed on the walls of Beth-Shan. 
But their 
spirits met, and Samuel's word was fulfilled 
" To-morrow thou and thy sons shall be 
WITH 
ME." 
N. Y. IND 
Phrenology. 
THE following communication from the Chris 
tian Advocate and Journal, exhibiting the rank 
infidelity of one of the most famous advocates of 
phrenology, who bases his infidelity on his phre 
nology, should be read as a warning by those 
who may be exposed to his teachings. 
We have 
long regarded the influence of his writings and 
lectures as destructive to religious faith as far as 
it goes. 
MR. EDITOR :—As the subject of Phrenology 
is still attracting its share of attention among 
the " reforms " of the day; and as works upon 
that subject are advertised in the columns of our 
Church papers, allow me to present your readers 
with a few extracts from a late phrenological 
Work. And to make the bearing of these ex-
tracts upon different cardinal doctrines of the 
gospel more obvious, 1 will classify them under 
their appropriate heads. 
PHRENOLOGY A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE 
BIBLE. 
" Phrenology must and will prevail. 
It is 
demonstrable science. 
If even the Bible could 
be found to clash with it, then would the Bible 
go by the board. 
Nothing could save it."— 
Fowler on Religion, p. 8. 
" If experiment—continued for four thousand 
years, and tried in all ages, and by a vast ma-
jority of Christendom—can prove anything, that 
experiment, or rather its total failure, and that, 
too, under all circumstances, has proved incon-
testibly that, taking man as he is, and the Bible 
as it is, the latter is not and never can be the 
all-sufficient religious guide of the former."—lb. 
pp. 19, 20. 
" How shall we know what is right and what 
wrong ? By what standard shall we try our 
creeds and all our practices ? By the standard 
of the nature of man. 
That nature is all right 
—is perfection itself—as perfect as God could 
make it. 
Hence, to follow that nature or belief 
in practice is to believe right, to do right."—Ib. 
43. 
" Phrenology can tell us all that a man can 
know as to what is right and wrong, good or 
bad, sinful and holy; all that can be known of 
duty, penitence, and of pardon j all that can be 
known of the times, places, and modes of wor-
ship ; all that can be known, all that is, con-
cerning its frequency, its character, and its ef-
fects."—^. p. 32. 
MAN NATURALLY GOOD. 
" Nor is there any danger that man will ever 
be less religious than he now is and always has 
been." 
"lie cannot be otherwise than moral 
and religious."—Ib. pp. 15, 20. 
PHRENOLOGISTS 
NEED NO 
SAVIOUR. 
" If man will but fulfil all the precepts and 
obey all the requirements of his original nature 
—of Phrenology—the fall and all its effects 
will pass by him. 
He will need no Saviour, for 
he will commit no sin."—Ib. p. 25. 
PUBLIC WORSHIP IS 
UNNECESSARY. 
" Man, worship thy God; worship daily, wor-
ship habitually; worship not by fits and starts, 
but continually." " Phrenology says thou may-
est go to church if thou pleasest, or not if thou 
objectest." 
THE SABBATH IS LIKE ANY OTHER 
DAY. 
It is lawful to walk abroad in the field on 
the Sabbath, enjoy the fresh breezes, and pick 
and eat fruit, and what we like." " This shutting 
ourselves up indoors is positively wrong. 
It is 
right to exercise, recreate, pick flowers and 
fruits, enjoy nature, enjoy life." 
" If you do not follow the world too closely 
during six days, you will not feel the necessity 
of resting on the seventh, but will be the better 
for not resting. 
Live as you ought during the 
week, and you will require to live just the same 
on the Sabbath."—lb. 177, 178. 
PRAYER IS OF NO 
AVAIL. 
" The whole universe, God himself included, 
is governed by immutable, unalterable laws ; 
that causes and effects reign supreme, and allow 
not the least chance for prayer to effect the least 
change in effects, because it cannot change their 
causes. 
And to suppose that human entreaties 
can change the mind, the will, the eternal pur-
pose of the Almighty is utter folly, is downright 
blasphemy." 
Such is the religion of Phrenology! 
And 
here you years since predicted it would land 
when it first came forth as a " science." 
And 
yet the author of the above work has " lectured " 
in not a few Methodist churches during the last 
three years, and his works are found in hundreds 
of Methodist families ! To me, such facts are 
alarming. 
" If the foundations be destroyed 
what can the righteous do ?" 
"If things are to 
go on at this rate much longer, what is to become 
of our youth—our country ? And yet, as a late 
writer has well said, while such combination 
are forming against our holy religion, some of 
the titled dignitaries of the land are making 
apologies, in one way and another, for all these 
abominations. 
" Who will rise up with 
against the wicked?" 
our hearts than we are able to do ? If our hands 
did never offer violence to our brethren, a bloody 
thought doth prove us murderers before them : 
if we had never opened our mouths to utter any 
scandalous, offensive, or hurtful word, the cry of 
our secret cogitations is heard in the ears of God. 
If we did not commit the evils which we do daily 
and hourly, either in deeds, words or thoughts, 
yet in the good things which we do how many 
defects are there intermingled? 
God, in that 
which is done, respecteth especially the mind and 
intention of the doer. Cut off, then, all those 
things wherein we have regarded our own glory, 
those which we do to please men or to satisfy 
our own liking, those things which we do with 
any by respect, not sincerely and purely for the 
love of God, and a small score will serve for the 
number of our righteous deeds. 
Let the holiest 
and best thing we do be considered. 
We are 
never better affected unto- God than when we 
pray ; yet, when we pray, how are our affections 
many times distracted! 
How little reverence 
do we show to the grand majesty of that God 
unto whom we speak ! How little taste of the 
sweet influence of his tender mercies do we feel! 
Are we not as unwilling many times to begin, 
and as glad to make an end, as if God, in say-
ing, " call upon me," had set us a very burden-
some task ? 
. 
llouker. 
Imperfection of Human Righteous 
ness. 
THE enemy that waiteth for all occasions to 
work our ruin hath ever found it harder to over-
throw an humble sinner than a proud saint. 
There is no man's case so dangerous as his whom 
Satan hath persuaded that his own righteousness 
shall present him pure and blameless in the sight 
of God. 
If we could say, " we are not guilty 
of anything at all in our consciences," (we know 
ourselves far from this innocency! we cannot 
say, we know nothing by ourselves, but if we 
could,) should we therefore plead not guilty in 
the presence of our Judge, that sees further into 
The "Know-Nothings." 
A SOCIETY of this name, has made its appear-
ance within a few months, with ramifications in 
various large cities. 
Its design is to effect elec-
tions. Sometimes a candidate is elected by them, 
who, before the voting commenced, was not 
known to be a candidate. 
At a late election in 
Salem they elected a mayor, who did not himself 
previously know that he was a candidate—elect-
ing him over all the known candidates 
He 
wisely concluded that he did not know enough 
for the office, and declined its acceptance. 
The New Orleans Delta gives the following 
expose of the organization and object of this 
society: 
The objects of the 'Know-Nothings,' are 
twofold—part religious, part political; and the 
ends aimed at, the disfranchisement of adopted 
citizens, and their exclusion from office, and per-
petual war upon the Catholic religion. 
With 
these cardinal principles, the qualifications for 
membership and brotherhood are easily deter-
mined. 
1. The applicant for admission to a ' wig-
wam ' must be a native born citizen, of naivet 
born parents, and not of the Catholic religion. 
" 2. To renounce all previously entertained 
political leanings, and co-operate exclusively 
with the new order. 
3. To hold neither political, civil, nor-reli-
gious intercourse with any person who is a Catho-
lic ; but, on the contrary, to use all available 
means to abolish the political and religious 
privileges he may at present enjoy. 
4. That he will not vote lor any man for 
office who is not a native citizen of the United 
States, or who may be disposed, if elected, to 
place any foreigner or Catholic in any office of 
emolument or trust—the latter not being, in the 
opinion of ' Know-Nothings,' a ' credible wit-
ness ' in any case save where the oath is admin-
istered by his priest. 
" The ' pass words ' and ' signs ' for admission 
into the ' wigwam ' of the ' Know-Nothings ' are 
as follows : The applicant raps at the outer door 
an indefinite number of times, asking at the close, 
in a low, whispering voice, 4 What meets here 
to-day ?' (or night, as the case may be.) 
The in-
terrogated immediately replies, ' I don't1 know.' 
To which the applicant for admission responds, 
' I am one,' and forthwith is admitted to a second 
door, at which he gives four distinct raps, when 
the door being opened, he whispers to his attend-
ant, ' thirteen,' and then advances into the body 
of the lodge. 
If disposed to leave before the adjournment 
of the lodge, the member leaving salutes the 
President, then the Vice President, by first plac-
ing his right hand on his heart, then letting it 
fall to his side, whispering to the Guardian as 
he retires • thirteen.' 
If a member requires the assistance of a brother 
when mixing promiscuously with the public, he 
places the right forefinger upon the left eyebrow, 
as if in the act of scratching, looking directly at 
the person whose attention he desires to attract, 
when, if the person be a member, he is bound to , 
respond immediately by a similar sign. 
If it be 
desired to know of a stranger whether he is of 
the initiated, on shaking hands with him the 
middle finger is placed upon the lower joint of 
his finger next the wrist, with a gentle pressure; 
when, if he be a member, he will ask, ' Where 
did you get that ?' to which he will rejoin, ' I 
don't know;' and the querist will end by reply-
ing, 41 don't know either.' 
Nothing concerning the association is to be 
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committed to writing or published, and the most 
profound silence and secresy are to be observed 
by every ' Know-Nothing ' outside; but every-
thing inside the wigwam is imparted indiscrimi-
nately to members. 
"Every member, on admission, swears by hold-
intr up his right hand, and pledges himself to do 
all in his power to put down foreign influence, 
and particularly the Catholic religion, and in 
no case to vote for any person for any office who 
is not a ' native American citizen ;' and no one, 
with some exceptions, is eligible to membership, 
unless he and both of his parents are native 
born. 
" There are several lodges, or wigwams, at 
this time open—one, presided over by a Mr. 
H—-ty, assembles in a room in the Mechanics' 
Institute; and another holds its meetings at No. 
9 New Basin. 
There are three degrees to be 
taken by members; between each, intervals of 
three weeks must occur. 
" The New York Missionary who came here to 
organize the ' Know-Nothings,' is styled' Judge 
Advocate,' and he is charged with like duties in 
every other city in this section. 
" As no records are kept, or publications made 
by the Association, the plan of notifying mem-
bers of any emergency requiring their speedy as-
sembling is by scattering small square pieces of 
white paper over the banquettes and public 
thoroughfares, and by nailing them to posts, 
doors, or other places accessible to the public." 
(For the Herald.) 
Passing Away. 
THE flower that blooms so bright and fair, 
And scents the soft and balmy air, 
Is hastening to decay; 
We mark its bright and dazzling hues 
All sparkling in the morning dews, 
And, it has passed away. 
Youth has its wild enchanting dreams 
Of future days and future scenes, 
All decked in fine array; 
But oh! they wither in an hour, 
And like the fair and fragile flower, 
They too have passed away. 
Friendship and love with air divine, 
Their sacred tendrils closely twine 
Around the heart to-day; 
But let the frowns of fortune come, 
And ere to-morrow's setting sun, 
They too may pass away. 
The truest heart, the fondest friend, 
Whose love could never, never end, 
Bows to death's ruthless sway; 
We give one long, one last embrace, 
With tears bedew the pallid face, 
And they have passed away. 
Then is there nothing firm and sure, 
Oh ! is there nothing to endure 
When earthly things decay ? 
Yes, faith with bright and beaming eye, 
Behold's celestial glories nigh, 
Which ne'er can pass away. 
Deprived of all her griefs and fears, 
She looks beyond this " vale of tears," 
To an eternal day,— 
And with a shout of joy and love, 
She points to happiness above, 
Which ne'er will pass away. 
She sees the great millennium dawn, 
Beholds it swiftly hastening on, 
And hails the glorious day; 
With joy she spreads her shining wings, 
And bids adieu to earthly things, 
' 
That quickly pass away. 
On Pisgah's tops she takes her stand, 
And'there surveys " the promised land," 
Where heavenly zephyrs stray; 
And in a firm and cheerful tone, 
She calls that blissful land her home, 
Which ne'er can pass away. 
She sees the monster death restore 
The cherished forms she loved before, 
Now clad in bright array ; 
And freed from every earthly stain, 
She greets those darling ones again, 
Who ne'er will pass away. 
But brightest in that glorious place, 
She views her Saviour's dazzling face, 
Where smiles divinely play; 
O'ercome by love and by his charms, 
She rushes to his outstretched arms, 
Ne'er to be torn away. 
She hears ten thousand voices ring 
Eternal praises to their Ivino-, 
In an immortal lay ; 
She joins the bright and glittering throng, 
And swells with them the heavenly song," 
Which ne'er will die away. 
Then how can earth's deceitful smile, 
The steadfast Christian's soul beguile, 
Or lead his steps astray ? 
His eyes are raised from earth afar, 
And fixed upon the " morning star," 
Which ne'er will fade away. 
And though the night be dark and drear, 
And all he loves or prizes here, 
Are hastening to decay ; 
By faith he views that steady light, 
Till faith be swallowed up in sight, 
And death shall pass away. 
II. M. J. 
. Varieties. 
A REMARKABLE MAN. 
THE London correspondent of the Western 
Christian Advocate makes the following interest-
ing statement respecting an eminently holy and 
indefatigable servant of Christ: 
John Hunt was, taking him for all in all, the 
most remarkable man in the Methodist ministry. 
A singularly stupid plowboy, who could scarcely 
be intrusted with such simple errands as are 
usually performed by plowboys, he might be 
seen sitting on the gate of a field, staring into 
vacuity. 
All at once, when the love of God 
touched his heart, the powers of a noble, dor-
mant intellect were aroused. He quickly learned 
to read and write, began to preach, and was re-
commended as a candidate for the ministry. 
When he came up to London for examination, 
every one said, "He is too raw; he must go 
home again," except Dr. Hanna, who begged to 
take bim on trial at the theological institution; 
"for (said the doctor) I believe there is some-
thing in him." 
He was right. 
John Hunt com-
menced a course of theological study; corrected 
his barbarous dialect; studied the Greek Testa-
ment on his knees, with prayers and tears; 
preached with amazing zeal and power; offered 
himself as a missionary to the Feejee Islands, 
then sunk in cannibalism: proved himself a su-
perior linguist; reduced the barbarous jargon of 
those islands to a gramaticalform; turned thou-
sands from darkness to light, and expired crying, 
" 0 that I could run up to the top of Yewa hill, 
and fill the whole island with a shout of glory J" 
A DISCOURSE ON WEARING JEWELRY. 
Rings, from one to four on each finger—ear-
rings large and showy—necklaces, two or three 
in number, with hearts and crosses dependent 
from the same—bracelets, many and huge, cas-
ing the arms half way to the elbow—a minute 
watch affixed to the waist, and moored to the 
neck with a golden cable, four times as long and 
thick as it need be—% world of little knicknacks 
called " charms," heavy, inelegant, and stupid 
—a boquet handle, worn at the side like a hunts-
man's horn—pins, brooches, miniatures—and all 
worn at once ! 
Does the unsophisticated reader 
doubt it ? Let him hie to any second-rate water-
ing-place, and he will perceive many a jeweler's 
shop strolling about, of which the above is an 
imperfect inventory. 
Indulging to an excess in 
jewelry-wearing, and especially the wearing of 
sham or borrowed jewelry, indicates a weakness 
of intellectual and moral character, which is ex-
ceedingly hurtful. 
Home Journal. 
LISTENING TO EVIL REPORTS. 
The longer 1 live, the more I feel the import-
ance of adhering to the rule which 1 have laid 
down for myself in relation to such matters : 
1. To hear as little as possible of whatever is 
to the prejudice of others. 
2. To believe noth-
ing of the kind till I am compelled to do it. 
3. 
Never to drink into the spirit of one who circu-
lates an ill report. 
4. Always to moderate, as 
far as I can, the unkindness which is expressed 
towards others. 
5. Always to believe that, if 
the other side were heard, a very different account 
would be given of the matter. 
Life of Simeon. 
CONFIDENCE IN GOD. 
A creature so feeble and so ignorant as man 
cannot afford in thought even, much less in real-
ity, to dispense with the care of a being so pow-
erful and so wise as God. 
Confidence in God is 
not a mere sentiment creeping into the heart at 
the expense of reason; it is oue of the subjective 
necessities of our existence, morally forced upon 
us by the limitation of our knowledge. 
The 
limitation is real, immaterial what may be a 
man's creed—as real to the atheist as to the 
Christian. 
To deny and disown his providence, 
makes no man a prophet. 
It takes away from 
the soul the comfort of hope, by removing from 
its vision the compensation for its own ignorance. 
THE SERVANT OF CHRIST. 
The following sketch of a sermon, preached 
some years since, by the Rev. Dr. Wardlaw, of 
Glasgow, who has recently departed to his rest, 
will furnish materials for thinking : 
" Ye serve the Lord Christ." Col. 3:24. 
If you really serve the Lord Jesus Christ: 
I. Thvwill of Christ will be your rule, 
II. The love of Christ will be your principle. 
III. The glory of Christ will be your end. 
IV. The example of Christ will be your pat-
tern. 
Y. The grace of Christ will be your confi-
dence ; and, 
VI. The approbation of Christ will be your 
aim. 
ACTIONS, looks, words, steps, form the alpha-
bet by which you may spell characters; some 
are mere letters, some contain entire words, lines 
whole pages, which at once decipher the life of 
a man. 
Some such genuine uninterrupted page 
may be your key to all the rest; but first be 
certain that he wrote it all alone, and without 
thinking of the publisher or reader. 
THE whole channel of the Mediterranean must 
be strewed with human bones. 
Carthagenians, 
Syrians, Sidonians, Egyptians, Persians, Greeks, 
and Romans—there they lie, side by side, be-
neath the eternal waters; and the modern ship 
that fetches freight from Alexandria, sails in its 
whole course over buried nations. 
The man who returns good for evil, is as a 
tree which renders its shade and fruit even to 
those who cast stones at it. 
" CHRIST IS MINE." 
Many of our readers must have heard of the 
gentleman who took a friend to the roof of his 
house to show him the extent of his possessions. 
Waving his hand about, " There," said he, " is 
my estate." 
Pointing to a great distance on one 
side, "Do you see that farm? Well, that is 
mine." 
Pointing again on the other side, " Do 
you see that house ? That also belongs to me." 
In turn his friend asked, " Do you see that little 
village out yonder? 
Well, there lives a poor 
woman in that village who can say more than all 
this." 
" Ah ! what can she say ?" 
" Why she 
can say, CHRIST IS MINE !" 
Indeed, she was the 
richer of the two. 
FEELING. 
Feeling is one thing; obedience is another. 
This counterfeit virtue or moral goodness, which 
begins and terminates in feeling, is far more 
common than true virtue or holiness. 
Who can 
reflect, for instance, on the infinite goodness of 
God, without an emotion or feeling of love ? 
That man must indeed be uncommonly hard-
hearted and sullen, who can walk out on a fine 
day and behold the wonderful exhibitions of the 
divine goodness on all sides around him, without 
being warmed into a feeling of admiration and 
love. 
MAN'S WISDOM. 
When the Jesuits visited China, they studi-
ously concealed the crucifixion, imagining that 
it would shock the people of the country to hear 
that the God whom the Christians preached, suf-
fered an ignominious death. 
This was man's 
wisdom, and it ended, as it will always do, in 
man's defeat. This mission was sent out of 
China. 
THE HOLT SPIRIT. 
If we influence each other, one man's spirit 
another man's spirit, why should it be deemed 
preposterous to suppose God's Spirit working in 
our hearts. 
Cannot he do what we do every day 
—convey ideas by his word, and affections by 
his grace ? 
MUTABILITY OF EARTHLY THINGS. 
All flesh is grass, and all its glory fades 
Like the fair flower dishevel'd in the wind ; 
Riches havejwings and grandeur is a dream; 
The man we celebrate must find a tomb, 
And we that worship him ignoble graves. 
Nothing is proof against the general curse 
Of vanity that seizes all below. 
The only amaranthine flower on earth 
Is virtue ; the only lasting treasure, truth. 
The Great lire in Birmingham. 
, THE Pittsburg Journal gives the following 
particulars of the destructive conflagration at 
Birmingham: 
" About 2 o'clock in the afternoon fire was 
discovered issuing from the packing house be-
longing to the glass manufactory of C. Ihmsen 
& Co., in the western end of Birmingham. 
The 
wind was cold, and blowing a perfect hurricane 
when the fire broke out, and the flames spread 
with tremendous rapidity so that in a few min-
utes the adjoining buildings were enveloped in 
one wild raging flame of fire and smoke. 
It 
soon communicated to Gregg's lead factory and 
saw mill, and next to twelve frame houses close 
by, which were all in a flame, and consumed so 
rapidly that the occupants had barely time to 
escape with their lives. 
" Between Grosvenor and McKee streets, 40 
buildings were destroyed, and by the force of the 
wind, sparks and burning pieces of shingles were 
carried to Bradford-street, where some frame 
buildings caught, and still raging most fearfully 
along Bradford and Dewman streets, (known as 
Cholera Hollow,) upwards of 60 dwellings and 
stores were left in smoking ruins. 
Great excite-
ment prevailed throughout the borough, and at 
one time it was thought the whole upper part of 
the town would be burned down, but happily the 
wind took a change to the southward, and by the 
efforts of firemen and citizens the flames were 
checked about 6 o'clock. 
"It is estimated that about three hundred 
families were compelled to move from their 
houses ; about a hundred, however, in the vicin-
ity of the fire, would return to their homes. 
The 
hill-side was covered with furniture, and dis-
tressed families running to and fro, suffering from 
cold. We have not heard an estimate of the 
loss, but it is very great. 
Mr. Ihmsen had a 
large supply of glass, &c., and his loss will be 
heavy. 
The packing house and black bottle fac-
tory, together with their contents, were entirely 
destroyed. 
It was certainly the work of an in-
cendiary, as there had not been any fire in the 
room where it originated." 
A Sad Disaster. 
Three Children Burnt.—By a slip from the 
New Hampshire Telegraph, published at Nashua, 
we have the following particulars of a sad affair : 
" We learn that the dwelling-house occupied 
by Mr. William Flanders, in Londonderry, was 
entirely consumed by fire on Tuesday afternoon, 
with three children comprising their all. 
Mrs. 
Flanders called at a neighbor's, on the opposite 
side of the road, leaving her children at home 
alone, and was absent perhaps half an hour, 
when her attention was arrested by a noise, and 
looking out, the flames were bursting from the 
house, to an extent which forbade all attempts to 
save the little victims, and all perished. The chil-
dren were about two, four, and six years old. 
The two older, judging from the position in which 
the remains were found, probably ran under the 
bed for safety, and the feather bed falling upon 
them, saved them from being wholly consumed; 
of the other, only a part of the bones were found. 
The house belonged to John Greeley, Jr., and 
was insured to the amount of $250. 
" This most terrible calamity should serve as a 
caution against leaving children at home alone." 
Foreign News. 
BY the arrival of steamship Franklin at New 
York, and steamship Canada at Halifax, on the 
29th, we are in possession of news from Europe 
one week later. 
So far as the war question is 
concerned, there is nothing communicated of a 
new or striking character. 
From London to St. 
Petersburg, the indications are that the whole 
continent is preparing for a struggle such as has 
not been witnessed by the present generation. 
The news by the Franklin is invested with a 
melancholy interest by the intelligence of a ter-
rible earthquake in the southern part of Italy, 
by which ten thousand lives vjere lost! This ap-
palling disaster is described as having occurred 
in Calabria, which in 1783 was the scene of a 
similar disaster, but attended with four times as 
great destruction of life. A description of Cala-
bria, with an account of the earthquake of 1783, 
we take from Brooks's Universal Gazetteer : 
" Calabria, a promontory and province of 
Naples, forming the foot and southern extremity 
of Italy, extending from 37 53 to 40 5 of north 
lat., and being about 40 miles in mean breadth, 
between the long, of 15 40 and 17 30 east. 
A 
ridge of mountains, the Apennines, intersects 
the whole territory from north to south, and nu-
merous streams fall into the sea on both coasts. 
It gives the title of Duke to the eldest son of the 
King of Naples. 
It is divided into two parts : 
Citra, north, bordering on the Basilicata, con-
tains about 350,000 inhabitants, and Ultra, 
south, containing about 400,000. 
This country 
abounds in excellent fruit, corn, wine, oil, silk, 
cotton and wool. 
In 1783, a great part of Cala-
bria Ultra, as well as of Sicily, was destroyed 
by one of the most terrible earthquakes on rec-
ord : besides the destruction of many towns, vil-
lages, and farms, above 40,000 people perished 
by this calamity." 
The summary of parliamentary debates, indi-
cates that subjects of great and vital interest 
have been discussed. 
The Black Warrior Settlement. 
THE following is said to be an authentic state-
ment of the decision in the case of the Black 
Warrior: 
"The decision of tribunal before whom the 
case of the steamship Black Warrior was brought 
after the seizure of that vessel, and confiscation 
and discharge of her cargo, was as follows:— 
' The confiscation of the cotton and a fine of 
$62,000 on the vessel.' 
This tribunal is a one-
sided affair, as neither the steamer's agents or 
captain were allowed to be present. 
The decree 
of the court was annulled by the Captain Gen-
eral as Super-Intendente, who ordered that the 
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ship and cargo should be given up and a fine of 
$9,000 imposed instead. 
He also directed that 
a bond should be given for the amount of the 
fine by the agents to the collector, subject to the 
decision of the Queen, advising that a memorial 
be prepared and sent to her, promising to have 
it promptly forwarded, and he had no doubt it 
would be remitted altogether. 
A bond for the 
$9,000 was accordingly made, guaranteed by one 
of the most substantial houses in this city; this 
was refused by the collector, and he also refused 
to allow any American house to become bonds-
men. 
The money was then paid under protest. 
" The Captain General is very much dissatis-
fied with the course taken by the Custom House 
officials." 
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BOSTON, APRIL 8, 1854. 
THE readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to give it 
room in their prayers; that by means of it God may be honored and 
his truth advanced; also, that it may be conducted in faith and 
love, with sobriety of judgment and discernment of the truth, in 
nothing carried away into error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbroth-
erly disputation. 
THE PROPHECY OF 
ISAIAH. 
CHAPTER XXXVIII. 
THEN Hezekiah turned his face toward the wall, and prayed unto the 
Lord, aud said, 'Remember now, O Lord, I beseech thee, how I 
have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect heart, and have 
done that which is good in thy sight.' And Hezekiah wept sore. 
vs. 2, 3. • 
Oriental houses were arranged with lounges or 
couches on the sides of the room, on one of which 
it is probable that he was sick. 
By turning his 
face to the wall in prayer, he withdrew, as far as 
he was able, from the observation of spectators. * 
By a substitution, his walking before the Lord, 
is put for his course of conduct during his life ; 
and by a metonymy, " heart," the seat of the af 
fections, is put for the motives which had actuated 
him. 
It said of him, (2 Kings 18:5-7,) that " he 
trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after 
him was none like him among all the kings of Ju-
dah, nor any that were before him. 
For he clave 
to the Lord, and departed not from following him, 
but kept his commandments, which the Lord com-
manded Moses. 
And the Lord was with him : and 
he prospered whithersoever he went forth." 
At the time of this sickness, his son, Manasseh, 
who succeeded him, was not born, nor till three 
years after. 
He had no one to succeed him on the 
throne, and his land was invaded by the Assyrians ; 
and one great cause of his grief, may have been 
his apprehension that on his decease his kingdom 
would fall into anarchy and ruin. 
The prayer of 
Hezekiah was speedily answered : 
Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying, Go, and say 
to Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I 
have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add 
unto thy days fifteen years. And I will deliver thee and this city 
out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city. 
vs. 4-6. 
In the parallel place in 2 Kings 20:4-6, it reads: 
" And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out 
into the middle court, that the word of the Lord 
came to him, saying, Turn again, and tell Heze-
kiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the 
Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard 
thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will 
heal thee : on the third day thou shalt go up unto 
the house of the Lord. 
And I will add unto thy 
days fifteen years, and I will deliver thee and this 
city out of the hand of the king of Assyria ; and I 
will defend this city for mine own sake, and for 
my servant David's sake." 
In v. 6, " hand," by a metonymy, is again put 
for the power of the king of Assyria. 
When the prophet had given him this promise 
of recovery, and of length of days, (2 Kings 20 : 
8-10,) " Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be 
the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I 
shall go up into the house of the Lord the third 
day ? 
And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have 
of the Lord, that the Lord will do the thing that 
he hath spoken : shall the shadew go forward ten 
degrees, or go back ten degrees ? And Hezekiah 
answered. 
It is a light thing for the shadow to 
go down ten degrees : nay, but let the shadow re-
turn backward ten degrees." 
In compliance with 
this request, Isaiah said . 
And this shall be a sign unto thee from the Lord, that the Lord 
will do this thing that he hath spoken; behold, I will bring again 
the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun-dial of 
Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by 
which degrees it was gone down. 
vs. 7, 8. 
This miraculous sign, was given in answer to 
the prayer of Isaiah ; for, 2 Kings 20:11—" Isaiah 
the prophet cried unto the Lord : and he brought 
the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had 
gone down in the dial of Ahaz." 
The miracle consisted in the appearance of the 
shadow on the dial plate of Ahaz. 
How it was ef-
fected, it is useless to speculate upon. 
It is suf-
ficient for us to know that it was in answer to 
Isaiah's prayer. 
2 Kings 20:7—" And Isaiah said, Take a lump 
of figs. 
And they took and laid it on the boil, and 
he recovered." 
As was often customary on such occasions, Heze-
kiah, on recovering, expressed his gratitude in a 
song of praise. 
THE WRITING OF HEZEKIAH KING OP JCDAH, WHEN HE HAD BEEN SICK, 
AND HAD RECOVERED OF HIS SICKNESS : 
I said, in the cutting off of my days, I shall go to the gates of the 
grave: 
I am deprived of the residue of my years. 
I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the 
living: 
I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world. 
Mine age is departed, and is removed from me asa shepherd's tent; 
I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cutine off with pining 
sickness: 
From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. 
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my 
bones: 
From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me. 
Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: 
Mine eyes fail with looking upward: 0 Lord, lam oppressed; under-
take for me. 
What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath 
done it: 
I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul. 
O Lord, by these things men live, 
And in all these things is the life of my spirit: 
So wilt thou recover me, and make me to live. 
Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: 
But thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corrup-
tion: 
For thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back. 
For the grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: 
They that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. 
The living, the living, he sh 11 praise thee, as I do this day: 
The father to the children shall make known thy truth. 
The Lord was ready to save me: 
Therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments 
All the days of our life in the house of the Lord.—us. 9-20. 
In v. 10, there is a metaphor in the use of the 
words " cutting off," applied to days, expressive 
of their termination; and also in denominating 
the entrance of the grave, or of Sheol, its " gates." 
The ancients regarded the grave as the gate or en-
trance of Sheol—the avenue which led to it. 
In v. 11, he expresses his regret that he should 
be deprived of the society of the living ; and la-
ments that he shall not behold the Lord on the 
earth—the coming of the Messiah being an event 
that many righteous men had desired to live to 
see. 
In v. 12, " age " is the revolving period of his ex-
istence, and is rendered by Lowth, Noyes, Barnes 
and others, " habitation." " Departed," and " re-
moved," applied to age, are metaphors, expressive 
of its termination. 
By the use of a simile, the end 
of his life-time, is illustrated by the removal of a 
shepherd's tent. 
The guardian of the sheep takes 
down and folds up his tent with great ease, and 
pitches it in another pasture ground, as the wants 
of his flock require ; in like manner Hezekiah was 
about to be transferred to the land of silence. 
There are metaphors in the use of the words " cut 
0ff"—twice occurring in connection with him and 
his life. 
By a simile, also, its ceasing on earth, is 
likened to a weaver's cutting the warp from the 
loom, when he has finished his web. 
" With 
pining sickness," is in the margin, 44 from the 
thrum4" i. e., the threads or thrums which con-
nected the web with the weaver's beam,—they be-
ing put by substitution for his connection with 
this life. 
As a short web might be woven and cut 
off in a single day, so did he anticipate that such 
a period would perfect and finish him. 
In v. 13,44 He will break all my bones," is put 
by substitution for the painful and debilitating ef-
fects of the disease ; the action on the system, is 
likened by a simile, to the manner in which the 
lion crushes the bones of his prey. 
The idea is, 
that during the night he anticipated the coming 
day, as that in which his disease would terminate his 
life. 
In v. 14, by the use of similes, his expressions 
of pain, which his disease caused him to utter, are 
illustrated by the unintelligible chattering of birds, 
and the plaintive moaning of the dove. 
And his 
eyes failing with looking upward, is a substitution, 
for his inability to supplicate longer for aid. 
He 
then throws himself entirely on the Lord's mercy, 
whom he supplicates to undertake for him, or, as 
in the margin, to 44 ease " him. 
In v. 15, he utters an expression of surprise, at 
his sudden and miraculous relief—giving all the 
glory to God, as the one who had 
44 spoken " or 
promised to heal him, and who had accomplished 
it. 
Walking softly, is put by substitution for 
leading a life of humility ; and bitterness of soul, 
is a metaphor expressive of the anguish of his 
sickness, in view of which and his recovery from 
it, he purposed to live circumspectly the remainder 
of his days. 
In v. 16,44 By these things," is evidently to be 
understood God's promises and interposition, by 
which he had been recovered, and by which all 
men exist. 
In v. 17, '4 bitterness " is a substitution for the 
distress and sorrow which took the place of his 
previous peace. 
44 Soul " is put by a synecdoche 
for himself—44 corruption," being by a metaphor 
denominated a 44 pit," into which the living are 
represented as descending. 
To cast his sins be-
hind his back, is also a metaphor expressive of their 
forgiveness. 
In v. 18,44 the grave " and44 death," are put by 
a metonymy for the subjects of death, and the oc-
cupants of the grave, or of Sheol. 
Such could 
not join in those ascriptions of praise by which the 
living are shown the goodness of God ; and their 
probation being ended, the offers of salvation can 
no longer affect them. 
But the living, as in v. 19, 
could make known God's goodness; and fathers 
could teach their children the truth. 
V. 20 shows that the 44 praise," of which he has 
spoken, was public praise ; and to aid in its cele-
bration, the song here recorded was to be set to 
music and chanted in the house of the Lord, ac-
companied by stringed instruments. 
For Isaiah had said. Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for 
a plaster upon the boil, and he shall recover. Hezekiah also had 
said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the Lord? 
vs. 21, 22. 
In the parallel place in Kings, this scripture pre-
cedes the account of the miracle of the sun dial, 
and of his recovery ; but its order does not affect 
the beauty of the narrative. 
A plaster of figs was 
accounted medicinal for inflamed ulcers, according 
to Jerome ; but that does not effect the miracle, 
which consisted in the retrogression of the shadow 
on the sun-dial, the promise of his recovery, and 
its fulfilment by the appointed means. 
SYNCHRONISM OF THE ADVENT, 
KING-
DOM, RESURRECTION, &c. 
(Concluded.) 
IX. THE Advent, judgment and kingdom. 
2 Tim. 4:1, 8—441 charge thee therefore before 
God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge 
the quick and the dead at his appearing and his 
kingdom ; . . . Henceforth there is laid up for me 
a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the 
righteous Judge, shall give me at that day: and 
not to me only, but unto all them also that love his 
appearing." 
X. The Advent, kingdom and perdition of un-
godly men. 
Luke 17:20-26, 29, 30—44 And when he was de-
manded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of 
God should come, he answered them and said, The 
kingdom of God cometh not with observation. 
Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, Lo there ! for 
behold, the kingdom of God is within you. 
And 
he said unto the disciples, The days will come, 
when ye shall desire to see one of the days of the 
Son of man, and ye shall not see it. 
And they 
shall say to you, See here ! or, See there ! go not 
after them, nor follow them. 
For as the lightning 
that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, 
shineth unto the other part under heaven : so shall 
also the Son of man be in his day. 
But first must 
he suffer many things, and be rejected of this gen-
eration. 
And as it was in the days of Neo, § 
shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. . . 
But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom, it 
rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and des-
troyed them all: Even thus shall it be in the day 
when the Son of man is revealed." 
XI. The kingdom, end of the world, and judg-
ment. 
Matt. 13:40-43, 47-50—44 As therefore the tares 
are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be 
in the end of the world. 
The Son of man shall 
send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of 
his kingdom all things that offend, and them which 
do iniquity ; And shall cast them into a furnace of 
fire : there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in 
the kingdom of their Father. 
Who hath ears to 
hear, let him hear. . . . Again, the kingdom of 
heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the 
sea, and gathered of every kind : Which, when it 
was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and 
gathered the good into vessels, but east the bad 
away. 
So shall it be at the end of the world : the 
angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from 
among the just, And shall cast them into the fur-
nace of fire : there shall be wailing and gnashing 
of teeth." 
XII. The Advent, restitution, and glorification 
of the saints. 
Acts 3:19-21—*4 Repent ye therefore, and be 
converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when 
the times of refreshing shall come from the pres-
ence of the Lord ; And he shall send Jesus Christ 
which before was preached unto you: Whom the 
heaven must receive, until the time of restitution 
of all things, which God hath spoken by the moutli 
of all his holy prophets, since the world began." 
XIII. The Advent, resurrection of the dead, 
change of the living, and last trump. 
1 Thess. 4;13-17-—" But I would not have you 
to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which 
are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which 
have no hope. 
For if we believe that Jesus died 
and rose again, even so them also which sleep in 
Jesus will God bring with him. 
For this we say 
unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which 
are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord 
shall not prevent them which are asleep. 
For the 
Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a 
shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with 
the trump of God : and the dead in Christ shall 
rise first: Then we which are alive and remain 
shall be caught up together with them in the 
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air : and so shall 
we ever be with the Lord." 
XIV. The Advent, and the destruction of the 
Papacy. 
2 Thess. 2:1-8—44 Now we beseesh you, brethren, 
by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by 
our gathering together unto him, That ye be not 
soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by 
spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as 
that the day of Christ is at hand. 
Let no man 
deceive you by any means: for that day shall not 
come, except there come a falling away first, and 
that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition ; 
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that 
is called God, or that is worshipped ; so that he, 
as God, &itteth in the temple of God, shewing him-
self that he is God. 
Remember ye not, that when 
I was yet with you, 1 told you these things 1 
And 
now ye know what withholdeth that he might be 
revealed in his time. 
For the mystery of iniquity 
doth already work: only he who now letteth will 
let, until he be taken out of the way. 
And then 
shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord 
shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and 
shall destroy with the brightness of his coming." 
XV. The Advent, destruction of the Papacy, 
judgment and kingdom. 
Dan. 7:21, 22, 26, 27—441 beheld, and the same 
horn made war with the saints, and prevailed 
against them ; Until the Ancient of days came, 
and judgment was given to the saints of the Most 
High : and the time came that the saints possessed 
the kingdom. . . . But the judgment shall sit, and 
they shall take away his dominion to consume and 
to destroy it unto the end. 
And the kingdom and 
dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under 
the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of 
the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an 
everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve 
and obey him." 
XVI. The Advent and resurrection of the just, 
the change of the living, the last trump, and king-
dom. 
1 Cor. 15:22-24, 50-54—44 For as in Adam all 
die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive. 
But 
every man in his own order : Christ the first fruits ; 
afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered 
up the kingdom to God, even the Father : when he 
shall have put down all rule, and all authority, 
and power. . . . Now this I say, brethren, that flesh 
and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God ; nei-
ther doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, 
I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but 
we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the 
twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the 
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised 
incorruptable, and we shall be changed. 
For this 
corruptible must put on incorruption, and this 
mortal must put on immortality. 
So when this 
corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this 
mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall 
be brought to pass the saying that is written 
Death is swallowed up in victory." 
XVII. The kingdom, and destruction of earthly 
governments. 
Dan. 2:34, 35, 44—4 • Thou sawest till that a 
stone was cut out without hands, which smote the 
image upon his feet that were of iron and clay and 
brake them to pieces. 
Then was the iron, the 
clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to 
pieces together, and became like the chaff of the 
summer threshing-floors ; and the wind carried 
them away, that no place was for them ; and the 
stone that smote the image became a great moun-
tain, and filled the whole earth. . . And in the days 
of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a 
kingdom, which shall never be destroyed : and the 
kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it 
shall break in pieces and consume all these king-
doms, and it shall stand forever." 
XVIII. The Advent, perdition of ungodly men, 
regeneration of the earth by fire, and glorification 
of the saints. 
2 Pet. 3:3, 4, 7, 10-14—44 Knowing this first, 
that there shall come in the last days scoffers, 
walking after their own lusts, and saying Where 
THE ADVENT 
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109 
is the promise of his coming ? for since the fathers 
fell asleep, all things continue as they were from 
the beginning of the creation. . . But the heavens 
and the earth which are now, by the same word 
are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the 
day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. . . 
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the 
night; in the which the heavens shall pass away 
with a great noise, and the elements shall melt 
with fervent heat, tbe earth also and the works that 
are therein shall be burned up. 
Seeing then that 
all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of 
persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and 
godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming 
of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on 
fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt 
with fervent heat? 
Nevertheless we, according to 
his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, 
wherein dwelleth righteousness. 
Wherefore, be-
loved, seeing that ye look for such things, be dili-
gent that ye may be found of him in peace, with-
out spot, and blameless." 
XIX. The Advent, judgment, slaughter of the 
beast, kingdom, and reward of the saints. 
Dan. 7:9, 11, 13, 14,"18 —"I 
beheld till the 
thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days 
did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the 
hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne 
was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning 
fire. . .'1 beheld then because of the voice of the 
great words which the horn spake : 1 beheld even 
till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, 
and given to the burning flame. . . 1 saw in the 
night visions, and behold, one like the Son of man 
came in the clouds of heaven, and came to the An-
cient of days, and they brought him near before 
him. . . But the saints of the Most High shall take 
the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, 
even for ever and ever." 
XX. The kingdom, judgment, destruction of the 
wicked, glorification of the saints, and last trump. 
Rev. 11:15-18—" And the seventh angel sounded; 
and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The 
kingdoms of this world are become the kingdom 
of our Lord, and of his Christ, and he shall reign 
for ever and ever. 
And the four and twenty elders, 
which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their 
faces, and worshipped God, saying, We give thee 
thanks, 0 Lord God Almighty, which art, and 
wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken 
to thee thy great power, and hast reigned. 
And 
the nations were angry, and thy wrath is come, 
and the time of the dead, that they should be 
judged, and that thou shouldst give reward unto 
thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and 
them that fear thy name, small and great: and 
shouldst destroy them which destroy the earth." 
A careful comparison of the above scriptures, 
must, it would seem, demonstrate the occurrence 
of those events at a common epoch, and show that 
no other application of them can harmonize with 
their general tenor. 
THE IMPROVED ART OF WAR. 
AMONG the many arts which the conceptions of 
genius are constantly combining to perfect and de-
velope, is the art of war. Every succeeding gen-
eration seems to introduce among us still more 
powerful and efficient agencies for accomplishing 
the destruction of our fellow men. A correspon-
dent of the Cincinnati Gazette, writing from Eng-
land, gives an interesting description of a few of 
the warlike engines which it is supposed will con-
tribute materially to the successful termination of 
hostilities in the great European struggle which is 
probably about to occur. 
One of the most terrible of these machines, he 
says, is Wagner's floating gun—which is simply a 
long congreve gun, designed to be propelled along 
the surface of the water in a straight line, on the 
principle of the rocket, until it strikes the vessel 
at which it was directed, when it thrusts into fits 
sides its iron head, containing two pounds of ful-
minating powder of mercury. 
When the fire 
reaches this reservoir, the powder explodes, blow-
ing aMiole in the vessel ten or twelve feet in diame-
ter—so large that it cannot be closed up by any 
ordinary method. This machine, says the writer, 
has been a long time maturing in the Woolwich 
arsenals, and is now completed, and ready to go 
forth on its mission of destruction. It can be 
made available at a distance far beyond the reach 
of any other gun, and it is thought will be of ser-
vice in attacking the Russian fleets when anchored 
under the unapproachable fortresses of Sebastopol 
and Cronstadt. 
The correspondent of the Gazette also says that 
submarine boats have been so perfected that they 
can attach a burner to an enemy's ship without 
incurring the least danger to those who manage 
them. Large numbers of explosive balls were em-
barked on board the English fleets, of such a nature 
as invariably to explode whenever they strike the 
side of an enemy's ship, scattering on every side 
devastation, death and 
flames. 
Experiments are 
also being made with an asphyxiating ball, which 
does not kill, but paralyzes an entire crew for several 
hours, or until they are made prisoners. 
Two small steamboats are building, designed to 
carry each two enormous Paixhan guns. 
These 
vessels are built in the strongest manner, with 
oaken walls near six feet thick, covered with a 
mattrass of cotton one and a half feet in thickness, 
and this again covered with a sheeting of iron and 
lead. 
The roof or upper deck is covered in the 
same way, so as to allow the bombs of the enemy 
to glance into the 6ea without damage. 
They are 
designed to be bullet proof, ball proof, and bomb 
proof. 
These ships are to be sent at the proper 
time into the midst of the enemy's fleet, where 
they will attack the vessels around them, fore and 
aft, with bombs thrown between wind and water, 
at the same time sprinkling them with showers of 
Greek fire. It is believed that one of these little 
vessels, operated by the labors of a few determined 
men, might, under favorable circumstances, des-
troy an entire fleet of ships. 
The English fleet is also largely provided with 
balloons, intended to carry inflammable materials, 
to scatter over towns, villages and fleets, when the 
wind favors such operations; and it is said that 
another invention, whose results will be still more 
terrible than any of the above, but of which the 
construction has not yet been made known, is also 
about to be sent out to destroy the Russians. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
" THE TIME OF THE END," by J. L. M.—-The great 
length of your article is a serious objection to it— 
being on a subject, to which too much space in 
our columns has already been devoted, unless 
something more than inferential arguments can be 
presented. 
With some of your conclusions we 
agree, and with others we dissent; but neither 
agreement nor dissent, would be cause of admis-
sion or rejection—our rule being to select from the 
mass of materials at hand, those articles which we 
judge would be of most interest and profit to our 
readers ; though writers usually think, each that 
his own manuscripts comes within that rule of ad-
mission. 
Another fault of your article is, that 
too many subjects are grouped together in it—in-
stead of constituting several short articles. 
Your 
effort to extend the 2300, and 1335 days to a defi-
nite point so long in the future, although time 
may prove it true, we should not consider com-
patible with constant injunctions to watchfulness, 
If we read the 2300, 2400, we see no reason to be 
gin them so late—as they mark, not the treadin 
under foot, but the length of the vision in whic 
is brought to view that treading under foot. 
Th , 
Apocalypse we regard as the unsealing of Daniel1, 
that was to be sealed till the time of the end. 
T. SMITH.—" The taking away of the daily t > 
set up the abomination," &c., is a somewha f 
doubtful rendering. 
If it read thus, the time mut ( 
be dated from the taking away. 
As it now reads 
it is not necessary to understand that the tw I 
events transpire in near connection. 
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careful review, be seen by the writer. 
W. C. T.—We omitted your article, from tl; 
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the subject on which you wrote, and that a rnoi: 
thorough study of it, would cause you to modil, 
materially the conclusion arrived at. 
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11. The Transformed Mind. 
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13. The Inheritance. 
14. Spent and Misspent. 
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4. The Heavens and Earth on Fire. 
5. The New Heavens and New Earth. 
6. The Great Benediction. 
7. The Resplendent Ones. 
8. The Better Country. 
9. The City of God. 
10. Present Privileges. 
11. The Heavenly Voice. 
12. Unfaltering Confidence. 
13. Euthanasia. 
14. The Blessed Hope. 
15. With Christ in Glory. 
16. The Coming of Elijah. 
It is needless, after the volliflninous extracts we 
have made from Dr. Cumming's writings, for us 
to say anything of his style and manner of treat-
ing the subject. 
He brings out some views respect-
ing the Jews, and has some other crude fancies 
from which we dissent; but he writes in so earnest 
and pious a strain, that no one can be offended 
with him, however they may receive his views. 
The above works are for sale at this office. 
We have sold a large number of the Benediction ; 
and can now supply orders for it again—it having 
been out of print for a few weeks. 
" A Book for the Times. Spots in our Feasts of 
Charity. 
Being an Exposure of delinquences of 
Christian Professors in regard to the ordinances of 
religion and other agencies for doing good. 
By 
Rev. Wm. M. Thayer, author of Hints for the 
household," etc. 
With an introduction, By Ja-
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Boston, Published by J- P. Jewett 
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The object of this being to expose the delin-
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duties, very judiciously, under the heads of, 
1. Public Worship. 
2. Prayer Meeting. 
3. Church Meeting. 
4. Preparatory Lecture and Lord's Supper. 
5. Church and Parish. 
6. Sabbath School. 
7. Missionary Sewing Circle. 
8. Maternal Association. 
9. The Missionary Enterprize. 
10. Mutual Christian Faithfulness. 
11. Conduct in regard to the foregoing, tested 
by Prayer. 
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Hymns and Tunes for Sabbath Schools, Families, 
and Social Gatherings. 
By Wm. Williams, Prof, 
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Boston, 
and Cleveland, published by John P. Jewett & Co., 
and Jewett, Proctor & Worthington." 
This appears to be well adapted to the purpose 
for which it is designed—so far as the words are 
concerned. 
Of music, we never offer any opinion. 
" Tracts for the Times. No. 4. 
The Return of 
the Jews. 
By Elder John M. Orrock." 
He rejects the idea of their return to Judea for 
the following reasons: 
1. Because of the marks of chronology which 
some of those passages bear, which are supposed 
to teach such a restoration. 
2. Because of the conditional nature of the na-
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3. Because of the fearful curses pronounced on 
that apostate nation. 
4. Because the middle wall of partition between 
Jews and Gentiles was broken down by Christ, 
never more to be rebuilt, and now God recognizes 
as his people only those who fear him and work 
righteousness. 
All others are children of 
the 
devil, whether they are Jews or Gentiles. 
6. Because Jerusalem is doomed to be trodden 
down of the Gentiles till Jesus comes again. 
This is a well-digested and judiciously written 
tract of 24 pages, and can be had of Dr. Hutchin-
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W. Wood, Derby Line, Vt.; 
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Price, $2 per 100—3 cts. single. 
" Dialogue on the nature of Man. 
His state in 
death, and final doom of the wicked. 
By Josiah 
Litch. 
Published by the author, in Philadelphia, 
corner of 45 North and 11th sts., and at 8 Chardon 
st., Boston. 
54 pp. 
Price, $3 per 100 ; 5 cents 
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This is a very impartial and Scriptural tract, 
showing the consciousness of the spirit in the in-
termediate state, and the eternal punishment of 
the wicked—presented in the form of a dialogue 
between " Pneumatologist," and " Materialist," 
who renounces his position, when Pneumatologist 
continues the debate with " Destructionist," who 
also abandons his. 
DESECRATION OF THE SABBATH.—A harlequin, who 
styles himself " James Seyers Orr, trumpeter of 
the approaching King," and " publisher in the 
open air of the tidings of the glorious Majesty of 
the approaching Kingdom and its King," held 
forth on the Common, Sunday morning, to a largo 
crowd. 
At the end of each sentence of jangle, he 
blew his trumpet, which display naturally excited 
mirth. 
The crowd became so boisterous at last 
that the police advised the interpreter of the "Com-
ing King " to clear out, which he did. 
In the af-
ternoon, he preached against'' popery " and " for-
eigners " from the steps of the Custom House ; but 
his meeting was disturbed, and resulted in the ar-
rest of a boy. 
The prophet is a Scotchman ; he 
has traversed England, Ireland and America—and 
he purposes visiting all the nations of the earth, 
including Italy, where, he predicts, he will be 
killed for the faith that is in him. 
FIGHTING FOR THE HOLY PLACES.—The latest news 
from Syria furnishes a sad commentary upon the 
state 
of religion among those who congregate 
around the places sacred in their historical asso-
ciations to all Christians. The whole country is 
represented as in a state of anarchy, owing to the 
withdrawal of the troops for the war with Russia, 
and the Pashas are left without the means of en-
forcing their authority. 
The Greek and Latin 
clergy at Jerusalem have renewed their-shameful 
contests about the Holy Places, while the Turkish 
officials had not the power to prevent them coming 
to blows. 
This time the Latins claimed more than 
they were entitled to, and the Latin Patriarch and 
the French Consul (M. Botts) finding themselves 
under the necessity of yielding to the Greeks, left 
Jerusalem for Bevrout. 
MORE DISCOVERIES AT NINEVEH.—A letter from 
Mosul, in the New York Tribune, states that a new 
palace has been uncovered in the ruins of Nineveh 
—a palace whose beauty excels any yet found in 
Assyria. 
The letter describes the new discovery: 
" Huge monsters—compounds of the lion, man, 
and eagle—guard the entrances. 
The slabs are in 
fine preservation, representing the King and his 
officers at "a lion hunt, a war scene and a victory, 
a state procession led by eunuehs, the 
King's 
chariot being drawn by men, with altars and 
priests and griffins ; in line, a picture of Assyrian 
manners and religion as they were three thousand 
years ago. 
The workmanship is most exquisite. 
The slabs are to adorn the walls of the British 
Museum-'' 
PENNSYLVANIA numbers 9,699 public schools, at 
a cost of little more than one million of dollars a 
year. 
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without regard to the particular view we take of any scripture, from 
the friends of the 
Herald. 
LETTER PROM SAMUEL CHAPMAN. 
BRO. HIMES :—After the date of my last (Spring-
field, Jan. 1st,) I remained in the city some ten or 
twelve days, and enjoyed much with those dear 
friends who are unitedly " looking for that blessed 
hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God 
and Saviour Jesus Christ." 
At the close of our 
last meeting, our hearts were mutually affected 
with the thought th&t our next meeting would 
probably be at the coming of the Lord. 
On the 12th of Jan. I left S. to meet a pressing 
call from brother Moses Winslow, of this place, 
(eighty miles west of S.) The next day commenced 
a series of meetings at, or near, the " Creek," one 
mile west of his house. 
This was literally in the 
" highways and hedges." 
Our sanctuary was a 
large new school-house, standing in the woods. 
Brother and sister W. were the only decided Ad-
ventists in the community. 
Notice having been 
extensively circulated we had a respectable con-
gregation the first evening, and good order was ob-
served. 
Soon the house became crowded, even to 
overflowing, and the best attention was paid to 
the word. 
Sinners began directly to see and feel 
their lost condition, and to inquire, " what shall I 
do," &c. 
Being pointed to the only source of de-
liverance, they soon found peace in believing, and 
readily confessed faith, not only in Christ, but 
also in his soon coming to "judge the quick and 
the dead." 
It was truly heart-cheering to us, af-
ter preaching, to hear those broken-hearted disci 
pies (mostly converted from the Infidel and Uni-
versalist ranks) exhort and intreat their neighbors 
and companions to " come to Jesus." 
In this 
state of things we continued our meetings daily for 
more than two weeks. 
Quite a number (some from 
abroad) gave evidence of a change of heart. 
Four-
teen received baptism at my hands. 
On the 30th 
of Jan. constituted a church of thirteen members. 
Brother W. unanimously chosen as their presiding 
officer, and brother J. Groves, Secretary. 
The 
next day participated together in the Lord's Sup-
per. 
It was truly affecting to the whole company 
to see brother "G.," so recently converted from 
the Infidel ranks, now with a broken heart united 
with brother " W." in bearing the sacred elements 
to the church. 
Before I left, three others were 
added to their number. 
They have covenanted to 
maintain meetings for religious worship, one even 
ing in the week, and every Sabbath till the Lord 
comes. 
Brother W. and his brother David, (a 
Baptist preacher,) who has recently embraced the 
faith, are to minister unto them in word and doc 
trine. 
Having a respectful invitation, I left on the 3d 
of Feb. to visit the brethren in the vicinity of 
Scott's Mills, (Brown county,) some twenty miles 
north, where, in the spring of '52,1 spent a few 
weeks to good advantage; but since that time, op-
posing influences had come in, viz., " Age 
Come" with its attendant evils, which had dis 
tracted the mind, and broken up the church; so 
that nearly all had entirely " forsaken the assem-
bling of themselves together." 
But remembering 
the prosperous state from which they had fallen 
their sanctuary was readily opened to me, in which 
they gave us another candid hearing." Besides 
visiting from house to house, I preached to large 
and attentive congregations nine times. Witnessed 
several new and prominent accessions to their num 
ber, and finally left them as before, in a peaceful 
and happy state, and being now assured that time 
is exceedingly short, and that •probation will end 
with the coming of the Lord, I confidently hope 
they will entirely abandon fables, and remain 
steadfast in the faith, laboring for the salvation of 
souls, to the day of his coming. 
From the " Mills " (by invitation of brother 
John Burnett) I went to Woodstock, (four miles 
south of Rushville,) where the doctrine had never 
been publicly proclaimed, (because of prejudice 
and unbelief.) 
Had a good hearing while I ad-
dressed that people seven times. 
Much prejudice 
was removed, several confessed faith in the doctrine 
(as we hold it), sinners were alarmed, but do not 
know that any were thoroughly converted to God. 
At the close of our last meeting, an elderly gentle-
man came to me and said, " I believe your doctrine, 
and wish I was prepared to meet that day, but I 
am a very wicked man." 
Being told that " Christ 
came not to call the righteous but sinners to re-
pentance," " they that are whole have no need of 
the physician but they that are sick," &c., (Mark 
:17,) he wept freely, and then as we left the house 
he accompanied us, say half a mile, and as we 
separated he gave me his hand, and with a broken 
heart said, " Do pray in earnest for me, and I 
promise you thatl will pray for myself." 
Brother 
B. being intimately acquainted with the man, he 
considered the case a hopeful one. 
And further-
more, being confident that some of his neighbors 
now sympathized with him in the " blessed hope," 
he resolved to establish in that place a meeting for 
religious worship, and talk to the people on the 
subject of our faith. 
Hope and trust the Lord will 
make him instrumental of saving some precious 
souls. 
To aid him in his work, at my suggestion 
he cheerfully subscribed for the Advent Herald. 
Hope before this time he has received his first num-
ber. 
On Thursday, 23d ult, brother " B." kindly con-
veyed me to brother Twombly's, near Mount Ster-
ling, (some sixteen miles south.) 
Brother T. hav-
ing arranged matters for us, we commenced a work 
that evening at Walker's Neck, some four miles 
west of him. 
Here the " scribes and pharisees," 
considering " their craft in danger," or for some 
other cause, refused to co-operate with us at all. 
One of the " principal of the flock," a noted singer 
in his own meetings, and even a teacher of music, 
could not be prevailed on to sing for us, although 
he was present most of the time; therefore, till 
the Lord converted some precious souls, we had to 
proceed in our work without singing. 
On the first 
Sabbath (26th), having travelled with our com-
pany four miles in the mud and rain, and being 
not only wet, but exceedingly cold, we sent a boy 
to the pious " singer's " house (a few rods distant) 
to borrow his axe, with which to cut a little wocd, 
that we had found in the grove near the sanctuary, 
but he refused to accomodate us, saying, " My axe 
don't cut wood on the Sabbath." 
We therefore 
' picked up sticks " and broken bark, and soon 
had a good fire, for which the ladies in particular 
were very grateful. 
The congregation were soon 
collected, and comfortably seated. 
As the " sing-
er " himself was present, we deemed it not inap-
propriate to show from the Scriptures that Christ, 
whom we preach and for whom we are constantly 
looking, was to be, not only for a " sanctuary " to 
his " disciples," but also " for a stone of stumbling 
and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Is 
rael," and that " many among them " 
(both 
houses) " were to stumble and fall: be broken,' 
&c., (Isa. 8:13-16,) and other kindred scriptures 
We had occasion of course to show how the first 
house (Jewish church) stumbled and fell, viz. 
Christ " cameio his own, and they received him 
not." 
To them he was like a " root out of dry 
ground, there being no form or comeliness in him 
whereby they should desire him." 
'lhey said 
therefore, "Away with him, crucify him! 
Let 
his blood be on us, and on our children," &c. Yet 
(in their own council) they were exceedingly pious 
for they offered long prayers in public places 
thanked God that they were better than other men 
Had such a flaming zeal for God that they would 
even stone a man to death if he should presume to 
trespass on the Sabbath, so much as to " pick up 
sticks " on that holy day. 
And now, said I, hav-
ing been denied the use of an axe, we have this 
morning been guilty of a similar crime, and as the 
same pharisaical disposition is manifest in our 
midst, we should doubtless share with them, and 
suffer the same penalty, were it not for the mild 
and wholesome laws of our land ; we should there-
fore be thankful for such merciful protection, and 
also to know that Christ himself by precept and 
example did not prohibit works of necessity and 
mercy on that holy day. 
It was then remarked 
(without giving particulars here) that the nominal 
church (2d 
house "), in many places where I had 
labored, having " heaped to themselves teachers 
who had turned away their ears from the truth," 
they (preferring " smooth things ") were now 
turned unto fables." 
So that the " blessed 
hope," of which the apostle speaks, (Titus 2:13,) 
had lost all its charm and desirableness to them. 
They could not therefore be comforted with these 
words. (1 Thess. 4:13-18.) 
Neither could they 
understandingly offer the prayer dictated by our 
Lord. (Matt. 6:10.) 
Thus the second " house " 
is " stumbling" over the soon coming of our 
blessed Lord, &c., &c. 
It may be due to the 
" singer " to say that as the little boy was about to 
leave, with his brand of fire in one hand, he placed 
on the other hand, or arm, a few small sticks, 
which of themselves would be insufficient to heat 
the stove, much less the house. 
But this was 
manifestly done to avoid public censure, and had 
he kept entirely aloof from us I would only speak 
of being denied the axe, but when we had labored 
from one to two hours every evening, in laying im-
portant truths before the people, it was a great an-
noyance to us, to see the attention of the anxious 
sinner diverted from the more important subject, 
in listening to private conversation, in which the 
' singer " continued to justify himself in his phari-
saical course. 
This was a great hinderance to the 
good work there, reminding us forcibly of the Sa-
viour's denunciation. 
(Matt. 23:13.) 
Butherel 
leave " the singer," as the apostle left " Alexan-
der the coppersmith," (2 Tim. 4:14,) 
knowing 
that the Lord will ultimately " judge in righteous-
ness." 
Notwithstanding all opposing influences, a glo-
rious work soon commenced. 
Sinners began to 
confess, even in the public congregation, and say, 
the doctrine we have heard is true, and now 
what must wc do ! 
Pray for us," &c. 
Notwith-
standing the distance, mud, and extreme darkness 
of the nights, we continued our meetings there 
every evening and on the Sabbath, till yesterday, 
the 14th, excepting two days spent in visiting the 
church here. 
Preached in all, seventeen times. 
House generally crowded. 
Several precious souls 
were converted, among whom were some of the 
most prominent men and women in that communi-
ty, and clearer cases I never witnessed. 
Seven 
cheerfully submitted to baptism. 
On Sunday last, 
administered the Lord's Supper. 
It was a memo-
rable season. Monday evening constituted a church 
of eight members, (father Noah's number.) 
Bro. 
Twombly presiding officers, and brother J. Bush, 
Secretary. 
The latter, although much respected, 
had disregarded the Sabbath, and indulged in pro-
fanity, but his convictions and remorse were equally 
pungent. 
The night our meetings commenced in 
that vicinity, a " splendid ball " was had at his 
house, which greatly disheartened brother T. with 
respect to our meetings, but now that house has 
become a house of prayer, and the place for the 
Advent church to hold meetings of worship every 
Thursday evening. 
What a change hath God 
suddenly wrought in that family and neighborhood. 
Even our opponents have to admit this indeed is 
the work of God. 
Yesterday the church met at 
brother T.'s, and after baptism two other promi-
nent persons were added to their number. 
(Ano-
ther church now in the " highways and hedges," 
of ten members.) 
Several others converted, who 
will unite therewith soon. 
A happier company 
I scarcely ever saw. 
Hope the Advent Herald, for 
which they have so liberally subscribed, will soon 
come, and prove of special benefit to them. 
Came to this place to-day. 
(Ten miles S. W. of 
brother Twombly's.) 
Have an appointment for 
this evening. 
Shall continue here over the Sab-
bath, baptize several new converts, and administer 
the Lord's Supper to this devoted people once 
more. 
Then as soon as possible hasten to Han-
cock county to see the brethren, and make prepara-
tions for the conference, which you are aware is to 
commence in St. Albans, on Friday, the 14th of 
April. 
Thus you see, brother II., that since you left me 
in Springfield, some three months since, I have 
found enough to do. 
And what is still better, 
the Lord has been with me of a truth. 
Praised be 
his exalted name. 
/. 
Tender love and affection to the brethren and 
sisters of tho household in this, and in foreign 
lands. 
Be assured there is sufficient now passing 
before us to prompt the " faithful servant" to 
" look up and lift up his head." 
Yours, my dear 
brother, in the blessed hope, 
SAMUEL CHAPMAN. 
McKce's Creek (111.), March 15th, 1854. 
Mountains and vales his praise resound ; 
Ye winds his name o'er earth convey ; 
Ocean lift up thy crested waves, 
Aed dash with joy thy foamy spray. 
To the immortal King of heaven, 
Be glory and dominion given. 
Ye cattle on a thousand hills ; 
And ye that in the waters throng ; 
With all possess'd of life below, 
Join in the universal song. 
To the immortal King of heaven, 
Be glory and dominion given. 
And thou, my soul, extol the Lamb, 
The great mysterious Three adore ; 
Come, angels, men, creation all, 
Resound his praise for evermore. 
To the immortal King of heaven, 
Be glory and dominion given. 
Liverpool. 
JOSEPH CURRY. 
TE DEUM LAUD AMI'S. 
RECITATIVE. 
WHAT mind can e'er conceive the love, 
Or tongue express the matchless grace, 
That brought the Saviour from his throne, 
To save a helpless rebel race. 
Angels that dwell in dazzling light, 
Sweep o'er the chords of living fire; 
Let thund'ring Alleluias burst 
From all the bright celestial choir. 
To the immortal King of heaven, 
Be glory and dominion given. 
Glisten ye stars, shine brighter still; 
Moon clearer show thy mild sweet light; 
And thou, 0 sun, pour forth new floods 
Of splendor from thy lofty height. 
To the immortal King of heaven, 
Be glory and dominion given. 
Sparkle ye flowers in pearly dew, 
0 ! clap your hands ye fruitful trees ; 
Sing, smg ye birds, 0 swell your notes, 
With sweetest music load the breeze. 
To the immortal King of heaven 
Be glory and dominion given. 
LETTER FROM THOMAS SMITH. 
BRO. HIMES :—I have recently been on a preach-
ing tour on the Sandy River country and the Kenne-
bec, in some of the towns of which I find quite an 
interest. 
In the town of Phillips, brother I. F. 
Harden and his companion remain at their posts, 
doing what they can. 
A few manifested some in-
terest, but generally the subject of the nearness of 
the advent was of no consequence to them. 
Other 
subjects interest them much more. 
In the town 
of Farmington our dear long tried friend'J. Fair-
banks, is still with stability looking for the blessed 
hope of the soon coming Saviour. 
Here in our 
part of the town considerable interest was mani-
fested by a few who attended meeting for the few 
days we preached the word to them. 
I hope and 
trust that our labors were not in vain. 
In the city of Hallowell there is a good degree 
of interest, as the effects of the judicious labors of 
brethren N. Smith and I. C. Wellcome, and a few 
others who for long years have been doing what 
they could to keep the subject before the minds of 
the people. 
A number have been reclaimed from 
a backslidden state, and some for the first time 
have been led to take a stand for the Lord and his 
truth. 
The last Sabbath and evening I attended 
meetings in that place and the interest was mani-
fest from the good congregation which attended, 
and the candid attention given to the word preached. 
From present appearances, 1 think a number may 
yet be brought to a knowledge of the Lord and his 
truth of the present time. 
The brethren here do 
not go on the '54 time, or more properly that the 
Saviour will come between this and the 10th of 
June next. 
Although they admit it may be so, 
yet they see that there is a deficiency in the argu-
ment by which is undertaken to be proved that the 
1260,1290, and 1335, all commenced in May or 
June of 519 A. D. 
For if the 1290 years of Dan-
iel 12th chapter lltli verse ended on May 17th, 
1809, when Napoleon Bonaparte issued his decree 
by which he connected the state of the Pope to the 
French Empire, and this went into operation on 
the 10th of June of the same year, then of course, 
these years must have commenced in the year 519 
A. D. 
And if the 1335 years of Dan. 12:12, com-
menced at the same time they will terminate next 
May or June at the farthest, and the vision will 
speak and not lie, and all will know it to their joy 
or sorrow. 
What may be accomplished between 
this and the next June no living man can tell, but 
from appearances, more seems necessary to be done 
than can be (humanly judging) between this and 
the time above named. 
If I have a right understanding of Rev. 18th, 
Rome " shall be utterly burned with fire," " and 
the kings of the earth, who have committed forni-
cation, and lived deliciously with her." 
" And 
every ship-master, and all the company of ships, 
and sailors, and as many as trade by sea," are to 
stand afar off, and cry when they see the smoke of 
her burning, saying, " What city is like unto this 
great city, for in one hour is she made desolate." 
It is true, that God may cause a great work to be 
done in a very short time ; and if this is the time 
for the great work to be done, nothing earthly can 
prevent, but a very few months will test the argu-
ment. 
I think it clear, however, that we are on 
the last sands of time, and what is to be done, 
must be done quickly. 
That we may so " take 
heed to ourselves, and watch and pray always "— 
and be found in readiness for that day, is the 
prayer day and night, of your brother, in hope of 
eternal life. 
THOMAS SMITH. 
Eddington (Me.), March ltd, 1854. 
LETTER FROM I. C. WELLCOME. 
BRO. HIMES :—Since my last letter I have been 
doing what I could in the vineyard of the Lord. 
At Phillips, in company with brother T. Smith, 
we found the public mind in a cold, stupid condi-
tion, having but little interest in religion of any 
kind, with few exceptions. 
There were some who 
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listened attentively to the truth, may God bless 
the word spoken, to their good. 
"VVe found brother 
I. F. Harden and companion much interested in 
the cause of our soon coming Lord, and desirous 
to do what they could for the benefit of others. 
After we closed our meeting there, we went to 
West Farmington and held a meeting for a few 
evenings, to the edification and comfort of some in 
that place who love the truth. 
1 trust some good 
was done there, notwithstanding their minister 
(Methodist) had sent a request to them not to at-
tend, yet they did attend, and listened to the word 
of God. 
I trust it was not in vain. 
We found 
brother J. Fairbanks and companion still striving 
alarm and warning my fellow men to prepare for 
the judgment. 
It is but a short time since I commenced in much 
fear and trembling. 
My mind was led to a dis-
trict in Fairfield, where there were some that had 
never heard on the subject of the Advent. 
When 
I commenced there were but three or four, that 
took part in the meeting ; but God has been with 
us, and revived his work; eight have been con-
verted, and others revived, so that now we have 
in that place eighteen or twenty that take part in 
meetings beside what attended from other places. 
All glory to God. 
We feel we have great reason 
to praise his name. 
We have had help from brn. 
for the kingdom to come, and much interested in James, and Merril, that God has blessed. 
I ex 
the truth, ready to assist the cause, and entertain 
the poor pilgrim on the way. 
On returning to Hallowell (March 4th,) I found 
the cause still prospering there, some new cases of 
conversion since I last wrote. 
Blessed be God for 
his goodness to us. 
I next went to Poland Corner 
where I found a meeting in progress in a new place 
for our message, entirely so ; the meeting had been 
held five days, and the whole village seemed to be 
aroused, and their attention to the glorious theme 
of the soon coming of Jesus, and many felt that it 
was time to seek for mercy, and become children 
of God. 
Brother S. S. Howard was laboring with 
them in word and in doctrine. 
Several had been 
converted and reclaimed, and others earnestly seek-
ing the Lord. 
It was truly an interesting time 
By invitation, I preached to them once ; it was a 
solemn meeting indeed. 
On the next day I went to Waterford to fill an 
appointment there. 
I spent eight days with the 
"little 
flock" 
there, preached to them 
fifteen 
times, found the interest had greatly decreased 
since I was there before (from some cause or oth 
er,) in the public mind. 
But the interest was in 
creasing with the brethren. 
I also had a very 
candid hearing on the part of some persons who 
seem to feel the force of the great and important 
truths that distinguish us from others. 
I think 
there are some who will profit by the word spoken. 
May the Lord bless it to their everlasting good 
Some sinners were deeply convicted of their duty 
to God, and some backslidden ones trembled about 
their condition. 
1 hope they may prepare to meet 
their God soon. 
The brethren were strengthened 
and somewhat encouraged to renew their efforts for 
the good of others. 
Could they unite their strength 
God would build them up and add to their num 
bers such as should be saved. 
I next went to Durham, where a few brethren 
have recently become interested in the faith of our 
Lord's soon coming. 
I spent last Sunday and 
Monday with them in preaching the word. 
There 
are men and means in that place, which if sancti 
fied to God, might tell much for the truth and the 
salvation of men. 
May the Lord direct them. 
Your brother, in hope of eternal life soon. 
I. C. WELLCOME. 
Hallowell, March 31 st, 1854. 
Letter from Akijah ilurd. 
BRO. HIMES :—I improve this opportunity to ex-
press to you my gratitude for the benefit I weekly 
receive from your valuable paper, the Herald. 
have become satisfied that no religious paper that 
has been published in our land, has thrown that 
light on God's prophetic word like this paper ; and 
no paper so directly calculated to benefit the church; 
and yet bow many there are that feel no interest in 
its perusal. 
0, what a fearful responsibility rests 
on professors of religipn, in rejecting the light God 
is giving to them in these " lastdays." 
It rejoices 
my heart to hear from our brethren and sisters 
scattered abroad. 
I am glad to hear that in many 
parts of our world, the Lord is doing a good work, 
and is waking up his people to their great duties. 
There is in this region a good state of religious 
feeling in the several churches, and God has done 
a good work in some parts. 
We have all confi-
dence still in the position we have taken in regard 
to the consummation of our hopes ; the " signs of 
the times " fully demonstrate this. 
I believe the 
position the Herald is taking on the time, is right; 
" near, even at the doors ;" although I have 
always been a lover of definite time, yet I should 
be satisfied to let God fix that matter. 
I feel, 
brethren, that our warfare is about accomplished, 
and if faithful, Christ will soon bring us to our 
reward. 
Yours, waiting for redemption, 
Middlebury, March 18th, 1854. 
ABIJAH HURD. 
Letter from O. Rockwell. 
BRO. HIMES :—I believe the time has come when 
God's servants are called to " go out into the high-
ways and hedges, and compel men to come in," 
that our Master's house may be filled. I feel that 
I have but one talent, yet, God has called me to 
the solemn and responsible work of sounding the 
pect to bury some with Christ by baptism soon, 
and organize a church that may walk in the ordi-
nances of God's House, till Christ shall come. 
1 should be glad if I were capable of writing for 
your valuable paper but as I am not, 1 must be 
satisfied to do what I can in recommending it, and 
getting as many subscribers as I can. 
I now send 
you the name of one new subscriber. 
Yours in 
hope of speedy deliverance.^ 
0. 
ROCKWELL. 
Note.—We wish our brother much success in 
his labors. 
He has taken a position in which he 
cannot fail to be useful, in gathering souls to 
Christ, and building up the cause. 
Would that 
all would take the same scriptural and healthful 
position. 
j. y. H. 
Letter from James Wolstenholmc. 
[A portion of this letter being accidentally omit-
ted last week, we reinsert it by request.] 
BRO. HIMES :—I steal a moment in the midst of 
my bustle and toil, to request you to stop sending 
the Herald to the address of my dear aged mother, 
Sheffield, England. 
She requests me to do so, al-
leging her reason to be that she cannot see to read 
it. 
And I regret to be obliged to believe there is 
not any one around her, who feels interest enough 
in the wonderful grace of God so manifestly set 
forth in its pages, and so clearly illustrated and 
brilliantly illuminated in all its rich effulgence in 
our Adventist apostolic doctrine, that it would 
seem that they who had eyes might see and be at-
tracted by its beauties, enough, at least, to read it 
to a poor, forlorn old widow in her infirmities, who 
has " ears to hear," so that her old heart mifht 
be revived and comforted with hope through a 
revival of her memory. 
But so it is ; even those 
who pretend to love the Lord, and cannot be at-
tracted by the preciousness of His ever blessed 
self, as it is set forth in this our blessed satellite 
of the glorious Bible, (the Herald,) are not much. 
Well—the blessed hope of his people, that sustains 
them in all their afflictions, and deilvereth them 
out of all their troubles, can and will sustain my 
aged mother, I doubt not, through her increasing 
privations, until the blind even shall see and the 
lame leap as a hart for joy and gladness, that they 
are at length personally associated with, and in the 
moral and physical likeness of him they loved so 
ardently before they saw him. 
However, I do not stop this to decrease the cir-
culation of our invaluable friend and companion. 
No ! but I want you to send this copy and another 
additional one, to some dear old widowed saints, 
of any color, clime, or condition, (so that they 
need it gratis,) who love the Lord and have ears to 
hear and eyes to see the rich jewels which are 
weekly displayed, or hear the heart cheering re-
ports of his preciousness, which we have in its 
pages. 
And by the Lord's help they shall be sup-
plied with it at my expense, until he comes to take 
them to his rest. 
These times in every aspect—the perilous work 
of truce-breaking, treachery, incontinence, both on 
this and the other side the Atlantic—are too clear-
ly ominous of the great desideratum of every Chris-
tian heart—the personal appearing of the blessed 
Lord to execute judgment for the meek of the 
earth—for those who are bowed down, especially 
the widows in their affliction, to be denied any help 
we can afford them, especially such as the Herald 
affords. 
Therefore " Slack not thy hand." 
Believe me, dear brother, as one in hope, 
JAMES WOLSTENHOLME. 
Providence (R 1), March Uth, 1854. 
JOHN FLETCHER. 
VICAR OF MADKLY ENG. 
THE memoir of this seraphic Christian, and gift-
ed minister of the Gospel—is very interesting and 
exceedingly profitable. 
And it is no disparagement 
of it to say that it is the biography of an Advent-
ist, as the following extracts will show . 
Page 159. 
" Let us love one another, serve our 
generation, and hopefully wait for the glorious 
revelation of the Son of God." 
In a letter " to 
the amiable and venerable Vincent Perronet, vicar 
of Shoreham," he says :—" 0, sir, if in this dis-
ordered, imperfect state of the Church, I meet 
with so much kindness, what shall I not meet with 
when the millennium you pray for shall begin! 0 
that the thought, the glorious hope, may animate 
me to perfect holiness in the fear of God ; that I 
may be accounted worthy to escape the terrible 
judgment which will make way for that happy 
state of things, and that 1 may have a part in the 
first resurrection, if I am numbered among the 
dead before that happy period begin! 
' 0 ! for a firm and lasting faith, 
To credit all the Almighty saith ! 
To embrace the promise of his son, 
And call that glorious rest our own !' 
"We are saved by hope at this time. 
But hope 
that is seen is not hope. 
Let us abound, then, in 
hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost; so 
shall we antedate the millennium, take the king-
dom, and enjoy, beforehand, the rest which remains 
for the people of God."—p. 205. 
In writing to a natural brother, he says:—" I 
am anxious, my dear brother, that you should come 
with me, to have your name written in the book of 
life, and be made free of that.ho!y city which shall 
one day descend from God out of heaven."—p. 231 
Again we find him declaring to Mr. Perronet, 
" Our Redeemer liveth, and when sickness and 
death shall have brought down our flesh to the 
earth, we shall by his resurrection's power, rise 
and live forever with him in heavenly places, 
For 
the new earth will be a heaven, or a glorious pro 
vince of the kingdom of heaven. 
With it we shall 
be restored to paradisiacal beauty, and filled with 
righteousness. 
Well: the meek shall inherit it, 
and that inheritance shall be fairer than yours at 
Chateau d'Oex, and surer too."—p. 245. 
In that well known letter of his, on the prophecies, 
supposed to have been addressed to Mr. Wesley, 
and published in the Herald in 1850, he boldly ad-
vocated the personal and pre-millennial advent of 
Christ, and declared that it " certainly " would 
take place before the third generation was swept 
away. 
That letter was dated A. D. 1775. 
ADDISON MERRILL. 
on this regenerated earth, to be forever with the 
Lord. 
Our dear sister felt no fear of death. 
Her 
last hours were sweetly tranquil. 
She breathed 
out her soul to him who gave it, without a strug-
gle or a groan. 
Well it may be said of her, 
" She died in Jesus and was blest, 
How sweet her slumbers are." 
Pilgrim's Home. 
0 LET me stand by Life's fair river, 
Far, far away; 
For that my heart is yearning ever, 
There's where the holy stay. 
For all this world is dark and dreary 
Everywhere I roam, 
Here the Christian sad and weary, 
Sighs for the pilgrim's home. 
0 let me walk in Eden's bowers, 
Changeless and pure, 
Blooming with unfading flowers. 
There's where the bliss is sure. 
For all this world is transitory 
Everywhere I roam, 
Far away from the world of glory, 
Far from the pilgrim's home. 
0 let me rest where troubles never 
Come to annoy; 
Where my Saviour reigns for ever, 
There's where there's fulness of joy. 
For often here in pain and sorrow, 
Sadly I roam, 
Hoping for a bright to-morrow, 
Safe in the pilgrim's home. 
HELEN. 
Letter from M. M. Maxwell. 
BRO. HIMES:—My heart was made glad when 
reading a few weeks since in the Herald a letter 
from one of the first that lectured in Poland on the 
second advent. 
And likewise the communications 
of others who have faithfully labored here. 
I wish 
to say, I still love the Lord. 
And in view of his 
loving kindness, feel to say in the language of the 
Psalmist, " Blessed be the Lord, because he has 
heard the voice of my supplications." 
" I love the Lord ; his gentle call, 
My young heart early won ; 
And he became my all in all— 
My fortress, shield, and sun. 
I love the Lord ; 'midst deepest woo, 
I called upon his name ; 
. And like a sunbeam's radiant glow 
His Spirit's comfort came. 
I love the Lord ; when he shall reign, 
King over earth and sea ; 
With him amid his ransomed train, 
I shall forever be." 
0 bless the Lord. 
0 glorious hope, my heart 
rejoices in the thought, to be forever with the Lord 
Yours truly, 
M. M. 
MAXWELL. 
Poland, March 20th, 1854. 
©bititam 
I am the resurrection and the life: he that believeth in me 
though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whosoever liveth, and 
believeth in me. shall never die.''—JOHN 11: 25,26. 
WE have to record the loss of a beloved sister 
and friend, in the death of Miss 
SUSAN W. 
DYER, 
who died on the 21st of March, 1854, in the 56th 
year of her age. 
Her sickness though short, was 
extremely painful, but she endured' all her suffer-
ings with patience and resignation, saying, the 
will of the Lord be done. 
The subject of this no-
tice became at the age of 16. a disciple of the Lord 
Jesus, and publicly professed her faith in the Re-
deemer. She ever maintained a consistent, devoted. 
Christian character ; was for many years a mem-
ber of the first Baptist Church in Boston. 
In the 
year 1843 her feelings became deeply interested in 
the doctrine of the second advent of Christ being 
at hand, and connected herself with Mr. Himes' 
church ;—from that period to her death, she con-
tinued to look in joyful anticipation of that hour 
when all the true discipleB of Christ would meet 
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"Scripture. 
Readings 
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(March 1st.) 
"Voices 
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(April 1st ) 
" Scripture 
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(May 1st.) 
" Voices of the Day." 
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THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
Contents of this No. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Franchise of the New Jerusa-
lem 
105 
TheTyran's Doom..,. 
106 
Phrenology 
......... 106 
Imperfection of Human Right-
eousness,........... 100 
The "Know-Nothings".... 106 
Passing Away (poetry) 
107 
Varieties 
107 
Great Fire in Birmingham.. 107 
A Sail Disaster 
107 
Foreign News 
107 
The Black Warrior Settlement 10' 
EDITORIAL. 
The Prophecy of Isaiah 
108 
Synchronism of the Advent, 
Kingdom, llesurrectihn &c . 108 
To Correspondents 
109 
The Improved Art of War.. 109 
New Works 
109 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Te Deum Laudamus........ 110 
John Fletcher 
Ill 
Pilgrim's Home (poetry).... Ill 
Address on the General Con-
ference of Adventists .. 112 
Letter from Saml. Chapman. 110 
" 
" 
Thos. Smith 
110 
" 
" 
I. C. Welcome... 110 
" 
" 
Abijah Hurd.... Ill 
" 
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O. Rockwell 
Ill 
" 
" 
J. Wolstenholm. Ill 
" 
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M. M. Maxwell.. Ill 
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ADDRESS 
OF 
THE 
COMMITTEE. 
BELOVED 
BRETHREN :—The notice for the 15th 
General Conference has appeared, and doubtless 
claimed your attention : but who among us sup-
posed when convened at our first general meeting, 
that we should have remained as " prisoners of 
hope," until an announcement like the above should 
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The perfect so-
lution of this mysterious problem is alone left for 
Him with whom " one day is as a thousand years 
and a thousand years as one day." 
Jehovah had his purpose in keeping Israel in 
the wilderness forty years, though the carrying 
out of that design wTas a sad disappointment to 
that people ; they supposing that their exode from 
Egypt would only be the prelude of their introduc-
tion to the promised inheritance; but after the 
Lord had taken them through a thorough course 
of disciplinary providence, he made known to them 
through Moses, the reasons for his thus dealing 
with them: " And thou shalt remember all the 
way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty 
years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove 
thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether 
thou wouldst keep his commandments or no. 
And 
he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and 
fed thee with manna which thou knewest not, nei 
ther did thy fathers know ; that he might make thee 
know that man doth not live by bread only, but by 
every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the 
Lord, doth man live." 
It appears to us brethren, unless we have greatly 
mistaken our position, that the connected circum 
stances of Israel's case, present some strikingly 
analogous features to our past history, and pres-
ent condition ; and that lessons of wisdom may be 
learned from a due appreciation of the facts in 
both cases. 
Brought then, as we are, to the pres 
ent time, and surrounded as we realize ourselves 
to be by the increasingly interesting developments 
of the times ; we cannot fail to be interested in an 
appointment for the assembling together of those 
who with equal concern and interest are watching 
the unfolding purposes of Him who hath declared 
the end from the beginning. 
There has been a period in our brief history as 
a people, when connected with an anticipation of 
an annual gathering there was a mixture of hop' 
and fear, with a predominance of the latter. 
But 
to the praise of Him who overruleth all things for 
the good of his people, that time is past, and now 
we have all to hope and nothing to fear. 
We 
therefore have no misgivings in saying that our 
anticipations are high for one of the best confer-
ences we have ever enjoyed : 
1. Because we doubt not that you, brethren 
will daily invoke the Divine blessing to accompany 
it, and the Saviour declares that if two of you shall 
agree on earth as touching anything that you shall 
ask, it shall be done for you of my Father which 
is in heaven. 
2.. We shall expect that every friend of the Ad 
vent cause for whom it will be practicable, will 
attend without fail, allowing no unlawful excuse 
to keep them away. 
Your time and money can 
not be better employed than by using both to come 
to this meeting. 
3. It is hoped that every Advent Society having 
a minister, will defray his expenses to and from 
the conference ; and that no poor minister will be 
compelled to remain at home for the want of funds. 
This will be a good investment, for which an am-
ple recompense will be given you in due time. 
Thus we shall have the tried and faithful servants 
of God present. 
4. Our present position will be Jully presented 
during the conference. 
This we consider is in 
justice due to you, to the world, and ourselves. 
We do not think that the present condition of 
things is sufficiently enigmatical to justify a very 
great diversity of sentiment but a correct under-
standing of which is calculated to unite our hearts 
more fully in our one faith and work. 
5. The accumulating evidences of our approach-
ing redemption fully show that we have not be-
lieved nor labored in vain ; but that the position 
taken by us years ago, is fully justified by the 
events of the present; and this consideration will 
be an important incentive to bring us together, 
and when together, united in mutual consultation 
on the further prosecution of the great work in 
which wre have jointly labored and suffered as heirs 
of the grace of life. 
The church in Providence has kindly invited the 
Conference there, where ample accommodations 
will be found for, and a hearty welcome given to 
all the friends who may attend. 
It is hoped, that all our ministering brethren 
who cannot possibly attend, will address a letter 
to the Conference. 
II. 
PLUMMER. 
L. 
OSLER. 
J. 
PEARSON 
JR. 
A. 
SHERWIN. 
J. 
V. 
IIIMES. 
subject of Turkey. 
These communications had 
been put into the form of a memorandum by Count 
Nesselrode. 
He had not seen this document for 
the last ten years, and was not prepared to say 
whether it would be produced. 
As to the com-
ments of the Times upon the document in ques-
tion, the noble earl disclaimed having the remotest 
conception of their origin. 
He could not conjec-
ture as to the source from which they were derived, 
unless it might be from a clerk in the foreign office, 
appointed by the Earl of Malmesbury, who was no 
longer in that department." 
" 
MAP 
OF 
THE 
SEAT 
OF WAR—Turkey the King 
of the North—Probable connection of the Present 
War and Soon Coming of Christ, as foreshown in 
Prophecy." 
We have published the above, which appeared 
in the Herald two weeks since, in a separate sheet, 
for general circulation. 
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APPOINTMENTS OF ELDER J.V. IIIMES.— 
Haverhill, Mass., Sunday, 9tb. all day. 
Abington, Tuesday evening, 11th. 
No. Attleboru', Wednesday evening, 12th. 
Westboro', Thursday evening, 13th. 
Hartford, Conn., Friday evening, 14th. 
New York City, Sunday, 16th. 
Newark, N. J., Tuesday evening, 18th. 
Morrisville, N, J., Wednesday evening, 19th. 
Philadelphia, Pa.,Thursday, and over Sunday, 23d. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
THE London Daily News says : 
" Sir Charles Napier's fleet is bound first for 
Wingo Sound, on the coast of Sweden, where the 
ships will anchor for a time. 
In that position the 
fleet would guard the outlet of the Kattegat, and 
enjoy the advantages of being r.ear a great town 
like Gottenburg, with its population of nearly 
30,000 souls. 
The next step would be to pass the 
Sound or the Great Belt and enter the Baltic." 
The Emperor of Russia, in his defence in the 
official journal of St. Petersburg, against the at-
tacks in the British Parliament, charges the English 
government with complicity in all the measures which 
they now condemn and threaten war against! 
This 
charge against the British ministry, of duplicity, 
has created a great excitement in England. 
In 
Parliament the matter was brought up by the Earl 
of Derby. 
The ministry, of course, throw back 
the imputation. 
The London Times defends the 
government, and in its behalf, speaking apparently 
with authority, says : 
We have not now to learn, for the first time, 
that before the Emperor Nicholas engaged in these 
extraordinary transaction, he had attempted, at 
various times, and in various forms, to lure almost 
every court of Europe to share in the plunder of 
Turkey. 
As long ago as his own visit to this 
country, he held the same language, and it may 
have been repeated in greater detail in the couise 
of last winter. 
But what answer did he get to 
these overtures ? 
What answer did he get when 
he sounded Lord John Russell, of all men in the 
world, on the subject of an eventual partition of 
Turkey 1 We confidently reply, that he was met 
by an indignant refusal on the part of the British 
Government." 
This development was made a subject of discus-
sion in the House of Lords on the 13th, of which 
we have the following report: 
" The Earl of Derby originated a discussion with 
reference to a document published in the St. Peters 
burg Journal, purporting to be a semi-official an 
swer from the Emperor of Russia to a speech of 
Lord John Russell in the House of Commons 
The assertions contained in that document, he con 
tended, were of a nature requiring explanation at 
the hands of the Government, 
because 
unex 
plained, they appeared to reflect upon their polit: 
cal, if not upon their personal honor. 
He said the 
document showed that, through unreserved com-
munications made to Sir Hamilton Seymour, the 
British Government had no right to express the 
least surprise at the course pursued by Russia with 
respect to Turkey ; and, referring to some com-
ments made by the Times, he complained of the 
betrayal of State secrets, which ought to be known 
ohiy to the Cabinet and the Sovereiorn. 
" The Earl of Aberdeen, in reply, said that if 
no reference had been made to the subject at all, 
her Majesty's Government would have felt it their 
duty to lay the correspondence alluded to in the 
St. Petersburg paper on the table of the House. 
It was true, he said, that when the Emperor of 
Russia was in this country, in 1844, he had some 
verbal communications with the Duke of Welling-
ton, and he believed with Sir Robert Peel, on the 
Appointments, &c. 
N. Billings will preach at Calais, Vt., from April 5th to 9th ; at 
Hardwick, from 13th. to 16th. 
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th, and continue over the Sabbath ; at Essex, Mass., iriday, 14th ; 
at South Reading, Sunday, 16th. 
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April.2d ; West Randolph, Thursday, 6th ; Waterbury, Sunday, 
9th ; Underbill Union, 10th ; Kssex, 12th ; Burlington, 13th ; Col 
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wells M nor, 21st; Odelltown Master schoolhouse, 22d, and El-
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A CONFERENCE will be held in the Karens neighborhood, to com-
mence April 15th, aud continue over the Sabbath. The design of 
the meeting is to forward the Advent cause in the Province. Let 
all that can come.—JOHN PEARCK, 1). CAMPBELL. 
JOHN PEARCE will preach on the evening of April 14th at Karnes. 
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