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upon the first day of the week. The word oc-
curs in several passages of the New Testament. 
The change began as early as the day of Pen- 
BY JOSHUA V. RIMES, 
tecost, when we read that the Apostles were 
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them. We find it mentioned that the disciples 
met together on the first day of the week " to 
break bread," i. e. to communicate. Again, we 
have Paul incidentally telling the Corinthians 
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to lay aside, or make their collections for the 
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poor on " the first day of the week," language 
which implies that it was a well known 4y, 
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disputed by none, but observed and hallowed by 
all. So we read here in the very commence-
ment of the Apocalypse, " I was in the Spirit 
on the Lord's day," meaning that day which 
was consecrated to the worship and service 
especially of the Lord Jesus Christ. It is al-
leged, however, that the fourth commandment 
makes the seventh day obligatory. I answer, 
it makes obligatory two things, the moral part, 
or a seventh portion of our time ; the ceremo-
nial part, or a recurring seventh day on which 
to hallow that seventh portion of time. What 
is moral is permanent as the stars ; what is 
ceremonial is changeable as the clouds that pass 
over them. The moral part of that command-
ment may be observed in every country, age, 
and clime ; the ceremonial part cannot be ob-
served precisely at the same moment in every 
part of the globe. For instance, our Sunday 
here is not Sunday at the antipodes! 7e 
farther east you go the earlier the day begir4f ; 
so that persons who are not noting very care-
fully the chronology, and making allowance for 
change of longitude, will in sailing from the 
antipodes lose a day, or miscalculate the days 
of the week. It is plain, therefore, that if the 
seventh day was obligatory, that day which was 
the seventh to the Jew could not be that period 
which would be the seventh day to the inhabi-
tants of the other side of the globe. But the 
kingdom of God is not meat, nor drink, nor 
ceremony, " but righteousness, and peace, and 
Christ.—Rev. 1:9. 
joy in the Holy Ghost." The moral part of 
Thus then John looked upon the past, and he the commandment, therefore, requiring a seventh 
saw the fulfilment of God's threatenings in the portion of our time, is obligatory everywhere ; 
destruction of Jerusalem. He looked around the ceremonial part is to be fixed by Apostolic 
at the present, and saw the spread of the Gospel precedent, or by the exact and indisputable pre- 
of Jesus ; he looked into the future, and saw scription of God. We find that immediately 
looming into view that dark superstition which after the resurrection of Jesus, converts from 
Paul described when he said, " The mystery of the Jewish religion observed both the Saturday 
iniquity doth already work." After having and the Sunday, though the Gentile converts 
thus then looked at the position of John, and at unanimously observed only the first day of the 
what one may suppose to have been John's week. Let me quote from the earliest Chris-
views and feelings, let me explain what is meant tian writers one or two short illustrations of 
by the phraseology here employed, "I was in the this. I do not quote the Fathers as a Tractariau 
Spirit on the Lord's day." I conceive that this would quote them, as if they formed part of 
means simply, " I was under the influence and our rule of faith, or as if their expositions of the 
special direction of the Spirit of God. Thus Bible were equal to those even of a Matthew 
in the Gospel of Mark we read of one "who Henry, a Scott, a Barnes, or any other other 
had an unclean spirit ;" but in the original it is intelligent commentator. The fact is, we can. 
 
" in an unclean spirit," plainly showing that the quote from the Fathers' sentiments and explana-
expression " in an unclean spirit " is equivalent tions contradictory of each other. As expositors 
to being under the influence of an unclean of the Scripture they are exceedingly imperfect; 
spirit ; and the parallel expression in the Apoca- as witnesses of facts, their testimony is most in-
lypse, " I was in the Spirit," plainly signifies, valuable. We care not whether it be Julian 
" I was under the influence of the Holy Spirit the Apostate, or Porphyry, or Justin Martyr 
of God." I do not think, therefore, that such that witnesses to a fact; we accept the fact on 
explanations as have been given by some corn- competent testimony. We reject for several 
mentators are correct, that John was in a trance, reasons their expositions of the Scripture. Jus-
or ecstasy, however well meant these expositions tin Martyr, who wrote forty years after John, but 
may be. As far as the word ecstasy means who was born before John died, makes the fol-
" being out of self," it may be properly used, lowing remark : " On the day called Sunday all 
for John was in the Spirit, and, in that sense, Christians meet together for religious worship." 
not himself ; he was under the special inspira- —(Apology, c. 9:17.) The word apology, I may 
tion and guidance of the Spirit of God. Scenes add, is used in an ecclesiastical sense, and means 
too bright to be borne by man, prospects of a defence ; thus Watson's Apology does riot 
grandeur and beauty which man could not fore- mean that the Bible needs a modern apology, 
see, shadows which man dared not forebode, but simply a defence or vindication. So Justin 
were all to be unfolded and made conspicuous Martyr, in vindicating the Christians to the 
to the mind of John, and it needed that super- Emperor, gives an account of their principles 
natural unction to enable and prepare him to and ceremonies. Another of the five apostolic 
behold and hear supernatural scenes. John was Fathers says, " We observed the eigth day with 
" in the Spirit " on a special day—" on the gladness," i. e. the first day of the week, on 
Lord's day." I wish to allude to this circum- which Jesus rose from the dead. Another 
stance particularly, because it is evidence of a Father, who wrote about one hundred years after 
great truth that some are disposed to deny, that the death of John, says, " We celebrate Sunday 
the Sabbath was observed by apostolic precept as a joyful day, and on that day we think it 
and apostolic example, not upon the seventh but wrong to fast or to kneel in prayer : we always 
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"Then we which are alive and remain, shall he caught up toge-
ther with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air ; and so 
shall we ever be with the Lord.
"—I Thess. 4:7. 
Forever with the Lord ! 0 can it be 
That this,briAt promise is for child of earth ? 
That fir the sons of frail mortality 
Is given this heritage of priceless worth ? 
Forever with the Lord ! Then to thy heart, 
Believer, take this star of hope to cheer 
And guide thy steps, whene'er in life thy path 
Is dark with woes, and all around is drear. 
Forever with the Lord ! Let this sure word 
Be a glad note, to quicken into life 
Those dead in sin, whose spirits have not heard 
Their Saviour's call to join the Christian strife. 
LECTURE IL—JOHN IN PATMOS. 
" I John, who also am your brother, and compan-
ion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of 
Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, 
for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus 
OR, 
Lectures on the Seven Churches of Asia Minor. 
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Forever with the Lord ! Soon shall the light 
Of the eternal day in splendor dawn • 
Then let us cast away the works of night, 
And take God's armor ere that night be gone. 
Forever with the Lord ! Then, at the last, 
We which remain shall meet him in the air ; 
The care, the grief, the joy of earths all past, 
With his redeemed the bliss of heaven to share. 
Forever with the Lord ! Ages shall roll 
Onward in ceaseless flow, yet still with Him 
We shall abide—blest portion of the sonl ! 
Laud to that of brightest seraphim ? 
Banner of the Cross. 
THE BELIEVER'S PORTION. 
Apocalyptic Sketches, 
BY JOHN CUMMING, D.D. 
stand in prayer on the Lord's day." And Igna-
tius, who, as I told you last Lord's-day evening, 
was the friend and disciple of John, thus writes, 
" Let every one who loves Christ keep holy the 
Lord's day." These are evidences, then, that 
this day was, by the example of our Lord, and 
by the precedent of the Apostles, acquiesced in 
as the Christian Sabbath, and from that day to 
this has been revered and treated as such.—
There is far more involved in the hallowing of 
the Sabbath than many are disposed to allow. 
The enemies of the Christian faith have failed 
to extirpate Christianity from the world. They 
have signally failed to invalidate the claims of 
the Bible to be a communication from God ; 
they therefore try now to degrade, and blot out, 
and expunge the Sabbath from the veneration of 
saints and from the fear of sinners. They do 
so, not by faggot and flame, vkich, thanks be to 
God, in our free land, they cannot employ ; nor 
yet by argument, and logic, and fact, which, 
thanks to the same God for the reason he has 
given us, they cannot successfully employ ; they 
labor to extinguish the Sabbath by other and 
more seductive means,—by the railway, the 
steamboat, the tea gardens, the various scenes 
of folly, and dissipation, and amusement, and 
profit in the neighborhood of a great metropolis. 
It is a painful fact that more people leave Lon 
don on Sunday morning by the rail and steam-
boat than meet together in all the churches and 
chapels that are in it. Sad it is that. God in his 
providence should have given u,.',.ch instru-
ments of rapid communication, and instead of 
makliq the additional time they leave us a rea-
allowing his Sabbath, we turn them 
ns for greater desecration of it. It 
oltaire alone that deluged Paris with 
atheism, but the extinction of its Sabbaths be-
fore he was born. It was not Fredric. the Great 
that destroyed Christianity in Vienna, but it was 
the desecration of its Sabbaths before he wa 
placed upon his throne. Get the Sabbath em-
bosomed in the hearts of a Christian people, and 
there is a guarantee and pledge stronger than 
acts of Parliament can confer, that. Christianity 
will bloom and flourish in their land. 
It is a well known law, too, that man must 
have a statedly returning respite from labor. It 
has been found and proved by some distinguished 
nature lists, that a horse worked seven days a 
week, year after year, will not do so much work, 
nor live so long, as a horse worked only six days 
in a week. And it has been proved with equal 
satisfaction that a man with mind and body 
ceaselessly on the stretch, will not only not long 
enjoy health, but will soon be the inmate of a 
premature grave. This is not fancy, but fact, 
the result of extensive experiment and induction. 
The heathens felt that they must have periods 
of relaxation, and, therefore, they had their 
holidays dedicated to their gods. The atheists 
of France could not do without a Sabbath, and, 
thereisore, they had decades, or a period at the 
end of ten days instead of seven. It is wrought 
into 4ie very constitution of humanity that man 
must have an alternation of toil and rest before 
he can do the greatest work and enjoy the 
greatest happiness. If this be so (and we can-
ny it), that man must have a respite, the 
is, How shall that respite best be reg-
, so that man shall enjoy health and 
gth upon the one hand, and that season of 
not to be abused or perverted by man's 
wicKedness on the other hand. Take away the 
restraints of the Christian Sabbath, and we 
shall have the Saturnalia of the heathen, or the 
abominations of the continent of Europe ; but 
retain all the. tifying influences and wise 
hristian 'Sabbath, and we 
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truths of the Gospel ; and it will be found that 
long life is the accompaniment of righteousness, 
and that they who " seek first the kingdom of 
God and his righteousness, shall have all other 
things added unto them." I speak thus of the 
Sabbath, because it is more assailed at this mo-
ment, probably, than any one institution of 
spciety. One delights to see that efforts have 
been made to interest the very humblest ranks 
in its maintenance, and that a peasant girl has 
lately written a very forcible defence of the 
Sabbath. 
Greater efforts have been made at various 
times to sap the foundations of the Sabbath, 
than directly and ostensibly to destroy the claims 
of Christianity, or the obligation of Baptism 
and the Lord's Supper. The Puseyite longs 
for the maypole and the Book of Sports as soon 
as the morning service is over; the Roman 
Catholic desires to see the playhouse open when 
mass is finished : the sceptic hopes for the ex- 
tinction of the Sabbath, because it reasons in 
his conscience of righteousness, and temperance, 
and judgment to come ; the debauchee votes for 
the cessation of the Sabbath, in order that he 
may have full swing for all the passions of his 
depraved heart without a solitary check; and 
the covetous man prefers to have the post-office 
open and the shutters of his sciop window down, 
that he may buy and sell, and get gain, though 
the result will be, that he will fail probably in 
the earthly aim he has in view, and will lose 
his own soul in seeking to be rich at the expense 
of the commands and requirements of God. 
John being thus in theSpirit on the Lord's 
day, heard the voice as of a trumpet behind 
This allusion is fraught V.ith useful and instruc-
tive ideas to every one that studies it. When 
the morning service of the temple at Jerusalem 
was about to begin, a trumpet announed the 
fact ; when the year of jubilee commenced, the 
silver trumpet announced it too ; and the sound 
of a trumpet was the tmpressive introduction to 
a great truth, or to a glorious scene, at all times; 
when God made his appearance on Mount Sinai, 
his presence was ushered in by the sound of a 
trumpet ; whatever public proclamation was 
made among the Jews was made by the sound 
of a trumpet. Thus we learn that the sound 
of a trumpet announcing the appearance of 
Christ, was indirect evidence that Christ was 
God ; and secondly, we learn that the sounding 
of a trumpet preceding the scenes of this book, 
is evidence that it was intended for public 
perusal, not for private and individual instruction 
only. The voice said to John, " Write." This 
is an answer to those who say Christ never 
commanded any portion of Scripture to be 
written; here is one portion expressly command-
ed by him to be written. There is nothing for 
which we ought to be more thankful to God 
than this, that the Bible is a written book. If 
the Bible had been left to tradition, we should 
have lost the truth long ago. Truth, left to the 
corrupting influence of human tradition, would 
have been perverted into some monstrous and 
extravagant legend. 
What John was to write was to be addressed 
to seven Churches. Why this number ? There 
were more Churches in Asia than seven. This 
number was probably chosen because seven is 
regarded in Scripture as a perfect number. 
Thus the seven days constitute one week; the 
seven prismatic colors constitute the pure white 
light ; seven sounds, or notes, constitute the per-
fect scale in music ; seven spiritual beings the 
one Holy Spirit ; the seven Churches represent 
the one Catholic or Universal Church. Some 
have suggestAi that these seven Churches are 
to be regarded as chronologically distinguished ; 
Ephesus the first, denoting the state of the 
Church during the first few centuries, and Lao-
dicea the last, representing the state of the 
Church just previous to the Millenium. I do 
not see that there is any foundation for this view. 
I think the addresses to the seven Churches are 
applicable to every age, and that John writes 
them just as Paul writes to the Romans, or the 
Corinthians, or the Philippians ; and we are to 
gather from these addresses not prophetic inti-
mations of what shall be, but practical instruc-
tion to all the people of Christ, of every name 
and denomination throughout, the world, for 
their progressive improvement in holiness, and 
their present joy and peace in prospect of the 
glory of God. 
I have so far explained in these prefatory re-
marks the circumstances of John, and the origin 
of the addresses to the seven Churches of Asia. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
END OF LECTURE II. 
Let me conclude this portion of my subject by 
this request—reverence the Christian Sabbath—
be thankful for such a respite, amid the din and 
turmoil of the world—hail it is an augury of 
the millennial rest, the " Sabbatismos " that re-
mains for the people of God. I believe that 
when the Apostle says, " There remaineth there-
fore a rest," or literally translated, " a Sabbath-
keeping for the people of God," he refers to the 
seventh millenary of the world. Clinton, the 
ablest chronologist of modern times, has proved, 
I think to demonstration, that the seventh thou-
sand year of the world begins in A. D. 1862; 
and no less remarkable it is, that all the great 
prophetic epochs terminate about that era, so 
that the sixth thousand year of the world closes, 
and the seventh thousand, which the Church 
looks forward to as her rest—her Sabbath, be-
gins, in the course of some fifteen or sixteen 
years. This Sabbath that we now enjoy, is an 
augury and anticipation of that; it is the hour 
of sunshine, in which we are to gather heavenly 
manna ; it is the day when we feel what we 
otherwise know that we are—freerrien, whom 
Christ makes free ; when we can shut our 
minds to the din, and rise above the toils of the 
world. Be assured that the best way to make 
the Sabbath respected by our statesmen and 
legislators, is to make it seen that it is loved, 
and cherished, and reverenced, by ourselves: 
If all Christians would only reverence the Sab-
bath, and show, in all respects, and under all 
circumstances, their thankfulness for it, we may 
depend upon it we should not need—however 
valuable they might be in their place—acts of Par-
liament, or the countenance of Cnsar to enforce 
it. It rests with the Christian Church, whether 
the Sabbath shall be expunged from the days 
of England, or revered for years to come, as it 
has been for years past, as the pearl of days, 
and valued as the princess of the week. 
Do I address any in affliction ? It was in 
tribulation, we are told, that John beheld the 
visions of glory and of beauty that are recorded 
in this book. It is through tears of sorrow that 
the eye has often seen most brightly the Lord 
of glory ; and when the great High Priest of 
the Church walks on his ceaseless watch amid 
the candlesticks, where, think you, does he bear 
the tones of the deepest adoration ? where does 
he see the radiance of the greatest sanctity ? 
It is not among the rich, that sip the fi.ill cup, 
or among the sensual, that eat and drink, and 
are merry ; it is where some poor man sleeps, 
the hard ground for his pillow, the blue firma-
ment for his curtain ; or where some sick one 
lies upon the bed of langushing, or some weep-
ing one sheds the tear upon the green turf that 
covers the remains of the loved and the near 
one. Through much tribulation we must enter 
into the kingdom of God. It is as brethren and 
companions in tribulation, that we shall see the 
brightest visions of God, and of his Christ. 
Let me ask you, in the next place, to seek the 
Spirit of God, to lead you into all truth. It 
was " in the Spirit " that John had the Apoca- 
lypse revealed to him : it is " by the Spirit " 
alone, that we can understand it. The knowl- 
edge of the original language may be valuable— 
acquaintance with philological criticism may be 
useful—but a higher acquirement still is to have 
the Spirt of God ; and if we ask the help and 
guidance of that Spirit, God has promised to 
bestow it. Let us, then, pray to God to give us 
that Holy Spirit, by which we may be enabled 
to love his Word, to venerate his Sabbath, to 
live to his praise ; and that when time shall be 
no more, we may be heirs of the kingdom of 
God, and shine like stars in the firmament, for 
ever and ever. 
The Coming of the Lord, 
Doctrinally and Practically Considered: 
BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF A COURSE OF LECTURES, DELIVERED IN 
BATH, ENGLAND. 
BY EDWARD GILLSON, 
LECTURE IL-OUR PRESENT POSITION IN THE PRO-
PHETIC CHRONOLOGY. 
The coming of the Lord draweth nigh.—JAMES 5:8. 
In my last Lecture, I intimated my design, at 
the next opportunity, of entering more fully into 
the importance of considering the time, as well 
as the circumstances, of the Second Advent. 
And by this, I do not mean the preCise investi-
gation of dates, so as to fix the hour or the day ; 
but simply the importance of so far inquiring 
into what is revealed upon the subject, that we 
may answer to the scriptural position in which 
we are really placed. And with this view, 1 
have chosen the words before us, for our present 
meditation. May the Lord of his mercy shed 
his light upon them. 
From the length of time which has already 
elapsed since the words were uttered, we are apt 
to take it for granted, that they were spoken in 
a figurative or comparative sense ; and that the 
same mode of interpretation which applied to 
them in preceding generations, must neces-
sarily belong to them still as addressed to our-
selves. But before we leap at such a conclu-
sion as this, let us carefully examine the evi-
dence of Scripture upon the point, and see 
whether we may not find reason to think other-
wise. I humbly conceive that a careful inquiry 
into collateral branches of the subject, will bring 
us to a very different conclusion. There doubt-
less has been a practical sense in which the 
words were intended to apply to every succes- 
sive period in the history of the Church, from 
the time they were delivered to the time of 
their fulfilment. But whatever their applica- 
tion to preceding ages, one thing is obvious—
that a generation must arise, sooner or later, to 
whom they will apply in their positive and lit- 
eral meaning; and to that generation they will 
speak with especial emphasis. It becomes us, 
then, diligently to inquire whether the Lord 
has provided any guiding light for that genera-
tion, whereby they may know their position, 
when it arrives, and thereby answer to his 
warnings exactly as they are intended to apply. 
If so, let us be wise, and get " upon our watch, 
and set ourselves upon the tower, and let us 
watch to see what he will say." Let us not be 
taking it for granted that the Lord still " delay- 
eth his coming," because he has already delayed 
it so long. If this be our spirit, he may come 
upon us by surprise, and lay against us the 
charge, " Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face 
of the sky ; but can ye riot discern the signs of 
the times ?"—(Matt, 14:3). If we be the gen-
eration to whom the words of our text emphati-
cally apply, may he open our ears to hear, and 
our hearts to receive, his warning voice. I pro-
pose then to consider :— 
The general sense in which the words of 
our text may be understood ; and, 
Their particular application to the present 
generation. 
" The coming of the Lord draweth nigh." 
When we look back upon the time which has 
already elapsed since these words were deliv-
ered, and still find the event referred to remain-
ing in the future, we may well be led to in-
quire, " What is the sense in which they are to 
be understood ?" 
In the first place, then, let us take a compre-
hensive view of all the circumstances connected 
with them : having an eye to him who is the 
speaker, as well as to the persons addressed. 
The Lord, then, is the speaker. The words 
were delivered by the Holy Ghost, through the 
mouth of the Apostle St. James ; and to man 
they are addressed. We must have an eye, 
then, to God on the one hand, and to man on 
the other. When we contemplate God as the 
speaker, we must remember the infinite span of 
his mind, 'which glances over " a thousand 
years as one day, and one day as a thousand 
years." We must also remember, that he un-
folds his purposes, " after the counsel of his 
own will." And, " his thoughts arq rot our 
thoughts, neither are his ways our wags." 
Again, when we look upon man as the party 
addressed, we must take into consideration the 
whole of man's history; observing the precise 
point which was then arrived at, and also the 
practical intent of the words delivered. The 
more we search into the treasures of divine 
truth, the more shall we learn of the manifold 
wisdom of God. His dealings are adapted to 
his purposes, and his method of revelation in 
harmony with both. Thus whilst his stupen-
dous plans are rolling on to their accomplish-
ment, human calculations are continually baf-
fled and confounded before them. We hear 
him speak, and form our expectations. We 
perhaps discern aright, as far as our discern-
ment goes. But we take in only a speck, in-
stead of embracing the whole of what is set be-
fore us. Hence, even when in a right track, 
our apprehensions continually fall so short of 
what is revealed, that we are constrained to say, 
" Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the 
great waters, and thy footsteps are not known." 
—(Ps. 8'7:19.) 
The wisdom of God is displayed, not only in 
the wonderful plans which he designs, and the 
works he performs, but also in the methods 
which he adopts for the development of his pur-
poses. Thus, as regards the general subjects 
of revelation, some truths are essential, as form-
ing the foundations of our faith ; and these must 
be embraced with a distinctness, which can 
admit of no misconception in an enlightened 
mind. Thus, for example, the death of Christ 
is the only foundation upon which a sinner? can 
build a hope of salvation. Therefore it is set 
forth in all the plain and positive accuracy with 
which it could possibly be presented ; and it 
must be embraced with the same accuracy of 
apprehension. Precision on this point is essen-
tial ; " for other foundation can no man lay 
than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ." 
The same may he said of the work of the 
Spirit ; for if " any man have not the Spirit of 
Christ, he is none of his." 
Again, there are other truths, which, though 
not possessing the same essential character, are 
nevertheless more or less calculated to edify, 
and lead us " on unto perfection."—(Heb. 6:1.) 
These are unfolded in such a manner, and pre-
sented to the mind in such a form, as strictly to 
maintain the harmony of divine truth ; and, at 
the same time, to produce, at all periods, the 
practical effects for which they are revealed. 
Thus, as we pass along our course, beholding 
the wonders of the Lord, as they are evolved 
from time to time, whilst we cannot but ex-
claim, " Great and marvellous are thy works, 
Lord God Almighty," we are compelled also to 
add, " Just and true are thy ways, thou King 
of saints."----(Rev. 15:3.) 
Amongst this class of revealed truths, the 
Second Advent of our Lord stands forth pre-
eminently conspicuous. The glorious coming 
of the Lord and his kingdom, ever constituted 
the great object of promise to.the' Church. But, 
in former periods, it was set, like a sun in the 
heaven, to cheer and enlighten from a distance ; 
it was not announced as an approaching event, 
near at hand. The Lord had first to come and 
suffer, and for this event the legal dispensation 
was preparing. But he had no sooner wound 
up that dispensation, by the first coming " for 
the suffering of death," than he ushered in the 
new dispensation, which carried, in its very an-
nouncement, the character it bore. He sent 
forth his disciples to preach " the gospel of the 
kingdom ;" that is, glad tidings of the king-
dom, They were now to announce the ap-
proach of the promised kingdom ; and, at the 
same time, the Lord put into the mouth of his 
Church the petition, " Thy kingdom come :" 
the proclamation and petition thus combining 
to fix the minds of his people upon the coming 
kingdom. But surely, the kingdom, without 
its King, would be no kingdom at all. The 
glorious coming of the Lord, then, " in his king-
dom," now became the grand object of an-
nouncement on the one hand, and expectation 
on the other. The slain Lamb—the risen Sa-
viour—the coming King—these are the topics 
of the gospel. " Repent ye, therefore, and be 
converted, that your sins may be blotted out, 
when the times of refreshing shall come from 
the presence of the Lord. And he shall send 
Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto 
you ; whom the heaven must receive until the 
times of restitution of all things, which God 
hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy pro-
phets since the world began."—(Acts 3:19.) It 
was thus that the Apostles went forth " preach-
ing Jesus and the resurrection ;" teaching men 
to turn from " idols to serve the living and true 
God ; and to wait for his Son from heaven." 
—(1 Thess. 1:9.) 
The Church was now brought into a new 
sphere of privilege and expectation. She still 
continues militant, and still expectant. But 
nw her liberty is greater, and the object of her 
el ectation is drawing nearer. And, surely, 
the Lord himself is that object. Yes, her senti-
ment has ever been that of the Psalmist, 
" Whom have I in heaven but thee ? and there 
is none upon earth that I desire beside thee." 
The preceding dispensation did not unfold this 
object of desire and promise, like the present. 
It was abundantly contained in the Old Testa-
ment Scriptures, but there was a veil on the 
face of Moses. The Church hovered around 
Mount Sinai, amidst " blackness, and darkness, 
arid tempest." She was then preparing to meet 
her suffering Lord, coming in humiliation to 
bleed and die. Therefore she was clothed in 
blackness and mourning, abounding in bleeding 
types and darkling shadows. Her Lord was 
coming, but not in his glory. He was coming 
as the lamb prepared for the sacrifice; coming 
to fulfil the bleeding types, and remove the 
darkling shadows of the law. Therefore he 
was not announced as coming in his kingdom, 
in his power and glory. He was announced as 
" a man of sorrows," coming to be " despised 
and rejected "—coming to be " stricken, smitten 
of God, and afflicted "—coming to be " wounded 
for our transgressions, and bruised for our ini-
quities." But after he came and fulfilled all 
this ; after being " once offered to bear the sins 
of many ;" then follows the glorious announce-
ment, He shall come " a second time, without 
sin unto salvation." This is now the grand 
object before us ; and it is that for which pre-
ceding ages and dispensations have been suc-
cessively preparing. Previous to the Law, the 
Church had not even the written word. Under 
the law, she had the letter ; now she has the 
spirit, and is preparing for her Lord in person. 
The present dispensation gives her light and 
liberty as compared with the preceding, but 
soon she will receive the supreme object of de-
sire ; and then " the Lord shall be unto her an 
everlasting light, arid her God shall be her 
glory.—(Isa. 60:20.) 
Thus, then, the Second Advent constitutes, 
not only an essential part, but a very prominent 
feature, in the gospel proclamation. But had 
it still been proclaimed only as a far distant ob-
ject, we should have had no more animation 
from it under the gospel than under the law. 
It would still have remained inoperative as a 
general subject of warning and encouragement. 
Are we, then, to conclude, that the Lord con-
descended to an evasion of the literal truth, in 
order to obtain a powerful instrument of practi-
cal utility ? No. God forbid. It was then 
literally true, as regarded the proportion of time 
to the purposes contained in the divine mind ; 
it was comparatively true, as regarded man's 
apprehension of those purposes. As speaking 
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Fletcher's Letter on the Prophecies. 
(SUPPOSED TO BE ADDRESSED TO JOHN WESLEY.) 
(Concluded.) 
Let none say, that Jesus himself, as 
man, knew not the end of the world ; and that 
Moses says, hidden things are for the Lord, but 
revealed ones for us and for our children ; I ac-
knowledge that the end of the world [by this 
phrase Mr. F. meant_ the final consummation, 
which according to his view was not till a 
thousand years, or more, after Christ's second 
appearing], and the time of the purification of 
this globe by dissolution and fire, in a secret too 
deeply hid in the glass of God's decrees for any 
man to fathom, before God himself is pleased to 
reveal it ; but nobody talks here of the end of 
the world ; nobody fixes the hour or day, nor 
even the year of Christ's second appearing; 
since he did not think fit to reveal it to us, we 
ought to stand in continual readiness for it. 
For, supposing this system to be true in all 
points, supposing the tribulation is to begin 
next year, it will still be impossible to deter-
mine whether Jesus will come down in ten or 
fifty years ; so that our Lord's words are true, 
in all their extent, even now, for that day and 
hour, and even that year, knoweth no man. 
Yet we expect to see the full cleansing of his 
sanctuary, by the fire of persecution ; the des, 
troying of Antichrist and unbelief, his great 
enemies ; the subduing of all nations to his easy 
yoke ; the calling of the Jews ; the fulfilling of 
God's gracious promises to that long-scattered 
seed of Abraham ; and the bringing of those 
times when the fear of the Lord shall cover the 
face of the earth, as the waters do that of the 
sea. Where is the child of God who dares to 
say, that all these things must not come to pass 
before the end of the world ; and if so, when 
should they happen but in the time he has been 
pleased to fix:in the Holy Bible ? Where is the 
man that makes God a liar, because he is an 
unbeliever ? Shall the Lord say, and shall he 
not do ? Shall he promise, and shall he not 
perform ? If he has borne with the wickedness 
of the world so long, not being willing that any 
man should perish, shall he delay to all eternity, 
to fulfil his threatenings ? God forbid ! the 
day is fixed, it is foretold ; and though the 
vision was to be after many days, as the angel 
said to Daniel, yet it may be fulfilled in a few 
days for us; who live in the last times. 
It is lawful, yea needful, that we and our 
children should often think of these things; for 
hidden things are for the Lord, but these are re-
vealed for us and our children : they are re-
vealed in all the prophets from Moses to John, 
and more especially in the Revelation of this 
beloved apostle. Let but those objectors ponder 
the word A3-0xexxvkliic, [Revelation] and th ey 
the mind of God, the space of time which inter-
vened was nothing. As addressed to man's 
apprehension, the event was now comparatively 
near. Age after age had rolled away, and the 
latter day, which was to bring in the long pro-
mised event, was now commenced. Preceding 
ages had intervening. 
 dispensations interposed. 
Thus, " Enoch, the seventh from Adam, pro-
phesied saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with 
ten thousand of his saints."—(Jude 14.) But 
this was prior to the deluge. Job, again, pro-
phesied of his Redeemer's coming when his own 
body should be raised ; but this was before the 
law. Daniel, again, under the law, was look-
ing forward " to stand in his lot at the end of 
the days." But it was still afar off. Still 
there was an intervening object, and another 
dispensation. The Lord had first to come and 
suffer. But now there is no longer an inter-
vening object. The last day is now ushered 
in ; and therefore, whether this day be long or 
short, after the succession of days which have 
preceded, the event may be correctly announced 
as drawing nigh. 
Moreover, it was the only way in which we 
could well imagine that it could then be cor-
rectly set before the Church. The divine vol-
ume was at this period completed ; it was, 
therefore, about to be closed, and handed down 
for the use of succeeding ages. Hence the great 
event for which the Church was now to be pre-
paring, was held forth as on the approach ;—
" The Lord is at hand ;" " Let your loins there-
fore be girded, and your lights burning ; and be 
ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their 
Lord." Such is the warning voice which is 
now lifted up. It will speak more and more 
vividly as the time draws on, until at length it 
will fall upon the ears of a generation, whom it 
will address in the most literal and positive 
sense. And if they be not aroused, they will 
be surprised in their slumber by the event itself ; 
for the Lord shall come " at an hour when they 
are not aware, and appoint them their portion 
with unbelievers." 
The question, then, for our consideration, is, 
whether we ourselves may be that generation ; 
and if so, we may well inquire, " What manner 
of persons ought we to be in all holy conversa-
tion and godliness, looking for and hasting unto 
the coming of the day of God ?"--(To be con-
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will be ashamed to say, that we must not look 
into those things because they were never re-
vealed unto us. 
4. If Jesus told his disciples, that it was not 
theirs to know the times when those things 
should be accomplished, it does not follow that 
it must be hid from tots, who are far more nearly 
concerned in them than they were ; besides, 
how should they have understood and bore those 
things, before they had received the Comforter, 
since they thought them bitter, after they had 
obtained the divine gift, when they had some 
knowledge of them ? Add to this that Daniel's 
vision was to be closed till the end, and could 
not be perfectly known till very near the time 
of the fulfilling of it. 
" 5. It is remarkable that more books have 
been written upon the prophecies these last hun-
dred years, than were ever known before, and 
all, (those at least which I have read,) agree 
that these things will, in all probability, soon 
come upon the earth. I know many have been 
grossly mistaken as to the year, but because 
they were rash, shall we be stupid ? because 
they said, " TO-DAY," shall we say, " NEVER ;" 
and cry, " peace, peace," when we should look 
about us with eyes full of expectation ? 
I know, that a good part of a hundred thou-
sand Protestants, scattered in France, expect 
some great revolution, that will turn at last for 
their good, and re-unite them to the children of 
above 200,000 of their brethren, that were either 
expelled the kingdom, or forced to leave it, be-
cause they would not take the mark of the beast 
in their hands, or on their-foreheads. 
" Let us not judge rashly, nor utter vain pre-
dictions of the name of the Lord : but yet let us 
look about us with watchful eyes, lest the enemy 
take an advantage of us, and we lose the oppor-
tunity of rousing people out of their sleep, of 
confirming the weak brethren, and building up 
in our most holy faith, those who know in whom 
they have believed. If we are mistaken in 
forming conjectures ; if the phenomena we 
hear of everywhere, are but common providen-
ces ; if these things happen not to us, but to 
our children, (as they most certainly will, be-
fore the third generation is swept away ;) is it 
not our business to prepare ourselves for them, 
to meditate on them, and to warn as many 
people as we can prudently, lest their blood 
should be required at our hands, were they to 
fall because of a surprise ? Let us pray to God 
more frequently, that for the elect's sake, he 
would still more shorten the days of the tribu-
lation, and add daily to the true church such as 
will be saved. But let us not forget to rejoice 
with Abraham, in seeing by faith, the glorious 
day of our Lord, and to hasten by our fervent 
prayers, that glorious kingdom, those happy 
days, when narrow shall be the way of destruc-
tion, when saints raised from the dead shall 
converse with living saints, and the world of 
spirits be manifested, in a great measure, to the 
material world ; in a word, when Jesus will be 
all in all. 
What a glorious prospect is this ? Let us 
then often think of these words of our Lord, 
Behold I come quickly ; blessed is he that mindeth 
the sayings of this prophecy. Let us join the 
Spirit and the Bride, who say " Come," 0 let 
him that heareth say " Come," and let him that 
is athirst come ; for he that tesqfieth these things 
saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so, 
come, Lord Jesus. 
J. F. 
" London, Nov. 29, 1775." 
The Resurrection and the Life. 
The resurrection and the life ;" these are 
thy magnificent titles, Captain of our salvation ! 
And therefore, we commit to thee body and 
soul ; for thou hast redeemed both, and thou 
wilt advance both to the noblest and most splen-
did of portions. Who quails and shrinks, 
scared by the despotism of death ? Who among 
you fears the dashing of those cold black wa-
ters which roll between us and the promised 
land ? Men and brethren, Christ Jesus has 
" abolished death ;" will ye by your fearfulness 
throw strength into the skeleton, and give back 
empire to the dethroned and the destroyed ?—
Yes, the resurrection and the life " " abolished 
death." Ye must indeed die, and so far death 
remains undestroyed. But if the terrible be 
destroyed when it can no longer terrify, and if 
the]injurious be destroyed when it can no longer 
injure ; if the enemy be abolished when it does 
the work of a friend, and if the tyrant be abol-
ished when performing the offices of a servant ; 
if the repulsive be destroyed when we can wel-
come it, and if the hideous be destroyed when 
we can embrace it ; if the quicksand be abol-
ished when we can walk in it and sink not, if 
the fire be abolished when we can walk through 
it and be scorched not ; if the poison he abol-
ished when we can drink it and hurt not then 
is death destroyed, then is death abolished, to 
all who believe on the " resurrection and the 
life," and the noble prophecy is fulfilled, (bear 
witness, ye groups of the ransomed, bending 
down from your high citadal of triumph !) " 0 
death, I will be thy plagues; 0 grave, I will be 
thy destruction." 
" I heard a voice from heaven "-0 for the 
angel's tongue, that words so beautiful might 
have all their melodiousness—saying unto me 
" Write blessed are the dead which die in the 
Lord from henceforth ; yea, saith the Spirit, 
that they may rest from their labors, and their 
works do follow them." It is yet but a little 
while, and we shall be delivered from the bur-
den and the conflict, and with all those who 
have preceded us in the righteous struggle, en-
joy the deep raptures of a Mediator's presence. 
Then re-united to the friends with whom we 
took sweet counsel upon earth, we shall account 
our toil only to heighten our ecstacy, and call 
to mind the tug and din of the war, only that, 
with a more bounding throb, and a richer song, 
we may feel and celebrate the wonders of re-
demption. And when the morning of the first 
resurrection bursts upon this long distracted and 
groaning creation, then shall our text be under-
stood in all its majesty, and in all its marvel ; 
and then shall the words, whose syllables mingle 
so often with the funeral knell, that we are dis-
posed to carve them on the cypress tree rather 
than on the palm, " I am the resurrection and 
the life," form the chorus of that noble anthem, 
which those for whom Christ " died, and rose, 
and revived," shall chant as they march from 
judgment to glory. 
M. Miller. 
Genuineness of the Scriptures. 
Before we can have confidence toward God, 
we must not only be persuaded of His existence 
and of his possessing certain attributes, as power, 
wisdom, and goodness, on which we might build 
our confidence; but we must know His disposi-
tion towards us, whether he is inclined to re-
ceive our confidence and to grant us that for 
which we place in Him our trust. Without a 
revelation from Him, we should be wholly in 
the dark on this momentous subject. Had we 
never sinned against Him, we might infer from 
the general beneficence manifest in all His 
works, that He would take delight in protecting 
us and supplying all our wants. But conscious 
as we are of guilt, the case is widely different. 
We must regard Him as an offended Sovereign, 
and we cannot tell, till he be pleased to break 
silence and inform us, whether He is disposed 
to be reconciled to us, and on what terms His 
favor may be regained. On this point the ap-
pearances of the natural universe give us no in-
formation whatever. We can see in them, in-
deed, indications of the moral character of God, 
as well as of His natural attributes, We can 
see that He is good ; but we can see also that 
He can exercise severity, when He deems se-
verity to be necessary. We see the traces of 
His severity, drawn particularly around the 
globe on which we dwell. Beyond the pre-
cincts of our habitation, amidst the suns and 
planets of astronomy, all, so far as we can dis-
cern, seems to be order and harmony.. But 
around the dwelling-place of man, there are evi-
dences of displeasure collected, which cannot be 
mistaken. The sun-shine and the genial warmth, 
the refreshing showers, and the verdant land-
scape, are intermingled with howling tempests, 
and blasting lightnings, with bitter frosts and 
scorching heats. God evidently frowns as well 
as smiles upon us. The aspect of nature around 
us, in perfect harmony with the revelation 
which God has given to us of Himself, in His 
word, forces us to exclaim with the Apostle, 
" Behold the goodness and the severity of God !" 
From anything that we could gather out of the 
appearances of nature, the character of God 
would stand unimpeached, if He should let 
loose one furious, wide-wasting tempest and 
sweep our whole race to destruction. It was 
not merely as a punishment to man, that the 
ground was cursed for his sake. It was to pre-
vent him from being deceived by a scene of un-
mingled goodness ; and tempted to imagine that 
God was incapable of exercising severity upon 
the guilty. Until, therefore, we receive a reve-
lation from God, we have no foundation for con-
fidence in Him. We might as well trust to 
Him for uninterrupted ease to our bodies, and a 
continual supply of temporal comfort, as for the 
protection and peace and happiness of our souls. 
Yet every one knows how vain such a trust 
would be. We know not for what we may 
look to Him, what confidence we may safely re-
pose in Him, till He is pleased to inform us. 
We must therefore believe, that the Scriptures 
are the word of God, before we can have any 
faith or confidence in God. But, belieVing this, 
although necessary as a foundation for faith, is 
no more faith in God, than believing His exist-
ence is faith in Him. We believe that the 
Scriptures are His word, on certain external 
and internal evidences, that they were inspired 
by Him; and our belief only argues faith, or 
confidence in these evidences. If we receive a 
letter from any person at a distance, we may 
firmly believe that the letter was written by 
him, without having any confidence in him. 
We may be acquainted with his handwriting, 
or his style of language ; or the channel through 
which the letter came to us may fully convince 
us that he was the author of it ; and yet, so 
little confidence may we have in him, that we 
may not believe one syllable of what is con-
tained in the letter. Just so the Scripture 
comes to us as a Letter from God ; and we may 
be satisfied by certain internal marks, or by the 
channel through which we have received it, or 
by evidence, which the persons who conveyed 
it to us may be able to lay before us, that the 
Scripture is really from God, dictated and sent 
by Him. But this does not amount to faith in 
God. We may believe all this, and not believe 
a single doctrine contained in the Scripture. 
Men may examine accurately, arid write or 
speak learnedly, on the divine origin of the 
Scriptures, and yet, not have one spark of faith 
or confidence in God ; no, not so much as to 
induce them, really and seriously, to 'believe 
one single statement made in Scripture, on the 
credit of God's veracity. Men are born into 
world under the influence of an evil heart of 
unbelief, and no man is disposed to believe what 
God has revealed so as to have confidence in 
God, until the Holy Spirit take away the stony 
heart and give him a heart of flesh. So long 
as man continues in this hardened state, God 
can hold no measures with him. All commu-
nication is stopped, and the first renewal of army 
friendly intercourse between God and any soul 
of man, is the introduction of a disposition to 
hear and to believe what God has to say, 
Protestant Churchman. 
Popery and Paganism. 
The following extracts from the Churchman's 
Monthly Penny Magazine, will show the pagan 
origin of several Papal rites and customs, and 
many others of them may be traced to the same 
source : 
THE SUPREMACY OF THE POPE. 
The high priest, or Pontifex Maximus, of old 
Rome, possessed the greatest authority and dig-
nity in the republic, and, according to the ex-
pressed statements of Cicero and Livy, was con-
sidered arbiter and judge of all things, civil as 
well as sacred, human as well as divine ; all 
other priests were .subject to him ; he was cho-
sen from the college of Pontifices, just as the 
Pope is chosen from the order of cardinals, and 
he retained his office for life. 
. THE BURNING OF LIGHTS ON ALTARS. 
Every one, in the slightest degree acquainted 
with Popish countries, knows that this practice 
is to be seen everywhere and at all times, and 
the perpetual lamps and candles of heathen an-
tiquity are likewise constantly referred to by 
such authors as Pliny, Cicero, Virgil, &c. The 
primitive Christians were accustomed to expose 
the absurdity of this practice. How little did 
they think that it would be adopted by their 
own descendants ! " They light up their can-
dles to God," says Lactantius, " as if he lived 
in the dark ;" but do they not deserve to rank 
as madmen who offer lamps to the Author and 
and Giver of Light ?" 
VOTIVE OFFERINGS. 
These, too, it is well known, are to be seen 
suspended everywhere before the shrine of the 
Virgin and the saints, either pictures of cures 
wrought through the instrumentality of saints, 
Or small waxen models of legs, arms, hands, 
feet, horses, oxen, &c., as the case may be. 
They are exact copies of heathen originals, to 
be seen at this very hour in the British Museum, 
and in the cabinets of lovers of antiquity. No 
one ancient heathen custom is so frequently 
mentioned. 
INCENSE. 
In all the old sculptures of heathen sacrifice, 
may be seen a boy, in a sacred habit, attending 
the priest in a white garment, with a small box 
of incense for the altar, just in the same man-
ner as the priest of the Church of Rome is at-
tended at this very day. With such fortitude 
did the first Christian martyrs oppose the use of 
incense, that a mode of trying and convicting 
them was merely to throw a grain of it into the 
censer, or on the altar, and upon their; refusal 
to do so their lives were forfeited. 
CANONIZATION. 
The ancient priests found it necessary to per-
suade the people that certain individuals, many 
of whom, as for instance, the Caesars, had been 
monsters of iniquity, were honored by the espe-
cial favor of heaven, and worthy to be placed 
among the gods themselves. In consequence 
of which their public deification took place, with 
every circumstance calculated to impose upon a 
gross and idolatrous people.—In order, however, 
to the validity of the ceremony, it was necessary 
for some duly attested miracle to be performed 
as an intimation of the favor and will of heaven. 
—How closely this Pagan original has been 
copied by the beatification of certain individuals 
by modern Rome, and not without the machinery 
of miracles likewise, it is almost needless to re-
mark. Nor are the character of many thus 
canonized, of a much higher moral standard 
than their heathen prototypes. 
HOLY WATER. 
The aquaniniarum of the Romans was a vase 
of holy water, placed by the heathens at the en-
trance to their temples, wherewith to sprinkle 
themselves. And it is remarkable that the Je-
suit Lacerda, in a note on Virgil, (.1En. 6, 230,) 
himself observes, "Hence was derived the cus-
tom of our holy church to provide purifying or 
holy water at the entrance of the churches." 
The early fathers speak of it as a custom purely 
heathenish, and condemn it as impious and de-
testable. 
PILGRIBIAGES. 
The ancients believed, as indeed many mod-
ern pagans do in the present day, that some 
places were more holy than others ; that visit-
ing such places was highly meritorious, that it 
tended to satisfy Divine justice, and to obtain 
the favor of heaven ; pilgrimages to such spots 
were constantly an essential part of their reli-
gion. 
PROCESSIONS. 
" By the establishment," says Plutarch, " of 
supplications and processions to the gods, which 
inspire reverence while they amuse the specta-
tors, and by pretended miracles and Divine ap-
pearances, he (Numa) reduced the fierce spirits 
of his subjects under the power of superstition." 
—(Plutarch, in Numa Pompilius.) The follow-
ing is a description of one of the religious pro-
cessions by Apuleius :—" The chief magistrate 
used frequently to assist, in his robes of cere-
mony, attended by priests in white vestments, 
with wax candles in their hands, carrying upon 
a pageant, or thensa, the images of their gods, 
dressed out in their best clothes ; these were 
followed by the chief youths, in white linen 
vestments, singing in honor of the god whose 
festival they were celebrating, accompanied by 
crowds of persons of the same religion, with 
flambeaux or wax candles in their hands." Can 
any one read this passage without being re-
minded of pageantry to be witnessed every day 
in such countries as Italy, Spain, and Portugal ? 
LYING WONDERS. 
The wiser heathen no more believed in the 
truth of their prodigies, than do the modern 
priests of Rome give credit to the legends to be 
met with in their Martyrologies, Lives of the 
Saints, &c. ; but, exactly like their successors, 
they defended them as " pious frauds," to which 
it was necessary to resort, in " order to keep up 
the devotion of the peole." 
Rome boasts of antiquity, and it may be con-
ceded to her, but it is antiquity of a more remote 
and darker age than that to which she lays so 
authoritative a claim.—Her doctrines and her 
practices may well shun the light, for they savor 
of a period ere yet the Sun of Righteousnes 
had arisen upon this benighted world. To dis-
pel such darkness was the first object of his ap-
pearing. 
THE YOUNG INFIDEL.—The following sad ac-
count of a young man who for a time attended 
the ministry of the Rev. Baptist Noel, of Lon-
don, illustrates the fearful consequences of 
breaking away from the influence of the gospel : 
The young man was the son of pious parents, 
and for several years was regular in his attend-
ance at the house of God. At length he be-
came acquainted with some young men of infi-
del principles. The more he associated with 
them, the less pleasant he found it to listen to 
the gospel. Ere long lie absented himself 
wholly from the sanctuary. He then began to 
indulge in the pleasures of sin ; and went to 
such lengths in criminal indulgence, that he 
soon laid the foundation of a fatal illness. Three 
months after he had abandoned the house of 
God, he was on the verge of the grave. Mr. 
Noel was then called to visit him. The dying 
youth refused to converse with the man of God ; 
but covered his head with the bed-clothes. Af-
ter several vain attempts to enter into conversa-
tion with him about that Being before whom lie 
was soon to stand in judgment, Mr. Noel offered 
a prayer for him, and was about to quit the 
apartment. Just as his hand was upon the latch 
of the door, the young man made an effort to 
sit up in bed, and asked Mr. N. to stay a min-
ute. Mr. N. returned to the bed-side. The 
sufferer's strength was well nigh exhausted. 
He whispered in the ear of Mr. Noel the appall- 
ing words, " lost." 
He sunk down in the 
bed, drew the clothes over his head, and never 
spoke again. 
THE GUILT OF UNBELIEF.—We have seldom 
seen the built of unbelief more powerfully stat-
ed, than it is by Erskine, who maintains that 
the great sin of it in relation to the gospel, con-
sists in this : it rejects God's own " exemplifica-
tion " of those great abstract principles of jus-
tice and mercy, which, when considered as " ab-
stract principles," all men profess to approve 
and applaud. 
SONGS IN THE NIGHT.—When thou saidst, 0 
Saviour, The night cometh, when no man can 
work, thou didst not mean to exclude the work 
of praise. There is no time wherein that can 
be unseasonable ; yea rather, as all our artificial 
melody is wont to sound sweetest in the dark, 
so those songs are most pleasing to thee, which 
we sing in the saddest night of our affliction, 
0 God, it is easy for those whose bones thou 
bast filled with marrow, to be cheerful : but to 
make the bones which thou hast broken to re-
joice, it is doubtless the praise of thy mercy.—
It is a true word of Elihu, " Thou only, 0 God, 
our Maker, art he that givest songs in the night." 
lie 2b-ucitt f)tralb. 
"BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!" 
BOSTON, SA.TURDAY, JUNE 29, 1850. 
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a legible hand, carefully punctuated, and headed, "For the Herald." 
The writing should not be crowded, nor the lines be too near to-
gether. When they are thus, they are laid aside unread. Before 
being sent, they should be carefully re-read, and all superfluous 
words, tautological remarks and disconnected and illogical sen-
tences omitted. 
Everything' of a private nature should be headed "Private." 
In sending names of new subscribers, or money for subscrip-
tions, let the name and Post-office address (i. e., tne town, county, 
and state,) be distinctly given. Between the name and the address, 
a comma (,) should always be inserted, that it may be seen what per-
tains to the name, and what to the address. Where more than one 
subscriber is referred to, let the business of each one constitute a 
paragraph by itself. 
Let everything be stated explicitly, and in as few words as will 
Live a clear expression of the writer's meaning. 
By complying with these directions, we shall be saved much per-
plexity, and not be obliged to read a mass of irrelevant matter to 
learn the wishes of our correspondents. 
our flesh feeds our guilty conscience. His wearing 
our flesh still, meets our feelings. " In Him," it 
has been said, " we see GOD'S heart, and character, 
and government all laid open, and man's full salvation 
lying perfect and free in its bosom." The history of 
all Gon's holy love is there—in Him. And what we 
sometimes call real and vital religion, is, properly and 
truly, acquaintance with him, a true and vital acquaint- 
ance. All is made to centre in the person of CHRIST ; 
the contemplations and affections of the believer 
travelling between his abasement and his exaltation, 
and finding in JESUS, under both aspects together, 
a complete salvation. 
But in addition to keeping clearly before us the 
true Gospel, this fixing of our eye on CHRIST'S 
Person leads us to assurance of hope.* The very 
thought of the Lord's Second Coming raises in 
us the conviction that we need assurance of our 
salvation ere we can welcome that event which 
opens eternity. The man who is to delight in 
CHRIST'S Second Coming must. have not only a hope, 
and a good hope, of his own salvation, but must have 
assurance of eternal life in Him, rejoicing in that 
blessed hope as being his sure heaven. And while 
this prospect of the Lord's Coming enforces the ne-
cessity for " making our calling and election sure," 
it does at the same time, greatly aid the believing 
soul in so doing. For, it concentrates his attention 
on the Person of IMMANUEL, and, in so doing, it puts 
him in the true posture of one who would see full 
grounds for rising above all fear. Fixing his whole 
soul on IMMANUEL himself, the believer finds therein 
such abundant proof of Goo's ability to clear away 
the guilt of the guilty as gives his soul deep, deep 
rest. In the act of looking on this Saviour, he sees 
" Peace in heaven and glory in the highest."—Luke 
19:38. Like the wise men gazing on the re-appear- 
ing star, he rejoices with exceeding great joy in the 
certainty of what is in Jams, or in the certainty of 
what is in the bosom of Godhead, toward the coming 
sinner. His warrant for assurance is the fulness of 
grace in GOD, not some particles of holiness in him-
self; and hence, as he meditates on the Person of 
JESUS, the Divine warrant to sinners sparkles in his 
view so gloriously, that he cannot see room for hesi-
tation. 
It is in such ways as these that this blessed hope 
is fitted to send us ever back to the Gospel tidings. 
Instead of drawing us from the First Coming, its 
legitimate influence is all the other way. Although 
it has become common to brand the constant reference 
to CHRIST'S Second Coming with the imputation of 
perniciously tending to make us undervalue his First 
Advent, the truth is altogether otherwise. 
It may be said, however, " Has not this fieen the 
fact ? Have not very many who most enthusiastically 
proclaimed their interest in the Lord's Second Com- 
ing, shown comparatively a slight interest in the 
Gospel of his suffering unto death?" This we do 
not deny. But we unhesitatingly assert, notwith- 
standing, that their neglect of the Gospel was not 
caused by their attention to the Second Advent. No ; 
it was in some cases caused by previously-existing 
tendencies to change ; so much so, that many of this 
class will be found to have lost very much of their 
interest in this very matter, after the lapse of a few 
years. In others of them, this neglect of the Gospel 
arose from their not sufficiently attending to what is 
set before us in the Second Advent. Pre-millennial ism 
is excitable if seperate from the other truths of Scrip-
ture, but is not so at all in connexion with other truth. 
As we say of a gloomy Christian, "He is gloomy, 
not because of, but in spite of his religion." Or of 
an inconsistent professor, " He is unholy, not because 
he has Gospel views, but because he has too little of 
them." So we say in this case. These persons 
have not attended sufficiently to that very object which 
unhappily leads them to neglect the Gospel. They 
ought to have attended to it more. They ought to 
have penetrated to the kernel ; whereas they have 
been satisfied with the shell. They have gazed on 
the glorious robe in which the Coming One is to be 
attired, and there their eye lingers ; but had they 
pressed on farther, and gazed niore intently on his 
person, they would have been of necessity fed with 
the Gospel, and been more than ever absorbed in the 
Gospel. 
This is our reply to all who so fondly excuse them-
selves from attending, to this matter, by alleging that 
it has turned some away from the Gospel. We charge 
them with superficial study of the matter, and with 
most inconclusive reasoning. Mr. BROWN, in his late 
work against the Pre-millennial theory, has not Hien 
into this error. On the contrary, he has stated his 
conviction, that the Church loses very great blessing 
when its attention is turned away from this subject, 
saying, that " It is an expectation which nothing else 
can compensate the loss of."—P. 385. And then he 
adds, " They love his appearing, because they love 
* There are three kinds of assurance mentioned in the Word, and 
alley are often misunderstood. Tliefirst is, assurance of .faith Web. 
10:22), certainty of acceptance, arising from the belief of God's tes-
timony. 2. Full assurance of understanding (Col. '2:2), the soul 
getting more and inure established according as it sees the fulness 
and riches of Christ. 3. Assurance of hope (fleb. 6:I1:, which is 
the saved rnan, in possession of acceptance, looking into the future 
for the things hoped for, sure he shall yet have them all. 
THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST, AS IT 
AFFECTS THE UNSAVED AND THE SAVED. 
(Concluded.) 
II. The Second Coming summons attention to the 
glad tidings of salvation. It leads us to the First 
Coming. It fixes attention to what the Gospel really 
is. It proclaims, " He shall send JESUS CHRIST, 
which before was preached unto you."—Acts 3:20. 
Our attention is drawn to the person of JESUS. We 
are directed to One who is to come ; and this is that 
'same JESUS to whom sinners are directed now for 
their salvation. 
Our Lord proclaimed the glad tidings often in this 
form,—" Come unto me, and I will give you rest." 
" if any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink." 
" In 7123 ye shall have peace." He drew our atten-
tion to the person who saves. He seemed to intimate, 
that when the sinner's soul was drawn to the Person, 
other things would follow. It was not his benefits so 
much as his Person that he held forth ; not the mode of 
redemption, so much as the Redeemer ; not the work 
so much as the worker. Now, in habitually contem-
plating the Second Coming of the Lord, our eye is 
fixed on the person of JESUS ; our soul is arrested, 
not by abstract truths, but by a living Person. The 
God-man who comes is the grand object that fills the 
soul. 
Is not this the very position of faith ? And is not 
everything important that strengthens this habit of 
gazing on the Person of CHRIST ? Faith finds all its 
object there. As BUNYAN says, " Here, indeed, is 
my life, namely, the birth of this man, the death and 
resurrection of this man, the Son of MARY, the Son 
of man, the Son of GOD, the true GOD ! I say, here 
is my life ; if I see this without me, by the operation 
of the Spirit within me. I am safe, I am at peace, I 
am comforted, I am encouraged ; and I know that my 
comfort, peace and encouragement is true, and given 
me from heaven by the Father of mercies." " 0 
Son of GOD, grace was in all thy tears ! Grace came 
bubbling out from thy bleeding side ! Here is grace 
indeed, unsearchable riches of grace; grace to make 
angels wonder, to make sinners happy, to make devils 
astonished." 
The contemplation of Christ's Second Coming 
does thus help us to fix upon the very marrow of his 
First Coming. It engages our heart to approach 
Himself, to deal with Himself, to dwell on Himself. 
Was it not thus lie sought to teach salvation to the 
men of Nazareth? He proclaimed (Luke 4:18, 21) 
good tidings and the acceptable year of the Lord ; 
and while every eye was on Himself, he said, " This 
day is the Scripture fulfilled in your ears." How ? 
He who is the substance of these tidings sat there 
among them. Their eye was surveying the Person 
of the SAVIOUR. They were handling the shell, and 
had they but penetrated the heart, salvation would 
have been theirs? A true acquaintance with that 
Person would have lead them to GOD. " Except we 
eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of man we 
have no life in us."—John 6:53. Abstract truths, 
dry orthodoxy, nay, even sense of sin, and anxieties 
to be holy, are not salvation. We must have the 
Son of man as our meat and drink. His work in 
Himself." Yes, it is even so ; although Satan may 
have tried, by a thousand extravagancies of opinion, 
to prejudice CHRIST'S dearest disciples against the 
hope of seeing again " that same Jesus." All Pre-
millennialists cordially agree with him in his state-
ment. And well might it be said by another, " How 
strange that Christians do not think and speak more 
of the Second Coming of CHRIST, when it is expressly 
said to be the blessed hope.' The believer's death 
may be gain, and the presence of the Spirit may be 
unspeakable comfort ; but neither the one nor the 
other is the glorious appearing ' of our great GOD 
and our Saviour JESUS CHRIST, and, therefore, not 
the blessed hope. CHRIST'S personal coming is alone 
entitled to be so called.' " Rev. A. A. Boum. 
GENERAL CONFERENCE IN BOSTON. 
The adjourned meeting of the Conference was 
held in Boston at the Chardon-street Chapel, June 
25th, 1850, at 10 o'clock A. M. 
Opened by prayer and singing. 
As the President and Vice President of the Con-
ference were both absent, and as both Bro. PLUMMER 
and C. B. TURNER at the last sitting of the Confer-
ence officiated in the capacity of Chairman, it was 
voted, that they occupy the chair during the present 
session. 
Bro. HALE introduced the following as unfinished 
business at the last sitting :— 
Whereas, We have usually expressed, as a Con-
ference, our sense of the character of the " Advent 
Herald," and also of the manner in which the Office 
has been conducted by Bro. J. V. HIMES, in the pub-
lication of Advent books and tracts; and whereas, 
the general management of the " Herald " and Office, 
and the moral and Christian character of Bro. HIMES, 
have been frequently assailed in a manner calculated 
to injure his influence and curtail the circulation and 
usefulness of the " Herald," therefore, 
1st. Resolved, That we most heartily approve of 
the management of the affairs of the Office, and gen-
eral course of the " Herald." 
2d. Resolved, That as our confidence in the moral 
and Christian integrity of our beloved brother, J. V. 
HIMES, is still unimpaired, we cheerfully extend to 
him our support and Christian love and sympathy in 
the great work to which God in his providence has 
called him. 
3d. Resolved, That our position as Adventists, and 
the wide door that is open before us, call loudly upon 
us to spread the truth ; and that this cannot more ef-
fectually be done, than by a special effort on our part 
to enlarge the circulation of the " Advent Herald," 
and publications of the Office. 
Voted, that it be taken up for consideration by the 
Conference, and on the motion for its adoption, the 
following article was presented by Bro. HALE :— 
To the Second Advent Conference assembled in Bos-
ton : — The following document has been laid before 
the business committee, for their consideration, and 
for presentation to this Conference. It purports to be 
a simple statement of facts connected with the case 
of Bro. J. V. HIMES. It was understood at the close 
of the late Conference, of which this is an adjourned 
session, that it was to meet at this time for the pur-
pose of learning the 'results of an investigation of cer-
tain reports known to be in circulation against him of 
a very serious character, so much so as to be thought 
worthy, by the one who claimed to be acquainted with 
them, and deeply anxious for their investigation, to 
arrest the regular business of the Conference. There 
is reason to believe that these reports were incorpo-
rated into an arrangement, secretly planned to dis-
turb, if not to destroy, the most important instrument-
alities of the Advent cause ; and so far as the evi-
dence in the case enables us to determine, this was 
to be characterized by the darkest forms of ingrati-
tude, contempt, and injustice, towards our worthy 
Bro. HIMES. 
It is well known to the members of this Conference, 
that reports of this character have been revived or in-
vented, and widely circulated ; and that they have 
gone abroad under the reputed sanction of " Chardon-
street church ! " Some of these reports are to the 
following effect.—That one brother has been wronged 
out of ten dollars ; and another out of eight dollars ; 
one family has been defrauded of fifteen hundred dol-
lars, and a Quaker of two thousand dollars ; that 
Bro. Haim has taken a false oath in court ; that he 
has misstated the financial affairs of Chardon-street 
church ; that he has been in league with a rumseller ; 
that he has treated his pastor with great disrespect 
and impropriety, &c. &c. These, and other false 
and slanderous reports, had spread over the land pre-
vious to the late Conference ; and they went as from 
Chardon-street church. It is this which gives to 
them their importance and deadly effect on the one to 
whom they refer. And these involve the vital inter-
ests of the Advent cause. If they were true, every 
Adventist ought to know it; if they are not true, 
those who circulate them for truth should be known, 
or no man can he safe. 
This Conference will be surprised to learn that an 
investigation of these reports has not yet taken place 
by the church of which Bro. HIMES is a member ; 
but they will have more occasion for surprise when 
they learn, that those who have had the whole ques-
tion of their investigation under their control ; those 
who were so anxious at the late Conference that we 
should not meddle with the business of the church ; 
those who were so fearful that we might he covering, 
up something wrong ; one of whom arrested the busi-
ness of the Conference, and gave us to understand 
that he should carry the matter before the church for 
investigation, these are the men who have defeated 
all the attempts to bring the matter before the church 
for their action. The infliction of the original wrong 
was base beyond all conception ; but this refusal to 
correct it, as far as may be possible, shows a deter-
mination to persist in the wrong that is grievous be-
yond expression. Every day this correction is de- 
layed, only gives a wider and more deadly circulation 
and effect to these slanders. It still goes through the 
land that Chardon-street church authorizes them.—
And until Chardon-street church is permitted to act 
so as to clear herself from this infamy by vindicating 
the injured, or letting the world see who is accounta-
ble for it, and why it is upon her, the mischief will 
go on. 
Only during the last week, a worthy brother from 
a neighboring city called at the " Herald " office, and 
after stopping his paper, being evidently affected by 
these reports, actually proposed that Brn. BLISS and 
HALE take the " Herald " into their own hands. And 
why was this? Simply because he believed that Bro. 
TIMES was the infamous impostor and cheat which 
these reports make him. 
The expected antidote to the evil is not given by 
an investigation and a report that would be satisfacto-
ry, and set all right. The only approach to relief 
has come from the suicidal attempts of those interest-
ed in defeating investigation, by diverting or confus-
ing all they could, in reference to the only question 
that was properly before them. 
It is known to some, if not all the members of this 
Conference, that near the close of the last session, 
Eld. NEEDHAM put into the hands of the church com-
mittee a list of charges, which he said to this com-
mittee " duty demands should come to your notice, 
that the whole may be investigated and set right." 
Now it would at once be supposed that such a man, 
sincerely actuated by a sense of " duty," would have 
something done, by way of investigation ; but when 
it was found that that " Chardon-st. church," who 
were the real and only responsible authors for his 
charges, were likely to be found unprepared to meet 
their responsibility, this man of " duty " was willing 
to accommodate them by letting them remain covered 
up. He declined to sustain the investigations, by 
telling the committee that he did not appear as the 
accuser of Bro. HIMES, but " simply an informant." 
He should not prosecute the investigation, unless the 
church requested it. His duty ended there. Char-
don-st. church was good authority for the slanders 
lie put into those charges, but Chardon-st. church 
must not be exposed. Bro. NEEDHAM has riot been 
known as connected with any action of these charges 
in Boston since that time. The case has since been 
managed by this " Chardon-st. church." 
There was now no hope of developing truth by in-
vestigation ; hut sometimes the efforts to stifle the 
truth are so awkward and convincing, that they are 
the best testimony the truth can have. The self-con-
victing folly referred to may be easily illustrated. 
Let us suppose that a dozen persons are socially 
occupying themselves in a room, furnished with the 
very common appendages of a sofa on one side, on 
another a book-case, and on the third a desk. Each 
of them is in possession of a jewel that is valued 
above all price. But one of them is rather careless 
with his priceless jewel. He forgets all about it 
when a fellow man is to be benefitted, or there is 
work to be done. Common fame and madame rumor 
have both had their eye on his jewel, and have often 
endeavored to steal or destroy it. But now all at 
once it is missed here among his friends. Well, it 
must be in that room. Nearly all the company come 
forward, iond after clearing themselves, engage in the 
general search. Those who occupied the sofa leave 
that, and remove it, that the premises all round where 
it stood may he examined ; those who sat near the 
book-case leave their seats, and remove that, and 
make thorough search in that part of the room. But 
those near the desk are not ready for investigation. 
They declare the jewel is not there. But you shall 
not disturb them. If you urge an entire search, they 
tell you not to insinuate,—their character has never 
suffered till they came into that room. But still that 
part of the room, and this part of the company, are 
not open for investigation. 
Now take these charges against Bro. HIMES, which 
are said by the one who presented them to come from 
Chardon-st. church, and go through that church ; 
ask each member if he or she ever had any cones-
pondence with Eld. NEEDHAM on the matters to which 
they refer, in a form to reflect on Bro. I-IrmEs, and, 
with the exception of a very small number, with one 
voice they all cry out, Let us search this matter to 
the bottom. And what do the few who are excepted 
answer ? The only answer given so far, is, " I don't 
choose to tell." " That is none of your business." 
"I will take care of my own affairs." " My char- 
acter is above suspicion." Is not this, then, the 
Chardon-st. church with which these reports origi-
nated ? Does not the slander rest here ? And is it 
not here that an informant obtained his endorsers for 
common fame ? 
It is through their manceuvering that all investiga-
tion has been defeated. As they were determined 
that the case should not have a fair hearing, it was 
only left to make their disregard of all justice and all 
propriety destroy themselves. This they have done. 
Nothing more is needed. hetet. you to an appeal 
containing a statement of their doings- which all can 
understand, and all who regard the claims of truth 
and justice will appreciate. 
To the members of the Chardon-street Church : 
BRETHREN AND SISTERS :—At one of your ad-
journed meetings, held on the evening of June 20th, 
Elder WEETHEE being in the chair, I was forbidden 
to present the following protest arid proposition for 
your consideration, and as I desire to put the same 
into your hands, that you may see what you have 
done and whither you are tending, I am obliged to 
take this mode of doing so. 
The following is a copy of the paper I rose to lay 
before you, but was denied the privilege :—
PROTEST AND PROPOSITION 
TO THE CHARDON-ST. CHURCH— 
DEAR BRETHREN : —It is now more than a month 
since I addressed a note to this church, requesting 
you to take such measures as you should deem advisa-
ble, to search out the "origin " and " nature " of re-
ports in circulation to my injury, and see that justice 
was done me. A committee was then appointed, by 
the church, to receive any charges that might be pre-
ferred against me, and report to the church. This 
committee
BLis. consisted of Brn. J. EMERSON and J. G. 
H 
 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
All I have asked of you is to pronounce me inno-
cent, or show wherein I am guilty. You have re-
fused me even a hearing of my case on its own merits. 
As I have no other mode of obtaining justice, I 
shall call a council forthwith, as intimated in the 
document which I attempted to lay before the church, 
as before stated. 
JOSHUA V. HIMES. 
The case of Bro. HIMES is now in the hands of a 
council of faithful brethren. They commenced their 
actions last evening, and are ready to go through 
with the case. As this case is the principal business 
of this adjourned Conference, the committee move 
that this Conference now adjourn till to-morrow at 9 
o'clock, in order to attend the session of the council 
on the case of Bro. HimEs. 
Voted, to adjourn to give apportunity for the ses-
sion of the council.—(To be continued.) 
should like to have an investigation. I asked him 
to state who these men were. But he declined to 
give the names. I then expressed a wish, and even 
expostulated with you, to fix a time when these men 
should be brought forward, and the investigation take 
place ; but this was refused. And yet, as Bro. Hssi-
BLIN voted in the minority, when the committee dis-
posed of the charges, according to the decision 
of the ex-officio chairman, he had a right to appeal, so 
as to keep the case open for further action. But he 
was willing to have the case lay dead till I was about 
to satisfy the church that 1 had not taken a false oath. 
Why did he not insist on this investigation before? 
Why not make his appeal"! Or if he then wished to 
have it investigated, why not consent to have the 
time fixed, and bring forward his men ? What can 
such a course indicate but a determination to defeat 
investigation? 
Near the close of that meeting a motion was made 
by Bro. HonKiNsoN, that on Friday evening (the 18th 
inst.) my case be taken up and acted upon by the 
church. This motion was not put, though the atten-
tion of the chair was called to it after it was first 
made and seconded. Another motion was made by 
Bro. Woon, on which some remarks followed, when 
a motion to adjourn was carried. And thus the hope 
of bringing the church to act on my case was again 
cut off. 
The regular church meeting for Tuesday evening, 
the 18th inst., came, and soon after it commenced 
the motion of Bro. HOPKINSON was renewed ; but the 
whole evening was spent with the motion before 
them, and notwithstanding my strong entreaties to be 
heard, the meeting adjourned without the motion be-
ing put. 
As every attempt for the investigation of those 
charges has thus been defeated in your committee, 
and there seems to be a determination to prevent all 
proper action on the case by its presentation to you ; 
I therefore object to all that has been done as informal, 
unauthorized, and unjust. 
It is without precedent in any current usage of 
enlightened society, that a committee appointed un-
der instructions, should assume the authority, inde-
pendent of the body which appointed them, first, to 
add to their number those who are known to be per-
sonally interested, in giving direction to their doings. 
And then, second, to take upon themselves authority 
to transcend their instructions by deciding charges 
they were only to receive.* And finally, to neglect 
the instructions under which they were to act, so as 
to defeat the whole purpose of their appointment. 
It is the just claim and legal right of any per- 
son charged, that those who act on his case be not 
prejudiced against him, and not personally interested 
in the issue of their own action. And it is known 
to you all, that those have acted in my case who are 
so interested that they might not be disposed to 
search out the "origin " and " nature" of the re-
ports against me, that justice might be done. 
It would be a violation of all the forms of impar- 
tial justice, that one personally interested in the issue 
of a case, should act as its presiding officer. That 
the chairman is personally interested in the issue of 
the case pending before him, will appear from the 
words of the sixth charge, presented to the commit-
tee by Eld. NEEDHAM. I am charged in these words : 
" With improper general treatment of Bro. WEE-
THEE." And this will appear still further from the 
statement of the chairman, made before the commit-
tee, and repeatedly at other times, that I " stand in 
the capacity of his accuser." 
I cannot allow my case as it stands connected with 
these charges to be bound up with that of any other 
man, on whose fate my fate is to turn, when 1 have 
so much reason to believe that those who are the 
most active in doing this, have determined that if 
another may not escape "censure," whether worthy 
of it or not, I shall not be pronounced innocent, or 
even have a hearing. 
These brethren have said repeatedly, that they 
could take care of themselves. No doubt they can, 
if they are in the right. But I wish all to under-
stand, that if my fellow travellers bind me, drag me 
into an omnibus, and drive me over a route that is 
selected by them, it is not my choice, but it is to ac-
commodate those who feel so able to take care of them-
selves. 1 wish to say, however, that notwithstanding 
these objections to what has been done, I have no ob-
jection, so far as the action of the committee is con-
cerned, that the case should be considered dead. 
But I am not dead. My rights are not dead. My 
friends are not dead. And they will not let this case 
die in this manner ! They are not accustomed to 
such proceedings. They want to know the truth, 
and to bring things into daylight, where they stand 
themselves, and where all that love daylight can see 
them. 
In conclusion, I have this Proposition to make. If 
this church sanction the action of the committee, and 
the case is to die in this manner, I must have the au-
thority of this church in proof of my innocence as 
to the charges in question, given in a form that I can 
use publicly. 
And if you will not do this, 1 must have a commit- 
tee of brethren who are not even suspected of being 
interested personally, and on their own account, in 
the issue of these charges, who will not embarrass 
the only course that can develope the truth, and 
be satisfactory to all who love righteousness, but 
will take up the charges, and find out, if they 
can, what is meant by them, and on what evidence 
they rest. And then if it is seen that they amount 
to anything, let it be known ; if not, let it be 
known, by a report to the church for their decision as 
to the course that shall then be taken. 
If neither of these things is done,—if the church 
will not assert my innocence of these charges, nor 
appoint another committee, who will be unobjection-
able, I shall call a council of my brethren from 
abroad, in whose integrity and ability all will have 
confidence. They shall give the matter a full inves-
tigation, and the world shall have their report. 
J. V. H. 
Boston, June 20th, 1850. 
* It should be stated that Brn. Lang, Hobart, and Emer-
son, understood that the vote of the committee only referred 
to their own action, and was not supposed to cut off further 
action on the case by the church, as the ex-officio chairman 
and some other members of the committee contend. 
After pressing those who showed to all by the 
course they took that they were somehow connected 
with the reports in circulation against me, so that 
something must be done to give at least the semblance 
of plausibility to their course, a list of charges was 
put into the hands of your committee by Elder NEED-
HAM.* And I have no reason to suppose that even so 
much as these charges would have been brought for-
ward, if the one who presented them and his con-
federates, had not been, as they were, pressed to do 
something of the kind. 
Soon after these charges were received by your 
committee, as one of them—the sixth charge in the 
list—referred to something hitherto unknown to me, 
between Elder WEETHEE and myself, at the request 
of Bro. HAMBLIN, I accepted a proposition to meet 
the committee, in the presence of the officers of the 
church, for the purpose of adjusting matters without 
a regular trial. I was assured, that if 1 would make all 
right with Elder WEETHEE, there wonld be no fur-
ther trouble with Elder NEEDHAM. This meeting of 
the officers and the committee was held at Bro. EM-
ERSON'S. 
Bro. LANG was chosen chairman, and Bro. 
EMERSON secretary, and it was understood by all to 
be merely for consultation, as above stated. 
At a 'Subsequent meeting of the committee with the 
officers of the church, Elder WEETHEE claimed and 
took the chair, even while Bro. LANG was present, 
and acting as chairman. The officers of the church 
were then added to the committee, by themselves, 
and declared to be a part of the same : some of them, 
I have no doubt, expecting by this to bring the mat-
ter more directly to a satisfactory result. What the 
object of others was in proposing and taking this 
strange and unauthorized step, facts must determine. 
The whole case was now so far under the control 
of one or more who were personally interested in the 
issue of their own action, that they might, if they 
saw fit, defeat .the purpose for which the original 
committee was appointed. If the church has failed 
to do what I requested, and what they appointed a 
committee to enable them to do,—that of searching 
out the " origin" and " nature" of reports against 
me, and make known the result to you, that you 
might act on the case, so as to do me justice,—the 
cause of that failure will be apparent to all. 
The labors of this committee have closed by their 
own act, and no report is admitted to have been made. 
The action of the church is therefore cut off by the 
course of your committee. So far as their action as a 
committee is concerned, the purpose of their appoint-
ment is defeated. And as the same embarrassments 
in the way of any proper investigation of the charges 
presented against me mast affect the church, I have 
but little hope that justice will be done me here, un-
less these influences are understood. 
However, I must lay you under the necessity of 
condemning me unjustly, or of showing the justice 
of my condemnation. If I must he condemned un-
justly I do not refuse ; but the injustice must be 
known. 
Others, long before the present time, have enjoyed 
the honor of a similar condemnation, and they will 
own me in due time, if you cast me out ! I am ready 
to he ofnred, arid if you are ready to sacrifice me, let 
me speak, and then proceed. " Strike! but hear me !" 
As the committee originally appointed by you on 
the case were instructed to report to the church, which 
is customary in all such cases, and was expected in 
this case, the neglect, or suppression of their report 
cannot but be regarded as fatal to the purpose for 
which your committee was appointed. This, how-
ever, is only one of the objectionable features of the 
mode in which this case has been conducted from the 
beginning. 
The objectionable things to which I refer have 
been done without my knowledge, or in spite of my 
attempts to prevent them, and against Jhe wishes of a 
corliderable portion of the committee. And as I was 
not permitted to enjoy the presence and aid of even 
one of my friends whom I named to the committee, it 
appeared to me to be the most salutary, if not the on-
ly course I could take, to let matters go on as they 
have, and call attention to what seemed improper at 
a future time, unless they saw fit in their own way to 
do me justice. 
I wish the church to recollect that the brother and 
elder who presented these charges never came to tell 
me of my alleged faults alone. He has never been 
to me with " one or two more," because I would not 
" hear" him. He did. not tell it to the church even, 
till a committee had been appointed at my request to 
receive charges, and he was pressed as no true broth-
er would wait to be pressed, unless he forgot or disre-
garded the plain command of God. 
The accusations contained• in these charges have 
been received by an elder, against me as an elder, 
without any known witnesses. Evasion after evasion 
has been resorted to to defeat their investigation, till 
at last the one who presented them told the committee 
that he did not hold himself responsible to prosecute 
the investigation or trial of the case, but he was sim-
ply an " informant ! ! " Still, if the church re- 
quested it, he would act as prosecutor in the trial.— 
As this idea was new to some members of the com-
mittee, and as it was not advanced till their last meet- 
ing, it was looked upon with surprise, and as a species 
of dishonorable treatment they were not prepared to 
expect. 
It was on this account that Bro. LANG made the 
motion, that the charges be dismissed as unworthy of 
any further notice. This motion was seconded by 
Bro. WEST, and was carried by only two votes 
against it—those of Brn. WOOD and HAMBLIN. The 
chairman neither objected to the motion, or voted 
against it, and therefore he fairly stood as approving 
of it. 
At the meeting of the church June 13th, when it 
was announced that the labors of the committee had 
closed, and that no report was presented for the ac-
tion of the church, a vote was passed granting me 
permission to make some statements in explanation of 
matters referred to in these charges. But on the first 
charge, when I presented the testimony of witnesses 
to show the facts, Bro. HAMBLIN stated that there 
were men who gave a different version of these facts, 
and though he knew nothing of them himself, yet he 
* The charges, with the action of the council thereon, 
will appear in our next. 
All who were present on that evening know that 
when I rose and asked leave to enter my protest, of 
which the above is a copy, Elder WEETHEE denied 
me the liberty to do so. He had occupied a consid-
erable portion of the evening in stating his " reasons " 
for deciding that a motion of Bro. HOPICINSON, which 
had been before the meeting on two other evenings, 
was out of order ; and in making an " appeal 
to the meeting to sustain the decision of the chair," 
as he said. 
Whether there was any motion properly before the 
meeting at the time or not, there was no call for such 
an appeal to sustain the chair, for nobody had ques-
tioned the right of the chair to decide as it pleased. 
The appeal, therefore, though perfectly in harmony 
with other parts of the proceedings, was a most un- 
accountable affair. All the circumstances which 
could make such an appeal proper were wanting. 
But the movement for the evening had been planned, 
and it must go through accordingly. It was a last 
resort to defeat the action of the church in proper 
order, on my case ; and should be regarded as another 
fact showing a design to arrest all action unless the 
case of another could be so blended with mine, by 
dragging in matters which had taken place since the 
date of the charges against me, so that if he could not 
escape censure, there should be no fair investigation 
of my case, no action, and no decision by the church. 
For supposing all the things brought forward by 
Elder W. in his " reasons " for deciding as he did, 
were exactly as he stated them, and that I was to be 
blamed for the whole as he insinuated, what could 
this have to do with the seven charges then pending 
against me? If there were new matters of complaint, 
why not make new charges? I wished to have the 
whole ; but I wanted to take them up separately and 
in order, and not embarrass all proper action, by join-
ing, in a general " omnibus bill," my case and that 
of others ; things said to have taken place since the 
date of the regular (?) charges, and which, "if true," 
had grown out of my defence, with things said to 
have taken place before that date. But. justice was 
out of the question. What all saw, was plainly 
stated by a brother in the meeting, that to clear me 
" would be to condemn Bro. WEETHEE." 
I did not question the decision of the chair. Nobody 
had questioned it, when the " appeal to the meeting " 
was made. I cared but little what the chair or the 
church did at that meeting, as I told you. I only 
wanted you to do something. You have done what 
you would. And nothing could be more decisive in 
my favor, though it cut me off from a right which no 
court would dare to deny the meanest criminal. If 
it is necessary to outrage all the forms of justice and 
all the proprieties of religion, by putting me into the 
hands of my known accusers, and then to clothe them 
with the power to act as witness, juror and judge, to 
keep me from demonstrating my innocence, it is the 
highest honor that could be conferred on me ; and 
those who have done this could not make the case 
more clear, as it stands between me and them. It 
was the last act that reckless usurpation could put 
forth, and more than was needed to satisfy all the 
candid of the bad case of those who conceived and 
perpetrated it. It must be a desperate case that could 
needssech a course of proceedings to conceal its dark 
features. " Out of order " only to make a motion that 
my cc taken up for the action of the church !" 
tA.ntd se and ask permission to enter a pro- 
es 
course and decision of a party in the 
e silenced in the place where 1 have 
e of truth when the rage of its ene-
ottest, where I have fled for a moment's 
I repose from the fatigue of other fields of 
* The prsisent church had their first business meeting 
Nov. 27th,48 f9, eight months since. It embraces but 
few of those with whom I was formerly associated 
in Boston. I have been with them but very little, 
and have "no acquaintance with many of them. There 
are about seventy names on the list. There were in 
attendance on the evening of the meeting above re-
ferred to forty members. Twenty-five of these took 
part. The rest declined all action in the case. All 
those present who were received since the charges 
were Framed against me, voted against action on 
my case! But'4sliould be understood that not one 
of the members, AW,or old, have ever professed to 
believe; or tobrinItiany proof of the charges against 
me. Most of thes*stobers have pronounced them 
utterly false, in their private; or social capacity. But 
until they pronotifice me innocent, as a body, and in 
a form that I can use publicly, the report still passes 
currently, that " Chardon-st. church," from which, 
it is said, these reports oriainated " have no confi-
dence in my integrity !" Let those in the church 
who have endorsed these reports, and have kept the 
churgh from acting, in the vain hope that they should 
escallk detection, prepare for the verdict when their 
deed are brought to light before the church ! 
1 
CHRIST'S HUMILIATION.—There was an act of 
humiliation, such as mortal thought cannot compass, 
in the coming down of Deity and his tabernacling in 
the flesh. We may well exclaim, Wonder, 0 heavens, 
and be astonished, 0 earth, when we remember that 
He whom the universe cannot contain, did literally 
condescend to circumscribe himself within the form 
of a servant ; and that, in no figure of speech, but 
in absolute, though in mysterious reality, " the Word 
was made flesh,' and the Son of the Highest born of a 
virgin. We shall never find terms in which to em-
body even our own conceptions of this unmeasured 
humiliation ; whilst these conceptions themselves 
leave altogether unapproached the boundary lines of 
the wonder. Who can " by searching find out GOD?" 
Who, then, by striving, can calculate the abasement 
that GoD should become man ? If I climb to Deity, 
I might know what it was for Deity to descend into 
dust. But forasmuch as GoD is inaccessible to all 
my soariugs, it can never come within the compass 
of my imagination to' tell tip the amount of conde-
scension ; and it will always remain a prodigy, too 
large for everything but faith, that the Creator co-
alesced with the creature, and so constituted a medi- 
ator. • 
Melville. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
THE ADVEN T HERALD, 
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fou 
im ies 
occak 
laborttring ten or fifteen years,—and in the cradle 
of th dvent cause! Why in the name of all that 
is say and human was not this decision pronounced 
a mo r a week before? How much labor that was 
wo needless, how much suffering it might 
h Was it deferred to this late moment be- 
c." ds were not sufficiently worn out and 
d sent themselves front the place of meet- 
ave at last done? or was it that there 
cient number then in the church * to 
air ? 
f you, brethren, did not realize what 
yot oing by sustaining the decision of the 
chair, t at a motion to take up my case and act on it 
was out of rirder, and in refusing to hear my protest. 
Are you aware of the ground you have taken ? The 
right of protesting, which distinguishes all the Chris-
tian world, out of the Papal church, from those who 
belong to that body, is so sacred, that it is secured to 
the meanest criminal, and to the humblest member of 
a body who declines to be responsible for any act of 
the body' So which he belongs. This right of pro-
testing against the course taken by a portion of the 
church iit my case has been denied me by your pas-
tor. No4other course, then, is left for me but to give 
you that ,protest in this form. You were riot allowed 
to hear i ,if,you would. I beg of you to read it ! 
And i - .on also refuse me this last right of a Pro- 
testant, will of course dishonor yourselves by al- 
lowing this act to go unrebuked. 
IT Is MY INFIRMITY.—So many will say, when 
any practice or habit is held up to their view, incon-
sistent with Gospel principles and Christian practice. 
No matter how had the tendency ; if it is only their 
way or infirmity, they seem to feel justified. Instead 
of endeavoring by the grace of GOD to reform, they 
continue to excuse themselves, and go on in the old 
way. The professor who is addicted to foolish talk-
ing and jesting, will acknowledge its impropriety ; 
but it is his way, and of course must be overlooked. 
And if you kindly admonish him, you have but your 
labor for your pains. So of the snarling and snap-
pish person—it is his infirmity, and there is the end 
of it. " It is no worse than other men in high 
standing do." But, reader, do reflect. Might riot 
the thief, drunkard, or debauchee, say the same with 
equal propriety 1 If, because it is our way or habit, 
we are innocent, so are they. But if we are in a 
bad way, let us get out of it forthwith, and the 
sooner, the easier and better. Better for ourselves 
and the world around us. 
Presbyterian. 
WHITEFIELD'S VOICE AND ARTICULATION. — He' 
had a loud and clear voice, and articulated his words 
so perfectly, that he might be heard and understood 
at a great distance, especially as his auditors observed 
the most perfect silence. He preached one evening 
from the top of the Court-house steps, which are in 
the middle of Market-street, and on the west side of 
Second-street, which crosses it at right angles. Both 
streets were filled with hearers to a considerable dis-
tance. Being among the hindermost in Market-st., 
I had the curiosity to learn how far he could be heard, 
by retiring backward down the street towards the 
river ; and I found his voice distinct till I came near 
Front-street, when some noise in that street ob-
structed it. Imagining, then, a semicircle, of which 
my distance should be the radius, and that it was 
filled with auditors, to each of whom I allowed two 
square feet," computed that he might well be heard 
by more than thirty thousand. This reconciled me 
to the newspaper accounts of his having preached to 
twenty-five thousand people in the fields, and to the 
history of generals haranguing whole armies, of 
which I had swetimes doubted. 
Franklin's Autobiog. 
ARREST OF A POSTMASTER, FOR WHOM A TRAP WAS 
LAID.—Yesterday, JOAB C. BARTLETT, Postmaster 
at Grout's Corner, in the town of Montague, Frank-
lin county, was brought before CHARLES L. Woon-
BURY, Esq., U. S. Commissioner, to answer to two 
complaints alleging that he stole two letters, which 
came into his possession as Postmaster, said letters 
containing small sums of money. It is understood 
that the letters were sent from an office in Vermont, 
with a view to the detection of some one who had 
been stealing money letters. The defendant waived 
an examination, and, in default of bail in $10,000, 
was committed to answer at the term of the district 
court. 
LECTURES.—D. I. ROBINSON will give a course of 
lectures on Prophecy and the Second Advent of the 
SAVIOUR, at Lawrence, beginning next Sabbath, and 
continuing four evenings in the week and over the 
following Sabbath. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
174 
LETTER FROM S. CHAPMAN. 
OTEMTIONIDMVIEL 
From a sister, whose brother perished by fire. 
I'm lonely for thee, my brother, 
I miss thy gladsome voice ; 
Though other friends surround me, 
I keenly feel thy loss. 
I miss the music of thy tone, 
The bright glance of thine eye, 
And thy young form with bounding steps 
Still seems to hover nigh. 
I'm lonely for thee, my brother, 
When evening shades advance, 
And night, with sable curtain, 
The deep'ning shades enhance. 
1 miss the voice that mingled 
In the social hymn of praise, 
And the form that with us bended 
Our hearts in prayer to raise. 
I'm lonely for thee, my brother, 
For my thoughts in silence trace 
Endearing recollection, 
Which time can ne'er efface, 
Of happy hours, now vanished, 
When thou wert with us still, 
And scenes nought but affection 
Could memory's pages fill. 
I'm lonely for thee, my brother; 
But cease rebellious will, 
'Twas God who sent the mandate, 
He whispers, Peace, be still, 
Remember 'tis thy Saviour, 
Who bought thee with his blood. 
He chastens thee in measure, 
And took him home to God. 
Then weep not for thy offspring, 
My sorrowing parents dear, 
The flames you viewed with horror 
Brought heaven's blest mansions near, 
We know that our Redeemer, 
When time's short day is fled, 
Shall come with power and glory 
To raise the slumbering dead. - 
Raised by the last loud trumpet, 
The dead in Christ shall first 
Obey the joyful summons, 
And gather up their dust. 
Oh, who can paint the raptures 
Of that triumphant day, 
When Satan's host are conquered, 
And death relax his sway. 
Freed from the tyrant's fetters, 
Our loved one then shall wake, 
Clothed in the Saviour's image— 
The dusty tomb forsake. 
0 may we meet that morning ! 
One band, though severed long, 
To sing eternal praises 
With all the blood washed throng. 
TRUST IN GOD. 
" We know that all things work together for good 
to them that love God."—Rom. 8:28. 
(Concluded.) 
We must feel our lost condition before we can be 
led to the Saviour. We must realize that without 
him we can do nothing, in order to rely fully upon 
his sustaining grace. Unless the sinner sees and 
realizes that he is " without God and without hope 
in the world," he will not be led to " fly for refuge 
to Christ, and lay hold upon the hope set before him 
in the gospel." Except he have a view of the ex-
ceeding vileness and corruption of his own heart, he 
will not be led to the " fountain opened for sin and 
for uncleanness." True it is that these things are 
exceedingly painful and mortifying to the flesh, but 
without them none could be saved. 
Thus it is with the Christian. It is by the cross 
that he becomes crucified to the world, and to his 
own fleshly nature and appetites. Why not, then, 
glory in it, as did Paul ? He knew its value. He 
bore it cheerfully after his beloved Lord and Master. 
It was not worldly ease and earthly aggrandizement 
that he sought, but he " chose rather to suffer afflic-
tion with the people of God," and have " that honor 
which cometh from Him alone." He sought to have 
self annihilated, that Christ might be all in all. Nor 
(lid he fail of attaining to that depth of Christian ex-
perience which he desired, for we find him saying, 
" I am crucified with Christ, nevertheless I live, yet 
not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life that I now 
live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of 
God." 0 what a losing of himself in God is ex-
pressed in this language of the inspired apostle ! Do 
you want the same experience, my brother? my sis-
ter? " 0 yes," you say, " I desire above everything 
else in the world to have my own selfish nature des-
troyed, that Christ may dwell in my heart by faith." 
This is right, but are you willing to pass through 
the furnace,—to endure the fiery trial,"—to suffer 
perhaps deep affliction, for the purpose of attaining 
to a state of eminent holiness? Can you abandon 
yourself into the hands of God entirely, for him to 
lead you through whatever paths it pleaseth him to 
appoint? Can you say with the poet, 
Give joy or grief, give ease or pain ; 
Take health or friends away ?" 
If so, you have that submission and faith in exercise 
that God looks upon with approbation. 0 how dear 
thou art to his loving heart. You now occupy a 
position where he can effectually operate in you by 
the power of his Spirit. Now he can " perfect that 
which is lacking concerning you." But if there are 
any shrinkings on thy part, from thus committing 
thyself to his just disposal, through fear of coming 
crosses that may have to be borne, or fiery trials that 
ready and willing to receive and pardon as at the first, 
and we must come in the very same way that we then 
came. We cannot slide back into the old track, and 
commence anew, as though nothing wrong had hap-
pened. No, no ! There is no getting round the 
cross. We must come all polluted as we are, and 
with true godly sorrow for our sins, say, as did the 
prodigal," Father, I have sinned against heaven, and 
in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy 
son." 0 how joyfully will our Father receive us 
back to himself, and bestow upon us all the privileges 
of the household of faith. Then we are prepared to 
commence anew to run the race set before us, with 
confidence, knowing that we run not uncertainly, for 
all who run receive the crown. 
Let us consecrate ourselves anew to the service of 
God, give to the winds our fears, appropriate to our-
selves the precious promises, and whatever befalls us, 
find consolation in the assurance that " all things work 
together for good to them who love God." 
M. D. WELLCOME. 
DEAR BRO. RIMES :—The doctrine of the coming 
of the Lord near at hand is the great motive to 
watchfulness, prayer, and godliness, and at the same 
time a great regulator of our religious faith and obe-
dience. It prompts us to study the prophecies sin-
cerely, desirous to know what they teach, and also to 
be patient a little while, as to what seems obscure, 
till that which is perfect is come.-1 Cur. 13 : 10 ; 1 
Pet. 1:10-12 ; 2 Pet. 1 : 19-21. If the faith of the 
brethren was more steady, pure, and lively, there 
would be more unity and love, peace and harmony, 
among us. I think we may derive much help from 
one another, but let us not neglect the Scriptures.—
The Bible is the guide, and we of all others should 
hold fast the " faithful word." Our young brethren 
will suffer me to suggest, that what concerns them to 
know, believe, and teach, is made plain, so that by 
studying the Scriptures they will be able to preach 
the word so as to " commend themselves to every 
man's conscience in the sight of God." Doubtful 
questions which gender strife should be avoided. I 
would rather occupy a very humble sphere of labor, 
and be approved of God, than be a leader in teaching 
error. Our great concern is to preach the truth in 
soberness. The New Testament is certainly the in-
terpreter of the Old. I compare the teacher who 
explains the New by the Old, to a man going back-
wards. Brethren, let us go forward, and " ponder 
well the path of our feet." The way is strait, but 
looking unto Jesus we have a safe guide, who will 
never leave us nor forsake us.—Heb. 13:5,6. " So 
that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and 
I will not fear what man shall do unto me." 
I rejoice that God still blesses his fhithful laborers, 
and will be with them to the end of the world. I 
am ready to re-affirm my faith in the Advent doctrine, 
and to unite with the brethren of the Conferences, 
both east and west, in still proclaiming the good 
news of the kingdom of God, and the things concern-
ing Jesus Christ. I pray that we may be faithful 
unto the end, and have an entrance administered 
abundantly unto us into the everlasting kingdom." 
I think the report of the Boston Conference on the 
subject of Judaism, is timely and Scriptural, and 
worthy of an attentive perusal and consideration.—
Christ's sermon on the mount shows the righteous-
ness, purity, peace, and love of Christianity in its 
precepts, and its superiority over Judaism. Paul's 
letters are full of instruction and admonition on this 
subject. Let us refresh our pure minds by a re-pe-
rusal of his epistles. What exalted views does he 
give us of God's eternal purpose of grace in Christ 
Jesus; of free justification by faith without the deeds 
of the law ; the union of all God's people as believ-
ers in Jesus, made nigh to God and to each other by 
the blood of the cross ; one body in Christ as their 
head, so that there is no difference between Jew and 
Gentile, male and female, barbarian, Cythean, bond 
and free ; being all one in Christ Jesus ; constituting 
the good olive-tree, partaking of its root and fatness 
by faith in Jesus ; one new man, at peace with God 
and one another, growing unto an holy temple in the 
Lord, built on time foundation of the apostles and 
prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cor- 
ner stone ; freed from Jewish ordinances, days, meats, 
and drinks ; striving to stand fast in Christian liberty 
in opposition to Judaism, yet bearing with Jewish 
prejudices ; troubled with Judaizing teachers, teach- 
ing for doctrines the commandments of men ; endan-
gered by a false philosophy and science ; still expect- 
ing deliverance, immortality, and glory at the appear- 
ing of Jesus Christ; in a word, waiting for the full-
ness of the times to come, when they shall all be pre- 
sented " a glorious church, without spot, or wrinkle, 
or any such timing—holy and without blemish." Such We now have pressing invitations to visit and labor 
are some of the topics of discussion in the writings in the following places—viz., Independence, 10 miles 
of the apostle to the Gentiles. 
As originally sinners of the Gentiles, but by the 
grace of God believers in Jesus, let us take heed lest 
we fall, and stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ 
hath made us free, and be not again entangled in the 
yoke of bondage, even by beloved brethren and re-
spected teachers, when they teach Judaism. The 
visions of John are evidently representations of time 
future glory of Christ's reign with his saints. But 
Judaism has no countenance there. No natural Jews I in new fields of labor. But we now have serious 
or unbeliving Gentiles are seen in the kingdom. I fears that her work is nearly accomplished, even 
admit that the sealed company includes 144,000 out though time were to continue for months yet to 
of the twelve tribes of Israel, as well as an innumer- come. She has been in a very feeble state of health 
for several weeks, though she has kept about, and la-
bored with me more or less till about ten clays since. 
For the past week she has been confined to her bed, 
with her liver and lungs badly diseased. Dr. H., of 
Whitesville, is doing what he can for her. We hope 
some, but fear much, in her case. In her feeble state 
she wishes to unite with me in expressing her 
ardent love to the household of faith, both in this and 
in foreign lands. Will the dear friends who love to 
pray, think of us when at the mercy-seat, for it is 
written, "The effectual, fervent prayer of a right-
eous man availeth much." The Lord's will be done, 
and may we be reconciled thereto. If I know my-
self, this is the sentiment of my heart. We long to 
hear from our friends of kindred faith ; again we re-
mind them that it is " like cold water to a thirsty 
is future, but the sealing itself is not of the Holy 
Spirit in connection with conversion, but a sealing of 
the servants of God in connection with immortality 
and glory.—Rev. 7 : 3, 4, 9, 10 ; 3:1'2 ; 14:1 ; 22:4. 
Except in the 7th chapter, I do Dot recollect that the 
natural origin of the redeemed is mentioned in the 
whole book. Their character as overcomers of the 
world through the blood of the Lamb and the word 
of their testimony, and as doing the commandments, 
&c., constitute their preparation for the kingdom. — 
Let us continue to proclaim the good news of the 
kingdom till it comes, assured that all who believe, 
whether Jews or Gentiles, will be saved. So our 
labor will not be in vain in the Lord. 
North Leverett (Mass.), May 27th, 1850. 
LETTER FROM S. EVERETT. 
DEAR BRO. Hines :—Again 1 sit down to continue 
my correspondence through the columns of the " Her-
ald." It is now about seven years since I commenced 
speaking through that medium. I have usually writ-
ten once in ten or twelve weeks, and most commonly 
in journal form, noticing. in each the date of the pre-
ceding letter, so that it would not be very difficult for 
those who have carefully preserved their papers (as 
some have done) to trace out my course since I en-
tered the field as a watchman upon the walls, to blow 
the trumpet in Zion, to sound an alarm there, so that 
" all the inhabitants of the land might tremble, be-
cause the day of the Lord cometh, and is nigh at 
hand." But I am aware, that, long before this time 
it may have been said by the readers of that valuable 
paper its columns might have been filled to better ad-
vantage, or with more important matter. A single 
intimation to that effect would be sufficient to prevent 
me from writing again for a long period to come, 
even if time should thus be prolonged. For surely it 
is a task for me to write. Iliad rather preach, read, 
and talk a whole week, then to retire by myself, and 
write a single letter for publication. After the date 
of my last (Lysander, April 1) we remained in that 
section and labored to good advantage for nearly two 
weeks. Met with considerable opposition from the 
Methodist church, and yet the word proved effectual 
in many hearts. The " Christian " church at Clay-
corner was kindly opened to us. I preached to that 
people two evenings, and regret that we could not 
have remained there a week longer, as they manifest-
ed a desire to hear more on the all-important subject. 
From C. we went and visited the scattered brethren 
in Cato. Preached to attentive congregations twice, 
but spent most of our time in writing and conversing 
with the people from house to house. The brethren 
were truly comforted. And one precious soul was 
converted to God, and to the blessed hope. The lat-
ter was the fruits of Mrs. C.'s private labor. A per-
son of middle age, and of an intelligent mind, a 
clearer case of conversion I scarcely ever witnessed. 
We then visited the church in Wolcott and Butler 
(Wayne Co.), under the pastoral care of Bro. A. V. 
Baldwin. Those brethren have had their trials, but 
there still remains a goodly number of precious jew-
els, who will, I am confident, continue steadfast in the 
faith till the Master comes. Bro. B.'s labors, both 
as a preacher and a physician, are highly esteemed 
by the brethren and citizens in that community. But 
his health, I am sorry to say, is quite feeble. On the 
Sabbath I preached twice to that dear people, after 
which we attended to the Lord's supper. The season 
wrs delightful. Think we witnessed the conversion 
of one soul, a Mrs. V. We long to hear from her, 
and other friends there. While in Wolcott we re: 
ceived a pressing call to visit the friends in this sec-
tion. Accordingly we hastened home to Pitcher 
Springs, and made preparation for the tour. On the 
3d of May we commenced our journey. It being 
very stormy that week, we made slow progress in 
travelling. Spent the Sabbath in Ithica, preached to • 
a little company in Bro. Squire's kitchen ; think it 
was not altogether a lost opportunity. We arrived 
here May 9th, Mrs. C. being much fatigued, and af-
flicted with a severe cold. We entered upon our 
work the next day, at evening. Have confined our 
labors to this village, Genessee Forks, Bingham, and 
Ulysses — the latter neighborhoods in Pennsylvania, 
yet near by. During these (less than) five weeks 
we have travelled, to meet our appointments and to 
visit and converse with the people, a distance of more 
than two hundred miles. Have held thirty six meet-
ings of worship, at which I have severally preached 
at least one hour and a half, after which Mrs. C. 
would occupy full half an hour, and then other breth-
ren and sisters improve the time till 10 in the even-
ing. In this way great good has been accomplished 
through this entire community. Backsliders from 
the Advent faith have been effectually reclaimed, per-
ishing sinners have been converted to God, and it may 
safely be said, that scores of intelligent men and wo-
men have been led by the Spirit and word to embrace 
the truth, and to confess their faith in the soon coming 
of the Lord. One of the converts, a Mrs. K., who 
had been a zealous and successful advocate for universal 
salvation, and several others, are so completely filled 
with the " blessed hope," or rather, sanctified by a 
belief of that truth, they are constrained on all occa-
sions to urge men and women to repent, because the 
kingdom of heaven is at hand.. In consequence of 
this they are considered as poor, deluded fanatics, 
and their teachers heretics, of course. But we praise 
God that. we are counted worthy to suffer reproach 
for Christ's sake. The brethren here seem to think 
that this entire community, with few exceptions (and 
those, generally, of the class above described), are 
convicted of the truth of the doctrine we advocate. 
north ; Alleghany, 20 miles south ; Westfield and 
Knoxville, 15 and 20 miles east of here. I am to 
commence holding a series of meetings in Westfield 
to-morrow evening, to continue over the Sabbath. 
We expect the Lord will be with us, and bless his 
own word, making it effectual even to the saving of 
souls. I regret exceedingly that I must leave Mrs. 
C. behind, and enter that field alone, for she has ever 
(in her sphere) been of material service, especially 
may perchance be thine to endure, 0 remember, that 
unbelief causes this fearfulness of spirit, and also the 
words of inspiration, " Without faith it is impossible 
to please God." Now you cannot advance one step 
in the purification of your heart, without faith. And 
what is faith, but an implicit reliance upon God ? —
The first. act of that individual who has true faith in 
God, will be to abandon himself to His absolute dis-
posal. Now with the knowledge we have of his 
faithfulness, and with the " exceeding great and pre-
cious promises " of his Word before us, and the oft-
repeated assurances of his tender regard and love 
towards us, how can we for one moment hesitate to 
" commit the keeping of our souls unto him, as unto 
a faithful Creator ?" We ought riot to shrink in view 
of coming trials, for we have an exceeding broad 
promise upon which to rely : " My grace shall be 
sufficient for thee." And still another : " As thy 
day, so shall thy strength be." Surely these alone 
ought to be sufficient to lead us to rely upon God 
with unshaken confidence ; but he, knowing our 
proneness to unbelief, has given us many more, and 
among them the one we have so repeatedly quoted, 
stands prominently forth : " All things work together 
for good," &c. " All things," yes, all things; the 
" joy unspeakable," and the " heaviness through 
manifold temptations ;" the " hundred fold," and the 
" persecution ;" the glorious manifestation of the 
Divine presence, and the more obscure light of faith ; 
each are necessary, and all work together, not sepa-
rately, but together, and for what? "For good." To 
whom ? "Those who love God." " Well," says 
one, " I believe that. 1 have no doubt but what all 
things will work together for good to those who love 
God, but there is my greatest fear, that I do not love 
him, and therefore am not the character unto whom 
the promise is given. If I could only be assured that 
I did love God truly, I should feel perfectly satisfied." 
My dear friend, it is well to be jealous of ourselves 
with a godly jealousy, and it ought to have an in-
fluence over us to lead us to the great Test-book of 
Christian character, that by a close examination of 
ourselVes thereby we may attain to the certain know-
ledge whether we love God or not. I rejoice that 
we need not be in darkness on this point. " If any 
man love me, let him take up his cross and follow 
me," says Jesus. If we love him, it will be ex-
hibited in this way. " Ye are my friends, if ye do 
whatsoever I command you," says Christ again.—
Obedience manifests our friendship—our love to Je-
sus. This fact is brought to view in another place 
by the apostle John : " Whosoever keepeth His com-
mandments, in him verily is the love of God per-
fected. For this is the love of God, that ye keep 
his commandments ;" or in other words, this is the 
way in which our love is exhibited, or made manifest. 
Love and disobedience are inconsistent with each 
other. We cannot love God, and at the same time 
disobey his holy law. Many settle the question 
whether they love God or not, by their state of feel-
ing. Some dead or dull frame of mind, a lack of 
interest in prayer or reading the Scriptures, is suffi-
cient to lead them to cast away their confidence, sup-
posing this state of apathy altogether irreconcilable 
with Christian experience. Such individuals are 
always vacillating ; there is no permanency to their
experience, but they are tossed to and fro by every 
flight of feeling. They are one thing to-day, another 
to-morrow. One never knows where to find 'them. 
0 that they would realize how dishonoring to G 
such a course. He calls his children to live ein ti- 
cally a life of faith, not of feeling. Faith lays the 
foundation of all good feeling. You, therefore, who 
desire to rejoice evermore, "have faith in God," for 
in this way alone can you attain to this state of mind. 
There are many causes which operate upon our 
minds, and cause depression of spirits. Ill health, 
or impure atmosphere—the unbelief of those ound 
us, as well as the " heaviness through manifoltribmp-
tations," more or less affect us. How inlOnsistens, 
then, to doubt on account of mental depression. I 
these things we ought to rejoice, having a tenden 
as they do to test the strength of our faith, and 
show us whether we love God for the happifyi 
manifestations of his grace only, or for what he is, 
and of himself. 
We ought to reckon this among the " alUhim4s 
that are working for our good." Every pafficle of 
garce received by the Christian will be tried to the 
utmost; therefore do not suppose for one moment 
that the more you enjoy of the Spirit's influence, the 
less will be your trials, for it is not so. Our trials 
will always be in proportion to the measure of grace 
received, never greater, but always equal. The more 
largely we partake of the Divine fulness, the better 
prepared we are to overcome the temptations which 
assail us. 
When we carefully look at this matter, we shall 
see that the Bible, and the Bible alone, is the only 
true and safe rule by which to try ourselves, to know 
whether we love God or not. If we refuse to be 
crucified—are unwilling to lay ourselves upon the 
sacred altar, to be consecrated to God, we ff course 
do not love him. But if it is the one great business 
of our life to understand his will, we may confident-
ly appropriate to our own hearts the exceeding great 
and precious promises, yea, it is our imperative duty 
thus to do. 0 how many who would not for anything 
knowingly commit sin, are kept from claiming Jesus 
in all Ins fulness as their Saviour, because there is 
something about their feelings, some frame of mind, 
that they suppose it would be really presumption for 
them thus to do. Thus they are in bondage, when, 
if they only saw that wilful transgression of God's 
revealed will was the only thing that ought to prevent j able multitude out of every nation, and that the time 
them from exercising appropriating faith, they would 
rejoice in the possession of true spiritual liberty. 
And that individual who has -transgressed and 
brought condemnation upon his heart, ought not to 
despair. Their immediate resort ought to be to the 
blood of sprinkling. But how often the deeply hum-
bled and penitent soul is kept away, because they feel 
so very keenly their guilt, and are ashamed to itturn 
unto God. But if we have stepped aside frotili the 
narrow path, the sooner we return, the better Shall 
we please God. "'The broken and contrite spirit He 
will not despise." " If we confess our sins, he is 
faithful and just to forgive them, and to cleanse us 
from all unrighteousness." We ought to feelahat 
we are welcome to return to God, and he is just as 
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THE ADVENT HERALD, 
175 
soul." Our P. 0. address, till we give information 
to the contrary, is Spring Mills, Alleghany Co., N. 
Y.—directly south of Rochester 100 miles. Yours, 
my dear Bro. Himes, in the blessed hope, expecting 
deliverance soon. 
Spring Mills (N. Y.), June 12th, 1850. 
Bro. CHAPMAN need be under no apprehensions that 
his communications will ever be unacceptable to our 
readers, or to ourselves. The industry of Bro. C. 
and his singleness of purpose, are worthy of all com-
mendation. Would that there were many more like 
him. We deeply sympathize with him in his sorrow 
on account of the illness of his faithful companion. 
If it be the Lord's will, we hope that she may be 
spared to labor yet more abundantly, in that field 
where she has proved so great a blessing. 
Doings in Canada East. 
BRO. HIMES :—I embrace a moment to say that our 
Tent Meetings are doing well. The labors of Brn. 
Burnham and Berick are being much blessed. Our 
first meeting was in Shipton. This was the third 
visit of Bro. Burnham, and though the opponents had 
done what they could to destroy the influence of the 
" Boston Adventists," as they call us, yet we were 
happy to find that our cause still remains, and the 
word of the kingdom still took effect on the communi-
ty. Bro. Burnham baptised nineteen happy souls 
into the faith of Jesus. May the Lord send some 
faithful shepherd to feed these lambs of our Master's 
flock. The brethren preached a few times in Mel-
bourne ; and I believe with good effect. It is hoped 
that the wounds inflicted on the cause there, were in 
Some measure hound up. Bro. B. baptized three. 
The meeting in Waterloo has just closed. It has 
been one of real profit. Many, I trust, will look 
back upon it with pleasure in the day of 'Christ. 
Those who have stood by the cause for years have 
been cheered and strengthened ; and others have been 
instructed into the things of the kingdom, and have 
b3e,n lead to the obedience of faith. Eighteen were 
buried with Christ in baptism. Persons of the first 
intelligence and standing in society, gave proof of 
their love to the commands of Jesus. 0 may they 
be kept in the love of God, and in the patient waiting 
for Christ. 
We are looking with interest to our subsequent 
meetings, of which I will endeavor to send you some 
account. Yours in the hope, 
R. HUTCHINSON. 
Waterloo (C. K), June 19th, 1850. 
Extracts from Letters. 
The following note, dated Hudson (N. H.), June, 
1850, is from a stranger, and no doubt shows the 
state of many minds in all the churches in the land. 
We want to get the " Herald " before them. Let 
every means be taken to spread the truth before all, 
that we may " save some." 
BRO. HIMES :—I have considerable sympathy for 
and with the views advocated in the " Advent Her-
ald. They are the nearest Christian I can find any-
where ; but they are of immense importance, and 
ought not to be received until after a thorough exami-
nation. Send me your paper, &c. 
Sister SOPHIA CAMPBELL writes from Lottsville 
(Pa.), April 1st, 1850 :— 
BRO. IIIMES :—I do feel to lift up my head and re-
joice, when I see how the signs thicken which tell us 
the Lord is at hand. I never felt to pray, " Thy 
kingdom come," with more earnestness than now, 
and put an end to the cursed sin of envy and slander 
—put an end to Satan's rule—for he dues reign tri-
umphant : he sees his time is short. I doubt not that 
it is short. Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly, is my 
sincere desire and prayer to my heavenly Father daily. 
Yours in the love of the truth. 
Bro. 0. E. NOBLE writes from Penn Yan (N. Y.), 
June 9th, 1850 :— 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I have often addressed you, 
but have never had the privilege of seeing your face. 
I have often wished I might both see and hear you. 
I have never wondered that the ungodly worldling, 
who has no relish for heavenly thoughts, who dreads 
the thought of seeing Jesus, who even fears that 
what you teach will prove true—should rail at and 
slander you, impugn your motives, traduce your 
character, throw out cruel insinuations, and seek by 
every possible means to destroy your influence. All 
this you expected, and perhaps more. It might also 
be presumed that even professors of religion, who 
have been taught that the world is to be converted, 
arid who have not examined the Scriptures, might 
also say some hard things. But how it rends the 
heart to see brother try to devour brother, and give 
the traducers of our faith occasion to rejoice. But 
so it is, and I suppose it will be so until Jesus conies 
and gathers out all things that offend : then will the 
righteous have peace and be justified. All this comes 
because you will not fall down and worship some fa-
vorite notion. 
The Lord be praised that the enemy has failed 
again to crush the " Herald" and yourself. May he 
sustain you to the end. 
I have recently more than ever been thinking of 
the duty of Adventists touching the support of the 
cause. Now, what would become of the cause if all 
who are actively engaged blowing the trump of alarm 
should leave the field, and say, 1 must attend to my 
own interests — I must keep what I have, and get 
what I can? Would the world be warned? All an-
swer, No, and all say, It will not do : those whom the 
Lord has called must preach. Well, now, my breth-
ren, God has no more called a brother to preach than 
he has called you and me to support that brother. If 
it be right for any who believe in the near advent of 
Christ to give the alarm, whether he be rich or poor, 
it is right for us who do not preach, whether rich or 
poor, to give of our substance to sustain the cause. 
For what does God permit his children to accumulate 
the things of this world, if not to aid in advancing 
his cause in the world ? 
The Advent doctrine should be just as dear to one 
as another, and while our brethren are in the field 
giving all their time to the Lord, we should feel 
under the same obligation to give of our earnings to 
support then and extend our publications. I believe 
that the circulation of the " Herald " might be dou-
bled this year, if all would do as they might and 
ought. I am also persuaded that to extend that is to 
obtain new advocates and extend our influence. For 
the Bible truths we advance must have their effect up-
on honest minds. Then let us, one and all, be more 
faithful in this duty, and cast our mite into the treas-
ury of the Lord, and we shall see the cause advance, 
feel a greater interest ourselves, and our own souls 
will be blessed. 
Bro. I. E. JONES writes from Brooklyn (N. Y.), 
June 19th, 1850 :— 
BRO. HIMES :—In reflecting on the great injustice 
recently done by " rumor" and " common fame," I 
have glanced over their history for a long way back, 
and find them to have been like " the laws of the 
Medes and Persians ;" they have not changed. Their 
testimony has always had weight with the world ; 
and why should it not have now ? Their testimony 
put Isaiah under the saw, Jeremiah into the dungeon, 
laid St. Paul on the block, St. Peter on the cross, 
with his head downwards, and it has covered every 
plain in Europe with the bleaching bones of some 
fifty millions of martyrs? Arid they proved to the 
satisfaction of the Jewish nation that Christ was a 
bad man, who " deceived the people," and was " wor-
thy of death." They convinced vast numbers that 
Luther was the devil in humanity, as a hold attempt 
to undo what Christ had done by his incarnation ; that 
he had been seen in company with many devils, was 
a blasphemer, a licentious man, and much more.—
Now, my brother; if you have fallen into their hands 
your case, if not a hopeles one, is, at least, a danger-
ous one. If their testimony has had such an impor-
tant hearing on the temporal destinies of all the 
prophets, apostles, and martyrs, and on Christ even, 
can you expect to escape out of their hands unscathed. 
Especially, as the Saviour forewarned you that they 
would " say all manner of evil against you falsely, 
for his sake." But he nevertheless enjoinsupon you 
to " rejoice, and be exceeding glad," when this is the 
case. But why say " seven charges?" 
If it were 
not for subjecting myself to the name of " rumor," 
or " common fame," I could tell you and your church 
seventy times seven " rumors " which I have heard 
about you, and still more that I have heard about our 
lamented Bro. Miller, who is now at rest beyond the 
pain which such " rumors" about you would give 
him if he were alive. 
Sister MARY FALL writes from Jacksonsburg (0.), 
May 27th, 1850 :— 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I have not forgotten you, and 
others of the Advent faith. I attended the tent-meet-
ings in Cincinnati in '43, and am still firm in the 
faith of the coming of Christ near at hand. Would 
to God we could enjoy such seasons again in the West. 
I can say, in the language of a dear sister, writing 
in the " Herald," — " I bless the Lord that he ever 
gave me an investigating mind." I do not wish to 
be found saying, " My Lord delayeth his corning," 
and to beat my fellow-servants, and to eat and drink 
with the drunken. The signs of the times are strong 
indications of the near approach of the Saviour.—
It rejoices my heart to hear from the dear brethren 
scattered throughout our own country, beyond the sea, 
and in distant islands. I look forward with joyful an-
ticipation to the day when we shall all be gathered, 
with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, into the kingdom of 
God. Then there will be one fold, and one shep-
herd. There are but a few in my neighborhood who 
are believers in this doctrine. We have, however, 
had some good seasons here. Bro. Malin was here 
in December last, and preached several times ; and 
again in March, in several places. He baptized an 
old gentleman and his wife, and since then their 
daughter also. We should be glad if Bro. Brown, 
who is corning West, would come as far as Cincin-
nati, and through Hamilton up to our neighbor-
hood ; or any other brother whom you could recom-
mend. We should be greatly rejoiced, could such 
an arrangement be made. 
Bro. H. MUNGER writes from Chicopee Falls 
(Mass.), June 18th, 1850 :— 
BRO. HIMES :—Many in this region are thunder-
struck at the introduction of Judaism among us. But 
those who have pursued a consistent course will yet 
come off victorious. Thank God, you have got 
friends yet who will show themselves when needed, 
armed and equipped. There is a mighty revolution 
about to take place. Let it come. God knows his 
own workmen, and will find them in his own vine-
yard
, 
 at work when he comes. Yours, in haste and 
hope. 
Bro. C. L. PERCIVAL writes from East Hatley (C. 
E.), June, 1850 :— 
BRO. HIMES :—I never prized the " Herald " more 
than I do now, and had I the means I would give ten 
dollars per volume, rather than do without it. It is 
just what Adventists need—meat in due season. May 
the Lord sustain arid bless you. Yours, in hope of 
speedy deliverance. 
Obituary. 
"I am the RESURRECTION and the LIFE he who believeth ill ME, 
though he should die, yet he will LIVE : and whoever liveth and be-
lieveth in me, will NEVER die."—John 11: 25, 26. 
DIED, in Victor N. Y., on the 8th June, Mrs. Jo-
ANNA MARSH, wife of Isaac Marsh, aged 69. She 
had been a member of the M. E. church about forty 
years, when in 1843 the proclamation, " Behold, the 
Bridegroom cometh " arrested her attention. After 
a careful examination of the truth contained in the 
Word of God, she joyfully embraced the doctrine of 
the second advent of our Lord near, of the restitu- 
tion, and other kindred doctrines. In this faith she 
has since lived, and died, giving frequent assurance 
that its power gave her great comfort during a painful 
illness, which she bore with remarkable patience, in 
the hope of soon seeing Jesus. She died in great 
peace, in the firm conviction that she should soon 
awake in the likeness of her Redeemer, and with the 
meek inherit the earth forever. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—It falls to my lot to record 
the death of my aged mother, who died the 25th of 
last April, aged 81 years, 11 months, and 5 days.—
SARAH MERRILL (this was her maiden name) was 
horn in Hopkinton, N. H., May 19th, 1768. In 1791 
she was married to Samuel Kimball, with whom she 
lived until her death. In 1793 they removed to Gro-
ton, N. H., where they have resided ever since. In 
1800 she made a public profession of faith in Christ, 
and ever after exhibited the traits of Christian char-
acter. In 1842 she joyfully embraced the evidence 
of the coming of Christ at hand, and clung to the 
fond hope that she might live to see him come in the 
clouds of heaven for the deliverance of his people. 
But her desire was not granted. The uplifted shaft 
of death has smitten her down, and she is borne to 
the land of the enemy. She was 12 years of age on 
the day that the sun was darkened in 1780, and un-
derstood it to be a fulfilment of prophecy, and a sign 
of the Saviour near. For a few months before she 
died, her sufferings were great, but she bore it all 
with Christian resignation. Not a murmuring word 
was heard from her lips. She retained her reason to 
the last, and expressed a desire to see her blessed 
Saviour, and dwell with him forever. 'We feel our 
loss, but " sorrow not as others who have no hope ;" 
for we shall soon see her again in immortal beauty. 
Amen. Yours in hope, LEONARD KIMBALL. 
LINES ADDRESSED TO BELZONI'S MUMMY. 
BY JAMES MONTGOMERY. 
And thou hest walked about ! how strange a story ! 
In Thebes' streets three thousand years ago ! 
When the memnonium was in all its glory ; 
And time had not begun to overthrow 
Those Temples, Palaces, and Piles, stupendous, 
Of which the very ruins are tremendous. 
Speak! for thou long enough hast acted dummy : 
Thou hast a tongue ; come let us hear its tone : 
Thou art standing on thy legs above ground, mummy, 
Revisiting the glympses of the moon ; 
Not like thin ghosts, or disembodied creatures, 
But with thy bones and flesh ; thy limbs, thy features. 
Tell us, for doubtless thou can'st recollect, 
To whom should we assign the Sphynx's fame? 
Was Cheops or Cephrines Architect 
Of either Pyramid which bears his name ? 
Is Pompey's Pillar really a misnomer? 
Had Thebes a hundred gates, as sung by Homer? 
Still silent, incommunicative elf! 
Art! sworn to secresy ? then keep thy vows: 
But, pry'thee, tell us something of thyself, 
Reveal the secrets of thy prison-house ; 
Since thou so long with death hast slumbered 
thou seen—what strange adventures num-
./ 
st develope, if that withered tongue 
11 us what those sightless orbs have seen ; 
How the world look'd when it was fresh and young ; 
E'en the great deluge still has left it green. 
Or was it then so old that history's pages 
Contained no record of its earliest ages ? 
Since first thy form was in this box extended, 
We have, above ground, seen some strange muta-
tions ; 
The Roman empire has begun and ended— 
New worlds have risen ; we have lost old nations : 
And countless kings have into dust been humbled, 
While not a fragment of thy flesh has crumbled. 
Say! did'st thou hear the pother o'er thy head, 
When the great Persian conqueror, Cambyses, 
Ma‘th'd armies o'er thy tomb with thundering tread, 
And overthrew Osiris, Ovis, Apis, Isis? 
And shook the very pyramids with ea
r arid wonder, 
When the great gigantic Memnon fell asunder. 
I need not ask thee if that hand, when armed, 
Has any Roman soldier maul'd and knuckled ? 
For thou wert dead, and buried, and embalmed, 
E're Romulus, or Remus had been suckled ; 
Antiquity appears to have begun 
Long after thy primeval race was run. 
Perhaps that very hand, now pinion'd flat, 
Has hob-a-nob'd with Pharaoh glass to glass ; 
Or drop't an half-penny into Homer's hat ; 
Or doft thine own to let Queen Dido pass ; 
Or held, by Solomon's special invitation, 
A torch at the great Temple's solemn dedication. 
Perhaps thou wert a Mason, and forbidden, 
By oath, to tell the mysteries of thy trade ; 
Then say, what secret melody was hidden 
In Memnon's statue, which at sunrise play'd ; 
Perhaps thou wert a Priest ; if so, my struggles 
Are vain,—for priestcraft never owns its juggles. 
If the tomb's secrets may not be confes'd, 
The nature of thy private life unfold : 
A heart has throb'd beneath that leathern breast, 
And tears adown those dusty cheeks have roll' d ; 
Have children climb'd those knees, and kiss'd that 
face 7 
What was thy nanab -and station, age and race ? 
Statue of flesh ! immortal of the dead ! 
Imperishable type of human essence ! 
Posthumous man ! who quit'st thy narrow bed 
And standest undismayed within our presence—
Thou wilt hear nothing till the judgment morning, 
When the great trump shallibrill thee with its warn- 
ing. 
Why should this worthless tegument endure, 
If its undying guest be lost forever? 
0, let us keep the soul embalm'd, and pure 
In living yin] Ile ; that when both must sever, 
Altho' corruption may the flesh consume, 
Th' immortal spirit in the skies may bloom. 
Jefferson-street. 
Auburn, N. L. Smith. 
Buffalo, " W. M: Palmer. 
Cincinnati, O.—Joseph Wilson. 
Derby Line, Vt.—S. Foster, jr. Delancey-street. 
Detroit, Mich.—L. Armstrong. 
N. Springfield, Vt.—L. Kimball. 
Eddington, Me.—Thos. Smith. 
Philadelphia, Pa. — J. Litch, 16 
Glanville Annan., N. S.—Elias Chester-street. 
 
Woodworth. 
Portland, Me.—Peter Johnson, 37 
Hartford, Ct.—Aaron Clapp. Summer-street. 
Homer, N. Y.—J. I,. Clapp. Providence, R. I.—G. R. Glad- 
Lockport, N. Y.—H. Robbins. ding. 
Lowell, Mass.—E. H. Adams. Rochester, N. Y.—Wm. Busby. 
Low Hampton, N. Y.-1). Bos- Toronto, C. W.—D. Campbell. 
worth. 
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Burning of a Steamboat. 
The steamer Griffith was burned on Lake Erie the 
17th. She had about three hundred persons on board, 
only fifty of whom were saved. A 11 the books and pa-
pers of the boat were lost, so that a complete account of 
the lost will never lie obtained. The Buffalo Express, 
of Wednesday, has the following statement in regard 
to the disaster, from PETER DIEHL, a young man 
about eighteen years of age, who was employed on 
board the boat : 
" The fire was discovered between four and five 
o'clock in the morning, issuing in flame from the 
combing of one of the smoke-pipes. A strong and 
determined effort was made to extinguish it, but 
without avail. Soon it broke out below, and com-
municated with the cabin, which, in ten minutes time, 
was wrapped in flames. The alarm was sounded, 
and the passengers waked front their slumbers and 
told to save themselves. The boat was headed in 
shore, and the crew and passengers abandoned them-
selves to despair, as the flames spread with such fear-
ful rapidity as to cut off all hope of escape, except 
by taking to the water. The scene of consternation 
that ensued was appalling beyond description. The 
only place that was not pervaded by flame or suffo-
cating smoke, was forward, and there the three 
hundred human beings were huddled, presenting a 
sight that would appal the stoutest heart. When 
within less than a mile of the shore, the boat struck, 
and lost her headway. At this moment the flames 
were fast approaching the passengers, and soon the 
heat became so intolerable as to force them into the 
lake, to save themselves from the consuming fire. 
" Within five minutes after the boat stopped, she 
was entirely deserted, and the lake filled with the 
three hundred persons, struggling in the flood. Hus-
bands threw their wives and children into the strug-
gling mass below, and then followed to share a 
common fate. Mother after mother was seen to toss 
their offspring overboard, and then betake themselves 
to the waves in the vain hope of saving them. The 
lake was still, and the water clear, and within a few 
minutes nearly all this vast multitude had disappeared 
from the surface, and could be seen on the bottom 
clinging to each other in the cold embraces of death. 
The family of Mr. HETH was found in a group. 
Capt. ROBY was locked in the arms of his wife, and 
poor DONIVAN, the Steward, fell a victim to a deter-
mination to save the daughter of Capt. ROBY, and 
was found with her folded to his breast. Young. 
 
DIEHL leaped down the side of the boat, and had 
scarcely reach the water, when one of the fender 
ropes was burned off, and the fender fell into the lake 
near him. He seized hold of it, and found it capa-
ble of buoying up more than himself. At this 
moment his attention was arrested by the wife of the 
head waiter, another female, and three children, who 
were clinging to the side of the boat nearly exhausted. 
He went to their assistance, took them on the fender, 
and swam to the wheel-house, where the six remained, 
clinging to the paddles or rink of the wheel, until a 
boat came and took them on shoran" 
The Millennium Near. 
TIIE ST. LUKE CHURCH CAS-E.—We copy from the 
Post the following account of the disgraceful affair 
in St. Luke's church, Chelsea, which, from all we 
can learn, we believe to be a very 'fair statement : 
Some progress was made in the Police Court yes-
terday, in the case of Captain Charles G. Thayer, 
charged with an assault on the Rev. William A. 
Jenks, in the Protestant Episcopal Church, known as 
St. Luke's, in Chelsea. Two parties claim the right 
ui use the church for religions services ; one is styled 
the " parish," 
 and the other the " proprietors,'' 
meaning the holders of the stock made for building 
the church, and the question of the respective rights 
of the parties in the premises is now pending in the 
Supreme Judicial Court, on a petition for a writ of 
mandamus, ordering the " proprietors" to produce 
the records of the church. 
There was a sort of an agreement, but not formally 
assented to by the proprietors by regular vote, that 
neither party should use the church until the manda-
mus question should be determined. The Rev. Mr. 
Jenks had been appointed rector by the " parish " 
after the troubles had come to something of a head, 
but the " proprietors " never recognized him as such. 
He preached to the parish in a scool' room, and the 
proprietors attended service wherever they found it 
most convenient, until the Sunday before last, when 
they re-opened the church and had services, led by a 
gentleman named Deblois, in the capacity of lay 
reader. 
On the forenoon of Sunday last, the proprietors 
met again in the church for worship, and Mr. Deblois 
occupied the chancel as before. But before be had 
fairly commenced, the Rev. Mr. Jenks, dressed in 
full canonicals, came into the church at the head of 
his " parish," and advanced towards the chancel, 
until he was interrupted in his progress, and told that 
he would not be allowed to displace the " lay reader." 
He then protested against the act of a lay reader's 
officiating when an ordained priest of the church was 
present, and read a canon of the church forbidding 
such an irregularity. The " proprietors," however, 
disregarded the canon. Another kind of cannon 
would probably have been more effectual. 
There was no violence in the forenoon ; but in the 
afternoon, Mr. Jenks and his parish reached the 
church before the services arranged by the proprietors 
had commenced. As in the forenoon, he proceeded 
towards the chancel until he was met by Capt. Thayer, 
through whom he could not effect a passage. Then 
ensued something very much like a melee. Mr. 
Jenk's hackers pressed him up against Capt. Thayer, 
who kept ordering and pushing him back. It is not 
likely that any one present can tell exactly what took 
place at the moment. Capt. Reese testified that 
Capt. Thayer leaned and crushed down upon Mr. 
Jenks, and struck him a hack-handed blow on the 
breast. Two others testified that Capt. Thayer 
forced Mr. Jenks hack with some violence, beyond the 
mark of merely keeping him off. In the course of 
the scuffle, Mr. Jenks had a sleeve torn, but it did not 
appear how it happened. 
On the side of the defence, several witnesses testi-
fied that Capt. Thayer did not once strike at Mr. 
Jenks, and that they were so near and so situated 
that it would have been impossible for hint to have 
struck the rector without their seeing it. So stood 
the evidence on the mere fact of assault. As to the 
prima facie right of the parties, it was unquestioned 
that the proprietors were in possession when the 
parish marched in with the rector at their head—a 
proceeding decided upon that morning at their usual 
place of worship, but previously planned. In the 
course of the past seven months both parties have 
managed to get into the church on Saturday nights, 
with the view of holding it On the Sabbath, and the 
contests which resulted led to the somewhat informal 
agreement not to use the church until a decision in 
the Supreme Court should be had ; but, contrary to 
the expectation of the parties, the Cour adjourned 
without settling the case. 
Foreign News. 
The steamship Cambria arrived. at New Yo 
last. The news from Europe is meagre, and 
particular interest. 
In the British House of Commons on' Friday gig, une 
7th, the Cuba expedition was made a topic of discussion. 
The subject was also introduced in the House of Lords. An 
attempt was made to ascertain what steps the Government 
had taken, or designed to take, in relation to the matter,—
or what orders had been sent out to the British fleet in the 
West Indies. The Ministers declined to state whether any 
instructions had been sent or not, but expressed confidence in 
the sincerity of the United States Government in its efforts 
to arrest the expedition, and punish all engaged in it. 
The Emperor of Russia arrived in Warsaw on the 24th 
ult., from St. Petersburgh direct, not having stopped, as it 
was reported he would do. 
German journals contain rumors of a revolutionary agi- 
tation at St. Petersburgh and Moscow, especially in the up-
per schools and among the students. 
In the French National Assembly on the 6th, the bill for 
the suppression of clubs for ano er year was voted by a ma-
jority of 468 to 191. 
The committee of parliamentary initiative has resolved to 
take into consideration the proposition, to transfer the seat of 
Government from Paris, by a majority of 1-12 to 11. 
The prefect of the Haute Vienne has published a decree, 
prohibiting the reading aloud of newspapers in manufactories 
throughout the department. 
The editor of the Tribune die Jour has been condemned to 
fifteen days imprisonment, and to pay a fine of 5000 francs, 
for having published a seditious libel. The Journal dry. Peu-
ple of Dijon was seized on Sunday last. The director.of the 
Emancipation de _Normandie As sentenced by the Court of 
Assize of Rouen on Friday to imprisonment for six months, 
and to pay a fine of 300 francs, for a seditious libel. Some 
arrests for political causes have been made at Lyons. 
A letter from Berlin says :—" By the upsetting of a barge 
on the Wesel, nearly one hundred persons, forming a part of 
a religious procession to a convent near Newmark, had been 
drowned ; the greater part of the pilgrims were women." 
A severe edict had been issued against the press and the 
right of association in Saxony, but, as a concession, the state 
of siege in the capital, which had existed since May 8t14, 
1849, has been terminated. 
Since the above was in type, the steamer Niagara has ar-
rived at Boston, with seven days' later news. We subjoin all 
that appears to possess any interest. 
It was announced in the House of Commons, that it is the 
intention of the English Government to stop all Post-office 
labor on Sunday. An inquiry was also to be made, to see if 
it be not practicable to stop the mails also on the Sabbath. 
A bill for granting pensions to the families of those killed 
and wounded in the affairs of February and June, was re-
jected in the French Assembly by a great majority. 
The committee appointed to consider the proposed great 
increase of the salary of the President, have not recom-
mended acquiescence in the demand. It is said, however, 
that the leaders of the majority intend voting for the bill, 
notwithstanding the decision of the committee. A sharp con-
test is expected. The Mountain are indignant at the pro-
posal, as they look upon this as being only the first of a se-
ries of movements, having for their end the legalizing a per-
petual Presidency in the person of Louis NAPOLEON, who 
has affected to take great offence at the hesitation evinced by 
the committee. 
In a recent tour through the provinces, the President was 
everywhere well received. His speeches are considered 
somewhat remarkable for their appeal for popularity among 
the working classes. 
In signing the new Electoral law, it appears that the Presi-
dent made a great blunder, which he never intended. It is 
said that the proposed changes should not extend to the elec-
tion of President, as well as Representatives—but it does so, 
and it is only now that he sees his mistake. 
Another project of a law for fettering the press with a hea-
vier stamp duty, is at present engaging the attention of Gov-
ernment. 
M. THIERs had paid a visit to Locus PHILIPPE in Eng-
land. It is said that his visit has a deep political change in 
view. He had an interview with the President before leav-
ing Paris. A reconciliation of the two houses of the Bour-
bons is said to be the object of the ex-Minister's visit to the 
ex-King at London. 
It is said that the difficulty between the French and Eng-
lish Governments, growing out of the Greek affair, has been 
amicably arranged, and will soon be made public. 
It is stated on French authority that the Russian Govern-
ment has addressed a political note to the English Cabinet, 
repudiating the notion that British subjects living in Tuscany 
or Naples during the late revolt, have any just claim to indem-
nity for the losses they incurred during those disturbances. 
The Russian Minister observes that the St. Petersburg 
Cabinet completely identifies itself with the principles which 
have served as the basis of the conduct of the Cabinet of 
Vienna. 
The Heralds publishes a letter from Ceuta of the 31st ult. 
stating that a Moorish army, commanded by two Pachas, one 
white and the other black, was marching towards the fron-
tier of Algiers, with Hostile intentions towards the French. 
Latest accounts from Rome state that the Pope is wholly 
absorbed in religious ceremonies, to the exclusion of all at-
tention to his temporal government. The people are said to 
be in a very uneasy state of feeling, and that nothing but the 
presence of foreign troops restrains a popular demonstration 
against the government. 
The several proposals of the Schleswig deputies as to the 
basis of negotiations have been published, but are considered 
wholly inadmissible. Baron NEYENDORF had returned to 
Berlin from Warsaw, and the Emperor of Russia is said to 
have fully approved of all that has been done by Denmark, 
'and unites with that Cabinet in the opinion that, if force 
alone is to solve the question, its adjustment must not he pro-
tracted. 
The Holsteiners have fired upon a Danish man-of-war, 
cruising off the port of Heilegemhafen. The head-quarters 
of the Danish troops in Jutland is moved to Rolding. The 
Swedish neutral troops have received orders to be in readi-
ness to march; the preparations for hostilities continue upon 
a great scale. 
In Prussia still severer laws have been issued against the 
press. The King seems to be fast recovering from his wound. 
The papers lodged by GOETHE with the Government have 
been examined, and a correspondence between GOETHE and 
his brother poet SCHILLER has been found, and will be 
published forthwith. 
SUMMARY. 
— A wealthy farmer, by the name of Gay, living near Stockport 
landing, New York, strangled himself by placing his neck between 
the branches of a tree in his orchard. It seems that the Hudson 
River Railroad is to run through his farm. He expected to receive 
$3000 for the land lie was to surrender, but his neighbors advised 
him to settle for $1000. To this he finally consented, went to Hud-
son and obtained the money, and immediately on his return termi-
nated his existence. 
The bill to abolish capital punishment failed in the Connecticut. 
Senate by one vote. 
— By the running away of a horse in Darien, N. Y., Dexter Hord-
well was badly hurt, his wife and Miss Ellen Farnsworth had each 
a leg broken in jumping from the wagon, and his daughter Mary, 
aged 19, was injured so that she died. 
On the morning of the 17th, Mr. George Lowe, of Warren, was 
blowing rocks in Ware village, and while tamping with an iron bar, 
the powder exploded, and mangled him in a most shocking manner. 
He lived a very few hours in the greatest agony, and then died, leav-
ing a wife and four children. Several others, standing within a few 
feet of him, escaped with slight injuries. 
James Montgomery, of Akron, N.Y., a member of the Method-
ist church, in easy circumstances and good health, for some un-
known cause cut his throat and died. He had just been engaged in 
family prayer. 
— In Memphis, Tenn., one of these brutal fights, so common at 
the South, Gen. Levin H. Coe and Mr. A. Trigg were killed, amid 
Messrs. Gaines and Connel wounded. 
-- I. B. Philbrook, says the Vermont Chronicle, kept three cows 
on his farm last year, from which his mother, 90 years of age, with 
his assistance, made, in ine months, nine hundred pounds of butter, 
eight hundred pounds of which were sold in the town of Hardwick. 
— Mr. Benton appeared before the grand jury in Washington last 
week, and entered a complaint against Mr. Foote, for an attempted 
assassination in the Senate chamber. A number of Senators were 
summoned the day after to appear before the grand jury. 
— David Boston, a colored man, died near Ilchester, Md., on the 
1st inst. from the following singular cause. He had contracted a se-
vere cold, and suffered much from an accumulation of phlegm on 
the chest. The choking sensation and hoarse breathing consequent 
on this, induced him to believe that he had a frog in him, and that he 
had been " tricked." His wife went to Baltimore and consulted a 
fortune-teller, who confirmed her suspicions, and added that the 
first person who should come to her house after her return home 
was the trickster. This was sufficient. The poor man took little or no 
nourishment ; no one was allowed to visit him ; and after his death 
some fifty cotton balls were found placed about him for the purpose 
of breaking the " spell." 
— On Monday afternoon of last week, as the New York train on 
 
the Fall River Railroad was in the vicinity of South Braintree, Mr. 
Wheeler Kennison, road repairer, who was upon the train, pro-
truded his head, which came in contact with a stake of a stationary 
freight car, by which he was so much injured' as to die in a few 
hours. Mr. Kennison resided at South Braintree, where he has left 
a wife and several children. 
At Hartford, on the evening of the 15th, a joiner's shop on 
North Market street was destroyed by fire. Three little boys, from 
six to nine years of age, acknowledged that they had set it on fire. 
In Brownsville, Miss., Col. Dupree assaulted his son-in-law, 
Mr. Graves, on leaving.church on Sunday, asid Was fatally wounded 
by Graves, who shot lam in self defence. 
sa--,,AiiitsKberoestie:1,1.1e, N. Y., two French boys, SOBS of a poor widow, 
the oklest aged 17 years, were drowned, the oldest attempting to 
— 
Abilii.nd tad named Green fell from a fourth story window of the 
asy
now in 
uni at South Boston, broke one of his legs, and is no a dying 
condition. 
 
— James Hardy, filias Rev. Nathan S. Mier, an impostor, who lies 
had a long career of villany, was convicted at Lockport, N. Y., last 
week, of bigamy, amid - sentenced to the Auburn state prison for 
five years. 
lu a circus fight at Peoria, Ill., a young man named McReeves 
was killedf and the clown dangerously hurt. 
— Mr. Samuel Merrill, of Nondairy, in descending alai] in Byfiekl, 
was precipitated from his chaise by the falling of his horse, and 
badly injured by the animal rolling on to hint. His recovery is very 
doubtful. 
— The temple built by the Mormons at Native°, finished in 1845, 
partially burnt in October, 1848, haying but its four walls left—all its 
timber works having been consumed by the flames—was destroyed 
by a hurricane on the ult. 
— Mr. Buckleyetyliesehouse hi Philadelphia is surrounded by stag-
nant water and filthy cowyards, was reported to be in the collapsed 
stage of cholera 011 Friday last. 
— The remains of several Indians, in a good state ofpreservation, 
were found a few days since in digging on the north side of Mount 
Hope, in Quincy. 
— A bill has been introduced into the Connecticut Legislature, 
providing for the fine or imprisonment of clergymen and magistrates 
who shalt unite white with colored persons in matrimony. 
The ship North Star, of New London, Ct., is about to sail on a 
whaling voyage, and is provided with patent guns fOr shooting right 
whales. They are said to be very efficient, anti will throw harpoons 
and lance with unerring, aim. 
Gen. Lopez, the ringleader of the late piratic Cuba expedition, 
with Gov. Quitman, of Mississippi, Judge C. Pinckney Smith, ex-
Gov. Henderson, and twelve others, have been indicted in New 
Orleans by the grand jury. All we hope in the matter is, that they 
gmraoyssrleycveiiovleatethde. extreme penalty of the law which they have so 
— Mr. Forrest, the actor, inflicted a severe flogging on N. P. Wil-
lis with a gotta percha cane, in New York last week. Mr. Forrest 
shaiso,booeoen held to bail in the sum of $5000. The damages are laid at 
— John Norris, of Boone county, Ky., recovered a judgment of 
$2800 against Newlan, Crocker, and others, recently, in the United 
States Circuit Court at Indianapolis, for slaves which they had forci-
bly stolen from Norris at South Bend, Ind. • 
Homstead exemption laws have been passed in New York, 
Maine, Ohio, Georgia, Texas, Michigan, Wisconsim Iowa, amid 
California. 
Thomas Cary, laborer on the Greenfield branch of the Vermont 
and Mass. Railroad, died from the effects of the hot weather on 
Thursday, last week. His age was 22 years. 
— The proposed tunnel, connecting the east and west side of the 
Boston and Troy Railroad through the Green Mountahns, is esti-
mated to be four miles long ! 
The daughter of Francis Fowler, aged 14 years, of Philadelphia, 
was seized with symptoms of hydrophobia on Thursday morning of 
last week, which continued until Friday afternoon. I I is said that 
this unfortunate girl was bitten by a cat, in Mitre!) last, that exhib-
ited symptoms of being rabid. The wound was inflicted upon her 
arm, while in the act of driving the animal from the house. 
— A notorious burglar called "Bristol Bill," who has figured 
somewhat largely before courts in various places within' a year, was 
sentenced in Danville, Ct., last week, to ten years in the state 
prison. When the sentei.ce was pronounced, lie was sitting outside 
of the bar, and B. N. Deis, the prosecuting attorney, sat inside, 
nearly opposite him. Bill suddenly rose, drew a knife, and stabbed 
Mr. Davis in the neck, .directly back of the jugular vein. Mr. Levis 
reeled and fell into the arms of his friends severely wounded. At 
first it was supposed the blow was fatal, mid the prisoner afterward 
declared that he meant it should be, and said he regretted he had not 
killed him on the spot. A physician examined the wound, which he 
pronounced not mortal, though lie is in a critical state. 
WE will thank D. REYNOLDS, when sending documents which 
are worthless to us, not to subject us longer to the expense of post-
age. It is a species of dishonesty. 
THE REPORT of the Conference, Re-affirming our 
Faith, is now ready. $2 per hundred. 
HERALD OFFICE DONATION FUND. 
Front May 29th, 1850. 
To SEND HERALD TO POOR. 
[NOTE.—We have the happiness to know, that we never refused 
the " Herald" to the poor. None have ever asked in vein, though 
of late the Dumber ltas greatly increased. We thank our friends for 
their aid in this department.] 
J. Vose . 
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DELINQUENTS. 
If we have by mistake .published any who have paid, or who are 
poor, we shall be happy to correct the error, on king I 
the fact. 
D. Preble, of Windsor, Me., stops his paper, by P.M., owing 3 75 
Total delinquences since Jam lot, 1)50 52 98 
APPOINTMENTS, &c. 
As our paper is made ready for the press on Wednesday, appoint 
meats mast be received, at the latest, by Tuesday evening ; ether-
wise, they cannot be inserted until the following week-. 
There will be a camp-meeting on the land of Bro. Luther L. Tat-
tle, iii the town of Bristol, Ct., two miles north of Bristol depot, 
commencing Aug. 12th, and continue through the week. There will 
be a boarding tent on the ground, and those who come from a dis-
tance can be boarded on the ground. It is hoped that those that 
come front adjoining churches will bring their tents. We hope, as 
this is to be a general meeting, the brethren in the adjoining towns 
will all come up to this feast of tabernacles. Those who come with 
their own conveyances can have their horses kept on the ground. 
Ministering brethren are invited to at1011(1. HIRAM MONGER, LU- 
THER L. Turns!, RALPH WILLIAMS, Committee. 
There will be a camp-meeting on the old ground in West Stafford, 
Ct., three nines from Stafford Springs depot, twelve miles from 
Palmer, sixteen mules front Springfield, to continence Aug. 19th, and 
continue about a week, more or less, as the Lord may direct. 1 an- 
ticulars hereafter. (In behalf of the brethren.) S. P. BABCOCK. 
A meeting of worship will be held in East Kingston, N. II., at the 
Methodist meeting-house, on the 4th of J uly, to commence at 10 
o'clock A M. Bro. J. Pearson, myself, and others, will attend. The 
meeting-house is very near the depot, on the Boston H. 
andphLlaui,litemER.a.il-
road. A general invitation is given. Can we spend the day better ? 
A conference will be held at South China, in the Advent chapel, 
couthiencing on the 4th of July. Brit. Daniel ChIsuRrcAliEiL11,DisAeinx,piAeeNt.ed 
George 
to attend. Bro. 
 Brown is requested to attend, and others 
who live in this section. 
Bro. N. Billings will preach at Abington, Mass., the second Sab-
bath in July ; Berlin, (in the house of Bro. .John Barnes,) the third ; 
Lincoluville, Me., the fourth ; South China, first in August. 
The Advent chapel in North Abington will be dedicated to the 
worship of God next Lord's-day, June 30. Preaching by Bro. P. 
HBawrok. N. Hervey will preach at Haverhill Sunday, June 30th, and in 
Yo'n the second Sabbath in July. 
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Bro
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Morley
se,cvoi dp Sr euatci dha iyni nc J1 i lt 
Bro. II. Plummer will preach at Salisbury Point Sunday, June 3U. 
Bro. R. V. Lyon will preach in Enfield, Ct. (Jawbuck society), 
Sunday, June 
i
n.e90th. 
BoThompson will preach in Piermont, N. H., the last 
Sabbath in June. 
GENERAL DEPOSITORY 
OF AMERICAN AND ENGLISH WORKS ON THE PROPHECIES RELATING 
TO THE SECOND ADVENT OF CHRIST AND THE MILLENNIUM. 
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will engage to supply those desiring works of the above character at 
the earliest possible moment. Address, J. V. RIMES, Office of the 
"Advent Herald," No. 8 Chardon-street, Boston. 
Receipts for the Week ending June 26. 
The No. appended to each name below, is the No. of the Herald to 
which the money credited pays. By comparing it with the 
present No. of the Herald, the sender will see how far he is in 
advance, or how far in arrears. 
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son, 508 t R. Weller, 482 ; S. P. Gay, 508 1G. Bangs, 508 ; W Crumb, 
508 ; S. Everett, 5118 ; W. Holden, 482 ; S,Mitchell, 482 ; G. Bursa, 
508 Wm. Dunn, 508 ; T. Taylor, 508 ; Eld. C. Ireland, 482 ; J. Gray, 
508 H. Daghett, 508_ • C. S. Berry, 508* 0. Wiggins, 508 ; J. Frost, 
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482; J. Hooper, 508; Mrs. H. Alden, 5082-each $1.—J. Drew, 482; S. 
G. Tyler, 482 ; S. Campbell, 493 ; G G. Calvin, 534 ; E. A. Hopkins, 
534 • T. Bibbe, 534—each $2.—T. Godfrey (2 cops.), 508—$4.—G, 
Locke, 612—$6—T. B. Stevens, 521—$150—J. W ears, 472—$160, 
Previous donations 
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W. M. Palmer, tracts.......... ....... . ........ 
W. Colbwm 
 
50 
28 
Rev. J. J. Peet, of Ia., books and tracts (cannot 
send all the books you wished for) 
1 25 
I. Daminan tracts ............. .......... 
50 
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Previous receipts 
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Balance overpaid 
 
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