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Mr. Baxter's Pamphlet on the "End 
of the World." 
(Concluded.) 
[We have given in the Herald, at the request 
of Mr. Baxter, two tables from this pamphlet, 
showing his view of the year day and literal day 
fulfillment of the Prophetic Periods. As some 
of the readers of the Herald, doubtless, would 
like an opportunity to see what he has advanc-
ed in support of his view, and as it is purposed 
to give in these columns whatever may bear spe-
cifically on the times in which we live,-that our 
readers may be able to judge for themselves of 
the merit of that which is advanced,-we give 
below the remaining portion of the pamphlet,ex-
cepting unimportant foot notes. And as, from 
what we have seen of the author's spirit, we 
judge that he will be pleased to see the rea-
sons of our dissent from some of his statements, 
we append an occasional note.] 
(II) 2520 years. This period is spoken of in 
Lev xxvi. 18, 19 24, 28, and Dan. iv. 16, as 
"seven times." A "time" means 360 days liter-
ally, or 360 years symbolically, as in Dan. xii. 
7, etc. Therefore, "seven times" denotes 7 mul- 
More like, my Lord, to Thee, 
More like to Thee, 
Ev'n though it be a cross 
Comformeth me ; 
Still all my prayer shall he, 
More like my Lord to Thee, 
More like to Thee. 
In love to God like Thee 
I long to be, 
Devoted and resigned, 
With loving mind, 
In joy or sorrow still 
Delighted in his will, 
More like to Thee. 
In love to man like Thee 
I fain would be; 
Patient, forgiving, mild, 
And undefiled ; 
Thy footsteps I would trace, 
Serving our fallen race,- 
More like to Thee. 
In everything make me, 
Jesus, like Thee; 
Until this body even 
Like thine shall he ; 
Then I thy face shall see, 
More like my Lord to Thee, 
More like to Thee 
MORE LIKE TO THEE. 
N. Y. Observer. 
WHOLE NO. 1084. BOSTON, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1862. VOLUME XXIII. NO. 9. 
Note 11. We never regarded this as a peri-
od, after learning that nothing corresponding to 
the word "time" is in the original of Lev. 26th. 
which evidently has respect to a repetition and 
intensity of punishments, and not to duration. 
The Period in Daniel 4th being interpreted as 
seven years of the king's madness, we do not 
dare extend it. In placing Nebuchadnezzar's 
birth i n B. C. 651, Mr. Baxter, according to 
his own figures, would make him in his 45th 
year when be began to reign ; B. C. 651 is also 
the year when Mr. B's estimate ends the reign of 
Manasseh ; whereas it is universally admitted 
that Manasseh's captivity was in his 22d year. 
After the captivity he was restored to his king-
dom-(2 Ch. 33: 12, 13) ; so that his captivity 
could not have been at the end of the 55 years' 
reign. 
ED. 
Note 12. The 18th year of Josiah is placed 
by Birks, Browne,Chapin, Clinton, Cunningham 
Habershon, Hales, Jarvis, Usher, Prideaux, 
making more than 621 years between the 18th 
year of Josiah and the Christian era. ED. 
(IV.) 2300 years [Dan.viii. 14]. Two eventsler with the 1260 years of which they are univer-
are referred to in this date : the period of the re- sally allowed to be merely prolongations ; all the 
establishment of the daily sacrifice, and the sue- three periods having a commencement, and being 
ceeding time of desolation. The period during essentially the same. They begin in A. D. 533 
which the daily sacrifice should be re-established -4, when popery was established, and thus the 
was predicted to be 70 weeks, which was to be papal abomination of desolation was set up in 
determined or rather cut off [Dan. ix. 24] from the church, and true Christian worship taken 
the 2300 years, and which extended froin 457 away. The 1290 years extend from 533-4 to 
B. C. to A. D. 33, the accomplishment of the 1823-4, at which time the 6th vial was poured 
perfect sacrifice of Christ. Thus the primary ful- out, the independence of Greece was established, 
filment of the 2300 years is from 457 B. C., and the Euphrates, or Ottoman Empire, began 
the date of the renewal of the sacrifice under to dry up, preparing the way for the return of 
Ezra [Ex. vii. 8], until 1843-4 ; the first part the Jews [the kings of the East] and the over-
of this period consisting of the seventy weeks throw of Babylon. The 1335 years, at the end 
from 457 B. C. to A. D. 33, during which the of which, Daniel, having been raised up with 
renewed sacrifice continued ; and the remaining the other saints, will stand in his lot [Dan. xii. 
part consisting of the time of desolation, from A. 14], reaches from 533-4 to 1860-9 as the 
D. 33 when the vail of the temple was rent in commencement of the era of millenial blessedness. 
twain, until 1843-4, the beginning of the re- This year-day fulfilment of the 1260, 1290, 
newel of the sacrifice, the cleansing of the sanct- and 1335 days in connection with the papal An-
uary of the Holy Land, and the partial restora- ti-Christ, foreshadows their ultimate literal-day 
tion of the Jews. It is most remarkable that on fulfilment during the great tribulation when the 
March 21, 1844, as the event proved, this pert- infidel Anti-Christ's image will stand for 1260 
od of 2300 years actually did end, in accordance literal days in the Jewish temple front 1865 to 
with the predictions of Bickersteth and other in- 1869. • 
terpreters, made several years previously. On (VII.) The 1260 years. This period is men- 
that day the Sultan of Turkey, yielding to the tioned twice in Daniel, and five times in Revela-
expostulations of the five great Powers of Eu' tion, under three different expressions. It is 
rope, signed a celebrated edict, or Hatti Sheriff, spoken of as a time, times and half-time [Dan. 
revoking and annulling a long-established Maho- vii. 25 ; xii. 7 ; Rev. xii. 14], signifying 360 
metan law, by which Moslems who adopted days, and twice 360 days, and half 360 days, 
another religion were condemned to be executed. which amount to 1260 days. It is also called 
Thus the national opposition of the Turkish gov- forty-two months (14ev. xi. 2 ; xiii. 5) ; and 
ernment to Christianity and other creeds ceased ; again, a thousand two hundred and threescoae 
and liberty for religious worship was granted, days (Rev. xii. 6.) It is universally admitted to 
constituting the initial cleansing of the sanctuary ; represent the length of the papal supremacy,dur-
and, consequently, since 1844 the Jews have re- ing which the saints should be delivered into the 
turned in increasing numbers to Jerusalem. • hands of the little horn of popery (Dan. vii. 25), 
Two other important dates likewise ended in which arose at the time of the subdivision of the 
1843-4 : the 1260th Mahomedan year terrain- Western Roman Empire into ten horns or king-
ated then, according to the reckoning of the doors. Days prophetically mean years [Numb. 
Turks, who calculated by lunar instead of solar my. 34 ; Ezek. iv. 6]. 
 
years, and commence their calendar at the He. 
The principal commencement of the 1260 years 
gira in A. D. 622 ; and also the concluding 390 was in A. D. 533-4, when the Roman Emper-
years of the sixth trumpet [Rev. ix. 15], dated or Justinian, by his famous code, or Pandects, 
from the fall of Constantinople in 1063, ended gave political power to the Pope ; by this act 
in 1843-4, when the Turkish Woe introduced delivering the saints into his hand. In 1793- 
by that trumpet passed away by the enactment 4, the date of the French Revolution. popery re. 
of the Hatti Sheriff above referred to, and Tar- ceived its first great stroke of judgment, and has 
key then ceased as a nation to be any longer a been gradually declining in Europe ever since ; 
scourge and a woe to Christendom. The second- thus the 1260 years first ended in 1793-4 leav-
ary fulfilment of this period of 2300 years corn-0 
ing an additional 15 years [Daniel xii. 12] as 
he interval to elapse before the consummation an 
mences at Nehemiah's complete renewal of the t 
sacrifices in 431-2 B. 0, [the decree of Artax- 1868-9 ; the four events that were to occur 
erxes giving this commission to Nehemiah was [Rev. xi. 7-13] at the end of the 1260 years, 
all took place in 1793-4 ; these events were,the 
slaughter and resurrection of the two witnesses 
[the two Testaments], the great earthquake [the 
French Revolution], the fall of the tenth part of 
the city [France],and the execution of 7000 men, 
of names [the nobility]. It is noticeable that 
these three last-named occurrences were predict-
ed to occur in fulfilment of Rev. xi. 13, by. 
Brightman and Goodwin as early as 1793', by 
V itringa in 1719, and Dr. Gill in 1748.. The 
secondary commencement of the 1260 years or 
42 months,was in 606-9,the date of Phocas' de-
cree, when the Pope's power actually obtained 
over the ten kingdoms. From his complete es-
tablishment in 606-9 until his complete des-
truction about 1868-9, there will thus be 1260 
years. [For full evidence regarding this date, 
tiplied into 360 years, which gives 2520 years. 
This length of time was to measure the dura- 
tion of the chastisement of the Jews for their 
disobedience,and it has two fulfilrnents, (1) from 
726 B. C., when the ten tribes of Israel under 
Hoshea went into captivity (2 Kings xvii.) until 
1794, when the French Revolution began to pre-
pare the way for the Restoration to Palestine of 
Israel and Judah may be expected. Nebuchad-
nezzar's maniacy during the literal seven times 
typified the heathen aberration from God of the 
four Gentile monarchies during the mystical sev-
en times, or 2520 years. The fact of Nebuchad-
nezzar's birth being held on sufficient grounds, to 
have been about 651 B.C., is another reason for 
commencing the 2520 years in that year, for it 
was expressly declared to the Chaldwan monarch, 
"Thou art the head of Gold." Thus the Roman 
Empire, the last of the four monarchies, will be 
completely overthrown under its 8th Head (Na-
poleon) about 1869 ; and then the fifth universal 
monarchy, or Christ's Millenial Kingdom will be 
established. [Note 11.] 
(III.) The 2500 years is a period of 50 times 
50 years, ending with the Jubilee of Jubilees, 
the last Jubilee that was observed appears to 
have been at the time of the great passover that 
was kept in Josiah's 18th year (2 Chron. xxxv.), 
from which period there is just 2500 years to 
1869, when the great Jubilee 'Trumpet will be 
blown, all fetters will be broken, Christ's people 
will enter upon their promised inheritance, and 
an era of universal freedom and happiness will be 
ushered in. [Note 12.] 
in 446 B. C.), and reached to 1868-9, as the 
&c. &c. in B. C. 622. When we get down to time of the Jews. The '2300 years were men-
that date there is no difference of opinion among 
reliable chronologists-however widely they may 
differ as to previous dates. To make this peri-
od begin and end as stated, it is necessary to in-
terpolate ten years, against the united testimony 
of all standard chronologists. But while doing 
so, we see no warrant for positively affirming 
that "there are just 2500 years to 1869." Mr. 
Shimeall, by twice counting 19 years, and then 
omitting three after the 7th of Artaxerxes,plac-
es the 18th of Josiah in B. C. 638,-reckoning 
from which that period would extend only to 
Note 13. We do not perceive that any ques-
tion of chronology is involved in this, or the fol-
lowing periods ; and no man can say,if the Lord 
1863. But he and Mr. Baxter stand alone in does not come previous to the epoch referred to, 
that he will not come then. We think in view 
of past errors, that we should be modest in giv-
ing opinions for or against any specific dates. 
cloned in connexion with the Grecian goat [Dan. 
viii.], and refer chiefly to the territory of the 
Macedonian Empire, which consisted in a great 
measure of Turkey ; therefore "the cleansing of 
the sanctuary" must have relation principally to 
Turkey and the Holy Land. [Note 13.] 
(V. and VI.) The 1335 and 1290 years 
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Cummings' Apocalyptic Lectures, Shimeall's Bi-
ble Chronology, etc., should be read.] 
The 666 years [Rev. xiii. 18]. The 
Lutheran expositors held that this was not only 
the number of the Beast, but likewise a date. 
Bickersteth,viewing it thus,says : "If taken as a 
period of both rise and fall. In its rise from 533, 
666 brings us to 1198-9, the time of Innocent 
III. Popery was then at its height ; the Inqu-
isition was established ; there was a crusade 
against the Albigenses, and the number was ap-
plied by that Pope to Mohammedanism, as ex-
pected to be then near its end from the time of 
its rise. From 1198-9, 666 brings us to 1864 
—5 ; just before Daniel's time of blessedness, 
leaving us only a period of half a week 
mentioned in Dan. ix. 27, for the infidel perse-
cution from which the Philadelphian church was 
saved [Rev. iii. 10], but the Laodicean part left 
in it to be purified and to be the last gathering 
of the church to the marriage supper." Taken 
as the number of the Beast, [whether the secu-
lar or ecclesiastical Beast], it has been noticed 
by many writers to he contained in the following 
Greek and Latin words : Lateinos the king who 
gave name to the Latin Empire ; Apostates, the 
character of the power ruling it ; Helatine Bas-
ileia, the only Greek name of the empire among 
two or three thousand that has the number ; 666 
Vicarius filii Dei,Latin title of the Pope; Ludo-
vicus, the Latin of Louis. It is also remarkable 
that the word Napoleon when written in the 
Greek, in the dative case,Napoleonti contains the 
number 666. 
The 390 years [Rev. ix. 15]. Accord-
to the best authorities, the verse in which this 
date occurs should be translated : "The four an-
gels prepared against the hour and the day [the 
hour of judgment and the day of wrath] were 
loosed for a month and a year, for to slay the 
third part of men." This period of 390 prophe-
tic days or years has a double commencement,in 
the same manner as the five months or 150 years 
of the Saracen Woe under the fifth trumpet, 
which measured the rise of the Saracen power 
from 636 to 786, and its decline from 786 to 
936. Taken from 1063, when Alp Arslan,at the 
head of the Turkish armies, first crossed the 
Euphrates, the 390 years reach to the taking of 
Constantinople in 1453, when the power of the 
Turks was at its height. Carried on from 1453, 
390 years end in 1843-4 as the termination of 
the Turkish woe. It is noteworthy that Bick-
ersteth, in 1839, predicted on these grounds 
that the Ottoman Empire would cease to be 
a woe to Christendom after 1843 ; and his pre-
diction was verified by the Turkish Sultan, on 
March 21 1844, abolishing the law by which 
Mahometans embracing Christianity were con-
demned to death. 
The 260 years (Rev. x. 6). It is gen-
erally admitted that Rev. x. describes the Re-
formation in 1517, from which period, therefore, 
we must date the Angel's statement, that "There 
shall be a (Gr.) time no longer before the mys-
tery is finished," which means that 360 years 
(a time) will not elapse from 1517 before the 
end of this dispensation, which must therefore 
occur before 1877. Bickersteth, Birks, and the 
Rev. S. Fletcher in his letter to Wesley, thus in-
terpreted it. 
In addition to the evidence from these dates as 
thus interpreted by numerous expositors,we have 
as general Signs of the Times, the wide preach-
ing of the Gospel, the return of the Jews, which 
began in 1844, the many running to and fro, the 
decay of Popery and of the Turkish Empire, and 
the extensive revivals of religion, also the fact 
that we are approaching the seventh Seal, the 
seventh Trumpet, the seventh Vial, as shown in 
the introductory diagrams. 
It is a most serious error to suppose that we 
can neglect to discern the signs of the times,and 
yet be prepared to meet Christ at his advent. 
The remark is often heard from ignorant persons 
who "despise prophesyings," that "death is the 
end of the world to us, and as it may come at 
any time, it is well to be ready." Such persons 
require to be reminded that readiness for death 
is not readiness for Christ's Advent. Those who 
are once truly converted are sure to be saved, 
and are always prepared for death, but not nec-
essarily prepared for the Second Advent, unless 
they are really expecting it to happen at any 
other time. The Word of Prophecy intimates that 
there will only be 144,000 wise virgins (Rev. 7. 
and 14.) caught up to meet Christ at his coming 
in the air about 1864 ; although there are prob-
ably about ten million truly converted persons 
now upon the earth, nearly all of whom, howev• 
er, will be foolish virgins, left behind to be chas-
tized in the 3 1-2 years' great tribulation, and 
[if still living] then caught up at the Second 
Translation, about 1869. Many truly convert-
ed persons, now upon the earth, are resting in 
the unscriptural belief that the personal coming 
of Christ will not be until the end of the millen-
ial 1000 years, and therefore are evidently not 
among those who "love the Lord's appearing," 
[2 Tim. 4. 8,] or "look for him." (Heb. 9. 2S,) 
or have the oil of true watchfulness, unto whom 
alone he will appear at his advent. Such per-
sons will be left behind in 1864.5, and compell-
ed, by the chastisement they will receive, to 
wish for'the Second Advent, which previously 
they could not endure to hear of. Although 
they will certainly be saved, if once born again, 
yet they will not have near so exalted a position 
in the Coming Kingdom as the wise virgins. As 
after Elijah's rapture, a double portion of the 
Spirit rested upon Elish, and after Christ's as-
cension the pentecostal effusion was sent down 
upon the primitive church, so after the rapture 
and ascension of the 144,000 wise virgins about 
1864, there will be a great outpouring of the 
Holy Spirit upon the Laodicean saints, or fool-
ish virgins that are left behind. This was also 
typified by Elijah at the end of 1260 days' 
drought sending the messenger of faith 7 times, 
who saw no symptom of rain until the seventh 
time, which signifies that at the end of the 1260 
years' spiritual drought, the church earnestly 
prays for the Holy Spirit during the six vials, 
from 1793-4 to 1864, but her desire will not be 
realized until the seventh vial, from 1864-9. St. 
James (v. 17-20) distinctly thus applies this fig-
ure of Elias. The first ingathering to the mar-
riage-supper, [Luke 14. 21, 22.] about 1864, 
will only be "the first fruits," [Rev. 14. 7,] as 
compared with the second ingathering [Luke 14. 
23] about 1869, which is "harvest," (Rev. 14. 
15). "The great multitude" (Rev. 7. 9) all 
come out of the [Gr.] great tribulation, being 
the living saints, who are caught up about 1869. 
That there will be two such translations at the 
Advent, is fully held • by Bickersteth, Cunning-
hame, Hooper, Purdon,etc. While there will be 
a great work of grace in the interval between 
these two translations, there will also be terrible 
persecutions and tribulations, so that except 
"those days were shortened, no flesh should be 
saved."—(Mat. 24. '22.) [Note 14.] 
In view of the tremendous judgments that are 
about to descend on the earth, all persons should 
examine themselves as to whether they have 
been really born again, or converted ; for with-
out this change of heart (John 3. 3) no one can 
be saved from "everlasting fire." This truth is 
denied by Unitarian, Universalist, Popish, and 
Spiritualist doctrines, but those who promulgate 
and entertain such "doctrines of devils," (1 Tim. 
4. 1,) will soon he damned in the eternal flames 
of hell-fire, .unless they become converted. The 
change of being born again is obtained by perse-
vering prayer to God in the name of Jesus, and 
those who have obtained it, have a peculiar in-
ward consciousness of the fact, and feel certain 
that their sins are pardoned, and also delight in 
prayer and in reading the Scriptures. The fol- 
Note 14. It is truly a great error to suppose 
we can be prepared for and yet totally indiffer-
ent to our Lord's return. The one in whose 
breast joy would not be excited by the advent 
of the coming One, has no assurance of being 
then, or ever, ready for the Lord's return,—or 
of being ready for death even. Indifference, 
therefore, to the fact, or to the nearness of the 
advent, is indicative of an alarming condition of 
mind which should be speedily repented of. For 
as we read the Scriptures, all who will ever be 
among the saved, will be either among the chang-
ed living or the raised dead at that epoch. But 
is it not a dangerous doctrine to predict "a great 
work of grace" subsequent to the ascent of the 
saints ! 
ED. 
lowing excellent remarks are from Bickersteth's 
Signs of the Times. 
"The enjoyment of God himself and our re-
semblance to him, this, this only, is the true rest 
and happiness of his creature man. There is an 
aching void in every soul, which God alone can 
fill. He himself, in his covenant of love, has 
said, I have satiated the weary soul, and I have 
replenished every sorrowful soul. The gospel of 
our Lord Jesus Christ shews how we may come 
to the enjoyment of this inestimable blessing. 
The gospel, in the voice of love to every human 
being, cries, Be ye reconciled to God ; and so 
we also joy in God,through our Lord Jesus Christ 
by.,whom we have now received the atonement. 
How vast is this grace ! Consider who bestows 
it : the Lord, emphatically the Lord. It is the 
undeseIved favor and mercy of the Lord of heav-
en and earth, the eternal and only-begotten Son 
of the Most High. How extensive is his grace ! 
It is offered to all : Whosoever will let him take 
of the water freely. Oh, how delightful it is to 
sound this out. Whosoever will ! The grace of 
God that bringeth salvation bath appeared unto 
all men. It is not mere ordinary kindness, but 
most wonderful grace ; not a mere gift out of his 
fulness, costing little. For this the incarnate 
God lived a life of sorrow, and died a death of 
shame ; endured the curse, the cross, and the 
grave,—all for us ! See him in the garden, his 
soul exceeding sorrowful, even unto death,—in 
his agony sweating, as it were, great drops of 
blood. Hear his earnest prayer,—Oh, my Fath-
er, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me. 
See him on the cross, nailed to the accursed tree. 
Listen to his agonizing cry, My God, my God, 
why hast thou forsaken me ? What a price was 
paid for our redemption ! The communion of 
us feel the tremendous reality ! On the day of 
crucifixion the sun felt it,—there was darkness 
at mid-day over all the land. The earth felt it, 
for the veil of the Temple was rent in twain from 
the top to the bottom ; and the earth itself was 
moved and did quake, and the very rocks were 
rent, and the graves were opened. And oh,shall 
all nature feel, and we be insensible of this won-
drous love ? Oh, may the love of Jesus move 
our hearts also to their inward depths ! Do 
your continual'sins make you suspect his love ? 
It is the depth of that love which makes him wait 
for your salvation ; account his long suffering 
salvation. With the Lord there is forgiveness. 
He is long-suffering, and of tender mercy, not 
willing that any should perish,but that all should 
come to repentance. He waits to be gracious. 
He declares with a solemn oath, As I live, saith 
the Lord, I have no pleasure in the death of the 
wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way 
and live. But we have one proof which should 
silence every doubt. Look at the Lord Jesus 
Christ hanging on the cross ; God's only be'ov-
ed Son hanging there. "He put him to grief." 
And why ? Because he loves us, loves even his 
sinful and rebellious children. Oh realize the 
love of God to our souls. He loved us before 
we were born ; he loved us before the world was. 
He loved us so, that not all our sins can quench 
his love, and he sheds this love abroad in our 
hearts "by the Holy Ghost which is given unto 
us." Every spiritual grace is imparted by the 
Holy Ghost, who converts, and quickens the 
dead, and makes them living children of their 
heavenly Father. He is their Sanctifier, mak-
ing them pure and holy. lie is their comforter, 
giving them joy in the midst of tribulation. 0 
Christians,—confess Christ before men—main-
tain the truth as it is in Jesus—worship God in 
the Spirit—praise him with grateful hearts—de- 
our village paper—the Stanstead (C. E.) Jour-
nal. I suppose the statements to be reliable. 
They remind one of what is said to have tran-
spired before the destruction of Jerusalem : Jose-
phus affirms that "on the one and twentieth day 
of the month Arternisius [May,] a certain pro-
digious and incredible phenomenon appeared ; I 
suppose the account of it would seem to be a fa-
ble were it not related by those who saw it, and 
were not the events which followed it of so con-
siderable a nature as to deserve such signals ; 
for,before sun-setting, chariots and troops of sol-
diers in their armor were seen running about 
among the clouds, and surrounding of cities." 
And Tacitus, the Roman historian, relates that 
"armies were seen fighting in the air with brand-
ished weapons." 
Whatever may have been the cause, nature 
and design of the "sights" mentioned below,there 
is obviously a disposition on the part of some to 
be "looking after those things which are coming 
on the earth ;" and to view passing events,wheth-
er in heaven or on earth, in the light of an over-
ruling Providence and not of chance. This is 
right. I remain, in haste, 
Your as ever, 
J. M. 0. 
Barnston, Jan. 20, 1862. 
Mr. Editor,—You requested some one to en-
lighten the public in regard to the curious phen-
omena seen one day last week.—I will endeavor 
to do so,although there are others better prepar-
ed to enlighten the public, perhaps on this singu-
lar circumstance than I am. It was a curiosity 
to me,altho' some may call it no curiosity at all, 
and some may say it was the clouds, or others 
perhaps will claim it was the fog rising from the 
lake and settling around the mountains, but I 
claim to say that it was not. If so, why have 
spiritualist, nor do I believe in spiritualism, but 
I believe that there is a Supreme Being who 
hath power over all things. You will find where 
Christ says when he commendeth the poor, that 
there will be earthquakes is divers places, and 
famines, and pestilence, and fearful sights, and 
great signs shall there be from Heaven. Luke, 
21 chap., 11th verse. 
Two weeks ago to-day in the morning, I dis-
covered that the mountains on the west side of the 
lake looked very different from that what they 
usually do. It came to my mind what I had 
heard had been seen a few days before this in 
the same place, I stopped and saw,apparently, a 
train of cars, four in number ; presently they 
changed their position and came together, form-
ing into one body, one side of which was perpen-
dicular to a great height ; and then another sim-
ilar form made its appearance at a short distance. 
I then saw as it looked to me,an army of men ad-
vance towards each other from these large forms. 
They came within a short distance of each other 
and them disappeared ; it then passed away into 
some different position. I then saw a ship come 
in sight, turn broadside to the apparent army of 
men, and thus they appeared and disappeared 
for six hours,passing before my eyes like a splen-
did panorama. 
There were no clouds to be seen in the sky 
that day in that direction, or any fog.—This is 
no idle dream, or fancy, and I can substantiate 
it with the testimony of a very good number of 
people who were with me in the morning and 
saw the same sight. 
Yours respectfully, 
G. W. KINNEY. 
Letter from Bro. R. Hutchinson. 
For the Herald. 
Curious Phenomena. 
his body and blood, at his table, witnesses the we not seen it in the years prior to this? I will 
cost by which this grace has been procnred. Let say this much before going further, that I am no 
My Dear Bro. Bliss :—I employ a leisure 
light in God—weep for sin—trust in Christ, and moment to pen you a few words. My friend Bro. 
love him, and labor to spread the knowledge of Orrock on writing me inquires, "Why don't you 
him to others—be conformed to the image of write something for the Herald ?" The reason is 
God, in his likeness, to bear his beautiful image I am endeavoring to secure as much mental 
forever in his heavenly kingdom. [Note 15.] quiet as is consistent with my present amount of 
Note 15. This is an admirable paragraph public labour,and other duties. 
 
which all can endorse. 0 that it might speedi- 
At our last Canada East and Northern Ver- 
ly be the sentiment of every professed follower mont Conference my brethren requested me to 
of Jesus. 
En. labor as an evangelist, and since I wrote you 
last, which was October 24th, I have been en-
deavoring to act in that capacity, having preach-
ed the word of the kingdom, in Shefford, Mel- 
Bro. Bliss :—I cut the following letter from bourne Ridge, Durham, Odelltown, Roxham,and 
 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
will lend their influence to stir up the teeming 
multitudes to deadly strife, under plea of vindi-
cating national rights, and honor, alias national 
pride ; but the Christian disciple cannot touch, 
taste, nor handle such things, and remain "un-
spotted from the world." Of him,it is command-
ed, that he stand forth in defence of the rights, 
and honor, due to "the King of kings," only ; 
his citizenship is not of this vain world ; he is 
seeking the holy city, and an everlasting king-
dom yet to come, and therefore pleads, "I am 
doing a great work, so that I cannot come ; why 
should the work cease,whilst I leave it, and come 
amongst you ?" Is he urged to care for prop-
erty, home, or friends, he replies, "Let the dead 
bury the dead." My concern is, faithfully to 
proclaim the Kingdom of God. And is it fur-
ther demanded of him, to arbitrate on the vexed 
question of the international laws of the world, 
he steadily declines, on the ground, that he will 
"judge nothing before the time, until the Lord 
come." Let, oh let, the pride of men, smarting 
under the pride of judicial correction, vent its 
malevolence against the iniquitous rulers of this 
world, and menace them with righteous retribu-
tion for grievous wrongs, accounting it laudable 
to incite ruthless hosts to sanguinary warfare in 
vindication of their honor,and thus contemn "the 
honor that cometh from God, only." As child-
ren of the light, we cannot,dare not sympathize 
with such children of darkness. Our feelings, 
and our desires, are towards him, who, ere long, 
shall "rule the world in righteousness, and the 
people with equity." 
Meanwhile I fervently pray, that it may be 
your happy privilege, to continue steadfast unto 
the end, and that, "your whole spirit, soul, and 
body, be preserved blameless unto the coming of 
our Lord Jesus Christ." 
Yours, very faithfully, in the "blessed hope" 
of Immortality, 
glorious resurrection. If the past has, through 
rich grace, been one of sincere service, though 
very imperfect; then the future shall be one of 
sinless, tearless service, without failure or fault, 
for ever and ever. Still, though the most devot-
ed saint will ever find in his own past much to 
mourn over and to be ashamed of—much that 
will lead him to say, "Enter not into judgment 
with thy servant, 0 Lord," therefore he must be 
ever going back, beyond all that relates to him-
self, to the finished work of Jesus. There is the 
only rest as regards peace, and the mainspring 
of holiness. His past sorrows, and the ever-pres-
ent virtue of his sacrifice,can swallow up all our 
past of sin and unworthiness,and make our pres-
ent a blessed and devoted life,and our future an 
eternal association with him in joy and glory. 
To him who is the "same yesterday, to-day, and 
for ever," be praise everlasting ! 
been, as to knowledge, an infant ; as to civiliia- 
tion, a barbarian ; and as to manners, a savage. 
This is not merely fanciful, it is false. For, 
as we learn from the first chapters of Genesis, 
Adam had skill to till the ground, language,and 
such knowledge and understanding as was neces-
sary to give appropriate names to all animals. 
His judgment, memory, and all the powers of 
his mind, must have been very perfect. And 
then too, he was made in the image of God. 
According to some, this consisted in his domin- 
ion over the creatures ; but we are warranted in 
applying it to these three elements, viz : 1. 
Knowledge : "The new man which is renewed 
in knowledge after the image of him that creat-
ed him,"—(Eph. 1: 17, and Col. 3: 10.) 2 
Righteousness. 3. True holiness : "The new 
man, which after God is created in righteous-
ness and true holiness."—(Eph. 4: 24.) If the 
theory under consideration was true, we should 
expect to find, in the histories of individuals and 
nations, a steady and marked advance from the 
first ages on to the present time. But there are 
no facts in history which warrant such conclu- 
sions. There have, indeed, been some illustri- 
ous advances of nations towards a higher civiiza-
tion ; but these were followed by disgraceful re- 
trogressions. The stars of empire have arisen 
from age to age and glittered in the firmament 
of power, and then vanished, or sunk back into 
the unbroken night of barbarism. Take for ex-
ample, the five universal empires, viz : the Ba-
bylonian, followed in turn by the Median, the 
Persian, the Macedonian, and the Roman. 
It is true, these were Pagan nations ; but the 
Jews, with all their advantages, saw their na- 
tional existence terminate in a way equally bit-
ter and disgraceful. And what do we, of the 
present age, behold, we who are standing where 
the accumulated light of so many past ages is 
gathered into one blazing focus ? Where is na-
tional stability ? Where is calm, steady, irre-
pressible growth ? Certainly not in Europe, 
where thrones totter, and crowns tumble. Not 
in despotic Asia, where existing races are madly 
tearing off the thread-bare, gray-grown garments 
of ancient dynasties, and struggling into new re-
lations. And if in the days of our prosperity, 
we ever fondly imagined that our government 
was destined to realize the visions of the philos-
ophers who wrote, and the poets who sang, of 
the "good time coming," that illusion is now dis-
sipated. But it may be said that agitation is a 
part of this system, of this inherent law of pro-
gress. Agitation,I will grant,is sometimes an el-
ement of growth, an agent of reform. The tem-
pest strengthens the oak. The plant dies, and 
its roots send up many clusters instead of the 
one stalk. But change is not always progress. 
Where shall we find any productive power in 
the nature of man ? It is true, God has always 
had a seed which has survived and will survive 
the shock of ages. Christianity, when it takes 
hold of the individual conscience, and leavens 
the lump of society, will secure the stability of 
wholesome laws and institutions. But theorists 
are not permitted to make use of this fact to 
prop up their semi-infidel notions respecting hu-
man ability. 
Poor, fallen, depraved human nature possesses 
no such inherent power, no such law of progress, 
as insures the permanent elevation of the race. 
There are no data in his history which warrant 
such an assumption. But this theory is oppos-
ed by a still more formidable obstacle, viz., the 
word of God, "which liveth and abideth forever." 
The Bible nowhere exalts the creature by any 
such promises or prospects of greatness through 
its own power and energy,but everywhere strains 
the pride of man, by teaching him his weakness 
and inability ; plainly setting forth God's design 
to convince a world of rebels that all efforts at 
self-exaltation will end in abasement ; "for pro-
motion cometh neither from the east, nor from 
the west, nor from thQ south ; but God is the 
judge ; he putteth down one and setteth up anoth-
er." But the Bible speaks to this point still 
more definitely. The world, so far from gliding 
gradually and surely into a state of millennial 
glory, is to encounter, as it draws near its close, 
the whirlwinds of divine fury,the just judgments 
of' God,for its giant wrongs and evils hoary with 
Champlain. The majority of these places, are 
destitute or nearly so of Advent preaching, ex-
cept what I am able to give. Some have mani-
fested their appreciation of the word by walking 
five and even eight miles to meeting. I notice 
a growing interest. A remnant of those who con-
stituted the first fruits of Adventism are stead-
fast, and are being strengthened in their faith 
and hope. Some who had wandered away are 
coming back ; and new ones are beginning to in-
quire, "Are these things so ?" "Is the Lord about 
to come ?" 
I long to do more in the precious cause of the 
Coming One ;" but my "often infirmities" pre-
vent me doing what I could. During the past 
five or six years I have frequently labored iu ex-
treme weakness, and sometimes almost in the 
jaws of death, beside having a full measure of 
conflict and trial. But "an unseen hand from a 
heart of love" has kindly sustained ; and there-
fore I am among the living to praise my God, 
and to do something for the honor of his name, 
and for the spread of his truth. 
"In a rapture of joy 
My life I employ, 
The God of my life to proclaim ; 
'Tis worth living for this, 
To administer bliss, 
And salvation in Jesus's 
"My remnant of days 
I spend in his praise, 
Who died the whole world to redeem : 
Be they many or few, 
My days are his due, 
And they all are devoted to him." 
I need not say that I am still interested in 
the Herald. Last night it was the subject of my 
dream. I thought I looked over its pages with 
great care. I not only noticed the blank on the 
last page, and other indications of pecuniary 
embarrassment, but examined all its articles,and 
came to the conclusion that the Editor is obliged 
to select from his "Exchanges," instead of hav-
ing fresh matter on the Advent, from the minds 
and hearts of those among us who have health' 
and talent for writing. 
I am now awake, and my thoughts are un-
changed. While all should give according to 
their means, let those who can write improve 
their leisure moments,and thus make the Herald 
more welcome to us all ; otherwise those who are 
anxiously waiting for its death, and are aiding 
it in that direction, may too soon be gratified. 
I remain yours, as ever, 
R. HUTCHINSON. 
Roxhain, C. E. Feb. 12, 1862. 
From our London Agent. 
My Christian Brother :—In transmitting 
herewith, the annnal Statement of Monies re-
ceived by me, to the 31 Ultimo, on account of 
the American Millennial Association, together 
with the usual Letter of Credit, for payment to 
you. I deeply regret, not being enabled to re-
fresh you, under your onerous Christian labours, 
with more liberal aid by an increased number of 
subscribers ; but these perilous times of the last 
days in which nominal Christians repudiate sound 
doctrine, the doctrine of Christ—concerning his 
glorious kingdom, are, undoubtedly, not the times 
of refreshing. Nevertheless, the fruitful season 
is hastening on, when "He shall come down like 
rain upon the mown grass, as showers that water 
the earth," even "as the latter,and former rain ;" 
and then, my Christian Brother,our present mor-
tal languishing bodies shall be made to flourish, 
amidst an abundance of peace. 
Strong, and evil temptations, will, no doubt, 
present themselves, in this eventful crisis, to the 
faithful christian traveler, to allure him from the 
"narrow," into the "broad" way, amongst the 
broken potsherds of earth, who are fiercely con-
tending for the vain-glory, and honors, of this 
present evil world. "From whence come wars, 
and fightings among you ? come they not hence 
of your lusts ; ye lust, and have not, ye kill and 
desire to have, and cannot obtain." But, al-
though we,my fellow pilgrim, "walk in the flesh, 
we do not war after the flesh, the weapons of' our 
warfare not being carnal." The sordid political 
Journalist, the wily Politician, the imperious 
Statesman, and other "men of corrupt minds,be- 
ing reprobate concerning the faith," may, nay, 
R. ROBERTSON. 
89 Granye Road, Bermondsey, London, 23d 
Jan. 1862. 
From the London Quarterly Journal of Prophecy. 
The Retrospect• 
Let us, in closing,make a personal and solemn 
application of this subject. Time past is a chron-
icle for us to read and view in connexion with 
truth, an oracle to which we should listen. It 
is written full of the most important events, and 
is intended to give answer to the most important 
questions. We have looked into the chronicle, 
let us ask some questions at the oracle. Days 
that are past, is sin profitable? is there a single 
instance of one registered in your hoary chroni-
cles, who ever found it so ?" Hark ! the answer 
is prompt and unequivocal. "Not one." "The wa-
ges of sin is death." "Days that are past, is the 
world a suited portion of the heart of man ? 
Have you the history of one of the votaries of 
fashion, or the slaves of Mammon, or the wor-
shippers of fame, which proves that something 
beneath the throne of God can produce true and 
lasting happiness ?" The oracle replies, "Mil-
lions have tried, but all have failed. Happiness 
apart from God is a delusive shade, luring the 
soul down to eternal misery." "Days that are 
past, is God faithful ? He hath said he is. Is 
there aught written in your archives to contra-
dict him? Can you shew a penitent repulsed—a 
mourner uncomforted—a praying soul rejected 
bruised reed broken—or a trusting believer 
forsaken ?" Quick as the thunder-peal succeeds 
the lightning-flash,and loud as its glorious tones, 
yet harmonious as the seraph's harp, a million 
voices shout, "God is faithful !" The days that 
are past all become vocal with the praises of a 
faithful God ; all say to the pilgrim through time, 
"Trust ye in the Lord for ever ; for the Lord 
Jehovah is everlasting strength." "Be of good 
courage all ye who hope in the Lord." Let each 
one ask, "What saith the past of my own his-
tory ?" "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall 
he also reap." this and similar texts intimate 
that our past should be considered as prophetical 
of our future. If in our past there is faith in 
and union to Jesus ; then in our future there 
will be eternal life in all its fulness. If behind us, 
in our soul's history there is spiritual regenera-
tion, then before us, in our destiny, there is a 
name." 
France and the United States. 
"In the Last Days Perilous Times 
shall Come." 
It is a favorite theory with some, that the 
world is growing better as it grows older ; that, 
in the constitution of man, there are inherent 
forces, which, by a law of progress, are steadily 
and surely working out a glorious destiny ; lead-
ing the various races, one after another, out of 
barbarism and on to the millennium of universal 
brotherhood and national prosperity. This is a 
very pleasing theory, both in the results which 
it contemplates, and in the flattering compliment 
which it bestows upon human nature. The fact 
that it addresses itself to the pride and loftiness 
of the natural heart, may well account for its or-
igin and the numbers rallied to its support. But 
this theory meets with the very serious objec-
tion that it is not true, whether examined in the 
light of history or brought to the test of scrip-
ture. 
It supposes the first man of the race to have 
The relations of the French Government with 
the United States are thus referred to in the re-
port on the "General Situation of the Empire," 
laid before the Legislative Body : 
"The serious internal complications which have 
taken place in the United States have not dis 
turbed (alere) the cordiality of our relations 
with that country. It was impossible, however, 
that the conflict, the outbreak of which we be- 
held with pain, should not interfere, when it as- 
sumed so large proportions, with our ordinary 
transactions with the United States, and that it 
should not affect, to a certain extent, the secu-
rity of our commerce. The Government of the 
Emperor has, therefore, had to take into serious 
consideration,from the very first, these inevitable 
consequences of the American crisis. It could 
not hesitate as to the attitude which circumstan-
ces made imperative. 
"Having on the one hand, the duty of seeing 
that the interest placed under its protection 
should suffer as little as possible from the strug-
gle which was going on ; desirous, on the other 
hand, to show its respect for the internal rights 
and independence of another country, it could 
only pursue one line of policy to attain the dou-
ble object it had in view—the strict observance 
of neutrality. Consequently, while maintaining 
wishes for the maintenance of the American 
Union on those conditions which had until very 
recently appeared best calculated to secure its 
prosperity ; while being disposed, if it were so-
licited to do so, to contribute by its good offices 
to put an end to a deplorable struggle, it has 
hastened, on the one hand, to remind its subjects 
of the duties imposed upon them by that neutral-
ity,the benefit of which it (the Imperial Govern-
ment) claims in their Lehalf; and on the other, to 
lay down the principles which it expects the bel-
ligerents to respect. 
"We have obtained in this latter resp -et satis-
factory declarations, and, if it did not rest with 
the Emperor's government to do away with all 
the embarrassments which a state of war on any 
part of the globe always involves, the principles 
the application of which the belligerents have 
admitted will at least have the effect of prevent-
ing those injuries which must otherwise have ag, 
gravated the sufferings inevitably caused by the 
present state of things." 
68 
THE ADVENT HERALD, 
a world now "travailing and groaning in pain," 
are casting their long,dark shadows down upon us, 
whose penumbra we seem already to have enter-
ed. But "the day of vengeance of our God" is 
also "the acceptable year of the Lord," "the 
year of his redeemed," "the set time to favor 
Zion," when he anoints his servants to "preach 
good tidings unto the meek, to bind up the brok-
en hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, 
and the opening of the prison to them that are 
bound."---Isa. 61 : 1, 2.---Sab. Recorder. 
Achaia, Lycia, Pisidia, Phrygia, Cilicia, and the 
islands of the .iEgean sea, rendered the Roman name 
justly odious throughout the East. Houses, cities, 
and temples were pillaged ; the inhabitants were 
stripped of their wealth, and the most exquisite 
works of art ; their gold and silver vases of inesti-
mable value, their statues, their gods, and the very 
monuments of the dead were not spared. At one 
single time, five hundred statues were brought to 
Rome from the temple of Apollo at Delphi. If 
fraud and rapine ever reigned on earth, and were 
made to prosper, it was under the auspices of such 
men as Verres and Dolabolla. The remark of Cice-
ro is abundantly confirmed by history." 
"And he shall magnify himself in his heart." 
The Romans were the most pompous, arrogant and 
vain glorious mortals of whom history makes men-
tion. Roman citizens considered themselves the 
equals of kings and princes. On their sovereigns 
they confered the most arrogant titles. They con-
founded their dominions, with the boundaries of the 
earth ; and their capital they spoke of as destined 
to be the abode of the gods. The gorgeousness and 
ostentation of their triumphal processions could not 
be surpassed. And Roman poets, orators, and his-
torians, omitted no opportunity of exulting in their 
national greatness. 
"And by peace shall destroy many." By 
a show of friendship the Romans put many a state 
off its guard, until a favorable opportunity present-
ed for its subjection. Antiochus' expulsion from 
Greece, was owing to the negligent security and in-
dolence with which he had spent the perilous win-
ter. And it was owing to such causes, that the 
most of the Roman victories in the East were so ea-
sily gained. 
"And shall destroy the mighty and the holy 
people." In the margin, this reads, "people of 
the holy ones." "The mighty," Stuart says, "here 
refers to greatness of numbers, and means many ;" 
so that he renders the phrase, "he will destroy 
many, even the people of the saints." And Jerome 
renders it, according to Willet, "the people of holy 
things." 
This phrase is the angel's interpretation of the 
passage, "And it waxed great, even to the host of 
heaven ; and it cast down some of the stars to the 
ground, and stamped upon them." Those denoted 
"the host of heaven,'' and "the stars," in the vis-
ion, are thus explained to be "the mighty and holy 
people," in the interpretation. 
The word here rendered "holy," is frequently 
rendered "saints,"—as in Ps. 106 : 16, "Aaron, 
the saint of the Lord ;" and Zech. 14 : 5 "And all 
the saints with thee." It is the word used by Mo-
ses when he said, "ye shall be unto me a kingdom 
of priests, tnd an holy nation," Ex. 19:6. It also 
occurs in Deut. 7:6, "For thou art an holy people 
unto the Lord thy God ;" in Deut. 28:9, "The 
Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto him-
self ;" and in 2 Ch. 35: 3, "The Levites were holy 
unto the Lord." &c. &c. It is also frequently ap-
plied to individuals made legally holy, by their con-
forming to the Levitical observances for removing any 
defilement or legal uncleanliness. 
The angel's interpretation, therefore, is clearly 
applicable to the Jewish nation—not in respect to 
their moral character, but to their position as a na-
tion dedicated to God's service, and observing rites 
and eeremonies, sincere conformity to which caused 
them to be recognized as holy. 
It would be more satisfactory perhaps, to suppose 
only the pious are thus denominated—those who 
shall yet "shine as the brightness of the firma-
ment," and "as the stars for ever and ever ;" but 
whether it mean the Jewish nation, or Christians, 
it was equally fulfilled by the Romans ; who destroy-
ed Jerusalem, overran Judea, slew more than one 
million of the Jews and removed the nation into 
hopeless bondage ; and who also put to death some 
three millions of Christians in their ten persecutions 
before the time of Constantine, irrespective of the 
millions since martyred. 
"Yea he magnified himself even to the Prince 
of the host," v. 11 ; the interpretation of which is 
"He shall also stand up against the Prince of prin-
ces," v. 25. 
The "Prince of the host," or "Prince of princes," 
is clearly identical with "the blessed and only Po-
tentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords," 1 
Tim. 6: 15 ; and who is affirmed, in Rev. 17: 14, to 
he the Lamb : "And the Lamb shall overcome them ; 
for he is Lord of lords and King of kings." Also in 
Rev. 19: 13-16, He, whose "name is called The 
Word of God," 'lath "on his vesture and on his 
thigh a name written, King of kings, and Lord of 
lords." Says Whiting of the phrase in v 11, "This 
is the identical phrase which occurs in Joshua 5:14, 
15, where it is rendered in our common version, 
"Captain of the host." Shield, p. 176. Prof. 
Stuart understands that God himself is here meant : 
which he says is shown by the sequel. But this 
conclusion results from his application of the sym-
bol to Antiochus, rather than from any significance 
of the term itself. Willet, and others, apply it in 
like manner ; and some there are who suppose the 
Prince of princes to be the Jewish high priest. But 
these guesses weigh little against the clear Scriptu-
ral application of the term to the Lamb of God ; 
who by Roman hands was crucified, on a charge that 
identifies Him as the One against whom this horn 
was to magnify itself. 
(To be continued.) 
age. The world is ripening for ruin, The num-
ber of converts to Christianity will undoubtedly 
be greatly increased, and the knowledge of the 
Gospel become generally prevalent throughoct 
the world. But this increase will but make those 
of the opposite character more hostile and furi-
ous ; more rebellious and persistent in their evil 
courses. A. few days often, near the close of 
the harvest, ripens the grain more than weeks 
during its earlier stages. So with the world. 
Men never sin so fast, and with such terrible cer-
tainty of ruin, as when their dry and fruitless 
branches are spread out under the scorching and 
unrestricted rays of the Gospel's meridian sun. 
Such are the signs of "the last days." This term 
is used in Scripture to represent the whole peri- 
od from the time of Christ's first coming, to his 
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second. "Rath spoken in these last days by his 
Son."—Heb. 1: 2. "Little children, it is the 
last time."-1 John 2: 18. Peter, on the day 
of Pentecost, remarks the fulfillment of Joel's 
prophecy, in these words : "And it shall come 
to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour 
out my Spirit upon all flesh." This was a preg- 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
nant prophecy, and had therefore only an incip-
ient fulfillment on the day of Pentecost. Its 
meaning was not then and there exhausted. Its 
fulfillment is progressive,and will extend through 
the whole Christian dispensation. The declar-
ations respecting the last time, relate then to this 
whole period, though sometimes used more par-
ticularly with reference to the beginning or clos-
ing part of it. The "perilous times" spoken of 
by Paul, (2 Tim. 3: 1) were experienced by the 
first propagators of the gospel, especially in the 
Ten Persecutions which began under Nero. "Pe-
rilous times" had they who led on the Reforma-
tion in the sixteenth century. And still more 
"perilous," if possible, will be the time, hopeful. 
ly near at hand,when the Christian world, made 
"willing in the day of God's power," shall go 
forth to the conquest of the whole Pagan world 
to Christianity. But Christian activity will be 
met by anti-christian activity. "The devil is 
come down unto you, having great wrath, know-
ing that his time is short."—Rev. 12 : 12. Of 
the "perilous times in the last days," John the 
Revelator saw a "sign in the heaven, great and 
marvelous ; seven angels having the seven 
last plagues ; for in them is filled up the wrath 
of God." And the last plague of the seven was 
to be "exceeding great." 
Much might be bronght forward in support of 
this view from the Old Testament. But enough 
has already been said to give it a foot-hold in 
our minds. It will be well to consider what it is 
that is to make "the last days" "perilous." The 
Apostle tells us, "for men shall be lovers of their 
own selves."---2 Tim. 3: 2. This is not true self-
love, but self-seeking, covetousness, selfishness ; 
and the fruits of it are in like manner enumerat-
ed by the Apostle, (2 Tim. 3: 2-5.) It produces 
parsimoniousness; leads to immoderate and un-
lawful attempts to gain fame, power, pleasure, 
and money, which to such persons becomes 
the root of all evil, since, more than any other 
means, it ministers to their selfish appetites. In 
social and domestic life, it makes men "boasters, 
proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, un-
thankful,unholy,without natural affection." In 
political and civil life,it makes men "truce-break-
ers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers 
of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-
minded." In morals and religion, it makes men 
"lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God,hav-
ing a form of godliness, but denying the power 
thereof." 
How like the present era, in this prophetic 
description ! The fact ought to lead to close self-
examination. It ought to lead to individual and 
national humiliation ; to a purification of our 
churches ; to a more united and vigorous effort 
to encourage and sutport Christian enterprizes the admiration of the last fifteen centuries. 
13. "And through this policy also he shall cause 
craft to prosper in his hand." This is in harmony 
with the words of Rome's greatest orator, Cicero : 
"All people mourn, all kingdoms expostulate 
with us for our avarice and injuries. There is no 
place within the ocean so distant or so concealed, as 
that the lust and iniquity of our countrymen have 
not overrun in these times. "—In Verr Zouch i. p. 
125. 
Dr. Zouch, in copying the above, remarks : 
"The depredations of the provincial governors in 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, MARCH 1, 1862. 
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Brethren and Sisters,shall this expectation be rea-
lized ? 
Exposition of Daniels Prophecy. 
CHAPTER VIII. 
(Continued from our last.) 
12. "And he shall prosper and practice." The 
prosperity of the Roman state was for a long time 
Proverbial ; and Plutarch wrote an entire treatise 
on their good fortune. They also performed great 
exploits in peace as well as in war—their public 
works, both in the east and west, having elicited 
at home and abroad. The world is on the eve 
of great events---events wVeh bear directly up-
on the spread and triumph of Messiah's kingdom. 
The threatened and dire judgment of God upon 
* A dream of some theologians, but no where 
affirmed in the letter of Inspiration. At the last 
angels will gather out of the kingdom all things 
that offend, and consign them to the flame—See 
Mat. 13: 40-50. This looks little like their con-
version. ED. 
The Jews. 
Any thing in respect to the Jews is of interest, 
because of the large space they have ever occupied 
in the expectations of Christendom. We therefore 
copy the following from the "Liverpool Courier,"—
without finding in it anything particularly indica-
tive of a national restoration of the Jews to Pales-
tine. For such an event does not depend on the 
expectations of Jews,or of others,however vivid such 
expectations may be, but on the correct interpreta-
tions of Prophecy. The Courier says : 
" The London correspondent of the Dublin Even:. 
ing Mail gives the following remarkable and inter-
esting account of measures taken by the Jews in 
anticipation of their restoration to the Holy Land, 
stating that his information is derived from differ-
ent and altogether eligible quarters, from which an 
insight was accidentally gained into these remarka-
ble workings of Jewish enterprise and opulence. 
Conscious that, during their long expulsion from a 
land of their own, the habits they have acquired to-
tally unfit them for the possession and cultivation of 
their ancient country, should they be reinstated in 
it, they have founded a college near Paris, to which 
the sons of many of the best Jewish families have 
been sent to receive, in addition to the ordinary 
branches of education, instruction in the principles 
of scientific knowledge relative to agriculture. What 
is yet more extraordinary, and the more so from 
their own explanation of the measure, is their dis-
tribution in Italy, through an agent appointed by 
themselves, of copies of the New Testament. In 
justification of this strange and apparently inconsis-
tent step, they assign the following reason : 'The 
Protestants, wherever we find them, treat us, on 
the whole, well, and have no political interests op-
posed to our return to power. The Roman Catho-
lic church, on the contrary, by the countries which 
submit to its dictation, is enabled to exercise, and 
does actually exert, a very strange influence in a di-
rection entirely contrary to our desires. The only 
argument which we have ever found that church 
unable to answer is the New Testament, Let us, 
therefore, spread it over her own peculiar soil.' 
Among the many dangers which now threaten the 
political influence of the See of Rome, it is indeed 
remarkable if we have to reckon the distribution of 
the New Testament in its immediate vicinity by 
Jewish hands." 
"Cure for Rheumatism especially for the 
Sciatic. 
"Two drachms Iodine of Potassium ; and Four 
ounces of Cinnamon Water, mixed. 
"Of the above take One teaspoonful thrice daily 
before eating. Perhaps its efficacy may be more 
doubtful in Inflammatory Rehumatism. It is also 
excellent for the relief or cure of Dyspepsia, and for 
many humors of the Blood." 
The above was given us by a gentleman of our 
acquaintance who was cured of Sciatic Rheuma-
tism by it ; and he knows of many other like cures. 
Brother Bliss :—In a critical review of Rev. 4th 
and 5th,I find a somewhat difficult problem to solve. 
Viz. John had a vision of the upper world. He saw 
four-and-twenty seats, and on them sat four and 
twenty elders. Who are those elders ? They appear 
to be in bodily form : from whence came they ? and 
how came they there then in bodily form ? Is it 
only a mere representation of what it will be after 
the resurrection ? No no, it was a reality. He saw 
24 elders sitting, and in the midst was the Son of 
God. The question returns : how came they there 
in their glorified state ? They say also that they 
:are mads kings and priests unto God, and they shall 
reign on the earth. If the seven seals were all to be 
opened after the first resurrection it would appear 
plain ; but, can that be admitted ? 
Please give us your views on the subject. 
And while I write, another difficulty occurs to me. 
Jesus announced to Nicodemus "That no man hath 
ascended up to heaven but he who came down from 
heaven, even the Son of Man who is in heaven." 
Where did Enoch and Elijah go to when they left 
this world ? But after Christ's resurrection we are 
informed by St. Matthew that many of the saints 
arose from their graves. Query. Could these have 
been the four and twenty that John the revelator 
saw? 
The Lord hasten the day of redemption. 
Z. W. HOYT. 
Griggsvibe ill. Feb. 12th, 1862. 
REMARKS. In the vision of the Evangelist and 
Seer, the heaven in which he saw a throne set we 
regard as the firmament, the concave above the 
earth, which was called heaven in Gen. 1:8. As 
the elders united in the song, "Thou wast slain,and 
hast redeemed us by thy blood out of every kindred 
and tongue and people and nation, and hest made 
us kings and priests, and we shall reign on the 
earth ;" it follows that they were representative of 
the redeemed of our race who will have a part in 
that glorious inheritance—the epoch of the vision 
being anterior to the resurrection and kingdom. Thus 
we do not suppose he saw those intelligences, but a 
symbolization or representation of them. 
We have no reason suppose that the souls of 
disembodied men, or their spirits, have other than 
the same form as the body, and therefore no difficul-
ty in the personal appearance of those described. 
We suppose, and it is only our supposition, that 
Enoch and Elijah went to paradise, not to heaven, 
where our Saviour promised to be with the penitent 
thief on the day of crucifixion. 
We think the "elders" could not be specifically 
those raised after Christ's resurrection ; for such 
were Jews, and were not redeemed out of "every 
kindred," &c. as these were. 
Contrabands. 
A correspondent of the Boston Journal, writing 
from Kansas, says, 
"I am surprised at the extent of the emancipation 
work alone this line. We have had chronicled with 
tolerable accuracy the progress of the work at Fort 
Monroe and Beaufort, but I was not prepared to 
learn that quite as many,probably,have found their 
way to freedom here as at those points. The rivers 
for many weeks have been firmly bridged with ice, 
and no obstruction presented to a free navigation, 
and our sable brothers have not been slow to improve 
it. They come in troops, and in all conceivable 
ways. I am told by one who knows that two separ-
ate companies of a hundred each have passed here 
within a few weeks,and small squads are continually 
arriving. Nor do they come empty ; but with their 
masters' teams and carriages, in wagons, on horse-
back, with ample stores of provisions and clothing. 
Some, though, come in tribulation. Two came in 
irons,with wrists galled and swollen by their mana- 
cles. One, a few days since came faint and weary 
to a gentleman here, and told him that his master,a 
Christian minister, sold all his slaves down South 
but him ; and he assured his master that he would 
be faithful, and serve him, as long as he lived ; 
but he became jealous of him, and put in jail and 
traded him off, but he contrived to escape. 
The beautiful fiction that the slaves are so in love 
with their masters and satisfied with their position 
that they would not accept of freedom, has been ex- 
ploded. The hospital steward of the Fourth Kansas 
told me that when Lane and Jennison advanced in- 
to Missouri they left no slavery behind them. He 
visited one of the wealthiest planters in the region, 
and seeing no negroes. he inquired, "Where are 
your servants ?" "Oh," said the happy master, 
"they heard that you were coining, and have taken 
my teams and gone off into the woods about a doz- 
en miles, for fear you would take them away from 
me." The next morning he came into the camp 
with a dolorous countenance, and said to the stew-
ard : "That was a grand lie I told you yesterday ; 
I did not know it, but as soon as they got out of 
sight they every one took to your camp, and are 
here now. And that is not all. They have taken 
every horse I had, and I've come to see if I can re-
cover a few of the horses." He was most as modest 
in his request as Dives, and about as successful ; for 
he had come to a camp, if not to a State that never 
gave up a fugitive, or crippled him by dismounting 
him. 
So, when the steward soon after returned to Kan-
sas with some .ambulances of sick soldiers for the 
hospital, he was accompanied by a train of two hun-
dred contrabands, all mounted ; one party in a car-
riage that cost $1200. Others in every variety of 
vehicle and on horse and mule back, to the envy of 
the infantry soldiers detailed to accompany the am-
bulances. Thus it is estimated that some three itou-
sand bondmen have found their way to freedomanost 
of them well supplied for the winter, on this West-
ern frontier : and when you remember that the Mis-
sissippi, on the East, is bridged as well as Missouri 
and Kansas and that it needs no bridge on the North 
side, and that five are sold down South for fear to 
every one that escapes, you may well believe the de-
claration made by slaveholders generally in Missouri, 
"Slavery is dead. Its extinction is only a question 
of time. We may as well accommodate ourselves to a 
system of free labor at once." 
Union Sentiment in the South. 
In the official report of the flotilla that went up 
the Tennessee river.after the capture of Fort Henry, 
Captain Phelps says that he met with the most 
gratifying proofs of loyalty everywhere across Ten-
nessee and in the portions of Mississippi and Ala-
bama visited by him. Most affecting incidents greeted 
THE ADVEN r HERALD. 
the roads to prevent Buell from throwing a strong 
column into loyal Knoxville within a week,and ral-
lying about the Stars and Stripes the loyal and sore- 
ly persecuted mountaineers of the Switzerland of 
America. It is believed that 10,000 of the non- 
slaveholding neighbors and friends of Andy John- 
son will turn out and help expel the secessionists 
from East Tennessee. This country, once in our 
hands, all communication between Richmond and 
the Southwest is cut off. It is like tapping the ju-
gular vein to seize that great artery of rebel commu-
nication. 
'From Knoxville the road is open and inviting in- 
to North Carolina. The western portion 
of that State contains a population cursed with the 
presence of but few slaves, and consequently com-
paratively loyal in sentiment. A column of Buell's 
army moving eastwardly would not have far to march 
to form a junction with Burnside's troops advancing 
into the interior of the 'Old North State ;' thereby 
isolating the rebel Virginians from other parts of 
Secessia, and obliging them to submit to the Nation-
al authority, however reluctantly. The force on 
the Potomac ought to make short work of the resis-
tance the Virginia rebels could offer. 
"Columbus, if not evacuated, soon will be ; the 
panic-stricken and demoralized garrison cannot be 
brought up to the scratch. The first glimpse they 
get at Commodore Foote's gunboats will be their sig-
nal for precipitate flight. Once in possession of that 
position, and the way is clear to Memphis. That 
city is wholly indefensible against a combined land 
and water assault, and we do not believe that the 
rebels will make a stand there. They will surren-
der it without a struggle. A few days hence will 
find a national emblem waving over it. Then we 
get into the cotton region. The flocculent fibre is 
produced in prolific abundance in the surrounding 
country. Large shipments of cotton, purchased 
and confiscated, will shortly be seen pressing north- 
ward on the Illinois Central road, and eastward up 
the Ohio, making its way to our cotton factories in 
New England. 
"Thus, with the capture of Fort Donelson by our 
brave Western soldiers, Tenneessee falls like a ripe 
pear into the lap of the Union. 
"But the fruits of this important victory are not 
all gathered when Tennessee is restored to the Un-
ion. The 'father of waters' stops not in his course 
at Memphis, but flows with increasing volume to 
the Gulf. That great national highway can be tra-
versed by the gunboat fleet to New Orleans. There 
are no forts on his banks that can impede the de-
scent of Foote's fleet. The big mortars can easily 
silence any batteries the rebels have planted between 
Memphis and the Balize. A land force of 50,000 
men may be spared from our Western armies to ac-
company the grand expedition and take possession 
of the fields plowed by the mortars, and clear away 
any remaining obstructions." 
him hourly. Men, women and children several times 
gathered in crowds of hundreds, shouting his wel-
come, and hailed the national flag with an enthusi-
asm not to be mistaken. It was genuine and heart-
felt. The loyal people braved everything to get to 
the river bank to see the flag once more. Their tales 
of persecution and suffering were heart-rending. 
Tears flowed freely down the cheeks of men as well 
as women,as they spoke of the fondly-cherished hope 
of again living under the Stars and Stripes. 
At Savannah, Tennessee, Captain Phelps was as-
sured that of the several hundred troops near that 
place, more than one-half would have hailed their 
capture by our men as a deliverance from bondage. 
En Mississippi the people spoke with less freedom 
about the Union cause. They said they were actu-
ally afraid of their own shadows, so great was the 
reign of terror in their midst. 
Important Speech of Minister Faulkner 
One of the most significant indications that the 
spirit of rebellion is broken, and that Southern men 
would be glad to return to their allegiance, is found 
in the speech made by Hon. Charles J. Faulkner, 
Minister to France during the Buchanan adminis-
tration, at a dinner given at Martinsburg, Virginia, 
last Saturday night. The telegraphic report says : 
"Mr. Faulkner said in effect that the policy of 
secession as it had been carried out was a failure. 
It had been accompanied with an unnecessary waste 
of life, the best blood of the South, and an immense 
sacrifice of property. 
If this course was continued in it would pile ruin 
on ruin. The public sentiment of Western Virginia 
was opposed to it. He also intimated that he had 
no affiliation with those who wished the present war 
to continue. His remarks were acquiesced in by the 
large audience present ; there is no doubt but they 
reflect the true sentiments of nine-teaths of the peo-
ple of the upper counties of the Potomac." 
THE SECRETARY OF WAR AND RECENT VICTORIES. 
It seems that Mr. Stanton, the Secretary of war, 
does not relish the encomiums which have been be-
stowed on him as the direct medium, under Provi-
dence, of organizing the means of our recent victo-
ries, but nobly rebukes the flattery which strives to 
elevate him through a depreciation of the just claims 
of others. The following letter, addressed to the 
editor of the New York Tribune, explains Mr. Stan-
ton's views of this indiscreet and ungenerous pro-
cess : 
Sir : I cannot suffer undue merit to be ascribed to 
my official action. The glory of our recent victories 
belongs to the gallant officers and soldiers that fonght 
the battles. No share of it belongs to me. 
Much has recently been said of military combina- 
tions and organizing victory. I hear such phrases 
with apprehension. They commenced in infidel 
France with the Italian campaign, and resulted in 
Waterloo. Who can combine the elements of suc-
cess on the battle-field ? We owe our recent victo-
ries to the Spirit of the Lord, that moved our sol-
diers to rush into battle, and fill the hearts of our 
enemies with terror and dismay. The inspiration 
that conquered in battle was in the hearts of the sol-
diers and from on high ; and wherever there is the 
same inspiration there will be the same result. Pat-
riotic spirit, with resolute courage in officers and 
men, is a military combination that never failed. 
We may well rejoice at the recent victories, for 
they teach us that battles are to be won now and by 
us in the same and only manner that they were ever 
won by any people, or in any age, since the days of 
Joshua, by boldly pursuing and striking the foe. 
What, under, the blessing of Providence, I conceive 
to be the true organization of victory and military 
combination to end this war, was declared in a few 
words by Gen. Grant's message to Gen. Buckner, 
"I propose to move immediately on your works !" 
Yours truly, 
EDWIN M. STANTON. 
THE FRUITS OF THE LATE VICTORIES. The Chicago 
Tribune thus sums up the advantages accruing from 
the late victories in the southwest : 
"The Tennessee river, now open to the Muscle 
Shoals, will enable our Generals to throw a column 
in northern Alabama, where it is believed that a 
considerable portion of the people will gladly take 
shelter under the folds of the dear old flag. 
"The fall of Donelson opens the Cumberland to 
our gunboats to the capital of Tennessee, and indeed 
clear up that river to Mill Springs, the late camp of 
Zollicoffer's force. It is not likely that any serious 
resistance will be offered to the advance of our vic-
torious legions either at Clarksville or Nashville. 
The threat of the rebel leaders that they would burn 
the latter city on the approach of the Federals, will 
hardly be carried into execution. Such an act of 
vandalism would not retard the progress of our con-
quering cohorts, and would tend to. madden and 
arouse the Union men of that State to wage a war 
of extermination against the rebel oppressors and in-
cendiaries. There is nothing but the bad state of 
patches to _their respective governments to this ef-
fect." 
The War. 
The Times' Washington dispatch says a consider- 
able number of rebels, about forty, it is said, have 
come within our lines and surrendered their arms. 
They say they are sick of war, worn out and disap-
pointed,and that they are but the type of the whole 
rebel army in Virginia. 
St. Louis, Feb. 19. A Union scout who has been 
operating up the Thennessee and Cumberland rivers 
reached here this morning. He reports one of the 
spans of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad 
bridge,crossing the Tennessee river at Decatur,Ala., 
was destroyed on Saturday by the Union men in 
that vicinity. It is reported that the bridge at 
Bridgeport, 70 miles above, was also disabled, but 
this is not confirmed. --sesseesse—s— 
The Republican's Cairo dispatch says the latest 
advices from Fort Donelson report the gunboat St. 
Louis, Capt. Paulding, proceeded up the Cumber-
land river to Clarksville,and found the enemy aban-
doning the place in a panic. Two large flat boats, 
with munitions of war,were captured at the Rolling 
Mill just below Clarksville. Everything was being 
moved to Nashville as fast as possible, where the 
next rebel stand will be made. 
Everything at Fort Donelson is progressing satis-
factorily. Our army are encamped and living com-
fortably in the log huts and tents of the rebels. They 
were enthusiastically anxious to march on Nashville. 
With the exception of' severe colds the army is in 
good health. The actual number of prisoners taken 
were 13,390. Among them Gen. West not previous-
ly mentioned. 
Washington, Feb. 20. Secretary Stanton, in the 
course of his remarks at the National Railroad Con-
vention, with upraised hands implored Almighty 
God to aid them and himself and all occupying po-
sitions under the government, in crushing out this 
unholy rebellion. 
ST. Louis, Feb. 21. A special dispatch from Ca- 
iro to the Republican and Democrat says that on 
Tuesday two rebel regiments from Clarksville came 
to Fort Donelson and gave themselves up, saying 
that they had been deceived, and were tired of fight-
ing against the old flag. 
It is declared that strong objection will be raised 
by the Tennesseeans, against the Bowling Green 
force offering battle at Nashville. 
The Provost Marshal at Clarksville has sent word 
to Gen. Grant to come up and occupy the town at 
once. The officers of the gunboats now lying there 
represent the Union feeling as very strong. The peo-
ple state that they had been made to believe that 
the Union army was entirely composed of Germans 
and negroes for abolition purposes, but now that 
they see it is not,they are anxious to return to their 
their allegiance. Prominent citizens says that a sim- ' 
ilar feeling will prevail in the whole State within a 
week. 
Governor Harris has called the Tennessee Legisla- 
ture to meet on Monday for the purpose,it is affirm-
ed, of having all the unconstitutional acts passed by 
them immediately annulled, and Tennessee officers 
and citizens declare that the State will soon be back 
in the Union. 
The important successes of our government dur-
ing the last two weeks, has compelled us to devote 
considerable space to such intelligence during the 
present No. At this latest moment before going to 
press the rumor is believed that Nashville, Tenn., is 
virtually in possession of the Federal forces. 
The Richmond Whig of Feb. 21 says: " Judging 
by results, so far, it [the administration of Davis] 
is a most lamentable failure in history,and the most 
signal service it can now render is the surrender of 
the helm to abler and better hands. In view of the 
past, present and probable future, the pageant of 
to-morrow is a bitter mockery, and a miserable com-
pensation for the ruin of a free people." 
Jeff. Davis has appointed Feb. 28 as a day of 
fasting, humiliation and prayer. 
The Czars Empire. 
The Russian Bear is out foraging. The Empire 
of Alexander now covers a territory well-nigh as 
large as fifty Empires of Louis Napoleon. It com-
passes an unbroken stretch of land from the Baltic 
to the Yellow Sea. The Czar reaches out his finger-
tips touching East and West. When he changed 
his capital from Moscow to St. Petersburg, he was 
thought to menace progress toward Western Europe. 
But the progress has been toward the rising sun. 
During the last three years five acquisitions have 
been made :—first, all Asia north of the Amoor ; 
second, frontier posts in Central Asia, pushed out 
as pickets toward the Indus ; third the coast region 
of East Asia from the Amour southward, and nearer 
to Pekin than Cincinnati to New York ; fourth, the 
island of Saghalien, as large as Pennsylvania, and 
having equal coal mines ; fifth, the Island of Yesso, 
as large as New England.—N. Y -Independent. 
A PROFANE SWEARER REBUKED. The correspond-
ent of the Daily Courier (Syracuse) writing from 
Albany, says: 
"The greatest rebuke I ever heard given for pro-
fane swearing was administered to a New Yorker,by 
a little candy boy,at the Delavan House, yesterday. 
As several of us Syracusans were in conversation 
together at the Delavan, an Albany boy about seven 
years of age came up to vend his candies. His intel-
ligence and remarkable precociousness of manner at-
tracted our attention, when a prominent New York 
er came up and said, Bub, by —, if you will 
come home with me, I'll educate you.' The child 
looked up in the New Yorker's face with extreme 
comtempt, and replied, 'Sir, I would not go to live 
with any gentleman who uses profane language.' 
The cutting rebuke drove the New Yorker from the 
room with a crimson face, when the little Christian 
received a profusion of quarters from the astonished 
spectators who had heard with satisfaction the mor-
al retort from the lips of an innocent child." 
GAIETY, AND DEATH.—A few days since the Presi-
dential mansion was illumed with the gaiety and friv-
olity of a magnificent ball—given by the wife of the 
President, and two of her children being sick at the 
time. The nation was shocked at such an exhibition 
of frivolity, in high quarters, in the midst of a na-
tional crisis like the present. On the 20 last. one 
of those children was no more, and that same man-
sion was shrouded in gloom. There may be "a time 
to dance ;" but that time is not the present. 
WHAT THE FOREIGN MINISTERS THINK OF THE RE-
BELLION. The New York Post of last evening says : 
"We have it from good authority that Mr.Ifulse-
man, the minister from Austria to this country, has 
stated that every one of the foreign representatives 
at Washington had come to the conclusion that the 
days of the rebellion were numbered, and that the 
power of the federal government would be soon ful-
ly re-established in all the now seceded States ; and, 
moreover, that the foreign ministers had sent dis- 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
From Bro. Arteinas Brown. 
Bro. Bliss :—I have no disposition to urge you 
over a bridge until you get to it ; but thinking that 
mayhap some of your readers may be up and ready 
to cross, I suggest the following thoughts, and 
kindly ask that they read the passages of scripture 
referred to, as they examine this article. 
The eleventh chapter of Daniel is inspired. 
It is introduced with far more solemn and 
grand display than any other chapter in the book. 
It relates especially to the " latter day," 10 : 
14. See ch. 10. 
It is more minute than any other, and plainer, 
because it is not symbolic. 
It relates especially to what shall " befall the 
saints" in the latter days, 10:14, and therefore ch. 
11:30-5 embraces the gist of the prophecy ; for 
there only are the saints' trials alluded to. 
This passage, then, must relate to the " latter 
days," which is still more evident, because the cha-
racters and events of vs. 27 and 35 are associated 
with " the time of the end." 
This passage 30-5 all relates to one class of agents 
and events ; for there is no break or indication of 
change or transition in it, nor between it and seve-
ral previous verses. We read, v. 28, that the nor-
thern king's heart is against the holy covenant,and, 
v. 30, he has indignation against the covenant ;—
then, v. 31, that he and his confederates overthrow 
the daily, which pertains to the covenant, and v. 32 
of such as do wickedly against the covenant. (By 
the way, as these are contrasted with the people 
who know their God, ib., the covenant must be 
God's covenant, and as all this relates to the latter 
days, the covenant and daily must pertain to the 
Christian dispensation, and the antitype of the an-
cient daily sacrifices.) 
To return. The 1290 days are positively dated 
at the taking away of the daily, v. 31 and 12:11, 
and of course the 1260 must begin within 30 days 
of that event, and the 1335 within 45 days of it—
if indeed all do not begin together. 
I suppose all your year-day readers agree in com-
mencing the periods within one hundred years of 
A. D. 600, so that somewhere between A.D. 500-
700, the daily sacrifices were taken away and the 
abomination that maketh desolate set up. 
All this was done through the agency of a 
king who had indignation against the holy coven-
ant, v. 30. 
This king was of the north, and as he came 
towards the south to do these things, the seat of the 
sanctuary and daily must have been in the south. 
This king had long previously been a great 
and powerful military monarch, and had executed 
a military expedition against the king of the south, 
v. 21-8. 
Now what king did all this from A.D. 500-700 ? 
and what ships of Chittim attacked any, and caus-
ed his indignation against the covenant of that pe-
riod? If it is said a power or kingdom and not a 
person is meant, then, 1, no such power or kingdom 
existed, nor did anything of the kind from A. D. 
500-700. 2, the word king, in this chapter, up to 
verse 21, means an individual monarch. This one 
is called a " person," and is net a kingdom, but 
receives one, v. 21. Could a kingdom " speak lies 
at a table," and then " return into his own land?" 
vs. 27, 8. 
It,is said that from about this passage, 30-5,there 
is a great change in the meaning of the language ; 
,that a king means a person, as do the pronouns "he" 
and " him" anterior to this passage, but afterwards 
these words denote a power or system or kingdom, 
but I say it is not so, and I have the same right to 
" say " that others have. Again it is said the 
"north" and " south" about here slip out and the 
Pope or Turk slip in, with no hint most distant in 
the text itself to indicate it. Of course this is an- 
other result of a " theory in abstract." But if true 
the two last ones re-appear at v. 40 quite as unher-
alded as they quit. 
Finally, this vile person, 21, who assails the peo-
ple of God, lives at the " time of the end," 27,35, 
and comes to his end at the time of the resurrec-
tion, v. 45 ; 12:2, and as the daily is taken away in 
his reign and consequently the periods begin in it, 
if they are reckoned by the year-day system he must 
live to a great age. 
A. BROWN. 
From Bro. John A. Heagy. 
Dear Bro. Bliss:—Our meeting, of which I spoke 
in my former letter, was concluded on Sabbath eve-
ning last, having been in progress seven weeks. It 
was truly a precious meeting—the great Master 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
In this department, articles are solicited, on the general 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
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and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteous controversy. 
From Bro. G. W. Gregory. 
Bro. Bliss wish to say a few words through 
the Herald to the brethren and sisters interested in 
the proclamation of the gospel of the kingdom. I 
am glad to-day, to be associated with a people who 
have contended against the powers of darkness for 
twenty years to warn a guilty world and slumber-
ing church of the near approach of the Son of man; 
and after we have struggled so long, shall we give 
up our hope? No, never. I suppose we feel alike 
in this matter. For the promise is, " He that en-
dures to the end shall be saved." How shall we 
fulfil our mission? What instruments do we need. 
with which to prosecute our work successfully? No 
doubt we shall all agree that we need a medium 
through which we can reach each other. What 
shall that organ be? The Advent Herald has been 
a faithful servant to us a good many years, and has 
been ably sustained But of late sufficient means 
have not been furnished to meet the expense of pub-
lication. We have the same rich Father that we 
had twenty years ago, and does he frown upon that 
paper for unfaithfulness, or is he chastening us 
members of the household for disobedience ? That 
remains yet to be proved. But I believe the fault 
is ours, brethren and sisters. We may ask what is 
duty in regard to the matter ? We all have differ-
ent views of duty and different modes of doing it. 
Perhaps one brother would say, Raise a permanent 
fund, so that the income of it, in addition to the 
money received from paying subscribers will be suf-
ficient to meet expenses, and avoid the necessity of 
begging. Another will say, Pledge ourselves to 
give so much yearly. Another will say, Give as 
the Lord prospers. And we all, if we believe the 
Herald a true messenger will unite in saying, Give 
it as wide a circulation as possible and get as many 
new subscribers as we can. Now, brethren and sis-
ters, I think we have a right to exercise our honest 
judgment in these matters ; but we must act, in or-
der to live out our faith, and have a lively hope.—
When we covenanted for the treasure hid in the 
field, or the pearl of great price, we pledged our-
selves to give all that we had in exchange, because 
we could obtain it nothing short. If we have prop-
erty in our hands beyond the amount required to 
meet the just claims of our creditors, and God's 
cause demands aid, that call is to us, without our 
making any new pledges, and we have got to obey, 
or we violate the contract, deny our faith, and the 
light in us will become darkness. It may be asked, 
is it our duty to give all we have in one direction ? 
I would say, Do as we think the Lord would have 
us, according to the best light we have. Brethren 
and sisters, I entertain no fears but what the Her-
ald will be sustained. The Lord is only waiting 
for us to contribute of our substance. He wants to 
give us a chance to exercise our faith and do our du-
ty. When we have done it, if anything lacks he 
will furnish it. We must recollect there had to be 
a cake baked first for good old Elijah, before the 
barrel of meal was replenished. And now, breth-
ren and sisters, I cannot feel free until I have en-
closed three dollars and sent in aid of the A.M. As-
sociation, and perhaps you who have been blessed 
with more abundant means will feel compelled to 
send in your fives, tens, twenties and fifties. And 
those of less means will send in your twos, ones, 
halves and quarters, and if you have but a sixpence 
don't withhold it. If that is your all you will feel 
just as free as those that give their hundreds. But 
in such cases it will be best to put our mites toge-
ther so as to save postage. If we are standing on 
the last sands of time we will use economy, that no- 
thing be wasted. Yours truly, 
G. W. GREGORY. 
Winchendon, Feb. 17, 1862. 
PS. There is an omission in my letter of Jan. 3, 
which destroys the sense. 
We are glad to see a re-awakening, or a new in-
terest in the welfare of the Herald. Let the friends 
generally feel as Bro. Gregory does, and there will 
be no lack of means, or of subscribers. ED. 
From Bro. H. Purdy. 
I3ro. Bliss :—Your views concerning the location 
of the new heavens I think are not altogether cor-
rect, and I wish to give you a few of my ideas upon 
the subject ; which I think the Scriptures will sup-
port. The land that was given to Abraham, Isaac 
and Jacob will, I think, never be destroyed by fire 
at Christ's second coming. He will purge and 
cleanse that land, and all that are saved to come in 
the new creation will be gathered together on this 
land to escape the destruction when the earth will 
be refined by fire. I believe the Lord will remove 
the curse from the holy land, a remnant of the Jews 
manifesting his presence and power in the convic-
tion of very many and conversion of 29 or 30 pre-
cious souls. 
Nearly all of these have identified themselves with 
us in church fellowship; and I trust in the day of 
final account, which we believe is very near, each 
may be found ready, with lamp trimmed and burn-
ing, and be made an everlasting trophy of the Re-
deemer's grace. We rejoice and thank God that he 
is still mindful of us and that some are being made 
happy in his love, notwithstanding the hardness and 
the darkness that now prevail. The church engaged 
in the good work with aavill, and are none the 
worse for it, being greatly revived and encouraged. 
During the meeting Bro. Daniels of Harlem N. Y. 
preached for us eight evenings, and Brn. Crowell 
and J. T. Laning each three or four evenings.—
Their labors were well received by the community, 
and appreciated by the church, and especially by 
myself, this being my first pastoral charge, and ful-
ly realizing my own insufficiency for the labor to be 
performed. We did not forget to look to the hill 
from whence our help cometh, and the Father of 
mercies heard our prayers and helped us, and that 
right early. 
I shall still be mindful of the wants of the Her- 
ald. Your brother in Christ, 
JOHN A. HEAGY. 
Morrisville, Pa., Feb. 1, 1802. 
From Bro. Samuel Prior. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—The Herald still cheers us with 
its weekly visits. Permit me to express my gratifi-
cation and approval of your past and present course 
with regard to the publication of this truly valua-
ble and indispensable periodical. I do hope the 
friends of the Herald will promptly respond to the 
necessary demands of the Association—that they 
will speedily lend a helping hand and give cheerful-
ly as to the Lord. Times are hard, and will no 
doubt continue so. The troubles of our nation, as 
well as of the other nations of the earth, appear to 
be increasing ; and though there may be a short re-
spite, the clouds are gathering and the storm of Je-
hovah's wrath will soon burst upon a wicked and 
unregenerate world. Let us watch and pray, and 
walk in the light of God's word, expecting soon to 
" walk in the light of the Lord." 
Enclosed please find $5,—my annual donation,—
hoping and praying the Herald may be supported, 
and continue to shed light upon and unfold the 
blessed truths of Revelation while time shall last, 
I am, as ever, your brother, 
SAMUEL PRIOR. 
Yardleyville, Pa., Jan. 27, 1862. 
We made our home with Bro. Prior, when in 
Yardleyville last June, and often call to mind the 
very pleasant week we there enjoyed. ED. 
From Sister Sarah Winchester. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—The hand that has renewed, 
from year to year, our subscription for the Herald, 
has been arrested in its labor of love, by the fell 
sergeant, death, and I am left to perform my duty 
to the cause of the heavenly Master alone. The 
cause to which belong our best efforts, our highest 
aims, the first-fruits of all we have, and the first of-
ferings of all we possess: Instead of a poor pit-
tance reluctantly doled out, after every selfish want 
has been gratified, every physical call answered,and 
earthly comfort provided. Why, why does the 
cause of the world's Redeemer suffer, and go a beg-
ging, as though the earth and its fulness belonged 
to man instead of God ? It is simply that we may 
have the opportunity to prove whether or not we 
are worthy to be stewards of God's bounty, or whe-
ther we will say to ourselves, —" Soul, thou hest 
much goods laid up for many years ; take thine 
ease, eat, drink, and be merry ;" while the poor 
are perishing for the bread of life. 
It is too true that the moral apathy of the Chris- 
tian world, is like the portentous hush of nature 
before a tempest. God grant there may be a turn-
* to the Lord before the Bridegroom cometh, and 
the door is shut. 
And what are we, who believe the event is soon 
to take place, doing to attest our faith ? Have we 
ministered to the saints ?—fed the hungry ?—cloth-
ed the naked ?—visited the sick, in prison ? Have 
we sought our own or others' good ? Are we ash-
amed of the gospel of Christ ? These are solemn 
questions : how shall we meet them before the 
Judge of all the earth, at the tribunal from which 
there is no appeal? Truly yours, 
SARAH WINCHESTER. 
Sptingfield, Vt., Jan. 29. 
The Overcomer—His Encouragements. 
Having glanced at the numerous foes which the 
overcomer has to combat with let us now notice some 
of the encouragements, which he has to excite him 
to diligence in his course : for though it requires 
desperate effort, unabated zeal, unceasing warfare, 
consisting of 144,000 and a remnant of the animal 
beasts. The city that is to cone down from heaven 
is to be located on this land, and when that takes 
place the new heavens are to be set up. Then there 
will be after this a period of probably a year before 
the earth will be destroyed by fire, and in this per-
iod the resurrected saints will be gathered in the 
city, and then the 144,000 Jews will be gathered 
and encamped around about the city, and they are 
to arrive upon camels and dromedaries and swift 
beasts, and a remnant of the beasts will be gather-
ed, the Jews above-mentioned will multiply, build 
houses and inhabit them, and plant vineyards and 
eat the fruit thereof. At the end of the 1000 years 
the devil is to be let loose in order to give them a 
trial. This great host that is to go there will be 
gathered upon the camp of the saints and the be-
loved city. Then the wicked dead will be raised 
and those that are destroyed that went up against 
the camp of the saints, they are to be cast into the 
lake of fire, and then Christ delivers all up to the 
Father. I remain yours, 
HOSEA PURDY. 
Loughborough, C. W. 
From Bro. D. W. Sornberger. 
Having seen reference made to the fourteenth ch. 
of Zechariah by some of the writers of the Herald, 
and also the parable of the pearl of great price, I 
offer a few thoughts for the Herald. 
1st. When I see the 14th of Zechariah applied 
to the coming of the Lord and connected events, I 
wonder how any person with any light could make 
such an application. I think if we should place it 
with the last chapter of Ezekiel at the close of the 
old covenant, we should get it in the right place, 
and there is no trouble in harmonizing. I see no 
reason for believing that Christ will set his feet up-
on the mount of Olives when he comes the second 
time ; but he was on the mount of Olives when his 
solemn voice denounced the heavy woes upon that 
city and people, and informed them he would oft 
have gathered them, but they would not. Having 
previously sent out twelve and seventy to announce 
his kingdom and reign on the throne of David in 
the restored kingdom, if they received him then the 
Lord would upon the colt as prophesied have enter-
ed the capital Jerusalem with all his saints with 
him, and had the remainder of this chapter, in con-
nection with the last chapters of Ezekiel and the 2d 
of Isaiah and eleventh and the latter part of the 
65th tulfilled, without any serpent to eat dust in 
the new earth, as some have it by confounding the 
scriptures which refer to the close of the old coven-
ant, with those referring to the close of the new,and 
without having horses to wear bells, or sacrifices 
and pots to .boil or seethe them in on the new earth. 
A few words on the parable, Matt. 13:45-6. The 
sinner is likened in the exposition in the Herald to 
the merchantman seeking goodly pearls. Christ is 
called the pearl ; sold his all to buy it. Now let 
us reverse this, liken Christ to the merchantman 
who was seeking goodly pearls, then call the sinner 
or the church the pearl. He was rich—the sinner 
was poor. " For your sake Christ became poor." 
He found man in the field lost, yet he was of value, 
and Christ bought him thus. Paul says, " Ye are 
bought with a price." Thus you have a full, free 
salvation, provided without the sinner selling his 
filthy rags to buy a free gift, and we are not under 
necessity of singing, 
" The pearl that worldlings covet 
Is not the pearl for me," S:c. 
There is more whe e this came from; but no more 
at present. 
D. W .S. 
Stanstead, Feb. 2, 1862. 
From Bro. I. II. Shipman. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—My late visit to Canada and 
the meeting there at the time, was very agreeable 
to me, and I hope profitable to all. It was very 
refreshing to me to sit under the preaching of Bro. 
Orrock, and the profound attention with which his 
old congregation listened to his Scriptural discours-
es showed that I was not alone in appreciating his 
efforts. May God spare his precious life long for 
the benefit of his cause, and especially for that field 
of labor where he is the main pillar in the ministry 
to the Advent churches. I should have been very 
glad to have been with him at the Fitch Bay meet-
ing, as requested in the Herald ; but my appoint-
ments were out, and I could not well recall them. 
Bro. Orrock and the brethren there will accept this 
as my excuse, and be assured they have an interest 
in my prayers. As ever yours, 
I. H• SHIPMAN. 
Sugar Hill, Feb. 19, 1862. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD 
we bless God that the race may and can be run, the I 
victory sought and won : all sufficient weapons of 
warfare hare been provided,and these says an Apos-
tle "are not carnal, but mighty through God to the 
pulling down of strong holds." 2 Corinthians 10: 4. 
The Christian armor is described by Paul in his let-
ter to the Ephesians-that armor which is within 
the reach of all. We have a shield,but not one made 
of the perishable material which the warriors of old 
were wont to use : it is the shield of Faith ; and 
what a shield : the believers sure defence against the 
attacks of unbelief and its kindred assailants. A 
sword too has been provided ; not the glittering steel 
so often dipped in human blood, but that of the 
Spirit which is the word of God : that is quick and 
powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword : 
and often times the Christian soldier has done effec-
tual service with this in the frequent engagements in 
which he is called to act. And there is the Breast-
plate of righteousness ; another safe and beautiful 
piece of defensive armor. The feet are to be shod 
with the preparation of the gospel, and none with 
their feet planted on such a foundation need fear to 
be shaken by any opposition. But the glorious 
crowning part of the Christian panoply is what is 
termed the Helmet-the hope of salvation : it is a 
hope big with immortality and eternal life ; penetra-
ting through the darkest shades of gloom,and point-
ing far beyond the transient troubled scenes of time: 
it makes more glad every hour of gladness, and is a 
solace in sorrow's hour, telling of a land where sor-
row is unknown. In short it is the earnest of that 
which is to come. Thus equipped the overcomer goes 
on to sure and certain victory. 
Another source of encouragement is the bright 
example of those who have fought before in the same 
warfare : the glorious company of Prophets, Apos-
tles,Martyrs and saints of every state and age stand 
out conspicuously, saying we have met fought and 
overcome the same obstacles which stand in your 
way, and following on, you too shall come off victo-
rious. How it excites one to increased zeal and earn-
estness to remember the holy boldness of those who 
when persecution was open and fierce,dared to fight 
the battles of the Lord : when those in high places 
condemned and opposed, when the rack and the 
stake appeared, still they fought on, acting on the 
principle that they ought to obey God rather than 
men. 
But the example and assurance of Jesus are the 
greatest incentives to a faithful continuance in well 
doing ; to these the overcomer clings, these support 
him in the hour of conflict. He is the great Cap-
tain who well knew every danger and hardship 
through which his followers will have to pass : hav-
ing trod the path before them and triumphed over 
all, he says to them "be of good cheer, I have over-
come the world :" and again, "To him that over-
cometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, 
even as I also overcame, and am set down with my 
Father in his throne." 
0 what an hour will it be, to find the warfare ac-
complished-the struggle ended ; to find victory in-
scribed on our banners and our toil-worn pilgrim 
garb exchanged for the shining robes of the redeem- 
ed. 0 what a shout shall we have in glory when 
we find ourselies among the ransomed host on the 
shore of deliverance, joining in the everlasting song 
of the Conqueror. 
Who would not join the ranks of those who are 
pressing forward to such a glorious victory ? 
S. A. COBURN. 
Haverhill, Jan. 1862. 
OBITUARY. 
DIED, in Yardleyville, Jan. 19th, '62, Sister SA- 
RAH WHITE, wife of Bro. Richard White, aged 40 
years. 
She joined in worship on Saturday evening with 
her husband and children, with usual health, and 
before the sabbath dawned, her spirit had taken its 
flight. She was the mother of six children, tfitce 
of whom are bright ornaments of Christian piety 
in the church. The sermon, on this funeral occas-
ion, was preached by the writer, in Messiah's chap-
el, to a large and crowded congregation. Many eyes 
were dimmed with tears, and many hearts sympa-
thized with the bereaved family. 
" Their home is ever lonely, 
Their life seems drear and sad ; 
'Twas her dear presence only 
That made their spirits glad. 
From morning until even 
Care rests upon their brow ; 
She's gone from them to heaven-
They have no mother now." 
J.D.B. 
DIED, in Fallsington, Feb. 16th, 1861, Bro. JAS. 
LONGSDALE, aged 37 years. 
He was baptized in the year 1852 by Bro. Dan-
iels. ills illness was short, and his last hours peace-
ful. He leaves a wife and two children to walk 
through life's uneven journey without him ; but he 
who has promised to be a friend to the widow, and 
a father to the fatherless, will guide them, if faith-
ful to his trust, to a land where parted friends, who 
in Jesus sleep, will meet again. J .D . B. 
DIED, in Yardleyville, Dec. 12,1861, Sister ELIz-
ABETII HOWELL, aged 49 years. 
Her disease was inflammation of the lungs. She 
was confined to her bed but a few hours, and died 
in peace, trusting Christ. She became a member of 
Messiah's church three years ago, and was consis-
tent until the day of her death. She leaves three 
sons and one daughter. Two sons are engaged in 
the-present warfare of our country, and her daugh-
ter, at our late protracted meeting, sought Jesus 
and found him precious to her soul. Our sister's 
remains were taken to the church, where the writer 
preached to a crowded congregation from these 
words, '° Asleep in Jesus," and we have reason to 
believe she enjoys that peaceful sleep, 
" From which none ever wakes to weep." 
J.D.B. 
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Memoirs of William Miller. 
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This volume is worthy of a perusal by all who 
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Instead of the ambitiousness of a religions dema-
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advent 
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from an upright man. Instead of resorting to sub-
terfuges to disguise his defeat, he frankly confessed 
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to guard his followers from the dangers to which 
they were exposed, of relapsing into unbelief, or 
losing their interest in the great doctrine of Christ's 
premillennial coming. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT 
The Little Gardeners. 
" Be not weary in well doing.". 
" Papa, won't you take us now to see 
our gardens? Please do," said little Alice 
Melville, as she stood, one bright spring 
morning, with her two sisters, at the door 
of her father's study. 
" Please, please do,papa," echoed Bessie 
and Fannie; and their father, unable to 
resist the combined entreaties, laid aside 
his book, and before long they had all 
passed over the green lawn which lay in 
front of the rectory and reached a little 
piece of rocky ground, where their father 
bade them stop. The little field was div-
ided into three portions, upon each of 
which lay a set of gardening tools, a box 
of seeds, and a little book. 
"Here are to be the gardens 1 have so 
long promised you," said Mr. Melville. 
Disappointment was written on the faces 
of Alice and Bessie, while tears stood in 
the eyes of little Fannie, as she exclaim-
ed ; " Oh ! papa, I did not think you 
meant this kind of a garden." 
" I knew my little children would be 
sorry at first," said Mr. Melville, " that 1 
had not given them gardens.filled with 
bright flowers ; but listen to me and I will 
tell you how to work, so that this little 
piece of rocky ground will be dearer than 
any flower garden I could have given you. 
These stones, of course, must be cleared 
away, the ground raked, these seeds sown 
and watered with care, and every weed be 
uprooted. You cannot do it all at once, 
nor alone ; but this book I have written 
will tell you how to work, and I shall al-
ways be pleased to help you. My little 
children must not be weary, nor think, be-
cause they do not see any fruits of their 
labor for some time, that they never will 
ieap what was sown. You cannot call 
upon me too often, and I will show you 
now how to commence." 
"Thank you, papa," said Alice ; " but 
really I do not need any assistance. I 
know how to plant seeds, and would ra-
ther make my garden all myself." 
"Just as you please, my daughter,"said 
Mr. Melville ; and the children noticed 
there was sadness in his tone. 
" Won't you help me, papa ?" said Bes-
sie. 
" And me," said Fannie. " We never 
can do it alone." 
" Certainly," answered Mr. Melville ; "I 
shall dearly love to assist you ;" and he 
helped them to remove the stones and pre-
pare the ground for seed, so that before the 
sun set a little space in each garden'was 
sown and watered. 
For several days Fannie and Bessie wa-
tered their gardens carefully, though as 
yet not even a blade was seen ; but at last 
Bessie became weary, and one morning 
exclaimed, " I do not intend to water my 
garden any longer. It is of no use. I do 
not believe the seeds will ever spring up, 
and I won't try any more." 
" Oh ! Bessie," said Fannie; " did not 
papa tell us not to be weary of working, 
and that the seeds would surely come up 
by-and-by." 
" Well, maybe they will," replied Bes-
sie; " but I am tired, and do not intend 
troubling myself to water and rake my 
garden any longer." 
Days passed by, and though Alice found 
that she could not work all alone, she was 
yet too proud to ask aid. Fannie, how-
ever, still toiled on, and though often a 
wee would be left growing and a stone 
be found in the bed, still she did not give 
up, but went to her father and asked him 
to help her, and read the book he had giv-
en her every day. At last, one morning 
she discovered a tiny green leaf peeping 
up from the ground, and when many days 
had gone by a little bed of mignonette shed 
its sweet perfume over her garden. 
When Alice and Bessie saw this they 
determined to follow her example—so go-
ing to their father they begged him to for-
give and help them as he did Fannie. It 
was very hard work for Alice arid Bessie, 
so many weeds had sprung up among the 
stones ; but they persevered, and before 
long little green leaves were seen shooting 
BOSTON, MARCH 1, 1862. 
" FEED MY LAMBS."—John 21:15. 
up in their gardens, so that when the sum-
tner time came bright flowers grew where 
before were nothing save stones and weeds. 
One bright summer morning Mr. Mel- 
ville heard a knock at his study door, and 
upon opening it he found Fannie standing 
there, her cheeks glowing with excitement 
as she exclaimed : " Oh! papa, you never 
did see such naughty girls as Alice and 
Bessie. They are quarreling dreadfully." 
Entering the next room, Mr. Melville 
saw Alice trying to snatch a book from 
Bessie's hand. When the children saw 
their father they both at once commenced 
to make excuses. " It is my book," said 
Alice, "and she has no right to take it." 
"She is just as cross as she can be," said 
Bessie. " I only meant to look at it for a 
minute." 
"Oh ! my children," said Mr. Melville, 
"in what a sad condition your gardens 
are." 
Our gardens, papa !" exclaimed all 
three. " What has happened to them ?" 
" I do not mean your flower gardens,but 
those of your hearts," answered their fa-
ther. " Nothing in this world would give 
me more pleasure than to have you work 
as diligently in those gardens God has giv-
en you as you have done in those I gave 
you in the spring." 
The children sat thoughtful and silent 
for some time, and then Fannie said, gen-
tly, "I think I understand you, dear papa. 
Our evil passions—are they riot the stones 
which we must try to take out of our 
hearts ?" 
" And the book is the Bible?" said Bes-
sie. 
" And the seeds—are they not our at-
tempts to be good ?" added Alice. 
" You are right, my children," said Mr. 
Melville. " If you would only go to God 
for assistance as you come to me,—only 
read His Book as you do the little one 1 
wrote,—only work as diligently to root up 
your evil passions as you do to uproot the 
weeds, before long, ill the gardens of your 
hearts, good actions would spring up from 
the seeds of good intentions, and your 
hearts would be gardens in which God 
would love to dwell." 
"We will try, papa." 
" I am sorry," said Alice and Bessie. 
" And so am I," said Fannie, "for 1 did 
wrong to tell." 
" Forgive us, papa," said the children, 
"and we will work in the gardens of our 
hearts." 
" Then remember, my darling ones," 
said Mr. Melville, " that God has said,—
' Let us not be weary in well-doing, for in 
due season we shall reap, if we faint not.' 
Believe him as you have believed me : go 
to Him when tempted to despair, and the 
gardens of your hearts will bloom with 
imperishable flowers." 
Will you not work in your heart's gar-
den, little reader ?---N Y. Obs. 
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The Pilgrim's Song. 
A few more years shall roll, 
A few more seasons come, 
And we shall be with those at rest, 
Asleep within the tomb 
Then, 0 my Lord, prepare 
My soul for that great day ; 
0 wash me in thy precious blood, 
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My soul for that calm day ; 
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Bnd take my sins away. 
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The eternal sabbath day. 
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My soul for that glad day ; 
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And take my sins away. 
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Daniel Campbell 
Waterloo, Shefford, C. E.. .... .... R. Hutchinson, M .D 
Waterbury, Vt... .... .... .... .... .... .. D. Bosworth 
Worcester, Mass ........ .... .... —Benjamin Emerson 
P IV Webber 1158, $5 ; G IV Mitchell 1105, 50 cts; J 
.$256,25 Sollenberger 482-27 cts; H K B 1101, $5. 
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