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"113ehold, I, come quickly." "Occupy till I come." 
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part out of the body. He used often to think 
of death, and often spoke of it, but never in 
a melancholy tone. His nephew even says 
that in illness his spirits rose to an unusual 
gayety, and he would say that, "from the 
shaking of the prison doors, he was led to 
hope that some of those brisk blasts would 
throw them open, and give bins the release 
he coveted." In a letter, supposed to be 
written shortly before his death, he writes 
thus : "I am grown exceedingly uneasy in 
writing and speaking—yea, almost in think-
ing—when I reflect how cloudy our clearest 
thoughts are ; but I think again, what other 
can we do, till the day break, and the shadows 
flee away ? as one that lieth awake in the 
night must be thinking ; and one thought 
that will likely oftenest return, when, by all 
other thoughts l,e finds little relief, is, "When 
will it be day ?"—Life of Leighton. 
peated my negative. But the dear man 
looked grieved at my indifference, and said 
so gently how disappointed he was that he 
had failed to persuade me to a measure 
which lie felt to be intimately connected with 
my happiness here and hereafter, that when 
he asked me if I would think of it seriously 
one day longer, and let him hope I would 
see its importance, I was fairly conquered. 
"It didnt take much after that to bring me 
to the Saviour. I had seen his image in one 
of his children, and it attracted me with al-
most irresistible power. My wife, too, has 
become a Christian, and we, with our four 
children, are in the Sabbath school." 
Mrs. B now inquired after the others 
with whom her husband had labored. 
"Eleven out of the twelve who joined that 
class," was the answer, "are in the church at 
C ; and most of them are now engaged 
in teaching 'others the Word which became 
so dear to them." 
"Does your husband know what precious 
fruit followed his efforts ?" 
"He felt it his duty," said the wife, "to 
take a week from his private business, and 
devote it to special labor for Christ and the 
souls of men. He performed the duty, and 
left the issue with God." 
"I believe it was the best week's work lie 
ever did," was the reply ; "and I shall bless 
God for it to all eternity." 
Christian friend, will you not also hear the 
call of the Master, "Go, work to-day in my 
vineyard." 
looked upon with an eye of love from before 
the foundation of the world, and yet, in the 
family to which you belong, you may be 
overlooked and forgotten. Your own breth-
ren have formed a very low opinion of your 
abilities, and they have a perfect contempt 
for the singularity of your character. You 
are as a speckled bird among your own kins-
folk ; you cannot enjoy what they enjoy ; 
your loves and your longings run in a dif-
ferent channel from theirs. Suffer not their 
contempt to break your heart. Remember 
David once stood in your position, and there 
was yet another in the earlier days upon the 
crown of whose head the blessing of the 'eter-
nal hills descended, though he was separated 
from his brethren ; and so may heaven's en-
riching smile yet rest on you, for the Lord 
seeth not as man seethe The rejected of men 
are often the beloved of the Lord.—Spur-
geon. 
COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION. 
L. GISLER, J. PEARSON, R. R. KNOWLES. 
DIVORCE. 
 
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AIM I. 
A LITTLE WHILE. 
[For Terms, &c., see Fourth Page.] 
6ontinunicationo. 
REVIVAL WORK, 
A SABBATH IN BETHLEHEM. 
BY G. P. DISOWAY, ESQ. 
Beyond the smiling and the weeping, 
I shall be soon. 
Beyond the waking and the sleeping, 
Beyond the sowing and the reaping, 
I shall he soon. 
Love, rest and home, 
Sweet home ! 
Lord, tarry not, but come. 
Beyond the blooming and the fading, 
I shall be soon. 
Beyond the shining and the shading, 
Beyond the hoping and the dreading, 
I shall he soon. 
Love, rest and home, 
Sweet home ! 
Lord, tarry not, but come. 
Beyond the rising and the setting, 
I shall be soon. 
Beyond the calming and the fretting, 
Beyond remembering and forgetting, 
I shall be soon. 
Love, rest and home, 
Sweet Heine ! 
Lord, tarry not, but come. 
Beyond the parting and the meeting, - 
I shall be soon. 
Beyond the farewell and the greeting, 
Beyond the pulse's fever beating, 
I shall be soon. 
Love, rest and home, 
Sweet home! 
Lord, tarry not, but come. 
Beyond the frost chain and the fever, 
I shall be soon.. 
Beyond the rock-waste and the river, 
Beyond the ever and the never, 
I shall be soon. 
Love, rest and home, 
Sweet home ! 
Lord, tarry not, but come. 
Northwestern Christian Advocate. 
.11-••••• • 
A WEEK'S LABOR FOR CHRIST. 
During these morning exercises, similar 
ones were going on at the "old church," al-
most joining the new, and in the German 
language. Many of the Moravians at Beth-
lehem do not understand the English, but 
their preachers use both tongues. 
Early in the afternoon the administration 
of the Lord's Supper was observed its the 
German language, and at four o'clock the 
love-feast was held by the English part of 
the congregation. These feasts are derived 
from the Agapce of the Apostolic Church, 
and among the Moravians generally celebrat-
ed as preparatory to the holy communion. 
By the ancient Christians they were kept as 
a token of mutual love and benevolence ; 
and St. Paul alludes to them in his Epistles. 
They were in use until the middle of the 
fourth century, and then prohibited from be-
ing held in the churches by the Council of 
Laodicea, having been abused. In later days 
they have been revived in the purity and 
simplicity of their primitive institution by 
the Moravians and Methodists. 
The services on this occasion consisted its 
the singing of hymns and anthems, alternate-
ly, byethe choir and the congregation. Print-
ed orders are often used expressly for this 
feast, and the simple meal of which the con-
gregation now partook together consisted of 
a light biscuit and coffee, and not bread and 
water, as with the Methodists. And there 
was no relation of Christian experiences, as 
is the cheering custom in our love-feasts. 
Singing was the striking characteristic of the 
meeting. Members appointed for the pur-
pose—two men and two women—with large 
baskets, distributed the biscuits, handing one 
to each person, and then served the coffee 
front white earthen' cups on wooden waiters. 
Sometimes the love-feast concludes with an 
address from the -officiating minister. The 
holy Men at the altar shook hands, and a 
Moravian near by gave me a. friendly grasp, 
when the doxology was sung and the bene-
diction pronounced. 
In the evening there was the sacramental 
communion, when five ministers entered the 
church in their white robes of office, the 
trombones playing a mournful, soft, soothing 
air. This is a very large church edifice, 
without side galleries, and will accommodate 
twelve or fifteen hundred people. There are 
no pews, but movable, simple benches with 
backs. The men arid women sit apart, and 
one of the ministers informed me that this 
was the case "with every Moravian church 
in the world." This was Mr. Wesley's orig-
nal plan. 
The services opened with singing verses of 
penitence and contrition, followed by a 
prayer for absolution. Then, the congrega-
gation rising, another hymn was sung, and 
the bread consecrated in our usual manner 
—"Our Lord Jesus Christ, the same night," 
etc. It was distributed by the ministers to 
the congregation, each row standing up as 
they approached. The bread was unleavened, 
and prepared its many thin pieces, like wa-
fers, each communicant retaining his portion 
until the whole were served. During this 
timue the hymns were continued, accompanied 
by the organ, and treating chiefly of the suf-
ferings and death of our Lord ; and all hav-
ing received the bread, the minister repeat-
ed : "Our Lord Jesus Christ said, 'rake, eat 
this is my body which is given for you," 
when the whole congregation partook at the 
same moment, and immediately knelt down 
in silent prayer. I suppose some five Min-
dred thus communed at the same instant, arid 
to see this large number humbly, silently, 
and devoutly fall on their knees before God, 
was most impressive. Then they rose, sing-
ing hymns of thanksgiving ; the wine was 
consecrated, and the assistant ministers passed 
through the congregation, administering it 
to the communicants standing. During this 
period, too, hymns were sung; sometimes in 
English, and then in German, treating of the 
remission of sins in the blood of Jesus, with 
its healing and- sanctifying power. Still the 
service continued with sacred songs of broth-
erly love, communion with the Saviour, and 
thankfulness for his incarnation, passion end 
death: With the blessing, the holy exercises 
of the day concluded, and thus, delightfully, 
and with profit, I spent a Sabbath among 
the Moravian brethren. I noticed, during 
my visit, many other things worthy of record, 
and which may form another letter before 
my return.—Methodist. 
were discovered by the light ; "for whatso-
ever doth make manifest is light." In 
his interviews with Nathaniel, Nicodemus, 
and indeed with every individual with whom 
he came in contact, and not only so, but in 
all his social speaking and public preaching, 
he pursued the same method of dealing with 
the hidden springs of life. To trace this 
through all his ministry will be a profitable 
exercise to those who deal with souls. 
Let it not be said, "He was God and 
knew the hearts of all ; but we are altogeth-
er ignorant of the inward thoughts of those 
to whom we speak." Not because he was 
God, but because he lived in the Spirit, and 
was a Man of faith, had the eternal Son of 
the Father this insight into the hearts of 
men. He had emptied himself of his divine 
power and glory, and through the eternal 
Spirit lived and wrought on the earth, the 
true Servant, whose ear was opened to hear 
as one taught. (See Phil. 2 : 7; Psa. 40 : 
6, margin ; Exod 21 : 6; Isa. 50 : 4.) Al-
though he were the mighty God who clothes 
the heavens with blackness, and makes sack-
cloth their covering, yet he says, "The Lord 
God hath given me the tongue of the learned, 
that I should know how to speak a word in 
season to the weary. He wakeneth morn-
ing by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to 
hear as one taught. 
The Lord God bath 
opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, 
neither turned away back." 
It is not he who has the clearest intellectu-
al apprehension of the scheme of redemption, 
but lie who in conscious ignorance and help-
lessness simply waits thus on God, who best 
knows how, like his Lord, to speak a word 
in season. And this is why ninny with less 
knowledge than others, have spoken under 
the guidance of the Holy Ghost such words 
in season that they who heard have cried 
out, "We will go with you, for we see that 
God is with you." Correct preaching is not 
everything. There are comparatively few 
even of the poor in this country but know co 
much of the gospel as that Jesus died for our 
sins ; it is not so much that they want it 
made clear to their minds, as that their 
hearts should be opened to receive him. A 
dear brother, laboring in the gospel, said to 
me at Wellington, "What is all this fiddling 
business with the Pooles ?" "Well," I re-
plied, "God has blessed them here in saving 
souls." During our brief conversation the 
same brother told me, in reply to an inquiry 
as * the work of the Lord in his own hands, 
that while he labored out of doors and in, 
there did not appear to be a proportionate 
result. Now if the tree be known by its 
fruit, "this fiddling business," including in 
that phrase whatever testimony for God is 
connected with it, is of more'value than the 
other, for Joshua Poole and his *He have 
fiddled and preached comfort into many a 
home, and brought peace in Jesus to weary 
hearts; in many places during visits seldom 
exceeding a few weeks. Beloved reader, 
whoever thou art, is.there not true wisdom 
in those two lessons which God taught the 
schoolmaster of Wellington, "To be content 
to be a fool for Christ ; and, whom God 
honoreth 1 will honor ?"—Revival. 
THE ELECTION OF DAVID. 
This great sin has already crept into our 
New England churches to an alarming ex- 
tent. In one prominent church, within our 
knowledge, there is a most notorious case. 
In another, situated in the vicinity of a court-
room, where an immense amount of the ne-
farious business is done, there are two, and 
no questions asked. Its some churches the 
appointments are controlled by this thing ; 
so that preachers who are known to possess 
decided convictions on this subject, and to be 
faithful in administering the word of God 
thereon, are excluded from the pulpits. One 
brother informed us, that on one of his ap-
pointments these cases were so numerous, 
that he was finally afraid, in his pastoral 
visits, to inquire after the relationship of 
parties, lest he should stumble upon "a grass 
widow." This evil, with others, is also said 
to be creeping into our ministry even, and to 
aspire to stand in the holy place. If so, the 
glory is departing. Therefore, the second 
question is, Shall we allow these laws to dis-
grace the statute book, when it is in our 
power, as citizens, to repeal them ? Although 
Christians and Christian ministers are citi-
zens, with all the rights and duties of such, 
as well as others, yet it has been said, espec-
ially of the latter, that they have nothing to 
do with politics, but that they should allow 
other men to do as they please in these mat-
ters, without remonstrance and interference. 
And the Christian church has, in a great 
measure, tacitly acquiesced in these senti-
ments, in consequence of which much of the 
legislation of this country for the sixty years 
past has been infidel in its character ; and 
the tares sown while we have slept, now al-
ready begin to produce their harvest of bitter 
fruit. 
It is time that this wickedness and absurd-
ity should come to an end, and that good men 
should make their power felt in the legisla-
tion of the country, and the administration 
of its affairs, and no longer leave them too 
exclusively to slaveholders, runasellers, gam-
blers, popish priests, infidels, and political 
demagogues, often possessing but little knowl-
edge and less integrity, and who, having al-
ready borught the ship of State into a peril-
ous place, are to be no longer intrusted with 
her sole management. 
These good men may control the entire 
legislation of the State, and especially when 
we consider the fact that they also possess 
the, greater part of the entire wealth of the 
State, and embody a great portion of its in-
telligence arid its moral worth. "To him 
that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to 
him it is sin, and the wages of sin is death." 
But it may be said that the enforcement 
of this law of Christ would not only prove 
exceedingly inconvenient to some, but also a 
burden heavy to be borne. This is most fully 
admitted. We plainly perceive all the ap-
parent difficulties in the case. But this is 
also equally true, in some circumstances, of 
many other laws of Christ. Obedience to 
them would not only prove excessively in-
convenient, but would also seem to impose a 
burden heavy to be borne. Hence the mighty 
conflict between faith and sight which is con-
stantly going on in this world, and in which 
faith and obedience sometimes triumph, and 
sometimes the law of expediency, as deter-
mined by appearances. It is sometimes ap-
parently better to sin than to obey ; and here 
is the very rock on which many split, and 
sink to rise no more. Hence the use of faith 
in the Christian life, which comes in to de-
termine our course, when sight fails us 
through the shortness and imperfection of our 
moral vision. It is certainly very inconven-
ient, and imposes a heavy burden, to suffer 
the spoiling of one's goods, the loss of repu-
tation, the loss of personal liberty, and event 
the loss of life, for Christ's sake. And yet 
even these things must be cheerfully suffered, 
in order to please God and to gain eternal 
life. Heine the term of discipleship as laid 
down by our Lord, "Whosoever will come 
after me, let him deny himself, and take up 
his cross and follow me, or lie cannot be my 
disciple." Hence also those solemn and 
weighty words with which he introduces this 
very subject of divorce, Matt. 5 : 29, 30. 
"And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it 
out, and cast it from thee ; for it is profitable 
for thee that one of thy members should 
perish, and not that thy whole body should 
be cast into hell. And if thy right band of-
fend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee ; 
The word "Revival" is unpopular. Not 
only does the world sneer at it, but profess-
ing Christians cry it down ; and, stranger 
still, they who are confessedly engaged in 
Revival work are frequently ashamed of the 
word. This may arise partly from the fact 
that many extravagant and foolish things 
have been done in the name of Revival; 
but we are disposed to think that there is a 
deeper cause than this. It is a very hum- 
bling word. It implies inactivity, sloth, 
sleep, death ; and no one is naturally willing 
to confess to this condition. Everything be- 
neath the sun tends down to death. All 
that is of the first creation, whether physical, 
mental, or moral, is subject to the ancient 
curse. 
"The moment that our lives begin 
We all begin to die." 
All life must be manifested in a form, and 
the form is often clung to with even greater 
tenacity after death than when it lived. 
Egypt embalms its dead bodies, but God 
bids the man of faith "Bury thy dead out of 
thy sight," even though that dead be Sarah. 
The brazen serpent was a way of life to Is- 
rael, but after it had done its work the peo-
ple burned incense to it, on account of what 
it had been, and not for any virtue that re-
mained to it ; but when a king rose up who 
had the mind of God, he called it "Nehus-
tan," and broke it in pieces ; for it was now 
nothing but old brass. The Jew rests in the 
law, and makes his boast of God ; he knows 
his will, and tries the things that differ; he 
is confident that he is a guide of the blind, 
and a light of them who are in darkness ; 
he has the form of' knowledge and of the 
truth in the law ; but while he teaches it he 
breaks it in every point : "Thou that makest 
thy boast of the law, through breaking the 
law, dishonorest thou God." Fainting forms 
must be revived ; for dead forms there is a 
cave of Macpelah, that they may be buried 
out of sight. "A living dog is better than a 
dead lion ;" and "better is a poor and a wise 
child than au old and foolish king, who will 
no more be admonished." 
Revival work does not consist in the con-
version of sinners; that is the result or fruit 
of Revivals. You can't re-wive a stone ; it 
never lived. Dead sinners must be made 
alive, born, created anew in Christ Jesus. 
No one who knows the gospel of God can 
talk of reviving the dead, ungodly world ; 
that would be a flat denial of the first prin-
ciples of New Covenant truth. Men dead 
in trespasses and sins, lost in the ruin of the 
first Adam, (who was made a living soul, 
but died in the, day he disobeyed) must be 
made alive in the last Adam, the quickening, 
the life-giving Spirit. And as we sow Ilsot 
that body which shall be, nor God raises the 
same flesh and blood body which was bur-
ied, but a new and glorious body, made like 
unto the Son of God ; so the salvation of 
a sinner is not the re-vival of his old, weak, 
and sinful Adam-life, but the impartation of 
an altogether new, divine, and holy life, 
whereby he is made a son of God. 
But though sinners cannot, blessed be God 
that saints may, be revived. The seven 
epistles to the churches all show that the ten-
dency to sleep and death which attaches to 
this body of humiliation is not removed even 
by the indwelling of the Holy Ghost ; and 
therefore the Spirit of Christ continually ex-
horts the churches to repent 'and do the first 
works. The condition of Sardis- was by no 
means the worst of' the seven.; but to her he 
says, "I know thy works, that thou bast a 
name that thou livest, and art dead. Be 
watchful, and strengthen the things which 
remains that are ready to die ; for I have not 
found thy works perfect before God." 
Revival is the work of the Holy Ghost ; 
the creature cannot revive itself. No bless-
ing conies except by prayer. The same 
Spirit which is given in answer to prayer is 
he who, dwelling in the believing soul, help-
eth our infirmities, and, though it be with 
unuttered groaeings, maketh intercession fbr 
the saints according to the will of God. So 
far as the late revival in Ireland can be 
traced to its source, as regards outward 
means, it began with a young man who read 
the report of George Milner, of Bristol, and 
was moved to pray, in concert with another, 
that showers of blessing might be given to 
the thirsty land. And although it be impos-
sible to trace the work of God in each par-
ticular insttince, we are all convinced that 
whenever God has "revived us again," it has 
been in answer to the believing prayer of his 
people. In no other way can we account 
for the variation as to success experienced 
by the same evangelist in different places. 
He may preach with apparently more power 
in one than in another, and yet the weaker 
testimony be by far the more fruitful. In 
the one case his way has been prepared by 
the supplications of some who may perhaps 
be feeble, unknown, or even despised ; in the 
other there has been no such preparation, and 
the seed is as though it were sown upon the 
beaten road. When Richard Weaver came 
to London, and preached in St. Martin's 
Hall, much prayer was made before he 
spoke ; and not only so, but during the 
preaching, a number of believers were in the 
ante-room, pleading that the word might be 
made effectual; and those who remember 
those meetings know how largely the an-
swer came in power from on high. 
It cannot be denied that there is a far 
clearer gospel preached now than when this 
w ork commenced; but is the blessing great-
er? Certainly the results now realized are 
not its proportion to the increased light as to 
the simplicity of the gospel ; would God we 
could believe they were not in many cases 
in an inverse ratio. And why is this ? Be-
cause the very blessing of light has made us 
less sensible of our need of the Spirit's power. 
Dependence must not be placed upon doctri-
nal statement, though made so clear to the 
intellect that it cannot be gainsayed ; nor 
upon appeals that excite the deepest emo-
tions of our nature ; the conscience will re-
main seared and the heart unattracted, un-
less the Spirit be poured upon us from on 
high ; and that Spirit is given by the Heav-
enly Father, in answer to the children's 
prayer. 
The Revival of the last few years has af-
fected high ' and low, and souls have been 
won in drawing-room assemblies, and in 
kitchen meetings. It has riot specially fa- 
vored either class or creed; although the 
greatest success has often been accorded 
where the light was feebler, but the humility 
and love more deep and pure. 
Evangelists have been raised up in and 
outside of all denominations ; some are de-
voted students of the Word, and read more 
than they pray ; others less diligently search 
the Scriptures, and pray more than they 
read. The Word of God and prayer must 
be used in due proportion ; for if we read 
without prayer, our knowledge will puff us 
up; or if we pray and neglect the Word, 
our prayer will be according to sense in-
stead of faith. Nevertheless, "let not him 
that eateth despise him that eateth not ; and 
let not him which.eatetl not judge him that 
eateth ; for God bath received him. Who 
art thou that judgest Another's servant ? To 
his own Master lie standeth or &Beth. Yea, 
he shall be holden up, for God is able to 
make him stand." 
If neglecting to seek the power of the 
Spirit be the Scylla, this judging cf others is 
the Charybdis, which Christ's disciples must 
watchfully avoid. There is utterly a fault 
and a mistake amongst some preachers, who 
see and define the plan of salvation with 
mathematical precision. They have no pa-
tience with laborers of another character. I 
would commend to them a remark of our be-
loved brother Dr. Cranage which deserves 
to be engraved in gold : "God did not begin 
to use me until he had taught me two things : 
first, to be ecntent to be a fool for Christ ; 
and secondly, to resolve that whoM God hon-
oreth I will honor." 
There is an idea that the clear doctrinal 
statement of the gospel, with more or less of 
illustration, according to the taste or ability 
of the evangelist, is the only correct method 
of preaching. If a man, preaching amongst 
the working-classes, frequently inveighs 
against drink, or speaks to the people of their 
duties as husbands and wives, parents and 
children, it is not uncommon to hear it said, 
"That is not the gospel." If he who said to 
the messenger of John, "To the poor the gos-
pfl is preached," and who was himself the 
gospel, were preaching amongst us as he 
preached in Judea and Samaria and Galilee, 
there are plenty who would object "That is 
not the gospel:" Is there no such thing as 
duty ? It has become a very unfitshionable 
word, but conviction of sin and sense of help-
lessness to do the right, will often be pro-
duced by showing the duties neglected or 
the evil habits indulged in, when the con-
science remains unawakened by the charge 
of murdering the Son of God. The Lord 
Jesus had a divine method of dealing with 
the conscience. He did not say to the wo-
man at the well, "No adulteress bath eter-
nal life abiding in her," but, "Go call thy 
husband and come hither." He deals with 
her, not as to a crime of which all mankind 
are guilty, or a ruin under which all lie, but 
brings her own sin before her, and leads her 
to say, "Come see a man that told me all 
things that ever /did ; is not this the Christ ?" 
He had not lite-rally told her all that ever 
she did, but, led by the Spirit, he had touched 
a spring which brought her whole life to re-
membrance, and dark passages in her history 
which had been closed for long 'past years 
CALMNESS IN PROSPECT OF DEATH. 
It was not merely the loss of money that 
he could bear with such calmness and trans 
quility—he could face death with equal com-
posure. Sometime afterwards, being in 
London, he had taken the water at the Sa-
voy Stairs, in company with his brother, Sir 
Ellis Leighton, his lady, and some others, 
and was on his" way to Lambeth, when, ow-
ing to mismanagement, the boat was in great 
danger of sinking. While the rest of the 
party were pale with terror, and most of 
them crying out, Leighton never for a mo-
ment lost his accustomed serenity. To some 
who afterwards expressed their astonishment 
at his calmness, he replied : "Why, what 
harm would it have been if we had all been 
safe landed on the other side ?" In the habit 
of dying daily, and of daily conversing with 
the world of spirits, he could never be sur-
prised or disconcerted by a summons to de- 
Bethlehem, Pa., Aug. 14, 1865. 
At the kind invitation of the Rev. E. De 
Schweittitz, pastor of the Moravian church 
in this place, I have spent the Sabbath here. 
The Moravian brethren have many "seasons" 
.and "festivals" of their ecclesiastical year, 
and especially observe the Advent, Christ-
mas, Epiphany, Lent, the Passion Week, 
Easter, Ascension Day, Whitsentide, and 
Trinity Sunday. Besides these special re-
ligious occasions, they have "Memorial Days," 
on the anniversaries of certain important 
events in their early church history. Among 
them arc the martyrdom of John Huss, in 
the year 1415, four centuries and a half ago, 
and the 'extraordinary blessed celebration of 
the Holy Communion in the parish church at 
Berthelsdorf, August 13th, 1727, etc. Then 
a new covenant of love and peace, to use 
their own language, was entered into between 
the members of the congregation by signing 
the statutes, and a remarkable baptism of 
the Spirit granted. The celebration to-day, 
August•13th, was a solemn memorial of this 
event, and is denominated the "Congrega-
tional Festival." 
The "Tromboners," as is the custom, ush-
ered in the festival by proper airs upon their 
instruments, played at an early hour from the 
lofty belfry of their church. At half-past 
ten o'clock, the morning services began with 
the litany, which is prayed, and is very sol-
emn and impressive : 
6' Lord, have mercy upon us. 
Christ, have mercy upon us. 
Lord, have mercy upon us. 
Christ., hear us. 
Our FATHER, which art in heaven, etc., etc. 
Lord, God, HOLY GHOST, 
Abide with us for ever." 
And the congregation singS: 
"Most holy, blessed TRINITY, 
We praise thee to eternity. 
Thou LAMA, once, slain, our God and Lord, 
To needy prayers thine ear aftbrd, 
And on us all have mercy." 
After the litany, prayer and singing, fol-
lowed trip sermon from the pastor, -the Rev. 
Mr. De SChWeinitz. He remarked that this 
was a sacramental festival of the "Unitas 
Fratrum," or Moravians, and that one hun-
dred and thirty-eight years ago, August 13,1 
1727, at this same hour, the "Brethren" at 
Heernitut were engaged in similar devotional , 
services, and organized a congregation ac-
cording to the discipline of the ancient 
church. He claimed its origin from the re-
former John Huss, who was martyred July 
8, 1415, amid from him and his followers 
sprang the Church of the United Brethren. 
In 1467 they obtained a regular ministry 
from a colony of the Waldenses on the fron-
tiers of Bohemia, when three of their own 
number were consecrated bishops. This 
early Church prospered greatly, so that in 
the year 1500 there were more than three 
hundred congregations. This, let it be re-
membered, was before Luther's Reformation ; 
and the -first vernacular translation of the 
Bible was published by them. Afterwards, 
however, they were unrelentingly persecuted, 
and in 1627 the Church in Bohemia and Mo-
ravia ceased to -exist. Amos Comenius, 
their last bishop, died he exile in 1671, but 
took measures to perpetuate the Moravian 
ministry by ordaining two Ministers as bish-
ops, and this succession was preserved until 
the year 1735, when the episcopacy was 
transferred to the "Renewed Church of the 
Brethren." The renewal took place among 
sonic Moravian exiles on time estate of Count 
Zinzcndorf, in Saxony, who granted them an 
asylum. David Nitschman was their first 
bishop. To-day these events were piously 
celebrated and commemorated, the preacher 
selecting Christians unity for the theme of his 
discourse. He is an able expositor of God's 
Word, and a faithful minister of the flock. 
Deep and heartfelt attentions pervaded the 
large co ngrega tion. 
A Christian man, who was a faithful Sab-
baths school teacher, was once troubled by 
some earnest rerearks of his pastor on the 
importance of working more for Christ. He 
thought the matter over prayerfully, and the 
American Messenger gives the result of his 
reflections. IIow soon would the world be 
improved, if all Christians had- the same 
spirit : 
"I wish I could have a week," he said to 
his wife one evening, "to go among the busi-
ness men, heads of families, among us, who 
are not Christians, and persuade them to join 
a class for the study of the Bible. I have 
been long thinking about them, and wishing 
I could make some effort for-their spiritual 
good. I can think of nothing more hopeful 
than to bring them to search the Scriptures." 
Mr. B 's wife encouraged his half- 
formed purpose to take the week he wished 
for and consecrate it to this special service 
for the Master.. He did it, though at the 
sacrifice of his weekly income, both husband 
and wife asking daily the blessing of God 
upon the undertaking. He made out-a list 
of those whom lie would call upon. Fifteen 
names thus challenged his efforts and prayers. 
His first calls were almost uniformly un-
successful. It seemed as if God would try 
the faith and perseverance of his servant. 
But Mr. B did not give them up so. 
"I do not feel willing to take you at your 
word," he said very pleasantly to those who 
thus refused him. "I cannot but hope that 
future reflection will commend the subject to 
you, and lead to a different decision ; and in 
that hope I will call again." With some the 
interview was twice repeated, and at the 
close of the week, twelve out (4 the fifteen 
heads of families had pledged themselves to 
time weekly study of the Scriptures together, 
and were provided with a faithful and com-
petent teacher. The class was organized, 
and its members became deeply interested. 
Constantly, and especially on every Sabbath 
morning, this class was the subject of earliest 
prayer by Mr. and Mrs. B—. 
Mr. B 's family were unexpectedly 
called to remove from this village ; and ten 
years after the formation of the Bible class, 
Mrs. B met one of itsmembers whom 
site had scarcely known before her removal, 
and was a little surprised by time warmth and 
earnestness of his greeting. 
"You scarcely remember me, Mrs. B ," 
said the gentleman ; "but I feel as if you and 
your family were old and dear friends. Your 
husband," he added, "was the best friend I 
ever had, for he led me to the Friend of sin-
ners. I was one of that Bible-class which 
he gathered in G . My wife and I were 
very gay then ; and when Mr. B came 
to me on his benevolent errand, I gave him 
a flat refusal. This he kindly declined to 
take, saying he would hope for a different 
answer when I had thought upon it further. 
I had no disposition to retract my decision, 
and when he called again, I carelessly re- 
I would have you remark at the outset, 
the surprise of all when they found that Da-
vid, the least in his father's house, was the 
object of the Lord's choice, a king over Is-
rael. 
Observe that his brethren had no idea 
that David would be selected ; such a 
thought had never entered into their heads. 
If the questions had been asked of them, 
"Who among you will ever attain to the 
kingdom ?" they would have selected any of 
the other seven, but they would certainly 
have passed by their brother David. He 
seems to have beets thoroughly despised by 
his brothers. Eliab addresses him in a tone 
of scorn when he comes to the valley of 
Elah : "Because of thy pride and the naughti-
ness of thine heart, to see the battle art thou 
come." This mode of speech was eo doubt 
such as he usually employed toward the 
young man. I suppose that David had been 
one by himself: The sports of the seven 
were often such that he could not engage in 
them. • He was no companion for them.. If 
they at any time perpetrated any unjust or 
unrighteous deed ; if, as probably a band of 
seven young men in the hey-day of youth 
were likely to do, they were bold its courses 
of sinful mirth, David would follow the ex-
ample of Joseph, and act as a reprover in 
their midst, and consequently lie fell under 
their contempt. He was with his flock on 
the mountain-side when they were making 
merry with their cups ; his book and his 
harp were his solace, contemplation was Isis 
great delight, and his God his best company, 
while his brothers found no pleasure in di-
vine things. He, like our Lord, could say, 
"For thy sake I have borne reproach; Aar& 
bath covered my face. I am become a 
stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto 
my mother's children." Psalm 69 : 7, 8. 
Like,Joseph, he was "the 'dreamer" of the 
family in the esteem of the rest. They 
thought him moon-struck when he considered 
the heavens, and called him mad when he 
meditated both day and night in God's law. 
Now, beloved friend to whom I address my-
self you may be. one of those whom God has 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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went down to his house a saved and happy 
man. 
to us, Box 809, Nashville, stating the object, 
and then read Mark 9 : 41. 
GEO. H. CHILD. 
Eke Atirent trtrald. 
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1865. 
JOSIAH LITCH, EDITOR. 
CHRIST IS KING. 
LARGE GIVING. 
Friends, you have done nobly ! your exer-
tions have been praiseworthy ! God bless 
you for your liberal, generous donations, but 
more needs to be done. Our work is by no 
means finished. With what feelings of' sym-
pathy we have read the interesting journals 
of our missionaries, (and I thank God that 
we can say ours, that we as a people are so 
heartily engaged in proclaiming the glowing 
truths of the gospel of our Lord and Saviour,) 
how we have eejoiced at the gleams of light, 
bright, and beautiful that shine in their let-
ters ; how we have sorrowed with their sor-
rowing in hours of gloom and darkness, and 
have thanked God for their perseverance in 
the good work they are engaged in ; when all 
seemed so dark and discouraging, and no ray 
of light, no gleam of sunshine shone on their 
path. Surely, God rewardeth well-doing and 
long-suffering in his cause. His providences 
may be, nay are, at times, deep and hidden ; 
hard to be understood. Yet we all know 
that behind the darkest and heaviest clouds 
that lowers, God's sunshine is bright, ready 
in the least rift of the mist, to break in its 
splendor on the earth, with renewed beauty 
and power. Is not this cloud that hovers 
over our efforts, but the one that is designed 
to make God's workings, his approval, more 
powerful, more significant ? Trudy Satan 
rages ; he is strong, his servants are many 
and powerful, but God is omnipotent. He 
is strong as an army with banners; he is 
King over all. Is not this dispensation de-
signed to awaken us more fully to a concep-
tion of our duties, to awaken new interest ins 
the generous hearts of his children ? Do we' 
not see in it his calls for aid ? Is not this 
mission a good work ? if good, then it is 
God's ; if his, then it should be ours, yours. 
As I have said before, you have done well! 
You have not been slack in giving. You will 
receive your reward. But we ask you to 
do more still, for God loveth the liberal giver. 
Consider, that you are giving to God, and 
that your pay is sure, that your gifts are not 
lost, but will give you an abundant interest, 
will return a thousand fold, in the day when 
God rewards men according to their deeds. 
0, brethren, 0, sisters, are we doing enough ? 
Cannot a little here, a little there, be saved 
from our daily, our weekly expenses, and de-
voted to our Freedmen's Mission ? Cannot 
some little indulgence be given up, something 
that perhaps contributes to our enjoyment of 
life, but is not absolutely needed ? Cannot 
these be given up, and the money be devot-
ed to the cause ? Do it and God will bless 
you. 
A. FRIEND. 
• 
MINISTERIAL VISITING. 
THE LONDON 
LONDON SENSATION PREACHER, 
MR. SPURGEON. 
not mount the air. The greatest things de-
pend on the smallest. Milton's Paradise 
Lost could not have been written without 
food. 
A clergyman in Wales was appointed by 
an ordaining council to address the people 
who had impoverished 'their former pastor, 
and were now to receive a new one. He 
recommended, in his address, that Jacob's 
ladder be let down from the skies to that 
Welch parish, in order that the new minis-
ter might "go into heaven on the Sabbath 
evening after preaching, and remain there 
all the week ; then he would come down so 
spiritually minded and so full of heaven, that 
he would preach almost like an angel." Now 
the people insisted on having their pastor 
with them on other days than the Sabbath. 
"That may be," replied the speaker; "but 
then, if he remain among you, he must have 
something to eat." The dignity of the 
angels was not inconsistent with their as-
cending and descending on a wooden ladder ; 
and one ladder on which our ministering 
angels may go up to their heavenly studies, 
is such a material sustenance as will make 
it unnecessary for them to grovel in the 
earth. 
So if our candidates for the ministry be 
held down by cares in regard to their daily 
bread, they will not rise to communion with 
celestial thought. It has been said of one 
man, that he spent all his time at a Theo-
logical Seminary in getting up early in the 
morning. It may be said of more than one man 
that he sacrificed his education to the means of 
obtaining it ; he spent his study hours in 
earning money for his board. Many a young 
man will shrink from entering the sacred of: 
five, if, while preparing for it, he must neg 
lect his mind in providing for his body ; and 
if, when in office, he must perform the du-
ties of a pastor to the people, and also the 
duties of a people to the pastor, breaking 
to them the bread of life, and getting for 
himself the bread which they ought to give 
him. Some young men will persevere 
though such obstacles, and will break down 
their constitution, in combining hard work of 
the body with hard work of the mind ; 
spending their fresh energies on their books, 
and seeking their only recreation in sawing 
wood or carrying on h. trade. The most 
promising scholar whom I ever knew, 
lost his health and his life by attempting to 
pay his debts while he was pursuing his 
studies. If he could have obtained a few 
hundred dollars from benevolent men, they 
might have preserved to the Church an 
ornament more precious than silver and gold. 
—Prof. Park. 
do they 
or criminal ? Is it not simply worldliness ? 
We will not specify anything which may 
be keeping a person from the service of 
Christ and retaining his soul in jeopardy ; 
for it may not pertain to your particular 
case. But examine yourself and your life, 
and say what it is that makes a devotion to 
religious duties inconvenient for you just at 
this time. Ask your conscience if that thing, 
whatever it is, should prevent your applica-
tion to Christ fqr his great salvation—if du-
ty can render the prominence which it has 
in your life, right and proper. The com-
mand is : "Seek first the kingdom of God 
and his righteousness." The declaration is : 
"There is no other name given under heaven 
among men, whereby we must be saved." 
The warning is : "Ile that believeth not is 
condemned already." The earnest exclama-
tion is : "How shall we escape if we neg-
lect so great salvation !" 
Now, what must your candid judgment 
pronounce concerning the fact that the sea-
son—this particular time—is not convenient 
for you to obey the call of Christ, to come 
unto him ? What does your conscience say 
of a season that is convenient for you to 
slight his supreme claim on your affection 
and service ? If the time is convenient for 
matters of inferior weight, how comes it that 
it is not so for such a momentous affair as 
the seeking of a Saviour—the Saviour for 
your endangered soul ? Does the choice or 
the employment you are now exclusively ex-
ercising, bestow credit on your understand-
ing as a person of sense ? Would you wish 
to have this unchristian neglect of' yours ad-
duced as a token of the soundness of your 
judgment ? Can you glory in it as an exer-
cise of wisdom—of' prudence, and as the re-
sult of an intelligent calculation and compari-
son relative to time and eternity, spiritual 
things and material things, the gain or the 
loss of your soul'? 
But really, why is not the season conven-
ient for attention to religious affairs ? Such 
an attention need not take away, for a mo-
ment, from a single honest occupation. You 
can be seeking and serving Christ while you 
are performing the business of daily life. 
Ah, beware, lest the inconvenience arise, not 
from your occupation, but from your dispo-
sition and character—from your indifference 
to Christ—from the perversity and sinfulness 
of your heart. In fact, is not disinclination 
making religion inconvenient ? Drusilla, 
who heard the reasoning of St. Paul on 
righteousness, temperance, and judgment to 
come, was finally destroyed in the volcanic 
fires which ruined Herculaneum and Pom-
peii. May you find the convenient season 
when you will escape from a sorer destruc-
tion, where Dives lifted up his eyes vainly 
for relief, being in eternal torments. 
GOODNESS. 
Certain circumstances threw me into the 
company of a Baptist minister of whose 
charge I had heard the most favorable re-
port, but the half had not been told me. Af-
ter many matters had been talked over, I 
thought it would be well to send you the 
following gleanings, which may be fully re-
lied upon, as it was taken almost verbatim. 
The following questions were asked, and 
answers given : 
Traveler. You say the people pay so 
much per family ; how many families or 
parts of families belong to your church ! 
Pastor. Nine ; well, you may say ten 
families. 
T. What is their occupation ? 
P. All farmers. 
T. What amount of finances 
raise yearly ? 
P. This year, for all purposes, about 
$500. About $100 of this sum was raised 
by Sabbath collections and hearers. 
7. Are your people rich ? for this is 
wonderful. 
P. They own their own farms, which 
may be nearly 1,200 acres altogether ; but 
their farms are new, and they live in log-
houses yet. 
T. Can they pay their other liabilities 
while giving so much ? 
P. Pay their debts ! Yes sir ; they 
are doing as well as most farmers ; they 
have got the notion that they prosper by giv-
ing to God. 
T. Do you think it right to give so 
much ? You say that some of them give $50 
a year. 
P. They do as well as I do—lay up as 
much in store as I can, and more too ; they 
can provide for their children as well as I 
can do for mine, and do you think, in the 
dresence of a just God, that my people have 
any right and claim in these matters more 
than I have ? No sir, we believe in sound 
doctrine ; of course they are not saving much 
money, nor yet am I doing so ; pastor and 
people are alike, as it should be. .,. 
T. How often do you preach to them ? 
P. Twice every Sabbath ; our people 
believe in having plenty of gospel, as well 
as giving liberally. 
Many other matters were talked over. All 
the information sought for was very kindly 
given. I send it without note or comment ; 
the congregation and the pastor reside about 
twelve and a half miles from Stratford.—.1. 
Milner, in Canada Christian Journal. . 
for it is profitable for thee that one of thy 
members should perish, and not that thy 
whole body should be cast into hell." We 
know that obedience to the law of divorce 
may be Hire suffering the loss of the right 
eye, or of the right hand. But far better so, 
than that the whole body should be cast into 
hell, for the transgression of the seventh 
commandment. 
But the greatest hardships, in fact, are on 
the other side. It is the neglect of this law, 
and not obedience to it, which bears the 
hardest in most cases. For proof of this, we 
have simply to contrast the condition of do-
mestic life—of the family, with all its rela-
tions and interests, in Christian lands, where 
this law is in full force, with its condition in 
those countries in which it is not in force, 
whether Pagan, Mohammedan, or professedly 
Christian. In fact, we may say of this law, 
as our Lord said of the law of the Sabbath, 
"it was made for man," and not against him ; 
to lighten his burdens, and not to increase 
them; to alleviate his miseries, and not to 
multiply them. It is a fact well known to 
those acquainted with these matters, that a 
man who wishes to be divorced from his 
wife, can easily create the circumstances 
which the Legislature or State courts would 
deem amply sufficient to grant a dissolution 
of the marriage tie. A lawyer in the city of 
Providence, in a conversation on this subject, 
once said to a clerical friend, "Sir, you could 
easily pick a flaw in your own wife, which 
would be recognized as sufficient cause for 
divorce." And so many, to their horror and 
amazement, have found it. In fact, no man 
or woman is safe in the possession of their 
matrimonial rights under these laws, but in 
the inflexible integrity of the administrators 
of the laws ; and that we know cannot al-
ways be depended upon. 
Habitual intemperance has been one of the 
principle causes of applications for divorce. 
And while the State has allowed the enor-
mous evils of the liquor traffic, no wonder 
that it should have repealed the law of Christ 
as an apparent relief for some of these enor-
mous evils. But the establishment of the 
Maine Law will dispose of the seeming dif-
ficulty, and the allowance of one crime by 
the State shall no longer be made a reason 
for the allowance of another. , 
In conclusion, in illustration of our subject 
we will refer to one other famous case of di-
vorce which has occurred in modern times, 
and the wonderful history of which may 
serve to show how God is able to assert his 
sovereign authority, and to magnify his law 
and make it honorable, even in opposition to 
the most mighty on earth. 
Napoleon was without issue by his mar-
riage with Josephine. This was a great af-
fliction, as it was desirable that a son of his 
own should be his successor to the throne of 
France. The desire of the Empress was, 
that the children who should spring from the 
marriage between his brother Louis, King of 
Holland and her daughter Hortense, should 
be his heirs. This apparently was God's 
will in the case. But no, Napoleon was not 
satisfied with this plan of succession. His 
friends were not satisfied. Infidel France 
was not satisfied. The Emperor's divorce, 
for State reasons alone, was most imperiously 
demanded, and finally effected. Napoleon 
and his Empress, one of the most amiable 
and accomplished women in Europe, and the 
personification of the domestic virtues, were 
separated, and he married Marie Louisa, the 
daughter of his old enemy, the Emperor of 
Austria. By her he had one son, titled the 
King of Rome, and after the fall of his father, 
the Duke of Reichstadt, born about 1811. 
The reasons urged for this step were of 
the most plausible character. Never were 
more weighty arguments employed for the 
transgression of the divine law since the day 
that man fell in paradise. But mark the 
wonderful result. Before, his successes and 
good fortune were astonishing indeed. An 
example of wickedness had now been set in 
high places, and it was needful that its pun- 
ishment should be equally conspicuous. From 
his repudiation of the divine law, God repu-
diated him, forsook him and turned his hand 
against him. From this time came that se- 
ries of stupendous disasters which were as 
wonderful as his former successes ; till final- 
ly came the defeat of Waterloo, in 1815, his 
imprisonment on the rock of St. Helena, 
and at last his premature death in 1821. 
His Empress became the Duchess of a little 
Italian principality, and his only son and heir 
died, perhaps, of a broken heart, about the 
time he attained his majority. Three of the 
Bourbons have since sat upon the throne of 
France ; three more revolutions have taken 
place in that unhappy country, and now, af-
ter the lapse of more than forty years since 
the divorce of Napoleon, and in spite of all 
the consequents of which it was the mourn-
ful antecedent, behold, Louis Napoleon, the 
son of Louis and Hortense, and the grand-
son of Josephine, as she had desired, is the 
Emperor of the French ! with the significant 
title of Napoleon III., and with the prospect 
of being so, as long as he shall live, and his 
children after him. Thus has punishment 
followed closely upon the heels of transgres-
sion, and the rights of an injured woman, 
and the divine authority most amply vindi-
cated ; and in view of which we must ex-
claim, "As for the will of Jehovah, that shall 
stand."— Cor. Zion's Herald. 
[Original.] 
AUNT PRISCEY. 
DEFORMITY. 
The proceedings of the trial of Christ es-
tablished the fact of his kingly character ; 
and no monarch ever ascended a throne of 
his ancestors with more distinct legal recog-
nition of his rights as king by the judiciary 
of his country, than our Saviour obtained 
before Pilate. And if he is still alive, as the 
gospel maintains lie is, that judgment re-
mains. And whoever shall attempt to usurp 
that throne, and reign over the house of 
Jacob in opposition to him, is just what St. 
John declares him to be: "Who confesses 
not Jesus Christ coming in the flesh," "he is 
a deceiver and an antichrist." To Jesus of 
Nazareth alone belongs that, right. 
THE LOCALITY OF CHRIST'S REIGN. 
Such passages as these show where he is 
to reign. "I have set my King on my holy 
hill of Zion." "He shall reign from sea to 
sea, and from the river to the ends of the 
earth." "Upon the throne of David and his 
kingdom, to order it and establish it from 
henceforth and foreVer ; the zeal of the Lord 
of hosts shall perform this." "I saw in the 
night visions, and behold one like the Son of 
man came ins the clouds of heaven, and came 
to the Ancient of Days, and they brought, 
him near before him ; and there was given 
him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, 
that all people, nations, and languages should 
serve him." "And the Lord shall be king 
over all the earth. And in that day there 
shall be one Lord, and his name one." Such 
language, found in the Old Testament, fixes 
unmistakably the place of Christ's kingdom 
and reign. It can only be located on the 
earth. But the New Testament is equally 
pointed. In the interpretation of the palat-
able of the tares and the wheat, Jesus said : 
"The field is the world ; the good seed are 
the children of the kingdom ; the tares are 
children of the wicked one ; the enemy that 
sowed them is the devil ; the harvest is the 
end of the age ; the reapers are the angels. 
As, therefore, the tares are gathered in bun-
dles to burn, so it shall be at the end of this 
age. The Son of man shall send his angels, 
and they shall gather out of his kingdom all 
things that offend, and them which do in-
iquity, and shall cast them into a furnace of 
fire ; there shall be wailing and gnashing of 
teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth 
as the sun in the kingdom of their fathei. 
If the field where the tares and wheat 
grow is the world or the earth, it is from 
the earth, the king-ions of Christ, the wicked 
are to be ejected, and where, also, the right-
eous are to shine foith in the kingdom of 
their Father. The kingdom of Christ is 
therefore to be established on the earth. 
When our Lord in the twenty-fifth chap-
ter of Matthew describes the separation of 
the sheep and goats, he says, "The king 
shall say to them on his right hand, come ye 
blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom 
prepared for you from the foundation of the 
world." The kingdom God gave to the hu-
man race, when lie laid the foundation of 
the world, was the world itself. He said, 
Gen. 1 : 25, "Let us make man in our image 
after our likeness. And let theta have do- 
minions over the fish of the sea, and over the 
fowls of the air, and over the beasts of the 
field, over the cattle, and over all the earth, 
and over every living thing that moveth on 
the earth." If this is the original kingdom 
givers to Adam, it is to be brought back and 
given to Christ for his children. And thus 
Paul wrote, Heb. 2 : 5-8, "For unto the 
angels hall he not put in subjection the 
world to come whereof we speak. But one 
in a certain place, testified, saying, What is 
man, that thou art mindful of him, or the 
son of man, that thou visitest him ? Thou 
madest him a little lower than the angels ; 
thou crownedst him with glory and honor, 
and didst set him over the works of thy 
hands." 
"The Son of man," to whom this domin-
ion of the world to come is given, is the one 
who was made a little lower than the angels, 
and is now crowned with glory and honor, 
awaiting the time when all things shall be 
put under him. 
The kingdom of Christ, then, although on 
earth, is not on this earth, but the "world to 
come," "the new heavens and the new earth." 
But, turning to the Apocalyptic visions, 
and inquiring for the kingdom of Christ, we 
read, Rev. 11 : 16, "And the seventh angel 
sounded, and there were great voices in 
heaven, saying. the kingdoms of this world 
are become the kingdoms of our Lord and 
his Christ, and he shall reigns forever and 
ever." 
No person should be twitted or underval-
ued because of any physical defect. "I am 
what God made me," replied a little hunch-
back girl when ridiculed for her bodily de-
formity. And the story is told of a German 
Emperor who, coming by chance on a Sab-
bath into church, found there a most mis-
shapen priest, insomuch that the Emperor 
scorned and contemned him. But when he 
heard him read these .words in the service : 
"For it is he that made us, and not we our-
selves," the Emperor checked his own proud 
thoughts, and made inquiry into the qtwility 
and condition of the man ; and finding him, 
on examination, to be most learned and de-
vout, he made him Archbishop of Colon, 
which place he did excellently discharge. 
There is something greater than the clayey 
tabernacle. "The mind's the standard of the 
man," seid Burns. And many now in our 
country, poor cripples, hobbling about on 
crutches, were once aglow with loyal ardor, 
and, marching forth to battle, stood between 
us and destruction, overthrew treason, and 
consecrated the continent to freedom and 
self-government. Their broken forms are 
heroic. The temple of their bodies en-
shrined the soul of patriotism. 
The London correspondent of the Nel, 
York Citizen, has the following picture of tin 
birth, manners and style of the great Londo 
preacher, as he appears at the Metropolita 
Tabernacle, upon the Surrey side of th 
Thames, an edifice 145 feet long, 90 fee 
broad, and 62 feet high, plainly furnishe 
with pine pews, without pulpit or choir. Tw 
galleries encircle it, one above the other, an 
as great a congregation can sit behind th 
preacher as many city churches will bol 
entire. Spurgeon's flock consists of upward 
of two thousand, mainly trades people, me 
chanics, and other humble folks, but there i 
a sprinkling of strangers from all the nation 
around the gates—French, Germans, Ital 
ians, Americans—and none of these barbar 
ans are allowed to enter unless provided wit 
"orders." 
Charles Spurgeon was born in Essex, 
county of the east coast, near London, i 
1834, and of very humble parentage. H 
was educated at the town of Colchester—
place about as big as-Elizabeth City, on th 
little river Coln. He became an usher in 
school at New Market, emerging from whit 
position he joined the church of Rev. Robes 
Hall, the famous divine of half a center 
ago. Spurgeon's first essay was in a barn a 
Water Beach, where he was called the "ho 
preacher." The barn was finally crowded 
and thousands gathered outside to listen. H 
did not deteriorate when they gave him 
church, for he had not only eloquence, bu 
intelligence, and finally was invited "up" t 
London in 1853. From the first he was 
great sensation, and the fame of him extend 
ed over the seas. The Metropolitan Taber 
nacle is a monument to his power'; he ha 
become an "institution" in London, and thos 
who have heard him most, say that he ha 
grown in strength and zeal year after year 
He is hated as much as he is loved ; bu 
those who love him have a reason for doin 
so; those who hate him have only a preju 
dice to excuse them. He is educating youn 
men for the ministry ; has a score of mission 
adjunct to his church, and in short is equa 
to John Wesley as a theological statesman 
and to Whitfield as a theological orator. 
Such a voice you never heard off th 
"stump" or, as they say here, "the hustings.' 
Clear, loud, and sonorous, it enters every 
niche and crack of the great oval hall, and 
to the end continues as rich and powerful 
It is not a sweet voice, but that is because 
he rounds no periods and pauses to make no 
cadences. He "lines" the hymns, that is 
reads two lines at a time, so that all may 
sing ; and while the immense mass of heads 
rise up to fill the place with thunder, we may 
study the face and figure of the preacher 
He has that description of clerical phiz whici 
I might denominate "greasy." His cheeks 
and chin are smooth as a boy's, and very fat 
and closely set—or, as some would say, all 
of- a lump. Over a rather narrow forehead 
sweeps a quantity of straight, blackish brown 
hair, which vanishes behind his ears; his 
mouth is large, his nose inclined to be "snub," 
and his eyes are jet black and biliously deep 
with fire and intelligence. This smooth, fat 
face is encircled by a stiff, white standing 
collar, wrapped with a white neckcloth, and 
he wears a simple black suit, without watch-
guard, or any ornament whatsoever. 
Standing thus upon the shelf of the lower 
gallery, he takes out a scrap of paper con-
taining the notes, and launches into the read-
ing. He reads a verse, and makes a quanti-
ty of crisp, odd comments, each of which is 
wondrously telling and clever, and thus we 
have a little sermon upon every verse. Fi-
nally, he declares his text—"Lead us not into 
temptation, but deliver us from evil." He 
says that he will first "meet an objection ;" 
secondly, "give a definition ;" thirdly, say an 
"exhortation." Now, some divines whom 1 
know, would divide his theme into three hun-
dred and sixty-five heads—leaving out their 
own—but Spurgeon does not encumber his 
structure with the scaffolding by which he 
built it. The "objection" is simply a refuta-
tion of the idea that "God tempts." This he 
shows by a variety of illustrations taken 
from daily life, and as he proceeds, new beau-
ties evolve from the theme—everything be- 
ing fresh, yet natural, and in no single case 
is there a sharp corner turned to catch an ef-
fect, nor a flightly adjective cast in to turn a 
sentence. A total absence of the dramatic 
marks his whole delivery, and the "exhorta-
tion" is of thrilling simplicity. He gives you 
a sketch of poverty in London as terrible as 
t is true ; he bursts sometimes into a strain 
of irony scathing as it is deserved, and he 
tatters healing promises till they touch all 
leans with a pleasant coolness ; the roof of 
he chapel rises, and you seem to see upon 
he sky a blessed procession, like some of the 
grand ceiling pieces of Correggio. He prays 
n a direct, manly way, without grimaces, and 
loses composedly. In a word you came to 
ear a "sensationalist," and you hear an elo- 
uent, refined, and fervent divine—notwith-
tanding which, you will hear a thousand an-
cdotes in the streets accredited to bins. 
SERMONS FROM TEXTS.—The custom of 
taking a text as the basis of a sermon is said 
to have originated about the time of Ezra, 
who, accompanied by several Levites, in a 
public congregation of men and women, as-
cended the pulpit, opened the book of law, 
and, after addressing a prayer to the Deity, 
to which the people said "Amen," read in 
the law of God distinctly, gave the sense, 
and caused them to understand the reading. 
Previous to the time of Ezra (457 years B. 
C.) the patriarchs delivered in public assem-
blies either prophecies or moral instruction 
for the edification of the people ; and it was 
not uutil the return of the Jews from the 
Babylonian captivity, during which time 
they had almost lost the language in which 
the Pentateuch was written, that it became 
necessary to explain as well as to read the 
Scriptures to them—a practice adopted by 
Ezra, and since universally followed. 
 • 
 
The word good is susceptible of a great 
variety of interpretations. With merchants 
and bankers a good man is one who is abun-
dantly able to meet all his liabilities ; and, 
if he loses this qualification, he loses with it 
all his claim to goodness in their eyes. 
With politicians a good man means a vig-
orous debator, a ready apologist, a thorough-
going partisan. Such a one may have any 
number of executions out against him, or he 
may take a drop too much, without sensibly 
diminishing his quality of goodness in the 
eyes of his party. 
A good editor is a vigorous, ready writer 
who makes good selections, and gives plenty 
of news. He may be so notorious as the ene-
my of everything that is good, that his paper 
may be called in common parlance, the "Sa-
tanic press," but his goodness is not thereby 
materially affected. A sad satire this, by 
the way, upon the state of public opinion. 
A good farmer is one who raises good 
crops, introduces improvements, and keeps 
his farm and stock in excellent order. He 
may be good in no other sense, but that will 
not affect his goodness as a farmer. 
A good mechanic is one who can do his 
work skillfully and speedily, whatever his 
moral character may be. Indeed, how often 
do we hear of a drunkard that he is a good 
mechanic. 
We might greatly multiply instances such 
as a good lawyer, a good doctor, a good may-
or, &c., each able to do his business well 
without any reference to the highest mean-
ing of the word good. 
A good man in the evangelical sense is a 
humble believer in and follower of the Lord 
Jesus Christ, though he may possess none of 
the above mentioned goodness. 
It is, however, to be observed that this 
faith and practice on the part of the truly 
good man will not hinder, but rather help 
him to be good also in the worldly sense, in 
whatever calling he follows. Indeed, it is 
signally important that the Christan should 
not compare unfavorably with the mats of 
the world, in any lawful business in which 
both may be engaged.—Canadian Messen-
ger. 
You have all read of "Uncle Tom," and 
other worthies of this "down South," as 
"Uncle Joshua" and "Uncle Ned." I want to 
add to the list Aunt Priscey. Since coming 
here, no one has called out more sympathy, 
or oftener touched my heart-strings than 
this little old worthy. If in a crowd, or 
passing the street; a glimpse of us secures an 
earnest grip and "how de broder ?" She is 
a person that all persons would pass by. Her 
face has a droll, dried up look, that at once 
declares her "simple." She is so divested of 
forms and rules, that she carries her heart in 
her face, and a kinder never was given to 
man. Aunty presented herself to the church. 
She could tell of no wonderful "travails" and 
"visions," no experience like others, glowing 
with "angel visits," "sights" and "sounds," 
but was satisfied with "the crumbs that fell 
from the Master's table." On the question 
of reception, doubt was expressed. I an-
swered that if they would receive, I would 
baptize her. The question was settled, and 
never did a heart enter into a matter with 
more zest. Our kind words in her behalf, 
made us at once her guardian angel, and the 
joy of her soul she could not express in 
words, and so tried to make up in acts. She 
is never absent from meeting without seeking 
the first opportunity to explain the reason, 
but alas, poor Priscey has to constantly wade 
through trouble and persecution. Her hus-
band is a cripple ; her child-like mind makes 
her an object of oppression and tyranny, es-
pecially as she is unusually industrious, and 
her earnings are perverted in many ways. As 
Mrs. Child was passing one day. she bolted 
out with streaming eyes, "0, Sister Child, 
you don't know how she knocked me about. 
She's mean, and gits me angry, and then I 
says things I haden't otter." Mrs. C. opened 
the Rible end read, "If they smite you on 
one cheek turn to them the other." "There, 
that's for you." "Why 'tis," said she, her face 
lighting up, "I'll try to do dat if I can." But 
poor Priscey is destined to pass through a 
furnace of affliction. She was sent to the 
camps last week, with a little white girl, to 
sell pies and peaches. The soldiers were 
rough, and they teased her just to hear her 
express her "views of right," and ended by 
slyly knocking the peach basket over, and 
then grabbing for the spoils. Aunty returned 
crest fallen ; the girl reported that she had 
sold the peaches, and kept the money. No 
protestation from Priscey would answer, as 
THAT'S ME. 
Paul said, "I have taught you publicly 
from house to house." This is a duty of 
other ministers, as well as Paul. If he, with 
his talents, educations, inspirations, and mira-
cles, felt no liberty for years to shrink from 
the burden and cross of pastoral visiting, not-
withstanding his often infirmities, how can 
we be clear, with far less public ability and 
success, if we neglect so great an opportunity 
of doing good. It was as unpleasant then 
as now, as difficult then as now—more ob-
stacles then than now. But, as Wesley 
said, "The greatest difficulties are in our-
selves." He told his candidates to get rid 
of them, or leave the ministry—that the ex-
cuse, "I have no gift . or talent," was vain. 
They only needed to cultivate it and they 
would all find it. The greatest hindrance is 
want of more faith, love, zeal, humility and 
courage for God and, souls. Then all will 
be easy and pleasant. It certainly will bene-
fit us, and crucify us to the world. It will 
teach us much we need to know of ourselves 
and our hearers, and fit us for preaching on 
the Sabbath much more practically and ef-
fectually. It may not be so learnedly, but 
more adaptedly ; riot so full of rhetoric, but 
more of experience. It is, and has been, the 
great deficiency of our ministry. It should 
be remedied without delay, and without ex-
ception. I have known the ablest preachers 
to run low in a year or two for want of it, 
and very ordinary preachers be useful and 
beloved pastors by it. 
People love those who take a real and 
kind interest in them, especially if you are 
interested in the children, and interest them. 
You will then soon have the ear of the par-
ents. Half the time to visiting and meet-
ings, and half to study and the family duties, 
is a good rule. The afternoons to visiting, 
and evenings to meetings:. A half-dozen 
families a day may be well done, conversing 
with each on religions, and prayer, if conven-
ient to them. Do not let the visit be one of 
commons gossip, but one on religions. The 
pewple expect it, and think . you unfaithful if 
you do not, and rightfully enough too. A 
thousand ways are ready by which to intro-
duce it. A tract given, a passing Providence, 
a passage of Scripture, the late meetings, a 
case of illness, or other subject or event, can 
be used to begin with. But better begin 
any way than not at all. If you lack cour- 
age or wisdom, go to God in prayer. He 
giveth liberally. The spirit of prayer and 
devotion is the right one. Some, who visit 
enough, fail for the reasons they have so little 
of the spirit of piety. See that they under- 
stand that they must be converted or be lost 
—they must believe or be damned—they 
must repent or perish—that now is the time. 
If they seek they shall find—ask and re-
ceive, then live and obey, and be saved for- 
ever. 
DANIEL. 
A CONVENIENT SEASON. 
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ILLUSTRATIVE. 
JEWS RECEIVING CHRIST.—At the anni-
versary of the London Jew's Society, the 
Bishop of Ripon said, "When this Society 
was first established, it is supposed that there 
were not fifty converted Jews in the whole 
of this kingdom. In London alone there 
are now 3,000 converted Israelites. The 
Society cats tell of 20,000 converts, of whom 
it is assumed that they are members of the 
invisible as well as the visible Church of 
Christ. More than a hundred ordained 
clergymen, originally members of the Jew-
ish communion, but now converted to the 
faith of Christ, are preaching his gospel." 
two of tk Atttk. 
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. 
These are only a small portion of' the tes-
timonies of the Bible, bearing on this point. 
The prophets and the Psalms are full of the 
theme, and it seems surprising that any one, 
with the Word of God before him, and be-
lieving its teachings, can doubt its truthful-
ness, or for A moment, imagine that his reign 
is a merely spiritual one in the hearts of Isis 
people. That "grace reigns" in their hearts 
"through righteousness unto eternal life," 
Paul asserts, but that this reign of grace in 
the heart is ever called the kingdom of heav-
en, or of God, does not appear. 
GOD CALLS US. 
God calls us ! Ah, for what ? His poor are 
suffering, starving lying in filth, wretched- 
ness ; they are sick, unclothed, uneducated, 
and as I have said, starving, for intellectual 
and spiritual food. And now the call is 
sounded, come up and help us, does not God 
call us ? Is not his voice to be heard in the 
calls for help, that now meet your eyes, and 
greet your ears ? There is no necessity, no 
use of dissension and discussion of the events, 
the means that led to the enfranchisement of 
a race of human beings, that rescued them 
from the depths, the degredation of bondage 
and chains ; suffice it for us, that they are in 
their present position, and that our duty as 
Christians, as brothers, confines it elf to the 
present, exclusive of cavillings at the past, 
and leaving the future with God. 
A most fearful tragedy occurred at South 
Dedham on Friday last, by which an entire 
family has passed out of existence. The 
circumstances as given by the reporter of the 
Boston Daily Herald, as related to him by a 
Miss May, who was present in the house as 
an invalid, we give below. The victims were 
Dr. Carlos Marston and Cora Marston, his 
daughter, and the murderess was Mrs. Su-
sannah Marston, his wife. 
For several years past Mrs. Marston has 
been in feeble health, and some five weeks 
since, she recovered from an attack of the 
measles which apparently left her in a snore 
prostrate condition, mentally, than before ; 
and we were informed that she has aced 
A poor Hottentot in Southern Africa lived 
with a good Dutchman who kept up family 
prayer daily. One day he read, "Two men 
went into the temple to pray." The poor 
savage, whose heart was already awakened, 
looked earnestly at the reader, and whis-
pered, "Now I'll learn how to pray:" The 
Dutchman read on. "God I thank thee I 
am not as other men." 
"No, I am not ; but am worse," whispered 
the Hottentot. 
Again the Dutchman read, "I fast twice 
in a week. I give tithes of all I possess." 
"I can't do that, I don't pray in that man-
ner. What shall I do ?" said the distracted 
savage. . 
The good man read on until be came to 
the publican, who "would not lift so much 
as his eyes to heavers." 
"That's me," cried his hearer. 
"Stood afar off," read the other. 
"That's where I am," said the Hottentot. 
"But smote upon his breast, saying 'God 
be merciful to me a sinner.' " 
"That's me ; that's my prayer," cried the 
poor creature ; and, smiting on his dark 
breast, he prayed, "God be merciful to me a 
sinner," until, like the poor publican, he 
-.1101.0-40.--• 
IS HIS PURSE CONVERTED ?—A Metho-
dist laborer in Wesley's time, Captains Webb, 
when one informed him of the conversions of 
a rich man, was in the habit of asking, "Is 
his purse converted ?" Without the con-
version of his purse, the good captain could 
give no credit to the conversion of the man. 
In this he agreed with Dr. Adam Clarke, 
who used to say, "He did not believe in the 
religion that costs a man nothing." The re-
ligion that costs a man nothing is no religion 
at all, and the being converted, all but, the 
purse, is no conversions at all. 
Many have a lazy desire after Christ, that 
are never satisfied, and they are none the 
better for them—like beggars wishing they 
were rich. 
Several years ago, a Scotch pastor, being 
asked by a merchant, "What is the amount 
of your ministerial work ?" replied : "In the 
first place, I write every year what, if print-
ed, would fill two octavo volumes as large 
as any man who devotes himself to author-
ship would think of composing in the same 
time ; secondly, I speak as much every year 
as a lawyer in good practice speaks at the 
bar ; thirdly, I spend as many hours in mak-
ing and receiving professional visits as are 
spent by an ordinary physician." The mer-
chant answered, "None of us would do half 
your work for four times your pay." A 
minister does not preach for the sake of get-
ting pay ; neither does a bird fly in the air 
for the sake of getting wings ; still a minis-
ter must have money or he cannot live to 
preach, as a bird must have wings or he cau- 
white testimony is a!ways preferred. This 
laid her under a lie, and fraud, which to our 
heroine was a grave offence. She protested, 
and consequently got a punch in the side 
with a broom handle. Remembering the in-
junction, she turned the "other side," and re-
ceived a blow from the fist of her kind-
hearted white woman assailant. This ended 
her "duty" and she retreated. She posted 
down to our house to express the troubles 
which beset her. After relating in her 
graphic way the troubles of the day, she de-
clared, "I did turn the other side as you told 
me too, but 'twill nebber do, dat will kill 
me. Arter she poked me wid de stick, I 
turned de oder side, and it a moss killed me. 
I fell it now. I tell you 'twill neber do dat 
way ; she'll kill me." 
Bro. Leslie and I comforted her, and 
started off to see if we could find some 
shanty to settle the afflicted couple down for 
life. 
And now, if any persons in reading this, 
think that she is one of the "little ones," and 
desire to help build a little room for them, 
costing perhaps forty dollars, let them send 
A convenient season for what ? Exactly 
for doing that duty, which, perhaps, beloved 
reader, you are now deferring, and, of course, 
neglecting—application to the Lord Jesus, 
the Supreme Goodness, for your soul's salva-
tion. Like Felix, you have no convenient sea-
son at least, you feel and say you have not 
for the most urgent concern and the highest 
duty to God and your own soul. But what 
is it that thus so monopolizes your time and 
ability, and must we not say, your inclina-
tion—drawing you off—keeping you away 
from the source of chief good and from a 
condition of eternal safety ? Is it anything 
that will soften the pains of your death-bed ? 
Is it not something merely of this earth—
something transient—something not really 
worthy of the hold it has on your attention, 
and not comparable in importance and dig-
nity with the pursuit of Christian santifica-
tion ? Surely, it is not something vicious 
14. The Practical Bearings which these 
important truths should have upon our Lives 
and Characters. ELD. I. H. SHIPMAN. 
The following questions, among others, 
will be presented for consideration during 
Conference : 
Should the doctrine of Christ's coming, 
and kindred truths, be considered of vital im-
portance ? 
What steps should be immediately taken 
by us to bring the faith we cherish more 
directly to the attention of the Church and 
world ? 
Are our churches and brethren, meet-
ing the requirements of the New Testament, 
on the subject of systematic benevolence ? 
Are the ministers among us justified in 
secularizing the ministry, to the extent many 
are doing 
What can be done to render our Sab-
bath schools more efficient ? 
Are we fully comprehending, and per-
forming our duty as a people, to the Freed-
men of the South ? 
ORDER OF EXERCISES OF THE A. E. 
CONFERENCE. 
Tuesday, P. M. Opening services. Even-
ing, Annual Sermon by C. Cunningham. 
Wednesday, A. M. Business, and the con-
sideration of one of the questions in the pro-
gramme. P. M, Discourse. Evening, Dis-
course. 
Thursday, A. M. Session of the A. M. A., 
and the anniversary of our Publishing Soci-
ty, when a number of addresses will be given. 
P. M. Discourse. Evening, Discourse. 
Friday, A. M. Anniversary of our Sab-
bath school cause, when will be considered 
the 5th question in the programme. P. M. 
Discourse. Evening, Discourse. 
Saturday, A. M. The quarter century 
anniversary of American Adventism, when 
an account will be given of the original Con-
ference held in Boston ; and the question 
considered, Are we holding fast and main-
taining in its integrity, the faith originally 
announced, and since understood as Advent-
ism, and which has made us a distinct peo-
ple ? P. M. Discourse. Evening, Discourse. 
Sabbath. Discourses through the day. 
There will be social services each morning 
previous to the sessions of the Conference, 
as will be arranged at the Conference. 
I. H. SHIPMAN. I. for 
L. OSLER. 
 .for 
TENT-MEETING IN SUTTON. 
There will be (D V) a tent-meeting held 
in Sweet's Grove, North Sutton, C. E., be-
ginning Wednesday, 13th September. The 
meeting will be addressed by Brns. Orrock, 
Garvin, Hutchinson, West, Maiben and 
others. The first meeting will be held in 
the Horace Sweet school-room at 6 o'clock 
P. M. 
"Forsake not the assembling of yourselves 
together as the manner of some is, but ex-
hort one another, AND SO MUCH THE MORE, 
AS YE SEE THE DAY APPROACHING." 
JUDAH'S LION-SHEET MUSIC. 
We have just issued a sheet of music un-
der the above name, designed for prayer and 
conference, camp and grove meetings. It is 
an excellent piece of music and words. We 
have also printed on the same sheet the 
words published a few weeks ago in the Her-
ald under the head of "The Covenant of Re-
demption," to be sung to the air, "The Sword 
of Bunker Hill." Price of single sheets, 5 
cents. 42 cents a dozen. $3 00 per hundred. 
LETTERS RECE VED. 
Eleanor Gove ; Thomas B. Smith ; Mary 
Butman ; Lawson Long ; G. H. Child ; 
John Howe ; A. C. Henry ; Isaac F. Hard-
en ; J. D. Robinson ; Samuel Chapman ; 
Geo. S. Rickford ; Eld. P. Powell; Ira 
Bradley ; D. I. Robinson ; J. L. Clapp ; P. 
Chesley ; Cleo. C. Baker; D. N. Biddle ; J. 
Litch ; D. D. W. C. Throop ; G. H. Vos-
burgh-The money came all right. Wm. 
Cuberyhouse ; I. I. Leslie ; Lewis Ingalls-
15 cents inclosed-Cannot inform you in re-
lation to the_ book referred to ; M. L. Jack-
son ; C. Cunningham ; Geo. Smith ; H. C. 
Sargent. 
T H E 
ADVENT IIERALD. 
143 
HALF-FARE TO CONFERENCE. 
just two weeks from that day, sister Palmer 
expired, or "fell asleep in Jesus." The next 
day her remains were taken to the Baptist 
church in the village, where a large number 
of the relatives and other sympathizing 
friends listened to a discourse by the writer 
on the question, "If a man die, shall he live 
again ?" Job 14 : 14, in connection with 1 
Thess. 4e 13-18, and other kindred Scrip-
tures. "These words" were truly "comfort-
ing" to the bereaved friends as they deposit-
ed her remains in the village grave-yard, to 
await the "resurrection of the just." Sister 
Palmer was the mother of our Bro. Calvin 
Beckwith, whose brief, but interesting arti-
cles occasionally appear in the columns of 
the Herald, and was esteemed as a "mother 
in Israel" by all who knew her. She will 
be greatly missed in the family, in the 
church and by that entire community. 
SAMUEL CHAPMAN. 
Homer, H. 1., Aug., 25, 1865. 
THOMAS J. PALMER. 
A reduction of one-half the usual fare has 
been obtained over the Vt. Central Railroad, 
and also from Boston via Fitchburg to 
Waterbury. 4-00. 
 
SERIES OF DISCOURSES AT THE 25TH 
ANNUAL CONFERENCE. 
blessed by God, what will be the efforts of a 
few blind guides on the other, but to demon-
strate with increasing emphasis the wicked-
ness and folly of shutting out the light of 
truth ? It is for the interest of the South to 
co-operate with us, and God grant her sons 
and daughters the wisdom to do so before lie 
afflicts them further. Very truly yours, 
0. 0. HowARD, Maj. Gen. 
aid. Yours in hope. W. S. HOWDEN. 
Bristol, Vt., August 18, 1865. 
SAVING MINISTERS. 
It has been lately proposed in the public 
papers, as a means of preserving clergymen 
for a longer use, to a greater age, that while 
they are young they should riot be expected 
to do so much as is now required of them ; 
that, for the first five years of their ministry, 
only one sermon on the Sabbath should be 
given. . Not one minister in a million is 
ever disabled by hard study, or dies prema-
turely from that 'cause. A far better plan 
would be to require them to preach every 
day and Sunday too, for the first years of 
their ministry, and "as ye go, preach ;" take 
circuits, and preach in destitute places, five, 
or ten, or fifteen 'miles apart ; a sermon a 
day on an average the year round ; and two 
or three on Sundays, the oftener the easier. 
The advantages are that they would become 
acquainted with the country ; would be 
brought into personal contact with a great 
variety of persons ; would see human nature 
in its multitudinous phases; and thus, in 
after life, would be able to read a book more 
instructive to them than any other, except 
the Bible ; and reading it well would put in 
their hands a key which would unlock the 
human heart, and• gave them so complete an 
access to it that the people would say : 
`Never man spake like this man." "He 
told me all that ever I did." Patrick Henry 
owed his greatest power to what he learned 
of human nature by talking to all sorts of 
people in his little country store. Another 
advantage is, that this daily active out-door 
life, breathing the pure air for almost all of 
daylight, would enable them to work off that 
diseased bodily condition which is generated 
in theological seminaries ; and would so knit 
and compact•the constitution, so renovate it, 
not only by the exercise, but by the change 
of food and association, as to lay the founda-
tion for many years of healthfuluess in the 
future. It is impossible for an intelligent 
man to doubt for an instant that four or five 
years spent in riding every day on horse-
back, in the open air, with the accompany-
ing and exhilarating mental exercise re-
quired in preaching, would be as certain to 
build up the constitution, as spending from 
morning until night in confined rooms, and 
eating heartily all the time, without any sys-
tematic exercise, would pull it down and de- 
stroy it. There is nothing perplexing, or 
mystic, or mind-racking, in ordinary minis-
terial duty ; it is more of calm contempla-
tion like that of the natural philosopher, the 
longest-lived of all other classes, as the sta-
tistics say ; they study the works of God ; 
the clergy study his word ; which is a surer 
"word of prophecy" and a plainer. The de-
stroyers of our clergy are not hard study ; 
not the difficulties connected with their call-
ing ; but reckless and unnecessary exposures ; 
irregular efforts ; wrong habits of eating ; 
unwise neglect of wholesome bodily exer-
cise ; bad hours of study, and criminal inat-
tention to the securement of those bodily 
regulations which are indispensable to health 
the world over. Preaching often, does not 
kill ; look at the Whitefields and the Wes-
leys and multitudes of others like them ; 
confinement even does not kill ; Baxter and 
Bunyan and many, more lived in jails for 
years together, and that, too, without oppor-
ties of exercise-for their living was plain, 
and that riot over-abundant, nor tempting 
either !-Hall's Journal. 
-•••••••1••-- 
EDUCATING THE FREEDMEN. 
The following letter from Maj. Gen. How-
ard, was read before the American Institute 
of Instruction, held at New Haven, on the 
9th of August, relating to the education of 
the freedmen : 
"I am particularly rejoiced at the proposed 
discussion of the subject relating to the edu- 
cation of the American freedman. My pur-
pose is to aid the work of education by every 
means of encouragement that are or may 
come within my power as Commissioner of 
the Bureau of Freedmen or Refugees. I 
will take the general superintendence of the 
work in the States where I have Assistant 
Commissioners, and have already so provided. 
When possible, the teachers shall have quar- 
ters and fuel. They are permitted to have 
the army ration by purchase, which lessens 
the cost of board one-half. 
-Whenever the 
blacks have received money or wages suf- 
ficient, they will feed as many teachers as 
benevolent agencies will send them ; so they 
promise. Then send the teachers, and organ-
ize just as many schools as possible. The 
difficulties will be from the opposition, or 
blind prejudice and real ignorance. Some 
will shut their plantations as far as they can 
against loyal teachers, and we must meet 
them in the spirit of true missionaries. My 
agents, who will be in easy reach, will be 
instructed to give full protection to the 
schools. They will always have the power 
to call for military aid ; but I am much in-
clined to exercise every other method before 
calling for military force. We must do what 
we can to overcome prejudices and opposi-
tion by carrying with us the spirit of Christ 
in every nook and corner of the South. Re-
joice at eery foot of ground gained, and 
never be discouraged by contumely or fail-
ure. The whites need much real effort in 
their behalf. In passing through Georgia 
and South Carolina, I scarcely ever found a 
white child that could read. The union of 
the different benevolent agencies is really a 
move in the right direction. It will harmo-
nize and encourage the efforts of those whose 
hearts are longing for a second fulfillment of 
the promise of this wonderful revolution. 
Work and schools go hand in 'hand when free 
labor is well regulated and properly settled, 
as will soon be the case with a large influx 
of loyal immigration and a purchase or rental 
of land by freedmen more or less extended. 
Schools and churches will spring into exist-
ence and thrive. More than 200,000 people, 
old and young, in the insurrectionary States, 
have learned to read during the last three 
years. The soldiers of regiments and the 
schools established all over those States at-
test the energy put forth. With the govern-
ment, the loyal Christians and the negroes 
on the one side working night and day, and 
TO REBEL MINISTERS.- 
This Conference being the Quarter-Cen-
tury Anniversary, the Committee of Arrange-
ments have deemed it appropriate to have 
the original faith of the body represented by 
this Conference re-affirmed in a series of dis-
courses during the meeting. 
The following will be the order of the 
series : 
The Importance of Prophetic Investi-
gation, and how it should be conducted. 
ELD. J. M. ORROCK. 
The Second Coming of Christ Personal, 
Visible, Glorious, Pre,rnillennial. 
ELD. J. H. VAN DERZEE. 
The Resurrections,-their Nature, Or-
der, Period, Peculiarities and Results. 
Dr. J. LITCH. 
The Restitution,-its Nature and Ex- 
tent. 
ELD. 0. R. FASSETT. 
The Kingdom of God,-its Nature, 
Location, Period of Establishment and Du- 
ration. ELD. W. H. EASTMAN. 
The Millennium,-its Chronology and 
Peculiarities. 
The Periods of Rewards and Punish- 
ments. 
ELD. S. S. GARVIN. 
The Prophetic Numbers,-their Im- 
port and Use. ELD. D. I. ROBINSON. 
The Similarity and Dissimilarity of 
Millennarianism and American Adventism. 
ELD. F. GUNNER. 
The Abrahamic Covenant. 
ELD. I. R. GATES. 
The Relation and True Interpretation 
of the Two Covenants, the Old and the New. 
ELD. L. OSLER. 
The Relation of the Jews to the New 
Covenant, and their Prophetic Future. 
HECTOR MAIBEN. 
Our Position on the Prophetic Cal- 
andar. 
ELD. J. PEARSON. 
A WARNING 
Governor Fletcher, of Missouri, lately made 
a speech at St. Joseph for the benefit of those 
preachers who refuse to take the oath, and 
describes his short method of treating them 
as follows : 
"I have directed an enlargement of the 
Penitentiary cell rooms, with the intention 
that men who commit crime hereafter in this 
State by undertaking to decide for them-
selves the laws which are to be spit upon 
and trampled under foot, and thereby become 
accessories before the fact of criminal offen-
ces consequent on their advice, shall be pro-
vided with suitable quarters in case they es-
scape the hanging they well deserve." 
very strangely at times since, showing a wild 
expression about the eyes, and giving other 
tokens of mental aberration-among which 
was her act in getting up from bed late at 
night, going out and wandering in the dark-
ness-which she did on Tuesday night last, 
returning after an absence of about half an 
hour, saying she "had been over to East 
Walpole to get some cool water." 
Miss M. avers that Mrs. Marston came to 
her room late, about a disturbance which a 
cat below stairs was creating, and that she 
(Mrs. M.) said something about "killing him 
before morning." This remark so alarmed 
Miss May, that when the Doctor visited her 
to leave medicine or instructions still later 
at night, she told him of his wife's remark, 
and he replied that he was going to bed and 
would lock his door. Whether he did this 
or not, is not known, as no one now living, 
saw him alive subsequently. 
Miss May now dropped asleep. About 2 
o'clock she says, she was awakened by a 
noise which seemed to her like scuffling and 
a fall overhead. She presently heard the 
report of a pistol, and comprehending the 
condition of affairs at once, she immediately 
arose and crossing one or two apartments 
passed to the foot of the stairs in the front 
entry. Here, being afraid to go up stairs, 
she called loudly two or three times to the 
Doctor, but from him she received no re-
sponse, for at that time he was probably still 
in death. Mrs. Marston, however, appeared 
at the head of the stairs without a light, and 
in a firm, calm tone, which seemed to indi-
cate method in her madness, ordered Miss 
May to go to her room and remain quiet 
under penalty of having her brains blown 
out. The frightened girl could but obey, 
and after hastily throwing on her clothing 
she went out in quest of help. She first met 
a Mrs. Hartshorn who resided in the other 
part of the house and who had also heard the 
noise, and they together went after some of 
the neighbors. Before they left the house 
two additional shots were heard and ere they 
returned, two others, accompanied with 
groans. Having procured the assistance of 
two or three men they returned to the house. 
THE SCENE UP STAIRS. 
The entire party having procured a light, 
went up stairs and first visited Dr. Marston's 
chamber, which was a front room up one 
flight. Here a ghastly spectacle presented 
itself: On the bed lay the Doctor upon his 
back, and resting upon one arm, which was 
partially around her neck, while her head 
reclined upon his shoulder, lay the body of 
Mrs. Marston. Both were quiet, motionless, 
dead ; and the revolver was found in the bed. 
THE ATLANTIC CABLE-DETERMINATION 
TO LAY ANOTHER CABLE NEXT YEAR.-
NEW YORK, Sept. 1, The last mall* from 
England bring a report, on good authority, 
that the Great Eastern will be at once de-
spatched from Sheerness to Newfoundland. 
The object of this trip is to fisirt up on the 
way the fragments of the dissevered cable, 
which it is hoped, will be recovered by means 
of grapnels and buoys. The promoters of 
the enterprise in England are determined to 
lay another cable next year, making use of 
the recovered portions of the old one. 
-•••••••••-•- 
A STAGE-COACH RUN INTO BY A RAIL-
ROAL TRAIN.-South Hingham, Sept. 1. The 
stage-coach on the way from South Wey-
mouth to the beach, at Cohasset, yesterday 
afternoon, while crossing the track at South 
Hingham was struck by the engine of the 
South Shore Railroad, and the passengers in 
the coach scattered around. One man, Mr. 
Leander Lovell, of Weymouth, was killed, 
and all were more or less injured and mu- 
tilated. 
--••••••••. 
Died also in said McDonough, Aug. 15th, 
of the same fatal disease, Bro. Thomas J. 
Palmer, husband of the above Patty A. 
Palmer, in the 63d year of his age. Bro. 
Palmer being in perfect health when his wife 
was taken down, for some five days, did all 
in his power to relieve her, when he himself 
was prostrated by the same disease, which 
completed its fatal work in two weeks' time. 
When it was told Bro. Palmer -Nit his wife 
was dying, or failing very fast, he said in re-
ply, "I hope I shall follow her soon." His 
wishes were verily granted, and yet the 
church in his case as well as that of his wife, 
have met with a great loss, for Bro. P. was 
always in his place when they met for wor-
ship, and took the lead in singing. Eld. 
Holroyd, the Baptist minister there, preached 
on the occasion, it is said, from "I praise the 
dead which are already dead more than the 
living," &c. Eccl. 4: 2. And so Bro. Palm-
er, who a few days ago was cheering our 
hearts with his songs of praise, is now with 
his companion, "sleeping in Jesus," and 
"resting from his labors," both of whom 
will doubtless come up in the "first resurrec-
tion." "On such the second death hath no 
power." 0 that. the living would lay these 
things to heart, and prepare at once to meet 
their God. SAMUEL CHAPMAN. 
.Horner N. Aug. 25, 1865. 
South, which, while it advises the preachers 
and members to yield a faithful support to 
the government of the United States, and to 
ignore all past differences of opinions on sub-
jects connected with the war, complains of 
the attempts of the Church North, to extend 
its field of operations over the South, and 
manifests considerable hostility to any at-
tempt to secure a formal union of the two 
branches of this great religious organization. 
A General Conference of the Church South 
is to be held in New Orleans in April next. 
America lost an opportunity to display its 
hatred of republican institutions, and its 
deadly enmity to the government which is 
based on the principles of Democracy. The 
rebellion is ended, but the Church does not 
lay down its arms. Insidiously where it can-
not openly, it pursues its warfare against 
freedom and free government. The instinct 
of self-preservation assures the Archbishop 
of Missouri, that emancipation in his State, 
means more than the emancipation of the 
blacks ; it threatens the supremacy of the 
Romish Church, as well as of the institution 
of slavery, which that Church persistently 
upheld. Hence the bitterness of this ecclesi-
astical warfare. Every conscience that gets 
enlightment from the spread of free princi-
ples is a dead loss to Romanism, and Roman-
ism will risk anything to arrest the growth 
of such influences. Archbishop Kenrick is 
a true son of his Romish mother, but his 
filial devotion is more likely to be rewarded 
with the honors of a spurious martyrdom 
than with the temporal success which his su-
perior on the Seven Hills has directed him 
to attempt.-Methodist. 
The surgeons' reports show that our arm-
ies lave suffered greatly from chills and fev-
es which is induced by the miasma and 
change of climate to which they are exposed. 
They also find Ayer's Ague Cure is an ef-
fectual remedy for this distemper, and are 
urging the Government to adopt it within 
the regulations. The Surgeon-general hesi-
tates because it is put up in a proprietary 
form. However great that convenience to 
'the public, he prefers the physicians of the 
army should give their own directions for 
the doses. Whatever professional pride may 
dictate, he knows as well as we do that Dr 
Ayer's "Cure" is an almost perfect antidote 
for the ague, and that the soldiers should 
have the benefit of it, as well as the people. 
- Washington Correspondent. D. C. 
Tentopondeure. 
PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S FIRST DOLLAR.-
One evening, in the executive chamber, there 
were present a number of gentlemen, among 
them Mr. Seward. A point in the conver-
sation suggesting the thought, Mr. Lincoln 
said, "Seward, you never heard, did you, 
how I earned my first dollar ?" "No," said 
Mr. Seward. "Well," replied he, "I was 
about eighteen years of age. I belonged, 
you know, to what they call down South the 
'scrubs'-people who do not own land and 
slaves are nobody there. But we had sue-
deeded in raising, chiefly by my labor, suffi-
cient produce, as I thought, to justify me in 
taking it down the river to sell. After much 
persuasion I got the consent of my mother to 
go, and constructed a- little flat boat, large 
enough to take the barrel or two of things 
that we gathered, with myself and a little 
bundle, down to New Orleans. A steamer 
was coming down the river. We have, you 
know, no wharves on the western streams, 
and the custom was if passengers were at 
any of the landings, for them to go out in a 
boat, the steamer stopping and taking them 
on board. I was contemplating my new flat-
boat and wondering whether I could make 
it stronger or improve it in any particular, 
when two men came down to the shore in 
carriages with trunks, and looking at the 
different boats singled out mine, and asked, 
'Who owns this ?' I answered, somewhat 
modestly, do.' Will you,' said one of 
them, 'take us and our trunks out to the 
steamer ?"Certaiuly,' said I. I was very 
glad to have the opportunity of earning some-
thing. I supposed that each would give me 
two or three bits. The trunks were put on 
my flatboat, the passengers seated themselves 
on the trunks, and I sculled them out to the 
steamboat. They got on board, and I lifted 
up their heavy trunks, and put them on deck. 
The steamer was about to put on steam again, 
when I called out that they had forgotten 
to pay me. Each of them took from his 
pocket a single half dollar, and threw it on 
the floor of my boat. I could scarcely be-
lieve my eyes as I picked up the money. Gen-
tlemen, you may think it a very little thing, 
and in these days it seems to me like a trifle ; 
but it was a most important incident in my 
life. I could scarcely credit that I, a poor 
boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day-
that by honest work 1 had a dollar. The 
world seemed wider and fairer before me. I 
was a more hopeful and confident being from 
that time."-Springfield Union. 
CHARLES WILBER BECKWITH. 
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.-During General 
Grant's visit to St. Paul, Minn., on the 26th 
ult., a balcony, on which about twenty per-
sons were standing to view the procession, 
gave way, and they were all precipitated 
upon the sidewalk in terrible confusion. For 
a few moments the cries and shrieks of the 
women and children, and the groans of the 
wounded rendered the scene a most painful 
one. Seventeen persons were found to be 
injured-three probably mortally., Rev. Mr. 
Coleman and two others had their legs brok-
en, and others were badly hurt. 
Died in McDonough, N. Y., Aug. 2d, of 
spotted fever', Charles Wilber, son of Dr. 
Nelson W. and Sister Mary A. Beckwith, 
aged 1 year, 4 months and 28 days. Charles 
W. was a bright and very promising child. 
Being in perfect health, he walked with his 
mother and an older brother more than half 
a mile and attended our meeting on the Sab-
bath, July 30th. His stillness in the sanctu-
ary, with his bright eye fastened on me while 
I was preaching to the congregation, really 
attracted my attention. The very next day 
he was attacked with that almost incurable 
disease, and in three days' time was a lifeless 
corpse. The next day, (Thursday, Aug. 3d,) 
the relations and a respectable number of the 
neighbors gathered at the house of mourn-
ing, where we read for their comfort and en-
couragement, 2 Samuel, 12 : 15-23, Jer. 31 : 
15-17. (comparing the latter with Matt. 2 : 
16-18,) 1 Thess. 4 ; 13, 14, and concluded 
with Christ's words. Mark 10: 13-16. So 
they laid "little Charley" away in the same 
grave-yard with his great grandmother 
"Palmer," expecting him very soon to Come 
forth. with her in the morning of the resur-
rection, to die no more. It is hard parting 
with such promising little ones. But the 
parents bore it with Christian fortitude and 
resignation. The Lord sanctify the affliction 
to them, and graciously sustain those sorrow-
ing relations, is my humble and sincere 
prayer. Amen. SAMUEL CHAPMAN. 
Honzer, N. Y., Aug. 25, 1865. 
-.01•••••••- 
A ROMISH REBELLION IN MISSOURI. 
Dear Bro. Canfield :-It is with sadness of 
heart that I write to inform the friends of the 
Mission of the dangerous illness of Bro. 
Child. He was taken sick on Saturday, Aug. 
19th. His disease is typhoid fever. It has 
run now ten days, and although by appropri-
ate remedies and the use of cold water, we 
have been able thus far to control it, yet it 
has gotten a firm hold of his system, and will 
doubtless run its accustomed length of time. 
It is of the cerebral form, and there is con-
siderable mental disturbance. When rational 
he is perfectly reconciled and happy. I hope 
by the time this is published, lie will have 
passed the crisis, and be recovering. He will 
not, however, be out of danger for some 
weeks. This fever here is far more prostrat-
ing at this season of the year, than at the 
1North ; all the vital energies being more 
weakened by the continued hot and dry 
weather which we have had, and are still 
having. 
I
Bro. C. undoubtedly took thm fever of his 
little daughter, who is just getting up from 
a severe and dangerous attack of this dread-
ful disease. He is susceptible to fevers, and 
it is quite remarkable that not until now has 
he had here any sickness of this kind. 
Unlike him in this respect, I am not sus-
ceptible at all to fevers, never having had 
one in my life, nor being liable, so far as I 
know, to one. I have been with nearly 
every kind of contagious disease here, but 
have never been affected by any. Feel grate-
ful to God every day that I am thus able to 
go wherever I am called. 
The prayers of all God's people are re-
quested in behalf of Bro. Child and his fam-
ily. Pray dear brethren, and sisters, that he 
may be raised up to continue long in this 
field of labor for which he is so well fitted, 
and in which he delights so much to labor. 
Yours truly in the faith. I. I. LESLIE. 
Near Nashville, Aug. 28. 1865. 
REQUESTS FOR PRAYER. 
A WOMAN ON "WATERFALLS."-Mrs. L. 
Maria Child writes a letter to the Independ-
ent, in the course of which she uses the fol-
lowing language in regard to the latest fash-
ions in hair : 
"Thinking of the great and blessed work 
done during these last four years by women, 
in the Sanitary Commissions, the hospitals, 
and the schoolhouses for the emancipated, I 
seemed to see a bright light dawning on our 
future career. But the vision receded in the 
distance when I looked from my window and 
saw a bevy of damsels sailing by with hen-
coops in their skirts, and upon their heads a 
brimless pan of straw with a feather in it-
utterly useless for defence against wind or 
sun. To make this unbecoming headgear 
still more ungraceful, there descends from it 
something called by the flowing name of wa-
terfall, but. which in fact looks more like a 
cabbage in a net, tricked out with beads and 
wampum. If' I had met them in Western 
forests, I should have taken them for Ojib-
way squaws, but their dress was a la mode 
Parisiene. This tyranny of France is, I sup-
pose, one of the things that must be endured, 
because it cannot be helped, till our brains 
are better developed. In process of time, I 
trust the Empress Eugenie will sleep with 
her illustrious ancestors, and that no other 
fantastic queen of fashion, will come after 
her, to lead the civilized world such a fool's 
dance. What a set of monkeys we are, in 
feathers and furbelows, dancing to the tune 
of that imperial show-woman." 
•••••••+••- - 
Two things a master commits to his serv-
ant's care, saith one-the child and -the 
child's clothes. It will be a poor excuse for 
the `servant to say, at his master's return, 
"Sir, here are all the child's clothes, neat and 
clean, but the child is lost." Much so with 
the account that many will give-to God of 
their souls and bodies at the great day : 
"Lord, here is my body ; I was very grateful 
for it ; I neglected nothing that belonged to 
its content and welfare ; but as for my soul, 
that is lost and cast away forever-I took 
little care and thought about it."-Flavel. 
A brother in Providence-for many years 
afflicted by disease-humbly desires the 
prayers of Christians, that he may be re-
stored to health, if it be the Lord's will. He 
is looking for the appearing of the Son of 
man to usher in the day of release from pain 
and sorrow. 
4oticto. 
AN EXAMINATION OF THE BODIES 
was made at this time, a physician, Dr. Da-
vid S. Fogg, of Dedham, having meantime 
arrived. Dr. Marston was found to have re-
ceived a shot in the breast which just grazed 
the sternum or breast bone, and penetrated 
the right lung. In the opinion of the attend-
ing physician, this wound was not sufficient 
alone to have caused instant death, which 
must have taken place-and this is one theo-
ry which leads to the belief that chloroform 
had been administered to him. 
Mrs. Marston was found to have received 
two shots, which were about two inches 
apart, both in the left breast. They were 
found to have. 
 passed nearly through the 
body, and came as far as the skin on the 
back, underneath which they are perceptible. 
Their position indicated that their course 
must have been through the heart, and 
doubtless instant death followed their passage. 
Cora, the little girl, received one shot 
through the small of the back. It is sup-
posed that she was not disabled by this, and 
then arose from bed for the purpose of resist-
ance or flight, when the inhuman murderess 
shot her again, the ball this time entering the 
right ear and lodging in the base of the 
brain. Her fall probably occasioned the 
noise which awoke Miss May as she was di-
rectly underneath. 
Which of the two was first shot is uncer-
tain, but it is believed that when Mrs. Mars-
ton got up-which she did although we have 
not hitherto mentioned it-on the night in 
question, saying she was going in to sleep 
with Cora, that she then applied the chloro-
form to the latter ; then returned and admin-
istered it to her husband ; next shot him, 
then killed Cora, and lastly, after returning 
to her husband's bed, shot herself. 
SKETCH OF THE DECEASED. 
Dr. Marston was a native of Sutton, N. 
. H., and was forty-two years of age. The 
early years of his manhood were devoted to 
Christianity. He was at one time, and for 
several years, a Universalist clergyman. He 
was first settled in Lynnfield, Mass. ; next 
in Yarmouthport ; then in Stoneham; next 
in Hopkinton, Mass. ; afterwards in St- 
Johnsbury and Waterford, Vt., and lastly in 
Claremont, N. H. At the latter place he 
resolved to change his profession of clergy. 
man for that of doctor. He chose Howe-
pathy, and received his medical education in 
Burlington, Vt., and New York City. He 
first practiced medicine for a short time in 
Manchester, N. H., and then 'in Concord, 
Vt. He went to Dedham in June last at 
the earnest solicitation of several personal 
friends whom he had there. He was suc 
ceeding well in his profession and was rapid-
ly making friends by his courteous and gen-
erous bearing toward all. 
Mrs. Marston, his wife, was a native of 
Lebanon, N. H., and was a daughter of a 
Mr. Tenney there residing. Marston be-
came acquainted with her some fifteen years 
ago, at her father's house, where he was 
boarding, and shortly after married her. Her 
health has never been of the best and she 
has been considered for several years a 
strange woman, having periodical fits of de-
pression. We were informed that insanity 
was hereditary in her family, and that she 
had a sister who became hopelessly insane ; 
but for the truth of the statement we cannot 
vouch. 
Cora, the little girl, was the adopted 
daughter of the family with whom she has 
lately resided and the natural daughter of 
Mrs. Marston's sister. She was ten years 
of age. 
merit. 
To a 
Deor Bro. Litch :-I have this moment 
heard by the Herald that Bro. Child and 
the dear colored children have lost their 
schoolhouse. I cannot tell you how deeply 
and sincerely I sympathize with them in 
their loss. I do hole the Lord will raise up 
means to build them another. I have faith 
to believe that God will bring good out of 
this strange event, and "cause the wrath of 
man to praise him." The land still mourns 
because of oppression, and the wickedness of 
cruel man, 0 when shall it cease ? Not till 
Jesus comes. I pray that we may be ready, 
with our lamps trimmed and burning, and 
waiting for his appearance. Please give 
love to all my friends. I ask an interest in 
your prayers, that I may have true submis-
sion to the will of' my heavenly Father. 
May he guide and bless you in all your ways 
is the prayer of your unworthy sister in 
Christ, 
ANN P. LESTER. 
P. S. I enclose one dollar to Bro. Child, 
toward a new schoolhouse or place of wor- 
ship. • 
A. P. L. 
We have an apparently well-authenticated 
report that Archbishop Kenrick, of Missouri, 
has notified the clergy in his archbishopric 
that they must take the oath prescribed in 
the new State Constitution, under penalty 
of suspension from their functions. In other 
words, the Archbishop ordains that loyalty 
and Romanism are inconsistent terms. The 
new Missouri oath recognizes the obligation 
of the citizen of the State to the government 
of the United States, and binds him to loyal 
obedience to that government. Archbishop 
Kenrick declares he does not mean to obey, 
nor suffer his priests to obey, the law of the 
land. It was not enough that he should 
evince his sympathies with the rebellion dur-
ing the war ; this primate deems it his duty, 
after the traitors have submitted, to persist 
in his opposition to a government which has 
no open foe to .encounter. If he has the 
courage to attempt the enforcement of his 
mandate, we may be enabled to learn in a 
definite way whether the State government 
or the Archbishop is to prescribe the con-
ditions of citizenship in Missouri. And if 
there shall once come a conflict of that sort, 
we apprehend the Roman Catholic Church 
in America is likely to be taught a lesson as 
to the just distinctions between ecclesiastical 
and political authority such as she and her 
rulers will long remember. For this strug-
gle threatens to be carried on by other 
weapons than such as are forged in ordinary 
ecclesiastical councils. Governor Fletcher 
of Missouri asserts his intention to execute 
the law, as he is bound to do. If a priest in 
St. Louis refuses to take the oath, and per-
sists in exercising his priestly functions, he 
will be arrested, and then conies the struggle. 
Will an Irish mob in that crowded city look 
peaceably on while one of its ministers is 
brought to bar for such an offence ? Priests, 
mob, and Archbishop alike are imbued with 
sentiments of intense hostility to the govern-
To a man they are in favor of slavery 
man they hate the negro-hate him 
brutally, and with the blind madness which 
the antipathy of race stimulated by priest-
craft begets. To a man they are enemies to 
the free government which the war has 
brought Missouri. It needs but a spark to 
set them in a blaze, and the arrest of a 
priest will prove the spark. If Governor 
Fletcher be the man of resolution and cour-
age we hope, such an outbreak will be met 
on the instant by military force, and quelled 
by weight of disciplined numbers with 
little bloodshed. There are sure United 
States troops enough in St. Louis for such 
an emergency-they will require only to be 
used promptly. Elsewhere in the State, the 
result of a struggle might be doubtful for the 
time, for troops are thinly scattered through 
its counties. But of the final result of such 
a contest no man can doubt. The priest-
ridden rebels of the bushwhacking districts 
have felt the power of the government before 
now ; and they can if necessary be taught 
their lesson over again. 
We do not fear for the issue of this conflict 
if it is to come. We advert to it because it 
compels us once more to remark on the dan-
ger with which a church that assumes politi-
cal control over its devotees forever menaces 
the government. Not since the rebellion be-
gan has the Roman Catholic Church in 
WHAT YOU CAN NEVER CATCH.-Boys 
and girls, what is that you can never catch, 
though you chase after it as on wings of the 
wind ? You can never catch the word that 
has once gone out of your lips. Once spoken, 
it is out of your reach ; do your best, you 
can never recall it. Therefore, take care 
what you say. Never speak an unkind 
word, an impure word, a lying word, a pro-
fane word. 
True friends are the whole world to one 
another ; and he that is a friend to himself, 
is also a friend to mankind. 
Obititarg. 
PATTY A. PALMER. 
Died in McDonough, N. Y., Aug. 10th of 
dysentery, Sister Patty A. Palmer, aged 
about 73 years. I arrived at "MeD.," from 
my Western tour on Thursday, July 27th, 
and found brother and sister Palmer both in 
perfect health and good spirits. The Advent 
church of which they were prominent mem-
bers, convened at their house that evening 
(as their custom was) for social worship. 
The meeting was an interesting one, in which 
brother and sister P. were very active. In 
NOTICE. 
Eld. Gates will preach (Lord willing) at 
Roxam, C. E., October 3-5. Champlain Vil- 
lage, N. Y., 6-8. Waterbury, Vt., 9. 
The friends on the Isle of Mott, Alburgh, 
Clarenceville, Odletown, and other places in 
the vicinity of Roxam and Champlain, will 
be pleased to give Eld. Gates a hearing, as 
one who labored in those regions in former 
years with great success. 
NOTICE. 
Reduced fare from Providence to Boston. 
Those attending the Conference at Water-
bury, coming through or from Providence, 
will have half fare tickets. 
Pay full fare one way and you will have 
free tickets to return, which may be obtained 
at the Conference. 
My address until the Conference will be 
Newburyport, Mass. J. H. VAN DERZEE. 
QUARTER-CENTURY ANNIVERSARY 
OF THE AMERICAN E. A. CON- - 
FERENCE. 
This Conference will be held at WATER-
BURY, VT., commencing Tue.snAv, OCT. 
10th, 1865, at 2 o'clock P. M. 
J. PEARSON, JR., Pres. 
H. CANFIELD, Sec'y. 
COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS. 
The undersigned, having been appointed 
by the Advent Church of Waterbury, to 
provide accommodations for those attending 
the Conference, request that the number 
from each place be forwarded to them as 
soon as may be. Forward your names, and 
you shall be provided for. Let all come 
who can. Dr. L. H. THOMAS, 
DEA. A. DILLINGHAM 
COM. 
E. W. CASE. 
Dear Bro. Litch :-I am well pleased with 
the Herald, and that it is conducted with so 
charitable a spirit ; but I am not a writer, 
or I should try and write for it weekly ; but 
still I am, I trust, grateful to our good God, 
the giver of every good gift, who so greatly 
favors and blesses all that trust in him. I 
now feel it to be• a privilege and duty to 
send to you five dollars, as it is probably a 
tenth of my last year's income, and also five 
dollars as an offering to the Lord, that He 
who rules in heaven and earth may, I hope, 
preserve my few store goods from fire, for I 
think it is better to trust in God than any 
insurance company, for you to put the same 
where you think most needed, probably to 
the aid of Freedmen's Missionary Society. 
Yours affectionately, JOSEPH MORRIS. 
 
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Dear Bro. Litch:-Enelosed you will find 
ten dollars for the Freedmen's Mission. If 
there is any one object that demands our 
sympathy above another, it is this. The door 
has been opened, and now is the time to act ; 
and if we withhold the means the Lord has 
intrusted to us as stewards, he will call us to 
an account, as unfaithful to his trust, while 
millions of our fellow-creatures are suffering 
and dying in ignorance within our reach and 
-•••••••••" 
A pastoral address has been issued by 
three bishops of the Methodist Church, 
to 
61. AND 63 HAWLEY STREET, 
where they are now offering a fresh Stock of Foriegn 
and Domestic 
CARPETINGS 
OIL CLOTHS, &c., Ac, 
COMPRISING THE 
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RHEUMATIC AFFECTIONS, 
IIEADACHE, 
Neuralgia in the Face, 
Toothache, 
PAIN IN THE SIDE, 
PAIN IN THE BACK AND LOINS, 
"Neuralgic or Rheumatic Pains in the Joints or 
Limbs, 
STINGS OF INSECTS 
Scorpions, Centipedes, 
-AND THE- 
FOR MISSION HOUSE. 
Amount previously received, 
A friend to the Mission, 
DO SOCIETY FOR FREEDMEN'S MISSION. 
Amount previously received. $10 35 
-61 a-6m.- 16 
FOR BOOKS AND TRACTS. 
"To do good and communicate forget not, for 
with such sacrifices God is well pleased."-Heb. 
13: 16. 
Amount previously received. $21 00 
Zile tatuilg Tirrir. 
WORDS. 
If words could satisfy the heart, 
The heart might find less care ; 
But words, like summer birds, depart, 
And leave but empty air. 
The heart, a pilgrim upon earth, 
Finds often, when it needs, 
That words are of as little worth 
As just so many weeds. 
A little said,-and truly said,- 
Can deeper joy impart 
Than hosts of words, which reach the head, 
But never touch he heart. 
The voice that wins its sunny way, 
A lonely home to cheer, 
Hath oft the fewest words to say ; 
But oh ! those few,-how dear ! 
THE SECRET OF THE LORD: WHO HAS 
IT ? 
BY MRS. J. D. CHAPLIN. 
A few years ago, a business man, full 
of care and anxiety, left the cars at the 
depot of a certain New England city, 
and registered his name at one of the ho-
tels. His mind was dark and restless, 
and the time he had allotted for his ab-
sence seemed all to short for the work 
he had laid.out, and hehardly knew at 
which enct of his important mission to 
begin. While sitting at supper, brood-
ing over his perplexities, the stroke of a 
church-bell fell on his ear, and he said, 
inwardly, "I was glad when they said 
unto me, Let us go into the house of the 
Lord. if God's people meet anywhere 
to-night, I'll say to my cares, Stay ye 
here while I go yonder and pray ; I'll 
go to my Father's house, and there seek 
rest to my soul." 
He asked his host the cause of the 
ringing, and was told that "There was 
some sudden stir in one of the churches. 
They had or was going to have a re-
vival, he believed." 
It was a matter of a few hundred 
dollars which had been vexing the soul 
of this righteous man, added to the gall-
ing sense of having been imposed upon 
by a designing person. But at the first 
word of hope for Zion, and of salvation 
for sinners-strangers though they were, 
-he was ashamed of himself, and felt 
that he would cast the offending gold, 
if he had it, into the sea. "Was religion," 
he asked, "to have no power over its 
followers? Was faith to die in the very 
time it was needed ? Then is faith 
vain." 
Leaving the world at the hotel,' he 
sought the place where the Saviour was 
manifesting Himself to his people ; and 
found, by the remarks and prayers, that 
He had come among them by a sweet 
surprise, when few were praying, and 
none looking for Him. "As they walked 
and were sad," He had joined them, and 
their eyes were at first holden that they 
did not know Him. It seemed a matter 
of astonishment that he should thus 
suddenly reveal his presence, when all 
seemed willing to confess that they 
were not expecting the visit. Saints 
tvith quickened hopes seemed on the 
verge of heaven, and sinners, seeing 
themselves in the light of God's holy 
law, felt that they were standing on the 
brink of eternal woe. All else had sunk 
into insignificance in comparison with 
the value of the undying soul. 
Our anxious friend went back from 
this meeting to his hotel, caring nothing 
for the paltry sum he had "determined 
to get at all hazards !" He resolved, 
however, to spend the three days he had 
meant to devote to this vexatious busi-
ness, in doing missionary work in the 
outskirts of the city. He knew there 
were two or three little hamlets of very 
poor and uncouth families, and to them 
he would go. One of these contained 
a group of poor unpainted cottages, oc-
cupied by men who went fishing, and 
by washerwomen and whortleberry 
pickers. Their settlement was on a 
sand hill overlooking the river,, and so 
sterile that they could have no gardens. 
It was chosen; propably, for the reason 
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ADVENT 
HER ALD. 
REMOVAL. 
JOHN H. PRAY, SONS 85 CO., 
Have removed to the Spacious Store formerly occupied 
by Messrs. Geo. W. Warren, & Co., 
192 Washington Street, 
(opposite the Marlboro' Hotel,) and extending through 
pot of pountiono. 
VEGETABLE 
PAIN KILLER. 
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS WEEKLY FOR HERALD. 
"And that you remember the words of the Lord 
Jesus Christ, how he said, It is more blessed to 
give than to receive."-Acts 20: 35. 
TAKEN EX1 ERNALLY, 
After breakfast our merchant turned 
missionary made his way over the 
bridge and up the hill, carrying, as was 
his custom wherever he went, a few 
books and tracts by which to introduce 
himself. Knocking at the first house, 
he saw an overgrown girl-evidently 
unused to seeing a well-dressed person, 
and therefore suspicious of his motives 
-catch up a child and run round behind 
the house to avoid him. He called to 
her that he had a book to give her ; but 
she replied, "Mother's gone, and I don't 
want any books." 
He found the next cottage closed and 
empty; so he knocked at the door of the. 
third, where lie heard the prattle of lit-
tle children. A tremulous voice bade 
him "Come in," and he entered a room 
as poor as it could be, but as neat as 
the tidiest hands could make it. An old 
woman rose from her chair with the aid 
of her staff, to welcome him, and the 
two little ones got up from the floor, 
where they were playing with a few 
pine blocks, and slipped into the bed-
room. 
"You are a good way from town, 
mother," said the stranger, "and cannot 
get down often, I fear. I have come 
up this morning on purpose to have a 
little chat with you, and to leave you a 
few words of comfort from your best 
Friend." 
The old woman stooped down, and 
blew upon the seat of the chair she of-
fered him, lest there might be dust on 
it, and then, with tears glistening in her 
faded eyes, she grasped his hand grate-
fully and said, "God bless you for it my 
brother." 
Here was one of the Saviour's hidden 
ones, living far apart from his children, 
but very near 'to Himself. It was no 
hard task to draw her into conversation 
on divine things ; and that lowly cottage 
seemed to her guest like the gate of 
heaven, as she told him of the visits she 
received there from her Lord, and the 
faith, and joy, and hope; which, now 
above all other favored days, filled her 
breast ; and then she went on to say,. 
"perhaps you will think me visionary 
now ; but I must tell you the wonderful 
exercises I have had in reference to 
God's work among my people,-my 
church-that I love next to Himself. 
You see that white steeple," .she said, 
pointing from the window, "between 
the two brown ones; well, that has long 
been my little heaven below. Before I 
became so lame, I used to walk there, 
two miles and a half, in all weathers, 
and often by night alone to the prayer-
meetings; alone, I said, but, brother, 
I'm never alone ; for you know 'Jesus 
says to us, am with you always, even 
to the end.' " 
"Sometimes unbelief blinds our minds, 
so that we do not see him ; but He's 
there, for all that. I may turn my head 
or shut my eyes now so as not to see 
you, but you're there, just the same. 
There's been a little cloud," she con-
tinued, "lowering over my church down 
there, and the minister has been dis-
couraged, and felt as if the Lord had 
forgotten to be gracious. Some of the 
richest members moved away, and that 
made the others tremble-as if .God 
didn't own the world ! Three weeks 
ago my minister was up here, and his 
faith was weak enough for one that 
ought to uphold the fainting flock He's 
only a man, like the rest, and I did pity 
him. Ever since that day he's been on 
my heart, and I've prayed for him as I 
never did before. I've just lived be-
fore the Lord, keeping my pastor there 
too, as if I couldn't be denied a blessing 
for him ; and then came these evidences, 
which I fear you'll call visionary." 
"How long since you've heard any 
thing from your minister ?" asked the 
stranger. 
"Not since I saw 
Peter Parady, 
Geo. Dickey, 
Maria Scott, 
Joseph Clough, 
W. W. Hawkins, 
Maria West, 
M. A. Frank, 
D. E. Wetherbee, 
Geo. Fisher, 
Sudden olds, 
COUGHS, 
FEVER AND AGUE, 
DYSPEPSIA, 
Amount from persons who have paid in full 
for one year from Nov. 1, 1864, $205 00 
8 00 
5 00 
5 00 
5 00 
APPLIED EXTERNALLY, 
CUP.ES 
Scalds, Burns, 
FROST BITES, 
CHILBLAINS, SPRAINS, 
BRUISES, 
WHITLOW'S FELL ON . 
BOILS, 
OLD SORES 
rue a work which is to shake this whole 
community. Your pastor is over-
whelmed with labor and with joy !" 
He expected this sudden announce-
ment would surprise her, and call forth 
exclamations of amazement. But he 
was mistaken. She closed her eyes, 
and clasped her hands calmly, and said 
with a smile, "I had fully resolved to 
wait for the vision, even though it might 
tarry ; but it has come, and has not tar-
ried ! How strange that we should ever 
distrust Him !" 
Here was this church, weak in finan-
ces and in faith, looking despairingly at 
their estate and asking, "Who shall roll 
us away the stone?" The wisest were 
faint-hearted, and the strongest weak ; 
nearly all in a prayerless state. God's 
conditions are, "I will be sought unto 
by the house of Isreal to do these things 
for them." And these words are not 
meaningless. 
Who here was seeking? Not the rich-
est man ; he was fretting because-Bro. 0. 
had moved to the west, and Bro. L. to 
California, and left the burden too heavy 
on him; not the man among them the 
most influential in the community ; for 
he was murmuring because the few new-
comers were only factory people; not 
the wisest -man; he was lamenting that 
he had "no intellectual society among 
his brethren." These, forgetting that 
the servant is not above his Lord, were 
each seeking his own, while God was 
listening to the cry of that lone old saint 
who lived like a pelican of the wilder-
ness, and was studding her crown with 
gems, which, 'in the coming day, shall 
dazzle the eyes of those who are partly 
saved-saved so as by fire. 
0 happy, queenly woman, moving 
feebly with the aid of thy staff, eating 
the bread of poverty, and wearing the 
rough garments of toil, while thy less 
favored sisters tread daintily, fare sump-
tuously, and deck themselves in silks 
and jewels ! Who would not covet thy 
nearness to the Master, and that intima-
cy which lets thee into His secret work-
ings ? 
Who was the most influential person 
in that church sitting in the dust ! Was 
it not she who had the most power at 
the court of Heaven ? Who rejoiced 
with the holiest joy when that church 
arose and shone in her beautiful gar-
ments ? Truly, she whose prayers had 
brought the blessing.-Macedonian. 
FOR EXTRA EXPENSES OF HERALD. 
ASTHMA AND PHTHSIC, 
Liver Complaint, 
ASCID STOMACH, HEADACHE, 
INDIGESTION, HEARTBURN, 
CANKER IN THE MOUTH AND STOMACH, 
CANKER RASH, 
KIDNEY CCMPLAINTS, 
Seasickness, 
SICK HEADACHE 
Cramp and pain in the Stomach, 
PAINTER'S COLIC, 
DIARRHCEA, 
DYSENTERY, 
Summer Complaint, 
CHOLERA MORBUS, 
Cholera IV'antuni, 
tear start at the humbling thought that 
of all he had gotten, nothing remained. 
At parting, something was mentioned 
of the Deity, the beneficent Father of 
all. The lips trembled, the cold blue 
eye sparkled, as through frost, the thin 
bloodless hand clasped mine, as he ut-
tered with startling energy : 
When by the whelming tempest borne, 
High o'er the broken wave, 
I know thou wert not slow to hear, 
Nor impotent to save. 
And‘as I slowly passed the avenue from 
the patriarchal mansion, I heard his 
voice lifted in prayer, and learned that 
its spirit might surviveeven when the 
endowments of mighty intellect and the 
precious consciousness of a pure renown, 
were alike'effaced from the tablet of re-
membrance. 
Among those..who serve at God's altar 
was one who had faithfully discharged 
through a long life the holy duties of his 
vocation. He lingered after his cotem-
poraries had gone to rest. By the fire-
side of his only son he sat in peaceful 
dignity, and the children of another gen-
eration loved his silver locks. In this 
quiet recess memory was lulled to sleep. 
The names of even familiar things, and 
the images held most indelible, faded 
as a dream. Still he lived on-cheered 
by that reverence which is due to the 
hoary head, when found in the way of 
righteousness At length his vigor failed. 
The staff could no longer support his 
tottering steps, and nature tended to her 
last repose. 
It was attempted by the repetition of 
his own name to awaken the torpor of 
his memory, but he replied "I know not 
the man." Mention was made of his 
only son, the idol of his early years, 
whose filial gratitude had taken every 
form and office of affection. I have no 
son; the tender epithet by which he had 
designated his favorite grandchild was 
repeated. "I have no darling." Among 
the group of friends who surrounded his 
bed, there was one who spoke of the Re-
deemer of man. The man suddenly 
raised himself upon his pillow. His eye 
kindled, as when from the pulpit; in the 
vigor of his days, he had addressed an 
audience whom he loved. "I remember 
that Saviour, yes, I do remember the 
Lord Jesus Christ." 
There seems then to be a science which 
survives when the body is powerless, 
and age sweeps away the hoarded gems 
of learning, and the emblems of fame ; 
which prolongs enjoyment when memo-
ry has departed, and when, those affec-
tions which are the first to quicken and 
the last to decay, become as cold as clay 
about the heart strings.-Mrs. Sigour-
ney. 
FAITH AND WORKS.-ft is an unhappy 
division that has been made between 
faith and works. Though in my intel-
lect I may divide them, just as in the 
candle I know there is both light and 
heat ; but yet, put out the candle and 
they are both g on ; one remains not 
without the other; so 'tis betwixt faith 
and wor:ias.-Sdth n. 
Amount previously received. $588 92 
FREEDMEN AND ITALIAN MISSIONS. 
THOUGHTS ON HEALTH. 
W
e devote a portion of our space this morning to a 
few suggestions upon health and its attendant 
blessings. 
Whilst the country is sending forth her sturdy sons 
to the defense of our liberties, is becomes us to admon-
ish our readers, both old and young, that they should 
be extremely cautious about their health and strength, 
that they may be able to till the soil, gather in the 
harvests, and provide for the necessities of those left at 
home who are helpless and without adequate means of 
support. Probably no one class of disease has pro-
duced more suffering, sorrow and death, than that 
which is commonly called dyspepsia. It seeks its vic-
tims not only among the feeble and delicate, but in the 
work-shops, upon the farm, in the counting-room, 
and in fact in every vocation of life. It grapples 
the hardy mechanic, and after a few days entirely de-
prives him of his strength and ambition, and makes 
him depressed in spirit, indisposed to labor, and final-
ly reduces him to a helpless invalid. 
The sturdy farmer who has grown strong and mus-
cular as he labors in the parched fields, burnt by the 
scorching heat of the summer's sun, dreams not that 
disease can penetrate the shield of health that now 
protects him, and would laugh in derision at him who 
should intimate that he were in danger of the ravages 
of the Dyspepsia King. 
But alas, the messenger that announced his coming 
and his presence, calleth not at the subject's bidding, 
nor as a welcome guest in his household. Almost 
like a thief does lie steal unawares upon his victim. 
First the appetite is gone ; no disposition or anxiety 
to partake of nourishing food, and what is taken is fol-
lowed by the most distressing pains, and sours and rises 
upon the stomach. The bowels become debilitated, 
constipation holds them in an abnormal condition. 
Sick-headache, heart-burn, cramps, colic pains, weari-
ness, complete depression, and finally every vestige of 
energy and s,rength are gone, and our sturdy, impreg-
nable yeoman yields in despair to his fate. 
This is no fancy-picture which we have painted, It 
is an every-day occurrence, and the more lamentable 
on account of its frequency. Hundreds and thousands 
of all ages and all classes yearly die victims to infirmi-
ties which have their origin in a diseased condition of 
the stomach and bowels, most of which come under the 
general head of Dyspepsia. 
It has often appeared to us that a preparation which 
would meet the wants and be a certain and positive 
arrester of this dypeptic monarch, would be of the 
most, invaluable benefit to the world, and receive the 
grateful thanks of many thousands of suffering invalids. 
It is true that there are a hundred different kinds of 
bitters and alcoholic beverages, all recommended as 
splendid tonics, of great medicinal value, and com-
pounded cf a hundred different barks and roots, pre-
served in fine old whiskey and New England ruin. But 
their chief virtue is to make merry, giddy, and to ex-
hilarate while their effects last, to be followed, like 
the drunkard's cup, by extreme exhaustion and com-
plete prostration. It gives us great pleasure, however, 
to say that within a few short 'months an article has 
been presented to the public which thus far has proved 
itself entirely adequate to the control and cure of the 
most aggravated cases of Dyspepsia. We reler to 
"Coe's Dyspeptic Cure," an article prepared by C. G. 
Clark, & Co, Druggists and Chemists. at No. 140 State 
St., this city, (New Haven, Conn.,) gentlemen who 
have been long and favorably known to the public as 
proprietors of that world-renowned remedy, known as 
Coe's Cough Balsam, (said to be the cheapest and best 
cough preparation extant.) 
A gentleman called at a drug store in a neighboring 
city, where we chanced to be present, and from whom 
we heard the following conversation. Said he to the 
clerk in charge, "I want two bottles of Coe's Dyspeptic 
Cure. I have had the Dyspepsia for several years, and 
have tried everything, without help, until some three 
weeks ago, I bought from you a single bottle of this 
Coe's Dyspeptic Cure. It helped me immediately. I 
have gained eight pounds within the time, and have 
had no signs of any Dyspepsia. I consider myself 
cured. But I am going away into a distant State upon 
a visit, and I dart not go without it, and I will take 
two bottles, as some of my relatives may need it. I 
have told several of my neighbors of its wonderful ef-
fects upon myself, and in three instances where they 
have procured it, (and they are the only ones I have 
heard from) their experience has b en the same as 
mine." We did not learn the gentleman's name, but 
these are the facts, in the main, as stated. 
We do not wish to puff up one article above another, 
nor present it to our readers as superior to all others ; 
undoubtedly all have their merits. But in view of the 
almost miraculous cures it has performed, vie deem it 
but a duty we owe ourselves and our readers, that we 
should inform them of its great value, and give them the 
evidence of our own eyes and ears, and recommend it to 
their careful consideration. If you are in affluent cir- 
cumstances you cannot value the cost, which compared 
with professional visits of physicians, is but as a drop in 
the bucket, while if you are poor and needy, we d ubt 
not the Messrs. Clark & Co , will gladly contribute to 
your relief. 
We have used a good portion of our space in discours-
ing upon this one class of disease, but must be indulged, 
as we believe we have mot the needs and requirements 
of the largest class of sufferers. But we would not fail 
in this connection to refer to the great danger all are 
subject to at this Season of the year from the sudden 
changes of the weather, a snapping, biting cold day, 
and then a mild and pleasant sunshine, to be followed 
perhaps by a driving storm and chilling winds. A 
slight cough, an irritated sore throat, a sudden attack 
of croup upon some of the children, a hacking cough, lay 
the foundation of pulmonary affections which often ter-
minate in consumption and an early grave. Exposure 
should be avoided; going from the heated counting-
room or warm workshop into the open air, there should 
be great care exercised that the body is protected by ad-
ditional clothing, and also be extremely careful abous 
sitting in a draft of air, especially when in a perspira-
tion. Should you. however, by carelessness or misfor-
tune get "elected" with a cough or cold, or pulmonary 
attack, we know of no article in the world which we 
could recommend as conscientiously over "Coe's Cough 
Balsam," and this calls to mind an "item;" as we were 
passing the warehouse a day or two since where this 
article is prepared, we noticed an immense number of 
boxes bearing the stencil mark, 
"COE'S COUGH BALSAM," 
we remarked to one of the firm, it would really seem 
that the whole world ought to be cured "from the looks 
of this stock of medicine." We learned upon inquiry 
tnat about 5700 bottles of this article were daily packed 
and shipped to nearly every part of the globe, a large 
number of workmen are employed, and the alacrity with' 
which the crude materials aro converted into Balsam 
and then bottled and packed, is perfectly astonishing, 
Their preparations are sold by nearly every druggist in 
the world. 
Trusting that the views we have expressed upon a sub-
ject near and dear to all of us, (our health,) which in-
volves our greatest happiness, may be found profitable 
and useful to our many readers, and assuring you that if 
any one of you who chance to be afflicted with this mal-
ady, and by the means to which we have directed you, 
find relief, we shall feel most amply repaid for our labor. 
We conclude our essay by the old proverb, "Health is 
wealth." Be ye therefore careful that ye preserve it.- 
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HOWARD'S 
RELIGION IN OLD AGE. 
Is there any science, which is attain-
able at every period of life and available 
at its close 7 whose processes are not 
disturbed though the eye withdraw its 
light-or the ear its counsel-or the 
right hand its cunning-or the tongue 
its music? 
wl ose results are not • con-
fused when age gropes in the mazes of 
doubt and imbecility whos-e treasures 
are not lost, though time, turning as a 
robber upon memory, strews the fine 
gold of its casket upon the winds. 
I knew a. man, distinguished alike by 
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In his boyhood he loved knowledge, and 
the teachers of knowledge. He selected 
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with the most severity, and became em-
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tion were fresh about him, disease at-
tacked him by its fearful ministers of 
paralysis and blindness. So he lived 
for years without the power of motion 
or the blessing of .sight. Among those 
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commanded, he was but a broken vessel. 
Yet light shone inwardly, without a 
cloud. A science, which in youth he 
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the natural force abated. COmmunica-
ting power of endurance, and opening 
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brought a cheerful smile to the brow of 
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tionless on his bed, was counted by the 
unreflecting, but as a wreck of. human-
ity. And this science was religion. *- 
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nence in the ranks of fame, and whom 
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bled both by erudition and integrity, he 
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earth without spot and blameless. I 
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ters had passed over .him. Like the 
aged Gileadite, he was able no longer to 
hear the voice of singing men, or singing 
women. The beautiful residence which 
his own taste had ornamented, spread 
its charms to an unconscious owner. 
The rose and the vine flower breathed 
fragrance for others, and the flock in his 
green .pastures, once his delight, roamed 
unheeded. 
I bore him a message of love from a 
friend in early days, who had stood with 
him among statesmen when the nation 
was in jeopardy, and when mutual dan-
ger draws more closely the bonds of af-
fection. But the links of friendship,- once 
interwoven with the essence of his be-
ing, were sundered. Between the recol-
lections that I fain would have restored, 
and the speech that clothed them, there 
was a great gulf fixed. The image of 
the cherished companion had fled forever 
A vase of massy silver was brought 
forth on which his country had caused 
to he sculptured the record of his servi-
ces, and of her gratitude. He gazed va-
cantly upon it. No chord of association. 
vibrated. The love of honorable dis-
tinction, so long burning like a perpetual 
incense flame on the altar of his great 
mind, had forsaken ita.temple.- I feel a 
VEGETABLE 
CANCER AND CANKER 
SYRUP. 
Surpasses in efficacy, and is destined to Supercede, all 
other known remedies in the treatment 
of those Diseases for which 
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him," replied the 
old saint ; "three weeks ago. But my 
daughter, the mother of these little 
things, has gone down to the store to-
day, and I sent a word of cheer to him 
by her." 
"But what about the evidence you 
had of the blessing to come ?" asked the 
gentleman. "After praying for ten 
days," replied the poor woman, "with a 
fervor that proved God was helping me 
to hold fast to his promise, such a calm 
came over my soul that I was satisfied ! 
That is a great deal for a wandering 
child to say in the wilderness; for even 
David did'nt expect to be satisfied till 
he awoke in his likeness. It was night 
when this peace came over my soul. I 
looked out at the stars, and they seemed 
full of glory, and I thought how easy 
for the God who made them to make 
converts among us like the stars for 
multitude and beauty. I almost saw 
them-I did, by faith-flying like clouds 
and like doves to their windows; and I 
felt as if I must get down to town some 
way, and tell the people "Elie Lord 
corneal, prepare ye the way before him.' 
But I don't think it best to prophesy 
without a commandment; and with this 
glory in my soul, I can afford to wait 
his time for the revelation. I know He 
is about to visit this people, brother, as 
surely as. I know that you sit there in 
the sunlight before me !" 
The stranger_ was awe-stricken before 
this lowly saint, who had been taken 
into the secret of the Lord ; and tears 
filled his eyes' as he said, "Well, mo-
ther, God has sent me with the news of 
salvation to you ! I sat as in an heav-
enly place with your people last even-
ing, and Christ was in their midst-
Saints werequickened, and sinners 
I pierced to the heart; and it seemed to 
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been given it, a disease that every one knows is ex-
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ERYSIPELAS always yields to its power, as many 
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It has cured SCROFULA in hundreds of oases, many 
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MOUTH when all other remedies have failed to benefit. 
FEVER SORES of the worst kind have been cured 
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SCURVY has been cured by it in every case in 
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It removes WHITE SWELLING with a certainty 
no other medicine has. 
It speedily removes from the face all BLOTCHES, 
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It has been used in EVERY KIND OF HUMOR, 
and never fails to benefit the patient. 
NEURALGIA, in its most distressing forms, has 
been cured by it when no other remedy could be found 
to meet the case. 
It has cured JAUNDICE in many severe cases. 
It has proved very efficacious in the treatment of 
PILES, an extremely painful disease. 
DYSPEPSIA, which is often caused by humor, has 
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In FEMALE WEAKNESSES, IRREGULARITIES 
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most potent remedy. 
In cases of GENERAL. DEBILITY, from whatever 
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aid. 
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which it is recommended as a trial is given it, and the 
cure will be permanent, as it, by its wonderfully 
searching power, entirely eradicates the disease from 
the system. 
The afflicted have only to try it to become convinced 
of what we say in regard to it, and to find relief from 
their sufferings. 
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