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his ministry on earth, listened to his teachings 
concerning his departure and return—witnessed 
his ascension from Olivet—heard the testimony 
of the shining ones in reference to his coming 
again—understood that coming to be personal 
and visible, will hardly be questioned, and cer-
tainly does not admit of a rational doubt. 
But long years have passed away—expecta-
tions earnestly entertained have been disappoint-
ed—hope defered has made the heart sick—mis-
guided and fanatical friends have heaped a load 
of obloquy and reproach upon a faith grave and 
sublime above human conception. Therefore to 
avoid supposed difficulties—to escape the re-
proach of fanaticism—and in some instances, 
perhaps from sinister and unworthy motives, 
another solution has been sought. 
It is claimed that the long period which has 
intervened since the promise of his return, has 
thrown difficulties around it rendering a figura-
tive interpretation absolutely necessary,—thus 
presenting a double fulfillment, or doing away 
with the literal interpretation entirely. 
Thus it is asserted that he declared his pur-
pose to return during the lifetime of the gener- 
ation who heard his teachings, witnessed his mir-
acles, and saw his works. That the destruction 
of Jerusalem and the temple, the passing away 
of the polity, and scattering the nation of the 
Jews were intimately connected with the event. 
And therefore, the agents employed were his 
representatives, and their coming to consummate 
those judgments, fulfilled the promise of his re-
turn. 
That the threatened judgments on Jerusalem, 
were to be witnessed by that generation, is not 
to be questioned. But that his return was prom-
ised during that period, or that those judgments 
were in any way a fulfillment of such promise, 
remains to be proved. 
Look for a momemt at the idea that the Ro-
man armies were the representatives of the Com-
ing One. They came to scatter friends as well 
as foes of the gospel. They came to pluck up, 
and to pull down--Christ comes to plant, and to 
build. They came to destroy Jerusalem—Christ 
comes to restore it. They came to scatter Isra-
el—He comes to gather them. They came to 
compel the worship of their idols and images—
he comes to the confusion of heathen gods, pre-
senting himself as the only object of adoration. 
They came from the west—he comes from the 
East. They came with confused noise, and gar-
ments rolled in blood—he comes with chariots of 
salvation to his people, and with burning and fuel 
of file to them that know not God. They came 
to stamp the residue with iron hoofs, and make 
the world around him like a wilderness—he 
comes to tread the velvet lawns of earth's Eden, 
and make the wilderness of Jerusalem like the 
garden of the Lord. 
Oh the contrast ! can it be that those who are 
the appointed messengers to "prepare the way" 
of the Holy One, have thus turned things up-
side down, and perverted the right ways of the 
Lord. No ! No ! that is not the coming of him 
whom our souls love. 
Again : it is said he comes at the death of his 
people : and in proof David's assurance is quoted : 
"Though I walk through the valley of the sha-
dow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art 
with me." But in that sense he never went 
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MY GUEST. 
I have a wondrous guest, 
Who speeds my feet, who moves my hands, 
Who strengthens, comforts, guides, commands—
Whose presence gives me rest. 
113 dwells within my soul ; 
He swept away the filth and gloom, 
He garnished fair the empty room, 
And now pervades the whole. 
For aye, by day and night, 
He keeps the portal, suffers nought 
Defile the temple He has bought, 
And filled with joy and light. 
Once 'twas a cavern dim ; 
The home of evil thoughts, desires, 
Enkindled by infernal fires, 
Without one thought of Him. 
Regenerate by His grace, 
Still 'tis a meagre inn, at best, 
Fur the King to make his rest, 
And show His glorious face. 
Yet, Saviour, ne'er depart 
From this poor, earthly cottage home, 
Until the Father bid me come, 
Whisp'ring within my heart— 
"I shake these cottage walls ; 
Fear not ; at My command they bow ; 
My heavenly mansions open now, 
As this poor dwelling falls." 
Then my dear, wondrous Guest 
Shall hear me on His own right hand 
Unto that fair and Promised Land, 
Where I in Him shall rest. 
Davis, and Eld Horace Bundy, perform the duty 
of a Business Committee. 
The President then read his Annual Address; 
[which not having been received must be deterred 
to another paper.] 
The reading of the Constitution of this confer-
ence came next in order, and was followed by 
the minutes of' the last annual meeting. 
Bro. Bliss gave notice of his intention to move 
for the amendment of section 7 of Art. 2, and of 
the last clause of sec. 7, in Art. 9 of the consti-
tution. 
It was voted that letters from churches be 
now read, verbal reports from members present 
be heard, and all correspondence respecting the 
interests of the cause be considered. 
Elder F. Gunner presented and read a com-
munication showing that amid trials and discour-
agements there are evidences of the Divine love 
and mercy in the "Salem Church." One preci-
ous soul, recently had fond peace in the Lord Je-
sus Christ, and others were on the way. Re-
ceived into full membership during the year,three; 
deaths, three ; dismissed three. 
A letter was read from the Church in West-
boro, Mass. stating that "God had been better to 
them than all their fears ;" two willing souls have 
been buried with Christ by baptism, and the 
sabbath school, though small, is well sustained. 
Elder W. H. Eastman reported that "the 
church in Whitefield,N. H., desired to be identi-
fied with those dear brethren who are engaged 
in spreading the 'cheering news of the soon es-
tablishment of the Kingdom of our Redeemer." 
Received into full membership during the last 
year three ; no deaths or removals. 
A motion was made by Bro. Bliss, to the ef-
fect, " That inasmuch as the design of sec. 7, of 
Art. 2, and the last clause of sec. 7, Art. 9, has 
been provided for by the organization of the 
American Millennial Association, and as addi-
tional provision of the kind is not needed, those 
parts of our Constitution be and they are hereby 
rescinded"---and by his motion it was laid on the 
table. 
Eld. D. I. Robinson was requested to offer 
prayer ; after which the conference dismissed 
with the benediction by Eld. Josiah Litch. 
Tuesday Evening. 
At 6 1-2 o'clock the conference held a public 
religious service. After singing the 720th hymn 
of the Harp, the Scriptures were read and pray-
er offered by Bro. Frederic Gunner ; when an in-
teresting discourse was delivered from Isa. 45: 
15, by Bro. J. M. Orrock, of Stanstead, Canada 
East. The exercises closed by singing the 592d 
hymn, commencing :--- 
"God moves in a mysterious way 
His wondeis to perform ; 
He plants his footsteps in the sea, 
And rides upon the storm." 
(To be continued.) 
The coming of Christ Personal and 
Visible. 
By D. BOSWORTH—read before the A. E. A. 
Conference North,Springfield Vt. 
That the Lord Jesus Christ was to make anoth-
er advent to our world after His ascension to 
glory, will not be questioned, by those who be-
lieve in the Divine Inspiration of the Holy Scrip- 
tures. 
That his disciples, who were with him during 
away. For himself said : "Lo I am with you 
always ;" and yet immediately after giving that 
promise, he ascended to heaven, and a cloud re-
ceived him out of their sight. And by no rule 
of exegesis—that would be tolerated for a single 
moment, in the interpretation of any book save 
the Bible--could an event that was taking place 
every hour, had been for more than sixty gener-
ations, would continue to, until death the 
last enemy should be destroyed, be construed 
into a fulfillment of the assurance of the shining 
ones, that "This same Jesus �
 shall so 
come in like manner as ye have seen him go in-
to heaven." 
The same contradictions, and absurdities, at-
tend every attempt at a figurative interpretation 
of those prophecies, or promises which speak of 
the coming of' the Lord from heaven. We no- 
tice then in the next place a single argument, to 
show that the inspired writers did not understand 
that the 2d coming of Christ, whatever it might 
be,would take place until a long series of years had 
passed by. Paul in writing to the church at 
Thesalonica, had taught them "to wait for the 
Son of God from heaven ;" to expect to stand 
"in the presence of Christ athis coming ;" to "es-
tablish their hearts unblamable in holiness before 
him at his appearing ;" and to "comfort one 
another with words" relating to that coming. 
And such was the effect upon their minds, that 
they looked upon it as an event immediately im-
pending. Therefore he wrote his second epistle 
to that church, to correct the impression thus 
produced. In it he tells them of the "mystery 
of iniquity" already working in the churches ; 
of the fearful "falling away," or apostacy, to be 
revealed when the power then hindering should 
be taken out of the way ; of the "Man of Sin" as 
the head of the apostacy, "seating himself in the 
temple of God, showing himself that he is God ;" 
of his arrogant assumptions in exalting himself 
"above all that is called God or worshipped ;" 
of the consumption of his power by the word of 
God, or spirit of the Lord's mouth ; and his fin-
al destruction, by the brightness of Christ's ap-
pearing. 
Now the application of this passage by Pro-
testants, to the rise, domination, and destruction, 
of Papacy, amounts almost to unanimity. Thus 
according to this interpretation, whatever the 
event indicated by the expressions, "appearing 
of Christ," "Coming of the Son of Man," return 
of "this same Jesus" &c.---that event is still fu-
ture. 
It being thus demonstrably certain, that the 
coming of Christ is yet to take place, it only re-
mains to ascertain the nature of the event. The 
disciples had been with him during his ministry, 
they had drunk in the words of wisdom and pow-
er, which he uttered "as never man spake ;" they 
had witnessed the works by which he demonstra, 
ted his messiahship, the lame man leaping like, a 
hart, the tongue of the dumb loose, the eyes of 
the blind seeing out of obscurity, death relaxing 
its hold on its victims, the wonderful kindness 
and sympathy that characterized all his actions, 
and especially his communications with the poor, 
and a union stronger than the ties of kindred had 
sprung up between them. Under these circum-
stances, he announces his approaching sufferings, 
and his departure to leave them for a season 
Orphans, in a cold unfriendly world. Sorrow 
American Evangelical Advent 
Conference. 
The regular annual session of the A. E. A. 
Conference was held in the Advent Chapel in 
North Springfield, Art., Tuesday at 3 P. M. Oct. 
8th 1861,the President, Eld. John Pearson, Jr., 
presiding. The conference was called to order, 
and opened by reading the 12th chapter of Ro-
mans, followed by singing and prayer., 
Eld. F. Gunner of Salem Mass., was appoint-
ed a committee of one to receive and record the 
names of delegates to the conference. The con-
stitution includes as members of this conference, 
"first, Pastors of churches of Adventists ; second, 
Evangelists acting in harmony with and sanc-
tioned by such churches. Third, brethren of un-
questionable Christian character, who sympa-
thize with the object of this conference, but from 
their isolation are not members of any advent 
church. Fourth, delegates from such churches 
or associations of churches." 
It was voted that Eld. D. Bosworth, Franklin 
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to former years, they embraced and kissed their 
son, they gathered around the same board, knelt 
at the same altar, but 
"They woke to find the vision flown 
And weep that they were all alone." 
But at length the time arrives,the friend comes 
bringing words of good cheer from James, beau-
tiful presents greet their eyes, almost countless 
treasures are poured at their feet. For a little 
their eyes are feasted, and their hearts are made 
glad. But soon the thought returns to James. 
"What about him ? When is he coming ?" 
says the friend, "you saw James in your 
day-deeams, and,night visions." "Yes !" "You see 
the beautiful presents and countless treasures." 
"Yes!" "NY,eIrthis was the spirit and intent of the 
bond, that you siduld ha.ve him with you in your 
mental visions, and he should send you these pres-
ents and treasures, to cheer and support you in 
your old age." What blank astonishment fills 
those parents' minds at such a perversion of lan-
guage, and for a moment renders them speech-
less ! But when the tongue resumes its office, 
how soon they cry "No ! No ! By a father's af-
fection, by a mother's love, by all that is holy, 
that the power of Christ may be upon me."-2 
Cor. 12: 7-9. "Brethren, ye know how through 
infirmity of the flesh I preached the Gospel unto 
you at the first ; and my temptation which was 
in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected . . . 
for I bear you record, that if it had been pos-
sible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, 
and have given them to me." Galat. 4: 13-15. 
I intended to cite in this connection from Prof. 
Bush's Scripture Illustrations, p. 630, the re-
marks of a Mr. Stephens on these passages, as 
given in a letter to Mrs. Hannah More,but Bro. 
Daniels has anticipated me by quoting them in 
the Herald of the 21st inst.—to which the read-
er is refered. As the medicines of the apothcary 
are a mixture of bitter and sweet, nauseous and 
palatable, but designed for the ultimate good of 
the patient, so the gifts of Providence are both 
pleasing and painful ; but if by means thereof 
we are led to Christ and to that land where "the 
blind will see out of obscurity," and "thine eyes 
shall behold the King in his beauty," it will be 
all right. 
J. M. ORROCK. 
Sept. 29th '61. 
Lord is the head. Aceordingly they seek its 
present advancement in this world, and have 
their most glorious prospect in its final triumph 
at his second coming. Their citizenship lies not 
merely in obligations to his service and necessa-
ry subjection to his sway, which may as well be 
affirmed of all mankind, and of infernal powers ; 
but in loyalty to his person and reign, participa-
tion in his principles, fidelity to his measures, 
and confidence in his resources. Hence it enters 
into their desire and plan, as into his own, to ex-
tend his dominion and multiply its subjects in 
this world, to deepen and diffuse the blessings 
enjoyed under it, to make their friends and neigh-
bors and all the families of mankind partakers 
of their own privileges and hopes. Theirs is not 
the ambition of Roman citizens, or of any mod-
ern aristocracy, to aggrandize their own exclu-
sive caste while enlarging the territories and 
multiplying the vassals of their government. They 
would make their fellowship as wide as its con-
quests. Yet, while such is their desire, their 
earnest expectation "waiteth for the manifesta-
tion of the sons of God." As with the faithful 
subjects of any monarchy, their most glorious 
prospect is in the ultimate triumph of their Sov-
ereign, not merely in gathering a vast number of 
We read that "all scripture is given by inspi- willing and favored subjects, but in subduing all 
ration ot God, and is profitable for doctrine, for his incorrigible foes. This result they must look 
reproof, for correction, for instruction in righte- for, according to his announcement, in his second 
ousness, that the man of God may be perfect, 
thoroughly furnished unto all good works." Hence 
while we are looking to the precepts, as the di-
rect and main guide in duty,—while we are to 
look to the promises as the primary and chief 
source of comfort in sorrow,—we may to some 
extent look to the prophecies of Scripture and to 
the things connected with our Lord's return, for 
direction in duty, and also for consolation. Our 
Saviour in his great prophecy, after mentioning 
the signs of his coming again, says, "When these 
things begin to come to pass, then look up, and 
lift up your heads ; for your redemption draweth 
nigh." That sounds like comfort. Ile adds, 
"And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time 
takes possession of their hearts. Their minds 
are filled with trouble. Joy gives place to grief 
and sadness. But the word of consolation ad-
ministered by the Savioeir was, "If I go away, 
I will come again and receive you to myself." 
Now what could the disciples understand by this 
promise, but that the same Saviour they were 
sorrowing to lose, in his own proper person, as 
they had seen him by the sea of Galilee, as they 
then saw him beside the board where in sadness 
they had partaken of that last supper, would re-
turn,—not iti weakness but in power,—and re-
ceive them to the mansions he had gone to pre-
pare. This being their understanding, without 
a positive explanation to the contrary, from the 
blessed Jesus himself, it will hold good through 
all the intervening ages, till in glory he descends 
the shining pathway of the skies. 
Again : in speaking of his return to his wait-
ing people, he seems to love to use the term "Son 
of Man." Now what does this expression indi-
cate ? Certainly not his relation to the God-
head : nor any supposed affinity to angelic exis-
tence. It can only refer us to the seed of Ab-
raham, and indicates his determination to con-
summate that relation in a glorified state of be-
ing. Nothing can add to the essential glory of 
Christ's divinity. It was his humanity that was 
glorified when he ascended on high; and he conies 
again the glorious Son of man to change our,vile 
body and fashion it like his own. 
Once more : when the disciples stood upon the 
mount of Olives, and received the parting bene-
diction of our Lord, witnessed the marks of iden-
tity in his hands and feet, the cruel spear-wound 
in his side, listened to that voice "like the sound 
of the dulcimer sweet" whose words had so oft-
en melted like music into their souls, beheld the 
bright cloud of glory as it wafted him heaven-
ward out of their sight, heard the words of the 
"Shining ones" who stood by, saying, "This same 
Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven, 
shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him 
go into heaven ;" what could they understand 
but that the "Man of Sorrows" 
"Not crowned with thorns and gory 
But crowned with glory now," 
should return in "propria personae," and bring 
his waiting children into the kingdom prepared 
for them from the foundation of the world? The 
literal understanding of this passage would be 
confirmed in their minds by the words of our 
Lord upon a former occasion, "If they shall say 
unto you, Behold, he is in the desert, go not 
forth ; behold, he is in the secret chambers, be-
lieve it not. For as the lightning cometh out of 
the East, and shineth even unto the West ; 
[world wide, visible to every beholder,] so shall 
also the coming of the Son of Man be." And it 
is demonstrated beyond a peradventure by the 
seer of Patmos when he says, "Behold he cometh 
with clouds and every eye shall red him ;" aye ! 
those eyes that have been turned heavenward for 
eighteen hundred years, red with weeping, those 
faces pale with watching, shall yet light up with 
an unearthly joy, as they see the glory man- 
tling the heavens, and "the King in his beauty" 
coming to receive the weary watchers to himself. 
We will close this part of our subject, with a 
single illustration. 
A father and mother have a son,an only child, 
the idol of their affections. He is lovely in his 
person, true in his attachment to his parents, 
noble in manly graces, and they look upon him 
as the light of their life, and the staff of their 
age. A friend in whom they have the greatest 
confidence, is enamored of the golden visions of 
California, and thinking he can make James of 
great service to him in the acquisition of wealth, 
proposes to have him accompany him. For 
awhile affection for their child leads them to re-
ject all his offers ; but at length the importuni-
ties of their friends, the wish of their son, and 
above all the allurements of that wealth which is 
promised them on his return, induce them to 
yield. The friend is bound under a large forfei-
ture to return him safe, and James is suffered to 
depart. The days pass wearily away : month af-
ter month lengthens into years, and the time ar-
rives for the return of the absent one. In their 
day-dreams they• have seen the flaxen-haired 
youth return, the stalwart man, the sun-burnt 
miner. In the night visions the mind returned 
For the Herald. 
A Thorn in the Flesh, 
coming. The promised consummation of his king-
dom among mankind is beyond the growth of 
his religion, or the spread of its influence : it is 
his personal presence and triumph. Hence it 
must be looked for in connection with the resur-
rection, and "the time of restitution of all things." 
It will be the inauguration of his reign in the 
"new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness." 
Thus the apostle Paul, after saying, "Our con-
versation [or our citizenship] is in heaven," adds, 
"from whence also we look for the Saviour, the 
Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile 
body that it may be fashioned like unto his glo-
rious body." N ow many philanthropists have 
gone aside from this apostolic and Scriptural idea 
in their conception ot the results anticipated by 
your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting and Christianity. They have expected civil govern- 
drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that 
day come upon you unawares ; for as a snare 
shall it come on them that dwell on the face of 
the whole earth. Watch ye therefore and pray 
always, that ye may he accounted worthy to es-
cape all these things that shall come to pass and 
to stand before the Son of man." That sounds 
like using prophecy concerning the Second Ad-
vent, for the guidance of life. 
If so, it is reasonable to suppose that these 
things should have an increasing influence as we 
come nearer that day. Paul seems to warrant truth. They speak as if the kingdom of Christ 
this idea, where he says, "Let us hold fast the 
profession of our faith without wavering ; (for he 
is faithful that promised ;) and let us consider 
one another to provoke unto love and good works; 
not forsaking the assembling of ourselves togeth-
er, as the manner of some is ; but exhorting one 
another : and so much the more as ye see the 
day approaching." Dr. Cumming of London, 
England, beautifully and forcibly expresses the 
same thing ; "I believe," says he, "that the morn-
ing twilight is near ; I believe that the axles are 
heated by the accelerated revolutions of the 
wheels of time as they near their rest. But in-
stead of that being a reason for relaxing our ex-
ertions, it is the reverse ; if the letter-paper is 
nearly full, let us crowd more writing into the 
space that remains ; if the candle-light is nearly 
extinguished, let us work the harder ere it go 
out ; let your lamps be trimmed and your lights 
burning." 
In view then of the hastening judgment, as 
well as of other great truths, we call on the sin-
ner to repent,—the penitent enquirer to believe 
on the Lord Jesus Christ,—the backslider to 
seek restoring mercy ; and the believer to look 
up, lift up his head, to watch, pray, live near to 
were a mere figure for the moral influence of his 
religion, and not as literal an account as can be 
given of a state or commonwealth having Christ 
at its head, whose utmost prosperity must there-
fore be in his person and presence. And too of-
ten they speak of themselves individually as if 
the consummation of their prospects were in the 
rest and blessedness that immediately follow 
death, rather than in "the resurrection of the 
just," when "the meek shall inherit the earth." 
Adhering more closely to the Scriptures, they 
will remember that Christ is truly and properly 
a king, and they are his loyal and confiding sub-
jects ; that having come to this earth, a revolted 
province of his dominions, he went away for a 
season ; that according to his parables and prom-
ises, he will one day return to vindicate his ser-
vants and to punish his enemies ; that he is now 
"expecting till his enemies be made his foot-
stool," but will then complete his work for the 
righteous living and dead, and reign with them 
in the new earth, even in the new Jerusalem. 
Along with the promise so often cited, "Ask of 
me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine 
inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth 
for thy possession," there runs the threatening, 
God, and be ready for every good word and work. "Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron ; thou 
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Millennial News. 
"The Earnest Expectation." 
In the language of the New Testament and in 
current religious usage, Christians are regarded 
as citizens of a divine kingdom of which their 
The Practical Use. 
ments to be rectified and perfected, great moral 
reforms to be accomplished, and mankind to be 
advanced to a high social, intellectual, and moral 
condition, through existing agencies, leaving noth-
ing further to be done or gained. Many Chris-
tians, too, seem to be content with expecting the 
world to be pervaded by the principles of Chris-
tianity. making little or no account of Christ's 
coming and the resurrection and the new earth. 
Their "golden age" for the world is made such, 
at best, by the prevalence of moral and religious 
shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel." 
To that time, both of reward and "vengeance," 
when "every eye shall see him," the prophets 
and apostles looked forward with exultation, be-
yond all improvements and reformations in socie-
ty ; beyond even the predicted proclamation of 
the Gospel to all nations ; beyond even the rest 
and all that is true, that- bond shall be enforced 
to the last jot and tittle, unless James our son, 
our only son returns." They loathe the presents, 
the gold is spurned like sordid dust from their 
feet, and in the bitterness of their grief they cry, 
"My son ! Oh my son ! my son !" 
So with the Christian, he may be pointed to 
the destruction of Jerusalem, to the death of 
friends, to the providences of God, to the tri-
umphs of science and the arts, to the building 
up of the church, and saving of souls,and though 
he may rejoice in some of them, yet it is not the 
man of sorrows, nor the Redeemer coming to Zi-
on, and as he thinks of the long delay, he cries 
"Come my beloved haste away 
Cut short the hours of thy delay." 
And as the fulfillment of God's word causes 
the promise "Behold I come quickly" to echo in 
his ears, his whole soul joins with the Spirit and 
the Bride in echoing the response 'Come !' Amen, 
even so come Lord Jesus. 
(To be continued.) 
I was born in Murehall, in the parish of Kirk-
liston, about ten miles from Edinburgh, Scotland, 
July 15th 1830. When I was about two years 
of age my parents emigrated to America. About 
six months after our arrival, while residing in 
Quebec, C. E., I met with an accident which a 
year later deprived me entirely of the sight of 
my right eye. It happened thus : a boy took me 
out doors one day to give me a ride on a hand-
sled. At the bottom of a hill not far from the 
house, there was, what is called in the country 
"a slash fence," and among the timber felled for 
the purpose of fencing was a hawthorn bush—
dry and dead. As he happened to let go the 
sled it run against the fence and one of the thorns 
went into my eye. After suffering much pain, 
the eye healed and gave no farther trouble aside 
from the loss of sight, except sometimes when I 
took cold it would become bloodshot and feel un-
easy. In this way it continued till little more 
than four years ago when an ulcer came on the 
eyeball,attended with severe inflammation. After 
being a few weeks under medical treatment the 
inflammation subsided,and then I found the other 
eye—which had hitherto been very strong—was 
much weakened, and it has never been so strong 
since. 
It will thus be seen that I have literally "a 
thorn in the flesh" which is a great hinderance 
to my studies, and calls for the exercise of pati-
ence. Not long since I received a letter from a 
beloved sister in the West who, speaking of this 
affliction of my eyes, said, "If I could, I would be 
willing to give you one of mine." Such a sen-
tence I need hardly say, brought forcibly to my 
mind the words of the apostle : "There was given 
me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan 
to buffet me lest I should be exalted above mea-
sure. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, 
that it might depart from me ; and he said unto 
me, thy grace is sufficient for thee : for my 
strength is made perfect iu weakness. Most glad-
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any more questions ?" He answered, "Not at all ; 
take your pen, prepare it, and write with speed." 
He did so. At the ninth hour he said to me, "I 
have some valuables in my little chest. But run 
quickly and bring the presbyters of our monas-
tery to me, that I may distribute my small pres-
ents." He addressed each, and exhorted them 
to attend to their masses and prayers. They 
wept when he told them they would see him no 
more ; but he said it was time that he should re-
turn to the Being who had formed him out of 
nothing. He conversed in this manner cheerful-
ly till the evening, when the boy said, "Dear 
master one sentence is still wanting." "Write it 
quick," exclaimed Bede. When it was finished, 
he said, "Take my head in your hands; for I 
shall delight to sit opposite the holy place where 
I have been accustomed to pray, and where I 
can invoke my Father." When he was placed 
on the pavements he repeated the Gloria Patri, 
and expired in the effort.—Cuthbert. 
great multitude that were assembled. The great 
Master of the feast, however, preferred to feed 
them by his creative power, and thus the five 
barley loaves and the two small fishes were mir-
aculously increased ; "and they did all eat and 
were filled ; and they took up twelve baskets of 
the fragments."---Mark 6:42, 43. 
It is difficult to determine with accuracy the 
relative value of the money in different periods 
of the world. The pieces of the same denomin-
ation, coined at different times, greatly varied in 
weight and in fineness, or in the proportion of 
pure silver to the alloy of base nietal used in the 
coinage. The denarius of Tiberius weighed about 
sixty grains, and contained about ninety per 
cent. of alloy, and was worth, as we have seen, 
about fifteen cents ; but as the Roman Empire 
declined, the denarius was diminished in weight 
and fineness, until at length it fell to about the 
value of six cents. It was perhaps on the mod-
el of this reduced denarius that the English pen-
ny was established. The pound sterling, as orig-
inally constituted in England, and up to about 
A. D. 1300, was composed of a troy pound 
weight of silver. As there are 5,760 grains in a 
troy pound, and as a penny is the hundred and 
fortieth part of a pound sterling, it will be seen 
that the penny of our English ancestors weighed 
twenty-four grains ; from which comes the term 
"pennyweight." At the present mint value of sil-
ver namely 121 cts. per ounce,twenty-four grains, 
or one pennyweight, is worth six cents ; but as 
one pound troy of silver is now in England coined 
into three pounds and six shillings sterling, the 
weight of the penny would t5'0 only about seven 
grains. This being too small for a coin, the 
copper penny has been substituted for the silver 
penny. The Roman term is still preserved in 
the English account of pounds, shillings and 
pence : Thus £ s. d. From these consideratoins 
it would appear that the translation of the word 
denarius into penny is legitimate and proper in 
one sense, although it gives an incorrect idea of 
the ancient coin. 
We have thus endeavored to show that it is 
useful as well as interesting to learn something 
of the value of the denarius,inasmuch as it serves 
to render more clear several passages in the sa-
cred writings. 
The "Beer Seed," or California Yeast 
Plant. 
Of this "What is it" among aquatic plants, 
which is getting to be common among us, the 
Newburyport Herald says: 
Beer seed, or as it is more appropriately call-
ed, the beer plant, a sort of vegetable "what is 
it," imported from California, that land of won-
ders and oddities, is attracting considerable at. 
tention among the curious. It is a small white 
irregular shaped substance, not unlike rice in 
general appearance, and possesses the property 
of starting fermentation in a bottle of sweetened 
water, which in twenty-four hours results in quite 
palatable beer. The seed Seems all alive during 
fermentation, rising and falling in regular cur-
rents, the ascending platoons discharging their 
gas at the surface, and falling back to reload like 
regular soldiers. 
But the most singular thing about it is its pro-
perty of propagation or indefinite multiplica-
tion, without any change of its structure or de-
velopment—that is, it does not grow up into a 
plant and go to seed, but each seed brings forth 
a new seed and that another, ad infinitum. There 
is of course much speculation about its nature, 
many looking upon it with almost superstitious 
curiosity, as if it were an exception to all known 
laws of life and growth. We are inclined to think, 
however, that it is simply a new species of the 
Cryptogamous genus of plants, which includes 
besides lichens, mosses, &c., that have a regular 
vegetable structure, yeast, ferments, mold, vege-
table and animal funic, such as smut on grain, 
and cancers and warts on animals, and probably 
also the principle of cholera, potato rot and other 
epidemics. These exhibit the very lowest form 
of organization—a congeries of cells, from which 
all vegetable and animal tissues are formed, each 
cell having an individual life of its own growing 
and propagating independent of the general life 
of the system to which it belongs, so that it may 
live and grow after the cessation of the general 
life. These lower orders of plants are for the 
most part illustrations of cell life proceeding on 
its own hook and not developing into the regular 
structure of roots, stems, and capillary tissue. To 
this class the beer seed seems to belong, which 
has an analogue, as we have heard several re-
mark, in the well known vinegar plant. 
The Death of Bede. 
BORN A. D. 673, IN WEREMOUTII, NORTH- 
UMBRIA, DIED A. D. 735. 
He was attacked with a severe infirmity of 
frequent short breathing, yet without pain, about 
two weeks before Easter Day ; and so he contin- 
ued, joyful and glad, and giving thanks to Al-
mighty God, day and night, indeed hourly, till 
the day of Ascension. He gave lessons to us his 
disciples, every day, and he employed what re-
mained of the day in singing psalms. The nights 
he passed without sleep, yet rejoicing and giving 
thanks, unless when a little slumber intervened. 
When he waked he resumed his accustomed de-
votions, and with expanded hands never ceased 
returning thanks to God. Indeed, I never saw 
with my eyes, nor heard with my ears, any one 
so diligent in his grateful devotions. Oh truly 
blessed man ! He sang the passage in St. Paul, 
"It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the 
living God ;" and many other things from the 
Scriptures, in which he admonished us to arouse 
from the sleep of the mind. He also recited 
something in our English language, for he was 
very learned in our songs ; and putting his 
thoughts into English verse he spoke it with com-
punction. "For this necessary journey no one 
can be more prudent than he ought to be, to 
think before his going hence what of good or 
evil his spirit after death will be judged worthy 
of." 
He sang the Antiphonx according to our cus-
tom and his own, of which one is, "Oh King of 
Glory, Lord of virtue, leave us not orphans, but 
send the promise of the Father, the Spirit of 
Truth, upon us, Alleluia." When he came to 
the words Spirit of Truth, he burst into tears, 
and wept much, and we with him. We read and 
wept again ; indeed we always read in tears. Af-
ter mentioning that he was occupied in transla-
ting St. John's Gospel into Saxon, his pupil adds : 
When he came to the third festival before the 
Ascension Day, his breathing began to be very 
strongly affected,and a little swelling appeared in 
his feet. All that day he dictated cheerfully, and 
sometimes said, among other things, "Make haste 
—I know not how long I shall last. My Maker 
may take me away very soon." It seemed to us 
that he knew very well he was near his end. He 
passed the night watching and giving thanks. 
When the morning dawned, he commanded us to 
write diligently what we had begun. This being 
done, we walked till the third hour with the re-
lics of the saints, as the custom of the day re-
quired. One of us was with him, who said, 
"There is yet, beloved master, one chapter want-
ing ; will it not be unpleasant to you to be asked 
Coins of the New Testament. 
—v. 9. 
Again, when the five thousand persons were 
miraculously fed, we are told that the disciples 
asked, "shall we go and buy two hundred penny 
worth of bread, and give them to eat ?"---Mark 
6:37. The present value of a penny is about 
two cents. It would seem to be very unreason-
able to talk of feeding such a multitude with four 
hundred cents worth of bread. But when we 
know that two hundred pence were equal to thir-
ty dollars of our money, we can readily under-
stand how, with that sum, bread enough might 
have been purchased not only to enable "every 
one of them to take a little"---John 6:7 ; but if 
the proportionate value is considered, the money 
would have bought a loaf for each one of the 
Books in the Seventh Century. 
Chambers' Encyclopedia gives some valuable 
information in regard to the early history of 
books. 
The method of dispersing books in the seventh 
century was not less remarkable than that of 
their transcription. Some of the books were 
sold at exorbitant prices ; some were executed 
to the order of kings, nobles, and church digni-
taries ; some were exchanged ; and some found 
their way into the hands of the stationarii, or 
dealers of books, in the principal cities. It was 
customary to lend books for transcription, under 
an agreement to receive an additional copy on 
their return. In all cases of lending books,pen-
alties were stipulated to be paid in the event of 
their not being restored. Latterly, there sprang 
up a practice among the stationarii of Paris,and 
some other cities, of lending out books, at cer-
tain rates, on the principle of a circulating libra-
ry, by which means the poorer class of students 
and others were accommodated. In these latter 
times, also, as we approach the period when 
printing superceded transcription, the process of 
copying books began to be undertaken by lay 
scribes for a livelihood, of which there were ex-
amples in London. To the monks, however, and 
also to some orders of nuns, belongs the merit of' 
not only having supplied the religious orders 
with the books which were in daily use, but thosa 
which replenished the libraries of the learned 
and wealthy, until their ingenious craft was stpe 
planted by that of the printer and bookseller. 
In the higher class of monasteries, there were 
libraries of from 500 to 1000 volumes ; but 
many of the poorer conventual establishments 
could boast of no more than from 20 to 30 books. 
In the list of effects which belonged to a. monas • 
tery in Scotland---St. Serf, on an island in Loch 
Leven---there appeared only 16 books ; and yet 
in this poorly provided insular establishment,the 
prior, Andrew Wintoun, (1420,) completed his 
of falling asleep in Jesus. Amid all their trials 
and successes,they looked and longed for the final 
coming of that divine kingdom, of which they 
were citizens—not in the amelioration of exist-
ing institutions—not even in the prevalence of 
Christianity over idolatry and unbelief, but in 
the final coming of their King,—"looking for and 
hasting unto the coming of the day of God,"—
in the meantime confessing "that they were 
strangers and pilgrims on the earth," and desir-
ing "a better country, that is an heavenly." Let 
their chief hope be ours. We know not how bet-
ter to set forth the expectation that befits Chris-
tians amidst whatever troubles and uncertainties 
may surround them in the present life, than by 
turning to the apostle Paul when he would most 
cheer the Thessalonians under their "persecutions 
and tribulations," as in the first chapter of his 
second epistle, to which we solicit the attention 
of our readers. Sure we are, if only from the 
example in the New Testament, that nothing can 
better qualify the people of God for "the suffer-
ings" and the duties "of this present time," than 
"to wait for his Son from heaven."—N. �
Ind. 
Perseverance. 
He who allows his application to falter, or 
shirks his work on frivolous pretexts, is on the 
sure road to ultimate failure. Let any task be 
undertaken as a thing not possible to be evaded, 
and it will soon come to be perfromed with ala- 
crity and cheerfulness. The habit of strenuous, 
continued labor, will become comparatively easy 
in time, like every other habit. Thus even men 
with the commonest brains and the most slender 
powers will accomplish much, if they will but 
apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one 
thing at a time. 
Sir Charles Napier, when in India, encounter-
ed an army of 35,000 Beloches with 2000 men, 
of whom only 400 were Europeans. He charg-
ed them in the center up a high bank, and for 
three hours the battle was undecided. At last 
they turned and fled. 
It is this sort of pluck, tenacity, and deter-
mined perseverance which wins soldiers' battles, 
and indeed, every battle. It is the one march 
more that wins the campaign ; the five minute's 
more persistent courage that wins the fight. 
Though your forces be less than another's you 
equal and outmaster your opponent, if you con-
tinue it longer and concentrate it more. The re-
ply of the Spartan father, who said to his son, 
when he complained that his sword was too short, 
"Add a step to it," is applicable to every thing 
in life. 
It is not how much a man may know, that is 
of so much importance, as the end and purpose 
for which he knows it. The object of knowledge 
should be to mature wisdom and improve char-
acter, to render us better, happier, and more use-
ful ; more benevolent, more energetic, and more 
efficient in the pursuit of' every high purpose in 
life. We must ourselves be and do, and not rest 
satisfied merely with reading and meditating over 
what others have written and done. Our best 
light must be made life, and our• best thought ac-
tion. The humblest and least literate must train 
his sense of duty, and accustom himself to an 
orderly and diligent life. Though talents are the 
gifts of nature, the highest virtue may be acquir-
ed by men of the humblest abilities, through 
careful self-discipline. At least we ought to be 
able to say, as Richter did, "I have made as 
much out of myself as could be made of' the stuff, 
and no man should require more."—Self-Help. 
BY JAMES ROSS SNOWDEN, 
Director of the U. S. Mint, Philadelphia. 
"And when he had agreed with the laborers 
for a penny a day, he sent them into his vine-
yard."—Matt. '20. 22. 
A penny a day seems a small compensation 
for a laborer ; but the coin in question was not 
the penny of the present day, but was a denari-
us, a silver coin, the intrinsic value of which was 
fifteen cents. This gives one a better idea of the 
value of labor at that time. And it shows that 
the good Samaritan was more liberal and gener-
ous than the usual reading of the text would in-
dicate. Luke 10. 35. He gave the poor man 
that fell among thieves two silver coins of the 
value of thirty cents. We have reason to be-
lieve that silver was at that period ten times as 
valuable as it is at present ; in other words, thir-
ty cents would buy as much as three dollars 
would now. It thus appears that the Samaritan, 
besides the other valuable things, wine and oil, 
which he bestowed upon the injured man, gave 
the "host" money enough to pay the boarding of 
his guest for some time,perhaps for several weeks, 
because this interesting event happened in the 
hill country of Judea, between Jerusalem and 
Jericho, where the charges at the inn were quite 
moderate. Thus a liberal provision was made 
for the intervening time which would elapse be-
fore the benevolent man would return from Jeru-
salem. And in case he should be delayed in his 
return, he said to the inn-keeper, "Take care of 
this man, and whatsoever thou spendest more, 
when I come again I will repay thee." This 
generous and neighborly conduct of the good Sa-
maritan our Lord commends,with the injunction, 
"Go thou and do likewise."—v. 37. 
The ointment with which Mary anointed our 
Saviour, is said to have been very costly," John 
12.3, and " very precious," Mark 14.3. "Some 
had indignation with themselves, and murmured 
against her," because her ointment might have 
been sold for more than three hundred pence and 
the money given to the poor, Mark 14:4, 5. The 
propriety of saying that it was very costly, and 
very precious, appears very clearly when we as-
certain that the price at which it was said it 
might have been sold, was equal to forty-five 
dollars of our own money. Mary's offering was 
therefore a valuable one intrinsically ; but much 
more se as she wrought a "good work, which is 
spoken of throughout the whole world as a me-
nArial" of her love and devotion to the Saviour. 
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times of the saints and the laws are given by the ten 
unanimous Gothic horns of the Roman beast into 
the band of the little papal horn," Lb. p. 181. 
In his earlier works, Mr. Faber gave a common 
commencement to the 1260, 1290, and 1335 days ; 
but in his later volumes he says 
"The 1290 prophetic days, mentioned in Daniel's 
lest vision as reaching from the time when the Ro- 
mans set up the abomination of desolation in they 
temple of Jerusalem to the time when many should 
begin to be purified and tried, commenced in the 
year after Christ 1360," Ib. p. 42. 
The 1335 days,. "This period of blessedness com-
mences, after the time of the end, [in 1864,] at the 
close of the three times and a half during which the 
little Roman horn is permitted to tyrannise over the 
saints': it commences, thereforeeigreeably to its pre- 
dicted character of blessedness, synchronically with 
the apostolic Millennium Hence the first thousand 
years of these 1335 years are the thousand years, 
during which Christ will figuratively reign upon 
earth with his saints : and hence the remaining 335 
years, following as they do the thousand years, can 
only be the term, during which the millennian na-
tions gradually degenerate, and at the close of the 
confederacy formed out of them, is devoured by fire 
from heaven"—in A. D. 3199. Ib. p. 479. 
It will thus be seen that Mr. Faber was not 
scripturally instructed in the doctrine of' the king-
dom. 
Orgynale Cronykil of Scotland, a work in verse, 
which is not less valuable as a picture of ancient 
manners, than as a specimen of the attainments 
of the old monkish writers. But there are said 
to have been instances of a greater scarcity of 
books than at St. Serfs. Often, only two or 
three breviaries and missals, a Psalter, and a co-
py of the gospels, were all the books owned by a 
religious house. The possession of an entire 
copy of the Scriptures (the Latin version of St. 
Jerome) gave immense importance to a monas-
tery or church. Nor was this surprising, when 
the enormous labor of transcribing a Bible, letter 
by letter, is considered. Alcuin, a native of Eng-
land, and one of the most industrious and ingen-
iouS monks of his time, occupied, himself from 
about 778 to 800 A. D., a space of 22 years, in 
making a copy of the Bible for the Emperor Char-
lemagne. This ancient and extremely interest-
ing monument of piety and labor is now in the 
British Museum, which became possessed of it 
for the sum of £750. The Museum is also en-
riched with a variety of missals and other works, 
executed by the monks. In the present day, it 
is scarcely possible to form a correct idea of the 
value put upon books, even of a common order, 
or of the prodigious care which was taken of 
them, during the middle ages. To preserve them 
from embezzlement, they were in some cases 
chained to shelves and reading-desks ; and in 
the dwelling of nobles, a volume might be seen 
chained to a table in the hall, for the use of such 
members of the family as were able to read. 
The True Blue. 
Everybody has heard the designation "true 
blue" applied to Presbyterians. 
Dr. Murray, in his speech before the Assem-
bly of the Free Church of Scotland, at the Tri-
centenary celebration, thus playfully refers to its 
origin : 
"I have often been asked why we are called 
'true blue.' I did not know how to answer. But 
I asked a Scotchman. 'Well,' said he, 'when 
we were persecuted, the ministers used to go to 
the mountains, and when they were going to 
have a communion, they held out a blue flag, 
which was an invitation to the people of the 
country aroun to attend ; and their descendants 
are called true blue from that.".f hat is one ex-
planation, but I have found out another for my-
self. A few years ago, I was in Naples and 
Rome, and went to Pompeii, where I spent some 
time among its splendid frescoes of variegated 
hues. All the other colors had faded away, but 
 
the blue was as bright as the day it was put on, 
although it had been buried for nearly two thou-
sand years. The true blue never gave out--
that is the meaning of it. (Laughter.) True 
blue Presbyterianism is so blue that it never goe 
oat." 
Thomas CHALMERS—It is often said, "what th 
boy is,tlie man will he," and the saying comes true i 
very many cases. Thomas Chalmers was a littl 
preacher when he was young, and a great preache 
when he grew older. From his earliest years h 
longed to be a minister ; and it is said that he preach 
ed his first sermon, with a chair for his pulpit, tak 
ing for his text, "Let brotherly love continue." 
Thomas was a shady and noble-hearted lad, wit 
a sincere love for the best things ; but when at twelv 
years old he was sent to college to study, he kne 
very little indeed. After a while, however, his fin 
mind seemed to wake up ; early and late he toiled a 
his hooks, and pursued in good earnest the great o 
ject of his childish desires. He became one of th 
most learned, talented, eloquent, and useful preacl 
ers of his time ; and his short but truly glorio 
life was spent in teaching, by word and pen,, th 
great truths of the Bible to men of all classes an 
ranks. Let the name of Dr. Chalmers ever remits 
us of the lesson—Choose a good object, and the 
steadily pursue it. 
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COMMODORE BILLINGS in his account of his exp 
dition to .the northern coasts of Russia, says th 
when he and Mr. Mann were on the river Kebim 
they were attended by a young man from Kanog 
 
an island between Kamschatka and North-Arnerie 
the savages can do nothing. more to you." �
These 
recall the words of the French �
knight reported by, 
Joinville :—"Swear to me," said Queen Margaret, 
"that if the Saracens become masters of Damietta, 
you will cut off my head before they can take me." 
"Willingly," replied �
the knight, "I �
had already 
thought of doing �
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BOSTON, OCTOBER .20, 1861. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
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give it room in their prayers; that by means of it God may 
be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it may be 
conducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and 
discernment of the truth, in nothing carried away into 
error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
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editor be temporarily absent. 
Exposition of Daniel's Prophecy. 
CHAPTER VII. 
THE EPOCH OF THE PAPAL SUPREMACY. 
From A. D. 540 to 1800. 
GRANVILLE SHARPE, author of "Remarks on Sev-
eral Prophecies," London, 1768, is given by Tyso, 
under this date. 
From A. D. 546 to 1806 
JOHN S. WAUGH, M. D., author of "Dissertatiom 
on the Prophecies," Edinburg, 1833, contends that 
this period ends with the renunciation by Francis() 
Austria of his dignity as emperor of Germany ; am 
so reckoning back frorie this, he begins in �
the firs 
date given. 
From A. D. 548 to 1808. 
REV. WM. ETTRIC, author of "The Season am 
Time," London, 1816, is given thus by Tyso. �
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27. From A. D 552 to 1793. 
REV. WM. F. MILLER A. M.—pastor of the Con 
gregational church in Windsor Conn. author o 
"Signs of the Times," �
Ilartford, 1804,—reckoner 
I the 1260 days as symbolic of only 1248 years, am 
thus dated them : 
"It appears from accurate historians, that free 
the death of Totilla, the last king of the Goths, th 
i last of the French kings, in A. D. �
1793, was pro 
! cisely 1260 days or years ; �
since in the same yea 
! Totilla was slain, the Pope, as his successor, eon 
, �
menced the first grand �
period of his rise into th 
- power of the Beast. �
If, then, to �
the year A. 1L1 
, �
551 . . . . we add 1260 days or years, �
it will mak 
A. D. 1811 ; but, when from this �
number 18 day 
, �
or years, are subtracted, �
for the deficiency of th 
a �
1260 days, in falling short of three full years an 
,, �
a half, as has been explained, it will make only .A 
, D. 1793, the very year in which Ludovicus or Lev 
t is XVI. king of Franco was beheaded"—in tf 
e letters of whose name he finds the panther 661 
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28. From A. D. 584 to 1844. 
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MATTHEW ITABERSHON, ESQ author of " An Hi 
a �
torical Dissertation on the Prophetic Scriptures, 
d �
London, 1842, gives his preference to these date 
n He says : 
"There appears extreme probability, that �
tl 
schemes of ambition which the Popes had so lot 
a- contemplated, but which they could not effect,whil 
It the actual powers of the Caesars continued in Rote 
1, were at this time, on the Lombard kingdom boil 
t, �
established in Italy, A. D. 584, attained ; and thei 
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ought 
received as 
should do, the middle point of the great period of 
seven times, or what has been called the great al-
manac of prophecy. Fur instance, considering this 
Iperiod to commence (according to calculation given 
in page 124, chapter 6.) in the year 676 B. C., and 
thereby to end A. D. 1844, the latter half of it, 
consisting of three times and 'a half, or 1260 years, 
must necessarily commence at its bisection, which is 
A. D. 584: and therefore this removal of the impe-
rial power, and the passes of the Alps having been 
delivered up in this year, the presumption is very 
strong that it will be found the correct date of the 
commencement of` the papal 'power. At the same 
time, the year 533, Which was the time when the 
emperor Justinian embodied the papal prerogative 
in the laws of the empire, is in like manner the mid-
dle point between the year 727 B. C.—the year that 
led to the events of Israel's final captivity, and the 
consequent dominion of the Gentile monarchies—
and the year of our Lord 1793," Babershon's Dish 
pp. 266, 7. 
MR. .BROWN. In reteriug to this epoch, Bicker-
steth says : "In the year 584, mentioned by Mr. 
Brown, Pope Pelagius claimed infallibility, and was 
assisted in maintaining it by the troops of the em-
pire, and then Rome was abandoned by the eastern 
emperor," Guide to Proph. p. 211. And Mr. Ty-
so gives the names of "A. Q. Brown, J. Fry, &c." 
as adopting this date ; but we find no "Brown," 
with these initials, in any list of authors. 
REV. Josix FRY,—Rector of Desford, Esq. author 
of "Epocha of Daniel's Prophetic Numbers," Lon-
don 18`281— we suppose to be the "J. Fry" to 
whom Mr. Tyso makes reference. 
29. From A. D. 588 to 1847. 
REV. JOSEPH WOLF, D. D. L.L. D. the celebrat-
ed Jewish Missionary, according to Tyso, gives this 
date. 
30. From A. D. 602 to 1862. 
DAVID N. LORD ESQ. of New York city,—editor 
of the Theological and Literary Joiurnal, an able 
Quarterly established in 1848, and the author of sev-
er 11 valuable volumes—is not definite in his esti-
mate of the commencement of this period, but ap-
proximates to the above. He says : 
"From A. D. 597, to 626, there is no doubt the 
Catholic church was nationalized in England ; and 
we think its most probable date was A. D. 602, 
when Augustine (who had been ordained a bishop) 
receiving the pallium from Gregory was constituted 
archbishop of Canterbury to institute another arch-
bishopric, and was recognized by Ethelbert, in that 
character" . . . 
"The Saxon kings were the last to embrace the 
Romish religion. On its nationalization In Eng-
land, it was established throughout the ten king-
doms. It would not be certain, however, if that 
was the date of its complete nationalization, that it 
was the date also of the twelve hundred and sixty 
years ;—unless it bad begun to persecute immediate-
ly on the delivery of the saints into its hands ; inas-
much as the twelve hundred and sixty years appear 
to be the measure of the persecution of the saints. . 
There is little doubt, however, that the twelve hun-
dred and sixty years of the repression and persecu-
tion of the saints from the period of the complete 
natiunalization of the church . . . What the exact 
date of either was, however, cannot be, absolutely 
determined. We only know that it was probably 
the first or second year of the seventh century, and. 
that, at the most, it can have been but a few years 
later." 
"It is apparent that the exact date of the twelve 
hundred and sixty years is not known ; nor, conse-
quently, the time of their termination. It is clear-
ly revealed, however, that their end is not to be the 
period of the extinction of the wild beast, nor the 
coming of Christ. They are to be at least thirty 
years later," Coining and Reign', pp. 387-393. 
I. 
31. From A. D. 604 to 1864.. 
REV. GEORGE STANLEY FABER, D. D. Rector of 
Leng-Newton, Eng. author of "Dissertations on 
S- Prophecy," and "The Sacred Calendar of Prophe-
cy," each in three vols. 8 vo., has had two opinions 
respecting this date—his earlier one being that it 
commenced in 606. But in his later volume, pub-
lished in London in 1828, he says 
"The three prophetic times and a half. marked 
out as the reign of the little Roman horn, and va-
riously expressed by Daniel and St. John as three 
and a half, or 42 months, or 1260 days, commenced 
in the year after Christ 604 ; which is the dividing 
point of the seven times, and will terminate in the 
year after Christ 1864," Sac. Cal. v. 2. p. 42. 
"In the year after Christ 604, the demonolatrous 
Apostacy was complete by the acquisition of its law-
less bead ; and, in the same year which is the bi-
parting point of the seven times, commenced those 
latter three times and a half, during which the 
ANDREW OSIANDER, who diod in 1552. He was 
one of Luther's early disciples, a voluminous writer 
of considerable celebrity in his day, and author of 
"Conjectures of the End of the World." Rev. E. B. 
Elliot says of him : "He measurably endorses the 
year day system of interpretating the prophetic days, 
and, like Luther, somewhat curiopsly notes Phocas' 
decree of A. 11.006, as constituting a notable Papal 
commencing eliCich," (Harm Apoc. v. 2 p. 139.) 
Rev. Andrew . Willet, author of "Commentary on 
Daniel," (Cambridge, Eng. 1610), and who applies 
these days literally to Antiochus, says that "Osian-
der applying this prophecies to the Turks, by three 
years and a half, which containing, in his estimate 
1178 days, but it cometh," says Willet "to 1278 
days,) understandeth so many years from the first 
rising of Mahmiset in 613. So long he thinketh the 
Turkish tyrennie shall rage ; but it is not necessario 
that all the half time should be fulfilled," Coin. p. 
233 
MATTLILIS FLACIUS, a Professor of languages at 
Wittenberg, who died in 1575, "In his Catalogue 
of Witnesses, represented the 1260 days of the wild 
beast as having commenced in 606, and consequent- 
One day Mr. Mann asked him:—" What will the 
savages do with me if I fall into their power ?" 
"Sir," said the youth, "you will never fall into their 
power it I remain with you. I always carry a 
sharp knife ; and if I see you pursued and unable 
to escape, I will plunge my knife into your heart ; 
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when the Pope first became a horn, and consequent-
ly as the commencement of the 1260 years. But 
what appears in this view as only in a very high de-
gree probable, receives the strongest corroboration, 
if not actual confirmation, from the fact, that the 
above year, viz. 584, forms, as it is required it 
32. �
From A. D. 606 to 1866. 
So late as 595, Pope Gregory wrote to his nuncio 
at Constantinople, to persuade the patriarch of that 
city to discontinue the title of "Universal Bishop," 
which that patriarch had assumed. Effecting noth-
ing- the Pope then wrote to the patriarch, "loading 
the title of universal patriarch or bishop with all 
the names of reproach and ignominy he could think 
of ; calling it 'vain, ambitious, profane, impious, 
infernal, diabolical ;' and applying to him who as-
sumed it, what was said by the prophet Isaiah of 
Lucifer (14 : 12) and said this is the time which 
Christ himself foretold . • . The king of pride that 
is, antichrist, is at hand," Bower's Hist. of Popes 
v. 1, p. 409. 
Eleven years after this in 606 Boniface III. was 
invested with the Papal dignity, and immediately 
prevailed on the emperor Phocas, not only "to re-
voke the degree, setting the title of Universal Bis-
hop on the bishop of the imperial city, [Constanti-
neple ;J but'obtained—what no man would believe 
could ever come into the thoughts of a successor of 
Gregory to demand, were it not vouched by all his-
torians to a man—hut obtained, I say, a new decree, 
setting on himself, and his successors, that very 
title." Ib. 
'"Boniface had scarce obtained it, when he took 
wean him to exercise an unanswerable jurisdiction 
and power to that time unknown and unheard of in 
the Catholic church. Fur no sooner was the impe-
rial edict, vesting him with the title of universal 
hilltop, and declaring him head of the Church, 
brought to Rome, than, assembling a council in the 
basilica of St. Peter, consisting of seventy two his 
hops, thirty four presbyters, and all the deacons and 
inferior clergy of that citY, he acted there as if he' 
had not been vested with the title alone, though 
Phocas probably meant to grant him no more—but 
with all the power of an Universal Bishop, with all 
the authority of a Supreme Head, or rather absolute 
monarch of the church," Ib. p. 426. 
This decree and subsequent events have been re-
garded by many writers as so significant, that it 
has been a favorite one for commencing the 1260 
days duration of the Little horn's supremacy. Among 
these may be mentioned, 
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The War. 
"Without claiming to have official or detailed in-
formation of the approaching movement of the Na-
tional Army of the Potomac, we may assure our 
readers that the great contest is indeed close at 
hand. It is impossible to say with accuracy when 
it will begin, but it must be within comparatively 
a few days. Our army now stands so that a single 
intelligent glance shows its attitude to be one pre-
ceding offensive movements. If the projected naval 
expeditions and the forward step of the army should. 
he simultaneous, the effect can but he crushing. 
However it may be as to this concert of action ,there 
need be no doubt about the operations of the army, 
and hardly anything short of a miracle can delay 
our speedy advance." 
The above, from the N. York Tribune, is a fair 
expression of what has been the general expectation 
for the last two weeks. Great events seem just at 
hand. In the meantime there are skirmishes of great-
er or less importance continually going on, and the 
rebels have gradually lost ground in Virginia, Ken-
tucky and Missouri, that is all along the border. 
We anticipate being able soon to communicate 
events of great moment. 
Taesday, Oct. 22. Since the above, and at the 
latest hour we can communicate anything for the 
present number of the Herald, we have a report that 
a fight is going on at Leesburg, on the Potomac, be-
tween about 1800 Union forces under Gen. Stone, 
and from 5000 to 10,000 rebels, who are said to be 
supplied with batteries of great strength: Exciting 
intelligence is expected. Gen. Baker, U. S. Sena-
tor from Oregon, and recently promoted to a brig-
ade, is stated to be killed. 
ly refered its destruction, and the advent of Christ 
to the year 186G." Lord's Ex. of the Apoc. p. 239. 
REV. DAVID CHRYTRA7XS, D. D., born in 1571, and 
the author of a Commentary on the Apocalypse, Wit-
emberg, 1563, said of this period : 
"If they are numbered from the time of Phocas, 
A. D. 606, then the end may be expected A. D. 
1866," Elliot flora Apoc. v. 4. p. 433. 
JOIIN Fox,—the Martyrologist, author of "Medi-
tations on the Apocalpyse," London, 1587—accord-
ing to Mr. Elliott quotes "Arctius"—(Benedictus) 
of Berne,wrote who "Apocalpysin,"and died in 1574, 
—as advancing the same idea—John Fox himselt,ac-
cording to Tyso, reckoning the 42 months as 42 
weeks of seven days each, dated from A. D. 32 to 
326. 
REV. HUMPHREY PRIDEAUX, D. D. Dean of Nor-
wich, Eng. born in 1648, and deceased in 1724—the 
author, with other vols., of a valuable work on, 
"The Old and New Testament connected in the 
History of Jews and the Neighboring Nations,"—
says in his Life of Mahomet 
"It is to be observed that 11Iahomet began this 
imposture about the same time that the Bishop of 
Rome, by virtue of a grant from the wicked tyrant 
Phocas, first assumed the title of Universal Pastor, 
and thereon claimed to himself that supremacy which 
he hath been ever since endeavoring to usurp over 
the Christian church"—viz. A. D. 606. From New-
ton's Dis. p. 320.] 
REV. DAVID PAREUS, Prof. of Divinity at Heidel-
berg, Germany—in a Commentary, which was the 
substance of lectures delivered in 1608, to the Acad-
emy of Heidelherg,over which he presided and which 
he published in 1615,—was inclined to reckon the 
1'260 days as 1260 years, beginning from Phocas' 
grant of the title of Universal Bishop to Pope Boni-
face ill. in 606 ; but he leaves the decision of this 
point with God." 
PROF. WM. WHISTON, author of "An essay on the 
Revelation of St. John," published in 1706, also 
dates, according to Mr. Elliott. the Papal suprem-
acy from Phocas' decree, in 606 ; and he quotes 
Archbishop Laud as affirming the same. Mr. Tyso 
ascribes to Mr. Whiston an earlier date—See A. D. 
476. 
But neither that nor this are in harmony 
with the following, which we cut from the N. Y. 
Observer of Oct. 12. 1861, and have often met with 
elsewhere—though evidently a myth : 
"In the year 1712, Mr. Whiston, having calcula-
ted the return of a comet, which was to make its 
appearance on Wednesday, the 14th of October, at 
five minutes after five in the morning, gave notice 
to the public accordingly, with this terrifying addi-
tion, that a total dissolution of the world by fire 
was to take place on the Friday following. The re-
putation which Mr. Whiston had long maintained, 
both as a divine and as a philosopher, left little or 
no doubt with the populace, of the truth of his pre-
diction." 
Rev. JOHN MATER, D. D. author of a " Commen-
tary on all the Prophets," London, 1652 ; and of 
Com. on Rev. in 1627, according to Mr. Tyso, ad-
opted these dates. 
REV. JOHN GILL, D. D. born in Eng. in 1697 and 
deceased 1771 author of an Exposition of Revelation, 
London, 1728, is included in Mr. Tyso's table un-
der these dates. 
The beginning, however, of these years, cannot well 
he fixed sooner than A. D. 606, or later than A. D. 
756.—Coin. on Rey. 11.1, 2. 
He says of the "time times and a half," in Dan. 12:7, 
that 'These are to be calculated from the time when 
the king, before prophesied of, began to scatter the 
power of the holy people. . . when the antichristian 
usurpers began to scatter the power of true chris-
tians by false doctrines, persecutions, massacres,and 
religious wars, to the approaching period when the 
powers shall be subverted. It has been seen that 
the' imposture of Mohamet, and the papal persecu-
tion began about the same time." 
Of the other periods in the same chapter, Dr. 
Scott says : 
"These twelve hundred and ninety days must be 
calculated from the same time as the three and a 
half years before mentioned ; and the (end) thirty 
years beyond them. The subversion of the king-
dom of Antichrist, and the destruction of the seat of 
the beast, will probably be at the end of the 1260 
years ; thirty years more may be taken up in whol-
ly extirpating the Antichristian powers ; and the 
last number of thirteen hundred and thirty (five) 
years, which reaches forty five years beyond that 
time, may predict the complete introduction of the 
millennium, when the earth shall be filled with the 
glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea ; and 
happy will they he, who wait and live to see that 
time. Without doubt this period is approaching, 
and not very far distant, though 1 dare not hazard 
an opinion about the exact time whence these years 
are to be dated," Corn. on Dan. 12. 
Bishop Newton remarks on "the time, times, and 
a half" in Dan. 12:71 
"The same time therefore is prefixed for the deso-
lation and oppression of the eastern church, as for 
the tyranny of the little horn, (7:25,) in the western 
church ; and it is wonderfully remarkable, that the 
doctrine of Mohammed was first forged at Mecca, 
and the supremacy of the Pope was established by 
virtue of a grant from the wicked tyrant Phocas, 
in the very same year of Christ, 606." Dis. on Pro. 
p. 319. 
The Bishop does not, however, adopt this date 
for the commencement of the period refered to, but 
thinks it may be applied to the "Mohammedans in-
vading and desolating Christendom, and converting 
the churches into mosques : and this latter even 
seemeth to have been particularly intended in this 
passage." lb. p. 320—but he names no date, except 
to say Jerusalem was taken in A. D. 637—p. 371. 
Of the three periods in Dan. 12, Bishop Newton 
says : "What is the precise time of their beginning 
and consequently of their ending, as well as what 
are the great and signal events,which will take place 
at the end of each period, we can only conjecture, 
time alone can with certainty discover. If we are 
mistaken in our conjectures, it is no more than Mr. 
Mede and other much more learned men have been, 
who have gone before us in this argument," lb. p. 
321. See under date of 727, which he most favors. 
A Tract on the Restitution. 
By vote of the Standing Committee of the A. M. 
A. we shall shortly issue a tract of 16 pages on the 
Restitution. As we should like to know the probable 
demand before we print, we solicit orders. It will 
be the greater portion of a paper we read at the con-
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be issued about the middle of November. 
The Support of the Herald. 
It will devolve, under God, on the true-hearted 
friends of the herald to decide whether it shall suf-
fer for want of needed support, or that be prompt 
and liberal. The paper has always been true to the 
great question of the advent near, endeavoring to 
pursue a steady, uniform, consistent course, giving 
all the light emitted from any source, not limiting 
writers to a prescribed view of any question, and 
presenting the considerations against, as well as 
those for, positions of interest. God has wonderful-
ly sustained this sheet during many a dark and try-
ing hour in the past ; and we cannot resist the con= 
viction that he will still continue to sustain it in 
the future, so long as it shall be needed to announce 
the great truths connected with the near coming of 
God's everlasting kingdom. 
Papers read before the Conference. 
Addresses of interest were made before the Con-
ference, by Brn. Robinson, Shipman, Hutchinson, 
and others ; which we had hoped to give in the Her-
ald in the order of their presentation. We have, 
however, thus far received only the one read by Eld 
Bosworth, and so have been compelled to print that 
first. The address of the president of the conference 
has been omitted in its order for the same cause. We 
trust that all who led in the several subjeets entrus-
ted to them, will supply us, at as early a moment as 
is practicable, with copies of their addresses. 
The Earnest Expectation. 
The article with this title iu another column, 
from the N. Y. Independent, is worthy of perusal. 
Its appearance in the Independent as an editorial, 
with the appearance there from time to time of 
shriller articles from the same pen, has led some to 
suppose that paper to be on the way towards the 
advocacy of Millenarian views. We wish this con-
clusion were just ; but as we happen to know these 
articles to be from the pen of an occasional writer 
—a friend of ours and reader of the Heralds—such a 
conclusion is unwarranted. We are, however, grati-
fied to find that so much truth, in respect to earth's 
future destiny, finds admission in those columns ; 
and we hope it may prove to be like seed sown in 
good ground, productive of much good. 
LLOYD'S MAP OF VIRGINIA.—We have received 
the eastern half of Lloyd's official map of the state 
of Virginia ; which is revised from official sources, 
and brought down to the present time. It gives all 
the roads and hills and streams, and is a valuable 
reference at the present time. It is sold by J. T. 
Lloyd, pnblisher, 164 Broadway N. Y. fur $1,00, 
or in book for $2. 
Please send us the western half. 
THE POEM ASCRIBED TO THE PRESIDENT.—The beau-
tiful poem in the Herald of Oct 5th extensively as-
scribed to president Lincoln, and which we copied 
from the N. York Observer, was written, it now ap-
pears, by Wm. Knox of Scotland, and was first pub-
lished iK 1824,in a small volume entitled the "Songs 
of Israel." We do nut understand how Mr. Lin-
coln's name became connected with it. 
The Conference. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—Having been deeply interested 
in the spirit and doings of our annual conference at 
North Springfield, Vt., during the week past, I will 
(with your permission), give your readers a few 
thoughts concerning the same. I was not present at 
the hour for convening, (2 o'clock P. M.) but ar-
rived soon after. Found a few brethren in session, 
but not enough to give promise of the noble gather-
ing which poured upon us soon after. We listened 
to the address from the Pres't ELL J. Pearson Jr. a 
discourse that ought to have been heard by all the 
members of the conference, but they will doubtless 
have an opportunity of perusing it ere long in the 
columns of the Herald. 
In the evening as we listened to the annual ser-
mon by Bro. Orrock, I thought if the same exalted 
views of the character and perfections of Deity, had 
been steadily presented in time past, it would have 
saved us from the effects of many errors which have 
been promulgated among us, and obscured the hori-
zon of our Advent skies. 
The essay on revivals Wednesday morning by Bro. 
Robinson was exceedingly felicitous. Indeed it seem-
ed to be just what we needed, and the feeling that 
moved the entire conference causing them to unite 
in prayer : "0 Lord ! revive thy work ;" gave a 
most happy presage of the future. Our only fears 
were that the feelings of our brethren had been ex-
alted to such a degree that we could only hope to 
hold our own, and perhaps be on the descending 
scale through the rest of the conference. But how 
agreeably were we disappointed, Thursday afternoon, 
when Bro. Bliss presented the article on the Resti-
tution. As he pointed back to the ruins of the fall, 
and forward to the glories of Paradise restored ; did 
we not seem to stand on Pisgah's top and view all 
the promised land ? A brother remarked as he saw 
the feeling that pervaded the whole assembly : "On-
ly preach the truths connected with the Advent, 
in their purity, plainly, End pointedly, and they 
will stir the hearts of the disciples as they did in the 
days that are past." But why particularize when 
all was good ? 
But probably the event that most impressed all 
our minds was Friday morning at 9 o'clock when 
Bro. Litch remarked that, 21 years before at that 
hour, the first Advent Conference in America com-
menced its session. What changes, and trials, have 
we passed through ! How many have fallen by the 
way ! flow many have forgotten their first love ! 
Bow many have turned back sighing for the "flesh 
pots of Egypt" ! Of all that were present at that 
first conference, only Bro. L. was with us. 
But such was the similarity of our feelings to 
those we experienced in the early days of our history 
that "we thanked God and took courage," mutually 
pledging each other to faithfulness, till we meet in 
the promised land. I left Saturday morning greatly 
encouraged. Indeed 1 think it the best conference 
I ever attended. Not a jarring note from the begin-
ning to the close. May the Great Head of the church 
receive all the praise ! and give us glory, in the day 
of consummation, that hasteth greatly. 
D. BOSWORTH. 
Waterbury, Oct. 14, '61. 
Tuesday, Oct. 22. Yesterday P.M. a servant girl 
in the house of a near neighbor in Roxbury, was 
filling a fluid lamp over the fire range, when it over-
flowed and she was burned in a shocking manner. 
She is alive this morning. 
THE REV. DR. EMMONS' advice to young preachers 
was, not to preach over thirty minutes, adding, that 
there are no conversions after the first halt-hour. 
Wesley held the same opinion, and remarked in one 
of his letters :—"If any then, of the preachers ex-
ceed their time, I hope you will always put them in 
mind what is the Methodist rule. People imagine 
the longer the sermon is, the more good it will do ; 
this is a grand mistake." 
Tux Chancellor Lord Eldon, who took his bache-
lor's degree in 1770, used to say :—"An examina-
tion for a degree at Oxford was a farce in my time. 
I was examined in Hebrew and in history—'What 
is the Hebrew for the place of a skull ?"I replied : 
'Golgotha.' �
Who founded University College ?' I 
stated (though by the way, the point is sometimes 
doubted) that King Alfred founded it. 'Very well, 
sir,' said the examiner, 'you are competent for your 
degree.' " 
THE LIMIT.—Temptations are trials, and intend-
ed to test our principles, try our professions, and 
prove the strength of our graces. The temptations, 
or trials of the believer, are manifold. They come 
from various quarters, they affect us in various 
ways ; but they are limited. They are but for a 
season. "In the day of adversity consider." "The 
hour of temptation." "Our light affliction which 
is but for a moment." "For a small moment have 
I forsaken thee." Thus they are limited sometimes 
to "a day," "an hour," "a moment," a "small 
moment." God fixes the limit to every trial ; and, 
however long the limit may be, it is confined to the 
present time. 
TIIE GREAT HERESY.—In one of his letters to his 
life-long friend, Dr. Hall, the late Dr. Alexander 
said : 
"The greatest heresy is the want of love. Oh, 
for a cycle of peace !. Oh, for a breathing spell from 
these unnatural contentions ! I feel as if I could 
join with any who would humbly unite in a direct 
and kind effort to save sinners, and relieve human 
misery. Cannot a poor believer go along in his pil-
grimage heavenward without being always on mili-
tary duty ? At judgment, I heartily believe that 
some heresies of heart and temper will be charged 
as worse than heavy doctrinal errors. I hold that 
not only the tenets of our Church are true, but that 
they are very important. But I see how easy it is 
to 'hold the truth' in rancor and hate, which is the 
grand error of depraved human nature." 
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REV. THOSIAS SCOTT, D .D., the celebrated commen-
tator born in Eng. in 1747, and deceased in 1821, a 
post-millennalist, was not settled in his own mind 
as to the precise epoch of the end of the 1260 days, 
but says : 
"The beginning of these twelve hundred and slee-
ty years must he placed subsequent to the four first 
trumpets, on the subversion of the western empire, 
which was completed A. D. 566. This made way 
for the Pope, in process of time, to acquire a vast 
accession of ecclesiastical dominion. He became 
universal Bishop A. D. 606, and was fully estab-
lished as a temporal prince A. D. 756. Did we 
know exactly at what time to begin the twelve hun-
dred and sixty years, we might show with certainty 
when they would terminate ; but this would not 
consist with that wise obscurity which always in 
some respects rests on prophecies before they are 
fulfilled. Till the event, therefore, shall explain 
this matter, it must be left undetermined ; but per-
haps the beginning of the rise and of the fall of this 
antichristian tyranny, and the completion of them, 
may both be at the distance of twelve hundred and 
sixty years from each other, as in more than one 
way the Babylonish captivity lasted seventy years. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
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In thisdepartment, articles are solicited, on thegeneral 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from tbisshould be 
regarded as c'isentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteouscontroversy. 
From Bro. IL k Woodcock. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—It appears you do not fully 
comprehend the " point" I have been aiming at in 
my communications to the Herald. And as perse-
verance is a part of Christian duty, it may not be 
amiss to try and make some points more plain. 
One point to which I object in the doctrine of 
Adventists, is that the second pre-millennial advent 
of Christ is the judgment advent, and the only ad-
vent yet future. 
I cannot conceive how it is possible to reconcile 
such a doctrine with Rev. 20th, or with a millenni-
um between the resurrection of those that are 
Christ's at his coming, and the resurrection of the 
" rest of the dead." " And that is the only mil-
lennium taught in the word of God." "And after 
this the judgment." 
It is asserted in the Herald of July 20th, that 
" at the end of the millennium the devil that de-
ceived them is cast into the same abyss, where the 
beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tor-
mented day and night forever and ever. Rev. 20 : 
10." 
But this is a very different view of that verse, 
from what would naturally be arrived at from read-
ing the whole chapter. 
My understanding of it is that the devil is bound 
and cast into the " abyss" at the beginning of the 
millennium. And that at the end of the millennium 
he is loosed out of it, and set free for a season to 
deceive the then resurrected nations, that are in the 
four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to ga-
ther them together to battle. And that he will not 
stop his work of deception, nor be cast into the lake 
of fire, where the beast and the false prophet are, 
till after the battle, which is none other than the 
battle of Rev. 19. The devil could not be loosed 
out of his prison to deceive the nations, while the 
nations of the earth were dead. He was bound that 
he should not. 
However much the nations are deceived in this 
life, they see enough in the intermediate state to un-
deceive them. Nor would the nations of the earth, 
be likely to worship the dragon and the beast as 
soon as they were redeemed from the prison house 
of death, and ransomed from the grave, if they were 
not again greatly deceived, and led captive by the 
devil at his will. 
And if they were not again deceived, and did not 
again transgress, they would not be gathered to that 
battle. Nor would the King of kings and his army 
" be revealed from heaven in flaming fire, taking 
vengeance on them that know not God, and obey 
not the gospel." " It is appointed unto men once 
to die." " And there must be a resurrection of the 
dead, both of the just and also of the unjust."—
For we must all appear before the judgment seat 
of Christ." And then the judgment will immedi-
ately take place. But this will not admit of a pre-
millennial " judgment session." 
The devil that deceives and gathers the armies of 
Gog, is not cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, 
where the beast and the false prophet are, till death 
and hell are. And this is the last plague—the last 
curse—the overthrow of the devil and his kingdom 
—the end of death—the final judgment—second 
death, and the restoration of the kingdom to those 
for whom it was prepared from the foundation of 
the world. 
Since Christ left mount Olivet, in the presence of 
his disciples, he has never been seen to return in 
like manner as he was seen to go away, hence his 
next appearing must he in the clouds. But no 
throne will then appear, for that avas not the man-
ner in which he went away. Neither did ten thou-
sand of his saints attend him to his Father's throne. 
Therefore the prophecy of Enoch, Jude 14,15, can-
not be fulfilled till after the millennium. There 
must be a resurrection first ; and then a post-mil-
lennial coming of " this same Jesus" in another 
manner, or the Lord my God cannot come and all cordance with the great fundamental Christian law, 
requiring us to love our neighbor as we love our- 
selves. I presume, that the brethren who penned 
this address and those who accepted it, without a 
the saints with thee, as declared by Zechariah the 
prophet. 
It is evident that the 1335 days (years) of Dan. 
12, reach to the judgment ; but the battle of Gog, dissenting voice, would not hesitate to admit, that 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
or the battle of Rev. 19, at which the beast and the 
false prophet are taken, falls forty-five years short 
of it. 
Now suppose the second death, which is the exe-
cution of the judgment written against all the final- 
ly impenitent, to take place immediately after re-
demption, or the resurrection from the first death, 
at the end of the millennium. Where would that 
bring the battle of Gog, and the perdition of the 
beast ? 
It would place it at about the 955th year of the 
millennium. It would cause the greatest battle ever 
known, and the last that ever will be, to be fought 
on the great sabbath of rest, that remains for the 
people of God. It would be at the time and on the 
day, when the kings and priests of the first resur-
rection are holding feast, and reigning with Christ 
upon his throne in heaven. And it would be while 
the rest of the dead, they that were not Christ's at 
his coming live not, and while their own leader, the 
devil, and his angels, are confined under chains of 
darkness in the great abyss. 
This certainly does not look like a very favorable 
opportunity for a great battle, unless some modern 
general succeed in getting command of the armies 
of heaven, and for the sake of an open show of his 
disregard of the law of God, chooses to have a big 
fight on the sabbath day. Then if this will not an-
swer, just let the judgment pass on till the day that 
God has appointed. Then there will be time for a 
post-millennial beginning, as well as ending of the 
1200, 1290 and 1335 years, without any jargon. 
The throne of Daniel 7:9, and Matt. 25:31, and 
Rev. 20:11, attend the judgment session, but not 
the pre-millennial appearing of Christ in like man-
ner as he went away into heaven. 
Set aside the idea of a pre-millennial fulfilling of 
prophetic numbers, and a pre-millennial judgment 
to come, and it will not be difficult to prove from 
the signs of the times that redemption for those that 
are Christ's at his second advent is drawing nigh. 
But if you preach the hour of his judgment has 
come, men will naturally enquire, Where then is the 
millennium ? or where is the great battle of the na-
tions? 
The answers given by modern writers are very 
unsatisfactory, and tend to prejudice the mind 
against the truth. One great event at a time, clear-
ly demonstrated, is better than two confounded, 
that God designs to keep separate. 
In hope of seeing you in the white horse cavalry 
of heaven, at the battle of Armageddon, I remain 
as ever yours truly, �H. B. WOODCOCK. 
Connersville, Ind., Aug. 13, 1861. 
Our National Perils—The Duty of Christians. 
Br REV. L. DELOS MANSFIELD. 
Mr. Editor :—Will you indulge me in a few re-
marks in regard to the annexed passage, contained 
in the address of the recent conference of believers 
in the second coming of Christ, held in the State of 
Maine ? The passage reads thus :— 
" We wish to speak a word of admonition to our 
Christian brethren everywhere, of the danger they 
are in who overlook the fact that Christians are un-
der Christ, and not under Moses, unless they are 
fallen from grace. Therefore they must obey Christ 
if they would live, who has commanded them not 
to fight, and who has called them out from the 
world, so they are not of it, and should not fight 
for it. Popery, Mohammedanism, and other apos-
tate religious classes fight, as do the world, and the 
world bear them. �
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" Again. We consider it dangerous in the ex-
treme for those who look for God to dash in pieces 
the kingdoms and nations of this world (Ps. 2,Jer. 
25, Ezek. 3, Rev. 16th and 19th chapters) to pre-
pare the way for the kingdom of his Son, to engage 
in warring with carnal weapons, to try and uphold 
them, in virtually reiterating the cry made by the 
Jews, We have no king but Cmsar,' and thus re-
ject the reign of Christ, to sustain the seceders from 
God." 
The great mistake which the believers in the sec-
ond coming of Christ have made, is in supposing 
that a belief in the nearness of that event imposes 
upon them a different lino of conduct from that 
which they might with propriety pursue if they did 
not cherish that belief ; in other words, instead of 
using their prophetical interpretations to enforce 
the practical duties of Christianity in every sphere 
of human action and in every relation in life, they 
use them to intimidate Christians against the per-
formance of most obvious duties—duties uniformly 
acknowledged and practiced in all ages by the 
Christian church. A profession of religion releases 
no man from his obligations as a husband, parent, 
servant, citizen, or ruler. He is simply to bring 
the lave of Christ to bear upon the particular rela- 
tion, or relations, in which he is called to act ; and 
as a husband, parent, servant, citizen or ruler fulfil 
his duties with more complete fidelity, and in ac- 
are not materially changed by our acceptance of the 
doctrine of the immediate coming of Christ, button 
the contrary, would pronounce it absurd and fanat- 
ical for a man to neglect to provide for, and defend, 
his wife and children, when assailed, simply because 
the dispensation to which these relations belong is 
about to be superceded by that new and better dis-
pensation, in which we shall neither marry nor be 
given in marriage, but shall be as the angels in heav-
en. 
And yet why not ? if we are to abandon our du-
ties as citizens of the government of the United 
States because the kingdom of God is near ? 
But let us suppose, that, instead of being citizens 
of the United States whose government is imperil- 
led by a causeless and murderous rebellion, any one 
of these brethren is a ruler, in whom the authority 
of the government has been vested—would he be jus-
tified in abdicating his office, and abandoning the 
nation over which he ruled to anarchy or tyranny ? 
Would even the conviction that the Lord Jesus is 
speedily coming to establish a righteous government 
over all the earth, warrant him in abandoning his 
people to no-government or mis-government ? The 
question may be answered by considering whether 
we exemplify the law of Christ, " Thou shalt love 
thy neighbor as thyself," by abandoning him, not 
simply as an individual, but in his collective capac-
ity, as a nation, to all the horrors of an irresponsi-
ble and barbarous despotism, such as now usurps the 
place of the U. States government in the Southern 
States. 
The man who should abdicate his place as ruler, 
under these circumstances, would most flagrantly 
violate the first great law of Christ touching our re-
lations to each other, and would be guilty both of 
cowardice and meanness. And, so far from being a 
Christian, he would not be half a man. 
Now, how is the case materially altered, and our 
duty affected, by the fact, that, instead of ours be- 
ing a monarchical government and one of us the 
sovereign, we live under a better order of things, 
and are each component parts of a Democratic Re-
public, in which we all are, in an important and 
strictly logical sense, sovereigns ? We are born to 
this inheritance of political power, and can no more 
avoid its responsibilities, than we can avoid our du-
ties as parents or children, when we sustain either 
of these relations. 
The question at issue is not, whether we prefer 
our Democratic Republic to the personal reign and 
kingdom of Christ, but whether we prefer one le-
gally authorized and beneficent (at least in most re-
spects) government, with the guarantees and sanc-
tions of its written Constitution, to the ascendancy 
of Jeff. Davis and the oligarchy of petty tyrants, 
who have waged war upon us, and upon the nation-
al government, for the purpose of extending and 
perpetuating, in its worst form, that system of bon-
dage which constitutes the disgrace of our Christian 
civilization. This is the question, and this only.—
No true lover of Christ could possibly prefer any 
earthly government to His, just as no Christian 
could prefer father, mother, wife, or children to 
Christ. Let us suppose again, that all Christians 
should refuse to " war with carnal weapons," or 
take up arms for the defence of our government and 
nation—what would be the result ? Of course our 
government would he overthrown and we should be 
involved in anarchy, or overborne by tyranny—and 
all those free institutions and blessed privileges 
would perish, which we have inherited from our fa-
thers, purchased by the pilgrims of the old world 
and the new, by years of war and bloodshed involv-
ing the sacrifice of thousands of lives and millions 
of treasure. 
Before brethren take this stand, let them anathe-
matize the Reformation, let them stigmatize as un-
christian, the struggles for civil and religious liberty 
in England, and in all the continental states, where 
the spirit of enlightened Christianity has met the 
usurpations of Popery face to face, and fought the 
battle of freedom with both " the sword of the Spi-
rit" and the sword of the State, which the apostle 
Paul says " the powers ordained of God" bear for 
the " punishment of evil doers." When, in all the 
ages of the past thrilling history of the struggles of 
Christian Reformers for civil and religious freedom, 
did a sovereign—a Christian sovereign—yield the 
sword which God had put into his hand for the de-
fence of justice and righteousness, and relinquish it 
to a tyrant whose purpose was to organize injustice 
and tyranny on the most gigantic scale, and wield 
the same sword against well-doers instead of evil-
doers ? And shall it be left to those who assume a 
higher degree of enlightenment, and a more perfect 
conformity to the gospel of Christ, than others, to 
repudiate their duties as citizens and, refusing to 
wield the sword of the civil power, basely yield 
themselves to the usurpations of the basest and 
meanest tyranny of which the history of the world 
furnishes us any example? 
But it is said Christ commands us "not to fight." 
our duties, in all the domestic and social relations, Where does Christ command this ? Nowhere ! He 
forbids private revenge and retaliation, and says, 
that, instead of returning a blow, we should, upon 
being smitten on one cheek, " turn the other ;" but 
when the soldiers came to inquire what they were to 
do—instead of being told to put away their " car-
nal weapons" they were told to " do violence to no 
man (referring to a system of marauding prevalent 
among them) and be content your wages." Not 
even under so vile a government as that of Rome, 
were Christians commanded to abandon the sword, 
and, obviously, because no government can exist 
without the sword—as no authority can be sustain-
ed without resort to physical force as the last ex-
tremity. 
That Christians in the early ages were not non- 
resistants, is manifest from the fact, that tens of 
thousands of the noblest of them were in the Ro-
man armies. And, that the Reformers of the last 
few centuries did not understand the Saviour to for-
bid fighting, is plain from the fact that they did 
fight for their lives and liberties, whenever there was 
occasion and they had any reasonable hope of suc-
cess. 
If the fact, that Paul when speaking of the gos- 
pel and its power to subdue men says "the weapons 
of our warfare are not carnal but spiritual, and 
mighty through God to the pulling down of strong-
holds," proves that it is unchristian for the civil 
power to wield the sword to enforce obedience ; then 
the fact that Christ commands us to " labor nut for 
the,meat that perisheth," is to be taken as a prohi-
bition of all agricultural and horticultural pursuits. 
God prefers even imperfect government to no gov- 
ernment, just as He prefers an imperfect church to 
no church, and, in the interval between the first and 
second coming of Christ He secures the best gov-
ernment He can ; and, in a Republic, we are each 
under the same obligation to co-operate with God in 
making and supporting the best government practi-
cable, that we are under to establish and. maintain 
the best church and the most perfect social relations 
possible. 
The doctrine of the speedy coming of Christ was 
never put to a worse use, than when thrust upon 
the consciences of Christians to prevent their earn-
est co-operation in maintaining the government in 
this hour of its peril, and in tying bands which 
might wield the only sword that the rebels, in their 
madness, can appreciate, or be made to feel. 
Very truly yours, 
L. DELOS MANSFIELD. 
the Hudson, Oct. 14, 1861. 
The following comes without any name or post-
mark, and we know not the writer, but give it, as 
requested : 
" Should Christians have anything to do with war 
or politics, except morally or religiously? The na- 
tions are the world, including the fourth beast.— 
For the character of the fourth beast, see Dan. 7:7, 
19. Christians, their character. See Christ's ser- 
mon on the mount, particularly Matt. 6:24. They 
are not of the world, but chosen out of the world. 
Have we the spirit of the Prince of Peace ? Then 
we would not call down fire from heaven to consume 
our enemies, nor pray for legions of angels, but sub-
mit to Cxsar and say, Father, forgive them. We 
will submit to the powers that be, and pray for 
them ; but if they require us to do what is morally 
wrong, we will submit to the penalty. All they 
that take the sword shall perish by the sword. We 
took the sword against our neighbors north of us in 
1812, and after that against Mexico ; thought our- 
selves secure from the sword, such was our situation 
in relation to other nations. But the sword has 
come upon us. 
" I wish to know whether I am alone in the be-
lief indicated above, and therefore I request you to 
publish this in the Herald. I am 73 years old ; have 
taken your publications more than 18 years.' 
Oct. 5, 1861." 
TIMELY ADVICE. An Exchange says : " Read the 
Bible before you look into the morning papers. The 
soul can't live on dispatches ; the bread of heaven 
is better for its health than telegrams. Of political 
talk and of crises, you will have enough anywhere, 
and to surfeit. Seek the company of those who fear 
the Lord and think upon his name. Make the most 
of every religious conversation, and lose no oppor-
tunity of assembling with those whose conversation 
is in heaven ; you need it just now. rse the means 
of grace diligently, or you will be swept away by 
the current that is bearing all things upon its bosom. 
Keep yourself in the love of God. Commune with 
your own heart in these noisy times. A great saint 
has said that he found the second Psalm an excel-
lent meditation for a crisis."—Mil. liar. 
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DIED, at Hanover, N.H., on Wednesday the 25th 
ult., of consumption, Mrs. LCCETTA A., wife of 
Samuel D. MARDEN, in the thirty-second year of her 
age 
The thoughts of Lucetta on her bed of sickness 
were much upon Him who is the chiefest among ten 
thousand, and altogether lovely, and were often fixed 
upon these very words. She felt her need, her utter 
need of Him, and Him alone, and her desire was to 
rest upon Him and Him alone. We doubt not that 
He who said, "Come unto me, all ye that labor and 
are heavy laden and I will give you rest ;" - and 
again, " Him that cometh unto me I will in no wise 
cast out," welcomed this redeemed one as she press-
ed to his side. Said she to me, " I am going only 
a little before you ; be faithful, and we'll soon meet 
again in the morn of the first resurrection." 
Farewell, conflicting hope and fear, 
Where light and shade alternate dwell ; 
How bright the unchanging morn appears ! 
Farewell, inconstant world, farewell ! 
S. D. MARDEN. 
DIED, in North Troy, Vt., Sept. 30th, 1861, OR-
ROCK W. CHAMBERLAIN, aged 2 years 4 months and 
12 days. 
His illness was very brief : he seemed somewhat 
unwell on Sunday, but his parents thinking it no-
thing serious left for South Richford to attend the 
funeral of a relative, and ere they reached their 
home next morning he was a corpse ! The bereave-
ment was therefore sudden and unexpected. A phy-
sician had been called, and interested friends had 
done what they could to save him, but in vain. It 
was in the house of Bro. C. that Elder N. Billings 
died, and twice since that time has " the last ene-
my" entered this family circle. The deceased was 
a bright, active boy, and a twin, but his sister is too 
young to fully realize the loss. The attendance at 
the funeral was large and attentive, and the Metho-
dist minister who resides in the village assisted in 
the services. I endeavored to comfort the mourners 
and to benefit all by a discourse based on Jer. 31 : 
16, 17, " Thus saith the Lord ; Refrain thy voice 
from weeping, and thine eyes from tears ; for thy 
work shall be rewarded, saith the Lord ; and they 
shall come again from the land of the enemy ; and 
there is hope in thine end, saith the Lord, that thy 
children shall come again to their own border." 
When Rachel's children live again 
This little one will rise, 
To meet the Saviour coming down 
The pathway of the skies ; 
and then may the stricken parents " be accounted 
worthy" of a home in the kingdom of God, where 
the saved from the ranks of infancy will dwell for 
ever; and where family ties thus mended will he 
broken no more. I hope through grace to meet my 
youthful namesake there. �
J. M. ORROCK. 
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fever-sores, scrofulous humors, erysipelas, salt-rheum, 
king's evil, rheumatism, spinal difficulties, chafings in 
warm weather, &a. Ac., and is believed by many experi-
enced arid competent judges to be the best combination of 
medicinal ingredients for external inflammatory difficul-
ties that has ever been produced. Many of the best phy-
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Every farmer should have it for horses ; for the cure of 
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From Mr. Morris Fuller, of. North Creek, N. Y. : "We 
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used it, is a bad ease of scald head' of our little girl. 
Its effect in this case was also favorable." 
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Among other things I knew a lady who sees cured of a 
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Mrs. Glover, East Merrimack street, Lowell, was cured 
of a bad ease of piles by the use of one box of the Salve. 
Mr. Farrington, a wealthy merchant and manufacturer 
of Lowell, was relieved of piles which had afflicted him 
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Miss Harriet Morrill, of East Kingston, N. H., says: "I 
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• From Mr. J. 0. Merriam, Tewksbury, Mass. : " I have 
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other kinds of salve. Yours is the best I ever saw. I 
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From Dr. W. S. Campbell, New Britain, Conn.: "Yong 
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sore nipples. Its effect was, a speedy and permanent cure." 
Dr. Bliss, of Brunswick, Me., says : " I have several 
friends who have been cured of scrofulous humors by the 
Golden Salve. You may ecommend it from me as a val-
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" I received a wound in my foot by a rusty nail ; by 
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and two and a half boxes of it wrought a perfect cure."-
Mrs. Lucinda A. Swain, Merideth Centre, N. H, 
Mr. H. L. W. Roberts, Editor of Marion Intelligencer, 
Marion, Ill., says, " Every person that uses the Golden 
Salve testifies favorably." He has also published a list of 
names in his paper, of persons cured of wounds, sores, hu-
mors, rheumatism, Ise., and gives the public reference to 
them ; who, he says, are among the first citizens of the 
place. 
THE GOLDEN SALVE-A GREAT HEALING REMEDY.-It 
is with much pleasure we announce the advent of this new 
article in our city, which has met with such signal success 
in Lowell, where it is made, that the papers have teemed 
with cases of truly marvelous cures. They chronicle one 
where the life of a lady was recently saved-a case of bro-
ken breast ; another where the life of a child was saved-
a case of chafing ; another of a lady whose face was much 
disfigured by scrofulous humor, which was brought to a 
healthy action in a few days •, also another of an old man, 
who had a sore on his foot for twenty years-cured in a 
few weeks. Our citizens will not be slow in getting at its 
merits, and will herald it over the land.-Boston Herald. 
Boston, July 12, 1859. Bro. Whitten : I have usedyour 
Golden Salve in my family, and I am acquainted with a 
large number of families also who have used it ; and I 
have reason to believe that it is really what you recom- 
mend it to be. �
J. V. HINES. 
Made only by C, P. Whitten, No. 35 and 37 East Mer- 
rimack street, Lowell, Massa Sold by druggists, and at 
country stores. Price 25 cts. per box, or $2 per dozen. 
I want good, reliable, persevering agents to canvass, in 
all parts of the United States and Canada. A large dis- 
count will be made to agents. �
aug 13-pd tojan 1 '62 
For sale at this office. 
" Buy the Best, and Cheapest. .,E3 
Thousands testify that it is WELLCOME'S GREAT GERMAN 
REMEDY, for Coughs, Colds, Bronchitis, Phthisic, Inflam-
mation f throat and lungs, Ac. We have never known 
it to fail to cure Bronchitis. Hundreds of certificates can 
be shown. Circulars sent to all who wish them. 
From a Druggtst. 
Mr. Wellcome-I can furnish you four first-rate certifi-
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almost every thing else without eact. Send along three 
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it. �
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Livermore, Me., Oct. 12, 1859. 
From I. Wight, Augusta, Me. 
Mr. Wellcome :-Your G. G. Remedy is decidedly the 
best thing I ever saw for throat and lung diseases. 
Eld. S. K. Partridge, being cured with it, of a severe 
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Eld. A. C. Hodgkins being cured with it, of a bad case 
of phthisic and cough, of 15 years' standing, speaks of it 
in the highest terms. 
WELLCOME'S LIVER REGULATOR 
is recommended above all other remedies for the Liver 
Complaint, and diseases arising therefrom. 
WELLCOME'S MAGIC PAIN-CURER 
is a specific for nearly all pains, internal and external. 
The above medicines are purely vegetable, are recom-
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the greatest success. Only half the price of others of the 
same quantity. 
Sold in most parts of Maine. In Butternuts, N. Y. - 
Ira Townsend. Hartford, Ohio - S. Borden. N. Barn-
stead, N. H.-Tho. K. Proctor. Derby Line, Vt.-J. IV. 
Babbitt. 'Tetley, C. E.-W. L. Rowell. Agents make 
good pay selling them. Others wanted in every State. 
Terms liberal. Sold in Boston by H. Sones, 48 Kneellied 
street, and by S. J. Noble, corner of Carver and Eliot sts. 
I. C. WELLCOME, Richmond, Me. 2 Sole Proprietors. 
R. R. YORK, Yarmouth, Me. 
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common Fever and Fever and Ague, and all the every day 
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relief from disease and suffering, as the best they can use. 
Price 37 1-2 cents. Sold by H. Jones, 48 Kneeland st., 
Boston, next door to the Herald office ; and by J. Litch 
127 N. 11th st., Philadelphia. �
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CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT I lions, it would tell a sad and bitter tale of Eunice's whispered complaint reached his �
" Oh, ask Him freely to forgive 
" FEED MY LAMBS."—J01,1 21:15. 
the evils of dishonest acts. �
ear, his face brightened up ; he was safe �
The many faults He's seen ; 
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Another incident, which we have often now ; and w hen the elm.; was dismissed �
You cannot hope in heaven to live 
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listened to with pleasure, shows, how a he said : " Eunice whispered, sir." �
Unless you've pardoned been. 
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man may get a good name by an honest �
Eunice rose, and in a trembling voice �
And write your very best, my boy ! 
 
act. �
related what she had said ; but the teach- 
Ask Him to guide your hand; 
That every leaf will bring you joy, 
Two neighbors in Vermont, �
but 
livinga er saw no excuse in it, and she was called �
When you before Him stand !" 
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short distance apart, and each possessing a to take the place of the ungenerous boy �
 
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I saw a tigress a little while ago. She 
 
noble yoke of oxen—meeting one day, one who had told of lier. 
was in a cage gnawing a bone. A man of them proposed to " swap." This his �
Books had been put away, and the wri- 
APPOINTMENTS. 
put his umbrella against the bars of her �
Reynolds will Preach (D.V.) at Montgome- 
friend at first refused ; but after a short tins-school looked on in sorrowfulness, as • Elder B. S. 
den, and oh ! how madly her eyes glared. �
ry Centre, Friday, October 18th, and hold meetings over 
conversation the exchange was evenly Eunice left her seat to take the dreaded the �
owing Sabbath ; 
She showed her white teeth, growled, and made, and each one went to his home seem- punishment. She was one of the best nesday
foll evening the 23d and in Clarenceville, C. E , Wed- 
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sprang towards the man in a way that ingly satisfied. �
scholars ; bright, faithful, sweet-tempered, 
made him start back in a hurry. �
Loudon Ridge, Sunday, Oct. 27th; West Alton, Friday, 
A year passed, and not a word of dis- and a general favorite. Every one felt 
" Well," thought I, half aloud, " if you �
Nov. 8, at 10 o'clock A. M., and continue over the Sab- 
content had been spoken by either ; but that it was unjust ; and many angry glan- bath. Will brethren remember this meeting, and do what 
were loose, mistress Tigress, and in the one day the elder repaired to the " saw ces were cast at the boy ' who was meat' they can in order to see the work of the Lord again reviv- 
streets, I should not like to meet you.— mill" of the younger, and placins a five enough to get a little girl punished. Over- ed in West Alton, "while it is called to-day." 
You'd make mince-meat of the boys and dollar bill in his hand, requestarhim to come with shame and fear, she stood by �
T. M. PREBLE. 
girls 'mazin' quick." �
keep it; stating, at the same time, that , the side of the desk, crying bitterly, while . The Lord willing, I will preach in Unity, N. IL, as 
"But there is a creature as dangerous
27th ; in North Spring-
having worked the oxen a year he was I the teacher. was preparing to inflict the Br. May appoints, Sunday, Oct. 
as the tigress running loose among the �
field, Vt, Sunday, Nov. 10th; on Dinsmore Hill, Sunday, 
convinced they were five dollars better punishment.
C. 0. TOWNE. 
children," whispered a friend at my elbow. than the yoke he exchanged for them. �
At this Moment a tall boy stepped out of Nov. 17th. 
" All !" cried I, looking round. with sur-His friend refused to take the money, his seat, and going to the desk, said :— 
Dear Bro. Bliss :—Will you kindly notice in the Ad- 
prise in my looks • " what is it ?" �saying that he was perfectly satisfied with 
" �
" Are you going to punish Eunice, sir?" vent herald the following appointments for our State Mis- 
sionary, 0. R. Fassett ? Thursday ev, Oct. 24th, at Ban- 
The Just-as-i've-a-mind-to," said he, 
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the bargain, and thought the oxen he re- �
" Yes ; I never bleak my . rules," the gor, Me., and continue over following Sabbath ; Monday 
laughing, and leaving me very much puz- ceived full as good as those he exchanged. teacher 'answered. �
evening, 28th, Ellenwood Corner, Tuesday and Wednesday 
zled for the moment. �
But the honest neighbor told him that �
" We will not•see her beaten !" said the evenings, 29th and 30th; North Searsport, Thursday eve- 
ning; 31st; LincoInville Centre, to continue over the fel- 
" The Just-as-I've-a-mind-to," mused 1 he could not rest contented, unless he took boy, in an excited voice ; " there is not a lowing Sunday; 4th, 5th and 6th Nov., Monday, Tuesday 
" He's joking, I guess. And yet it seems �
and Wednesday evenings, at Rockport, where Dr. R. D. 
the money, as he thought it rightfully his boy .here, but that one, that would see her 
to me I've heard that name before. Oh ! due. �
Eaton may appoint ; Thursday, 7th Nov., South Hope, 
punished ! Beat me, sir, and keep your and continue over iollowing Sunday; and thus assist the 
I've got it ! He means the spirit of wig- �
At length, after considerable entreaty, rule, it you must ; hut don't touch this lit- cause, and oblige truly and fraternally yours,
THom 
fulness and obstinacy which leads a boy
AS SMITH. 
the mill-owner pocketed the money ,• but tie girl !" 
or girl to despise good counsels and to say, expressed his entire satisfaction with the �
The master paused. The school looked 
The Northern Illinois Conference of Adventists will 
`I'll do just as l've a mind to.' That's it. exchange as it stood a year before. �on tearfully. �
hold their third quarterly meeting at Deer Park, in the 
The Just-as-I've-a-mind-to is a tigress in-
Vermillionville meeting-house, commencing Thursday, 
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That night: the elder neighbor went to �
'' Do you mean to say you will take her Nov. 28, at 10 1.2 in the morning. Deer Park is in La 
deed. It destroys a great many children, his home with a lighter heart than he had punishment 7" asked the teacher. �Salle Co, on the direct road from Ottawa to Tonics, being 
certainly." �
carried for many days. Shortly his noble �
" I do, sir," was the bold reply. �
about eight miles east of Tonica and about the same south 
Then I thought of some things the Just- �
west on the mail route to Tonics. Those coming on the 
as-I've-a-mind-to had done. I remember- �
The sobbing little girl was sent to her Central R.R. will stop at Tonica and those coming on the 
deed became known to his neighbors, and 
he went by the name of " honest old Joe" seat : and, without flinching, her friend Rock Island R.R. will stop at Ottawa. Again we invite 
ed Will Crusty, who was sent to mill one forever after. �
all interested to come, preachers and people; 
day by his father with the horse and wag- �
stood and received the punishment that 
For signs there's no mistaking 
There is a virtue—a dear and holy vir- was to have fallen on her. The school 
on. �
As he left the door-yard his good fa.- �
Proclaim Messiah near. 
tue—in honesty ; a virtue which no storm, was dismissed.; and the boys paid him in 
H. G. MeCueeocx, Sec'y of Conf. 
ther said: �
however rude, can efface from be gentle admiration and praise for all he had suf- 
" Will, don't ford the river to-day. The heart, which has entrusted itself to the fered, while the grateful little girl blessed I have arranged to assist the brethren in Lawrence in a 
water is too high. Go round by the care and keeping of such glorious acts. 
bridge." �
him from her heart for a noble and genet- protracted meeting, to commence Wednesday evening) 
Nov. 13th, and continue as duty may dictate. 
T. �
ous boy, who had saved leer from the great- 
G. W. BURNHAM. 
Will cracked his whip and drove off �
est shame and suffering. �
Wolfboro', N. II., Oct. 21, 1861. 
muttering : " I shall do just as I've a mind �
The Young Hero. �
I said the little school had its heroes— 
to about that, old gentleman." �
It was a warm summer afternoon ; a la_ and this was one of them Do you think BUSINESS DEPARTMENT: 
Then he drove straight to the ford. An zy breeze stole through the windows of a this conduct admirable? 
old farmer saw him and shouted : 
" Will, don't cross the ford—'tan't safe!" �
lifting the �
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BUSINESS NOTES. 
little hot district school-house, 
white curtains, and rustling the leaves of what He did, who bore our sins in His 
" I shall do just as I've a mind to about 
that, old gaffer," said Will. �
own body on the tree—the Saviour of men. 
J. B. Huse. Wrote you the 17th inst. directed to New 
the copy-books that lay open on all the 
So he drove
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into the driver at the ford. desks. Thirty or forty scholars, of all What he suffered, we cannot know in this York City. Would it not be well for you to give us your 
ages, were bending over the writing, quiet life; but God laid on him the iniquity of street and number—putting the same in list of agents? 
But the water was very high, the current �
J. M. Orrock. Sent your bundle 21st. 
was strong. The horse lost his foothold �
us all, which he willingly bore,' to save us 
John Ireland. We cr. you Oct. 4 three dollars on Her- 
and busy ; the voice of the master, as he 
passed about among the writers, was the from eternal shame and misery. With his aid to No. 1101—to July 1, 1862. 
and was carried into deep water. Will only sound. But though so silent, this lit- stripes we are healed. How great the 
was frightened, and falling into the water, the, light, hot school-room has its heroes. �
gratitude each of us owes such a Friend ! �A. M. ASSOCIATION. 
was carried over the mill-dam and dashed �
The bell rings for the writing to be laid 
to death among the rocks. The Just-as. �
" Love so amazing, so divine, 
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by ; and now comes the last exercise of �
The "American Millennial Association," located in Bos- 
I've-a-mind-to killed him as certainly as �
Demands my soul, my life, my all." 
ton, Mass., was legally organized Nov. 12th, 1858, under 
the day, the spelling, in which nearly all 
any loose tigress would have done. �
join. At the head of the class is a delicate �
the provisions of the 56th Chapter of the Acts of the Le- 
Nor is Will the only boy which this �
Looking to Jesus. �
gislature of Massachusetts of A. D. 1857, for charitable 
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little girl in a blue dress, whose bright eyes �
and religious purposes. The whole amount obtained by 
fierce creature has killei. �
Millions—I �
A savage clothed in rags and begrimmed with donations, subscriptions, or sales of publications, is to be 
and attentive air show that she prizes her 
mean millions—have been ruined by it. �
dirt, chanced to look into a clear pond, and shrank expended in the publication of Periodicals, Books, and 
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place, and means to keep it. �
Tracts, and for the support of ministers of the Gospel. 
Presently a word, which had passed all back affrighted at the hideous image of himself. The 
All contributions to our treasury, will be duly acknow- 
It loves to drive children into ruin, Isn't 
it a dreadful creature ? �
longer he gazed the more appalling was the view. ledged, and, at the end of the year, will be embodied in a 
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the lower end of the class, came to Eun- �
report. When there is any omissio tof the proper credit, 
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You wouldn't like to meet it, Eh 7 I �
So the awakened sinner, the more he looks only at 
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ice. The word was privilege. " P-r-i-v, �
due notice should be at once given 
suppose not. Yet I fear some of you have 
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himself, the viler he seems to grow, and the more �
tSYLYESTER BLISS, Treasurer. 
priv—i, privi — 1-e-g-e, lege, privilege," 
met it and have even given it a lodging in 
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hopeless his prospects ; but if he turns away from 
spelt Eunice. But the teacher, vexed with 
your bosoms—for mark, the Just-as-I've-a- 
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his own vileness, to Christ the sinner's refuge, he 
the mistakes of the other end of the class, 
mind-to is neither more nor less than a 
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finds joy and peace in believing in him.—His fears 
misunderstood, and passed it. The little 
stubborn will in a child's heart ! �girl looked amazed, the bright color came are forgotten, and in their place is a sense of par- 
into her cheeks, and she listened eagerly doned sin, and acceptance in the Beloved. 
to the next person, who spelt it again as 
she had done. �
The Copy-Book. 
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We have all heard the old saying that �
"Right," said the teacher ; " take your �
BOY. 
" Honesty is the best policy," and as re- place.' 
gards its truthfulness, but few rational �
" I spelt it so," whispered Eunice, part- �
" Please, father, give it back to me ! 
I wish you would not look 
minds can doubt. How seldom, in our ly to herself, the tears springing to her eyes �
Inside ; why can you want to see 
daily walk, do we see perpetrated acts of as she passed down. But, too timid to �
My poor old copy-book? 
"honesty which—however small they may speak to the master, she remained in her �
" You'll find a blot on every page, 
appear—are nevertheless of much import- place inly determined soon to get up again. �
I've not the smallest doubt, 
ante. Honesty—in its purest state—is a But her trials were not yet over. �
I know 'tis shameful at my age ; 
priceless jewel, a token which every per- �
Many expedients had been tried in the �
I tried to rub them out. 
son should strive to win ; but, alas, how school to keep out that arch-enemy of all �
" There's something wrong in every line, 
few of earth's mortals are striving for those teachers—Whisper. At length the follow- �
I'm sure I could not tell 
blessings which it alone can give. �Mg plan was adopted :—The first whis- �
If 't was another hand than mine, 
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Two lads, horn and reared in the same ,perer was put upon the floor in front of the �
What those strange letters spell. 
village, and who received their education teacher's desk. Here he acted as a mom- �
" Do shut the book and end my grief ; 
at the same school, began their life's trade tor; as soon as he detected another, lie �
ye burn it if I durst. 
I truly think that closing leaf 
at the same time. Both chose the same took his seat, and the next offender kept a �
Worse written than the first." 
business—that of the merchant. They sharp look-out to find some one to take his �
FATHER. 
were smart, and intelligent boys, and gain- place ; for, at the close of the school, the 
ed the respect and esteem of their fellow scholar who had the whisperer's place was �
" Boy, there's another copy-book, 
Your Father, God, has seen, 
men. Pleasantl y passed their clerkship, punished very severely—as the school 
You cannot close it from His look; 
and then each went into business of his phrase was, " took a furling !" This plan �
Is that writ fair and clean ? 
own. Here their friendship ceased; for appeared to operate very well ; but though �
" If there are blots and crooked lines 
one chose the road to honor, the other the it secured an orderly school, many of the �
Across those pages white, 
downward road to disgrace. In three hap- parents doubted its justice. �
When His clear eye upon them shines, 
py years the former filled an exalted and �
The boy who was on the floor when �
'T will he a hateful sight. 
honorable position in his native country, Eunice lost her place, was an unruly,surly �
" And you are writing every day 
while the latter—despised by the world— fellow, who had smarted for his faults of- �
Upon that inner page, 
filled an unhonored grave ; and could his ten before ; and as school drew near its �
How bitter it must be to say 
life's history be read by the intelligent mil- close, he began to tremble. The instant �
Your heart grows worse with age! 
BOSTON. OCTOBER 2G. 1801. 
The " Just-as-I9ve-a.mind-to." 
Honesty. 
(Original.) 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO TUESDAY, OCT. 22, 1861. 
A Brother, on a pledge of one hundred dollars for the 
year, makes the second payment of.... .... �
..$10.00 
Special Proposition. 
" A friend to the cause" proposes to give one hundred 
dollars towards the six hundred needed to publish the 
Herald weekly the coming year, provided the amount be 
made up by other contributors. This is not designed to 
interfere with the pledges of annual payment, below.—
Paid on the above, by 
" A Friend of the cause ".... �
..............$10.00 
ANNUAL DONATIONS. 
It is desirable that there be raised by donation five or 
six hundred dollars each year, by annual subscriptions ; 
and the following may be a suitable form of pledge for 
that purpose. 
We agree to pay annually in furtherance of the objects 
of the American Millennial Association, the sums set 
against our respective names. 
Samuel Prior, Yardleyville, Pa �
........ ...... .5.00 
Stephen Sherwin, Grafton, Vt �
........ �
 .... 1.00 
Martin L. Jackson, Milesburg, Pa.... �.2.00 
RECEIPTS. 
UP TO TUESDAY, OCT. 22. 
The No. appended to each name is that of the HERALD to 
which the money credited pays. No. 1023 was the closing 
number of 1860 ; No. 1049 is the Middle of the present 
volume, extending to July 1, 1861; and No 1075 is to the 
close of 1861. Notice of any failure to give due credit 
should be at once communicated to the Business Agent. 
Mrs M A Parker 1023, R Kitchen 1083 ; by your bro-
ther, we suppose you mean A. G. White ? 1083; T Brown 
1049, Eld E Fair 1049, C Churchill 1075, A Ives 1066, I 
F Harden 1059—each $1. 
T Harley 1106, T Hasebury 1106, II M Beck 1093—
each $2. 
John Carver 1083—You were cr. $1 in Oct. 1860—S3. 
Mrs A Palmer 1076-50 cts; A C White 1112, $2.40.