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FUNDAMENTAL 
PRINCIPLES 
ON WHICH THE 
SECOND 
ADVENT 
CAUSE 
IS 
BASED. 
I. The xoord of God teaches that this earth is 
to be regenerated, 
in the restitution 
of all things, 
restored to its Eden state as it came from 
the 
hand of its Maker before the fall, 
and is to be 
the eternal abode of the righteous in their resur-
rection 
state. 
II. The only Millenium found 
in the word of 
God is the eternal state of the righteous 
in the 
New Earth, wherein dwelleth 
righteousness. 
III. 
The only restoration of Israel yet 
future, 
is the restoration 
of the saints to the New 
Earth, 
when the Lord my God shall come, and all his 
saints with 
him. 
IV. The signs which were to precede the coming 
of our Savior, have all been given ; and the pro-
phecies have all been fulfilled 
but those which re-
late to the coming of Christ, the end of this 
world, and the restitution 
of all things. 
And 
V. There are none of the prophetic 
periods, 
as ive understand 
them, that extend beyond the 
year 
1843. 
The above we shall ever maintain 
as the im-
mutable truths of the word of God, and there-
fore till our Lord come we shall ever look for his 
return as the next event in historical 
prophecy. 
Operations of Popery. 
Revival ofthe Inquisition—" New Era of Protes-
tantism in America,"—Warning of American Patri-
ots,—Repeal—Jesuitical sophistry and impudence— 
arms for Ireland. 
All at once there comes to our notice the 
burning of the Protestant Mission house at St. 
Pie, where, it appears, " more than fifty Papists 
have been converted to God, through the in-
strumentality of Dr. Cotes;"—the revival of 
the inquisition in South America, in Maderia, 
and against the Jews in Italy; and, as will be 
seen by the account ofthe extermination of the 
Nestorians, in this paper,the old gory enemy of 
" them that keep the commandments of God, 
and the testimony of Jesus Christ," was at the 
bottom of that fearful exhibition of persecuting 
vengeance. 
The " Pilot," (Heaven save the ship\ ) of 
Oct. 14th, the organ of popery in New Eng-
land, gives us some important light upon the 
manner in which " the beast and his army" 
are recovering from the withering stroke in-
flicted by Providence about the close of the 
last century, and the consuming agencies which 
have called forth from them so many 
curses, 
Boston, Wednesday, Nov, 1, 1843, 
and gnashings of teeth, and groans of despon-
dency since that time, a recovery which may 
give them a momentary victory for a last ex-
pression ofthe " great words and blasphemies," 
in the midst of which they are to be 
"taken 
and cast alive into a lake of fire burning with 
brimstone" by "the Lord God that judgeth 
them." 
Some idea ofthe papal forces may be 
learned from this statement:— 
" There are in the Catholic Church, 8 pa-
triarchs, 102 archbishops, 
and 490 bishops; 
besides 81 episcopal sees, now vacant or filled 
by bishops suffragan. 
These numerous vacan-
cies are owing to the state of religion in Spain, 
Portugal, Russia and Poland. 
The Propagan-
da has under its special direction vicars apos-
tolic in Africa 13; in America 15; in China 
15; in the East Indies 9; in the Indian Ocean 
5, and in other parts of India 3; in Germany 
5; in Turkey 7; at Gibraltar 1; in Greece 1; 
in Sweeden 1; in Holland 5; and in England 
and Scotland 12; The Holy See is represent-
ed at foreign courts by 11 nuncios, internun-
cios, and charge d'affairs. 
The ports of Lis-
bon and Madrid are unoccupied." 
SPAIN, 
The defeat of Espartero has restored popery 
and civil war to Spain. 
"The Archbishop of Tuam," an intimate 
fellow-laborer with the Irish liberator O'Con-
nel, thus speaks of the case. "Espartero 
had 
no other mind than that he bore an unremit-
ting hatred to the ancient religion of Spain, 
and the sacred hereditary liberties," [liberty to 
grope and grind in the prison house of death] 
"which were transmitted with its profession." 
The position of this dignitary may be looked 
upon as one of the many facts which show how 
intimately popery is connected with the ques-
tion of " repeal." 
The same Archbishop thus 
refers to a fact, in the modern history of pope-
ry, which we look upon as the pledge that 
its final overthrow is "at the door." 
" It was at the same table, and in the same 
room in Fontainbleau, in which Napolean lift-
ed his insulting hand against the 
venerable 
Pontiff, Pius VII., that he was, after the lapse 
of years, forced to sign the instrument of his 
own abdication of the empire." 
FRANCE. 
This humbled and distracted country, like a 
dog that is tired from biting and bleeding, only 
for the gratification of a dishonored but pas-
sionate master, through fear or mistaken self-
respect, obsequiously performs the fatal and 
disgraceful drudgery of her destroyer. 
Her 
worships, priests and outlaws are consecrated 
to the work of " the church," 
wherever there 
is any fear that barbarians and canibals may be 
civilized and prepared for the kingdom ofGod, 
or any hope that a Jesuit may profitably fill a 
post of observation, or brandy find a market. 
Her operations at 
the Sandwich 
Islands, 
Tahiti, Vavau, kc. &c., are familiar to our 
readers. 
There are, however, on the other hand, some 
sections of the old world where the prospects of 
the pope are not very 
flattering. 
Whole No. 131. 
This is intimated by " the numerous vacan-
cies" on account of " the state of religion in 
Spain, Portugal, Russia and Poland " 
In due time the 
policy or vengeance of 
Europe will fulfil the decree of heaven upon 
the old sorceress whose "cup of abominations" 
has been " the cup of wrath" to her, to "eat 
her flesh and burn her with fire," for prophecy 
plainly intimates that there will be a season of 
mutual slaughter and civil war before the great 
!day, from which the people of God will be "de-
livered" or "caught up." 
AMERICA, 
The interest felt at Rome, and among her 
emmissaries in the midst of us, to gather their 
" benighted Christian brethren," 
(Judas, spare 
thy kiss!) who are now under " New England 
ignorance," (we use their own words) were it 
not for one consideration, would fill our hearts 
with the most fearful forebodings. 
And as it 
is, although we look upon their movements as 
preparatory to the great battle between Christ 
and anti-christ, which is to result in the ex-
termination of all the enemies of Christ from 
the earth, still we may speak as men in the 
name of justice, patriotism and philanthropy. 
If any queries arise in the mind ofthe read-
er as to the character of that submission which 
finds security from the mischiefs of popery, in 
the prospect of the judgment, our reply is, 
" Let us fall into the hands of God, and not 
into the hands of (such) men." 
And further, 
we wish to be found doing our duty in all re-
spects when the Lord comes. 
Some of the late 
arrangements for Ameri-
ca, at the Vatican, made public,are 
thus stated. 
ROME. 
On the great Feast ol the Assumption ofthe 
Blessed Virgin Mary, 15th August, we had the 
consecration of two bishops in the Church of 
St. Agatha. 
The 
Right 
Rev. 
Dr. O'Connor 
(from 
Cork) was consecrated Bishop of Pittsburg in 
Pennsylvania. U. S., and the Right Rev. Dr. 
Sharpies, coadjutor to the Right 
Rev. Dr. 
Browne, Vicar-Apostolic of Lancashire. 
His 
Eminence Cardinal Fransoni, assisted by two 
other prelates, performed the imposing cere-
mony. 
Dr. O'Connor was formerly a student 
ofthe Propaganda, and afterwards spent some 
time in the Irish college of St. Agatha at Rome. 
He has been until 
lately for five years in 
America, where he distinguished himself so 
much for his piety and learning, that all the 
bishops of the United States petitioned his Ho-
liness to have him promoted to the new see of 
Pittsburg, though he was most anxious him-
self to be exempted from that dignity. 
" I 
suppose," adds our respected correspondent, 
" you have seen the accounts ofthe late Synod 
of Baltimore. 
There are to be erected six new 
bishoprics, so that the bishops in that republic 
will soon be equal in number to those of the Irish 
hierarchy. 
The editor ofthe " Pilot," in speaking of the 
late Prot. Episcopal Convention,at N.Y., gives 
vent to the following " great 
words." 
" That we are on the eve of a religious rev-
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olution in America, no one can doubt, who has 
watched the inward workings of discord and 
confusion among our Protestant fellow-citizens. 
That the dawn of abetter day is near for them, 
and that the ever-widening fold of Catholicism 
will soon echo with pasans of holy joy and ex-
ultation for their rescue, every day evidences 
will not suffer us to disbelieve." 
Again. " The Convention may wrangle and 
stifle its weakness and discord," &.c. &c. " Yet 
Catholicity will beam once more upon millions 
of our 
benighted 
Christian 
brethren, 
upon 
whom it is even now shedding a partial light, as 
if Providence so permitted it, to shield them 
from being dazzled by the effulgence of its 
universal and everlasting glory." 
And the following comes along with some 
characteristic 
" outpourings" 
of 
" Catholic" 
rage at the exhibition of some specimens of pa-
pal degradation 
and 
stupidity 
practised 
at 
Rome, made by a late writer, which a Jesuit, 
as in duty bound, must always deny. 
" In this poor, puerile outpouring of New 
England ignorance, even though stamped with 
the seal ofthe City of St. Peter's Chair, we 
see another evidence ofthe New Era of Pro-
testantism in America." 
" A religious revolution in America ! " 
Is 
"the ever widening fold of Catholicism soon to 
echo with pseans of holy joy and exultation for 
the rescue of our Protestant fellow citizens!" 
' 
Are the scenes of St. Bartholomews to be the 
I occasion of those " pasans?" Is the fate ofthe 
Waldenses, and the Hugonots and the Nesto-
rians to be ours, should time permit? 
Yes! 
Before " the New Era 
of Protestantism in 
America," which this organ of "the Man of 
sin" anticipates, shall arise, we must be gath-
ered into the "fold" with those our slaughter-
ed " brethren!" Perhaps that is to be the sig-
nal for " the souls under the altar" to receive 
their " white robes" and palms of victory, and 
for God to " avenge their blood" upon " her" 
in whom " was found the blood of all that were 
slain on the earth." 
Give the Catholics the power and the occa-
sion, which is never long wanted, and 
submis-
sion or death would be the only alternatives! And 
sweet would be the revenge of popery on " Pro-
testantism in America." 
That is the hot-bed 
from which have sprung the poisoned plants 
which have sent " death and 
mourning and 
famine" among the palaces and citidels and 
thrones 
of papal Europe. 
Here 
Lafayette 
served the 
" apprenticeship" which 
enabled 
him to " set up for himsell" when he returned 
to France, and France forged the thunderbolts 
which prostrated the brazen walls,and sunder-
ed the iron chains of papal despotism, 
and 
brought its Lord—with his throne, and 
crown, 
and sceptre and robes all glittering and gory— 
mad with agony to the dust. 
Popery triumph "in America!" 
Has the 
long, and dark and frightful history of the form-
er been erased from all our books? 
Have the 
protestant pastors of America made up their 
minds to take their families and flocks, (those of 
them who have not discovered, by the aid of 
the German lights at Andover, that the scrip-
tural and prophetic character and history of 
popery belongs to Antiochus or Nero) to the 
caves and recesses and glens of our Green and 
Alegany mountains? 
How many are prepar-
ed to make such an exchange for the millen-
nium of which they have been dreaming? 
But alas for us, what can we hope? Will the 
protestants who scoff at the warnings of their 
Bibles and their God, 
regard the warnings 
of their patriot fathers, should we refer to them? 
One of the last and most impressive warnings 
of " the father of his country," whom, in our 
fondness we have often considered the 
political 
redeemer of mankind, was to have as little as 
poss ble to do xvith foreigners. 
And well he 
knew the reason for that warning. 
Lafayette, 
his " beloved disciple," and a Catholic, pre-
dicted that " if ever the liberty of this 
Republic 
is destroyed, it will be by Roman Priests." 
Shall these warnings, which it were the black-
est treason to disregard, inspired as they were 
by the history 
of every struggle of liberty 
against despotism 
for more than a thousand 
years, be lost upon us? Or must we furnish 
another case in proof of the oft verified prov-
erb, " whom God dooms to destruction he first 
makes mad?" 
Dark and ominous are the present move-
ments of Providence, but "in God is our hope." 
The " sure word of prophecy, as a light shin-
ing in a dark place, brings sweet consolation." 
The day dawn, and the day star throw their 
light upon the scene, and we can trace upon 
its outlines the signs of a "day," and 
"a 
kingdom" where the wicked cease from troub-
ling and the weary are at rest. 
God, perhaps, is kindling a fire which is ne-
cessary to bring out the pure gold. 
We must furnish our readers with one more 
extract. It is a part of a letter written by " Mr. 
J. Maginn, recently of Dublin," 
and calls upon 
Americans to furnish,— 
ARMS FOR 
IRELAND. 
Mr. M. says "the aid of America is a matter of 
vital importance to Ireland; and, until American 
people fully understand the great features of Irish 
policy, their sympathy and assistance will not be 
roused to the succor of Ireland. 
The British gov-
ernment are well aware that the most of the money 
which has been sent from this country has been 
subscribed by the Irish residents. 
They see no 
great movement or subscription coming from the 
mass of Americans, on the contrary, they see them 
looking on with apathy at the struggles of the Irish. 
They are under no alarm respecting the interfer-
ence of this country in the event ol strife occuring 
in Ireland. 
They think there may be some money 
collected and a great deal of oratory wasted by the 
Irish party in this country, and that it wi'l end 
there. They are not, therefore, intimidated by what 
public feeling they see exhibited in this couuiry. 
It is full time that we should give them cause to 
come to other conclusions. 
Let then the point to 
which the Irish are fast tending be fixed plain and 
clearly before the public eye of America, and we 
will no longer see this indifference." * 
# 
* 
" Their leaders well know that the population 
and resources of Ireland are fast diminishing, that 
any farther delay will be ruinous, and that if they 
let the opportunity at hand pass by it will never re-
turn again. 
The tide of their fortunes is near the 
flood. 
They will avail themselves of it. 
Consult-
ing the interests of their country, they have no other 
resource left. Ireland has everything to gain, little 
to lose or dread from the result. 
It may therefore, 
be safely predicted, that civil war is inevitable in 
Ireland. 
I would not have ventured on this brief sketch ol 
Irish affairs, had I not observed with pain the apa-
thy of the great body of Americans on the subject, 
and that the friends of Ireland have not turned their 
attention to those measures that will be of real util-
ity. 
We have had Repeal meetings, and money 
has been collected over the country; this has been 
of use, but how Ireland is to be assisted in the event 
of civil war is the great consideration that has been 
neglected, and as far as I am aware has not been 
touched upon, it appears to have been left to the 
blind goddess Fortune. 
The collection of money 
and measures of invading Canada have been thought 
to be the best means of assisting the Irish, but they 
are not the only ones nor the most efficient. 
It is 
[not in Canada that England is vulnerable, it is but 
a colony. 
England, like Rome, must be struck at 
in her own vitals. 
It is in Ireland, where all the 
elements of disaffection are ready for explosion, that 
'her weak point is; it is there the biow 
must 
be struck. 
Let the tocsin of civil war once 
be 
sounded, let a cannon shot be fired in anger, and 
the days of her greatness are numbered, the spell of 
her power is dissolved. 
What then does Ireland 
want? what does she expect from America? 
The 
question may be answered in one word. 
Arms? 
i When the Volunteers of Ireland had their cannon 
|and muskets, England respected and dreaded the 
; Irish. Let it be our care to provide them with arms. 
Money will be wanting, let us not be niggardly in 
our subscriptions. 
We are reproached for our love 
of money. 
Every English hireling lhat comes over 
here says that the spirit of freedom has departed 
from us, that we are already in the age of corrup-
tion, that we have become a nation of paltry traf-
> Ackers, that Mammon is the only deity worshipped 
amongst us. 
Let us exert ourselves one and all in 
the cause of Ireland, to give ihe lie to the scoundrels 
and leave no ground lor them to reproach us on this 
head. 
When America in her hour of peril sought 
aid from France, she received it. 
Ireland 
now 
seeks assistance from Ameiica, from a land of free-
men—let her not seek in vain. 
When the Irish 
are armed, the triumph of liberty is secure. 
The 
sooner arms and ammunition are provid. d the bet-
ter, the less blood will be shed. 
It is not when the 
hour of strife arrives we should be looking alter 
these matters, now is the time to have them pre-
pared. 
I may be asked how ihe arms are to be sent 
to Ireland when her coasts are guarded by the Brit-
ish fleet, and when this country is at peace with 
England. 
I answer that the English have neither 
ships nor means to guard the tenth part of it, they 
have but a few guard vessels, their navy is disman-
tled, they are unable to keep it up. 
The coast of 
Ireland is large, her harbors are numerous. 
Forty 
or fifty thousand muskets and a few field pieces 
with ball cartridge would enable the Irish to dis-
pose nf the British army—they could be disembark-
ed from a few vessels bound to Norway or else-
where. 
So complete is the organization in Ireland, 
that a million of men can be assembled at any point 
on the sea coast hy night or day and armed in a 
lew hours. 
America is at peace with England, at 
present it is a matter of convenience, but it will 
always be the interest and irue policy ol this coun-
try to assist in overthrowing the monopoly of that 
old despot, England—that faithless country, that 
never lost an opportunity of violating treaties when 
plunder was to be acquired or liberty to be crushed. 
Shall the faith of treaties be observed to her in the 
hour of her weakness. 
The American government, 
controlled by the public feeling of this country, will 
shut their eyes to any measures adopted for the re-
lief of the Irish. 
They will keep the treaty with 
England to the ears and break it to the sense. 
The 
conduct, of France towards this country in 1775 and 
'76 will be the model for their imitation. 
Americans have then nothing to prevent them 
from lending powerful and effectual assistance to 
Ireland, they have every motive to stimulate them 
to pay back the debt so long due to Engiand. 
If 
America is true to Ireland, if she provides the Irish 
with aims, English domination is at an end, and 
Ireland, that long oppressed but lovely country, 
whose name is synonymous with all the sublime 
and beautiful of nature, will be what God and na-
ture intended. 
" Great, glorious, and free, 
First flower of the earth, and fiist gem of the sea." 
J. M. 
Dorchester st., Soulh Boston, Sept. 27th, 1843. 
We love Ireland. 
We love the Irish. 
The 
blood, to the pressure of which our own pulse 
beats, is quickened by a mixture of theirs. 
But we hate popery; not because its theologi-
cal views differ from those we profess, but be-
cause God has marked it, and history has prov-
ed it, (the most fully where it has had the most 
unlimited sway) to be the consummation of in-
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grasping all 
the wide range of interests to 
which man stands related, with man himself, 
and by the sweep of what may have been deem 
ed, as it is malignantly proffered, to be an an-
gel's arm, throws them all into the darkness and 
confusion and guilt and misery of hell. 
We 
hate it in its alphabet, grammar, logic, text-
book and commentary, in its spirit and prac-
tice, in the abstract and concrete. 
We re-
gard it as the great perverter of all that is holy 
and good, for man personally and socially on 
earth, as the sure precursor of the blighting 
curses of heaven upon man politically, and as 
the almost infallible pledge of the damnation 
of hell. 
Wherever it prevails it spreads a 
blight over the interests and prospects of man-
kind, physical, intellectual and moral, person-
al and political, temporal and eternal. 
If piety, 
patriotism, philanthrophy or genius have assum-
ed a form prodigious enough to rise into no-
tice through its atmosphere of death, it has been 
in spite of it, and not on account of it. 
If our revolutionary fathers had fought for, 
or under the guiding genius of popery, they 
never could have succeeded; if popery 
ever 
triumphs " in America," it will be "as if Provi-
dence so permitted it," to punish their ungrate-
ful and recreant descendants. 
If Ireland had not been fatally " deceived" 
by the " signs and lying wonders of the Man 
of sin," her political history would not have 
been one of slavery and blood. 
The triumph 
of O'Connel and the Irish, in spite ofthe bet-
ter principles of " the Liberator," will be so 
far the triumph of popery ; he is, and must be 
the mere plaything of the priests. Should arms 
be furnished for the Irish by Americans, though 
they may be aimed by the givers at the heart 
of a merciless monarchy, even if they were not 
used to bring about the predicted " new era of 
Protestantism in America," 
they must first 
penetrate the shield of Protestantism in Europe, 
and many of the hearts of its most worthy; 
friends. 
Suppose we should adopt the Jesuitical logic 
of one ofthe papal presses ofour land, in vindi-
cation of the treatment of the Jews in Italy by 
the Pope, in reference to the case of the Irish P | 
Refering to American " slavery" and slave 
" laws" as furnishing a precious analogy, the 
argument proceeds : 
"The difference of col-
or 
does 
not exercise a more serious influ-
ence on the social relations than the inveterate 
prejudices of a race that for ages regards the 
Christians with jealousy and aversion; and as 
much as may be lamented this state of mutual 
distrust, it may be humane to anticipate violent 
collisions and disorders by measures of pre-
caution." 
Have " the inveterate prejudices," the "jeal-
ousy and aversion" of the Jews against "the 
Christians," been productive of half " the vio-
lent collisions and disorders" of the fiendlike 
" aversion" ofthe Catholics to the protestants? 
That they have both done their worst is beyond 
dispute, but we have the most to fear from the 
most powerful 
enemy, 
and why not adopt 
" measures of precaution?" 
If arms are fur-
nished for Ireland, let them be furnished for 
others of " our fellowmen in Europe." 
Give 
them to the Jews, and the patriot insurgents of 
Italy. 
Give them also to the natives and mix-
ed population of South America who are strug-
gling 
for life against the priestly vampyres 
who have fastened themselves upon their vi-
tals. 
To say nothing of the impudent assump-
tion that the "American government will keep 
the treaty with England to the ears, and break 
it to the sense," which we suppose may be con-
sidered a 
specimen 
of the " light" which 
"Catholicity is even now sheding, as if per-
mitted by Providence to shield us from being 
dazzled by the effulgence of its universal and 
everlasting glory," 
and which would bring us 
up to "the conduct of France,"—to say nothing 
of this barefaced public and national insult, of 
which no man but a Jesuit would be guilty, and 
which shows how much the Pope and his em-
misaries need another Napoleon to " teach 
them to respect the sacredness ot treaties, "—has 
this " friend of Ireland" anticipated all the risks 
in the way of a transfer of " forty or fifty thous-
and muskets, and a few field pieces with ball 
cartridge" to Ireland ? No doubt the donors 
might be accommodated, and would it not be 
very convenient to deposit them in those dun-
geon-looking edifices, like the one at the corner 
of F. and F. streets in our city, which are the 
rallying points ofthe corps Jesuitical to whose 
hands is entrusted the work of effecting "the 
New Era of Protestantism in America?" 
Are there no other " scoundrels" but those 
from "England" in the way? 
"As much as 
may be lamented this state of mutual distrust, 
it may be humane to anticipate violent collisions 
and disorders by measures of precaution." 
Is 
there no danger in aiding such " a race" with 
their inveterate prejudices" against Protestant-
ism? 
And if it were safe, is it right? 
Why 
) should we lavish our money and our arms up-
j on these infatuated creatures of the Pope, while 
he is preparing the- instruments of torture, for 
the Jew? sending the ships of war, and the 
" scoundrels" of France to blight the thriving 
off-shoots " of Protestantism in America" which 
are blessing in 
so many 
ways the 
barba-
rians of the South 
Seas? 
And 
instigating 
the Mahometan blood-hounds to the same work 
in the mountain homes of the Nestorians? 
Is 
the Jew such an " inveterate" specimen of de-
pravity, that all sympathy is wasted upon him, 
and is 
there no 
danger from the 
equally 
blind and stupid papist? 
The curse arid the 
crime, before God, of the Irish, like those of 
the Jews, is their religion. 
Pagan Rome was 
the appointed instrument of Heaven in over-
throwing political Judaism. The political athe-
ism of France, the unbaptized, unconsecrated 
twin brother of popery, was the instrument of 
overthrowing political Popery, it being the only 
thing out ofthe bottomless pit viler than Po-
pery, and vile enough to be used in such a 
work. 
And England has 
been the "rod of 
iron" for keeping in check the more deadly 
ambition ofthe crowned and titled murderers, 
who have always been so ready to do the bidding 
ofthe Pope, in Austria, Spain, Portugal, France 
and Ireland. 
We pity Ireland. 
Our " hearts 
desire and prayer to God for" her "is that" 
she " might be saved." But neither " money,' 
nor " muskets," nor " a few field pieces," nor 
" ball cartridges" can save her. These, more-
over, would be too convenient to be used for 
the good, 
in the "Catholic" sense, of their 
" benighted Christian brethren," who are fools 
enough to be " dazzled by those who publicly 
teach them to keep the treaty to the ear, and 
break it to the sense," and thus to hasten on 
" the New Era of Protestantism in America," 
and to thunder in " the paeans of holy joy and 
exultation" which " will soon echo" to millions 
that the " light" of" Catholicity" has triumph-
ed over " New England ignorance." 
Who-
ever aids popery, disguised under " Irish poli-
cy," does it at the 
peril of sharing in her 
plaugues when, 
from the Judge of all the 
earth, the millions whose blood she has shed, 
will be commissioned to "fill to her double the 
the cup she hath filled to them." 
Who bow to Christ's command, 
Your arms and hearts prepare ! 
The day of battle is at hand ! 
"Behold 1 come quickly! Blessed is he that watch-
eth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked 
and they see his shame." 
H. 
Letter from Brother B. Me Caine. 
DEAR 
BROTHER BLISS :—I 
drop you a few 
lines to inform you how the cause of the spee-
dy coming of our blessed Lord and Master 
prospers here. 
Brother D. Johnson gave a 
course of lectures in this place last winter, and 
thanks be to God, a few gave heed to the Mid-
night cry. 
We soon established meetings for 
prayer, and have had some sweet seasons in 
praising God, and conversing of Christ and 
his speedy coming to call his people home, and 
to destroy the works ofthe devil. 
My spirits 
droop within me when I see how few there are, 
among so many that pretend to love Christ, 
that are willing to heed the friendly warning, 
to arouse from their slumbers, and trim their 
lamps ; but so it is, that the Scriptures may be 
, fulfilled ; two shall be in the field, the one shall 
be taken and the other left ; two shall be grind-
ing at the mill, the one shall be taken and the 
other left. 
O that the world would learn wis-
dom from the past. 
0 that men would search 
the word of God with clean hearts, to see if the 
Judge standeth at the door. 
I hope you re-
ceive a liberal patronage for your paper, to 
enable you to scatter far and wide, the glad ti-
dings ot the kingom at hand. 
I remain yours 
in the blessed hope of soon meeting you in the 
New Jerusalem, to go no more out forever, 
and where the days of our mourning will be 
ended. 
Honeoye Falls, Oct. 4, 1843 
Letter from W. L. Carlton. 
DEAR BROTHER BLISS :—I would inform you 
that I am strong in the faith of the blessed Ad-
vent doctrine, and giving glory to God. 
I be-
lieve that in a very few short months, I shall 
see him whom my soul loveth. 
Beloved, now 
are we the sons ofGod ; it doth not yet appear 
what we shall be, but we know that when he 
appeareth we shall be like him, for we shall 
see him as he is ; and every one that hath this 
hope purifies himself even as he is pure. 
Since 
I wrote to you last, I have seen this saying 
fulfilled, spoken by Paul, 
" in the last days 
many shall depart from the faith, giving heed 
to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils, 
having their conscience 
seared 
with a hot 
iron ; nevertheless, 
the 
foundation of God 
standeth sure, having this seal, God knoweth 
them that are his. 
I attended the 
Exeter 
campmeeeting, and it was a very interesting 
season. 
The dear brethren that were looking 
for their dear Savior last spring, and were dis-
appointed, were again revived with a strong 
faith that they should see him this year, and 
they seemed to get a new recruit of oil, and 
still left enough in grace's store house for all 
of the foolish virgins ; and when our meeting 
closed, we parted with strong faith that our 
next meeting would be in the New Jerusalem; 
where they will come from the east and from 
the west, from the north and from the south, 
and shall sit down with Abraham Isaac and Ja-
cob, in the kingdom of heaven. 
O how bles-
sed is the thought, that we shall e're long 
shine as the stars forever and ever. 
I can say 
with brother John, even so, come Lord Jesus. 
Your brother in tribulation, in the kingdom and 
patience of Jesus Christ. 
Liberty, Vt. Oct. 6. 
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES. 
"THE 
LORD 
IS AT 
HAND" 
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 1, 1643. 
" How is it that ye do not Discern 
this Time?" 
The Jews were in the same blindness with re-
gard to the time of Christ's first advent, that the 
church now is wilh regard to the time of his second 
advent; and both are equally inexcusable. 
The re-
proofs of our Savior to ihe Jews for their blindness 
are equally applicable now. 
When the Pharisees with the Sadducees came to 
Christ, and tempting, desired that he would show 
them a sign from heaven, he answered and said un-
to them, "When it is evening ye say, it will be fair 
weather; for the sky is red : and in the morning, it 
will be foul weather to-day, for the sky is red and 
lowering. 
0 ye hypocrites ! ye can discern the face 
of the sky ; BUT CAN YE NOT DISCERN THE SIGNS 
OF THE TIMES?" On another occasion he said 
to the people, " When ye see a cloud rise out ol the 
west, straightway 
ye say, There cometh a shower; 
and so it is. 
And when ye see the south wind blow, 
ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass. 
Ye hypocrites! ye can discern the face of the sky, and 
of the EARTH ; but how is it, that ye do not 
discern 
THIS TIME ? Yea, and why even of yourselves 
judge ye not what is right ?" 
When our Savior was baptized of John in Jordan, 
straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the 
heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descend-
ing upon him : and there came a voice from heaven, 
saying, this is my beloved Son in whom I am well 
pleased. 
This was when " Jesus began to be about 
thirty years of age;" and he " came into Gallilee, 
preaching the gospel ofthe kingdom of God, and 
saying, THE " TIME IS FULFILLED, and the 
kingdom ofGod is at hand : repent ye and believe 
the gospel." 
The TIME which was then fulfilled, 
and which the Jews could not discern, is evidently 
the TIME of the commencement 
of Christ's 
MINISTRY ; 
predicted in Dan. ix. 25, where the angel Gabriel in-
structed the prophet to " KNOW therefore and UN-
DERSTAND, that from 
the going forth 
of the com-
mandment 
to restore and to build Jerusalem 
unto 
the 
MESSIAH the PRINCE shall be seven 
weeks, 
and 
three score and two weeks;" 
or sixty-nine 
weeks, ma-
king 483 prophetic days, (years.) 
This period was to begin, not with a decree, but 
with the decree to restore and to build Jerusalem. 
In the first year of Cyrus, 2 Chron. xxxvi. 23, a de-
cree was given to rebuild the temple, but not the 
city. Under this decree the temple was commenced, 
but on account ofthe Jew's enemies the work was 
made to cease till the second year of Darius, king of 
Persia, when another decree was made which only 
confirmed the first decree, Ezra iv. 6. 
The decree 
to restore and to build Jerusalem, was given in the 
seventh year of Artaxerxes Longimanus, Ezra vii. 
This must be the decree, as after provision was made 
for the .sacrifices of the temple, which was now fin-
ished, Ezra was permitted to do with the rest ofthe 
money what should "seem good" to him; and what-
soever Ezra should require of the treasurers beyond 
the river, they were commanded to do speedily. 
And in Ezra's prayer, as recorded in the 9th chapter, 
he praised God that he had extended mercy to them 
in the sight ofthe kings of Persia, &c. " and to give 
us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem." 
This decree, 
according to the margin of all pollyglot Bibles, was 
in the year B. C. 457. 
The Jews, therefore, knew when these 483 years 
commenced, which were to extend to the MESSI-
AH ; and were expecting, that, at their termination, 
the Messiah, as he did, would appear. 
Aud thus 
at about the time of their expiration, the whole Jew-
ish nation were in expectation of his appearing. 
The 483 years, commencing B. C. 457, would carry 
us to A. D. 26, for the commencement of our Sa-
vior's ministry, and which we find was the very year 
of his baptism, when he was proclaimed by a voice 
from heaven to be the 
MESSIAH. 
That the sixty-nine weeks ended, and our Savior's 
ministry commenced A. D. 26j is thus shown. 
Je-
sus was carried into Egypt to save his life from Her-
od, so that he must have been about a year old at 
the death of Herod, whose death is shown by astro-
nomical calculations to have been three years before 
the vulgar era. 
Our Savior must therefore have 
been born four years before the vulgar era, which 
would make him about thirty years of age when he 
commenced his ministry, A. D. 26. 
This is further 
shown by Luke iii. 1—3, " Now in the fifteenth 
year of the reign of Tiberius Cesar, Pontius Pilate 
being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch 
of Gallilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch oflturea 
and ofthe region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the te-
trarch of Abilene, Annas and C§iaphas being the high 
priests, the word ofGod came unto John the son of 
Zacharias in the wilderness. 
And he came into all 
the country about Jordan, preachingthe baptism of re-
pentance, for the remission of sins." 
John being of 
the family of the priests, could not begin his minis-
try till the age of thirty; and as he was but six 
months older than our Savior, Jesus must have com-
menced his ministry in the latter part of the fif-
teenth year of Tiberius Cesar, which Prideaux and 
the best chronologists, make A. D. 26—or in the 
former part of his 16th year, synchronizing with A. 
D. 27. 
This gives us a fixed period lor the end of 
the 69 weeks, which were to reach to the Messiah, 
being 7 years antecedent to the end of the seventy 
weeks. 
This was the TIME which the Jews could not 
DISCERN. 
The Signs of Christ's First Advent. 
Our Savior not only came at the very time predict-
ed in the prophecy of Daniel, but in the very manner 
the Scriptures predicted; and his character and life 
accorded perfectly with all the various predictions 
of the Messiah. 
Thus, one was to precede his mis-
sion, he was to be of the family of David, was to be 
born of a virgin, in Bethlehem, was to be called out 
of Egypt, was to be called a Nazarene, was to be 
despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows and 
acquainted with grief, was to be delivered to the 
Gentiles, mocked, spitefully entreated and spit on, 
was to be led as a lamb to the slaughter and suffer 
an ignominious death, not a bone of him was to be 
broken, he was to have his grave with the wicked 
and with the rich in his death, to be numbered with 
the transgressors, his garments were to be divided, 
they were to cast lots lor his raiment, they were to 
give him vinegar to drink, his body was not to see 
corruption, nor his soul be left in the world of Spir-
its. 
All these, and many other predictions, were 
fulfilled in him o the very letter. 
He also performed many mighty works in proof 
of his Divine mission ; he healed the sick, cleansed 
the lepers, cast out devils, opened the eyes of the 
blind, unstopped the ears of the deaf, unloosed the 
tongue of the dumb, raised the dead, rebuked the 
winds and the sea, which obeyed; and those who 
touched only the hem of his garment were cured of 
whatsoever disease they had, even whole multi-
tudes came and were cured by him; he went about 
in 
all 
their cities and villages, 
healing every 
sickness and every disease among the people, and 
preiched the gospel to the poor. 
He spake as nev-
er man spake, and put to silence all his enemies, so 
that no man was able to answer him, neither durst 
any man ask him any more questions. At his death 
the sun was darkened, the earth quaked, the rocks 
were rent, graves were opened and many saints 
arose ; he arose the third day and ascended into 
heaven. 
In all this the Scriptures 
were 
fulfilled. 
Even our Savior asks, " How ihen shall the Scrip-
tures be fulfilled, that thus it must be? and says, "But 
all this was done, that the Scriptures 
of the 
prophets 
might be fulfilled." 
He healed the sick, " that it 
might be fulfilled which was spoken by Elias the 
prophet." 
He assured his disciples that all things 
lhat are written by the prophets concerning the Son, 
shall be accomplished';" 
and that " not one jot or tit-
tle of the law should fail;" those things came to pass, 
" that the word might be fulfilled which was written 
in their law," that all things which were written in 
the law, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms, 
concerning him, might be fulfilled. 
His mighty works were so great, that " his fame 
went throughout all Syria, and they brought unto 
him all sick people;" " and there followed him 
great multitudes of people from Gallilee, and from 
Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judea, and 
Irom beyond Jordan." 
At times, the multitudes 
which thronged him were so great that he "ascended 
the mountain" to teach them ; aud " when he was 
come down from the mountain, great multitudes fol-
lowed him." 
When he sat by the sea-side "great 
multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that 
he went into a ship and sat, and the whole multi-
tude stood on ihe shore." 
When the multitude 
heard that he had departed into a desart place, they 
followed him on foot out of the cities;" and when 
Jesus' saw ihe "great multitude, he had compassion 
on them." 
" Great multitudes came unto him hav-
ing with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, 
maimed, and many others, and cast them down at 
Jesus feet; and he healed them, insomuch that the 
multitude wondered ; and all the people were very 
attentive to hear him," and when " great multitudes 
followed him" beyond Jordan, " he healed them 
there." 
When he returned to Jerusalem " a very 
great multitude spread their garments in his way ; 
others cut down branches from ihe trees and strewed 
them in the way, and the multitudes that went be-
fore, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the 
Son of David ;" and when he was come into Jeru-
salem, all ihe city was moved, saying, Who is this? 
and the multitude said this is Jesus; and the Phar-
isees said, " Behold the world is gone after him." 
Again there were gathered together an innumerra-
ble multitude of people, insomuch that they trode 
one upon another; and he was constrained to say, 
" the harvest truly is plenteous." 
He also " taught 
them as one having authority, and not as the Scribes, 
and " the multitudes marvelled, saying, It was nev-
er so seen in Israel; and all the people were amazed. 
And when he was come into his own country he 
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OF 
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TIMES. 
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taught them in their synagogues, insomuch that 
they were 
astonished, and said, whence 
hath 
this man this wisdom and these mighty works?" 
" Whence hath this man all these things ?" Herod 
feared that John the Baptist had risen from the dead; 
and they were beyond measure astonished, saying, 
he hath done all things well; and enquired saying, 
" When Christ cometh will he do more miracles 
than these which this man doeth?" And the officers 
answered, "never man spake like this man." 
Notwithstanding all these mighty works and 
great miracles which caused the multitude to throng 
him, and the literal fulfilment of all the Scriptures 
respecting him, yet the Jews could not discern THE 
SIGNS OF THOSE TIMES;" though he had done so ma-
ny miracles before them, yet they believed not on 
him, they still wanted some sign. 
Discern 
Why the Jews could not 
that Time. 
We should naturally suppose with such mighty 
evidences of Christ's Messiahship, which called forth 
the spontaneous applause of such multitudes, that 
the Jews as a nation, would have believed on him, 
that they would have discerned lhat time; but their 
" wicked hearts of unbelief' would not permit them. 
They looked upon themselves as the favored chil-
dren of the Most High, and when exhorted to do 
works meet for repentance, they thought within 
themselves " We have Abraham for our Father." 
They lacked righteousness, " Except your righteous-
ness shall exceed the righteousness\)f the Scribes 
and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the 
kingdom of heaven." 
They did their alms before 
men to be seen of them, and sounded a trumpet be-
fore them ; they prayed, making long prayers, and 
using vain repetitions, standing in the synagogues 
and in the corners of the streets to be seen of men; 
they also fasted with a sad countenance and disfig-
ured their faces that they might appear unto men 
to last, showing in all their acts that they werehyp-
ociites. 
They laid up for themselves their treasures 
on earth, and not in heaven, they loved the things 
of this world, more than the other, so that when a 
herd ot swine perished in the sea, " the whole city 
came out to meet Jesus, and besought him, that he 
would depart out ot their coasts." 
They accused 
our Savior of " blasphemy," and of " casting out 
devils by Beelzebub the prince of devils." 
They 
were wolves in sheeps clothing, and mocked at the 
doctrine ofthe resurrection, and would not receive 
the gracious words which our Lord spake. 
They 
hated, and persecuted, and put to death, and cast out 
of their synagogues those who believed in ihe first 
advent; and would not take up their cross to follow 
Christ. 
Even the cities repented not,where most ot 
his mighty works were done, which, had they been 
done in Tyre or Sidon, they would have repented 
long ago in sackcloth and ashes ; had they been 
done in Sodom, it would have remained until this 
day, it will be more tolerable for Sodom in the day 
of judgment than for those cities. 
God had hid 
those truths from the wise and prudent and revealed 
them unto babes. 
They were a generation of vi-
pers, and could not speak good things. 
In them 
was " fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, 
by hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand, 
and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: for 
this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears 
are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed 
lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and 
hear with their ears, and should understand with 
their hearts, and should be converted, and I should 
heal them." 
" Many prophets and righteous men 
had desired to see those things which the Jews saw, 
and to hear those things which the Jews heard ;" 
but when the self-righteous Pharisees were permit-
ted to hear those things, they heard " the word of 
the kingdom and" understood not, they " received 
seed by the way-side." 
They satisfied their con-
sciences by inquiring, " Have any of the rulers or 
Pharisees believed on him?" "Are ye also deceived?" 
4 Is not this the carpentpr's son? Is not his mother 
called Mary ? and his brethren, James, and Joses, 
Simon and Judas ? and his sisters, are they not all 
with us? whence then hath this man all these 
things? out of Gallilee ariseth no prophet" and "they 
were offended, in him," in his own country, " and 
he did not many mighty works there because ot their 
unbelief." 
Our Savior called them " blind leaders 
of the blind," and assured tham that both should 
" fall into the ditch," The Pharisees censured the 
disciples of Christ for transgressing " the tradition 
ofthe elders;" but our Savior replied, "Why do ye 
also transgress the commandment of God by your 
tradition ?" and " Thus have ye made the com-
mandment of God of none effect by your tradition; 
ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophecy of you, say-
ing, This people draweth nigh unto me with their 
mouth, and honoreth me with their lips, but their 
heart is far from me; but in vain they worship me, 
teaching for doctrines the commandments of men," 
" hear and understand" and " beware of the leav-
en," " of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Saddu-
cees." 
They were a " faithless and perveise gener-
ation, stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and 
ears," they did "always resist the Holy Ghost," as 
their "fathers did so did they." 
They greatly erred, 
"not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God." 
They could " bind heavy burdens, and grievous to 
be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but 
they themselves would not move them with one of 
their fingers." All their works were done " to be 
seen of men;" they made " broad their phylacta-
ries," and " enlarged the borders of their garments," 
and loved " the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the 
chief seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the 
market, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi." 
They "shut up the kingdom of heaven against men;" 
they went not in themselves, nor suffered those who 
were entering to go in. 
They " devoured widows' 
houses, and for a pretence made long prayers;" 
would " compass sea and land to make one prose 
lyte, and when he was made," he was " tenfold 
more a child of hell than before." They paid "tithes 
of mint, and annise, and cummin," but " omitted the 
weightier matters ofthe law, judgment, mercy, and 
faith. 
They would " strain at a gnat, and swallow 
a camel." 
They made "clean the outside ofthe 
cup and ofthe platter, but within were full of extor-
tion and excess." 
They " appeared outwardly righ-
teous unto men, but within, were "full of hypocricy 
and iniquity." 
They " built the tombs of the proph-
ets, and garnished their sepulchres," and said " If 
we had been in the days of our fathers, we would 
not have been partakers with them in the blood of 
the prophets;" but were witnesses, that they were 
" the children of them which killed the prophets," 
so that Jesus " grieved for the hardness of their 
hearts." 
They trusted in themselves that they 
were righteous, and despised others;" and "the 
things which belonged to their peace were hid from 
their eyes," " because they knew not the lime of 
their visitation." 
Many who did believe on him, 
" because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, 
lest they should be put out of the synagogue : for 
they loved the praise of men more than the praise 
of God;" and " all men spoke well of them." 
They 
could not " believe, which receive honor one of 
another, and seek not the honor which cometh from 
God only." 
They "wondered, and despised, and 
perished," and would in "no wise believe," although 
admonished to beware lest that come upon them 
" which is spoken of in the prophets." 
These things were not confined to the lower clas-
ses, for they even " stirred up the devout and honor-
able women, and the chief men of the city." 
They 
also " stirred up the Gentiles," and also united with 
" lewd fellows ofthe baser sort, and set all the city 
in an uproar" in opposition to this truth. 
All this 
was done "ignorantly and in unbelief;" and they 
verily thought they were doiug God's service. They 
believed not what " Moses and the prophets" had 
said concerning him, nor would they though one 
rose from the dead. 
They knew not the voices of 
the prophets which were read every Sabbath day in 
their hearing, but they fulfilled the Scriptures in 
condemning Christ : " they fulfilled all that was 
written of him." 
Such are the reasons the Bible gives us why the 
Jews could not discern that time. 
And when we 
find our Savior commanding us to know when his 
second advent is nigh even at the doors, as summer 
to the leafing out of the fig-tree, and has assured us 
that the generation which see the signs he has giv-
en us of its approach shall not pass away before his 
appearance, have we not reason to fear that the 
same causes are blinding the minds of those who 
cannot discern this time, and the signs of these times ? 
and who either deny that his advent will ever be 
rtalized, or lhat we can ever know any thing of 
his approach ? If the time of the second advent is to 
be known, and our Savior called the Jews hypo-
crites for not discerning thai time, what would he 
call ihose who cannot discern this time? 
Lesson from 'Luther's Reformation.' 
"The History ofthe Reformation ofthe 16 th 
century, in Germany, 
Switzerland, 
&c." by 
Merle D'Aubigne, contains a mass of instruc-
tive facts. 
The following extracts are worthy 
of careful attention now: 
"There were dwelling at Zwickau a few 
men, who, being deeply moved by the events 
passing around them, looked for special and 
direct revelations from the Deity, instead of de-
siring, in meekness and simplicity, the sancti-
fication of their affections. 
These persons as-
serted that they werecommissioved to complete 
that reformation which in their view Luther had 
but feebly begun. 
'What is the use,' asked 
they, 'of such close application to the Bible ? 
Nothing is heard of but the Bible. 
Can the 
Bible preach to us ? 
Can it suffice for our in-
struction ? 
If God had intended to instruct us 
by a book, would he not have given us a Bible 
direct from heaven ? 
It is only the Spirit that 
can enlighten ! 
God himself speaks to us, and 
shows us what to do and say." 
Thus did these 
fanatics, playing into the hands of Rome, im-
pugn the fundamental principle on which the 
whole Reformation is based; namely, the per-
fect sufficiency ofthe word of God. 
Nicolas Storch, a weaver, publicly declared 
that the angel Gabriel had appeared to him by 
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night,and after revealing to him matters he was 
not allowed to divulge, 
uttered the words, 
'Thou shalt sit on my throne !' A senior stu-
dent of Wittemberg, named Mark Stibner,join-
ed Storch,and forthwith abandoned his studies, 
—for, according to his own statement, he had 
received immediately from God the ability to 
interpret holy Scripture. 
Mark Thomas, also 
a weaver, associated himself with them ; and 
another ofthe initiated,by name Thomas Mun-
zer, a man of fanatical turn of mind, gave to 
the new sect a regular organization. 
Resolv-
ing to act according to the example of Christ, 
Storch chose from among his followers twelve 
apostles and seventy disciples. 
All these loud-
ly proclaimed, as we have lately heard it as-
serted by a sect of our own days, that Apostles 
and prophets were at last restored to the 
Church. 
Such preaching made a deep impression on 
the popular mind. 
Not a few devout persons 
were startled by the thought that prophets were 
again given to the Church, and those on whom 
the love of the marvellous had most power, 
threw themselves into the open arms ofthe ec-
centric preachers of Zwickau. 
But scarcely had this heresy, which had 
shown itself of old in the days of Montanism, 
and again in the middle ages, drawn together 
a handful of separatists, when it encountered 
in the Reformation a strong opposing power. 
Nicolas Haussman, to whom Luther gave that 
noble testimony—'What we teach, he acts,' 
was at this time the pastor of Zwickau. 
This 
good man was not led away by the pretensions 
ofthe false prophets. 
Supported by his two 
deacons, he successfully resisted the inno-
vations Storch and his followers were seeking 
to introduce. 
The fanatics, repelled by the 
pastors of the church, fell into another extrav-
agance: they formed meetings, in which doc-
trines subversive of order were publicly pro-
claimed. 
The people caught the infection, and 
disturbances were the consequence: a priest, 
bearing the sacrament, was pelted with stones, 
and the civil authority interfered, committing 
the most violent ofthe party to prison. 
Indig-
nant at this treatment, and intent upon justify-
ing themselves and obtaining redress, Storch, 
Mark Thomas, and Stubner, repaired to Wit-
temberg. 
Making sure of co-operation,they waited up-
on the University professors, to receive their 
sanction: 'We,' said they, 'are sent by God to 
teach the people. 
The Lord has favored us 
with special communications from himself; we 
have the knowledge of things which are com-
ing upon the earth. 
In a word, we are apos-
tles and prophets, and we appeal for the truth 
of what we say, to Doctor Luther ' 
The Pro-
fessors were amazed. 
' Who commissioned you to preach,' inquir-
ed Melancthon of Stubner, who had formerly 
studied under him, and whom he now received 
at his table. 
'The Lord our God.' 
'Have 
you committed anything to writing ?' 
' The 
Lord our God has forbidden me to do so.' Me-
lancthon drew himself back, alarmed and as-
tonished. 
' There are indeed spirits of no ordinary kind 
in these men/said he; ' but what spirits ? . . 
none but Luther can solve the doubt. 
On the 
one hand let us beware of quenching the Spir-
it of God, and on the other, of being seduced 
by the spirit ofthe devil.' 
Luther received in the Wartberg intelli-
gence of the ferment of the court of Wittem-
berg. 
His informants apprized him of strange 
persons having made their appearance, and 
that, as to their message, it was known from 
whence they came. 
The thought instantly oc-
cured to him, that God had permitted these de-
plorable events in order to humble his servants 
and to arouse them to seek higher degrees of 
sanctification. 
'Luther! Luther!' was the cry from one 
end of Wittemberg to the other. 
The burgh-
ers were clamorous for his reappearance. 
Di-
vines felt their need ofthe benefit of his judg-
ment; even the prophets appealed to him. All 
united in entreating him to return. 
' If I knew,' said Luther, at an earlier peri-
od, ' that my doctrine had injured one human 
being, however poor and unknown,—which it 
could not, for it is the very gospel,—I would 
rather face death ten times over, than not re-
tract it. 
Andlo ! now, a whole city, and that 
city Wittemberg itself, is sinking fast into li-
centiousness.' 
True, indeed, the doctrine he 
had taught had not been the cause of all this 
evil; but from every quarter of Germany voices 
were heard that accused him as the author of 
it. 
But his firm conviction that the prophets 
were under a delusion did but aggravate Lu-
ther's grief. 
The solemn truth of salvation by 
grace seemed to have quickly lost its attrac-
tion, and men were turning aside after fables. 
'It is with the Word we must contend,' ob-
served he, ' and by the Word we must refute 
and expel what has gained a footing by vio-
lence. 
I would not resort to force 
against 
such as are superstitious;—nor even against 
unbelievers! 
Whosoever believeth let him 
draw nigh, and whoso believeth not, stand afar 
off. 
Let there be no compulsion. 
Liberty is 
ofthe very essence of faith.' 
The Doctor is to appear in the pulpit of the 
church 
of Wittemberg. 
' Luther 
is 
come 
back.' 
'Luther 
is to preach today.' 
The 
news, repeated from one to another, had of it-
self no slight effect in giving a turn to the 
thoughts by which the multitude were deluded. 
People hurried to and fro in all directions; and 
on Saturday morning the church was filled to 
overflowing with an attentive and impressed 
congregation 
Luther could comprehend the disposition of 
his hearers' minds. 
He ascended the pulpit. 
Behold him surrounded by the flock which had 
formerly followed him with one heart as a do-
cile sheep, but which has broken from him in 
the spirit of an untamed heifer. 
His address 
was simple aud noble,—energetic and persua-
sive,—breathing the spirit of a tender father 
returning to his children, and enquiring into 
their conduct, while he communicates the re-
ports that have reached him concerning them. 
He frankly commended their progress in the 
faith, and having thus prepared and gathered 
up their thoughts, he proceeded as follows:— 
' But we need a something beyond faith; and 
that is love. 
If a man who carries a sword is 
alone, it matters not whether he draw it or keep 
it sheathed; but if he is in a crowd, let him 
have a care lest he wound any of those about 
him. 
' Observe the mother with her babe. 
She 
first gives it nothing but milk; and then the 
most easily digestible food. 
What would be 
the consequence were she to begin by giving 
it meat or wine ? 
' In like manner should we act toward our 
brother. 
Have you been long at the breast ? 
If so, well;—only let your brother suck as long! 
' Observe the Sun. 
He dispenses two gifts. 
—namely—light and warmth. 
The mightiest 
monarch cannot turn aside his rays; they come 
straight on, arriving upon this earth by a di-
rect course. 
Meanwhile his warmth goes out 
and diffuses itself in every direction. 
So it is 
that faith, like light, should ever be simple and 
unbending;—whilst love, like warmth, should 
beam forth on all sides; and bend to every ne-
cessity of our brethren.' " 
Luther proceeded to speak against violence 
and extravagance, and measurably corrected 
the evil, but it was not eradicated. 
Not long 
afterwards, there was an extensive rebellion in 
Germany. 
The oppression of the people by 
the nobles was the cause of it, but Papists ea-
gerly seized the pretext for throwing odium up-
on Luther. 
D'Aubigne here 
refers to the 
same class of persons again: 
" The pretensions of a handful of fanatics to 
divine inspiration added to the danger. Whilst 
the Reformation constantly appealed from the 
authority claimed by the church to the real au-
hority ol the Sacred Word, these enthusiasts 
rejected, not only the authority ofthe Church, 
but that of Scripture also; they began to speak 
only of an inward Word—an internal revela-
tion from God; and, unmindful of the natural 
corruption 
of their hearts, they abandoned 
themselves to the intoxication of spiritual pride, 
and imagined themselves to be saints. 
' The Sacred writings,' says Luther, ' were 
treated by them as a dead letter, and their cry 
was, The Spirit! the Spirit! 
But assuredly, 
I for one, will not follow whither their spirit is 
leading them! 
May God, in his mercy, pre-
serve me from a church in which there are on-
ly such saints.' " 
On this interesting history we make two or 
three remarks. 
1. It teaches us all to keep watch over our 
own spirits, and to be humble, prayerful and 
teachable students of the Bible. 
2. The religious papers of the present day 
who attribute such extravagances to Second 
Advent believers as a body, have just as good 
authority a^ the papists had for charging them 
on Luther and his friends—AND NO 
BETTER. 
3. When the editor of the Baptist Advocate 
refers to the proceedings at Stepney as proof 
that all who embrace our views are in 
danger 
of losing what little reason they have left (!) he 
displays a spirit which would have found as 
good an occasion of displaying itself, in attack-
ing Luther's reformation in the same language. 
Midnight Cry. 
A Suggestion. 
BR. BLISS,—As it is desirable to bring eve-
ry possible facility into requisition to advance 
the cause, for which we have so short a time to 
contribute our mite,I would suggest that every 
lecturer in the field act as agent for the "Mid-
night Cry," "Signs of the Times," &c. 
By 
adopting this course, they will greatly aid the 
cause 
they 
advocate. 
Let 
them, in every 
place where they lecture, be sure and procure 
several subscribers, and they will accomplish 
much more than they otherwise can. 
It will 
be like leaving a stream behind them to irri-
gate, and a wall to environ the garden they 
have cultivated. 
No one in the field is probably accomplish-
ing so much in this way, at present, as our 
faithful brother, I. R. Gates. 
He finds, by a-
dopting this course, his labors are not so likely 
to be lost after he leaves. 
Let it be done, and 
be begun NOW. 
Yours, 
L.D.FLEMING. 
Newark, Oct. 10, 1843. 
SIGNS 
OF 
THE 
TIMES. 
95 
Letter from Brother F. G. Brown. 
DEAR BROTHER BLISS :—Some time has e-
lapsed since I had the pleasure of contributing 
any thing to the columns ofthe " Signs." 
My 
health has been so poor ever since I became 
couvicted of the glourious truth of the coming 
of the Lord at hand, that I have been able to 
labor but very little ; consequently, I have not 
been permitted to report of the 
wonderful 
works ofGod, as effected through my feeble 
instrumentality. 
In the early part of June I 
was indulged with the privilege of delivering a 
brief course of lectures on 
the Advent, 
in 
Washington city, and also in the city of Nor-
folk, VaT, in each of which places I found a 
number of precious diciples to whom Christ's 
coming was a most welcome announcement. 
^ In Richmond I could not hear of a solitary be-
liever in the doctrine, but learned that there 
was a plenty of scoffers, both in that and the 
city of Baltimore, who had dared to challenge 
the Almighty to burn the earth, by strewing 
sulpher upon the side walks on the morning of 
the 23d of April. 
The day which the wicked 
generally had appointed for the catastrophe ! 
My stay in it would have been prolonged had 
it not been for the excessive heat of the weather, 
and my feeble state of health. 
I felt to mourn 
greatly when I saw how slight a hold all moral 
and religious subjects had upon the hearts of 
most in that quarter, professing Christians; so 
that not even the sublime and glorious doctrine 
of Christ's coming, which once thrilled 
the 
souls of primitive Christians, could awaken a-
ny 
emotions 
of joy 
and gladness 
in 
the 
bosoms ofthe 
Christians of this 
day. 
The 
pious slaves however, are an exception to this 
remark. 
They caught the sound of the Bride-
groom's approach, and as the result, 
power-
ful and extensive 
revivals were 
enjoyed all 
through the black population. 
1 have also, just 
understood that the" delusion" has spread like 
wildfire through the Indian tribes ofour west-
ern territory ! Glory to Jesus ! 
It is a conso 
lation that man cannot thwart the purposes of 
God ; try our best, and we shall have no tem-
poral millennium unless Heaven has so de-
creed ; nor will the Almighty defer that 
day 
one moment beyond that which he has fixed 
from eternity, in which to reveal his Son from 
heaven. 
,' The Lord reigneth : let the earth 
rejoice." 
On my return from Va., which was about 
the first of July, I stopped in Philadelphia, and 
there by the persuasion of the^ rethren tar 
ried in company with Bro. Litch and others. 
I endeavored as often as health would 
allow, 
to give the cry in that city and vicinity, and in 
so doing enjoyed the aid and presence ofGod. 
For the first time in my life I participated in 
the holy services of a campmeeting, held in 
Middletown, Pa. 
Shortly 
after this, I atten-
ded another similar meeting, at Centretown, 
J-; but there, owing to over exertion and 
exposure, I was taken ill with the bilious ty-
phus remittant fever, from which I barely es-
caped with my life ; and the effects of which 
are now contributing to my feebleness, 
and 
preventing me from preaching ; though I hope 
to preach, for 
the 
first time 
for over 
two 
months, ere I leave this place. 
The kindness 
and generosity ofthe dear family under whose 
rooflwasso 
long confined during my sick-
ness ; the attention and beneficence bestowed 
upon me by my physicians ; the ardent and ef-
fectual prayers of my Christian friends there 
for my recovery, will be gratefully remember-
ed by me through time, and not forgotten by 
my Lord when he shall come to gather to-
gether his jewels. 
Since my sickness I have 
enjoyed much peace and serenity of soul ; my 
dreams have been ofthe coming One, and the 
night watches have found my soul 
burning 
with gratitude and love to my Heavenly 
Fath-
er. 
O how much I have enjoyed of God since 
the opening of this year ! 
" Praise ye the 
Lord !" 
Although from the word of God, the 
proof touching the Second Advent 
near, is 
yet overwhelming to my mind, still I feel re-
conciled to a disappointment, should my inter-
pretations of prophecy prove erroneous ; so 
long as I abide in Christ, I shall and will be 
happy, and try to do good ; I shall be happy if 
Christ does not come, and certainly I shall be 
happier still if he does coine, as I believe he 
will. 
We had a good time last week at the Lon-
donderry campmeeting ; 
many 
went 
away 
comforted and blessed 
in 
their souls. 
My 
present tour is for the purpose of comforting 
and encouraging the children of God, and of 
snuffing the mountain air of good old New-
Hainpshire—a state that has a strong hold on 
my sympathies—here I have in years past la-
bored to promote the cause of Christ: 
and 
where, were time to continue, I should prefer to 
toil on, and to die. 
But where are the clergy 
of my own denomination, who ought to be pro 
claiming over these hills and valleys the com-
ing of the Lord ? 
I look over the long cata-
logue of their names in vain ; they are not to 
be found ; how I should like the sympathy and 
co-operation of at least three of them. 
Well, 
I read the Bible for myself, and believe for 
myself, and hope I shall be willing to stand, if 
need be alone 
among them, 
quietly and pa-
tiently waiting for the coming of the Master. 
I had rather be considered tor the balance of 
my life, stupid and fanatical, than to hazard 
the coming of the Judge, without 
proclaiming 
it in the midst of a slumbering church, 
and in 
the ears of careless sinners.—Anything 
rath-
er than to have it construed by my silence 
or 
actions that my Lord delayeth 
his coming. 
In 
the mean time I trust that iny course of proce-
dure will be of such a character that, at the 
end ofthe race, there may be no need of " con-
fessions," unless to my God. 
For 
one, I am 
not yet prepared to present my " confession " 
to any human ecclesiastical body ; for having 
fallen into the so called " errors of Millerism;" 
were I going to humble myself before any tri-
bunal for such a crime, I should desire, first to 
find a body whose purity in doctrine and holi-
ness of life were unexceptionable, and might 
involuntarily provoke my submission and rev-
erence. 
But time and not the expositions 
of 
those who call on us for confession, must de-
termine the necessity and the character ofour 
acknowledgements. 
I respect the ministry and 
the church ; and for one am determined 
to 
contend for them to the last, as divine institu-
tions. 
My relation is yet with them, and pro-
bably will so remain, unless I am thrust out. 
In my humble opinion, the passages so fre-
quently quoted in proof of our duty to come 
out of 
the churches, 
have 
no applicability 
whatever ; besides, policy alone would seetn 
to prompt us to remain where we can do the 
most good, and not to adopt a course which 
will prejudice the minds of our brethren who 
are yet in the dark, against the truth. 
Should 
time allow, I hope to tour about here for a 
fortnight longer, and then to return to Bos-
ton. 
Yours in the blessed hope 
New Ipswich, 
N. H. 
Oct. 20th, 
1843. 
Interesting News. 
The events ofthe day at home and abroad, 
are full ofthe most instructive interest to the 
observer ofthe " signs," in connection with the 
"mere word of prophecy." 
The following account oi the extermination 
of the Nestorians, is taken from the London 
Morning Chronicle. 
MASSACRE 
OF 
THE 
NESTORIAN 
CHRISTIANE. 
You have been informed ofthe 
combination 
between the Pacha of Mosul and several pow-
erful Kurdish cheifs, for the extermination 
of 
the Nestorian Christians, or Chaldeans. 
Let-
ters received the day bofore yesterday contain 
a deplorable account of the attacks ofthe Uni-
ted Troops. 
They had penetrated 
into the 
centre of the Tiyaree district, burnt the villa-
ges and churches, 
destroyed the crops, 
and 
put the inhabitants of both sexes to the sword. 
Three, or according to other accounts, 
five 
brothers of the Patriarch have been slain, 
his 
mother was cut in half, aud his sister horribly 
mutilated. 
The Patriarch himself had fled to 
Mosul, and taken refuge in the British 
vice 
consulate. 
Thus a sect which had 
preserved 
its indepeodence during centuries, and had re-
sisted the persecuting sword of Islam, when 
weilded by the most powerful and most intoler-
ant of the followers of Mahommed—which in 
its simplicity and isolation, had maintained the 
doctrines and forms of a primitve Church for 
above fourteen centuries, and which had es-
caped the corrupiion of religion, of morals and 
of character, 
so 
conscpicuous in all other 
Christian sects ofthe East—has 
now, 
in the 
weakners 
of Mohammedanism, 
and 
in the 
strength of European Christianity, been 
deliv-
ered over to destruction. 
Although the Turkish authorities merit the 
strongest condemnation for the part they have 
taken in this massacre, yet there are 
others 
concerned who are almost equally 
responsible 
for the results. 
The history of the fall of the 
Nestorians is a new example ofthe consequen-
ces of a system persued by foreigners in the 
East, which we cannot coutemplate 
without 
the utmost indignation. 
All 
those who have 
been the direct, or indirect Instruments of their 
destruction, although they may not have an-
ticipated a result of so serious a nature to their 
intrigues, and although they may now shelter 
themselves under the cloak of religion, 
have 
been guilty of a great crime against humanity. 
In their mountain 
fastnesses the Nestorians 
had retained their sndependence for centuries. 
Tbe first western traveler who succeeded in 
penetrating into them was Dr. Grant, 
an A-
merican missionary. 
His 
obfect in visiting 
them was the establishment of schools and oth-
er means of instruction. 
JYo sooner 
had 
Dr. 
Grant met with some success 
in the 
mountains, 
than the Roman 
Catholic 
missionaries 
at 
Mosul, 
supported by French political 
agents, 
endeavor-
ed to counteract it. 
The English High Church 
was also jealous of Amerioan encroachments in 
the midst of a sect still venerating Epicopacy ; 
and an additional fire brand was thrown into 
the country last autumn, in the person of the 
Rev. Mr. Badger. 
During last 
winter the 
three parties—the American, the Puseyite, and 
the Roman Catholic—had waged an open war-
fare among themselves. 
The Americans, who 
had been first iu the field, only acted on the 
defensive ; the influence they had already ac-
quired among the Nestorians, enabled them, 
without much difficulty, to retain their posi-
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OF 
THE 
TIMES. 1033 
tion. 
The object of the 
two remaining 
par-
ties was to eject the Americans, and to estab-
lish their own influence, 
They did not act in 
concert, for their mutual enmity equalled their 
hostility to the Americans. 
No means was left 
untried to effect their object 
The agents 
ofthe 
Church of Rome received the earnest 
co-opera-
iion—in fact, 
became the tools—of the French 
political agents. 
Mr. Badger enjoyed the sup-
port of the British local authorities. 
A report began to prevail that the Ameri 
cans were assisting the Nestorians to build 
forts in their mountains. 
The ignorant inhab 
itants of the surrounding country, and their 
Governor, the Pacha of Mosul, readily be-
lieved the assertion. 
For some time access to 
the mountains, from the west, was denied to 
the American missionaries. 
Mr. Badger and 
the Romanists renewed their separate attacks. 
Both had interviews with the Patriarch, 
and 
both believed that they had established their in-
fluence. 
The suspicions ofthe Pacha of Mo-
sul were excited ; from both parties he re-
ceived accusations against their .respective ad-
versaries, tending to increase his alarm. 
Mr. 
B. pointed 
to the danger of Roman Catholi-
cism and French influence in the mountains ; 
the French in return, the danger of English 
influence. 
At 
length the 
combination 
we 
described was formed, and those alone who 
were innocent have fallen victims to the in-
trigues of men who announced themselves to 
them as their only saviors—the ministers of 
Christ, and the teachers of civilization. 
Strict justice compels us to state that the A-
mericans are in this instance without blame. 
They established themselves first in the moun-
tains, and their efforts were successfully direc-
ted to the improvement ofthe inhabitants, with-
out any ulterior political design. 
We believe 
that had the Church of England zealously co-
operated with them as Protestant 
Christians, 
instead of opposing them as hereticat enemies, 
the disasters we have described would not 
have occured ; as it is, one ofthe most ancient 
and interesting sects in the world—interesting 
from its origin, from its language, and from 
the purity of its Christianity—has been sacri-
ficed to the religious quarrels of American in-
dependents, English Puseyites, and French 
Roman Catholics. 
The number of persons who have perished 
has not been 
ascertained. 
The 
population 
was about 100,000. 
Neither age, sex, nor 
condition met with mercy 
All were sacri-
ficed by the savage Turks. 
They must, however, unconciously have done us 
honor in telling the world lhat the " Miller Taberna-
cle is projaned" when used as above; bu! then they 
have also shown us how hard it is for the Ethiopian 
to change his skin or the the leopard his spot in 
practising their old habits when the truth is to be 
spoken. 
" The Tabernacle is often profaned by be-
•ng used for Jim Crow and other negro melodies." 
With all those who are acquainted with the ed-
itors ofthe precious sheet, quoted above, this spite 
against the Advent cause, is regarded as the natural 
effort of fallen and little minds to degrade every one 
around them to a level with themselves. It is not 
believed that they could raise a tabernacle, even if 
there were a call for one in their line, or that they 
could obtain half a dozen hearers should they oc-
cupy one, supposing a notice of the speaker to be 
given before hand, judging from the past, and many 
of our citizens would feel " profaned to be found in 
one of their meetings." 
But to the truth of thiscase of profanation. It is, 
we believe, as follows :— 
1. The agent of the company which "used the 
Tabernacle," who came to brother Dickinson, the 
member of the Tabernacle committee who has 
the letting of it, engaged it simply for a concert 
paid the rent in advance, and took a receipt which 
secured to them the use of it for the time specified, 
two nights 
and the refusal 
of a 
third. 
2. Nothing was known of the character of the 
performances of the company till their bills were 
posted about the city, and then it was too late to 
undo the mistake. 
It has since been ascertained 
that this company have been admitted into other 
places of worship in this city, and nobody has 
heard a word of its impropriety. 
3. The same company have offered much more 
than the first price for the use of it another week, 
and although the committee have been much em-
barrassed in sustaining the worship ofGod therein, 
(notwithstanding the " speculations" alleged by the 
O. B.,) the committee have refused to let them 
have it. " Our friends in Louisville, Ky., and other 
places out west" can appreciate the other portion of 
the article from the 0. B., which refers to the con-
dition of the " Miller saints" and " Millerism" with-
out anything more Irom us. Its former statements 
are now better understood, and the proper allowance 
will be made. 
The public abroad will of course consider this tes-
timony of our enemies as decisive proof that " the 
Millerites have not sold their Tabernacle,' which 
they have been so industriously reported to have 
done, through the land. 
SIGNS 
OF 
THE 
TIMES-
BOSTON, NOV. 1, 1843. 
Miller Tabernacle. 
(C7° We would inform our friends in Louisville, 
Ky., and other places where Himes has been, out 
West, and bragged ofthe success of Millerism here, 
that Millerism is in the fog. The Tabernacle is 
often profaned by being used for Jim Crow and 
other negro__ melodies, and a very large portion of 
the down east Miller saints are perfectly sick both 
of Miller, Himes and Millerism, though poor old 
daddy Miller has been here in person to cheer the 
minds ofhis now doubting disciples. 
Millerism is 
on the verge of being only a thing that was and is 
not.—Olive 
Branch. 
For once our charitable brethren of the 0. B 
have something " on which to hang a tale'' to the 
gratification of their spleen against the Advent 
Cause. 
all classes, and what few have been circulated, have 
produced the happiest results. 
ST. LOUIS. 
Brother 
H. A. Chittenden, has made 
arrangements to go to St. Louts, Mo. immediately. 
He will there open a Depot, for books and papers. 
Lectures will be given in that city and vicinity, 
and the Cry sent throuffhout the West and South. 
CLINTON COUNTY SECOND ADVENT CON-
FERENCE. 
At a meeting held at Houses Pojnt, Oct 
19, by 
the friends of the advent near, on motion of brother 
Adrian, it was resolved (the Lord willing) to hold 
a series of advent conferences in this section. 
Voted, That E. S. Loomis, E. Brisben, A. Loom-
is, and E. Thurber, be a committee of arrangement 
to carry the same into effect. 
Resolved, That the fiist conference be held at 
Perry's M.ills, Friday, the lOih day of Nov. next, at 
LiTpast 10 o,clock A. M. The friends of the ad-
vent near, in this vicinity, and others who may feel 
disposed, are cordially invited to attend. 
The fol-
lowing brethren are earnestly solicited to attend 
and assist in the exercises, viz. brother Blackman, 
of Malone, N. Y. brother Wyath, of Bangor, N. Y. 
brother Martin, of Masena, N. Y. brother Dudley, 
of Moore's N. Y. brother Hutchinson, of Montreal, 
brother Ballard, of Georgia, Vt. brother Stone, of 
Berkshire, Vt. 
Yours, in the blessed hope of the advent near. 
In behalf of the committee. 
E. 
S. 
LOOMIS. 
Perry's Mills, Clinton Co. N. Y. Oct. 20, 1843. 
THE ENGLISH MISSION.—We have long desired 
that faithful and efficient men should be sent to 
Europe to give the Midnight Cry. 
Every effort in 
our power has been put forth for the accomplish-
ment of this most important object. But, it is now 
given up as a measure that cannot be carried into 
effect. 
The lime is loo limited. 
The " repeal move-
ment," " Puseyism," and " Scotch secession," with 
the general unsettled state of Europe, also, seems 
to forbid the accomplishment of any great good at 
this late hour. 
Besides, Europe has been faithfully 
warned for the last ten years, of the coming of the 
glorious bridegroom about this time. 
We shall 
give a specimen of the nature of this warning in 
our next paper. 
Under these circumstances, we have given them 
for distribution a large box of books to go by the 
next steamer, if time continue. 
These are to be 
circulated among the Watchmen, and leading offi-
cials of the church. 
The effort we doubt not, will 
be good, as our publications are called for among 
Letters received to Oct. 29,1843. 
FROM 
POST-MASTERS. 
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Williamantic 
Ct 1; Walpole Mass. 1; Somerset NY 1; Vergennes 
Vt; Richmond Va; Meredith Centre N H; Ashburn-
ham Mass 1; Saratogo Springs, (Mr Hills paper ap-
pears to have been sent every week, we cannot un-
derstand why he does not receive it; N Scituate,R. 
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Gr Barrington Ms 1; Hubbardston, Ms 1; ditto!; 
Brooklyn Ct. 2; Sharon UC; Farley's Roads; Dan-
ville NY; Grafton Vt. 
INDIVIDUALS. 
Maria Leighton 1; I W Fogg 2; books sent ; R 
Rutchinson; J Litch; I G Edson 50 cts; M Beckley; 
Geo S Davis 
1;E 
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Weston; G S Davis; J Buck 1; E S Loomis; G W 
Whiting 1, all right; W Miller 2 et al; E Galusha; 
T L Tullock. 
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J V llimes 9 Spruce St NY; RE Ladd, Cabotville, 
Ms; J Buck, Sturbridge Ms; JV Himes, Rochester, 
NY; Mary F Manter, 
Walpole Ms care of E W 
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SECOND ADVENT DEPOTS. 
Boston, Mass.—No. 16 Devonshire Stieet. 
Address J. V. HIMES. 
New York City—No. 9 Spruce Street. 
Address J. V. HIMES. 
Albany, N.Y.—(Agent give street and number. 
Address S. MILES. 
Rochester, N. Y.—No. 17 Arcade Buildings. 
Address E. C. GALUSHA. 
Buffalo, N. Y.—No. 8 Niagara Street. 
Address H. B. SKINNER. 
Utica, N. Y.—(Agent will give stieet and No. 
Address HORACE 
PATTEN. 
Philadelphia, Pa.—Nos. 40 & 41 Arcade, 
Address J. LITCH. 
Cincinnati, Ohio—Third Street, few doors east of 
Walnut, south side, add. GEO. STORRS. 
St. Louis, Mo.—No. 88 Market Street. 
Address H. A. CHITTENDEN. 
Lonisville, Ky.—Jefferson House. 
Address Dr. NATH'L FIELD. 
Montreal, C. W.—No. 158 Notra Dame Street. 
Adress R. HUTCHINSON. 
Portland, Me.—Casco St.—address J. PEARSON.