No. 11. THE ADVENT HERALD II PUBLISHED EV&IlY U.TURDA.Y AT lfO. 9 MILK-STREB T, BOSTON, BY J. V. HIMES. TIPs-$1 per Volume of26 Numbel'tl. $5 for Six copie11. $10 for Thirteen copies. ·.ul communir.ations, or-ders, or remittances, for this olae, allonld be directed tll "J. V. HIMES, Boston, liM." (post paid). Subscribe.rs' names, with 1heir Post-omce lldLiress, should be distinctly given when aoaeJ is forwarLied. (Original.) Conlidenee In God's Grace. PSALI)I 23. The f-ord our Gorl My shepherLI i~; I shall nut wsnt, When l am his. In paslnres ~reen He makes me go ; And leads me where fltill wateTII flow. He doth restore My weary aoul; And when cast clown, • Doth make me whole. Yell, thongh I walk In delltli'A dark vale, WitllJe.u • aill I fea111o ilL For then I ha•e A. lltaft' ard rod, Whereoa I lean- (The Wocd of God.) . A.nd wbeo I Wlllk 'Midst suhlle foe~, I feel thllt He l y weakness know~. His merr.y doth lhteud to me; And in Gild's bouse I e'~:r will be. J. Ill. o. BOSTON, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1847. from manner, regardless .of consequences.-then approaching; and professed to be·~n- among t~em. , This was the cause of the fanaticism·of dowed with inspiration. Stork commenc .. ed Our object in alluding to this work is, Luther's day. Men, who were incompe-his career by appointing his twelve·apos• to show the history of the fanaticism of tent for places they aspired to, set them-ties, and seventeen evangelists, and these the Reformation, that as the same princi-selves up to be somebody, and sent of went out proclair;ning· th~t ·the prophets ples come up again, we may be on our of God; and possessing the power of and apostles were again restored to the guard, see the resemblance, and avoid controlling the minds of others, without church. They excited their followers to it; and also showing that we should not either wisdom or grace to direct them ju-hatred against all who would not ·submit, be held responsible for fana~ics with whom diciously, they led off immense mul~-to their standard of opinions; and io- WP-have no sympathy, any more than the tudes, )Vhose end was destruction. 'fhe stead of reasoning with those they thought judicious Reformers of Luther's time warnings of Luther were unheedea: his in error, they excited their followers to should be for the fanaticism of that age. admonitions were disregarded; and as acts of violence against them. They However rampant fanaticism may have they rushed onward in their mad career, claimed to be commissioned from heaven, been in different ages, :Mr. Cooke admits they began to hate Luther worse than and even Melancthon ~aid of them' that it " made its most terrible onset in they hated the Pope,-and all bec3;use he " These indeed are spirits of no ordinary the days of the Reformation." We pro-repudiated their absurd dogmas. Let,us kind." He wrote to the Elector of Saxo- pose making copious extracts frop1 the gather instruction from the teachings of ny, " I see strong reasons for u~t despi~­ work, to show the fanaticism of Luther's past ages. - ing theee men ; for it is clear to me thatt time, that we may see there is nothing In the outbreak of the Re(ormation, there is in them something more than novel-in the fanaticism of this age. We while all the holy principles of God's own man," but whether of God or the devil, 'also wish to show that if Adventism is to children might be called into profitable could not say.' Even the wise Fredericlr. e .sp.onsible for present extravagances, exercise; the baser passions of the hu-with all his wise coun·sellors, were enti.,re· that tlten Lutheranism must be for past man mind found a no less abundance of ly non-plussed for a while by them, ani extravagances. On fanaticism in general, food to feed on. Ambition alone filled the wis·est advice they could come to was, Mr. Cooke remarks :- envious minds with a desire to be as· great not to oppose them, but to " bear meekly "~~ out~reak of a pa_rti~ular species of as Luther. Those who are led away by their fooleries." fanaticism IS ev~r sure, I'n Its own age, to novelty without caring for godliness , These fanatics ~ntered the very seat be attended With all the advantages of · ' . . · . ' d f h R r • d novelty. It is forgotten, or never known, found full ~ratificatiOn for the mdulgence an sanctuary o t e e1ormahon, an by the mass of the people whom it afflicts, of that desue. Those who sought noto-threatened the very exi~tence of Protest- that the same thing, under another name, riety, could find it to their heart's content, antism. It almost threatened to extin- Panoa! Cooke on the Anabaptists. has scourged the world before. And it and thus to every one a field was open in guish the last hope of the Reformers. would be a great advantage to the friends h' h th · ht] b £ G d' I The entire papal world denounced•Lu- 11 A History of Germa;Anahaptism, Gathered of pure religion, in suclt a case, if they w lC e~ m_Ig a or or. 0 • s g ory' ther as the author of all these disorder3, Oltly from German Writers, Living in the Age were able to strip the rising sect of aJl the or turn then mfluence agamst It, as they .r the. Lutheran Reformation, and embracing a advantaoO"es of the appearance of havinoO' pleased. the same as many now denounce Mr. Vaew of the Peasants' Wars, the Celestial M 11 h b r. • • J Pretbets, and other Fanatics of that Day, and· made a new and wonderful discovery. The sect of Anabaptists arose in 1521. i er as t e cause of t e 1anatlcism"' ol the Historical Connection between the Pre- "The present is an age of reformation, Nicolas Stork Mark Thomas Martin those who stand in the same relation to C: Bapti!lts and the Anabaptists. By Pars()nil and therefore beset with peculiar dangers. ' ' . him, th~t those fanatics did to .Luther. phia ke. Boston: B. Perkins & Co. Philadel-The popular mind is breakinQ' away from Cellary, and Thomas Muncer, were Its · neck' Q. p 1846 " "' r. h h 1 h h d f And •he same class of mi'nds are, {lor the • c 101 "" urvetJ. • established usages, good and bad, the foun· tat ers; t e ast was t e ea o the ' -The above is the title of a labored vol~ d1tions of onr institutions are turned up, movement. The most of these were same causes, prejudiced against Mr. MU- 1lllle of 400 pages, the d~sign of whil'h for a new examination.. Everything old men of talent, with great power over the ler now, that were against Luther then. is, to separate the fanaticism of the Re-is under suspicion ; and that which is minds of an audience, particularly when Luther saw the necessity of meeting formation from the Lutherans, and to cast nWewh'l is inhgreadt r~qhuest with many.-they were lis.tened to by "the incautious these spirits, and he did so with the same • 1 e trut an ng teousne~s are pro- It pn the Baptists. That the progress of gressing under a new impulse, error and and unreflecting." Carolstadt .was the determination that he 1had before entered the Reformation was attended with the fanaticism have awoke to a new life." first that broke off' from the Lutherans, Worms, when he declared that he olild wildest fanaticism, it is useless to deny. When the public minp is agitated by and eet up for himself. On being par-enter there, though encountered by '~ Tbat the Reformers, wuo did all in their the discussion of great and thrilling ques-tially enlightened in the Scriptures, he many devils as there were tiles on the power to discountenance it, should not be tions, when men are seeing the untena-had not patience to perfect himself in his houses of the city." The fanatics raised held responsible for its deleterious and dis-bleness of any current opinion,· and are studies, beeame confident of his own dis· the cry of persecution, and did all tbej ous results, Mr. Cooke clearly shows. awakening from a state of thoughtless crimination, and so ran into the strangest could to incense the people against Lu- t We do not so clearly see why the pre· inaction to energetic mental strife, it is Ser!ptural ·interpretations. He and the ther, and destroy their confidence in him: tent race of Baptists should be. held ac-not strange that many in their eagerness others thought. Luther was too cautious in which they often too well suceeeded. COUntable for the sins of the Anabaptists, to reach all the truth should overleap the and backward; the Reformation they They even styled Luther "a flatterer of ~en they are no'Y among the most sober mark, and descPnd swiftly to ruinous would drive onward with more. rapid the Pope, and a temporizer in the work o( the sects: nor do we see clearly why opinions and practices. Those who over speed. Luther, they thought, did not reform." They took the ground that should continue to make the doctrine estimate their own capacities, are pecu-keep up in the development of truth; and Luther's work was finished, and that God ot the Advent, and the Adventists, res-liarly in danger of being thus ship-as they could not wait for his slow pro-would then make use of other imttl'UIDen· ibJe for the fanaticism of those who wrecked: self-confident, and trusting in gress, th.eyfelt to press forward them-talities. ~~one out from them, and which they their own judgment, they turn a deaf ear selves, and complete whnt Luther had on- ln the history of Carolstadt, a curious IIJMic;tiate,-when he contends with so to all appeals of reason or common sense, ly begun. Thomas Muncer claimed that specimen is given of the evil. of teacb.ing · foree, that the sober-minded Re-become settled in their self-confidence, God had senthimastheJohn the Baptist, opinions without being' ·fully settled In should not_~. held accountable and press forward in their own chosen to prepare the way for the great events them. After teaching SOIDe notions ..... '( ' ' ·I 82 pecting the sacrament, which set all Ger- many in a flame, and greatly perilled the Reformation, he wrote to Luther,." pro- fessin th he· d written the con iction ; b pose of eli · n truth by discussion. Luther accepted the apology, but reminded him that he should not teach a doubtful matter for a certain- ty, and the people should not receive for t1uth that about which their teacher is in doubt. For i~ matters of faith, the mind is not to be in a state of doubt, but to take hold of the truth so strong, as to be wil- ling to die a thousand deaths rather than renounce it." Carolstadt held some important truths: but these he held in unrighteousness, and defended them with such a wicked spirit, With such insufficient reasons, and in connectiop with other absurdities, that peopie not indisposed to receive the truth, were even turned away from it with dis- gust. This shows the importance of the advocacy of truth being committed to ca· pable and propel' persons.. Mr. Cooke contends, that whatever con~ nection there was between the Reforma- tion and the fanaticism attending it, that the Reformation itselfwas the only effec- tual antidote for it. ThosE' who had in- . teUigently received the truth, were the .first ones who were the most swift to de- tect the artifices of Satan, to discriminate between reason and sophistry, and unravel the llttifices they had entwined around .&em. The fanatics cloaked " their mischief under the appearance of great sanctity, mer talked continually of mortifying.the :ftesh, and keeping alive the spirit, doing works of benevolence," &c. Thus did Satan transform himself into an angel of · ght. But they never could conceal their hatred of Luthel'. In the midst of their elces~es, Erasnrus threw out the taunt- '" We are now gathering the fruits of Lu- ther's doctrine.'; But Mr. Cooke says, ~' The fact that the_y regarded Luther as worse than the Pope, and hts work as fhe the greatest obstacle to their success, is proof that there was no affinity between the two. The terms of violence in which they always, after their rupture with Lu- ther, spoke of him and his cause, ought for ever to put to silence all imputations of the sins of these men to the Reform- en." In "View of this declaration, we would k Mr. Cooke, how he can claim that r. Miller is the cause of the fanaticism THE ADVENT HERALD. have cast reproach on it; although Mr. and Kilsyth, and examplE's are nQt infre· little account among the female jerkers. Miller and his friends have met, and quent in the meetings of the Methodists Even handkerchiefs bound round the and Cum,berland Presbyterians, at the head, would be flir1ed off almost with the present day. But the phenomenon now first twitch, and the hair put into the ut- to be described was something far ore most confusion,; this was a very gre in- extraordinary, and altogether without pre· convenience, to redress which the ne- cedent in Christian lands. It was rni-rality were horn, thou h directly con- liarly called " The Jerks," and the first trary to their confes..,ion of fa' h. uch recorded instance of its occurrence was as were seized with the jerk , were wre t· at a sacrament in East Tennessee, when ed at once, not only from under their own several hundred of both sexes were seized government, but that of every one else, with this strange and involuntary contor-so that it was dangerous to attempt con- tion. The subject was instantaneously fining them,' or touching them in any seized with spasms or convulsions in eve-manner, to whatever danger they were ry muscle, nerve, and tendon. His head exposed; yet few were hurt, except it was jerked or thrown from side to side were such as rebelled against the opera- with such rapidity, that it was impossible tion, through wilful and deliberate enmi- to distinguish the visage, and the most ty, and refused to comply with the injunc- lively fears were awakened lest he should tions which it came to enforce." dislocate his neck, or dash out his brains. From the universal testimony of those His body partook of the same 'impulse, who have described these spasms, they and 'Yas hurried on by like jerks over appear to have been '"holly involuntary. every obstacle, fallen trunks of trees, or Thus they have been represented by in a church, over pews and benches, ap-McNemar in the passage just cited.·- parently to the most imminent danger of This remark is applicable also to all the being bruised and mangled. It was use-other bodily exercises. What demon- less to attempt to hold or restrain 4im, strates satisfactorily their involuntary na- and the paroxysm was permitted gradu-ture is, not only that, as above stated, the ally to exhaust itself. An additional mo-twitches prevailed in spite of resistance, tive for leaving him to himself was the and even the more for attempts to sup- supetstitious notion, that all attempt at press thetn; but that wicked men would restraint was resisting the Spirit of God. be seized with them whi,le sedulously protested against fanaticism of every form as anfolly as did Luther and his asso· ci tes. Mr. Cooke claims that Luther and his ass · ates wiped "off the foul re- p ch st ually on thernselvc and on the gospel." So do we claim, that the Adventists have wiped off the foul re· proach cast en them, and on the gospel. In opposition to the efforts of Luther to stay the progress of the fanaticism, Muncer and his associate proclaimea'that " Luther and his friends apprehended no· thing but what was carnal, and that they had cut off a few twiggs of ~nti-chris­ tianity, but. had left the stock and roots for others to destroy." Mr. Cooke says: " All had commission from Muncer and company· to exercise the prophet's func· tions, and there came forth a rabblement of prophets, boasting of the Spirit, pre· tending to revelations, and imitating the rhapsodies of Muncer and Stork. Men of the lowest occupations, endowments, and charactel', came out as preachers.- And whatever splendid delirium had been vouch a fed to any, by the spirit that rules in the hearts of the children of disobe: dience, was put forth in public harangues, repeated in the house and by the way,- no matter how contrary it might be to Scripture. And it was no wonder that the flame spread like that of a burning prairie. Preachers multiplied as the flame advanced. With surprising art and in- dustry~ they diffused their poison every where, gliding into all families, collecting secret meetings where they were not al- lowed to meet in public, professing to be the special friends of the poor, and of the slaves, magnifying the sins of the rich, and leaving no art untried to seduce the credulous and the ignorart.. " The claim of immediate inspiration, as the privilege of all who would receive it, opened wide the sluices of error.- Whatever was startling and strange, wa ready to meet the demand of ears itching for wonders. And so many restless minds were now in action, with the intent to produce an entire revolution, and re- construction of all things in church and state, throughout the Christian world .... Masses of people were assembled, and armed for resisting the governments, the flames of civil war spread far and wide, till the most flourishing provinces were swept with torrents of blood ..... The insurrection began in the districts of the Black Forest, near the sources of the Danube, on the 19th of July, 1524 .... Thence it spread with astonishin£T ra- pidity, from Suabia as far as the Rh~nish provinces, Franconia, .. Thuringia, and Saxony. In January of the next year, 1525, most of these provinces were in a state of open insurrection ...... The ta k of reasoning with armies of mad- men, thirsting for blpod, might seem The first form i,n which these spasmo-guarding against an attack, and cursing die contortions made their appearance was every jerk when seized. Travel,lers on that of a simple jerking of the arms from their journey, and laborers at their daily the elbows, downwards. The jerk was work, were also liable to them. very quick and sudden, and followed at Instances have been giv~n of men con- short intervals. This was the simplest cealing whips on their pers~ns, with the and lTJOSt COmmon form, but the convul-intention of using them upon the subjects sive motion was not confined to the arms, or advocates of these contortions who it extended 'in many !nstances t? ?ther have themselves, too tnerr great su'rprise parts of the. body. "\hen the JOint of and horror, been suddenly seized in a the neck was affect~d, the h~.ad was similar manner, and their whips have thr?wn ?ackward and forward w~th a ce· been violently jerked f>l1t of their hands ~enty f~1ghtfnl to. b~hold, and which was to a distance. A young man, the son of nnposstble to be Imitated b~ persons who an elder, who was a tanner, feigned ~ick· were not tlnder the same stimulus. The ness one Sabbath mornin(l' to avoid ac- boso~ heav~d., the countenance was dis-companying the family to~:-'a camp-meet· gustmgly dtstorted, and the spPctators ing. He was left alone in bt>d, with none were alarmed lest the neck should be bro-others in the house but a few blark rhil- ken. \V~en the hair. was long, it was dren. He lay some time, triumphing in shaken With such qmckness, bacl.:w~rd the success of his stratagem, but afraid to and forward, as. to crack ~nd snap hke rise too soon, lest some mig~t be acci· the lash of a whip. SometJmes the mm:-dently lingering nnd detect him. As he cle~ of the back were affected, and the lay quiet with h;3 head coveJed, his patient ~as throw~ d0\111 on the ~round, thoughts were natmally d;rected to th~ when his contortJO~s for some time ~e· camp-meeting, and fancy painted the as· se~bled those of a hve fish cast from Its sPmbled multitudE', the Jlllllblic ·worship, native element on the land. and individuals fal1in0' inUJ the mllal b The most graphic description we have spasmodic convulsions. All at once he of those who l!lpeak of him in terms of 'tiolence ' Does not that also prove there. W no affinity between him and them ? hopeless, as to talk with a whirlwind. Yet the heart of the reformer, unappalled, and despairing of no good cause, spoke out."-( To he continued.) is. from one who was. not only an eye-found himself violently jerked out of ~~d, Witness, but an apologist. He says," No-and dashed round the room nnd agam~t thing in nature could better represent this the walls, in a manner altogether bey~nd strange and unaccountable operation, than his control. Recollecting that praymg for one to goad another, alternately on was said to be a good sedative on such oc· every side, with a piece of red-hot iron. casions, he resorted to the experiment, The ex('rcise commonly hegan in the and to his g'reat satisfaction found it sue· head, which would fly backward and for-c.essfnl. He returned to bed quite re· ward, and from side to side, with a quick lieved, but only to be again affected in the jolt, which the person would naturally same way, and to be again quieted by ~be labor to suppress, but in vain; and the act of praying. He then dressed hun· more any one labored to stay himself, self, and to. occupy his mind, went to the and be sober, the more he staggered, and tan-yard, and drawing a skin from the the more his twitches increased. He vat, prepared to nnhair it. He rolled up must, necessarily, go as he was stimu-his sleeves, and, ~rasping the knife, was lated, whether with a violent dash on the about to commence the operation: when, ground, and bounce from place to place in tantaneously, the knife was flirted out like a foot-ball, or hop round, with head, of his hand, and he llimseH jerked back· Th J king E limbs, and trunk twitching and jolting in ward over logs and against the fences, as ut haw does Mr. Oooke show that the tOnDeetion between the two was c1aimed? Pie sa.ys, u The rulers lurted the Refonna· tion ;" and as some of the sedition lead- ers had cl :imed to belong t(} Luthet's iJBrty, and h quoted him as favoring them, therefore, a plausi6ility was given to idea of a connection between them. Very good ; and is not the same rea$on the ea. that the f: naticism of thi nay is catt on Mr . .Miller? ':l'he fanatics did .claJID to be of his faith, aDd those no tetl oetrine, like their lJiototypes, 8 er :zerclae Ill Kentucky. every direc.tion, as if they must inevitably before. Gaining relief by resorting to tb.e The history of Presbyterianism in Ken-fly asunder. And how such could escape former remedy, he ventured to resume bJs tucky, by the Rev. Dr. Davijson, has without injury, was no small wonder to occupation, and again was he int~rrupted. many curious chapters, instructive to the spectators. By this strange operation the But, finding his talisman losing 1ts effie~· Christian philosopher. In the accounts human frame was commonly so trans-cy, he began now to be alarm~d, an.' of the great revivals of ISOO we have formed and disfigured, as to lose every quitting the yard, he returned to h1~ cha';d mention made of various bodily a£Tita-trace of its naturp.l appearance. Some-ber, and betook himself to prayer .m go d tions, which we have not seen ~lse· times the head would be twitc.hed right earnest. In this condition, weepmg ;~ where so graphically described.-N. Y. and left, to a half round, with such velo-trying to God for mercy, he was foun 1 ~ Observer. city, that not a feature could be disr,o· the family on their retnrn. The resu to Swoons and convulsive falling have vered, but the face appear as much be-this singular incident was that he became not been without precedent. They have hind as before; and in the quick pro-a truly converted man, and shortly after been recorded as occurring in the days of gressive jerk, it would seem as if the per-connected himself with the Church . Wesley, Wh.itefield, E~wards, the Ten- ~on was transmuted into some other spe- Another example of the involuntary' ants, and Blair, as well as at Cambuslang cies of creature. Head dresses were of nature of these fi!Otions is presen~d JD THE ADVENT HERALD. 83 18eeate of a lady and gentleman of some south of Ireland, says:~" No such state thence learn to estimate the love and con· fulfilled on no other condition than obedi- - in the fashionable world, who were of things had ever occurred before. The descension of the Son of God.-lb. euce. As the Jews did not comply witll attracted to the camp-meeting at Cane grand difficulty had always be~n to get at , the condition, their promises, of cou~, Ridge by mere c.urio•ity. .on the v:ay the people. In this affliction they are The Moving Universe. will not be fulfilled. Those which re" thef diverted themselves wtth a vanety' thrown on the Protestant clergy and gen- main to be fulfilled, must be those whom oC jokes upon the poor deluded creatures, try for preservation, and are willing to We are surrounded with a universe of the Lord calls his people at the ti7le of "ho allowed themselves to roll screaming hear. Ireland is opeh to the gospel." wonders. And yet how little dream the their fulfilment. in the mud, and sportively agreed that if The Bishop of Cashel, in a late charge, busy multitu.de, amid t.he business and Under the Old Testament, the Jrwi her of them should fall, the other says:- pleasures .of life, of the mighty movements nation was cfllled God's people: not hctw- thoald remain and renner suitable protec- ''A reviv~l has taken place in our Irish of t~e umverse all around .us. Th~ fol-ever, because they, as a nation, we;e hi, &len and assistance. They had not been Church,. wh1ch has not been the resul.t of lgwmg, from. a new work JUS~ pubhs~ed, at heart, as their history proves. It Wll lpgg 00 the ground when, t~ the co?ster-any d~s1gn ?I power ?f man brought mto affords a ghmpse ~f these m1ghty "on-predicted that a change would take plac~ uation of the gentleman, h1s gay com-operatton-Is not attnbutable to any great ders of the Creator.- ·m relation to those whom the Lord w9uJ4 paaion suddenly dropped; whereupon, human instrument or instrumentality. "How vast is this creation, and how call his. There was to be a chan e lJl 111stead of fulfilling his promise, he fled The. awak~ning t~at has taken pla;e has wonderful in all its parts. How many the office of law·giver, a change fo the at fall speed. Flight, however, proved been the Immedtate effect of Gods free suns, how many systems! How great law, and a ·change in the character cf. 08 preservative, for he had not gone 200 Spirit, like the wind blowing where it their magnitude, and how immense the those whom the Lord would call b~ yards before he was seized in the same listeth-of his sovereign grace. showing space in which they move! Light, we are after the first Advent of our Savior._:.. way, and measured his length on the mercy where he will have mercy. 'It is told, moves at the rate of one hundred This change is manifest in the followi ground; while a crowd flocked round the Lord's doings, and it is marvellous in and eighty thousand miles in a second of texts : Gen. 49 : 10-" The sceptre sh~ Mfn to witness his mortification, and offer ou_r eyes. The Lord hath ~~?e great time, an.d yet it will take five years for a not depart from .Judah, nor a law-giver prayers in his behalf. thmgs, whereof we were glad. ray of l1ght to pass from our sun to the from between h1s feet, until Shooh cqme: The .Jerks continued to prevail for The above relates especi9.HY. to the nearest star. But such facts immediately and unto kim s,hall the ,uathering of the eeveral years. Dr. Cleland saw a young Irish 1hind as connected with the Episco· confound and overwhelm us. Let us take people be." 0 , woman in a Baptist settlement up Green pal Church. But from other sources it another view. The globe which we in- Deut. 18: 15, 18, 19-" The Lord hy river, who had been subjec.t to them for would seem that the Presbyterian Church habit is really a great globe, being nearly God will raise up qnto thee a Prophet three years. Lorenze Dow met with them of Ireland finds equal encouragement . .:_ eight thousand miles in diameter, and from the midst of thee, of thy brethren in 1835, in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was Chris. Intelligencer. twenty-five thousand in circumference. like unto me: unto hint ye shall hearken': preaching in the Court-house, the Go- What towering mountains does it con· I will raise them up a Prophet from vernor being present, on which occasion The Love of Christ. tain, what broad rivers, what vast oceans, among .their brethren, like unto thee, and 100 persons were exercised with the jerks. How inconceivable! Who can com- wha~ numerous islands, what extended will put my words in his mouth; and he Nor were they confined to any particular comprehend it? 0 Christian! unto you contments, and what a vast popula-shall speak unto them all that I shall com- sect or denomination of Christi:ms, for it is precious. Whell' you feel the love tion! If this. world of 'Ours is deemed mand him. And it shall come to pas!, at an evening meeting that eccentric indi-of Christ burning upon the altar of your lar~e, 'yhat shall w.e say_ of yo~der sun, that whos?ever will not hearken unto my vidual held 18 miles from Knoxville, about heart, how consoling!-" bright foretaste, wh1ch IS nearly thuteen hundred thou-words wh1ch he shall speak in my name a dozen Quakers, the most unlikely sub- 1 h h · h sand times larger still? If a globe of fire, I will require it of him." ' of those eterna joys w ic await t e jeets that could have been selected, were faithful! Here you conceive only in as some suppose, what an immense fiery Acts 2:22 23-" For Moses truly said ilffected by them. He says," I have seen part; but "rest in hope." Soon shall glob~, ~hich., if hollow, c.ould with. e~se unto the fathers, A Prophet shall the Lord al~ deno~inations of religion exercised you know, even as you are known.-receive mto Its bosom m~re 1 than a miii!on your God raise up unto you, of your Wtth the. Jerks, gentleman and l~dy, black Gray·haired sire, have you any expe· of su.ch worlds as ours IS .-an~ habita- breth~en, lik.e unto me; him shall ye •nd.. whne, young and. old, without ex-rience of the Savior's love 1 0 blessed ble, like our ~arth, as .others thmk, then hear mall thmgs, whatsoever he shaH say cepnon. I passed a mee~mg-house, where consolation ! Soon shall you be ushered what ~ountams, what r.Ivers, what oceans, unto you. And it shall come to pass, that I ohserved the under-grow.th had been, ·into his presence, and experience its ful-what Is~an~s, and contments, and \~hat .a every soul which will not hear that Proph.- "t away for a camp m~etmg, and from ness. And ye who are just approaching populatiOn. And,.after all, ~hat IS th1s et, shall be destroyed from among •he Jity to. a hundred saphngs were left, the meridian of life, do you feel the pow-earth,and yonder sun, and all Its planets, people." . , bteast-h1gh! on purpose for the people er of divine love, giving impulse to all .to all the. other suns~ and worlds, and sys- When Shiloh, or that Prophet (the wlio ere Jerked to hold by. I obs~rved yo,ur words and actions 1 If so, cherish terns, wh1chtelescopu;glas~es have spread Messiah) should come, all men, both Jew where they had held on they h.ad kt?ke?, it. Endeavor to cultivate those Christian o~t before the eye of man. Onl~ as tha and Gentile, were required to look to up th: earth, as a horse stampmg flies. graces which follow in its train, and ~on-frmge upon .the g~rment of creatiOn,. or Him for their rule of faith and practice: One IS almost tempt~d to suspect that tinue "faithful unto death;" then shall as a small VIllage m some vast emp~re; whatever he should command, that they some wag me~nt t~ pass. a hoax on Lo-your joy be full, your love entire, your for as~r~nomers tell us t~at there are eigh-should observe and do. For the result of ~nz.o's credulity,. m th1s account of the desires fulfilled in him, and all shaH be ty .m1lhons of sun~ d1~covered, a!o~nd obedience or of disobedience, see Matt. 7: Jerking·pos~s, for It wo~ld seem a much peace. young disciple of the blessed which roll, by. e.stimatlon, two b1lhons 24-27 .. more plaus.•ble explanation ~hat they were Master! have you just begun to feel a four hundred m1lhons of worl?s; and all ~he character of ~od's people, after ed for tymg horses.' e~pec~ally as ~thers Savior's love 1 ]Jest in ho~. Confide th.ese n~ay ~e only as. the outskirts of some Sh1loh should come, IS brought to view 11re us it was so d1fficult to restram the in him who is your "elder Brother." Go still m1~ht1er creation; and God made in Jer. 31: 31-34-" Behold, the days _persons· affected. prove that his love is "all-powerful to th~~ all. N~t only so,. h~ ma.de them come, saith the Lord, that I will make a save." Seek by prayer and earnest sup-wJtnout maten~ls, and With mfimte ease; new covenant with the h()use of Israel, Religious State of Ireland. plication the influences of the Holy Spi-he ~pake, and It was done;. he c?m~a~d-and . with the house of Judah: .not a~- The Christian w1ll naturally inquire rit. Remember that Jesus is near at ed, .It ~tood fast .. Another Id~a JS thi.s .-cordmg to the covenant I made wtth their hat impressions the remarkable dealing, h~nd. Let all your actions conform to :rhls u:nm~nse, Immense umverse IS' all fathers, in the day that I took them by ~[Providence are producing upon Ire-the pattern which he himself hath set. m motiOn·. eac~ .sun, a~d worl~, a~d the hand to bring them out of the land.of ~nd. We learn, through the London Continue iri his love, a'nd strive to attain system: rolhng 10 Its ~p~omted ~rblt with Egypt; which my covenant they brake, "Christian Observer," that one who has unto the perfect stat!ue of men in Christ a veloci~Y ~ost asto~Ishmg, swifter than although I was an husband unto them, :recently returned from an extensive tour Jesus, and rest in glorious hope. the whulwmd passmg over th~ face of saitb the Lord: but this shall be the cove- In the country, says:- And now, impenitent sinner, what shall the deep, or the meteor streammg along nant that I will make with the house of "The feeling among the population is be said to you? Although you cannot see the archway of heaven, or the.ball thrown IHael; After those days, saith the Lord, tery strong that the famine is the judg· any beauty in the crucifird Redeemer can from ~e mouth of the thu~dermg cannon. I will put my law in thc::ir inward parts ment of God for the sins of priests and you doubt his love? Can you. belie 1ve it ~nd od ,hears ~p all, as m the hollow of and write it in their· hearts; and will ~ople. I found among a large propor-was aught else than love, sovereign and his ha~d · A g•ant would stagger under be their God, and they shall be my peo· lton of those with whom I conversed, a free, that ca~sed the Son of God to leave tb~ '~eight of a small rock, and an ~rmy ple. And they shall teach no more eve- feeling that the book of God ought to be the bosom of his Father descend to our of giants could not roll one mount~m, or ry man his neighbor, and every man his 'tead." world, assume our natdre, suffer innu- h~av~ on~ ocean; but God Almtghty, brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they Otber credible witnesses ha'e stated merable pains, and finish his work in "'!th I?fim~e ease, bears up all worlds, and shall all know me, from the least unto at never were Irishmen more prepared dP.ath to redeem us from the curse of Wl~h mfimte ease ca~ heave and roll the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for \Velcome with deep intere5t the titlings God's' wrath? Can it be auo-ht but love? swiftly the whole creatiOn. I will forgive their iniquity, and I will re- \he gospel of Christ than they now 0, be persuaded. It was lo 0ve for fallen, 1 member their sin no more." ~. ~emplifying the truth, " in 'their af-Q"uilty man that caused him to weep over The lilillennium. The first covenant wa! God's Jaw, nn- titt&On they will seek me early." A su-Jerusalem, exclaiming," Othat thouhadst No. v. der the teaching of Moses, written on ta- .'aueadent of the Irish Society express-known, even thou, in this thy day, the 'Vho are to be the subjects of Christ's hles; the second, or new covenant under llaa a general opinion, th~t fhis period things that belong .to thy peace; but now reign in the Millennium? the teaching of Shiloh, was God' w ity, visibly sent by the hand of thev are hid from thine eyes," It was Dan. 7: 18-" But the saint$ of the written on the heart. This was to l1e \may be of great advantage, as the love that caused him to endure the bitter Most High shall take the kingdom, and done after those days, that iQ, after the pie acknowledge the power of G;od agony in Gethsemane, when his sweat possess the kingdom for ever, even for days of the continuance of the first cove- ·ing i[,l it, and are attentive to hear. ran down as drops of blood, when he ever and ever." nant. That the new covenant went into ther superintendent says:-" Never cried," Father, not my will, but thine be This, and other passages of the same effect, in the first coming of our Sa~ tbere such a strong appeal to the done." 0 infinite condescension! 0 iUlport, at once show, that the Lord's peo-vjor, is evident from Heb. 8 : 13-" In of Christ-loring men, for the cause boundless love! How can you doubt a ple are to be the subjects of that blessed that he saith, A new covenant he hatb tie Irish Society. Both body and Savior's love for you? Accompany me state. made the first old. Now that which l'e in the deepest distress. Never to the foot of the cross. There behold Who then are the Lord's people 1 decayeth and waxeth old, is ready to .. ere such a precious moment for your bleeding, dying Lord. Surrounded Many of the promises made to the ~nish awlly." The promise eonnect- tiaa exertion. Oh, it is above all oo every side by revilers and scoffers, Jews, who were called His people, were ed with this oovenant, like maD-1 ether if men would bat consider!" hear him exclaim," Father, forgive them, fulfilled in their ret11rn from Babylon. proaises, remains to be fulfiJled in -e dergrman woo h3.s a parish in the for they know not what they do;" and Other .promises were conditional, to be Uti pen tba~ leet hich remains for I 84 THE ADVENT HERALD. I ~~~;;;;~~;;;;~~~;;~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~;;~~~~;;~;;~~~~~~~~~~-- ;;~~~­ I II I 1 l j faithful. After Shiloh should come, and the ·new covenant take the place of the old, God would call those, and those only, his people, or his Israel, who should have his law placed in their minds, and written on their heatts. All such would know the Lord, from the least to the greatest of them. of God 1 If the time is short, and what is done must be done quickly, is there not so much the more need that all should buckle on their armor for the .struggle, while the day does last! If those who are not snatched as brands, must go down to everlasting burnings, is there not so much more the need of constant, energetic, and untiring action ! It seems to us, that the inducement to l~bor is greater; and therefore we would say to all in evety state and sphere of action, persevere, press forwa~d in the fight, stay not your efforts, but put forth every means which can be made in- strumental of good. nothing; when she is wretched, and mi~era­ ble, and poor, and blind, and naked. And it will doubtless make multitudes unprepared for the coming of their Savior, who,· when it is too late, will cry, Lord, Lord, open unto us, and who must sink into eternal perdition. pllint in eternity shall arrive when the repose of the righteous shall be interrupted, and the glurtfi. cation of the children of God have an eternal· end !" Inquiries. or this character there were some be- fore Shiloh came. Hence the Apostle said, " They are not all Israel:" that is, they were not all Israel at heart, that were of' the Jewish nation. The Sa vi or said of Nathaniel, John 1: 47-" Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom IS no guile." Like the character of Jacob, for which Teason his name was changed. Genesis 32:28-" And he said, Thy name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God, and hast prevailed." This is the Israel 'all of which God will save when the 'Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Ja- cob. See Isa. 59;20, and Rom. 11 :26. Then will be fulfilled Heb. 9:28-" And unto them that look for him shall he ap- pear the second time without sin, unto A brother asks the following questions :- "Take, for instance, the word1 ' for ever' and 'everlasting.' What is their meaning? Have they more than one meaning when applied to the priesthood of Aaron ; the everlasting mountains; and as applied in many other pall- sages in the Old Testament? Have these wordl5 the same meaning ns in the New Testament? ln Jeremiah 17 :27-Ezekiel 30:47, the term 'Fire that shall not be quenched,' i~ u11ed. Are we to understand them the same as similar words are to b11 understood in the New Testament? If not, how are the ignorant to know what these words mean?" [Note 1.) " What does the passagn, ' The wicked shall be as though they had not been,' mean?" [Note 2.] -"One of old said, 'Thou wilt redeem my soul from the power of the g?"ave.' How can this be, if the soul never enters a place known by this name? [Note 3.] While any thus labor to save souls, do not flatter them with the delusive hope that the great majority of mankind will certainly be converted; labor for the good that may be done, and not for the accomplishment of that for which we have no promise ; for if our end is the conversion of the world, in the language of another, we propose " an end that will nev- er be accomplished :" for " not one word was ever said by Christ or his apostles about a great and universal change in the world to be pro- Note I.-We must always distinguish be- The above will also apply to the other pas- sage quoted. In answer to the enquiry, how the ignorant are to understand the meaning of words, if words do not always have the same' meaning, we would say, they can do as we do when we seek for knowledge: we endeavor to learn of those who know more respecting the point of enquiry than we do. We have al- ways found great advantage in being ever ready to learn from any source. Should we take the position that we know all there is to be known on any question, we could make no progress in knowledge. By realizing that we may ever increase our stock of knowledge, from the stores of those who have-progressed farther than we have! we avoid many mistakes we should otherwise incur. Note 2.-We answered this in ~e. 9, v 13. Note 3.-The word soul sometimes denotes th~ body : the w.ord spirit never does. saloation." J. S. WHITE. "'' I 00JI8BOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM COMETH!!" BOSTON, APRIL 17, 1847. "Protestantism a Failure." (Concluded.) ·3d. The third point we proposed to consider is the claim of the " Evangelist," that if you persuade the friends of missions that the " world can never be converted," " that Christ is to come as a great conqueror, and dash the -qations in pieces as a potter's vessel, that the wicked are to be destroyed, and the earth peo- pled by colonies of glorified saints from hea- ven, who are to accompany the Redeemer at his advent, to take possession of their bodies at the first resurrection, and you put an end, an effectual end, to the enterprises of reli- gious benevolence for the conversion of the world.'~ To this we would reply, that if the friends of missions-have any schemes for the conver- sion of the world, which are not needed for the conversion of souls, if the world is not to be converted, an effectual end ought to be put to them. On the other hand, if the friends of missions are carrying out plans for the world's conversion, plans which God is blessing to the saving of the souls of men, which they would suspend if they should be convinced that God did not purpose to convert the world, it would prove that they were less anxious to do the will of God in the saving of souls, than they are to accomplish their own splendid plan- that of the world's conversion. To withhold any well-directed effort for good, because we should learn that God did not intend to ac- compliah just what we wished, would be say- ing to the very God of heaven, that if he would not work according to our notions of what is for his honor, that we will have no- thing to do with him. We would not be un- claritable, but look at the language, and say if it does not imply all that! What a plea that is! It is saying that, even if the Bible teaches no world's conversion, we must not convince the friends of missions of it,lest they shall utterly reflb!e to do anything towards the accomplishment of what God does purpose! Has it come to this, that enlightened Chrts- tians shall aS&ert how much shlJJl be done, or refuse to dO' anything 1 Is it not enou2h to try to carry out the known purposes of God 1 Ia bQt a world lying in wiQkedoess,' and the hope of saving some a sufficient inducement to call forth e-yery latent energy of the true child duced by the preaching of the gospel." tween the primary and secondary use of words. W d h h. tl t th M.l The word" everlasting," when used in a sec- e eprecate t e preac mg 1a e 1 - . . l · · t d L d t t 1 b · ondary sense, may be used as an adJective, to enmum 1s o prece e tue a ven , no on y e-. . . · · t h b b denote great dnrauon; but 1t does nut absolutely cause 1t IS contrary to rut , ut ecause we . . . . ti · h b d · f . h .1 d follow, because 1t IS sometimes used m a sec- ear 1t as een pro uct1ve o muc cv1 , an . . . ·n 1 · 1 d"t" · f 1 "t d f ondary sense, that it IS never used m a pnmary ~~ resu t m t te per 110n o mu t1 u es o and absolute sense. Immortal souls. It has..taken away from the . . . h h h bl d h f h 1 . Dr. Clarke, commentmg on the or1gmal word, c urc t e esse ope o t e g onous ap- , . , . · f h t God d S · J rendered " eternal and " everlastmg-, m pearmg o t e grea , an our av1or e- ~ sus Christ immediately. The church ha3 ta-Matt. 25: 46; says:- . . . "Some are of opinion that this puntshment ken 1t for granted that the world IS to be co.n-shall have an· end: this is as likely as that the verted-sooner or later-and therefore the glory of the righteous shall have an end: for the cause of missions has not been driven with same word is used to express the duration of the that zeal and success it would have been had punishment, as is used to expre~s the du.ration of . . ' . the state of glory. I have seen the best thtngs that they fully reahzed th the t1me was &hort, have been written in favor of the final reJemp- and that what they did must be done quickly, tion of damned spiritil; .but I never S<~W an an- working while the day lasts. It has caused swer to ~he argument agamst that d.x:trr~e drawn . . from thiS verse, hut what sound learmng and the church to become worldly mmded, Chris-criticism should be ashamed to ac.lroowltldge." tians have sought to lay up treasures here on Again, in his note on Gen. 21:33, on the earth, and have placed their hearts where they phrase, " the everlaSting God," after showing have heaped their treasure~. They have that it is used in the absolute sense, he says:- looked upon this world more as their home, "In alllangu11ges words have, in proce111 of and have not realized, as they ought, that they time, deviated from their original acceptations, and have become accommodated to particular were strangers and pilgrims here below.-purposes, and limited to particular meaning<~.- They have sought to erect enduring monu-This has happened both to the Hebrew alum, ments, and costly edifices, when they should and the Greek,aion; they J.ave been both used to express a limited time, but in general a time have been engaged in their Master's service-the limits of which are unknown; and thus a in the conversion of souls. It has caused pointed reference to the original ideal meaning them to substitute figurative and forced inter-is still kept up. Tho11e who bring any of these terms in an accommodated 11ense to favor u par- pretations, for the plain and literal.readiog of ticular doctrine, &c., must depend 00 the good God's word; and has thus been an example graces of their opponenta for permission to use upon which errorists have greaily improved, them in this way. For as the real grammatical till some have made that holy book a dead let-meaning of both words is eternal, and all other meanings are only accommodated ones, &ound ter. It has said to the wicked, you will all criticism, in all matters of dispute concerning the be converted, and to the carnal Jews, you will import of a word or term, must have recourse to be restored to your ancient privileges. It has the grammatical meaning, and its use among the earliest and most correct writers in the language, engendered strifes and contentions among those and will determine all accommodated meanings evil servants, who have said in their hearts, by this alone. Now the first and best writers in " My Lord delayeth his coming;, so that both these languages apply olam and aion to ex- press eternal, in the proper meaning of that they have eaten and drunk with the drunken. word ; and this is their proper meaning in the It has flattered the church and the world with Old and New Testaments when applied to God, a long period of peace and safety. It has caused the sinner to put far from him the evil day, and to cry peace when there is no peace, saith my God to the wicked. It has caused the church to be proud of the notice of the world, and to lower their standard of Christian attainments. It has macle the Bible to many a sealed book, and caused them to believe that the prophecies could noi be understood. It has closed their eyes to the signs of the times, so that they are not aware that their Savior is near, even at the doors. It has caused their fear towards God to be taught by the precepts of men, and to be unmoved by all the jud - ments that God is ilending upon a doomed and guilty world. It has substiLuted the wisdom of men for the word of God ; and it has filled the church with cold and worldly-minded pro- fessors, who have a name to live and are dead. It has caused the church to feel that she is his attribute5, his operations taken in connection with the ends fur which he performs them, for whatsoever he doth, it shall be jot· ever-yihyeh leolam, it shall be for eternity, Eccl. S:14 ; forms and aPJWarances of created things may change, but the counsels and purposes of God relative to them ure permanent and eternal, and none of them can lle frustrated ; hence the words, when applied to things which from their nature fllust have a limited dumtion, are properly to be understood in this sense, because those things, though temporal in themselve11, sha4ow .forth things that are eternal. Thu11the Jewtshdtspen- sation, which in the whole and in its parts is fre- quently said to be leolam, for ever, an~ which bas terminated in the Christian dispensatiOn, has the word properly applie~ to it, ~ecaus~ it t?pi- 6ed and introduced that dtt araument that pretends to prove (and it is on- ly pr:tension) that in the f11ture punishment of the wicked ' the worm shall die,' and ' the fire shall be quenched,' will apply ae forcibly to the rich, and increased in goods, and in need of state of happy spirits, and u fully prove that a England-English Mission. We have received strong remonstrances from all parts of the country, in reference to our contemplated visit to Europe this season. Not that brethren do not feel the deepest inte- rest in the stability and success of the mis11ion, but !hat the, cause at home demands all the strength we can command. V'l e hignly ap- preciate the deep interest which is manifested in our labors at home. We have been deeply affected in reference to the incessant calls for help on· both sides of the water, and have made every eff01t iu our power to respond to them. But as yet, we have failed to. ob- tain such agencies as are necessary to earry out our plan 'for the diffusion of the· Advent doctrine in Great Britain and on the Conti· nent. If we could be released from our post for a short time, so far as we can judge from the indications of Providence, we could ac- complish all that has been contemplated, as we have the assurance both of funds and in- strumentalities to do it. But the time in wllich this work must be done abroad, if at all, is the most important for our labo1s at home. This is true also of Om ada, as well as the United States; so that the call for Bro. Hutch- insqn 's labors in Ca.nada is as imperious as for ours in the States. Under these considerations, w'e have con- cluded to remain at home for the present1 and do what we can to advance the best interests of the cause. Bro. Hutchinson will proba- bly return in season for the Boston meeting in May. We can then,con:::ult with the friends, and adopt such measures as shall be thoughL best fur the cause of Christ in this and other lands-the English and West India Missions in particular_. ______ _ Hum buggery. .. Rev. GEO. B. CHII!EVEn's discour!!e )fl8t su~day evrniug, iu ht:h!tlf the Edu;:!ttlon t)oci~ty, wus on tb~ uew creatiuu or the world, which it to bt: e:q•eneuc~ under the power ot l:bri•LiaulLy·" The above is the commencement of an ar- ticle in the New York" Tribune," showing that the destruction of war is one of the means for regellerating the earth. We do not know but we misunderstand these logicians ; but the claim that " the new creatio~ of the world'' is " to be· experienced \lnder the power of Christianitv " looks to us like expressly deny· I ing any ph·y~ical change in the earth. If the new creation predicted in Scripture is a moral creation, it must follow that there can be no literal melting of the elements; for if the texts that speak of the melting of the elements, ~n­ ly denote a moral change, there are no Scnp- tures left to ptef disbelieving the ftliUrrection, the great hope of Christianity. Baptist Protest against Slavery. A declaration has been in circulation for a short time, among the clergymen of the Baptist denomi- nation in Boston, on this subject, which, we learn from the" Reflector," bas been signed hy most ot them. The document is decided, and shows elltength and firmness of Anti-Slavery seutiment, Whieb does honor to the Christian principle and 1101'11 courage of that large and respectable body. ,._,expressions of Christian sentiment, now so in. With it, the spirit of disco ret retires, and THE CoNFERENCEs IN NEW Y oRx AND leaves in its stead, quietness and peace. Our .BosTON.-These meetings take place on the chastisements are working for our good. We week of the Anniversaries of the great religious trust that we shall be made more spiritual, and benevolent societies of the age. One object humble, and peaceful ; as well• as useful in our we have in view is, to circulate light among stran- Master's vineyard. gers who atteud these meetings. Another is, to have a free interchange of views, by conference aently and decidedly made at the North, will Joac be without their inJiuence. After a suit- Hie preamble, the document declares :- "We do, therefore, in the fear of God, de- ... , aevtlrally orad jointly, that we disapprove .-l abhor the system of American Slavery.- Amona the facts which render it to us peculiarly t4ioaa, are the following :- It recognizes immortal beings as property, and .,_ta them as commodities of commerce: THE SuMMER CAMPAIGN.-As we have concluded to remain in this country for the sea- son, our next step will be to lay out our work. We intend, if God permit, to hold a number of large. meetings this season' in different parts of New England. We think some to obtain a new BIG TENT for the object. We shall visit many new places, and hope by the grace of God to see many souls converted, back- sliders restored, and Christians of all classes roused to the grand question of the Lord's speedy coming. It extends over them a separate and oppressive CA:rHOLIC GRATITUDE.-" In the midst of lode of laws, that bereaves them of their civil' sur:h scenes; of dreadful sufferings and of gene- aocial rights, and holds them liable to the rous charity, it were strange if Protestantism of erae1 abuses of irresponsible power : \he true and r;ennine type lhonld not show its It deprives both sexes of control over their own hideous form. It bas done so ! In sharne for ~.a, their offspring, and the fruits of their our wretched humanity we would wish to be able ... : to deny it. We would fain think that the serpents It denies to them intellectual culture, nnd with-of the pit bad assumed the empty form of Bible- from them the gift of their Heavenly Father pedlars, and had not found any of the human precioul! Bible: race so God-for88ken as to serve 110 purely hellish '1\e f'i«ht thus to degrade and oppress a pnr-a cause. But, except we take this explanation, lar race of men, is defended upon principles there is no other way to escape from it that the diu would apply, with equal justice, to any other cantittg miscreants of Exeter Hall had gone to fe!tion of' the h•1man family. Ireland, crept into the hovels whe1·e poor Catho- tth tuch a system we can have no sympathy. lies were writhing in the agonies of a death from a careful observation of its character and starvation, with ?"ice boiled and prepared in their IIM:ta, and making every deduction whi~h the hand, and have offered it, on the condition of ab- • charity can require, we are constrained to juring the Catholic faith, and when the condi- itpnl it as an outrage upon the rights and happi-tion was rejected, have gone away and lift the nf our fellow-men, for which there is no valid poor Catholic to certair. death! Is it not well, ~tion or apology. We can therefore sus-is it not full time tbut Protestantism of tltis type tain 110 relation, and perform no act, that will has lost its hold on public sentiment, and that the lllhltenance the system, or imply indifference to howl of its self-confessed diBBOlution is no longer lllultiplied enormities. Against it, as a mass interrupted save by the jeerings of those whom tl 0010plicated and flagrant wrong, we must re-it has attempted to dupe?" ~~~~ anti proclaim our solemn protellt. And es- The above is from the Roman" Freemnn'sJour- )llelally must we, as ministers of the Son of God, Jlftltest against thO!!e perversions of the Sacred nal," the organ of Bishop Hnghes of New York. ~·~lea, by "Y.(hich it is attempted to make their We cannot believe there is any troth in it what- UlVIDe Author the patron and protector of a sys-ever. We cannot believe that any one would be tern which is so entirely repugnant to their princi-so lost to humanity, as thus to outrage all princi- .... aDd apirit. "-N. Y. Evangelist. pies of our nature, by offering food to the starving EvANGELICAL ALLIANCE.-The "Brook-on su<'h a condition, It looks too much like an r" contains the plan of the American effort to excite the Rollbanists againat the Protest- for the formation of an American Alii-ants. It ia. signed by Rev, Dr. De Witt asebair- alld Rev. Dr. Cox and Rev, Mr. Wheelock, ies. Persons who wi3h to become mem- !IMIIIt be "personally known or suitubly au- ted to the Committee," "members of and lectures on the great question of the speedy coming of the Lord; to comfort one another in our pilgrimage to the land of rest. Also, to unite on Scriptural grounds to spread the light of the speedy Advent as extensively as practicable in this and othe, land~. Our bond of union is the earnest love of Chriat's soon appearing in glory. We do not meet, therefore, for controversy, or discussion of irrelevant questions. Onr meetings for the l.ast five years have been most refreshing and profitable, We hope they may continue so, till the appearing of our Lord. These may be our last gatherings, before we shall be gathered into the everlasting Kingdom. May the Lord be with us, and give us a refreshing season, Conference at New York begins on Monday, May 11th, on Anniveraary week ; at BOiltoD, May 2oth. · It is n(lt certain that there will be a Conference in Philadelphia, as .noticed in a former number. FALSE THEOLOGY.-Theodore Parker, who goes counter to all the theology of the Bible, has lately preached a sermon on the misfor- tunes resulting to a nation, from the prevalence of a false theology, which, he says, is more to be deprecated than war, pestilence, and fa- mine. He does not realize that his theology may be thus rleadly in its results. Bro. Himes :-Please to reconcile 188. 11:8, with Isa. 65: 20, first part of the verse. c. M. c. ANsWER,-If you had stated whsrein they conflict, we could better comply with your re- quest. , We now do not see that they do at all.- When the little sucking children, who have gone down to the grave, shall c()me up in the resurrec- tion, it does not follow that they will be infants' of days, although they are in stature: NEW HoTEL.-Strangflrs visiting the city from the West, will find a vel!y convenient hotel at the Albany-house, No. 3 Albany-street, It is imme- diately oppotaite the OW Colony railroad depot, and but a few rods (rom the Worcester railroad depot and United States Hotel. It is kept by a lady, Mrs. Shaw, and u we understand, on strict- ly temperance principles, for which reason we thus speak of it. ' ""DJelical church in good and regular ~" ar.d "must sign their names to the ali." The business of the Alliance ia to be •et.d by thirty Councellon. Tlte Commit- wilt meet to receive memberS' every Tueaday, oreign MisS~ionnry room in the American Scwiety'a house. 'fhe fi)llowing settlement the lnvery question must be very satitaf'actory •II who can bring thl!ir minds to it.-Tribur.e. T .!STE OF THE AGE.-Pnblie sentiment has become in a measure changed of late. The religious enterprises of the day, with their be- nign results, and the eondition and pro!pects of the moral world, are becoming known and read of aU men who have any claim to intelli- gence or philanthrophy. Probably a five times greater amount of general religious informa- FAIR.-We have been requested by the editor tion has been ciiftused through the secular press of the" Prisoner's Friend," to notice that a Fair, of this city, within the last year or two, than in any previous year. And perhaps there is to raise money to aid in rechtiming discharged . laaamueh 11s the peculiar circurnstancet1 of .C8tlatry seem to demand an expression of ~~rneot on the sn~ject of Slavery, this Alliance -ares that a discrimination iil to be made be- thcltle who hold slaves, not by their own , or fur the sake of their own advantage, but lhO_tives entirely benevolent, and those who the1r fellow creatures in bondage for the sake i~; and that the former are to he regarded ~ed to fellowship, while the latter cannot ived as members of this Alliance," • r•nl the above declarati;>n as a wicked no eounty or town here the new paper col-convicts, will be held in Boston for two days and umn would not now be cheerfully granted for three evenings, commencing Thur!lday, April condensed views of passing religious events, 29th. The object is a benevolent one, and we if judiciously furnished by those most eonver-\ope they may be furnished with means to accom- sant with such interests.-N. Y. On4rier and r h much good Enquirer. p •s _· ------ We suppose the cause of the above state of THE ONENEss oF THE GosPEL.-Under things, is this : The religious press has be-the Abrahamic covenant, God was the God of come so secularized, and filled with accounts Abraham. Under the Christian dispensation, of past events and political news, that the " be is the God of the Gentilet1 al110." The men of the world find their wants as well Scripture preached before the ppel unto Abra- 85 ham ,-that the blessing of Ahraham might come on the Gentiles, Abraham "believed the Lord, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." Christians, "being justified by faith, have peace with God." In the days of Abraham, "Mel- chisedec was the Pri;,t of the most high God.'.' Jesus was ".made an High Priest after the order of Melcbisedec," The seal of the covenant with Abraham was, that" every man child among you shall he circumcised.·~ Under the covenant of Christ "ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, buried with him in baptism." Letter from Bro. Miller. Dear Bro. Himes :-The world is uneasy.- They fear something is coming upon them, they know not what, We are no doubt approaching the crisis at railroad speed, and the time of trou- ble is already commenced, or very near. Hold on your way, Bro. Himes, God will come soon and deliver us from all enemies, whether they be pretended friends, or secret foes and open scqffers. 1'he enemy of God and souls is now busily en- gaged to draw us into a discussion abont words to the subversion of men's minds, and I fear to the ruin of souls. What need is there of a continual discussion of the unconscious state of the dead, and the total destruction of the wicked ? What if it is so? Why, I will say, Amen, when I know it. What if men are conscious in the spirit after death? Very well, I say, Amen. I think I will not be fonnd fighting against God either ' way, or taking either one of the views to cut off some of my dP.ar brethren who are looking rur and loving the glorious appearing of Christ. All our ~lamor about what cannot be decided here, is only creating confusion, and every evil work.· Our disputes will never make OM hair black or white, I honor your motives in not making this que11tion prominent, so as to supersede the Advent ques- tion in your paper. True, 110me may say, it is because you have no arguments to meet them with. But let it go so, it had better be so, than that yon should leave your work, and pervert the glorious Advent cause. If others see fit to keep repeating "death is death," until Christ comes, they have a right so to do. One promise I have, which is better than all the arguments I have seen, and I Jove it,-" For whether we live, we live unto the Lord ; nnd whether we die, we die unto the Lord ; whether we live or die, we are the Lord's. And he is not a God of the deacl (body), but of the living (soul)." Amen, So I will leave it, and trust in God. "We are the Lord'll," and he knows how to take care of his jewels, whether in the OOdy or out of it ; and I will not quarrel with any of my brethren about the manner of his taking care of us, provided we look for him, and love his appearing.. And al- though he slay me, yet I will trust in him; and if I sleep, ·or wake, he has promised to be with me unto the end of the world, by his Spirit ; and this is enough for me. Ah, my brother, what an ungrateful world we live in. When I think of the darkness our breth- ren were in, when you firllt began with me to publish the glorious news of a coming King, and bow much you sacrificed to disseminate this light; and. now see some of them who assured 111 that they were edified by that light, now turnihg against you, and, if possible, would destroy not only your life, bot your Christian character and usefnlness. For what? To gratify their envy, or to show the spirit of the world, and to exhibit one of the signs of the la11t times-" unthankful- ness." Therefore the more good you do to man, the more you must expect envy, hatred, and per- 1ecution. In this world there is no reward ; bnt when he comes who judgeth righteonsly, yon will receive your reward. I often pray that your faith fail not. Then let me exhort you to hold on, yet a little while, and "we shall reap if we faint not." We have finally relinquished the design . of building a chapel, as propos~ wh~n ):0.11 ~as w1th us. 1f you have a Conference m th1s VJCJmty, how- ever, please to give us sufficient notice, ~nd.we will provide a place, ifpossible. My fam1ly ~ well, but my own health is poor. I am _nearmg the end of this life ; but my hope is waxmg stronger and stronger for an eternal life. Give DJY love to all who enquire, Yours, as ever, WM. MrLLilR. Low Hampton, April 6, 1847. - THE ADVENT HERALD. Correspondence. tongue,-then I pray God to show me the truth before it is too late to escape it. [Note 5.] Again, these two persons are represented Letter from Bro. L. Wilcox, with all the members of the body-eyes, fin- Dear B·ro. Himes :-1 have been a cohstant gers, tongue, &c. Now the question of Bro. reader of the "Herald" since its publication, Grandy still returns, Why need we a ~esur­ and am a seeker ~fter truth, the whole truth, rection 1 If our spirits, at the separauon of and nothing but the truth. In, reading the the body and, spirit at death assume all ~hese "Herald" of last week, [saw a letter written members, and if thus rewarded, why a JUdg- by Bro. Grandy alluding to the diacussiou of mem 1 [Note 6.] You say we are not rewarded the intermediate' state of the dead and final till Christ comes and judgment is set. Then state of the wicked, with accompanying notes, you rimst not u~ this text to ·prove we are and reasons assigned why they wish to throw conscious till the Judgment. [Not~ 7.] the responsibility for discussing this subject Note 6.-You say that " words are only on those who believe in an unconscious state. sirrns of idea-nothing n.ore." If this be Vary well, brethren, we will take the respon- tr~e Jet us, dear brother, see that we get the sibility, for no truth was ever proclaimed but righi sitTn, and the right idea. You say," The 'tV hat those wbo proclaimed it were responsi-Greek ;,ord translated 'pttradise,' eignified to ble for the proclamation of it. But let us see; the Jews the pla<.".e of the righteous in Hades." -is that the true reason 1 Is it not much I cannot help what it sig-nified to the Jews; easier to examine writers that are opposed to but it ~~ever, I think, signified that to the peni- us, and append notes of objections and pre-tent thief, or to God's waiting people. [Note tended inconsistences, than write a theory and 8.] Now if paradise is in Hades, (hell, or le~ others examine1 [Note 1.] grave,) a con.scious state bet~een dea;th and 1 Permit us in all kindness to e.xamille your the resurrectiOn where the nghte?us dwell, notes a little on Bro. Grandy's letter. I wish then John the Revelator was mistaken,. or not to offend or deceiy-e any one. We all de-there are two blessed places called paradtse, sire the truth. We are not after popular theo-one more blessed than the other. "John says ries, or opinions of men. We all desire to he saw a new he~ven and a new .earth .. He know what God has spoken. This I believe saw the tree of hfe that groweth Ill the mtdst is the 11incere desire of the editors of the "Her-of the paradise of God," and it, was on the ald." But brethren do not let prejudice pre-new earth. [Note 9.] I ask, seriously, what vent you f;om seeing the truth. I pray God was the thief's prayer~ "Lord_, reme~~er to show it you. And I desire your Ilrayers, me when thou ~o~est mto thr kmgdom. - that if we are in an error we mav be brought God says he w11l Judge the qmck a.nd dead at to the knowledge of the tr~th, and· the acknow-his appearin~ and the appearing of his king- leagment of it, too. dom. He did. n~t .exp.ect. to be remember~d I wish to know if the Bible tells us of more before: ~arad1se 1s 1n lus ktng-dom, ~nd qhn~t than three worlds-the old world, which per-told ~l.tm m tha.t day he should b~·with ~1m m ished by water, the pre!!!ent, which is reserved pa~dls~, tha~ 1s, the .• day. of hts commg.- uhto fire, and the promise of a new heaven L.hrts~ IS not m paradtse h~mself. He h~s en- and a new earth, which is the world to come. tered mto the holy of hohes, t~ appear m the It seems to me tradition of men has made ano-presence of God for us, a~d he I~ there alone. ther running parallel with the two former No man has ascended mto the heavens.- call~d tli invisible world, or world of spirits: " '\Yhere I am ye cannot come." I will come which is to end when the third world is created agat~, that where I am there ye may be also. and has stood a thousand years, or at the resur- [No_te 10.] . rection and judgment of the wicked. Now, if Now, brother, If Abraham, Isaac, and Ja- this is the teaching of God's word, I say cob, are now in a conscious state, then I beg amen to it, and will hold my peace. But I of ~u to tr.ll me how you can prove a resur- do not so read God's word. And to the law rect1on from Luke 20 : 37, 38-" Now that and testimony let us resort. [Note 2.] the dead are raised, even Moses showed at the You' say in your fourth note on Bro. G.'s bush, when he calltlth the Lqrd the God of letter, that Christ, in speaking of Lazarus and Abraham, and the ~od of Isaac, and the God the rich man, must have been teaching 'the of Jacob. .F~r h~ Is not a. God of th~ dead, fate of two classes of person. Very well, we b?-t of the l.lVlng. Now If they ar~ 10 .para- admit jt. Now Bro. G. says, "lf all these dise, there Is. no need of a r.esurrectiOII m or- realities are to be enjoyed by some, and en- ~e~ to be theu God : for he IS the God of the dured by others, immediately at death, then I hv~ng, .~ut not of t~e dead. [~ote ll.J. Rom. am unable to see the necessity of the resurrec-14.9- For ~o thiS end Chr~st both died, and tion, and general judgment." Note 5.-" There rose, and rev1ved, _t~at ~~ might b~ Lord both would be none if one went to heaven and the of the dead and hvmg. When. V. 10- other to Gehe~na. But mark, they'both ate "At the judgment-seat of Christ .. " Now in Hades,-in different portions, separated by you see th~ dead ?o not k~ow anythm~. The the gulf. Lazarus has not received his re-soul that smneth It shall d1e. Does th1~ mean ward-he is or.ly comforted,-he is awaiting only the body~ [Note 12.]-(To be contznued.) for glory, honor, immortality, and eternal life Orwell ( Vt.), March 19tlt, 1847. ' at the resurrection; and the rich man was not Note 1.-If the truth of our reasons which in his final punishment.'' Let us turn to the we gave is doubted, we 'can only re-affirm sure word. " Lazarus died, and was car- ried by angels into Abraham's bosom."-thAm. If, because we have not turned aside " He shall send his angels and gather his elect from the great question of the Advent to. write from the four corners of the earth into Abra-disquisitions on the state of the dead, our abili- ham's bosom." [Note 3.] "Many shall come ty to do so is doubted, we are perfectly wil- from the east, and from the west, and shall sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,*' ling auy should thus believe. We are uot dis- and they will be comforted, too. Not waiting posed to boast of what we could do; and to for glory, honor, immortality, eternal life, for get credit for any ability1. is no part of what they have it. I believe it will not ~mly be a we are seeking for. • comfortable place, but a blessed: joyful place. If La.zatus went by his spirit immediately at Note 2.-0ur brother will perceive that the his death into Abraham's bosoin, and is there word " world " is u¥'1 with a difference of now a conscious being, then he did not surely ~.-~igni.fication in the two places. In reference die,-he only changed his mode of living-he to the earth, the wttrd ~·orld signifies" age,'' lives in. his spirit. Just as the devil told Eve she should. "He told her if she only ate, or" era," &c. In reference to the departed, she should be as gods." Now God is a spirit; it is used to denote a place. and if we die in consequence of sin, and this Note 3.-lf we recollect aright, this is an death is only a change of living from body to .spirit, then the devil told us more truth than emendation of Scripture. Brother, give us poetry,-we have immortality already,-we the Bible as it is. shall not surely die,-we only depart from the Note 4.-You say if :ftazarus immediately body into a spirit. [Note 4.] at his death went into Abraham's bosom, that But let us return to the rich man. "He. he did not surely die. We cannot forget that also died, and was buried, aud in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth the Savior has said, " The beggar died, and Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom." was carried by angels into Abraham's bosom." Now is not ~his a parallel passage with Luke Which shall we believe~ Note 5.-How can they be parallel, or can that refer to a post-resurrection elent, when the five brethren of Dives were still on the - Note 7.-We can use it so long as the Sa-Lord and Master. John 5:44. Of this, we are glad. to say, most of our brethren in this· eo un- to the try are aware, and act accordingly. Foolisli vior has thus 1:1sed it. Note 8.-The signification it had Jews, must be its true signification. give it a different one, we change it. or wicked-for none but such can pant for in- If we terdicted honors. Note 9.-Because there is to he a paradise on the new earth, it does not follow that the place of the waiting saints is not also paradise. Note 16.-The question is not what did the thief ask, but what did the Savior reply. Je- sus promised the thi~f an entrance there on the day he died. Note 11.-If the patriarchs are now con- scious, th~re can be no doubt of' their resur- rection. The difficulty with th" Sadducees was, that there was no conscious spirit, and therefore there could be no resurrection. In- deed, it would be a new creation. Take away these promises, and their inference would fall. ]'vote 12.-As this refers to a deaLh which Fond as men usually are, in churcl1 and s,tate_, of receiving honor one of another, some few m both, not among the least sensible and virtuous, better understanding the character of true honor, have abjured such folly. Here it is not b neath us to say, the FriendB ;nd some others, come Yp in kind remembr~nce for their child-like simplicity and uniform re~ jection of all proud, anti-Scriptural titles, 83 vain or wicked. The name "Christia&l," is indeed the bighest style of man. We need and ask no higher. Would that we were all -worthy of this. An attempt by epithets, by human hands, to raise him higher, would be like an attempt to raise, so to epeak, and illu- minate a meridian sun ! Or, to enhance the lustre and beauty of the diamond, by the ap- plication of paint. Pure gold needs no gloss; beauty no ornament, being most adorned when unadorned. So it is with the real Christian, only sinners experience, it must be the second purchased and perfected by Him whose name death,-the being cast alive into the lake. - he bears. He goes into the kingdom of God as a little child, naked of all that man can "Reverend." give or take away. Mark 10:15; Luke 18:17. In passing, permit us here to say, all the Having heard several lecturing brethren saints are brethren, for Jes1:1s calls them so.- speak in terms of dicided disapprobation of the Matt. 23:8. It looks well for Christians, Ad- general improper use of this word, we ex-vent Christians especially, in speaking of, or pected they would, some of them, ere this, addressing each other, to do do it affectionate- have given publicity to this feeling of disap-ly and Scripturally, by saying, brother, or sis- probation to the brethren and to the world.-ter, as the case may be. To say Mr. A--, And having long waited to see the sacrilegious Mrs. B--, etc., instead of brother, or sister, use of the word rebuked and laid aside by Ad-looks to us like rather cold-hearted love-a ventists, but waiting in vain, we are at length brother or sister afar off,-and savors too much constrained to do it ourselves, incompetent as of pride or conformity to the world. To hear we are. Adventists have done well in the such language from the lips of nominal pro- work of reform, as far as they ha~e advanced. fessors is not surprising; but to hear or read But why not persevere, wash their garments it, as we sometimes do, from p10fessed Ad- clean, and go on to perfection 1 Heb. 6 : 1.-ventists, seems to us a departure from primi- " Onward and upward " is their motto, and tive usage-from the love and simplicity of their orders. Let them mind it. The Spirit the Gospel. A word to t.he wise. (Circum- of God and of truth make sweeping work of stances will r~gulate when a deviation Jiom the pride and folly of man-of all who go into this course is called for.) Some obje~t to the the kingdom. "Before honor is humility." use of the term" Adventists," as unscnptural,; Prov. 15:33. The.y sink to rise. Througb but it is a comprehensive word, and seems of- sweat and toil and tears they reach the crown. ten necessarily used to distinguish belie,·ers in Rev. 7:14. . tbe second speedy coming of the Lord from We are professedly a peculiar people, zea\-other professing Christiat;s. ous of good works. Tit. 2:15. Like the chil- Finally, brethren, if the will of Goo be ~o, dren of Israel, we have done well in coming may these our last be our best days. Wh1le out of Egypt, or Babylon, if indeed we are .the sun of this lost world is setting., in. sea~ of out, but like them, also, we have done ill in blood and endless night, may ours nse m faner not leaving behind, as we should, all the bad day, to set no more! We believe it will,. and habib; and maxims of that land in which we that speedily. The day star shines on h1gh! have been so long held captive. No, we still (0 land of rest, for thee I sigh-a. calm for adhere to some idolatrous golden calf, which them that weep, a rest for weary travellers.- must be burnt, ground to· powder, and given Glory, glory ineffable.) "JV e Jon~ to ~ee the to the wind:; or waves, before we reach the Bride, the Lamb's wife, moving 10 pnmeYal promised land. Ex. 32d. "Little children'," beauty and simplicity towards its rising, I~a. say! the beloved disciple, "keep yourselves 60: 1, robed in sunbeams, and crowned w1th from idols. Amen." 1 John 5:21. What bet-stars of light. Rev. 12~ 1. Glory to God! ter than idolatry is it for the professed children she is coming up from the wilderness, her last of God, or one class of them, to call them; captivity,.leaning upon her beloved, Cant. 8: selves by the great and holy name-" REvE-5, shouting" Victory, ''ictory!" 1 Cor.15:57. REND!" (Ps. 111: 9)-while the ~est own and Let us not henceforth, like the world, 8eek endorse it~ However proud or pteased, in hon01· one of another, but the honor that com- common with others, the writer once was with eth from God only. John 5: 44. Let us obey such a use of that sacred word, he is now him implicitly, and follow him wholly. Jo h. ashamed and mortified when, as formerly, he 14:8,9. This is the only way to go safe-to finds it prefixed to his own worthless name. reach the crown. 2 Tim: 4:7, 8. 0 Lord, be Blessed be God, to whom that name alone be-our helper and our portion for ever. Amen. longs, he now finds himself thus seldom trou- We hope the dear brethren will all, to a bled; for he has forbidden his friends and man, rise and shake themselves thoroughly others, in their addresses to him, this popish, from t!te dust and pollution of this world, an~ sacrilegious use of the word. meet their coming Lord in garments clean an This by way of apology for its ordinary white Rev. 19: 8. We hope, also, thut. 0.ur use, is 'regarded only as an honorary epithet editorial a~d preaching brethreu, in both hemJ~­ of the clergy, to distinguish them from the pheres, will no more own 01 endorse the mu~ 1 laity, or common people. Is this the way for abused ~ord " reverend," by the t?ngue, t God':. children to become great or good, by the pulp1t, or by the pres!,l, by saym~, ~ fvO thus robbing Him of his holy name~ Mal. 3:8. others, of such poor worms ot the duz:st,T :at "Them that honor me" saith the Lord "I Mr. A--, Rev. Dr. E--, etc. etc. r d ' ' i · h · d 1 tl m see an will honor ; and them that despise me shall be tnem wn propnety, an et · .e 23. lightly esteemed." 1 Sam. 2:30. know th~t we call no ~an master, Mat!d b · The Pope of Rome we believe or some of 8-IO, neither do we w1sh to be ~o cal1 R Y ' ' h H . d oro. his cardinals was the first who assumed or ot ers. onor to whom honor I~ ue ...... t ' d 13 7 I th f d' t' ishJUIT cplll•e s, made this sacrilegious use of the wor " reve- : · n e use o IS wgu " 1 t rend," and other peculiar names of the Deity. let them be unvarnished and scriptural, sot 1~ This however is in keeping with Poperv, the he that is of the contrary part may ~e 3~~am 2 ~ 8 ~ ' ' - h · '1 l · f u 1n • man of sin who opposeth and exalted himself avmg no evi hnng to say o yo · · h. d above all that is called God or that is wor-1 Pet. 3:16. Ana when the Chief Shef )r shipped; so that he, as God, sitteth in the shall appear, we 8hall receive a cr?wn A:e:. temple of God showing himself that he is ry that fadeth not away. 1 Pet. 5.4. " ' Jl r 11 C MoNROE. God. 2 'fhess. 2:4. Sha we JO ow, or fel- · 7 lowship such a monster-a monster so dread- Conway (Mass.), March 23d, 184 · ful and terrible as we find him described in God's word~ Dan. 7:7. No. God forbid.- Let us rather reprove him, and abandon all his abominations,. Dan. 11: 31; Matt. 24:15. . LETTER FROM BRO. R. V. LYON .. te 13:28-" There shall be weeping and gnash- ing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and aU the prophets, [yes, and Lazarus too,] in the kingdom of God, and .ye yourselves thrust out." Now, if this is not the "final" punishment of Dives,-being tormented in fljl.mes of hell fire, and seeing A):naham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom, . and calling for one drop of water w cool his earth, and in danger of the same plac~ of tor- ment1 As to honorary degrees, or titles in general, amontT Christians especially, we would in the have outset say, they ate foolish. In the oext place, they are wicked, and prohibited by our Divine Note 6.-Can you show that spirits not all the organs of sight, &e. 1 Bro. Himes.:-Permit me to commnDI~ 01 t tllrough the " Herald " a few words of comTbe to the children of God &eattered abroad. evidences to me are incontrovertible, t~at we a7 within a few days, or months, of the J~d~m~n; Brethren, are you ready? Have you. od m ~ve lampe ?-are tbey trimmed and bommg ?- -= 011 ~t the hope of the gospel ? To this last 1 uop, Jet m~ call your attention for a few mo- ll!lltl. Paul says (Rom. 8 :'24), "For we are 1111,ed by hope." Hope i!l a compound of desire aac1 expectation. But o man may desire, and Jl(ll expect; or e11pect, and not desire. But thi3 would not be that to which the 11postle refers.- U would not be that which is spoken of as n ~ bope through grace;" or, ''Christ formed iahiD you the hope of glory." Where does ddltlope centre? Jn the personal coming of our Lord Je!IUII Christ anti the resurrection from amonc the dead. Read Titus 1:11-14; Heb. 9: 18; 1 Thess. 4: 13-18; Acts 3:19-21; 1 :11; 1 Pet.1 :3-5; l John 3:1-3; Rom. 8:18-25; Utk• 20: 2_7-36; Acts 23: 6; 1 Cor. 15: 12-20, U; Phtl. 8:7-11; Heb. 11:35; Rev. 20:1-6, td. fhis hope lays hold on the promise11 that 1111 baa given to the seed of Abraham, which the ear~h restored., See Gen. 13:14, 15; Rom. ·~ 14; Gal. 3: 16-18, 27-29; Eph. 1: 10-14; Jll&&l 5:6; Dan. 7 : 18, 27; Jsa. 60 : 13, 18-21. 1• what sense does this hope Rave the children 6f~? From despondency and despair. Job, witla tJaie hope, in the midst of his afflictions, aoald ery out, "Oh that my words wtue now · I Oh that they were printed in a book ! ftat tfley were graven with an iron pen and lead in a rock .for ever ! For I know that my Re- deemer liveth, and that he shall stal)d at the lat- "' day upon the earth : and though after my akin worms destroy this body, yet in my fle11h aball I sea God : whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another."- (Job 19 : 24-27.) This hope en a bled Paul to talaim, " For I rflclattJe is almost o\u00b7er-the race is almost run-victory will soon be proclaimed from the battlement~ of Zion's towers, "Now are the *ingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our Lor.d and his Christ, and he shall reign fo.r ever." Praise God, "the hwd is nearing, where the wild sea ..storm's rage is o'er." I have t~pent some time in various places in this State, and I hope my opinion is correct when I say, there is a waking up to the duty of a preparation to meet the Lord in peace. Being in New Haven. ye;~terd:ty, I was in- formed that considerable interest wa11 manifest there through two lectures delivered befor.e the Institute, to n larger audience than had assem- bled on any pre,·ious or.cllsion, by Dr. Tyng, of the Episcopal Church, N, Y . .city. I send you two numbers of the "Palladium," .contaiuing a review of them. The position taken by that servant of Christ stands invulnerable to all the cavilling~ and sophistry of the would-be great men that have entered the lists of controversy in opposition to this glorious truth. My prayer is, that God in mercy may engrave it upon the fleshly tablets of every heart that heard it. Bro. H. BARLOW write• from East Ba1·nanl (VI.), MRrch lit, 1847 :- :-n~iot, ~eal the'sick, caetoutdevils, we shall hed tn the balance and found wanting. Are we earne~tly desiring and expecting to see ~~-p Can we f1om the heart use the language apo tie-" Even we ourselves groan within :lltlv~, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the 0( btllptton of our Lody ?" Again : The hoJle ~e ppel is a lively one, or a hope of life ~nm.ortality; and he who ha11 it will be alive thtn«" that pertain to the kin~dom of God, an~ ubroad, aod nothing but sickness or lllat dt to• nco will keep him from the place tiot 'abe IIIUnts meet to talk about tho. resurree- .....!._the~rinheritance, their coming King, and the .,....,."!'10!' requisit!l to be made, in order to such as "1turn many to righteousness," and are careful to remove all the stumbling-bloclhould re- member, also, that one well-conducted pnper is abundantly sufficient for a large section of coun- try. That editorial whio::h is suitable for n few readers, is suitable for man-y thousands ; and ·the rtlmuneration which would suo~tain one establish- ment, would be utterly insuffi<;ient when divided among many. Did all professed AdYenti t• feel as they ought thfl immense responsibility whieh retts on them as "lights in the world," what a coming up we sh01lld see the help of the Lord ag11inst the mighty, in the prayerful pirit with which they would go forth to enterprize, and in the unreetlrved conll8cration of nil to the service of our blessed Redeemer. Assuredly we live in a time when gross darknesl! covers the people,- when iniquity abounds, and the love of many waxes cold. How io&aite will be the reward of Dear Bro. Himes :-The" Herald" to U!! is a welcomP. messenger. We hail it weekly with much joy. We love it hecnut;~ it contains the very doctrine we believe the Bible te~Johct!, viz., the consummation of all things being near at hand; and those who dispute that must throw away many passages of Scripture, or acknow- ledge they have no meaning at all. It is ju~t such a paper llil we need in these perilous times, for it contains meat in due season. It rejoices Uti to hear from the brethren and sister11 in dif- fen~nt parts of the land, who, amid the many ct~nflicting views which have been published, still remain steadfast. 1'he subject of the Eng- lish MiR8ion is a very interesting one to us. We feel glad \hat the labors of our brethren in a for- eign land have been blest. We regret that we are not able to do more than pay our bare subscription ; but be assured, you will have our prayers and best wishes. Al- though we are not permitted to see or hear you here, we have strong consolation that we shall shortly meet where toil and labor ~ill be n~er, and where prayers will be turned 1010 pralle. Dnm, in Pompey, Onomlata Co., N. Y., April 2d, Bro. DANIEL P. WxLLU.Xs. ~d 60 years. He died in hope of a speedy and "bet- ter resurrection." He has been aftJicted with infirmity and weakness for about twenty yeare, so as to be unable to labor most of the time.- For the last three months his diseue seemed to ~8urne a new form. But his last increased suf- ferin![S, as well at~ thos~ of years past, he bore with Christian patience nod resignation. Al- thouah his disease weighed down the powers of his 1~1ind, yet at timc11 he rejoiced and praised God nloud. Four days before hit4 death,. he said with clearnetl8 MMI emphasis, "I am at peote with all men, although 1tbey ahould tand with sword in bapd to cot me in t,vo. Yet I am at peace with all men,-procbim it in the paper." Where would professed Christian warriors be if they all had this spirit? Surely they never ~ould be found with carnal weapon11, to slny the1r fel- low men. He and his widowed companion have peru11ed the Adveut papers for the last four yeare with great interest, and rejoiqed in the li~t they received concerning the inheritanct: of the 1aints, the millennium, and the very near approach of the day of the Lord. I. D. JoB..IUOJJ. Manlim (N. Y.), 4pril1th, 1847. ... -· ea FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC SUMMARY. Since our Jaat1 the packet ship Wuhingtonlrving bill arrived at tbla port, bringing at! vices eight days later than the previous ones. The aspect of alfair• had not materially changed. Glooru ami consternation appear to pervade the entire ma8i of European society. Po- litical alfairs in Russia, Turkey, Greece, Prus~ia, Spain, and Portugal, seem to be in the mo~t "admired diijor- der." The truth is, the entire Social framework of so- ciety throughout the world is ~o disJointed, and the facul- ties and paiSious of men so grossly perverted and de· baaed, that we cannot lmlulge th!l hope of seeing tlte world in a purer state thsn it ia at preaent, before the "new heaven!! and the new esrth, wherein dwelleth righteouane11s," shall be crested. The deficiency of food in Groat Britain is e•timated at 16,000,000 qua'rten, equal in value to £1810001000. A Mr. Hoare, of Middleilex, Eng., in a Jetter to Lord Robert Grosvenor, with much zeal and pollitivenesa, at· tributeil the present famine and distress in Ireland to the endowment of the Maynooth College 'by the Enaliah Government. A Paris paper Btatt , that there were in the prieona of Ll\ Forei of ·p Maaonic Lodge in England. • Out of60,000 peraons who made tile last pllgrimBjte to Mecca, 20,000 had died of the Cholera. The Pope, emulous of military distinction, perhaps, has, at his own request, been elected the Colonel of a re&imeut of the Roman Civic Guurd. We see by the papers, that Dr. Chalmeril has ('ntered upon p'astoral dutie~ in connection with a new church in Edinburah. Hi• opening ilermon is spoken of a. doing honor to the head and heart of one who had so luna In- bored in t.he cause of Cbrilil. Louis Philippe is allowed by the nation about 82,5001- 000 a year. He has thirteen or fourteen msgniticent pal- .acell at hil di11posal, be•ide• Nenille and the Chateau d'E1.1, which are hi• own JHivate property. He is eHti- tled to all the; fire-wood and timber cut in the royal lor- eats, which yields no inconsitleriible sum. Hesides all 11lil, be JlpeculaLes in stocks, and baa the cu11tody of t.be incoroe t£40,000 s year) of hi• grandaOJJ, Uount of Paril, heir lD 'he throne. The Londou '' Sta.ndli)d " say11, that the Romish clerey wlrelalld reeelJe auuually for coufeuiona, tl,3501000 ; tor chrllteninc•, 150,000 ; for unctions BJid lmtials, • 210,000; for marriqt:t~1 l,i$50,000; for prayers for deliv- ,erauce from PU'illtory, 450,000; collections at chapels, 2,410,000; curate coUectLoWI, 1011000 ; grant to May- nootll CoUeg.e, ~5,000, T.oul, $6,1351000! A bill bas been brouJh& into the Houae of Commons, for lhe ~olitiou of capital punilhmeut. Tlae Emperor of Blllllia hu boupt up nearly all the J, per cent. stoct of the BBJlk of Fr8Jice1 amounting to abou& tlo,ooo,ooo. The Graad Ducal Theatre of Carlarube wu recea1ly destroyed byllre, in which 70 perso1111 perlalaed. -· ~- - THE ADVENT HERALD. Tht'l Pope ill about to send a minister to China, to protect the iotereata of Catholics. A new aect of Baptiall has llri•en in Denmark. 1n Copenhagen anti Seelsnd they are very llCtive in prose- lyting. They 1uy they have been •' made perfect," aud indulge in the most fanatical proce!'dinge. The reg•lar B11ptists h.tve protested against the doctrines of these •• new ligbt1.11 Twenty Turkish students bad arrived at Southampton, Eng., from Cun~tantinOJlle. A private of the Royal marinea, stationed at Ports- mouth, baa been aentenced to death for striking a lieu- tenant. The Committe~> of the Brllish Association for there- lief of the Irish and Scotch, report that, up to the 17th of March, they had received £240,000. Mr. 0'Conuell ~~~~ been ordered _by. his physicians to the south of Europe. A hope is entertained of his recovery. The city of Vera Crnz, with the Castle of St. Juan, aurrenderetl to the American army on the 26th ult., after a bombardment of three or four days. Neurly half of the city wad destroyed. The Mexican Joe11 was ahout 10001 principally women and children; the Americans lost only 65, from the time tile troops first landed. The Dubuque (Ia.) 1' Republican" publishes11n account of a f•lil of mrolites, which took place lately In that vi- cinity. In one instance a large stone, six feet in diame- ter, uM resembling a mass of Sl.llphur, in its descent went through a large tree, crushing it, and embedded it- self in the earth at the depth of tWelve feet. We noticed, a few days since, an advertisement, of n rather unique character, announcing that "Elder" G. J •• -\dams would perform the character of Richard III. at the National Theatre! "Elder" Adams (who is a Mormon preacher, we believe) says he differs with moat of his brethren as to the moral tendency of the stagt'1 for it was by attending the theatre that he ber.ame con- verted! Playing Richard III. Saturday night, and •• play- ing" WITH the gospel Sunday morning, i• not onen ex- hibited by the same per~on. The Gra11d Jury of Ithaca, N.Y., lately had under consideration bills of indictment against sundry persons, members of the Dutch Reformed anti Episcopal churches, "for being engaged in getting up and carrying on lotte- ries, connect!!d with the fairs held by ladies of thoiie churches." Gen. Taylor has beennominattd in some towns, both by the Whig and the Native American parties, as a candi- date for the Presidency. The N. Y. "Courier " and the "United States Gazette" have openly avowed their in- tention of supporting him. Though not a word is now said in disparagement of Gen. Taylor, yet when be shall hue been regularly nominated (which, no doubt, will be done), it will be found o~t., very suddenly, that he is the moat eorrupt man Jiving! During the operations of the army and navy in their attack on Vera Cruz, a succession of severe storms- three or li:lur in number-occurred in tile Gulf, in which twenty or thirty vessels, loaded with Govllrnment stores, were driven ashore, and the principal portion of "CHRUTIA~iTT ~D SLAVERY: a re. view of Drs. Fuller and-weyland, on Domestic Slavery, by Wm. Hague. Boston: Gould,,Ken- dall & Linc~ln, 59 Washington-street, 1847. This is the title of a neat pamphlet of 54 pages, in consideration of the Scriptural argument, show. that the Bible does not sanction a t~tate vf ii'Jvol. untary set vitude, as Dr. Weyland admitted in his discussion with Dr. Fuller. The question is pre- sented in a very clear, calm, and logical manner, and presents thoughts worthy of consideration. "A Practical Gramma~ of the E~glish La~. guage." Dy Rev. J. Black mar. This is a small manual of 36 pages, designed to correct improprieties common in the use of. the English language.-It exhibits several hun- dred specimens of inaccuracies in common con· versatitm, with directions bow to avoid their use. Price 12 1-2 ds. We have a few for sale at this office. u CHAMBERs's CYCLOP.1£DIA."-W'e have received the 8th number of this excellent work, which complete• the first volume, from the pub- lishers, Gould, Kendall & Lincoln. It~ contents exceed in intere!lt those of former numbers. PosTAGE LAws.-;-The·new postage laws have made it advisable for many of our subscribers in the vicinity of the city to make a change in the mode of transmitting their papers. Some of the Post masters, we Jearn, do not know how to inter. pret the luw. For the information of our subscri- bers, we will state the main features of it. The privilege of receiving papers, free of postage with. in thirty miles of the place of publication, is abo). ished. Papers sent from the office of publication to any distance under one hundred miles, ate to he charged 1 cent, over one hundred miles, 1 1-2; papers not sent from the office of publication are to be charged 3 cts. for any distance, and must be pre-paid, Those who desire h, may reeeive their papers hy any other channel which they may select, and thus save postage. Many of our sub. scribers in the neighborhood of the city are now receiving their papers by private conveyance. One act of the Post 1 dster General has caused us some surprise. The law says-paper11 llot sent from the office of•publication must be pre- paid 3 cts. The Post Master General, deeming the law not sufficiently stringent, has taken upon himself to insert the words " to subscribers."- We ask what right he, or any other of. the public servants, has to tinker the laws that Congress has passed. Jf he says, that is the meaning of the law-we ask him to show us that in the law. Editors often h~Jve occasion to forward copie. of their papers to those who are not regular subscri- bers. If they go from their office, the law says they shall go at the ordinary rates-the Post .Mas. ter General says they must be charged 3 cts., aml be pre-paid. Who is right ?-Chrjs. Chronicle. their cargoes destroyed. THE PosT 0FFICE,-Postmasters whose sa)a. In the ten new regiments authorized by Congress just ries amount to less than $200 a year, have the before the close of last session, there are 172 commis-franking privilege restored to them, as formerly. sioned officers, 120 of whom have been appointed from They can now remit subscription money to print. slave-holding States. ers free of charge, as well as the names of new The ship" Thomas W. Sears" arrived at Boston a. few subscribers. days ago, having lost, on her passaill from Liverpool, A suit wail commenced against the PostmAster out of 141 passengers, 24, by fever and dysenttry, and of Onondaga village, N.Y., for refusing to deliver about 20 are sick~ many of whom will undoubtedly die. a newspaper to a citizen, for which he offered to On arriving at this port, the visiting physician found pay newspaper rates of postage, but which was them in tile most deplorable condition. Not one of clmrged with 15 cents, in conformity with the many that were inquired of had a single cent! · Postoffice regulations, the wrapper being endorsed with a single initial. The jury gave a verdict against the Postmaster, six, cents damages und ,The followiu& are the returns made to the Chief of the Police of New York. They are the arrests for the quarter ~nding Feb. 1st, 1847 :-Drunksrds, male and female, 2339; arrested for disorderly conduct, arising, no costs.-Post. · ------- BUSINESS NOTES. doubt, from the u~e of intoxicating liquors, 1523; va. . J. B. Morgan-You are indebted on the paper only for grants, 455; and as1ault and battery, 1058. the present vol. We have no account of any books. If you have receivPd any, please inform us what nnd when. Two young, healthy, able-IJodied Irishmen lately ap- R. Harley-We h~tve appropriated as you directed. plied to the Mayor of New York for means of support. C. Stoddard-Where is your P. 0. address f They stated that they we~e told by the shipping agent T. Smith, $3 on account-Yt,ur paper is credited to end of v 13. The assistunee youlutve rendered has been at Liverpool, that whtn emigrants arrived at New York, shandant. p~y. The paper of C. Brown is p11id to No. the 1\layor wns bound to su1•port them until they could 316. Thuse other brethren may pay what tiley feel get employment. able, and accorcJinl! to their convenience. L. P. Griffith-We have ~ent a package to you in Bro. Another horrible masaacre of Mexicaos·has been per- Litch'• bundle, who will forward it to you by express. petrated. Among the many volunteers who have been James Wise-Y nu are paid to tile commencement or m•ndered, one nfter another, bv tl~ infurintetl Mexicans, the present. volume. " K. Elliott-The P.l'tf. of Troy, N.Y., informs us that waa a nephew of Senator Colquitt, belonj!ing to the Ar- the paper sent to you Ia not taken from the office ; and kansa. regiment. His body WttS found, shockingly man- us you are a new subscriber, and have paid to the end of gled, with a lasso round his neck, and besring the marks the volume. we suppo1e the paper hu been misdirected. of having' been dragged a considerable distance on his 11 t 1 ::~~;;~~t~~~:~e.:_ev:~~~~~:ei~f~~:n~~~-ued your paper-. tace through the r.happareJ. Ilis comrades, in revenge, as you requested by the Postm11ster. attacked a small village, and l!efore thl'ir officers could L. Wond-You have JlRid to No. 306. C. A. Foster-We have stopped one of the papers sent interpose, ubout 30 were killed, !lOt one of whom, pro- T. Stuwel, as you request. There is due on it Sl 75. bably, bad been conc~>rned in 'he murder of Colquitt. 8. F. Bli-We have 11ent by expresa. Who can advocate war, when such deeds are its·Jegitl- mate fruits? A dettructive ftre broke out in New Orleans on the 25th ult., destroying property to the amount of $300,000. There bas been another anti-rent outrage in Columbia Co., N.Y. A tenant had been ejected by the owner, and another put in posseuion. During the absence of the latter, tile former, accompanied by fifteen or twenty men, took forcible posael!aion nf the premise11, anti re- moved. the furniture into the road. The rightful occu- pant returned accompanied wltb aheriff'a officers, and others, when they were attacked by the intruder• with piatola, knina, bltJdaeona, &c., and aome yery unrely 111Jured. DELINQUENTS. [Under this bead we may do some injustice. We hope not to. If any noticed here have paid, and through mistake have not been credited, or are poor, wesball be happy to do them justice.] Previous delinquencies. • • • • t371 73 The P.M. ol Middlttown, Pa., write~~, that the paper direr.ted to WILLIAM DEWITT il not takt>n from t.he office. He uwea • • • 3 00 Tht> P.M. of Southbridge, Maaa., informa us that the paper aent to W. LINDSEY lnot taken from the offictl. He owes • • 3 40 P. CROSBY, of Cortlandt Villqe, N.Y., re- turns hiil paper, ow in& • • 2 40 Total delluquenciea since Juellt,l84i. • 880 53 WEST lN'DlA MISSION. Mrs. Nlms. M.William&. OO:NFERENCES. -= He ]QQ Conf~rence nt New York begins on MoArlay,llaylJti on A•m•versa)'y week; at Bo!lon, May 25tfi. 1 Lord willing, there will be eonference mtetinga 81 ~ 1 lows :-A r North Uarustearl school-house, evening oft~; 20th ; ut Upper Gilmant~u, evening or tbe 21st· at D vis' Island,, Gilford, tweuing of the 22d; at l\leride:b Neck, t"f:mwg of the 2311; "' HolcJerne!!ll, Saturdav even ing and Sunday, the 24th and 2f>th. I. R. Gius. • 7 APPOINTMENTS. If time continueH, 1 will preach at Sllelbu111 Flllll 11 Bro. David Wilson shall aJlpoint, the 22d(23d 24tb ~nil 25th of April. R. v: LvdN. Bro. HIMES will prear.h in ~he To:-vn-hall in Ten1plt~ ~~~~sn w~l~~~~i;~ i~.ay 2d. Fnends m the neighborinc ALTERATION IN TIME OF ArPOINTMEIITS.-Proli· dence permilling, I will preach in Ashbnrnbftm ~1ft .. th~ sec~nd &bbath in May ; in Winchendon, 1\la~a., tb~' th1rd; 111 North 8r.Jtuate, R.I., the fourth; and in ·Ab- ington, Mass, the first Sabbath in June. Meetings at in- terval~ as Providtnce moy direct. N. BILLING&. A correct 11nd splendid 1itho1rapb, from a dRguerreo- type of Bro. Miller, for any of l1ill numerou11 friends wbo may wish, may be had at thi11 o1lice. 50 cents per copy. BoAnn.-A very central nnd pleasant location at No. 5 Pitt-street. Gentlemen coming to the city would do well to call. NOTICES. BOOKS FOR SALE.-The New Testament(poekel edi- tion), the Gospels translated by Campbell, the Epistles by Macknight, with the Acts ancl Revelations in the com- mon version. Prir.e ~7 1-2 cts. retail, 33 1-3 wholesale. BLISS's "ANALYSlS OF GEOGRAPHY.11-l'rite,621-2 cts., or $5 per doz. CRUDEN11! CO!IlCORDANCE . ..:..Price $1 50 bound in sheep, and $1 25 boards. "THE VOICE OF GOD: Of'!ID .-\cconnt of the Unparal- leled Fires, H urrir.anes, Floods, and Earthquakes, Com- mencing with 1845. Also, Some Aceount of PestileJlce, Famine, and Increase of Crime. Compiled by Thomas M. Preble."-The above pamphlet, which is what its title indicates, has been received, and is for sale attbi• office. Price 12 1-2 cts. Two HUNDRED STORIES FOR CHILDREN, Selected by T. lll. Preble.-Price 37 1,2 cts. CLARK's G9spel ChRrt.-l'rice 37 1-2 cta. WHITEHEAD's LIFE OF THE Two WESLBTS.-Price one dollar. MEETINGs IN BosTON at tlle "Central Saloon," No. 9 Milk-st.reet, nearly opposite the lower end of the Old Sou~h1 three time11 on Sunday, and on Tuesdtty and Fri- day evenings in the vestry, above the Saloon. MEE'rJNG8 IN NEW YORK are held three time1 OD Lord's day in Washin:rton Hall, 142 Hester-street, one door from the Bowery, and on Tuesday and Friday eYell- in{ls in the vewtry of the GermiUl Reformed ehllrcll iu Forsyth-street. .Meetings are also held regularly three times every Sunday corner of Hudsl)n and Uhristopber-streets. MEETINGS IN BROOI,LYN, N.Y., are held in Washiug· ton Hall, corner of Adams a11d Tillery-streets, three times every Suudny, and also on MoJJday and TbundAy evening. A Sunday-school j;! held ill the same place each Lord's day afleruoon. .. ,. .. The friends visiting Philadelphia, 'vtll find tbfl Seeond Advent meeting on the Sabbath AT ouR OJ.D PLACE, the Saloon of the Chine~e Museum, in 9th street, between Walnut uud Uhesnut-sts. J. LtTcH. Meetings !lre held in J,owell, Kirk-street ChApel, three times enr.l1 Lord'~ clay, and also on TuescJu.y, Thursday, and Saturday evrnings. Second Advent Meetings are held in Concflfd, N.H., every Sunday, at the Atheue>tn Hall, No. 101 !\laio..at. [We ins!'lrt the following without comment J • Will Elder Himes please insert the following notiu in the "Herald " with the Jist of notices of t11e like clus! and oblige, &c. Yours, '1'. G. Cu YTOII. Second Advent meetings are held in the Chapel, under the old Mnseum, curner of Tremont and Bromfteld- ~treeu, three lime11 on the S!lbbath, aucl Tuestlay and FridRy eveuhlJIS. HoHton, _.\pri114th, '47 . AGENTS I FOil "HERALD 11 Aim SECOND ADVENT PUBLICATIOJII. Al~any, N. Y.-T. M. Preble. Buffalo, N. Y.-J. J. Porter. Cincinnati, 0.-Jolw ){iloh. t..:Ieaveland, 0.::- D. I. Robinson. Derby Line, Vt.-St!'pheu Fodter, Jr. Hartfnrd, Conn.-.Aaron CIRI>Jl. Lowell, l888.-~ M. Gem·ge. Low Humpton, N. Y.-1. Kim_ball. . e~ Bedford, l ass.-1-l enrv V. Davis. New l ork Clll Wm. Tracv, 54 Forsyth-street.. Orriugton, 1\le.-ThO~· Smith. Ph.ihulelphlll, P~.-.1. Litch,461-2 Walnut-sllte,/ oppositt the Excbt111ge. J>ortbtnd, Me.-J'e1er Jo~;~d' 24 Indht-st.reet. Prnvidence, R. 1.-Gt!Or~e H •. 1 ' Rochester, N. Y.-J. Marsh, Talman BJork (thlfl 8 c. ry), Bufftdo-street, opposite the Arcade. Torontllbin: W.-Daniel Uampbell. Waterloo, C. E.-R. Hutc son. Worcester, Mnss.-D. F. Wetherbee. - Reeeipts tor the Week ending Apri!'ti. iJ:7 We have annexed-~ch acknowledgmen\ ~~: number to which it pays. Where tha volun•e 011 Y mentioned, the whole volume is paicJ for. -- 10' C. Preston, v 12; S. Wells, 346; S.R. Dennet ~ J2: D. 0. Hopkins, 335; R. Harley, 335; s. L. cl~~OJ I Gra· Wm. W. Wheeler, 352; J. C. Forbush, v ! E. Wil· hRm, 332; J. Timothy, 332; R. Robmson, :.2 B D"·ell· Iiams, 335; S. Dunham, v 13; P. Blood, 36 , • r 384; ing,357; J. Carter, 310; R. Bullock, 319; J. P~rte ', !3; E. Shaw, v 12; S.M. Carr, 335; R. B. Cham ~~'v Ill; S. Howland, v 13; H. Rohrer, v 13; R. R8· ~~~~JdiD(, S. Brown, 342; M. Beuey, ,. 13; John · P at to 336-each tL-J. E. Marrill (had it not been ~a (tO J. W. Merrill ?)1 v 12; B. Libbey, 280; J. V: ~Hal~ balance account, and) 342; A. M. Pottle, v 1~ Tbayer, 313; S. Williams, 341; H. Lou11ee, ,. 1: (i84·due); ,i. 333; E. Brookins, 321; A. M. Shaw, v on 32!1; Richardson,, 12; J. Shepherd,,. 12; A. Samr;. G. w. R. Winter,, 12-each t2.-B. M'Cia~y, '• ·iJoJdell• Hubbaril, 308-each t3.-B. Colby, l!il2•\o · .,. 16--each .5.-C. A. Anderson, ,. ~ • ~