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Thoughts of a Little Child. 
[It is said that the idea in the following lines was actually expressed 
bv a little boy ol live years old. They ale taken from the Western 
ilvungelist; 
but we know not the writer's name. J 
Oh ! I long to lie, dear mother, 
On the cool and fragrant gru-ss, 
Willi nought but the sky above my bead, 
And the shadowing clouds that pass. 
And I want the bright, bright sunshine 
All round about iny bed, 
I will close my eyes, and God will think 
Your little boy is dead! 
Then Christ will send an angel 
To take me up to Him ; 
He will bear me, Mow and steadily, 
Far through the ether dim. 
He will gently, gently lay me 
Close to the Saviour's side, 
Awl wheu I'm sure that we're in heaven, 
My eves I'll open wide. 
And I'll look among the angels 
That stand about the throue, 
Till I find iny sister Marv, 
, 
For 1 know she must be one. 
And wheu I find her, mother, 
We will go away alone, 
And I wiU tell her how we've mourned 
AU the while she has been gone! 
Oh ! I shall be delighted 
To hear tier speak again— 
Thoairh I know shell not return to us— 
To ask her would be vain! 
So I'll nnt my arms around her, 
And look into her eyes, 
And remember all I said to her, 
And all her sweet replies. 
And then 1 'U ask the angel 
To take me back to you— 
He 'II bear me, slow and steadily, 
Down through the ether blue. 
And you '11 only think, dear mother, 
I have been out at play, 
And have gone to sleep, beneath a tree, 
This sultry summer dav. 
Apocalyptic Sketches. No. in. 
BV REV. JOHN GUMMING, D. D. 
THE 
OPENING 
OF 
THE 
SEVEN 
SEALS. 
" A throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he 
th:it sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there 
wis a rainbow round about the throne, insight like unto an emerald. 
And round about the throne were four aud twenty seats; aud upon 
the (eats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white rai-
ment ; and they had o:i their heads crowns of gold. And out of the 
throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices • and there 
were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the 
seven Spirits ol God. And before the throne there was a sea of glass 
like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about 
the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. And the 
first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, ami the 
third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a fiy-iug 
eagle. And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him ; 
and they were full of eyes within : and they rest not day ai-d night, 
saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and 
is to pome. Aud when those beasts give glory and honor and thanks 
to him that sat on the throne, who liveth forever and ever, the four 
and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and 
worship him that liveth forever, mid cast their crowns before the 
throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor 
and power -, for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure tliev 
are aud were created."—Rev. 4:3-11. 
JOHN sees " a door " in the walls of heaven, 
and through that door he beholds, and in this 
chapter describes, its interior glory. 
He learns 
there in that vast panorama the dawning scenes 
of centuries to come. 
First, however, he un-
veils the heavenly state just as he sees it. Fore-
most in the scene he beholds the Son of God, 
arrayed and radiant with his evangelical glory ; 
the sardine, or color of flesh, indicating his hu-
manity as the visible shrine of Deity, and the 
rainbow, that thing woven out of sunbeams and 
raindrops—smiles and tears, he sees as the em-
blem of a covenant in all things ordered and 
sure; the predominating green, the color that 
prevails in creation, because softest and most 
suitable to the eye, indicates the softening in-
fluence of the humanity of Jesus on the rays 
of the otherwise inapproachable glory that shone 
through it. 
This, ia fact, is the character of 
heaven. 
The crown of Jesus is visible in the 
subduing light of His cross—His very throne 
of glory lies in the light of Calvary, and Para-
dise regained wears still in heaven the aspect 
of Gethsemane. 
Four living creatures, {too.) 
improperly translated beasts, (which last is the 
proper rendering of 
a word that occurs 
in subsequent parts of this book,) and four-
and-twenty elders are revealed to John in the 
celestial scene. 
The four living creatures, it is probable, re-
fer to the Jewish church, and are meant to per-
sonate it, as seems to be indicated by their res-
pective Jewish characteristics. 
The twelve 
tribes were arranged in their marching into four 
divisions, and each division had its appropriate 
symbol. 
Judah and his two tribes had the 
symbol of a lion; Reuben and his two, that of 
a man; Ephraim and his two, that of a bull; 
Dan and his two, that of an eagle. 
The ,our-
and-twenty elders very probably represent the 
Gentile church, being in no respect signalized 
by Levitical symbols. 
At all events, the two 
parties, the living creatures and the elders, are 
of the Redeemed church, as is obvious from 
their anthem, chap. 5:8,9—" And when he had 
taken the book the four living creatures and 
four-and-twenty elders fell down before the 
Lamb, having every one of them harps and 
golden vials full of odors, which are the prayers 
of saints," or holy ones, i. e. of themselves, 
" and they sung a new sbng, saying, Thou art 
worthy to take the book and to open the seals 
thereof, for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed 
us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, 
and tongue, and people, and nation ; and hast 
made us untoour God kings and priests : and 
we shall reign on the earth." 
These worship-
ing onei, evidently a company of redeemed 
men, are also represented as casting their crowns 
before the throne. 
This is evidence, by an ex-
pressive action, of their conscious obligation to 
Him that loved them. 
They see on each crown 
the image of the Lamb, and the superscripture 
of His name, and each gem seems to them ra-
diant with his lustre, and this gives emphasis 
to every feeling, and eloquence to every song. 
The sins (if the lost will never be over-punished, 
and the mercies of the saved will never be over-
acknowledged. 
The former will never cease 
to blame themselves. 
The latter will never 
cease to praise the Lord. 
The " Seven Spirits " 
referred to in verse 5, and likened to seven 
lamps of fire, are apocalyptic representations of 
the Holy Spirit of God. 
The number seven is 
employed in Scripture as the numerical repre-
sentative of perfection. Thus, the seven church-
es represent the one universal visible church, 
and in the use of this number there seems to 
be a usage borne out by corresponding analo-
gies in the material world. 
AH. know that sev-
en colors are the component elements of pure 
light; and seven notes is the range of a musi-
cal scale, and thus the sacred symbol may be 
laid in the nature of things. 
It may here too 
be proper to answer the question, why symbols 
are employed, when abstract and naked ideas 
might have been set forth. 
Symbols are the 
most permanent exponents of thought, as well 
as universally intelligible, because the great 
facts and leading phenomena of creation are 
the same in all countries and in all ages, and 
convey at the same time most vividly, as well 
as most intelligibly, universally, and perma-
nently, the truths of which they are the vehi-
cles ; but, in fact, there was a necessity, as far 
as we can see, for the use of symbols in such 
a book. 
If utterly uintelligible, they would 
have been useless either as prefigurations of 
truth, or evidences by comparison of its fulfil-
ment, and if too obvious, they would have in-
terfered with the responsibility of man, and the 
freedom of the movements of the world. They 
are perfect, just as the Holy Spirit has given 
them. 
The inspired seer then gives his vision of the 
book with seven seals, in chap. 5:1-7. 
" And 
I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the 
throne a book written within and on the back-
side, sealed with seven seals. 
And I saw a 
strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, 
Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose 
the seals thereof? 
And no man in heaven nor 
in earth, neither under the earth, was able to 
open the book, neither to look thereon. 
And I 
wept much, because no man was found worthy 
to open and to read the book, neither to look 
thereon. 
And one of the elders saith unto me, 
Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Ju-
dah, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open 
the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. 
And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the 
throne and of the four beasts, and of the midst 
of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been 
slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, 
which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth 
into all the earth. 
And he came and took 
the book out of the right hand of him that sat 
upon the throne." 
This chapter opens with an account of the 
mystejious book, which contained things to 
come, that is, things subsequent to the date of 
the apocalyptic vision. 
The explanation of its 
being written within and without is found in a 
reference to the structure of the ancient book 
or volume. 
It was a skin of parchment, with 
a roller at' each end. 
The reader having read 
the writing on the skin in the part between the 
two rollers, unwound a portion from the left 
hand roller, and after reading it, wound it on 
the right, and when the whole of one side had 
thui li-en perused in successive portions, he 
turned toward himself the opposite ends of the 
rollers, and wound and unwound as before, till 
all the manuscript on the other side had been 
likewise read. 
The book seen by the seer and 
thus constructed, had seven seals attached to it 
—seals to indicate that they were secret, and 
also seals to indicate that they were to be bro-
ken or opened. 
Each seal was the compen-
dium of a distinct prophecy of events and cir-
cumstances to evolve. 
The first six seals con-
tain the history of the temporal glory and de-
cline of Rome Pagan, the most illustrious em-
pire of the ancient earth. 
The first six trum-
pets which are comprehended in the seventh 
seal contain the desolation of Rome Christian 
by the Goths, the Saracens, and the Turks. 
The first six vials, which are comprehended in 
the seventh trumpet, embody the events that 
occurred subsequent to the breaking forth of 
the great European revolution in 1793. 
Thus 
the twenty-one apocalyptic symbols, the seven 
seals, the seven trumpets, and the seven vials, 
represent in succession the progress of the 
church along the obstructions of time, her vicis-
situdes of experience, her trials, her cruel 
mockings, her perils, aud her final triumph and 
permanent prosperity. 
John says, v. 4,—" I 
wept much, because no man was found worthy 
to open and to read the book." 
The sacred seer 
thus showed an earnest and anxious desire to 
understand unfulfilled prophecy, and thereby 
to learn things that were to come. 
Such de-
sire was not sinful, nay, within the proper lim-
its it was as dutiful as it was blessed. 
If no 
symbol had been exhibited significant of events 
to come, he would have had no right to inquire, 
" for secret things belong unto the Lord." But 
as a symbol was shown, it was the instinct of 
nature and the evidence of grace to seek reve-
rently and humbly after its significance, for 
" things revealed belong to us and to our chil-
dren ;" but we are not left to conjecture on the 
nature of this curiosity, for one of the elders 
showed it was lawful when he said unto him, 
" Weep not, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the 
Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, 
and to loose the seven seals thereof;" and on 
John looking up, " He saw in the midst of the 
throne a Lamb as it had been slain, having sev-
en horns and seven eyes, which are the seven 
Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. 
And he came and took the book out of the right 
hand of him that sat on the throne." 
Thus, 
Jesus of Nazareth, the Saviour of sinners, in 
the exercise of his prophetic office, represented 
by seven eyes, the great symbol of omniscience, 
and by the seven horns, the symbol of omnipo-
tent power, and in virtue of His perfect atone-
ment as " the Lamb slain," broke the seals, and 
opened the book, and unveiled for us its won-
derful contents. 
He is now as ever the Lion of 
the tribe of Judah, that is strength and royalty, 
power and jurisdiction combined. 
He is now 
also as ever the root of all being, the fountain 
of all life. 
He is seated on the throne ; but 
even the lustre of that, throne cannot conceal 
the lowliness and loveliness of the most inter-
esting spectacle in glory, the Lamb slain. The 
word Hrtyuypwoy here rendered " as it had been 
slain," means literally killed in sacrifice, and as 
if just newly so killed, and conveys beyond the 
power of English to express the continual fresh-
ness and applicability of the atoning and expia-
tory efficacy of the blood of Christ, and teach-
es us the precious truth that there is the same 
virtue in the atonement this very moment, as 
there was when that atonement was first made. 
Years do not waste its virtue, and the succes-
sive millions that draw from it do not exhaust 
its fulness. When the Lamb had thus taken 
the book, and stood ready to open it, the four 
living creatures and the four-and-twenty elders, 
being designed to represent the first-fruits and 
precursors of the redeemed in glory, sung a 
new song, with harps and golden vials full of 
incense, which are the prayers of, literally, the 
holy ones; and they sang a new song, (v. 9) 
saying, " Thou art worthy to take the book, and 
to open the seals thereof, for Thou wast slain, 
and hfist redeemed us to God by thy blood out 
of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and 
nation." 
And the angels also took up the fly-
ing strains, and, according to their experience 
and nature, sang, ten thousand times ten thou-
sand, and thousands of thousands being their 
number, " Worthy is the Lamb that was slain 
to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and 
strength, and honor, and glory, and bless-
ing; and every creature in heaven, and on 
the earth, and under the earth, and such as are 
in the sea, added, Blessing, and honor, and glo-
ry, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon 
the throne, even unto the Lamb forever and 
ever." 
There was displayed on this august oc-
casion, on Christ's part, a new manifestation of 
his character, a new evolution of his glory; 
and they that beheld it, in order to express the 
all but inexpressible feeling stirred within them 
by that new and glorious spectacle, sung a new-
song—its theme, atoning blood—its key-note, 
redeeming love—its harmony, the sustained 
and blended voices of adoring spirits—and the 
choir that sang it, the redeemed tenantry of 
heaven and earth, the angels of the sky, and 
the grateful inmates of the ocean and the air. 
Thus it is now, and thus it will be forever. 
The songs of psalmists praise him—the harps 
of prophets praise him—the records of evan-
gelists and the eloquence of apostles praise 
him—the seals, the trumpets, and the vials 
praise him—the goodly fellowship of the proph-
ets praise him—the noble army of martyrs 
praise him—the past, the present, and the fu-
ture praise him—all things bear the impress of 
His love, exhibit the evidence and the influence 
of his wisdom and the inspiration of His pow-
er, and become the organs of the ceaseless 
/manifestation of His glory. 
Chap. 6 begins with the opening of the first 
seal, " And I saw when the Lamb opened one 
of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise 
of thunder, one of the four living creatures, 
saying, Come and see. 
And I saw, and behold 
a white horse; and he that sat on him had a 
bow; and a crown was given unto him, and he 
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HERALD. 
went forth conquering and. to conquer." 
The 
first four seals have one great characteristic in 
common, viz. the symbol of a horse. 
This 
must indicate somathing which they share in 
common. 
Is there any clue to the solution of 
this symbol suggested by its historical, or na-
tional, or local import? 
There is. 
Almost 
every nation has some emblem as its national 
exponent and characteristic. 
Thus the thistle 
is the symbol of Scotland; the rose, of Eng-
land ? and the shamrock, of Ireland. 
These 
are the national hieroglyphs. 
Were any one 
to write an apocalyptic history of Ireland, for 
instance, during the last twelve months, he 
would probably write, that the shamrock lost 
much of its verdure, and ultimately withered 
and died in the autumn of 1846, but that it re 
covered all its pristine beauty in the course of 
1847; and no one acquainted with the literal 
historical facts would be likely to mistake the 
meaning of such an allusion. 
Now the horse 
was as strictly the national emblem of Rome 
as the thistle is of Scotland, the rose of Eng-
land, or the lily of France, or the shamrock of 
Ireland. 
Medals are still in existence with al-
to-relievo figures of the horse, and the word 
ROMA inscribed below. 
The Romans also 
called themselves Gens Mavortia, that -is, the 
people of Mars, and the horse, in their my-
thology, was sacred to Mars. 
Thus, therefore, 
there can be little doubt, that the first four seals 
refer to and represent the Roman empire in its 
pagan state. 
The colors of the horses point 
out its successive stages of prosperity, suffer-
ing, conquest, or decay—the riders on the 
horses represent the agents employed to bring 
about its various phases—and the crown, the 
bow, and the balance represent the class, or 
family, or nation, to which these agents res-
pectively belonged. 
By adhering to these very 
natural explanations, we shall be able to open 
up much that would be otherwise enigmatical, 
if not impenetrable.—(To be continued,.) 
" Principalities and Powers in Heavenly 
Places." 
BV CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH. 
EVIL SPIRITS.—THEIR EXISTENCE AND CHARACTER. 
The eternal power and godhead of the Most 
High are, as St. Paul tells us, invisible things, 
yet clearly seen and to be understood even of 
the heathen, by those things which he. hath 
made. Rom. 1 : 20. 
The order and harmony 
of creation, the wonderful manner in which all 
things are upheld, preserved, perpetuated, or 
re-produced, appeal to the natural reason and 
conscience of man, bespeaking some mighty, 
creative, over-ruling hand, directed by a wis-
dom and knowledge to which no mortal may 
attain. 
And this recognition is all but univer-
sal. 
However false, however distorted, how-
ever debased by the most wretched folly, super-
stition, and crime, we find the principle of De-
ism in some form established throughout the 
world. 
But beyond this, man cannot go; he sees 
that God is powerful, and if the desperate 
wickedness of his own heart did not blind it, 
he must also perceive that God is good ; giving 
us rain and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts 
with food and gladness, clothing the earth with 
refreshing verdure ; decking it with myriads of 
glowing flowers ; bestowing on the birds their 
soft and graceful plumage, bright in lovely 
dyes, and teaching them to breathe forth music 
from their cheerful throats : causing the moon 
to walk in brightness, the stars to spangle hea-
ven, and peopling even the little brooks that 
run among the hills with unnumbered forms of 
beauty that sport in the pure element. 
So far, 
man may recognize God, may love, fear, and 
praise him. 
But beyond this we have no means of pene-
trating ; our bodily organs appear to be the sole 
medium of communication with what exists.— 
What we can see, hear, feel, smell, or taste, is 
matter of observance, affording evidence on 
which the mind may rely, and from it we may 
reason or conjecture to any extent, but can 
know nothing to bring us acquainted with what 
lies beyond the range of our senses,—we need 
a special revelation from Him who governs all, 
and this revelation we possess. 
Between the 
two covers of a book that a child may grasp 
we find all that is needful or profitable for us to 
know of the nature, attributes, and works of the 
Almighty, of his power in creation, his love in 
redemption, his past dealings with the world, 
and his future purposes respecting it. 
By the 
comparatively dim twilight of his works we 
may feel after, and haply find him, as the all-
presiding governor of the world which he has 
made: in the bright blaze of his word we be-
hold him distinctly; and not only Him, but a 
race of intermediate beings, different from our-
selves in that they are not burdened with flesh, 
possessed of faculties and powers that give them 
a vast advantage over us, and deeply interested 
and busily employed about us, who are natu-
rally wholly regardless of them, even when not 
wholly ignorant concerning them. 
Of these mysterious beings we know the 
number is immensely great; and that they 
are divided into two classes: the "elect an-
gels," or " holy angels," who are God's obe-
dient ministers, and do his pleasure ; and " the 
angels which kept not their first estate, but left 
their own habitation," (Jude 6,) who are rebels 
against God, and implacable enemies to man. 
These last are marshalled under one superior 
chief, who directs their operations, and main-
tains, with their assistance, a kingdom upon 
earth, directly opposed to the government of 
Christ the rightful King. To support, by every 
possible means, to extend, and to strengthen, 
this usurped dominion, to seduce all whom he 
can, to terrify others, and to thwart, harass, and 
distress every child of God while sojourning 
here, is the object of the adversary. 
His very 
name, Satan, expresses it; and the superior 
power which as a spirit he possesses, becomes 
effectual in carrying out his most malevolent 
designs, whenever the omnipotence of God 
does not interpose to restrain it. 
But assertion, on a subject of such tremen-
dous moment to every individual of the human 
race, will not suffice: we must have proof— 
such proof as God alone can afford us means 
of obtaining: and which, where it exists, he 
must also enable us to perceive, for the policy 
of Satan is wholly opposed to the inquiry.— 
There is nothing he dreads so much as our be-
ing " not ignorant of his devices," because he 
knows that where it is revealed to us, " We 
wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against 
principalities, against powers, against the rulers 
of the darkness of this world, against wicked 
spirits in high places." Eph. 6:12. 
In the pre-
ceding verse Ave are also told of a sure defence, 
and exhorted to " put on the whole armor of 
God, that ye may be able to stand against the 
wiles of the Devil." 
And despite the express 
declarations of God's word, despite its reite-
rated warnings, despite even our own sore per-
sonal experience of his craft and subtlety, we 
are prone to overlook not only such testimony 
to his continual activity and abundant n^eaijs of 
warring against us, but the very fact of his ex-
istence, so far as it concerns the daily expe-
rience, collectively and individually, of the 
church of Christ. 
Strange as this may sound, it is undeniable : 
we cannot marvel that where Satan, " the god 
of this world, hath blinded the minds of them 
which believe not, lest the light of the glorious 
gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, 
should shine unto them," (2 Cor. 4 : 4,) he 
should have taken care also to blind them to his 
own devices; that he should have stealthily 
thrown the bandage across their eyes from be-
hind, so that they know not the hand which 
performed the operation, not even that such 
operation is performed ; but it is wonderful that 
he can prevail upon Christian people to banish 
his name, as they generally do, from their daily 
converse, and Christian pastors to make only, 
now and then, a slight incidental reference to 
it in the pulpit; and in these days, too, while 
in every department of our households, in every 
street of our cities, in church and State, in cot-
tage and palace, at home and abroad, he is in-
cessantly manifesting his hateful presence, 
perplexing, seducing, embroiling, dismaying, 
uprooting, and disorganizing, till the whole 
framework of society is loosened, and ready, 
upon the first shock, to crumble about us. 
It cannot be unseasonable, at any period, far 
less at this juncture, to draw the attention of 
Christians to a point which God has seen fit to 
represent as of the most stirring, vital impor-
tance to them. 
The warning needs to be often 
sounded, " Be sober, be vigilant, because your 
adversary, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh 
about, seeking whom he may devour." 1 Pet. 
5:8. But in treating of a matter so exceedingly 
solemn and awful, care must be taken not to 
run into the opposite danger of saying too 
much. 
We must " not go beyond the word of 
the Lord to speak more or less." 
Great mis-
chief has been done, and by great men too, by 
indulging imagination, and building unreal fab-
rics on the solid foundation of the revealed fact. 
Scripture alone must speak, in declaring the 
existence, personality, characters, offices, and 
positive actings, of those spiritual creatures 
which constantly surround us, beginning with 
Satan and his angels. 
May HE, who by death 
destroyed him that had the power of death; 
He, the seed of the woman, who came to bruise 
the serpent's head ; He, who led captivity cap-
tive, and who will bruise Satan under our feet 
shortly : may He, even the Lord Jesus Christ, 
bless this humble attempt, preserving both the 
writer and the reader from all presumptuous 
Before proceeding to examine the truth con-
cerning Satan, we must notice the false im-
pressions current, both as to his person and em-
ployment. 
We are taught from the nursery to 
regard him as a hideous, disgusting, and almost 
ludicrously contemptible object. A black, mis-
shapen, half-human body, with limbs and other 
appendages belonging to various classes of ani-
mals, an excessively frightful, grinning face; 
and, in short, a preposterous compound of all 
that is ugly and incongruous, supply the gene-
ral idea of the " prince of this world." 
This 
fabulous image bears the marks of his own 
creation, for it is calculated to throw us off our 
guard by masking his real importance, so that 
we grow up ashamed of having once been 
frightened by these pictures of the devil, and 
count it a mark of matured reason to laugh at 
the hobgoblin of our childhood. 
His name, 
too, is linked with mean and ridiculous associa-
tions ; it is denounced as a vulgarism, and 
when plainly uttered in conversation with refer-
ence to his works, a smile of levity, if not a 
grave reproof, usually awaits the offender. A 
variety of nicknames have been applied to him, 
the substitution of which for his Scriptural ti-
tle is considered as showing greater respect for 
the auditors, and greater refinement in the 
speaker; and he has been so identified with the 
most flippant, mbst trifling or profane forms of 
speech, even among polished gentlemen, that 
one of the hardest tasks the awakened Chris-
tian has to encounter, is to disconnect the name 
of the devil from such associations, and to dis-
suade others so offending. 
As regards his works, a still more dangerous 
mistake seems to prevail: he is looked on by 
the professing world in general as a little more 
than a chimerical personage ; one who, when 
our Lord was on earth, proved busy, and trou-
blesome to him, but who is mostly in hell, tor-
menting such as .he has got into his power, and 
rarely, if ever, interfering with the course of 
this world. 
Sometimes the most petty annoy-
ances and vexatious little mistakes are referred 
to his mischievous arrangements, but 
through momentary petulance than any sober 
conviction; at other times he is represented as 
presiding where very extensive injury is done, 
perhaps directing the campaigns of a Napoleon, 
or baffling some schemes of universal philan-
thropy. 
But to regard him as systematically 
busying himself in the concerns of individuals, 
more particularly as influencing, by his artful 
suggestion, their words and deeds, is looked on 
as most childishly superstitious. 
Nay, even 
among spiritual persons there is a lurking un-
belief on this subject, which gives the enemy 
many an advantage over them. 
They are loth 
to believe that when engaged in promoting a 
good work, Satan is at their right hand resist-
ing them: that, by his whispered suggestions, 
their humility is often depressed into cowardice, 
their zeal quickened to rashness, their confi-
dence urged on to presumption, and their pru-
dence chilled with unbelief. 
In whatsoever 
quality the Lord has enabled them to excel, 
that very excellence Satan will weave a snare 
for their feet; and the snare once laid, he has 
abundant agencies at work to draw or drive 
them into it. 
Theoretically, perhaps, this is 
not denied; but point out a living instance of 
such delusion, and you are presently reproved, 
or frowned into silence. 
The following direct testimonies from the 
Scriptures to the existence and character of evil 
spirits, of whom one distinct chief or leader 
controls a number of subordinate devils, will 
establish our first point:— 
" And the great dragon was cast out, that old 
serpent, called the devil, and Satan, which de-
ceiveth the whole world : he was cast out into 
the earth, and his angels were cast out with 
him." Rev. 12:9. 
" Ye are of your father the devil, and the 
lusts of your father ye will do. He was a mur-
derer from the beginning, and abode not in the 
truth, because there is no truth in him. When 
he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for 
he is a liar, and the father of it." John 8:44. 
" But some of them said, He casteth out 
devils through Beelzebub the chief of the 
devils." Luke 11:15. 
" If Satan be divided against himself, how 
shall his kingdom stand ? because ye say that 
I cast out devils through Beelzebub." v. 18. 
" Thou believest that there is one God ; thou 
doest well; the devils also believe and trem-
ble." Jam. 2:19. 
"He said unto him, come out of the man, 
thou unclean spirit; and he asked him, What 
is thy name ? 
And he answered, saying, My 
name is Legion; for we are many." Mark 5:8,9. 
Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting 
fire, prepared for the devil and his angels."— 
Matt. 25:41. . 
" God spared not the angels that sinned, but 
cast them down to hell." 1 Pet. 2:4. 
These form but a small portion of the in-
spired declarations which might be adduced 
under this head, yet they suffice to place the 
fact beyond a cavil, and our next step is to as-
certain the extent of power possessed by Satan; 
and the habitual employment of the infernal 
hosts. 
My Saviour. 
BY JOHN BAST, M. A. 
MESSIAH. 
MY 
SAVIOUR is the MESSIAH, whom Daniel 
foretold, as " the Prince," who should " be cut 
off, but not for himself," " to finish the trans-
gression, and make an end of sins, and make 
reconciliation for iniquity." 
(Dan. 9:24-26.) 
To accomplish these great purposes, it was 
necessary that my Saviour should be at once a 
Priest and a sacrifice, and in his sacerdotal cha-
racter be " anointed " with an unction, corres-
ponding with his exalted nature and his une-
qualled undertaking. 
That unction was the 
Holy Ghost, and it qualified him in his priestly 
office to " offer himself without spot to God " 
(Heb. 9:14) ; for it was " through the Eternal 
Spirit" that he thus presented himself unto 
God, by his conscience-purging blood. 
As the 
anointed prophet and teacher of his people, 
whose work and whose word were to be the 
source of instruction and comfort to them, un-
der all the varied w;ants of their ignorance and 
their sorrows, he was the object of constant 
expectation. 
" I know,"—said the woman of 
Samaria to him, before he fully revealed him-
self to her penitent and opening mind,—" I 
know that Messias cometh, which is called 
Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all 
things." 
(John 4:25.) 
In his regal office, also, my Saviour was anoint-
ed with the divine unction, which authorized and 
enabled him to assume the reins of universal em-
pire. 
" Thus was Christ' anointed with the oil 
of gladness above his fellows;' i. e. above those 
who possessed with him a fellowship, or simi-
larity of office, as types of himself. Aaron was 
anointed High Priest; Saul was anointed king; 
Elisha was anointed prophet; Melchisedec, king 
and priest; Moses, priest and prophet; David, 
king and prophet; yet none was ever anointed 
to the union and comprehension of all these of-
fices together, but the CHRIST of 
GOD." 
All that my Saviour has and is, he has and is 
for me. 
That " oil of gladness," which so rich-
ly flows over him, that " all his garments," and 
even the very skirts of them, " smell of myrrh, 
aloes, and cassia," descends upon me, and com-
municates its healing and sanctifying virtue to 
my soul, when my timid faith only ventures to 
touch the hem of his vesture. 
Whatever was 
touched by the anointed priest, became conse-
secrated to the service of the sanctuary; and 
one drop of the precious anointing oil would per-
fume all it fell upon. 
Ha^ not my Saviour 
touched my soul ? Has he not secretly drawn 
me to touch him in humble faith ? 
Have I not 
felt a sweetly-constraining energy emanate from 
him to my whole nature ? 
Am not I, and all I 
have, thereby consecrated to my Redeemer's 
service ? I observe it recorded of the members 
of the earliest New Testament church, when 
acting under that rich unction of the Holy One 
which taught them all things, that " not any of 
them said that aught of the things which he 
possessed was his own." 
Thus may I feel and 
act; so that men, perceiving the fragrance of 
holiness around me, while I am myself scarcely 
conscious of it, may " take knowledge of me 
that I have been with Jesus," and seek for 
themselves the same anointing of God. 
To 
him alone apostolical and sainted men were ac-
customed to ascribe the origin and glory of their 
devoted lives. 
" Now, he which establisheth 
us with you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is 
God; who hath also sealed us, and given the 
earnest of the Spirit in our hearts." 
(2 Cor. 
1:21, 22.) 
The Turning Point. 
Many within the last few years have been 
astonished at the surprising change which has 
been wrought in the public mind respecting the 
nature of events which were to transpire at the 
end of this age, or world. 
Till within a few 
years, the visible coming of Christ to judge the 
quick and dead, the resurrection of the bodies 
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51 
the literal burning of the world—the melting 
of this globe by fervent heat, were never ques-
tioned by the orthodox professors in the New 
England churches. 
And any denial of either 
of those cardinal articles, by the members of 
those churches, would have subjected such to 
the disciplinary acts of their respective church-
and a denial on the part of any in the min-
istry would have subjected such to an ecclesias-
tical trial. 
But how is it now? 
Any view on 
either of those questions may be held by the 
ministry or laity in most of the New England 
churches without subjecting their opinions to 
the least scrutiny by those with whom they are 
connected, unless they happen to believe they 
are immediately to be literally realized. 
Such 
a belief is regarded as most heterodoxical, and 
worthy of universal denunciation ! 
It is a well-known fact that some of the lead-
ing religious journals, in several of the most 
prominent denominations, have given counte-
nance to principles of prophetic interpretations 
which entirely subvert those great truths which 
the church had for so long a time regarded as 
the fundamental doctrines of Christianity; and 
have expressed their confidence as being " stag-
gered " and " greatly shaken " in those princi-
ples which they had heretofore regarded as 
" settled beyond a doubt." 
And yet no note of 
alarm is sounded in any quarter by any of the 
patrons of those papers, as there would have 
been were a departure from old established 
principles considered by the'respective churches 
as a serious or alarming evil. 
Again: we find the professors in some of our 
theological institutions have made alarming de-
partures from the old landmarks of Scriptural 
exegesis; and yet no fears of the result are ex-
pressed by those from whom we should expect 
the first warning against innovation. 
And yet 
the young aspirants for holy orders, instead of 
being repelled by such applications of prophecy, 
are the rather more eager to place themselves 
under such instructions: nor are they restrained 
from so doing by any dictates of prudence on 
the part'of their religious advisers. 
A few years since, no questions were more 
frequently presented from the pulpits of the 
evangelical churches of our land, than were 
those which were intimately connected with the 
closing events of this world's history: now, 
those questions are seldom alluded to in those 
pulpits. 
The people have ceased to demand 
truths of that nature ; and instead of watching 
these truths with the same jealous eye with 
which in former times they were wont to guard 
the faith of their fathers, they are beginning to 
discountenance the allusion to those topics lest 
the doctrine of the Advent shall tingle their 
ears. 
Travel which way you will, by railroad, 
steamboat, or the stage-coach, and introduce 
these topics in conversation with clergymen of 
any denomination with whom we meet, and in 
nine cases out of ten they are averse to discuss-
ing them, or contend for a spiritual interpreta-
tion of the prophecies which relate to those 
events. 
In view of these facts, which are known and 
read by all men, we are led to enquire the 
cause of such a mighty revolution in the opin-
ions of the church. 
And on our investigation 
of the cause, we find it the unavoidable result 
of an opposition to the doctrine of the imme-
diate Advent. 
According to the prophetic pe-
riods as interpreted by all the standard Protest 
ant commentators of the English and American 
churches, we are now in that circle of time that 
the prophecies to which reference has been 
made may be expected to be fulfilled; and un-
less they are to be spiritually and ethereally un-
derstood, they may now be expected to be liter-
ally fulfilled. If the dead bodies of the depart-
ed saints are to come up in the resurrection, it 
will follow that Christ will literally and person-' 
ally come to judge the quick and the dead ; and 
also that the globe will be literally melted with 
fervent heat. 
And if either of these events are 
literal in their nature, each of the others will 
follow as literal also. 
The nature of the event 
is therefore the turning point which will decide 
the whole question of the Advent. 
That these events will be literally realized is 
in accordance with the letter of the Scriptures 
and the unanimous voice of the church for 
eighteen hundred years. 
The prima facia evi 
dence is, therefore, in our favor; so that the 
whole burden of proof that they are not literal 
rests with our opponents.—Ed. Ad. Her. 
of those who sleep in the dust of the earth, and tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it 
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is nigh at hand. 
Therefore also now, saifh the 
Lord, Turn ye even to me with all your heart, 
and with fasting, and with weeping, and with 
mourning: and rend your heart, and not your 
garments, and turn unto the Lt>rd your God; 
for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, 
and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the 
evil. 
Who knoweth if he will return and re-
pent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a 
meat-offering and a drink-offering unto the 
Lord your God ? 
Blow the trumpet in Zion, 
sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly: gather 
the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble 
the elders, gather the children, and those that 
suck the breasts ; let the bridegroom go forth out 
of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. 
Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep 
between the porch and the altar, and let them 
say, Spare thy people, 0 Lord, and give not 
thy heritage to reproach, that the heathen should 
rule over them: wherefore should they say 
among the people, Where is their God ? Then 
will the Lord be jealous for his land, and pity 
his people. 
And ye shall know that I am in 
the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord 
your God and none else; and my people shall 
never be ashamed. 
And it shall come to pass 
that whosoever shall call on the name of the 
Lord shall be delivered : for in Mount Zion and 
in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord 
hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord 
shall call." 
Thus the Lord calls upon his ministers, and 
upon his children, in view of the coming of the 
Lord : and how are his admonitions regarded ? 
Do the priests, the ministers of the Lord, thus 
weep between the porch and the altar, and cry 
to the Lord to spare his people ? or are some, 
on the contrary, ridiculing the idea of expect-
ing the Lord immediately to appear ? Although 
the Lord has said, Joel 2:30, 31, " I will show 
wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, 
and fire, and pillars of smoke : the sun shall be 
turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, 
before the great and the terrible day of the 
Lord come," and those signs have been seen, 
yet they know it not. 
And instead of using 
their exertions to call the attention of their fel-
low men to the indications the Lord has thus 
hung out in the heavens, their efforts are too 
often to persuade those who stand on the verge 
of the judgment that all is well, and that noth-
ing betokens the approach of the day of the 
Lord. 
They heed not the injunction of the 
apostle, " Forsake not the assembling of your-
selves together, but exhort one another daily, 
and so much the more as ye see the day ap-
proaching."—Ed. Ad. Her. 
with God, until it returns laden with the bless-
ing and dew of heaven. 
Duty in View of the Day of the Lord. 
Joel 2:1, 12-18, 27732—" Blow ye the trum 
pet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy 
mountain; let all the inhabitants of the land 
Prayer. 
The following beautiful simile, taken from a 
sermon of JEREMY TAYLOR, has been admired 
for more than a hundred and fifty years, and 
will continue to be admired as long as a taste 
for fine writing prevails:— 
Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the still-
ness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollec-
tion, the seat of meditation, the rest of our 
care, and the calm of our tempest. 
He who 
prays to God with an angry or troubled spirit, 
is like the man who retires into the midst of a 
battle for meditation, or sets up his closet in 
the out-quarters of an army. 
Anger is a per-
fect alienation of the mind from prayer; it is 
directly opposed to that disposition which pre-
sents our prayers in a right line to God. 
For 
so have I seen a lark, rising from its bed of 
grass, and soaring upwards, singing as it rises, 
and hoping to get to heaven, and climbing 
above the clouds; but the poor bird was 
driven back by the loud sighing of an eastern 
wind, and his motion made irregular and in-
consistent, descending more at every breath 
of the tempest than it could recover by the 
vibration and frequent weighing of its wings, 
till the little creature was found to sit down 
and pant, and stay till the storm was over, 
and then it made a prosperous flight, and did 
rise and sing as though it had learned music 
and motion from an angel, as he passed 
through the air about his ministries below. 
So it is when a storm rises in the spirit and 
overrules the good man; his prayer is broken, 
and his thoughts troubled; his words go up-
ward, toward a cloud, and his thoughts call 
them back again, and make them without in-
tention. 
The good man sighs for his infirmi-
ty, but he must be content to lose the prayer, 
and he must recover it when his anger is re-
moved, and his spirit is becalmed and made 
even as the brow of Jesus, and smooth like 
the heart of God; then it ascends and dwells 
Music of the Spheres. 
A writer in the New York Journal of Com-
merce gives the following account of the cir-
cumstances which attended the fall of an aero-
lite, in Germany, in 1846:— 
On Friday, Dec. 25, at about 2 P.M., a noise 
was heard in the environs of Mindethal (Ger-
many), in a circumference of at least 18 leagues 
in diameter, resembling in the first instance a 
distant cannonade. 
Alter twenty almost uni-
form discharges, this noise changed to a rum-
bling, the sound of which strikingly resembled 
those of a kettle-drum tuned in F, and ended 
with sounds like those of distant trumpets. The 
whole phenomenon lasted about three minutes, 
and was heard in the same manner throughout 
the entire district. 
Every auditor imagined 
that he heard the noise over his own head, but 
nothing was seen explanatory of the phenome-
non. 
In the village of Schoenenberg, however, 
west of Mindethal several persons discovered 
above the houses a black ball rapidly descend-
ing, and a man saw this fall into a garden. The 
news of the event soon spread abroad, and all 
the inhabitants soon abandoned their firesides 
and family festivities, ran to the spot pointed 
out. 
They found an opening in the earth 
which emitted a sulphurous vapor. On digging 
with great zeal, a stone was discovered two feet 
below the surface, in the form of an irregular 
truncated pyramid, with four narrow lateral 
surfaces, and a fifth somewhat wider. 
The 
base is smooth enough. 
The summit is pris-
matic, and the corners are rounded. 
It weighs 
almost eight kilograms. 
Its dimensions are 
eight inches in height, seven in breadth, and 
three in thickness. 
The fracture is greyish-
white, spotted with white, and several crystal-
ized metalic fragments were noticed upon its 
surface, especially some octahedral crystals of 
iron, which attracted the magnet. 
The above is the account given of the phe-
nomena to the editor of the Augsburgh " Ga-
zette." 
A body of similar composition is des-
cribed by M. Arago, in a communication to the 
Academy of Sciences, that fell in a district in 
France in 1841, and was heard a great dis-
tance; and the sound which followed the last 
of the several explosions was quite musical. 
That learned astronomer denominated this ex-
traordinary sound the music of the spheres. A 
large stone was seen to fall, and was exhumed 
from the field while yet warm. 
Fragments of 
this body were scattered in a path fifteen miles 
wide and sixty miles long. 
I have detailed 
particular accounts of three other aerolites, 
which have fallen to the earth during the pre-
sent year. 
Fourth Universal Monarchy. 
NUMBER 
XIV. 
The first years of the reign of Justinian 
were occupied in wars with the Goths in Italy, 
who were conquered by his general, Belisarius, 
about the year 538. 
The reign of Justinian 
was eventful,—forming a new period in the 
history of the Latin kingdom,—believing, as 
we do, that the Roman Catholic church is the 
image to and for the beast; and that it was 
firmly established within fifty years of this 
date.—The peculiar features of government 
and religion will be noticed. 
Those features 
only, however, which belong to the leopard 
period will come under view. The reader will 
notice what peculiarities, and what distinctive 
features, are transferred from the old Roman 
dynasty under the dragon period. 
The decem-
regal administration, under the leopard coat, 
partook of a very great mixture,—part German, 
and part Roman. What did this administration 
receive from the Roman dynasty ? 
We have 
called the two families which administered the 
Latin government from its origin to its disso-
lution at the advent of Christ, Roman, and Ro-
mano-German. 
The name of the first family 
is undisputed. 
It administered the Latin gov-
ernment under one period only, from B. C. 751 
to A. D. 384. This is the dragon period. 
The 
name of the second family, Romano-German, 
is equally appropriate. 
As to the German part 
of the name, we have already treated. 
We 
shall now show the propriety of continuing the 
Roman name : that it is indeed another people 
mingling with the former inhabitants, and 
adopting their laws and their religion; and that 
it was merely a transfer of the old religious 
and political institutions to a mixed race.— 
Such will be seen from the following remarks. 
We shall notice, first, their laws. 
Second, 
their religion. The people paid divine homage 
to the laws of the old Roman dynasty; then to 
the Romano-German dynasty. 
2. The govern-
ment assumed divine right over the religion of 
the people. In following out these features, we 
shall use many of the views and learned ex-
tracts of N. Lord, and many other distinguished 
authors of England. 
The inhabitants of the 
empire under the Roman dynasty regarded 
their rulers with a degree of reverence ap-
proaching divine adoration. 
"The serfs and 
common people sunk for ages to the most de-
graded vassalage, revered the monarchs, the 
various ranks of nobles, and their followers in 
arms, as a superior race, while poets and his-
torians celebrated their warlike exploits, and 
philosophers and priests justified their usurpa-
tions, and eulogized the wisdom and benignity 
of their rulers. 
The population of the Gothic 
(German) kingdoms regarded their monarchs 
as having derived important rights from the 
rulers of the ancient empire, symbolized by the 
heads of the dragon, and as authorized by their 
example to arrogate whatever powers had been 
assumed by them, either in relation to their 
subjects, or in respect to God. 
They regarded 
their kings as having acquired with the terri-
tory, which they wrenched from the Romans, 
the right of exercising over it a similar domin-
ion,xand acquiesced in their assumption of pre-
rogatives, which had been arrogated by the em-
perors. 
Thus they approved of the adoption 
by them of laws of the empire in respect to ec-
clesiastical affairs, and justified their usurpation 
of authority over the church and persecution of 
dissentients, by the example of the emperors. 
The church had, from the period of its nationali-
zation, used the imperial edicts in its judicial 
decisions. 
The bishops of Gaul followed the 
Theodosian code ; and Burchard, Ivo, and Gra-
tian, introduced into their collections of canons, 
many enactments and decisions from the code, 
Novellce, and digests, and formally united the 
civil and ecclesiastical law. 
The principal 
laws of the Theodosian code that relate to the 
church, are those that gave it a civil establish-
ment, provided for its revenues, enforced con-
formity to its faith and worship, invested the 
bishops with an ecclesiastical and civil jurisdic-
tion, and enjoined the execution of their decrees 
by civil magistrates." 
In this assumed poweT of the civil govern-
ments to dictate laws for the government of the 
church, the Romano-German family followed 
the example of the old Roman family. 
The 
Catholic hierarchy taught the civil rulers that 
they were under obligation to enact laws for the 
support of the national churches. 
G regory the 
Great, in a letter to Ethelbert of England, thus 
speaks: " The Almighty exalts the good to the 
government of the nations that he may through 
them communicate the blessings of Christianity 
to their subjects, which we learn has taken 
place in England, over which you were in-
structed by God to preside, and were instructed 
with authority, that you mi|ht impart the gos-
pel to those under your sway. 
Guard, there-
fore, with care, illustrious son, the gift which 
you have received. Haste to spread the Chris-
tian faith among your people. 
Increase your 
zeal for their conversion, oppose the worship of 
idols, overturn the fanes. 
Raise the manners 
of your subjects to purity, by exhorting, terrify-
ing, alluring, chastening, and exhibiting a good 
example, that you may find him a rewarder in 
heaven, whose name and word you diffuse on 
earth ; for he whose honor you seek and main-
tain among the nations, will render your name, 
already distinguished, still more glorious with 
posterity; for thus formerly the Roman em-
peror Constantine, so illustrious for piety, re-
called the Roman empire from the homage of 
idols, converted it to the Redeemer, and by that 
means acquired far higher praise than the an-
cient princes, and surpassed his predecessors in 
fame as much as in achievements." 
" Bellar-
mine alleges their example to show that princes 
have the right to legislate over religion, and 
compel their subjects to conform to the nation-
alized church." 
Leo the Great expresses simi-
lar views to Leo the Grecian emperor. 
The 
pious emperors held the same views. Theodo-
sius the Great commanded all to adopt the faith 
which the Roman pontiff taught was obligatory. 
This right was conceded by Bossuet, Petreus 
de Marca, and the most distinguished writers 
in the Catholic church. Petreus de Marca thus 
speaks: "Although to dictate laws in regard 
to ecclesiastical and spiritual things, does not 
fall within the limits of the royal prerogative, 
yet princes are bound to sustain canonical de-
crees by their laws," 
" If we admit this in res-
pect to the pagan princes, how much more must 
we hold that the duty of defending and advanc-
ing religion is expressly devolved on Christian 
monarchs, who are imbued with the true faith, 
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and advanced by the aids of grace to extraor-
dinary knowledge. 
He alleges the examples 
of Theodosius, Marcian, and others, to prove 
the right and duty of princes to sustain the 
church, and their example has been appealed 
to as authority for the usurpations and tyranny 
of the rulers of the modern kingdoms, by the 
great body of the writers who have treated of 
the subject from the day of Gregory the Great 
to the present time." 
The rulers of the Latin power, both under 
the Roman and Romano-German dynasties, ut-
tered blasphemy against the Almighty. 
They 
assumed authority over the rights and laws of 
God. 
They usurped supreme rights and law-
givers, making the power of God subordinate 
to theirs ; that it was in their power to rescind 
his legislation, and exempt their subjects from 
responsibility to him ; and thence that his whole 
government, which professes to be founded on 
rights that are peculiar to him, not on their 
will, is a usurpation. 
How clearly their as-
sumptions were fraught with that claim of su-
periority to God, denial of his prerogatives, and 
accusation of his rule, is apparent from their 
actually asserting a dominion over his laws and 
his people in their peculiar relations to him, 
through the legislation of fifteen hundred years." 
J. 
P. 
WEETHEE. 
®l)e 
Qtfment 
ffjcrato. 
•BEHOLD! THE BRIDEGROOM 
COMETH!!" 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, MARCH 18,1 
The Thousand Years' Reign. 
The following is a circular letter, written by JONA-
THAN KETCIIUM, and addressed to the members of 
the " Steuben Baptist Association," New York. 
It 
presents very clearly the views of a large portion of 
the Christian Church, on the question of the Millen-
nium, with the reasons by which they sustain it. 
As 
truth is only elicited by comparing views and argu-
ments,—by showing what are the strongest reasons 
to sustain an opposing view, with the evidence by 
which it is disproved,—we have concluded to publish 
the letter, with occasional notes. 
CHRISTIAN BRETHREN :—The cause of virtue, or in 
other words, purely of religion, as contrasted with 
wickedness, is the general theme of the Bible.— 
Whenever we open the Sacred Volume, this subject 
presents itself to the, eye, in some of its peculiarly in-
teresting forms—in its principles or its practice—as it 
relates to its origin, its establishment in the world, or 
the influence it exerts in moulding the minds and 
manners of its votaries. 
But there is no point on 
which our attention may be fixed with greater inter-
est than the one relating to the glory it is expected to 
attain in the latter day. 
To this state of universal 
peace and prosperity in the kingdom of Messiah, the 
eye of faith has been directed, during the preceding 
ages of the world. 
And as we advance towards this 
admirable scene, and contemplate it in its near ap-
proach, it becomes us to obtain such a knowledge of 
its character and designs as the volume of inspiration 
will warrant us to possess. 
On this subject the Chris-
tian world has stood at variance. 
And while some 
have maintained that the reign of Christ, in the latter 
day, will be similar in its character to what it now is, 
and has been since the commencement of the Chris-
tian era, with the exception that it will extend over all 
the earth, and the riches of God's mercy be more 
bountifully shed upon the world,—others have taken 
the indefensible [?] position, that it will be strictly a 
literal reign. 
That Christ in person will descend from 
heaven a thousand years or more previous to the gen-
eral judgment—the wicked then living be destroyed 
—the righteous dead be raised to life; the living 
saints changed; the earth itself pass a fiery ordeal, 
and be fitted as the seat of a newly-formed kingdom, 
where Christ and his people will spend a thousand 
years of uninterrupted pleasure. 
These latter views, 
in our judgment, are entirely without support; and 
we therefore adopt the sentiment of a spiritual reign 
during the time referred to. 
In proof of this position (namely, a spiritual reign,) 
during the thousand years, our first argument will be 
drawn from the prophecies, or those portions of Scrip-
ture which refer us to the militant Zion in the latter 
day. 
We are evidently taught to look for a time 
when the cause of Immanuel shall appear under cir-
cumstances of great prosperity; when religion shall 
become universally triumphant in the earth ; when its 
influences shall be felt to such a degree that men will 
yield submissively to its claims, and be guided by its 
sacred instructions; when error, superstition, impiety, 
idolatrous worship, and all immoral practices which 
have made so prominent a figure in the history of 
man, shall entirely cease, and pure Christianity come 
in their stead. 
That such is the fact, is one of the 
plainest dictates of revelation, and comprises a large 
portion of inspired truth. 
A few of the passages in 
which this great truth is plainly taught will suffice to 
bring it before your minds. [Note 1.] 
The first particular respecting the latter day glory 
of the church on which we would fix our attention, 
is the largeness of the favor to be conferred upon the 
Messiah. 
It is said, on his request, God shall give 
him the heathen for his inheritance, and the uttermost 
parts of the earth for his possession. 
What, indeed, 
is the sentiment here taught ? Is it not that the cause 
of Jesus is destined to triumph ? 
That the time shall 
come, when all the ends of the world shall remember 
and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindreds of the 
nations worship before him? 
S uch an extensive reign 
of pure religion as is here intimated has not been en-
joyed at any former period in the history of the church. 
Prosperity, indeed, at times, has been realized; and 
the Gospel exerted its influence where it has been 
published; but it has always been limited in the ex-
tent of its operations, and a multitude of obstacles 
have been thrown in its way. 
What, then, shall we 
think of the promise in the text? 
Can we doubt that 
it will receive its accomplishment? 
Will the Son 
fail to make the request, or the Father refuse the fa-
vor, when it is sought ? Can he violate his word ? 
Certain, then, it is the language of inspiration : the 
time shall come when all the nations will be the wil-
ling subjects of Messiah's reign. [Note 2.] 
Consonant with the above statements concerning 
the reign of truth and piety in the latter day, are the 
following texts : " He shall have dominion also from 
sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the 
earth. 3 
All kings shall fall down before him, all 
nations shall serve him. b 
And the kingdom, and 
dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under 
the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the 
saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an ever-
lasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and 
obey him. c The'Gentiles shall come to thy light, 
and kings to the brightness of thy rising. d 
They 
shall come from the east, and from the west, and from 
the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the 
kingdom of God." e 
The church of the redeemed is 
to be gathered out of all nations, and kingdoms, and 
people, and tongues. / 
In Abraham and his seed all 
the kindreds of the earth are to be blessed. » 
The 
stone cut out without hands, is at length to fill the 
entire world. A The healthful waters of the sanc-
tuary became, finally, wide and deep not to be passed 
over, i The church is spoken of as the place to which 
all nations shall be gathered. " All nations shall flow 
unto it." k " The Lord hath made bare his holy arm 
in the eyes of all the nations ; and all the ends of the 
earth shall see the salvation of our God." 1 It was, 
then, originally embraced in the scheme of divine 
mercy, that its operations should be continued until it 
had reached this grand climax; a universal triumph. 
Until? Prince Messsiah should plant the standard of 
his cross in every land, and the voice of praise rever-
berate over the wide extended surface of the globe. 
[Note 3.] 
NOTE 1.—Respecting such a period there is no dif-
ference of opinion among those who love the interests 
of Zion. 
Whether it respects a mortal or an immor-
tal state,—is to be anterior or subsequent to the res-
urrection of the saints,—is the question at issue. 
NOTE 2.—This text, found in the second Psalm, 
has been frequently quoted as proof of a state of 
things here described. 
But it is thus quoted with 
manifest disregard of the text following: " Thou 
shalt break them with a rod of iron : thou shalt dash 
them in pieces like a potter's vessel.'' 
Break whom ? 
and whom dash in pieces ? They can be no other 
than the heathen who rage, and imagine vain things, 
whom the LORD, as described in the same Psalm, has 
in derision, to whom he will speak in his wrath, and 
vex with his sore displeasure. 
These are they who 
are to be given to the SON—not to be converted—but 
to be dashed in pieces—when he shall be revealed 
from heaven in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them 
that know not God, and obey not the gospel. 
If any 
will read the entire Psalm in connection, they will 
we think, see the impropriety of quoting this isolated 
text, and giving it an interpretation in opposition to 
the import of the context. 
Will Mr. KETCHUM read 
the connection ? 
NOTE 3.—The texts here referred to should be ta-
ken in connection with their contexts, for a decision 
of their import. 
Thus taken we find the strongest 
reasons for the application we give them, as will be 
seen below. 
a and * These texts occur in Psa. 72:8, 11, and 
will be literally fulfilled in the "new earth" des-
cribed by JOHN, the metropolis into which (Rev. 21: 
24) " they shall biing the glory and honor of the na-
tions," being the New Jerusalem. 
" The nations of 
them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: 
and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and hon-
or into it" (v. 24.) And " in the midst of the street of 
it, and on either side of the river was there the tree of 
life," &c. (22:2.) 
e This text is in Dan. 7:27, and is expressly af-
firmed to have respect to an eternal kingdom, which 
" the saints of the Most High are to take and possess 
forever, even forever and ever (v. 18);—which is af-
ter the judgment is set and the books are opened (v. 
10)—when there is to be given to the SON " domin-
ion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, na-
tions, and languages should serve him: his dominion 
is an everlasting dominion, which shall notpassaway, 
and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed." 
Compare this with the judgment described in Rev. 20. 
If language has any meaning, this must certainly re-
fer to an eternal, and not to a limited period of a thou-
sand years. 
<* This text is in Isa. 60:3. 
The light referred to 
is described in the same chapter (v. 19, 20) : " The 
sun shall be no more thy light by day: neither for 
brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but 
the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and 
thy GOD thy glory. 
Thy sun shall no more go down ; 
neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD 
shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy 
mourning shall be ended." 
Then will it be said, as 
in the first verse, " Arise, shine; for thy light is 
come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee ": 
and when this light shall arise, and all the pious Gen-
tiles who, since CHRIST'S first advent have been con-
verted, shall there assemble, will it not be emphati-
cally fulfilled that they have come to that light, and 
to the brightness of that rising ? That this is the 
eternal state is evident from the context: for we 
read, " Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, 
wasting or destruction within thy borders; but thou 
shalt call thy walls Salvation and thy gates Praise " 
(v. 18.) 
And again: (v. 21), "Thy people also 
shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the laud for-
ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my 
hands that I may be glorified." 
Read this in connec-
tion with Rev. 21, 22. 
e This text is in Luke 13:28. 
" When they shall 
thus come and sit in the kingdom," we read in v. 28, 
" there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when 
ye [the Jews the SAVIOUR addressed] shall see ABRA-
HAM, ISAAC and JACOB, and all the prophets, in the 
kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out." 
/This text is in Rev. 5:9, 10, and thus reads: 
" And they sang a new song, saying, Thou art wor-
thy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for 
thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to GOD by thy 
blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, 
and nation ; and hast made us kings and priests : and 
we shall reign on the earth." 
Surely, this must re-
fer to the New Earth, where the tabernacle of GOD is 
to be with men, and he will dwell with them. 
This text is in Gen. 12:3. 
"In thee shall all 
the families of the earth be blessed."—In Acts 3:25, 
" Saying unto ABRAHAM, And in thy seed shall all 
the kindreds of the earth be blessed." 
" Now to 
ABRAHAM and his seed were the promises made. 
He 
saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, 
And to thy seed, which is CHRIST" (Gal. 3:16.) 
" That the blessing of ABRAHAM might come on the 
Gentiles through JESUS CHRIST " (v. 14.) 
We thus 
see how they are to be blessed. 
Now, when will 
they be blessed?—When they shall come from the 
east, west, north, and south, and shall sit down in 
the kingdom of GOD.—When not all of—but they 
shall be gathered out of every family, &c. 
k This text is in Dan. 2:34,35. 
Those who read 
there will find that the stone is to smite the feet of 
the last predicted form of human government, and is 
thus interpreted in vs. 44, 45 : " And in the days of 
these kings shall the GOD of heaven set up a king-
dom, which shall never be destroyed: and the king-
dom shall not be left to other people, but it shall 
break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and 
it shall stand forever. Forasmuch as thou sawest 
that the stone was cut out of the mountain without 
hands, and that it br^ke in pieces the iron, the brass, 
the clay, the silver, and the gold ; the great God hath 
made known to the king what shall come to pass 
hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpre-
tation thereof sure." 
This, therefore, most clearly 
refers to the eternal state. 
» This refers to Ezek. 47-5. 
But whoever will 
read the context will find that " the name of the city 
shall be, the LORD is there " (See 47:35.) 
k This is in Isa. 2:2—" And it shall come to pass 
in the last day, that the mountain of the 
LORD'S 
house shall be established in the top of the moun-
tains, and shall be exalted above the hills: and all na-
tions shall flow unto it." But this is to be when " out 
of Zion shall go forth the low, and the word of the 
LORD from Jerusalem " (v. 3)—when " he shall judge 
among the nations, and rebuke many people," and 
" they shall learn war no more " (v. 4), when " the 
day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that 
is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted 
up, and he shall be brought law " (v. 12); and when 
" they shall go to the holes of the rocks, and into the 
caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the 
glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terri-
bly the earth" (v. 19.) 
It must, therefore, have 
reference to the nations of them that are saved. 
* This is in Isa. 52-10, and is to be " when the 
LORD bhall bring again Zion" (v. 8.) 
This will be 
literally fulfilled when the impenitent nations shall see 
the salvation of the saved. 
Thus we have seen that not one of the texts quoted 
in this connection gives any evidence of the world's 
conversion; but instead thereof, foreshadows the glo-
rious triumph of the redeemed, when the spirits of 
just men made perfect shall be re-clothed again, to 
reign on the earth forever. 
(To be continued.) 
Organized Christian Churches. 
REPLY TO INQUIRIES. 
NO. I. 
We have received numerous letters from different 
parts of the country, requesting our views of the 
course congregations of Adventists should pursue; 
inquiring what we have done in Boston in the way of 
organization, &c. &c.; and although we have re-
peatedly stated our views, and the facts, sufficiently 
at length, in answer to these questions, as the spirit 
of mis-rule is abroad, and the lying spirit, as they 
will be till the Great Shepherd shall appear, we reply 
to these questions again for the benefit of all con-
cerned. 
A considerable portion of these congregations who 
have come out from the several religious societies, 
and others who have been converted to the truth from 
the common mass of the world, desire to be associated 
together publicly, and in a mutually responsible man-
ner, according to the Gospel, to maintain its truth and 
ordinances, and to walk according to its order, while 
looking for the kingdom of which it speaks.—They 
do not wish to be brought under the yoke of anti-
christian bondage, nor can they endure to live in an-
archy, and with them it is a serious and important 
question, What is the will of God in the case ? 
Now, 
there are not a few sincere, well-disposed, and useful 
Christians, who cannot hear the word church, or or-
ganization, 
expressed, without calling up in their 
minds the existing church organizations around them, 
and of which the world is full, as if there never was, 
and never could be, any church organization but such 
as those. 
But why should we do so in this manner 
in other religious questions? Do we suppose, that be-
cause the world is so full of error on other questions, 
there can be no truth in reference to them ? By no means. 
We must take the same course in this question, as on 
others, and proved just as if there were no organiza-
tions in existence. 
The great fault is, that while religious bodies pro-
fess to take the word of God for their guide, they de-
part from it, in Doctrine, Ordinances, and Social Or-
der. 
Another fault we have known is, to profess the 
greatest regard for Gospel order, but never carry it 
out, and oppose all who attempt to do so. 
Now we 
must take the word of God, and we must use it, as 
may be necessary and proper, on the question of 
church organization, as on other questions. 
To notice a few things which certainly are not to be 
thought of in a Scripture church organization, before 
noticing those things which certainly are indispensable 
to it, all must admit that Christ aTid the apostles never 
intended that Christians should build up such gor-
geous worldly establishments as some that claim to be 
Christian churches, or, worse still, " the church 
nor that they should live in such a manner here as to 
make them necessary, or even tolerable. In religious, 
as in civil affairs, there may be such an excess of re-
finement, in form and etiquette, that everything wor-
thy of the name of decency and order is so completely 
swallowed up or perverted, that the rudest and most 
simple barbarism becomes preferable to it. Who that 
has seen or read of the exhibitions of sacred nonsense 
or blasphemy which characterize the Papal and other 
forms of Christian corruption—which surround the 
prophets and apostles with Gothic piles, and decora 
tions that were unknown to the civilized world for 
hundreds of years after these holy men slept with 
their fathers, arms them with war-clubs, swords, 
spears, lances, knives, and executioners' axes, and ar-
rays them in robes, badges, trumpery and trinkets of 
all sorts and colors, that would become only the fop-
piest descendant of some illustrious man of blood in 
his gala day costume, or some theatrical representa-
tive of noble knights of the age of chivalry, in full 
rig for a tournament to battle for his lady love, and 
all this tomfoolery dubbed as " apostolic ;" and then 
demanding our faith in its divinity, the most devout 
surrender of our souls to its inspiration, and our hon-
est earnings, with our homage and hosannas, on the 
peril of damnation if we refuse;—who has known of 
all this, and not been disgusted beyond endurance at 
the spirit of profane and impudent burlesque which 
could thus sanction or countenance such a mockery 
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HERALD. 
53 
and perversion of holy things! And how many have 
conscientiously and stoutly set themselves against all 
forms and order in the service of God, as merely hu-
man, on account of this perversion ? 
And this is the 
very thing the devil intended to accomplish by it: he 
first leads men into these extravagances of folly under 
the name of religion, and then points others to them 
as a grand and decisive objection against everything 
which bears that name. But why should we run into 
one mistake by attempting to avoid another? 
Why 
should we put a knife to our throats because another 
has destroyed himself with arsenic ? 
The grand object of our calling as Christians, so 
plainly set before us in the Gospel, though so gener-
ally lost sight of by its professed disciples, the whole 
spirit of our profession, and all the precepts given for 
the regulation of our life as Christians, are entirely 
and forever opposed to this display of worldly and 
senseless paraphernalia; but still the Gospel has its or-
dinances by which its disciples must speak to the 
world, and its order to be observed in the household 
of faith, as well as its testimony to be believed, its 
facts to be pondered, its transforming power and grace 
to be experienced, and its precepts and duties to be 
practised by individual believers. 
declension in the churches. 
They say the cause is, 
that the ministry have entirely lost sight of. the doc-
trine of the coming of Christ and the resurrection of 
the dead. 
Some have preached it, and the result is, 
a revival immediately follows. 
Dr. Bond, editor of 
the ' Christian Advocate and Journal,' recently pub-
lished an article in that paper, stating that to be the 
cause of the declension. 
But the ' Millerites' must 
bear the blame." 
V 
Bro. Miller's Health. 
[Though the following was not designed for the 
public eye, yet we know the deep interest our friends 
feel all abroad in the welfare of Father MILLER and 
his family, and that its publication will gratify many 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—By request from Father MIL-
LER, I resume my pen to answer your kind letter, 
which was cordially received by the whole family, 
feel that a letter from me will be a poor substitute in 
the place of one from Father MILLER ; but feel happy 
that I am able to grant a request from one that has la-
bored so long and arduously in this great cause. Fa 
ther's health is better at present than it has been; but 
he has not been able to read a word in seven weeks 
until last Sunday. 
BOBBINS took the glass out of the 
spy-glass and held to his eye, and he read a few 
words. 
His eyes are not sore: the physician that he 
has consulted says, the retina is affected. 
Father 
bears this affliction well: I never have heard him 
murmur, nor say that it was hard ; but I think that 
he feels somewhat " east down, but not forsaken." 
trust the 
LORD will keep him in these days of trial 
and temptation, together with us all who are looking 
for the blessed hope, until the times of restitution 
shall come. 
He says he feels anxious to see you, and 
is very sorry to hear of your illness, and that of some 
of your family. 
He wants you should come when 
you can, and not make' too great a sacrifice. 
He 
feels that he shall not be able to reward you for the 
many favors he has received. 
Bro. KIMBALL was absent last Sabbath, when fa-
ther preached from Rev. 2:10. 
One of the brethren 
read the text. 
I was not there, but heard several say 
that he gave a comforting discourse. 
The brethren 
are generally strong in the faith that the LORD will 
soon come. 
Brother 
WILLIAM says, " Tell Bro 
HIMES that I am stronger in the faith than ever, that 
the LORD will soon come " 
We shall soon meet and renew our acquaintance in 
a more perfect state than this. 
Yours, in the blessed hope, 
MARY E. 
MILLER. 
Low Hampton (N. Y.), March 7, 1848. 
THE " CHRISTIANS."—We 
cut 
the following ex-
tract from the Christian Herald, the organ of this 
sect in New England:— 
The spiritual prosperity of the Connection cries 
aloud for a better understanding of the doctrines of 
grace, and less sympathy with, and tendency toward, 
a Unitarian theology. Socinian and Neological theolo-
gy has everywhere proved to be the grave-digger of 
piety. 
Its whole tendency is, and always has been, 
downward, downward, DOWNWARD to doubt, to unbe-
lief, and finally open infidelity. 
We need no help in 
this direction. 
The depravity of the human heart 
and the deceitfulness of sin, will always provide a 
current sufficiently strong toward the slough of unbe-
lief. We need help in the other direction—in elevating 
the standard of faith, and magnifying the riches of 
divine grace." 
We fully agree with the writer of the above. We 
were persuaded of these facts many years ago, even 
before we left that denomination. 
We have many ex-
cellent friends among them, whom we esteem as de-
voted Christians. They love CHRIST, and pray to him, 
and trust in him as their SAVIOUR , as " he who was, 
and is, and is to come, the ALMIGHTY." 
But we 
have seen a fearful departure from the doctrines of 
grace among many in the ministry and membership, 
and a downward tendency, that should alarm the 
faithful among them, and stir them up to the defence 
of the pure doctrines of grace. 
NEW YORK.—A good state of things exists in that 
city. 
The brethren speak of the Tent Meeting held 
there last year, as one cause of their increase and 
prosperity. 
Bro. IDE writes:— 
" The Tent meetings last fall commenced a new 
era in the cause here. 
I have witnessed with great 
satisfaction many good results from those meetings, 
few of which I will mention. 
In the first place, the 
ordaily manner in which they were conducted has had 
a tendency to remove the prejudice against us from 
the minds of the people. 
2d. The community now 
understand that the Adventists, and Snowites, and 
many other ites, are not identical, or in other words 
are not one and the same thing. The shape and man 
ner in which our faith and hope were announced and 
illustrated had the effect to attract the attention of 
some, and enabled them at once to lay hold of it. Ifyo 
recollect, we announced in the advertisements and 
hand-bills that lectures on the Kingdom of God, 
showing the nature of the Kingdom—that it was in 
the future and nigh at hand, &c. 
The lectures being 
in accordance with this announcement, many who 
have since openly confessed their faith in the coming 
of Christ, give their testimony as follows : Having 
heard that lectures were to be delivered in the Tent 
at Niblo's Garden on the Kingdom of God, I 
induced to go and hear, having a desire to know 
something about it. 
After hearing one or two lec-
tures, I became instructed. 
I perceived there was 
something tangible about it—something that my faith 
could lay hold of, and a safe foundation for my hope 
to rest upon. 
Many of the churches or ministers in 
this city have recently ascertained the cause of the 
PEACE.—The treaty of peace with Mexico was 
ratified in the Senate of the United States last week, 
with but fifteen dissenting voices. 
It only remains to 
be ratified by Mexico, to settle the differences of our 
government with that nation. 
In the language of SHERIDAN, it may be said, this 
is a peace which every American should be glad of, 
but which no American can be proud of. 
POETRY IN THE PRISON.—Rev. 
C. 
SPEAR, editor 
of the Prisoner's Friend, will deliver a select lecture 
on the Poetry of the Prison, in Philips-place, Tre-
mont-street, on Thursday evening, March 23d. 
Mr. 
SPEAR has published a very neat pocket edition of se-
lections of poetry written in prison, by MONTGOMERY, 
GUYON, BUNYAN, DODD, DEFOE, RALEIGH, and oth-
ers, so that he must be possessed of abundant mate-
rials with which to interest his audience. 
" Evidences on the Power of small Doses and At-
tenuated Medicines, including a theory of Potentiza-
tion. 
A discourse before the New York Homoeo-
pathic Society, March 9th, 1847. 
By B. F. Joslin, 
M.D." 
This is a well-written and interesting pamphlet, 
well worth being read. 
For sale by OTIS CLAPP, 12 
School-street, Boston. 
To CORRESPONDENTS.—S. P. 0.—Not knowing 
what difficulty you find in those texts, we know not 
how to remove it. 
If you refer to letting money at 
interest, you will find light on the subject in the sec-
ond number of the last volume of the Herald. 
THE following extract, from the last will and testa-
ment of WILLIAM PRINCE, merchant of Boston, in 
1770, shows the faith which was then prevalent on 
the subject of the Personal reign of CHRIST 
:— 
" Imprimis. 
I most humbly commit my immortal 
soul into the hands of my great Creator, which I 
most earnestly beseech him to receive, not relying on 
any merits of my own, for I sincerely and with hum-
ble sorrow confess my many and great transgressions 
against his divine laws, but only through the atone-
ment and satisfaction made for lost mankind by his 
Son Jesus Christ, and through whose merits and me-
diation alone I ask humbly for the pardon of all my 
sins, hoping for a joyful resurrection at the next per-
sonal appearance of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, 
the only Son of God." 
THE 
ASYLUM FOR THE 
BLIND. — We have re-
ceived the " Sixteenth Annual Report of the Trustees 
of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum 
for the Blind. 
It is, as usual, a document of much 
interest, including as it does the report of Dr. S. G. 
HOWE, the Director of the Institution, from which 
many important facts in relation to the blind may be 
gleaned. 
From the repoit of the Trustees, it ap 
pears that the number of blind persons in the Institu-
tion on the first of January, 1847, was 101. 
During 
the year 16 have been discharged, 1 died, and 10 have 
been received, so that the present number is 94. The 
Institution has been conducted on the same general 
principles as in former years. 
BRIGHAM YOUNG, the Mormon President, has issued 
a circular, calling upon the faithful to repair to the 
valley of the great Salt Lake, between the Pacific 
and the Mississippi. 
A city has been laid off at this 
point, and a temple is to be built to exceed in " glo-
ry " the former. Their present site is in the midst of 
mountains, on the margin of the Salt Lake, and sepa-
rated from other settlements by a belt of sterile land 
500 miles in breadth. 
They anticipate vast acces-
sions this year to their present numbers, by proselyt-
ing, and in time, of becoming a large and powerful 
settlement. 
POST OFFICE STAMPS.—These are now used as 
sort of circulating medium, especially where it is ne-
cessary to transmit parts of dollars by mail. 
A man 
in New York, who wishes to send 25 cents, or any 
other sum represented by dimes or half dimes, to Al-
bany, has but to put post-office stamps to that amount 
in a letter, and the work is done. 
These stamps are 
good anywhere in the United States. 
They are ex-
tensively used in England, for similar purposes. 
A YOUNG PRIEST.—On Saturday last a child of 
6 1-2 years, son of Rev. S. M. ISAACS, took part in 
the service of the day at the new synagogue in Woos-
ter-street, reciting before a crowded congregation a 
chapter of 2d of Kings, with the synagogue music 
appertaining thereto; also the blessings before and af-
ter the lesson. 
His Hebrew reading was critically 
correct, and he could be distinctly heard in any part 
of that spacious building. 
We learn that he is in 
tended for the Jewish ministry.—N. Y. Commercial 
The Cosmogony of the Earth. 
EVENING 
CONVERSATIONS 
BETWEEN 
EARTH-READER 
AND BIBLE-READER.—ON THE CREATION 
[Continued from our last.] 
THIRD 
EVENING. 
E. R.—We closed our last discussion with remarks 
upon the question of a universal flood ; and I, on my 
part, expressed my belief, in common with geologists 
in general, that there had been several floods. In fact, 
the phenomenon of floods is one of the most common 
that is observed, on looking at the crust of the earth. 
Hence the impression is strong that we have had more 
than one flood. I proceed to the statement of a few 
facts. 
Take simply the sites of London and Paris. 
The foundation upon which these cities are built, has 
repeatedly risen from the water (for the original rock 
is of marine origin). 
These strata have risen, be-
come dry land, then received fresh water deposites; 
again have become dry land, and these have been 
again submerged, at least several times. 
Those de-
posites are not in confusion, but regular, as we have 
before observed with regard to other deposites, and 
can be accounted for only by the supposition that there 
have been repeated floods in that locality. 
B. R.—If, for the sake of the argument, I admit 
several successive floods in those localities,—as there 
doubtless have been in many sections of the earth,— 
how does that invalidate the argument for a general 
deluge ? 
E. R.—I think, as to the probability or possibility 
of a universal flood, the question has been sufficiently 
answered in a former conversation. 
That this will 
invalidate the Mosaic account, with a reasonable in-
terpretation, I do not say, or pretend to say. 
B. R.—I would then vary my remarks, by inquiring 
if it would invalidate my interpretation, respecting 
the time and manner, of the Mosaic account of the 
deluge ? 
E. R.—I have before stated, as appearing to my-
self, that this formation—clay, &c., on which London 
and Paris rest—was some time previous to the advent 
of man, and therefore if these out-risings and sub-
mergings did happen in order, and anterior to man's 
appearance, it is probable that they required much 
more than one, two, or six different days. 
B. R.—I believe that all these formations are re-
concilable with a literal interpretation of the Mosaic 
record; and may be accounted for by the elevation of 
the land on the third day, so as to produce the depres-
sions for the bed of the ocean, by natural causes an-
terior to the deluge, by the turmoil of the elements 
during that event, and the various causes which have 
been in operation since then. 
Before we reject the 
sufficiency of these, we are to take into consideration 
the immense accumulations which would be deposited 
in the antediluvian ocean during the period anterior 
to the deluge, the mingling of the salt and fresh wa-
ters during that event, and all the causes which have 
been in operation since, the results of which should 
not be accounted for by causes anterior to the advent 
of man upon this globe—if these are sufficient. 
E. R.—You, friend Bible-Reader, have given your 
expositions at length. 
I have given some of the facts on which I found 
reasonings which lead me to different conclusions.— 
Some of these conclusions I have brought forward, 
some I have not, but reserve to the future. 
Permit 
me now to offer some remarks upon the proof we have 
as to the comparative age of rocks. 
Of this there 
axe four tests:—supTa-position, mineral constitution, 
included fragments, and organic remains. 
In regard 
to position, the general truth is, that rocks are old in 
proportion as they are found farther down, and new 
as found higher up in the strata. 
To this, of course, 
there are exceptions. 
The second and third tests we will pass by, and go 
to, and rest principally upon, the last,—organic re-
mains,—which 
are the principal facts which stare 
us in the face in digging down through the crust of 
the earth. We will illustrate this by stating how the 
science of geology happened to be discovered. 
A 
gentleman whose name I have forgotten observed, 
the formations of England,which are atype of the world, 
that with a certain rock,—take the sandstone, upon 
which we first now arrive,—were always found cer-
tain species of fossil remains ; with another, as the 
oolite, a different species of fossils; with the chalk 
still another; and so on through the whole system 
of strata—the same rock, wherever and in whatever 
position found, still containing the same order of fos-
sils, and its neighbor a different and distinct class, in-
variably. 
Next, it was observed by some one, that as we go 
further down, the less the organized remains resem-
ble the species existing now on the earth; and the 
higher we come, the more do they resemble the or-
ders and species which are now alive on the face of 
the earth. 
For illustration, take the present species of fishes 
which exist in the Mediterraneari Sea (which is a 
type of the fishes of the earth in general, and per-
haps as recent as any specimens now existing). 
At 
a certain position, a little way down, about 95 per 
cent, of the fossils have their types in the Mediterra-
nean Sea. 
Farther down, 17 per cent, of the fossils 
have their likes. 
Still farther down only 3 1-2 per 
cent. 
This law is unvarying, uniform. 
How can it 
be supposed that these deposites were formed by any 
sudden deposition, or flood, of which we have any 
record ? 
B. R.—I perceive that you have understood me to 
locate the deposite of all the fossil remains, during 
the period of the deluge. 
While I take into con-
sideration the results of that wonderful display of 
GOD'S almighty power, I also inquire into the effects 
of other causes. 
Mr. RENNELL, a geologist, esti-
mates that the mud brought down by the river Gan-
ges and deposited in the bay of Bengal daily, is equal-
in weight to seventy-four times that of the great pyra-
mid of Egypt. Others make it less. 
But supposing 
it amounts to once the size and weight of that im-
mense pyramid daily, as Mr. LYELL estimates, it is 
easy to see what an immense amount must be yearly 
deposited in the ocean by all the rivers in the world. 
For fifteen hundred and fifty-six years the rivers of 
the old world were continually depositing, in the bed 
of the ocean, an amount of sediment equal to what is 
now being deposited. 
If during that period different 
species of fishes become extinct, the proportion of 
those which are unlike any now existing would be 
found in a greater per centage in the sediment first 
deposited. 
These deposites would be subject to the 
action of the currents of the ocean, and would be 
spread by them over the bed of the deep. 
As differ-
ent kinds of soil were brought down, a different de-
posite would accumulate. 
Two rivers from opposite 
parts of a country, but emptying into the same sea, 
would deposite a different sediment. 
A freshet, at 
different seasons, in the two rivers, would deposite 
alternate layers of different soils. 
I have already given the evidence which indicates 
a change in the relative position of land and water 
before and since the flood. And that change satisfac-
torily accounts for many of the deposites of the pre-
sent earth. 
On the desert of Sahara there are no de-
posites of this kind. 
This may be owing to the ab-
sence of any large rivers flowing in that direction 
while submerged. 
Changes like those which were affected in the ante-
diluvian ocean before the flood, we have reason to be-
lieve are now in progress in the bed of the ocean.— 
An immense amount of soil is deposited in the Gulf 
of Mexico by the waters of a single river,—the Mis-
sissippi,—portions of it brought from a distance of 
three thousand miles, and from sections of the coun-
try a thousand miles apart. 
This is taken up by the 
Gulf Stream, and strewed throughout the basin of 
the Atlantic. 
And could the bed of the present 
ocean be uncovered, I doubt not but results similar to 
what we find on the present land would be found, 
wherever like causes have been in operation. 
(To be continued.) 
54 v 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
Correspondence, 
Address to Father Miller. 
Aged saint, why weepest thou ? 
Christ is at the fountain still, 
Whence the healing streams do flow, 
Powerful yet to pardon ill. 
Every jewel in his crown, 
Washed and purified from stain, 
Brighter far than diamonds found, 
Polished by the ait of man. 
Beauteons settings ! not one lost, 
Every tribe and nation here, 
Through the anguish of the cross, 
Rich in glory shall appear. 
Now, amidst the mines of earth, 
Lost in darkness, sin, despair; 
Where's the glory of their birth ? 
Where's the holy, and the fair ? 
When upon thy ravished sight 
God's own city rose to view, 
With its gates and pillars bright, 
Sea of glass, and glory too, 
Quick to wondering sinners thou 
Gladly said, " The Lord is nigh;" 
Aged servant, rest thee now, 
For thy record is on high. 
If about thy pathway strow'd, 
Dust and gems promiscuous lie, 
Saint, look up, thy Lord doth know 
Every gem thy sight would spy. 
And when Jesus comes to winnow 
Wheat from chaff—the saint from sinner, 
All thy jewels will be there, 
In his diadem most fair; 
Not a saint will then be lost, 
Purchased by the Saviour's cross. 
Joyful, then, wilt thou behold 
Casket fair, and burnished gold, 
Precious stones and coins most rare ;— 
All, all, all will then be there! 
Hold thee on a little space, 
For thy Master, face to face, 
Will sweetly say, " Come dwell with me, 
From the dust of death set free." 
Every pain that now afflicts thee, 
Every ill that now besets thee, 
All will vanish in the light 
Of thy casket second sight. 
LUDLOW. 
A Short Sermon. 
Knowing that some brethren have been, and are 
still, looking to the events which have transpired in 
Ireland, and some other nations of Europe, as the 
fulfilment of Rev. 18:8; and believing that there is 
no ground for such conjecture (for I view it as mere 
conjecture), I send you a few thoughts for the con-
sideration of God's waiting children, hoping that 
they may be blest in the consideration of them, and 
thereby fortified against disappointment, their patience 
amplified, to wait the coming of thS Great Hierarch, 
and the only one in the universe. 
Erroneous conjec-
tures can do us no good,—they always lead to disap-
pointment, and leave us woree than they found us. 
I. Who saith in her heart, " I sit a queen 
II. What is the nature of her plagues? 
• III. Who will be the author of her plagues ? 
I. Who saith in her heart? &c. 
1. Not the Pope of Rome. 
The terms "her" 
and " she " are never applied to a single ruler, espe-
cially if that ruler is a man. 
It would be a perfect 
misnomer. 
Besides, a Pope might be destroyed, 
and yet the subject of prophecy still stand as high in 
her own estimation as ever. Indeed, Popes have 
both died and been murdered, but their places have 
always been supplied. 
Cardinals are always at hand 
to fill the vacancy. 
2. Not the City of Rome. 
What if the city of 
Rome were destroyed, would that fulfil the prophecy ? 
I trow not. " She shall be utterly burned with fire." 
Burn Rome, and what then? 
Burn Washington, and 
what then? 
Burn Moscow, and what then? 
The 
British tried it a few years ago, and so did Napo-
leon. 
But did they thereby destroy the government 
of the United States, or Russia? 
Let facts answer. 
Rome might be burned as many times as there have 
popes died, and yet the subject of prophecy remain. 
3. It is the anti-Christian apostacy.—the Mother of 
abominations, and all her ungodly progeny.—Other-
wise Great Babylon. This power is the subject of 
prophecy in one unbroken cjjain, from the 17th chap, 
and onward through the 18th. 
It is the Roman Hier-
arcy, or Priest Kingdom. In the 17th chapter, John 
is taken away in vision to see that power, her judg-
ment, first by the " kings of the earth," and finally 
her utter extermination, in the manner hereinafter 
considered. 
This is the power that figures on the 
great anti-Christian chess-board. 
Destroy the pope 
or the city, and the power still remains. 
The one is 
only the head, the other the seat, of the Power.— 
The expression, "the woman is that great city,* 
that reigneth over the kings of the earth," affords not 
a shadow of objection to the point I am considering. 
The city itself, considered as a municipality, or in 
whatever light you please, never reigned over the 
" kings of the earth" since the days of the Papacy. 
It has only been the seat of power ; and in this light 
only could it be meant in the prophecy. 
But the Ro-
man Hierarchy,—" the woman drunken with the 
blood of saints," has reigned over the kings of the 
earth. 
Again. 
It is said, "In her was found the blood 
* The city reigning, &c., denotes the power located there, of what-
ever kind. In John's day it was Imperial Rome.-£D. 
of saints, and martyrs, and of all that were slain upon 
the earth." 
This is not true of the city of Rome : 
but it is true of the Roman church,* and all her 
progeny (for all are her progeny who have her spirit). 
Yes, but you say, other nations, and Pagan Rome, 
persecuted and put to death God's saints : how, then, 
can the blood of all the saints shed on the earth be 
found in her ? How can it be found in any other one 
power? or one city? 
If one objection is good, the 
other is. 
But I answer: On the principle, that she 
is the endorser of all the persecutions of God's saints. 
It was in this light Christ told the Jews, that the 
blood of prophets, and others, should "be required of 
that generation."—" Ye allow the deeds of your fa-
thers." 
No nation or city under heaven answers the 
description of the prophetic pen. 
The Roman Priest 
Kingdom alone fills the picture. 
II. What is the nature of her plagues? 
1. It is said to be " death, mourning, and famine." 
But it cannot be the death of individuals. If it were, 
famine must come first; and famine must be the cause 
of death. 
But the prophecy' puts death first. The 
famine in Ireland and elsewhere cannot fulfil this 
prophecy. 
That has been only on individuals ; and 
I care not if the whole Catholic population were cut 
off, it would not fulfil the prophecy.—The Hierarchy 
stands good notwithstanding. 
2. What, then, is the nature of the death spoken 
of in our text? 
The primary signification of Oa-Ktms 
is extinction of life.] When applied to a government, 
as in this case, it must be the utter annihilation of 
that government, or power. 
This is just what God 
declares he will do to Babylon the Great, the Mother 
of abominations. 
Hear him: " And a mighty angel 
took up a stone, like a great mill-stone, and cast it 
into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that 
great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found 
no more at all." 
Here is the death predicted,—her 
utter, entire, and eternal overthrow. 
What follows? 
" Mourning and famine." 
But who mourns? 
God 
tells us. 
There are three classes of mourners. 
1. " The kings of the earth, who have committed 
fornication with her." 
2. " The merchants of the earth, who have waxed 
rich through the abundance of her delicacies." 
3. "The ship-masters, and all the company in 
ships," otherwise the sailors. 
These all " weep and 
mourn " for her. 
Why so? 
0, there is a "famine." 
The kings 
of the earth " have lived deliciousJy with her,"—been 
made respectable by their union with the old Jezebel. 
As abominable as she has been, she has nevertheless 
succeeded, by her sorcerous influences, in captivating 
the kingdoms of world, and subjecting them to her 
magic power.—" They have lived deliciously with 
her." 
But their wanton mistress has been cut off; 
the besom of destruction has swept her away, and no 
place is found for her.—She has gone down into si-
lence, and they lament for her. 
" The merchants of the earth, who have waxed 
rich," &c. 
She not only allowed, but took the lead 
in every extravagance. With what graphic power the 
prophet has delineated the gaudy tinsels of earth, in 
which she dealt. Her insatiate pride and love of pomp 
and show, has incited her to ransack earth ; yet her 
vast, unbounded desires could never be cloyed. 
To 
minister to her vitiated taste, has required an innu-
merable multitude of artizans and traffickers. They 
have grown rich by means of her merchandize.— 
Her merchants are princes. 
Society, wherever she 
rules, through all the ramifications of business, is af-
fected by her call for the rich and gaudy trappings of 
her worship. But now she is destroyed ! The source 
of their gain is gone. 
Like Alexander of old, " by 
these they had their wealth ;" but there is no Paul 
now on whom they may vent their spleen.—Weep-
ing is, therefore, their only alternative. 
" The ship-masters and sailors." 
The shippers, 
who have transported her " purple and fine linen," 
her jewels and " vessels of gold and silver," are out 
of employment,—they have nothing more to do,— 
there is a famine to them also. 
Hence they weep 
and mourn for her. 
None of these classes seem to 
consider that judgment is coming on them also. 
But their minds are wholly absorbed in the calami-
ties that have befallen their alma mater. 
They 
seem also like Judas, when Jesus was anointed,— 
wonderfully anxious about the waste of property. But 
it is all of no avail. The fiat of Jehovah has gone 
forth! 
Babylon has sunk to rise no more forever! 
She shall be found no more at all! 
III. Who will be the author of her plagues ? Shall 
some paramour kingdom hate her, cast her off, and 
destroy her? 
The former they have done already, 
and yet she lives and waxes wanton. Shall men rise 
up in her own midst, turn against her, and effect her 
overthrow and utter destruction? 
Prophecy tells us 
no such thing. 
But it does tell us who shall be the 
author of her final and eternal overthrow. 
That be-
ing is Jesus Christ, the " King of kings, and Lord 
of lords." 
There is an order and succession of events pre-
dicted from the commencement of the 17th chapter to 
the 10th v. of the 19th. Some I will name. 
1. Her 
calamities by means of her paramour kingdoms. 2. 
The calling out of her God's people. 
3. Her re-
newed prosperity, until she again feels herself a 
queen,—a married lady, who is never again to be a 
widow. 
4. Then comes her destruction. 5. Mourn-
ing by those who have shared in her luxuries and 
pleasures. 
And 6. The rejoicing of the faithful wife 
—the spotless espoused of Je^us Christ. 
Daniel's fourth heast is seen, in its last stage, with 
eight horns, one of which is designated as " the little 
horn." 
Daniel beholds " till the beast is destroyed, 
and his body given to the burning flame." From 
* It is true of Rpme, including all jts forms, not of one.—ED. 
t Death denotes a change of being—not extinction. Yet it is ap-
plicable when that change produces extinction, and when it does 
not.—ED. 
whence did that flame proceed ? 
Answer: " A fiery 
stream issued and came forth from before him."— 
" His throne was the fiery flame." Nothing could 
more forcibly depict the doom of that power. 
When 
the " body of the beast is destroyed," methinks there 
will be no horn left standing. 
Again. 
It is declared in 2 Thess. 2:8—" Whom 
the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, 
and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming." 
It seems perfectly befitting that Christ himself should 
do the work. 
That hierarchy is anti-Christ,—has 
usurped the prerogatives of Christ, and has thrust it-
self into the temple of Christ, to give laws to Christ's 
people, and govern them; and undertaken to inflict 
that punishment on those who have dared to incur its 
displeasure, which it is the prerogative of Christ 
alone to do, viz., to send them to hell. 
Well might 
the pen of inspiration call it " the mystery of ini-
quity." 
But its days are numbered, and soon Jesus 
will come again—the mighty Judge of living and 
dead ; and then shall the pest of earth, and ally of 
hell, come to an end. 
Then shall resound paeans of 
victory, from the blood-ransomed host of God's elect, 
over her that corrupted the nations, and shed the 
blood of saints for the name of Jesus. Then shall 
the blood of those under the altar be avenged. I sym-
pathize with them, and rejoice in prospect of the day, 
now near. 
G. NEEDHAM. 
Albany (N. Y.), March!th, 
1848. 
Letter from Scotland. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I am sorry, from the little 
interest taken in the subject of prophecy, and from 
my very limited influence, I have not been able to 
send you any subscribers to the " Advent Herald." 
I am glad, however, to receive it, and return you my 
best thanks for it, hoping that you will continue to 
send it as hitherto, and that I may see yourself in 
Edinburgh in the spring, or summer. 
But that you may not conclude thai nothing is do-
ing in Scotland, I have to inform you that Mr. Wal-
lace, Free Church minister in Hawick, I am in-
formed, has lately come out in his pulpit ministrations 
decidedly a pre-millennialist. And to let yeu see that 
I am not altogether idle on the subject, I may tran-
scribe a letter I presented at the last meeting of my 
own Presbytery of Edinburgh, on the 12th of Jan. 
The first two sentences and the last clause only were 
publicly read by the Clerk, when it was moved that 
the letter be " laid on the table," where it is likely to 
continue unnoticed, and be probably altogether neg-
lected and lost. 
But if you should judge it worthy 
of being preserved, and not consigned to oblivion, the 
following copy of it is at your service for a place in 
the " Herald." 
It may not be useless as an exam-
ple to others, when convinced in their own minds that 
they may be induced to bring the subject before their 
Churches, Presbyteries, or Assemblies, that the sub-
ject be fully tested, the truth evinced, and the heresy 
exposed. 
" To the Edinburgh Presbytery of the Free Church of 
Scotland: 
FATHERS AND BRETHREN :—I am constrained to 
address you upon a subject of the most mighty im-
portance. 
After many years of examination into the 
scriptural and historical evidence upon the subject of 
prophecy, I have come to the full conviction, that the 
post-millennial advent theory, almost universally held 
in our churches, and throughout professing Christen-
dom, is no part of the faith once delivered to the 
saints ; but is nothing better than a heretical inven-
tion of the Apostacy, which at the Reformation was 
transmitted into, and is left unreformed in the Pro-
testant Churches to this day. 
This theory of post-
millennialism, formerly the transposition of the second 
advent of the Lord, and all the events dependent upon 
it, from the beginning to the end of the thousand 
years of Rev. 20 : 1-6, I am satisfied is an erroneous 
system, unspeakably detrimental to our best interests, 
to the gospel of truth, and to the glory of God. 
There are, and can be, only two theories with re-
gard to the position of the second advent relatively to 
the millennium,, which are directly opposed to each 
other from their basis. 
They are both professedly 
founded on one event, namely, the second coming of 
the Lord Jesus Christ, which event has a fixed and 
certain locality with regard to the thousand years.— 
This is a certain fact, and it is clear that the one 
theory must be true, and the olher false—the one 
must have the whole and undivided support and au-
thority of the word of God, while it is impossible that 
the other can have any of it. 
In short, the one 
theory is " the faith once delivered to the saints," 
and the other is the heresy of the anti-Christian 
Apostacy. 
But no man of common intelligence can 
doubt, that there is most certainly abundance of evi-
dence in the Scriptures clearly and for ever to settle 
which of the two theories has the whole support of 
the word of God; or, in other words, which is the 
faith once delivered to the saints, and which is the 
heresy of the Apostacy. 
Again, in a historical point of view, who does not 
see that the heretical theory must be of comparatively 
modern origin, and could not be the faith once deliv-
ered to the saints, and held by the Jewish and Chris-
tian Churches for centuries before and after Christ? 
But I believe I have clearly evinced, in books pub-
lished years ago, that the pre-millennial advent sys-
tem has the whole support of scriptural and ecclesi-
astical history, which conclusion is in entire unison 
with, and is completely confirmed by, the doctrines of 
Scripture connected with the subject. That being the 
faith held by the Jewish, the Apostolic, and the Chris-
tian Churches till the fourth century, it is impossible 
that the post-millennial theory could have any exist-
ence before that time. 
Now, it is perfectly clcar, if 
those who hold the post-millennial theory cannot vin-
dicate it from the charge of being merely of the mod-
ern origin which I maintain it to be; if they cannot 
prove it to be " the faith once delivered to the saints," 
recorded by them in the Scriptures, and held by the 
Jewish and Christian Churches during the centuries 
above mentioned, which there is abundance of scrip-
tural and ecclesiastical evidence to do with regard to 
the true faith ; then post-millennialism can be nothing 
but a baseless heresy and delusion of the mystery of 
iniquity, and, as I believe it to be, the very root of 
error out of which the whole corrupt system of the 
Romish Apostacy took its origin. 
The Protestant Churches almost universally hold 
the post-millennial advent theory ; and there cannot 
be a doubt that it was transmitted into them from the 
Papal Church at the Reformation. But it remains to 
be proved by those who hold that theory, where the 
Popish Church got it. 
'I hey did not get it from the 
Christian Church of the first three centuries, because 
they never held it; for it is testified even by the ec-
clesiastical historians who hold the post-millennial 
theory, that down to the middle of the third, or be-
ginning of the fourth century, the pre-millennial creed 
was the universal and undisputed faith of the Chris-
tian Church. 
Such being the recorded fact of his-
tory, it is impossible, though all the clergy in Chris-
tendom should agree to defend the modern theory of 
)ost-millennialism, that it can be anything but a heresy. 
. .f such a recorded fact of early history cannot be dis-
proved, then it is impossible that any one clergyman 
in Christendom, however long and firmly he may 
have believed the theory of post millennialism, can 
truly say he knows it to be true ; because, such 
being the case, it is impossible that it can be true. 
No doubt all the clergy and people who hold it do 
sincerely believe it; but it is certain that that belief, 
however firm and sincere, is founded, not on know-
ledge or proof, but merely on tradition. 
Not a man 
of them all can have any assurance of faith in it from 
having tested and proved it by the Scriptures; be-
cause, from the total absence of such proof, full as-
surance of faith or knowledge of its truth is impossi-
ble. The post-millennial theory, then, is held and 
believed in all our Churches, not by proof, but by 
tradition ; and it is impossible that any man who 
holds it can do so on any better ground than the 
Papist holds purgatory, or any other heresy of the 
Popish system; because there is no better proof of 
the one than the other. 
Now, as it is the duty of every Christian not merely 
to believe, but to know that he holds " the faith once 
delivered to the saints;" and as the modern theory 
of post-millennialism is most certainly a heresy, with 
abundance of evidence to prove it such; no Christian, 
be he minister or layman, can safely or innocently 
remain a single day in a theory which he has evi-
dence at hand to prove to be a heresy. 
No Chris-
tian can postpone the consideration of the subject on 
pretence of any difficulty of knowing the truth, or 
for more evidence, for there is abundance of the clear-
est evidence in the Scriptures at once to settle it. 
If no member of the Presbytery, then, can stand forth 
and say, I know the post-millennial theory to be true, 
and to be " the faith once delivered to the saints," 
and be able to prove it, (which I do not anticipate that 
any clergyman in Christendom can do,) then the 
Presbytery is convicted of believing the theory just, 
as the Papist believes all the heresies of his Church, 
not by Scriptural proof and knowledge, but only by 
tradition,—by taking it on trust,—by implicit reli-
ance upon the unproved dogmas delivered to them by 
their fathers. 
Believing these things to be facts and truth, my 
undoubted duty is to lay them before the Church for 
their consideration. 
If they cannot be disproved,— 
as I fully believe they cannot,—then they are facts 
of such importance as to call for instant deliberation 
and action. I have tried for years to fix the attention 
of the Free Church upon this subject, but have, for 
my pains, been discountenanced, discouraged, and laid 
aside. 
If those who hold the post-millennial advent 
theory still refuse to take up the subject, I believe 
they will certainly be concluded under strong delu-
sion and belief in a lie,—the lie of post-millennial-
ism, that fundamental heresy of the anti-Christian 
Apostacy,—just because they have pleasure in that 
unrighteous system, and will not prove either theory, 
nor receive the love of the truth, that they may be 
saved. 
(2 Thess. 2 : 1-12.) 
Fathers and Brethren, I now leave the matter in 
your hands, hoping that you will take it up without 
delay, as of instant and unspeakable importance, and 
that you will faithfully discharge your duty to God, 
to your congregations, to the Church, and to the 
world, by evincing to all men what was the faith 
and hope regarding the coming and kingdom of our 
Lord Jesus Christ, which was once delivered to the 
saints, and was held by the Jewish and Christian 
Churches for centuries before and after Christ. And 
may God enable you to prove and vindicate his own 
truth, and expose, condemn, and reject the heresy of 
the modern theory, by whomsover it may be held and 
defended. 
Amen. 
I am, Fathers and Brethren, 
Faithfully and very respectfully yours, 
JAMES SCOTT, Preacher of the gospel, 
and Licentiate of the Free Church of Scotland. 
Edinburgh, Jan. 12th, 1848. 
Letter from Bro. J. Merriam. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—Suppose a number of vessels 
were sailing into a given harbor; and having the fa-
vor of neither wind nor tide, they can only advance 
by slow and imperceptible degrees. 
The prospect of 
home and friends, and all the endearments of society, 
are, however, sufficient to stimulate them to every ex-
ertion by plying the oar. 
Every stroke diminishes 
the distance, and summoning all the energies of their 
being, they resolve to persevere till they arrive at their 
point of destination, and find themselves within the 
circle of endeared friends. But while toiling with all 
their power, a sudden breeze fills the sails, and onward 
the fleet moves with great velocity. 
Some of the 
THE ADVENT 
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55 
crews keep all sails furled, and choose 
rather to row than spread their canvass 
to the wind; but others stretch every 
nerve, and ply every sail to enjoy tlje 
full benefit of the propitious gale. Thus 
wafted by the breezes of heaven, they 
sail on with joyful hearts and cheering 
songs till the remainder of the fleet is 
almost lost in the distance, and the tow-
ering hills of their native land rise in 
prospective before them. 
Nothing can 
exceed the pleasure that now animates 
their bosoms. Their voyage has been 
long and tedious. The hope of rest 
from the toils and perils of marine life, 
and of greeting friends in their long-de-
sired haven, is raising their feelings to a 
point of extacy, when all at once the 
zephyrs die away, the sails are pendent 
and powerless, a clouded horizon wraps 
the delightful prospect in obscurity,— 
the sun withdraws his shining, and the 
scene is completely reversed. In some 
cases the hands, after devoutly praising 
the Lord for the rapid advance their ves-
sel had made, again apply themselves to 
the labor of the oars, rejoicing and re-
freshed. For although they cannot di-
rect their course by the eye, yet they 
have the chart and compass as before ; 
and having seen the land, they expect 
soon to reach it. 
But in other cases, 
the hands give up all for lost,—their 
resolution fails,—their courage sinks, 
and if they cannot sail, they will not 
row, more especially as they are now 
unable to see the distance of the harbor. 
Their vessel floats on the tide in the op-
posite direction, till they pass the rem-
nant of the vessels in their outward-
bound course. 
Brother editor, which of 
the three courses is the wisest ? 
The brethren here feel a cordial sym-
pathy in all your trials. 
They rejoice 
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We are much pleased with the en-
larged " Herald," and feel admonished 
that the increased expense should be 
promptly met by its friends. I am in 
hopes of being able to send you some 
new names for the " Herald " this spring. 
Prejudice seems to be giving way with 
the more enlightened, and the great and 
fundamental doctrines of the gospel, as 
held by the so-called Advent Church, 
are being better known and seen to be 
truth as it is in Jesus. 
L. D 
MANSFIELD, SR. 
From McDonough (N. Y.), March 1st, 1848. 
There are a few in this place who are 
striving to be in readiness to meet the 
Bridegroom. 
Although we are so far 
in the background, we meet twice during 
the week to pray and exhort one another. 
If any preaching brother should pass near 
this place, I hope he will come here, and 
break to us the bread of life ; he will 
find a welcome by calling on Calvin 
Beckwith. 
T. J. PALMER. 
From Newark (N. J.), Feb. 22d, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. :—There is evidently an 
increase of interest in the Advent doc-
trine among the brethren in this place— 
those that remain, appear to be estab-
lished in the faith of soon seeing Jesus. 
JOHN BROWE. 
that God has sustained you spiritually 
thus far in your labors, and their fervent prayers and 
co-operation may bs relied on, for the crew on board 
this vessel are not of the class to be blown about by 
every wind that sweeps the ocean; neither do they 
intend to " about, ship " because they have had a fine 
sail, or because they cannot see the land; but by dili-
gent use of the oar, they are steadily nearing the 
harbor, and what is better, they occasionally feel the 
eelestial breezes wafting them homeward with accele-
rated speed. 
Rye (N. H.), March 7ih, 1848. 
Letter from Bro. R. E. Ladd. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—The state of things is glori-
ous among us. 
Never were we more sensible of 
God's favor and blessing than at present.. I was per-
mitted to baptize seven happy converts to the truth 
the last Sabbath in February; and others are enquir-
ing the way of truth. 
I am glad to see the many and really desirable im-
provements in the " Herald," and I feel called upon 
to give my feeble testimony in its behalf. 
Although 
on some points of doqtrine my mind is differently led, 
and I am obliged to think otherwise than you do, yet 
my heart is in sympathy with the great Advent ques-
tion, as that of the greatest and most engrossing in-
terest. 
I am willing to sink minor differences in view 
of this primary truth, and give you all the aid I can 
in bringing it out to the world. I am satisfied that if 
the "Herald" maintains its present bearing on this 
question, watches the opening scenes developed in 
providence, and keeps the people advertised of these 
things, it will do a greater amount of good to the 
general cause than to be bickering and disputing about 
questions upon whieh good men may differ. My motto 
tenaciously to tradition than to the word of the Lord. 
Owing to the learned and so called great men having 
preached the world's conversion, (this doctrine being 
taught generally at the Theological Seminary at 
Bangor, and by the heads of the sects throughout the 
country,) it requires more thought and investigation 
than most of the people are inclined to bestow for 
them to value the reasons of our hope, and enable 
them to see wherein they have followed the traditions 
of men. 
A few, however, think for themselves. 
There is an extensive field of labor in this eastern 
country, but the people are generally poor, having to 
labor hard day and night for life's necessities, aud 
therefore are mostly unable, even when they are wil-
ling, to help those who labor in word and doctrine.— 
Their liberality, however, is of as much importance 
in the sight of God as that of the more wealthy; and 
should all those, even among the believers in the 
speedy advent of the Saviour, who have this world's 
goods, do their duty, more might be saved, and many 
helped. 
I am fully persuaded that looking for the immediate 
coming of Christ is a safe position, because it is an 
apostolic position. 
And I mean, by the grace of 
God, to sound the note of warning to all to whom I 
can gain access. I deeply regret to hear though the 
" Herald," both for your sake and the cause's sake 
generally, that through indisposition you are under 
the necessity of suspending your labors for a season, 
and fervently pray our heavenly Father that he may 
speedily restore you to your usual good health, and 
thus through grace enable you to go forth preaching 
the word. 
While I feel my own infirmities, (an in-
fliction of the lungs,) which prevent me doing what 
I most ardently wish to do, I am the oetter pre-
pared to feelingly sympathize with you in your af-
sftall be hereafter, and forever—" Think and let think, 
flictionS) trials, and privations. 
I wish you, there-
:ondemn no man for Opinion's sake." 
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and condem 
I have presented the " Herald " since its enlarge-
ment to the congregation, and have obtained for you 
the following paying subscribers. 
* * * I have 
much to write, but cannot now. Come and see us at 
your earliest convenience. 
Cabotville (Mass.), March 8th, 1848. 
[We thank Bro. LADD for nearly trebling our list 
in Cabotville. 
We like the spirit of his letter. It is 
the spirit which must be felt by all who see differ-
ently on minor points, if they would act together har-
moniously on the greater one. It is the spirit by 
whieh we hope ever to be actuated. 
Let each one 
believe according to his own conscience and enlight-
ened judgment on all points which do not conflict 
with the question which we all wish to advance. We 
are pleased that so many of the candid and judicious, 
who differ from us, are thus actuated, and that their 
number is constantly increasing. 
Presenting the 
" Herald " to the different congregations, as in Ca-
botville, and supplying the poor in the various socie-
ties by the church, as in Newburyport, will greatly 
extend our circulation. A little effort on the part of 
our friends will accomplish much. We feel under 
great obligations to those who are laboring so assidu-
ously for its support.—ED.] 
Letter from Bro, T. Smith. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I returned last evening from 
a tour into another part of Hancock county, where, 
in company with a Bro. Beland, I spent a few days 
in " preaching the word," and distributing Advent 
publications. 
A few among the thin population of 
the county heard us gladly, but the mass adhere more 
fore, my brother, " the oil of joy for mourning, 
and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness." 
I hope and pray, however, that you may even now, 
by your writings, and in future by your preaching, 
" feed the flock of God," that when the Chief Shep-
herd shall appear you may receive a crown of glory 
which fadeth not away. 
Eddington (Me.), March 1st, 1848. 
I shall be one of its supporters so long as it brings so 
much food for me. I wish all our brethren would 
strive more for peace, and love one toward another; 
for love is the fulfilling of the law; and see that we 
do not bite and devour one another, as I fear some are 
doing; that in all our doings we may seek to promote 
the truth; and that we may be-under the direction of 
the Spirit of the Lord, that good may be done among 
ourselves, and to all that we can yet reach. Our trials 
in this place since the conference you held with us, 
have sometimes been severe, but, praise the Lord, He 
has not suffered us to fall; far more, we have had 
the pleasure, through his abundant mercy, of seeing 
some seek the Lord and embrace the truth, who con-
tinue to hold on their way, rejoicing that they ever 
heard this truth. 
May we all strive for more holiness 
of heart, that we may be ready for his heavenly 
kingdom. 
Yours, looking for deliverance. 
Saccarappa (Me.), March ls£, 1848. 
Letter from Bro. J. Partridge. 
BRO. HIMES :—I am sorry to hear that you are not 
able to preach in this time of want among God's peo-
ple. The truth was never more needed than now.— 
And while false doctrine is spreading over the land, 
may God's servants gird on the armor anew, and go 
forth into the field, proclaiming the kingdom at hand. 
Since you was here last fall, Bro. Fassett has visited 
us and preached twice, since which time our little 
meetings have been interesting. Two have been con-
verted, I trust, and have embraced the truth of the 
speedy coming of the Lord. Some others have been 
interested, and confessed that they believed that the 
Lord is soon to come. 
While they take this stand, 
the enemies of the truth are seeking to destroy all 
our influence by speaking all manner of evil of us.— 
They tell their friends that there is no good in our 
meeting, and try to persuade them to stay away.— 
But I am not discouraged. I mean to do all I can in 
the cause of truth till Jesus comes. This is precious 
truth to me, for the Bible teaches it. 
And may the 
Lord help us to speak the truth in love at all times. 
Yes, my brother, proclaim it through the " Herald " 
in thunder tones, yet with a spirit of love, and the 
Lord will be with and sustain you in all your trials. 
The " Herald " is a welcome messenger to me, I 
assure you. I take an interest in its circulation, and 
am interested by the matter it contains, excepting 
the controversies on points of minor importance ; and 
Extracts from Letters?. 
From Camden (N. J.), March 2d, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—The 19th of May, in the year 
1780,1 well remember;—I was then in my 16th year. 
The morning was clear and pleasant; but somewhere 
about eight o'clock, my father came into the house, 
and said there was an uncommon appearance in the 
sun. There were not any clouds, but the air was 
thick, having a smoky appearance, and the sun shone 
with a pale and yellowish hue, but kept growing 
darker and darker, until it was hid from sight. 
At 
noon we lit a candle, but it did not give light as in 
the night; and my father could not see to read with 
two candles. My father and mother, who were pious, 
thought that the day of judgment was near. 
They 
sat up that night, during the latter part of which they 
said the darkness disappeared, and the sky seemed as 
usual; but the moon, which was at its full, had the 
appearance of blood. The alarm that it caused, and 
the frequent talk about it, impressed it deep on my 
mind. My father lived at that time in the eastern 
part of this State, joining on Berkshire Co., Mass. 
This statement is according to my best recollection. 
My prayer is, that heaven's richest blessings may 
rest on you, my dear brethren that conduct the " Her-
ald," and prosper your labors in the Lord. I find by 
reading the "Herald," that you have had to pass 
through many hard ai\d severe trials for publishing 
the true gospel, which remind me of those of Paul, 
when he began to preach the gospel of the Son of 
God at Damascus, and confounded the Jews, who 
took counsel to kill him. But the Lord stood by him, 
and delivered him out of their power, and he escaped 
unhurt. 
I pray the Lord to deliver you also, and that 
you may come off conqueror through him in whom 
you trust. 
MILO BOSTWICK. 
From Mecca (O.), Feb. 28th, 1S48. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—I am much pleased with the 
"Herald," and am profited in reading its contents. 
As far as I am acquainted, the state of society an-
swers to the description given in the Bible, by which 
we may know it is the last time. 
2 Tim. 3 : 1-5 is 
literally fulfilled, especially in that portion which 
speaks of some " having a form of godliness, but de-
nying the power." It is needful that we watch and 
keep our garments, and labor to be found of our Lord 
in peace, without spot and blameless. 
GEO. C. BAKER. 
From Lewisvllle <S. C.), March 1st, 1848. 
DEAR BRO. HIMES :—There has been no Advent 
preaching of late in these parts, so far as my know-
ledge extends. 
Would to God that some one, who 
is master of the subject, would come this way, and 
Obituary. 
DIED, in Grantham, March 2d, of quick consump-
tion, Sister BETSEY DDNBAR, wife of Ansel Dunbar, 
aged 54. 
Sister D. has been for years a devoted and 
an exemplary Christian. She, together with her hus-
band, were among the first to embrace the doctrine of 
the immediate coming of Christ in this vicinity, which 
was in 1842. Since that time, to the day of her 
death, she has been closely associated with those of 
like precious faith. She has been, since my acquaint-
ance with her, noted for her constancy and perseve-
rance in religious things. 
She was ever at her post, 
and maintained her integrity as a Christian, with 
credit to herself, and to the comfort and edification of 
those with whom she has so often met in conference. 
She has left bright evidences behind of her accept-
ance with God. May this, together with the precious 
promise—" They that sleep in Jesus will God bring 
with him"—serve to console and comfort the hearts 
of the afflicted husband and his three children, and 
the surviving relatives and friends, in this their be-
reavement. " Our sister has fallen—but she will rise 
again. 
She sleeps—but will awake in the morning 
of the resurrection with the likeness of her Saviour, 
and be satisfied. Funeral discourse by the writer of 
this notice, from Heb. 9:28. 
w. H. E. 
DIED, in South Butler, Wayne Co., N. Y., of con-
sumption, Dec. 30th, Mrs. RHODA WEST, wife of 
Bro. Thomas West, in the 52d year of her age. Sis-
ter West embraced religion at the age of thirty-two, 
and united with the Methodist Episcopal Church. She 
withdrew from that church about three years since, 
and united with the Wesleyan society in that place, 
of which she continued a member to the time of her 
death. 
Sister West was a consistent Christian. Her 
health began to fail three years since; and although 
she knew she was rapidly declining, yet she often said 
to her husband, " I hope I shall live to witness the 
coming of Christ in the clouds of heaven." 
A few 
weeks since Bro. West invited Mr. Chapman to preach 
at his house, for the especial benefit of his wife and 
her mother. 
After preaching, Sister West, as she 
lay on her sick bed, exhorted the congregation to pre-
pare to meet her in the first resurrection. 
This was 
done with an earnestness I shall never forget, and this 
proved to be th£ last time that many of them ever 
heard her voice. I saw her a few days before her 
death, and conversed freely with her. 
She said, 
" I had hoped to see Jesus come and destroy death, 
ere I felt its grasp. 
But I now think I must die; 'but 
the grave will hold me but a few days, when I shall 
come up clothed with immortality and eternal life." 
Just before her death she called the family to her 
bedside, and gave them all an affectionate farewell, 
and then sweetly fell asleep in Jesus, leaving an aged 
mother, a kind husband, and six children to mourn 
their loss. 0, may they all be prepared to meet her 
in the kingdom. 
MARY K. CHAPMAN. 
DEPARTED this life, in Piermont, N. H., Feb. 4th, 
1848, Sister BEAN, wife of Dea. Nathan Bean, aged 
63 years. 
Sister B. has been a faithful Christian, 
and a worthy member of the Christian Church in 
Piermont for nearly forty years ; and but very few 
have manifested so deep an anxiety for the upbuild-
ing of the cause of Christ. 
Her prayers and ex-
hortations in the house of worship, as well as in the 
family, have comforted and encouraged the hearts of 
many. The cheerfulness with which she has greeted 
friends, the unwearied pains she has taken to make 
her home a resting place for pilgrims, will not soon 
be forgotten by the servants of God. Bro. Bean, be-
ing deprived of the use of his limbs by a rheumatic 
complaint, depended much upon his companion for 
assistance, and for comforting words for which she 
was peculiar. 
But three children remain out of ten 
to be a comfort to their afflicted father, and mourn 
56 v 
THE ADVENT 
HERALD. 
with him the loss of a most affectionate mother. Sis-
ter B. was removed almost instantly by a fit of apo-
plexy. 
Her funeral was attended on Sunday, the 
6th, by a large congregation, that manifested their 
loss by their solemn countenances and falling tears. 
May the Lord give supporting grace to this afflicted 
family. 
LEONARD 
WHEELER. 
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, MARCH 18, 1918. 
The New Diagrams. 
These new Diagrams of the Visions of 
DANIEL 
and JOHN are now completed. 
Some are printed on 
cloth, which contain the whole series in one piece, 14 
ft. 6 in. in length. Thess are designed for lecturers, and 
may be attached to one or two rollers, as may best 
suit those who use them. 
The lecturer can then 
begin with the Image, and exhibit it entire. 
When 
he has explained the " head of gold," he can, by a 
cord attached to the roller, roll it up at his pleasure, 
and so exhibit every part in turn, till he comes to the 
feet, showing the fulfilment of all to the present time, 
demonstrating to all that the kingdom of God is at 
hand. 
In the same manner, he can continue to unroll 
the chart, exhibiting the symbols of the 7th chapter 
of Daniel—the Lion, the Bear, the Leopard, and the 
Terrible Beast, with the Ten Horns, and the Little 
Horn. 
Then the symbols of the 8th chapter—the 
Ram, the He Goat, the Goat's Head, with Four 
Horns, and the Little Horn, that waxed exceeding 
great. 
Next comes the great Red Dragon, with 
Seven Heads and Ten Horns, of Rev. 12th; then 
the Beast, with Seven Heads and Ten Horns, with 
crowns, of Rev. 13th. 
These are succeeded by the 
Scarlet-colored Beast, on which is seated the Woman 
clothed in purple, with the Golden Cup in her hand, 
of Rev. 17th. Next follows the Turkman Horse 
and Horseman of the Fifth Trumpet (Rev. 9:1-12); 
the Horse and Horseman of the Sixth Trumpet, with 
Fire-arms (Rev. 9:13-21) ; and lastly, the Seventh 
Trumpet, represented as proceeding from a cloud, 
closing with the following words, in large letters— 
" The kingdoms of this world are become the king-
dom of our Lord and his Christ." 
It will be seen that this Chart contains all the im-
portant symbols which relate to the history of the 
kingdoms of this world, which were to precede the 
kingdom of God. 
Some of them have the time con-
nected with them, as well as the events: those that 
have been so clearly established, that none need mis 
take the time in which we live.—All showing that 
the kingdom of God is now nigh at hand. 
No expositions have been given on this Chart: the 
chapters containing the explanations of the various 
symbols only have been referred to. 
Those who lec-
ture, will find ample materials in Miller's " Lec-
tures," and Litch's " Expositions," of all that relate 
to" historical facts. Additional and interesting facts 
may be obtained from Bro. Weethee's articles on the 
fourth kingdom, now being published in the Herald. 
We shall, as soon as possible, prepare a manual on 
the whole subject. 
We intend also to procure a very valuable work 
from England, entitled "The Four Prophetic Em-
pires, and the Kingdom of Messiah," by T. R. 
BIRKS, M. A. 
Those who may desire to obtain the 
best and most triumphant argument on our position 
respecting the Four Monarchies, will find it in this 
work. 
The price will be $ 2. 
We hope to receive 
it, with other valuable English works, in season for 
our spring Conferences. 
Being unable to preach, we have endeavored to 
render the best service to the cause which we were 
able, in the preparation of this Chart; and we intend 
to procure those works that will aid our brethren, 
who, we trust, will be able to carry forward the 
work with success. 
We are more fully confirmed than ever of the cor-
rectness of our position on the visions of Daniel and 
John. 
The fact that they carry us to the end of the 
gospel dispensation being established, it follows, be-
yond all successful contradiction, that we are right in 
looking for the speedy coming of the Son of man in 
his kingdom. In this " we have not followed cun-
ningly-devised fables." 
However many fables may 
have been got up, or speculations indulged in, by 
shallow, self-conceited men, it should be remembered 
that the truth is not affected by them. 
They have 
had the effect of. distracting and turning away many 
from the truth, we ara aware; but such speculations, 
carried out into detail, can never thus affect us.-— 
We turn from them with utter disgust. 
We value 
more than ever the sound expositions of the prophetic 
Scriptures. 
Let us all arise, and enter upon the work with new 
zeal and determination. 
Let us give clear, full, and 
undoubted expositions of the word of God, and press 
them upon the conscience of the church and the world. 
Let us live godly ourselves, and enforce all the great 
practical duties of Christianity upon all classes, in or-
der to a preparation for the kingdom of God. 
THE LARGE DIAGRAMS. 
No. 1—On cloth (in three parts , mounted 
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. 
6 00 
No. 
On 
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(in one piece*, without roller 
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- 5 00 
No. 3-On paper an three parts , mounted with rollers - 
6 00 
No. 4—On paper (in three parts , without mounting for 
permanent use in olaces of worship, and which can be 
fastened to the wall) 
400 
These Diagrams cannot be sent by mail, but may 
be by express. The cloth ones (for lecturers, at $5,) 
can be neatly folded up, and sent to any part of the 
country. All can fit rollers to them to suit themselves. 
The paper ones, without rollers, (for $4,) can be 
neatly done up, and sent to those who desire them. 
Those with rollers can also be sent, but the expense 
will be greater. 
We have given the different styles 
by Nos. 1, 2,3,4; so, in sending orders, it will be 
necessary to name only the number that is wanted. 
We are about to send bundles and boxes of new 
Tracts, Charts, Harps, &c., to Rochester, Cleave-
land, Cincinnati, New York, and Philadelphia. 
If 
our friends will send to us in Boston, and designate 
the most convenient place for them to be sent, we 
will promptly answer their orders. 
NEW WORKS.—TRACTS ON PROPHECY.—The fol-
lowing tracts relate to the nature and nearness of the 
second advent of our LORD JESUS CHRIST. 
They al-
so contain an earnest appeal to the children of GOD on 
t|he duties of self-denial, watchfulness, and prayer, in 
preparation for his kingdom, with strong and whole-
some appeals to the unconverted to prepare for that 
solemn and decisive event. 
We commend them to the reader with earnest 
prayers that they may be instrumental in preparing 
many " for the glorious appearing of the great GOD 
and our SAVIOUR JESUS 
CHRIST." 
No. I.—" Looking Forward." I 
2.—" Present Dispensation I No. 6.-" If I Will that He Tar-
—Its Course " 
I 
ry till I Come." 
3.—" Present Dispensation 
7.—" What shall be the Sign 
-Its End." 
I 
of Thy Coming ?" 
4.—" What did Paul Teach 1 
8.—" The New Heavens & 
the Thessalo. Church 
New Earth." 
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BURNIIAM has labored with us in 
Boston for some time past, with much interest and 
success. 
He came among us in a time of trial, and 
like a faithful brother, has stood by us, and done all 
he could to build up the cause. 
He now intends to 
travel again for a time, and we hope he will be pros-
pered in his labors among the scattered flocks. We 
also hope, that while he remembers others, he will not 
forget us in Boston. 
BRO. I. H. SHIPMAN will preach in Boston next 
Sunday (to-morrow), and will tarry for a season. His 
labors of love among us the last year are highly ap-
preciated ; and much is anticipated from his contem 
plated visit. 
While some professed ministers have 
united with our enemies, and exerted themselves to 
the utmost to destroy the cause in Boston, we feel 
thankful to God that some have stood faithful to it, 
and that we have been sustained thus far. 
BRO. MANSFIELD writes from Antigua, W. I.,that 
the Lord is still with him, and that the work is pro-
gressing. 
He finds it difficult to meet his expenses. 
He will probably return in the summer, unless means 
should be raised to enable him to visit Barbadoes.— 
We are doing what we can at this office, and we 
state the above facts, that others interested may do 
their duty. 
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BRO. LENFEST sailed from this port on Monday 
evening last, for St. Johns, N. B., on his way to his 
new field of labor in Nova Scotia. 
Si3ter L. accom-
panies him, and will be useful in the work of the 
Lord. They will no doubt have the prayers and sym-
pathies of the churches. 
POWNAL, VT.—We are happy to learn, that the 
church with which Bro. BACHELDER is laboring, is at 
present enjoying a blessed revival. 
Bro. B. baptized 
nine converts last week. 
May the work go on. 
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CHILDREN'S 
ADVENT 
HERALD."—The second 
number of vol. 2 will be published the first week in 
April. 
The form of this paper has been changed 
it now has eight pages, which, together with a new 
and beautiful vignette, (the design—Christ blessing 
little children,) give it a most attractive appearance 
and render it convenient for preservation. 
As this 
little sheet is devoted to the interests of children, we 
hope our friends will not fail to supply their little 
ones with it, as it cannot prove otherwise than useful 
and interesting to those for whom it is designed. 
Summary. 
Morley, or as you shall direct. Will you please send a copy of your 
pamphlet to bro.David Guild, Princeton, Mass., and oblige one of 
the poor of the flock i 
Real Time of Mr. Adams' Death— The North American says :— 
When this venerable man was stricken down on Tuesday last, and 
it was known that he could not recover, there seemed a general 
melancholy wish that he might die on WASHINGTON'S birth-day, as 
his father and Jefferson had died on the 4th of July. He lingered, 
however, until the 23d; but as this date is New Style, he actually 
expired on the anniversary of Washington's birth, which was the 
Uth of February, O. S., which brings the anniversary correctly on 
the 23d, adding the twelve days for N. S." 
A well dressed lad, 15 years of age, named Robert H. Picket, was 
brought before Justice Rogers, as a common drunkard He was sent 
to the House of Correction until $5 and costs are paid for hiin. 
Mr. Hamilton Davidson, for many years a highly esteemed citizen, 
and a merchant on Long Wharf, fell in Kneeland street on Saturday 
last, and almost immediately expired. His disease was probably an 
affection of the heart. 
The N. Y. Commercial says:—" It is understood that the Jesuits, 
whose church in Elizabeth street was recently burned down, have 
applied to a Jewish congregation for the use of a newly erected 
building intended for a synagogue, but not yet consecrated, until their 
church can be rebuilt. The time was when a Christian would not 
have asked a favor from a Hebrew." 
A serious riot occurred in Baltimore on Sunday. The members of 
one of the fire companies were attacked by those of four other com-
panies. In the melee, clubs, pistols, bricks, &c., were freely used. A 
man by the name of Anthony Hughes, was shot dead, and three oth-
ers were wounded with balls. At a subsequent fire, the riot was re-
newed with as much animosity as on the previous occasion. 
The Mountain Arabs, on the sides of Lebanon, though formerly 
regarded as among the most unpromising subjects of Christian civili-
zation, have recently shown themselves capable of appreciating the 
efforts of American missionaries for their spiritual and temporal good. 
The Boston Medical and Surgical. Journal publishes several cases, 
in which olive oil was used successfully as an antidote for the bite of 
poisonous reptiles, applied externally and internally. 
Mrs. Roxana, wife of Rev. Jonah H. Gross, of Westfield, died very 
suddenly on the 2d. When her husband got up in the morning, she 
was alive and as well as usual, but on going to her bed some time 
after, she was dead. 
The several railway companies between Albany and Buffalo, at a 
meeting held in Albany a few days since, adopted a resolution to dis-
continue the running of the cars on Sunday, if the Postmaster Gene-
ral will assent thereto. 
So much method did Mr. Adams use, that he could write while at 
Washington to his secretary in Quincy, and tell in what box, in what 
pigeon-hole, and at what page he could find a copy of a letter, or con-
versation, he wished forwarded to him. 
In Augusta, Ga., James Sanders had some difficulty with another, 
and had placed his knife open In his pocket. Falling from his wagon, 
into which he was climbing, the knife penetrated his thigh ; and al-
though medical aid was soon called in, he died from the flow of 
blood. 
A man named Batclielder, sick with typhus fever, and partially in-
sane, jumped out of the second story window of a house in Bond, 
near Dover street, on Monday night, and was badly injured. 
Scarce Articles.—Sincerity in patriotism. Friendship without in-
terest. Love without deceit. Charity without ostentation. 
A SMILE upon some kindred face, 
When human hearts with grief are bow'd, 
Is like the golden rays that chase 
The darkness from the summer cloud. 
It lifts, and thrills, and brings a cheer 
To gild with joy the saddest hours, 
And sparkles on the soul as clear 
As dews that sleep ou fainting flowers. 
Sarah Lindall, an insane woman, who arrived in the city and stop-
ped at the Buffalo House, South street, on Thursday night, jumped 
from an upper story window, and was very badly hurt by falling upon 
the pavement. She was taken to the watch-house, and thence to 
the hospital. She belongs in Providence, R. I. 
Good counsel is cast away upon the arrogant, the self-conceited, or 
the stupid, who are either too proud to take it, or too heavy to un-
derstand it, 
A telegraphic despatch from St. I.ouis states, that the steamboat 
Frolic burst her boilers on the Sth, on the Illinois river, near Hene-
pin, by which casualty several persons perished. 
Crisp, a cotton buyer at Hamburg, S. C., shot and fatally wounded 
constable Hadley, who undertook to arrest him in Agusta, Ga. 
The Coolies in the British West Indies are in a state of insubordi-
nation. 
Senator Sevier, of Arkansas, has been appointed a special Com-
missioner to proceed to Mexico without delay, to negotiate and 
finally close the treaty of peace. He has been armed with full power 
to carry out this object, and was to leave Washington last Wednes-
day for that purpose, 
Joseph H. Stokes, attorney-at-law, of Dalton, was instantly killed 
at Kingston, Ga., on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, by attempt-
ing to enter the passenger train while it was in motion. 
A New York paper relates the case of Mrs. Nagel, of that city, 
who applied to a dentist on Friday last to have a tooth extracted, 
After being put under the influence oi chloroform, she lay lifeless for 
several hours, and was finally conveyed home by her friends in a 
state of insensibility. Ultimately she recovered her mental faculties, 
but has since been laboring under prostration, paralysis of the tongue, 
and loss of voice. 
Dr. Stearns, one of the oldest New York doctors, is at the point 
of death, from disease contracted by touching an erysipelas patient 
with a thumb slightly cut in paring an apple. 
Peter McGuire, of Liverpool, and James Giles, of London, were 
drowned at Savannah, from a boat belonging to the British ship 
Speed, in which they were apprentices. 
James Merritt was shot and killed by Samuel Edmondson, a law-
yer at Fort Smith, Ark., who was taken to Van Buren for trial. 
A daughter of Geo. Colman, Kensington, Philadelphia, died of hy-
drophobia, having been bitten by a dog two months ago. 
The term father is a sweet, encouraging, assuring title -. well may 
a son commit any concern, however dear, unto thehands ofa father. 
Anger is like rain, which breaks itself upon that on which it falls. 
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