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WHOLE NO. 973. 
BOSTON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1860. 
VOLUME XXI. NO. 2. 
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BEAUTIFUL CITY. 
Beautiful Zion, built above ; 
B'autiful city that I love ; 
Beautiful gate of pearly white ; 
Beautiful temple, God its light. 
Beautiful trees forever there, 
Beautiful fruits they always bear ; 
Beautiful rivers gliding by ; 
Beautiful fountains, never dry. 
Beautiful light without the sun ; 
Beautiful day revolving on ; 
Beautiful worlds on worlds untold ; 
Beautiful streets with shining gold. 
Beautiful heaven, where all is light ; 
Beautiful angels clothed in white ; 
Beautiful songs that never tire ; 
Beautiful harps, through all the choir. 
Beautiful crowns on every brow ; 
Beautiful palms the conquerors show; 
Beautiful robes the ransomed wear ; 
Beautiful all who enter there. 
Beautiful throne for God the Lamb ; 
Beautiful seats at God's right hand ; 
Beautiful rest, all wanderings cease ; 
Beautiful home of perfect peace. 
it 
not explained, he suddenly retreated, after he had �
" The flaming monotonous sunshine above, and 
planted the eagles upon the walls of Jerusalem; the rocky wastes beneath realize too faithfully 
and it was during his retreat and the withdrawal Deut. 28:1. �
Thy heavens over thee shall be as 
of his army from the siege, that all the Chris- brass, and the earth under thee as iron. �
The 
tians then in Jerusalem rushed out, recognising Lord shall make the rain of thy land powder and 
the predicted sign of Daniel, and found shelter dust.' No river nor any stream flows by, no Per-
in Pella, till the desolation and tribulation had tility surrounds it, no commerce seems able to 
passed away. This part, therefore, was strictly approach its walls, no thoroughfare of nature 
and literally fulfilled, and relates to Palestine finds the way to it. �
Her palaces are ruins, her 
alone, �
hotels dreary convents, and her chief boast and 
In the parallel passage of the Gospel of Luke triumph is a tomb."—The Crescent and the 
Cross. 
Robinson says, "The houses of Jerusalem are 
built on mountains of rubbish twenty or fifty 
feet above the natural level. Nobody seems to 
make repairs as long as his dwelling does not ab-
solutely refuse him shelter, If one room tumbles 
about his ears he removes to another, and per-
mits rubbish and vermin to accumulate in deser-
ted halls." 
Lamartine says, " Jerusalem is the Queen of 
the Desert. Every local name retains in it some 
mystery, every cavern speaks of futurity, each 
rocky height reverberates ale accents of some 
prophecy. The wasted rivers, the cloven rocks, 
and the yawning tombs attest the prodigy. The 
desert seems still stricken dumb with horror, as 
if it had not yet dared to break the silence which 
was felt when the voice of the Eternal had been 
heard." 
Such is the portrait of Jerusalem. Now if I 
were to quote prophecy after prophecy predict-
ing its ruin, and were to translate the prophecy 
of the future into the history of the past, you 
would conceive that I was reading an actual ac-
count of what some traveller had witnessed in 
1859, rather than predictions uttered two or three 
thousand years ago. 
From the Great Tribulation, by Dr. Cumming. 
eigns to sign. �
He had the pleasure of seeing 
them enter immediately into his views. He came 
in the evening to communicate to us his attempts 
and to render thanks to God for their happy suc-
cess. �
Such was the origin of The Holy Alli- 
ance. 
THE ADVENT HERALD 
Is published every Saturday, at 46 1-2 Kneeland st. (up 
stairs), Boston, Mass., by 
"The American Millennial Association." 
Jerusalem's Desolation. 
—for each Gospel gives us as it were its own pe-
culiar and characteristic account of each transac-
tion—in Luke 21:24, we read that "the Jews 
shall fall ;" that is, when Jerusalem falls, " by 
the edge of the sword, and shall be led away cap-
tive into all nations ; and Jerusalem shall be trod-
den down of the Gentiles, until the times of the 
Gentiles be fulfilled." 
The moment that Jerusalem fell the Jews were 
carried away captives, and upon the arch of Titus 
at Rome, at this moment, well known and fre-
quently alluded to as the triumphal arch, there 
is the picture of the sacred things of the Jews 
raised to commemorate the triumph of Rome 
over that obstinate and rebellious race, and the 
utter desolation of all its glory by the removal 
of its most sacred and solemn symbols. 
And then " Jerusalem," it says, " shall be 
trodden under foot." Now what is its condition? 
Once it was the most fertile land in the world ; 
its wine, its corn, and its oil were all but proverbs 
everywhere ; its mountain sides were arranged 
into terraces ; and the fruits of every clime from 
those of our own northern to those of more fav-
ored southern lands, were raised upon its terraces 
in succession upwards to the skies. �
Palestine 
seemed to retain lingering on its bosom the last 
unshaded beams of Paradise, and to have ming-
ling with its air the very atmosphere of Eden, 
yet unexhausted and undestroyed. 
But what is its condition now—speaking from 
the testimony of others? �
All its fertility is 
gone ; its terraces that rose up its mountain 
sides are rent and torn by the lightning and the 
earthquake ; its rocks are exposed and laid bare 
and its soil washed away by floods and storms ; 
its early and its latter rain at this moment is lit-
erally powder and dust ; the plagues of the land 
that were predicted are realities ; its cities are 
cities of the dead ; there is but a thin and a scat-
tered population anywhere ; the Arab robber is 
its actual governor, the Sultan its nominal one. 
Commerce will not embark its capital in Pales-
tine; emigrants find safety anywhere than there. 
What a change has passed upon that glorious 
land since the spies brought from it the grapes of 
Eshcol, that struck with admiration those that 
for the first time beheld them ! If we turn to its 
people, literally, in the words of the prophet, 
they are plucked off from the face of the whole 
earth. 
Chateaubriand, who visited Palestine, and has 
written perhaps the most eloquent picture of its 
present desolation, uses such language as the 
following respecting it. " If I should live a thou-
sand years I can never forget that desert when Jer-
usalem first appeared, and which seemed still in-
spired with the majesty of Jehovah. When the 
guide exclaimed, Behold the holy city—Jerusa-
lem !' I did not at first know what it was. I be-
lieved it to be only a mass of shattered rock." 
Original. 
The Holy Alliance, 
Having obtained the narrative of the conver-
sion of Alexander I. I proceed to fulfill my prom-
ise of giving a transcript of its account of the 
Holy Alliance, as given by M. Empaytaz, dom-
estic chaplain to Madame de Krudner. He 
says : 
" Some days before his (Alexander's) depar-
ture from Paris he said to us, I am about to 
quit France ; but before my departure, I wish by 
means of a public manifesto, to render to God 
the Father, the Son and Holy Ghost, that hom-
age which we owe to him for the protection He 
has vouchsafed to us, and to invite the people to 
range themselves in the ranks of those who are 
obedient to the gospel. I bring you a draft of a 
manifesto, asking you to examine it carefully,and 
if there is any expression which you do not ap-
prove, you would oblige me by pointing it out. I 
wish the Emperor of Austria, and the king of 
Prussia to unite with me in this act of adoration, 
in order that we may be seen, like theMagi, from 
the East, owning the supreme authority of God 
the Savior. You will unite with me in asking of 
God, that my allies should be inclined to sign 
it.' 
" On the morrow, Alexander came to renew his 
proposal. He received with the greatest humil-
ity, the remarks which were made to him. The 
day following, he carried it to the Allied Sover- 
MANIFESTO. 
" In the name of the Most Holy and undivided 
Trinity ! �
4 
Their Majesties, the Emperor of Austria, the 
King of Prussia, and the Emperor of Russia, in 
consequence both of great events which have oc- 
curl e I in Europe in the course of the last three 
years, and especially of the blessings which it has 
pleased divine Providence to pour forth on the 
states, the governments of which placed their con-
fidence solely thereon, being assuredly 
convinced that it is needful to base the 
course to be adopted by the Powers in 
their mutual relationships, upon the sub- 
lime truths which the eternal religion of God the 
Savior teaches us, solemnly declare that the pre-
sent manifesto has no other object but to make 
manifest, to the sight of all men, their immovable 
determination not to take for their rule of con-
duct, either in the ruling of their respective states 
or in their politic Il relationship with any other 
government, anything but the precepts of that 
holy religion—precepts of justice, love and peace 
which, far from being applicable only to private 
life, ought, on the contrary, to have direct influ-
ence on the resolutions of princes, and to guide 
their efforts, as being the only means of giving 
firmness to the institutions of man and remedy- 
ing their imperfections. �
 
Therefore their Majesties have agreed upon the 
following 
ARTICLES. 
" Article 1. Conformably to the words of the 
Holy Scriptures,which order all men to regard one 
another as brethren, the three monarchs forming 
alliance will abide united bythe ties of a true and 
indissoluble brotherhood, and considering them-
selves as fellow countrymen, they will lend one 
another on every occasion, and in every 
place, assistance, aid and succor : considering 
themselves,with respect to their subjects and their 
armies, as fathers of a family, they will govern 
them in the same spirit of brotherhood, with 
which they are inspired for the protection of re-
ligion, peace and justice. 
"Art. 2. Consequently, the only principle 
in action, either between the said governments, 
or between their subjects, shall be that of render-
ing reciprocal service—of proving the one to the 
other by constant watchfulness for one another's 
good, the mutual affection by which they ought 
to be animated, so as to consider the whole as but 
members of one and the same Christian nation. 
The three allied princes do not consider them 
selves as separated but by Providence for the 
government of three branches of one and the same 
family, to wit, Austria, Prussia and Russia; thus 
confessing that the Christian nation of which 
they and their people form parts, have really no 
other Sovereign than Him, to whom alone, prop-
erly speaking, power belongs, because in Him 
alone are found all the treasures of infinite love 
and knowledge, and wisdom ; that is to say, God 
our divine Savior Jesus Christ, the Word of the 
Most High, the Word of Life. Their Majesties 
therefore recommend, with the tenderest solici- 
Our blessed Lord tells us what should precede 
the destruction of Jerusalem, namely, " When 
ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spo- 
ken of by Daniel." �
This prophecy occurs in 
Daniel 9:26, and it might be literally translated 
thus,—" Upon the battlements shall be the idol 
of desolation," as, indeed; it is in the margin, 
which is always the most close and accurate ren-, 
dering. Now, says our Lord, " the moment you. 
shall see Daniel's idol of desolation upon the 
battlements of your city, then let them which be 
in Judea flee into the mountains ; let him which 
is on the house-top not come down to take any-
thing out of his house ; neither let him which is 
in the field turn back to take his clothes. And 
woe unto them that are with child, and to them 
that give suck in those days." 
Now this fact we find literally fulfilled. The 
Roman eagles were the standards of that people ; 
they were also the idols and the gods that they 
gave worship and adoration to. �
Now, we read 
in heathen and pagan story, that in A. D. 64, 
the Roman general encompassed Jerusalem, and 
so far penetrated into the city that he planted the 
Roman eagles on the very walls adjacent to the 
Temple itself ; that then, owing to some event 
10 �
THE ADVENT HERALD. 
tude, to their people, as the only means of enjoy-
ing that peace which is the result of a good con-
science, and which alone is permanent,to strength-
en one another each day more and more in the 
principles, and the practice of the duties which 
the Divine Savior has taught to man. 
Art. 3. All the powers which may really wish 
to confess the holy principles that have led to the 
present manifesto, and recognize how important 
it is for the happiness of the nations, too long ag-
itated, that these truths should henceforth exer-
cise upon the fortunes of man all the power 
which belongs to them, will be received with as 
much readiness as affection into the Holy Alli-
ance. 
(Signed) �FRANCIS. 
FREDERIC WILLIAM. 
ALEXANDER." 
tears. His father, Deacon Pearson, who is over 
three score and ten yearsof age, is a man of great 
moral worth, as the result of faithfully bearing the 
yoke of Christ from his youth. When he is gone 
it may be said of him, as it was said of one men-
tioned in Nehemiah—" He was a faithful man, 
and feared God above many." His wife is a 
mother in Israel. I greatly enjoyed their socie-
ty, and profited by it, I trust. 
Though " Ould Newbury," which was set-
tled above two hundred years ago, has a histor-
ic reputation, I can only mention one thing, and 
this my feelings will not let me pass in silence. 
This place not only shared in the powerful min:-
istry of the great evangelist, George Whitefield, 
but here he expired iu death, and its inhabitants 
may say, " His sepulchre is with us unto this 
day." His last sermon was preached in Exeter, 
N. H. which was on a Saturday; he then rode to 
Newburyport, where he was expected to preaclr 
on the following day. But God ordered other-
wise. Being tired and unwell he retired early. 
Original. 
Musings. 
Notes by the Way. 
Dear Bro. Bliss : Two months since to day—
the day after my arrival in Newburyport—I 
wrote you last. I left there yesterday. Had I 
not liked, or not had reason to think that my pres-
ence was acceptable, undoubtedly I should not 
have remained so long. 
I was kindly entertained during my stay, in 
the families of Elder John Pearson, and Bro. 
Harris Pearson, to whom Lam otherwise much 
indebted. Many too, whom I remember by name, 
did much to make my sojourn there agreeable, 
and also aided me along " after a godly sort." 
God will remember them in the great day if they 
continue faithful. 
There is a large and flourishing congregation 
of Adventists in that city, with a commodious 
and elegant chapel. I preached a few times af-
ter my arrival, and often spoke in social meetings, 
but I was obliged to refrain from preaching for 
a season. I often heard Bro. Pearson, the pas-
tor, whose preaching is very able, instructive and 
evangelical ; and he waters the seed with his 
who are professedly looking, and waiting for the 
speedy and personal appearing of Christ, should 
save themselves from the general declension. We 
are as weak as others, as our experience painful-
ly proves, unless we keep near to the Lord, and 
are strong in him. 
Finally my brethren, be strong in the Lord 
and in the power of his might. Take unto you 
the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to 
withstand in the evil day, and having done all 
to stand." Save yourselves from the spirit and 
course of this evil world. Let your lamps be 
trimmed, and your lights burning, and be like 
men who wait for their Lord. 
I spent one Sabbath very pleasantly in Exeter 
N. H. and had a sweet time in speaking on the 
day at hand, and the practical influence which 
this great truth should have on all. 
" 0 Christian wake from sleeping, 
And let your works abound ; 
Be watching, praying, weeping, 
For soon the trump will sound :- 
0, sinner ! hear the warning ; 
To Jesus quickly fly ! 
Then you on that blest morning 
May meet him in the sky." 
R. HITTCIIINSON. 
P. S. I purposed to write more extendedly on 
Newburyport, had I not lost some extracts which 
I made from the history of that city. R. H. 
Lowell, Dec. 15, 1859. 
My little boy, describing to me the slaughter 
of a beef creature, my mind was turned to the 
world and its sufferings. A sickness of heart 
came over me ; and with it came the enquiry, 
Will this state of things always endure ? 
Paul says that " the whole creation groaneth 
and travaileth together in pain until now." 0 
sin, what hast thou done ! Leaving the human 
family out of the question, the thought of animal 
suffering is sickening, Death is written in letters 
of blood, everywhere. There is not a corner of 
all this sin-marred earth, where there is not heard 
the death-groan or seen the death struggle. 
Earth, ocean and air, teem constantly with 
pale and ghastly death. No man of fine sensi-
bility, can contemplate the scene, without a sad 
heart ; and the man in whose heart beats warm-
ly the love of God can but adopt the language of 
Cowper : 
I would not enter on my list of friends, 
(Though graced with polished manners and fine 
sense 
Yet wanting sensibility,) the man 
Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." 
When we contemplate the amount of human 
suffering, what Christian does not pray for the 
time to come, when sickness, sorrow, pain, and 
death shall be felt and feared no more ? What 
heart does not melt in grateful acknowledgement, 
that a Redeemer is provided ? Whilst I, this eve-
ning, sit in my comfortable home, surrounded by 
a healthy and happy family, the world is filled 
with homeless and houseless wanderers. Pale 
and ghastly want, this cold December night, 
presses to despair thousands of hopeless victims. 
This very hour, fond fathers and mothers are 
wiping the death-sweat from the fair brows of 
dear children, gazing into their faces for the last 
time. Tomorrow there will be the smell of var-
nish in gorgeously furnished houses ; and little 
coffins will contain the fondly cherished sleepers. 
Bring flowers, fresh flowers ; open the pretty 
dimpled hands and press them in. Twine pretty 
buds of moss roses among their golden curls. 
Let wax flowers and snow drops, be placed be-
side the pale, cold cheek. Now, mother, come 
look at your darling boy : is he not beautiful ? 
Nay, do not weep thus : the flowers are fragrant 
and fresh. But a mother's heart is broken : poor, 
poor dumb Willey : thy little pale lips shall next 
be heard among the angels. Those little busy 
feet, once music in a mother's ears, shall never 
wake again glad echoes in a mother's heart. 
Those eyes, a mother's lamps of love, ere long 
shall gaze on white-winged seraphs round the 
throne of God. Those pale, cold cheeks, whose 
blushing softness a thousand times enticed a mo- 
ther's lips, shall no more wear again the flush of 
health, until the rosy tint of immortality shall 
bloom forever there. 
the stairs with the candle in his hand, he gave 
his dying charge, in melting strains of tenderness 
and affection, to the crowd. He died at six o'clock 
next morning. Though his friends in England 
desired to have his remains, yet as he had ex-
pressed a wish to be buried in Newburyport, in 
case he should die there, his wish was not depart-
ed from. his ashes are in a vault, beneath the 
pulpit of the church, in which he preached. Bro. 
Theodore Pearson took me into the house, and 
" chamber, where the good man met his fate." 
Mr. Currier, the polite sexton, kindly took me 
into the vault, raised the coffin lid, in a manner 
which indicated respect, and I saw and handled 
the bones of that burning and shining light. I 
went into the pulpit, and examined the Bible 
which Whitefield used in preaching there. 
The following, which I copied from a monument 
in the church, gives a succinct, but comprehensive 
historic sketch of this man of God : 
This Cenotaph is erected, with affectionate 
veneration, to the memory of the Rev. George 
Whitefield, born at Glocester, England, Decem-
ber 16, 1714 ; educated at Oxford University ; 
ordained 1736. In a ministry of 34 years, he 
crossed the Atlantic thirteen times, and preach-
ed more than eighteen thousand sermons. As a 
soldier of the cross, humble, devoted, he put on 
the whole armor of God : preferring the honor of 
Christ to his own interest, repose, reputation and 
life. As a Christian orator, his deep piety, dis-
interested zeal, and vivid imagination, gave un-
exampled energy to his look, action, and utter-
ance. Bold, fervent, pungent, and popular in 
his eloquence, no other uninspired man ever 
preached to such large assemblies, or enforced 
the simple truths of the gospel by motives so per- 
suasive and awful, and with an influence so pow-
erful, on the hearts of his hearers. He died of 
Asthma. September 30, 1770, suddenly exchang-
ing his life of unparalleled labors, for his eternal 
rest." 
Mr. Whitefield's first visit to Newburyport 
was Sept. 30, 1740, and in thirty years to a day, 
he died there. He was born in the same year of the 
last century in which your unworthy brother was 
[and so was the editor of the Advent Herald] 
born, in the present century. The same might 
be said of our ordination, though I began to 
preach at an earlier age. 0 that I had been 
equally faithful, according to that which was 
committed to me. I hope, during the small bal-
ance of my time, to do what I can in the Master's 
cause, and meekly to suffer all his righteous will; 
and then with Whitefield, and all the bloodwash-
ed multitude, to enter the " eternal rest." 
Newburyport shared in the great revival, two 
years ago. However the spiritually minded in 
the different churches consider religion to be in 
a rather low state. This is a sad story after such 
a gracious visitation, and, alas, it is too true eve-
ry where. I was residing in New York when 
God came so near in mercy, and blessed the dis- 
pensations of his providence ; and I remember a 
wise hearted brother, remarking that the churches 
would soon be more worldly than ever. I did 
not then think so ; and now I hope better things, 
yet I am not without my fears that the predic-
tion is to be verified. It need not ; and those 
0 sin, what bast thou done ! Thou hast plant-
ed the thorn with every pleasant flower ; each 
cup of bliss is made a poisoned chalice to poor 
mortal's lips; each budding hope is but a blighted 
flower ; each song of mirth, a wail of woe ; each 
pleasant dream, a waking reality of want. 
But, hark ! All is not dark ! Come mother, 
dry those tears ; thy little ones shall live again : 
a bow of hope illumes the tomb ! The dreaded 
monster death, has fbund a Conqueror ! Jesus, 
in his own conquest of death, has given an unfail-
ing pledge : glory be to our God. From land and 
sea, from the east and west, and from the south 
and north, teeming they'll come, arrayed in airy 
robes of love. Parent and child, husband and 
wife, brother and sister, pastor and people, neigh-
bor and friend, ere long shall come, with songs, 
and everlasting joy, to Zion's heights,—shall come 
immortal. Beauty, then shall beam from every 
face. No homeless, houseless wanderer will there 
be in all that bright world of bliss. A mother's 
eyes shall dim no more with tears. Flowers, 
without the thorn, in dewy freshness, will now 
forever bloom. The desert buds and blossoms 
like the rose. No more shall weary feet the 
thorny mazes tread, but streets of pure transpar-
ent gold. 
There is the home of the pure and the blessed; 
There shall the weary be ever at rest ; 
There shall life's trials and sorrows be o'er ; 
There shall the gathered ones part never more ; 
There shall the blessed be from death ever free; 
There their Redeemer in glory they'll see ; 
Crowns of bright glory forever they'll wear ; 
0 to be with them ! I long to be there !" 
H. BUNDY. 
No. Springfield, Vt., Dec. 20th. 
Letter from C. M. Gould, M. D. 
Bro. Bliss :— 
Friend after friend departs ; 
Who hath not lost a friend ? 
There is no union here of hearts, 
That finds not here an end ; 
Were this frail world our only rest, 
Living or dying, none were blest. 
During the year just closing, the literary world 
has had to chronicle the death of six of its ablest 
citizens, three in Europe viz. Carl Ritter, Baron. 
Von Humboldt and Robert Stephenson. In 
America, Horace Mann, President of Antioch 
College, Ohio, George Bush, the celebrated He-
braist, and the renowned Washington Irving. 
What mighty conflicts have we seen in the 
political as well as in the religious world,—na-
tion against nation, kingdom against kingdom ; I 
praise the Lord that I still live in expectation of 
the coming of the Savior. 
I hail the weekly visits of the Herald with de-
light. Truly, it has been a " vade mecum" to 
me the last year ; and as long as it is conducted 
upon the same plan it has been the last year, 
you may expect me to be a life subscriber. Your 
able discussion with Rev. E. Peaslee, upon the 
doctrine of the Millennium, has been interesting 
no doubt, to many readers of the Herald. The 
" new things of the Bible," by Dr. Hutchinson, 
have been interesting and profitably treasured up 
by me, and I would be very glad if he would 
continue his contributions for the columns of the 
Herald. The epistles from our excellent Bro. 
J. M. Orrock, have been I trust not only 
" pleasing," but " profitable" to all who desire 
the sincere " milk of the word of God." 
I admired your course, (in regard to the war 
between France and Austria,) in not admitting 
into the columns of the Herald vague ideas, or 
wild speculations, respecting unfulfilled prophecy. 
I believe, as the Apocalypse is being fulfilled, its 
symbols are made or will be made plain to us ; 
and when we see Rome and Constantinople—
the seats of Romanism and Mohammedanism 
demolished, we may be sure, that the consum-
mation of all things written by the prophets, " is 
nigh even at the doors." 
I cannot see any force of argument from scrip-
ture for those who advocate the doctrine of the 
return of the Jews to the land of Palestine. I be- 
lieve that they had all the privileges, they will 
ever have in time, and when the fulness of the 
Gentiles be come in, the Savior will come and 
gather all the true Israel with " Daniel's people" 
to reign with him on the regenerated earth. Yes, 
the scattered stones shall come together, and form 
God, and it was accounted to him for righteous-
ness." 
" 0, yes ! said he to me,' we must have that 
simple and lively faith which looks only to the 
Lord, which hopes even against all hope ; but it 
needs courage to sacrifice the Isaac. �
This is 
what I want. Pray to God that he would give 
me strength to sacrifice everything, in order to 
follow Jesus Christ, and to confess him openly be-
fore men.' 
" At his request we prayed together, asking 
God for this blessing. �
He rose from his knees, 
his eyes bathed in tears and his countenance 
beaming with that subdued joy, which the peace 
of God and the sense of his love produce. He 
took my hand and, pressing it said, Oh, how I 
feel the force of that brotherly love, which unites 
the disciples of Christ to each other ! Yes your 
prayer will be heard ; it will be given me from 
above publicly to confess my Savior.' 
" While reading the 35th Psalm, when I came 
to these words, Stir up thyself, 0 God my Lord, 
and awake to my judgment, even unto my cause ; 
&c., he said, 'God will do it, I am fully convinced 
this cause is his, since it has respect to the wel-
fare of the nations. Oh, that God would grant 
me the favor of procuring peace for Europe ! I 
am ready to sacrifice my life for this object.' 
" On the day in which he heard of the success 
of the allied armies, he said to me,‘Ah, my dear 
friend, to-day we ought to return thanks to the 
Lord for the blessings and for the protection he 
has vouchsafed us.' He himself fell on his knees 
shedding tears of gratitude, as at the feet of his 
deliverer. �
When risen from prayer, he cried 
out, 'Oh how happy I am ! My Saviour is with 
me ! I am a great sinner, and yet he will make 
use of me as his instrument, to procure peace for 
the nations. Oh, that all the people would un-
derstand the ways of Providence. If they would 
obey the Gospel, how happy they would be !'" 
J. LITCII. 
Original. 
A few more extracts from the Narrative and 
I will be done. 
" At another time," says M. Empaytaz, " I 
was speaking to him of the necessity of walking 
by faith, pointing out to him that this faith must The news soon spread that he was ill. Many 
 
rest only on the word of God, which is an im- i hastened to the house ; and while standing on 
movable foundation ; that thus Abraham believed 
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one living temple. The bride and the bridegroom 
shall meet, 
" On the other side of Jordan. 
In the sweet fields of Eden." 
" There we shall know as we are known, 
and see as we are seen." Here it has been one 
Lord, one faith, and one baptism. There it will 
be one body, one bride, one vine, one temple, one 
family, one city and one kingdom. 
Dear friends of like " precious faith," let us 
rejoice in tribulation. If we suffer we also shall 
reign with him. Let us be wise for ourselves. 
May we lay up our treasures in heaven. May 
we tremble and prepare "against that fatal day." 
May we have our lamps trimmed and burning, 
so that when the Nobleman shall come, we may 
be able to say, " Lo this is our God ; we 
have waited for him, and he will save us ; 
this is the Lord, we have waited for him, we 
will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." Then 
we shall see the king in his beauty and possess 
the land that is afar off. May we have all our 
affections consecrated to the Lord, knowing that 
our salvation is nearer than when we believed. 
I feel like saying with• one of Scotland's sweet 
poets : 
" Be it according to thy word ; 
Redeem me from all sin ; 
My heart would now receive thee Lord : 
Come in, my Lord, come in ! 
Submissive to thy just decree, 
We all shall soon from earth remove ; 
But when Thou sendest Lord, for me, 
0 let the messenger be love." 
Wishing you success in all.your laudable un-
dertakings, I remain your brother expecting re 
demption at the coming of the Savior, 
CARMEN M. GOULD. 
Castleton, C. W, Dec. 26, 1859. 
Yes, 
" Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! 
Would God I were in thee ! 
Oh ! that my sorrows had an end,—
Thy joys I then might see." 
Why Do Children Die 7 
The Duke of Manchester, however,—supposing 
that the third year of Jehoiakim was the third 
from the rebellion, and therefore the 7th of Ne-
buchadnezzar's—argues that some great event 
happened in Babylon in the fourth year of Zede-
kiah, who went " into Babylon in the fourth year 
of his reign," Jer. 51:59. As Zedekiah did not 
then go a captive, the Duke supposes he was 
drawn there by some great event to do fealty to 
the king. The fourth year of Zedekiah was the 
11th of Nebuchadnezzar ; and the second year 
from that would be Nebuchadnezzar's twelfth. 
Either of these suppositions would harmonize the 
difficulty. 
It is said " Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams;" 
but to the magicians, astrologers," &c. the king 
says v. 3. " I have dreamed a dream." From 
this it has been thought, with some reason, that 
the same dream was often repeated—thus in-
creasing his anxiety of mind respecting' it.—
Pharaoh called his dreams " a dream ;" and Jo-
seph said, "And for that the dream was doubled un-
to Pharaoh twice ; it is because the thing is es-
tablished by God, and God will shortly bring it 
to pass," Gen. 41:32. �
Its being spoken of in 
the plural, may be because of the divers scenes 
and long succession of events brought to view in 
it. Prof. Bush regards it as only a popular use of 
words, as if one should say, I had strange 
dreams last night,' though only one was intend-
ed." 
The belief was common, in ancient times, that 
the will of heaven was revealed to men in dreams, 
and that the future was often thus foreshadowed. 
That the will of God often was thus communica-
ted, is clear from God's speaking to Abimelech 
in a dream, Gen. 20:6 ; from the case of Joseph 
and his brethren 37:4-6 ; of Pharaoh, 41:7,25 ; 
and of the Butler and Baker, 40:5. But dreams 
were of no value in the absence of an inspired 
interpreter. �
• 
The dream of the Chaldean monarch was of 
so unusual a nature, that it greatly troubled him 
and made him sleepless. 
It appears from v. 29, that the king had been 
meditating, while awake on his bed, respecting 
the future, and wondering, perhaps, what events 
would transpire subsequent to his day. �
While 
occupied with such thoughts, he fell asleep, and 
the future was symbolized to him in a dream 
which so agitated his mind that farther sleep was 
was impossible. �
Awakening, he could not dis- 
tinctly recall the dream, but was aware that he 
had had a most uncommon vision, was troubled 
respecting its import, and doubtless was impress-
ed with the belief that events in the future of 
great moment had been thus foreshadowed. 
A Day of Heaven Upon Earth. 
The reason why children die, says Hall's Jour-
nal of Health, is because they are not taken care 
of. �
From the day of birth they are stuffed with 
food, choked with physic, sloshed with water, 
suffocated in hot rooms, steamed in bedclothes. 
So much for indoor. When permitted to breathe 
a breath of pure air once a-week in summer, and 
once or twice during the colder months, only the 
nose is permitted to peep into daylight. A little 
later they are sent out with no clothes at all en 
the parts of the body which most needs protec-
tion. Bare legs, bare arms, bare necks, girted 
middles, with an inverted umbrella to collect the 
air, and chill the ,other parts of the body. A 
stout strong man goes out in a cold day with 
gloves and overcoat, woolen stockings, and thick 
doubled-soled boots, with cork between, and rub-
bers over. The same day, a child of three years 
old an infant in flesh, and blood, and bone, and 
constitution, goes out with shoes as thin as paper, 
cotton socks, legs uncovered to the knees, neck 
bare ; an exposure which would disable the nurse, 
kill the mother outright, and make the father an 
invalid for weeks.—And why ? To harden them 
to a mode of dress which they are never expect-
ed to practice ; to accustom them to exposure 
which a dozen years later, would be considered 
downright foolery. 
0 Sabbath !—needed for a world of innocence 
—without thee what would be a world of sin ! 
There would be no pause for consideration, no 
check to passion, no remission of toil, no balm 
for care ! He who had withheld thee, would have 
forsaken the earth ! Without thee, he had never 
given to us the Bible, the Gospel, the Spirit ! 
We salute thee as thou comest to us in the name 
of the Lord—radiant in the sunshine of that 
dawn which broke over a nation's achieved work, 
marching downward in the track of time, a pillar 
of refreshing cloud and guiding flame interweav-
ing with all thy light new beams of discovery 
and promise, until thou standest forth more fair 
than when reflected in the dews and imbibed by 
the flowers of Eden—more awful than when the 
trumpet rang of thee in Sinai ! 
The Christian Sabbath ! Like its Lord, it but 
rises in Christianity, and henceforth records the 
rising day. And never since the tomb of Jesus 
was burst open by him who revived and rose, has 
this day awakened but as the light of seven days, 
and with healing in its wings ! Never has it un-
folded without some witness and welcome, some 
song and salutation ! It has been the coronation 
day of martyrs, the feast day of saints ! It has 
been from the first until now the sublime custom 
of the church of God ! Still the outgoings of its 
morning and its evening rejoice ! It is a day of 
heaven upon earth ! Life's sweetest calm, pov-
erty's birthright, labor's only rest ! Nothing has 
such a hoard of antiquity on it ! Nothing contains 
in it such a history ! Nothing draws along with 
it such a glory. Nurse of virtue, seal of truth ! 
the household's richest patrimony, the nation's 
noblest safeguard ! The pledge of peace, the foun-
tain of intelligence, the strength of law ! The 
oracle of instruction, the ark of mercy ! The pa-
tent of our manhood's spiritual greatness. The 
harbinger of our soul's sanctified perfection. 
The glory of religion, the watch-tower of immor-
tality. The ladder set upon the earth, and the 
top of it reacheth to heaven, with the angels of 
God ascending and descending upon it.—Hamil-
ton. 
Luther's Prayer for Melancthon. 
On a certain occasion a message was sent to 
Luther to inform him that Melancthon was dy-
ing. He at once hastened to his sick bed, and 
found him presenting the usual premonitory 
symptoms of death. He mournfully bent over 
him ; and, sobbing, gave utterance to a sorrowful 
exclamation. He roused Melancthon from his 
stupor—he looked into the face of Luther, and 
said, " 0, Luther, is this you ? Why don't you 
let me depart in peace ?" 
" We cant't spare you yet, Philip," was the 
reply. And turning round, he threw himself up-
on his knees, and wrestled with God for his re-
covery for upwards of an hour. He went from 
his knees to the bed, and took his frie'nd by the 
hand. 
Again he said, " Dear Luther, why don't you 
let me depart in peace ?" 
" No, no, Philip, we cannot spare you yet," 
was the reply. 
He then ordered some soup, and when pressed 
to take it he declined, again saying, " Dear Lu-
ther, why will you not let me go home and be at 
rest." 
" We cannot spare you yet, Philip," was the 
reply. He then added, " Philip, take this soup, 
or I will excommunicate you." 
He took the soup ; he commenced to grow bet-
ter ; he soon regained his wonted health, and la-
bored, for years afterwards, in the cause of the 
Reformation. And when Luther returned home 
he said to his wife with joy, " God gave me my 
brother Melancthon back in direct answer to 
prayer." 
EXPOSITORY. 
The Book of Daniel. 
BY THE EDITOR. 
CHAPTER II. 
" And in the second year of the reign of Ne-
buchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams 
wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep 
brake from him." �
v. 1. 
According to the previous chapter, Daniel was 
in Babylon three years before he stood before the 
king ; so that the events of this second chapter 
could not have transpired before Daniel's fourth 
year in Babylon. If, then he was taken to Baby 
lon in the 3d year of Jehoiakim, as in Dan. 1:1 
and the 3d of Jehoiakim's was the first of Ne 
buchadnezzar's reign, as in Jer. 25:1, how could 
Daniel stand before the king in the king's second 
year ? 
This is harmonized, by some, by the supposi 
Lion that Dan. 2:1 has reference to Nebuchad 
nezzar's sole reign, and that the other scriptur 
speaks of a partnership reign with his father.— 
"Then the king commanded to call the magi-
cians, and the astrologers, and the sorcerers, and 
the Chaldeans, for to show the king his dreams. 
So they came and stood before the king," v. 2. 
The king, finding that he could not sleep, be-
cause of the wondrous character of his dream, 
and his inability to recall it distinctly to mind, 
sought relief by summoning to his presence those 
whose business it was to interpret all prognos-
tics of the future, and who professed to be skill-
ed in the explanation of all mysteries. 
The " magicians" were enchanters, who sung 
magic songs in a low muttering tone. They 
claimed to heal the sick, charming them with 
their singing, and to be endowed with mysterious 
and supernatural powers. 
The " astrologers" were devoted to the prac-
tice of' occult arts and to the cultivation of the 
cabalistic sciences. 
The " sorcerers" are supposed to have invoked 
the aid of idol-gods when they practiced incanta-
tions. They were those who " used witchcraft," 
in 2 Ch. 33:6—its verb being the word there so 
rendered. 
The " Chaldeans" were evidently one of the 
tribes that formed the Babylonish community, 
and were so noted for their practice of the occult 
arts and secret sciences, that the name of the 
tribe was applied to its priests and others among 
them who devoted themselves more specifically to 
such practices. 
These persons, the most noted for skill and 
wisdom in the realm, were summoned into the 
king's presence, to make known to him 1st what 
his dream was ; and 2d, what it signified. 
reference both to its nature 
4. 
" The king answered and said to the Chaldeans, 
The thing is gone from me : if ye will not make 
known unto me the dream, with the interpretation 
thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your hous-
es shall be made a dunghill ; but if ye shew the 
dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall 
receive of me gifts and rewards and great hon-
or : therefore, shew me the dream, and the inter- 
pretation thereof." �
vs. 5,6, 7. 
Profs. Stuart and Bush render this, " The 
word is gone from me," making it to mean, The 
matter is decided, viz., that if they did not tell 
the dream and interpret it, they should be pun-
ished as he had said—and so Gesenius, and oth- 
ers. �
But others contend that ours is the right 
version, and that the " thing" referred to the for-
gotten dream. This seems the most probable ; 
for the punishment for not telling the dream had 
not been announced, to be referred to when he 
said " The thing is gone from me." 
Cutting in pieces was a common punishment 
in those days. " They slew the sons of Zedeki-
ah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zed-
ekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass and 
carried him to Babylon," 2 K. 25:7. " Samu-
el hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gil-
gal," 1 Sam. 15:33. And to make their houses 
"a dunghill," was expressive, by a metaphor, 
that they should be demolished and made ru-
ins. 
It would seem, if they would make known from 
the gods the meaning of the dream, that those 
deities could easily infbrm them what the dream 
was. Nebuchadnezzar's requirement, therefore, 
was a reasonable one ; and his forgetting the 
dream was providential—affording, as it did a 
test of the impotency of the Chaldean magic, 
and a contrast between it and the inspiration of 
the prophets of God. 
To show the dream to Nebuchadnezzar, was 
to so state it that he would recognize it ; and to 
show the interpretation, would be to give an ex-
planation of its meaning, so natural and obvious, 
that the king would acquiesce in it, as a fair in-
terpretation—relying, of course, much on the 
supposed wisdom and skill of the interpreter. 
And an interpretation that should meet all the 
• 
"And the king said unto them, I have dreamed 
a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the 
dream." �
v. 3. 
The king's mind was greatly disturbed. The 
fact that he could not distinctly recall the dream, 
must have greatly perplexed him ; and the mys-
terious impression left on his mind must have 
made him anxious to learn its meaning—to know 
the dream having 
and import. 
"Then spake the Chaldeans to the king in Sy-
riac, 0 king, live forever : tell thy servants the 
dream, and we will show the interpretation," v. 
The Chaldeans being the speakers on this occa-
sion, it is evident that they ranked chief among 
the Magi. 
" 0 king, live forever," was a courtly style in 
which monarchs were addressed—similar to the 
present form of " long live the king," or " vive 
l'empereur." Length of' days being regarded as 
a blessing, it was courteous to wish them to be 
the portion of the king. 
The Chaldeans evidently expected to be told 
the dream ; and to interpret was the extent of 
their pretentions. Some have supposed that the 
king refrained from narrating his dream so as 
to test the skill of the magicians to interpret— 
the claim being that it they could interpret, 
they could tell what the dream was ; and that if 
they could not do this, they could not interpret. 
But no pretention is made to ability to recall 
what has passed from another's mind ; there is 
no reason to suppose that the king falsified re- 
specting his having forgotten it ; nor is there 
any reason to suppose that the Chaldeans were 
insincere in pretending that could they know the 
dream, they could interpret it; for were they so 
they might have invented some fiction, and claim-
ed that it was the forgotten dream. 
Their request to be told the dream, therefore, 
was very natural and reasonable, and was a 
mark of sincerity, though they were entirely mis-
taken in respect to their divine enlightenment. 
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features of the dream could alone be thus recog-
nized. 
To bestow gifts and rewards on those success-
ful in explaining what was mysterious, was usu- 
al in that age. �
Thus, when Joseph had inter- 
preted the dream of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt 
said to him, " Forasmuch as God hath shewed 
thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise 
as thou art : thou shalt be over my house, and 
according unto thy word shall all my people be 
ruled : only in the throne will I be greater than 
thou. And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See I 
have set thee over all the land of Egypt. And 
Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, Ind 
put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in 
vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about 
his neck ; and he made him to ride in the sec-
ond chariot which he had : and they cried before 
him, Bow the knee : and he made him ruler ov-
er all the land of Egypt." Gen. 41:39-43, Also 
when Daniel explained the handwriting on the 
wall to the trembling grandson of Nebuchadnez-
zar,"Then commanded Belshazzar,and they cloth-
ed Daniel with scarlet, and put a chain of gold 
about his neck, and made a proclamation con-
cerning him, that he should be the third ruler in 
the kingdom." Dan. 5:29. 
ADVENT HERALD. 
BOSTON, JANUARY 14, 1860. 
SYLVESTER BLISS, EDITOR. 
The readers of the Herald are most earnestly besought to 
give it room in their prayers.; that by means of it God may 
be honored and his truth advanced ; also, that it may be 
conducted in faith and love, with sobriety of judgment and 
discernment of the truth, in nothing carried away into 
error, or hasty speech, or sharp, unbrotherly disputation. 
THE TERMS or THE HERALD. The terms of the 
Herald are two dollars a year, in advance ;—with 
as large an addition, as the generosity of donors 
'shall open their hearts to give, towards the comple-
tion of the payment of the purchase of the office 
by the A.M.A. ; and to make the Association an 
efficient instrumentality for good. 
ed demons. It is the word Paul uses when he says of 
the idolatrous shrines : " The things which the 
Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to 
God : and I would not that ye should have fellowship 
with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, 
and the cup of devils 
ye cannot be partaker of the 
Lord's table, and the table of devils," 1 Cor. 10:19, 
20. 
As all the gods of the heathen were confessedly 
the dead heroes, warriors, statesmen, and those dis-
tinguished for their virtue, wisdom, or exploits when 
living; it unmistakably follows when Paul says that 
those to whom the Gentiles sacrificed were" devils," 
or demons, that those demons were the dead. 
Whatever else may have been called demons, these 
scriptures so mutually interpret each other, that no 
sound conclusion can be arrived at other than that 
the dead are also thus denominated. That they were 
so among the Jews, is evident from their own writers. 
" Demons," says Josephus, are the spirits of dead 
men," and Philo says, " The souls of dead men are 
called demons." The same use of the word obtain-
ed among the Greeks. Ilesiod taught that, " The 
spirits of departed mortals become demons when 
separated from their earthly bodies ;" and Plutarch, 
that " The demons of the Greeks were the ghosts 
and genii of departed men"—making "genii" to be 
the same as " ghosts." " All pagan antiquity 
affirms," says Dr. Campbell, " that from Titan and 
Saturn, the poetic progeny of Coelus and Terra, 
down to Aesculapius, Proteus, and Minos, all their 
divinities were the ghosts of dead men ; and were so 
regarded by the most erudite of the Pagans them-
selves." " The notion," says Dr. Campbell, "of de-
mons, or the souls of dead men, having power over 
living men, was universally prevalent among the 
heathen of those times [the first two centuries], and 
believed by many Christians." Justin Martyr speaks 
of " those who are seized by the souls of the dead, 
whom we call demons and madmen." And Ignatius 
quotes the words of Christ to Peter thus : " Handle 
me and see ; for I am not a daimoon Asomaton, a 
disembodied demon." That the word " demon" 
therefore, was applied to the dead, notwithstanding 
whatever else it may also have been applied to, is 
indisputable. That the demons to whom they sacri-
ficed, were the dead, is according to their own con-
fessions. That the religion of the opposers of an-
cient Judaism and Christianity, was identical with 
that of those who now claim communications with 
the dead is unquestionable ; and that it was then 
and now in direct antagonism with the Bible is ful-
ly apparent. 
That this was so in the time of Moses, is evident 
from its prohibition, as in Deut. 18:9-14. " When 
thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God 
giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the 
abominations of those nations. There shall not be 
found among you any one that maketh his son or his 
daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth div-
ination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or 
a witch. Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar 
spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that 
do these things are an abomination unto the Lord : 
and because of these abominations the Lord thy God 
Both drive them out from before thee. Thou shalt 
be perfect with the Lord thy God. For these nations, 
which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers 
of times, and unto diviners : but as for thee, the 
Lord thy God bath not suffered thee so to do." 
And that this was not a prohibition merely to 
that age and nation, but for all time, is clear from 
what follows in vs. 15,18-20 " The Lord thy God 
will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of 
thee, of thy brethren, like unto me ; unto him ye 
shall hearken. I will raise them up a Prophet from 
among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put 
my words in his mouth ; and he shall speak unto 
them all that 1 shall command him. And it shall 
come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto 
my words which he shall speak in my name, I will 
require it of him. But the prophet, which shall pre-
sume to speak a word in my name, which I have not 
commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the 
name of other gods, even that prophet shall die." 
The " other gods,"—against speaking in the name 
of which death was threatened—are shown by the 
preceding context to be the dead ; with which the 
the diviners, enchanters, wizards, charmers, con-
sulters with familiar spirits, and " necromancers," 
which is, literally, talkers with the dead, claimed to 
have communication, and from whom they claimed 
revelations ; and speaking in their name, was giving 
utterance to what they claimed to be thus revealed. 
All such, says Moses, " shall die." And that this 
was not limited in its application to the time of Mo-
ses, is seen in the inspired interpretation of Peter in 
his comment on Moses' prophecy. He says, Acts 
3:22-26, " For Moses truly said unto the fathers, 
A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto 
you, of your brethren, like unto me ; him shall ye 
hear in all things, whatsoever he shall say unto you. 
And it shall come to pass, that every soul which will 
not hear that Prophet, shall be destroyed from 
among the people. Yea, and all the prophets from 
Samuel, and those that follow after, as many as 
have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. 
Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the cove-
nant which God made with our fathers, saying unto 
Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of 
the earth be blessed. Unto you first, God having 
raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to bless you, in 
turning away every one of you from his iniquities." 
It is thus affirmed that Christ was the promised 
prophet like unto Moses, and that refusing to heark-
en unto him, was to be punished by destruction from 
among the people ; which shows that under the Gen-
tile dispensation, as under the Jewish, there is the 
same antagonism between allegiance to Jehovah, and 
a regard for what is claimed as revelation from the 
dead ; so that adherence to these is in conflict with 
allegiance to Christ. As Paul says, " Ye cannot be 
partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of de-
mons." 
All approach to demonology is therefore anti-
christian. The two cannot be harmonized. We 
must give up the one or the other, and make our 
choice between them. And that this antagonism 
was to be a marked characteristic of the last days, 
is a subject of prophecy ; for, " The Spirit speaketh 
expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart 
from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and 
doctrines of demons,"—i. e. of the dead, 1 Timothy 
4:1. Andlthe revelator saw, Rev. 16:13,14 " three 
unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of 
the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and 
out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are 
the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go 
forth unto the kings of the earth, and of the whole 
world, to gather them to the battle of that great 
day of God Almighty." 
Earth's Millennial Population. 
It is a fact too generally overlooked, that by the re- 
moval from the earth of war, disease, and various 
agencies which now tend to depopulate it—according 
to all theories of a millennium during this mortal 
state—the population of the earth would become so 
dense that there would riot he room on it for its in-
habitants, ere the millennium should he half past. 
This objection hears equally against the theories of 
a temporal millennium, or of a mixed state of mor-
tals and immortals. Mr. Labaugh of Philadelphia, 
having written a work on " Unfulfilled Prophecy," 
and advocated the mixed state, a writer in the Chris-
tian Intelligences thus criticises it : 
" Our author tells us of the advantages and bless-
ings of the inhabitants of the new earth, who are 
not to be sick, to live generally 900 years, and to 
increase accordingly. His language is, Not being 
subject to the large discount which death makes 
among infants and adults in every generation, the in-
crease will be in that steadily progressing ratio which 
doubles itself in every given number of years.' We 
regret that our author did not tell us in how many, 
and also, what he supposed an approximation to the 
number there would be on earth, at the beginning 
of the millennium, of returned Jews. and of other 
nations ; this blank we must therefore try to fill 
Up. 
"At present,in a healthy neighborhood,the inhab-
itants double once in about thirty years ; now, when 
men live ten times as long, and none die in infancy, 
and few in middle-age, we may expect them to 
double in less than ten years, and especially when 
we recollect that the Israelites doubled about once in 
twelve years in Egypt, when they lived only to the 
age of 100 years, and died as men now die, and 
had many of their children destroyed by violence. 
Surely, then, they will double in less than ten years 
in the millennium of our author ; but, to be safe, 
we will suppose they will double once only in twelve 
and a-half years. What, then would he the num-
ber of Jews alone, at the end of a 1000 years ? Our 
author has not given us the number to begin with ; 
we will suppose a million, leaving two millions to 
be slain in the last great battle ; then, if our calcu-
lations be right, we should have, at the end of the 
1000 years, more than, 1,024,000,000,000,000,000, 
000,000,000,000, which would be more than 3,410, 
000,000,000,000,000,0(X), on each square mile of 
the land-surface of the earth, or 5,000,000,000,000, 
000,000, on each acre, and more than 1,000,000,000 
000,000, on each square yard. Is not this a formid-
able difficulty in this theory, if not in all millennial 
theories ever taught ? This is the literal increase of 
Jews only ; where now are the Ten Tribes, and the 
other nations with all their increase, and all the ir-
rational creatures of which our author speaks, to 
dwell? This .difficulty is not removed, if they double 
only once in twenty years, and begin with 2000." 
This objection against the theory of Mr. Labaugh 
is irrefutable. But it is equally valid against all 
post-millennial theories. 
As we must account for every idle word, so we 
must likewise for every idle silence. 
The New Earth's Metropolis. 
Bro. Bliss :—For the gratification of some who 
have read your articles, I would ask— 
Is there no enclosure mentioned in the 21st chap-
ter of Rev.? Or, in other words, is it all symbolic 
of the saved in Christ, without reference to an inclo-
sure ? 
Has not our Father's house many mansions? 
Did not the first Adam before he disobeyed and 
was driven out, inhabit a garden in Eden ? 
Will not the Second Adam restore all things (not 
to a corruptible) but to an incorruptible state? 
LUTHER EDWARDS. 
Hampton Ill. Dec. 1859. 
ANS. The 21st of Revelation certainly mentions 
an enclosure, and it is unquestionably symbolic ; for 
what ever is made apparent to any of the senses in 
prophetic vision, cannot be other than symbolic.—
The question then arises whetner it is symbolic of its 
own order,as are symbols which repreSent the Lamb, 
God, angels &c. and to which there can be no other 
order analogous, for them to represent ; or is it re-
presentative of another order analogous, as beasts 
are of kingdoms, swarms of locusts, of armies, &c. 
according to every inspired interpretation of symbols 
that are analogous to other orders? Walls are sym-
bolic of the source of security ; and God has said, 
" I will make her walls salvation, and her gates 
praise." It should be borne in mind, that an opin-
ion, respecting the interpretation of symbols, is of 
value, only in proportion that evidence is given of 
having studied the laws of symbols, as they are Di-
vinely unfolded by the Inspired explanations of the 
symbols that the scriptures interpret. 
Our Father's house has many mansions; but our 
Savior was to prepare only one, •' a place," for his 
redeemed. That place is undoubtedly this earth 
which will be, one of the many mansions, with the 
other worlds, in the Father's house. 
The first Adam did inhabit a garden in Eden.—
But God commanded him to "multiply and replenish 
the earth," i. e. to fill it with inhabitants ; which 
shows that the race was not to be limited to Eden, 
but was to occupy the kingdom under the whole 
heaven. 
And there will be a such restoration as you speak 
of; but the garden is not described in the scripture 
you refer to. 
Notwithstanding this,however, the earth will have 
its great metropolis, a city that will be the capital 
of the restored dominion. �
It is described in Zech. 
" And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall 
go out from Jerusalem ; half of them toward the 
former sea, and half' of them toward the hinder sea : in 
summer and in winter shall it be. And the Lord 
shall be King over all the earth : in that day shall 
there be one Lord, and his name one. All the land 
shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimnion, 
south of Jerusalem : and it shall be lifted up, and 
inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto 
the place of the first gate, unto the corner-gate, and 
from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's wine-
presses. And men shall dwell in it, and there shall 
be no more utter destruction ; but Jerusalem shall be 
safely inhabited." Zech. 14:8,11. 
Such will be thedcapital of the new earth, when 
" the Lord shall be King over all the earth." For of 
the same period Jeremiah says (3:17) " At that 
time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the 
Lord ; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it,to 
the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem." 
The capital of the earth will,then,be between "the 
former sea" and " the hinder sea,- which are only 
about 60 miles apart, and therefore afford no room 
for an enclosure between them 375 miles square.—
An interpreter of prophecy should be familiar with 
all the scriptures ; for " no scripture is of any pri-
vate interpretation"—i. e. it is not to be interpreted 
alone, or independent of other scriptures that speak 
to the same point. 
Death. 
Bro. Bliss :—Please give your views on John 11: 
4. �
Christ says of the death of Lazarus. �
" This 
sickness is not unto death." �
What death does he 
mean? Also the 26th verse: " Whosoever liveth 
and believeth in me shall never die." Did he mean 
the people he then spoke to, if' they believed, that 
they shoald never die? Yours in hope of redemp-
tion, 
The death, to which our Saviour referred in v. 4, 
we suppose to be the death of the body. He did not 
mean that Lazarus should not then die ; for he did 
die. But his meaning must have been that Laza-
ru's mortal earthly life was not to be terminated 
with that sickness. Though he should actually die, 
it would only be a temporary death from which be 
would be in a few days raised, to his previous mor-
tal condition. Our Saviour's meaning, then, must 
have been that Lazarus' sickness would not be so un-
to death, as that he should continue thus till the end 
of the world. 
Demon Worship. 
A Correspondent has reminded us of a promise, 
made some' time since to give an article on Demon 
worship. 
We read in Numbers 25:3, that, when Israel 
abode in Shittim, the Moabites " called the people 
unto the sacrifices of their gods ; and the people did 
eat, and bowed down to their gods. And Israel 
joined himself unto Baal peor." 
What these gods were unto which Israel then ate 
sacrifices, will be seen by a comparison with Psalm 
106:28; " they joined themselves also unto Baal-
poor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead." 
The " dead" therefore, were the gods to whom 
they sacrificed ; but these " dead" are shown by 
Isaiah, (8:10), to be the " familiar spirits" and 
" wizards," whom they sought to consult ; for he 
says, " When they shall say unto you, seek unto 
them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizzards 
that peep and that mutter ; should not a people 
seek unto their God ?—for the living to the dead?" 
That is shall we seek to learn of the dead respecting 
the living ? 
It is evident from these scriptures that the relig-
ion of Moab was the worship of the dead ; and that 
those who claimed to have communication with 
familiar spirits claimed to be just what " mediums" 
now claim respecling themselves. The identity, 
therefore, of ancient familiar spiritualism, with mo-
dern spiritualism is fully established. 
This worship of the dead was in opposition to the 
worship of Jehovah ; for Moses says of those who 
thus apostatized, that they " forsook God," and 
provoked him to jealousy with strange gods ; with 
abominations provoked they him to anger. They 
sacrificed unto devils, not to God ; to gods whom 
they knew not, to new gods that came newly up, 
whom your fathers feared not. Of the Rock that be-
gat thee thou art unmindful, and hest forgotten God 
that formed thee," Deut. 32:16-18. And David 
says, " They sac: ificed their sons and their daughters 
unto devils," Pea. 106:37. 
The word rendered devils in these two passages is 
in the Septuagint daimonion, and should be render- 
ISAAC C. BUMHOLDER. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. �
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Bro. Bliss :—Your Sabbath school concert exer-
cise, published in Herald, on Prayer, was our sub-
ject last Sabbath evening, at our concert. Thank 
you : We would be glad of another. Yours, 
O. R. FASSETT. 
Westboro', Dec. 28, 1859. 
NOTE. We think we may do so some time. 
ED. 
" The Theological and Literary Journal. Edited 
by David N. Lord. No. XLVII. January, 1860. 
New York : Published by Franklin Knight, 348 
Broadway. 1860." 
The January No. of this able Journal has made 
its appearance, and is as well filled as ever with well 
written articles, on the fallowing subjects : 
Dr. Mansel's Limits of Religious Thought. 
Notes on Scripture—Matthew 
Christ's Promises, in the Epistles to the churches 
to those who are Victorious. 
The Indo-Syrian Church. 
Designation and Exposition of Isaiah, Chapters 
xmx. a. and 
The Book of Judges. 
Mr. Hequembourg's Plan of Creation. 
NOTE from Bro. E. Parker. Bro. Bliss:—You 
perceive I did not over estimate the liberality of the 
sisters. The stream they set a running by their nu-
merous tributaries grows broader as it flows and has 
already run by the point aimed at (the 1st of Jan.) 
That the cause they aid is of Gud is evident ; fur 
who ever knew the female heart interested in an un-
holy cause ? 
May the blessing of God be on them. 
ERASTUS PARKER. 
Waits field Vt. Jan. 2, 1860. 
AGRICULTURAL TRACT No. 1.—We have received 
No. 1. of a series, which is on the " Culture of 
Grasses"—it being an extract from the fourth annu-
al report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agri-
culture. 
Any farmer in this State can obtain a copy of the 
pamphlet free, by mail, by sending a request to C. 
L. Flint, Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture 
Boston, enclosing a penny postage-stamp. 
Foreign News. 
Portland, Jan. 5. The Canadian screw steam-
ship Bohemian, which left Liverpool at 9 A. M. 
Wednesday, 21st ult., touching at Queenstown the 
22d, arrived at this port at 10 o'clock this evening. 
ITALY. Letters from Naples state that during the 
night on the 12th, numerous arrests, including 
several eminent persons were made. The persons 
arrested are accused of the clandestine printing of 
journals, and of having supported the subscription 
in behalf of Garibaidi, several documents concerning 
which had been seized. The Sardinian Consul had 
been momentarily arrested but was speedily set at 
liberty. 
It was reported at Rome that Cardinal Antonelli 
would em6ark on the 28th of December in the Pon-
tifical corvette for Paris. Monsignore Bernardi will 
he intrusted ad interim with the Ministerial func-
tions of the Cardinal. 
The Bologna correspondent of the London Daily 
News gives the following information with respect 
to the progress of defensive preparations : 
" I have carefully inspected the plans which have 
been drawn up by Col. Mezzacapo, and according to 
what I saw, the fortifications of this city are very 
nearly equal in importance to those of Alexandria 
and Verona. This work will be carried out with the 
greatest activity ; and, judging by the plan which 
is going to be adopted, within the space of three 
months Bologna will be turned into a strong en-
trenched camp, able to give shelter to an army of 
30,000 men. The hills which surround the town, 
and its central position, will enable such an army 
to keep in check an invading force of three times its 
own number which may attack the Legations from 
the north. 
The foundry just 'established at Parma is busily 
engaged in casting rifled cannon for the defense of 
this important stronghold of Central Italy, whose 
detached fortifications, from the Montagnola to San 
Salvatore, will mount not less than 200 heavy guns. 
In the worst case if the Austrians should be charged 
with the mission of putting into execution the final 
decision of the Congress, they could not do so with-
out bringing into the field an army of 180,000 men. 
One half of this army would have to operate against 
Bologna, the other half to keep on the look-out, for 
it could be attacked by the national forces gathered 
within and behind the entrenched camp of Bologna. 
This camp could not be attacked with an army much 
less than 90,000 men, for the radius of fortification 
being at the same time so large and strong would 
enable Gen. Fanti to repulse them all. 
Without, therefore, reckoning upon the revolution-
ary element of the country, which would be at once 
roused by Garibaldi, Central Italy, with its army of 
60,000 men, protected as it will be by the fortifica-
tions of Bologna, could make a most determined and 
protracted resistance to an invading foreign army. 
When one thinks that only six months ago Central 
Italy was in a defenseless state, and that it has now 
an army of 48,000 men ; when one thinks that be-
fore the month of March is over, this army will be 
increased by at least 18,000 men, and in possession 
of a formidable stronghold, one cannot help admir-
ing the almost incredible exertions which have been 
made. 
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY. In Hungary, the politi-
cal and religious agitation seems to be increasing. 
At Comorn, and other places, arrests have been made. 
A great Protestant meeting held at Pesth, to peti-
tion the Emperor to suspend the Imperial patent, 
was summoned to disperse, and after singing the 
anthem " God is a tower of strength," complied 
without remonstrance. The people outside were, 
however, greatly agitated, and it was some time be-
fore they could be dispersed. The 5th corps of the 
Austrian army, now in Italy, has received orders to 
march for Hungary immediately. 
During the last few days there have been indica-
tions of an approaching schism between the Magyar 
and Slavonic Protestants in Hungary, and it is aver- 
red by the former that the seeds of discord have been 
sown by the agents of Government. The number of 
Protestants in Hungary is three 3,048,141, of whom 
2,684,033 have, by means of their representatives, 
petitioned the Emperor to suspend the patent of the 
1st of September ; 39,610 Hungarian Protestants 
(principally Selaves) have voted an address of thanks 
to the Emperor for his patent, and the other 324,498 
have not yet given expression to their sentiments. 
A Vienna telegram of the 18th says the report of 
the intended abdication of the Emperor is entirely 
unfounded. The statement that the Archduke 
Maximilian would be absent from Austria two years 
is likewise false. His journey to Brazil will only 
occupy six months. 
In the last Cabinet Council, presided over by the 
Emperor, it was resolved that in the next Budget a 
reduction of 38,000,000 of florins should be made in 
the expenses of the war department. 
Advices from Hungary represent the danger of a 
conflict between the Imperial authorities and the 
Hungarian Protestants as daily increasing. The 
Austrian army in Hungary will soon be 50,000 
strong. Significant demonstrations took place at 
Pesth, and a fall of about 1-2 per cent. on the Vien-
na Bourse had resulted. 
TIIE 1110ROCCO WAR. Letters from the seat of war 
in Morocco show that the Spanish troops have, ow-
ing to the unfavorable weather and the incomplete-
ness of the preparations, had great hardships and 
difficulties to encounter, and that very many have 
already been prostrated by sickness. " Cholera, the 
offspring of misery and apprehension," was thinning 
the ranks of the Spaniards, for, though the disease was 
not of a malignant kind, the cases were numerous. 
The weather during the *hole of December is very 
often stormy, wet and cold ; and without seine deci-
ded improvement, it was thought that the position 
of General O'Donnell would be a very difficult one. 
Ceuta is so small a place, that to go into winter 
quarters there and await a more favorable season for 
the campaign, would be an invitation to disease, 
and would weaken and dispirit the army. 
FRANCE. A pamphlet entitled " The Pope and 
the Congress," signed by M. de Langeroniere, had 
been published, and attracted great attention both 
in France and England, as it was believed to express 
the sentiments of the Emperor. The pamphlet is 
written in a spirit of conciliation and compromise. 
and although it does not propose to take away the 
temporal power of the Pope, it advocates a curtail-
ment of them, and urges that the Romagna should 
not be restored to the Papal dominion. 
The English papers generally eulogize the pamph-
let. The Times says " We leave others to cavil on 
forms and ceremonies ; enough fur us if there is a 
reasonable probability that two great European pow-
ers will be found arrayed side by side in defense of 
the rights of the Italian people, and that Protestant 
England will find a hearty and efficient support in 
the Emperor of Catholic France." 
ITEMS AND NEWS. 
A man named Adams, who has peddled stationery 
in Lowell, and lived in Dracut, was found dead on 
Monday night, and from appearances had been dead 
for several days. When found, he was lying on the 
bed undressed, and frozen stiff. His wife worked in 
a mill in Lowell. 
A subscription to relieve the pecuniary embarrass-
ment of the Pope has commenced in this country, and 
two devoted Catholics at Baltimore, Md., have given 
$350 to the object. The money is to be used in the 
subjugation of the Pope's revolted states—that is the 
Catholics of America furnish money to buy powder 
and balls to shoot their Catholic brethren in Italy, 
because while adhering faithfully to the church they 
prefer to manage their own political affairs. 
A case was tried for the second time in a Cincin-
nati Court, a few days since, involving the title to a 
barrel worth ninety cents. �
The costs of the case 
have amounted to over $50, and as it is to be ap-
pealed, they will probably reach $200. 
Twenty-six persons aged one hundred and over, 
have died in the United States in 1859. The ()idea 
was Cmsar, a colored man in Louisiana aged 138. 
The fires in the country in 1859, where the losses 
have been over $20,000 have been 208. The losses 
amount to $16,059,000. 
Sixteen men of Mount Pleasant, Ohio, had ar-
ranged a " gander party" for a sleigh ride to a neigh-
boring town, a supper, &c. ; but their faithful wives 
taking another road, got then first, appropriated 
the good things of the table, danced to the music 
which they themselves had brought, and went home 
again without once recognizing their husbands in all 
these performances. 
Over one hundred hands have recently been dis-
charged from one of the largest manufactories in the 
city of Philadelphia, in consequence of orders from 
the South having been countermanded. The factory 
has been in very successful operation for six or eight 
years past,doing a very extensive business,the major 
portion of which is with the South. 
Mary Alden of Hartford, about 60 years old and 
quite deaf, was run over and killed on the Hartford 
and Providence Railroad in Hartford, on Tuesday, 
while attempting to cress the track. 
The managers of the Grand Trunk Railway, last 
year, desiring a large quantity of axes for use along 
the line of their road, and having no confidence in 
American mechanics, set one of their scientific men 
to make a pattern of the axes required. The pat-
tern was in due time''completed and sent to England 
with an order for 2500 axes after the pattern sent. 
The house receiving the order went immediately to 
work to fill it, and a few months ago shipped to the 
managers of the road at Montreal the axes, as order-
ed. Upon receiving their property, however, the 
scientific men found that not one ax out of the whole 
2500 had a hole in it to receive the handle. They 
were made according to the order—" exactly like 
the pattern." They have these axes for sale now in 
Montreal.—Railway Review. 
E. Meriam says that 83 persons lost their lives 
last year by burning fluid explosions, and 106 were 
injured, some of whom were not expected to recov-
er. 
The superintendent of the out-door poor of New 
York is doing a lively business at present. His of-
fice is crowded daily with applicants for city help. 
There has been a great deal of suffering in that city 
during the past few days. 
The Alabama Legislature has passed a law impos-
ing a fine of $500 on all spirit mediums who give 
public sittings! 
Gerrit Smith is at his home in Peterboro,' very 
much improved in all respects, but not fully restored 
to health ; and the Doctor has prohibited him from 
receiving vistors, and from giving personal attention 
to his correspondence. 
It is reported from Paris that two officers of the 
Toulon dockyard have invented a liquid which is 
said to increase the combustible power of coal sev-
enty-five per cent., so that one ton of Newcastle coal 
will become equal, with the liquid, to four tons, 
and that French coal will last twice as long as it now 
does. 
A man in a neighboring State, who possesses prop-
erty estimated at $50,000 in amount, was recently 
Death at the extraordinary age of One hundred and 
Eleven years. Mrs. Catharine Boston, the venera-
ble colored lady better known as " Mother Boston," 
and probably the oldest person in the United States, 
died at the house of her daughter-in-law (with whom 
she had resided for the past thirty years), No. 24 
Southac street, yesterday forenoon,about 11 o'clock, 
at the very extraordinary age of one hundred and 
eleven years. She died of old age, having been af-
flicted with no disease, and until a week ago last 
Saturday was able to go up and down stairs, though 
she has been confined to the house for some time. 
She had her senses until within three days of her 
death. The deceased was born in Littleton, in this 
State, and until the abolition of slavery in Massa-
chusetts, she was held as a slave. Measures were re-
cently taken to ascertain her correct age, as she her-
self had forgotten it, but the ancient town records 
were not in existence. There is no doubt, however, 
but that she has attained the great age ascribed to 
her. It will be remembered that she was present at 
the colored Baby Show held at Chapman Hall a few 
years since, where she attracted great attention. Of 
her children, but one is now living, but she leaves 
both grandchildren and great grandchildren.--Her-
ald 5th. 
A Meteor seen in the daytime. Mr. R. Ford in-
forms us that about nine or ten o'clock in the morn-
ing of the 29th ult. he saw descending in the west a 
large meteor. It displayed light of many colors and 
shades, and its descent was a beautiful scene. One 
was seen in Dedham, it is said, the next morning 
early, and it caused among some much consterna-
tion. 
W. E. Ensworth, conductor on the Sullivan Rail-
road, had an arm smashed last week between two 
cars. 
Affairs in Modena. A Turin letter of the 11th, 
in the Paris Debat says : " Facts are now passing in 
the Duchy of Modena which are not without signi-
ficance. Nearly all the great families attached to 
the Grand Duke are leaving the country and selling 
their estates." 
GRACE GIVEN AS NEEDED.—When Christ told his 
disciples to feed the multitude with five loaves, they 
did not hesitate and say, " Lord, let us first see the 
bread multiplied ; if we begin and have not enough 
we shall be put to shame ;" but they distlibuted 
what they had,and it increased with the distribution. 
—Payson. 
In like manner,our Savior said of the dead daugh-
r of Jairus : " Weep not ; she is not dead, but 
eepeth," Luke 8:52, i. e. She was not permanent-
dead ; and taking her by the hand, he said unto 
ler " Maid arise. And her spirit came again, and 
4ie arose straightway." 
And the death referred to in the 26th verse, is un-
doubtedly the final condition to which the sinner 
will be subjected. 
Those who believe in Christ will never endure this 
—even in anticipation. They will never experience 
God's displeasure, now or hereafter. �
It was, we 
think, as much spoken to those that heard him, as 
to any. It is a universal truth that the believers in 
Jesus will never taste of death, in that sense in which 
the wicked will suffer death. 
To Correspondents. 
Short and appropriate articles, of one column or less, 
are solicited from those who have well digested thoughts 
to communicate. Any writer whose article or enquiry is 
not promptly noticed, will please to call the editor's atten-
tion to the omission. 
S. W. A. The poetry would hardly be appropri-
ate for our columns. The sentiment is good, but 
would be better expressed in plain prose. 
Bro. S. Chapman. We received a note from you, 
dated January 7, and saying you " enclose three 
dollars ;" but there was no money enclosed. Did 
you not omit to insert it ? 
called upon to administer upon the estate of a de-
ceased brother who left a little property. When he 
rendered his accounts to the Judge of Probate, they 
were found to contain, among other charges, the 
sum of $2 for one day's time in attending the funer-
al of his brother, and $2 fur railroad fare in going 
and coming from the funeral! We have not heard 
whether or not this attendance and mileage has been 
allowed. 
On the evening of the 22d of December, Mr. N. 
B. Boyden, receiver of the public money for the 
Chippewa Land District, Iowa, was gagged in his 
own office,bound hand and foot, and the Government 
sate robbed of $5360. 
On Monday last in Manchester, says the Mirror, 
a little girl of three years, only child of James Byrne 
fell backward into a tub of boiling water, lingered 
in great pain until Tuesday morning and died. 
SETTLED.—The Universalist Trumpet says, very 
confidently, that there is " no misery after the resur-
rection." This settles that matter ; and now, if by 
any kind of management, the Trumpet can put a 
stop to misery before the resurrection, the whole 
problem of present and future happiness will be 
solved, and Universalism will get the glory. 
Religion in large Cities. The question has late-
ly been asked by the British press—" Is London 
heathen or Christian ?" �
It was started by a state- 
ment made at a meeting of the Congregational Un-
ion of England and Wales, to the following effect : 
" Of all the places in the land, London is the most 
heathenish. There are some 900,000 persons living 
in London who never entered a place of worship. If 
such a state of things was reported of an island in 
the South Seas, we should speedily send missionaries 
to preach the Gospel to them. And it is a fact that 
in Raratonga there are only 10 per cent. of the pori. 
ulation absent from divine worship on the Sabbath. 
In London, 40 per cent. are present, and in Raraton-
ga 90 per cent. are present. Of all the seats provi-
ded for public worship in England, the Congrega-
tionalists have only provided 6 per cent. of the total 
amount. And what is worse, on the census Sabbath 
only one third of those sittings were filled." 
We question as to whether, if a rigid examination 
was made in regard to our large American cities, 
the figures would show a much better result. It is 
notorious that, in all our larger towns and cities, a 
large proportion of the people do not regularly at- 
tend divine worship on the Sabbath, and thousands 
do not see the inside of a church from one year's end 
to another.—Boston Journal. 
* " They are not, however, in the prophecy called 
weeks of days ; and might naturally be understood 
as weeks of years, independent of the year-day cal-
culation," ib., p. 24. 
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THE ADVENT HERALD. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
In this department, articles are solicited, on the general 
subject of the Advent, from friends of the Herald, over 
their own signatures, irrespective of the particular views 
which it defends. Views of correspondents not dissented 
from, are not necessarily to be considered as editorially 
endorsed. Correspondents are expected to avoid all per-
sonalities, and to study Christian courtesy in all references 
to views and persons. Any departure from this should be 
regarded as eisentitling the writer to any reply. Christian 
and gentlemanly discussion will be in order ; but not 
needless, unkind, or uncourteous controversy. 
The Days of Daniel and John Literal : or, 
This and That. 
BY A. BROWN. 
The following will show how readily different and 
even adverse conclusions may be drawn from analo-
gous premises, when occasion requires. 
As the world was 4000 years old at the first 
advent, and those were the " latter days," it can-
not continue more than 4000 years afterwards; but 
the divisions of the Grecian empire had continued 
but about 300 years, when the " little horn," or 
Rome stood up, Dan. 8, " in the latter time of their 
kingdom," yet they may continue 1500 years or 
more, till " the time of the end," 11:40. 
The first time a symbolic beast is mentioned it 
represents a kingdom, c. 7, and therefore it always 
does elsewhere : but the first time a " time" is men-
tioned it meant a literal year, and therefore never 
elsewhere. 
As the 23d verse of ch. 7 is a part of an ex-
planation of symbols, it is literal ; but while the 
" time and times and the dividing of times" is a 
part of the same explanation, it is symbolic. 
As the entire 11th and 12th chapters are com-
posed of a literal prophecy, the 3 1-2 times, 12:7, 
must be symbolic. 
All explanations are literal : the 1290 and 
1335 days, 12:8-13, are a part of an explanation 
and are symbolic. 
" The interpretation thereof is sure," 2:45, 
means that it is literal ; but, 8:26, the vision of the 
evening and morning—or days—which was told—
in the 14th verse—is " true," means that the days 
are symbolic. 
" The time of the end" in ch. 11 embraces but 
the last 360 years of time ; but the same expression 
in ch. 8:17 embraces 2500 years. 
When the best possible application of a prin-
ciple fails, the principle is probably wrong ; but the 
very best possible applications of the 2300 days as 
symbolic, have repeatedly failed, and yet the princi-
ple is true (Perhaps some event of ancient history 
may yet transpire, at which to commence these 
days.) 
The immediate successors of the apostles be-
lieved in Christ's literal reign, and living near the 
apostles, were probably right ; but these same suc-
cessors believed that the days of Daniel and John 
were literal, yet in this were wrong. 
In the first and purest ages the church held 
to the pre-millennial advent. This view is therefore 
correct. " For the first four centuries the days . . . 
were interpreted as literal," (Time of the End, p. 
45,) but this view is erroneous. 
The millennium began to be mystified during 
the dark ages, and hence these mystifications should 
be rejected. " From the fourth century to the time 
of Luther there are to be found . . . mystic applica-
tions of the days of Daniel and John," ib. ; but 
this mysticism should be fostered. 
The temporal millennium is a modern novelty, 
hence unworthy of confidence ; but the year-day 
principle is also a modern novelty but should not be 
questioned. 
All symbols in Daniel are explained ; but the 
days are not explained and are symbolic. 
The 70 weeks of ch. 9 are symbolic,* and 
therefore all the other periods are symbolic ; but the 
70 years of the same chapter, v. 2, are literal ; but 
that does not affect the other periods in the least. 
The dragon, beast, and false prophet, or two-
horned beast, in Rev. 16 and 19 and 20, are synchro-
nous, but in chapters 12 and 13 they must be suc-
cessive. 
The terms dragon, serpent, devil and Satan, 
in ch. 20, mean the devil ; but in ch. 12, they mean 
pagan Rome. 
The kingdom of God is invariably represented 
as coming at the " end," but " now is come . . the 
kingdom of our God," 12:10, was fulfilled 1500 
years ago. 
The period called " quickly" must have com-
menced very recently, but Satan's " short time" 
many centuries past. 
The rainbow angel, c. 10, stood and proclaim-
ed at the time of the Reformation ; and after his 
proclamation began, and while he yet " stood," 11: 
1, he makes the periods yet future, " I will give 
power unto my two witnesses, and they shall proph-
ecy " 1260 days; yet they had already been proph-
esying 1200 years. 
P.S. As the beginning of the 1260. 1290 and 2300 
days, are each distinctly connected, Dan. 12 and 8. 
with the taking away of the Daily, and believing 
them all to be literal, I suppose the first marks the 
undisturbed sway of the beast, the 2d perhaps when 
the " seventh trumpet begins," the 1335 the resur-
rection, and the 2300 the subsequent " cleansing of 
the sanctuary." If the last-named period was to 
cover the whole vision of chap. 8—as it was not, 
but only " concerning the daily," v. 13, it should 
be remembered that the vision proper was to be "at 
the time of the end," v. 17. �
A.B, 
My Journal. 
Sabbath, Dec. 18, I exchanged pulpit services 
with Eld. Fassett, of Westboro', Mass. The day 
was stormy, but we had a goodly number out and a 
good time with the church, who are prospering un-
der the labors of Bro. F. I gave them three dis-
courses, and, by request, preached also to about 300 
boys at the Reform School. I enjoyed this service 
very much. I was deeply affected at the sight of so I 
many youth who had been tempted and led into sin, 
and thought of the sad and broken-hearted parents, 
as well as the unfortunate boys. But the scene was 
brightened somewhat by the fact that Mr. Starr, 
the excellent Superintendent, and Mr. Sleeper, the 
Chaplain, care for these boys as their own children, 
and all among them who will, may reform, and 
leave the institution to be useful men, and have the 
honor and approbation of the State conferred upon 
them. 
Monday, Dec. 19, I visited Worcester and preach-
ed in the evening to a good company in Thomas st. 
Bro. Ross, late of Lowell, is settled with the Advent 
church here, and is much liked, as a good man and 
faithful minister. 
I called on many old friends during the day, 
among whom was Bro. J. W. Heath, who is sick 
with consumption, and may die any day. He is 
calm, resigned and happy in the prospect of the 
kingdom near, and has set his house in order, both 
temporally and spiritually. Oh how sweet and 
blessed is the hope of the gospel to him and his 
family ! I never witnessed a happier circle, in the 
prospect of a speedy separation by death. God is 
good, and blessed be his holy name. I also visited 
Eld. D. T. Taylor, who now resides here, and had 
an interview with Eld. Hastings, of Providence, R. 
I., who took part in the evening service. I returned 
to Boston on the 20th. 
The Advent cause is still my life. I owe much to 
our doctrine, for its influence on my theological 
opinions. It opened to me the precious Bible, and 
gave me a clearer and more harmonious view of its 
blessed contents than I had before. I thank God 
that 1 ever saw and heard Father Miller, who was 
the instrument of my conversion to this faith. I 
have gained by him what I would not part with for 
worlds. Once I looked for the conversion of the 
world ; but now I look for the coming of Christ. 
Once I considered the new heavens and new earth 
only a representation of the gospel dispensation ; 
now I look upon them as the real and literal eternal 
abode of the saints. Once I looked upon the New 
Jerusalem as a symbol of the church ; now I be-
lieve it to be a real city, and that it will be the me-
tropolis of the redeemed universe. Once I did not 
believe that the prophetic periods could be under-
stood ; now I do, and that we may know something 
as to the time of Christ's coming. In fine, I once 
spiritualised about all the promises ; but now I be-
lieve they will be literally fulfilled in the coming 
and kingdom of Christ. Even so come, Lord Jesus. 
J.V.H. 
The New Jerusalem. 
Rev. 21, " And I saw a new heaven and a new 
earth : for the first heaven and the first earth were 
passed away, and there was no more sea. And I 
John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming 
down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride 
adorned for her husband. And 1 heard a great voice 
out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God 
is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they 
shall be his people, and God himself shall be with 
them, and be their God. . . . He that overcometh 
shall inherit all things" [margin, these things]. 
What things are they to inherit that overcome?—
Doubtless the new heaven, new earth and the holy 
city ; for there is nothing else spoken of for them 
to inherit. But if the city is a symbol of the 
church, so also may be the new heaven and the new 
earth : then there is nothing for them to inherit but 
themselves. But let us look at other promises in 
the Bible, and it will be evident that Christ is not 
speaking of the church. 
Rev. 3:12, " Him that overcometh will I make a 
pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no 
more out ; and I will write upon him the name of 
my God, and the name of the city of my God, 
which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of 
heaven from my God ; and I will write upon him 
my new name." 
Here is a promise to him that overcometh, which 
should no more be symbolized away, than the prom-
ise in Matt. 5:5, " Blessed are the meek ; for they 
shall inherit the earth." Heb. 12:22, " But ye are 
come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the liv-
ing God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innum-
erable company of angels, to the general assembly 
and church of the first-born, which are written in 
heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the 
spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the 
mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of 
sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of 
Abel." Here we see that the new Jerusalem is 
spoken of as the city of God, where he dwells with 
angels, and the spirits of just men made perfect, and 
where Jesus the mediator of the new covenant is. 
Shall we symbolize (or spiritualize) all this, and say 
that it is the church ? I trust not. Gal. 4:26,—
" But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the 
mother of us all," that is, believers. John 3:3, 
" Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily 
I say unto you, except a man be born again [or from 
above, margin] he cannot see the kingdom of God." 
Those who are born from above are the children of 
the Jerusalem which is above, the same as they that 
are born in the Jerusalem below are her children. 
It is evident from the apostle's argument here, that 
there are two Jerusalems: one on this earth and one 
in heaven above ; but in the gr. the angel says, "To 
come hither and I will shew thee the bride, the 
Lamb's wife. . And he carried me away in the spi-
rit to a great and high mountain, and showed me 
that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out 
of heaven from God." Compare this with Matt. 
23:37 : " 0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou thatkillest 
the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto 
thee, how often would I have gathered thy children 
together, as a hen gathereth her chickens under her 
wings, and ye would not." Here we see that the 
people of the city is intended. So in Revelation the 
city is called the bride, when the inhabitants of the 
city are intended. So if we compare scripture with 
scripture, we may understand the meaning of the 
Spirit, that dictated the word ; but if we substitute 
our own fancy we will be led astray. I rejoice that 
we have such glorious prospects in view, and do not 
want to give them up for something that we cannot 
comprehend—something like the poet's safe place, 
Beyond the bounds of time and space." 
I believe this city will be the metropolis of the new 
earth ; that it will be twelve thousand furlongs and 
eight furlongs to a mile, which will make the city 
fifteen hundred miles in circumference and three 
hundred and seventy-five miles in height, containing 
those mansions which our Saviour said he was a go-
ing to prepare for us. John 14:2, 3. " In my Fath-
er's house are many mansions ; if it were not so, I 
would have told yon. I go to prepare a place for 
you. And if I go and prepare a place for you I will 
come again and receive you unto myself, that where 
I am there ye may be also." Rev. 21:22-27. " And 
I saw no temple therein : for the Lord God Almigh-
ty and the Lamb are the temple of it. And the city 
had no need of the sun, neither of the moon to 
shine in it : for the glory of God did lighten it, and 
the Lamb is the light thereof. And the nations of 
them which are saved shall walk in the light of it. 
And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day ; 
for there shall be no night there. And they shall 
bring the glory and honor of the nations into it—
[that is, the wealth of the nations.] And there 
shall in nowise enter into it anything that defilelh, 
neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh 
a lie ; but they which are written in the Lamb's 
book of life." Ch. 22:6, " And he said unto me, 
These sayings are faithful and true. And the Lord 
God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto 
his servants the things which must shortly be done. 
. . Blessed are they that do his commandments,that 
they may have right to the tree of life, and may 
enter in through the gates into the city." Amen. 
GEORGE PHELPS. 
New Haven, Ct., Dec. 27, 1859. 
The Maine Mission Fund. 
Some of our brethren and sisters begin to ask 
" how we prosper in getting funds for the mission?" 
Others are farther along in their ideas, and ask, 
" Have you engaged an evangelist yet ?" Perhaps 
many may wish to know how the matter stands. So 
I propose to tell them as we progress. It may "pro-
voke some to love and good works." 
Well, since my last report, Bro. H. gave $2 for 
the mission. One hundred such hearted men would 
fill quite a purse for a poor advent missionary. We 
have more than one hundred brethren in Maine 
more able than he. Sister H. gave $1. That is 
three dollars from one house. The Lord will bless 
those who feel in the pocket as well as those who 
feel in the heart. Our Bro. S. in Massachusetts 
sends $10 more for the mission, and $5 for a poor 
preacher. Thus we find somebody out of Maine 
who is not only looking to see God's cause go for-
ward here, but feels interested to help it go. So far 
then, in 3 1-2 months, and $20 of it from one act-
ive brother out of the State, to help spread the truth 
in Maine, and all the brethren, as far as I have 
knowledge, have paid in $12, while two preachers 
have promised $15 more. This is something, truly; 
but the committee cannot encourage a missionary to 
come among us to stop and spend his time until 
others put in a few more mites. There are some yet 
to come. Some will come up to the work of the 
Lord in this movement. But if they wish us to 
act, they must act first. We have already had a 
call for some of the money, to be expended for 
preaching in a destitute place, where a preacher has 
been at work lately. Several dollars of the twelve 
given, came from the faithful there, and they stand 
as much entitled to help as any others. But our 
first object, as set forth in the plan, was to raise 
funds to sustain a traveling evangelist among us.—
We have some prospect of obtaining one in the 
spring which would be very acceptable to all our 
brethren, and beneficial to the cause of truth. Yet 
we cannot say to him, conic and work amongst us, 
until we see that there is a prospect that he may 
live with us, and not be obliged to turn aside from 
preaching to other work, as most of us are. 
Yours for the mission, 
I. C. WELLCOME. 
Richmond, Me., Dec. 31, 1859. 
Bro. Bliss :—There is a small congregation of Ad-
ventists in this town, among whom I have been la-
boring for a few months ; and the Lord has revived 
his work. Backsliders have been reclaimed, and 
there have been some hopeful conversions. My three 
children are among the converts. My dear compan-
ion, who has been sick with a lung complaint for 
almost three years, has been, healed in answer to 
prayer. The last night in December we had a 
watch meeting. I was disappointed in not having 
help from our preachers abroad, but so it seemed 
good in the eyes of him who said, " Lo, I am with 
you always, even to the end of the world." Com-
menced with prayer meeting. In this meeting the 
soldiers put on the armor, and prepared for the con-
flict. The battle went on gloriously ; the enemy 
was routed, and left the field. The valiant band 
was victorious, and flung their banner to the breeze; 
with our glass we saw the holy land, the land of rest 
and of promise. Had an intermission ; then I 
preached from Job 19:23-28. Five minutes before 
twelve all were on their knees and renewed their 
covenant with Him for whom we look. Such a time 
I have seldom seen ; we are looking and expecting 
soon to see the King in his beauty and reign with 
Him in his kingdom. �HIRAM BALDWIN. 
Widiamsville, Vt. Jan. 3, 1860. 
From Bro. S. Brown. 
Bro. Bliss :—Soon after I saw you at the Provi-
dence conference, the great enemy, death, visited my 
family and took one more,—a lovely son in his 25th 
year. He went as master of a small fishing vessel ; 
and on the evening of the 21st of August, he and 
his younger brother left home on a fishing voyage. 
They ran about ten miles down the bay, and came 
to anchor for the purpose of procuring bait. The 
next morning they took a boat, and went ashore 
about sunrise. The youngest brother got out of the 
boat to get clams, while the older one went across 
the cove to the opposite side to get another kind of 
bait. He had been subject to fits, once in a while, 
and he was taken in one, and fell, face downwards, 
in the water, where it was about six inches deep. 
Before the younger brother could wade across the 
cove, the mud and water being about waist deep, he 
was drowned. William supposes it was fifteen or 
twenty minutes that he was lying there before he 
could get to him. His name was GEORGE T. BROWN. 
He was one of the loveliest of the family. " The 
Lord g'a,ve, and the Lord hath taken away ; and 
blessed be the name of the Lord." Bro. L Osler 
preached the funeral discourse. 
It is now drawing towards a new year, and as I 
had rather be deprived of my turkey than to be de-
prived of the bread of life which cometh in my 
weekly visitor—the Advent Herald—I feel it my 
duty, as one who loves the truth, to help sustain it, 
so long as it brings the food with which it is laden. 
Yours, in behalf of the A.M.A. 
SHELDON BROWN. 
Pawluxet, Cranston, R. I., Dec. 27, 1859. 
It is needless to say that a letter like the above, 
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From Bro. J. Brewster. 
The Herald I regard as a prize, in these days of 
mystical interpretation. I will do what I can in 
duty for the cause I love. 
East Rockport, Ohio, Jan. 2, 1860. 
From sister E. Rogers. 
Bro. Bliss :-To me the Herald has ever been a 
welcome visitor. I love the Advent cause. I love 
its friends. Oft have its precious contents cheered 
a sad and lonely heart, bowed down with grief and 
sorrow. I have been a subscriber for the last eight-
een years, and hope I may never want the means to 
continue it so long as I shall need it. Yours, 
ELIZABETH ROGERS. 
Brooklyn, Ct. 
From sister N. A. Hill. 
Bro. Bliss :-I cannot well do without the Her-
ald ; and so long as I can get enough to pay for it I 
must have it. Perhaps this is the last year we shall 
need it. What think ye-is not time almost out ? 
Would it surprise you to hear the trumpet sound 
and see the dead arise this very year ? Come, Lord 
Jesus, come quickly, is the desire of your sorrowing 
sister, �
N. A. Thu. 
Graniteville, Jan. 3, 1860. 
From Bro. James Craig. 
Bro. Bliss :-The Herald in my opinion is the 
best religious paper, and the best expositor of the 
Scriptures I have ever seen. There is very seldom 
a number, but some one page of it throws more true 
light on the Scriptures than almost any whole relig-
ious paper of double its size. The children's de-
partment is excellent. Your sincere friend in Christ 
Jesus, �
JAS. CRAIG. 
Sheboygan Falls, Wis., Dec. 29, 1859. 
From Bro. J. Seelye. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-My wife and myself read your 
paper with much interest. Believing it to' be the 
best paper in the land, we pray that it may be sus-
tained until we shall need its perusal no longer. 
Yours truly, waiting in hope for that better king- 
dom, �
J. SEELYE. 
Rochester, N. Y., Jan. 3, 1860. 
From Bro. W. Burnham. 
Bro. Bliss :-I am happy to be able, once more, 
to pay for the Herald another year. I have been 
a constant reader of this paper from the commence-
ment of its publication until the present time ; and 
no person, perhaps, has perused its paies from week 
to week, with more satifaction and pleasure, than 
my poor unworthy self. Yours truly, 
WESLEY BURNHAM. 
Essex, Mass., Jan. 1, 1860. 
From Bro. Geo. Wise. 
Dear Bro. Bliss :-I pray to our Father in heaven 
to sustain the cause. The Herald is the only 
preaching we have ; and I would rather do without 
bread, than to do without the Herald. May the 
good Lord send the helping hand ; and may those 
the Lord has blest with the means, remember that 
as God has blest them, so will they have to give an 
account of their stewardship. Yours in the blessed 
hope, �
GEo. WISE. 
Baltimore, Jan. 2, 1860. 
From Bro. Jonathan Little. 
I esteem the Herald worthy the patronage of all 
who love the gospel of Christ. 
From Bro. A. C. Brown. 
Bro. Bliss :-I am glad to see, as I read the Her-
ald, that there is so much interest felt among the 
brethren and sisters in its support and of the cause 
it advocates. Yours waiting for redemption, 
A. C. BROWN. 
Oakdale, Jan. 3, 1860. �
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From Bro. Stephen Marvin. 
The Herald I prize as the best paper in circulation. 
Sheldon, Jan. 2, 1860. 
Bro. Wm. A. Matthews, of South Braintree, 
in paying in advance for his paper, speaks of it as 
the " ever welcome Herald." 
Bro. Daniel Rupp, of Shiremanstown, Pa., fin-
ishes off the last year by sending the names of five 
new subscribers to the Herald, who pay in advance 
$2 each. That will do for Shiremanstown : How 
about the other towns ? �
ED. 
From sister Mary Gay. 
The Herald is all the preaching we have. I have 
been a constant reader of it for ten or twelve years, 
and cannot do without it. 
Lake Mills, Mich. 
Eld. Samuel Heath, of Lunenburg, says of the 
Advent Herald : 
" We are still greatly interested in its perusal." 
A brother, who stops his paper, but forgets to 
pay the dollar he owes for its receipt since last July, 
gives as a reason, that- 
" The Advent church, so called, is filled up with 
pride and sin, just as all other churches. I can't 
see any odds between them ; but Christ will come, 
for all of this, to save the humble and destroy the 
haughty and high, in the church or out." 
True, brother, as to Christ's coming; but how 
about that dollar? 
Bro. A. Pettengill writes from Farmington, La 
Cross county, Wis.: " From your valuable paper I 
get more satisfaction than I ever received from any 
other religious journal." 
From Bro. Plimley. 
Bro. Bliss-Dear brother in the Lord : I trust 
you will never again stop my paper for the sake of 
one dollar, as 1 never have owed the office a dollar 
in my life. Never did I miss anything so much as 
the Herald. If you will look over the books you 
will see that I have not owed the office anything for 
16 years, and to be deprived of my paper is too bad. 
Yours in that blessed hope, 
WM. PLIMLEY. 
Detroit, Mich. 
NOTE. Your paper was stopped by the order of 
the Postmaster in Detroit, and not by our own voli-
tion. We are pleased to find that its non-receipt 
was so great a loss. �
ED. 
From Bro. Cowee, 
Bro. Bliss :-I have taken the Herald ever since 
it was first published, and it is as good as ever.-
Please to send it on ; I must have it so long as I can 
pay for it. I hope it will continue to Herald the 
glad news of salvation so long as time shall be. I 
look for a city which hathioundations, whose build-
er is the Lord, I have no one to speak a word of 
consolation to me on this great and blessed subject, 
except Bro. Baker. Yours truly, 
JOEL COWES. 
Gardner, Mass., Dec., 1859. 
From Bro. Belden. 
Bro. Bliss :-I have taken the Advent Herald ever 
since it was first published, still feel much interested 
in its well being, and hope it will be sustained as 
long as time lasts. The second advent of Christ is 
a doctrine that I love. I believe it near and wish 
it might be preached everywhere. 
JAMES BELDEN. 
West Meriden, Ct., Dec. 28, 1859. 
Bro. Tho. C. Barber writes : " The Herald to me 
is a welcome messenger ; and the cause it advocates 
lies near my heart. Seeing the urgent calls of the 
office, I feel it a privilege to cast in my mite to help 
the A. M. A. 
Richmond, Dec. 26, 1859. 
From Bro. L. Butler. 
Bro. Bliss :-I have been pleased, while reading 
the Herald, to see the faithfulness of the brethren 
and sisters in sending their mites into the treasury ; 
and every week have 1 wished to do the same. . . 
As a family we have always hailed the Herald with 
delight. It has been our best weekly visitor, since 
forty-three. I have often thought it would live un-
til the Lord writes up the people. For this I am 
waiting. Wishing you and yours a happy new 
year, and to all those who read the Herald, yours 
truly, �
L. BUTLER. 
Hartford, Jan. 2, 1860. 
OBITUARY. 
NEWCOMB, aged 2 mont4s and 10 days. 
DEPARTED this life, Dec. 26th, 1859, ISRAEL M. 
His mother fell asleep in Jesus when he was a few 
days old, and her obituary was given in the Herald 
of Nov. 26th. A goodly number being assembled 
to sympathize with Bro. Newcomb in his double be-
reavement, I addressed them from 2 Sam. 12:23,-
" But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can 
I bring him back again ? I shall go to him, but he 
shall not return to me." 
" A child into existence came, 
A feeble, helpless, suffering frame ; 
It breathed below a little while, 
Then vanished like a tear-a smile, 
That springs and falls-that peers and parts, 
The joy, the grief of loving hearts. 
The grave receives the body dead, 
Where all who live must lay their head ; 
Sinks then the soul to dust and gloom, 
Worms and corruption in the tomb ? 
No !-in the rainbow round the throne,' 
Caught up to paradise it shone ; 
And still it shines until the day, 
When heaven and earth shall pass away, 
And those that sleep in Jesus here, 
With him in glory shall appear. 
Then will that soul and body meet, 
And when His jewels are complete, 
'Midst countless millions form a gem 
In the. Redeemer's diadem ; 
Wherewith, as thorns his brow once bound, 
He for his sufferings shall be crowned, 
Raised from the ignominious tree, 
To the right hand of Majesty, 
Head over all created things,- 
The Lord of lords, and King of kings." 
J. M. ORROCK. 
Stanstead, C. E. 
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other kinds of salve. Yours is the best I ever saw. I 
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Golden Salve is a great thing for chilblains. I have also 
used it in afflicting cases of salt rheum, erysipelas, and 
sore nipples. Its effect was, a speedy and permanent cure." 
Dr. Bliss, of Brunswick, Me., says : " I have severs 
friends who have been cured of scrofulous humors by the 
Golden Salve. You may recommend it from me as a val-
uable Salve." 
From Mr. Morris Fuller, of North Creek, N. Y. : "We 
find your Golden Salve to be good for everything that we 
have tried it for. Among other things fo which we have 
used it, is a bad case of scald head' of ourlittle girl. 
Its effect in this case was also favorable." 
" We like your Golden Salve very much in this place. 
Among other things I knew a lady who was cured of a 
very bad case of sore eyes."—Walter S. Plummer, Lake 
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" I received a wound in my foot by a rusty nail ; by 
retrain of which I could not set my foot to the floor for 
two weeks. The pain was excruciating. When your Gol-
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Marion, Ill., says, " Every person that uses the Golden 
Salve testifies favorably." He has also published a list of 
names in his paper, of persons cured of wounds, sores, hu-
mors, rheumatism, &c., and gives the public reference to 
them ; who, he says, are among the first citizens of the 
place.. 
THE GOLDEN SALVE—A GREAT HEALING REMEDY.—It 
is with much pleasure we announce the advent of this new 
article in our city, which has met with such signal success 
in Lowell, where it is made, that the papers have teemed 
with cases of truly marvelous cures. They chronicle one 
where the life of a lady was recently saved—a case of bro-
ken breast ; another where the life of a child was saved—
a case of chafing ; another of a lady whose face was much 
disfigured by scrofulous humor, which was brought to a 
healthy action in a few days ; also another of an old man, 
who had a sore on his foot for twenty years—cured in a 
few weeks. Our citizens will not be slow in getting at its 
merits, and will herald it over the land.—Boston Herald. 
Boston, July 12, 1859. Bro. Whitten : I have used your 
Golden Salve in my family, and I am acquainted with a 
large number of families also who have used it ; and I 
have reason to believe that it is really what you recom- 
mend it to be. �
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Made only by C. P. Whitten, No. 35 and 37 East Mer-
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all parts of the United States and Canada. A large dis- 
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CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT 
" FEED MY Lamas."—John 21:15. 
BOSTON, JANUARY 14, 1860. 
Original. 
The Sick Girl. 
In the cold month of February, 1818, 
two travellers were wending their way 
from the thriving business city of Lowell 
towards Canada. Their names we will 
call L. and B. L. for some time had felt 
it his duty to go to and warn his fellow 
beings to flee from the wrath to come, and 
to prepare for the near approaching judg-
ment,—which he sincerely believed, from 
a careful study of the Scriptures, was very 
near at hand. L. had just taken a com-
panion in life—one who was to he a sharer 
in his future weal or wo. Long and ear-
nestly had our travellers prayed that their 
union might he honored by their being in-
strumental in saving precious souls, espe-
cially on this journey. 
About noon the third day L. reined his 
horse from the main road4o a poor looking 
house that stood a few rods distant. B. 
inquired the cause. L.'s simple, quiet an-
swer was, " I thought it best." A kind 
looking woman, the mother of the family, 
appeared at the door. L. requested her to 
let him take something in which he could 
place some food for his tired and hungry 
animal. She did so, and invited them to 
take a seat by the fire: The room seemed 
nearly comfortless ; broken panes of glass 
were filled with hats and worn garments ; 
several small children were there ; and 
upon a bed directly in front of the stove 
lay a sick girl of about twelve years Our 
sympathies were awakened, and feelings 
at once enlisted. L. soon came in, took a 
seat, talked for a few moments of other 
matters, not noticing the invalid.—then 
turning quickly, said, as he looked on her �
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emaciated face, " I did not notice that any 
one was sick here," and continued, " I 
should not think you had long to live —
how is it with you'?" and more of the like 
import. 
She appeared to be affected, but did not 
answer. 
B., approaching her, said, "Do you wish 
hint to pray for you P 
With much earnestness she said, "I do." 
We knelt down, prayer was offered, and 
we felt as though it was answered: our 
prayers were all turned to praise. 
B. asked her, " Do you think Jesus 
Christ will receive you ?" 
A heavenly smile lit up her features as 
she answered, " Yes." 
" Do you think he has blessed you ?" 
She again replied, "Yes," in the same 
sweet manner. . 
Here was indeed one of the lambs of 
our Redeemer. �
He had given her 
beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for 
mourning, the garment of praise for the 
spirit of heaviness ; or in other words he 
had forgiven all her sins, and adopted her 
into his family. The mother stood by, 
bathed in tears; and to the enquiry,"How 
does your daughter feel about leaving the 
world ?" had replied : "I do not know —no 
one has asked her," although she had been 
sick nearly a year. She acknowledged 
that she had once professed religion, and 
promised that she would again seek the 
fold, from which she had strayed. 'She also 
said that a minister of the gospel had call-
ed and prayed with them, but did not ask 
her child how it was with her soul. Alas, 
for the unfaithfulness of professed Chris-
tians. 0 that more possessed that holy 
boldness which caused the disciples of the 
early church to go everywhere preaching 
the word. 
When we left the sick girl, she raised 
her burning lips, imprinting a kiss on the 
cheek of B., and asked, imploringly,—
" Can't you come again ?" Some weeks 
after L. passed there again, went in and 
prayed. She appeared peaceful and hap- 
py. �
L. learned from her mother that since 
he called before there had been an evident 
change in her child. She had been more 
patient, resigned and pleasant. About ten 
days more L. passed again, and found the 
little sufferer had fallen asleep in Jesus one 
week before. Well has the poet sung, 
" Asleep in Jesus, blessed sleep, 
From which none ever wakes to weep." 
Now, dear children, will you not also 
seek an interest in that same blessed Say- 
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V II; A Severance 997, S Marvin 1049—from July 1860, 
to July 1861, N Rowell 1009, Dr Geo 0 Somers 1019, D 
White 1000, John Knott 971, II 11I Stoufer 1049, Philo El-
sea 997—every No. has been sent, H Odbert 997, A R 
Montgomery 1002, J Meldrum 1002, A P Lynd, J Gray, 
each to 1028, Geo Tilley 1031, 0 Davis 990, E Brown 992 
—each $2. 
C E Beckett 1023, $4. 
A C White 1057, $3; H Purdy 1043, II D Sharp 1000, 
$3; II F De Wolf, $3.—To J V H's acc't, 62 etc and $2.38 
on Her. to No 980; H S Packard 1027, $3.20 ; J L Par-
son (26 cops.) 997, $20; J Whitmore 997—to July 1, 2.28; 
J Brewster 1023 and book the 6th inst., $3 ; S Palmer, 
making, in addition to previous payments, to No 1096—to 
May 1863, $3; Wm Little 1060, $5; Eli Felt 1023, $2.58. 
D Hanson 1023, $1.71, and for a poor sister to 997, $1. 
LEONARD'S Patent Portable Grist Mills, and French 
Burr Mill Stones, of all sizes, from twenty-inch to six feet 
Prices low and terms easy. All orders or letters of inqui-
ry promptly attended to, by addressing the Proprietor, B. 
W. Leonard, Bridgport, Conn., or J. A. Reed, No. 203 
Broadway, New York. 
State or shop rights for Leonard's Patent Burr stone Grist 
Mill for sale or exchange for good property. 
Pd to Feb. 20—'60 �
B.W.L. 
"I have visited Bro. Leonard's shop, and examined his 
Mills, and I think them admirably adapted to the uses 
they are designed for. �
J. V. HIMES." 
Important to You and Me. 
We risk the remark to the afflicted that WELLCOME'S 
GREAT GERMAN REMEDY, for colds, coughs, bronchitis, in-
flammation of throat and lungs, influenza, croup, phthisic, 
(to., is effecting greater cures than any other known reme-
dy in the New England markets. The various and nume-
rous cases it has cured have fully established its reputation 
wherever known, above all others. I have many such cer-
tificates as the following, and they are multiplying fast. 
From Eld. S. K. Partridge. 
Bro. Wellcome—I was badly afflicted with bronchitis 
and cough a long time, which threatened to prevent my 
preaching. I took Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and many oth-
er remedies, all to no effect. I finally obtained the Great 
German Remedy, which entirely cured me. I believe it 
the best medicine in use for such complaints, and other 
affections of throat and lungs. �
S. K. PARTRIDGE. 
Whitefield, Me., Aug. 28, 1858. 
From J. Morrill, Druggist. 
Mr. Wellcome—I can furnish you four first-rate certifi-
cates of cures effected by your G. G. Remedy, after trying 
almost every thing else without effect. Send along three 
or four dozens more of each size. I can sell a large lot of 
it. 
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J. MORRILL 3c Co. 
Livermore, Me., Oct. 12, 1859. 
It is cheaper than any other. Prices, 4 oz. 25 cts.; 16 
oz. 75 cts. Agents wanted. Sells well. Terms liberal. 
Call for a circular. Sold in Boston by Dr. Dillingham, 
next door to Herald office. 
I. C. WELLCOME, Richmond, Me. 
(No. 969 tf.) 
SOMETHING NEW AND VERY DESIRABLE 1.—
PEinSON'S PATENT-RESPIRATORY COOKING-STOVE.—The 
superiority of this over every other Cooking Stove consists 
in the means by which we accomplish that most desirable 
end in Stove Cooking, viz. : A combination of 
1st, Roasting meats in currents of heated fresh air, pro-
ducing the same effects as roasting on a Spitjack, or in a 
tin kitchen before the open fire ; 
2d, The virtues of the Brick oven ; 
3d, The economy of the heat ; 
4th,, An arrangement by which we heat the room in 
Winter, and dispense with heating it in Summer. 
Convinced by the working of the Stoves in use, the Pa-
tentee and the subscriber offer their new stove to the Pub-
lic, with entire confidence that it will fill a vacuum in gen-
eral house-keeping. Without fear, we proclaim it : Tars 
IS THE ONLY STOVE WHICH COMBINES THE TRUE PHILOSOPHY 
OF COOKING. Patented Oct. 26, 1858. 
Books with diagrams describing the invention, and its 
merits over all other Stoves, sent, on application, to 
JAMES W OLSTENHOLME, 
General Agent 4,nd Manufacturer, 29 Dorrance street, 
(951, pd. to 990) �
Providence, R. I. 
I expect to be in Templeton on Sabbath, Jan. 22 ; No. 
Attleboro', from the 11th to the 15th. 
G. W. BURNHAM. 
I have appointments as follows : Holden, Me., Advent 
chapel, 2nd Sabbath in January (communion season); 
Lincolnville, Youngtown school house, 3d Sab. ; Round 
Pond, 4th Sab.; Caruso!, the 5th Sab.; Surly, the 1st Sab. 
in Feb. �
THOS. SMITH. 
The first quarterly meeting of the Stanbridge church of 
Adventists, for 1860, will be held (D. V.) at Stanbridge 
Burrough, to commence on Saturday, Jan. 21st, at 10 a.m. 
and continue over the Sabbath. All in the vicinity who 
believe and love the Bible doctrine of Jesus near, and kin-
dred truths, are cordially invited to attend. Come one, 
come all—and let us worship the Chi& Shepherd together, 
in spirit and in truth'. Advent ministers laboring in the 
vicinity are invited to attend. �
C. P. Dow, Pastor. 
I. H. Shipman will preach at North Springfield, Vt Sab-
bath, Jan 15, 1860. 
Lord willing, I will preach at Dinsmore Hill, Vt., Sun-
day, 15th ; Claremont, N. II., 20th, evening ; North 
Springfield, Vt., 21st, and over the Sabbath. 
L. D. THOMPSON. 
NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE CQMFERENCE.—Yesterday, Jan. 
2d, I received a line from a brother at Loudon Ridge, sta-
ting that the brethren at that place would like to have the 
next session of the N. H. S. C. holden with them, com-
mencing as early as notice could be given. It now being 
so late that it is doubtful whether the notice can appear in 
both papers next week ; I think it not prudent to call the 
meeting till week after next. We therefore fix the time of 
the Conference to come at the meeting house on Loudon 
Ridge, on Friday, Jan 20th, at one o'clock P. M. and con-
tinue over the Sabbath. 
T. M. PREBLE, Clerk of Conf. 
The New York Advent Mission Church meet at Room 
No. 21 Cooper's Institute. Sabbath services at 10 1-2 a.m. 
and 3 1-2 p. m. Seats free. Social meetings on Tuesday 
evening, at 136 Delancey street, and in Brooklyn at 66 
Laurens street.—D. I. RoanssoN, Pastor. 
Amount of previous receipts.... .... �
17.93 
Rec'd shim our last, from— 
Daniel Mixter. 
Edward Matthews .... �...... ........... 
Sarah W. Adams. 
Wm. Emmett �
 
Ebenezer Dudley �
 
Lewis Pennock �
 
Daniel Boon �
 
Charles E. Beckett �
 
Ephraim Rich �
 
George W. Burnham. 
Maria P. Higgins.... � 
L. Butler �
 
Walter Perrin. 
Francis Joslin �
 
W. Kellogg �
 
" Janette' 
Stephen Foster �
 
Mrs. Elizabeth Rogers......... �
 
Judith Davis. 
Sidney Hall �
 
A Friend, S P �
 
E. Shaw 
McNair �
 
Geo. Tilley ................ ........ . ... �
 
Clarissa Sherman .... 
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J. B. Adams �
 
Eli Felt �
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MARRIED, Jan. 1st, by Elder C. Taylor, Mr. WILLIAM 
P. BAILEY, formerly of Marshfield, Mass., to AL3IIRS F. 
MILLER, Randolph, Mass.